this is t w news coming to you live from berlin the catholic church in germany is rocked by new revelations of abuse a leaked report says priests in germany rate or sexually abuse nearly four thousand children over a seventy year period and then they hold to punish most of the abusers also coming out people in the southeastern united states are bracing for the arrival of hurricane cloran authorities fear the storm could cause a disaster and unprecedented scale. and risking their

lives every day just to get to school we meet the children in ukraine forced through no man's land to reach their classroom. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us the catholic church here in germany says it is distressed and ashamed by the findings of a new report into the sexual abuse of children by priests the report found that clergymen had abused or raped nearly four thousand children over a seventy year period starting at the end of the second world war most were boys under the age of thirteen one victim told about the by lines he was forced to endure as a young choir boy. when he was eight years old or was one of the world renowned catholic choir boys in the southern german city of work he lived in a boarding school where he was sexually abused by priests for several years two

years ago he shared the painful memories that still haunt him iranian's but of a consumer into the prefects room. down with my pajama bottoms. head into his lap. and he thrashed me and groaned loudly. out. i only realized later that he pleasured himself by rubbing his genitals on the back of my head. in the study the catholic church noted three thousand six hundred seventy seven victims of sexual violence over a period of nearly seventy years the victims were mostly male and mostly children one thousand six hundred seventy priests are accused of committing the crimes. observers complained that the church didn't release all its documents to the investigation and that abuse survivors weren't given the chance to be heard the

authors of the study also pointed out that the number of victims has probably been greatly underestimated during the study they examined forty thousand files and they found that every third reported case was dealt with by the church itself and forty percent of reported cases were brought to court. the study says perpetrators were often transferred to other parishes without the community's knowledge of what they had done. received a one time payment of twenty five hundred euro's for his suffering he and many others are demanding that the catholic church confront it sexual abuse crisis with more transparency. of more on this let's bring in our religious affairs editor martin martin let's talk about these revelations in germany and how they fit in with revelations that we've seen elsewhere in the world is this consistent with the pattern that we've seen it's certainly very much consistent i mean what we see

doesn't really matter where we live i mean whether we look at the u.s. whether the pennsylvania report whether we look at ireland whether we look at germany now where we look at argentina. where essentially dealing with a very very similar structure which he's we have days of sexual abuse about twenty to thirty percent of those were rapes mostly boys and then what we have which i think it's the most remarkable thing is that we have a systematic structure of cover up what we don't know yet and we will only know if the vatican really decides to open files and start showing their cards is how far up in the hierarchy the church knew that these movements were happening that they were taking one priest that had abused children and move them to another parish in order to protect them it must be said that the fact that many of these movements many of these movements where that internationally from barges across different they also is this means that there had to be an over power that knew that these movements or terry taking place place so there was that views itself and then

there's the cover up the failure to interdict the leak in the catholic church in germany this report comes out just ahead of a meeting in the vatican that meeting is focusing on the global clergy abuse problem so this comes at a real bombshell as a bombshell for that. what do these revelations mean for efforts to address abuse in the church and the church's role in covering it up i think that the one thing that is very very important to point out is that this is not a two part. confrontation this is not people that sort of have been abusing against people that are basically trying to bring the church to you know account for what they did this is itself a huge battle within the church the vatican is at this time in the middle of a civil war in which you have very very well established structures many of which were involved in these kind of fee their gover up or abuse that goes to say that what is happening right now is an attempt at reforming a structure that is very intricate spahr that all of this sort of emergency

meetings that are taking place right now are coming for one thing too late but the bigger question is whether the very concrete step of turning information to national authorities so that these crimes can be seen not only the abuses but the cover up is actually a step that disadvantage in this pope is willing to take let's take a moment just now to hear from the vatican spokesman who was speaking just ahead of that meeting with pope francis at the vatican addressing the abuse question sexual abuse is a horrendous crime and anyone who's been a victim of it it really never the pain really never disappears because of that pope francis is realizes that the very credibility of the church depends on rooting it out. martin jacques your take on that statement and the implications of all this for the church's credibility well i mean you know i agree with every single statement made i mean the fact however is that six years have elapsed since

