people i wanted to observe this firsthand but i didn't want to observe it from the back of the pack and so i had asked the cuban government to allow me to come inside as they were making their deliberations as they were passing the power in to observe this basically like a fly. on the shoulder and. they didn't answer me i had the choice to be in cuba or be here in moscow for some very important thing this past week and i chose to come here to moscow instead of going to cuba while we are very happy it's you're welcome here in this country but for the time being we have to take a very short break we'll be back in just a few moments stationed. we

have no idea what's a fuse doing on vacation but she will be back on air in september. it's only natural that baby boomers one vote for policies that help them i house price boom the stock price but you know and it disenfranchised the bottom you know age groups but this one zero eight deal with conflict buddy get a job kids get a job. a

murder was never great was founded on the rapes in the murder. nothing changed so we said in. response to these situations that we're dealing with. people just sat there with this day she is just people killing each other blood to kill the children. so it was just no way that people are going to just sit back and allow children to be shot down law enforcement. this country doesn't work for us it doesn't function for us. this is can't be happening in america we call from the streets we got to deal with life is the reason i have to run like this is a reason. to

. welcome back to worlds apart because john albert the american journalist and documentary filmmaker says mr. just before the break you were saying that you had a choice of either going to cuba or coming to moscow and you chose mosca and i know that you have something under the table to show as i do have something i have my my my props here. if you see this yeah and i can see the name of a legendary russian hockey player who just lost fifty seven days why do you have a. look at this and obviously we have your name here as well but still so so when i was growing up. i didn't want to be a journalist i can tell you how i became a journalist but it was completely accidental my dream was to be a hockey player. but my reality was that i still don't get i wasn't good enough. i was always very enthusiastic but in on town that hockey player but my friend i'm

working with on a number of projects one is the first and last hockey game ever on the north pole can you skate really. do you got here because next year around this time it basically to call attention to environmental crisis of the north pole and also the sort of political tensions the arctic countries the vatican. there's one more can remember what it is they're all getting together. i usually do political journalism and i think. right off the bat i can say that this is if you're an unusual experience to have russians and americans doing anything constructive because from my experience they only become but it's good that you guys can do something in the in the current environment and i think so and you've been to war and. i think. because of our shared experience and because i'm looking in your eyes i can tell that. when when you go

to war as a reporter there's something that happens inside you and it changes you as a person and it compels you more or less for the rest of your life to look for other ways to resolve issues you visited a number of four zones but did the one that you remember the most would be a your coverage of the first gulf war for which you were actually fired from b.c. . it was clearly and correct me if i'm wrong you were specifically fired because you sell and it's a billion death toll inflicted by the americans that was clearly an act of censorship but i think from my experience at least censorship in different come countries. realize in different patterns have you figured out how it works in the united states. you know it it's affected me in different ways i've had the misfortune of being blacklisted twice i was blacklisted for public television

not for war coverage but for a documentary about health care because the documentary pointed the finger at the sort of greedy financial interests that were keeping americans from getting the best health care. that was it for public television. but the sort of interesting thing about the united states is that sometimes the door opens and door closes and the door open to n.b.c. and i was the only independent reporter to work for any of the coral networks i had total editorial control of my reports which is i have more editorial control than anybody here at r.t. has i think there were a number of circumstances general electric which is. a big powerful country company a company that has a lot of military industrial interests bought and b.c. and from that moment. the gangplank was out for me but i think that i may i may be

mistaken but judging from your previous interviews i think it was more specific you went to iraq you filmed the shooters that's where you were not supposed to sell me you managed to smuggle it into a back into the united states in your socks you brought it to the n.b.c. executives and what did they tell you. that every time i go to the third world i make trouble for them and they're tired of it but if you actually look at the footage what was the problem with your behavior over the actual material that they hear and in fact. the regular news staff was devastated by this and they had all supported me they had seen the footage and were proud that somebody from their team had gotten this despite saddam's attempts to censor me you know we had three babysitters there were three pages of rules and regulations we broke every single rule they tried to kill me on the way out of the country put a gun to my head and spent five minutes trying to pull the trigger to kill me and i

