i am. from berlin a massive turnout in ireland called pope francis the pontiff is of the country's biggest. crowds the meeting survivors of sexual abuse coming up. the refugees marked the anniversary of the myanmar military crackdown that sent hundreds of thousands fleeing to. but one year in do you believe there.

is. a red carpet treatment for angela merkel in azerbaijan that their chancellor hopes the country can help german meet its dependency on natural gas but she says the other way when it comes to human rights. to. welcome to the show pope francis has received a warm welcome from supporters in dublin doing the first papal trip to ireland in forty years the point if. stadium in the irish capital way he is currently addressing tens of thousands of supporters and there you can see him people did lined the streets of dublin to welcome the pope to visit seen his visit has been overshadowed by decades of sexual abuse scandals cover up to go on to the moral authority of the catholic church francis met with several abuse survivors before

traveling to the stadium. well pope francis said that he shares the shame and pain of the church's failure to tackle abuse here's will. pope francis arrived in dublin knowing the first papal visit to ireland in nearly forty years would be overshadowed by the scandal over sex abuse by predatory priests the very presence of the pope would once have electrified the whole country but social changes and the sex revelations mean the atmosphere is now much more muted the ceremonial greeting from islands president michael higgins and then it was down to business pope francis was forthright church members who should have protected young people had instead abused them. the fundamental video the failure of church authorities bishops religious leaders priests and others to adequately address these repugnant crimes which he has rightly led to outrage. sushi's and it

remains a source of pain and shame for the catholic community. but. i share in feeling that pain and shame and evil with the sentiment. protesters gathered in central dublin in solidarity with victims of clerical abuse there is a great momentum that is being led out of ireland it really challenging the church's behavior and challenging the corruption trial should not be returned within the catholic population from simply what will probably say to the public. option to want it would. be. despite the sex abuse scandal rocking the catholic church the pontiff still has huge support dublin is lined the streets to give the pope an enthusiastic welcome as he was driven to st

mary's cathedral to pless newlywed couples. well i'm joined here in studio by good abuse religious affairs correspondent martin good to see you so we've had the pope give a very emotional speech there but also very passionate words full of victims and survivors who were saying that it simply was not enough to what extent do you think the pope's visit can help turn a corner on the issue of clerical abuse i don't think the visit actually can do much if anything i think that the visit is actually quite counterproductive but they could not really it's something that's been planned for three years so it's not something that they could get out of the program instead. where to stage in the element in which the only thing that would really shed any sort of would a sewage any of the critics and brutally help along that survived. and victims is essentially to really put in place a protocol and the protocol would have to include turning every then send files to national authorities this is evidently something that he cannot do overnight he's

been in his position for six years and the fact is that we have seen very very little developments in their reaction of the serial tolerance of which they have spoken extensively and i wanted to point out that you know in two thousand and ten benedict then presented a letter of apology to the nation of our land for the abuse committed by the church now we are essentially eight years later almost nine years later and apologies a century have run their course and really they have not produced much so you're talking about changing the political within the catholic church and the question comes up is it possible to resolve this issue without having external authorities and if so who then does the church as the i think it's very clear that the church by itself can actually not take care of this particular business this is something that is way too entrenched it involves way too many people the institution is too broad and it has and i think it's very important that we point out that this is not

just a sexual abuse scandal this actually an illicit association i mean essentially a cover up a massive cover up operation which helped to farther promote sexual abuse so to be able to deal with this goal of an issue it's very clear that international justice systems and make a nice homes including the un with things like the right of children i mean concerning you know treaties on the right of children have to be brought in also because inside the church there is a division i mean reformists are fighting it out with people that don't want to move anything and this means actually that external help could actually push the reformist along and yet this is not the first time that the conversation of abuse within the church is taking place what will it take to create any form of progress . it's an excellent question it's very difficult to answer i mean mainly because there are so many cards inside the vatican and there are so many parts that are essentially opposed to each other that it's not really just the church coming forth

with a solution but he's actually the church essentially in its internal construction being able to resolve together that they were going to come up with the policy it's quite clear that they have not been able to do that so now it's probably time for prosecutors around the world to start trying to push the vatican to turn these documents and bring essentially criminals to justice all right and very quickly do you think that the pope will address the issue of. his speech that he expected i think he will address said i think that what we should all be paying close attention to is his trip back to rome in the airplane usually with journalists that's when we hear most of the news that come out of the vatican and most of the ones that really make headlines thank you so much for your life pleasure. injure effigies in bangladesh have been marking one year since the start of the myanmar army crackdown that forced them to leave their homes protesters marched through the courts is bizarre region where hundreds of thousands are living in makeshift camps and maher says it's ready to take back the refugees but there's

