who cooperated with al qaida and not iraq hone. i would not define it as cooperation though as it was later revealed they did have contacts they coordinated their actions and supported al qaeda is fight against the russians and the soviet union when bush said that saddam hussein sent an envoy to bin laden he didn't talk of the results of that mission so formally his statement was true but in terms of the meaning he was wrong now let's talk a little bit about the weapons of mass destruction in iraq really have these weapons as america claimed when it invaded the country but. now one more thing about al qaeda before the war against iraq the u.s. media talked a lot about abu musaab now is that kerry who allegedly was in iraq and had connections with the iraqi regime we searched but didn't find miss sampson we had no connections with or al qaeda there was an attempt to establish a connection with the taliban through one of the ministers who was in pakistan from iraqi intelligence proposed this but foreign minister tariq aziz said that

kirkuk iraq. still ahead for this hour some social history lesson for the world's top whistle blower we delve into the nearly two million diplomatic cables published by julie his songs which put america's foreign policy of past years right under the spotlight. the political and economic strain in italy prompts a solution young people to turn the radical far right groups disregarding the history of the movement. world with. its technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. the news about international landlords in the very heart of moscow. again trapped in their court or an embassy for over nine months now but still fighting to blow the lid on global politics julian assange has released over one point seven million u.s. diplomatic cables from the one nine hundred seventy s. which he's dubbed the most significant geo political publication ever. london's been examining wiki leaks biggest release to date them. according to julian the sun the us administration c

iraq. still ahead here this hour a sensational history lesson for the world's top whistleblower we delve into the nearly two million diplomatic cables published by julian assange which put america's foreign policy view is. this coming up so. well with. its technology innovation all the latest developments around russia we've got the future covered. international airport in the very heart of moscow. trapped in the door an embassy for over nine months but still fighting to blow the lid on global politics with talk about julian massage now he's released over one point seven million u.s. diplomatic cables from the nineteen seventies which he's dubbed the most significant geopolitical publication ever. has been examining wiki leaks biggest release today according to julian assange and the u.s. administration com to be trusted with controlling its own history so he's had to come along and do this he controls the president controls and he controls the past controls the future and that is because o

claims that the war in iraq destroyed iraq's environment even worse than dropping the bomb on hiroshima did dr cooper he see puts to data that the number of breast cancer cases has grown in the country from fifteen to thirty times cases of congenital heart disease have become fifteen times more frequent case of leukemia have increased thirty fold the doctor puts the blame on the weapons used in the one thousand nine hundred one and two thousand and three invasions of iraq it which nato forces used white phosphorus depleted uranium rounds and other toxic gases and poisonous substances human rights watch and the world health organization have measured radiation levels in iraq and consider many places in iraq even some very far from the fighting to be contaminated naturally radiation is not racist and foreign soldiers in iraq are not immune usa today even published research results that found that depleted uranium was indeed in the lungs and other organs of navy vets who filed for health compensation claims yeah you know saddam hussein seemed like a pretty bad guy but there are always ways

kirkuk iraq. while the us attempted to rebuild iraq following the two thousand and three invasion spending billions of dollars in various reconstruction projects medical work a doctor. says that while america's invested heavily into iraq it's intentional use of dangerous weapons as less of a lasting effect across the country. it's clear that though the u.s. spoke of their help provided to iraq after the you know notably reconstruction education in investments and their so-called help resulted in the use of weapons banned by article fifty three of the geneva convention it prohibits any kind of weapon which if used where there is more war can affect the areas environment climate and water resources things that occurred in one thousand nine hundred one and then in two thousand and three are true catastrophe all types of munitions were used including dispenser weapons boss present munitions depleted uranium and chemical weapons all these types of weapons were used intentionally and on a mass scale in

