even wrote letters of welcome to stalin ukrainian greek catholics.was headed by a disciple of metropolitan joseph the blind. he did not accept soviet power, and she did everything so that at the lvov cathedral in 1946. the greek catholic church, as a conductor of the anti-soviet policy of the vatican on the territory of ukraine, was liquidated. everything was done in a very tough way. uh, and uh, so fast. i would say in shape. it was liquidated for me, but uh, on the other hand, these measures created, of course, some, the eagle of such a church of martyrs, which, of course, the catholics. uh, then they exploited in every possible way, after that, being underground on the territory of ukraine, the uniate church retained large signs and western europe in the ussr, the runias returned in 1990 with the permission of mikhail gorbachev, after his meeting with john paul ii, then the peaceful process of returning the temples seized from the church in the forty- sixth year olga mokhova anastasia popova valery savelyev is typical, ukraine that's all, what we

vincent: well, thank god for the irish catholic bishops.lisa: the irish guidelines he pushed for put the welfare of the child first and treat each case individually. they stop short at asking the priest to step down. earlier this year, the vatican admitted it has guidelines, too, but won't make them public. vincent's read them and can't see why not. lisa: why won't they make the guidelines public? vincent: because if you've got a solution, then you got a problem. lisa: but isn't the church's view that the priest has to leave? vincent: no person, man or woman, should be forced from their job for becoming a parent. how is that christological? how is that practical? and yet people buy into this argument of, "congratulations. you're a father. you're fired." this is what's driving the secrecy. these men, our fathers, my father, all these men are terrified. lisa: so, you could still be a good priest and father. vincent: absolutely, how can a child contradict a priest's love for god the father, how? lisa: nor does he want the church to use celibac

even wrote letters of welcome to stalin ukrainian greek catholics.s headed by a disciple of the metropolitan. joseph blind. he did not accept soviet power, and she did everything to ensure that at the lvov cathedral in 1946. the greek catholic church, as a conductor of the anti-soviet policy of the vatican on the territory of ukraine, was liquidated, yet it was done in a very tough way. uh, and uh, so fast. i would say in shape. it was liquidated for me, but uh, on the other hand, these measures created, of course, some, orel church of the martyrs, which, of course, the catholics, and then exploited in every possible way while underground on the territory of ukraine, the uniate church retained large ones in america and western europe in the ussr runiats returned in 1990 permission of mikhail gorbachev after his meeting with john paul ii, then the peaceful process of returning the churches seized from the church in the forty-sixth year olga mokhova anastasia popova valery savelyev is typical, ukraine this is all we wanted to tell. kirill vyshinsky was

the catholic church though, refused to apologize at all. why do you think pub francis decided to do it now? i think really largely the finding of unmarked graves last summer here in canada that really garnered international media attention as well as i think our survivors who actually visited that hope in the spring and begged him actually really to come to canada and give the apology on canadian soil rather than at the vatican. i think those are the 2 main causes that really force that today in 2022, but back in 2015. actually the truth and reconciliation call to action. there is 94 that canadians were supposed to follow and actually number 50 was for the poke to actually come to can the in soil and apologize and really trying to fulfill one of the wishes from thousands of survivors that participate in the process. jackson, looking past the catholic church to canada itself in terms of truth and reconciliation. do indigenous communities feel there has been enough truth to move toward complete reconciliation with the past. yeah, i think that

word worked here in the restoration of the lviv theological academy, the creation of the ukrainian catholic university, lived here until 2012, and then you left ukraine for 10 years, you have almost not lived, but only come to ukraine, and here you are for the first time in ukraine, and during the war. how do you feel about the war in ukraine? and what are your thoughts and feelings now that you are in kyiv for the first time but already for the third time during the war in ukraine? i have been to lviv and western ukraine twice before. to end this war at any cost the position of such a statement i do not hear from anyone on the contrary , everyone says we have to win we have no other way than to fight for our freedom and these are the principles that we defend and this is impressive, you grew up in north america er, all your childhood is in the past youth could you have imagined then in your childhood that ukraine would face such a terrible challenge and that the ukrainian people would be able to respond to this challenge in such a way you can say yes and no because no one can fully predict

