a daily violence in iraq breeze of the body count to record levels are to investigate another legacy although the u.s. invasion due radium contamination that so wrecking the lives of those born after the war. three different army clashes with muslim brotherhood supporters as rival rallies raged throughout the country leaving over eighty people did well on the sinai peninsula the military launches a crackdown on supposed to see missed. the long delayed peace negotiations between israel and the palestinians are finally set to start in washington on monday evening the prime minister netanyahu has cabinet votes to be one hundred four palestinian prisoners. and the diplomatic wrangling over edward snowden takes a new twist as washington rules out the death penalty for the man who exposed the

spying secrets is still stuck in transit limbo at a moscow airport. a i. live from moscow are you watching r t with me tomorrow monday let's take a look at the news this hour. another surge of connor's has rocked iraq with two hundred and twelve lives lost during the violence over the past seven days in july alone a staggering eight hundred people were killed in the country that has become a breeding ground for terrorists since the u.s. led invasion a decade ago and the war has also left a disturbing legacy of contamination which results in birth defects artie's lucy catherine off investigates. one hundred sixty kilometers south of baghdad the sacred shiite city is known for its holy shrines and is surrounded by

one of the largest cemeteries in the world some of the heaviest fighting of the iraq war took place amid these graves its legacy still haunts the residents it was born with severe birth defects he's only eight months old but the doctors don't expect him to live past his first birthday. i felt these that you were not hurt the news i ran out to his office in the taxi. but for his mother layla there's no escaping the reality. her son has a nervous system disorder and his muscles are slowly wasting away. it's a recurring nightmare for you and her husband three of their children were also born with congenital deformity as none of them survived and while they don't have proof they believe the radioactive ammunition used by american forces during the war is to blame the rule isn't over yet the americans are gone but with

suffering from the consequences and spiraling numbers of birth defects and high miscarriage rates have also been recorded in fallujah and basra where american and british forces used heavy munitions at the start of the war but our visit to knowledge off revealed that the phenomenon may be far more widespread in the law than previously known dr sundin's and saif is one of the few scientists who's been documenting cancer and birth defects here and she says as in the midst of a growing health catastrophe. after the start of the iraq war rates of cancer leukemia and birth defects rose dramatically in a job we believe is because of the legal rep and like that we give you rein him at hospitals here cancer is more common than the flu and was depleted uranium or do you cut through armor like a hot knife does through butter more than four hundred tons of it is. estimated to have been used in the two iraq wars the vast majority by u.s. forces the pentagon did not respond to our request for comment but the military

generally denies any link between exposure and cancer or birth defects it also says deal weapons are only used to penetrate enemy tanks but a new report funded by the norwegian government. was used against civilian targets in populated areas in the scribes one incident in najaf where a bradley armored fighting vehicle three hundred five d.-u. rounds in a single engagement. the heavy fighting may be over but in nearly every street we visited in this neighborhood multiple cases of cancer and children with deformities no one knows what's making people here sick the families want answers and they want help. is old enough for school but has to be cared for as if he's a toddler he can't walk he can't speak he can't even go to the bathroom on his own use of brother is healthy but the family has two other children one severely deformed the other with a hole in her spine like many of the couples in this city they're simply too afraid

to have another baby and they're left feeling totally abandoned no one cares about what's happening to the other families in this area even our own government doesn't do anything to help what can we do because our fate is a fate that many in suffer in silence. help with their lives in the decades since. all across the country their memories are honored in cemeteries like this one the dead may be the most visible reminder of the human cost of the war but if the living victims of that war talk. still paying the price. concerns over security in iraq have heightened. some five hundred of its members in a coordinated rage on two of the country's major prisons on monday gazans want the graybar and penitentiaries affiliate to prevent the massive jail break forced into pole to issue an international terror that say most of those who escaped members

