raping little boys and girls and the men of god who were responsible for them not only did nothing they shoot it all for decades. the landmark report compiled by a secret grand jury in the state of pennsylvania took two years to compile many victims have been waiting decades for their voices to be heard and their pain to be acknowledged shawn daugherty says he was abused as a child by a priest at his school whom other children had complained about you know the school protect them and allowed man three and my friends and i his grade year to help pakis belongings in the rectory pack up the car and go to the new parish and the new school and spend the first night in the new rectory with them and he was being transferred for sexually abusing two brothers two priests have been charged and one has already pleaded guilty to molesting a seven year old boy as a result of the investigation many of the crimes outlined in the report however took place too long ago to be criminally prosecuted. the report places significant

blame on a former bishop of the diocese of pittsburgh cardinal donald wuerl for what it describes as his role in covering up abuse worl now the head of the archdiocese of washington d.c. responded in a written statement saying that he acted with diligence with concern for the victims and to prevent future abuse in july pope francis accepted the resignation of archbishop theodore mccarrick from the college of cardinals one of the church's most powerful bodies amid allegations of molestation and sexual misconduct i believe the bishops if they give us the opportunity to find justice and we made an apology isn't enough for sean daugherty and other victims who are calling on lawmakers to change the statute of limitations and force the catholic church to finally pay for its sins kristen salumi al-jazeera harrisburg. police in chile have raided offices of the top leadership of the catholic church they're looking for

documents to support allegations of widespread abuse by the clergy prosecutors say they're investigating thirty eight cases of sexual offenses committed by priests there are more than two hundred seventy alleged victims most of whom a minus at the time of the abuse a latin america at its honesty and human has the latest from santiago. the raid on the headquarters of the catholic church here in santiago is just the latest in a wide ranging troll searching for evidence against not only members of the clergy but of cover ups by the by bishops and even by cardinals we're talking about two cardinals including cardinal really got a lot of it is saturday who is the archbishop of santiago he has been summoned to testify next week before a port where he has to go as a defendant he denies any wrongdoing but at least one hundred and thirty eight members of the church are being investigated covering more than two hundred and

fifty alleged victims ranging will are going back rather for many many decades this is the largest investigation of this type in latin america and certainly in chile which until not a lot of it was a staunchly catholic country will francis has had to apologize and ask for forgiveness he says for having not only not done enough before having actually ignored the claims by the victims for years and years and in fact in january saying that they will quote slander police in london are treating a crash outside the british parliament as a terror incident three people were injured when a man drove through crowds before running into security barriers the suspect is a twenty nine year old foreign born british citizen monthly reports. the palace of westminster is a sleepy place in august as the politicians are on holiday here during rush hour this was the scene as heavily armed police swooped on a car which had apparently been driven deliberately into the crash barrier is surrounding the parliament the force of the collision clearly seems to have

crumpled the whole front of the small car it's only occupant showing no resistance as officers calmly took him out and led him away the question is who is he and what was his motivation in my life and it was deliberate it wasn't it wasn't over you know for sure if he if it was a direct hit this video taken from on high some distance away shows the car seeming to drive normally before swerving violently across the road and then veering again through the security barriers and coming to a stop to police officers had to jump clear to avoid being hit. as he crossed lanes on accelerated to point his car parliaments the driver plowed through a group of cyclists at least one was injured though not seriously. by now the full security apparatus agree there were no weapons in the car but the incident was soon treated as a terrorist related the driver's refusing to answer questions from the police and

they didn't know anything about him our priority now is to formally establish the identity of the suspect and establish his motivation if we can. he is not currently cooperating with the morning wore on it became clear there was no further threats though the government's full counterterrorism unit met to discuss what they didn't know about the matter if the aim of this was to repeat last year's attack on westminster bridge that it was more or less a complete failure but if the point was to prove that it is still possible to hit an emblematic targets but the houses of parliament then clearly it succeeded space was of the same time not a major incident but something that the security services are taking very serious. they indeed. of course are strong reasons for the security services to be worried last year a car attack on westminster killed six people including a police officer and injured fifty what this was isn't yet clear but it is at least