got the stuff back and everybody was proud of me and what was there what was on the there was on the film i mean basically the smart bombs were not smart this was what we were being told in the united states during the war that this was the first bloodless war in history the first scientific war in history. and let me tell you when any country believes that they can make war and not hurt people they become even more dangerous and so it was crucial to show these reports to the american did you actually show it to the american people when they should have seen it during the war one of the tragedies of the war and it's it's studied in journalism classes there were a number of hand wringing retrospectives about the way in which the press had not fulfilled its duty to the country during the war and they didn't well you know what's interesting to me is that americans like to use the. examples of the first and second iraqi contains as something that they regret but i think. any of those things have been repeated recently for example the united states military has just

taken over the city of. isis used to claim as its capital it was taken by a very very have the aerial bombardment. practically no building is left standing in that city there independent reports of thousands of corpses rotting under the rubble and there is still very very little if any coverage on the american networks doesn't that suggest that the system that you encounter baghdad is still in operation these days i can't talk about that because i haven't been to syria i can't talk about those reports because. i don't watch the news and when i spend my whole day doing what i'm doing i'm i don't know about you i want to watch a hockey game on t.v. i don't think i've watched. cast in twenty years. i didn't even watch my own reports because as soon as i finish with my own reports i was on an airplane going to the next war so i can't comment about that i thought that the way in which the

press was treated during the second gulf war because i was embedded for two months in baghdad was respectful was honest and was transparent and it was the three hundred sixty degree difference from the first gulf war first gulf war. the press was treated like a bunch of dogs in the alley you've been to numerous war zones but you decided against going to syria or for that matter to libya why is that why didn't you want to go there. i'd make a calculus. before i decide to go someplace i would like. i'm happy to take a risk and happy to risk can say i'm happy but i will risk my life if i think that the report that i make is going to change something. and that's the sort of sophisticated combinations of things want to have to be able to get to where i want to go i have to be able to operate with some degree of freedom people's minds have

to be flexible enough so that if i come back and i say listen this is what i think the truth really is that the listen to me and i need an outlet and i don't have any of those conditions. when i stop working for n.b.c. i began to do documentaries and sort of let's get on the plane the bells ringing over in syria i'm going to be the first person in the front the first person back in those days i could beat anyone in the world sure you're good but i could beat you but documentaries is different and documentaries is a long slow or thoughtful process and and there are only so many places that you can show them and we basically make one documentary every two years every three years in the case of cuba to be forty five years the conditions and i felt bad you know because in order to take this risk you have to believe that there's something about the way in which you see the world that is important for other people to know

otherwise it's insanity to go to these places and you have to have that burning. burn burn inside you for so the first couple of times wars happen without me. like you had to tie me to the mast because but i didn't have any place to show it you know you weren't there but they were. a lot of coverage of both the syrian and libyan conflict and it was. very much split along the ideological lines because i could see reports of my western calling for example from libya voice with their own this same way or in the same building working at you know from the same desk but they would show something totally totally different i mean the reality that i wouldn't even recognize and i'm sure they would say the same things about my reports we are now in the age of propaganda war a supposed truth post-fact do you think you could even adapt to this kind of

working environment i did pretty pretty good in egypt so i was in the square in egypt for the revolution. it's pretty good film it played on h.b.o. we didn't win the oscar but we got on the shortlist for the oscar awards and so made a film from i don't know if you appreciate. like my type of way of doing things it was a quintessential film the way in which we do it very well received so. the opportunity to still do exist and you know it's also our responsibilities as reporters to. try and be as honest as possible to not have an agenda. when there's lots of forces pulling us this way and points out what the it's not about having an agenda i think from what i see at least i think many western reporters they come to cuba or they come to syria with the preconceived notion of what the country is and they do their reports from the balconies of the hotel we

call them balcony buzzards a little whatever i mean. things to do more things to do this they did and so you know this and. the first report i ever did for n.b.c. . was the first time i'd ever been in a war zone and i was up in lang's on vietnam and the chinese were on the hills shooting at anything that moved and i like a moron i'm walking down the street there with my vietnamese buddies in exchange so you know what i did. everybody else runs for cover i grab the microphone and i do with stand up because that's all it ever. existed and so i said i'm telling them what was obvious i'm here i'm lying son that people are shooting at me and my name is john alpert and i'm working for n.b.c. news i looked at that and i said you know what that's the last stand up on there but i never i never did another one i was so ashamed of myself because all i was doing was copycatting you know they all wear the same clothes they wear the trench

