this is deja vu news coming to you live from berlin the catholic church in germany is rocked by new revelations of abuse a leak report says priests in germany raped or sexually abuse nearly four thousand children over a seventy year period and then fail to punish most of the abusers also coming out people in the southeastern united states are bracing for the arrival of hurricane florence authorities fear the storm could cause a disaster on an unprecedented scale.

well i'm terry martin thanks for joining 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 d.w. about the by lance he was forced to endure as a young squire boy. when he was eight years old who 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 iranians but if into the prefects room. down with my pajama bottoms. head

into his lap. and then 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 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. 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 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 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 the sites join up and files and start showing their cards is how far up in the heart the the church knew that these movements were happening but 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 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 place so there was the abuse itself and then there's the cover up the failure to interdict the loo. 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 to get these 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 intrinsic part all of this sort of emergency meetings that are taking place right now i mean for one thing too late but the bigger question is whether the very concrete step of turning the information to national authorities so that these crimes can be seen not only the abuses but the cover up is actually

a step the disadvantage in this pope is willing to take we're seeing massive pressure 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 sense ruins relieving the kind of proud 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 as intially. 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 this to come religious affairs editor martin got thank you so much pleasure . now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today myanmar's defacto leader aung san suu kyi 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 the pinch of muslims they received seven year sentences. police in western germany have started removing dozens of environmentalists from a forest slated to be cleared for an open pit cold my activists have been living in about fifty tree houses to prevent the forests destruction. power company says it needs brown coal from the site to generate electricity. and russian protest group

pussy riot says one of its members is in great condition due to possible poison pill to seal off the interview last month was in the hospitalized in of a moscow after losing his eyesight and the ability to study. group made last may have lived by briefly constructing the world cup soccer final. germany has finalized a deal with italy to return to migrants a german interior minister told parliament that negotiations with the italian government had been successful you could read it would allow germany to turn away migrants at germany's border to austria if they have already been registered as refugees in italy. and lawmakers have grilled as the head of the country's domestic intelligence service who is facing allegations of sympathizing with the populist far right hans-georg masson is under fire for questioning the authenticity of video footage purportedly showing right wing gangs

down migrants in the city of tenet's two weeks ago some of call for muslims resignation but interior minister whole say whole post said he sees no reason for that controversy has revived the simmering dispute between say hope and chance what's going to national over germany's migration policy. well public zen's blog is a member of the german parliament from chair from chancellor akhil c.d.u. party he's also a member of the parliamentary committee that question mr moss and yesterday i asked him to tell us what he'd heard from the domestic intelligence chief. he said that he is just describing this kind of video that media is using this kind of video as an evidence and we don't know whether 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 base so a 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 mentioned yard so that's not an evidence for him to 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 is 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 that's for seconds nineteen seconds can be in a in a different surroundings so it makes a different appearance so that's wasn't i think yes because it was not filmed in chemist's it was filmed definitely come it's but it's nineteen seconds long you just see a few people running after others. 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 stage we don't have the scenery and mohsen was afraid if you 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. i have been criticized you mentioned an example that at the beginning which you dismissed does the agency and its leading executive 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 a f d and then he said yet five meetings but he had three times more meetings with do

you think it was a left wing party he had over one hundred meetings with the c.d.u. c.s.u. members in the parliament 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 and thank you. in the united states hurricane florence is moving closer to the country southeast coast forecasters say the storm has weakened slightly but still has the potential to cause massive damage but ortiz fear it will bring to wrench will rain and severe flooding a reporter maya schwager caught up with some people in virginia one of the states likely to be hardest hit many there are making final preparations for the onslaught . 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 hurricane situation is always unpredictable but for now the city remains calm. 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 wins 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. local government

officials have also vowed to be prepared for every scenario 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 it 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. waiter there reporting from virginia beach in the united states just a reminder the top story we're following for you here today on g.w. news the catholic church 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 seventy year

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