disposed started talking about tolerance zero and as far as he scored go away i mean they are in many ways when one talks to many of the victims that have been in contact with this pope in some sense report on the good will of the spot to see in the people around him that it's quite clear that the public sees and that steps are needed and those have not been taken yet so of course i mean the spokesperson of the vatican will say golden asserted things that can be said but there is a very concrete the mend and that is that national authorities be brought into this cases and by the way this is something that in this particular case the german case in which researchers were given the colorations after they turn in questionnaires but not access to the documents themselves show precisely the very problem it's not just like of transparency if we're going to talk about crimes have to be brought in and those cannot be ecclesiastical out towards we're seeing massive pressure of this building right now through these revelations like we just had now in germany

is this moment different martin than moments in the past when the church has said it was going to address this problem properly no i think unfortunately one must say that no that it's not that we actually i mean people tend to forget their own outrage in the past so we are in some sense ruins relieving the kind of followed rage as we saw before the very sad thing to say is that in proportion terms the numbers that we're seeing in germany in relation to for instance the u.s. at least what has been reported are negligible we're talking about three thousand six hundred people in the entire country in seventy years whereas in pennsylvania just the state of pennsylvania we're talking about essentially a thousand thousand priests in a period of seven years just the state of pennsylvania so improper and we have not seen anything from third world countries so i don't think where the turning point i think that there is pressure we're hoping that the political step will be taken more of those to come are religious affairs editor martin got thank you so much pleasure. now it's catch up on some of the other stories making headlines around

the world today the on mars de facto leader uncensored she has defended the jailing of two reuters journalists earlier this month she said they had violated the country's official secrets act and were not being punished for investigating alleged army massacres of muslims they received seven year sentences. the russian protest group pussy riot says one of its members is in grave condition due to possible. bets was also a little eyes and moscow after losing his site and the ability to speak the group last made headlines by briefly disrupting the world cup soccer final. and evacuations are underway in the northern philippines where a typhoon is heading in from the pacific it's described as the country's worst storm this year and is likely to make landfall as soon as this weekend civil

defense agency says it's deploying relief goods and disaster equipped. now they're calling it the storm of a lifetime hurricane florence is moving closer to the southeast coast of the united states forecasters say it has weakened slightly but still has the potential to cause massive damage authorities fear it will bring to rental rain and severe flooding nearly two million people have been ordered to evacuate the governor of north carolina. roy cooper issued this urgent warning. north carolina is about to face the power of hurricane florence. the time to prepare is almost over this morning's forecast shows the storm is only hours away the powerful winds will reach our beaches and sounds to morrow morning north carolina my message is clear disaster is at the doorstep and it's coming in.

well millions of people have heeded the governor's warnings and many have already evacuated ahead of florence but with powerful winds and flooding forecast many are doing what they can to protect their property in the resort town of virginia beach which is in virginia also in the hurricane's path. has been speaking to residents whose homes consume bear the brunt of the storm. how to survive a hurricane get some sand put it in a bag repeat back all of those bags to your car to be stacked around your house gather the rest of your supplies and hope for the best and this is how a community for paris for disaster two hundred ten tons of sand as well as flashlights extra batteries water and of course food the hurricane situation is always unpredictable but for now the city remains call. this is not their first hurricane. virginians have learned from storms past not to take the reported

changes in florence's course or the weakening of her winds for granted. don't seem too bad but i've also heard that it could stall with that in mind i think for us it was best to go and prepare it sandbags ready and all that the community seems pretty worried we saw what happened with matthew where it went a little farther north than they predicted and a lot of people flooded so we know that at the last minute it could do anything so we're sort of trying to sandbag the areas that might flood you know to get used to it because the. hard to explain is just. pretty scary when i did this in the way to describe it you know we know what to do i mean we had last week or so we know what to do what we do in x. and there's no water no way and so i'm glad i went my last week and got my cases award. local government officials have also vowed to be prepared for every scenario

