withdrawal agreement with a new despite fears that that could bring international law. and is there life on venus scientists have found what might be the 1st clue. i'm aaron sultan welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump has taken a break from the campaign trail to meet with officials in california who are battling fierce wildfires across the state trump downplayed arguments that climate change is fueling the record blazes which are also affecting oregon and washington instead he claimed that poor forest management is to blame critic accuse the president of ignoring a growing crisis. these are some of his themes providing the backdrop to the president's visit to california. raging wildfires that have burned millions of acres wiped out whole communities and left dozens dead. scientists they've blazes like these are being made worse by climate change. but donald trump spoke of other concerns after landing in california to meet with top officials. and we have to do a lot about forest management obviously forest management in california is very important. california governor gavin newsome said those concerns were justified but he and other officials went on to press trump on climate change just as that of force management science in an observed evidence is self evident that climate change is real and that is exacerbating this if we ignore that science and sort of put our head in the sand and think it's all about vegetation management we're not going to succeed together protecting californians ok it'll start getting cooler but i was just you just watch i wish science a good body of it but. i don't think science knows actually. and earlier that day harsh words from trump's democratic presidential rival joe biden if you give a clive an arsonist 4 more years in the white house why would anyone be surprised if we have more america blankies if you have a climate denier 4 more years in the white house why would anyone be surprised when more of america is underwater. but trump has his supporters even in deeply democratic california i was displaced by the taubes fire i woke up with my city in flames and the democrats have not done their due diligence policy wise and so if there is a component of global warming it is a very very small component because the democrats are failing california meanwhile firefighters on the front lines face challenging conditions with shifting winds and drier weather sparking several new blazes. do you mean as if is on the story for us in california he told us more about the president's brief visit to the state capital of sacramento yeah this was an unexpected visit now he did not plan to come to california this leg of his campaign but he did so anyway and the reason is because the california wildfires were making headlines around the world now like i said he didn't plan to come here because california is very heavily democratic state he doesn't expect to win the state anyway but i think he realized that now was the time to come here and show that he has the situation under control but a bit of a mixed message there because he seemed to be making light of the connection with climate change which climate scientists say is the reason why these fires and this catastrophe here in the state is unprecedented trump has faced blistering criticism for his handling of the wildfires what are people there saying about his visit today. well you know the trump supporters came out to see air force one land so there was several 100 people at the airport to greet him warmly but i don't know if that reflects the state again california is a heavily democratic state a lot of people in california and sacramento in particular are still a bit angry about his comments this year and last year blaming california for mismanaging its forest and saying that that's the reason why they're having forest fires which many scientists disagree with but there were also people who showed up at the airport to protest some people from a black lives matter movement but also just trump's critics. that was g.w. correspondent in sacramento california now let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world people in the u.s. gulf coast are bracing for the arrival of hurricane sally forecasters say it could make landfall in louisiana and mississippi as a category 2 storm it's expected to bring heavy rain and flooding to areas including new orleans sally is the 2nd hurricane to threaten the region in less than a month. in japan the former aide to x. . has gone on trial. greg kelly is accused of helping go and hide tens of millions of dollars in payments should also be facing court but he fled to lebanon in december both men deny any wrongdoing the trial is expected to last 10 months. and some other bees is holding its 1st ever hip hop auction featuring around 120 artifacts from the 1970 s. up until the 1990 s. among the items on the block the crown worn by new york rapper biggie smalls in a photo shoot just days before he was shot dead in a feud that also took the life of tupac shakur. to the u.k. now we're british lawmakers have given their initial approval to a controversial new breakfast bill despite concerns that it breaches international law. in the house of commons back to the u.k. internal market bill by 340 votes to 63 clearing the way for further debate over the next 2 weeks the bill gives the government power to override parts of the brics it withdrawal deal agreed with the european union just last year. reporter jill dougherty joins us now and he's been following that vote in the u.k. parliament so joel walk us through this year what exactly is the significance of today's vote but with this bill