politically on foreign policy issues this has always been strong on symbols but. they should now the importance of keeping the iran deal alive is one of the things the e.u. and russia strongly agree on that issue among others is expected to be discussed at today's meeting between anger and of lot of. opening your report on merkel's visit to russia and just a few minutes. more victims of forced sterilization under japan's now scrapped eugenics law are speaking out and suing the government for compensation here's the story of one of thousands of victims a seventy five year old man whose real name has been changed. because i was forced to have the operation in second grade to the high school please return the life that i've lost my life being made to thirty however in my whole time i want to tell a story kita was sterilized as

a teenager without warning or explanation he was taken to a hospital and operated on he was later told it was punishment for misbehavior at school something considered abnormal now he's suing the government for about two hundred seventy thousand dollars when he married later on he couldn't bring himself to tell his wife and after decades of a childless marriage she managed only to break the news shortly before her death in two thousand and thirteen when i confided to my wife about your grecian i apologized from the bottom of my heart that i made one woman be a consumer goods my wife was whenever she was told by people around her that you still haven't had a child and by her friends that's why can't you have a child she was just looking at me listening to my story and when she finished listening she didn't say anything about the operation at school but just that the kindest words. always have in the genes and eats well japan's eugenic

protection law was first introduced in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight with an intent of what was described as preserving the purity of the japanese race it allowed for the sterilization of people with genetic disabilities with the declared intent of eliminating malignant genes however inaccurate medical tests often lead to wrongful surgical treatment permitting operations on over sixteen thousand people in japan until one thousand nine hundred ninety six story is a rare one though as earlier lawsuits showed the majority of victims were women and he only revealed his story after he had heard them speak up we previously interviewed the woman who was the first to do this. has a hard time getting through the middle school. one of the teachers to see can sneak into his house. i was constantly being used by his wife i never had the chance to see the. back of my diagnosis either she hated

me. my parents told me the time was operated on and now i cannot have babies my father didn't agree to. this time to buy my future welfare and since. the government claims its hands are clean as it was just complying with japanese law at the time but for the victims this isn't good enough officials plan to carry out a nationwide survey into the consequences of the now defunct law i mean increasing scrutiny of the practice with more operations being declassified day by day it's causing more people to demand the government compensate its victims unfortunately this won't return the lives of the victims say they have lost the only thing keith has left to hope for is justice for him and others want to push forward this trial

for those people who are so food. it is often international so i go have a cold visits of lot of may put in that his residence in such details in just a minute. i can tell you i have killed thirteen people with missile strikes and there are one thousand six hundred and twenty six unnamed enemies that were killed in all the missions that i completed and i know that i know that for a fact and i know each of these persons was a human being they had a family they had friends they had lives and we ended them the possibilities are and. local blogs sell you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken

hawks forcing you to fight the battles that don't. produce talks predator tell you that the beach gossip the public are files of the most important day. off the bad guys and think you are not cool enough to buy their product. these are the hawks that we along with are worth watching. this could have you with us today for the program and the german chancellor angela merkel is visiting the russian city of soft she where she is expected to meet with president vladimir putin at nine fifteen in the morning there now in salt tree. has this report angela merkel is getting together with vladimir putin basically just days after donald trump said goodbye to the iranian nuclear deal and perhaps that

is a good reason for the two leaders who both want the green light to stay no matter want to have a conversation about it and add it to their usual ukraine syria agenda this week i think it's not right to can last year and cancel a deal that was agreed upon by it was a unanimous the approval of u.n. security council it should diminishes cartoonists i mean it's national so donald trump's deal exit almost automatically meant that american sanctions against iran were coming back and german business leaders who thanks to the iranian agreement in the first place had rushed to do business there even asked the chancellor to protect their economic interests similar calls have been heard as a result of reports in the us media that suggested that the american president has really been pushing the german government to abandon the north's training to gas pipeline project for the direct deliveries of russian natural gas to europe

reportedly mr trump's administration even threatened to reconsider the trade agreement with the european union going back to the upcoming summit in saud she both sides said they weren't going to bring up and tell you russian sanctions but we do understand that they may be mentioned as soon as ukraine is mentioned speaking of syria just a few days ago while addressing the the bundestag. german chancellor said the conflict there cannot be resolved without involving all colleen's with partners internationally but for some reason she didn't mention the us intervention is all of the middle of the civil war in syria and this fight against islamic terrorism has asked waited from the original conflict to an international one which cannot be sold without russia turkey and iran saudi arabia jordan and you are in. any way previously glad of our program in angola merkel have met more than two dozen times