. authorities around the country sustained heavy criticism after their own even in response to last year's storms emergency manager jim redick says this time they're taking no chances. as well. also i mean it has lessened yes but it's still a threat to us the state is still under a mandatory evacuation for those low lying areas so we continue to have our shelters open our mercy operations center is open and we still take this as a serious threat we remember hurricane matthew when it was working its way off the forecast change for the better and then at the last minute is still made a couple ticks up and we got the impacts of that we don't lessen our guard we are fully prepared now and we will be until it is no longer a threat. people here will try to stay optimistic until that threat has passed. you know because maya schwager there reporting from virginia beach well did this is

d.w. news still to come a new defense for endangered species these lion cubs are proof that it is possible . now crossing in no man's land just to get to school this is a daily reality for some peoples an eastern ukraine the armed conflict between government troops and russian backed separatists in the region has left a fortified front line in ukraine's east dividing communities and leaving many areas from their surroundings. calmly went to the front line village from need to meet the children who face mortal danger trying to get an education. and know the morning and they know the trip to school without any shots being fired. reason enough for people here to be thankful. for now the so called school ceasefire seems to be holding after leaving home on the separatist health side these people have

passed through no man's land before crossing a narrow bridge and showing their passports. we're not allowed to film the moment the children and their parents cross the bridge or ukrainian military mind is a nervous they say are unexpected parents could provoke the separatists. out to meet the students from the other side of the river the school principal lisa. she introduces us to dash and her two younger brothers. the one who accompanied. sasha is everything all right i didn't see you yesterday. all this might seem normal now but it was only a few days before the summer holidays the last major round of shelling and everyone scrambling to cover. this economic year new school teach some one hundred sixty pupils aged six seventeen that's just half the number before the war the others have long since left east and west together the patriotic pose to reads something this school does every day keeping children from both sides talking to each other.

we meet dasher again she's been making the journey across the front line some three years now just me and my brothers were on our way to school suddenly lots of shooting started so we all got down it was really scary there was nowhere to hide. she. was we head down to the school cellar mortar candles and desks for all the pupils that's the extent of the provisions here three children have died in vain since the war began to preschoolers and one former student. i still remember the desk where he used to sit and his handwriting. he was a talented boy. psychologically everyone has suffered. only see. us she shows us what's left of the primary school buildings across the road gutted by a direct hit it was only because the shelling happened so early in the morning that

no one died. it's time for lisette to return to class from their desks peoples can see deep into separate to sell territory. from the classroom to the front line is a matter of just a few hundred meters increasing their crossing up front it's become part of everyday life for many of the children here and so is the shooting. there's not a single window in this entire school that hasn't needed to be replaced in the four years since the shooting began. and finally were allowed down to the river without the children. beyond the bridge between the front lines. and it's through this under the gaze of snipers from both sides the students pause every day. as the school day ends we join the children as they head back to the checkpoint. the experience of course in the front day in day out hasn't put her off she tells us she wants to study to become a teacher so that she can come right back to it to teach in her words.

you know is nick conley there reporting from the frontline in eastern ukraine. to south africa now which is celebrating a pioneering moment in the conservation of big cats the world's first lion cubs born through artificial insemination or raising hopes of saving endangered species from extinction scientists at the conservation center where the male and female colleagues were born are hailing the breakthrough. they don't know it's the sleepy carbs isabel and victor pioneer is. pregnant but is that moment of of seen that finally that upset that they had and that they had. and that they had because you put them out and it was really exciting in the past scientists have struggled to artificially inseminate lions they hope what they've learned from this can also be applied to other big cats we can use that

species to understand some of the factors necessary to help us save some of the. critically endangered around the world. it's estimated the african lion population has decreased by more than sixty percent in the last twenty five years alone the lions are mainly threatened by hunting and habitat loss there are sufficient insemination doesn't solve that it gives scientists a safety net the main aim of these project would be to find. him a nation where we can actually use. them because that's what we do your best. to help these guys in the future. these little carbs are living proof there's hope of beating extinction. let's get some business now europe's

monetary policy makers are meeting to figure out how to proceed how to proceed the big question and it's the first meeting of the european central bank since the sum of break it's taking place today on a list expect that the bank will stay on course to curb stimulus amid high inflation and solid growth the e.c.b. will do whatever it takes to save the euro those of course were the words of the e.c.b. head mario draghi back in two thousand and twelve when the one thousand member currency block felt the pinch from the global financial crisis to get the collapse of lehman brothers so let's just have a quick look at the role of central banks in times of crises. it was a time of reckless lending in the us as long as you weren't a felon chances were you could get a mortgage details like the borrowers ability to pay the loan back didn't seem to matter it was only a question of when subprime mortgages would undermine the system the question was answered on september fifteenth two thousand and eight when investment bank lehman