boris johnson and his conservative government have given the power to override the terms of that withdrawal agreement that they reached with the european union and if they go ahead and use those powers they will be breaching an international treaty and therefore breaching international law boris johnson says he doesn't actually want to intend to use these powers but he says they're necessary in case they go with the european breakdown and that could leave northern ireland operating under a different trading agreement and arrangement than the rest of the united kingdom effectively cutting northern island off from the rest of the country in terms of trade we can hear now what boris johnson had to say in the house of commons. it's a protection it's a safety net it's an in an insurance policy and it is a very sensible measure so we can have a situation where the very fundraise of our country could be dictated by a foreign power of its national. british prime minister government no part of it could ever accept such an imposition but what's stunning irony is that this british prime minister this party government in this parliament did accept the exact those exact terms when signed this withdrawal agreement back in january boris johnson was in charge of the negotiations of this deal he won an election on the back of this deal he even prevented the house of commons from scrutinizing this bill and now he says it's a bad deal we can hear now from the opposition labor spokesman ed miliband. it's time to fess up eva he wasn't straight with the country about the deal in the 1st place or he didn't understand it because madame de p. speaker a competent government would never have entered into a binding agreement with provisions that could not live with and if such a government somehow missed the point but would. it would have done what any competent business would do after it realized they can't live with the terms of the contract it would negotiate a way out in good faith and that's why madam that you speak this is also unnecessary. so why are we seeing this about face in this deal now well you could say that word phase 2 of brags that phase one was the referendum now phase 2 is interim period in which the status quo is kind of maintained up until the end of this year december 31st that's when stage 3 should kick in the permanent long lasting relationship between the u.k. and paris brigs a europe so with this phase 2 and phase 3 however it's a bit tricky to get between those 2 and that involves negotiations which is where we're at at the moment those negotiations are stuck we've been hearing increasingly acrimonious comments from both sides saying that we're lacking progress and so this can be seen as a negotiation tactic the u.k. is trying to tell the e.u. that is prepared to rewrite trade agreements ok let's let's focus on the prime minister here for just a 2nd is he been facing any type of opposition because of his turnaround on this deal well he's very similar position from his own pays around 8 percent of them decided not to vote with this a bill some form of conservative prime minister spoke out against it including to reason why the former pm who stood up in the house of commons a few days ago and said how can the u.k. expect any other global partners to take it seriously when we rip up trade agreements and that's going to be increasingly important because the u.k. needs more trading partners in the post threads of the landscape so what happens next well there's bill still has to go through a few more parliamentary phases and then it has to go to the house of lords so we haven't heard the end of it and we're still yet waiting to hear from an official response from the european union as to this latest escalation all right joel we have to leave it there but thanks as ever for keeping us up today. it's news that's truly out of this world astronomers have detected signs of what could be life on the planet venus researchers have discovered a gas called faustina high in the atmosphere that may have been produced by living organisms scientists are cautioning that the presence of fostering does not prove the existence of life on earth next door neighbor nevertheless now so officials are describing the study as the most significant development in the search for ilion life in years. let's bring in dr sara seager she's an astronomer and professor at the massachusetts institute of technology and one of the co-authors of that study dr seager thanks for joining us tonight so what exactly were you able to detect well we were able to detect the gas processing at tiny concentrations of 20 parts per 1000000 in the venus atmosphere all right and walk us through exactly what that means what is philosophy in gas and why does it show that there might be potentially life in the nation atmosphere osteen is made for saddam and 3 hydrogen atoms and it shouldn't be present at all and venus is atmosphere we only find fos fim in nature so to speak i'm jupiter and saturn they have lots and lots of hydrogen and they also have high temperatures and pressures in the bottom of the atmosphere so one of venus without hydrogen and without the kinds of temperatures and pressures needed to find fostering it shouldn't be there furthermore you know on earth phosphate is only associated by life it's either made by us humans or it's found associated with bacteria that live in oxygen free environments like swamps and wetlands and animal guts. all right and when it comes to the search for extraterrestrial life star have been false indications of life on planet on other planets before so what's different this time. well we're really pretty early in the