ah, with with breaking news on our t. a hospital in the loop gown script public is struck by the ukrainian military using us apply to high mars rockets killing over a dozen civilians. that's according to the russian ministry of the fix with the law . civilian infrastructure is again, had 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 civilians 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 him. that is, according to the state broadcaster, which said that 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 have all they significant updates on you from that blast out a military plant. and it's for hm. around the,

not a hospital and civilian housing, helping hits in a rocket that stuck in the loo, ganske republic, killing 14 people and injuring 2 doesn't were, according to the russian, m. o. d r, senior correspondent, morale gas d. if he's in the republic and can tell us more, we 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 resolve all the local hospitals global. i got the hospital was stopped by booth civilians and military doctors and treated both the local population. this was the local clinic ought to rule, as well as troops at injured in the fighting on the frontlines and taken there for further treatment. the attack left 14 people dead for 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 a medical facility, you know, at the hospital which is who the way him saw region of the city will have to focus his give a go. i'd las taking chilling for the past month and she says again, sharing that facility had been struck before. but again, we don't get know about casualties with injuries of death, unlike even though by that, which the russian side already called the incident. a war club saying the who's responsible, it's wooded. the strike carried out. the strike will be identified and will be punished for rushes deputy ambassador to the you and as firmly condemned the attack, stating that the u. s. shares responsibility for the debts. assets supplied the

weapons used, and coordinates attacks with keith, 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 journalists tell us, rooper believes public opinion on ukraine would be defense if the western media were not ignoring such incidence. that's the way it works. they are so many walk runs from ukraine, which, which are what there's no doubt about them. they have one big civil targets in the next. well, not only of the, since the beginning of the operation, but even before. so this is nothing new. we have seen a mario plan. well, i've, i've been there, i've talked to the people who just came out of out of the houses, and we have seen that they are your credit army used them as human shields that

they didn't let them out. that lensky announced officially that he was prohibiting any kind of education in these kinds of cities in the west, whether decisions, decisions are made about whatever they will delivery of weapons and all this stuff . they have the people who will not get to know, and that's the point that the people would know what's happening really there, there a public opinion would be absolutely different in the west, but it's the job of the western media 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 there will be nothing you because of this. we see paul for since the beginning of the operation, someone who has moscow slammed t f 4 quote, deliberately targeting civilians. protestors 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 battle tanks. ortiz,

dominic rash ard 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 of 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 activist was prosecuted for saying, basically that in a war like this, all sides need to be heard in this water scene as 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 and where a lot of our 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. ilan mosques efforts to lift the lead on the previous inner workings of twitter, of delivered yet another revelation, namely, dallan 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 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 boards, 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 russia's points of view than you will be labeled a bought, 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 and you will be labeled as a bought, what exactly are these so called russian volts?

well, let's take a look of 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 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, an american. another one is an oregon 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 to undermine the rights we hold dear. another person who was surprised to find himself on the list of so called russian balls. and 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 fee or get involved in this problem somehow that the try and we 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 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, 68 dashboard now, who founded it? it's headed by former f. b. i counter intelligence official and current. emerson, we see contributor a cleanser watts and it's funded by a neo liberal thing tank of cold. busy alliance more 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 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 that 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 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 of radius, if all were used to smear people like tulsa gabbert 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

not going to make mention media or i'm 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 iranian city of hoyle and west, or by john province. you can see hoses destroyed and at debris across the streets. there look about emergency services also report power cuts in some praise. another story will be keeping across of here on r t now it's 20 years since the us invasion of iraq and r t special coverage. all of the elementary kicks off. now,

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 gravy. with food medicine and fleet with

well, in january 2003 u. s. president george w bush. i've lined the coming invasion of iraq in estates of the union address bush called iraqi leader. saddam hussein, a quote, brutal dictator would ties to terrorism. posing a direct threat to the united states he pledged to disarm his saying 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 himself. 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. we'll later it turned out that his name did not. busy 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 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 worldwide, u. s. force is invaded. iraq from chew 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. 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 lined 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 were 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, michelle and i left 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 out now that yeah they are live, became a live in health because as

a child you're supposed to see beautiful things, but we so bullets tanks and kind of tear for humanity, children and society as a whole. there was nothing but war. oh, 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 here with one of my sons wanted to celebrate his success with his studies. so my wife gave you money to buy some junk food and eat out with his friends, and they sat to eat and 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, but he was going to buy a kenneth cook and guess they thought he was a suicide bomber and kill him. or love pay the crowd chrisala these are very difficult memories for me. a mortar shall fell at the door of our house and killed

one of my playmates. ah no sucking about that want police to live in bagdad. our dreams were shattered. 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, a letter in the bucket i do with up the top 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 in even now. i don't want to leave without telling my family where i'm going. mm mm. that got it. i want you to remember my 1st day at the kindergarten, the thursday i tell a mattress cool. the textbooks shall picture the summer for my regime, but they took them away and gave us new different books. i'll now forget the coal sop of a bullet. the sound of an explosion, even just a smoke, an american soldier, alive full of blood. i know many shines oh, where 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. we took him to germany for treatment, but up to 4 surgeries, he died. ah,

ah, a little you may say to me, your childhood was stolen and i didn't have a childhood. i spend and among war and terrorist organizations, such as r k, that among slaughter, americans bombing that 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. ah, the alaska alo smith, though, my cousin, my brother in law. unfortunately the americans did not fulfill the promise. you heard a rock because of your last my loved ones you hold has a lot on it. i didn't want to either the united states, you destroyed iraq. you, we can national sovereignty. and over 20 years you failed to manage a rock. i wouldn't probably gonna stop destroying stuff,

control the national resources, 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 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 said, you were surprised that that was the case. do you believe the information i gave you was good information to be got. i got a good many, a tip 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, and none of these cases was wet, this mass destruction. so that shook maybe if i meant i'm all beating the drums of war, washington ignored last 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 2 of us, 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 state of the union address. u. s. secretary of state colin

powell said the old option for 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 those serious consequences. matthew should 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, it's 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. iraq as 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 is 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 so will decay for war on ally the now infamous dodgy dossier,

which claim sams nonexistent, w. m. d's 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 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 rack war is largely about oil. people say we're not fighting for oil. of course, we are hardly surprising since the oil companies spend big bucks getting formal 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 all militia running a mock and deep political instability, with the war blame for the rise of islamic state and other global g. how these 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 that they help profit from the war? launched on a lie. 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 and many other aspects of. busy the conflict throughout the coming months in our special coverage of the 20th anniversary of one of america's longest wars. this is marty internet. ah

ah, ah oh, this is far more a conflict over power and they do use involving, do not good states and russia. it's a question of all trash offer, assert deep a sphere of influence in the former soviet space holds in europe rolled and ukraine easy sunshine in order to obtain this, you know, these things doesn't want to allow this to happen. and mrs. at the bottom of what is going on ah.