the pope can't the pope beg for forgiveness when he was in ireland as we've heard previous popes do he didn't have any point indicate what it was that he or his institution and that's the vatican the institutional roman catholic church is looking for forgiveness for he talked a lot about the actions of all of the crimes of priest he calls them reprehensible and criminal his rights they were to rape a child is a is a serious and grevious crime and sort of cross that he talked about the cover up that was perpetrated by some bishops who referred in these closing comments today about some bishops not all bishops not acknowledging that this was systemic and he stopped at the level of bishop in norway to the acknowledge the proven evidence to fact the objective fact that the roman catholic church at the level of the vatican at the level of pope's and members of the curia has driven and implemented a cover up of the crimes of the clergy the rape and abuse of children of women of vulnerable adults on a systemic scale across the globe. and it did so in

a way that was underpinned by its a law under its norms it was a required cover up required and driven by the vatican and it did it to protect the institution its power and above all its money now if the pope acknowledged the truth then asking for forgiveness and talking about accountability might have some meaning but he deflected absolutely from any acknowledgment of the proven fact during his visit to ireland and i'm afraid that was anticipated but yes it was yet another wasted opportunity the prime minister of ireland was very forceful in his remarks to the pope yesterday he denounced the abuse as a stain on the state that the pope must help fix how do we go about fixing it and should it be politicians who take take on the church more forcefully. so in two thousand and two i campaigned very hard and managed to secure the first ever investigation into not just how the church handled complaints about the rape and abuse of children by catholic priests but how the state responded so we force

those investigations and we forced the states back in the early two thousand that wasn't in address to in looking up to look at it and the state now has and the state has consistently moved towards taking greater accountability for the valuable and that's critically important across the world that it's understood that government states are responsible for protecting the human rights of people who live within those states however the catholic church operates as a global organization it has many manifestations it's a world religion it's a sovereign state and it uses that state as a sovereign state to avoid accountability for the crimes of its leaders cardinals and bishops and we have to remember that it operates in states where institutions and systems like an independent media well resourced media and systems of accountability and the rule of law are not necessarily robust and for that reason yes we can point to successes in contras like ireland but we also have to ensure that the international community. holds the vatican says he stays the holy see what

operates with operates within the u.n. system to account for its crimes and that the vatican is prepared to acknowledge its crimes and make itself accountable for them no pauper's drama no pope including pope francis this week let's talk about this controversial letter now former vatican diplomat is calling for the pope to resign accusing him of covering up allegations of sexual misconduct by the american cardinal theodore mccarrick what do you make of this and what would the pope resigning achieve. well it's a fairly shocking development i mean in the two thousand year history of the church no senior churches official has ever called on the pope to resign many people with in charge of over the years condemn the vatican for its failure to deal with the sexual crimes of priests peter damian did in the twelfth century and actually when you read the eleven page document published today. you read a reference within his word to excite us psychologist and campaigner on these

issues flagged with the with with pope benedict and then with pope francis the failure to address the abuses of mccarrick of both seminarians and minors his youngest victim was eleven years of age and he involved peter damien from the eleventh century of an of an example of what happened when popes didn't listen listen and didn't respond to justice i think we need to be careful because of a guy who has an agenda has an agenda he has an agenda of his own. nevertheless i mean there's an ideological battle going on than the charge we could get excited about we're back to the borders and all of that drama and get caught up in the political intrigue others that's part of what's at play here but what he reveals a modern names is that from two thousand on at a senior diplomatic level within the vatican embassy in the united states consistent complaints and evidence was going to the vatican about the crimes of mccarrick pope benedict and joseph ratzinger was head of the congregation for the doctor the faith he was receiving these complaints pope john paul was pope neither did anything about

a mccurry doesn't want to focus on the two previous popes because he's more ideologically aligned to them but neither of them did anything about it he names another rather senior card was kind of cardinal sodano who was vatican circuitry of state at the time implicates them in the cover up he says that benedict moved in two thousand and nine so the question is why did benedict wait for nine years before he did anything about it but yes right now he condemns pope francis and says that pope francis ignored the sanctions put in place from benedict and started to restore mccarrick so he's accused this pope of cover up that's obviously gravely serious. i'm not surprised by it i'm surprised that it's a merge from such a high level within the hierarchy of the church but it's something the violence going to have to respond to and certainly an incredible development will be interesting to see what comes out of this call very interesting thank you so very much for joining us here on al-jazeera. plenty more ahead on this news hour including a sign of no mileage in a chaotic war a historic council in yemen is finally reopened to visitors last making recycling