and pose a global threat of the international action center sara flounders says that the turmoil that has engulfed iraq in the last decade is mostly washington's doing. grave itself as a prison was notorious for us torture techniques humiliation sexual humiliation tactics that were used it was turned back over to the iraqi government we have no idea if any conditions improved so there was a prison break that we do know but we also really know that it's a us war and occupation that consciously created the sectarian violence of course al qaida or the government they don't serve the interests of the iraqi people but the policy of inflaming sectarian differences and consciously for mentoring and providing arms and funding and whatnot to groups who inflame

sectarian violence that policy came from the u.s. of course a state of security for any of the people of iraq has been terrible has been terrible through the years of u.s. sanctions absolutely devastating during the u.s. invasion the years of occupation and it hasn't substantially improved since. over seventy supporters of ousted president morsi have been detained at this happened as are thousands of pro morsi protesters marched towards the army's intelligence headquarters in cairo ignoring the military's warning to stay away the demonstrations started at the scene of saturday's massacre where over seventy people were allegedly shot by security forces supporters of the other president mohamed morsi claim another sixty people are on life support after being deliberately targeted by troops artie's a belgian has more on the story. i went back to the city in. the violence it ended and spoke to many of the eyewitnesses and also the medics said running these

very makeshift hospitals inside the city and speaking to eyewitnesses they told me that about a few hundred of then i decided to extend their sittin down the main road toward six foot to the bridge which is the main thoroughfare at about one o'clock we took in the morning at this point so security forces attempted to disperse them using take ass off to this they say they reported cartouche which is the pellets and also an off the bat they then were fired on with live ammunition which went on until nine o'clock in the morning leaving dozens dead speaking to the medics they said by about four five o'clock in the morning they started to get the bodies in with ammunition weans mostly to the chest neck and head they say implying this was the shoot to kill now this is the duty forces for their part to nine days the protesters say they were not on top of the ministry of interior has said saturday evening that the protesters were armed and shot back at them including injuring

several of the soldiers they maintain they did not fire on any protest is only used tear gas when it was in fact the protesters themselves because the most of the violence so we really don't have any confirmation of how this exactly stollen states convert looking at the wounds of the people on the sheer number of dead it does imply that live ammunition was used as a muslim brotherhood have said they will stay put in the sit ins and they will keep protesting to fight for justice and also you for the reinstatement of mohamed morsy the military for that part maintaining that they will clear the sit ins the minister of interior released a statement to saturday saying that it is working together with the minutes three to devise a plan to keep these citizens using legal means they say however this is being slammed by rights groups who say it's not possible to legally nearest attend the how being phased they will be for the violence because we've seen such a heavy handed response from the minute she and the police force towards those

protesting so it's very divided egypt extremely tense with expected violence on the horizon. from the british egyptians for democracy group says that the army is the root of the problem and that they cannot be a peaceful solution while it's out in the streets we've seen already what the military has done this is not about morsi anymore this not about the muslim brotherhood this is about democracy being hijacked by the military every single day we are seeing members of the pro-democracy movement being killed being arrested being attacked the only crime is to support democracy and to call for an end to this bloody coup and so the solution you cannot ask the pro-democracy movement for a solution because it's the military who created the problem so if we want an end to this problem we want an end to this escalation in egypt then we have to see the end of the military you have to see the back of the military. the chaos has

prompted the u.s. to suspend its embassies operations in cairo meanwhile violence in the sinai peninsula continues one soldier was reportedly killed and more wounded as gunmen attacked army barracks earlier the egyptian army said it killed ten x. three miss and arrested twenty others the and has deployed heavy weaponry and aviation in the area to crack down on terrorist forces follows a spike in attacks and soldiers and police in the wake of present overthrow now highways leading to and from the sinai have been blocked to prevent extremists escaping there are an estimated five hundred militants in the area heavily armed and ready to use civilians as human shields it speculated that some of them are muslim brotherhood supporters that have decided to take up arms and fight in military or political social it's just other side is the data says that the army's actions are part of a drive to rican support for the islamist movement. in the last three years old many countries by the egyptian army complains that not succeeded very well for many

reasons one of them is that when president morsi who came to power he released many of the terrorists who are in jail. despite that they are ideologically different from the muslim brotherhood. the popular uprising that led to who was not welcomed by the sinai and militants. are now all me hope that they would be able to eradicate them once and for all this me picked on because the sinai is a huge area it's it's not easy but at least it would give the activity for a long time only again as it is in the interest of the whole world that they support the egyptian military completely against terrorism. the long delayed peace talks between israeli and palestinian authorities are set to resume in washington this monday evening that's after the israeli cabinet approved the release of one hundred four palestinian prisoners as part of a deal to restart negotiations brokered by u.s.

