the toxic legacy of war the us invasion of iraq is accused of causing an epidemic of birth defects thanks to the use of uranium tipped weaponry. found the problem could be much worse the numbers in only four. elections not tanks the son of egypt's ousted president tells us the only way to change the country insisting his father's rule was truly democratic. thank you for joining us here on r.t. today a river sushi life in moscow with your headlines from all around the world germany has been working hand in glove with the united states spy agency who sweeping global surveillance was revealed to the world by edward snowden now according to dust spiegel newsmagazine both germany's foreign and domestic intelligence have been using me n.s.a. spy programs that hasn't stopped from demanding that washington explain its snooping activities in europe peter all of a told me this just a little bit earlier in the program. german chancellor angela merkel had to rigidly said that she only found out of the extent of the united states's spying programs through the media and it now comes out thanks to n.s.a

she's joining us now to talk about her experience whistleblowing about iraq and nine eleven and also just the greater war on whistleblowers here she is susan thank you so much for coming on thank you it's great to be with you so you claim that you were indicted not charged indicted under the patriot act can you break down the most simple of terms of the audience what happened to you my story is a cautionary tale in this age of edward snowden and julian assange both of those men are very right to be afraid of the u.s. courts and there are special considerations that russian ecuador need to take into account when considering whether to grant asylum requests or whether to return them to the united states and my case illustrates that i was the chief cia asset covering iraq and libya at the united nations for from one nine hundred ninety five to two. thousand and three i gave advance warning about nine eleven and there was a peace option on the table with iraq that the united states wanted to suppress thirty days after i requested to testify on capitol hill i went to congress had requeste

bowen, you and i traveled to iraq together. we will be concise, two things that came up during that was a -- was that the idea that the military was going to become an aid distribution entity. some one thing to have things to bolster the role of rebuilding communities not being seen as occupiers and invaders, but this program was -- had very little scrutiny and part of your report would you talk about that. the second thing is i remember when we were traveling around baghdad, the story about power plants or water purification plant that we built. the problem was we gave no thought to the capacity of piping and baghdad so we have this brand-new thing that we could point you and we cut a ribbon and we turn on the switch. tens of thousands of baghdad water pipes burst. because they were not retrofitted to handle this new capacity. that was what i was saying with 50% of absolute raised. -- 15% of absolute waste. maybe because of haste or we do not have the right people on the project or have the coordination you're talking about. w

idea in iraq of this land state in iraq and the levant so it was well coordinated will funded will arm and it proves anything proves that the al qaeda make an air resurgence and iraq now what kind of reaction are we seeing from people on the ground who just kind of went through this escape experience escape now went through that experience escape of more than five hundred prisoners well it was a nightmare for the iraqi security forces no doubt about it because when i was in the new iraq and as we discussed earlier i was in iraq for five years between two thousand and five and two thousand and ten and this break deal breaks they happen time and time again now the security forces it's also divided along sectarian lines it is not very well disciplined despite the best u.s. effort to really you know train it and equip it and so on and have it do itself in a professional way so it is it is a nightmare they they claim that they caught some but i suspect that them an overwhelming majority are on the loose and that means that they can reorganize and attack government facilities over and over a

war of course so you were trying to broker peace between iraq as the slow. for the government and so are you saying that the government purposely allowed the nine eleven to happen made nine eleven happened yes and that they were not interested in avoiding a war with iraq they had already decided they were that if the nine eleven conspiracy we maximize damage on the towers that there would be a perfect pretext for war and they were overriding iraq's response to that was to invite the f.b.i. to send a task force on terrorism into baghdad with authorization to conduct a pre nine eleven investigation iraq said if you think that there is evidence here come get it we want to help you because we want to preserve the peace option what's weird is why didn't they tell you to go try to broker between saudi arabia or afghanistan i mean they knew that bin ladin i mean bin laden was involved in the p.d.p. and the briefings why rock it seems so non sequitur yeah exactly there was no and saddam hussein was one of our best sources on terrorism intelligence throughout the nin

she's joining us now to talk about her experience whistleblowing about iraq and nine eleven and also just the greater war on whistleblowers here she is susan thank you so much for coming on thank you it's great to be with you so you claim that you were indicted not charged indicted under the patriot act can you break down the most simple of terms of the audience what happened to you my story is a cautionary tale in this age of edward snowden and julian assange both of those men are very right to be afraid of the u.s. courts and there are special considerations that russian ecuador need to take into account when considering whether to grant asylum requests or whether to return them to the united states and my case illustrates that i was the chief cia asset covering iraq and libya at the united nations for from one nine hundred ninety five to two thousand and three i gave advance. warning about nine eleven and there was a peace option on the table with iraq that the united states wanted to suppress thirty days after i requested to testify on capitol hill i went to congress had requeste