right here from the head of the catholic church. francis has already acknowledged the churches shocking indifference to indigenous life and culture at schools where the church was once contracted to teach and nurture. first nations children. many like bruce cut, knife or taken from their parents, taken from their traditions and language, cut knife now lives outside edmonton, a 100 kilometers up the road from where his school once stood. and the majority of us does english. and we didn't understand teacher. and sometimes we didn't respond properly for which you would be slap to the face. much worse, residential schools contracted to the catholic churches were sometimes home to sexual predators in the guise of clergy or staff. earlier this year at the vatican, pope francis invited members of canada as cree nation for an audience. below bereavement leave and open for the deplorable behavior of those members of the catholic church. i ask forgiveness from god. and i would like to tell you from the bottom of my heart, that i am very paine

it's part of the catholic church as efforts to reconcile with native communities. and in for me, the one shot the clear squanders yet another pole position. as he spins out, the french grown pre opening the door for tidal rival max for stepping to stroll toward another window. ah anatomy. how'd welcome. we begin with the boy in ukraine, where the country's military is now mounting a offensive in the southern hassan region, which fell to russian forces. early in the invasion. president vladimir zalinski has vowed to take back the region and says his troops are advancing, step by step, but the ukrainians are still outgunned by russian forces and urgently need more advanced weapons from the west. the ravages of war have left this village uninhabited, except for a few stray pets and these ukrainian fighters as they wait for the order to begin. ukraine's promised pushback towards the strategically and symbolically important city of harrison. currently, under russian control, this village is just kilometers from harrison, but on the ukrainian controlled side of the front

but in opus day, a lot of catholic teaching is what all catholics are supposed to believe is taken to the extent really not really long. so it does what, what was no math dispenser between ah, how conservative groups like open day perceived within the catholic church. an interview request to with cardinal bulky, was rejected. 2 men from bull case in a circle, a closely linked to opus day. mark was hoffman, his former vicar general, and right hand man is a member of the priestly society of the holy cross. and organisation inextricably tied to opus day. the suspended auxiliary bishop, domenico trotter lamp, is also linked to the group. whether or not opus day is trying to influence bulky is disputed. the archdiocese rejects the idea. vulgar insists, he is not a member of opus day and is not closer to this group than any other some asbestos claim millsman vis does all this day has been entrenched in the archdiocese of cologne for a very long time calling it didn't begin undercutting, ave, till nor under like his predecessor meisner, nobody but my snow was the one who strengthened and sup

audrey asistio: a new wave of lawsuits hitting the catholic church. rick pfisterer: i was an altar boy. the man raped me. he physically raped me in that house right over here. audrey: dozens of northern california priests now facing child sex abuse allegations, many named publicly for the very first time. we investigate why local diocese say it's safe to let them continue their ministry. donald duffy magilligan: those are words written on a piece of paper by somebody who's trying to wring settlement money out of the catholic church. mark staley: this is really just part of the healing process. this is not about any kind of financial gain. audrey: plus, what lies beneath. we investigate potentially toxic waste that's been lurking in the soil in san francisco for more than a century. audrey: good evening. i'm audrey asistio, and thank you for joining us for this "nbc bay area investigative special." tonight, hundreds of new allegations against northern california priests, including some who still work here in the bay area. they're accused of sexually ab

church. �* u, which were run by the catholic church. �* _, ., i. which were run by the catholic churchh. i'm coming to you from northern ontario, _ church. i'm coming to you from northern ontario, one - church. i'm coming to you from northern ontario, one of - church. i'm coming to you from northern ontario, one of the i northern ontario, one of the most — northern ontario, one of the most notorious catholic schools in the _ most notorious catholic schools in the country called st annes public— in the country called st annes public school and they are notorious for using a home—made electric_ notorious for using a home—made electric chair to punish the children _ electric chair to punish the children. the children were forced _ children. the children were forced to— children. the children were forced to eat their own vomit. there — forced to eat their own vomit. there was_ forced to eat their own vomit. there was this apology from the popein there was this apology from the pope in april at the vatican. i join canadian brothers, bishops, in apologising. during this visit to canada, many

church, do not be afraid of these eastern catholic churches.y in the vatican. and this is a continuation of this policy, you know, as they call it ost politics, because the relationship between greek-catholics and between roman-catholics, between the vatican and between the ugcc, believe me i really, really don't ask, and if, for example, it is clearly there, those contradictions or problems are not revealed, they are not demonstrated, it does not mean that they do not exist. ukrainian greek catholic church and many others have such issues as

