ah, ah ah ah, breaking news on our teeth. the hospital in the loop gal script public is struck by the ukrainian military using us apply to high mars rockets, killing over a dozen civilians. according to the russian ministry of the fix allows civilian infrastructure is again head to end on balance by key forces, hundreds of berliners take to the streets to protest the german decision of delivering types to ukraine marketing 20 years since the u. s. invasion and occupation of iraq. we begin our special coverage of the legacy

left by the devastating war which that hundreds of thousands of civil means that with broadcasting from moscow. this is our t. my name's unit o'neill on 30 minutes of news news start. now we begin with a developing story. a huge explosion has rocked a military plant in the central iranian city of is for that is according to the state broadcaster, which said the blast happened, a munitions manufacturing center for the country's defense ministry. as of now, no casualties have been reported. r t dot com. well if. busy all they significant updates on you from that blast out a military plant in ispa around the not

a hospital and civilian housing, helping hits in a rocket attack in the loop. ganske republic, killing 14 people on entering 2 doesn't were, according to the russian m. o t. or senior correspondent morocco, the of he's in the republic and can tell us more. we've had the statement from the russian ministry of defense which has come out and said that. 2 you couldn't, inside launched a surprise me, sol, attack a multiple walking to with using you estimate and supplied by mas nissan target. lucas hospital, noble. i got to the hospital was stopped by booth civilians and military doctors have treated both the local population. this is the local clinic off the rule, as well as troops an injured in the fighting on the frontlines. and taken there for further treatment. the attack left 14 people dead. from what you understand 24,

that you get those numbers may well rise up. we're, we're keeping up to date with information from the russian ministry of defense. but there's also be another strike concurrently. 2 targeting the medical facility, you know, at the hope to which is who the way him saw region of the city will that the bulk of his b adult ed las taking chill into the past mugs and ceaseless, again chilling, that facility had been struck before. but again, we don't get know about casualties, injuries of death, unlike even though by doubt which the russian side is already the incident, a war club saying that those responsible this war did the strike carried out. the strike will be identified and will be punished for russia's deputy ambassador to the un as firmly condemned the attack, stating that the u. s. shares responsibility for the debts,

assets supplied the weapons used, and coordinates attacks with key if 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 german journalist tallest report believes public opinion on ukraine would be difference if the western media were not ignoring such incidence. that's the way it works there. so many war crimes from ukraine, which, which are what there's no doubt about them. they have one big civil targets in the next. well, not only since, the beginning of the preparation, but even before. so this is nothing new. we have seen in mario plan whenever i've been there. i've talked to the people that just came out of out of the houses, and we have seen that they are you credit army used them as human shields that they

didn't let them out. that lizzy lensky announced officially that he was prohibiting any kind of a recreation in these kinds of cities in the west, whether decisions, decisions are made about whatever they will and delivery of weapons. and all this stuff. the other people will, will not get to know. and that's the point if the people would know what's happening really there, there are public opinion would be absolutely different in the west, but it's the job of the west, immediate not to cover it, not to talk about it. and this is what we see. and yeah, we can discuss about the role of who was the media at this point, but that will be nothing you because of this, we see paul for since the beginning of operations or as moscow slammed t f for quote, deliberately targeting civilians. protesters have taken to the streets of the german capital, angered at the government's decision. there are to supply ukraine with its leopard

to main. awful. thanks. ortiz dominic rush, heart reports from berlin. a few 100 people here today, a one might expect more to be on the streets actually, because colds indicate that around half off the german population is strictly against weapon deliveries. the people here are 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 in germany. right now. just a couple of days. we found out that a peace activists was prosecuted for saying, basically that in the war like this all sides need to be heard. and this martha fina supporting russian aggression by german authorities. and he was therefore prosecuted. so there's a lot of fear as well, amongst german people to, to protest against these issues. but nevertheless, we're looking at the munich

a security council next week where a lot of a key and need to officially come together. and we are expecting to see a large protest there with at least a several 1000 people joining it. ellen musk efforts to lift the lead on the previous inner workings of twitter, of delivered yet another revelation, namely, dallon online dashboard concocted by the f. b, i listing so called russian bots was a hoax. moreover, the kinds highlighted were legitimate right. leaning out kinds of ordinary americans. my colleagues, marina cost revenue, re sushi, talked through developments right here. these later sneaks 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 bots, these russian bots have nothing to do with russia. the hamilton dashboard falsely accuses a bunch of legitimate right, leaning accounts of being russian butts. 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 points 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, she's 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 native and 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 so undermined the rights we hold dear. another person who was surprised to find himself on the list of so called russian bots. 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 interfere 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 skewing washington's propaganda bear 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, 60 a dashboard now who founded it? it's headed by former f. b. i counter intelligence official and current emerson, we see contributor clint a watts and it's funded by a neo liberal thing tank. a cold. busy alliance for secure in 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 the who are the listing as russian balls anyone, rory, anyone that happens to agree with the russian, what they call propaganda, sort of 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 that it had lots of people millions around the world. who are we thinking 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 a pumping up support for bret cavanaugh on the debit. nunez memo as well. we had the parkland shooting. there were a manipulation of black voters. these stories raised fears in the population and most radius of all were used to smear people like tulsa governor, as for an assets and drum up sympathy for political causes, like jo biden's campaign by describing critics as russian aligned anything so that they can push their agenda and trying to use russia. so push their point of view further on. and this is something that we've seen before and once again. and this