this is us he will come back the death toll in iraq this month alone has reportedly reached a staggering seven hundred fifty nine people after a new wave of violence claimed dozens of lives across the country this comes as into paul issued an alert after al qaeda freed some five hundred of its members in attacks on iraqi prisons and in a statement the organization said most of those who escaped they see near our senior members and pose an international threat let's not discount the story was john rees a political access from the stop the war coalition mystery's welcome to r.c. it's great to see you here so it's really a staggering death toll we're talking about here doesn't mean that iraq is not capable to provide security. well i think what we're seeing is that the long term effects of the war and the occupation in order to occupy iraq the western forces british and american adopted a policy of divide and rule they made a sectarian conflict where there wasn't one before they created al qaeda in iraq where there was no al qaida before so i think that the country is a product of the most

concerns over security in iraq have heightened. some five hundred of its members in a coordinated rage on two of the country's major prisons on monday gazans want the graybar and penitentiaries affiliate to prevent the massive jail break forced into pole to issue an international terror that say most of those who escaped members and pose a global threat of the international action center sara flounders says that the turmoil that has engulfed iraq in the last decade is mostly washington's doing. grave itself as a prison was notorious for us torture techniques humiliation sexual humiliation tactics that were used it was turned back over to the iraqi government we have no idea if any conditions improved so there was a prison break that we do know but we also really know that it's a us war and occupation that consciously created the sectarian violence of course al qaida or the government they don't serve the interests of the iraqi people but the policy of inflaming sectarian differences and consciously for mentoring and providing arms

invasion of iraq is a plane from epidemic of birth defects and cancer jus to the military use of depleted uranium the report from a former war zone where the health cost is turning out to be even worse than originally thought. britain's prime minister meets there's too much extremism among the syrian rebels his clearest indication yet that london's i'm willing to go full scale arms deliveries will be asking what's behind the apparent need to. khloe alchemy watching our take coming to you live from moscow with may and pharma . now a german magazine claims that lynn's intelligence services have been making good use of the us national security agency secret spying program and that's raised questions over chancellor merkel's earlier condemnation of washington's surveillance tactics peter all over reports from berlin. german chancellor angela merkel had originally said that she only found out of the extent of the united states's spying programs through the media and it now comes out thanks to n.s.a. internal documents that have been reported by dish big news magazine that well they were far mo

bowen, you and i traveled to iraq together. we will be concise, two things that came up during that was a -- was that the idea that the military was going to become an aid distribution entity. some one thing to have things to bolster the role of rebuilding communities not being seen as occupiers and invaders, but this program was -- had very little scrutiny and i wonder as part of your report would you talk about that. the second thing is i remember when we were traveling around powerd, the story about plants or water purification plant that we built. the problem was we gave no thought to the capacity of piping and baghdad so we have this brand-new thing that we could point you and we cut a ribbon and we turn on the switch. tens of thousands of baghdad water pipes burst. because they were not retrofitted to handle this new capacity. saying witht i was 50% of absolute raised. waste.of absolute maybe because of haste or we do not have the right people on the project or have the coordination you're talking about. we talk about tha

i don't thing legacy of the war in iraq goes through the generations leaving children as the latest victims are teen investigates as to who's to blame for the destroyed lives. they fear is confrontation between the egyptian army and the muslim brotherhood turns bloody more than seventy people are confirmed dead in cairo clashes with each camp blaming each other for the violence. that still transit limbo for edward snowden who is waiting for people work that will allow him to leave a moscow airport amid fresh threats from washington. and the syrian national council agreed to take part in a peace conference but first demands that assad steps down asking the u.s. to ship arms to the opposition this comes as divisions within the rebel camp highlights the possibility of internal strife. thanks tuning in this hour you're watching the weekly right here on our t.v. i'm lucy confident of well rampant violence in iraq this week has claimed at least forty two lives with bombings and shootings having put the number of those killed in july at over eight hundred making it one of the deadliest months this

any money that could have gone you know i have no knowledge of your decision to invade iraq. but i was in their actions and they were you know i didn't want you. and then when they are going to get out of afghanistan and they are continuing to kill and die there what is to really give us this bush is to if we don't go there they'll all come here yeah but helen thomas was not only known for a candid line of interrogations at white house press briefings she also routinely tore down the country to stress the importance and true role before the state and a piece commemorating her legacy ralph nader writes quote you spoke about the responsibility of journalists to hold politicians responsible with tough probing questions that are asked repeatedly until they either answer to the politicians unmasked as an unaccountable coward and in fact here she is criticizing the media servitude in the wake of the iraq war. or obviously gave up its only weapon which is skepticism they played ball they went along with everything the white house said. even before nine eleven go into the press room

