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nineteen sixty eight. the global revolt starts september first g.w. . this is due to be news live from berlin the party throws australia's prime minister out of office malcolm turnbull exits after all week of political turmoil scott morrison takes over as the six prime minister in a decade panel still use had enough of the revolving door at the top we'll find out from sydney also coming up. pope francis bears the flight to ireland the first
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papal visit in four decades there but revelations of child sex abuse by priests and its cover up are rocking the church will francis respond to the growing pressures to cooperate with investigators. plus bonus league football is back tonight the new season kicks off with byron taking on hoffenheim but german football has a lot to prove after a disastrous world cup look at the challenges ahead. i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome australia has a new prime minister after his former leader malcolm turnbull was ousted by a majority in his own party the former finance minister stopped morrison has just been sworn in as the country's new prime minister morrison want to party ballot the feeding his closest rival by forty five votes to forty you will have to get to
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grips with an increasingly divided party that's desperate to stay in power and is grappling with poor results of the polls. a short while ago australia's new prime minister spoke to journalists and set out his government's top priorities. let me also tell you my media priorities in addition to of course our economic and national security. is the draft. i've already discussed this is just received with the lua national party the seizing of most birgitte and precinct lead right now and i'll be meeting with mind your general die as soon as possible to review our drought response plans morrison said another priority was to unify this party in the australian parliament following a bruising week in our politics in australia i asked sydney correspondent roger maynard how difficult a task that will be. very hard in my ability but
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a little bit of progress with the drought funds and of money into helping the farmers but his biggest part of the moment is the to unify the party there's a lot of similar forty people and he is you know voted against him in there today it's ballot which went you know forty five to forty in its flavor so he's that means quite a lot of significant. a sixth of the party still you know just agree with malcolm turnbull and and and scott morris and well as long as it was a very close ally of term ball and you know one of many of his economic policies and if you had only a climate change and emissions targets. whether or not the the right wing of the liberal party will now come in and do the golden and support scott morrison jumbles successor well that remains to be seen ok sounds like it's going to be a very fragile government there in canberra what was the deciding factor in turnbull's
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quick exit. well i mean basically don't come back to energy prices and the energy policy of the turnbull government there's been a lot of criticism of energy in cringely price increases over the past few months this week there was a of a staggering slump in the opinion polls for american turnbull and his government and that really instigated the efforts by peter dutton his main rival in all this to call a leadership ballot he tried on tuesday that failed yet another good day and on this occasion. the out of the ballot was held by nickel of peter duncan didn't actually succeed him self that the top job went to a scott morrison who now has a difficult task of trying to reunite the party at a time when the government probably won't have much more georget turnbull was going to leave your seat in the environment and equipped and of the government at the
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moment how do once you've majority after that it'll it'll have no authority whatsoever ok incredible instability there are six prime ministers in our lab in years roger what's causing this sustained political instability at the very top in australia well it's hard to put a finger on it really i suppose the. people the bulk of the politicians within the party got a burglar alarm that they might lose their seat at the next general election that election has to be held by may of next year but could well be held a lot sooner than that now so you know fear of losing their seats one really has got to tell you today called the australian parliament or entries as a manic driven egoists. look at the people's antler electors as australian are to sions at our daughter likes madness that there is a problem by be there roger maynard in sydney for us they've roger thanks very much
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and good. here in germany about six hundred people have been evacuated from their homes as a wildfire blazes very close to the german capital berlin the rapidly spreading fire has taken hold of a large woodland about fifty kilometers southwest of the city now despite that this is a residents of berlin could smell the smoke from the fire this morning the blaze covers an area the size of about four hundred sports feels under the firefighters are combating these flames but the work has been made much harder by munitions from world war two that are out buried in those forests people have said the police rather have said the people though are not in danger. one local politician are going to basco praise the emergency services in the face of many complications here's what he had to say so i have future specs for the firefighters who are out there right now risking their lives we know there's ammunition lying around in the forest residents said there were already some explosions. we'll have more details
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as they come in on that story now following a twenty two hour session of talks low cost airline ryanair has reached an agreement with the trade union representing irish pilots no further details of that deal are known at this stage but europe's second largest airline has been negotiating with pilots and cabin crew in a number of countries over working conditions and pay since last year the biggest one day strike two weeks ago cost travel chaos in many airports affecting fifty five thousand passengers the new deal in ireland may be used as a model for agreements in other countries. and staying in ireland pope francis begins a two day visit there this weekend it is the first papal visit in nearly forty years this trip comes as the vatican faces growing pressure from catholics to cooperate with criminal investigators on allegations about child sex sex abuse damning new revelations in the u.s.