secretary of state john kerry israeli politicians have also given the go ahead to a bill which if passed a would put any outcome of peace talks with referendum on this from artie's closely . well the israeli parliament adjourns this week for their summer recess and what this means is that there will be no legislation able to be passed in this country for at least a few months the israeli cabinet has approved this bill that requires any future peace deal with the palestinians to be put to a referendum now the prime minister's office issued a statement in which it said and i'm quoting that it is important that on such historic decisions every citizen should vote directly this is not a question about supporting a palestinian state but what it is a question about is supporting land swaps which would affect a future palestinian state what we're talking about here is jerusalem we're talking about talks of land within the green line but we're not talking about the west bank and the settlement blocks there but it is at the same time worth noting that this

fall was pushed by a predominantly rightwing government it was pushed by the right wing members of the government meaning that they might be counting on the israeli public to not give its nod to giving land towards a future palestinian state and it might be a way for them of putting another hurdle in the path to a palestinian state i think it's fair to say that most israelis do support negotiations with the palestinians this coming tuesday it is expected that since two thousand and ten there will now be a resumption of direct negotiations between the israelis and palestinians in washington but when you talk about a palestinian independent state the latest opinion polls do suggest that the majority of israelis do support the two state solution but only if israel does not have to give major land swaps and of course that is the contentious issue now the government is seeking urgent approval of this referendum though it is asking parliament to foster track its passage we do expect that this coming wednesday it

will be brought to the knesset for a first reading meanwhile some palestinians have already expressed their attitude towards plans to resume to suckle into reports by local media. seven people have been injured as security forces clashed with protesters in the west bank city of ramallah another rally was days in some us controlled gaza with the group also rejecting the negotiations. coming up later in the program a syria's main opposition is becoming impatient the rebels are clean on thinks that they will receive arms all from america despite fears that weapons could end up in the wrong hands. while america's most wanted whistleblower is stuck in a moscow airport or his fate is being dugald in diplomatic games between russia and the u.s. washington says they will neither torture execute edward snowden expose this sweeping surveillance texas tactics as should he be handed over to the u.s. in the meantime moscow refuses to extradite the man saying there are no legal

grounds for the procedure artie's losing friends reports. the world media and u.s. law enforcement may not be tracing edward snowden from country to country at this point but there is plenty of tracing going on at the airport and there's no sign of it slowing down as the weeks passed the kremlin has stuck to its guns on allowing snowden to stay as long as he does not harm the united states by disclosing any more information tension mounted wednesday when reports emerge that snowden's russian advisor anatoly could try to now was in route to share the metro airports terminal with documents allowing snowden's temporary release from the transit zone while his asylum bed is considered but he showed up toting a brown paper bag filled with nothing more than new clothes and a few copies of russian classics translated to english along with the rather dismal news for snowden the paperwork was delayed. it was in waiting mode

now and we can all imagine how he feels being unaware of what's ahead of him and whether he'll get a yes or no answer from the russian authorities and for me procedures can take up to three months anyway. very grateful to russia which didn't abandon him and to the people who were trying to help him needless to say snowden was nowhere in sight for the media's hungry lenses meanwhile the game of diplomatic ping pong gets better and better while russia allows snowden's remain in the transit zone the white house demands he's returned without delay the kremlin returns the volley by pointing out the absence of an extradition treaty with washington u.s. ambassador to russia then takes to twitter claiming they're not asking for extradition just to return russia points out the absence of an international law requiring a return secretary of state john kerry calls snowden a traitor to his country russia states part of the reason for sheltering snowden is worried that he could face capital punishment it's then that u.s. attorney general eric holder penned a letter to russia's justice ministry no torture no execution russia points the

