of illness so constantine the pope called on people to keep a watchful eye on them but was he aiming his comments beyond just the baltic states well his general message it is was anti-nationalism. exclusivism if you wish so i think that yes this was very much a global message that he repeats very frequently especially since the. major my group crisis swept europe in two thousand and sixteen and he repeated it here in this one year thing is that ethnic minorities in lithuania are rather posed to be able russians ukrainians basically it's not very combustible stop talking about tensions but generally the message was very clear and of course it was intended for a wider audience than just the baltic countries so global message but very targeted visits pope francis made a stop at the vilnius jewish ghetto memorial and the former soviet k.g.b. headquarters the occupations museum how important were those visits for lithuanians . both are very important because the story of the holocaust and its many has its dark sides because some of its variants participated in the extermination of the jew

constantine fourteen the sign of the cross under stablished christianity in the empire. there are countless domes and towers atop the churches and ministries of rome reputedly more than three hundred and more are planned for the year two thousand declared the holy give. gifts sometimes difficult to tell churches and temples apart the pantheon on piazza said out of town that is in fact. it was built by the great commander marcus agrippa right hand man of augustus. fronted by greek columns it's a magnificent front tundra crowned by the biggest dome in pinching road. and opening nine meters across known as the eye of god admits the sunlight the dome itself has a radius of forty three meters a must of the achievement. pope going to face the fourth had twenty eight wagon loads of martyrs relics moved to the pantheon transforming a heathen temple into a church the great painter raphael is very here. knew the artist fly the italian kings victoria manual the second and all that to the first. just loyal monarchists stand watch by their tombs and collect signatures to petition res

the pontiff's visit constantine today is also the seventy fifth anniversary of the near extermination of lithuania as jewish community during the holocaust how does that fit in with the pope's message that it's a very well rebecca it actually continues on he's a seam of being a welcoming strangers that he develops yesterday and i think it's a very significant thing also because all three baltic states are struggling with their memories of the holocaust because elements of local copulation two parts hounding and eventually extermination of jews in the three baltic states and this is a painful memory which decides it because they really did a successful at trying to tackle but there is still there the think the pope's message fits here very well and modernizes if you push these memories makes them relevant to societies well the baltic states were all my old so once an expired the soviet union and the catholic church they were heavily persecuted does the catholic church have a large following with the white house. yes that's right is the largest catholic country in northern europe actual

correspondent constantine for an exit in vilnius lithuania thank you. a sound look at some of the other stories making headlines this hour the rain and president has said rouhani has lashed out of the u.s. following saturday's deadly attack on a military parade in the city of as gunmen killed twenty five people including twelve soldiers civilians and a four year old girl granny said the quote bully us and its gulf state allies had enabled the attack washington has dismissed the allegations. swiss voters have rejected two proposals aimed at protecting farmers of promoting ethical and sustainable food voters appeared to be put off by concerns about the cost and government opposition to the so-called fair food initiative the government argued the proposal could limit choice raise prices and dangerous space trade agreements. now an australian filmmaker who was jailed in cambodia on espionage charges has arrived back in sydney sixty nine year old james ricketson was granted a royal pardon last week and deported after his release from jail cambodia has come i

journalist and political analyst constantine vonnegut in vilnius lithuania thank you you thank. now to some of the other stories making news around the world an indian bishop accused of raping a nun has been refused bail and order to remain in custody to face questioning bishop franco miller was arrested in southern carolla state after the pope suspended him from office has denied the accusations. the woman who is accused u.s. supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh of sexual assault has agreed to testify in front of a senate panel lawyers for christine blasi ford is said to be negotiating the conditions of her testimony the committee had earlier delayed a vote on cavanagh's confirmation. in the mold eaves police have raided the campaign office of the opposition presidential candidate a day before the election the move comes amid a government crackdown raising fears that the vote will be rigged in favor of current president ability i mean observers have denounced a repressive campaign and lack of transparency. with the syrian government preparing to retake the last major rebel str

well for more on the pope's tour of the baltics to double your correspondent constantine funny joins us now from vilnius good evening to you constantine so we just heard the pope there calling for tolerance in his address but was leaving his comments beyond just the baltic states well i think yes i think that he was going along the part you already managed to read in quite a few other be just around since that's his main theme and he stuck to it all through the meetings including meeting of the priests the religious in conus when he was always talking about welcoming a stranger welcoming the poorest ones i think it's quite a significant departure from the previous two princes against it we're more focused on the questions of history on moral issues that face catholics here it's more about tolerance and the necessity to welcome diversity well after that massive encounter francis also made a stop at the villa as a jew is dead a memorial as well as at the former soviet k.g.b. headquarters of the occupation museum now how important were those visits for lithuanians. both of their importa

