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fool to force it is have a similar misery go put it in sequester from systems that see something there it is this is systematically fortunately because we bought it combusted article by the us mint. as you can imagine after this interview our attention turned to the vatican the holy see the place where the church is laws are made. the place where punishments against pedophile priests are meted out. but we discover that even inside the vatican government high ranking officials have been accused of covering for priests accused of pedophilia. after several months of discussion the vatican chose this priest to answer all question. barbara zoeller an advisor to the pope on sexual abuse issues he also sits on the commission for the protection of minors a body founded by pope francis two years ago. you have been appointed to this commission what has the commission don't since then and you think it's enough we have people from all continents on this commission we have experts from different

fields so psychology psychiatry law international law social work and theology and we try to discuss what can be next steps to help the pope young to set up new measures to be more incisive in the life of the local church ok and there is still a lot to do you know my expression for this is this is a generational toss we will not finish within two years or five years we will have to work longer which means fifteen twenty maybe thirty years.

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around what. we have no idea what safe he's doing on vacation but she will be back in september . i want to show you something these are the ten cardinals that are usually considered are the boss powerful of the vatican this is the c. nine right it's an advisory board and here miller trafficked of the congregation of the doctrine and the face among these ten cardinals four are accused

of having covered up pedophile priors you know that of course. what you think of it i have no no particular knowledge about any of them. i just said to me that you knew it i know that there are allegations but i don't know what what is the the background of these cases i am not the investigating if you want me to be more precise ok george bell so he's here in australia a few months ago in front of the australian royal commission on sexual abuses within the church ear recognised knowing sexual abuses from australian driest but did not denounce them to justice so what do you think of him being in this he nine with that story i have been to australia last year i've travelled i have been in the diocese i met with three survivors from the school where we are now pavel was at that time the vice director of the school and. willing gauge

to cooperate with justice and it would operate in the sense of setting up safeguarding measures in the saying you will this is future but you didn't denounce sexual abuse it's very far and isn't this you know it is it sucking for you are not of course shocking you know for him to be in this you nine and not have been denouncing her sexual abuse on minors you know for sure. the school it has always in chile here. document. so and that. has waited five years after the first victim spoke out to take action and to remove the prized father correcting him out and father carriage about has been since a trough and guilty by the vatican of sexual abuses is here still in the us he nine . yeah i'm not responsible for the balance and what is unique of it i'm not the one

who decides on that but what do you think i think today was they as long as the bob wants something that thank you very much it seems then that only the pope has the power to punish these cardinals so why doesn't he take stronger action. maybe because he too faced accusations in his homeland of argentina long before his election. when he was archbishop of buenos aires he apparently tried to have a pedophile priest to put. him in a serious along with god or rather diego maradona the pope is a star his face is everywhere. and yet some refused to share in the sick on a graphical. in the city center we've arranged to meet a group of victims they were abused by priests in the archdiocese appointed serious

. they alerted pope francis when he was there archbishop. this. is. the room this is. easy. it's. so little souls seem. to want this. not. even move laterally got it let me tell you that like to listen to what that's the answer to. that but is he lets us

know they don't know. if the feet won't jump that if they can't. even you know young kids care to know you know i know. the if that's the only thing i get it could even work if you don't want it but even if you feel you through it simply want to get the witnesses to know. it. as archbishop of buenos aires pope francis was seemingly deaf to the distress of these victims. but apparently it's worse in another case concerning other victims some believe he's willfully trying to divert the course of justice. for father grassa case the biggest pedophilia scandal in the argentinian church secretary who you know says are grassy was one of the best known priests in the country very influential and often in the media spotlight doing well with a wild west big guy. to run

a huge orphanage until some of the children there launched a complaint against him for sexual abuse in two thousand and nine he was sentenced to fifteen years in prison still today he's behind bars. but the argentinean church did all in its power to have him acquitted. one public eye a go represented father grossness child victims. a trial spread over fifteen years and opposite him the most renowned attorneys in the land but also. the catholic church. see no innocent animals in an annual of mean this. up but he said oh no leave it us in the most they don't know if this will take us o.s.c. theda mad those who are going to see it that are going to see him in the opposite of what a site is. don't be fooled by the cover which makes you think it's

a book this twenty eight hundred page counter inquiry is a confidential internal argentinian church legal text. inside the children argues the falsifications lies deceit and invention even their own sexual orientation is questioned. the conclusion is clear the court's decision was wrong father rasi had to be acquitted on appeal. one paragraph caught our eye. this work was commissioned in two thousand and ten by the argentina biskupic conference and i notably by its then president cardinal bergoglio now pope francis. so the pope did commission a counter inquiry to try to have a priest who had been sentenced for pedophilia acquitted. i did said that jose bergoglio the future pope actually sent it to the judges with

