Stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in the government has shifted focus from saving lives to saving the economy. Counting the coast on aljazeera. Best known to tourists for its beautiful beaches and dramatic coastline italian island of sardinia is also a major cut to make the rest of the locals long these tests of how tough the fact that health for you is the authorities have refuted those playing reporter Emma Alberici went to investigate. If. The cost doesnt morale day is a magnet for the rich and famous need hosts the most beautiful beaches in europe. Its not hard to see what draws people to this place. Former Prime MinisterSilvio Berlusconi was one of the 1st to invest here. But ive come here to investigate the darkest side the coverups the secrets the mystery illnesses that have blotted life on this glorious island for decades. The wealth of the north is a stark contrast to other parts of the island where visitors are forbidden. The san diego plays host to some of the worlds most elaborate warga it is like this one in 2015. Trident junction it was one of natos biggest exercises. Dozens of countries were involved in. The military exclusion zone as cover more than a 3rd of sardinia is land sea and air planes rome is reported to be making one and a half 1000000. 00 a day renting out this space to Foreign Forces and weapons manufacturers. Down south that entire lotta the beaches are just a stunning but they mostly inaccessible. The reka family have been fishing in these waters for generations zimbabwes arabs are on their bare back bottom was a lot more of it as i remember them or a couple of the manga given to the main guy. Bradstock of what they were rather than what happens if you do. Every walmart up someone from rio would never bother. The Italian Ministry of defense has deemed vast areas of the city around sardinia off limits. Around their government on a minute that everyone marijuana annoy them really regret their ability for no apparent your name in the military are they watching us. Most of the military operations on sardinia have been kept secret since 951. Theyre the result of an arrangement struck with nato countries after the 2nd world war. And if you go. To them in the other. Purely has made it his lifes mission to bust open this wall of silence. He was once the political leader of sardinia but even then he couldnt get access to see what was going on at the military bases on the morrow purely dida eventually get into the tire lot of military side but only after he was elected to the federal parliament in raw and we were the no he was told they would be strictly no filming allowed. If you miss one imagine if. Youre going to fire the man or. If i dont know what it mean for the afghan official me. Despite the secrecy bits of information have started to leak out. In 2017 sardinia unhealthful far shes confirmed call 1200 french maid. Arrived on. And over the 20 years to 2003 some were fired a town larger of course you need to mean theres a misdemeanor. To love analyze here was this. Idea the rhythm and. The guidance systems of these milan missiles each carries 3 grams of radioactive phoria. In heiling florian dust increases the risk of lung and pancreatic cancer. In the school bus and you saw that he thought it was the most watched of the country that didnt go nice she was all she was but i think that. The main concern for sardinians living close to the firing ranges isnt about damage to the land or restricted axes. Theyre worried the bomb residue might be killing mail. Today or is saying goodbye to another of its citizens 59 year old mario drogo. As a young man he worked at the firing range. He died of lung cancer but he wasnt a smoker. Many of the people gathered here have been touched by cancer. Here said to them what most of them already in their church are they know they havent cheated a lot of their station but more in the show their limit their jobs under. The water column or more you dont see it i will get a lot of these its been decided to intervene to do our share not all that but more from want to measure julie on joining and his friends blame the italian Defense Force for this suffering. Due to modern almost. Never found that the sort of the full range of the a lot on your body to love what i. But when that job and it was that it. The Italian Military has always denied doing anything to hurt the people of the land all the animals of sardinia. Of bondi of pierce and her husband john carroll have been fighting the military through the courts for 10 years but a little dilute the law will still be a little our listeners. Not just. A vision of the past francesco pyrrhus did his National Service in thailand it in the late ninetys he took part in military exercises and his parents say he was ordered to pick up all shills with his bare hands. A few years later at the age of 27 he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. His parents blame the armed forces whenever they fuck without throw in no matter what i meant. About the truth. Of a general of the mallow. Was a more manly. With the. More. Difficult. This is the rubbish john carlos is built up in his sons liver. There particles so small they can quickly pass through your lungs and into your body. Biomedical engineer anthony a to get it analyzed francescos liver tissue the and she found nano particles of 7 different metals in