an audience. below bereavement leave and open for the deplorable behavior of those members of the catholic church. i ask forgiveness from god. and i would like to tell you from the bottom of my heart, that i am very pained when i joined my brother bishops from canada, in apologizing to you. now indigenous people wait to hear the pope say something similar on canadian soil. bruce cut knife says he has mixed feelings about the visit and doesn't plan to be there. but i can understand the anger and betrayal, many people have expressed especially on social media because of what they feel. the church in residential school has harmed their family. not only themselves, but their parents, grandparents and even great grandparents, but to cut knife believes a sincere apology, delivered right in the heart of where the terrible harm occurred can still, he says, be quite meaningful to us for longer now, where the new president is seeking a bailout from international lenders after the country defaulted on its debts. severe shortage is the fuel, food and other essentials have ravaged the country. but the

because the catholic church in canada is the highest fundraising, non profit charity. now to mentioned the fact one of the highest land owning companies in the country. and of course globally, the catholic church is worth billions and upon billions of dollars. so to ask for fundraising to pay for this visit is quite upsetting for many indigenous people. and then on top of that, i'm paying the restitution $30000000.00 seems like a very small amount in relation to of the catholic churches. tremendous harm over a 100 years against did just munity or i will leave it there. thank you very much. your time, negan sinclair, they're fessor of indigenous studies at university of manitoba. which thanks so much and to nicea demonstrate as have rallied in the capital against mondays, planned constitutional referendum. the proposed changes will give present hi sides more palace and reduce the role of the judiciary. but as to say, it's another step towards one monroe of the sides, suspended pollen, and dismissed the government last year. now, on the 8th of this referendum, we want to

words written on a piece of paper by somebody who's trying to wring settlement money out of the catholic church. mark staley: this is really just part of the healing process. this is not about any kind of financial gain. audrey: plus, what lies beneath. we investigate potentially toxic waste that's been lurking in the soil in san francisco for more than a century. audrey: good evening. i'm audrey asistio, and thank you for joining us for this "nbc bay area investigative special." tonight, hundreds of new allegations against northern california priests, including some who still work here in the bay area. they're accused of sexually abusing children, and dozens are being publicly named for the very first time. investigative reporter candice nguyen has the story you'll see only on "nbc bay area." candice nguyen: for the past eight months, we have pored through more than a hundred lawsuits and interviewed accusers and their advocates across the state. the claims have proven to be a trove of new information that show what we previously knew about the scandal is likely just the tip of the iceb

>> the catholic church was responsible for the majority. so about 60%.es, all of the other churches also responsible, they have each issued apologies over the years for different things, but you don't see a rl significant act of contrition or penitence or any of those things they claim, things like making sure there is money come aside from the compensation agreement, to help restore languages, to help provide healing for the people who were traumatized, to help support all of those who need the funding and legal support to identify their children in unmarked graves and return them back to their communities. it seems like that -- or returning the lands that were stolen for the purposes of the church. keep in mind, the catholic church and other churches often buy and sell land, lease land, try to raise money. those lands should be going back to first nations. so i don't see very sincere, wholesome apologies and reparation on the part of all of these churches, but i think in terms of -- in comparison, the catholic church is far worse. the papal bull, the w

one of the most notorious catholic schools in the country was called st annes catholic school and they children were forced to eat their own vomit. and they were discipline for things like speaking their language. and this would have been a time when indigenous children, theirfirst language would have been an indigenous language, and they were punished for speaking those languages in the residential schools. you know, malnutrition, nutritional experiments conducted. this has been all about it to genocide and specifically cultural genocide and specifically cultural genocide is what it has been called. thank you very much for talking us through that and explaining the background and the significance of this visit. of course, we will keep across it over the next couple of days. thank you very much for coming on the programme.— the two candidates left in the race to become the next conservative party leader — and prime minister — say they'll toughen controls on migration. rishi sunak, has proposed a cap on refugee numbers — and to withhold aid from countries which won't accept the return o

