this is. from berlin italy declares a state of emergency as the search for survivors in general interest a second tonight thirty nine people are confirmed dead including several children after a key highway bridge collapsed yesterday now there's a dispute about who's to blame also coming up. 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 a new report finds that the three hundred three sexually abused more than

a thousand children in the u.s. state of pennsylvania span of seventy years. plus another standoff at sea comes to an end as these migrants docked in malta after being stranded on the rescue ship for a day but their journey is far from over malta says they can dock but they can't stay. off it's good to have you with us tonight a state of emergency is in effect for the italian city of genoa the prime minister today declared a twelve month state of emergency as the country seeks to deal with the collapse of a key highway bridge a prime minister conte promising millions of euros in aid to the. a major port city

and blaming the tragedy on the company responsible for the bridges upkeep of the fifty year old marandi bridge was scheduled for extensive maintenance later this year but it collapsed yesterday during a heavy rain storm a section of concrete the size of a soccer pitch and dozens of vehicles crashed on to buildings and railway lines below thirty nine deaths have been confirmed so far firefighters are now spending a second night searching for survivors. the scene in genoa is one of the to devastation. firefighters and doctors have been working around the clock to pull survivors out of the rubble. and they help folk that they can still find more people or life. but the families of those who died a facing a grim reality problems 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 and they said that he was no me. some relatives are waiting at the hospital for news of loved ones and good grief his name is not among the missing not among the hospital 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. over morning. bondage and pills and she joins us tonight from general good evening to you charlotte lead let's start with this rescue effort it's been almost thirty six hours since the bridge collapsed is there any hope of finding more survivors. rescuers we spoke to this morning brant still very optimistic that they would find survivors among the rubble as the day goes on there that hope really has started to fade people that we've spoken to said that only bodies have been recovered from the wreckage so far no survivors yet today so it really isn't looking very optimistic for people head nevertheless search teams will continue that work for another night there will be sniffer dogs once again here in the wreckage behind me floodlights lighting up the area trying to find anybody that may still be that is

the interior minister in fact not so long ago said miracles do happen as the hours go on it is getting more and more likely that the search for survivors will become a search for bodies and as time passes i think we're all realizing that this tragedy this story has to do with a lot more than just a collapsed bridge we know that a state of emergency has been declared for all the jenna world to stay in effect for the next year we're also hearing that some three hundred families have been made homeless by this tragedy what do we know about the people who have been evacuated from their home shore. hundreds of people have been evacuated since the crash now the reason for that brand you can probably see just behind me by looking at the bridge there is still a section of it that is still standing the fear is that could also collapse now the part of the bridge that has collapsed landed on warehouses in london on rail tracks

so none of the victims on the ground because they were in their homes that the problem with the area where the bridge is still standing is there are a lot of residences say people have been asked to leave the area now that's making a lot of people very angry they don't know how long they're going to be moved away from their homes for they have no idea in fact whether or not they'll ever be able to go back because of course they have to either try and secure the area for us or totally dismiss this bridge that could take a very long time and we spoke to one person who was very near him he said that as a child in fact he played near this bridge he said that it could be weeks even months before he's able to go back you know you know it's just unimaginable what people are going through right now just because they live near a bridge we know that italy's government has been pointing the finger to j. bridges private operator and also at the european union what more can you tell us about that. that's right now this really is the first big challenge for italy's new

government they have come out fighting they've been speaking very passionate terms about who is to blame the e.u. as you said was one of the people they say they have cited as one of the bodies that size it is being responsible they say that the u. has limited the amount of funding available for infrastructure and that's the allegation that the ministers here have leveled at the european union but they've really gone for the company that operates this part of the bridge behind me now the allegation is for ministers that they just didn't do enough to maintain the bridge that it was not safe enough that something that to some extent has been backed up by people that we've spoken to here a lot of locals have said that they was very nervous about traveling on this bridge one man told us that when he drove across he would deliberately drive just a little bit fall said just because he felt very nervous about being on the bridge which he said he just didn't seem very safe to him the company that has fiercely