coats in the winter they wear the safari suits and they walk around with briefcases and question what the heck is in their briefcases you know what it is speak up and they spend the whole day waiting for the sun to get into the right position they've got somebody standing there with the tray to reflect them they are there on the balcony well i think so shame on them and here awards to people who go do something different and it's and it's not just the american reporters seen the russian reporters i've seen people like this all over the world and there are good reporters from every single country who will get dirty and will try to understand what the people are doing well. definitely on that i just. a minute left and i want to ask you perhaps a philosophical question but still i think much of the global tensions still centered around those concepts of freedom democracy tyranny development human flourishing and what always strikes me is how differently they are interpreted in

different countries what freedom means to an american is very different from what freedom means to a cuban or to a syrian or even to a russian for that matter do you think difference is a genuine do you think we will average be able to drive. you know some common understanding of what freedom really. i think it's always good to have differences. but we can't let those differences separate us and what we need to do is. even even though we might look at the wall. differently we need to. walk through the world holding hands and talk to each other about our differences like we're doing here today will be a big you know mindful of being branded as a crime and sympathizer because i think in this day and age even appearing on this network may get you in trouble anybody who knows me knows that i've always been my own person and people have respected me for them that's why they invite me to come back time and time again and that's why this project about the first and last

hockey game at the north pole which has been indorsed by the united nations that's the other well i simply let you know it together and i'll teach you how to skate you won't learn how to skate well but i'll teach you a well i will definitely try my best but in any case i hold that we can discuss your next project let's say in a year's time in this very studious thank you for being here today i invite our viewers to keep this conversation going on our social media pages as for me hope to see you again same place same time here on worlds apart.

and it is it is a. church secret indeed catholic priests accused of sexually abusing children can get away with it quite literally i like to call this the geographic

solution so what the bishop needs to do then he finds out that the priest is is a perpetrator is simply moves him to a different spot where the previous standard is not known the highest ranks of the catholic church help conceal the accused priests from the police and justice system to that of that's known as the island and then i think you'll hear that it just is out in. the street there.

the kremlin blasts new u.s. sanctions on russia restrictions are in response to what washington refuses russia's poisoning of double agent powell and his daughter in march also to come. and u.s. funded experts to tackle foreign influence on this platform we take a look at how it affects freedom of speech online. and you might find these images just before the civilians including children were reportedly killed as the saudi airstrike hit a school bus in yemen the coalition says it was a legitimate military operation in accordance with international law. and trial and demanding the return of a sacred statue stolen more than one hundred years ago and on display at the

british museum visits is that it should be given back. to the less piping stuff these be retired i think it's heritage so it's just it's a story. that you're watching out international this thursday afternoon which just gone five o'clock in moscow now calling on britain to make public its work on creating new style military toxic substances at the portal. this comes after america unveiled fresh penalties for what it calls moscow's poisoning of double agent. and his daughter in the u.k. back in march russia has consistently denied the claims. discuss the new sanctions with. the united states sixty two thousand and eighteen determined that the

government of the russian federation has used chemical biological weapons against its own nationals despite any new evidence coming to light the u.s. wants to impose sanctions on russia and this is in regards to the form of poisoning of form and double agent sake a script on his door to get back in march now the sanctions will be implemented and two sets the fifth set will bomb licenses for the export of sensitive national security goods to russia including electronic items and these kind of exports have been previously allowed on a case by case basis the second round of sanctions there will be more severe this will be the prohibit us baron colognes the tim anation of carrier landing rights which we could affect flights from russia to the us and fed the restrictions on exports and imports as well but the u.s. says they that the second round of sanctions will come into effect unless russia

provides reliable assurances that it won't use chemical weapons in the future and agrees to on site checks by the u.n. but when you say reliable assurances it was last year twenty seventeen the international community the o.p.c. w confirmed the destruction of all chemical weapons in russia exactly the chemical weapons watchdog verified the destruction and can fend this in september two thousand and seventeen but we're still waiting for now evidence as to why sanctions of being imposed now and the u.s. has already implemented measures you might remember that around sixty diplomats were expelled by the u.s. last spring when this saga fest escalated but when questions at the press conference the state department officials didn't mention any fed the reasoning behind the sanctions whether this was because of old evidence and new evidence let's take a listen to what they had to say. where are you getting the conclusion that for