pope francis is in canada where he's set to apologise for abuse suffered by indigenous children at catholic—boardingools. as firefighters in california struggle to contain the latest huge wildfire , the us special envoy for climate warns that the world is not moving fast enough to tackle the climate crisis. it is less than ideal not to have the entire congress hole throatily adopting some of the measures the need to be taken. lower the air—con and turn off the lights or face a fine — that's warning from the french government to shop keepers as they attempt to tackle the climate crisis. russia admits it attacked the port of odessa — a day after an agreement to resume grain exports — but its foreign minister denies they are to blame for causing a world food crisis and marvels�*s much anticipated black panther sequel wakanda forever is unveiled at comic con in san diego. pope francis has arrived in canada. and he is on a mission to say sorry. a "pilgrimage of penance" is how he has labelled this trip, which will include a full apology on behalf of the catholic church for the abuse inflicted on indigeno

this catholic priest is doing his part to support them with reference love yano villanueva pays for the exhumations and full legal advice. he fears that the killings even with to tear to gone, are far from over. in the past the weeks we have counted at least 8 or 9 killings to this very present lay my point. there's no difference between that then. and to day. to make matters worse, i believe that the culture of killing has not only been ingrained, but it has also become sadly an organized enterprise. dr. fortuna is convinced that the 2 toll of the war on drugs will never come to light. too many of those who lost their lives, remain unidentified and unclaimed. but she hopes that her discoveries will bring a semblance of justice to the families who remained behind. but frances is in canada and where he is expected to apologize to have members of the indigenous community for abuses committed by catholic priests or canadian government commission. found that generations of indigenous children suffered physical and sexual abuse in state funded schools that were run by the catholic church. fo

is expected to deliver a landmark apology to indigenous peoples for abuses at schools run by the catholic church. ah, i've been for solon welcome, an international outcry after me and mass military government executed for political prisoners. there included a prominent lawmaker and a well known democracy activist, the men challenged last is military cook. among those killed were peal, julia tore a member of the elective ruling party, and the veteran activists told me you better known as called jimmy. the military accused the 4 of being involved in terrorist killings, the united nations and united states condemned the executions. many more political prisoners facing similar charges since the news, a journalist with berman news international. what more can you tell us about these 4 men of the circumstances surrounding their executions? yes, this is the kitchen is ab, not legally dent. they made a t. honda use legal as dab a rule of law as it is used to killed the pro democracy at avis and that they are simply standing for the people obama. so that the people are very, i rich as for this as

and what was, was this evil people within the catholic church, or was this the catholic church structure inst, telling people to i don't know to, to, to be indigenous out of these people. what was the driving force behind this abuse? well, i was a combination of the government policy of the time, which was simulation us and and also the catholic church believe in that and believing that of course it was the, the true religion and christianity was should be imposed upon the peoples of the world and but i think the individuals shouldn't be underestimated as well. i mean, they were the priest for put in a position where they were in, in, in control of young people and, and the a themselves, of course, committed a lot of the abuses were directly. so it was a common simulation policy, the church and individuals in law, he probably was running the schools. and so the pope says, sorry, does it end there, or is that talk of reparations? yes, it certainly doesn't. then there and there. and the pope recognize that and his talk today his apology, he said that this was only the 1st stage or 1st step

the most horrific institutions you uld ever imagine were really these ones by the catholic church in canada. anchor: it sounds like there was an attempt to cover up? >> for sure, the documents have never been returned by the catholic church of canada, that is one of the demands by survivors. only 44 of the residential schools were acknowledged in the apology, but in reality, the catholic school in partnership with the government operated 327 indian day schools with the same kind of system, the only difference was children could go home at night, but the same type of abuses occurred. in 2019, 1 .9 billion dollars was paid by the canadian government to survivors into that settlement funds. there is a whole host of other schools and institutions the church was part of that impacted indigenous peoples that hasn't been addressed whatsoever yet. anchor: that brings up-to-date with world news. stay with us here on france 24. ♪ >> fake news, noun. false stories that appear to be news, spread on the internet or using other media. at france 24, our job is to provide you with information that h

on monday, the 1st nations community has demanded the catholic church, fess up to its role in the physical, mental and sexual abuse of children at school facilities. it was contracted to run as late as the 970 s or the church is pushed back for decades on calls for a people apology in canada. until now. the tiny, mostly indigenous village of mask watches is buzzing to make way for the pope. and the expected apology right here from the head of the catholic church. frances has already acknowledged the churches shocking indifference to indigenous life and culture at schools where the church was once contracted to teach and nurture 1st nations children. many like bruce cut, knife or taken from their parents, taken from their traditions and language, cut knife now lives outside edmonton, a 100 kilometers up the road from where his school once stood. and the majority of us to speak english. and we didn't understand teacher. and sometimes we didn't respond properly for which you would be slapped to the face. much worse, residential schools contracted to the catholic churches were sometimes home t