cheaper high environmentalists are trying to tackle the rising tide of caustic and a historic gold medal for the knight unified korean team at the asian games jaw half use of all the titles and tears coming up in sports. now for the second time in just nine months imus and none gaga has been sworn in as president he was keen to talk up his messages of unity and moving on after a bitterly contested election and results that the main opposition still refuses to recognize god was promised to have a full investigation into the deadly violence that followed the vote the first since his former boss longtime leader robert mugabe was pushed from power harm a tussle report somehow. president in a synagogue and knows he only now the one last month's election with just over

fifty percent of the vote in his inauguration speech he try to unite a divided country. toward us all really going. to do well for our motherlode. we are all the problems what you know. is. there no one ever divide us. let only. not tomorrow. let us look strong. as one. some opposition leaders did attend send this inauguration but the main opposition leader nelson chamisa did not on friday zimbabwe's highest court rejected his claims of

a training. plan the way. he wanted to lie selection and unity to intervene when i got going as a daunting task of rebuilding a stagnant economy most importantly he has to address city a cash which is and high unemployment. when he took over from longtime leader robert mugabe nine months ago he promised to turn around the economy tackle corruption and end human rights abuses all the work that was done ahead of the elections to try and show the elections being free and fair and that this was the start of the new dispensation that was all undone on august the first when the military moved in and gunned down seven people on the streets of harare this creates the perception that this is not a new dispensation this is the same dispensation it has the name of the leader has changed but it seems that they are going about governance and going about human

rights in exactly the same way as happened under the mcgarvie era some african leaders were at the celebrations they say they will work to help its economy recover but political analysts say others in the international community will need some convincing before sanctions can be lifted and investment can return millions of people here will have to wait and see if when they're going to live on his promise to be a president for. al-jazeera. the very top of afghanistan's government has been shaken as it tries to deal with unrelenting attacks by the taliban present ashraf ghani has rejected resignation offers by senior security officials and cabinet members after losing a major ally osama bin job it reports. the man in the middle is considered one of of learned stands most powerful politicians but he is no longer the national security adviser to president bush of danny and no longer a close ally whether it was talking to the russians or helping his boss with the u.s. administration at maher has been with plenty since twenty fourteen his career began

in the one nine hundred eighty s. under the soviet backed government and continued in the security circles during home it causes tenure facing a deteriorating security situation president bashar ghani has rejected for the resignations from top security officials that includes why samovar mark the interior minister the spy chief mushroom stunt exactly who heads the national directorate of security and the defense minister barak shot behind me i want to find a shuttle to hold elections next year and potential candidates will need to convince voters they can improve security but i didn't get anyone to counter this and make this to include a situation but still. give me the problem gets called a nation problem did not do to make the situation improved we have to take some mystic and tough decisions contrary to recent pentagon briefings about taliban being desperate and losing ground the group has intensified its campaign in recent weeks the afghan government is under increasing pressure for failing to stop

attacks and as taliban as well as i still carry out attacks people want answers. we have no security zero zero security because almost every day thirty forty people are killed you tell me do we have security i don't trust the government between when i sleep and when i wake up there are a lot of changes in the government how can we trust them but there are in the last four years the changes in the government didn't help the country the security situation is getting worse every day if they're not capable of protecting us they should tell us on tuesday blasts were heard as president danny delivered a live speech to me out the beginning of the the holidays the taliban was blamed for rockets fired at the presidential palace. losman the taliban launched a brazen attack on the city of gardening it ended after days of intense fighting the killing of more than one hundred people and wounding hundreds more going into an election near the afghan president faces a difficult challenge of carrying out security reforms while retaining an uneasy

