villagers while saying i don't want to shoot them i don't want to shoot them but i have to because were ordered to bring ken and kong together kinda face called sorrow kong to ask the questions that have tormented him all his life i'm march sixteenth one thousand nine hundred sixty eight at six am and u.s. helicopters landed on the rice fields of our beautiful village mr kong i was here that day back in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight when the helicopters landed . and when the soldiers came they started killing everyone was to kong i was part of the americans that landed here and helicopters and i want to apologize to the people of me ally i'm sorry that it happened. i ask myself all the time why did this happen i don't know. an angry feeling are rising up in my heart. the u.s.

soldiers killed my mother my older sister and my younger brother. how did you feel when you shot into civilians and killed was it hard for you like i say the only thing i can do now is just apologize for. how many people did you kill that morning i don't know. i don't know i don't know. i don't i don't even know if i killed anyone. that's not a reasonable answer your soldiers put all our people together in one place and shot directly at them you said you don't know whether you've killed anyone i cannot accept it. i wasn't with that group i was in and outside the village. you stayed back at the edge of our village but my house my family was located at the edge of the village so maybe you came to my house and killed my relatives. in vietnam we have the tradition that we let bygones be bygones but in our hearts we

cannot forget if i didn't care i would have come back and i know words don't heal your heart but. that's that's all i can do now each man is deeply shaken. you should educate your younger generations your children not to do it again and not to make war anywhere in the world. well those are fine words. i wouldn't want war i would stop war today if it was possible. now that i'm older i can see this. but when i came to vietnam i was very young i have never acknowledged to any great extent that i was it mean i. but i'm here today to tell you what was done here was wrong. i can't fix

your heart i can't bring your people back to life. i'm sorry. he says he knows one reason charlie company could barter interest groups of unarmed villagers the training they got before we came to be and i almost didn't think of the vietnamese as people. think keeps a few photos of the party they held when the murder charges were dropped but they had little to celebrate in the years that followed many of us below soldiers members of the company have not survived self examination. and are free to get out and kill right going out of the back turned to me and my meter. so make sure you are not there now when you're sure i want to. thank you i mean direct order to shoot and if you know i'm sure. the last everything up front and i know i shot about right and i went to answer no when i was a little baby and i. got her.

first response for killing between twenty and twenty for twenty five. person. to cut no throats to scalp and to move to hear this. i do. some like for nardo simpson could not live with those memories even medications could not hold them back i'm certain songs are you know. i can't promise that when you come again i'll be. because before you care my get out of this rufus so the sun for thirds of. simpson committed suicide in one thousand nine hundred seven. is or a sense of relief that you finally got to confront someone. so long ago.

he tells us he's been a terrible night he drank he wept he was angry he was filled. with sorrow he visited the graves of his family and confessed his conflicting feelings standing there murmuring to my father my mother and my brothers and sisters i said that yesterday i met one of our former enemy who killed you but i could not do anything i could not beat him or strike him or kill him because that is against the laws of vietnam. qin shi all knows he is not giving kong the answer he needed the why some of his questions the way he wanted them answered because there was always a one. way to answer and i was we were following orders does call it your job make it right no doesn't make it right in your mind for you murder you know. in your heart. no i'm not

a murderer i'm our king she told us he was eager to return to me lied to set the record straight about his unit me a lie was an isolated incident for our company. we didn't do that every village we went through he specializes grandchildren to understand that they were not evil that bad things happen in war and throughout our days there was defensive driving to break down and cry. but at the last moment. just as our crew was boarding a plane to a different destination ken who had to remain in the airport for a later flight did break down and cry. and our vietnamese translator who lost a brother in the war went back and. there is a cycle in war. aging soldiers expressed sorrow regret they

apologized to their victims they say never again they say let us raise our children . to love peace not war. but their sons and daughters are already engaged in the next the next killing. their talk anger hate fear they are taught to kill. and they betray their own goodness and they too will pay. and they will say how could we have done this this. should never have happened. and never. is a cycle of war broken. heart of darkness from two thousand and eight a moving and very personal fellow well we're joined now from washington by josh rushing himself a fifteen year veteran of the u.s.

