this is deja vu news live from berlin rescuers in italy racing to find survivors of the collapsed motorway bridge in the northern city of genoa had least thirty nine people confirmed dead at this hour and now a bitter dispute about who's responsible also coming up in the show that priests will wait raping little boys and girls and the men of god who are responsible for them not only did nothing they hid it all for decades a new report finds that some three hundred priests sexually abused more than one

thousand children in pennsylvania over a period of seven decades and that senior figures in the catholic church covered it all. by brian thomas thanks so much for being with us a grief is turning to anger out this hour in italy as some people seek answers as to how a motorway bridge in general could collapse without warning at least thirty nine people now known to have died in this disaster rescuers still searching the rubble for any survivors italy's deputy prime minister says the company that runs the bridge should be held accountable. sheer devastation in genoa northern italy. firefighters and doctors have been working around the clock pulling survivors out of the rubble they're hopeful they'll show. and more. but the

families of those killed are facing a grim reality. jim i started to call him forty times fifty times and then i started also to call his friend who was together with his wife and then i came to the hospital and they said that he was no more. some relatives are waiting at the hospital for news of loved ones. his name is not among the missing not among the hospitals patients we don't know anything i hope he's in this ambulance arriving now because i was just told that they found someone and he answered his phone last night so we hope this could be a good sign. if there were. emergency workers say the most difficult part of the rescue effort is still to come. from this evening we'll start moving some of the biggest segments of concrete from the collapsed bridge where. we're doing this in order to create new spaces for our teams to enter so

they can check for other survivors of their persona. for now the focus is still on rescue but many italians are now asking questions how could this have happened and who if anyone is responsible. and just one of the questions out there today let's go straight to the scene correspondent charlotte. pills on the ground for us in genoa charlotte how's the rescue operation coming along right now and how difficult is the task that emergency workers are facing. well you spoken to a number of rescue workers here in genoa they are telling us that they do still have hope that most of my views will be found there are of course a number of people still thought to be missing but let's not forget we are over twenty four hours now from the time that this disaster is starting to fade gradually that they will find survivors of course the death toll has britain's

reasons today we've had more bad news of course this is a huge logistical nightmare for those on the ground just behind me trying to search for survivors there are numerous slabs of concrete that they have to be incredibly cathal with they worry of course that the concrete could collapse perhaps crushing anybody that could still be alive underneath the rubble this saying that they're treating this very much like an earthquake just using small equipment sniffer dogs trying to see if anyone is still alive in the wreckage but of course there is a very real concern that as time goes on the search for survivors kids then turn to a search for bodies ok what are local people saying charlotte you've been out talking to some of them what's been their reaction to the collapse of this major bridge in genoa. the people that we've spoken to are still very much in shock this is a huge part of the city this bridge behind me was something that people would use at least once or twice a day it was called the brooklyn bridge a generator is a huge part of the landscape here people simply cannot believe that this is

happening we've spoken to one person he said that he's been evacuated from the building just that he heads the collapse of the bridge he said it's not very much like an earthquake for these people this is a crisis that's still ongoing he doesn't know when he's going to return to work there are concerns of gas leaks in the building behind him say this is still very much an active situation there is also a feeling among many people here of the lack of surprise while the shops they're not surprise they said that they were very worried about the safety of this bridge long before this collapse we spoke to one man in fact he said that he whenever you drive across this bridge he would drive very fast just. he was nervous about traveling on it ok you know that points out the issue of who is responsible for what happened you tell him government has taken the bridges private operator to task also the government's taken to task the european union what can you tell us about the dispute as to who's responsible for this. well this is the fest's

national crisis facing italy's new government and they really have come out fighting attributing blame to multiple sources one of them the course as you mentioned as being the company that operates this stretch of road out to study there are allegations from the government that they weren't doing enough to protect the safety of this bridge they went doing enough when it comes to maintenance that is something that is physically deny they said that the maintenance checks were up to date but there are big questions being asked that members of the government in fact think that the have to be high profile resignation they're saying that they want the names and said names of the people that are found to be responsible for this as you mentioned as well they think is they're also being pointed to the european union as this claim that budget restrictions meant that said no no money was able to be spent here in italy on infrastructure there are so many people here they say is to blame too early to finger pointing there are still people potentially in the wreckage behind me the focus here has to be on them ok and the

