this is the good news live from berlin is angela merkel's government about to be plunged into crisis over the fate of the country's domestic intelligence chief. has come under fire for questioning the authenticity of a video showing migrants being chased by extremists now some of the coalition partners are calling for him to be sacked also coming up a leaked report says priests in germany raped and sexually abuse nearly four

thousand children over seven decades and then failed to punish most of the abusers . do you. 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 at a parent's or. i'm sumi so much kind of welcome to the program german chancellor angela merkel is holding an emergency meeting with other key party leaders to discuss a dispute surrounding the head of the domestic intelligence service hans-georg mohsen america's junior coalition partners the social democrats are demanding that she fire bos'n after he question the authenticity of a video. showing migrants being chased by demonstrators in the eastern german city

of chemists last week critics also accuse mohsen of passing sensitive information to the far right a f t v are you because. of both and let's bring in our political correspondent hans braun for more on this story hi hans yet another crisis meeting of germany's coalition leaders how serious is this. well it's the social democrats that have been escalating this situation as you have said that the interior domestic intelligence service. has been under a lot of criticism in recent weeks over discussions on demonstrations in kemet spy right wing us in the city of chemists and what in fact happened there is that he directly contradicted statements made by under machall herself that's really the core of the of the issue here the question of whether he was was taking part in a political discussion in which the head of the intelligence service would not be

involved he should strictly speaking be someone who provides reliable but neutral information which the politicians can then assess in their own terms this is not happened but what has happened is that the parliament examined and question marks and for several hours yesterday as a result the conservative party said that they were satisfied with his explanations and above all the interior minister who is the direct head of the intelligence service the direct boss of the intelligence service said that he sees no reason to dismiss him now the interior minister happens also to be the leader of the bed varian conservatives and he and i'm going to america and the leader of democrats are going to be meeting within the next hour or two to discuss the situation so if i'm going to marco she's going to have to in some way mediate between these two sides on the one hand her conservative partners from the varia who are saying they're from they have no see no reason to dismiss intelligence chief and on the

other hand the social democrats who are demanding that it is a very tight situation once again for under the medical concepts he said mohsen originally faced criticism over that chemist's video now he's accused of leaking security information to the far right populous a.f.d. party let's take a closer look at all of these allegations. hun's york mass and the head of germany's secret service is under scrutiny again a new investigation by german media suggests the spy chief passed on sensitive information he's accused of providing data to germany's far right populist party the f.t. weeks before publication one of the f.t. members told german media which details were discussed. us and we had both with mr marson both the report although it was in the vailable in printed form yet we talked about various figures of interest such as right wing extremism left wing extremism and islamist threats to the field of. germany's opposition parties are outraged by such a dissemination of internal data weeks before the release because it's such

a warning to the law the federal minister of the interior publicly announces the report from yet 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. if this is indeed the case then the minister has given a civil servant the license for political action which should not have been given the 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 mawson well obviously the interior domestic spy agency is dismissing these allegations saying that the contacts with politicians are at the explicit request of the

interior ministry and that the figures discussed. discussing these figures does not contravene any laws on the other hand a representative of the green party has said there were there will also reports that details of the budget of the spy service had been discussed in these these to these talks and if that is the case that would certainly contravenes laws because these details are only available to a very select secret group of parliamentarians there's a very protected data so it's not quite clear at the moment certainly the social democrats feel that all of this is enough evidence to show that the head of the intelligence service has gotten involved in a political dispute where he has should play no role and have called for his dismissal we'll have to wait and see how the next few hours develop all right our political correspondent hans front with the very latest developments for us thank you hans. now the catholic church in germany says it is distressed and ashamed

about the findings of a new report into the sexual abuse of children by priests the report found that 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 under the age of thirteen one victim told about the by months he was forced to endure as a young choir boy when he was eight years old little kaiser 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 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 just. 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 received a one time payment of twenty five hundred euros for his suffering he and many others are demanding that the catholic church confronted sexual abuse crisis with more transparency. now some other stories making headlines around the world in our many world leaders and dignitaries have attended the funeral of former u.n. secretary general kofi annan they hailed the veteran diplomats record as an advocate for humanity and world peace and on died in a swiss hospital last month at the age of eighty. police in western germany have started removing dozens of environmentalists from a forest that's supposed to be cleared for an open pit coal mine activists have been living in about fifty tree houses to prevent the forests destruction are w e power company says it needs brown coal from the site to generate electricity. germany has to finalize the deal with italy to return migrants german interior

minister haas they've told parliament that negotiations with the italian government had been successful the agreement would allow germany to turn away migrants have order to austria if they have already been registered as refugees in italy. and french president has presented a plan to combat and poverty he said the government wants to spend eight billion euros over the next four years to help the poor and what critics have accused macof failing to address the needs of people living in poverty. in the us now 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 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 the as nick connelly 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 at the morning another 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. 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 that the last major round of shelling everyone scrambling. this academic 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 this school does every day keeping children from both sides talking to each other. we meet 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 was we head down to the school. water candles and desks for all the pupils that's the extent of the provisions here and the school's improvised bomb shelter. near the door who 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 the desk where used to sit and his handwriting. he was a talented boy. psychologically everyone has suffered through college now the 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 hope people 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. 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 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. 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 towards the checkpoint the experience of course in 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 community that to teach in her. reminder now of our top story that we're following for you here german chancellor angela merkel's junior coalition partners the social democrats that should fire the head of the domestic intelligence service. thank you seven up playing into the hands of. and of passing information to the far right a.f.p. hard. news from central banks in the u.s. europe and turkey we'll bring you the latest updates and talk to an expert about

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