in iraq is blamed on the u.s. led coalition's use of depleted uranium in military we report from. the health costs is becoming increasingly visible. britain's prime minister admits there's too much extremism among the syrian rebels clearest indication yet that london is unwilling to go for full scale deliveries. behind the. top stories this. life. in moscow with the twenty four hour a day a german magazine claims that intelligence services to be making active use of the u.s. national security agency's secret spying program that's raise questions over chancellor merkel's condemnation of washington's surveillance tactics. reports from. german chancellor angela merkel had to rigidly said that she only found out of the extent of the united states's spying programs through the media and it now comes out thanks to n.s.a. internal documents that have been reported by dish big news magazine that well they were far more involved than she let on that indeed in fact they quote in the dish legal article the internal memos that say that there was a willingness to take risks and pursue new oppo

concerns over security in iraq have heightened. some five hundred of its members in a coordinated raid on two of the country's a major prisons on monday now gods and swat teams that the abu ghraib and tonty penitentiaries failure to prevent the massive jailbreak falls into pole to issue international terror alert saying most of those who escaped are senior members and pose a credible threat director of the international action center sara flounders a says of the turmoil that has and goals to iraq in the last decade is mostly washington's doing. grave itself as a prison was notorious for us torture techniques humiliation sexual humiliation tactics that were used it was turned back over to the iraqi government we have no idea if any conditions improved so there was a prison break that we do know but we also really know that it's a us war and occupation that consciously created the sectarian violence of course al qaida or the government they don't serve the interests of the iraqi people but the policy of inflaming sectarian difference

that the reasons we had been given for initially invading iraq were very far from far afield from the experiences we were having on the ground what it really came down to was detaining and adversely affecting innocent people people caught in the middle and it just wasn't to my mind within the moral standing of this country and you know as i just mentioned in the intro is that karzai is now basically accusing the u.s. of working with the taliban and it's basically been said that the only way to move forward at peace talks is to have the taliban included what do you think's going to happen i mean what does it take to get this process moving forward of karzai is kind of putting his foot down one of the us really fumbled on this one you know opening the the office in doha and really essentially giving the taliban the world stage with apparently with not consulting cars i or having them included the karzai government clued in this is really a very big misstep because the u.s. really doesn't have a role in afghan political talks the u.s. can create space the u.s. can make a space space at t

forces killing unarmed civilians in iraq baghdad. manning was arrested at the end of may twenty ten and presented with a list of charges for opening classified information to the public however publications continued to be released exposing america's wrongdoings in afghanistan and iraq along with his diplomatic cables then in march manning was accused of aiding the enemy the court martial proceedings against him began shortly after that with the u.n. saying that he was subject to cruel and inhumane treatment it was march the fifth twenty twelve jurors attention the high profile trial finally got underway in fort meade in maryland and is about roughly we think this government filed with the director of the london based center for investigative journalism a close friend indeed of wiki leaks editor julia sun she stressed to us that manning's actions were not driven by any personal gain. he thought that the crimes committed by the army should be made public and what they're admitting to was the fact that he broke the law in getting those

the toxic legacy of war the us invasion of iraq is accused of causing an epidemic of birth defects thanks to the use of uranium tipped weapons r.t. found the problem could be worse than originally thought. and elections not tanks the son of egypt's ousted president tells r.t. that's the only way to change the country insisting his father's rule was truly democratic. welcome you're watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow with make a film. now germany has been working handing glove with the u.s. spy agency who sweeping global surveillance was revealed to the world by edward snowden according to do spiegel news magazine both germany's foreign and domestic intelligence had been using n.s.a. spy programs but that hasn't stopped the in from demanding that washington explains it's snooping activities in europe as artie's peter all of our reports. german chancellor angela merkel had to rigidly said that she only found out of the extent of the united states's spying programs through the media and it now comes out thanks to n.s.a. internal documents that have been reported by dish big news mag

