this is d. w. news live from berlin b. afghan taliban attempts a strike on the heart of the afghan government a militant assaulting slams rockets near the presidential palace in kabul just as the afghan president delivers a speech to the nation the attack comes two days after his ceasefire offer to the taliban we will have the very latest from kabul also coming up a survivor saying words alone will not help this after pope francis vows to root out sexual abuse from the catholic church but offers no plan of action. and

a new star joins the ranks of the rock royalty at the m.t.v. video music awards. cuban born singer a commune kobe old takes home the top prize video of the year for her song about. i'm sarah kelly welcome to the program afghan security forces have been fighting militants in the capital kabul after rockets were fired during a speech by the president musharraf's ghani soldiers could be seen surrounding a house believed to contain the militants now military aircraft also bombed to the buildings sending plumes of smoke into the sky above a mosque in the city's old quarter in. syrian ministry told the associated press

news agency that all of the attackers had been killed in the attack comes two days after gone he offered a temporary cease fire with the taliban. and for more i'm joined now on the phone by time here comes gary who is an independent journalist who is based in kabul and i hear i mean we just heard about those reports there when you were actually in the city the associated press reporting that the fighting is now over but what have you been seeing and hearing there in the capital. or got to actually i talked with these folks present of the interior ministry and confirmed that the old soviet hackers up and downs guns down were supposed to. be safe you know all the cre had been killed all court you know they were filing go kits of the policy a prison that he was calling the legal alcohol which is the biggest religious people the muslims and you're not going to send as well you will delivering that

speech as well as the what do you. think his hope is coming out of the building and supposedly my court tells me that the cars that the attackers were driving and the like thing actually a. deal on progress to your source say anything about potential casualties here. when what we hear as far south means that the afghan forces up in wondered but here is not further information because nobody in afghanistan it's a holiday here and everything is all so that's why you can hardly find eighty one eighty security officials to tell you about david gold but what they do confirm that to security pulled the afghan security forces out an ongoing. we also know the police have said that taliban rockets were fired they have attributed it to that group can we confirm that at this hour has anyone claimed responsibility it's

just that it's just conspiracy gas can see it in your office so they confirm that the taliban are claimed responsibility for it to be honest it really comes up to two days the prism of any offer a conditional of three times a ceasefire proposal could be taliban and this will actually be on the afghans i've been talking to the old quite quite bad deal very good and they say that the afghan government can have this because each time the seized by one one what they gave in return of casualties civilian targeting old dogs so the detail about abu ghraib responsibility for it. is that it actually you know that said that but it's quite surprising because what people were expecting that they should be going to great things did three days all see a peace journalist here dearie joining us from kabul thank you so much.

for some other news now because in just a few hours venice whalen's will have the first indication of whether a new currency will pull the economy back from the brink on monday president nicolas maduro declared a national holiday to roll out the sovereign boulevard those are new bills with five few words zeroes is part of the government's plan to tame soaring inflation today will be a big task as banks and businesses reopen economists warn that the government's latest efforts to write the economy could make things worse. they've got their money now for these venezuelans it's time to wait and see stores and banks remained closed on monday as the new software was rolled out with five fewer as heroes compared to the former currency president migiro declared a national holiday to help ease the transition. to the bank systems are totally operational in the case of a.t.m.'s which is no our responsibility we're in the

process of stocking them with the new bills. but many store in a still fear image areas gambit which includes a three thousand percent increase in the minimum wage could bring fresh hardship but the larger the math forty five million dollars per week per employee then you have to buy produce and it's expensive how do you manage we're going to have to fire employees what can we do the only himself would have to work for his own business world. experts warn the wage hike combined with higher fuel prices could backfire. if this is poorly executed in the end it could trigger a tremendous economic contraction and layoffs and a much more limited supply of goods. and those fears seem to be shared by the venezuelans who are desperate to leave the country despite fresh travel restrictions in ecuador and theory and violence in brazil they push on in the thousands determined to find

a better life for themselves swear in south america. let's get a quick check of some other stories making news around the world and beyond mars de facto leader aung sang suu kyi says that the threat posed by row him to terrorists in her country is raw and state remains present and real her comments came at a lecture in singapore suchi has been criticized for failing to speak out against the army crackdown on the row hinge of muslim minority a flash flood in a mountain gorge in southern italy has killed at least ten people and injured several others official say that hikers were swept away as raging water tore through colombia's rugged nello gorge rescuers worked throughout the night at least three hikers are still missing. and around two million muslims are carrying out the final rituals of harvest their annual pilgrimage to mecca in saudi arabia the last days of hard to coincide with the out of feast. when muslims remember the prophet

