the big companies of good i'm going to choose. for the better and they're going to say our interests lie more with the u.s. now with iran and they're going to not to risk these kind of sanctions where the real impact is going to be that remains to be seen we should not forget that the e.u. on politically on foreign policy issues it has always been strong on words on symbols but not much on real implementation. 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 expected to be discussed at today's meeting between. putin or bring you a report on merkel's visit to russia in just a few minutes. more victims of forced sterilization under japan's now scrapped eugenics law are speaking out and so in the government for compensation here is the story of one of thousands of victims a seventy five year old man who doesn't want to be identified and whose name has been changed. because i was forced to have the operation in second grade of junior

high school please return the life that i've lost my life has been made to thirty however in my heart i have a feeling that i want to tell the story kid who 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 the operation i apologised from the bottom of my heart that i made one woman on happy i can't imagine how hurts 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 said the kindest words when i die i 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 sneak into his house. i was constantly being used by his wife i never had the chance to see the. diagnosis either she hated me. told me the times i prayed to do it and now i kind of think my father didn't agree to. this time to buy the future welfare of. 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 to push for those people who so food to. trump's controversial pick to head the. you know hospital has been confirmed by the senate becoming the first woman to lead the agency and the appointment was made possible after some key democrat senators voted in her favor despite her reported links to the cia's infamous torture program. and i believe that she has both the temperament and courage to stand up to this president should he try to bring forward a torture program or for that matter anything else that is immoral or inappropriate there are two reasons that i oppose this nomination miss haskel support for torture

and her willingness to destroy evidence of the cia's torture this lady is the real deal i'm telling you we're here with everything we possibly think she answered didn't flinch at all she said thirty three years of experience there's nobody else that comes to this job what she's for and i have serious concerns about. her confirmation and what kind of signal. the media were quick to suggest a rift within the democratic party and we spoke to former cia officer john kiriakou who first made public the use of the agencies in holland interrogation techniques he says the democrats missed a golden opportunity to show leadership want to keep moral issue. i think that this was a collapse what we saw in the senate today was a collapse among democrats a collapse in democratic leadership this is something that the democrats could have seized on and they had the support of john mccain and they had the support of jeff flake the junior senator from arizona and they did nothing with it we were looking

for leadership on the anti house bill side from the likes of mark warner the senior senator from virginia who is also the vice chairman of the senate intelligence committee and he flip flopped and decided after saying all these things about you know has bill and how terrible it was what she did that she should never have destroyed the tapes and then when it really came down to it he voted yes that was a complete abdication of leadership among the democrats however advise her to hillary clinton's presidential campaign richard goodstein here denies this was a missed opportunity for the democrats this is more of a partisan than it is an ideological or moral decision that the senators were making the the senators who voted against her were no more moral than the ones who voted for her you know the there were debates about that and debate obviously about torture but by and large this was a vote generally along party lines and many of donald trump's nominees have been

getting a few democratic votes and she was an example of that so i again i don't see this is something that's going to create a real schism within the democratic party around her leadership of the cia but you know it remains to be seen what she does on the drop so facebook is teaming up with a washington based think tank to stop propaganda and misinformation during elections just a moment we'll look at why something the initiative might have the opposite effect if i can just a moment. join me every thursday on the alex simon short and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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european commission has started to implement legislation aimed at protecting european companies from u.s. sanctions on iran a statement reads quote the commission is taking steps to preserve the interests of european companies investing in iran. meantime the german chancellor angela merkel is visiting the russian city of sochi where she will sit down with president vladimir putin. now reports from sochi. angela merkel is getting together with vladimir putin basically just days after donald trump said goodbye to the uranium nuclear deal and perhaps that is a good reason for the two leaders who both want the green light to stay no matter what to have a conversation about it and add it to their usual ukraine syria agenda this week i think it's not right so you can last really cancel a deal that was agreed upon that was unanimously approved in the u.n. security council that diminishes confidence in the international order 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. 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 bundestag the german chancellor said that the conflict there cannot be resolved without involving all colleen's of partners internationally but for some reason she didn't mention the us into business all of the middle of the civil war in syria and this fight against islamic terrorism has asked latent from the original conflict to an international one which cannot be sold without russia turkey iran saudi arabia jordan and you rick previously lot of our program in angola merkel have met more than two dozen times on some occasions there were signs of friendliness and on others it was just pure diplomacy.

