good to. forment magazine. this is news coming to you live from berlin of bricks and brick through as the e.u. gives the green light for the next phase of negotiations leaders' meeting in brussels the major hurdles have been overcome and britain and the e.u. could now move on to talking about their future relations with a focus on trade we'll go live to our correspondent at the summit also coming up

another grand coalition could be in the works in germany as social democratic leader martin short gives the green light for. conservatives. lost the feet to the young european women who married. linda is awaiting trial in baghdad it's the first time the german teenager has. since running away to join the islamist group. how to warm welcome to you i'm on. day two of the e.u. summit in brussels on a breakthrough on briggs it constant presence just says it leaders had agreed on guidelines to send the negotiators into talks with the british over the transitional phase this means that for now that he does. and move on to the second

phase in talks on britain's departure from the bloc it's a big boost for british prime minister to resign me the clock is ticking down to her country's exit deal in march two thousand and nineteen. let's go straight to our brussels correspond where our cars are in a gag matis is following the story for us gilks of the summit is wrapping up and they finally have managed to bring in at least one of the big issues where they were much division. exactly a memory to so i'm just came out of the fresh out of the press conference the joint press conference one should say between angela merkel the german chancellor and emmanuelle mark on the french president they gave this press conference again together as a sign of european unity and were rather upbeat about a number of subjects really german chancellor and for sizing again that the progress that was made on the common defense union that twenty five year member states signed up to was a giant leap forward into the european future the french president praised the work

that has been achieved on migration although there remains some dispute over the internal relocation mechanism but he said there was been good progress in strengthening x. channel borders and then also on the economic side here i am for sized that within the euro zone it's now time now that the sun is shining basically to quote the head of the european commission now that the sun is shining the economy's going strong it's time to build a stronger roof and to prepare the union for future possible shocks or a future economic crisis and we don't know what do what's been agreed on briggs if you're going to explain to us what have they decided and what does exactly mean in terms of the next phase of negotiations. directed of course the big issue here as expected the leaders have given green light to move forward to phase two following the recommendation of the european commission and chief negotiator

a bun year which was thanked by america and mccall the key issue will now be to find a way forward into a transition face before trade talks can actually start and so far the u. has published guidelines for that next phase of how to move into these transition talks in order so that they can move forward one thing is absolutely crucial they will need confirmation they would need clarity from the british side what they actually want not what they do not want because the red lines are pretty much on the table they don't they've noted in the guidelines that they no longer want to stay part of the customs union nor of the internal market but what they want of the e.u. that is now crucial and i get from what you've been saying on the other big issue under discussion refugee this to seem to be a fair bit of divisions tell us more about that. a key division of

course is this still migration and that is particularly the relocation mechanism that the e.u. is looking for one is looking for a permanent mechanism how to deal with thousands of migrants that have particularly come to greece and italy and how they can be relocated into other member states there is a council decision that is obligatory but that is not followed particularly by countries in the east of europe and now they're trying to reform that system and basically german chancellor said we need to show solidarity and that is also required from these states how the e.u. will deal with that in the future very hard to say at the end it might come down to a majority vote that then these countries in the east of europe is would have to live with. good models at the e.u. summit in brussels thank you very much for that live update. here in germany the head of the social democrats martin schultz is not recommending that is spotty begin exploratory talks which. on forming a governing coalition is

a major about face with the s.p.d. leader who previously said his body would go into opposition off the suffering its worst election result in the post-war era and september but the is speedy has been under pressure to reconsider joining a new grand coalition government often chance the metal fence to get another three week old emission off the ground. political correspondent charlotte potts joins me now from autumn interested is shot of giving expertise initial position how surprising is this announcement this doesn't really come as a huge surprise we have to say both parties christian democrats and the social democrats know they have a responsibility to at least try to form a new government but we also shouldn't get ahead of ourselves we have to remember we're just in the beginning this is the initial step to go into exploratory talks and if these exploratory talks come to a successful ending then both parties will head into coalition talks and with the

coalition talks if they are successful the social democrats have already announced that they want their party membership to vote on it so we're talking about a very lengthy process that could take up until maybe next spring so it will be some time maybe months until we see a new stable government here in germany and chuck how difficult will these exploratory talks be given that neither side was really keen on working together in the first place. yeah you're right neither side was keen on working together in the first place but the alternatives for both parties even worse we're talking about a minority government on new elections and across the aisle across the political spectrum nobody is really interested in seeing new elections so they are going to give it a try and the social democrats really have the upper hand in these negotiations because they they were the ones reluctant in the first place the christian democrats have already tried it once and they failed in the form

a coalition talks so the source such as democrats are going to pose some tough demands and the question is whether christian democrats will we will see them through and if in the end we see a grand coalition two point zero here in germany. the bottom interest of us thank you very much. let me now bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the bond a russian court has sentenced full my economists to alexei you to each is in jail for accepting a two million dollar bribe from an oil boss close to president not to be putin the sentence was harsher than many had expected the circumstances of the case have ignited speculation that or you can have my to fallen victim to a kremlin power play. listen demonstrators have clashed with israeli forces during protests over u.s. president recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital in the west bank that threw

stones at israeli troops who responded with tear gas trumps announcement stood anger across the arab and muslim bundt. a commission investigating child sexual abuse in australia has court on the catholic church and compulsory celibacy for priests it said that although set of the see didn't cause sex abuse it was a contributing factor you don't still said religious leaders should be prosecuted for failing to report child sexual abuse including priests who hear about the crimes during confession the five prob many of us treated institutions including the church had seriously failed to protect children with tens of thousands abused over decades responded to the report by mr malcolm turnbull thank those who come forward to tell their stories he said dec arriage had led to a national tragedy being exposed. and 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 got martin welcome you know one of the things that this report is saying this is this compulsory celibacy for catholic clergy contributions to child sex abuse is how do they make that link well the journal position is a very repressive sexual environment in salou a city of course being essentially the prohibition of any sexual encounter sexual activity contributes to putting those who are more in more precarious positions children particular. 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 training missions that. dejected any kind of idea of making celibacy one entity why are they still opposed to changing this really given that this scene 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 book relation 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 churches that this is actually the principle the very principle if they do a few of the for the people that are in charge of the clergy or one of the elements of it because reality i mean in 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. and sexual abuse in confessions 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 he's 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 in the other hand there is really the. question as to whether if this were given up the confessions base would be one in which brits would be willing to talk about sexual abuse and the general answer i 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 than this actually all together this appears right thank you very much for shedding light on a very difficult and complex issue by pleasure. agility the ages awaiting trial she could face the death penalty she traveled to iraq after converting to islam and marriage and i is fighting was later killed she says she wants to come home but even if she comes 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. i don't know how i came up with such a dumb idea i've completely ruined my life yet. 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's 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 help 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 will discuss it sophia 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. this is coming up next been looking at net net. neutrality rules in the united states that's coming up short. stay with. frankfurt. international gateway to the best connections road and rail. located in the heart of europe you are connected to the whole. experience outstanding shopping and.