coalition of allies some of the job it is there. at least three people have been killed and hundreds injured when a magnitude six earthquake hit western iran in cameron shah province they have been dozens of aftershocks since the provincial governor says at least five hundred buildings have been destroyed the damage bill will be significant for you ron as it charcoals with new u.s. sanctions and speaking of which iran's parliament has voted to remove the economic affairs and finance minister as a carrot see an economy falter masoud car basilan lost a no confidence motion he's the second minister in present hassan rouhani is cabinet to be booted out this month ronnie's expected to appear in parliament on wednesday to answer questions about his administration's performance italy's minister is under investigation that's the ministry minister of interior after he refused to let one hundred fifty migrants into italy leading to

a ten day standoff albania island and italy's catholic church have agreed to take the asylum seekers optima tale salvini refused to let them disembark a coast guard boat unless other nations place to take them in. i've been told i'm under investigation for kidnapping i think it will be difficult to stop because they can put me under investigation they can arrest me but they can't stop the desire of sixty million italians perching. they could put under investigation whoever they want come and get me i'm ready i'll be waiting for them. now the many government has reopened the historic cairo castle in ties to visitors just days after regaining control of the site for the last four years a castle has been used as barracks alan fischer reports from neighboring djibouti. it's historic it's impressive now it's back in control of the local population.

carol castle stands at the foot of the mountain overlooking the city of tire is in the yemen highlands the last four years has been used as a barracks for you back then abu abbas brigades the government military commission has no taken back control. but about is that i believe the reopening of the castle after four years of closure sends a clear message that the state will extend its authority over every inch of the country no faction or party will ever have sovereignty or control over time as. this is a site loved by the locals and loved by the children who know little of its history built more than eight hundred years ago cairo castle is the city's top destination for tourists from all over the world that sound odd but it is always great to paint a smile on children's faces that's what we've seen from the first day the number of visitors is far beyond what was expected it's the city's most important to restate an historical site while the castle walls will remain solid it will need some

restoration work it was shelled by coalition warplanes in twenty fifteen when it was used as a pretty fighter stronghold lankan and north of here and we cannot describe the overwhelming feeling as we wonder at the highest point in time as we do not know how to express our delight the reopening of the castle has restored the civic nature of the city. cairo castle has a long and colorful history the events of the last four years especially know that it's back in the hands of local people will be another chapter another story to be handed down from generation to generation alan fischer al-jazeera in djibouti still ahead on al-jazeera. and i'm sure thomas involved carola this month's devastating floods i'll be looking at whether the state's all important tourism industry compounds back. and back alley badminton we'll tell you how the sport is capturing the attention of young pay is that the asian games.

hello welcome such a look at the international forecast looking across the fine and dry settles and sunny across the middle east one or two showers just around the coax is pushing up across the black sea into the caspian sea nothing too much to report here though forty six celsius kuwait city still very hot thirty celsius in beirut over the next couple of days this is sort of temperature we will see across that eastern side of the mediterranean getting up into the low thirty's still for couple of maybe just touching thirty degrees there for karate a little more cloud here little bit of cloud soon to central parts of saudi arabia on monday might just see a spot or two of rain coming out of that nothing much to speak of and if anything that will ease as we go on into tuesday said generally dry lots of hot sunshine

trees benign forty two celsius here and winds coming in from the northwest so not feeling too humid try to across a good part of southern africa want to sue our spots of rain just moving through the southern caper cross the western cape thirteen celsius then for cape town struggling on those temperatures but seventeen there for durban and also four to harness but warming up a little as we go on into chieftan by choose day it's turning dry and bright once again to cape town with a high of sixty. and ambitious health system restore that paid off a show. of comedian we enabled ten million over ninety six million citizens to receive free health care resulting insurance premiums in the audience of. the extraordinary story of turkey's monumental health care transformation and the

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or come back you're watching the news hour on al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories pope francis has now left step in concluding is today a trip to ireland it's been overshadowed by the sexual abuse scandal that's rocking the church worldwide the pontiff used the final mass on his of his visit rather to apologize to victims. zimbabwe's new president has the country to unite and focus on helping the economy grow and has been sorting out to weeks of political uncertainty over an election disputed by the main opposition coalition inauguration took place at the national stadium in harare. and u.s. senator john mccain has died at the age of eighty one after suffering from brain cancer he spent more than five years as a prisoner of war in vietnam and more than three decades as a republican senator in two thousand and eight he lost the presidential election to barack obama mike hanna takes a closer look back now at mccain's life and legacy. from prisoner of war to

