this is the. search for survivors of. that at least thirty nine people confirmed dead there is no dispute about who is responsible also on the program. priests were raping little boys and girls and the men of god who were responsible for them not only did nothing at all for decades. five years and more than three hundred. thousand children in the u.s. state of pennsylvania over seventy years.

i'm still guy welcome to the program grief. people ask. motorway bridge to collapse at least thirty nine people on the are known to have died rescuers are still searching for survivors italy's deputy prime minister says the company that manages 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 find more. but the families of those killed are facing a grim reality. at the gym 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 there and they said that he was no me. some relatives are waiting at the hospital for news of loved ones. because 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 a concrete block from the collapsed bridge that. 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. as a civil engineer from leibnitz a university in hanover welcome to d.w.p. now you're a bridge designer yourself this is a bridge that's been repaired and renovated several times since it was opened in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven is that unusual it's actually not that unusual to repair and to maintain budgets in the procedure of the ring operation of . highways and freeways and so obviously an inquiry has begun what are some of the most likely theories about how this came to happen of course these questions all know but now it's actually only assumptions or speculation possible but if you see that structure and if you see the special conditions we had during the accident we had very severe weather conditions so a score could be happening during such and. what might have happened saw.

the earth could. go away from the foundation for us and that leads to that could lead to problems and then the bridge of course is quite all of this from the sixty's so we have a lot of maintenance problems with these bridges in europe in general and that aeration of the materials and teak of the structural members of course could be another reason right perhaps it's also an interaction of several reasons but i guess as you say we are speculating and we'll find out in due course but the fact that there was a storm hardly seems like a good reason for a bridge to collapse that just seems if if that is a reason this was a bad bridge it should not happen of course so bridge collapse is not accepted in general so bridges are usually very safe structures to safety. the safety margin is

very high and bridge should never collapse due to such weather conditions the italian press is reporting that this is the country's fifth bridge collapse in five years does it really perhaps have a wider problem with its infrastructure i think so definitely if i see i said breach safety is very high in general and it's not except that bridges collapse not in public and not in. engineering society so if we have five collapses in in a couple years that's definitely too high so what's go what do you think any of the is going on in general terms what is the problem with italian infrastructure projects i think the maintenance of infrastructure is a very important task in the society but maintenance is of course a little boring because you cannot really. do some good. it is

not nothing to show in the public because it's usual job during the working time and so it's often neglected or all right well we will find out in due course for other very interesting stephanie march and leaving university thank you so much come let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world israel has reopened its only commercial crossing with gaza weeks after closing eighty eight in response to rocket attacks the militant group hamas lloris carrying food fuel and construction materials passed into the territory of wednesday gazans rely on the crossing for vital commercial supplies. a taliban attack on a military base has killed at least to forty afghan soldiers and police in the northern province of backlash and local officials said militants stormed the base and several checkpoints overnight before setting fire to facilities it act follows a massive taliban assault last week on the eastern city of

a ghastly. democratic party voters in the united states in the u.s. state of vermont have nominated a transgender candidate to run for governor christine how crist defeated three other democrats in tuesday's primary you know faces a popular big public an incumbent in november's general election. germany's government to plans to allow a third gender option in all official records chancellor merkel's captors agreed on a draft law that will allow people to list their gender as diverse instead of male or female last year germany's highest court ruled that existing law does not respect individual rights now a grand jury in the u.s. state of pennsylvania has published just reporting to sexual abuse of children by roman catholic priests it says at least a thousand children were blasted and raped by hundreds of priests over seventy years the report goes on to accuse the senior church officials including the

current bishop of washington d.c. of systematically covering up reports of paedophilia brought to them by parishioners. many victims of way to decades for this investigation pain evident as they attended a press conference by the grand jury found three hundred one priest sexually abused children in that cat over one. child victims were identified by our investigation so the grand jury knows. the that. was. investigators say in many cases records have been lost and some victims were too afraid to come forward the abuse states back over seven decades some describe the helplessness they experienced in a video released by investigator. for forty. two. do they never heard of such

a thing because they covered it up church leaders in pennsylvania stunned at the scale of the abuse admit mistakes were made i humbly offer my sincere apology to each victim who has been violated anyone affiliated with the church. i hope that you can accept a few of the priests are likely to stand trial as many cases are too old. let's get more on this from d.w. ethics correspondent martin jack welcome and we just heard the bishop that saying mistakes were made but this does not sound like a mistake if you believe what's in this report this was a system this was the system absolutely i mean it's like this doesn't cut it anymore the church is not entitled to talk about mistakes at all one of the things that the grand jury sort of brings forth is that essentially the church at least in

the state of pennsylvania and we did in the day of this particular pittsburgh which is one third of where those people charged from was eventually operating us a criminal organization and this is actually a very damning charge so that is to say there was a system for both protecting these people that evidently was perpetrating the problem so you know i think that apologies is something that well just quite simply has no place in this conversation anymore and we had briefly in the report only two charges against more than three hundred abuses and the names on known so why not well this charges some of these charges go back so many years so i mean i think that there's a statute of limitation there is a touch of limitations and there are only three hundred cases in this case that have been put on the table but i mean presumably we're going to see a lot more and presumably we're going to hear about a lot more victims now they sure that because of the policy of secrecy that the church officially adopted actually the the previous pope benedict has essentially

said that anybody that would be that it could be. god turning turning information to national authorities or legal authorities would be actually eggs communicated because of this kind of policy it made it almost impossible to actually track perpetrators through this means that you know the bus religious of bringing charges were actually quite reduced so this is a report from the grand jury released by the state supreme court what happens next well i mean this is. prosecutor and this will actually be moved i mean charges will be brought but what is interesting at this point is that this is happening in several places around the world so australia snow you know has charges is putting on trial cardinal bell but more interestingly perhaps over the next two days a prosecutor in chile who is investigating abuse cases has requested from the vatican that they turn documents to the prosecution i think that this is centrally then game is whether the church from the very very top that is to say from the

vatican will actually start turning documents and evidence to national out thirty's that can prosecute cases keep in mind that. it's very likely that these cases are still going on so this is not come to an end these policies are essentially still in place so you mentioned then the from the top there was that this this policy of not turning over documents to state authorities if criminal cases are being brought around the world. can the catholic church be forced to hand these documents over it depends where and in many cases know the answer is simply no because there are many many situations many legal contexts and frameworks in which for instance confession is actually protected so we food if a priest goes to say his bishop and confesses that he has molested a child that he sexually protected the other problem is that the church itself has actually developed

a policy as i was saying of not disclosing these things to national authorities so it would have to change the policy within the church and we're talking about a massive organization in which they actually begin to say yes we're turning these things to a national authority this would have to come from this pope leaving the. thank you my pleasure. it's not sport with tennis arena williams has crashed out of the second round of the cincinnati open the former world number one struggled in the first set against eighth seeded a patchwork of it over but rallied to take the second tobas serves though were too much for williams on the jetta came out on top in the third in the third set to advance after the match williams said she still early in her comeback after giving birth. to cincinnati open is a key warm up event to one of the tennis world's biggest tournament's the u.s.

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