army is beginning to withdraw from iraq. in december twentieth eleven after nine years of occupation the last american troops are finally leaving the country. every gun got in it but it was the only way to get members of the iraqi's anger towards the departing invaders who once dreamed of being liberators the departure resembles abandonment and escape despite the optimistic speeches. a. cease. a full twenty twelve and i'm back in iraq and so on the border with turkey. i have an appointment this morning with our lebanese taxi. family the united states said they would make a democracy out of iraq in the heart of the arab world but iraq i see today is a country on the brink of chaos torn between three groups sunni's and shia's. it is a country divided a stranger to peace that i'm about to cross a taxi ride to the heart of iraqi history. from the hole in the north of travel down through l b let some ammonia cook was soon tikrit volusia baghdad babylon. and. a road map of the iraqi tragedy. serve obviously i'm delighted the ameri

in the war in iraq and tens of. thousands maybe hundreds of thousands of iraqis have been killed and they were born to. is this what you envisioned when when you are new when question now the new boss in on a vision well. known when it comes to war. expect unexpected. it's. tough in our vision but what you know about us foreign policy now that we didn't know that we're not going to be told she will happen is because the times are hard at sucking up until it's not just come out some of the public will go to war. to you know be able to control the oil without reaching out of course we're not just going to come out and and how many people are going to sign up to risk their lives was actually exactly but you know if it was you know we're of military here we do what we're told and. we hope that you know this you know this right says i mean you know it's we're going to last word there you know we're going to find. a fun group to go to the present the country with from but he thinks the war was for him i personally think i

iraq war veteran emily yates had told r.t. that washington's main reasons for going into the conflict are with financial. my job i was actually i was a public affairs specialist in the military that's their name for a journalist my role was to basically make the war sound really wonderful to those of us who were fighting it to keep morale of course i knew that saddam didn't have weapons of mass destruction because i had been involving the news coming out of that and following the reports and i knew it wasn't you know really about liberation as soon as i saw the huge mess that we made of the infrastructure in iraq and the fact that still to this day corporations that received these jane or miss contracts to rebuild iraq's infrastructure still haven't done that and they don't even know where the money has gone i believe. the war affectively was for oil because big oil efficiently american oil. has really ever really been the main picture. the stability promised by nato forces that is a nowhere to be seen in places like koku atta

it's like a small version of iraq with sunni shia christians arabs and kurds it's disputed because. but of course the other reason is kooks oil. the oil fires illustrate the main reason that this land is so hotly contested here kuka sitting on an estimated ten billion barrels of oil and is responsible for a large chunk of iraq's current output that's enough to sustain an independent state should the kurds get their way and annex this disputed territory it's also enough to bankrupt iraq if the oil revenue is lost. that revenue makes up ninety five percent of iraq's annual budget of more than one hundred billion dollars and there's a lot more money at stake the international energy agency says iraq could export a staggering. five trillion dollars worth of oil over the next two decades the kurds and the central government are supposed to share these profits but they haven't been able to sort out how. the oil and guys it is all iraqi people. are having to buy coals to sion but there is no real solve acceptable and standing between all iraqis on the revenue sharing this is the key proble

and i'm back in iraq in soho on the border with turkey. i have an appointment this morning with a lebanese taxi. family in the united states said they would make a democracy out of iraq in the heart of the arab world but the iraq i see today is a country on the brink of chaos torn between. three groups sunni's and shia's. is a country divided a stranger to peace that i'm about to cross a taxi ride to the heart of iraqi history. from a hole in the north travelled down through l.b. little ammonia was soon tikrit volusia baghdad babylon. and i'll file a road map of the iraqi tragedy. serve obviously i'm delighted the americans have finally left iraq as much as we're rocky's a very happy not to see it or hear anymore enough was enough the americans occupied us so we hate them like they lean here in iraq they killed in creating the conditions for chaos they're responsible for the whole tragedy because we were living in peace and they came to destroy our country and also we want all of us out of the. right andrea says bringing in the buff crane