well for more on this we turn to our correspondent cons to take constantine von eggert in vilnius constantine good to have you with us what would you say was the pope's overarching message. i think the overarching message was very much of lithuania becoming a bridge between east and west that's what he said in his first public appearance yesterday in venice and i think it's also very much a message of let's say anti-nationalism. and later i think you'll be talking about a very tricky subject which is holocaust remembrance when he visits the memorial to the jewish people that were killed in venice during the holocaust generally i think it's a message that will go down well with sound here but some people really think that's maybe twenty five needed thirty years of early twenty regained its independence from after the collapse of the soviet union probably it's a big to early to say that's it when he needs more people coming in because it still needs to kind of rebuild its national life it's an ongoing debate and in lithuania but i think generally he was very well received especially rebecca whe

correspondent constantine for an egg in vilnius lithuania thank you and. now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world the main opposition candidate in the maldives ibrahim mohammad saudi is claiming victory in the country's presidential election local media said official results showed he had scored an upset win over president of do and i am being. his first time in office was mobbed by a crackdown against a sentence. by the indian prime minister narendra modi has launched a new health insurance scheme the promises pre coverage for half a billion of the country's poorest citizens the launch of the so-called more program comes ahead of national elections next year critics have questioned how the government will fund the one point six billion dollars. serious voters have rejected two proposals aimed at protecting farmers and promoting ethical and sustainable food voters appear to be put off by concerns about the cost and governmental position to the so-called fair food initiative the government argued the proposal could limit choice rai

it is this schismatic groups which are supposed to constitute the basis on which constantine ople wants to be able to build this outer surface church and it is a political project because it is a project instigated by as a current ukrainian political authorities they want to create a united church or for churches the canonical orthodox church the two schismatic groups and also the greek catholic church which belongs to the pope of rome this moment for an independent ukrainian church started back in the nineteen ninety s. and baghdad and its supporters are pretty open about wanting a schism a political schism a religious schism but i think present person cut deep change a tactic a little bit and he presents it as him striving towards the unity of the ukrainian faithful i'm sure you dislike it but don't you think that it's a clever tactic for him we certainly like the idea of the unity of the church and we certainly dislike schisms but the broken silly asian between schismatics and the canonical church. should go through. the process which we call repentance and it is not repentance in th

it is this schismatic groups which are supposed to constitute the basis on which constantine or paul wants to be able to build this out of surface church and it is a political project because it is a project instigated by as a current ukrainian political authorities they want to create a united church or for churches the canonical orthodox church the two schismatic groups and also the greek catholic church which belongs to the pope of rome this moment for an independent ukrainian church started back in the nineteen ninety s. and baghdad and its supporters are pretty open about wanting a schism a political schism a religious schism but i think president bush on cut deep change a tactic a little bit and he presents it as him striving towards the unity of the ukrainian faithful i'm sure you dislike it but don't you think that it's a clever tactic for him we certainly like the idea of the unity of the church and we certainly dislike schisms but the broken silly asian.

and identity and from moscow geography has always been transit and secondary but not so much for constantin opel and kia for consumption opel for example its whole supremacy claim is based on the fact that the orthodox christianity was born in geographic locale and i think the ukrainians advancing a similar argument that. christians christians were there before moscow was even found that and why should than it has it have any demeaning and over us what's your response to that. should underline that there is nothing in the fully itself the russian orthodox church at some point was a part of the kit of constantinople them. it became an outer surface church and it didn't ask for their consent and opal permission then i didn't ask for the permission of constantinople because that the pitcher constance you know paul was in the union was wrong which according to the russian church was here is so the pitcher of consent in op was a hear a tick there was no one. to ask listen from. by itself there is nothing bad in the it but the problem for the ukraine currently is that it is not the ukrainian orth

