because. the famous potato. this is the news coming to you live from berlin divisions of a migration and drags it threaten the unity leaders' meeting in brussels clash of a quarter for refugees and an agreement on the first phase of drugs a big those stations still has to be endorsed also coming up a high profile stripping body of institutional sex abuse of children especially in

the catholic church and says priests ignore longer have to make celibacy prime minister malcolm turnbull describes the findings of the report a national tragedy. plus an end to soap neutrality in the us the government claims it's cutting red tape that topples innovation song uses fear that if web traffic is no longer treated equally the access to information will suffer instead. i'm on with that shima welcome did you have the you summit in brussels and leaders have clashed over the issue of migration european council president. called a mandatory quarter for refugees highly divisive and ineffective as the leaders talked of them to. on the second day of the summit they'll have the rods of german

chancellor angela merkel ringing in their years she said member states cannot pick and choose when it comes to burden sharing and solidarity the refugee crisis has not been the only controversial issue on the agenda today is difficult topic is brecht's it they've been are joined. in brussels hi go first of all let's talk gregg said will there be any christmas cheer in brussels by the end of the summit on this issue no fireworks no cheers on return when it comes to breaks it leaders reiterated on this two day summit well again and again that they are said that the u.k. is leaving they're relieved to some extent that things are moving forward now but they know very well that in the future that the talks will become more difficult a number of them are aware that they're looking at a political fights but the ball is really in the you're in the you case side of the court and it's difficult times ahead for the trade talks that

can come. another contentious issue gilgan is above refugees chancellor angela merkel of germany has already said she's not please let's first take a listen to what she said. i made it very clear that i'm not happy about the simple statement that the regulations we have aren't working. there's not a doubt she has more than an external dimension we also need it internally that's where we have a lot of work left to do because the different positions have not changed. so the german chancellor there demanding solidarity with then the union can't possibly work. it can of course work if there is the will that it works and that mainly depends on the eastern european countries that so far have been refusing in a compulsory mechanism to a relocation in other words they are unwilling to take in refugees to share the

burden that is currently carried by the countries in the south of europe greece and italy who have taken in a lot of refugees and now hope that these people can be relocated to other european countries the only thing where everybody agrees when it comes to migration is a stronger extra on the borders and we've seen quite a bit of movement in the dress that this respect so as we move towards the holiday season here in europe how united is the union looking there. i'd say i think of a camping trip with the extended family you always have the annoying nephew or the the the one or other uncle you don't like so in terms of the you think of a pole nor hungary where there are issues not just with migration but also particularly with the rule of law in these countries so difficult issues angela merkel said a lot of work on these fronts gets to come for the european union but when it comes

to breaks it you have rock solid unity and at the end of the day i think everybody is glad they came along for the trip she had good luck to send us a thank you very much. a commission investigating child sexual abuse in australia has court on the catholic church to end compulsory celibacy for priests it said that although set a busy didn't cause sex abuse it was a contributing factor it also said religious leaders should be prosecuted for feeding to reports child sexual abuse including priests who hear about the crimes in confessions the five year profound many australian institutions including the church had seriously failed to protect children tens of thousands abused over decades responding to the report prime minister malcolm turnbull thank those who've come forward to tell their stories he said the carriage had led to a national tragedy being exposed. joining me now from sydney is journalist roger

may not roger this report details official feelings on child abuse among many decades what were its main findings will cause this inquiry represent. in australia's long history involving literally tens of thousands of children most. people in the sixty's and seventy's as the royal commission made clear today that it believed that the catholic church in particular was guilty of a catastrophic failure leadership says the report the abuse is mentioned in the report were not just a few. there were an unknown number of people involved. chairman peter mcclelland described the abuse as a national tragedy his words across many many institutions children children are charged actions just. the. richest well as you said the catholic

church is singled out as one of the biggest offenders how has it responded to the report's recommendations like ending forced celibacy of priests. well not very well is the answer i mean the recommendations of this inquiry will hopefully end those years of abuse and make sure that it never happens again but there are hundred eighty nine recommendations in this report and a lot of them are very very potentially controversial in one particular move in suggesting that the religious confessional should be put aside so that when priests hear of confessions from members of their church about alleged chances in abuse they're forced to go to the police and the are fortis and report them they're obliged to do so and in another significant controversial move they're recommending that the celibacy for priests should be voluntary from now on and that they the guardedly that affect the head celibacy in the church. added

