at the fact that people like him are told not to appear on this channel and indeed m.p.'s from both sides of the house who are so keen to appear all of them some of them even saying we should be shut down as well i completely disagree with the idea that. we're disintegration network quickly and i was in for political britain is a haven for free speech we're just a few hundred yards from the mother of all parliament and if people don't like russia today or they don't like its output don't watch it but do not close it down of come to my understanding i've got no problems with the output and it would just be turkish frankly under pierce thank you well it's been quite a week for u.k. u.s. relations mainstream us commentators were quick to assume donald trump firing of his secretary of state rex tillerson via a tweet was connected to tillotson support for terrorism a and her war with russia hopes of a torrent would soon be dashed as trump's un ambassador nikki haley echoed may's attacks on moscow and then washington reportedly introduced new sanctions even

before any u.n. investigation of the chemical weapons atrocity in england joining me now from new jersey in the usa is award winning rolling stone journalist and author of insane clown president matt taibbi in math welcome back to the show i'm going to start actually with the fact that the russian federation has warned britain not to threaten a nuclear power how do you characterize relations from between britain and russia regardless of america and russia i'm in. the nuclear doomsday clock because right now. it's i think it's the equivalent right now as a one nine hundred fifty two levels now isn't been this low since one thousand fifty two this is a very extremely perilous time in the relationships between the west and russia. i think there is a variety of factors that are that are going. into the danger zone one of these is

the situation going on in one with the poisoning incident but just as serious as the situation in syria when we have. u.s. troops and russian you know contract mickie on the other side of the euphrates river. we have a lot of sort of bombastic talk by leaders on all sides about the nuclear capabilities the new states. and the little the level of and the. russian sentiment you know particularly in the united states is is at a pool at a place where i haven't seen it in my lifetime and i you know i can remember the reagan years during the when he was talking about the evil empire and then after the shooting down of k seven so this is. the we're in an unprecedented place right now the british politicians in palm and with

a few honorable exceptions some of them are saying we now need to launch a site of cyber attack on russian institutions and all manner of other levels of response and that russia is a rogue state so it will not respond to reason and i don't understand i mean i i do understand look there are a lot of political. angles to this story. there are things that are going on that have always gone on these two countries have always meddled in each other's the shares there of zero is there have always been. games back and forth between russia and england and russia in the united states you know there was an excellent book written by one of your countrymen the called the great game that details this activity dating back to the late seventy's hundreds early hundreds i lived in russia in one. in the ninety's when the united states openly

meddled. in boris yeltsin's reelection campaign there was a cover of time magazine after after yeltsin won reelection there were it's a picture of yeltsin in the headline of the yanks to the rescue because we had advisors american advisors to reporting directly to bill clinton who were aiding yeltsin in that victory and this is just part of the way of use. the countries are operated toward each other forever we've always been interested in each other's affairs i think the difference is now that there's a political angle towards demonization of russia that is inspiring some politicians in the west in england and in america to make up a public issue out of this in a way that they have they would now be sure that they wouldn't have have.

sated. such a heated situation in the past over what essentially is a domestic political aim to scare people into you know being a certainly politically to town lotty america is of course had to register as a foreign agent from this the nazi era act don't trump tweet a lot about mainstream media but he seems unable to ban it using your version of off call on the f.c.c. . surprised that in britain the prime minister can say things and they immediately the regulator will take steps. or talk about steps in closing down the television station one of the benefits of the american system media. is we've we've gone quite a long time in our history without really having a strong official national. media regulator

we do have the f.c.c. they did play an important role in the formation of t.v. and radio stations with a couple of key laws in the late twenty's early thirty's there was the communications act of thirty four. of the federal radio commission and actually twenty seven also had some things to say about what radio station should be but for the most part there is no regulator for print media and. communications regulator is a very very weak one in the united states which for most of us in the press we've long considered to be a good thing then that the government mostly stays out of our business. you know for it to take the step of forcing our teats their register as a foreign agent under star opens the door for an incredible. amount of the abuse

