and whoever can control these feelings has great power over us to. instill the feelings measuring emotion starting december sixteenth on g.w. . this is coming to. a brick brick through gives the green light for the next phase talks leaders meeting in brussels said major hurdles have been overcome and britain and the e.u. want to talking about the future relations we should focus on trade we get the latest live from the summit also coming up it's years in jail for russia's former

economics minister alexei. and unexpectedly tough sentence off he was found guilty of taking a bribe from an ally of president vladimir putin and of course to end celibacy in the catholic church this australian inquiry reveals sex abuse of children over decades long list of malcolm turnbull pulls the findings of the report a national tragedy. in the next half hour at the feet of young european women who married. linda is awaiting trial and bug it's the first time the german teenager has seen her parents since running away to join the extremist group.

hello i'm i'm touchy about good to have your company day two of the e.u. summit in brussels and a breakthrough on bragg's it counts of president to skip said leaders that agreed to move on to the second phase of talks on britain's departure from the bloc it's a big boost for prime minister to resign me but the summit began with discord over migration donald tusk called refugee quotas ineffective and highly divisive earning a rebuke from german chancellor angela merkel who said member states cannot pick and choose when it comes to burden sharing and solidarity that we now join our correspondent in brussels gil they must be huge relief over the break the decision tell us more about what's been agreed and what it means. absolutely emerita after the kind of deadlock we've seen for weeks in the practice of negotiations there is now green light also from the leaders following the recommendation of the european commission to move things to face to where will we will be looking at the

trade relationship but also the entire future relationship between the european union with its twenty seven member states then and the united kingdom before we move there however will have to look at a transitional face in order to avoid a real cliff if there shouldn't be a trade steal at the end of bracks it's talks and that transition phase you can read from the guidelines that have been published just minutes ago you can tell that this means it will practically freeze the european union membership of the u.k. according to these guidelines the u.k. would remain a member of the european union but have no more say so they would have to take all the laws but they can't make them any more. obviously see the relief on the faces of all the leaders there but on one issue there's still a big division that's refugees on the foster child's anglo american said she was not pleased by what she'd heard from council president donald to scan the issue

tell us more. i'm richard's really the old rao over migration here in the big question about about relocation how can the burden be lifted from italy and greece who predominantly take in refugees everybody agrees that extra no borders should be strengthened to stem the flow of refugees particularly on the african coast for instance already but when it comes to relocation it is countries in the east of europe particularly the former communist countries who are unwilling to take in people and german chancellor was very clear there is no selective solidarity we can't just agree on stronger external borders we also have to deal with the people who already made. into europe and we have to share the burden here. live at the e.u. summit in brussels thank you very much for that update. there's also breaking news coming up from germany at this hour the head of the social democrats martin shoes

is not recommending that his party begin exploratory talks which these conservatives are forming a governing coalition now it's a major about face for the s.p.d. leader would previously said his father would go into opposition after suffering is vast worst election result in the post-war era in september but it's been under pressure the party s.p.d. to reconsider joining a grand coalition government. failed to get another three vehicles off the ground keeping. track of that story is a political cause one charlotte also she joins me now from up on the main tree studio shot first of all how surprised it was this announcement by the s.p.d. well this doesn't come as a huge surprise both parties the social democrats and the christian democrats know that they have a responsibility to at least try and form a government together but it's a very long process and we have to keep in mind this is the decision to go into exploratory talks after the exploratory talks if they are successful they will head

into coalition talks and after that the social democrats at least will have their party base their membership vote on the results of the coalition talks so germany is still a long way away from having a new government time wise we are talking about spring probably good lord not ok then how difficult will these exploratory talks be given that neither side was keen on working together to september's election result. yet neither side is keen on that the alternatives are even worse though so people so they are going to try the politicians the alternatives would be a minority government or new elections and neither site once said but the talks are going to be very difficult social democrats do have the upper hand and they are going to pose some tough dumond's and the big question will be if michael christian democrats are willing to join forces with them in the long term in the grand coalition and it is going to be some very difficult talks ahead in the next month