a shrewd sense of timing before father across these various appeal hearings. one of the magistrates received a copy of the counter inquiry agreed to meet us. problems make it a former appeal court judge and former minister of justice is today a high court judge. it's the first time he's spoken openly about the cross the case . he remembers very well the day he found this counter inquiry on his desk with a senior there is this the syrians will visit or see it as it is they were going through actually and so forth. you know enough of them. they know they need to. get ill get d.n.a. on that night and see what equal. and that will cost us more thought of selling out those if you know that you're going to have getting pynchon idea in five or they. will get what it is he said that said that's what the impetus you also did up

wishes. for many of the infields out to defeat the cause to suit the man and. him. finally useless father grassi sentence was upheld at both the appeals court and high court. at the center of the counter inquiry commissioned by the pope when he was archbishop of buenos aires is the talent of a boy or for the main victim of prophecy. since the case blew up in the early two thousand it's the first time he's agreed to talk to a reporter. he wants to remain anonymous because he's still afraid of reprisals. but soon i mean i say ok i mean that's it i hear it at the table. now nationally customer a local us out of all of us a show out of course us the post office an island.

also said us if we want to. but i guess something that's already out in the us already up into obama. did the two of the here keep keep can says this to stephen. as i said we're in the midst of the among asian it'll take ok see the sicko. and i wanna know they go. there it is as you can make it up out of a second look. the pope has never publicly commented on the grassy case. for eight months we tried to get an interview with the holy father dozens of requests all refused. so at the vatican we tried to meet his holiness. he was to hold

a public audience on st peter's square. we want to give folks francis a letter with all our questions on his suppose a brawl in the attempt to divert the course of justice in argentina. thousands of people have heard. will need a miracle to get to talk to the pope. few hours later the pope will be on the rod. the. the the third time it passes we shall.

do something that. is to give our last. few minutes later. listen. to something that is as old as the i don't think that i can flip out at tuesday's out in the. sunday that. and then castle got out phew i intend that the lean fluid the host the ziad and the you. know better get the the united states to deal and castle garcia. to go but i. that. despite our quick chat neither pope francis nor any vatican official has ever answered our letter. at the end of this

investigation there's one question how can the catholic church retrieve itself from these guilty silences. surge i'm in from a number of countries such as belgium the united states and the netherlands are mobilizing and launching a national inquiry commissions on sexual abuse within the church. all victims are listened to and the spotlight has fallen on the responsibility of the bishops. so let us pray may the vatican order a world wide inquiry commission. so that past scars maybe he'll let me still have faith in the future.

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united states. with new sanctions however the move gets little support from the e.u. with. the new restrictions to protect companies working with. donald trump plans to create a military force in space the pentagon appears less than enthusiastic about a possible star wars program. we can share with all things reunited with their families after the children were taken from russia by their radicalized parents who went to join islamic state. i remember when the film crew arrived and they showed me the footage i could not believe it i could not believe that it was possible that my girls could come back home she doesn't let me go anywhere.

r.t. internet. washington has announced the first round of sanctions against iran which it hopes will weaken the country's leadership the move may not be going as smoothly as the u.s. hopes my colleague andrew farmer got details from samir khan and peter all of. the first round of sanctions will take effect tuesday around midnight and from that moment on sanctions will prohibit iran from trading gold and other precious metals and fails of iranian automobiles will also be banned now the first round of sanctions will also ban iran's access to the u.s. dollar and place restrictions on its own currency but the worst is yet to come more sanctions are due to hit iran in november and those are specifically tailored to bring iran's oil exports to zero now this should come as no surprise given that

trump has been flamming the iran deal since his campaign days even though he didn't give in until much later finally withdrawing this past may a little over a year into his presidency they said it was ineffective in for tailings so-called iranian aggression now not even his allies or the u.n. convinced him otherwise but trump also claimed that the agreement did not block paths to iranian nuclear is ation which according to the u.n. is false even today u.n. monitors in fifth that iran is in full compliance with the deal the same deal that was lauded world over as a diplomatic breakthrough and believe it or not this past weekend trump bragged about crippling iran's economy via twitter of course his platform of choice when it comes to informing americans about critical policy decisions but several analysts and some iranians feel a bit differently. i believe the impact of sanctions on people's lives has been very clear especially in the health sector the patients as well as the

