this week. this is deja vu news live from berlin the catholic church in germany is rocked by new revelations of abuse a leaked report says priests in germany in great and sexually abuse nearly four thousand children over a seventeen year period and then sail to punish most of the abusers also coming up a bit. who we really.

need leaders and dignitaries from around the world gather in ghana to pay their final respects to former u.n. secretary general kofi annan his funeral takes place this afternoon. so 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 we need the children in ukraine bristling their lives every day just to get to school. i'm soon it's almost comical to have you with us 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 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 thirty one victim told you about the violence she 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 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. a little kaiser 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. more on the story now with our religious affairs

editor martin got he joins us in studio hi martin it appears these revelations once again would indicate a larger pattern of abuse indeed we have essentially two very clear pattern so merging time goes by it's more reports begin to appear which is on the one hand we haven't heard a systematic structure of abuse itself so that is to say mostly children in this case fifty percent of them under thirteen. but what is also emerging is a very your pattern of cover up so this is something that we're seeing across the board and i think that the thing that is important to keep in mind is that the way in which the church had to actually cover up for many of these people many of these abusers was moving them from diocese to diocese in many of those cases they were being moved not only within a certain country or within sort of a certain region but actually overseas and this goes to show that we have something that's not just belong to one particular church but to the institution as

a whole we just don't know how far up this goes we should say that this these revelations this report on abuse in the german catholic church it came from a church led investigation and this report comes just ahead of a meeting in the vatican with u.s. leaders with u.s. and global clergy abuse on the agenda how is that going to affect how the church addresses this problem you know in a sense that the leak of this document pushed the church to act quicker but i mean you know this is sort of an endless set of meetings that we have seen in the endless set of can be in discussions that we have to. over a six year period so it's unclear that this will have an infinite effect at the very same time what one should say this study will actually commissioned by the by the by the bishop of the archbishop of of germany in the conference of bishops i mean the problem is this was full access to documents were so not granted so much of the things that we're seeing is really very fraction ari this goes to say that

we're both seeing here part of the solution but a big part of the problem which is we have a transparency we have an unwillingness of the church to open its archives and show actually what he said they know about the uses but at the very same time the very clear need pushed by the political context of actually addressing and you know there is something that i think it's worthwhile repeating at this point over and over and over again mainly because we have seen sort of these ongoing state of affairs we're not talking about abstract at the so it's we're talking about the rape and sexual violation of children and this should be a sense of outrage which is generalized the sense is that there are people that are very keen and varied in tune with this inside the vatican but for now we have not seen concrete that can either stop this or address the crimes that have already been committed but the outrage is growing is there any indication that this time will be any different from any time in the past that the church has been forced to look at these problems within its institutions there is one very hopeful note that

was sort of went almost and no it is the pope was struggling to bed before in which you refer to the content of the pennsylvania report notice a set of sins but ask right now because now it is official that the vatican takes these positions to be crying the vatican has both a moral but in many contexts a legal obligation to actually have these episodes addressed ass crimes that means bringing in national legal authorities however they are about to end at this point has not turned those documents and i think that this is the most concrete step. the church can take to begin essentially to. change the prosser to change both its face and to actually bring justice all right our religious affairs editor martin with us in studio thank you very much you're welcome. now some other stories making news around the world germany has finalize a deal with italy to return migrants germany and the german interior minister of

what they hope for told parliament that negotiations with the italian government has been successful the agreement would allow germany to turn away migrants at germany's border to austria if they have already been registered as refugees in italy. police in western germany have started removing dozens of environmentalists from a forest slated to be cleared for an open pit coal mine activists have been living in about fifty tree houses to prevent the forests destruction the power company says it needs brown coal from the site to generate electricity. russian protest group pussy riot says one of its members is in grave condition due to possible voicing. interviewed last month was hospitalized in moscow after losing his eyesight and the ability to speak the group last made headlines by briefly disrupting the world cup final. evacuations are underway in the northern philippines where a typhoon is heading in from the pacific it is described as the country's worst