presidential candidate in two thousand and eight john mccain numb to the challenge against barack obama but lost in a landslide my friends we have we have come to the end of a long journey. people have spoken and they have spoken clearly he returned to the senate where he served as a senator for arizona more than thirty years after the war hero posts in the trump election a man with whom mccain had a prickly relationship in the past which did not improve senator mccain emerged as the conscience of the republican party in pushing back against several actions of a president who was the party's new voice on the trump travel ban i think the effect will probably in some areas give isis some more propaganda we don't want to shake news on threats against the media when you look at history the first thing the dictators do is shut down the press and i'm not saying that

that's that the president trump is trying to be a dictator i'm just saying we need to learn the lessons of history. on the likely reaction of past leaders to claim soft alternative facts they would be alarmed by the growing inability and even an willingness to separate truth from lives senator mccain served in the vietnam war is aircraft shot down over her noyo he broke his leg and arms suffered torture and spent more than five years as a prisoner of war before returning to the u.s. as a war hero a description he humorously undercut during this visit to the libyan city of benghazi in two thousand and eleven they also served in the united states navy for many years i was a pilot. but i'm not a very good pilot i was shot down diagnosed with cancer and recovering from head surgery john mccain received a standing ovation when he returned to the hill for

a crucial senate vote and the motion is agreed to. he followed the republican line in voting to open a debate on repealing the affordable care act but in his speech was deeply critical of a senate that he described as more. and more tribal than ever before it's trust each other let's return to regular order we've been spinning our wheels on too many important issues because we keep trying to find a way to win without help from across the aisle and a few days later in the early hours of the morning john mccain put principle before party. defying immense republican pressure to support a bill repealing barack obama's health legislation he's back. and in that moment he rose above the senate mired in endless squabble offering the hope that governance by consensus rather than by command could still be possible. that the right at times john mccain could be wrong but on the strong magic night he demonstrated

truth to himself and to the country he devoted his life to serving colombians are voting in a first of a kind referendum that's designed to curb corruption in a country where many can see this part of everyday life that measures need approval from twelve million people roughly a third of the thirty six million registered voters activists collected four million signatures to get officials to fund the vote while the referendum contained seven questions saying clude whether to hand down tougher penalties to officials found to be corrupt many at the moment serve their sentences in multi-million dollar homes voters are also being asked if term limits should be imposed on politicians and whether congress members salaries should be reduced by forty percent said to spray is currently set at one hundred twenty four thousand dollars a year as school live to our correspondent in columbia alice on the rug was in bogota under one of the supporters of this initiative hoping to achieve exactly.

well foley they are hoping to for the first time according to them make their politicians accountable take control of the area where public money is spent and. clean up what they see as a very dirty very corrupt political landscape in the country as you were saying in your introduction this is a unique poll is the first time that something like this is tried in colombia specially coming. initiative and it comes after congress as failed eight hundred in the last five years to vote a similar measures. in congress. because the former senator cloudy a lot places on a mission trying to convince colombians to vote in the country's first ever and take corruption initiative because in columbiana titian's in colombia are stealing

fifty billion a year that's a quarter of colombia's wealth they steal through illegal contracts through a full spitting and contracting their friends this is citizen action to end it volunteers gathered four million signatures for the referendum to reach the ballots but they now need twelve million colombians to vote on sunday for it to pass which lap it says would be a turning point in the fight against graft i must get out on one yes we have been waiting twenty five years for congress to act on these measures instead they voted them down every single time voters will weigh in on seven different measures that would affect politicians salary term limits and introduce mandatory jail sentences for corruption but while some cases of recently made headlines the initiative success is far from certain congress is widely considered the most corrupt institution in the country and he was surprised by many called long because while

lawmakers say things should choose many also simple posed this referendum. most parties in congress voted in favor of the referendum before the last presidential elections but i've seen some voided any promotion of the initiative president announced he will vote but many in this party say they will not let me just go to the floor laws don't solve corruption colombia is full of codes and regulations but nothing changes we need to change the culture in the country and we need citizens to keep a close eye on politicians otherwise we are just throwing away public money in an. that will have little effect but andre said man this of transparency international says the vote can have a major impact. if millions of citizens in favor of it less strong symbolic effort in the political class it will said this is not an issue in the background expecting results and concrete measures if it passes the referendum will be binding