after crippling the infrastructure of iraq during the invasion the u.s. went on to spend tens of billions of dollars on reconstruction efforts but today live for a rock eases the daily struggle and washington admits that it cannot account for a large share of the rebuilding funds meanwhile of the scars left by america's tools of destruction not clear to see the list of munitions includes cluster bombs which scatter hundreds of small deadly explosives when detonated the use of depleted uranium in american shells and white phosphorus in no plant like bombs dropped on for loser in two thousand and four were just among the most controversial and octo mom by caesar's the use of such weapons a live severe and lost in effects you may find some of the following images disturbing. it's clear that though the u.s. folk of their help provided to iraq after the invasion notably reconstruction education and investments their so-called help resulted in the use of weapons banned by article fifty three of the geneva convention it prohibits any kind of weapon which if used

iraq. the us attempted to rebuild iraq following the true thousand and three invasion spending billions of dollars on various reconstruction projects this after tons were destroyed at its hands a jury the invasion as the us military didn't stop short of using irregular weapons let's just take a look at what i'm talking about right now they're listening to the weapons like cluster bombs and munitions which scatter hundreds of smaller deadly explosives when fired powerful bunker buster bombs were also dropped on baghdad you radium depleted uranium in empty tank shells was also used by the u.s. troops. while traces of white phosphorus was also find in iraq. now the palm like bombs were dropped on fallujah in november of two thousand and four it burns and knelt down and flesh on contact while i labeled those causes a slow death delta omagh by sea says that the us use of these weapons has led to civil left-wing impact. it's clear that though the us spoke of their help provided to iraq after the

first with iraq. ambassador dobbins certainly mentioned some of the better things that have come out of, specifically, the war in afghanistan. but let me set that within another set of figures and statistics with iraq. after 8.8 years of war, 4,486 americans killed, thousands more with life-changing wounds depending on which estimate you want to take, close to $3 trillion american dollars spent, iraq itself close to a quarter of a million iraqis killed, that many more seriously wounded, close to a million displaced from their original homes, very few have returned. we've replaced one strong arm leader with another, this one nouri al-maliki, is allied closely with our regional adversary, iran. then we look at afghanistan. close to 2200 americans killed, that many more seriously wounded, close to a trillion dollars spent, tens of thousands of afghans killed. i know this is -- i often ask myself this a counterfactual or historical hypothetical, and i ask this just to try to set in context what these wars

keep soldiers in iraq or u.s. soldiers for far longer than. actually happened and it was because of the information that came out in the diplomatic cables concerning the iraq war graves the iraqi population. that actually work for them so really a leaky government could not give immunity to the u.s. soldier. and obama decided to pull out all the troops far earlier than expected and we have a short amount of time left but i do want to get julian a sauna and find out what his current status is can you ivan and talk about what what joy i thought was up to these days. well i mean he's still doing the work that he has been doing that throughout all this time that he has been in the house arrest or in the ecuadorian embassy in london still doing his work as a good internet connection and we are continuing our work and we have actually a press conference on monday and wasn't on to see to announce. a new project and this is all of. but shouldn't you know sort of we hope that the two situations will change and you could walk free hopefully very soon an

the united states said they would make a democracy out of iraq in the heart of the arab world but iraq i see today is a country on the brink of chaos torn between three groups kurds sunnis and shias. it is a country divided a stranger to peace that i'm about to cross a taxi ride to the heart of iraqi history. from the hole in the north of travel down through l b let some ammonia. tikrit volusia baghdad babylon. and. a road map of the iraqi tragedy. serve obviously i'm delighted the americans have finally left iraq as much of we're rocky's a very happy not to see that here anymore enough was enough the americans occupied us so we hate them like they lean here in iraq they killed in creating the conditions for chaos they're responsible for the whole tragedy of them and of course we were living in peace and they came to destroy our country and us over all of us of the. journey begins on the mountains of iraqi kurdistan. an army of two hundred thousand soldiers called peshmerga watch over this rather particular region of a country. that . jeff. was. my first stop is an l.b.o. the capital o

