ah, ah ah, breaking news on our t hospital in the loop dense gra, public is struck by the ukrainian military using us applied high mars rockets killing over a dozen civilians. that is, according to the russian ministry of defense, allows civilian infrastructure to again hidden dawn, ballast pikey, of forces. hundreds of berliners take to the streets to protest that german decision of delivering tanks to ukraine. han marking 20 years since the us invasion and occupation of iraq, we beginner special coverage of the legacy left behind by the devastating war which

left hundreds of thousands of civilians debt with from moscow to the world. this is our take great out of your company today. my name's you. no, no, no. we begin with breaking news. a hospital and civilian housing have been hit than a rocket attack this saturday in the loop. ganske republic, killing 14 people. russia has condemned the strike and says it considers the supplier of the arms responsible another ukrainian heinous war crime. 14 civilians killed in a hospital by u. s. supplied missiles. and as we know from ukrainian officials, the targets of high mars are greed by washington. so it makes the u. s. directly complicit us taxpayer should be aware of how their money is used. well, we had the statement from the russian ministry of defense which has come out and

said the. 2 you could you inside launched a surprise me, sol, attack a multiple walking towards cisco with using you estimate and supplied by mas resolve talk with a local hospital the white data. the hospital was stopped by both civilians and military doctors and treated both the local population. this is the local clinic also, as well as troops at injured in the fighting on the frontlines and taken there for further treatment of the attack left footage, people dead from what you understand 24 that you get. those numbers may well rise with keeping up to date with information from the russian ministry of the fed up. there's also be another strike concurrently targeting the medical facility law at the hospital, which is the way him for region of the city will that the host of his gave

a endless taking chilling for the past months and the ceaseless, again killing that facility of each truck before but again, we don't yet know about casualties, injuries of death, unlike love i thought, which was excited already. that the incident, a war club saying that those responsible this would, the strike carried out. the strike will be identified and will be punished. well as moscow slams key of for quote, deliberately targeting civilians, protesters have taken to the streets of the german capital, angered not the government's decision there to supply ukraine with its leopard to main battle tanks. ortiz, dominic rush, heart reports from berlin. there a few 100 people here today of one might expect more to be on the streets actually because pulls indicate that around half off the german population of strictly

against weapon deliveries. the people here are did demanding an immediate cease fire as well as peace talk. so that they are against the aggressive foreign policy that germany is taking currently. the important reason why they're not that many people is that there's a lot of pressure actually on peace activists and germany right now, just a couple of days. we found out that a peace activist was prosecuted for saying, basically that, and the war like this all sides need to be heard in this watha fina supporting russian aggression by german authorities. and he was therefore prosecuted. so there's a lot of fear as well amongst the german people to, to protest against these issues. but nevertheless, we're looking at the new nika, security council, next week, and where a lot of our key and nato officials come together. and we are expecting to see a large protest there with at least a several 1000 people joining it. now,

elan mosques, efforts to lift the lead down the inner workings of twitter. how to liberate yet more revelations, namely, a website long being claimed to control hungry itself, so called russian bolts was a total hooks. and the turns i had, many of them were actually being run by wouldn't re, americans, ortiz, marina culture of outlined all the details, to my colleague royce, to shy these later slinks, basically show that the western mainstream media were all duped by one source, one dashboard in particular, we mentioned this before, during the previous twitter leaks, they mentioned this hamilton, 68 dashboard. and this is the source that or the mainstream media use the when the came to talk about russian bots, russian misinformation online. now this is a real time monitoring the site and what they do is they found that there are 6 hundreds, what are accounts which they found to be russian bots are,

or people who are associated with the russian so called propaganda. and the problem here is, is that, as it turns out, these bought, these russian bots have nothing to do with russia. the hamilton dashboard falsely accuses a bunch of legitimate, right, leaning accounts of being russian. but virtually any conclusion drawn from it will take conversations in conservative circles, on twitter, and accuse them of being russian. so essentially what we're seeing is if you happen to share rushes points of view than you will be labeled a bots, you could be in canada, for example, you could be writing or it's sweetened from the united kingdom. but if your points of view coincides with the point of view of the russian government that you will be labeled as a bought, what exactly are these so called russian volts? well, let's take a look at one of the photographs. because according to this dashboard, hamilton, 68 of these are your russian bots. now, let's have a look at some of these people. for example, you have chicago based a lawyer,