she's behind the screen poisoning i will leave it to others to characterize the current state of our understanding of the screen. we've been very clear that we agree with the assessment that it was a joke agent and that the perpetrator was ultimately the russian federation i leave it to others to give those kinds of details of what we currently understand obviously from reading the press it appears that their investigation is ongoing in terms of the scope and nature of the details and its implications but i'll leave that to others the key words there from the official swear a leave it to others to give the details so whether the u.s. wants the u.k. to disclose further evidence behind the attack remains to be seen and the u.s. is now skating around the reasoning at the moment issuing fresh sanctions without fresh evidence and all the while russian officials here in moscow keep asking for transparency for evidence of keeps asking can russia be involved in this investigation and yet are we to understand the basis of the yukos evidence still

falls on the quote highly likely stance well the case views on there always has been highly likely that russia is behind this attack saying that only russia has the motives the means and the record to target the school policy and moreover as well moscow has repeatedly denied involvement with this offering offering like you said cooperation on the investigation which london has repeatedly denied but so far we know that the chemical weapons watchdog the a.p. c.w. and porton down haven't been able to confirm all region of the nerve agent we have not verified the precise source but we provided the scientific information to the government but you have not been able to establish at porton down that this was made in russia as i said it's our job to provide eight you know the scientific evidence that identifies what the particular narrow feature is but it's not our job to see where the. actually it was manufactured to be your not able

at porton down to say where it is from we haven't yet been able to do that now that the. analysis o.p.c. w.'s report i did to the country. of origin of the agent used in this attack and now we're left with this highly likely stance from the u.k. and the u.s. is issuing this fresh round of sanctions but we haven't seen any new information come to light here in the sanctions or thought to be imposed on or around august the twenty second in the meantime the u.k. prime minister's office has welcomed the new batch of u.s. sanctions on russia the russian embassy saying it only wants transparency it still asks can we please to be a part of this investigation by the russian embassy calling it these sanctions describing them as draconian measures. ok let's talk about the impact of these things and then with christian he's chairman of the business association free

markets that eighteen's with this is a name we're pleased to say christian thanks for your time firstly let's start with the ruble because that seems to be the first casualty after the sanctions were announced what are your thoughts on that for the future of the ruble do you think it will sink a lot lower or perhaps might it bounce back. well i don't think the impact will be so big because up to the present us russia traitor lation are not that big actually. and still have already been damaged by past sanctions so there are overlapping of sanctions actually what it seems to be is that their marriage seems to be interested in improving their relationships with russia and then improving also trade relationships maybe most importantly you should also look at the effect on the u. because up to now in many cases do you followed. the u.s.

in terms of sanctions and obviously they you relations with russia more economic relations with russia are more intense than the u.s. relations because you and the russia have economic alim are complimentary in the terms of the products they deliver show so even though the ruble may have plunged certainly over the last twenty four hours or so you don't see any long term major problems to be with the russian economy as a consequence of these sanctions no i don't think so as long as the doesn't jump on the band bang on a bend and continues to tighten the sanctions but i don't see this either like because many countries like australia also actually want to come improve their relations with russia and improve trade relations with russia because obviously we have have a lot to gain from that. and. it's

a little bit strange that the american president is always talking about morals i mean i don't see. the president travels so much as a moralist see him more as a businessman and in effect he always says russian but i don't buy bad the russian gas by good american over the price of american gas is three times the price of russian gas so i don't see that we have an interesting interest in that we know don't we christian that russia isn't happy at all with these new sanctions is there and they haven't issued any sort of official response or had they night retaliate but if they did want to retaliate what could they do you think is there are other any economic measures that they could take that would then hurt america for example well what they've already started to do with started to hurt america is. no longer buying or even selling u.s.

bonds because as you know the trade. deficit the budget deficit of the america is very high and the need a lot of foreign capital to invest that but to to finance budget budget deficit so up to now and it already started to hurt american somewhat in terms of interest rate given the fact that russia russia sold american bonds it could also if it happens that giving diversity of china in the u.s. relations the chinese to the same thing selling u.s. bonds and no longer buying u.s. bonds that could really hurt the u.s. . christian going to have to leave it there but nice until she does christian abner chairman of business satiation free markets start. thank you very much. and.