i mean. this is d.w. news live from berlin one of the most independent voices in u.s. politics senator john mccain is for one side of the vietnam war hero and one time presidential candidate mccain died overnight at the age of eighty one losing his battle against brain cancer is wife cindy saying this past the way he lived on his own terms. also on the program pope francis meet sex abuse survivors during his trip to it in a major speech in val's to end the clerical exploitation of children saying he

shares the pain and shame caused by the abuse scandal and his critics say words on not enough. in italy the standoff over a migrant ship triggers a criminal investigation into the country is falling right into him and it's down prosecutors are looking into charges of abuse of office kidnapping and illegal arrest. hello and welcome my name is christopher spring thanks for joining us tributes are flooding in for u.s. senator john mccain who died overnight at the age of eighty one he had been battling an aggressive form of brain cancer since july of last year on friday his family had it now mccain had discontinued any further treatment after a long military and political career he passed away at his ranch in arizona surrounded by his wife and other family members. he was

a towering figure in american politics john mccain has spent more than three decades in the u.s. congress looming large debates of a war and peace and the moral direction of the nation i hope we can again rely on you know we need to cooperate on the penicillin each other to learn how to trust each other again and by so doing better serve the people who elected us. he served in the vietnam war as a navy pilot on a bombing mission in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven you were shot down over one noise captured by the north vietnamese he suffered five and a half years of torture and confinement before its release his courage as a p.o.w. earned him bipartisan praises an american hero he was elected to the u.s. house in one thousand nine hundred eighty two presenting arizona into the senate four years later beginning his long and influential korean washington. in two

thousand mccain launches first campaign for president but lost the republican primaries to george w. bush. but eight years later at the age of seventy two mccain's name was on the republican ticket but he was defeated in a landslide by democrat barack obama. in his last years mccain became an outspoken critic of donald trump he gave a thumbs down vote to trump's repeal of obamacare earning the president's enduring wrath. in july two thousand and seventeen he was diagnosed with brain cancer which eventually forced him to withdraw from public life. john mccain will be remembered as a political maverick willing to stick to his convictions rather than toe the political line. and let's get more on this now from our washington correspondent causton phenomenon tributes to the great man pouring in give us

a sense of how the u.s. is reacting to this huge loss. well the big news networks year in the united states reporting around the clock about the news of the death of john mccain since the news broke as you said lots of tributes to this unique politician pouring in one among many former president barack obama who defeated mccain in two thousand and eight in the presidential elections cain was his opponent but rock obama praised his courage and his service for the country said we were from different generations different worlds had many different opinions but we both agreed that we had to do a service for this country and many other people have also shared stories about mccain about his humor his rage and but also his decency

and saw the human side of john mccain also isn't the focus of many people him and costly was the time mention of this loss how big a role mccain playing in u.s. politics. john mccain was received in the last of the so-called lions of the senate those big figures like ted kennedy maybe on the democratic side politicians who didn't just go with the party line who really follow their conscience and were able to reach out across the aisle and also work with the oprah zisha with the opposing party and so this is definitely unique someone like him will be missing here and just briefly mccain of course was president trump's fiercest critic how has donald trump been reacting. donald trump sent out a short and rather unconvincing treed saying that his thoughts and prayers are with

the family of john mccain but i think what will stick in people's mind is more how presidents from just a few days ago omitted the name of john mccain when he was presenting odd signing a defense bill that basically had john mccain's name on it and donald trump managed not to mention him at all it just shows how petty the battle between the two had become and so people are not really looking for more quotes from from donald trump at this point the focus is on john mccain ok because many thanks for that cousin phenomena reporting from washington. turning to other news now pope francis is due to celebrate an outdoor mass in dublin later today on the second day of his visit to ireland with more than half a million people expected to attend the pontiff visit has been overshadowed by the catholic church is sex abuse scandal and thousands of abuse survivors are expected

to hold a protest to coincide with that whole mass on saturday the pope and the sexual exploitation of children by clerics there he failed to say how he would achieve that goal. dublin's main sports stadium also a concert venue used by world between rock bands but there was only one star of this show pope francis himself so. despite the sex abuse scandal shaking the catholic church the pontiff still has huge public support. lined the streets to give the pope an enthusiastic welcome as he was driven to st mary's cathedral. inside the pope prayed for victims of clerical abuse in front of a light known as the can live innocence he was forthright in condemning the churches to scrape. church authorities bishops religious leaders priests and others to adequately address these repugnant crimes which he

