managed by from. visiting w. news live from berlin the catholic church in germany is rocked by new revelations of abuse a leaked report says priests in germany great and sexually abused nearly four thousand children over a seventy year period and then failed to punish most of the abusers. come down.

leaders and dignitaries from around the world gather in ghana to pay their final respects to former u.n. secretary general kofi anna his funeral takes place this afternoon. i'm sumi so much comic good 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 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 violence 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 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'd samant 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 its 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 he's also emerging is a very clear 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 of you service 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 combined discussions that we have seen over a six year period so it. unclear that this will have an infinite effect at the very same time what one should say. and 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 access was full access to documents for some 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 lack of transparency we have an unwillingness of the church to open its archives and show actually what he said they know about their 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 set of affairs we're not talking about abstract eppy so it's we're talking about the rape and sexual violation of children and this should be a sense for outrage which is generalize the sense is that there are people that are very keen and very 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 unnoticed as 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 crimes 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 your. some other stories making headlines around the world germany has finalized the deal with italy to return migrants german interior minister what they hope for told parliament that negotiations with the italian government have been successful the agreement would allow germany to turn away migrants at the border to austria if they have already been registered as refugees in. myanmar is de facto leader aung san suu kyi has defended the jailing

of two quarters 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 over him to muslims they received seven year sentences. 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 it's likely to make landfall as soon as this weekend the civil defense agency said it is deploying relief goods and disaster equipment. 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 opera follows three days of national mourning and died in a swiss hospital last month at the age of eighty surrounded by his wife naan and his children he was the first person from sub-saharan africa to lead the united nations and did so for almost a decade until two thousand and six got us president not

a coup for i don't has called him one of the most illustrious people of this generation. exercise in all moyo. december one thousand nine hundred ninety 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 live in the political leaders of the world cannot agree all reach agreement on the way forward history 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 some bad news somewhere around the world 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 and the moral voice which periodically must be heard. that moral voice is now silent but in the words of anand's foundation on announcing his death it will be remembered as one that radiated genuine kindness warmth and brilliance. a major storm is bearing down on the south east coast of the us forecasters say hurricane florence has weakened slightly but still has the potential to cause massive damage authorities fear it will bring to wrench will

rain and severe flooding nearly two million people have been ordered to evacuate but with powerful winds and flooding forecast many are doing what they can to protect their property and the resort town of virginia beach. has been speaking to residents whose homes could soon bear the brunt of the storm. how to survive a hurricane get some sand put it in a bag repeat drag 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 pairs 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 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

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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 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. you're watching news still to come news from central banks in the u.s. and turkey we'll bring you the latest updates and talk to an expert about what role the banks play in preventing the next financial crisis. don't forget you can always

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