process we have found phosgene gas and it doesn't long to venus's atmosphere we really have 2 possibilities one is that it's produced by some unknown chemistry something that you know we exhaustively searched through all possible chemistry and didn't find any easy way to make crossing so it could either be some new chemical process or it might be produced by life and honestly both of those explanations are equally crazy really so we have to do more work to see which one it might be alright venus is a famously inhospitable planet do we know if that where these microbes could be living if they actually exist at all yes well the surface is incredibly hot it's way too hot for life of any kind but above the surface around 48 around 50 to 60 kilometers above innocent surface there's a sweet spot where the atmosphere is cool it's actually just the right temperature temperature for life. all right so when it comes to your research what exactly are the next steps well 1st i just want to add that even in this relatively temperate like this good temperature layer this is atmosphere is still incredibly harsh the clouds are not like our earth clouds made of liquid water but they're made of a very harsh chemical called liquid sulfur york acid so it's going to be challenging for life to survive in venus atmosphere to next step we'd like to confirm the presence of gas using other ground based telescopes than the one we used to detect it but ultimately we'd like to see a space mission go to the us and go into the atmosphere directly to look for other gases and molecules that might indicate life and even perhaps to search for life itself all right dr sara seager well to leave it there thank you for joining us this evening thank you. you're watching news live from berlin brian thomas will have more news for you at the top of the hour i'm aaron chilton thanks for tuning in. i'm neal i'm good. the 2nd season of on the fence of the planet on the brink of disaster we just long in-depth interview experts about one question how to change the deficit only $0.03. of. social networks never forget. so i searched in my personal archives. 2012. march. had i liked or shared the most viral video in history 100000000 views in just 6 days. my name is jason russell and this is my son. it was the story of a young american director jason russell who hoped his 30 minute video would facilitate the capture of a new tory as a war criminal in central africa. joseph coney. this is the guy just cody. for 26 years has been kidnapping children into is rubble. turning the girls into sex slaves. the video was meant to shock to outrage people seized. to bring joseph kony to justice russell even set up a private n.g.o.s called invisible children. its internet campaign kone 2012 was a runaway success. among those who circulated the video for a few of my friends. until recently i had forgotten all about the video and about joseph koni himself. then 2 journalists from our team entrusted me with this hard drive with footage shot in africa in 2014. the starting point for my investigation. i set out in pursuit of the most infamous war criminal on social networks and of invisible children being n.g.o.s that want to stop them my 1st port of call was good in northern uganda joseph coney's native region. i took the same roads that the directors of coney 2012 took and met the same people . former child soldiers of the n.r.a. the brutal rebel group headed by joseph coney. from the late 1980 s. the warlord raided villages here to replenish his ranks with new recruits. it was. frightening i don't. ever in the money that's when they came to. know what that's all the name. and the 2nd night i was given some simple training for using guns and i think that . whether i like it or not i don't. know so i have to laugh and i said. the 3 filmmakers from invisible children turned up here in gulu in 2003. i was able to track down the woman who served as their guide at the time. and then i walked a lot of charity organizations and i went to the u.s. to talk about the war in northern uganda and i started telling how i was a for much i was sold and then how many kids still being abducted here and that is where i received a lot of people. well they're ignorant about the war and when the boys so i always called them the boys i'm sorry but when the filmmaker has sold this story. they contacted me and definitely i would see their story of how they wanted to talk about war. and they said wait a minute you want to talk about war there's a wall more than uganda. but because that one days. i drove with them to the north. they were not in full gear so russian we've been. point being with children. and that's how everything started. what they did they made a lot of small videos about. some of the victims of the war. and of course the final the 12 documented was going to 12. bringing it out in the minutes. a war that had lasted for more than 20. many people didn't look like a joke. since then the 9 kids had grown up and they're in geo is now based in washington like all successful lobbyist. like because it's just a good just relief it's just the year before i could talk to the president of invisible children that he can let me know if my hair will be a problem at any point and i knew that. there was an endless back and forth of negotiations 24 teams my colleagues request for an interview was declined it took dozens of. emails and months of waiting before i got the green light. to new remember what else was the objective of the greens as well as the deal. part of my work 6100000000 people have now it's the main objective of the campaign was to push the u.s. government to remain committed to