every iranian city this is not due to the sanctions or to the u.s. in fact what we're hearing is death to come in a not death to the united states which is a rather different. protests than we've been saying in iran. over recent years so the reality is romney must welcome this escalation in a debate with with the united states because it up it will lead to a proper negotiating position in which the u.s. and iran could achieve something it also could lead to the imposition or an excuse for the imposition of martial law by the clerics and if that martial law would be implemented and bring the pastor on the revolutionary guard generals to the fore and that could actually start the process of moving major general hossam solomon solomonic the head of the brigade into the position or an iranian caesar a persian caesar where he will gradually assume

a central role in governance in iran that would bring iran back to its traditional more central centrist. secular position of government so basically what we're seeing a whole lot of forces moving iran into a new direction which constrain rouhani certainly will threaten the clerics but it could lead to a breakthrough in u.s. iranian relations in the next few years getting it back to two if you like the old style of the ninety's where these how do you view the european union is position at the fact that it isn't aligning itself with washington with regards to sanctions. well the european union always squawks whatever trump says it is an amusing situation the reality is that the european union cannot get around the sanctions situation in the short term but they should bear in mind that this is going to be a fairly short term situation maybe maybe a year the reality of the really interesting set of sanctions is going to come in

the bambara if the u.s. attempts to block a the export of iranian oil particularly to china that would then bring the united states into direct confrontation with some other party not just the european union but countries in the in the caribbean like dominique out which has put a lot of iranian vessels under dominic unflagged so they could export oil to the p.r.c. and the company which actually has all of those tanker planes is the dominate the national flag registration agency which is based in the united states so the u.s. could effectively actually have an impact on seaborne oil traffic between iran and china later this year this will be part of the ratcheting up before the u.s. and iran get into negotiations or before iran transforms its political structures

or say to bring the military into to control a lot of the country because we're going to have to do something to control the domestic population and the domestic population is not worried about the u.s. is worried about its own politicians as far as the european union is concerned they are highly conscious of the fact that they can't get around the u.s. sanctions if they wish to do business in the u.s. so what he's saying are companies like airbus and like a.d.r. in italy trying to ship as many aircraft as possible to iran before the sanctions take effect in the coming week. good grief and that. really fascinating analysis appreciate your time thanks for coming on r.t. gregory koppel is my guest this hour editor of defense and foreign affairs. thank you. onto other news now and a conservative activist in the united states has found herself suspended by twitter for mimicking racist tweets of a new york times editorial board member killer morgan has

a story. she's been removed from twitter because they say that her tweets violate their rules regarding hateful content candace she's from turning points usa conservative organization in the usa what she did was she took tweets from new york times journalist sarah job and simply replaced the words white with the words black or the word jewish hundreds of tweets from sarah john regarding white people she simply changed the target of the tweet from whites to black or jewish when she did this the response of twitter was to shut down her account candace owens says that twitter was right to take down her posts and ban her for making hateful comments regarding black and jewish people she says however the outrage is that sarah johnson was not banned for making these comments about white people on the surface i actually agree with twitter's assessment i believe that what i said what

i tweeted was wrong you should not be able to tweet about any race or any group that you want them canceled that they should live underground i don't know why suddenly people think that white people are excluded from that scenario that people can't be racist towards white people when in fact they often are the problem with the new york times essentially saying shinning her behavior is that they are signaling to the rest of the world that racism actually is ok as long as you pick the right race this was candice owens first statement to her followers after the ban twitter not only reinstated her account but actually apologized and said that it was a mistake for her to be banned now immediately there was a firestorm with people pointing to what they see as a double standard by the way as you go. tweets and replace the points with blank i mean tweets about. i was double standard candace who once replaces word white with black and jews get suspended this is one we all call

a double. every time i see one of these i can't substitute black for white candor so did i will never understand the double standard why it's acceptable to so many now the wikipedia page of the new york times journalist is also in question now the page simply describes her as a journalist and has minimal content regarding the controversy surrounding her tweets it appears that there has now been added a small reference to it but these tweets the controversy surrounding them seems to be quite a big issue we could pedia seems to make efforts to minimize that so it seems that many people are looking at this case and looking at the statements that sarah john has made regarding white people and saying that this is a double standard so a lot of debate yet another example of how in the united states when it comes to issues of race and free speech americans just don't see eye to eye following use of her twitter suspension candace owens was confronted on the street until she

protests. i. was having breakfast with another conservative activist colleague when protesters gathered nearby demonstrators can be seen throwing drinks and shouting stop supremacies calling them racists police were quickly on the scene. 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 after the report was we launched a campaign to find any relatives of those children and several people came forward saying they recognize some of them and this led to those orphans being reunited with their families years after their parents had left russia to join i saw a correspondent in a coach of a spoke to those families to find out whether they've managed to move on after the tragic experience.