iraq's first election since u.s. combat troops pulled out over a year ago has been overshadowed by attacks reports of blasts and mortar fire near polling stations are mounting at the end of a campaign that has seen a spike in violence in recent weeks was more than a dozen candidates assassinated and a sectarian tensions are rising it doesn't look like of a new beginning in many hoped for as a loose accounting of reports from baghdad. there's been about a dozen small explosions in northern cities in iraq in three different areas as well as several rounds of mortar fire that have landed in several cities polling stations targeting polling stations south of baghdad we're hearing that there have been injuries but no casualties confirmed as of yet now this comes amid incredibly tight security restrictions here all across iraq even getting to the studios here in baghdad we have to pass multiple checkpoints and what these attacks indicate is that despite these security restrictions determined insurgents are still able to ca

iraqi cardiologist dr omar our claims that the war in iraq. destroyed iraq's environment even worse than dropping the bomb on hiroshima did dr e.c. puts to data that the number of breast cancer cases has grown in the country from fifteen to thirty times cases of congenital heart disease have become fifteen times more frequent a case of leukemia have increased thirty fold the doctor puts the blame on the weapons used in the one thousand nine hundred one and two thousand and three invasions of iraq it which nato forces used white phosphorus depleted uranium rounds and other toxic gases and poisonous substances human rights watch and the world health organization have measured radiation levels in iraq and can see.

but god will save iraq a little. sorry. he had to draw it they want to make iraq a wretched country than us be. but that would be assassinate the best among us the terrorist who kills a journalist like my colleague at the news channel or who kills a religious man behind an economic or teacher certainly doesn't do it for religious reasons it's obvious he does it mostly for money because our religion does not tolerate all these crimes the only motive for these crimes is money and they're ordered from outside to kill our best people in need of up. in the city center the mosque still bears the name of the man who built it was saddam hussein and i'm fabulous come to play a final homage to his murdered friend i knew all on april second two thousand and twelve kemi runs a holiday. and a journalist for a local t.v. station was killed instantly when his car exploded. down. a relaxing evening along the banks of the tigris overseen by the palace of the local hero sadam. saddam was always surrounded by members of his own tribe and many

ten years or so after crippling the infrastructure of iraq during the invasion the u.s. went on to spend tens of billions of dollars on reconstruction efforts but today life for iraqis is a daily struggle in washington myths that it cannot account for a large share of the rebuilding funds meantime the scars left by america's tools of destruction are clear to see the list of munitions includes cluster bombs which scatter hundreds of small deadly bomb metz when they detonated also the use of course as well as has been reported of depleted uranium in american shells and incendiary white phosphorous bombs that were dropped on fallujah in two thousand and four there are among the most controversial in fact dr she says the use of such weapons left severe a lasting effect you may well find some of the images coming up upsetting. it's clear that though the u.s. spoke of their help provided to iraq after the invasion notably reconstruction education and investments their so-called help resulted in the use of weapons banned by article fifty three of the geneva convention it prohib

iraq. well the city of kirkuk speak of a hotbed to instability in post saddam iraq these days. reports make some locals say the fear of the late dictator has been replaced by a greater fear of the unknown. the iraq war is supposed to be over but these pictures tell a different story chaos and confusion the aftermath of yet another deadly blast here in kirkuk. this oil rich city has been described as a raucous a symbol of the country's most intractable was escalating violence the conflict among ethnic and religious groups and the fight over iraq's resources. getting there was our first challenge a group of kurdish soldiers had agreed to take us in both baghdad and the kurds lay claim to care kook and are sparring over control aside from the danger those entering from the kurdish side need special permission to get past the iraqi checkpoints we inhabit. road blocks and concrete barriers defined the new iraq checkpoints like this one are a dominant feature of life and they are everywhere aside

iraq goes to the polls on saturday but the election's already been marred with deadly sectarian violence a suicide bombing that's killed at least twenty seven people in baghdad kurdish leaders are pushing for independence at the provincial ballot despite strong government objections at stake two of the most of all deposits in the country's north which both sides want to exploit is artie's lucy cuff and often. they call them those who face death passion are gone once guerrilla rebels fighting saddam for an independent kurdistan now an officially sanctioned force in iraq's semi autonomous kurdish region the peshmerga and the iraqi troops are supposed to be on the same side after all they're citizens of one country but for more than a year now here in northern iraq the two armies have been pitted against each other their weapons locked and loaded these peshmerga soldiers are on alert twenty four hours a day they're guarding the kurdish front line of the so-called disputed territory now no iraqi soldiers are allowed beyond this point if either army advances if there's even a single misfire i