a reminder the no security can protect everything lawrence leigh al jazeera london turkey and russia said they want to find a solution to stop the fighting in syria as italy province the foreign ministers from both countries met in ankara turkey is against the syrian government's offensive to recapture the opposition's last major stronghold of a cover soon with says there's no reason to target the whole province just to root out some armed groups russia and turkey support opposing sides in the syrian war. is only just a little sick of stonies all these areas of deescalation was set up under certain street conditions first of all there was agreement that the ceasefire arrangements do not apply to terrorists all the territory they occupy this agreement is about all the areas of deescalation but it libya's much more complicated because of the dominance of nusra in the area which is defined as a terrorist organization by the un so no one has more from the lebanese capital

beirut. turkey and russia stakeholders in the syrian conflict both countries have influence in syria both countries support opposing sides but they have been cooperating together for some time now through the so-called aspen a process but it is clear that these two countries do not agree on what to do in the north western province along the border with turkey is under the control of the opposition the syrian government has repeatedly said that they want to recapture this whole province turkey has said no that is a red line because if you do that it would cause human suffering further displacement three million people live there and turkey does not want to take in more refugees so what these two countries have been trying to do is find some sort of an arrangement now russia the russian foreign minister lavrov when he said we are still looking for peaceful approaches this of course will be welcomed by turkey so maybe there is some common ground on how to how to try to resolve the problem is that we do know that the russians have given the turks

a deadline really to get rid of and to eliminate groups that are linked to al qaida and live but so far those groups have not disbanded nor have they joined the ranks of the of the so-called moderate opposition military action has also not been taken against these groups but a lot really has changed to following the deterioration in relations with turkey and the united states and russia and the united states now turkey and russia need each other more than ever and they do have common interests so they're going to try to find a way to reach some sort of an arrangement because we heard the turkish foreign minister say bombing the whole of the bombing hospitals bombing schools this this will only create in his words a massacre and it will not be just the if there are just a few in his words terrorist groups and so these two countries there's still no agreement on it but both of them saying that more discussions will be held. afghans living in the city of gun running out of food and water as the battle between the taliban on the military continues for the reza. and say the taliban has captured

more than half the city afghan forces say two hundred people have been killed in the fighting solid balance reports. residents of gaza a flee from afghanistan's new frontline in the war between the taliban and the military. and the taliban was stationed at the building inside goes in the city near the office of the provincial reconstruction team and government forces were firing mortars towards them but the mortars were hitting the residential houses. the assault started with a taliban attack on the police headquarters early friday morning over five days it is morphed into a city under siege a well stocked taliban against the afghan military which has us is support two hundred seventy thousand people shelter in their homes running out of food and water without power or communications. dan rather see the government is not able to transfer the dead bodies some of them have swollen up i want the

government to transfer the dead and move the injured to a safer place the people of gaza me a largely on their own the un has no presence in the city the main hospital is overwhelmed and running out of supplies the red cross is fearing fuel body bags and bandages to its doctors our focus has been the local hospital as well as as of today we had also trying to help to get their view to our colleagues strong via the constant red crescent to collect. bodies and to transport them back to their families. residents say the taliban controls more than half the city they're well equipped with trucks guns and rocket launches the taliban post victories on the twitter account of chick points of iran and soldiers killed on monday the military deployed one thousand more troops to gaza and. the government is defiant that it's still under their control with every day comes a new declaration of victory but. it with the measures that have been taken by the

government i can say with courage that within twenty four hours there will be a remarkable change to the situation in gaza province. but another day has come in gaza nice people report nor change other than diminishing rations of food and water both sides are entrenched disparate to are in the city. just one hundred fifty kilometers from kabul lies on the motorway connecting the capital to southern afghanistan it's a high value assets with thousands of afghans trapped inside charlotte dallas al-jazeera india is marking its independence day with prime minister narendra modi addressing the nation there's a live pictures from the historic red fought in new delhi the country gained independence from britain seventy one years ago modi is expected to use the occasion to launch a national health care plan set to cover more than one hundred million families he faces a general election next year and health care is a key issue. a leader of

a party advocating independence for hong kong has accused china of suppressing freedom of speech both the chinese and hong kong governments want to stop the chan from giving a speech at the foreign correspondents club but china's foreign ministry condemned the f.c.c. for hosting chan and said there is a bottom line for freedom of speech is robert reich. protest by pro beijing supporters outside hong kong's foreign correspondents tell us how did you know their anger aimed at the man speaking inside. andy chan leads a small political party advocating independence from china leading to accusations that he's threatening national security due to the nature of how the chinese propaganda machine works the national party was instantly demonized as some sort of extremist group due to the single word independence in reality what the national