so. if. a year ago two small sisters had caesar and fights hemo were brought back to their grandparents who at the time lost all hope of ever seeing them again they say they feel safe here and 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 of our hasn't changed a thing since they left and now the girls play so rounded by things that once belonged to that if a black couple were while the oldest sister is open and active fight scene is

quite close to often seeking the confort of her grandfather. she doesn't let me go anywhere 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 left. and are often speaks about the day in august twenty seventeen when they discovered their beloved granddaughters were sitting in my life one of the most when i first read the news. in may twenty fifteen both of fund our sons 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 is what about a week off to bail. 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 it's not. 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. 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 he reported from that orphanage the story spread and the children were recognized. yes 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. 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 is being left behind i do just keep their knees a remembers how difficult and dangerous it was to go to get water so when they arrived as they were always thirsty they drank like five liters of water a day only in these past two weeks has not stopped and they no longer wake up at night wanting to drink there are hundreds of families across russia's north caucasus just like i am ours searching for grandchildren mainly fear they will never see them again. if there is anything one message one sign that they are alive you have to grab it run around fake ask for help there are good people in the world .

i do not question i see reporting from russia's republic of dagestan well that was the first in a series of reports on the fate of the russian citizens who left the country along with their families to join eisel throughout the week we'll bring you other stories on how returning as they're adapting to life back at home. to people being confirmed and sixty others wounded in a major explosion near belong port in italy the shocking moment of the blast was captured by an eyewitness. what. happened after a gas tanker was reportedly involved in a traffic accident and burst into flames on a busy motorway

a number of vehicles were caught up in the blast part of the motorway fly over has also collapsed. u.s. president donald trump has reiterated his plan to create a military force in space stressing that this new wing of the u.s. military would have both defensive and offensive capabilities. this space force. that's going to be great look so much is happening now it's a great defense i'm not just talking about mars and the moon i'm talking about tremendous defense capability office of capability it's in space so we're going to do the space force. not everybody is enthusiastic though about the proposed military space program the pentagon's lukewarm response to the president's plans is just one of a number of signs that there's a disconnect between trump and his military gets done if explains. throughout his

short political life donald trump has been taking an unequivocal stand that he is the biggest ally the u.s. military could ever wish for we salute their sacrifice or we salute the flag they fought to protect our great war for us the men and women who paid the ultimate price for victory and for freedom. the women of the united states military these are our finest but just over a year into his presidency the commander in chief has been all but drifting further away from his million strong core right now the white house and the pentagon are squabbling over donald trump's initiative to create an additional military branch a space force. the pentagon was unimpressed about this a year ago the pentagon isn't impressed now is the space force kids for two years

we just you know if you're going to require legislation a lot of detail play i mean. we've not yet begun in the past eighteen months the pentagon started through trove of public embarrassment because of their want to be biggest fan for instance this march donald trump casually remark that u.s. troops would be pulling out of syria in the nearest future the bomb shell decision the pentagon was not only unaware of but also disagreed with apparently will become another syria like very soon let the other people take care of it now very soon very soon would come and i've heard rumors of people talking about the trial but it's not over when i think the announcement this week changing anything in that sense nothing actually has changed fast forward next month trump says he wants to deploy the national guard on the mexican border well let's just see. the pentagon didn't have too much fun when it had to take the route for this we're going to be

guarding our border with the military members who are likely to be involved this overall expanded operation so that will all be determined by the requirements that are given to us to but i don't have any specific details on what support we could provide but they will provide us with the requirements and then from that will determine how many and what's the mission and how many will deploy back in twenty seventeen trump went to france where he saw the iconic still day parade wow that's nice why don't we have something like this you thought some reports suggested no one wanted the parade but trump probably had reluctantly worked on it in a hands off mode the due date is just over three months away now the event is reportedly in the early planning stages and it's still unclear who's going to foot the millions of dollars bill some orders trump is giving out of all places on