going to stop communicating communication of with with constantin ople by doing that when one sheer fact of only. fuel doubt or even more because you would effectively have to tie your cut your ties with other churches some of the churches will have to decide whether to side with you or with constant within that make things even worse first of all we do not need to cut ties with other churches if we cut ties with constantinople there are situations in which two churches are not in communion with one another but churches are in communion with both of them and this is what is likely to happen but in canonical terms we will have no option because we cannot accept in the. such action on the part of constance in opal we will have to respond in this way and we are already a warrant several times. that this will be one of the can sequence of his actions he's supposed to announce his final decision i mean in a formal way i think somewhere in the fall do you think it's also now are we already beyond the point of no return or do you still hope hold out hope that something may be decided in a mutua

it is this schismatic groups which are supposed to constitute the basis on which constantine or paul wants to be able to build this out of surface church and it is a political project because it is a project instigated by as a current ukrainian political authorities they want to create a united church of four churches the canonical orthodox church the two schismatic groups and also as the greek catholic church which belongs to the pope of rome this moment for an independent ukrainian church started back in the nineteen ninety s. and baghdad and its supporters are pretty open about wanting a schism a political skills and a religious schism but they.

million strong global orthodox community may soon be forced to take sides as the patriarchy just constantin on pole and moscow wrangle over the fate of baseball in your brain because it already has the point of no return to discuss that i'm now in joined by metropolitan hilarion how to foreign relations at the russian orthodox church your eminence it's good to talk to you thank you very much for a time just a few days ago constantino. in pretty stark terms its decision to eventually ground the sufferer to the ukrainian church whatever it might be real discuss it now and i say to the ukrainian church keeping in mind that this pilot primarily a political process but because of the politicians the stayed up for that what do you make of this very tight association between state and religious affairs first of all i think they should explain what it means because not everyone would understand. now to sinfully course of the tradition means independence the orthodox church unlike the roman catholic church consists of fully independent local churches they are not subordinate to one and there is no s

is strong enough to reach it constantine who thank you very much. well still to come on the day children on the front line in eastern ukraine risking their lives for an education just me and my brothers were on our way to school suddenly lots of she sing started so we all got down it was really scary there was nowhere to hide. pope francis met leaders of the u.s. catholic church today amid an ever widening scandal over clergy sexual abuse of children the batek and is reeling from crises around the world involving the molestation of children by priests and allegations of systematic cover ups that date back decades after today's meeting the pope ordered an investigation into an american bishop accused of sexual misconduct with adults and he accepted the bishop's resignation the pope has also called for a summit next february for senior clergy to discuss the protection of children his worry about the future of the church can be heard in his comments made today to one hundred thirty new bishops take a listen. you have to select people can fully and you

it's proprietor tremoring connected investment banker constantine. says he is on a mission to spread the word about gold and to china president putin is our leader that given to albert court nobody could imagine that we would get a leader as opposed to. a leader who can. make certain many steps for russia to be back on. on its values. the horse topic dominating the show jules is matilda a film which portrays on it was the second i come in addressing all the docs ain't as an adult for. if you. give it back. to not these pictures can you still that he's going to ask you to take the shooting if you eat you won't cinema has already been torched and last month the lawyer representing the film's director was told get it by olsen ists. and you. will glasgow like you hold that this all of. a muscle such a beam. just to put the most. hated to kill all. the would just love it to kill or would just rather that they said that those political. but that's none ticked of it's that great that video lots of. it he feel that. there is nothing to ties all grudge t.v. t

detailing the pope's allegedly gross mishandling of abuse cases we spoke earlier with the correspondent constantine fun egerton villainess about whether the pope's baltic trip has diverted attention from the ongoing scandal. it is very spite because this got a lot of making a lot always in in the baltic states and in central europe in general the catholic church and more than seventy five percent a wreath when aeons belong to the catholic church enjoys high popularity in. the twentieth probably slightly sloping attendance. rate in especially the sunday masses but i think for him it's four days when he'll be away from this scandal and from this constant pressure that he experiences from media and other parts of the west but i do think that eventually probably seen into the public discourse in the baltic states too but if you permit me this twenty seconds thing is that the catholic church structures were rebuilds in fact from nearly scratch. well the early one nine hundred ninety s. and because of that there is much less history and backlog for catholic institutions in these small nations abuse insta