has rightly to outrage jews. to shield and it remains a source of pain and shame for the catholic community and. i share in feeling that pain and shame. of protesters in central dublin brandished baby shoes in solidarity with child victims of abuse. there is a great that is. really challenging. challenging the corruption of the vatican says the pope has met eight irish survivors of abuse and the pontiff clearly still enjoys great personal popularity. and would like a miracle for me to say i cannot be on search there's room for america and we hope francis will arrange it for us because when. the papal visit to

ireland wraps up on sunday as many as half a million people will gather to his insane mass in the park. be. religious affairs correspondent martin got kim martin the pope as i mentioned valid yesterday to end the sexual exploitation of children by catholic clerics he was short on detail but is that something of a first step towards taking this whole issue a little bit more seriously there was a fairly positive reboard that was circulating yesterday about his conversation with victims victims were reported some very i mean at least one of those reports was very bus it event indicated that something was essentially the biplane it's not clear what but that something was being worked out or the british on the boat gave during this meeting was that something was about to happen you know nothing has been nothing has been announced but i think that it's something that everybody's looking forward to to hearing obviously ok and you'll be keeping tabs on that for

us of course what abuse survivors really want you've been telling us this in the past few weeks is for the catholic church to hand over these cases of sex abuse to the civilian or thought cheese rather than try and deal with it internally. is the pope committed enough to dealing with this abuse scandal to to go that extra mile shall we say well i mean you know it's very hard to speculative psychology in the sense that we don't know really what he said the pope things and i don't want to venture to actually speculate about that but what we can say is that very clearly it is a pope and there's a papal office that understands the the public outcry understands that public impact of letting these issues going to fester in the background so clearly there is the political necessity and it's well understood the broom however is that the political constraints are also very very strong i mean this is a church that has actually cultivated

a culture of essentially confabulations for the better part of the last three four centuries so what we've just seen in pennsylvania is that this is something that was going on for seventy years only in the state of pennsylvania with a myth must of operation. the cover up this are the people that have to be essentially brought out into the field and that means we need an internal political war in the vatican which is something that we don't see at all i mean what we see is what happens in the outside just briefly and we've seen unexpectedly large protests in and you know centering on this sex abuse scandal is the pressure going to grow on the pope i think the pressure has grown and i think that the interesting thing is that the public outcry from both sides of the atlantic and by the way we haven't heard anything from him lately from third world countries like america africa etc were the cases broder were just brutal but you know there was much less of a traditional system i think that the british are has grown and i think that he is helping to push things along now the thing is we need

a concrete or what the world seems to be expecting the public is a concrete step and i would point out that most of the revelations that this pope gives are issued drink is stripped back from from visits so on their plane to journalists so i think that tonight we're going to hear something if not new what police sort of clarify a few words where he's at the right to constabulary you have this on tenterhooks now martin martin gak religious affairs correspondent many things your pleasure. turning to italy now where prosecutors have begun investigating the country's interior minister far right leader vini for his role in preventing migrants rescued at sea from disembarking in sicily the investigation is focusing on charges of illegal confinement illegal arrest and abuse of power the migrants have been stuck on an italian coast guard vessel in the port of qahtani out for five days the government had refused to allow them off the ship until other e.u.

countries agreed to take the man on saturday that it's really began allowing them to disembark. wary sick many on hunger strike the migrants on board the dish shotty are finally allowed onto dry land stuck in catan has harvest since monday they're exhausted and many are traumatized after their journeys. say the i don't know what i wanted to sue minus we've heard inhumane stories of female suffering for example a twenty two year old eritrean woman who says it took her two years to get here and she was raped every step of the way. she paid lots of money to traffic is and has a bullet wound on her hand. for the mother for. the italian government had refused to let them off the boats until other e.u. states agree to take some of them in island would take in twenty to twenty five

albania not in the e.u. will take in twenty italian prime minister giuseppe conti confound the catholic church will take in one hundred is interior minister imitator cell vini is under investigation by sicilian prosecutors he's accused of the illegal detention of the migrants and abuse of office responding in a social media post he said if you want to interrogate me or even arrest me because i defend the borders and security of my country i'm proud and i look forward to it . italy's populace coalition wants to reduce the flow of migrants to it shows which have seen more than six hundred fifty thousand people arrive since twenty fourteen . so. that means the bundesliga is back germany's top four kicking off this weekend with some high gains you won't be surprised to hear which. told us that things that there are some unexpected results

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