{"id":803,"date":"2024-03-14T18:56:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T18:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/14\/british-troops-speak-out-about-exposure-to-toxic-chemicals-redefining-extremism-with-sam-coates\/"},"modified":"2024-03-14T18:56:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T18:56:36","slug":"british-troops-speak-out-about-exposure-to-toxic-chemicals-redefining-extremism-with-sam-coates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/14\/british-troops-speak-out-about-exposure-to-toxic-chemicals-redefining-extremism-with-sam-coates\/","title":{"rendered":"British troops speak out about exposure to toxic chemicals | Redefining &#8216;extremism&#8217; with Sam Coates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/e3.365dm.com\/24\/03\/70x70\/2372403140628103607_6490286.png?20240314170503&amp;fit=70,70&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"British troops speak out about exposure to toxic chemicals | Redefining &#8216;extremism&#8217; with Sam Coates\" title=\"British troops speak out about exposure to toxic chemicals | Redefining &#8216;extremism&#8217; with Sam Coates\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-component-name=\"sdc-article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>In the early months of the Iraq war in 2003, around 88 British troops were deployed to the Qarmat\u00a0Ali water treatment plant to provide round-the-clock security.<\/p>\n<p><!-- x-tinymce\/html -->What the soldiers didn&#8217;t know was that while on duty, they were being exposed to a carcinogenic chemical used to maintain the pipes in the plant.<\/p>\n<p>Ten ex-soldiers have now spoken out for the first time after suffering a range of health problems, including daily nosebleeds, a brain tumour and several diagnoses of cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Today on the Daily, Niall Paterson speaks to Sky&#8217;s Michael Drummond about his report into why the former troops are still seeking reparations, and to ex-RAF sergeant Andy Tosh who was exposed to the chemical and says his health has been permanently damaged.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, we&#8217;ll get the latest from deputy political editor Sam Coates on the government&#8217;s new definition of &#8216;extremism&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/podfollow.com\/skynewsdaily\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to subscribe to the Sky News Daily wherever you get your podcasts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Senior producer: Annie Joyce<br \/>Producer: Sydney Pead<br \/>Interviews Producer: Melissa Tutesigensi<br \/>Promotion Producer: Jada-Kai Meosa John<br \/>Editor: Wendy Parker<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early months of the Iraq war in 2003, around 88 British troops were deployed to the Qarmat\u00a0Ali water treatment plant to provide round-the-clock security. What the soldiers didn&#8217;t know was that while on duty, they were being exposed to a carcinogenic chemical used to maintain the pipes in the plant. Ten ex-soldiers have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/24\/03\/70x70\/2372403140628103607_6490286.png?20240314170503","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,130,936,933,504,934,935,932,129,931],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}