been little progress in resolving the crisis the muslim minority are demanding equal rights with others in myanmar. that crackdown of course began after him is carried out coordinated attacks on some thirty police stations which then killed a dozen office says well look at what happened next. a never ending line of refugees streaming across the border from me amar to bangladesh. that they fled after security forces launched a brutal offensive against them last august. soldiers looted and torched their homes they raped tortured and killed thousands of written. across the border in

bangladesh the refugees have settled in sprawling camps. as they've tried to settle in here the stories of unimaginable horrors have emerged. soldiers came into every house and shot at us. they looked me up in my house and then set fire to it i have burns like this. out of all the and the worst over my body. conditions in the camps the cramped and squalid the huts here a flimsy and built on hilly sandy ground prone to landslides. third world where this year's monsoon brought more misery for the ranger. came fled here with her five children after her husband was killed when the military stormed their village. two of her previous shacks in the camp were destroyed by water she is now

hoping for a sturdy a shelter and then i had to sell my pulse is all and even rice for this month i had to sell to build the house my relatives told me to make the house strong even if i were to go hungry. aid agencies have warned against an outbreak of water borne diseases such as cholera and diphtheria but mr came out would rather bad life here than go home i didn't even if we have to sleep in a trench it's better than being back. but they're not meant to stay here in january minn mon bangladesh agreed to repatriate the revenger within two years. and man has started building transit camps to house the wretched annis. but the un has said conditions are not yet right and so far barely a handful of ranger have returned. let's look at some breaking news coming in

now where we understand that the syrian prosecutors have opened an inquiry into italy's interior minister that's material salvini over rome's refusal to allow more than one hundred migrants stuck for ten days on a ship in a port in sicily to disembark but now says he'll allow them to leave they'll be allowed to leave in the coming hours and we'll have more on this story as it develops but just to repeat that this is zealand prosecutors have opened an inquiry into the country's interior minister matteo salvini here in germany chancellor angela merkel has been. where she hopes to improve economic ties particularly in the energy sector the country in the caucus is a major producer of natural gas and a key pipeline being built could pump into could pump into europe and reduce reliance on russia but that could be complicated by azerbaijan's human rights

record and its bitter dispute with neighboring armenia. the german chancellor was welcomed by an azerbaijani honor guard but president ilham aliyev didn't welcome everyone americans delegation parliamentarian ah but violent a member of merkel's party was not allowed into the country he had visited the disputed region of the gorno carpark he was quickly replaced by another going to start member johan botha for despite the snow medical defended her visit she said it wouldn't be possible to resolve conflict without talks mentioned wastes far. we had a frank discussion about human rights and we didn't agree on every issue but i argued for a strong civil society. has to include an open secular society and tired of one side was azerbaijan could help germany become less dependent on russian energy

the coup is currently building a pipeline to supply natural gas to europe via turkey got all these so there are no problems whatsoever we will finish the pipeline on time so that we can make a large contribution to europe's energy security germany hopes the southern gas cord or is it spending but who could eventually help deliver gas to be the caspian sea to europe for example from thirty minute stand but other countries in the region would have to agree including russia. and when the siga is back as such today's results are in let's have a look at them boucher. got this season off to a winning stock ghouls from you and us hoffman and fabio so off label crews and two new league's new comers just hold off and nuremberg both lost their opening games while front foot got back to winning ways of to musing in the cup last week but a man came from behind to draw against hanover fulls bug and left to mates to beach

elko while sunday's suits took guts in my eyes and don't let him take on life champions by munich kicked off this season with a big win against hoffenheim on friday. after the need season break and despite tricky conditions in belgium lewis hamilton has picked up right where he left off the championship leader had his work cut out for him as heavy rain flooded the track but again he showed his quality clocking the fastest lap of the day now hamilton will be joined at the front of the grid by ferrari sebastian vettel who was over half a second snow than his rival. and here's a quick reminder of the top story that we're following for you pope francis instead speaking to tens of thousands of supporters in dublin on the first papal visit to ireland in four decades the visit has been overshadowed by

a sexual abuse scandal france's max with abuse survivor and. so good to see. you watching the news coming to you from berlin in just a truthful law at the top of the hour thank you for watching. sixteen years old and. young people are going to into their homes for a moment.