implementing its counter eller a strategy and then the deployment of the advisors was an outcome of that strategy ready for the videos explicit aim was to provoke the u.s. into sending troops after coni. train track him in the vast jungle in order to find him the us government has to deploy them that's where the american advisors come in not for self defense but because it was right. politically speaking it was hugely successful. hugely successful not really 2 years before kone 2012 became a global internet sensation invisible children was already lobbying the oval office as this photo from 2010 clearly shows. there is a small number of u.s. forces i ordered the small number of american advisors to help uganda and its neighbors pursue the l.r. the removal of joseph kony from the battlefield sincerely. it's just a small step from garnering likes to dispatching troops. in the 21st century a video can start a war. but that's the americans helicopter visibility or says the videos on my hard drive document at the u.s. operation it featured some members of the 100 strong special forces team deployed by obama. may we have just a question with you because we just wanted to understand. no photos you know on camera or i don't know. somewhat surprisingly and invisible children camp can be seen on the footage. surprising because my colleagues shot the material in 2014 in the eastern central african republic by then it had been almost a decade since joseph coney's militia had abandoned their base in uganda. the remnants were holed up somewhere in a vast neighboring area between the democratic republic of congo south sudan and the central african republic. here in obo hundreds of kilometers east of the war torn capital bangui is where the americans claimed that coney and his troops were hiding. on the ground my colleagues realized that not only was invisible children behind the deployment of u.s. army advisers the american n.-g. o. was also hosting military meetings. specifically for the u.s. special forces directing operations in the hunt for kone and their allies the ugandans who are carrying out their orders. which language is. more. caring way colonel eberly only commander of the us forces that were. in regional to force in the ellery bringing the ellery. they will hear our message today and you know there's time to follow. the script a few weeks so it's free yes. thanks to. the bush is still in the bush right but his organization is coming out of the bush it's as you know this is a gigantic area here and to find one person that does not want to be found is very difficult. fast forward 4 years by now the u.s. operation was over the army advisors had returned home having failed to capture kone. but why end a manhunt when the target is still at large. had the most powerful army in the world been looking in the wrong place. or did the mission have other objectives. as my family remained mostly in the. father was prime minister. until that government it so it was overthrown by the hard. work to get. us to 6 years of intervention right they didn't get it right where they even looking for him of course not they were not looking for corn and in fact it's hard to say it's even a success or failure since i believe 100 percent that was never the objective anyway. this operation was cost more than $700000000.00 is that possible it only makes sense if that money was going to finance another i genda. who are the soldiers we filmed in 2014. what was the true nature of their mission. they were there under the banner of the pentagon's africa command africa. but it's not only a military command. according to this recently declassified internal document afrikan comprises both military personnel and civilians protecting u.s. interests in africa is one of its goals. which interests diplomatic and military but also economic financial as well as intelligence above all africa operates in the gray zone between traditional war and peace. africa this meant to intervene in a humanitarian role so that is the official narrative. but the more geo political narrative is that the u.s. would be able to start sneaking in u.s. force says through uganda and then spread it into the region to counter other interest in africa. in 2014 the people of oboe rarely saw u.s. army rangers on patrol. what they did see though was their aircraft their helicopters and their drones. activity great heaven. will get. really if we're not. there. now during. helicopter. without the excuse of hunting down a war criminal the u.s. military would never have been allowed to conduct an airborne operation over such an unstable strategic area. thanks to operation. tony it was able to map the area and install g.p.s. beacons. or in military terms gather intelligence. thanks but central africa is not just a region of military interest. it's also rich in gold and diamond reserves along with businessmen ready to exploit them. this man for example on the left. he appears in footage shot in 2014 at a security meeting in obo. that day he was handed what was clearly a confidential map. he refused our requests to film it and with good reason. don't you have to refer to the map was addressed to the colonel of the american armed forces. over the. years 3 months said mark feels some this is mark pearson. apparently he's a cultural advisor. but what would a cultural advisor be doing in obo. going and why entrust a cultural advisor with an american military map. 4 years later i looked into who mark pearson really was. before following the american military into the area he was employed by jim diamond's a multinational diamond operation. that boasts turnover of some 300000000 euros with mines