on some occasions there were signs of friendliness and others it was just pure diplomacy. that was the same as the russian president likes to drink german beer sometimes there is a possibility that we can exchange i've also gotten very good smoked fish. angela from time to time sends me a cup of coffee as a friend of the big. now when it comes to the whole iran nuclear

deal german politician believe says russia and germany share a common interest. in it. together was so awesome federation and seeing nuclear. he was he of on and. nation under the umbrella of united nations and therefore i think we have a common interest. the germans and the russians and others of the chinese and of the slaves as of that is to keep the heat he was. comin in close with the russian federation and therefore nothing expect in germany of leave the mind beyond sending the results of this meeting. a new report by german media suggests obtained decades ago and shared it with its

allies or the nerve agent it was reportedly used in the poisoning of former spies sort of a script and his daughter yulia in march in the english city of salzburg the u.k. blames russia for the attack claiming it was the only country possessing the substance he's pretty boyko has more on the latest developments let headline grabbing revelation in this german media report is that the german intelligence agency b n d has handed a sample of did over choke nerve agent since the early one nine hundred ninety s. it was apparently brought over by a former soviet scientist moreover according to these reports the sample was analyzed in sweden and then it was pasta on to germany's nato partners including the u.s. and the u.k. the german media investigation also says that this goes to show that russia has been producing novacek which is something that must go categorically denies but coming back to the formula itself it appears to have been

a pretty badly kept secret earlier this month the czech president milan steadman said that the czech republic had produced and stored albeit a slightly different strain of the nerve agent to the one used in salisbury but nevertheless that country shouldn't be hypocritical about this bill. small amounts of money trump were produced interested in the czech republic we know well and we know where it will be critical to pretend such a thing never. however politically moscow has been cost very much as the unequivocal perpetrator of the soul's bre attack to reason may said that it was highly likely that russia was behind the attack on the script take a lesson where all the cold front is about the identity of the culprit no other country has a combination of the capability the intent and the motive to carry out such an act

is no poolesville alternative explanation yet but. this is. t.v. close even actually able to forgive. the plausible explanation that's what the politicians have said but the head of the government lib oratory here in the u.k. that was analyzing and identifying the sample of the nerve agent used in the attack porton down the head of that government lab hasn't been able to confirm the origin of the nerve agent itself used in salisbury and now some news outlets are saying that these revelations show that a whole wrong have countries have had a sample of this nerve agent for nearly two decades now and as one of the newspapers that published this investigation has said this british theory that the poison could only come from russia shares unjustified confidence

and the former german intelligence officer runaround believes that the german media articles on this issue a credible lead report as far as i mean there should be. from other reports some spores of it. in particular this research group ok so this is we're prepared to talk about who participated in this operation so it sounds. laws that were to me. all the more because germany had already had the best german government you cretinous new tribes to acquire. chemical weapons. and as the ingredients for this horrific stuff can be bored and it almost everywhere if you have the formula all you need is highly secure billboard creational basically it

could be done anywhere. facebook has launched a scheme to prevent election related propaganda and misinformation it's a joint project with the atlantic council a washington based think tank this will help increase the number of ice and ears who have working to spot potential abuse on our service enabling us to more effectively identify gaps in our systems preempt obstacles and ensure that facebook plays a positive role during elections all around the world. the atlantic council calls itself a nonpartisan institution that has been criticized for giving corporate donors privileged access to u.s. and foreign government officials some of its biggest contributors are weapons manufacturers and oil giants and critics describe it as a platform for neo conservatives a libertarian politician often voer says the partnership will backfire on facebook among us this is

a clear response to the fact that americans are growing increasingly disenfranchise with the nonsensical military propaganda we don't believe this military nonsense anymore and more and more americans want to get out of nato entirely and so you have now the atlantic council whose entire mission is to maintain and grow organizations like nato and obviously including nato and now they're getting access to our social media security but they are not really intellectually neutral they're not politically neutral they risk clearly have an agenda of expansion of military aggression of encouraging other countries to do proxy military aggression so they're certainly not unbiased so i think this is going to backfire against facebook this is not what the american people want we don't want more propaganda telling us that we need military overreach we want less military overreach. launched a project called the romanovs one hundred that's dedicated to russia's last remaining

family it features thousands of red posts and old photographs of romanov family members published via facebook twitter instagram and you tube. you can actually take part in bringing the history of the romanovs back to life we've launched a competition to find the best digitally colorized versions of their old photos just to choose one of the black and white romanov family snaps from our website and upload to twitter instagram or facebook using the hash tag romanov's one hundred one behind you can see examples of some of the kind of a digital colorize ation we have in mind windows will be chosen in early july details at our website www dot com. are that just about wraps up the program for this hour here in moscow international though we are back soon with more. it's.

