this is d.w. news live from valena germany's coalition government in crisis of the face of the country's domestic intelligence chief. the moussa news under fire following controversial comments about the recent far right protests in eastern germany senior politicians are calling for him to be sacked also on the program. forces priests in germany writes in sex for the abuse nearly four thousand children over seventeen years and that the church failed to punish most of the abusers. plus is

this the end of a long running environmental battle police removed activists from a german forest excuse me cleared for coal mining the protest to say they will not give up. i'm filled jail welcome to the program germany's chancellor and key party leaders have ended an initial crisis meeting and aimed at resolving the brow of the head of the country's domestic intelligence service and america's coalition partners the social democrats want hans-georg mohsen to bizarre following his controversial comments about recent far right protest in the city of candidates talks about his faith to do to resume early next week. could the president of germany's domestic secret service bring down the government that's what the papers are asking social democrats

a conservative hun's georg masson must go if not they could quit angela merkel's governing coalition and there's anyone at the head of a security institution of our country has to be absolutely trustworthy and it's obvious that this trust no longer exists so there must be consequences. for now conservatives are backing masson he's accused of improperly passing on sensitive information to germany's far right populist party the f.t. and f.t. member told germany the data was contained in an unreleased government report. when we spoke with mr marson about the reports it wasn't available in printed form yet we talked about various numbers and figures such as right wing extremism left wing extremism and islamist threats. s.p.d. chairwoman under their analysis met for crisis talks with merkel and conservatives on thursday but there was no breakthrough talks will continue next tuesday.

political correspondent christopher springer welcome chris so that meeting is over does hans go martin still have a job. apparently he does still have a job the meeting as you say is over all three leaches none of the three leaders involved chancellor magical for the conservatives for the varian conservatives hosty who for the interior minister and the leader of the social democrats and tree analysis none of them have made any public statements what we're hearing from government sources is that all three leaders have agreed to keep the contents of their meeting secret for now apparently it was a good and serious set of talks and as you mentioned the same three leaders will be meeting next wednesday with the intention of continuing working as a governing coalition that's what we know so far so it's the aspi day pushing for

this man to go how important is a victory for them in this. well i understand that the party leadership had a telephone conference earlier today and one of the lines they did agree on was not to put the governing coalition at risk over this issue so they're pushing very hard for. mohsen to be fired or for him to resign but seen from today it doesn't look as though they are going to push the red button in this in the sense that they will. leave the chancellor merkel's governing coalition so the coalition seems safe what about the chancellor how much pressure is she under over this. well i would say of the three leaders who are talking in the chancellery behind me she's. least under pressure as it were. the person who really is

in the focus is the interior minister. who for because he is the political boss of hands of mass and the head of germany's domestic intelligence service he would be the person who would have to fire him so he's under a lot of pressure sensually if he was convinced to fire him that would be a huge climb down for him at the moment i don't see him doing that especially because his party the christian social union they are the bavarian conservatives and they face a difficult state election coming up next month christopher spring great let's well let's ask you what more briefly one of the a.f.d. germany's far right opposition party they do seem to be enjoying themselves at the chancellor's expense. that's one way of putting it i mean they're definitely dominating the headlines at the moment everybody is talking about how to address the threat that they pose the far right threat that they pose for them any

published is good publicity good talking to you thank you so 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 independent report commissioned by the catholic church found that clergyman had abused all rights nearly four thousand children over seventy years from the end of the second world war most of the victims were boys under the age of thirty one of them has been talking to d.w. about the violence he endured 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 iranians but it turns him into the prefects room. down with my.

head into his lap. and. 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 crime. 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. 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. police in western germany are removing dozens of environmental activists from a force that's too to be cleared for coal mining the activists have been living in tree houses in an effort to prevent the forest destruction despite being removed they say that more protests are on the way. this is what the escalation off on a long running and wire mental battle it looks like police officers struck out activists from the hamburg forests invest in germany and a city of dozens of activists have called this forest home since twenty twelve now

it's said to be clear to allow for the mining of brown coal no mountainside it is absolutely useless to clear the forests at this point the coal that lies beneath us probably won't have to be managed anyway so i find that negligent that people are being put at risk right now on all sides. for years these activists have been holed up in some sixty tree houses protesting the expansion of one of europe's largest lake mites the mining company our w e o and the forest and us legally allowed to cut down trees to access telic night our w.e.e.e. says the clearing us necessary to ensure energy provision but activists are opposed to use of polluting fossil fuels they say the forest is home to protect a specious whose habitat must be preserved their protest camps at a time when germany is charging at exit from coal powered energy to combat climate change many of these activists are refusing to leave the forest.

and it will get very complicated because the terrain here is extensive and we don't know who will find in the tree houses people they have chained themselves up their locked they could be violent and the removal could take hours if not days the. target on. climate activists have called for mass mobilization in the coming days in a bid to continue protecting the forest. and get more on this from trying to comfort she is and columnist for the german institute for economic research i'll have to g.w. where are you in this battle between minuses environment. and where did recent studies . why does this situation an all time best failure do we really need this coal for the energy security yes what about this forests we are now talking about and we see if we are taking this goals of climate protection and energy transition seriously

we need to reduce the share of coal quite soon and this means we don't need really to row this whole forest and if the company would also be part of this new discussions we have at the german court german committee or commission to talk about the coal acts that we would recommend really to to reduce this battle ok so that better there are two aspects about whether there is one whether or not this company has the right to extract the coal on the other is is the country's energy policy working correctly so you seem to be indicating that if it is to work correctly they don't need the cold coke the company says it's our coal we can sell it yes and this is their right that's for sure true but now we have the situation that germany has decided to do it energy transformation and for this the coal share needs to be reduced and this is why this new commission is there and they're

talking exactly about how much coal do we need and how to phase out and if we now only have the company making these facts it's difficult to find a solution and a compromise and you sit on this there's this commission i believe personally not but we have advising because your advice yeah i'm part of the advisory team around the government but we strongly recommending to not go for this escalation entry level cases so given your intimate knowledge of what's going on what do you think the german government has got it right is it being vigorous enough in moving away from coal no it's not ended what if needed to start years ago because so we now have. situation of this the share of coal is too high and we need more all renewable it's in the system and the government has decided to go for this and it's incision but in the same time they would have needed to decide also to reduce the

the share of coal ok so what's stopping them if this is their stated aim why are they moving far enough fast enough they were not courage just enough in the past and now they have this commission and our they're talking and want to go for concrete recommendations they need these kind of recommendations and then the government will decide how to reduce the share of coal so now there is a big battle ok so we we've gone through this over the micro in the forest to the to the macro in the policymakers back to the micro as police try to move these people out they've said they're going to continue their protests will you be going down there and manning the barricades with now i will not because we are just scientists and recommend recommend of what is really necessary what i would be advising also the government and also their company i would really recommend to reduce this battle and first talk and that road and now we have the time for

talking and now we have to time to decide how to phase out coal in the future and that's through that first and then go for the next battle good talking to thank you for joining us a club you can for thank you. evacuations have become and the northern philippines where typhoon is heading in from the pacific more than four million people live in the path of typhoon mankind and more than eight hundred thousand are being moved to safety the philippines weather bureau says my cut is nine hundred kilometers wide and packing maximum sustained speeds of two hundred five kilometers per hour it's expected to make landfall on saturday. this is news life about it still to come news from central banks in the united states europe and turkey will begin to thank yous to updates on time facility we'll be hearing from an expert on the role the banks play in preventing the next financial crisis of the sixpences a little how about for you momentarily i'll be back in fact. at the top of the hour

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