and prospecting projects all over africa including one in the central african republic. but the only area of diamond exploration officially declared by the company is in the west of the central african republic one and a half 1000 kilometers away from mobile on the other side of the country. so what was one of jem diamonds former employees doing here in a region that harbors a wealth of gold and diamond a process. in kampala the ugandan capital i needed to find out more about who is really running the country. you know where we must have any seized power in a coup in 1906 to consolidate his grip on power he purge the country of many rebel groups. joseph coney's a however was spared. along with a clear vision of the state. only a member of the opposition. talk to me about this angle of the story. when as president cut it open my dentist or on i come from to do so meaning to do that on was a clear shot of the government and to find that the bill. areas that i had to state power but those for the well when i was there were trained it was devastated you want rights that never came in and wanted to create a bit of interest in that if you don't you would have been a bad fit in london if it didn't have the powers even without it up bottoms up them . without those of course. the ugandan administration would not be able to make the justification but it needs more build trust systems from the united states it means needs more weapons and it needs more financial resources and diplomatic partnership with the united states how would you be able to make them are to be in presence of those of corn. that brings us to the least known and least documented part of the story. on the pretext of driving out joseph county the ugandan army committed horrific atrocities inside its own country. between 19062004 most of any as army engaged in a bloody crackdown in northern uganda. officially it was hunting down the l r a. n officially it was crushing resistance to this move from the actually people the group to which joseph coney belonged and which had dominated the previous government. did my duty to a young man called the church was complaining a lot to combine one army uniform on him and they came back and said this one of the rebel would to show you today that desire would be a bit low so that taking ladies of the state all because on that and that shutting it for this i would surely must as it were told to. and it told the chap that would do anything well to do this and. this very incident was detailed in 1991 m.s.t. international report. we haven't a single incident where the u.p.d. i was accused of intentional image and i'm asking people are you familiar with the 2005 human rights watch report about this conflict. human has no human rights watch. no you know. because in their 2005 report which is the most exhaustive they refer to torture. rape. killings. on both sides on the r. a side and also on your video sites so it's not in the case of what have our own human rights commission. but you do agree that for instance some 2005 report by human rights watch that the world's a pretty strong willing full killing rape torture this is not lights where humanity sports. some of them. some of them just one little kids are not verified yet we have cases over mother. mother who move so people. into. the mud. why was the united states desperate to support the ugandan regime at all costs despite its abuses despite the authoritarian rule of most of any president for more than 3 decades or was it because the agent ugandan autocrat was providing a few services to his american godfather. it is true that that may have gone on president you wouldn't say that for too long today as we speak you learn not to feign so much. $21.00 to $0.30 a mile that american officials can progress in to support the pros. if you need somebody to be involved to help in fighting. terrorism and a place like somalia carol take and it was so many is willing to do that sending ugandan soldiers. i think that's a very easy decision for us to make regardless of anything else that was somebody does you know we've been bit so. and can weigh in on me when too late i quoted the couple of. the show where they stayed in total bro did i done many times get the black and i had been made a statement been about the good that all the time what the blink since the incident so you and i because. a minute i made it so when we screwed it. does work on one side. none of this was mentioned in the kone 2012 video. not a word about the ugandan regime about president museveni 4 about the war crimes committed by his army. why not. and what exactly was invisible children's role. when they say they're helping the widows or orphans or so on or do they really do and. those are the sorts of questions that always are occur in my mind. when across them probably about 2 years before their big viral video and. i found their website and look at them and read what they said they were doing. so something about it felt very off to me. their level of access to the region of northern uganda is around 2005 northern uganda was completely sealed off by the ugandan army the only people who got in especially people with camera gear sophisticated camera gear such people did not get into northern uganda without the express permission of the ugandan government jason russell and his team they were in there because the ugandan government want them to be there so why. the small in geo was purportedly working to save orphans when in fact it was promoting one of the most corrupt regimes in africa. this is a radio h.q. where we coordinate all the security information for the southeast of the central african republic. the