iraq. after crippling the infrastructure of the wrong during the invasion of the us went on to spend tens of billions of dollars on reconstruction efforts but did a lot of for iraqis is a daily struggle and washington admits that it called the council a large share of the rebuilding funds meanwhile the scars are left to buy america as a tools all of this structure clear to see the list of munitions include coal plants the bombs which scatter hundreds of small deadly explosives when detonated the use of depleted uranium in american shells and white phosphorus in nepal unlike bombs are dropped on fallujah in two thousand and four were among the most controversial and octo mom says the use of such weapons left a severe loss to an effect you may find some of the following images disturbing. it's clear that though the u.s. spoke of their help provided to iraq after the invasion notably reconstruction education and investments their so-called help resulted in the use of weapons banned by article

but god will save iraq . sorry. he had to do it they want to make iraq a wretched country at the nice be. a glow in the assassinate the best among us the terrorist who kills a journalist like my colleague at the news channel or who kills a religious man behind an academic or teacher certainly doesn't do it for religious reasons it's obvious he does it mostly for money because our religion does not tolerate all these crimes the only motive for these crimes is money and they're ordered from outside to kill our best people that any of us. in the city center the mosque still bears the name of the man who built it down with sam i'm. come to pay a final homage to his murdered friend. on april second two thousand and twelve. a holiday inn a journalist for a local t.v. station was killed instantly when his car exploded. down. a relaxing evening along the banks of the tigris overseen by the palace of the local hero sadam. saddam was always surrounded by members of his own tribe and many here miss the man who built a sunni st

occupation and invasion in iraq you were twenty three at the time when you climb that statue what you know about the iraq war now that you do know that all are me when i know that all those nasa turn years longer than we expected all those still struggling to rebuild their country to have a stable government why not statue of saddam hussein and wrap the face of the statue in an american flag looking back on your actions do you think that it was the propre thing to do as as a foreigner coming in invading a country climbing the statue of a man who was the leader of that country and wrapping the face an american flag. maybe you know iraqi civil war suit as the symbol was there's. no more reasons or the reason why we didn't know it was for us we would have been in iraq for all of them all. through my father got to bury the old and i would be going to the want to go home to found thousands of parents most of whom have seen our flood for so long the reason we do just to show any kind of sense we want to push on a country. which you know about us foreign policy now. to know that you know not

iraq. first election since u.s. combat troops pulled out over a year ago has been overshadowed by attacks reports of blasts and mortar fire near polling stations are mounting at the end of a campaign that has seen a spike in violence in recent weeks with more than a dozen candidates assassinated and sectarian tensions rising it doesn't look like the new beginning that many hoped for as an offer reports from baghdad. there's been about a dozen small explosions in northern cities in iraq in three different areas as well as several rounds of mortar fire that have landed in several cities polling stations targeting polling stations south of baghdad we're hearing that there have been injuries but no casualties confirmed as of yet now this comes amid incredibly tight security restrictions here all across iraq even getting to the studios here in baghdad we have to pass multiple checkpoints and what these attacks indicate is that despite these security restrictions determined insurgents are still able to carry out waves of

we just saw bush say iraq had nothing to do with this. ok, but it had a lot to do with their thinking and mindset, which after 9/11 they know what they missed. they know all of the clues that were there in the summer of 2001, that quiet summer and in their minds it was never again on our watch. no matter what it takes. chris: looking back, when in the fall of 2001, in the weeks thereafter, when there was fighting with wolfowitz trying to raise the issue at camp david and being pushed back and then somewhere bush said, ok, i want to hear more about this. >> november of 2001, beginning of war plans or beginning preliminary plans being asked for. >> but there was some rational for it. in other words, when after the fist gulf war, they discovered that oh, my god, there was much more of an effort on weapons of mass destruction. so that was a wake-up call to the cheney mindset of ok, we need to preempt. they had even written books about this. i think what happened is bush kept getting convinced by the military and rumsfeld and cheney that it is

