of the young thai footballers rescued from a cave our correspondent revisits the people who saved them. when i first walked up here four years ago and saw the row of bicycles up against these railings, belonging to boys the same age as my own sons, i remember the heavy feeling i had then, how unlikely it was they would ever come out alive. hello and welcome to the programme. pope francis will visit a former residential school in canada later on monday, where he is expected to make a historic personal apology to indigenous survivors of abuse. it s believed more than 150 thousand children were taken from their families and mistreated in catholic run institutions. but the detail and extent of the pontiff s apology is proving controversial as mark lobel reports. preparing to confront his flock s terrible past in canada but not everyone appears as pleased as canada s governor general, seen here welcoming the pontiff with the pope s agenda this week. that is part of the probl
of the pontiff s apology is proving controversial as mark lobel reports. preparing to confront his flock s terrible past in canada but not everyone appears as pleased as canada s governor general, seen here welcoming the pontiff with the pope s agenda this week. that is part of the problem we have had with the church, that they have not been including us in the proper planning of this process. the remains of 215 children were found at this fromer residential school in british columbia, closed in 1978 after forcibly assimilating indigenous youth. in all, more than 150,000 indigenous children were subjected to abuse, malnutrition, rape and death at similar schools, around 70% of which were run by the catholic church. a government backed truth and