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during this period. sixty years. this week. this is deja vu news live from berlin is uncle michael's government about to be plunged into crisis over the fate of the country's domestic intelligence chief i'm scared moscow has come under fire for questioning the authenticity of a video showing migrants being chased by extremists now some americans coalition partners are calling for him to be sacked. also coming up a leaked report says priests in germany great and sexually abused nearly four
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thousand children over seven decades and then fail to punish most of the abusers. who we really should. be leaders and dignitaries from around the world gather in ghana to pay their final respects to former u.n. secretary general kofi annan better parents are. almost comical to have you with us german chancellor angela merkel is facing a potentially serious new challenge over the head of the domestic intelligence service hans-georg mohsen her junior coalition partners the social democrats are demanding that she fire mohsen over comments he made casting doubt on the authenticity of the video. showing migrants being chased by demonstrators in the
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eastern german city of chemists last week now critics accuse mohsen of playing into the hands of right wing groups they also accuse him of passing sensitive information to the far right a.s.d. party. let's get the latest now with our political correspondent hans bronte hans so the social democrats they are part of chancellor merkel's government and they want mohsin gone will they get their way well that's not the social democrats obviously who can get him dismissal who called who can dismiss him but they are escalating the situation all mohsen spend about five dollars in parliament yesterday explaining to both the intelligence committee and the committee for interior of what is the exact position was. clearly the social democrats have not been satisfied with the explanations that were given and parliament yesterday and they haven't all as a party said that this state of the domestic intelligence should be dismissed the
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formal formal boss of the domestic intelligence of mr mostyn is the interior minister that is holds the whole of he is from going to marcos conservative says the party from bavaria and they have always been tensions between holds the whole for and i'm going to michael so what the social democrats in fact are doing are increasing tensions within the government as a whole process of lead to raise their own profile in the situation but certainly they're putting a lot of a lot of emphasis on this at the moment let's look at why the domestic intelligence chief is at the center of the storm of controversy he originally faced criticism over the chemist's video now he's accused of leaking security information to the far right populist a.f.d. party let's take a closer look at those allegations. hun's york mass and the head of germany secret service is under scrutiny again a new investigation by german media suggests the spy chief passed on sensitive
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information he's accused of providing data to germany's far right populist party the f.t. weeks before its publication one of the f.t. members told german media which details were discussed. both with mr marson about the report although it wasn't available in printed form yet we talked about various figures of interest such as right wing extremism left wing extremism and islam as threats to the field of germany's opposition parties are outraged by such a dissemination of internal data before the official release because it's according to the law and the federal minister of the interior publicly announces the report came i know no other example of this information being released to a political party before the official publication of the report. according to germany's domestic intelligence service the secret meetings came at quote the explicit request of the federal ministry of the interior.
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and if this is indeed the case then the minister has given a civil servant a license for political action which should not have been given politicians are supposed to drive the nation's policies not ministry officials. again germany's top domestic spy stands in the middle of a heated debate. how serious is this latest allegation against moscow. well the interior intelligence service has reacted to these reports this morning they told us that the information that was given was given at the explicit. wish or on the explicit wish of the interior ministry that no information was polished on against any contravened any laws on the other hand opposition leaders from the green party have told us that apparently also details of the budget of the interior intelligence service may have been discussed with the far right if the if that is the case that certainly contravenes those because these figures are highly cone
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highly confidential and can only be to be discussed with very select groups of parliamentarians at the moment it seems as though this is very likely to escalate further the social democrats have demanded that the three leaders of the parties involved in this coalition that is medical the chancellor from the conservative c.d.u. the bavarian. interior minister hospital from the bavarian cause of servitors and the social democrat leader until they are not as they will or are going to meet in in the next few hours to try and discuss the situation and it seems likely that i'm going to america is going to have another crisis on our hands with in her government coalition. political correspondent brian thank you very much. 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
