it does appear. in sixty eight. the global. this week g.w. . this is d 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 raped or sexually abused nearly four thousand children over a seventy year period and then failed to punish most of the abusers also coming up people in the southeastern united states are bracing for the arrival of hurricane

florence of the forty's fear the storm could calls for a disaster on an unprecedented scale. and risking their lives every day just to get to school we meet the children in ukraine forced to walk through a no man's land to reach their classroom and. well i'm terry martin good to have you with us the catholic church here in germany says it's distressed and ashamed by the findings of a new report into the sexual abuse of children by priests the report found that clergyman 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 d.w. about the bonds 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. when 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 complain 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 euros for his suffering he and many others are demanding that the catholic church confront it sexual abuse crisis with more transparency. with 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 can mean whether we look at the u.s. whether the pennsylvania report where 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 is we have days of sexual abuse about twenty to thirty percent of those who are 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 the sites join up and files and started showing their cards is how far up it is in the hard t. the church knew that these movements were happening but they were taking one priest that had abused children and move them to another parish and are there to protect them it must be said that the fact that many of these movements many of these movements where that internationally from

a gross different they all says this means that there had to be an overarching power that knew that this movement's or terry taking place so there was the abuse itself and then there's the cover up the failure to interdict the leak in the can. 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 had 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 either cover 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 the information to national authorities so that describes can be seen not only the abuses but the cover up is actually a step that despotic 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 of 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 gak 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 where 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 pacy and the people around him that it's quite clear that the policies and that steps are needed and those have not been taken yet so of course i mean the spokesperson of the vatican will say old and inserted things that can to be said that there is a very concrete the mend and that national know that already be brought into these 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 questioners 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 authorities we're seeing massive pressure of

this building right now through these revelations like we just have 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 cisterns relieving the kind of outrageous 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 as intially a thousand thousand priests in a period of seven years just the state of pennsylvania so 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 this

to come religious affairs editor martin god thank you so much pleasure. now let's look at some other stories making news around the world today young marse de facto leader unfolds hoochie 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 revenge of muslims they received seven years sentences. the russian protest group pussy riot says one of its members is in grave condition due to possible. vets who was also allies in moscow after losing his eyesight and the ability to speak interviewed pussy riot last month after the group briefly disrupted the world soccer's world cup soccer. 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 the civil

defense agency says it's deploying relief goods and disaster equipment. meanwhile a major storm is also threatening the united states hurricane florence is moving closer to the country's southeast coast forecasters say it has weakened slightly but still has attention to cause massive damage but already spirit 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 here in germany lawmakers have grilled the head of the country's domestic intelligence service who is facing allegations of sympathizing with the populist far right hans-georg lawson is under fire for questioning the authenticity of video footage purportedly showing right wing gangs hunting down migrants in the city of tenet's two weeks ago some have called for mawson's resignation at least his boss is convinced. in the president of germany's domestic security agency caused an outcry when he appeared to downplay far right violence last week but despite calls for muslims terminations germany's interior minister came to his defense. you know i've informed the committee for domestic affairs that on the basis of his report his explanation and our discussion i see no reason for personal consequences. on

the us see. the controversy surrounds a video from the city of kemet for many it was proof that far right mobs have hunted down people they took for migrants but in an interview mohsin said the video could be inauthentic that there was no evidence of racist violence and kemet on wednesday he pedaled back telling the committee it was all a misunderstanding. i don't know my clock is not made it clear i have a communication could have been better know why there was a possible misunderstanding let me write it in me it was a very clear on equivocal statement that he gave still no ma'am at the apic even had not everyone in parliament however agreed that the matter is settled. or does and does this mean in my opinion this doesn't change the fact that mr marson caused a lot of confusion in this country because of what he said last week christopher took a statewide answer before we still fear that mr marson is taking

a partisan stance with his media statements life and that by attacking the media regarding the videos dissemination and lending support to right wing conspiracy theories regarding the events in chemist's he was pursuing his own political agenda as i get enough of. for his critics in parliament mohsen is a man who can no longer be trusted even with the support of the interior minister he'll have a hard time regaining his standing. let's bring in patrick zen's board now he's a member of the german parliament he's part of chancellor merkel's c.d.u. party and he's also a member of the domestic affairs committee and yes they interviewed germany's domestic intelligence chief hans mohsin mr zentai thanks for being with us today on g.w. news first of all many are calling for hans-georg mohsen to step down or resign or be fired horsey hope of the interior minister says he sees no reason for that what do you think i think the same call since a few month especially the left wing parties address mohsen for doing

a lot of things for example they say we have got a person around on his amerie who did the attack and suppose it's a square in berlin and it's not like christmas in a christmas time which was very sad and it occurred that that was not opposed around him it was a person in the mosque here in berlin who tries to get information out of the mosque which are not an informant were against the norm and intelligence are right right right so the accusation of the left wing parties and all polman was wrong so in the end it occurs that these parties tried to accuse mohsen for things that are there and he did in this interview maybe not one hundred percent of them so i understand there is you know this is a politically charged atmosphere you're working in in the parliament there are other opposition parties there have different views but like to focus on hans-georg mosque and this particular case this is and many are call our call are saying that

he publicly contradicted the chancellor chancellor merkel and in the way she described the events in chemist's and he implied that the media represented the events in chemist's as well is it the job of mr moussa and then to go out publicly and make statements like that did he not overstep his remit he said that he is just describing this kind of video that media is using this kind of. video as in evidence and we don't know where the video comes from who made it we don't know how the scenery began we don't know how the scenery ends and it was just published on a platform that's called second business so i'm very a left wing platform we don't know who is the owner of this platform so a lot of questions are open and he said. media should ask where the videos coming from if it's authentic and he said it's not authentic because there was a headline it was written with had to mention the out so that's not in evidence to