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chilly in australia have called into question the leadership of bishops and cardinals francis expected to meet with victims but critics want accountability now these are troubling times for the vatican the u.s. state of pennsylvania is currently investigating three hundred priests for sexual abuse pope francis has strongly condemned the wrongdoing. 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 is destroyed the lives of so many innocent people. the catholic church has been rife with sexual abuse for decades many of the crimes were covered up in july and the archbishop of adelaide australia for the postman was forced to resign after it emerged that he kept quiet about the priest sexual abuse his one year prison sentence was commuted to house arrest in chile priest fernando cut
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a deal is alleged to have the views children for decades he was considered one of the country's most important church figures state prosecutors are now investigating around one hundred sixty cases of abuse and in germany hundreds of cases of abuse have come to light one of the most shocking five hundred fifty children at a catholic school in the pagans book were victims of sexual molestation up until the one nine hundred ninety s. . the streets of dublin are getting ready for pope francis visit hundreds of abuse cases have been uncovered across ireland francis wants to meet with some of the victims but that hasn't made his visit any less controversial. and for more on this story i spoke earlier with peter saunders he's a member of a global organisation on ending sex abuse by priests and this himself a survivor i asked him if he expects the pope to answer the growing calls to require church authorities to report abuse to police for prosecution. well you know i hope so on a man of faith so i pray so but you know if we were talking about
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a global corporation if we were talking about you know a multinational company that had committed such a vile crimes and was covering up for its employees there would be global outrage and yet the church has gotten away with murder abuse and murder and i don't and i don't understate the turn murder because i know and my colleagues know a far too many men and women who have taken their lives because they cannot deal they cannot cope with the trauma of what was inflicted on them as children and we know it's a global problem we know it goes on in the home we go it goes on in many institutions but the church is the largest global institution and i'm sad to say in having being brought up a catholic that it is to use a business term it's the market leader in criminality in this particular area and the insert pope francis has never for five years and it's time he did something
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concrete not just it's you meet him after apologies that was peter saunders speaking with me earlier he is himself an abuse survivor and founder of a british group to support adult survivors of abuse now to some of the other stories making the news at this hour hurricane lane is pounding hawaii with high winds and torrential rains as it moves across and. the storm has been downgraded to category three but can still cause major damage with winds of up to two hundred kilometers per hour. sixteen downpours have triggered flash flooding and landslides . south africa has accused president trump of fueling racial tensions after he said farmers were being forced off their land and many of them killed south africa's ruling a.n.c. plans to speed up the expropriation of land without compensation to redress racial imbalance as land ownership toria called trumps we listen for.
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german chancellor on the macros visiting georgia as part of a three day tour of the caucasus region she met with the georgian prime minister on thursday and said she rejected fast tracking membership for the country so now head to the armenian capital year of on before ending her trip and bridge on tomorrow sports now the new business leaders season kicks off tonight here in germany in the opening match defending champions byron munich will take on hoffenheim germany's embarrassing early exit from the world cup as raise real concerns over the competitiveness of the bonus league abut the players appear ready to prove those doubters wrong. the new bundesliga season is upon us ready to treat fins to another glut of the motions. germany shocking world cup campaign however is still fresh in focus as well as the poor performance of bundesliga clubs in europe paying competition last term internationally german
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football is going through a blake period only by merely because stood out they made the semifinals of the champions league last season and of march to six consecutive bundesliga titles with little competition under new coach nico because that's the champions expect their right to continue. and it's six months. by now six times champions in a row who want to make sure that we have champions again for a seventh time but we also know that the others will not make it easy. for them to try everything to take the crown office gotten clients dominance is dangerous the title race can only be competitive if other clubs boost their spending but you do the fifty plus one rule investors can completely take over the bundesliga clubs massive transfer fees paid by sides in england spain or by french heavyweights paras such a man simply cannot be matched dawson to spend seventy three million euro zone new players the most out of any bundesliga club after
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a turbulent twelve months there is hope of the revival is known as a top storm situation where a lot of questions have to be asked but i'm a long way from saying that everything was bad. of course we know that we have to raise our performances so that we can once again treat our fans to proper football . but. the bonus leaguers becoming a development and selling league as they go runners up shelters sold central defender t. low care to p.s.g. for thirty seven million euros but they still want to challenge by and for the championship. often honda also haven't invested heavily but their coaches updates in his final season of the club tell me that every team basically wants to be champion we're giving everything to have a successful season and then we'll see what comes at the end of the campaign a more exciting season that's what old german football fans are hoping full but
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there has been a supporter backlash as the bundesliga becomes increasingly commercialized yet without the increased cash flow the legal full further behind its rivals it's a balancing act that the bundesliga must achieve in the upcoming season. this is due to be news live from berlin and read the chamber will be with you again at the top of the hour for me though brian thomas thanks for being with us and have a great weekend. why do we want. when do we want it now eighty percent of americans in some place and i will experience actually i'm listening.
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