party is chasing now is no different from what many homeowners wish for the dream of democracy although he says he's not guilty of any crime the police have recommended his party be banned if that happens he says it sets a precedent for stifling all debate about independence but that is a very dangerous idea because they can accuse our few people in a restaurant to discuss about independence they say you have the potential to form a party and you have the potential to affect on the national security so we are going to arrest you right now to take preventive measures. chan is from a new generation of activists which has grown out of the so-called umbrella movement four years ago that occupied the streets of hong kong demanding greater autonomy hong kong's then leaders see why learn with the target for their anger and his attacks on the foreign correspondents club along with other probe aging figures

for allowing chan's lunchtime appearance has stirred up the protests i mean you know you might you ask me the f.c.c. should leave hong kong of course maybe even arrest them. which chinese would love our country why are you separating us from china. it's led to fears of this issue being used in a white to attack on press freedom they seem to be signaling the people who have the beijing that they really would like to be much more like the chinese mainland where there are controls the more journalists can do what journalists can say and indeed where they can operate for beijing it it support is the word independence has become a red line that shouldn't be crossed the fear for pro-democracy groups here is that a future law may officially banned even mention of it and so rolling back ever further the freedoms enjoyed by hong kong people macbride al-jazeera.

says press freedom is not under threat but discussion of the city's independence should not be allowed. we mustn't forget that it's a constitutional responsibility to protect safeguard the national sovereignty and territorial integrity and national security of the people's republic of china and hong kong it's a view of the people's republic of china so there's no question about independence that's why we always say that we can paul or any discussion there. can painting of politics of pushing forward the nationalism independence and locust of both time for a short break here and al-jazeera when we come back people in sierra leone remember the victims of a devastating mudslide that killed a thousand people. consulting the people cubans have their say on the biggest change to the island in decades and in sport form

a title holder tyson the fury has some choice words for the reigning world heavyweight boxing champion in the states. from cool brisk knows in few weeks. to the warm tranquil waters of southeast asia. alan we still see a tropical depression and name chopper depression i have to say but never less a depression so it's not the winds that are the strength here in southern china it's the fact that it's slow moving and has been there for days rain from hong kong west woods the coast of vietnam feeding rain also into luzon so also being particularly wet and as you well know is suffering floods for the whole system goes up beyond taiwan and it's not necessarily improving are the some retrospective action might mean the news doc towards you none and all of vietnam in laos but that's heavy rain all the same don't expect anything other than floods i'm afraid

south of it there is a cutoff point it's roughly speaking in manila south of manila doesn't look too wet and the province got a child born years sumatra maybe as far south as singapore it's largely a dry picture here as it should be really this true for indonesia wouldn't still cannot rule out shots facility seems to attract them but it's it is the dry season really that's true java bali and lombok to the west of this we're still talking about monsoon rains now they've been moving slowly south again exaggerating cells around orisha and down towards carola no reason why that should change immediately. the weather sponsored by qatar and greece. looks ugly it sounds ugly in scares people from america's high streets to mexico's on the world's record holders the side and who controls the other side people in power follows the smuggling route and test the ease of acquiring untraceable weapons on

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welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera at least twenty five people have been killed and many more injured after a highway bridge collapsed in the italian city of genoa it came down during heavy rains sending vehicles plunging about one hundred meters to the ground. after days of heavy losses the turkish lira recovered some ground on tuesday president obama's call for a boycott of u.s. electronic products in retaliation for what he says is an economic attack on his country on friday washington impose new sanctions in response to the detention of us passed. on the largest and most comprehensive report into child sex abuse by catholic priests in the u.s. state of pennsylvania has been released details allegations of assaults on minus by so-called predator priests and suggest there could be thousands of victims spanning a seventy year period. now the u.s.