twenty forty you know bloody revolution of you tube the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be increasingly violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it always. is with video with the belief that i'm still in the middle of the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty four g. and. those who took. invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. led . summit or no summit that's the question north korea's threat of

a no show in singapore on june twelfth is a reminder to washington that north korea will not merely cave to american demands if there's going to be an agreement it's going to take time and patience. all welcome to sophie shevardnadze the u.s. military is relying more and more drone warfare look at this modern what's been be doing more harm than good brandan wright into a forward grown operator in the u.s. military. he's with me today to share his experience. modern warfare can be formed

in mountain passes down near urban streets but their craft firing missiles over afghanistan cannot be guided remotely from a base in nevada in a dark room lit by computer screens by a pilot not to get in the skies what plays in the mind of a group router before he hits the button is it easier to fight an enemy thousands of miles away instead of face to face those who engage in war be distanced from its dangers and consequences. brendon bryant who served in the u.s. air force as a drone operator welcome to our show it's really great to have you with us brandon hi. thank you for having me right out both obama and trump have embraced drone warfare with strikes in somalia and yemen tripling in trump's first year in office but this is your mission in this country is afghanistan a prime example never seems to improve can drones really change the course of

a complain. no drones definitely cannot change the course of anything especially if they're being misused as a tool and that's simply all that they are and if we take away our ability to interact as human beings with one another we're never going to solve this crisis now during your time in the u.s. air force strongs were tested as a new form of warfare now even islamic state have been using them in iraq in syria to devastating effect to drones have the potential to be asked commonplace as war planes and helicopters and will everyone embrace them at some point. as the technology gets easier to manufacture you're going to see a lot more people utilizing it you can go to best buy in america and buy a quad copter drone for less than a thousand dollars and you can watch you tube videos of people putting stuff on

these drones to make them even deadlier so you know it really just takes a more moral and righteous and virtuous person to utilize this technology technology properly but obviously what we've been seeing is that none of these people who are using these things in warfare understand what virtues or morals actually are are we going to have like a drone on. combat from now on is this how we're going to look like in the future well if you look at what's happening with japan and china there are to utilize in this technology to fight over resources in the ocean so it's not unheard of that we're going to have cowards fighting cowards behind a computer screens now the biggest plus for using drones is that it's a as american lives now what is put in their firing line so how can the technology be bad i mean your side suffers no losses. that's actually the thing about warfare

that people need to understand is that there is a price to pay when going to war and if we take the human component out of it then there is no actual price and then we just continued to the cycle it's an endless endless cycle and there needs to be men and women who train with honor and integrity who are willing to go on to the battlefield and interact with humans because that's actually how battles are prevented usually we had people posturing one another back in world war two people didn't fire to kill one another only twenty percent people did today in today's conflict we have a ninety five percent fire and kill rate and we wonder why we have people with psychological the mental problems that are coming back from home or from war to home and killing themselves so this is just going to make it even worse now here i have described the use of drones as a cowardly action i kept of you just in warfare arrests as honorable you can hardly

describe homemade to i tax or children being recruited to carry them out on our wall right when she backed drones knowing your enemy what resorts to anything to inflame damage or kill your soldiers. just because our enemy does something dishonorable doesn't mean that we need to continue being dishonorable ourselves this is actually why codes of conduct and codes of honor were required for warriors back in ancient days it wasn't so our enemies could know what exactly what we were doing but so that we had a structure and boundaries in what we were going to do his wars aren't fought against one another they're fought for the people and if you can set an example for the people as being the better and noble or and more honorable person people are going to side with you and then the enemy will lose their power and that's really what it comes down to it take away their ability to recruit give the people who are

