Lesions between north and south korea for now it looks like the ice has been broken with whats being described as a historic handshake between south koreas leader. And Kim Joey Jong the sister of north koreas leader the toxic i reports. A step towards reconciliation for the First Time Since the korean war more than half a century ago a member of north koreas ruling family is welcomed in the south the arrival of leader kim jong sr is fascinating Many South Koreans jiang has quickly become a power broker in another historic moment south korean president moon j. In greeted her at the Opening Ceremony before she sat near u. S. Vice president mike pence the two didnt appear to Exchange Greetings then the moment many had been waiting for north and south korean athletes marched under a unified flag as a celebration of ethnic nationalism its the first time theyve done that at an International Sporting event in eleven years moon said the Winter Olympics offer a meaningful opportunity for a world divided by conflicts to unite critics say the north korean Charm Offensive is only intended to advance its agenda and mosconi is decided to look nice for a vial of this option if you would use chance chances that president krom be authorizing me to take their ration bot as a program of ease that made fundamentals have not changed. I determined to have an end of this i. C. B. M. Into continental body stick missiles capable of delivering a Nuclear Strike as a continuum for the United States in the run up to the games the North Koreans have absorbed much of the spotlight first by agreeing to participate and then by sending a high level delegation to the south this week american diplomat said they would soon unveil the toughest economic sanctions against north korea yet while also saying a diplomatic solution was the focus. For now this is a moment for South Koreans to show the world what it done. Damn a country they live in during the Opening Ceremony spectators were taken back in time to show the history of the Korean People and what organizers called their relentless pursuit of peace in that picture while in peace i hope that with north korean athletes participation this could be peaceful and picks and i hope we can achieve reunification between the south and the door to get. The mood here is good for south koreas hosting the olympics and athletes are coming from around the world a Good Opportunity to promote south korea. And the hope is this will set the stage down only for a sporting spectacular but historic breakthrough with their northern neighbors. Old zero continent south korea u. S. President donald trump a signed off on a spending bill ending the second Government Shutdown this year of over this one class of just a few hours the deal to extend funding was agreed by congress but disagreements between republicans and democrats over immigration remain to be solved in the bill will still have major financial consequences and this one person has been killed and more than one hundred twenty two injured when two bombs were detonated joining friday prayers at a mosque in the libyan city of benghazi Officials Say both devices were planted in separate rooms inside they gyptian armys launched what its calling a comprehensive operation against terrorist and criminal groups in the Sinai Peninsula make a me and im spent in a televised statement an Army Spokesman said it involves land sea and air forces covering central sinai and areas in egypts nile delta and Western Desert those are your top stories youre up to date stay with aljazeera next up its rewind iraq after the americans will see you in just under half an hour. Hello and welcome once again to rewind im come on santa maria in the decade or so since the start of aljazeera english back in two thousand and six weve broadcast hundreds of moving powerful documentaries and here on rewind we are revisiting some of the best of them and looking at how the story has moved on today where rewinding to two thousand and twelve when fault lines Sebastian Walker returned to iraq to assess the state of the nation after the withdrawal of u. S. Troops that was supposed to be the end of nine years of occupation following the downfall of Saddam Hussein since that time of course iraq has had to endure chaos in the wake of the rise of eisel a government widely seen as exacerbating sectarian divides and the virtual destruction of cities like mosul in the attempt to drive out in retrospect said walkers film is an extraordinary snapshot of a moment in time a very personal journey through a devastated land with hopes of a better life emerging from the ashes hopes that were to be cruelly dashed from two thousand and twelve his fault lines iraq after the americans. I. Five years since i was last in iraq. Back then Coalition Troops were still deployed in the Southern City of basra the military has left but many of the british soldiers who are based here have stayed on. This time theyre here for the money. Business is booming for their clients to iraq is pumping record amounts of oil and production contracts to develop the countrys massive southern oil fields. To Foreign Companies. Dont you think. Chinas National Petroleum corporation has partnered with british giant b. P. To develop the remaining oil fields in iraq. Newly arrived Chinese Oil Workers and foreign employees meet their security details in this. To a private security escort is still obligatory and this is. The first city to fall in the two thousand and three u. S. Led invasion. I came here at that summit to report on angry protests that had broken out against the lack