marine corps josh thanks for speaking to us on a rewind can you take us back to the moments in the film when you brought together ken she'll along with one of his victims what was that moment like when ken came he came a belief i remember was like straight from the airport that's my first time to meet him you see it on camera me shaking as as he gets out of the van. we had just planned kind of let's just walk around a bit see what you remember kind of put you back in the place and while doing that kong saw us and came over and started to enquire about you know who killed was and where he was there in vietnam and it all started to unfold before our eyes and this really emotional moment that i would not have set up in such a way. because of the motions were so high but we couldn't quite stop it he really seemed to struggle though when you were questioning him he struggled

answering your questions what do you think oh was going on through his head at the time i one hundred percent believe that in order for ken to continue to live his life that he had made a very intentional twice to silo what had happened in vietnam he had the memories but there was no way that he was going to engage with the morality of it i just had the sense that he feels like if he started to even a bit he might not be able to control the flood of emotions and guilt and everything else that would come with it and at the time he was only nineteen years old and he was clearly believing that he was just doing this he was following orders so josh let me ask you this as a former soldier yourself how difficult is it when you're actually in the field in your order to do something that you morally disagree with i think. it's easy to sit back and and judge that situation and think that you would act differently but the

reality of it is when you go through boot camp they they really break down who you are and they build you back up into this other thing for me it was this u.s. marine that was my identity and so you had this kind of ultimate trust in your leadership that you're not going to be given orders that are illegal and so of course you follow them then you take that person and put it in a place like vietnam where everything you ever learned about a moral compass seems to be thrown out of the window there and so you don't you lose a sense of what's right and what's wrong in that that kind of environment and yeah you end up following orders but i still think there's that bit of humanity in you that says that this is it right in the court documents we kynge someone testify that they saw him firing into a crowd of civilians while saying i don't want to do this i don't want to do this

so clearly he was struggling with it but the thing about war is we sing young people to fight these wars who don't have the wisdom that we gain as as as older people you know there's a reason there's not a bunch of forty and fifty year olds fighting wars the entire marine corps one hundred seventy two thousand people if you take the average age including all the four star generals in the marine corps the average age is still just over twenty years old that's how many young people at the bottom of that pyramid and now it at my age forty five looking back at a nineteen year old kid that is a child and yet we give them weapons and put them in the most complex situations you can imagine and have a make life and death decisions and i make a side note here that actually no are no survivors the village of me i wasn't even a meal i was name something else that was the meal i was a misnomer on an american map so that original village named in survive no one really survived to the village that they conned as a completely human different. that he was before that happened in that shape who he

is becoming the soldiers that we tried to get to go none of them really survived either the ones who didn't kill themselves there weren't really complete pictures of human beings that they would have wanted to be but those who do survive war and get old enough to realize it's atrocities and how wrong it is it's already too late because the next generation the next generation young kids will the there are ready they're fighting the next one well what i've done to me a lie i like to think i've done the right thing but. i don't know i will say they were heroes to come out of the lies well i mean i was stopped by an american officer or an officer you thompson who literally lowered his helicopter in between americans who were far machine guns into the crowd of civilians vietnamese and he told his door gunner on the helicopter that if they didn't stop fire the americans to open fire on them and that would've been the only case i've ever known of u.s. troops intentionally firing on each other but that's the level it was was that to to stop what he witnessed that day thompson was and his crew that i mean they were

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a recount. it will relieve in the morning. welcome to the new. age theory. you need a saudi teenager who fled her family that she was supported back to riyadh receives a warm welcome and canada. u.s. president hits out of the f.b.i. after a report that the agency open to the investigation into whether he was a threat to national security. before the bar closed. the bar. and a call for the british prime minister to step down and for a new general elections just days before crucial vote. the runner up in the democratic republic of congo's presidential election is challenging the official result has appealed to the constitutional court commission

gave his rival felix a thirty eight percent of the vote four percent ahead of the results also show that the ruling coalition of the outgoing president joseph kabila has won a large majority of national assembly seats and the constitution the president must appoint his prime minister from the party that commands a majority that's likely to full fuel that is suspicions of a power sharing deal with can be allowed to has more from can. evidence to prove he won last month's election by a landslide sixty one percent of the votes and the presidential run is challenging the results in the constitutional court. called we called the electoral commission to. count the ballots because that's what. we have to politicise agree with the results that. was announced there and

they are fabricated nothing to do with the truth provisional results released by the election commission on thursday declared felix just a kitty the winner with nearly thirty nine percent of the votes his supporters say should accept the result. more than guys stop when it's done we want it we don't she didn't she did we didn't make an arrangement. this is just the result of the polling station and we make sure what. we do or we don't want to go into a fight unlike previous elections voting day at the end of last month was relatively peaceful but growing suspicions over the count could derail congress' first democratic transfer of power since independence from belgium in one thousand sixty constitutional court judges like you to meet on monday and tuesday to go through what martin finally says is evidence which proves he won last month's election if the judges say he has no case in felix's the katie will be sworn in as president the influential catholic church is rejecting the official result so too

is france and former colonial power belgium the african union and the southern african development community regional body are appealing to the people of congo to respect the eventual decision of the constitutional court judges and avoid a violent reactions. a policy analyst with the africa faith and justice network he joins us from washington d.c. we always appreciate your time very much so the call for a recount the request to the court do you think that there actually will be a recount. thank you for having me on your show. i do not think the recounts we have happen that changes the game i see those story or you do but not things that happen at all do you think that his request though it is a credible one and are you struck by how drastically different he says the results