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clergy men 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 and at the age of thirty one victim told you 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. 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
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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. gudel kaiser received a one time payment of twenty five hundred euros for his suffering he and many
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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 about are and some are urging time goes by a smore reports begin to appear which is on the one hand we haven't heard the 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 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 said the way in which the church had actually cover up for many of these people many of these abusers was moving them from diocese to diocese in many of his cases they were
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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 there's a 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's unclear that this will have an infinite effect of the very same time what one should say is that this study was actually commissioned by . by the by the bishop of the archbishop of of germany in the conference of bishops
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i mean the problem is access was full access to documents were so not granted so much of the things that we're seeing is really very fractured are you this goes to say we're both seeing here part of the solution but a big part of the problem which is we have to look for inspire and see 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're now 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 empty 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 very in tune with this inside the vatican but for now we have not seen concrete see that can either stop this or address the crimes that have already
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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 to ireland or a bit before in which you referred 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 were about to get at this point has not turned those documents and i think that this is the most concrete step dot the church can take to begin essentially to change the prosser to change both its face and to actually bring justice right our religious affairs. dr martin with us in studio thank you very much. now some other stories making headlines around the
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world police in western germany have started removing dozens of environmentalists from a forest slated to be cleared for an open 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. germany has finalized a deal with italy to return migrants german interior minister will say will first told parliament that negotiations with the italian government had been successful the agreement would allow germany to turn away migrants at its order to austria if they've already been registered as refugees in italy. french president among all my call has presented a plan to combat poverty he said the government wants to spend eight billion euros of the next four years to help the poor critics have accused of failing to address the needs of people living in poverty. world leaders past and present gathered in ghana capital today for the state funeral of former un
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secretary general kofi annan. she told him. some days yes leave the children. some in six thousand warners pay tribute to the diplomat helen his record as an advocate for humanity and world peace the service followed three days of national mourning a man with a canadian national he died in a swiss hospital last month at the age of eighty. and let's bring in correspondent say he's in got his capital following today's events for us hi isaacs tell us about this burial service so who was there and what did you see here today. well this step is just it just behind me it was attended by walk leadership really in the u.s. to get a general a budgetary cuts began in france in any of the final yet and the top of my head
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still stays you know how much the president of liberia judged the idea and the president of the hive it was a loss on the top among the lucky to have been here to feel your last respects to the seven was a slim seven held there because you simply can't was a christian and so dance was a subtle signals out for you and there is a private burial service currently on that we ultimately summitry i think he's known around the world for a diplomatic efforts but tell us about kofi annan early days in opera. one of the can actually was a given that the suv was going came into region but he drew up an os on ordinary a county and it was one two and a father who was a chief like try to tried chief and by the local sleep to our house on the night they see the time tended to look up to see you in ghana in the lawsuit but a chance to move to be busy going to do for you got
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a chance to travel abroad to the united states of america to find a he studies that is way. international relations are. getting us right here. what do you think the legacy is that has left behind in their in ghana and in africa. was speaking. but you did sleep. easy you take me to. eat i just made speeches he's very responsible he wants to listen. to. the media. he's been able to tell the story of a group. from the south where this continent of africa gets it.