here in germany and i think the people here are slowly getting impatient about getting in the government shall have a parliamentary seat is thank you very much for that update. let's all take a look at some of the stories making news around the bug four children were killed and twenty other people injured some critically when a train hit a school bus on a really crossing in southern france authorities are trying to determine what caused the accident investigators are looking into whether the crossing barrier was working. in argentina a protest against planned pension reforms have descended into violence the writing was so severe that it forced the congress in both to suspend a debate over the reforms the government says they needed to bring the country's deficit under control and curb inflation but opponents fear they believe millions was off. a commission investigating child sexual abuse in australia has called on the catholic church to end compulsory celibacy for priests it said

that although said it but he didn't call sex abuse it was a contributing factor it also said religious leaders should be prosecuted for failing to report child sexual abuse including priests who hear about crimes in confessionals the five were profound many of trillian institutions including the church had seriously failed to protect children with tens of thousands abused over decades responding to the report prime minister malcolm turnbull thank those who had come forward to tell their stories he said the coverage had led to a national tragedy being exposed. now the catholic church as i mentioned is singled out for particular criticism in this report to talk more about that i'm joined by our religious affairs correspondent martin guy martin welcome you know one of the things that this report is saying this is this compulsory celibacy for catholic clergy going to be it's to child sex abuse is how

do they make that link well the journal position is that a very repressive sexual environment in salou a sea of chords being essential the prohibition of any sexual encounter sexual activity contributes essentially to putting those who are more in more precarious positions children are. in a kind of environment in which they become the only target of sexual of sexual activity and of course this contributes to this contributes to abuse this is something that the church has flatly flatly rejected exactly those treated bishops as flatly rejected any kind of idea of making celibacy one into any why are they still opposed to changing this really given that this seeing what is happening in the church well i mean it's first of all because it's not clear that the link is quite as strong as a report claims in general it's very important to underline that sort of the rate of sexual abuse within the church is actually quite similar to the rate of sexual abuse in the journal population and it has been pointed out repeatedly included

including this morning report came out that as a matter of fact if one goes into the general population looks at children abuse among families among sort of institutions one will find that actually these are not institutions or families which actually respectively were seen on the list the rates are actually somewhat similar they should particular for the church is that this is actually the principle the very principle of the beauty for the people that are in charge of the clergy or one of the elements of it because reality i mean and this is something that the church i would venture to say that will simply not give up but they didn't want to also recommends that if priests here but this. sexual abuse in confession is that they should report it because it's a crime but the church is completely against that as well even though it amounts to actually kind of you know protecting a cry well one of the groans that you have with the church it's not so i think that this very important to underline it's not only that they have actually a very very large load of cases but they're also

a close institution so it's not just that they're being accused of sexual abuse they're also being accused circuitous lee of a cover up of a massive cover up in of course what gets said in confession is basically one of the privileged place of the transfer of this information the problem is that in confession it is understood that what is being said is of an absolute intimate and private nature a nice in some sense between the mouth of the birds and giving the confession and the year of the priest who intercedes with god so this goes to say that this kind of privilege is one that of course the church would not want to give up but on the other hand there is really the question as to whether if this were given up the confession space would be one in which priests would be willing to talk about sexual abuse and the journalists are a mean one can sort of understand that that probably would not be the case as a matter of fact many of these cases would simply disappear now at least at least even if not effectively with more awareness we have priests and clergy that are actually forced to intervene or have at least the capacity to intervene if we stop

talking about what they're doing in confession and then this actually all together this appears right boston got thank you very much for shedding light on a very difficult and complex issue my pleasure. a gentleman teenager is awaiting trial where she could face the death penalty she traveled to iraq after converting to islam and matted and i s. fighter who was later kin she says she wants to come home but even if she makes it back to germany her future is uncertain it was a cautious we union 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. the only vehicle 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 outside hundreds of women have left europe to join i.a.s. 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 are 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 its federal court of justice. but. it's not clear whether linda w. would be prosecuted if and when she returns an investigation is underway but

there's no warrant for her arrest in germany. joining me now in the studio is journalist who has met linda wu for an interview in iraq welcome. tell me first under what circumstances if you meet the person we're describing only as. well it is the second time that i met her in baghdad it's quite different from the first she's. still living with two or three women in the prison. she got more health. become better but still she's still wishing to go back to germany in the report this is what was the difference between your first interview and your second interview in the way she came across to you well i have the impression in the first interview that she did not understood what she is for her what is going to be happening but the last