state of nebraska has carried out its first execution in more than twenty years using a controversial combination of drugs for the lethal injection carry dean moore was convicted of killing two men back in one nine hundred seventy nine the opioid fentanyl was part of a four drug combination that's never been used in executions in the u.s. a german company that makes two of the drugs tried to sue nebraska saying the state lied to get the drugs because they're usually not sold to prisons let's begin melanie sloan she's a former us federal prosecutor and a specialist on government ethics she joins us live from washington d.c. melanie fentanyl of course is a drug at the heart of america's opioid academic which makes its use in a legal execution even more controversial so what are the ethical issues. i think one of the major hospital issues is that a german company said that its drugs are not to be used for ben now they appear to have been used for the purpose of executing anyway

a growing problem with printed on able to cause for execution because so few companies want to be associated with that so it does there are questions about whether the drugs were obtained properly and the brass got attorney general said they were in fact obtained properly so there's that issue and then there's also the issue at the same time as the united states is talking about the crisis and saying that these drugs are such a problem. and our chile has so many americans that they would bend prison would go ahead and use the same exact around two to kill an american. minimum many years studied some struggle to find new execution drugs a pharmaceutical company has come down on the use does this open a new avenue for the use of sense and those who think. well i certainly think there will be questions about the companies that make these opioid drugs are already

under severe pressure and you see full page ads in papers like the new york times and the wall street journal talking about how they are committed to finding solutions to the misuse of these drops and i doubt that they want their drugs to be even more closely associated with gas than they already are so i think we might see some pushback from american companies if their drugs are used for this purpose. it may be though that companies are willing to stay silent about it but i do think this is just band-aid increasing issue of companies not wanting their drug use this way and. making it more difficult for prisons to carry out executions and that is i think part of the goal of many of these drug companies they say they don't take a position on capital punishment but nobody wants their drop and the drugs are generally considered they want to have positive views they want people to do them as something that helps with health and not something that actually kills people

not a very good public relations campaign for a drug with the death penalty and that's an important point to make money because as you say pharmaceutical companies tried to block this execution in federal court claiming their reputations would suffer if the killing proceeded is this long to become an ethical potato do you think the pharmaceutical companies. i think if we see more executions using this mangy to become one of it's rare that there are executions in the us there is so much litigation about executions and while they're still legal in many many states they are few and far between so the issue doesn't come up that often it is interesting that company went to the mat trying to litigate the issue they lost and the federal court got a day that they had no standing there was no way that their drug could bend used improperly here and then because the. person with killed the case and

it's really because they have given that he's got there's no case for them to keep arguing and they adepero drop their appeal and any of us could certainly repeat it and i would expect we'll see more litigation the company a german company is clearly not going to want to see this happen again and now that we've seen this use of ethanol which is unusual the question is whether the maker of ethanol which is not the drugs that this company used there were for drugs involved in this execution and they said they made two of them but it did not appear that na was one of them so the question is will the company that made the fence not also have qualms about it struck being used this way and this is a new use not. thanks for talking to al jazeera. thank you lawyers for u.s. president donald trump's former campaign manager finished their case in his fraud trial without calling any witnesses paul manifolds accused of tax evasion and lying to obtain bank loans the charges aren't related to his time with the trump campaign

the case was brought by special counsel robert muller was investigating possible collusion between russia and trump's presidential campaign. a former white house aide omarosa manigault newman says president trump's trying to silence her she's just released a tell all book which accuses trump of racism and massage his twenty twenty lection campaign as far as a lawsuit saying neuman breached her confidentiality agreement she wrote the book after she was fired last december on twitter the president expressed his outrage calling human crazed underdog. sweden's prime minister has promised to crack down on those responsible behind a wave of asner tax dozens of cars were set on fire in what the police say was an organized night evangelism last young people tossed around eighty cars in towns and cities across the country police in gothenburg where most of the cars were burnt say that arrested some people it's unclear what triggered the violence just weeks before national elections. so. i'm furious the

question has to be asked of those people what the heck you doing who do you think you are you destroy the whole area for the neighbors for the children on their way to preschool that have to see these cars burned this is completely unacceptable. heavy rains and flash floods in the philippines are forced thousands of people from their homes at least three people have died in the country's northern ireland's human can report. slowly picking through the rubble to recover what's left of their lives the mary keenan river burst its banks at the weekend leaving behind huge mounds of garbage and sludge. disaster management officials said in just eight hours the river rose from sixteen to twenty one meters. just shy of the record of twenty three meters nine years ago when several hundred people were killed this car mechanic is trying to rescue his tools. all our belongings were washed away including the supplies in my shop everything is destroyed now all that is left are