denied that it's maintenance done has went up to scratch it said it's on regular checks and bided by the law and lot of people here they were pointing out that this anger this blame game that's really playing out here in italy at the moment isn't going to help them what they really need to know now is what happens next and also they want to assure and says that something like this one top and again there is very deep concern about other bridges across italy italian infrastructure they want to know what's being done to prevent this tragedy playing out again and surely you know when we look behind you there you know we realize that this is the second night that people are dealing with this tragedy the second night that rescue workers are trying to find survivors are just shows a little bit more about the task that these emergency workers are facing tonight. this is a huge logistical to taking brand as i'm sure you can see behind me there are still enormous flaps of concrete thrift and metal is part of the wreckage now there is

a danger in china to move these enormous lives because of course they fear that it could trigger another collapse and perhaps cross any vehicles that might be below them and potentially harm anybody who may still be alive underneath that rubble as they get to trying to take it very very carefully they're using sniffer dogs trying to sift out to see if there are any survivors is that one of the huge problems facing them those that they simply don't know how many people were on the bridge how many vehicles with that they generally whether or not they are still searching for people and our correspondent charles and fill in the story for us tonight in general charlotte thank you. a grand jury in the u.s. state of pennsylvania has published its report into the sexual abuse of children by roman catholic priests the report claims that at least a thousand children were molested and raped by hundreds of priests over seventy years it goes on to accuse senior church leaders including the current archbishop of washington d.c.

of systematically covering up reports of pedophilia brought to them by parishioners . just many victims of way to decades for this investigation pain evident as they attended a press conference by the grand jury it found three hundred one priest sexually abused children in that cabin over one thousand child victims were identified by our investigation though the grand jury no. they believe that number was down. investigators say and in many cases records have been lost and some victims were too afraid to come forward the abuse states back over seven decades some described the helplessness they experienced in a video released by investigator. in ny. for forty seven. buz you. 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 reach victims who has been violated by anyone affiliated with the catholic church. i hope that you can accept it in a few of the priests are likely to stand trial as many cases are now too old only two people have been charged small comfort for victims far from world this story i'm joined from washington d.c. by julie's holes where she is the religion reporter for the washington post julie is good to have you on the program you know we used the word unprecedented a lot especially in describing this story talk to me a little bit though about how the reaction in the u.s. has been considering just how best these accusations are. it's really

this scale of the investigation here that is as you say unprecedented this is the biggest state run investigation into sexual abuse here in the u.s. and the catholic church it covers six dioceses most of the state of pennsylvania there's over three hundred priests who are accused there's over a thousand victims and even for people who have known about the sexual abuse crisis in the catholic church for many years seeing it laid out on this scale in this comprehensive detail as well as seeing it at a time when cardinal mccarrick who is a cardinal here in washington just resigned recently he's the first u.s. cardinal to ever resign due to sexual abuse allegations all of that coming right now people really are shaken in a way that they haven't been by clergy sexual abuse in a long time so there's a lot of shock but one of the. action so far there's been only two charges a gets the more than three hundred abusers if that's correct and whose names are

known why why is there. well this report dates back all the way to nineteen forty seven so many of these priests are no longer living almost none of them if not nine they're currently in active ministry in the church and as for all of the priests who either have been removed from ministry because of the accusations or that they've retired in the years since most of them can't be prosecuted in the criminal justice system here because the statute of limitations limits how long after the crime takes place the state attorney general's office can bring these charges and one of the recommendations of the grand jury was to raise the statutes of limitations and to change the law so that more of these priests can be prosecuted where do you think things will go moving forward julie the catholic church we've heard time and time again from freeze that they insist when some type of criminal action takes place the church tries to keep it within the church

