this is dead not 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 a question. of result 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 as the commission don't know 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 to set up new measures to be more incisive in the life of the local church up there 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 long term which means fifteen twenty maybe thirty years. you know world of big partisan movies lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the

middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. join me every thursday on the elec simon chill and i'll be speaking to a guest in the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see you then .

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 ok and here get out miller traffic to of the congregation of the doctrine and the face among these ten cardinals for are accused of having covered up pedophile try as you know that of course. what you think of it i have no no but to get our 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 arsenal 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 prime minister 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 our now panel was at that time that the vice director of the school and an apparel willing gage to cooperate with justice and it wouldn't cooperate in the sense of setting up a safeguard in measures in the same will this is future but it didn't denounce sexual abuse it's day four and isn't this he nine it edited that is it sucking for you or not of course is shocking for him to be in this you nine and not have been

denouncing her sexual abuse on minors yeah for sure. the school it has always in chile here. documents afzal and that. has waited five years after the first victim spoke out to take action and to remove the prized father care idea and sire father carriage about has been since a trough and guilty by the vatican of sexual abuses is here still in the city 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 they was they as long as the bill wants them 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 it. in when 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 second a graphical. in the city center we've arranged to meet a group of victims they were abused by priests in the archdiocese appoint a serious. they learned pope francis when he was their archbishop. the sources of all this bill. he said is to move us all this that's. all that it is that we keep it.

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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 cross the face the biggest pedophilia scandal in the argentinian church. says our grassy was one of the best known priests in the car. very influential and often in the media spotlight what i was doing with a rather big head. to run a huge orphanage until some of the children bear 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 crossties 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 it almost get it on your the media this. up but he said oh no leave it us in the most they don't know that this will take us o.s.c. theda mouths over what is going to set that are going to see me end up i was sort of i was 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 childer argues the falsifications lies deceit and invention even their own sexual orientation is questioned. the conclusion is clear the court's decision was

wrong bother to rossi had to be acquitted on appeal. one paragraph caught our eye. this work was commissioned in two thousand and ten by the argentine episcopal 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 was labor gugliotta 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 my case 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 this is the students who visit him as he is they were going through those away and so forth you know enough for the. case and. they know anything. it is in a oh now to see what equal that is and that will cost us more thought of selling out those it do you know that you're going to have getting an idea and for water they. look at what it is it is or that said well that's what the impetus you're sort of places. from here on the in the fields that to defeat the costs to suit the man and. finally useless father cross the sentence was upheld above the appeals court and high court. at the center of the counter inquiry commission by the pope when he was archbishop of

buenos aires is the account of a boy. the main victim of. 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. assuming i mean asio i mean if i hear it i it. nationally customs all of us show it of course us. it was awful sonali he said then you. also said as the case you want to hold. i guess i think that's all we have in there was. that the two over the here keep keep can says these to stephen. is. as i said well known in the us and the among the. asian little change they see

a sicko. and i wanna know they go. loco and there it is as you can make it up out of this i. will go this alone. 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 gathered. will need a miracle to get to talk to the pope. few hours later the pope will be on the rod. the third time it passes we show. you something that. is to give our last. thing a few minutes later. listen. listen to that end it doesn't get us the i don't think that i included you see saddened to

. see sunday that that end castle that few i intend that the only one through into d.c. out and. then again i if the deal is this to deal and end castle garcia. but i'm not. 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. surgeon men 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. first. of all those are the only two additional don't google so document on the first thanks.

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you. twitter is accused of double standards after banning activists for offensive comments against bucks even though identical tweets against whites went unchallenged. in four walls one of those popular and controversial news websites has been found by leading social media platform called hate speech. of a visit by the international chemical weapons watchdog to the town of amesbury next week the media continue. to speculate on the poisoning case claiming that the u.k. is asked russia to extradite suspects.