military operations during the iraq war emerged followed by a series of u.s. diplomatic cables also a week in leaks in march the extent of the charges against the whistleblower became known manning was accused of aiding the. wiki leaks made their next move releasing documents about the guantanamo bay prisoners and the court martial proceedings against a whistleblower began shortly after that with the u.n. saying that he was subject to excessive isolation and cruel treatment during detention a judge did not allow the u.n. torture inspector to testify in the high profile trial finally gondor way for me maryland. to be this. search is. for you know the. parties you. now make sure you are tuned into r t one bradley manning discovers his fate and we covering the adverting announcement for you at seven hundred g.m.t. israel and the palestinians are holding a new round of peace talks in the u.s. reviving go she shows that have been stalled for almost three years having a long in disappointing history there is already growing skepticism over whether the sides would re

count was iraq is lost their lives in the decades since the u.s. led invasion all across the country their memories are honored in cemeteries like this one the dead may be the most visible reminder of the human cost of the war but if the living victims of that war's toxic like to see who are still paying the price. of our team iraq while summer is in full swing with states across the country crushing heat records on a near daily basis perhaps nothing is more welcome to someone caught in one hundred degree temperature and the cool can of pop well while you slip down that one dollar soda big banks are profiting in a major way and get ready for this number trying not to spit out the contents of that can anywhere goldman sachs has collected five billion dollars over the past three years for simply storing the aluminum cans the aluminum used to make cans and other products why is this such a big deal while a new york times investigation has discovered that goldman sachs is creating an artificial shortage of aluminum by buying warehouses that store the c

and to keep iraq secure and then the end the iraqis said no get out of the country wasn't the obama administration and sort of the decided to leave it was the iraqis that decided it was time for the u.s. to leave the question in afghanistan a slightly different there's talk about nine bases there's talk about the long term troop presence and what those troops will do the reality is that u.s. troops have no role in afghanistan's future afghan political problems cannot be solved by u.s. troops so the sooner u.s. troops leave the better that does on one hand invite foreign interference in some ways from pakistan and others but the reality is these political issues and political problems are for afghans to solve not for you and i want to get into afghanistan stability in the future once troops are removed in a second but i want to actually talk about this report that i read very shocking report that talks about one hundred thousand private contractors i mean we're talking about an amount out well i mean almost two to one ratio of contractors and soldiers here do you know what they're do

. >> it was a deadly day in iraq. more than one dozen car bombs exploded killing more than 50 people. the united nations estimates nearly 3000 people will be killed in escalating violence since april. richard kendall reports. >> and all too familiar scene in iraq. wreckage from a car bomb that exploded in crowded streets and markets. >> we were standing here when a pickup truck drove up and parked there. the car with the bomb went off. >> for iraq these, it is a grim reminder for a past they hoped was over. they blame insurgents linked to al qaeda. -- stormed the jail, frame prisoners and senior al qaeda leaders. >> iraq yours bloodshed is not yet as bad as it was in 2006 and 2007, but this is still worrying. worsening, is .xasperated by the government that's resentment has helped al qaeda in iraq. qaeda extremists operate in both countries. >> in syria today, government troops were claiming they had taken back more territory from rebels. some iraq used are already fighting with the opposition. >> we could see quite e

she's joining us now to talk about her experience whistleblowing about iraq and nine eleven and also just the greater war on whistleblowers here she is susan thank you so much for coming on thank you it's great to be with you so you claim that you were indicted not charged indicted under the patriot act can you break down the most simple of terms of the audience what happened to you my story is a cautionary tale in this age of edward snowden and julian assange both of those maneuver. very right to be afraid of the u.s. courts and there are special considerations that russian ecuador need to take into account when considering whether to grant asylum requests or whether to return them to the united states and my case illustrates that i was the chief cia asset covering iraq and libya at the united nations for from one nine hundred ninety five to two thousand and three i gave advance warning about nine eleven and there was a peace option on the table with iraq that the united states wanted to suppress thirty days after i requested to testify on capitol hill i went to congress had request

and years after the end of the iraq war the nation still carries scars from that time one of those wounds is the increase that is in iraq birth defects and cancer cases or reports on the toxic legacy left behind and thanks to goldman sachs the cost of aluminum is going up the investment group is hoarding piles of the more of the commodity we'll tell you how that works later in tonight's show. it's monday july twenty second eight pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you are watching r.t. well in the weeks since the world learned about the unprecedented scale of surveillance programs the national security agency has engaged in over the years we've heard of the public outcry and we have seen the n.s.a. officials scramble to justify or to clarify these programs national security they cried an absolute must to prevent future nine eleven as they said and lawmakers for the most part have sat on the sidelines and agreed to all of these claims with a few notable exceptions like congressman just an amish of michigan and rush holt of new jersey were guard listen none of this criticism has seem

on board afghanistan just said unlike iraq the afghans need us to stay most at. afghans want us to stay and we are promised to stay i mean what interest are keeping us troops there what was this war really about we were about thirty seconds left right that's it well let's this thing will stay i mean the u.s. troops should stick us does have interest in afghanistan long term for the interests of the afghan people and so on that is not a military interest we can help it stand shoulder to shoulder with afghans help them moving forward in a way that is transparent and has adequate oversight but it definitely who is the united states to work together with afghans moving forward and not in the militarized way right absolutely thank you so much for coming on you breaking some of this down not southworth legislative program associated i've seen and i'll make sure that. this weekend an important pioneer in the field of journalism has died helen thomas she was ninety two years old and spent sixty two years of her life holding politicians feet to the fire thomas was the fir