interview that i got with her was more. stable she understood what has happened she also. what a dick circumstances that says she's going to face and especially the second time we've been joined with her mother and her sister visiting her in baghdad that was somehow quite different more family she got she began to speak more explaining her situation why she joined the islamic state she we got more answers from many questions that we have in our she was more open and more emotionally absolutely ok so did she tell you about why she decided to join islamic state well that's the main question that i'm asking myself but when she met her mother the first time two years after she left from home the first sentence is that she told her mother why you are coming here because of you i left my hope that means this is the question

of the conflict inside the family and with the world of golf or fifteen years old and she wanted to go also home and she just want to go without coming back and maybe she could join the the rights of the nazis or something but these the mist was somehow quicker now that she that's if she didn't join the right wing parties or groups within germany she actually decided to go you know to baghdad i did to join islamic sic was there no i did article component to her decision definitely she was a doctor or the allies to through internet she got access for a girl muslim girl from cheney and she talked with her internet and she convinced her to join the islam and then she connect her with islamic fighters them state fighters are from serbia speak also german and he asked do you want to leave germany and said yes or no and she said yes i want to go outside and he give her

the instruction how she can travel to turkey have. and she crossed the border to syria and so on and so on and they got married so rode through a telephone through skype gosh did she tell you more about this band she'd madge was an islamic state fighter. he called muhammad i don't know whether it is right but he's a cheney and have you seen in the story and. he got he got killed through the fighting and they got just small short to the women and the men together right because i mean this is a fascinating story and of course the faces of a uncertain future as you mentioned the past thank you very much for sharing your personal insights off linda debbie after you better i mean listen we thank you very much. to russia for a quarter sentence former economy minister alexei or do you have to if years in jail for accepting a two million done a bribe from an oil boss close to president vladimir putin will your guy ever the

highest ranking official arrested and put hundred seventy as and part was also find more than two million dollars the sentence was harsher than observers had expected the circumstances of the case have ignited speculation that it would have might have fallen victim to a kremlin power play. a mere mere drug saw riches in moscow covering the story for us it mean it is in prison seems to be a very harsh sentence does it come as a surprise. yes i think it's a surprise this isn't an expect unexpectedly severe penalty imposed on the former economist i think even one who kind of himself did not expect such a severe penalty he came today to the court without a bag or a suitcase and that's what not what you don't do if you're not sure what the trial is going to say because if you're found guilty you go right away to the prison so he probably expected to be released after the trial today came to the to the court

in a good mood he made who was making fun and had a good time before in the court yet flowers in his hand making jokes so i think even he did not expect such a severe penalty so they'll be asked some suggestions that he might have been the victim of what is being described as a kremlin power play tell us more about that. well as you said before look i was accused of taking you to million dollar bribe from rosneft chief executive eager say chains and has always denied those charges he said and he claims always that he was some sort of a victim of a set of a set of victim of provocation you will find two kinds of politicians in the kremlin fighting for poly you find more liberal politicians like muscle cars and you will find more. let's say conservative old fashioned politicians like me could

mr eager said chin and they always fighting for power and when mr sets in the c.e.o. of rosneft came to mr o'neill kind of basic as saying you know we ross neath would like to buy a state owned company called boston after we just need your approval this is more or less a form a formality and that's what i hear from the kremlin then mr o'neill kind of said ok i'm against this deal but i'm willing to approve it but what's in for me and maybe he was just a little bit too greedy or this is also true he might have under estimated the power of the conservative politicians around us to put it near dogs thank you very much for those insights. helen joins me now on internet discussion for allies in the u.s. there could be some changes on the horizon changes aplenty we're talking about a total about turn amrita that's after the us federal communications commission

reversed net neutrality rules they were championed by former president barack obama and they barred providers from blocking or sowing access to content or charging consumers more the move is part of u.s. president donald trump's push to scale back regulation in many economic sectors. net's neutrality rules banned internet providers from giving preferential treatment to certain websites after the f.c.c. vote that seems to be a thing of the past. the ending of net neutrality has been met with fury by millions of internet users both online through social media. and offline at this protest outside the f.c.c. headquarters they say consumers will be forced to stump up the costs of say paying for faster access to their favorite sites or even paying to access certain websites at all. whether it will saddle content platforms with costs that they will be