he details the pope's alleged gross mishandling of abuse cases and we spoke with correspondent constantine fun agates in vilnius about whether the pope's baltic trip has diverted attention from the ongoing scandal i think of for the pope it's rather like indication from this scandal it did not attract a lot of attention in the baltic states until it's ready which is a seventy five percent catholic because the catholic church is the usual recreate its yeah after the soviet union withdrew twenty five fell a bit more years ago so there is much less history of that history with the catholic church institutions here so i think that's very much for the pope this trip was really exception and it turned away from this scandal. time now for some of the other stories making headlines around the world the main opposition candidate in the maldives ibrahim mohammed ali is claiming victory in the country's presidential election local media said official results showed he scored an upset win over president abdoulaye on. his first term in office was marred by a crackdown against dissenters. iranian presid

he had run that office in moscow where importantly he first met constanti constantine, the associate manafort who we heard a lot about in the paul manafort case. >> just to remind everywhere, that's the sort of russian intelligence linked deputy of paul manafort who receives the e-mail from paul manafort when he gees the job as campaign manager back in ukraine. how do we use to get whole? i got the job. have you old him? that guy charged by muler and fled to russia, he has connections to patton, you are saying? >> yes and the charges are very much about that guy. one of the things that we learned is that bob mueller and his team are very, very interested in constantine. he opened a company jointly with sam patton, the man who pled guilty today in 2015. they use that to do lobbying work for ukraine, the changes that sam patton pled guilty to working as a lobbyist for a foreign party without registering with the u.s. government. >> there is a straw donor issue. what exactly was the scheme as outlined in the play? >> yeah, so foreign citizens can't make political contributions. not to c

. # >> i was researching constantin kilimnik, he is a major player in the russia investigation, beingose as he is with paul manafort, and i got a tip that kilimnik was not just operating overseas. he had opened up this company with this operative sam patten. so i started researching patten and i learned he is very much like manafort, a gun for hire. working for shady people. and and he kilimnik met in moscow in 2001 when they were working for an organization. like a democracy promoter which is ironic when you look back on it now. they kept in touch over the last couple decades and they're really fond of each other. they found places to work together over the last two decades. that's what sam patten told me, anyway. when i was digging into this further, it made me real ties extent to which kilimnik, i was looking into him, how much he had ingratiated himself into american politics. he was a principle in the lobbying firm and the whole purpose of this company was lobbying for this very same client that paul manafort was lobbying for. so a whole bunch of these threads came together. and

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our web site d w dot com he joins us from moscow a welcome constantine you wrote that the lithuanianublic is suspicious of anglo american on the german government's policies on russia why. well first of all you know because the overall perception in relief right in public opinion and in parts of his political class just like is as in other baltic countries and central europe is that girl in this two key into you know to maintain the door open for the kremlin to maintain law which many in the region find it best slightly naive and it was completely counterproductive what chancellor merkel said there is today about not lifting sanctions of course music to the of of the baltic republics still you know. people he had comments paying attention to say results of different public opinion polls like are examples if you research tool last year was shown the german public not very keen on defending and they told allies from from from an onslaught of a huge prophetical onslaught by russia only forty percent of the generals approve of such of such support to all of siting on the side of the alli

he appears to be close to constantine kilimnik. >> i mean, according to the indictment, he was funneling russian money to the trump inauguration. >> ticket, absolutely. he admitted to that. and that is significant. and if you're following the money, that is the first time as carrie has pointed out that foreign money went into trump political operations. it could be just the beginning or not. we'll have to wait and see. josh, in terms of bruce ohr, who is increasingly a messy figure in this drama we know that christopher steele and bruce ohr had a number of meetings. we now know that ohr was told by steele that the russians thought they had trump over a barrel. does it surprise you that ohr didn't go back and tell his superiors at the department of justice what he was learning? >> so i don't think we know enough about that exchange right now to make a fair assessment on what bruce ohr was or was not doing. he had a history of being involved and investigating russian organized crime. that's how he first met christopher steele. he was serving as that conduit, possibly for the government to

question this piece of the puzzle also adds another russian name to the saga of pete's an ally in name constantine records had begun promoting mr trump as a future presidents in twenty twelve and created a russian language website three years later to support his candidacy so man you've likely never heard of made a pro trump website years ago in russian and there is page after page of the stuff here's some of the quick highlights. putin may have won trump the election but who knows that meeting would trump jr in a russian law or was to get rid of anti russia's think sions but was that all trump is correct when he tweets in all caps that no collusion proof has been found but we just wrote a whole article about it i think you get the picture and all fairness the new york times does have an argument as to why there is so little public information to back them up it's just not been made public mr mullen is prosecutors only rarely go public with the evidence they've been steadily gathering in secret interviews and closed door sessions of a grand jury as you build a picture in this russia riddle it seem