. >> narrator: by the spring of 2003, the us had attacked iraq. >> ...engaged in direct combat against saddam hussein's republican guard. >> ...of the third infantry division... >> narrator: fast and mobile, rumsfeld's jsoc teams secretly paved the way. >> ...are now reported to be about 30 miles from the outskirts of... >> narrator: fighting a conventional war unconventionally seemed at first to work. >> rumsfeld: scenes of free iraqis celebrating in the streets, riding american tanks, tearing down the statues of saddam hussein in the center of baghdad, are breathtaking. >> bush: on september 11, 2001, our freedom and way of life came under attack by brutal enemies who killed nearly 3,000 innocent americans. >> narrator: on the night of 9/11, the cia had planned a secret war abroad. >> bush: and since september 11, we've been on the offensive against the terrorists plotting within our borders. >> narrator: at home, another front had been opened: the battle to protect the american homeland. >> ashcroft: we had to move from proving what happened to preventing something from happening be

public support was less less tht was first a iraq say iraq in 2006 and his way of thinking he allow for possible to happen. he got back to the 38th and in fact he got north of the 38th parallel and gave his appraisal and waited for the civilian response to that. it was the collective decision of harry truman and the joint chiefs from omar bradley to lightning joe collins not to go beyond that. later that fleet general said we should have but remember ridgway then with the demotion or the relief of macarthur in april of 1951 became a theater commander in tokyo that we have that war for two more years in a stalemate and anybody at that time, dwight eisenhower included could have said let's break the stalemate and let's go across the 38th but they didn't. ridgway later as he reflected back on this his career he said it's not fair to me to say at one point in time i should have crossed the 38th parallel and gone all the way to china when i had just saved it. i saved it for you guys. you were the civilian overseers in the next 24 months he decided not to do something that was against my advi

as daily violence in iraq brings the body count to record levels r.t. investigates another legacy of the us invasion rainy and contamination that wrecking the lives of those born after the war. gyptian army clashes with muslim brotherhood supporters as rival rallies rage throughout the country it's left over eighty dead one of the sinai peninsula the military launches a crackdown on supposed extremists. the diplomatic wrangling over edward snowden takes a new turn as washington rules out the death penalty for the man who exposed it spying secrets he's still stuck in transit limbo at a moscow airport. the syrian national coalition talks peace with the u.n. and bargains for weapons with the u.s. despite fears the hardware will be snatched by terror groups swarming the country. if you just joined us for a good evening this is the weekly with me. round over the top stories of the last seven days here on r.t. from moscow and first another week of carnage in iraq has seen the number of people killed in the last seven days rise to two hundred twelve in july al

iraq. talk to crispus p.c.p. one of most outspoken scientists researching the impact of depleted uranium he described to us what he discovered in iraq's water we went to we found the levels of concern about formation and cancer and we looked at the parents of the children with congenital malformation and we did analysis of their hair to see what was inside the head that might be do you know toxic might be the sort of thing that could cause congenital malformation and the only thing that we found was you raney and we found your brain even the hair of the mothers of the children that congenital malformation is now that we know that you're a nym is you know toxic that it causes these these levels of genetic damage and and because of that it also causes cancer so you can work slowly back from that towards the rain you know the only the only source of uranium was the use by the american forces american led forces of uranium weapons not only depleted uranium weapons as we later found slightly enriched uranium weapons w

the us invasion of iraq is blamed for an epidemic of the effects and cancer due to the military use of depleted uranium we report from a former war zone where the health cost is turning out to be even worse than originally thought. britain's prime minister admits there's too much extremism among the syrian rebels he's clearest indication yet that london's unwilling to go for full scale arms deliveries will be asking what is behind the apparently. i welcome you watching r.t. with me. now a german magazine claims that palin's intelligence services have been making good use of the us national security agency secret spying program that's raised questions over chancellor merkel's early condemnation of washington's surveillance tactics artie's peter oliver reports from berkeley. german chancellor angela merkel had to rigidly said that she only found out of the extent of the united states's spying programs through the media and it now comes out thanks to n.s.a. internal documents that have been reported by dish big news magazine that well they were far more involved than she let on that indee