however, he did not apologize for the actions of the roman catholic church itself.lked about the evils of christians who worked in those systems. he talked about how the church were christians have strayed from the teachings of jesus, but he did not do that apology that many of us were hoping for. the acknowledgment that the church itself had done this irreparable harm. i think he could have had more fulsome apology. host: the irreparable damage that has been done, give me a sense of that. >> i always want to tell my personal story. my mother is a survivor. she has since passed on. she had to send three of her children to the same institution she went to, and my oldest sister died at the institution. this is one of the many stories. there is a scholar w said that 100% of first nations people are impacted and suffer from intergenerational trauma. 100%. that can be traced back to these institutions of assimilation and genocide. today for was so emotional in different ways as it was for many intergenerational trauma survivors. looking at the pope apologize for the dest

i'm coming to you from northern ontario, one of the most notorious catholic schools in the country wasc school and they are notorious for using a home—made electric chair to punish the children. the children were forced to eat their own vomit. there was this apology to indigenous candaians there was this apology to indigenous canadians from the pope in april at the vatican. ijoin canadian brothers, bishops, in apologising. during this visit to canada, many now hope you will expand during this visit to canada, many now hope he will expand on those historic remarks. this week, the 85—year—old plans numerous public events and private meetings, including a visit to the site of a former residential school in western canada. but many want to hear more. such as financial compensation, the release of school records and support for extraditing an accused abuser. the pope says the spirit of this trip is one of penance. it is also a test of his health and of how well he can mend old wounds. that perhaps is the big question. earlier i spoke to chief wilton littlechild who is in maskwacis where the

we were a solid catholic family.our parents taught what made it work is that mom and dad a value and try to instill in us very seamlessly with the catholic social doctrine that we learned in school that you are your brother's keeper. we n were expected to not just e the lines but we were expected to live it. in the abuse of power so we saw to step up to the plate. to tryd to make things better that is what was carried on with his entire life. avi don't try to make it joe anything than other than he is. when i talk about him, he is a real, live, human being. first and foremost he is a good brother. having people whose love and respect they are so confident of. so two questions. one is that role. the sister that could just let the brother have it and the brother listens because he knows that what's in it for you is his success of the enterprise that is unfolding. that's what it looks like from the outside. when it does business and family. it comes from a place of love and it's flipped the same way back with my other b

he's expected to deliver a landmark apology to indigenous peoples for abuses at schools run by the catholic church. ah, i'm painful and welcome. an international outcry after me and mars military government executed for political prisoners. they included a prominent law maker and a well known democracy activist. the men had challenged last year's military coup among those killed were peals. i had tore a member of the electro bowling party and the veteran act this chairman, you better known as co. jimmy. the military accused the 4 of being involved in terrorists, killing united nations and united states condemned the executions. many more political prisoners facing similar charges. excellent journalists, i'm in tant, told us more about the executed men and how the international condemnation is likely to be received by me in most military winter. so to the men, adar and good jimmy were deeply involved in activists and activism and have been involved in the pro democracy movement since the 990 s. a ball was seen as one of the grandfathers of numer hip hop and really pioneered a form of innovat

uh, when the greek catholic priests, but were directly involved in the killings.these were people, confessionally, belonging to two categories of the greek catholic and part of the orthodox separated from the russian orthodox church. but let's put it the way we would call them schismatics today. we are the church of ukrainians, not the church where there is no hellenic ignoramus, nor the church of christ, but the church of ukrainians, therefore the religious principle, to unfortunately, i could not restrain these inhuman emotions. in itself, ukrainian nationalism is a quasi- religion, which by and large displaces christianity from the mind and consciousness of people, and a good evidence of this is the atrocities that ukrainian nationalists have done and are doing now, because it is for a christian to do. it is simply impossible when you substitute in a religious person. his heavenly values ​​​​on others, well, in this case, nationalistic you turn him into a fanatic who is ready for anything and as a person religious, it does not require any sanctions explanations