the poor end of church as long abandoned the idea of lending its credibility to any emperor being constantine or anybody rather they want to advance the idea of helping the people in every place of the world and also helping peace now it is dangerous times it's risky times there is talk of a new cold war the church wants to our boy if possible the cold war and the pope things can help prevent a third world war. i would say that talking to see chimping could help prevent trampy is about to talk to kim jong un is willing to talk to condone and i would say that your own is by far worse than sit in pain so the pope may as well talk to him pig thank you. when they're on line for humanity has been taken out of the discourse of this which will be about numbers on a spreadsheet or if you join a sunset i county no one else has a back story like yours this is a die. i'm just tired of seeing the negative stereotypes about native americans everyone has a voice is free to say let's go comments here questions i'll do my best to bring them into the cell join the global conversation on al-jazeera. so proud o

you constantine that. all. alone. we're hoping to home. for. him is about is a remarkable how glad that. i have. that many syrians and iraqis that were arrested ones are after greece and were put in prison being accused of being smugglers so because they have contacts with some prisoners that i'm editing to get a lawyer and legal as he usually are sometimes a picture of the person but would you be ok with that if i send those in for us i now was. doing this weekend and i will tell you if i get any answer from the people that i. will i really want to talk to a doctor about it and tell them the teacher. has got a new father brought up on that it was saddam. and the mother had much better. place under us. so we asked for one thing the coast guard. this is sufficient right that your son is in the turkish authorities. so if you find nothing here you will have to come to turkey is probably. the commissioner who will pay for the birth but you know this is a you never know you are going to open the woodwork we are doing our best. because based in front

single he had of this church is except for jesus christ himself and yet from what i understand the constantin ople church gay does claim the bride of five determining which church is supposed to be. independent and which is not yes exactly as a pitcher of constantinople acts as if he were the pope for the orthodox church but it has not been the tradition of the horse of the exchange to have such pope and we do not.

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so warnings from andrea snick two weeks ago opposition parties are also calling for consequences constantine who is a german lawmaker for the opposition free democrats he spoke to me before the show . so mr couper do you think the country's domestic intelligence agency chief should he resign he should resign or he should be even dismissed by the ministry of the interior hostile far we have now reached a situation in which there is no trust anymore within the coalition when it comes to the hat of the intelligence why don't you trust them anymore we don't trust them anymore because there has been happening so much in the last couple of weeks and months when it comes to the investigation about the attacks on but i try plots and berlin when it comes to the events in chemist's and also when it comes to the links between the ifa the and the german when the stock and hands are these there are these examples or these events where you have proof that he's done something wrong or are these rumors and suspicions that you're acting on well yesterday there has been a five hour session of the committee on

is was it was a bulk and if so it went on pieces yes stuff to safety just barely to shut off the constantine you for one want to set up the safety of tech on sr for. in the early seventy's some activists extended a critique of consumer society turning towards ecology. and one nine hundred sixty two book sun and spring the biologist rachel carson predicted the advent of a spring time without the sums of goods or buzzing it in six like today. by working americans to the dangers of the over use of pesticides which were being spread indiscriminately on crops in houses and even on children in the book live in chile lead to the creation of the u.s. environmental protection agency who after remember her children were born today are exposed to these chemicals from birth perhaps even live for birth now what is going to happen to them in adult life as a result of that exposure we simply don't know. that not only exposed part of the problem showed to do that much bigger toxic problem that is yet to be exposed and studied in terms of the impact on health impact on nature impact on the planet and that ge

there's constantine klimnik who's a time russian agent.hen there's the mysterious gutting of a platform. and of course there's manafort's first partner in politics, roger stones, whoars to have talked to wikileaks about leaked ema emails. congressman schiff, welcome back to "meet the press." manafort is cooperating, if you have a chance to ask him questions, what are the first series of qutions you want to assume and what mr. mueller nt >> you've got your president's son trying to get dirt in donald trump tower. you've got manafort trying to get money from this russian oligarch, trying to get made whole. you have the russians who want to have a relationship with the trump campaign, they want to help trump get elected. all those interests converge with paulaf mat. so basically we want to know what can manafort tell us about whether any of that was consummated. he's trying to gmo ey, they're trying to get dirt, the russians are trying to help donald trump, was there a meeting of the minds? so that goes to the heart of the collusion or conspi