countless iraq is lost their lives in the decades since the u.s. led invasion all across the country their memories are honored in cemeteries like this one the dead may be the most visible reminder of the human cost of the war but it's the living victims of that war's toxic legacy who are still paying the price the captain of our team iraq. doctors also failed at that depleted uranium weapons of course the spread of diseases not previously seen in iraq and iraqi government stats show that cancer rates to they've been steadily rising ever since the first gulf war back in one nine hundred ninety one but also who cast me off i told my colleague mattresses that it's still difficult to gauge the full extent of these problems. we've heard about the depleted uranium the birth defect story coming out of fallujah for example because there's been several t.v. pieces and print reports talking about and showing in fact we hear in r.t.f. showed the birth defects in the city of fallujah when we were completely stunned by is the fact that this is happening in man

invasion of iraq the nation still carries scars from that time one of those scars is the increase in iraqi birth defects and cancer cases a report on the toxic legacy left behind and thanks to goldman sachs the cost of aluminum is on the rise the investment group was costing consumers by forging piles of aluminum we'll tell you how that works later in today show. it's monday july twenty second four pm in washington d.c. i make a lopez and you are watching r t well in the weeks since the world has learned about the unprecedented scale of surveillance programs that the national security administration has engaged in over the years we've heard of the public outcry and we've seen n.s.a. officials scramble to justify or clarify these programs the national security administration pride that they need to do this it is an absolute must to prevent future nine eleventh's and lawmakers for the most part have sat on the sidelines and agree to all of these claims with a few notable exceptions like congressman justin amicia of michigan and rush holt of new jersey regardless none of this criticism

and the situation in iraq is spiraling out of control with al qaida plot a prison breaks and fresh terrorist attacks setting record death tolls. four pm in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie now washington's most want to ban edward snowden is reportedly about to receive permission to set foot on russian soil as a crucial paperwork has been issued to allow him to leave the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport well let's get to the details now from artie's lynndie france hotel insist now edward snowden is about to see the outside of the airport and. well that is what it appears very recently in fact just a couple of minutes ago heavy police presence became very noticed on the first floor of the terminal the police are heavily guarding a by the dozens a certain door there on the first floor is cordoned off to press and passers by and more and more security is being brought in and here's what we know so far that that interfax is reporting that if formalized notification from the federal migration services has indeed come through allowing edward snowden to move

that the reasons we had been given for initially invading iraq were very far from far afield from the experiences we were. having on the ground what it really came down to was detaining and adversely affecting innocent people people caught in the middle and it just wasn't to my mind within the moral standing of this country and you know as i just mentioned in the intro is that karzai is now basically accusing the u.s. of working with the taliban and it's basically been said that the only way to move forward at peace talks is to have the taliban included what do you think's going to happen i mean what does it take to get this process moving forward of karzai is kind of putting his foot down one of the us really fumbled on this one you know opening the the office in doha and really essentially giving the taliban a world stage with apparently with not consulting cars i or having them included the karzai government clued in this is really a very big misstep a misstep because the u.s. really doesn't have a role in afghan political talks the u.s. can create space the u.s. can make a space s

the user names are anonymous, and so on. >> smith: in february 2010, manning was back in iraq. and within a month or two, he allegedly loaded special data mining software onto his classified workstation and started downloading more documents, including a quarter- million confidential state department cables. >> confidential information like, what did secretary of defense gates say to his counterpart in paris? what did the ambassador in paris say to secretary gates? but it's confidential. bradley manning, for example, does not need to know what the secretary of defense said to his counterpart in paris. >> smith: by late april, bradley manning's private world was falling apart. when manning saw on facebook that his friend tyler watkins was in a new relationship, he lashed out. "if you don't start answering some goddamn questions," he wrote, "there will be a hell of a scene." >> i really thought he was going to kill himself. i just was waiting for the news that he was going to blow his head off. >> smith: according to an army report, a week after the breakup, manning was found in

process in iraq. this is an important opportunity to reevaluate our previous rebuilding efforts. of the countries in conflict around the world, it is critical that we learn from our past mistakes and failures before involving ourselves in any other reconstruction efforts. i look forward to exploring how we can use the information contained in this report to develop more effective responses and produce better results. thank you for allowing me to speak. good seeing you again after all of these years. we live in a hurricane zone. we would never vote for a hurricane. when it happens, we want to be prepared. we want to anticipate the worst. have -- it is critical that we address how we can do a better. i am excited that you are addressing these issues and i complement for you doing this under the fire of military while you are trying to audit them at the same time. forward to seeing how we can save the dollar. this is an issue that we need to adjust, saving money for the taxpayers. i think i speak for all