forced to pass on to their consumers the chairman of the f.c.c. saying it's not the role of the regulator to dictate to business models to the market it is not the job of the government to be in the business of picking winners and losers in the internet economy we should have a level playing field and let consumers decide who prevails actually but for democrat commission a million cliburn it signals a dereliction of duty at the public can plainly see that a soon to be toothless of c.c. is handing the keys to the internet the internet one of the most remarkable empowering enabling inventions of our lifetime over to a handful of multi-billion dollar corporations the companies argue they need the money internet users are demanding faster connections for ever more devices and that infrastructure will add to billions in costs to their balance sheets that has already been legal opposition to the ruling but for now it's

a victory of light touch regulation over big government of corporate america over the average internet user. i look at it a mother board great to have you with us today hi there now if this decision has inflamed passions i mean what does it mean net neutrality being over yeah it's basically one of the founding and central central principles of the internet that is at stake and has been repealed now by the f.c.c. so. if you compare it to your phone provider he can block out calls when you get when you get a call but this is basically what could happen now so basically it is about slowing down or speeding up and prioritizing data by the big telecom monopolies and it is the end of the internet as we know it's and there will be moment police come in i mean so as i understand it you could end up having as you say a fost lane

a slow lane some outright restrictions. for the rest of the well for europe well for year zero it doesn't mean anything in particular right now but we know that there are attempts to undermine the net neutrality rules that we have in europe already for example for companies and providers nies be providers they offer particular data plans that include for example you music streaming apps and they would be excluded from the data plan you're paying so this is a there's a bit shaky but i can see that as an attempt to undermine the net and child two rules already and probably. the pressure of lobby groups in brussels will also be increased now with peace suggesting that they can only finance. broadband build up infrastructure with data plans that exclude or include certain services now perhaps rather appropriately we've had huge reaction online democrat senator

bernie sanders saying it means basically the internet stopped the sale to the highest bidder all this fearing that this could deepen the divide between the rich and poor i want to bring in this tweet now you tube star on appears tweeting i can't even. begin to explain how devastated i am by the loss of net neutrality today the internet is the only bridge that successfully connects people of low income to those of high income with the tremendous opportunity to have equally weighted voices. then how could they sleet to further inequality do you think well for starters the the scope of offers and the scope of particular plans will get so devastatingly. confusing that you would have to have you have to bring up a lot of energy time and money to find out the particular right one for you plus i am we've already seen that for example when licenses when license disputes where a treaty where it carried out between ice sheet provided at the block certain

services for example if telecom and arise and are just choosing over who is going to get them the better license for netflix it would then mean that you as a telecom provider would not get access to netflix right but the thing is i mean big companies probably can stump up the cash for this so why if they come out big vote for who critics why do they really care well they do care because first of all it slows down startups and slows down innovation and secondly they have to take money into their hands to actually broaden the infrastructure now because there is only so much space on the internet which is the lines and the speed of the lines so everybody's going to fight about who's going to be first and who's going to be last and who's going to be the on the losing part as the customer in the end yeah because i mean it's probably worth pointing out facebook started out in a dorm room as well i mean right less choice does that mean less competition and therefore worse content and less freedom of speech and less even less equality

because you have a constant or you are prioritized a constant that somebody else paid a lot of money for and this is actually runs counter to everything that we know about the internet to silicon from mother mother border all that germany thank you very much. irish budget carrier ryanair says it's prepared to recognize pilot unions for the first time in the airline's thirty two year history to avoid a looming strike this holiday season chief executive michael o'leary once famously said that he would rather cut off his own hands and sign a deal with a union to bring wages up to industry standards now in a major u. turn he has to invite pilot representatives for talks for years ryanair pilots in several countries have been demanding recognition of their unions. my colleague then does it and takes a that from me at the business desk so now it's back over to amrita thank you your weekend has begun but i'll be back with you in half an hour with more news and

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