is all going to make mainstream media or am sure it will not returning in the program. now to our run, we're at least 2 people have been killed and more than $300.00 injured after an earthquake struck the north west of the country. late on saturday. those figures coming into us from local media tremors were heard in many nearby areas. this is footage of the aftermath and the iranians deploy and west us or by john province. you can see hoses destroyed and debris across the streets. there look at that. emergency services also report power cuts in some praise. another story will be keeping across of here on our team. now it's 20 years since the us invasion of iraq and r t special coverage. all of

the elementary kicks off. know, throughout the coming months we'll examine the devastation destabilization. the operation costs right. 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 pain. we will bring to the food medicine and fleet with

well, in january 2003 u. s. president george w bush outlined the coming invasion of iraq in estates of the union address, but called iraqi leader, saddam hussein, a quote, brutal dictator with ties to terrorism. posing a direct threat to the united states. he pledge to disarm his saying, on 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. will. later it turned out that his sane did not have the so called weapons of mass destruction program that washington insist that it had. so it was in march, 2003, the u. s. joined by its allies, launched operation iraqi freedom. the coalition started a bombing campaign directed against the iraqi government on military installations . despite months of massive anti war protests were wide. u. s. forces invaded iraq from to wait 3 weeks into the invasion. baghdad felt 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. the years of war and the subsequent rise of terrorism have taken a grim toll on

a rock and its people know there were at least 180000 documented land you civilian deaths in the country. while some surveys estimate the actual figure to be 1000000, many of those died from aerial bombing shelling gunshots and suicide attacks over 9000000 people either fled the country or where displaced while the us led coalition last, almost 5000 of its own soldiers. the war scarred the lives of many iraqis of different generations, some of whom shared their stories with ah, has had a michelle where the streets were packed with barriers and tunnels. i remember it well. baghdad became a battlefield tanks and security forces of all kinds of them deployed there. oh wow

. i am now. so yeah, they are live, became a living. hell, because as a child, you're supposed to see beautiful things, but we so bullets tags and kennedy, tara, 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 as if all my friends were killed by the explosion at that time. my neighbor was killed by the americans where 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 chrisala. these are very difficult memories for me. a mortars shall

fell at the door of our house and killed one of my playmates. ah no, sucking about that one but used to live in bagdad. our dreams were shad it. we wished to complete our studies that we could not because of the war and the killings in the streets. we had to leave our homes and go to the north a place i would like to know, but i do with up the top we were in baghdad who 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. 8th, 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. mm. let go. oh, what do you want? what do you remember my thursday at the kindergarten? the thursday i tell a mattress cold, the textbooks shall picture the summer full my regime, but they took them away. a gave us new different books. i'll never forget the coal sop of a bullet. the sound of an explosion. images of smoke, an american soldier, a life full of blood, already shine jo, avoid 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,

ah, i will little you may say to me, your childhood was stolen and i didn't have a childhood. i spend the money war and terrorist organizations, such as r k, that among slaughter americans bombing at k, that kind of bowman americans. when we went to school, i used to walk along the wall so as not to be shot and killed a alaska. i lost my though, 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. he has a lot on it. i didn't want to had the united states. you destroyed iraq. you, we can national sovereignty. and over 20 years you fail to manage a rock. i wouldn't think that he'll stop destroying stuff controlling enough.

mallory so says let the rocky people leave in peace. ah well another aspect which could have been critical. all the suffering might indeed have been avoided if washington had not rejected. i to write the negotiation conditions that were offered by saddam hussein's government. back in january, 2003 r t, steve sweeney. as they extended recap. 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 that 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 the own intelligence services told them, while un weapons inspectors also said that they found no evidence of

w. m days. none of diaries turned up with ins of mass distraction. and you've been surprised and said you were surprised that that was the case. do you believe the information they gave you was good information. we got i got a good many, a trip sess, 2 sites to go to. and we went to many of them, but and only and 3 of those cases did they find anything and none of these cases was wet, this mass destruction. so that shook maybe if i met. and while beating the drums of war, washington ignored loft hfs 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 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 to this, there were 6 conditions, 2 of which we could have implemented immediately to test the, the seriousness of their, of their proposals. one was we would be allowed to take to allow $5000.00 us troops to go into iraq and look for weapons of mass destruction. there was talk at high levels, all those terms because i turned around, turned them over to the secretaries office and, and was it basically the intermediary while they decided to launch the attack on and in march of 2003. so who was 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 to this is their last chance there have to be serious consequences and though serious consequences matthews 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 within this. this clear record of violation to use force alongside 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. with our health a liberated iraq can be a great nation once again. a rack is rich, a natural resources and human talent and has unlimited potential for a peaceful, prosperous future. our goal would be interacted as territorial integrity. a

government that has a democratic and pluralistic a nation where the human rights 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 wool. 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. ca saying there's debbie m 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,

the now infamous dodgy dossier which claim sam's non existent, w. m. deeds could attack the country in 45 minutes. the intelligence picture they paint is one accumulated over the last 4 years. it is expensive, 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 it 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 bucks 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 alms 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 all militia running a mock and deep political instability. with a war blame for the rise of islamic state and other global g. how these groups and called for george w bush and tony blair to be tried as war criminals. still announce it as they enjoy

the patronage of the elite that they help profit from the war. launched on ally, steve sweeney bringing us just some of the stories from the decades long conflict. you can find more of them on our website, including as well, former un weapons inspector scott ritter chronicling is own attempts to prevent the war. we'll touch in many other aspects of. busy the conflict throughout the coming months in our special coverage of the 20th anniversary of all of america's longest tours. this is our t international ah,

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 grey who's with both we will bring to the iraqi people, food and medicines and supplies and freedom with ah.