some contributed to the incidence of sexual abuse over the years on the other hand the church itself is not very happy about that these suggestions one senior cleric in australia today said that by by adopting these recommendations he would affect a really excommunicate insult from the church and he was not the bed to disobey what he believed were the laws have got angry just how have the survivors of sex abuse responded to this report afterward there's a horrific stories are finally heard after years and years of cover ups. yeah indeed oh well there's been widespread relief at the. other findings in this report and in particular from those who gave evidence to the inquiry and today australia's prime minister. appraise the survivors and those have been taken part

investigation he said it must have been very tough and harrowing work for them is also suicide about fifty million australian dollars that's about eighty eight million euros to help those survivors and the so there are sixty thousand people who are eligible for compensation and who put this money aside so that they can hopefully get over their ordeal so they can hopefully put it put it to one side and and those who want redress will be compensated accordingly right roger man out in sydney thank you very much for that let me now bring you up to some other stories making news around the client a russian court has sentenced former economy minister alexei to eighty years in jail for accepting a two million don a bribe from an oil bath close to president not only putting the sentence was hotshot an observer that expected the circumstances of the case and ignited speculation that it may have fallen victim to

a kremlin power play. six people including four children have been killed and twenty others injured after a train hit a school bus on a real crossing in southern france authorities are trying to determine what caused the accident investigators are looking into whether the crossing barrier was working. two nephews of venezuela's first lady have been sentenced to eighteen years in prison a new york court found that conspired to impose cocaine into the u.s. the nephews of cilia flotus venezuelan president nicolas maduro his wife tried to make twenty eight million dollars through drug trafficking to help keep their family in power. they've been violent clashes between protesters and police in argentina all of the government's planned overhaul of pensions the writing was so severe that it forced the congress in bonus alice to suspend debate over the reforms president says needed to bring the country's deficit under control and cut

of wiring lehi inflation but his opponents say the austerity drive will leave millions worse off. fury in bonus ariz protesters demand the government keep its hands off their benefits trade unionists took de coals to the streets of argentina's capital bought them march distended into violence on wrist fueled by unpopular reforms i'm just cutting the country's high deficit and reviving its economy. under the previous government we received two pension increases that helped us keep our dignity i mean. the former government gave to the farmers to the minorities they gave to everyone but the new president is taking from the poorest and giving to the richest. beyond rest outside spilling inside to forcing argentina's congress to suspended their

banks over the reforms president merissa machree has been on something of an austerity drive in his two years in the job aside from tax and labor reforms machree is also trying to change how pension payments are calculated something expected to save billions but the opposition and labor unions say millions of retirees and people on benefits will end up with less money and unpopular over a hole that people here say will hit argentina's most vulnerable. here in germany president from four to steinmeyer has been attending the want to set it basins at the israeli embassy in berlin to mock the seventieth anniversary of israel's existence next am at the reception my little man or a mineral with israeli ambassador jeremy i saw cut off he also had strong words about the burning of israeli flags an anti-semitic comments of recent protests in

germany those demonstrations followed us president donald trump's decision to recognize truth in them as israel's capital. a german teenager is awaiting trial in baghdad where she could face the death penalty she traveled to iraq after converting to islam and marriage and i guess fighter who was later killed she says she wants to come back home but even if she makes it back to germany her future is uncertain. it was a cautious reunion with a family who traveled from germany to baghdad to see the seventeen year old who's in custody awaiting trial. pictures of her arrest in mosul in july were beamed around the world. identified only as linda w. she left her home in eastern germany to join the so-called islamic state now she regrets. i don't know how i came up with such a dumb idea i've completely ruined my life. linda says she didn't take part in any

fighting she says after the death of the i.a.s. member she married she stayed in various women shelters and almost never stepped out. hundreds of women have left europe to join us many of them are now in custody in iraq according to research by german media at least seven germans are among them until now german women who were not in combat but married to i.a.s. militants were rarely prosecuted back home now a different legal approach is likely. where of the opinion that these women guilty of membership of a foreign terrorist organization because they helped to strengthen the internal structure of the so-called islamic state but this question will ultimately have to be clarified by germany it's a federal court of justice. but. it's not clear whether linda w. would be prosecuted if and when she returns an investigation is under way but there's

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