dave stalkers, and he says, i've written a book about the u. s. constitution. how i made the list like this is incredible to me, that's what one of them is saying, oh and american. another one is an organ later than he says when i was growing up, my father told me about them. mccarthy. blacklist as a child that would never have occurred to me that this would come back in force and broadly in the way designed to undermine the rights we hold. dear. another person who was surprised to find himself on the list of so called russian bonds. there are some more, there is no evidence to support the statement that the dashboard is a finger on the pulse of russian information ups. it's hardly illuminating a massive influence operation as to what a try to up into fear or get involved in this problem somehow that it trying with did see it in the past leaks, and we've seen that they're addressing the issue. they're not stopping the activity . there are still spewing washington's propaganda their misinformation,

as it turns out now. but they're not stop in it, i guess. because if you take a look at who's behind this, this hamilton, 68 dashboard now, who founded it? it's headed by former f. b. i counter intelligence official and current emerson, we see contributor cleanser watts and it's funded by a neo liberal thing tank of cold. busy alliance for secure and democracy. so this is who the dashboard belongs to the found a $600.00 account. and what's interesting, and in a way tragic, i would say is the fact that who are they listing as russian balls anyone, rory, anyone that happens to agree with the russian, what they call propaganda? switzer knew that and it was trying to address it, but i guess there's only so much they can do. breelle, people need to know they've been unilaterally labeled russian stooges without evidence or recourse. it's a major problem, i guess is better late than never bought a gotten a job done,

and it had lots of people millions around the world war we think in that russia was responsible, for example, on a number of issues. this wasn't just isolated towards what's happening in ukraine. there were other issues as well. for example, russia was accused of our pumpkin up support for bret cavanaugh on the damn at noon as memo as well. we had the parkland shooting. there were a manipulation of black voters. these stories raised fears in the population and most insidious of all. we're used to smear people like tulsa gilbert as foreign assets and drum up sympathy for political causes like joe biden's campaign. by describing critics as russian aligned anything. so that they can push their agenda and try and see use russia to push their points of view further on. and this is something that we've seen before and once again. and this is not going to make mainstream media or am sure it will not sabre rattling in u. s. military circles over china appears to be reaching new levels. a senior

american or a force general has warned that he thinks his country will face war with beijing within 2 years. i hope i am wrong. my gut tells me we will fight in 2025. she secured his 3rd term and set his war counsel in october 2022. ty, once presidential elections are in 2024 and will offer she a reason. united states presidential elections are in 2024 and will offer she a distracted america. she's team, reason and opportunity are all aligned for 2025. then a link memo, the general laid on his goals to build a coat for to fide ready inter grated anna giles joined force maneuver team and are for spokesperson has verified that the email is authentic, although said it hadn't been intended for public reading on doesn't reflect us policy on china asian earlier said that despite their difficulties,

the people's republic oldest tries to find a way to get along with washington and emory foundry bottom. we finally rejected the united states erroneous china policy and have been exploring the right way for the 2 countries to get along with each other. as the united states, as stubbornly continued to see china as its primary competitor, and engage in a blatant blockade and provocation against china, china us relations were plunged into serious difficulties. em response, china has taken resolute actions to counter such power politics and bullying while pointing the right way forward through open and candid communication with a spy. so claiming china is a threats in the region. us actions there are have led to a spike intentions. washington, significantly updates military cooperation with japan and a move the china seas as provocative. while last years visit to taiwan of then, how speaker nancy pelosi saw beijing respond with huge military drills. i run the island territory earlier. the u. s. agreed to sell, tie,

want more than $1000000000.00 worth of weapons. a deal wholly criticized by beijing . their v intentions and trade to american on dutch officials recently struck a deal to impose new restrictions on the export of advanced micro chip technology. to china. malaysian affairs expert, victor gao feels china poses little threat to the u. s. to deserve those comments by the general. this general is a wall monger and what he is saying and tele, his troops is very dangerous thing for world peace and stability. china does not threaten the united states at all. and if washington believes china threatens the united states because china is growing larger and larger, then they will lose all their sanity. because china will continue to grow. ready larger, i hope washington will realize that war is not and should not be an option between

china and the united states. 2 countries armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons, because a wall between china, the united states will soon get out of control and lead directly to armageddon. and eventually, to will not only be a disaster for the united states and for china, but for mankind as a whole. i don't see these people dangerous as they are, represent the fundamental interest, all the people in the united states. why? because china and the united states need to get along with the, with each other, china wants to treat with every country, including the united states as an equal rather then and handling any of these countries. therefore, such fantasies are false to start with. it's 20 years since the start of the us invasion of our rock minority is now beginning our special coverage of the oliver history. throughout the coming months we'll examine

the devastation and d stabilization. it cause throat, the middle east at this hour, american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq, to free its people. and to defend the world from great danger. with with will in january 2003 u. s. president george