instead of letting you know the judicial process of the state takeover can that continue to stand considering the these allegations re i mean we see right now that just because the church certainly does not always want the state to the state wherever you are is not listening to that and is investigating in australia cardinal pell is on trial in chile a special they're investigating here in pennsylvania this investigation happened and there's going to be a really considerable push for changing those laws in pennsylvania and what about this cover up that the report also addresses are people likely to face charges. for then. it's really the same timeframe where they're covering up and one of the things that the report found was that most of this abuse that was reported was happening before two thousand and two before

the boston globe spotlight investigation that. really broke up in this story and the church did start reporting abuse to the authorities start removing people from ministry whenever they were accused so most of these are old cases which means anybody who is covering up these cases that was a long time ago two statutes of limitation apply yeah it will be interesting to see what the pope does we understand about ten days he's going to ireland in a lot of people are expecting him to say something about this case we will see julie sales were religion reporter for the washington post joining us tonight from washington d.c. julie thank you very much thank you here is some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world democratic party voters in the u.s. state of vermont have nominated a transgender candidate to run for governor christine hall quiz defeated three other democrats in tuesday's primary she now faces

a popular republican incumbent in the of embers election germany's government plans to allow a third gender option on official records chancellor merkel's cabinet agreeing on a draft wall that will let people list their gender as diverse rather than just male or female last year germany's highest court ruled that existing roles do not respect in the vidual rights pertaining to gender a court in germany has ruled that a suspected former bodyguard of osama bin laden must be brought back from tunisia last month regional authorities sent the tunisian national who is known as sammy a back to his home country before his appeal against deportation could be her. volunteers in iceland have been trying to persuade a pod of pilot whales to leave a few words in the west of the island the estimated one hundred animals returned to the few words several times and to be guided back to the open ocean one will have

to be helped after getting caught in seemingly in a shallow area or it is over to funny now which is that the latest on turkey's continuing currency crisis and thank you so much turkish president trichet type adeline and german chancellor angela merkel have been discussing bilateral ties and the turkish leaders state visit to berlin next month in a phone call they say treasury and finance minister will meet with his german counterpart had of this visit turkey's currently caught up in a huge diplomatic and straight dispute the united states and tariffs on a variety of u.s. products including alcohol tobacco and president wants his people to boycott the i phone he himself is now switching to another brand it's. all right let's bring in our financial correspondent and. see so what's been the reaction in

the u.s. to add sanctions. well maybe some investors are starting to get tired of the daily changing headlines and have started taking the profits and vested money off the table funny and now could tar is dumping in the country has pledged to invest fifteen billion dollars in turkey according to officials and like basically everything else and this conflict this is a strategic move now who's going to stand with who the united states is our major trade partner but it's not the only one that's what turkey's trade minister said minister said earlier and on the other hand turkey is a way less important for the united states it's actually number thirty two on the list of america's biggest trade partners so everyone should be aware of the fact that this is not a fight his country is going to win these new sanctions are not going to seriously hurt the united states not economically and turkey's g.d.p.

is something like one percent of the world's g.d.p. while the united states to the peace amounts to more than fifteen percent of the world's g.d.p. funny right so there's a lot at stake on two different stories you're seeing some serious developments in tuscaloosa pair move to go pro and what's the latest what do you hear. so forces are suggesting that the agency f.t.c. is moving into a formal investigation of tesla the wall street journal reported last week that the as if he had made an inquiry into a test about whether muscles were truthful and on thursday bloomberg reported that the agency was intensifying its inquiry it does not come as a surprise that the f.c.c. seems to be investigating as this tweet stirred up a lot in recent years the agency has been pretty business friendly so now the question for investors is if the f.c.c. is going to make an example of tests or if they're going to follow a milder path but even if they should decide very pro-business there is

a second party likely to sue investors who have lost money after that tweet so fishermans going to wall street thank you very much now the annual conference has just opened in the chinese capital beijing and brings together the world's robots ants office a forum for them to exchange high level faults one in one hundred sixty international exhibitors such showcasing the latest gizmos the conference comes amid heightened straight tensions between the united states and china as u.s. companies complain and force technology transfer to china and in a difficult and in a declared protection for intellectual property there and intellectual property protection east key in a sector which is becoming increasingly competitive here's more. robots are

