The iran has dismissed that as ridiculous the Israeli Army Says it struck twelve iranian targets in syria including an air Defense System iran has the latest from west jerusalem. The israeli army have confirmed that the operation is still ongoing against what its calling iranian targets and syrian air Defense Systems on the syrian side now what theyre saying about the israeli jet is interesting theyre very using very careful language they wont confirm whether it was actually shot down with it was shot down by syrian air Defense Systems or even russian air Defense Systems thats likely to try and avoid a big escalation of this conflict clearly the syrians are very angry and theyve issued a statement saying that they will retaliate against any Israeli Aggression now russia is calling on all sides to exercise restraint and respect syrias sovereignty meanwhile the Lebanese Group hezbollah is warning against any aggression towards the Syrian Government saying it will be met with force then a holder has more from beirut. It wasnt the first israeli air strike of its kind there have been numerous strikes over the past few years but this is the first time the syrian air defenses have shot down the plane a very serious incident a very serious confrontation between syria israel and iran and after the plane was shot down there were further strikes israeli warplanes targeting Syrian Army Positions what they said were iranian targets and they were targeting an area southwest of damascus an area known as close by where we understand an Iranian Military base is being built its not the first time theyve targeted this area the base is not operational yet but clearly it is a message to iran we will not allow you to set up permanent bases we will not allow you to entrench yourself militarily and we want you away from the border so serious escalation hezbollahs media unit issuing a statement and for the first time this statement was signed by syrias allies it said that any aggression against the Syrian Government or syria will be met by force so syrias allies coming together issuing this statement so a serious confrontation and but so far you know in one way or the other it has been contained israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu made numerous visits to moscow his last trip just two weeks ago and he made clear we will not allow iran to reach our borders we wont allow iran to have so much influence in syria what we understand is that there have been the gauche ations between the russians and the israelis to create some sort of a buffer zone in southern syria to keep the Iranian Forces and their allies away from this buffer zone not playing out who hasnt been happy with the deal so far. North koreas leader kim jong un has extended a rare invitation to the south korean president mungy isnt to visit pyongyang the moon is hosted kim sr for talks in seoul on the sidelines of the Winter Olympics shes the first member of the kim family to visit south korea since the nine hundred fifty korean war. Chairman kim jong uns on voip kim yo junk delivered a letter expressing a willingness to improve relations she also delivered a message from kim jong un that he is willing to meet president moon in the near future and that he hopes president moon visits the north at a convenient time when theyre under modi has been making the First Official visit by an indian Prime Minister to the palestinian territory hes met palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas in a trip to the west bank as part of a three nation tour to strengthen ties with the middle east earlier he laid a wreath on the tumor former Palestinian Leader yasser arafats. Donald trumps block the release of a Democratic Party rebuttal to a republican memo on russian meddling in the election the bloc no challenges last weeks republican memo which accused the f. B. I. And Justice Department of bias against trump those are your headlines the news continues here on aljazeera after rewind stay with us. 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 were rewinding to two thousand and twelve when faultline 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 they have 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. To 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 that summit to report on angry protests that have broken out against the lack of electricity. Today there isnt much improvement in the basic Services People were protesting for nine years ago. Power cuts. Unemployment also is widespread here. People under thirty dont have jobs. New money flowing in the cost of living is rising fast. But i think the plague. One mile from us and them in the. Place where you can see thats a look at what is at the market and then michelle can always a. Community in that budget has shot 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 it appears the so the progress is there. But despite record output in barrels read this frustration the companys developing the fields importing labor. And that there is no meaningful legislation to protect iraqi jobs. Isnt to be looked at and that it isnt to be afraid to commit to talk about iraq and to the iman is one that among you might talk about this is really i am a mom but you could be and that is that and then. I lash out and i wanted to. Sit down 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 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 place is absolutely breathtaking for fourteen centuries shia from all over the world have been bringing that they had to be buried head its so immense that in that job 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 motown 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 jaffa but up up e. G. O. s this as i already and landed here. Destroyed everything. At the beginning of august trying to root out sandoz mind the army and take control of man john u. S. Marines invaded the cemetary. Well been 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 theres 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 mighty army and the americans. Hundreds of monte finds as dined in the battle. In a new section of the cemetery built for sanders followers killed in the uprisings and sectarian violence that the u. S. Led occupation provoked. Families come to honor their daily. Lives. 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 the 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. In the huddle too little to follow from the front of other people for. A new look in the heart a lot of be. A little. Bit of a look at that i. Thought and i dont know what i thought of that. 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 if its. Ok for. A job it could be him in america they think this is over. Here. Who. Could you tell you to do. Is follow his listens to him deliver some of his most incendiary sermons against the occupation here in 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 and bank and. Well there is yeah it was what you had here was and it was youre here where here you are forgetting the sermon addresses the deepening conflict between iraqi Prime MinisterNouri Al Malikis party and opposition blocs but has virtually paralyzed parliament for months was there that 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 my job. Now the pilgrims and tourists are back prompting a boom in trade and hotel development. 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 destroying. The occupation 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 refashion 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 homogenously 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 that. I dont. Need. Someone to go. When the family fled they left everything behind in school food here. And although they live in constant fear of eviction they say they cant return to tell me. That he had to step. It. Up but that i had. That as a. Little about what he. Did with us. In the sunni neighborhood of gaza live 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 his 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 control have been almost. Not. Going to have time. To decide moment ive met also got a little bit 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 to gets me home by saturday im 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 they say. Theyre no longer delmonte im not sure none of them know must have been some good some how cool mom had to say on my parents want to and i dont know how come i am i now believe that ive begun to notice you know im not one thats ahead of obvious out of my view that. I was out. Another i was that is that i that i said that. 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Feel good and i thought yeah i had a little so what im 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 money. 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 he will not arise for Amnesty Organization and United Nation organization to come and check and to find out whether there is a secret Detention Center and. Out but the arrests have fueled the perception in communities like this one that the government is targeting them much like u. S. F