w bush. i climbed the coming invasion of iraq in his state of the union address bush called iraqi leader, saddam hussein, a quote, brutal dictator with ties to terrorism. posing a direct threat to the united states. he pledged to disarm his st and bring freedom to the iraqi people. something the u. s. was already involved with in afghanistan. kate of iraq, is not disarming to the contrary. he is deceiving from intelligence sources. we know, for instance, that thousands of iraqi security personnel are at work hiding documents and materials from the un inspectors sanitizing inspection sites and monitoring the inspectors themselves. if saddam hussein does not fully disarm for the safety of our people and for the peace of the world, we will lead a coalition to disarm him. while later it turned

out that saddam hussein did not have the so called weapons of mass destruction program that washington insisted it had. so it was in march, 2003. the u. s. joined by it's allies launched operation iraqi freedom. the coalition started a bombing campaign directed against the iraqi government and military installations . despite months of massive anti war protests, world wide. u. s. forces invaded iraq from hugh wait 3 weeks into the invasion. baghdad fell the cia top weapons inspector in iraq. finally closed the w m. d, investigation in 2005, concluding there were no such weapons in the country. while the years of war on the subsequent rise of terrorism have taken a grim toll on a rock and its people. there were at least $180000.00 documented civilian debts in

the country, while some surveys estimate it to be closer to this figure. 1000000 many of those died from area bombing shelling gunshots and suicide attacks. over at $9000000.00 people fled the country or were displaced while the us led coalition lost almost 5 thousands of its own soldiers. the war star, the lives of many iraqis of different generations on some of them have been sharing their stories with ah, has had a show at either. the streets were packed with barriers and tunnels. i remember it well. baghdad became a battlefield tanks and security forces of all kinds of been deployed there. oh wow . i up now. so yeah, they are live, became a living health because as a child, you're supposed to see beautiful things, but we so bullets tags and kind of tear for humanity, children and society as

a whole. there was nothing but war. oh, don't most of the families last members and i lost one of my brothers because of the bomb banks. the americans were killing everything in front of them. i know that and it, one of my sons wanted to celebrate his success with his studies. so my wife gave him money to buy some junk food and eat out with his friends and they sat to eat. they were an american bass. he was shot in the head by the americans. he died on the spot. the zip up my friends were killed by the explosion at that time. my neighbor was killed by the americans, but he was going to buy a kenneth could can guess. they thought he was a suicide bomber and kill him or love, hear the crowd quesada. these are very difficult memories for me. a mortar shall fell at the door of our house and killed one of my playmates. ah,

nothing about that one but used to live in bagdad. our dreams were shattered. we wished to complete our studies that we could not because of the war and killings in the streets. we had to leave our homes and go to the north a little while action about with the tops we were in baghdad. we stayed at home and closed the windows, covered them with blankets. we were afraid of a chemical bombardment. we saw america come to us. they told us that a rock would become a paradise. they published news about how they were distributing food, but those were all false dreams. a. and only after i turned 14 years old, was i able to leave the house with my friends before that i couldn't even think about it. i was afraid something would happen outside. and even now i don't want to leave without telling my family where i'm going.

mm . let go. what do you want? what do you remember my thursday at the kindergarten? the thursday i tell mattress cold, the textbooks shall picture the summer for my regime, but they took them away and gave us new different books. i'll never forget the coal sop of a bullet. the sound of an explosion, even just a smoke, an american soldier, a life full of blood. i know many showing jo, aware, the americans arrested my father. he did not belong to any party. he was working at the market. he was kept in prison until 2018. i didn't have a chance to know my father. after he was released, his health deteriorated but took him to germany for treatment. but up to 4 surgeries, he died. ah, a little you may say to me,

your childhood was stolen and i didn't have a child food. i spend and among war and terrorist organizations, such as anti that among slaughter americans bombing at kinda and kinda bowman americans. when we went to school, i used to walk along the wolf so as not to be shot and killed a fellow smooth. although my cousin, my brother in law, unfortunately, the americans did not fulfill the promise. you whoa to rock because of your lost my loved ones. you hold has a lot of good areas in with the united states. you destroyed iraq. you, we can national sovereignty, and over 20 years you fail to manage a rock. i wouldn't bother me. stop destroying stuff controlled enough. now let me so says let the rocky people leave in peace. i

will something not spoken by toll and all that suffering might have been avoided. if washington had not rejected, i'd write they negotiation conditions that were offered by saddam hussein's government. back in january, 2003 at dumping into that and more r t. steve sweeney. 20 years ago us president george w bush tried to convince the world the iraqi leader, saddam hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction. and he had the evidence to prove it. the phrase w, m. d, entered the lexical with politicians, repeating it over and over again despite in fact, knowing that they didn't actually exist in iraq as their own intelligence services told them. while un weapons inspectors also said that they found no evidence of w. m days. none of doris turned up with ins of mass distraction and you've been surprised and then you were surprised that that was the case. do you believe the