suffering under these conflicts the ability to recover to feel safe that's to win this war say not create or weapons to kill one another yet but that's the point is there always been wars and there will be wars and there's nothing we can do about it really so as winning a war less important than that saddam you know that is a that is a poor poor excuse that is a poor poor hor excuse look at our look at the leadership that we have today trump is a idiot and every single person of his administration bigots and all they ever do is just sit there and posture and saying that we need to go to war and we need to go to war obama did the same. and we need people who are actual decent human beings saying anough is enough we have the ability to stop this we are conscious living human beings we're not animals we need to stop acting like animals and actually be

human with one another i salute you on that statement and i wish you ran for president one day. i want to go back to how you become a drone operator i'm just interested in a whole process what's the process for becoming one what kind of people just us for all attract or are soldiers just told they're being transferred. well when i was in the service i was just transferred because of my aptitude scores. the days there well let's just take a look at the people that i i worked with many of them were the lowest common denominator. when the u.s. military needed people to fill these positions they just asked a bunch of different careers to send us people and so the other careers sent us the kremlin mediocrity if you will the worst of the worst people who were rejected from other career fields because they couldn't function in leadership positions pilots

were moved into drones because they were medically unfit to fly their aircraft they either couldn't fail they couldn't be aircraft commanders or squadron leaders so they were shoved into the program there were very few people that actually volunteered to be in this program that were of any actual worth as human beings so this type of society i guess within the military culture is sick and degraded and. you know they're actually looked down upon by. aircraft people who actually fly aircraft because we're flying remotely they go to where flight suits it's a mess the whole thing's a mess what is and driving like people in there to fill positions because they don't need qualified it's like three months now it's like. just hot just to cayle or are they supposed to be able to tell one to pull the trigger and one just a stealth. oh no ok so we're we're told we're told that you know we get the time to

look at our target to make the discernment of whether we get to kill him or not but the reality is that if you refuse to pull the trigger they're just going to take someone out of the seat and put someone in the seat that's going to pull it for them anyway and how the training works is you feel we're flying over the net at a desert and we're looking at rocks and then they're saying hey we're going to pretend this rock over here is an enemy shine your laser at this enemy ok three two one rifle sixteen seconds time flight alright missile splashes enemy is killed you just won the war on terror let's pack up and go home it's just a bunch of imagination that doesn't actually accomplish anything other than to teach people basic toddler skills of hand eye coordination now i wear out that the operator schedules are pretty tough on that most of time like you just spend hours looking at nothing now what's the messed up sleep cycles and boredom how sharp are the operators when the time actually comes to make a crucial decision. this is kind of where the people that i used to work with are

pissed off at me because they expose the mental difficulties that we were having you know we flew in my squadron eleven and a half hour days because we couldn't fly longer than the required crew rest according to air force regulations and in a sense many of us broke crew rest because we had to do office work or even some of us couldn't sleep i was one of those people that couldn't sleep so i really stopped sleeping and i did this thing called the easy man sleep schedule where you sleep every twenty minutes for four every four hours for twenty minutes and really screwed me up physically i was tired all the time i was exhausted we had people drinking and we had this one guy who got into a car accident and rolled his vehicle after drinking and he used the excuse that he was just tired from work and he got away with it it's just a mess like that people in this way. world are incredibly messed up and they refuse

to look at themselves in the problems that are going on with them and addressing them and then there is of course to million dollar question i mean you have firsthand experience of directing war hastur the desire to practice thomas are trying strikes really that precise and surgical well if you're looking at accuracy of where the missile can hit and yes if you're looking at the intelligence behind it and how they discern what information that we're given and what targets are correct and no. in fact this is what we call a secret compartmentalised information the three letter agencies that are working as the customer behind the scenes don't really give the people that work that swing the metaphorical sword the information all the information so they tell us where to swing the sword but when things go wrong in the wrong people are killed we're the ones that get blamed because they had all the intel and. it's it's just a big blame game prendre where does

a drone operators in toll count from who is giving you the instruction as how can someone jersey shore the information is on point i mean does everybody ever questioned it. i know well people don't question it because it that's why it's compartmentalize there's all sorts of different pieces of the puzzle and none of the pieces are actually talking to one another except for what's required knowledge is the modern currency and so like dragons they hoard this currency and only divvy it out whatever they think is necessary for them to complete their mission and get more of that currency it's it's like a it's a weird kind of cycle. and it doesn't really get anywhere especially with agencies who have this rivalry with one another and they argue back and forth over who is the better person or who's the better agency or who's cooler and instead of actually getting the mission done and accomplishing it and finding a an end game for the whole thing where they have to.