are he's not even claiming is that it was a remotely close election the numbers that he's saying that he won by are drastically different than what the results are do you think that what he is saying is credible. definitely he has the right under the constitution to. recourse. and he has to show evidence if the. courts independently knock the real deal with. the english and also show the evidence if you win then you win but what is most important here is to look at really the outcome and we're on what is being and make an assessment and look forward but i am told that the read be in the results that we change the situation what would you say this election has done for the people of congo. this is

a tremendous victory for the congolese people because what you've been thinking we know have been has happened the chancellor following in large. and saving the electoral process the democracy is very important to the congolese people so it's just a kid who has been on the other side of your pollution not. all them as the mix elections with as the ladies what you were criticizing to criticize we know the same and actually the last time we spoke i believe you were the one that cautioned everyone just to be patient and see how everything worked out thank you very much for joining us again jack bahati appreciate it any time thank you. a saudi teenager who fled her family because she feared for her life has arrived in her new home country rauf mohamed canoeing flew from thailand to canada after an

upgrade to grant her asylum the eighteen year old gained international attention when she launched a social media campaign from a hotel room in bangkok pleading for help mike hanna has more from toronto. the langham arduous journey from saudi arabia. the eighteen year old step through the arrival doors accompanied by the canadian foreign minister the size of the media contingent a reflection of the massive public interest generated state you know that everyone . is oh. i'm hearing really from you need and want need him to leave it seems to arrive at a new phone but she's kind of theory on the players here and and so she would prefer not to question today so you can see thierry grazing on the moon. and she is now going to go see her new home then run.

but through the doors to begin the first phase of the new life who wish to go to college and study architecture. the canadian decision to grandson tree is likely to worsen already fractured relations with saudi arabia back in nor has saudi arabia severed diplomatic ties following tonight in criticism of the kingdon's human rights policy then in october the murder of jamal khashoggi saw an upsurge in demands for canada to counsel a multi-billion oms deal with saudi arabia this deal is now being reviewed the foreign minister though insists that the protection of human rights is more important than diplomatic relations or any trade deal with any c.r. . or a place in this time when. we were involved in those conversations as. antenna the plan to bring able to. say to my friend you

see i'm pretty blessed here and offering two percent in the sling. here it was the snow stage from a hotel room in thailand that. couldn't century the power of social media confirmed and an example perhaps for others seeking their freedom. mike hanna al-jazeera toronto. from ottawa stephen chase national correspondent for the globe and mail your time very much so why did. government make this move. well it's smart politics and from the canadian standpoint it's the right thing to do many kony this government has made a great deal of how it has a feminist foreign policy and it's for reelection in under a year and so it has been looking for opportunities to demonstrate its feminist foreign policy in action i mean while it's been criticized quite heavily for not

canceling a major erms deal in saudi arabia and so this is an opportunity to show once again and standing up to the regime i'm there's been no polls yet but i imagine this isn't overwhelmingly supported by the majority community and that is i question how has this been playing out to mess to clean. it's kind of like motherhood not applying care there's absolutely we haven't seen polls yet but this this is a. carrot is a progressive country you know the rights of women and the advancement of women are a big deal so the fact that canada's well being welcoming a woman in this circumstance it is absolutely you know seen as the right thing to do by the majority of canadians and the on the fact that it doesn't turn down his government have definitely you know put forth feminism beyond that why is it that saying that they can maybe in government at least on the outside seems to be a little less scared than other countries to box out

a little bit. well they have they have a lot less to lose now to get it before our diplomatic dispute didn't you know august they were already our only our twenty fifth largest trading partner so they there are there at the end of a long line of other people but of course as in you know august when the government criticize the the east the monarchies imprisonment of women's rights activists they they polled many many students out of canada saudi students who bring a lot of money to gain universities and they depress themselves of community best friends and they they they you know they they limited damage diplomatic ties by keeping our ambassador so we've already suffered a great deal this year in terms of business ties to saudi arabia the government appears to be calculating that it can't fall much further so having said that do you anticipate any more backlash but it seems like you're saying they are they've already been through the consequences and they're dealing with them well i think if

the government does too many victory laps on this and turns into too much of a political football which they're already doing i think that could be that could further inflame the saudis i mean the foreign minister shows up at the airport. the missile can own has a cat a hoodie on and our foreign ministers got our armor under they're turning this into a major political clout of law and that could certainly your take the saudis and further inflame relations they could for instance cancel the the arms deal with canada which is currently employing thousands and thousands of canadians while stephen chase we appreciate your voice on this thank you very much joining us from ottawa the u.s. government shutdown has become the longest in the country's history after reaching its twenty second day.