fact that snowden has been stripped of his passport he can travel to which holder scrambles to offer a temporary pass for for direct travel to the secure embrace of american law enforcement the kremlin is unmoved while the white house asks for clarification on snowden status i think edward snowden has really been in many ways a hero and he has sacrificed his entire future i think as an american how much it's clear he loves this country he will never again see the golden gate bridge or the blue ridge mountains or the grand canyon all the things that we americans take for granted other irons in the fire congress accelerated a bill applying sanctions to any country offering asylum to edward snowden and some hawkish senators are calling for everything from a change of venue for september's g twenty summit in st petersburg to a boycott by the u.s. olympic team of the twenty fourteen winter games and outside the states there are plenty of people lining up to make sure snowden is not thrown to the washington

wolves anytime soon it's important that people from whatever government can say i think my government has been doing wrong and has been. breaching people's human rights and i need to apply for asylum in order to be able to speak about it is while all sides battle it out back and forth back and forth where is there squarely he's quietly hanging out in duty free or possibly thumbing through his new copy of dostoyevsky's crime and punishment back at sheremetyevo airport in moscow lindsay france are taking. well according to snowden's revelations almost all digital communications are monitored by the n.s.a.'s spying program which makes the german privacy something of a rarity artie's marine upon their try to see if she could avoid big brother in the big apple while going about her day hooty. in a post prism usa anonymity has become a rare commodity some accepted others are outraged but at the end of the day

there's no easy way of escaping the prying eye of the n.s.a. five years ago i would have a cell phone little snatch in your pocket dump it don't bring your cell phone with you all the time now it doesn't matter now you have automatic license plate readers to track where you are now you have metro. the city bike system and facial recognition like it or not every american armed with technology has been cast in their own twenty four hour reality show the national security agency is the uninvited proper razzi you never see or hear it makes me want more careful about what i speak about on the phone and the way i conduct my business and i think it creates a certain consciousness. that weighs on us i feel like at this point i'm just a number in all of their data but even to do not have a cell phone out of a car not live in a city. the only solution for living n.s.a.

free is to divorce from all things digital experts say using encrypted search engines or changing security settings on social networks isn't enough you have to behave like an intelligence agent you have to constantly be thinking what tracks do i leave clearly retaining privacy under america's web of surveillance requires some sacrifice and here is where we're going to figure out how much so first things first i use a subway to get to work now if i use my credit card to buy my metro card then i could be trapped so instead i would use cash. easy. i usually check emails and voice mails during my five block walk to work but living in a safe three wires living without a cell phone fingers crossed i'm not missing any breaking news right now. so now i am at my office i need to swipe

a card to get inside the security company knows where i am. at my desk i'm still and i say free i log into my corporate email but i can't use skype i can't use twitter i don't have a facebook account so there's no sacrifice there but here is the problem i can't use the web to research or read the news because all my activity can be tracked. newspaper yesterday's news but better than nothing this is about the time that i check my producer. invalid number my phone calls wouldn't go through and my only other person worry it is snail mail a slower but surveillance for all turn. or so i thought were important i.r.t. in new york. right from all in the spying scandal log on to archie dot com where you can find out just through with them the n.s.a. can access u.s.

citizens private data mining we have a story on how you know level clerks within the organization have access to trillions of telephone calls and e-mails the american. also one click away a female avenger is conquering t.v. screens in pakistan where teacher by day hero by night to uses pens and bolts to fight billions that tempting to shut down girls' schools we've got the full story and. then the apparent attempt to distance itself from extremists to syria's main opposition group has ten condemned the alleged massacre of government soldiers near the city of aleppo that's just a few days after its representatives urged the u.s. to stop supplying weapons to its fighters over so many rebel groups active on the ground it's unclear whether these arms could eventually end up parties paul scott takes a closer look. while the opposition are united in their desire to overthrow president bashar al assad that seems to be where their similarity ends the syrian national