abraham during the face to face sacrifice livestock and share the meat with the poor. words alone are not enough that is the reaction from many survivors and law enforcement officials to pope francis's letter condemning sexual abuse by priests there calling for an end to to church protection for sexual predators the pontiff's move follows a far reaching us report that found hundreds of claridge a member sexually abused at least eighty thousand children over seven decades while others turned a blind eye. a crime long ignored kept quiet or silenced in the pope's unprecedented later to the world's one point two billion practicing catholics he addressed the issue of sexual abuse at the hands of the clergy francis responded to to last week's us grand jury report which finds systematic cover ups in the state of pennsylvania the holy father understands how much these crimes can shake the faith and the spirit of believers. survivors and victims should

know that the pope is on their side he wants the church to listen to them so that we can root out this tragic horror which has destroyed the lives of so many innocent people. the pontiff later comes ahead of a trip to ireland where the last people visit was by john paul the second nearly forty years ago the church's credibility there has been devastated by years of revelations that priests rape and molested children acts hidden all the while by their superiors. mark vincent healy an abuse survivor absorbing the pope's later is critical. and his two thousand words are just too much. really have very little meaning the content the idea that sort of like you can bring about the end of child sexual abuse for example even within the turgid we're going to get this from i mean

we're aware. we're aware in the developing countries that there is still suffering from sort of like a lack of spotlight helium it pope francis four years ago as a rule the pontiff tends not to share joel meetings with abuse survivors in advance of his trips skeptics in ireland see any meetings this time around would be tokenistic. ok more now on this story we're joined by our religious affairs correspondent martin welcome to you martin what do you make of the timing of the pope's announcement i mean why now this has been a topic for quite a while well i think that you know there was subsequently no way to stop the flood of news on the pressure that came out of pennsylvania so the grand jury presented its this report the report was absolutely lovely there already i mean it really sort of showed a very very very bad picture and not just of the last seventy years in general but off the last sixteen that's well which is actually since two thousand and two weeks

when this scandal fares first came to light so this goes to say that in the last twelve years no great developments no serious attempts are visible at least in terms of the church controlling abuse sexual abuse this means that. obviously the vatican felt it was absolutely important to come out and say something like you know saying something words are really one thing but it's quite another to have actions what do you make in terms of the prospects of the church taking actual steps to prevent future cases it's very hard to say because if in sixteen years nothing had has happened in terms of you know i mean there's been a lot of talk there's been a lot of gestures or has been a lot of meetings and so on but there are no specific policy sort of protocols in place to stop either the abuses or the cover up so it's hard to say if we're going to see anything sort of in a week or a week and a half on the other hand the fact is that this letter contained language that is quite new and so we're no longer the pope was no learning longer talking about it

since he was talking about crimes in the tone the change in tone also means that perhaps the vatican isa looking at ways to essentially address crimes that of course would have to be would justice systems from around the world there are so many catholics out there who are just really disillusioned you know as this news this wave of news we have to say trickles through how can the pope regain the confidence of those catholics. really think that there is snow silver bullet here i mean this will have to be a very long process of institutional change and the church is an enormous institution and the one thing that is very clear is that there is one question directly ahead of the pope and this question is whether he will turn the cases the documents and a goose ations to local authorities to investigate to punish but at the very same time to establish the systems to prevent further abuse so far there has been

a sea of like a voluntary cooperation or right out prohibition to church members of bringing out to lunch in a low thirty seven cents this has to change the question is where this pope will allow it martin gak our religious affairs correspondent thank you so much for your insight. it was a night for new stars to shine at the m.t.v. video music awards cuban born singer company that coverdale dethroned some of the music's top acts as the night's big winner she joined the ranks of rock royalty for her moment in the spotlight. the queen of pop announcing one of the top prices of the year come you look around the out thank you for her song have done a good luck of the cuban born singer also to come all the top prize artists of the year can't believe this is how many think you saw was. the best paul price points to ariana grande date the twenty five year old singer

performed two new songs got a sublime and. just later joined by her grandmother and mother on stage i was told. i was. playing. one of the highlights of the night jennifer lopez performing a medley ok hit songs before accepting the band got aboard on the ring for lifetime achievement thanks. to many of the big prices went to women this year but with a few exceptions rock star was the song of the year the fall slicing up postmen lone who later rocked the stage the famous band aerosmith. played oh. some of the greats there a quick reminder now the top stories that we're following for you here at the w. afghan security officials say that several militants have been killed after

a taliban assault on the capital kabul the attackers launched rockets near the presidential palace of the afghan president delivered a speech to the nation. and with that you're up to date now on v.w. news i'm sarah kelly in berlin thanks for watching have a pretty. good . letter we were. you know we want to know if you pursue americans at some point and i will experience hardship.