bush's invasion of iraq. nothing written or said better explains the resulting folly than rajiv's book, life in the emrad city, the green zone. and yesterday again, rajiv, gives us detail, the new book, "little america." right now these days, a short-term sequester to find $80 billion, but over the next decade we have to scrape up three to five trillion, which is just about what we managed to squander on an iraq war that left so many dead and so many more people who hate us. so let's start there. in the front piece of imperial city, he quotes t.e. lawrence who advised his british superiors in 1917, do not try to do too much with your own hands. better the arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. its their war and you're there to help them. under the very odd conditions of arabia, your practical work will not be as good as perhaps you think it is. and among the flood of -- from the much lamented molly eye vans who says it's like reading a horror novel. you want to put your face down and moen, -- moan, h

it's like a small version of iraq with sunni shia christians arabs and kurds it's disputed because. but of course the other reason is. the oil fires illustrate the main reason that this land is so hotly contested here kuka sitting on an estimated ten billion barrels of oil and is responsible for a large chunk of iraq's current output that's enough to sustain an independent state should the kurds get their way and annex this disputed territory it's also enough to bankrupt iraq if the oil revenue is lost. that revenue makes up ninety five percent of iraq's annual budget of more than one hundred billion dollars and there's a lot more money at stake the international energy agency says iraq could export a staggering five truly. in dollars worth of oil over the next two decades the kurds and the central government are supposed to share these profits but they haven't been able to sort out how. the oil line guys it is all iraqi people. are having to buy coals to sion but no no there is no we'll solve acceptable and standing between all iraqis on the revenue sharing this is the key problem.

here kook iraq. right still ahead for you this hour here on our day a sensational history lesson from the world's top with the blow up we delve into the nearly two million diplomatic cables are published by get out which put america's foreign policy i'll give pause on to the spotlight. technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future of covered. internationally and in the very heart of moscow. you're watching our team trapped in the ecuadorian embassy for over nine months but still fighting to blow the lid on global politics jenna sons has released a one point seven million u.s. diplomatic cables from the one nine hundred seventy s. which he has dubbed the most significant geopolitical publication ever what a boy has been examining we can leagues a big us release today. according to julian the sun the us administration can't be trusted with controlling its own history so he's had to come along and do this it controls the president controls and he controls the past control

that divides iraq i mean it divides iraq constitutionally and these protesters say that unless there's a change in policies they're not going to stop coming out they're not going to go back to their homes and stop these demonstrations and the impetus for this violence right now has been the there's a clash that took place and i don't really see a situation where the protesters will just say ok we're going to go home now they want massive change and that's not really happening and whether to some kind of terrorism. or more news coming your way in a few minutes stay with us on our team. liz . live. live live. live . well look good makes computers these days so super is the memory for the russian research i've got a few ideas that could cognitive computing a reality what about the process or check out a radical new architecture that promises unparalleled power design for the stars is that got you all hot under the collar to worry because cooling systems ensure neither you nor the globe's top super computers break a leg known today here on. the future of. ok going to. throw the way things

while i was in iraq has a. problem it's since two thousand and three i mean if you if you get a past and we go everyone knows what saddam did and our problems then but since two thousand and three the legal process in iraq has not been working. without the three major factions in iraq we have the kurds and then you have the sectarian within the sunni and shiites the sunnis have always been in charge of it for a long time and the marginal i this year us and the one in two thousand and three that i was there and took control they in some ways been marginalized in the sunnis and in trying to control them by force so. it didn't work for the sunnis we know what happened in two thousand and three and all there and now is the same thing is happening and it and politician need to realize that the only way to bridge this violence and find a solution is to sit down on the table but them sadly one thing the iraqi politician have proved to be to be very unreliable and the they just can't agree on anything which is a proces