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right correspondent. covering the state funeral for. us today thank you very much. not a conflict in eastern ukraine has largely fallen out of the headlines but violence still flares up there regularly despite an official cease fire out of the two sides a pro russian 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 by nick conley found out in the frontline. it comes as a great only for the children their lives every day just to get an education. and the morning trip to school without any shots being fired. reason enough for people here to be thankful. for now the so called school cease fire seems to be holding after leaving home on the separatists side these people have
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passed through no man's land before crossing a narrow bridge and showing that passports. were 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 appearance could provoke the separatists. out to meet the students from the other side of the river the school principal. 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 since everyone scrambling to cover this economic year school teach them one hundred sixty peoples 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 reads something
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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 water candles and desks for all the pupils that's the extent of the provisions here and the schools improvised bomb shelter. and they did that the more don't believe anyone who says you can get used to war you never do. three children have died in one it been since the war began to preschoolers and one former student or does. i still remember the desk where used to sit and his handwriting. he was a talented boy. psychologically everyone has suffered through college now they only
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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 her pupils can see deep into 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 but 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 the
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checkpoint. to experience across in the front 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 clinton but to teach in her words and . i did it is nick connelly reporting there and monica is here with business news are talking monetary policy exactly so me and the decisions being made all eyes of course were set on front for today as europe's monetary watchdogs gather to inside the european central bank and as expected the e.c.b. left key interest rates untouched at an all time low of north point north percent further the council said course for a stricter monetary policy from october on whether it's the monthly purchases of government bonds are going to be cut in half to fifteen billion euros these purchases are executers to keep troubled european economies afloat. so let's find out what the markets making of all that call it was
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a stunning buy for us at the frankfurt stock exchange. easy be decisions any surprises there. no not really you can tell by looking at the german share index stocks right behind me it barely moved after the d.c. decision came out neither did the euro dollar exchange rate it's fair to say i think that the market got what it wanted to hear yes net asset purchases will come to an end but the european central bank's council also says that it intends to reinvest the principal payments from maturing bonds for an extended period of time and in any case and that's a quote for as long as necessary to maintain favorable liquidity conditions at an ample degree of monetary accommodation so this really sounds like a very very slow move from quantitative easing to quantitative tapering from
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a very very generous monetary policy to a slightly less generous monetary policy all all very nice and easy unlike the turkish thing central bank huge surprise coming out of there. that's true finally the central bank in turkey has increased interest rates for turkey and in a very very bold move the key interest rate was increased from eighteen to twenty four percent today whether or not this will be enough to rein in inflation remains to be seen because the turkish government also announced steps today that to me sound like further steps towards capital controls person. does not want that in turkish contracts other currencies than the lira are being used also old contracts you know real estate purchases a cetera has to be changed from dollars or from euro's to there are rights one step
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forward one step less it seems. this in france and thank you so much. and we hear that businesses are reduce. or at least delaying investments in the united states the country's central bank the federal reserve says that the trend is due to concerns about washington and beijing says ongoing trade dispute so far the effect of the terrace has been modest but it has boosted some production costs according to the fed several american companies warns that further terrorism could hurt their businesses but after u.s. president it trumps it washington was ready to impose tariffs on chinese in the us on wednesday the us government proposed another round of trade talks with asian. and apple has unveiled its latest smartphone lineup with customary found fair in cupertino california the company says the i phone tennis and its biggest sibling the i phone ten as macs are the fastest i phones ever liquid proof and they have
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the most secure facial authentication technology ever in a smartphone app list counting on handsome profits for the i phone ten as marks were the company's biggest phone display so far company also highlighted new health features for its next generation are paunch including one allowing users to take their own electrocardiogram. if you like this is bad news a deadly and uncurable bacteria has infested the all of industry in southeast italy fama devastated as the plague strikes down trees quickly and leaves fields unusable so far an area the size of over a thousand football pitches has been affected the number is likely to increase but there is hope in the form of a resistant all of tree. fastidious when it infects the tree it causes with the rain which ultimately results in the trees death it was first discovered three years ago and has decimated plantations ever since leaving farmers
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like we're not gayety desperate. the pure want to be much. nothing is as it used to be. production has gone down by eighty percent this year. and the financial effects have been considerable. quantity even then i went from fifty employees to zero and last week i had to let my secretary go after sixteen years. the diseases carried by sick adele's would sucking insects which spread the infection to healthy trees. one of the bacteria spreads forming a sort of barrier it prevents water from passing through the leaves the leaves dry up in the branches died due to lack of water together with his team at the university of bari dust experimented on olive groves to find
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a plant resistant to the bacteria after five years of research success they found two potential candidates to heal the infected trees farmers combine the sick plants trunks with the newly discovered branches this way they hope they'll be able to revive italy's shaken olive oil industry and now a reminder of the top stories we're following for you. german chancellor angela merkel's junior coalition partners the social democrats are demanding she fire the head of the domestic intelligence service. they accuse him of playing into the hands of right wing groups and of passing sensitive information to the far right a.f.d. party. the catholic church here in germany says it is distress and ashamed by the findings of a new report into the sexual abuse of children by priests the report found that clergyman had abused all break to nearly four thousand children over a ten year killing and. they're watching the news coming live from berlin more
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