the juma including crimea. Tungsten and titanium. Theres no Metals Industry around but these are all used by the arms industry. Dr gassy believes francesco was contaminated by dust from a big explosion icicle at the. Ok. Who are looking. For that for them in. The science of nano particles is still new but the World Health Organization says early signs show that fine material may be harmful to Public Health. The w. H. O. Is encouraging further research. Dr gaddy has consultant to for parliamentary inquiries that looked into the activities of the italian Defense Force it was that if you know said the. That a trainee. A minute. I thought it well if youve got the only real build up you. Meant it very. Much is so. So 30000000. Dollars. You know in. This field of. Who. They are. Its a 2 hour drive heading north out of town larder to the queerer bombing range. This is the scene of Tragic Health stories and mysterious birth defects that have come to be dumped the queerest syndrome. For many here life still slow and traditional. But it sounds like a skull a plateau perched on the edge of the firing range. Zarin flying. To see battle of the children to see more to agree that he quit because of food. Or disorder. But much of the much about this will be cut but i want to believe that the query. Were at is the biggest military test site in europe. Its used by nice countries as well as israel. Those living nearby have known much tragedy. Doc to guess he has become an advocate for some of the people of queer and. Maria teresa already had 10 healthy children when her last child arrived in 1988. The baby girl was born so severely deformed her mother has never let her photo be saying. She was baptized maria grassy or she was blind and couldnt move or speak i think that. Most of the rules of my. Skull apply no symmetry is a sad testament. One in 4 of the children born in the same year is Marine Ground 0 had some kind of deformity. Come into the mother. And spoken into the heart of. The banker said im allowed to let it out that youre not their doctor or. Dont know how to feel. John pierre osgar new has tried to hold the military to account he led a 2 year parliamentary inquiry. His committee met fierce resistance from the chiefs of defense. Send them to war level for the rich at their cause and one trillion of a. May pully going to support there were further queer look. But come on children this one controlled. Weve made repeated attempts to speak to the military during our search for this story but weve been blocked at every turn now this document dated 2011 has come our way its a confidential ministry of defense memo instructing military officials on how to respond to questions about the health and environmental conditions in and around the bombing sites what stands out is what they told to cite about birth defects theyre told to explain it away with a shocking allegation that children born with deformities of the result of inbreeding god these are the 1st in the future growth. In the seas general maltin a former head of the queer a base hes cool francois t. V. Delivery that came a siege actually friday i think you might actually believe that image in the world of prosecutors and other families theres no evidence to support that climb. The children born with disabilities were conceived in the late eightys when old munitions bombs and rockets were being routinely despised dolls and queer they were blown up in a piece 20 meters deep and 40 meters wide. And it might be not subtle your families know it goddammit common or. Latino. Or devils. Decades dust from explode. And tests has rained down on the towns and the grazing fields of the firing range. Exactly what was in them no one knows. In nearly 2000 local doctors saw a spike in the number of unusual cancers in their patients. At the same time over in florence a military pilot dominik only jiro was raising his concerns. Hed seen a high incidence of cancers among fellow soldiers returning from kosovo where they had been exposed to depleted uranium. Stomach around the good of. The its an internet around its not going to be perfect intervene youre Getting Better like 2030 minutes and i mean to explore so again we dont see. This to remain. On. Me no not. Yet immune to the minot is basically like you. Have little bit if you will be jack. The Italian Military felt the pressure. Depleted uranium is mildly radioactive and long suspected of causing cancer and birth defects. Its used to help missiles penetrate. At queerer scientist francesco rica bono was flown in by the ministry of defense to do some soil tastes in front of a swarm of local media. Is not going to convince youre out there im going to the photograph of. You debug the movie in all of the running for the for the monitor yeah theres a little Francesco Riccobono didnt find any depleted uranium keeping quiet about the possible. And so thory im defense declared the firing range clear. To the sunni admin run anonymous but i have a battle. Going on the people going to the last of the year so really going into. One of the line i think you did you grow it to. Be there look you really said with its a disgrace and. Then in 2010 events took a shocking turn. The photos youre about to see are disturbing. A land born with one. Others with deformities the line and severity of which scientists and Public Health experts had never seen before. They dont