that could be directed at almost any kind of foreign news agency in the future and i think that's in an huge mistake. and i'm not thrilled with the decision to to retaliate against r.t.e. and britain either i think this is similar to the decision that they made with the olympics in one nine hundred eighty you if you have a political issue with a country you don't go after sports you don't go after the me. you you take more serious diplomatic measures. thank you and that's it for the show but i should add now that in last saturday's broadcast on the tenth of march and professor theodore postol claimed that george monbiot called him an isis sympathizer after the brokenness mr maule b.-o. contacted us to deny the allegations made he said i've never said anything about postal being and i sympathize and when i challenge postal claims people accuse me of being an isis sympathizer a paedophile being blackmailed by the government and

a mossad agent well professor postol is since contacted us he said george monbiot is correct that my quote summarizing one of his pa statements was not exactly correct the exact quote i had in mind is personal is without question guilty of white washing mass murder in syria mr mongo told us that he stands by these claims in a week that marks the eighth year of hostilities and with president bashar al assad now controlling most of the country that's in the show we're back on monday with legendary british forgotten old admins alleging corruption of the british banking system till then keep in touch by social media will see on monday fifteen years of the day of the launch of u.k. u.s. operation iraqi liberation or oh i later changed to operation iraqi freedom which are still good this place tens of millions. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the

world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the lawn. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to preserve. it's a right to be for us this is what before us three in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters of my. question.

it's a multinational of a particular kind one you all know some of you may even visit it's present across the globe and on the corner of your street. the catholic church. with its hierarchy. its communication. and its very darkest secret. ophelia. in australia seven percent of priests are thought to sexually abused minors four percent in the united states. we discovered the clergymen found guilty of better phoebe are still active often in contact with children. nice to internal documents will reveal how church leaders protect priests accused of sexually abusing minors. by sending them from country to country

notably in africa. the investigation into these international exiles took us to cameroon. to argentina. to the united states. to france to italy. during our travels we stop list this unprecedented amount that regarding the transfers of priests involved in cases of pedophilia. come m. sits and dig. that up with his off by a few that most of all that it was you and i got into a bang up stakes i mean that and the victims number tens of thousands marked with scars. for the rest of their lives. our investigations would lead us all the way to pope francis who revealed how when he was archbishop of buenos aires he tried to influence the argentine justice department. to sunday that. list

was the out in the night and think of the past few. investigated the mysteries of the church where on the altar of truth god's law seems to prevail over that of man. our inquiry into the international transfers of priests accused of pedophilia begins in the united states. where in chicago in the shadow of this cathedral too would disappear a unique kind of protest. itself. or it's you know it's not all are victims of pedophile priests. in their hands portraits of venice children when they were abused.

in the us sixteen thousand people have already launched complaints for sexual abuse against catholic priests. these victims have joined forces for the annual conference of their support group smout survivors network of those abused by priests. oh everybody. great to see you again and i think it looks like we've got a bigger group than last year which is even better news so how many of you are here for the first time. thanks to. remember that all of us here are survivors of sexual assaults and betrayals during our youth so if you're looking for an opportunity to share your experience with people who truly get it this is the place. recently the

organization has seen abuse victims from all over the world join its ranks it has become the internationale of those abused by the church. certainly it will be here because of the weather and use is so huge that every and it was a child has a purpose and the focus that had on us but by that they gave us the sense there was other put it in the subtle things. just once i get a little bass i mean isn't that really where you're from so yeah we're trying to save it i'm from germany from berlin and elicits with a believes in mexico when there was talking to yourself about the from the focus on those just the way i just. read three years i was fifteen years old i was abused as a team for a long period of time it was with an oddly priest agreements just can't. thank you or canada accounts from over fifty countries. at the end of the

conference we talked to one of the activists on barrett doyle. facts reports from victims snap is the only group to been able to establish a list of priests worldwide allegedly involved in haiti failure cases we only include those priests who have been accused of child sexual abuse in a credible document it has to be either a court document that's publicly accessible or a mainstream news outlet it's called father she began her work fourteen years ago sorry refuge in the states these activists publish the names and photos of accused priests on the internet to try to ensure they never come into contact with children again. this is just the letter a and it just keeps going. mounting.