that was the same as attendance of the russian president likes to drink german beer and 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 is a rather good. thought when it comes to the iran nuclear deal in particular jump. a politician says russia and germany do share a common interest. in the. together was so much in federation and this treaty is the nuclear treaty was eve on and. nations under the umbrella of united nations and therefore i

think we have a common interest so the germans and the russians and others of the chinese and others the planes as a letter to keep the p.t. was to be alone we share a common interest with the russian federation and their final thing we expect in germany at least there is a mind to be outstanding it was on it's off this meeting. a new report by german media suggests berg obtained chalk decades ago and shared it with its allies that have agent was used in the poisoning of former spy sort of a script holland his daughter yulia in march in the english city of souls bring the u.k. blames russia for the attack claiming that russia was the only country in the world possessing the substance. investigates. headline grabbing revelation in this german media report is that the german intelligence agency the b

n d has handed a sample of the novacek 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 passed 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 moscow 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 stehman said that the czech republic care had produced and stored albeit a slightly different strain of the nerve agent to the one used in souls brave but nevertheless that country shouldn't be hypocritical about this. small amounts of

money were produced in the czech republic we know well and we know it will be critical to britain such a thing never heard. however politically more sco 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 food 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 calls the alternative explanation yet but. this is. a lousy blair to be able to forgive. the blaxploitation that's what the politicians have said but the head of the government here in the u.k. that was analyzing and identifying the some pull 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. somehow this breaking news coming into us right now here at the international we understand that the former u.k. and russian expires sort of a script file has now been discharged from the hospital for the poisoning with the nerve agent in salzburg that's all the details we're getting right now but it's breaking news as i said the former u.k.

and former russian spy sort of a script has been discharged from hospital after the poisoning with no agent regarding other stories are continuing here former german intelligence officer in iraq he believes the german media articles on the issue of where the sniper talk actually originated from in the first place he says these german articles on this issue a credible. believe reports as far as i been reading it didn't actually go into from other reports sunspots of it's. in particular this research group ok present some ministers were prepared to talk about it who participated in this operation so it sounds plausible to me. all the more because germany had already had the best german government you previously tried to acquire. chemical weapons. and as the

ingredients for this horrific stuff can be bored really almost everywhere if you have the formula all you need is a 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 the 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 but has been criticized for giving corporate donors privileged access to u.s. and foreign government officials some of its biggest donors and contributors are

weapons manufacturers and the oil giants and critics describe it as a platform for neo conservatives or the joint project announcement has been greeted with some skepticism. saudi weapons manufacturer funded military think tank which has produced new produce fake news stories teams up with facebook to protect democratic elections so why the atlantic council exactly do you think openly align yourself with an entity whose brief is propagandizing for war will help you to repeat a symphony a trial of. to be friends the owners of major news organizations weapons manufacturers the results of the atlantic council's influence will be similar to that of those companies facebook's output will no longer meaningfully different from that's of corporate media it's alarming but 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. and getting more breaking news here on the program here on r.t. this time coming from italy where a possible coalition government deal has been officially released for the first

time since the election in march the leader of italy's a five star movement published it on his facebook page and his supporters to give it their blessing luigi de mayo says that if his supporters vote for the deal he will sign it which would mean that italy will be governed by a coalition between the five star movement and the likud party and a leaked draft of the deal that was deemed by the media as you and the pro russia they officially text of the deal calls for the immediate lifting of sanctions against russia what is turning into a very busy day for worldwide headlines here on r.t. we are back with much more. 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.

here in kiev in recent days it might dawn independence square has turned into a full scale war zone. full clancy's in ukraine's capital kiev. there is absolutely no you shall start to tell what you are caricature anybody least you wouldn't. do that the problem of. now on the brink of

a civil war at least seventy dead so far and the death toll rising it you can allude you. a new music stockholm and you know. what we saw here today was a revolution. to. have invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals with. us from when you go to go to the. nato has expanded into thirteen countries up to the borders of russia thirteen countries. focus has to be on not allowing myself to turn into a hot wall between ukraine and russia. that the team up watching up plus there that the team of boys in the city would just look when and if the new buildings to be truthful.