led invasion of iraq the country seeing an abnormally high rate of birth defects health experts link this to the use of depleted uranium in military as swords in flew to earth mutations to fourteen times more common than in hiroshima after the second world war or do you see coming over explored the turtle health cost of the war in the city of najaf. one hundred sixty kilometers south of baghdad the sacred shiite city is known for its holy shrines and is surrounded by one of the largest cemeteries in the world some of the heaviest fighting of the iraq war took place amid these graves its legacy still haunts the residents it was born with severe birth defects he's only eight months old but the doctors don't expect him to live past his first birthday. i felt this the were no hook the noose around out to his office in the taxi. but for his mother layla there's no escaping the reality her son has a nervous system disorder and his muscles are slowly wasting away. it's a recurring nightmare for leila and her husband three of their children were also born with congenital deformity as none of

murder that manning leaked it shows an apache helicopter firing down on civilians on the ground in iraq manning's attorney david coombs tried to characterize manning as a whistleblower a young man that was troubled by what he saw and wanted to bring the truth to the public and spark a national debate. on. after three months of trial the judge alone delivered the verdict judge colonel denise lind found him not guilty of aiding the enemy but guilty of most of the other charges even though he was acquitted of the most serious charge he still faces over one hundred years for the last or charges a judge will determine that part of his fate during sentencing in washington liz wall r t u. j's final judgment in the bradley manning trial brings up a lot of questions both for the army private and the country here to walk us through the legal ramifications of today's verdict is colonel morris davis colonel davis is a professor of law at howard university and the former lead prosecutor a quantum obey and an expert witness who testified in the manning trial thanks for being here with us today really

the us invasion of iraq is applying for an epidemic of birth defects and cancer due to the military use of depleted uranium we report from a former war zone where the health cost is turning out to be even worse than originally thought. britain's prime minister admits this too much extremism among the syrian rebels his clearest indication yet that london's i'm willing to go for full scale arms deliveries will be asking what's behind the apparent you to. international news and comment watching r.t. coming she's live from sky. a german magazine claims that burns intelligence services have been making good use of the u.s. national security agency secret spying program that's raised questions over chancellor merkel's earlier condemnation of washington's surveillance tactics peter all of the reports from birthday. german chancellor angela merkel had to rigidly said that she only found out of the extent of the united states's spying programs through the media and it now comes out thanks to n.s.a. internal documents that have been reported by dish big news magazine that well they were far more

i am worried about iraq. iraq has its own internal issues. maliki's creeping authoritarianism.going on for a long time. all that stuff is constant. increasing flows of weapons back and forth is deeply worrying, and does introduce a factor. i do not know how responsive your question that is. to the spread of the many ways might play out, that is the this one that worries me most, the spillover into iraq. >> tuesday, a discussion on the impact to have helt care law and healthcare coverage. live at 12:15 p.m. eastern here on c-span. >> the views of future operations. from the institute for the study of war, this is an hour and 10 minutes. please turn off your cell phones so that the broadcast continues. lease also join us understanding war.org. stuart has served for nine years him aq, which really gives a perspective on u.s. and multinational engagement in iraq over such a vared period of history. to the current environment where we are actually watching some of the completion of projects that were begun long ago, but also watching the streamic

led forces invaded iraq there was a legacy of birth defects scientists blame the weapons used by the u.s. military for example in fallujah the number of fact it is fourteen times higher than that of the horror of atomic bombs dropped in the second world war. and found out that many other cities are suffering just as badly. not just one hundred sixty kilometers south of baghdad the sacred shiite city is known for its holy shrines and is surrounded by one of the largest cemeteries in the world some of the heaviest fighting of the iraq war took place amid these graves its legacy still haunts the residents it was born with severe birth defects he's only eight months old but the doctors don't expect him to live past his first birthday. i felt dizzy or know what the news i ran out of the doctor's office and into a taxi. but for his mother there is no escaping the reality. her son has a nervous system disorder and his muscles are slowly wasting away. it's a recurring nightmare for leila and her husband three of their children were also born with congenital deformity as none of them survived