newsroom. every day we have a security round in the morning and another in the afternoon the afternoon. in concrete terms it was nothing more than a network of informants scattered through dozens of villages they were responsible for reporting the movements of active armed rebels without really knowing whether there were any small isolated l r a groups among them or not. that was more information than the military because the radios were all over the community. that information. this is so it was a long title. in the making the most of the information would come to the invisible radio network. that mr sawyer and i knew about it was how forceful the entire. but i don't know how it would have been between the nonprofit. information to the military so we were kind of. at the end of it's the us it's what the voice of. the n.r.a. why children if you're feeding the military before they go on get them after the 2 children. are in bed to do your good it's all me she felt comfortable with sharing information with the new trick. that's very interesting i was not in a position of leadership that i am now at the time when jolie was working with invisible hand in that role but my understanding was that that was not her sentiment previously so i. only recently i owe. my understanding is that that was not a sentiment that she held. at the time that these programs are being developed the concept of neutrality with the l r a is very different than in the context of a civil conflict or intercommunal conflict and so in that context supporting essentially law enforcement in the protection of civilians we felt like was very. except that in the code of ethics for n.g.o.s recognized by the un neutrality is nonnegotiable in fact a non-governmental organization should always be independent of governments and armies. invisible children however has always collaborated with the ugandan army and regime. so just like in february 2009 at the time the most of any government claimed there was a conspiracy afoot to overthrow it. patrick obama care who had worked for invisible children in its early days was accused of being part of a plot. i was having. only. for me. i was supposed to. have been. never seen in my life before. and i think a month. and a member one day days and i was the. prisoners who were down there. i know that this guy from. patrick was eventually cleared of all charges but who denounced him the answer was hidden in a secret diplomatic note written by the us ambassador himself in 2009 later published on the wiki leaks website. here number 4 they say they foiled a plot against the ugandan government and were looking for someone. to come a cash. they say he was then arrested thanks to a tip off from invisible children. even the american ambassador implies that the organization does the leg work for ugandan forces. by then i don't believe it is and i was not working within. and i don't know what of it but this is a confession from that i quote somebody there. was so much. investigation. that people from. you know him. know who i am i do know who he is i don't i can't recall that interact with him and i if i heard his name it might have been back in 2007 or something very early do you know what happens or. no i don't say that it has been arrested. because invisible children that it's i gave it to you both to the uganda security forces i have no information about that. how do you feel about doubts about so that's was a question of them wouldn't be able to to do so well i have i have no i have knowing if that's true at all i sorry it is i'm in love met the guy there is substantial evidence that's actually invisible children have that's i'm david supposed to the ugandan military and the arrested him and the guy was tortured for 3 months and then he was cleared because he didn't do anything how would you feel about that is that. i i have no information about that situation at all i obviously anyone who acts who would experience something horrible like that is it is unacceptable i have no information on that situation. another thing that bothered me about the coney 2012 video was the evangelical rather messianic tone adopted by jason russell. the founder of invisible children seems to regard himself as something of a pastor. his speeches are sermons. who are you to end a war i'm here to tell you who are not. here's the copy that was put out by the truth wins out. the words organization i was working. on for this audio i found interesting russell at the gathering in 2000. gathering is the biggest community of christian fundamentalists philanthropists in the united states. only need and so with this movie we are able to be the trojan horse in a sense going into a route say guess what lifestyle our friends and. us. and scots start and that's really what this was all. well i was surprised that he would use the word choice in horse even at. a conference such as that of a joker christian donors i was surprised that he went that far to it minute that is is that they visible children was. perpetrating some some deceit. as it's. true. so i. can't comment on what jason might have not. a very common we are in no way a religiously affiliated organization. all of this was funded by an army of young people who put their money toward their belief in the value of all human life they gave a few dollars a month of what little they have. their funding comes from young people who give a few of those a month. as invisible children became better and better known they were able to get small donations by by presenting themselves as more or less a secular. non-profit which was doing great things in africa but that's not where they started they they started