this is due to. a crisis meeting is underway that could decide the fate of germany's domestic intelligence chief. mohsen is under fire for questioning the authenticity of a video showing migrants being chased by a stream is now senior politicians are calling for him to be sacked also on the program. says priests in germany raped and sexually abused nearly four thousand children over seventeen years and that the church then failed to publicly punish most of the abusers.

in the southeast of the united states gets ready for. the storm poses a threat to millions of people will bring you an update from north carolina. welcome to the program german chancellor angela merkel is holding emergency talks with key party leaders to try to resolve the dispute about the head of the country's domestic intelligence service during a coalition partners the social democrats want. him to resign face after he questioned the authenticity of a video showing migrants being chased by demonstrators in the eastern german city of kenneth's critics also accuse him of passing sensitive information to the far right the party. let's get more from g.w.

political correspondent christopher spring great to welcome chris go masson likely to lose his job. that's a moot question at the moment we'll have to see what the result of these talks are i think one scenario that's not going to happen is that his political boss the interior minister horsy who for who is one of the party leaders talking to chancellor merkel at the moment in the chancellor's office behind me he is not going to get up and fire mohsen for the simple reason that that would be an incredible climb down last night he gave him his backing this morning he repeated that backing so i don't see the interior minister actively firing mohsen we are there's a rumor circulating at the moment that the three leaders of the three coalition party leaders engaged in these crisis talks are working towards a face saving solution which would involve mr marson. falling on his own sword if

you want so resigning taking the initiative and resigning himself that is however an unconfirmed rumor but well let's pick up on the only is this i'm concerned confirmed really because clearly the aspi day is this is this seems to be some sort of redish we'll call it i would call it a reddish line for them they they seem to be insisting that he goes so if he doesn't this is likely to threaten the chances coalition. yes and no i don't think it's going to get that serious one or two senior social democrats have been saying that although it is a serious situation it's not a situation they're going to let the coalition. crumble over having said that i think there is some serious party political positioning going on andrea not less the leader of the social democrats one of her key priorities is to sharpen her party's profile to recover some of the many supporters that the s.p.d.

has been losing in recent years simply for being the junior coalition partner in the shadow of chancellor merkel so i think this the social democrat leader has resolved really to show in this particular legislative period that the social democrats can be very very uncomfortable coalition partners one of the. alternative for germany germany far right opposition party and they seem very much to be enjoying themselves at the chancellor's expense. indeed they're very much. in the top of everyone's minds they dominated the key budget debate yesterday and you know they they're dominating the headlines in many way in many ways and as you know any form of published is good publicity. for spring kate thank you. you're welcome but take

a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world germany is close to agreeing a deal with italy to return migrants german interior minister jose hoffa told parliament that only signatures were being away said the agreement allows germany to turn away migrants at its border with austria if they have already been registered as refugees in italy. sprains parliament has voted to remove the remains of former dictator general franco from his two franco rule spain where they have for thirty six years until nine hundred seventy five is buried in the valley of the fall of the same monument holds the remains of some thirty seven thousand dead from both sides of the civil war that brought franco to power. president emanuel macro has presented a plan to combat poverty he said the government wants to spend eight billion euros over the next four years to help the poor critics of previously accused him of failing to address the needs of people living in poverty. world leaders past and

present gathered in ghana's capital akron today for the state funeral of former un secretary general kofi anna. really. need some. yes leave. to detailing his record as an advocate for humanity and world pace out on was a gun and national he died in a swiss hospital last month in the age of eighty current secretary general and turning to tatters remembers his predecessor. like few you know time for fun and would bring people together. and unite them towards a common goal for our common humanity. there is an old joke the art of diplomacy each to say. especially when you are speaking.

coffee and i say every seeing sometimes we don't think the word. 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 independent report commissioned by the church found the clergyman had abused raped nearly four thousand children over seventy years starting at the end of the second world war most of the victims were boys under the age of thirteen one of them has been talking today about the violence as a young 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 iranians but if 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 complained 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. as a 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. the u.s. eastern seaboard is getting ready for the arrival of hurricane florence the category two storm is expected to make landfall late this evening or early tomorrow morning almost a two million people from virginia the carolinas and georgia have been ordered to leave low lying coastal areas officials are warning that florence will probably be the most dangerous her country hit the region for a generation they predicted that for me to storm surge and heavy rain could cause widespread flooding on the loss of electricity to millions of households.

they don't correspond that much weight i say elizabeth city north carolina welcome by what's going on that. well feel as you can see the hurricane is not even here yet it's expected to make landfall sometime late tonight or possibly early tomorrow morning but conditions here are getting very windy the water is rising underneath where i stand right now people are starting to batten down the hatches a little bit although life is still going on in the town around us we saw one one street in the downtown area that was starting to board itself up but there are still shops open there still people driving around living their lives and what we heard from several residents here in elizabeth city is that the local government has really not given them any head's up any warnings any advice on where to go what to do they have a plan in the evacuation routes should they need to get out of town of this area of the u.s. is expected to be missed a little bit by the hurricane it's turning further south but as you can see it's

already rather windy and here they are expecting a significant rise in the water and gusts of wind up to fifty miles per hour so want to or sources most concerned about. the biggest concern throughout the week of preparations has been the prospect of flooding and flash flooding this is a especially true in south carolina which is expected to take the brunt of the hurricane but even around here. park right next to me that's basically on the water with no barrier and if this water rises even a little bit this whole area standing in front of me right here is going to be covered in water and people are really expecting that there really hasn't been much warning over what people should do or where they should put their cars now up in virginia where we've also spent some time officials there have been a little more communicative with their population they've been press conferences they've been alerts there have been municipal sandbag areas where people can come prepare their houses for the rain although virginia is now expected to be almost

completely missed by the hurricane but so for officials in south carolina the biggest prospect is flooding especially because the hurricane is expected to stall out when it hits land and just dump all of its water right where it hits on the coast i mean observe people are staying in place one of very telling you what have you most concerned about. people are most concerned about their houses and of course of this prospect of flooding now we spoke with one official in virginia last night who said they're doing their best to to get the word out and to go collect people who maybe don't have the ability to get to a shelter if they want to people who are elderly people who are disabled people who maybe don't know where the shelters are they're doing their best to reach out to send buses out to pick those people out and bring them to safety further inland people here seem to be calm and collected they've been through hurricanes before

they've never faced one quite of this magnitude so full on my schrade in north carolina thank you. south africa is celebrating a pioneering moment in the conservation of big cats the world's first line copes born through artificial insemination raising hopes of saving endangered species from extinction scientists of the conservation where the male and female cubs were born hoping it was a breakthrough. they don't know it's but these sleepy carps isabel and victor pioneers where you are you knew that the female was pregnant but is that moment of of that finally that upset that they had and that they had. put them out if it was really. exciting in the past scientists have struggled to artificially inseminate lions they hope what they've learned from this birth can also be applied to other big cats we can use that species to understand some of the

factors necessary to help us save. some of the more endangered or critically endangered big cats 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 were artificial insemination doesn't solve that it gave scientists a safety net the main aim of these political would be to find the protocol for the nation what we can actually use for those and pay them because that's what we give us. to help these guys in the future. these little carbs are living proof there's hope of beating extinction. top story. political leaders are holding crisis meetings to discuss the fate of the

country's domestic intelligence chief. has come a recent protests in the city of cabinets he's now also being accused of passing sensitive information to the. website that's. what we were. when we were. given first. experience hardship.