good for nothing just scrap metal and here we are trying to clean them up. his case is typical of the region's poorest to a living day to day before the floods and the struggle even more officials are asking the international community for help they want to strengthen and build up their flood control infrastructure. bremer was and we are now we will be in our reading needs. networks and as the typhoon season continues mary queen of the city and other low lying parts of the philippines bracing for more flooding. which is are. people in sierra leone have been remembering victims of a mudslide on the outskirts of the capital freetown a year ago they were killed off by torrential downpour sent mud and rocks hurtling down a mountain crushing surrounding villages three thousand people lost their homes the government's been criticized for not doing enough to really house them but address was at the ceremony in freetown. a few hundred. gallon here to commemorate

the day when you know more than one thousand two hundred people one side of the sugarloaf mountain just a few hundred meters from where we decide he says boarding. now the situation but emotions are still people cry for you i'm not talking about what you don't seem to have from the moment it's not given the problem embraced a decent burial actually calling out for the government to at least move the debris and examine those bodies to be given a decent burial as soon as they can now with mitt and lady who was married only seven months before the disaster struck she lost a husband and sixteen members of one speakers rose to talk including the u.n. special representative one issue that came out and that is the. exploitation of the environment that you see the sensitivity of these disasters we've also spoken to

environment to me to say that the way but involvement and resources i've been always supported. really there is another disaster waiting to happen so virtually for the time being the focus now of these people is how to move on in life which is very difficult some have not have the closure they needed and so they are looking up to the government to give them the chance to closure and move on with their lives to high ranking military officers have been arrested in venezuela following an alleged attack on president nicolas maduro two drones exploded near a rally he was addressing in the capital caracas last week the tourists blamed opposition politicians the u.s. and neighboring colombia for the attack. thousands of brazilians are planning a mass rally to demand that their controversial choice of presidential candidate be allowed to run for office the former president luiz inacio lula da silva is serving a toll the a prison term for corruption and that's left many other brazilian voters disillusioned

or disinterested in the reports. it was here in the arid north east of brazil. enjoyed strong supporters president with his social programs that helped alleviate poverty his imprisonment earlier this year for corruption as part of the huge car wash scandal has left many voters disillusioned with their politicians and cynical about the political process now it's there is no confidence in the electoral process brazilians don't trust politicians especially with all these corruption probe so i don't see anyone talking about the elections. as popularly known is still ahead in the opinion polls his supporters believe he is innocent and the country struggling to emerge from the session they remember that between two thousand and three and two thousand and ten the store a booming economy and they believe he can save them again and lula you know there is no other option. he's

a political prisoner he wasn't condemned there is no proof against him and he was arrested for good and. it's unlikely however that the will be able to stand up to this has created a political void it's never been easy to represent a country so huge so ethnically diverse so rich and yet so poor but really have brazil's politicians involved in a huge corruption scandal often hiding in distant brasilia been so unrepresentative of the brazilian electorate. tapping into that disillusionment is the anti-establishment white we military man. his support is growing especially in senses far from brasilia in the wealth of sao paolo and rio going to be a delicate finkleman when we talk about candidates we are on hold people in general don't trust any of the candidates however i have kind of decided my candidate is going to be both so narrow. however opinion polls suggest that more than half the brazilian electorate don't know who to vote for or don't like any of the choices on

offer and won't cost the ballot despite voting being obligatory by the cup i think brazil is heading towards complete chaos that is my impression politicians are not governing it's a complete mess those same politicians are now faced with the challenge of convincing a disparate electorate in the country of more than two hundred million inhabitants that they have the solutions to brazil's many problems. brasilia. cuba is set to have its most significant political change in more than forty years and the government wants the input of its citizens thousands of community meetings are being held for people to share their thoughts on a new draft constitution from havana reports. their workday is done at this hospital and have an app but the staff can't go home yet. they're staying on to discuss the proposed changes to the cuban constitution thousands of these government organized meetings are taking place across the island over the

next three months it's the most comprehensive change to the country's constitution in over forty years we're going to look at it i'm here to fulfill my revolutionary duty i haven't read the full project but i think it's all great. last month cuba's national assembly approve the draft constitution after several days of televised debate. the main changes proposed establishing term limits on the presidency was lamenting the communist party as the sole governing body on the island benefiting don't be able to go and get into the process will help strengthen the unity of all cubans around the revolution. but cuba's legislators had to make concessions to reflect an evolving society and to try to ensure a more sustainable economy for the first time since the castro led revolution to power the proposed magna carta recognizes private property long considered an enemy of a so.