twitter last year he first tweeted that the u.s. would not accept or allow dot dot dot nine long minutes passed before he resumed. does anyone else in this room have any intelligence coming out of the united states government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the u.s. military. or get rich in coffee this list of when trump pushed the pentagon right under the bus is nowhere near complete so with the space force initiative the u.s. military is well apparently struggling to get its hands back on the steering wheel he says i but he welcomes the advice from the likes of of medicine and pompei o. and bolton who are all considered a war cabinet but he makes the ultimate. decisions when it's time for

a decision but when it comes to throwing out ideas that doesn't necessarily mean he's consulted with anybody he came up with the idea before consulting with anybody he made it known publicly and then once he began to get further briefed on the issue i think he's beginning to understand that the space force per se may not be the way to go although i don't think he's ruled it out entirely. with the latest news headlines in off analysing it. with nor make its manufacture consent to stick to the public well. when the

running closest to protect themselves. with the famous merry go round listen to the one percent. nor middle of the room six. do. you really mean is the. first. george bush good also document on the first day. how much. the student eleven if you take. the first.

name into last digit does drops out some because the she. was on. new. years but it's a real. move if they were in. georgia i mean the. bruising us to her. college campus was remarkable to smile at. 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 secrets. to feel you. in australia seven percent of priests are thought to have sexually abused minors four percent in the united states. we discovered the clergymen found guilty of better phoebe you are still active often in contact with children. thanks 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 and to italy. during our travels we stablished this unprecedented map that regarding the transfers of priests involved in cases of that a feeling. deck of m. sits and dig. that up with his off by a few that lost it on after 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 origin. true justice department. says sunday that they didn't feel it was the out in the night and think of the past being. investigated the mysteries of the church where on the altar of truth god's law

seems to prevail over that of many. our inquiry into the international transfers of priests accused of pedophilia begins in the united states. we're in chicago in the shadow of this cathedral to would just a very unique kind of protest. or it's you know it's not all are victims of pedophile priests. in their hands portraits of them as 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. hello everybody. it's 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 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 our news is so huge that every day and it was just excited as positive about this they would have noticed by now by that they gave us he said yes there was up in the southern. they identify. where you're from so that you are to sure that i'm from germany from berlin and you elicits with a very lives. when there was for yourself about the from the philippines of those years. just. the three years i was fifteen years old i was abused as a team for a long period of time with an oddly creased agreements just can't. thank you 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 pedophilia cases we only include

those priests who have been accused of child sexual abuse in a credible public document it has to be either a court document that's publicly accessible or a mainstream news outlet is 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. on in the names of the so far so all in the entire database we have forty four hundred names to the only friends names in the least we do have several so father revoir is a very troubling case because he abused this young boy and and mario innuit boy did report the abuse eventually within statute and

was fled he in one thousand nine hundred three it somehow spirited him back to france. where he live safely now that's not the case of his victim who took his own life in december of two thousand and twelve to avoid justice one french priest accused of the sexual abuse of minors is thought to have fled to canada and be hiding in front of the story barely seems credible. we contacted the sister of one of the priests presumed victims. as he told the league speaks to us from northern canada deep in in a way territory her brother maher used to go he committed suicide five years ago he has filed a complaint against the french priest and she has sent us some old photos of her and her kid brother and want to follow revoir hold a modest. he has seen the

what happened she. was responsible about why he decided to cheat on. cards. do you think madea's was the only sort of well.

we get our hands on a warrant issued to the canadian police for father of wars arrest. after the priest since one thousand nine hundred ninety eight. on it we discover the name of mario's of but also to other boys made anonymous by the police with black lines. a girl of fourteen is also among the legit victims. in all the priest is thought to have abused four children. finally in the top left hand corner of vital piece of information the name of the town where the priest is believed to be hiding in france a small town in the book lose where there's a monastery belonging to his community. so we catch the train to strasbourg. that's right because in the meantime we've got hold of some internal documents from his community the father revoir has been transferred several times.

after obviously in canada he didn't stay in who is presumed by the canadian police he apparently with next to to a time nearly all and that's when we lost track of him. but after several months of inquiries during a phone call to a priest from a priori were father of war had stayed unwittingly gave us a new lead. which is to see the priest one of the by the canadian police for nineteen years for sexually abusing four children and seemingly lives here in strasbourg among his religious community. from now on. will film with a hidden camera. know. what we want to show he was motioning to and. it was good it. was our information was correct.