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it's an ancient and proud land. with a rich history filled with much beauty heroism and sacrifice. ukraine is a border land. a place where east meets west. this is the flag of ukraine the blue represents the sky the gold its seemingly endless fields of wheat. ukraine is a prize many have sought. and much blood spilled in the quest to possess it. ukraine has been the pathway for western powers as they attempted to conquer the east. in world war one. and world war two. and every time the

ukrainian people ended up paying the highest price for these grand games of power. history doesn't repeat but it surely rhymes said mark twain. if one looks closely at the history of ukraine one will notice many rhymes. being surrounded by stronger powers ukraine has needed a lot of cunning to survive and the art they truly mastered with time is the art of changing sides. in the middle of the seventeenth century ukrainian leader dunn who. broke a truce agreement made with poland siding more powerful russia. just over fifty years later as the russian swedish war was raging another ukrainian leader ivan mazeppa bro. the union with russia when he switched sides joining

forces with the swedish invaders many times ukrainian history was written by third parties seeking to keep the gains of a revolution at any cost russia agreed to the humiliating conditions of the breast with treaty of one nine hundred eighteen which turned ukraine into a german protectorate another historical document to change the fate of ukraine was the molotov ribbentrop pact of one thousand nine hundred thirty nine one of many such agreements being signed between european countries and rising germany. attempting to protect his nation from the approaching nazi threat. joseph stalin negotiated a treaty of nonaggression with adolf hitler while promising each other piece of the soviet in german foreign ministers molotov and ribbentrop realign the map of eastern europe splitting it into german and soviet spheres of influence. no sooner had the mala tav ribbentrop pact been signed then poland was split and in

september of one nine hundred thirty nine eastern poland awoke to be western ukraine and a part of the family of soviet republics and the u.s.s.r. . but even this bold dividing of lands and nations only delayed the inevitable germany broke its promise to the u.s.s.r. . on june twenty second one thousand nine hundred forty one germany invaded the u.s.s.r. launching barber rossa the largest military operation in world history. barbara was aiming for st petersburg moscow and kiev ukraine three destinations of major significance ukraine with its rich lands and resources was an

important industrial and economic source for the u.s.s.r. to cut it off from the soviet union would strike a big blow indeed. for most of the soviet union the second world war was about fighting the invaders of the land. but it wasn't quite so simple for ukraine the truth is ukraine has never been a united country. when world war two broke out a large part of western ukraine's population welcomed the german soldiers as liberators from the reese. certainly forced upon them soviet rule and openly collaborated with the germans. the real scale of collaboration was not announced for many years after the war but we now know that whole divisions and battalions were formed by ukrainian collaborators such as s.s. galaxy and not to golf and roll into battalions. just in the beginning of the war more than eighty thousand people from college cina region voluntarily enrolled into

division s.s. galut seen in a month and a half notorious for their extreme cruelty towards the polish jewish and russian people on the territory of ukraine. members of these military groups came mostly from the organization of ukrainian nationalists b.-o. un founded in one nine hundred twenty nine this organization had an ultimate goal of creating an ethnically pure independent ukraine and considered terror an acceptable tool for achieving their ends their official flag was black and red bland and blood it will remain in ukraine's history long after the o. un will cease to exist in early one nine hundred forty the most radical nationalistic part of the organization of ukrainian nationalists got its own leader step on bond era severely anti semitic an anti communist he proclaimed an independent you.