want to know that was their mother or your mother kick. Their. Then. Bit of room with the mother for them or. Believe. Their georgia mehlis corrosion report for the District Health or farsi assessing the risks posed by the bombing range. From markedly the team of scientists found 65 percent of the shepherds living close to the range had cancers that get placed where a new body will not be in sort of more walk. The von maur. When even if it. Blows your name bombard them into a little bit about. The quest for the better. But. The only main. Looming. Be on what to look at will be informative they live. In more. Immediately a formal Police Investigation was launched the Court Ordered the exhumation of 18 shipments died in the 20 years up to 20. Binds were shipped here to easily snow and examined at 2 universities. Nuclear physicist vandross seanie lin some of that research. Analyse is all but. In the car or. In. Your. View. Those 11 shepherds with high levels of thore in the nearby towns had all lived close to the firing range. Of the shore in quite that authority or by george. The opposition there. In the regional capital lana say the chief prosecutor called a meeting with the scientist who done the soil testing for the military. Why hadnt research of francesco rico bono found any ranee and all the much more dangerous story im in the soil as we were. While he was questioned up steves outside police opened his car and he did a listening device inside. As he drove back to the airport the bug picked up his conversation with an assistant. Hed been interrogated for leaving thore and words out of his record and he was angry with the military this age going with them because the ones who commissioned us to do this work that if you thought that was important if youre honest you say to me make sure to include it because its important to. Francesco rico bonos university received a 2400000. 00 government grant to carry out its work. He was later acquitted of charges that he was involved in a cover up. Morrow pili is still convinced of foul play. Or slow down the facets that will beat the roy and the. Ball. In so many things out of a single. Every dollar that. 8 former commanders at queerer and now on trial charged with breaching the duty of care for the health and safety of soldiers and civilians. One of them is fabio tenney infamously caught on film climbing sardinians in brit school another is Paolo Ritchie who had declared queerer iranian free of the World Business but it really really after 2 decades and 3 previous inconclusive inquiries last g. And john pieros garner his committee made a bold finding and of course trying to mentor for a month or less is the incessant biana during the blue mess so the cozily. Election that this position in the lower than in full really dont they live but ga didnt shut the immunity that it quest they will not get the media. For the 1st time nano particles of depleted uranium were found to play a role in the possible development of cheap. Crucially for eon when high old or injustice was found to be 5 times more dangerous than depleted uranium. The scouting report was dismissed by the italian Defense Force. And they refer to. In the letter a letter on the. The larkham. Youre president for an element that says that the script the leverage. But after all that work by the commission a new law to monitor the health of soldiers was blocked by the upper house in russia. For decades sardinia has held its secrets close. Its been mocked in an uncomfortable embrace with the worlds military. In a country mired in debt defense contracts are a source of income but also quite possibly the cause of untold misery. After all the inquiries and with military brass now on trial for the people of this island paradise there is a glimmer of hope but the truth i finally see the light of day. They come in hope and in search of work to provide a better life for the families theyve left behind. But though their labor is vital to italys Food Industry they risk exploitation by corporations and organized crime. Trapped in a system with little hope of escape people empower investigates. On aljazeera. The latest news as it breaks there is increasing pressure to turn its back on beijing and u. K. Is finding itself a corpse between 2 superpowers with detailed coverage. Tracing is now being seen as part of a wider political failure. From around the world human Rights Groups say that at least 12 people were killed or disappeared. Global pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter of a looming election join me Steve Clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u. S. Politics and society on aljazeera. Sweat tears and sometimes blah but for them its what that dreams are made of. Just their work tells the story of a young man welcome back from humble background to training for the rights of the law. And the former champion who gives his all 6. To 0. Holding the powerful to account as we examine the world in the world. Is a significant step towards building a more peaceful and prosperous middle east. The u. S. Brokered an agreement for israel and the United Arab Emirates to establish full diplomatic relations israel will also poles but not scrap plans and expel a study in territory. Palestinian factions unite to condemn the deal describing it as a betrayal. So rob youre watching aljazeera headquarters here in coming up