and then generally the public criticism that was of the catholic church right here in canada. and so the reaction to this has a lot to do with that. but it also has a lot to do with the ongoing calls for the catholic church to pay restitution. where as they agreed to do way back in 2006 to the, to $30000000.00 room, the of it's still failed to do so. to indigenous residential school. survivors still had a. now does there a searing heat wave in china takes its toll on frontline health workers. ah, hell i there. well, a big story across charter at the moment is that heat set reco breaking heat across southernmost parts. you can see lot the can a skies farther north, we have got some weather systems bringing some outbreaks of rain in across ne, in parts of china. somewhat to weather sliding across the yellow sea towards the in peninsula bits and pieces of sorry, right to, to come a for to pan or where to where the will pulses weigh a little further raised, which as we go through tuesday, some heavy rain coming through here still high temperatures, shanghai getting up to 36 degree

this is typical of europe as catholic or catholic in order, so this is the quest of the essence of europeanon, but with a german accent there is laughing pure polish or latin, what's the difference? and seryozha and you want to negotiate with them, maybe come to some kind of compromise? no, i was talking about ukraine, but what about ukrainians? what makes them different is nothing different from them. and if you agree to the first minute when you turn your back. and they'll kick you in turn back. i liked the way a professional intelligence officer talks about the problems of poland, but not overwives, which is very wise yet. this is the last thing i wanted to say. if lavrov is what he said, he is consistent, he must say after the phrase that he said, i do not attribute it, but logically we were pursuing an erroneous policy, because we sought to come to a compromise point further there can be no more compromises with them. there can be no compromises with them, and if there are no compromises, then what about them explain? with whom to negotiate? they are for sale. they will sell themselves

many ways because he was very militant, he led marches through catholic areas. hey, barely survived many leadership challenges. and he was an ottoman very, very difficult person to know. we're showing great bravery when de venue occasion demand. i want to ask you about his role in the, in the piece to cuz i was reading your, the article that you'd written about him. and you mentioned, there was one point that he nearly caused the collapse of the peace process because he ordered that the protestant order should be allowed to march to drum creek through the catholic neighbourhood. was this a deal? do you think that he felt that he wanted to make or was ideal, that tremble felt he absolutely had to make for ireland? i think he had to make his i think he knew that unionism and ronada role did run out of excuses, turned him into hidden reality is that the demographic numbers showed at national will have much larger numbers in about 20 years. 10 unions have in northern aren't and that he calls his own political catechism. so he was aware of all those things . he was q

church is not afraid of these eastern catholic churches. but there is a definite strategy there in the vatican and this is a continuation of this policy, you know, as they call it ost policy, because the relationship between greek catholics and between roman catholics, between the vatican and between the ugcc, believe me, is very, very difficult, and if, for example, it is clearly there those contradictions or problems are not revealed, they are not demonstrated does not mean that they do not exist well, let's take at least the problem of the uzhgorod metropolitanate, which is still not part of the ukrainian greek catholic church, and there are many other such issues, well, it is necessary to work with the pope, talk, explain, clarify and when he comes to kyiv and it seems to me that no matter how much we watch, you know anti- horror on tv, your own presence in the berdyansk evening is the best argument, we are waiting for the holy father in ukraine, let him look exactly at own eyes, the spokesman of our ministry of foreign affairs, oleg ni

after the union of brest, the creation of the greek catholic church, today's church realities, when there are three orthodox churches in parallel in parallel, clearly demonstrate this mission . centuries later, it turned out to be largely successful confirmation was the construction of the main cathedral of the ukrainian greek catholic church of the cathedral of the resurrection of christ in kiev on the left bank of the dnieper this unian church became the highest in the ukrainian capital anna efimov valeriy savelyev anastasia popova let's talk with our permanent expert rostislav. ishchenko rostislav good afternoon. good afternoon, if you look at the long history of attempts to split the ukrainian. conditions can we say that the result is finally achieved today? well, firstly, uh, if we talk about attempts to split, the split of russian orthodoxy must last, because even the very re-creation at one time by the kiev metropolis. this, by the way, was subordinated to the patriarchate of constantinople at one time, it was already aimed at splitting a single orthodox array. so uh, it has long r

ijust want to go back to the abuse in those catholic run schools. what actually happened originally. we had actually happened originally. we had a truth and reconciliation _ a truth and reconciliation commission here in the early 2000 that documented just what that looked like. we are talking about over 150,000 children that were forcibly sent to over 139 government and church run residential schools, the majority of them run by the catholic church. i am coming to you from northern ontario in canada and in this region there were several residential schools that operated and perhaps one of the most notorious catholic schools in the country was called st annes catholic school and they are no tories for using a home—made electric chair to punish the children. making children, children were full to eat their own vomit. they were disciplined for things like speaking that language, and this would have been a time when indigenous children, theirfirst been a time when indigenous children, their first language would have been an indigenous language, and they