information that gave you was good information? we got, i got a good many, a trip said 2 sites to go to and we went to many of them but, and only on 3 of those cases the, the find anything and, and none of these cases was his weapons of mass destruction. so that took maybe 5 minutes and while beating the drums of war, washington ignored last ditch effort by iraq to negotiate for peace. the effort began in january of 2003 in which they contacted us. and through my intermediary friend, he was asked by the syrians to go to baghdad. get, i'm conditional terms from saddam hussein and the intelligence and the iraqi intelligence at the time. and he brought them out and sent them to me as conditions that saddam hussein would agree to if the united states did not attack how to this. there were 6 conditions, 2 of which we could have implemented immediately to test

that the, the, the seriousness of their, of their proposals. one was we would be allowed to take the allow $5000.00 you us troops to go in to iraq and look for weapons of mass destruction. there was talk at high levels, almost terms because i turned them, turned them over to the secretaries office and, and was it basically the intermediary? well, they decided to launch the attack on and in march of 2003. so who were the architects of the invasion? well, it's a long list. first to politicians. a no, no, only president george w bush, the day before the 2003 states of the union address, u. s. secretary of state colin powell said the old options were on the table including military intervention. one rack is in material breach 2,

this is their last chance there have to be serious consequences. and those serious consequences met the use of force. and you've heard me say that repeatedly, repeatedly. i've also said that if the international community to the un when the time comes, does not wish to use force, the united states reserves its right as a sovereign nation to make a judgment with in this, this clear record of violation to use force alongside a like minded nations who might wish to be part of such a coalition. back in 2002 us vice president dick cheney had his eyes on regime change in iraq. put our health a liberated iraq can be a great nation once again. a rack as rich a natural resources in human talent and has unlimited potential for a peaceful, prosperous future. our goal would be interacted as territorial integrity. a government that has a demo, frantic and pluralistic a nation where the human race of every ethnic and religious group are recognized

and protected in that troubled land. all who seek justice and dignity, and the chance to live their own lives. can know they have a friend and ally in the united states of america. then of course came the media, which was crucial during efforts to build public support for war. pushing the narrative on saddam and wm days. in september 2002, the york times america's newspaper of record went big on a sensational story. climbing a rock was trying to get its hands on nuclear weapons. more than a decade after saddam hussein agreed to give up weapons of mass destruction. iraq has stepped up its quest for nuclear weapons and has embarked on a worldwide hunt for materials to make an atomic bomb, but counter to all good journalistic practice. the only source was an anonymous one . the whole story could be made up. and guess what?

there was drums beating there and, and there were, we had the agency over there, c a saying there's debbie and d, i personally believe to this day basically set up george bush for failure. knowing that there was no w m d. they knew it. they knew it and they had one source that proved later to be unreliable. we presented all the information that we had all the and, and, and, and with the hope that we could prevent a war. again, not knowing at that time, that there were all terrier motives. so it was just a matter of time before the u. s. unleashed it's shocking or bombing campaign. while across the pond, british prime minister, tony blair, also sold a case for war on a lie. but now infamous doughty dozier, which claim sams nonexistent, w. m. dees could attack the country in 45 minutes. the intelligence picture they

paint is one accumulated over the last 4 years. it is extensive, detailed, and authoritative. it concludes that iraq has chemical and biological weapons. that sedan has continued to produce them that he has existing and active military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons which could be activated within 45 minutes, including against his own shia population. so who's to, to benefit from all the most? well before the 2003 invasion, iraq's domestic oil industry was fully nationalized and close to western companies . to decades later, it is largely privatized and dominated by foreign firms, which have right in billions to understand the dynamics that are going on in the middle east. and of course, it's about oil. it's very much about oil, and we can't, we can't really deny that. i'm saddened that it's politically inconvenient to acknowledge what every one knows. the iraq war is largely about oil. people say

we're not fighting for oil. of course, we are hardly surprising since oil company spent big box getting form oil, mom bush and former halliburton, c o dick shady into office in the 1st place. private military contractors also saw their profit, saw a war, proved to be a boom for the armed industry with lockheed martin saying a 47 percent increase in profits during the build up to the invasion, which continued throughout the occupation. 2 decades on an iraq remains in tatters with sectarian, our militia are running a mock and deep political instability, with the war blame for the rise of islamic state and other global g had his groups and calls for george w bush and tony blair to be tried as war criminals still unanswered, as they enjoy the patronage of the elite said they how profit from the war launched on a lie?

steve sweeney bringing us just some of the stories from the decades long conflict. we'll touch in more through the next number of months in our special coverage of the 20th anniversary of wall of america's longest wars. this is art internet ah ah .