giving thanks for joining us this is r.t. international. change the word white to black or jewish and you could find yourself in trouble on twitter that's what one conservative activist in the united states confirmed as she tried to highlight the platform's alleged double standards and has the story. candace owens 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 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 tweeter with twitter 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 one of the ways you go cooping sidr tweets and replace the

points with blank i'm in tweets of bones that i was double standard every time i see one of these i can't help substitute black for white can do so instead i will never understand the double standard to 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 contact regarding the controversy surrounding her tweets it appears that has there. now been added a small reference to it but these tweets the controversy surrounding them seems to be quite a big issue with the pedia seems to make efforts to minimize that 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 now the new york times issued a statement defending its decision to hire sarah junk it said that she had simply used the same language as online russ's had to respond to them also herself said

the way those comments were meant to be satirical following news of a twitter suspension activists candice owens was confronted on the street by anti fascist protesters. owens was having breakfast with another conservative activist colleague when they were harassed by protesters demonstrators could be seen shouting abuse as they crowded around police on the scene. u.s. sanctions against iran which have just come into force have seen oil prices spike with analysts predicting the trend will continue and with the u.s. preparing more sanctions the e.u. iran's second largest trading partner shown that it's ready to protect european companies doing business with tehran. we are determined to protect european

economic are preterist in legitimate business with iran this is why european union's updated blocking statute enters into force under seventh of august to protect e.u. companies doing legitimate business with iran from the impact of u.s. extraterritorial sanctions we believe that it is and it has to be up to. the europeans in this case to decide with home to trade the first round of sanctions prohibits around from using the u.s. dollar and restricts trading in precious metals and also includes limiting reigning in currency flows as well as constraints on the car trade ok let's discuss this story and several others now my guess is former u.s. congressman ron paul good to have you gone wrong let's start with this issue then of sanctions the use insisting that it will back you firms that are dealing with

iran is this going to cause a widening rift between the u.s. and the. well i would think so there's a big question there i can't imagine it not already haven't done that but so far you know there's been a lot of bluster and i think one problem is that the united states is still pretty powerful they have the currency for the reserve currency of the world powerful currency powerful military a lot of wealth and we can throw a weight around so even if the europeans feel put upon and attacked by the sanctions that we put on iran i think they they need to get some backbone but but it's a big beef about all this is i just don't like sanctions because it leads to problems like this and that's that's really where the problem is and right now i don't know whether the the europeans will stick to their guns because what if they get threatened some of these big companies may be threatened then the do some

business with the united states but eventually they will be competition and that day will come maybe not today or tomorrow but that day will come where the day where the united states will have the competition and right now that's why there's talk about others having you know other currencies to deal with as a reserve currency china russia different countries would like to do that so we have to wait and see what happens but i don't like dictatorial powers i don't like sanctions i think that leads to currency wars they've already stopped started and unfortunately those kind of conditions sometimes can lead to a lot more and to some very hot wars as well he said sanctions can lead to a lot more where where all they're going to lead what you think this will this will take is into. but i think i think first. we'll see shortly whether the europeans stick to their guns if they backed down and they're going to be you know around for

a while but if they stick to their guns i think the united states would have to adjust their policies a bit because how are they going to enforce that you know if. china and russia and other countries and the they do business with iran well how are we going to punish them you know we've already been doing a lot of that what are we going to put more sanctions on russia you know we continue to do that but eventually that runs out of steam but the one thing that i hope we can call attention to is the fact that this doesn't always end well ends badly and long term sometimes it lasts a long time i think is how long we've had sanctions and with with cuba and it last a long time when you're powerful but this is a little lot bigger than haven't our sanctions on cuba this is a big deal and i think in time people are going to realize that we might have to adjust because. the other countries are going to not tolerate what we have done.

now and then just on the still not been any proof presented public it publicly at least of the russian attacks on u.s. democracy that we used to justify the new sanctions bill how does that would how is it being perceived by. you know the warmongers the people who want sanctions and everything that russia does is bad they're really in charge with our media and they have really basic control you know in the congress and now the president basically has been more sympathetic magine the pressure is getting to him so that he sort of comes across is on again off again but i think i think it's tragic what's happening because they have no proof of anything and for some reason the senators that have come up with this new bill graham and mccain and menendez i mean just out of the clear blue they have no

evidence whatsoever of their charges that they have made and you know i look at the world like none of us are perfect all the countries have their shortcomings but i think the responsibility for short composition be their own country so we come up short in many ways i think that my job is to try to point that out so that we can change policy but this idea of just blaming other countries and it's all somebody else's fault and what we have to do is put on sanctions and then when they retaliate we think oh the world's coming to an end they don't have a right to do that we have to punish them i mean it's a very very bad foreign policy and of course i as a libertarian over the years in congress i advocated a noninterventionist foreign policy i just think we should be out of this business and if you want to talk with people fine talk with people and work with people so i liked it you know when trump and putin would talk and i was sorry when the invitation for putin was removed i think.