storm this year and is likely to make landfall as soon as this weekend the civil defense agency said it is deploying relief goods and disaster equipment. a major storm is also threatening the u.s. hurricane florence is moving closer to the country's southeast coast forecasters say it has weakened slightly but still has the potential to cause massive damage. bring torrential rain and severe flooding nearly two million people have been ordered to evacuate the governor of north carolina issued this urgent warning. north carolina is about to face the power of hurricane florence. the time to prepare is almost over this morning as for cash shows the storm is only hours away. 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 now world leaders past and present are attending the state funeral of former u.n. secretary general kofi annan taking place in ghana at this hour the ceremony in the capital okro follows three days of national mourning and on died in a swiss hospital last month at the age of eighty surrounded by his wife non and children. more now in this report. exercise on my own two december in one thousand nine hundred six and a historic moment for the u.n. kofi annan was the first secretary general from subsaharan africa and the first to have risen through the organization's ranks he'd already been working for the un for twenty five years. during his tenure and oversaw one of the most ambitious reform processes in the u.s. history cutting excess jobs and creating programs to reduce poverty stop the spread

of hiv aids and fight terrorism. we have reached a fork in the road. if you know the political leaders of the world cannot agree all reach agreement on the way for way to history who will take the decisions for you in two thousand and one his efforts won him the nobel peace prize a call from sweden a welcome interruption usually when the phone rings early in the morning is somebody who's somewhere around that was and i think this is going to be a great encouragement for me personally and for all my colleagues at the united nations. by then and had already endured some of the worst moments of his career in one nine hundred ninety four as the head of u.n. peacekeeping he failed to act on evidence that a genocide was planned in rwanda some eight hundred thousand people were brutally massacred ten years on he would express remorse saying there was more he could have

and should have done. one year after rwanda the un failed to prevent the massacre of eight thousand muslim boys and men during the bosnian war annan said those events forever influenced his thinking and actions as secretary general. another low point the u.s. led war on iraq in two thousand and three without the un's approval venting his frustrations and on what later called the invasion illegal just one of the many times when he spoke bluntly to world leaders. the secretary general is the chief administrative officer but he also does have a political diplomatic. voice which periodically must be heard that moral voice is now silent but in the words of foundation on announcing his death it

will be remembered as one that radiated genuine kindness warmth and brilliance. will a state funeral taking place in our court today and correspondent. is there following today's events for us hi isaac tell us about this burial service who was there and what has been planned for this state funeral. service is currently taking place just behind me is full to capacity a lot of world leaders such as the liberian president is here you will fall for the president of ivory cause but. are it looks like we're having some trouble with that connection to our correspondent. speaking to us there we'll try to speak to him a little bit later in the day now moving on to some other news of the conflict in eastern ukraine has largely fallen out of the headlines but violence still flares

up there regularly despite an official cease fire however the two sides separatists and ukrainian government forces recently agreed to lay down their weapons to allow children to go back to school after the summer break it's an informal agreement but as nick conley found in the frontline village of it comes as a great relief for the children who have to risk their lives every day just to get an education. and know the morning and then of 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 separatists 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 alright 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 everyone scrambling to cover. this academic year school teach them one hundred sixty pupils age 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 reach something the 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. it's candles and desks for all the pupils that's the extent of the provisions here and the schools improvised bomb shelter. near the door 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. i still remember the desk where used to sit in his handwriting. he was a talented boy. and psychologically everyone has suffered will 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 peoples

conceived and to separate the cell territory. from the classroom to the front line is a matter of just a few hundred metres and crannies and crossing that 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 we're 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 pass every day . as the school day ends we join the children as they head back towards the checkpoint. the experience of crossing 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 tony good to teach in her.

german lawmakers have grilled the head of the country's domestic intelligence service who is facing allegations of sympathizing with the populist far right mohsin is under fire for questioning the authenticity of video footage purportedly showing right-wing gangs hunting down migrants in the city of chemist's two weeks ago some have called for muslims resignation. at least his boss is convinced hans-georg mohsen 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 how the communication could have been better or why there was a possible misunderstanding rather than me it was a very clear unequivocal statement that he gave still nam india up gave him had not everyone in parliament however agreed that the matter is settled on does and does this mean in my opinion this doesn't change the fact that mr mostyn caused a lot of confusion in this country because of what he said last week on christopher took a state wide answer before we still fear that mr mohsin is taking a pass on stunts but his media statements like and that by attacking the media