of electricity. Today there isnt much improvement in the basic Services People were protesting for nine years ago. As power cuts. Unemployment also is widespread here. People under thirty dont have jobs. New money flowing in the cost of living is rising fast. One mile from us and them in the. Well i can see thats a look at what is at the Marlin Michelle can always for a Second Community in the pledge of his shop for nine Years Union Leader hashmi al saddam he has fought to keep iraqs oil wealth flowing to iraqis not just to Foreign Companies iraqs deputy Prime Minister for energy says that the deals the government has signed with Foreign Investors are reaping rewards we have already increased our production to three Million Barrels per day and during this it will add another. Half a million more but of the president so the progress is there. But despite record output in baghdad this frustration the Companies Developing the fields are importing labor. And that there is no meaningful legislation to protect iraqi jobs. Isnt it be looked at and that it isnt to be affected but what about out on the edge of the im in this in mind that im on my talk about this is really am i remember you could be and that is that and that. I left up and i wanted to. Get. Saddam he says it was the u. S. Decision to dismantle iraqs army and National Industries in the name of the path of vacation that caused widespread unemployment. And created a launch pool of angry men ready to take up arms. From basma we joined north toward men jaf. Along a road lined with symbols that commemorates a battle lost and injustice done. The same a trio of want to yell solemn finally of peace surrounds the city why it is possibly the largest Burial Ground in the wont and the final resting place to which many shia aspire. The scale of this places absolutely breathtaking for fourteen centuries shia from all over the world have been bringing that they had to be buried here its so immense that in not just they say that since he is fall for the living and haul for the dead. In two thousand and four the serenity of the valley of peace was violated. That spring finds his loyal to mactire around the side of the son of one of iraqs most revered shia clerics for u. S. Forces in baghdad and the holy cities of karbala. And here in the jack. Biggio yes yes as. I landed here. Destroyed everything. At the beginning of august trying to reach out Sanders Mahdi army and take control of. U. S. Marines invaded the cemetery when taken into a part of the graveyard where you can actually see the destruction from the fighting that took place in two thousand and four this r. P. G. Holes in the walls some of these graves are completely destroyed a member speaking to iraqis at the time who simply couldnt believe that things had to tarry to such an extent that this one of the most holy and sacred sites in all of iraq had turned into a battleground between the mahdi army and the americans. Hundreds of monte finds his dined in the battle. In a new section of the cemetery built for sound his followers killed in the uprisings and sectarian violence that the u. S. Led occupation provoked. Families comes on and that danny. Government. So much. No one knows how many iraqis have been killed since the invasion. Of them its range from more than one hundred fifty thousand to over a million. For years the u. S. Claims not to keep a body count. But there are some six thousand graves in this cemetery learn where the grief seems impossible to bury. Early shock a saddams mother died during the violence in two thousand and four his brother is buried here in the section reserved for those killed by u. S. Forces. At the end of course we are. In the huddle too little to follow from the front of other people for what. And youre looking you have. These were the people the u. S. Military expected to welcome them. But they soon made enemies of people like allie and his family. But then. If i thought i should be. Ok for. A job if i could be here in america they think this is over. Here. Who. Will tell you to do. Is follow his listens to him deliver some of his most incendiary against the occupation. To his base in the nearby city of coup for. Now santa spends much of his time in iran and on this friday he isnt here but the message is political populist and doesnt shy away from criticizing the government in baghdad. Well there is if yeah it was yeah there was and there was youre here where here you are forgetting the sermon addresses the deepening conflict between iraqi Prime MinisterNouri Al Malikis party and the opposition blocs that has virtually paralyzed parliament for months was there a sheet where he was. Over the years santa has cultivated the image of an independent champion of the dispossessed shia who make up his base. And hes transformed himself from a leader of a militia into the leader of a Political Party an important one on which maliki reliance to maintain power. For years Saddam Hussein had banned public celebrations of shia festivals and limits of the flow of iranian pilgrims to man jack. Now the pilgrims and tourists are back prompting a booming trade in hotel developments. And there are unconfirmed reports that iran is planning to spend a billion dollars to refurbish the showing off the decades of being victims the shia majority in iraq have emerged the victim is. A shia who now holds the top post of Prime Minister and commander in chief and government positions are distributed according to ethnic and sectarian quotas. The new balance of power in iraq has raised fears that irans influence is growing both in baghdad and here in the jafo. Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani is the top spiritual guide for iraqi shia and the leader of the school of clerics that go on to try and. Keep ation he demanded the us organize direct elections while opposing iranian style theocratic governance. System is eighty one years old and there are reports that iran is campaigning to have one of their ayatollah succeed him. In iraq these days regional ambitions run like undercurrents reshaping the country. But over the past nine years Political Violence has literally refashioned the landscape. I havent been back to back that in about five years my only just entering the city but immediately the first thing that strikes you as you drive in is one thing thats really changed these walls. Baghdad is battle scarred and sectioned off by blast walls that were raised first around government ministries and military bases then around hotels filled with foreigners and then the sectarian attacks escalated around neighborhoods. The city was reconfigured is iraqis fled mixed areas for the relative safety of religious and ethnic lee homogenised enclaves. Harboring the wounds and stories of the bloodshed the occupation unleashed many remain there protected by concrete walls checkpoints and each other. More than one point three Million People across iraq a still displaced. And in baghdad almost half a million remain in camps like this one on the edge of the shia neighborhood of cademy. Sit on us one another. Abu said johns family was living in town near a sunni neighborhood north of baghdad where resistance to the occupation was fierce. Al qaeda also found a home there as it. I dont. Need an. Issue when the family fled they left everything behind in school. And although they live in constant fear of eviction they say they cant return to tell me. That out here. But i saw a bunch of it us up and i had. That as a. Little about what you. Feel like. In the sunni neighborhood of gaza where they came to escape threats from the mahdi army in two thousand and six hundred ninety five and a mother in law struggling to care for their household including his two kids. Like almost one in ten women in iraq they are widows. And its husband hussein was killed by u. S. Forces during a raid on the markets in two thousand and five. She had just learned she was pregnant with their second child about the. Mahdi and shimmered neighbors total can have been on the cell. Phone a hard time. To decide mom what i meant to toss a hug out of them over to. The diameter of the thought of how to take the bad suck out of what i want to but i dont want to go with two kids be home by seven am on cyberdyne and having no money. Two years later as many as second son nuri was killed in a miniature attack the family lost another breadwinner and bureaucracy has made it difficult for them to get the support payment the government extends to widows or so there is a reference to their no one had no money im not sure none of them know must have been some good some know how cool mom had to say on my times when a young man i dont know how come i am i now believe that ive begun to notice you know not just ahead of us out of a shot of the day. I was out. But soon because another i was so bizarre that i thought i said that. Was what they will as they were telling me. What i wanted to run on you and your innocence plights men the new model you know i have a good message you home on i have got to tell us something about the national its a phony i mean honest. Other. Than homeless in. Need would you say that got a career and then who must i do it for couldnt be joe you couldnt i dont want to up right now no one up of nothing will come in you my dear only child would you have a shout. About how to we could help up in a song try soon maybe last spent seven months seen us custody at abu ghraib prison and more than a year and a half in the u. S. Run detention camps. He has testified to us military investigators that abu ghraib he was stripped and paraded naked with a sack over his head dressed in womens underwear cuffed and hung from a window frame for hours when he asked to pray and beaten into unconsciousness did the bin. That herman. How many did it. Feel good and i thought i had a little so on with. Them and i didnt get the. Money he says it was part of u. S. Interrogators strategy is they trying to quell resistance that the u. S. Terms terrorism or detaining people across the country especially those from sunni areas. As much. You know. Over the past year human Rights Groups have reported that Iraqi GovernmentSecurity Forces have conducted sweeps preemptively arresting hundreds of people detaining and sometimes torturing them in secret prisons inside the International Zone some of the same people who were detained by the americans and were accused of being terrorists then many live in sunni areas in and around baghdad from where armed groups still orchestrate attacks. The government says there are no secret prisons i could say that there is no secret detention so we will come now human rights forged Amnesty Organization and United Nation organization to come and check and to find out whether there is a secret Detention Center and. The. But the arrests have fueled the perception in communities like this one that the government is targeting them much like u. S. Forces used to. Weve come for friday prayer in and amir. A sunni neighborhood that for many years was an important center of anti occupation resistance. Getting here hasnt been easy and we currently being stopped from getting access to the main mosque anatomy o