learning to do new things all the time more and more complex tasks perhaps a good deal cricket and some humans. don't try this at home. these soccer playing robots may not be the most skilled players in the world but they're helping students to learn complex programming. i just don't want you know one has to program every movement and then one has to take care that the robots cameras can recognize things and differentiate to do that one needs a lot of theory and programming knowledge there are of course many other things that one has to consider you know and. educating specialists is just a part of china's ambition in robot development the world robot conference in beijing is also a showcase for domestic industry they want to be world leaders in the robotics industry the strategy is called made in china twenty twenty five and it's not just about singing and dancing. the country wants to be the world's number one producer

of industrial robots to. come this fall but we have to be careful if you want to maintain the leadership position that we hold at the moment in europe and in germany too. mr divide about. robotics will be one of the big drivers in business over the next decade europe and china are about equal at the moment but the competition is intensifying. all right that's your business update no more work nice big brands and a blast in afghanistan is exactly right funny officials in afghanistan have a blame so-called islamic state for a deadly suicide bombing in the capital kabul the attack killed forty eight people in a mainly shiite neighborhood of the city with just two months before elections in afghanistan the country is facing a surge in violence that has claimed hundreds of lives in just the past week. they were studying for university entrance exams when the bomb exploded dozens of people

were killed and many more wounded in the latest suicide attack which targeted a shiite neighborhood in kabul but joy good will be good for most of the people who were at the educational center have been killed it was a horrific scene many of the students were torn to pieces. there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast but officials blamed the islamic state militant group. the explosion came as the city of does ne about one hundred fifty kilometers south of kabul struggles to return to normal after five days of intense fighting with hundreds of casualties government forces say they have managed to retake the city from the taliban. but we pushed back the enemy from the city completely by force where i am standing now as the front line the taliban are still around the city of our city meanwhile the taliban have counseled

a security agreement with the age group red crescent that's guaranteed safety for their workers across afghanistan that currently some sixteen hundred represent workers in the country delivering medical care few and water just two months before parliamentary elections in october the security situation in afghanistan seems to be deteriorating. for the aquarius rescue ship has docked in malta after several european union countries agreed to take in the one hundred forty one migrants on board malta itself will not be taking it along with italy initially turned the ship away in a repeat of a standoff that took place in june the migrants were rescued off the coast of libya and face an uncertain future after reaching dry land. their journey at an end at last. one hundred forty one refugees roughly half of the

miners disembark in the maltese port of aletta after days at sea. after several european countries blocked the aquarius from docking they are relieved to set foot on dry land. the migrants will now move on to one of five countries that have agreed to accept them spain germany france luxembourg and portugal it's a gesture that sparked cautious hope among rescue organizations. since i know this is only a solution for this particular case but it does show that solidarity is an option maybe we can only assume that people recognize that there is a humanitarian crisis going on in the mediterranean sea to me out aid workers called on all you nations to face up to their responsibilities highlighting the stories of the migrants aboard the aquarius. in the other get your one off the age

of sixteen told how he and out those were literally sold at an auction in libya subsequently he was forced to work on the farm to six months in the six one that it's one side but. licensed. but these refugees have escaped death standing on european soil is an achievement even if they don't know how long they will be allowed to stay. meanwhile the aquarius will return to open waters continuing its mission to save lives. philip the former german world cup winner has reportedly been selected to head the organizing committee if germany wins the right to host the twenty twenty four european championships. is already the. ambassador of germany's bid for the euro's only has one competitor turkey will find out if germany's bid a successful when you wait for votes on september twenty seventh. and here's

a reminder of our top story for you italy has declared a state of emergency following the collapse of a motorway bridge in general well at least thirty nine people are now confirmed dead as the search for survivors enters its second night. you're watching news from berlin after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around for that.

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