with congress obligated to introduce changes within a year the answer lies in the hands of colombian voters who have an opportunity to turn the page on politics as usual in the country will it be difficult to get the minimum amount of voters necessary to make the finding. that might be the case. three hours after the polls open two and a half million. remain. pretty right. it would be very difficult to reach that more than twelve million about necessary to make a referendum. i think that one big issue here is that while traditional parties. are going. to favor referenda. very

little support to promote it with their voters like. for example a presidential election we have in as many people. voters hold a tribute to a party that usually arranged for baucus to pick up people that wanted him to carry . the day so we'll have to see what happens in the coming hours but i did not come through what. but both traditionally roughly fifty percent of colombians voted in presidential election a third is needed today we'll find out the internet three hours if more than twelve million i voted in this referendum thank you for that. for us in bogota colombia. some breaking news now out of the u.s. where police in the state of florida say there has been a mass shooting that happened at a shopping mall in jacksonville local media are reporting that at least ten people

have been wounded and police are telling people to stay away from the area will have more on this breaking news story out of the u.s. again where there's been a mass shooting in jacksonville florida no word yet on any people killed but at least ten wounded according to local media we'll have more on this when we have information available now after the worst flooding in a century in the indian state of carolina millions of people are trying to rebuild their lives to rental rains left more than three hundred people dead and forced the million from their homes a large proportion of carolus economy is driven by tourism now as the water recedes they are fierce the industry is grinding to a halt andrew thomas reports this lush and beautiful is how carolina should look and what the trunks of businesses. tourism accounts for twelve percent of the southern indian state's economy and twenty percent of its jobs organists flooding has already the industry i think

a board certified creative person counselor sense of how print or during that. everyone all the tools. have gone back. a similar percentage of september's bookings have been cancelled to the floods damaged roads rail lines and airports making it hard for visitors to get around they also damage the places they might stay over is it. this annual boat race normally happens in august this year it was cancelled. but though many of those in kara when the rains hit left and many about to come change their plans not all days. after finishing a volunteer study and work placement arena both a llama and honest are going to have stuck to their plans spending time involved still in kerala but just south of the worst of the floods we were thinking about moving maybe to go over at the end we we thought that it was ok to move here. the

british family visiting relatives in kerala has also decided to stay in my mind to take out a plan that would not please we're going to give it to. us in effect but. i think that's what it's warehouse full time like. having off putting. the biggest impact will be felt from october when the peak tourist season for carola begins those in the industry expect a twenty to twenty five percent drop for the season as a whole. marketing campaigns present based paradise but that image is undermined when these are the images broadcast internationally and state. carolus tourism minister was helping out a flood aid collection point last week but he is competent the business will be back to some actually a whole industries badly affected devastated i'm confident that we get our form

ability back but it's going to take a lot of work the reason carol is so lush and beautiful is that every year it gets a lot of rain the rain this year of course has been exceptional but those in the tourism industry hope the state and the bounce back more beautiful and just as popular as before andrew thomas al-jazeera baccarat caroline. australia's foreign minister julie bishop has resigned two days after losing her bed to become prime minister bishop secured only a handful of internal party votes during a leadership challenge that toppled malcolm turnbull as prime minister scott morrison was picked to replace him instead australia's change from mrs not eleven times in a decade prompting some to call it the coup capital of the pacific. and whether it's plastic water bottles plastic trays opacic force the material they're made of has become a global problem and while many initiatives are moving towards a plastic free environment plastic production is still accelerating because it's

cheaper to produce then to recycle but one major recycling center in the u.s. is trying to keep up but as gabriel is under reports from new york. at this recycling plant business is booming two thirds of all of new york city's plastic waste that's put into recycling bins ends up here where it's meticulously sorted then sold to companies to make it in the other plastics to meet skyrocketing global demand in the past twenty years the amount of plastic produced in the world has doubled but today globally less than ten percent is recycled for decades china used to recycle more than half the world's dirty plastics but the country ended that practice earlier this year many believe the policy shift was driven by this unflattering documentary depicting poor chinese and sewerage the waste but the plastics problem.