brothers collapsed the bankruptcy triggered panic on the markets as banks stopped lending money to each other the market's most valuable currency trust had been destroyed central banks among them the e.c.b. intervened pumping money into the markets in an attempt to keep them alive. among its most radical policies lowering interest rates on october eighth two thousand and eight the european central bank began lowering its key interest rate since then it's continued the trend it now stands at zero percent meaning banks don't have to pay to borrow money unprecedented in modern financial history. another first a speech by e.c.b. president mario draghi his comments were considered the turning point in the crisis the e.c.b. is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. and

believe me it will be enough the european central bank began buying government bonds from struggling e.u. countries especially from southern europe those countries went heavily into debt to see their own banks and were then under threat themselves the financial crisis was about to engulf the whole state the e.c.b. financed entire countries it was a highly controversial measure but it worked collapse was averted but the problem of rising european debt still hasn't been solved. so let's talk a little bit about that i'm joined now by marcus bill from the university cents a gallon in switzerland but today you're here in berlin good to have you with us we just heard again those famous words by easy to be head drive he will do whatever it takes to save the euro and it will be enough wasn't enough yes it was enough and it was probably one of the best sentences ever in monetary policy history so darkie did a perfect job too to buy time for the governments to actually styli system but i mean

it looks like i mean that the central banks including the e.c.b. also the federal the u.s. fed of course had to pick up the pieces after some really reckless action in the financial world overall ten years later would you say that they did a good job they did a good job together with the other part of the system we have a european financial stability system in place no we're many a much better position today as we were ten years or eight seven eight years ago so i think the central banks really did a good job in helping us to get out of these crisis in which the banks actually brought us exactly and i mean for example by the e.c.b. quantitative easing program when they pumped an awful lot of money into the markets to keep money plus those low interest rates that we heard about even negative interest rates. to bid risky. of course it is risky i mean the sixty four

thousand dollar question will be how to get the money out of the system again once they stop the q.e. which the e.c.b. probably will do at the end of the year will raise interest rates some when probably in two thousand and nineteen that's the the major point when we will see whether the systems which we have now in place actually will work but of course only by lowering interest rates of putting them even into negative territory it's about enticing people to take out loans a lot of companies doing that countries are doing that what if the e.c.b. raises interest rates again that's a problem though yes of course it is a problem in particular for countries such as his home country italy for example this over and of crisis in into lead is not yet over and once we will raise interest rates we will see that that part of the economic system will go into normal again and then we need to act normally and so what what do you think the e.c.b. what sort of room wiggle room does it have right now because there's so many uncertainties also with a trade row with the united states brics it's still uncertain you mentioned italy of course is it no time to actually cut stimulus yes of course i mean we need to go

back to normal and everything else would be surprising and nothing is worries markets more than the you know unprecedented surprises so we will go back to normal in two thousand one thousand and then we probably i will come back and we talk about whether the systems which are in place will work or not hopefully you come back before just very briefly at the height of the crisis a lot of people were warning that the e.c.b. would lose its independence do you think those of us what justified no not at all not at all like israel there from university sounds gallant thank you so much for your time welcome. businesses are reducing or delaying investments in the united states the country's central bank the federal reserve assess the trend is due to concerns about washington and beijing on going trade dispute so far the effect of the tariffs has been modest but it has boosted some production costs according to the fit several american companies want that further

terrorist could hurt their business off the u.s. presidents trump said washington was ready to impose tariffs on all chinese imports on wednesday the u.s. government proposed another round of trade talks with beijing. and there's another big central bank meeting taking place in turkey today in a last ditch effort to hold to the nearest dramatic descend or at least to slow it the turkish currencies seen its value plunging more than forty percent against the u.s. dollar since the start of the year analysts say it needs a drastic interest rate hike to twenty percent from the current seventeen percent to keep prices from further rocketing turkey's economy has been hit hard by runaway inflation but turkish president ratchet type add one continues to oppose a rate hike claiming it would worsen the country's economic problems. and apple has unveiled its latest smartphone lineup with customary fanfare in cupertino california the company says the i phone ten s biggest sibling the i phone ten s

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