focus will very much remain on them in the hours ahead charles and bill while more for us on the ground there in general thanks very much charlie. now let's check in with some of the other stories making the news at this hour israel has reopened its only commercial crossing with gaza weeks after closing it in response rocket attacks from the militant group hamas trucks carrying food fuel construction materials passing into the territory on wednesday gazans for a lawyer on this crossing for vital commercial supplies. a taliban attack on a military base has killed at least forty afghan soldiers and police and then. northern province of. local officials say militants stormed the base in a number of checkpoints overnight before setting fire to the facilities the attack comes after a massive toll a bomb assault on the eastern city of galls me last week. a candidate from the democratic party has moved one step closer to becoming the first

transgender governor of a u.s. state christine hall quist beat three other candidates to secure the democratic nomination and vermont of course will now take on republican incumbent phil scott in the election in november. the senator has sparked outrage after he referred to the final solution during a speech about banning muslim immigration fraser adding from the right wing catarrh australian party claimed he didn't know the history of the phrase used by the nazis during the holocaust. it's to the us now on a grand jury in the state of pennsylvania has published a report on the sexual abuse of children by roman catholic priests it says at least one thousand children were molested and raped by priests over a period totaling seven decades the report accuses senior church officials including the man who's currently the archbishop of the u.s. capitol washington d.c.

of systematically covering up reports of paedophilia brought by parishioners. in approving this report more legal three hundred clerics human have been accused of sexually abusing children in pennsylvania unchecked for decades officials say their investigation found systematic cover ups not just by church leaders in the u.s. state but also in the vatican rely on the euphemisms the church priests were raped raping little boys and girls and the men of god who were responsible for them not only did nothing they hid it all for decades. some of the victims now adults were at the press conference others described their helplessness in a video released by investigators. months old they who believe me reste in night pain forty eight for forty seven would abuse you. do they never heard of such

a thing because they covered it up the grand jury find that more than one thousand children were abused over seventy years they say the real number though might be much higher. a staggering grand jury to start we're joined now by diffuses correspondent martin jacques is following the story for us good morning to you martin this is horrific there's no way to really qualify this one thing one way i can think of describing it we're talking about at least one thousand children perhaps thousands abused over seventy years how could the catholic church in pennsylvania cover this up for so long well very likely many thousands i mean very very likely in this is a global phenomenon as we have seen over the last couple of years i think that by a large what we have is a system that is not only guilty of hosting sexual abusers but more importantly it has managed to produce descale of abuse by essentially becoming a cover up organization and it was said by by the grand jury when no one's heard

terms that essentially the church had operated along the lines of a criminal organization so it is notable that most of these priests were moved just win in pennsylvania it's much more often that we see that priests actually are very are sent to very remote places from their region they also says which means that they're essentially very difficult to prosecute and sometimes i mean they're put in places where it's much easier for them to continue perpetrating this kind of this kind of crisis of priests who are protected rotated around into different parishes of different dioceses within them sylvania there's only been two charges brought against the more than three hundred abusers in this case what why is that well partly because crime spree scribes so that means to say that there are a bunch of these cases that quite simply cannot be prosecuted i mean we heard in the video somebody that was was abused i mean we don't know exactly what the nature of the their views are in one hundred forty eight or forty seven so that crime can

no longer be prosecuted nonetheless the fact is that the number is very very large and one third of them seem to be from it's burgen we have to give in mind that pennsylvania has about three million catholics so it's a. concentration of the catholic community and that means that presumably more things are actually going to unfold over the next few days and months ok you know this reported to the grand jury accuses senior church officials including the archbishop of washington d.c. of having been complicit in the cover up what consequences can the can happen what are you imagining i mean i think you can hear the research very specific and game and that end game seen a couple if they say go as a matter of fact in chief chilean prosecutor investigating sexual abuses as the vatican to release documents the vatican has not only done it itself but indicated to all its churches that they're not allowed to share this kind of information by

and large with national authorities if there were enough pressure to actually force of attack and to force its churches to turn these documents to local authorities the story of sexual abuse would radically change because now we would begin to see must you know must persecution but on the other hand we would actually get a very good and i fear a very very ugly glimpse of what he said true scale of the success ok so we can expect some pressure on rome to release those documents concerning this case martin thanks very much for the pleasures. we have some tennis news for you now and another blow for serena williams as she crashes out of the second round at the cincinnati open the former world number one struggling in the first set against eighth seeded patron gave a tell all but williams rallied to take the second to give it over serves though too much for williams the czech coming out on top in the third step is set to advance williams said afterwards it's still early in her comeback after giving

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