opportunities that did this for students to study abroad the impact has been wholly negative and has reduced people power into. these sanctions or economic sanctions and they will impact the livelihoods of people the government after all can make adjustments to its budget but it's the people who bear the brunt i don't buy trump's line that these sanctions target the government these sanctions are being directly apply to the people. but trump has. needed that he's open to finding a new deal but it's doubtful that iran would want to sit down with the u.s. after recent events ok let's go to peter. because the e.u. has given quite a stern response isn't it to the sanctions well that's right it's fair to say that the european union and donald trump haven't seen eye to eye on a number of issues they fell out over the decision to move the u.s. embassy to jerusalem and in israel they fell out over donald trump's unilateral

move to pull out of the paris climate accord but it's his decision to pull out of the iran nuclear deal that upset some of the biggest names in european leaders as well as in this among the diplomats and there was a communique issued well before this announcement that said the european union stance on the new tranche of sanctions was a unanimous no we are determined to protect european economic operators in legitimate business with iran this is why european union's updated blocking statute enters into force under seven of august to protect e.u. companies doing legitimate business with iran friend impact of u.s. extraterritorial sanctions so what is the blocking start to it well it was initially written into law back in one thousand nine hundred six it was designed to allow european companies to get around a u.s. blockade of cuba however it was significantly rewritten earlier this year to focus on iran what it means essentially is that european companies have to pay no heed to

sanctions against a country in which they're doing business say iran in this case and also that any courtroom in a foreign country based on those business dealings another fight in the eyes of the e.u. but put it this way with a hypothetical example say you're an e.u. car manufacturer and you've got yourself a toehold in iran maybe tens perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars worth of business that would be protected by the e.u. however the e.u. can't protect. in another country say the united states and say you that same e.u. car manufacturer and you do tens of billions of dollars worth of business in the u.s. well that business could potentially be penalized we haven't seen the e.u. blocking start to it ever fully and acted we don't know how it's going to be received but certainly potentially a legal headache for some people far smarter than myself right now to be going through that however in response to this news from the european union there's been

a warm reception from tehran today the entire world has shown it disagrees with the u.s. policies against iran talk to anyone anywhere in the world and they will tell you that netanyahu trump and been some manner isolated not iran while the u.s. secretary of state might pompei i disagree strongly with that he says that the sanctions and needed against iran to bring them back to what he calls the table of normal nations they've got to behave like a normal country that's the ask is pretty simple we think that most other countries everyone with whom i spoke who understood that they need to behave normally and they understand that this is a country that threatens them it would seem that those countries that secretary pompei i spoke to were not countries because this is where we stand at the moment the european union has issued its toughest legislation to protect companies doing business in iran essentially saying that they won't support u.s. sanctions and they're going to do their best to try and keep the iran nuclear deal

alive even without the united states. it's been one year since we first reported on russian speaking children found in an orphanage in iraq following the brutal military operation there against islamic state to the report was aired we launched a campaign to find any relatives of those children and several people came forward saying they recognize some of them as lead to those orphans being reunited with their families years after their parents had left to russia to join i saw a correspondent in the kitchen of a spoke to those families to find out whether they've managed to move on after the tragic experience. so. if.

they year ago two small sisters tied caesar and fried t.-mo were brought back to their grandparents who at the time lost all hope of africa seeing them again they say they feel safe here in this house the sister salue can behave like any other child of their age despite their traumatic experience their playground is now the two rooms upstairs that were once home for their parents their grandfather on var hasn't changed a thing since they left and now the girls play so rounded by things that once belonged to that if it works perfectly well the oldest sister who is open and active fight scene is quite close to often seeking the confort of her grandfather. which she doesn't let me go anyway she says had dad also left in the morning and never came back in the evening she tells me how the gas station where you work.

tells me how the plane has arrived and then let's. get. on bar often speaks about the day in august twenty seventeen when they discovered their beloved granddaughter source in my life more than i could. and whose. research. in may twenty fifteen both a fun bar son secretly left russia to join i so his al distraught took his wife and two young daughters and never revealed his true intentions. that it's actually. about a week off to lay low. i received a message from my son saying they are in turkey i replied what do you mean in turkey instantly i understood everything and felt terrible this sort of thing happened a lot of the time a lot of young people left some went to join militant groups others went to iraq or

syria if that. person often called his father but the last time he got in touch was when the fierce fighting began in moscow a short time after he and his wife were killed in a drone strike leaving her and all alone weeks later they turned up in an orphanage in baghdad scared and traumatized they were among the group of children who could speak russian args he reported from that orphanage the story spread and the children were recognized. for the if i remember when the film crew arrived and they showed me the footage i could not believe it i could not believe that it was possible that my goes could come back home. despite the joy of the long awaited reunion this past year has been difficult for the family of our sas it's only now that some of the girls fear as being left behind. did just keep their knees a remembers how to.