invasion wiped out iraq his ability to fight terrorism. in order to occupy iraq the western forces british and american adopted a policy of divide and rule they made of sectarian conflict where there wasn't one before they created al-qaeda in iraq where there was no al qaida before so i think that the country is a product of the most enormous strains as a result of that war the truth of the matter is it's a terrifically weak government it's a product of a divided down the middle between people who are sympathetic to iran's position in the region and those that feel dependent on washington it's a state that's been left in a catastrophic lead weak position by the occupation which the current developments in the in the middle east for a weakening still more in the u.k. valens plastered the word as a thrashing illegal immigrants or the rest start saying to appear on the streets of london it's part of a new push to get people to contact local authorities if they're not allowed to stay in the country and it's not the first and immigration campai

are some mixed in who remember there were none in iraq before two thousand and three when the united states and its elvises invaded iraq so we brought them there even as the united states government but nevertheless when people turn to that type of a situation when you have a situation of a proxy occupier people who do not reflect the will of the people the government they were not put there by the people that whose government was changed by an outside foreign force then very often you have this type of violence and they look for friends wherever they can get assistance and i think whenever we have such a situation it is unfortunately very difficult for the government to get to trust or control over its population. now the vote count is underway in mali after its presidential election the first since a cool last year saw separatists and geodes groups take control of the north millions turned out to cast their ballots where the election deemed a promise of stability and assurance of peace let's bring in our lawsky every poor who's covered the region extensively well you know this regi

in iraq and afghanistan perhaps best illustrated by the leaked collateral murder video this classified footage showed the ease with which the crew of a u.s. apache helicopter killed civilians in iraq on wednesday protesting support of bradley manning throughout the country you come across demonstrations of supporting places like this restaurant slash bookstore in washington d.c. and their support is not so much for many as the thing to be drawn back to of course but more importantly for the public's right to know. but manning supporters are in the minority polls show that the majority of americans consider manning a traitor who cares whether the army killed some innocent people or not over in iraq we you know we don't want to we don't want to be a part of that we're very uncomfortable so if it's a complex issue and it's uncomfortable americans generally will pull back from it and it allows the media to fill that gap and portray bradley manning as a traitor it's been all too easy to label bradley manning a traitor perhaps because his revelations had to do with the u.s. government's wron

into the iraq war. the assad regime is no friend of freedom or the united states but this does not mean that the enemy of our enemy user friendly. there are currently seventeen different rebel groups in syria including the largest group of al nusra al nusra fighters or radical anti-american geodes and they're affiliated with al-qaeda but your politicians in washington are eager to send weapons they promise oh these weapons won't get into the hands of the enemy i don't believe it does anyone believe that a submarine or it sounds as if that piece being pursued a told. well i think those goals are what will be discussed in the informal security council meeting that will take place on friday that meeting was called for by the u.k. now according to reports the syrian national coalition the delegation at the u.n. is expected to state its readiness to send its representatives to the conference in geneva in order to join other influential opposition groups at the negotiation table with the syrian government wit

iraq. the most outspoken scientists researching the impact of depleted uranium we describe to us what he discovered in iraq's war zone. we went through we found the levels of concern about formation and cancer and we looked at the parents of the children with congenital malformation and we did analysis of their hair to see what was inside their head that might be do you know toxic might be the sort of thing that could cause congenital malformation and the only thing that we found was you raney and we found your brain in the hair of the mothers of the children that congenital malformation is now that we know that you're a nym is you know toxic that it causes these these levels of genetic damage and and because of that it also causes cancer so you can work slowly back from that towards your brain you know the only the only source of uranium was the use by the american forces american led forces of uranium weapons not only depleted uranium weapons as we later found slightly enriched uranium we

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

military operations in iraq along with a series. of u.s. diplomatic cables all revealed by weaken leaks in march manning was accused of aiding the enemy the charge that could ultimately keep him behind bars for life and the mean time we can leaks continued publishing exposing documents about guantanamo bay detainees the court martial proceedings against him began shortly after that with the u.n. saying that he was subject to excessive isolation and cruel treatment during detention a job which did not allow the u.n. torture inspector to testify the high profile trial finally gone under way and for me their land and is expected to be completed today. well stay with r t for the ongoing coverage of bradley manning's trial and we'll be covering the verdict for you at seventeen hundred g.m.t. also now website r.t. dot com we're asking you today what sentence you think bradley manning will get let's take a look at the vote now well as you can see the vast majority believe the whistleblower should be found not guilty and authored as a hero just so

over 500 al qaeda leaders have escaped from abu ghraib prison in iraq and with iraq facing over a thousand sectarian killings a month, experts fear the country is plunging once again into a bloody civil war. for more, go some place else because there's a royal baby! [ cheers and applause ]