him two questions one do you believe that video is authentic and second is it really his job to go out publicly and comment on on material like that yes so it's not a fake media and that it's something that mohsen described all the time it's original material but it was a wrong headline and no proof where it comes from and in which scenery it was made so little shots so that's where seconds nineteen seconds can be in a in a different surroundings so it makes a different appearance so that's it wasn't i think yes because it was not filmed in candidates it was filmed definitely come it's but it's nineteen seconds long you just see a few people running after others was something that we call a chase of groups is without political police control of there was police it's just the twenty sixth of august the day that was described so at this day we don't have

the scenery and mohsen was afraid if we have more. things in the internet like this it will go more violence we will see more left and right wing groups coming together he want to bring the situation down. it's not the first time the terms go in and his office have been criticized you mention an example at the beginning which you dismissed does the agency and its leading exam. you too have a problem with right wing white right wing extremism no i don't think so because one of the next accusations was that he had meetings with our right wing party. and then he said he had five meetings but he had three times more meetings was dealing with the left wing party he had over one hundred meetings with the c.d.u. c.s.u. members in the palm and so in the end five meetings with the ultra right maybe five too much but i think they need lots of help with what the constitution allows and

what's not. member of the german parliament thank you so much for talking with us today i thank you and you are watching still to come a new defense for endangered species these very cute lion cubs are proof that it is possible. crossing no man's land just to get to school this is a daily reality for some peoples in 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 cut off from their surroundings as nick connolly went to the front line. to meet the children face mortal danger trying to get an education. another morning and another trip to school without any shots being fired. reason enough

for people here to be thankful for now this school ceasefire seems to be holding off to leaving home and separatists held sides these people have passed through no man's land before crossing a narrow bridge and showing that prostitutes. we're not allowed to film the moment the children and their parents cross the bridge ukrainian military mind is a nervous they say are unexpected appearance 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 since everyone scrambling to cover this epidemic year school teach them one hundred sixty

peoples age sixteen 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 the house we had down to the school cellar water candles and desks for the pupils that's the extent of the provisions here and the schools improvised bomb shelter dog discussion i needed that on what i don't believe anyone who says you can get used to war you never do. three children have died in the since the war began to preschoolers and one former student or just bulk i still remember at

a desk where used to sit and his handwriting. he was a talented boy. psychologically everyone has suffered a huge not 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 and their desks are people's conceived and to separate to sell territory. from the classroom to the front line is a matter of just a few hundred meters in anything 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 no man's land 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 with the checkpoint. the experience of course in the front day in day out hasn't put dasher 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 here's nick conley there reporting from eastern ukraine now south africa is celebrating a pioneering moment in its conservation of big cats the world's first lion cubs born through artificial insemination are raising hopes of saving endangered species from extinction scientists at the conservation center where the male and female cubs were born are hailing the breakthrough. they don't know it but these sleepy carbs isabel and victor pioneers we all knew that the female was pregnant but is

that moment of of seen that finally the caps had a beard and that they had to. have 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 who can use that species to understand some of the factors necessary to help save. some of the more endangered or critically endangered big cats 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 they were artificial insemination doesn't solve that it gives scientists a safety net the main aim of these project would be to find a protocol for him

a nation where we can actually use for those and spray them because that's what we give us. to help these guys in the future. these little carbs the living proof there's hope of beating extinction. because here in the u.s. china trade dispute is starting to affect foreign investment not a good says right terry mean business certainly are reducing or delaying at least investment in the united states and the country's central bank the u.s. federal reserve says that the trend is due to concerns about washington and beijing so ongoing trade dispute so far the effect of the terrorists has been modest but it has boosted some production costs according to the fed several american companies want that further terrorists could hurt their businesses after u.s. president's done us trump said washington was ready to post terrorism all chinese imports on wednesday the u.s.

government proposed another round of trade talks with beijing. and buson and today out site the very bullish front foot stock exchange can probably tell us whether those talks between the u.s. and china are a sign of hope for the markets. sure money every little indication that the u.s. administration not only tweets but also is getting ready to do serious government business is a sign of hope quite obviously all the lobbying off american businesses has had some impact on the trump administration only yesterday sixty u.s. industry groups formed a coalition called americans for free trade and this is a coalition of course wants to influence donald trump and his administration to change course today the american chambers of commerce in china came out with

a survey describing how much of an impact the tariffs and the trade policies already have had on their business so obviously the pressure is up and also hopes are rising well talking of pressure and hopes later today the hear a pin central bank will need to and i'm sure that that will keep traders to what's the euro doing well the euro at the moment is trading at around about one dollar sixteen and i think given all the uncertainty about the economic outlook it's worth taking a closer look at what the euro exchange rate has been doing since the beginning of this year obviously earlier this year in the spring there was a bit of a high rise of the euro dollar exchange rate based on speculation that the e.c.b. might raise its interest rates that it might tighten its monetary policy a bit more quickly than anticipated but this high rise of the euro was only temporary and i think it's fair to say that since the beginning of this year the

range that our currency has been trading in has been relatively stable it hasn't been a very big range of businesses who have to calculate with the exchange rate should be able to do so all right listen there outside the bullish frankfurt stock exchange today thank you so much. and here's a reminder now of the top stories we're following for you. the catholic church in germany says it is distressed and ashamed to 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 seventeen year period and people in the southeastern u.s. are bracing for the arrival of hurricane florence nearly two million residents have been ordered to evacuate from three states as the storm approaches authorities say the storm has weakened but still poses a serious threat to life and property this is developing news live from berlin more

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