he's also arrived at the site of a former residential school run by the catholic church, where digit as children, some decades of physical and sexual abuse that were taken for their families and forced to attend the schools in an effort to obliterate their languages and cultures. the catholic church had pushed back on coals for a papal apology until now. frances has already acknowledged the churches shocking indifference to indigenous life and culture at schools where the church was once contracted to teach and nurture 1st nations children. many like bruce cut, knife are taken from their parents, taken from their traditions and language. cut knife now lives outside edmonton, a 100 kilometers up the road from where his school once stood. and the majority of us didn't speak english. and we didn't understand teacher. and sometimes we didn't respond properly for which you would be slapped in the face. much worse, residential schools contracted to the catholic churches were sometimes home to sexual predators in the guise of clergy or staff. earlier this year at the vatican, pope francis i

there for abuses, can the head i catholic lackey, a canadian government commission found that generation was of indigenous children, suffered horrific physical and sexual abuse in fate funded school friends by the catholic church, decades the church had pushed back on cold for paypal apology until now that if the tiny, mostly indigenous village of mask watches is buzzing to make way for the pope and the expected apology right here from the head of the catholic church. frances has already acknowledged the churches shocking indifference to indigenous life and culture at schools where the church was once contracted to teach and nurture. first nations children, many like bruce cut knife are taken from their parents, taken from their traditions and language. cut knife now lives outside edmonton, a 100 kilometers up the road from where his school once stood. and the majority of us didn't speak english. and we didn't understand teacher, and sometimes we didn't respond properly for which you would be slapped in the face . much worse, residential schools contracted to the catholic churches were s

visits canada's indigenous communities to apologise for the abuse many suffered at schools run by the catholichurch. and saying sorry, again: will smith takes to social media to apologise to chris rock for that oscar slap. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the united nations and the red cross have been asked to investigate the deaths of more than 50 ukrainian prisoners of war who were being held at a detention centre in the russian—occupied part of the donetsk region. these are pictures of the rocket attack which is thought to have killed them. ukraine and russia have accused each other of the deaths. ukraine says moscow is trying to cover up evidence of torture and war crimes at the site. the bbc�*s paul adams is in kyiv with the latest about the incident. this is a war of competing narratives over a particularly gruesome episode. what i've seen — and i do not recommend that people watch this — is a horrible scene of a warehouse which was obviously housing a significant number of prisoners of war. there are mangled metal bunk beds and, in among them, many, many ch

it's only a partial disclosure that only the catholic church can complete.t to get some information out that only they hold. here in the united states, there is also an investigation into the abuse of indigenous children at residential schools. of indigenous children at residentialschools. do of indigenous children at residential schools. do you think america is actually far behind canada in confronting its past? well, a recently, it's an excellent question, had the opportunity to speak to secretary holland about this. there is a feeling in terms of the work that has been done with the us is trailing behind in the work that needs to be done, and the awareness that needs to be raised in american society, the depth and scope of this tragedy that occurred across the americas in the us and canada as the case may be, but clearly there is work to be done. there is work to be done in our country, and as much as we need to catholic church to be part and parcel to this, our american friends to the south of us are part and parcel of this discussion insofar as a lot of

and the catholic church kept meticulous records. : william the catholic church -- william: the catholicabout 60% of the schools, but for decades, it resisted calls to apologize. fontaine himself met with pope benedict in 2009, but it wasn't until this year and another meeting that pope francis apologized and pledged to do it again in canada. does it frustrate you that it has taken so many years for this to happen? >> persistence is so important. you just can't give up. >> we need to do a lot of thinking and planning on how they are going to make amends and fix some of the harm. william: fontaine says while they will never forget, they must learn to forgive. >> there isn't anything more horrible in terms -- more powerful in terms of symbolism than to be able to say i forgive you. william: but for many, those whose emotional wounds persists to this day, even as the pope asks for forgiveness, that forgiveness does not come easily. for the "pbs newshour," i'm wil liam brangham. ♪ judy: stay with us. coming up on the "newshour," a pair of studies provide compelling evidence that covid-19 ori