with money from the. giant fundamentalist haven't chuckled philanthropies they gave them seed money. this is the 1st year they are following. is the list of donors that's really. a lot of churches yellow churches a lot of ministries so here's the big one the provision foundation which is a subsidiary of the national christian foundation and so this form lists. $350000.00 and i think they're one of the biggest in grants they got in 2007 and the national christian foundation it's a fundamentalist christian philanthropy they say in their statement of belief that the bible is the infallible inerrant word of god and that we're about essentially extending the kingdom promoting the kingdom are our kind of the christian kingdom throughout the world and. we are. non-profit organization that's completely secular that folks not at the trustees prevention into neuroscience programming so that's not that's not the. higher authority is a sure sign of. good will go to invisible children web sites you know to see what they're publishing you know in terms of the let's look at risk you know they'll be interesting because i haven't looked at it. i think it's probably still with this. you're getting half a $1000000.00 from someone no ma'am and it was yeah i mean. when you see when you go to some doctors in your thoughts for. we can say that we can see that there was amounts of money for instance house a $1000000.00 from someone but we don't know we don't know who it is often do we came up with one you know. i could send you because yeah because it's so interesting. to google up and down with a few days after the interview but the ship the invisible children press officer who cut in during the interview sent me this clarification. it guarantees that donations are from private foundations with no religious affiliations will use. when you look i reply that i would like to believe there is no religious connection for me but need to check for myself. could i have the names since then i've had no word from invisible children. but it doesn't end there the involvement of another more powerful entity in uganda raises the question who was really behind kone 2012. on the author of 2 books about an american fundamentalist organization with deep involvement in uganda. the family or the fellowship as it's known is the oldest and arguably the most influential christian conservative political organization in the united states. the organization the furs and terry very low profile the more invisible you can make your organization the longtime leader and on the same the more influence it will have he liked to refer to it as the christian mafia. located close to congress this unremarkable red brick building belongs to the fellowship. its members meet here in private to talk about jesus and business. but it won't open its doors to outsiders. its membership was not for the masses they weren't doing any big revivals it was for congressmen business leaders government leaders and they play a major part in facilitating u.s. relationships with authoritarian figures around the world that's what they admire this they when they look at christ they don't see a model of love or compassion primarily they see strength. could there then be a more i do. we'll recruit for the fellowship in the autocrats where he moves have any. call for a terry and vehemently homophobic and evangelical. the family looks at the 70 as their key man as they put it in uganda but also as their one of the key men in africa and one of the key men globally saying come to us pray with us. do business with us and they really take credit for forging that relationship at the beginning and turning the 70 into the american sphere of influence where he has remained as powerful regional proxy ever since. in washington i was particularly interested in one member of the fellowship. a senator named jim inhofe known for his interest in african affairs. on. the bottom he was on the radio call on if you like to thank you for writing. in hoff was one of the stars of the kone 2012 video. for all the problems that are out there no one is more severe than one in the middle ages and takes the lives of the little kids. a scintilla this senator jim inhofe from oklahoma must be pretty close to the ngo because in one of the other videos we have we see him taking part in one of the n.g.o.s protests. there he is. his interest in uganda goes back many years. in this press release from 2006 he was already raising the alarm about what he called northern uganda as terrorist group the l r a. when i go he says i'm doing my jesus thing when he goes and meets with foreign leaders he says i'm a u.s. senator i'm a conduit to u.s. power and money if you want to get there you go to me and you go to jesus. the senator will not answer our questions what's clear is that for decades a radical fellowship has been pulling strings behind the scenes to get uganda to advance u.s. interests. me 2012 was just part of a much more complex story. incidentally what happened right after the videos of viral success. once its makers collected $70000000.00 in donations. that. the coin treasure trove when i was c.e.o. decided that there was no funding coming in and we made the decision to close the invisible children in uganda. the moral of this story. is that there isn't one. in 2017 the u.s. government's development agency usaid awarded $24000000.00 in grants to invisible children to fund a 5 year mission in the democratic republic of congo. today invisible children gets most of its funding from the us government. to me a founder member of the invisible children i'm the one who led 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