coalition is the umbrella group recognized internationally as the legitimate representative of the syrian people but they don't represent all factions opposed to a saddle one group operating out of their control for example is the al qaeda linked al nusra front the coalition say they've hijacked the revolution or they've been classed by many in the west as a terrorist organization elsewhere a separate syrian group for the eighty two al qaida helped facilitate a jailbreak in iraq bring high ranking al qaeda operatives infiltrated by foreign fighters on the shores agenda seem separate from out of the coalition and it's even led to infighting on f.s.a. commander was killed by a rival group and the f.s.a. feel they could soon be fighting on two fronts but when we use the phrase opposition exactly who are we talking about well the coalition alone is made up of at least eleven different groups including the muslim brotherhood who have recently

called on the us and the e.u. to send arms in the battle with assad while only offering loose guarantees they won't fall into extremist hands there's also the coalition of secular and democratic syrians the syrian democratic people's party supreme council of the syrian revolution and so it goes on the disparate nature of the syrian opposition combined with the presence of islamic extremists means any nation looking to support the rebels are walking a continual tight rope with very few guarantees that any military support won't backfire and actually encourage the one thing met trying to fight elsewhere. so more international news in brief at least thirty seven people have been killed in the italian city of atlanta according to rescuers at the scene four children have reportedly been pulled out alive from the wreckage eleven people have been taken to hospital in serious condition the current struck several cars when we came off of a fly over and plunged twenty five meters down a slope landed in a heavily wooded area which is hampering rescue operations. a

suspected u.s. drone strike has killed at least five people in a tribal region in pakistan two missiles in order to hit the province of north waziristan when men were crossing on foot into pakistan territory from afghanistan it comes just a day after an apparently you were strongly strike killed four suspected islamist militants in southern yemen america's drone program is a source of extreme tension between washington and islamabad which considers the strikes a violation of its sovereignty. several paul explosions have rocked the eastern libyan city of benghazi the blast reportedly targeted two lower courts and the justice ministry off this officials reported that about ten people were wounded two seriously this comes a day after over a thousand inmates escaped from a local prison one hundred of their skis way we captured to the day after the jailbreak. by voting us finish in mali's presidential election where large numbers

turned out to cast their ballots major organizational problems have been reported in the north with many people unable to find the right polling stations and many of the half a million people forced from their homes by violence and long running instability where unable to vote historian gerald hart says molly was simply not prepared for the election. the country is not ready at all for example to check the electoral roll for example the list of the words it's unclear what of the fact that there are so many refugees and internally displaced persons put it this way if our northern mali or because you'd have to go to a polling station there was not so long ago that these militant so-called islamicist were actually going through in that part of the country we recall the devastation they could wreak the havoc they wreak in terms of beating women in the streets in terms of destroying valuable manuscripts stretching back centuries that basically reveal the intellectual firepower that then existed in that part of africa it seems to me that is election in many ways is going to be an uncertain

again to an uncertain enterprise. tunisia has been plunged into unrest there is a skimming of a prominent secular opposition figure mohamed brahmi was shot dead in front of his house sparking an immediate backlash from anti-government protesters police used tear gas as best friend isn't both the capital tunis and the brownies hometown crowds demanded the ousting of a slam this ruling party blaming it for the assassination according to the interior minister bromley was shot with the same gun used in february to kill another secular opposition politician that incident also provoked mass unrest and resulted in the resignation of they slammed his prime minister and middle east analyst and a boy to believe the latest killing could lead to a similar escalation. this is a very sensitive issue as you know the last time we saw hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets we saw strikes across multiple sectors and we have been

identifying such a political assassination as a potential trigger for that kind of thing to happen again the problem is that no matter how much the party leadership strike to rein in their supporters there's a very deep underlying political divide here between the secularists and the islamists with intimacy and this is really all about determining the nature of what tune is going to look like socially as well as politically following the uprising of the revolution so it's a very contested area that is likely to be polarizing people very much already and i think the assassination is just going to bring that to the fore once again. coming up after the break. asked to be questions on the syrian conflict. to leave speech or language which i mean.