regarding the videos dissemination and lending support to right wing conspiracy theories regarding the events in kemet 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. now south africa is celebrating a pioneering moment in the 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 it as a breakthrough. they don't know it spurred the sleepy carps isabel and victor pioneers we already knew that the female was pregnant but this is the moment of of seem that finally that upset that they had and that they had. and that they have

because you put them out. 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 save some of the more endangered or critically endangered because it's around the world it's estimated the african lion population has decreased by more than sixty percent in the last twenty five years alone in 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 political would be to find a protocol for him a nation where we can actually use for those and pay them because that's what we give us vicki to help these guys in the future. these little

carbs the living proof there is hope of beating extinction. keep smiling every time i see this is so nice when they're small right ok monica if you were a business now and you're talking monetary policy not so cute cute but well before we get to the monetary policy of course we're looking to the u.s. because businesses there are reducing or delaying invest mens' the country's central bank the federal reserve says that the trend is due to concerns about washington and beijing's ongoing trade dispute so far the effect of the tariffs has been modest but it's a boost that some production costs according to the faith several american companies warned that further terrorists could hurt their businesses after u.s. president or trump said washington was ready to impose tariffs on all chinese imports on wednesday the us government proposed another round of trade talks with beijing. let's find out how that goes down for example in frankfurt who was in

a stunning buy out site a very bullish frankfurt stock exchange what's what's up with those two bulls there is that a reaction to us in china talking again. no monica the reason for this blue ball here today in front of the frankfurt stock exchange is an event by the german chambers of crafts and trades that wants to raise awareness for blue collar jobs and for apprentices in blue collar jobs but you're right of course the bull in front of the exchange the bull for the stock markets that's also a symbol for hope and i can tell you that the reports that the american administration is willing to talk to the chinese government again. about trade is reason for hope on the markets. all right what about hopes coming out from the e.c.b. meeting i mean traders will certainly keep an eye on whatever policy decision will

be made today and how it will impact the euro how is it doing. well at the moment the euro is trading at around about one dollar sixteen and given all the nervousness about the e.c.b. and of course about the economic outlook i think it's worth taking a bit of a closer look today at what the euro has been doing so far this year obviously at the beginning of this year during the spring months there was a bit of a spike in the euro dollar exchange rate driven by speculation that the e.c.b. might raise interest rates earlier given or that it might you know tighten its monetary policy quicker but those spikes in the euro dollar exchange rate were only temporary and they can say that basically the trading range that the euro has been trading in so far has not been extremely large businesses should have been

able to deal with it all right. outside the frankfurt stock exchange with a very pretty blue bull decides thank you so much. well turkey's central bank is also holding a meeting today in a last ditch effort to hold to the nearest dramatic descent or at least to slow it down the country's currency its value plunged more than forty percent against the dollar this year and analysts say a drastic interest rate hike to twenty percent from the current seventeen percent could keep prices from further skyrocketing the turkish president trichet type add on continues to oppose a further rate hike claiming it would worsen the country's economic problems now turkish regulators have decided to ban all real estate business and foreign currency all transactions will be handled in the new iraq.

apple has unveiled its latest smartphone lineup with customary funfair in cupertino california the company says the i phone ten s. and its biggest sibling the i phone ten s. macs are the fastest i phones ever liquid proof and they have the most secure facial authentication technology ever in a smartphone apple is counting on hans and profits for the i phone ten s macs with the company's biggest phone display so far it also highlighted new health features for its next generation apple watch including one allowing users to take their own and make sure canio graham. this is due to be a new century is a reminder of the top stories we're following for you. 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 all raped nearly four thousand children over

a seventy year period. well the leaders of pasta and present have been attending the state funeral of for my un secretary general kofi anon in ghana a man died in a swiss hospital last month at the age of eighty he was the first person from sub-saharan africa to lead the united nations. don't forget that you can always get a d w news on the go just download from google play all from the app store that'll give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news and you can also use the d. w. app to send us photos and videos. you're watching the news coming live from berlin more coming up at the top of the hour in the meantime don't forget you can also get the latest music information on our web site that's d w dot com thanks for joining.

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