plant the spear. in sixty eight. global. this week. this is. from berlin tonight germany's government in crisis as party leaders decide whether or not the country's top spot should stay or go. was forced to explain himself following controversial comments about recent far right that eastern germany he's become a divisive figure in the government with some party leaders demanding that the

chancellor fire also coming up a damning report by the catholic church in germany reveals priests raped and sexually abused nearly four thousand children over seventy years and that the church failed to punish most of the perpetrators and the southeast of the united states gets ready for hurricane florence forecasters say the monster storm poses a threat to millions of people will bring you an update from the coast of north carolina. it's good to have you with us tonight the fate of germany's top spy is being decided and that decision has the potential to make or break the entire government as well germany's chancellor and key party leaders held a crisis meeting late today aimed at resolving around over the head of the country's a domestic intelligence service. coalition partners the social democrats

they want to resign following his controversial comments about recent far right protests in the city of camden. could the president of germany's domestic secret service bring down the government that's what the papers are asking social democrats a conservative huns georg masson must go if not they could quit governing coalition and there's bits of it 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 mohsen he's accused of improperly passing on sensitive information to germany's far right populist party the f.t.c. and if the member told german media 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 islam and cigarettes. s.p.d. chairwoman under the analysis met for crisis talks with merkel and conservatives on thursday but there was no breakthrough talks will continue next tuesday. well a short while ago we asked our correspondent christopher spring gauge just how much pressure transfer america is under now. well i would say all 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. because he is the political boss of hands and the head of a nice to messick intelligence he would be the person who would have to fire him so he's under a lot of pressure. essentially if he was convinced to fire him that would be

a huge climb down for him at the moment see him doing that especially because some his party the christian social union they have the bavarian conservatives and they face a difficult state election coming up next month that was christopher spring gate reporting here in berlin for distressed and ashamed that is held the catholic church in germany is describing its reaction to a new report into the sexual abuse of children by priests an independent report commissioned by the catholic church found that clergymen had abused or 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 spoke to d.w. about the violence that he endured as a young choir 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 him iranians but if into the prefects room. down with my pajama bottoms. head into his lap. and then he thrashed me and groaned loudly. 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 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. little kaiser received a one time payment of twenty five hundred euro's for his suffering he and many others are demanding that the catholic church confront it sexual abuse crisis with more transparency. but here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the french president in one woman one has presented his government a plan to combat poverty he says the government wants to spend eight billion euros over the next four years to help the poor critics have accused of failing to

address the needs of people living in poverty two men have appeared on russian state television claiming to be the man that british prosecutors accuse of poisoning former spies sergei scribble and his daughter of the men say earlier this year they did visit the english city of solsbury where the script walls were poisoned but that they were just tourists the british government has called that interview quote an insult to the public's intelligence russian protest rupe posy ryan says one of its members is in grave condition due to possible poisoning the oter there's a low was one hospitalized in moscow after losing his eyesight and the ability to speak the group last made headlines by briefly disrupting the world cup soccer fine . the philippines is bracing for a devastating storm a super typhoon is heading in from the pacific and will likely make landfall as soon as this weekend the civil defense agency says it's deploying relief goods and

disaster equipment to the northern coastal regions where the storm could cause the most destruction. from a typhoon in the pacific to a hurricane in the atlantic the u.s. eastern seaboard bracing itself for the arrival of hurricane florence the category two storm is expected to make landfall late this evening or early tomorrow morning officials are warning that florence will probably be the most dangerous hurricane to hit the region in a generation an estimated ten million people live in the storm's path around two million from virginia the carolinas and georgia have been told to leave low lying coastal areas the predicted four meter storm surge and heavy rain could calls widespread flooding. well our correspondents my as well you know joins me now from elizabeth city in north carolina good afternoon to you miles so we're getting closer to florence making landfall what's the latest there.

we're actually here friends already feeling the at the first tendrils of the edge of the storm brushing us is a much windier grayer day than it wasn't even gotten some rain already you can see we're standing on a river that believes out of the atlantic ocean it's been extremely choppy all day and just on the other side there are some houses right on the water that are very much in severe danger of flooding and over to my right over here there's this park and there are still people out you can see enjoying the day it's actually a very warm day here today but this whole part is only a few feet above the water and it wouldn't take much much more than the storm surges that they're predicting to flood this whole area i talked with one young man earlier earlier today who said that he was here in this town during hurricane matthew and he was walking through his neighborhood inland waist deep in water so we're expecting an even stronger punch from florence starting this evening early tomorrow yeah i mean just looking at that water there the difference from when we

spoke with you yesterday i mean there was a slight night day and what are authorities there what are they telling you that they are most concerned about right now. the vegas concern right now is the risk of flooding because florence is a huge storm and it's slowing down and it's expected to stall as soon as it really properly hits land hits the u.s. coast meaning that it will dump its entire weight of water on the south and north carolina coast north carolina alone is expected to get somewhere around possibly a trillion gallons of water that's trillion with a t and a lot we've been driving around this town a lot of these houses do not have sandbags around them we drove through a few trailer park so that looks like there are simply no fortifications for strong winds or for flooding this is what concerns authorities the most. people heeding. leaving what are they telling. so that's the thing right now

speaking with people in elizabeth city they said that they have heard really nothing from their local government in relation to where possible evacuation route might be if they need to evacuate certainly nothing about whether they need to start protecting their homes they said they had no contact no text no e-mails nothing about what they should be doing to prepare that these people have been through hurricanes before so they know themselves what they should be doing how to get water where to hunker down in their own homes but they official line has really been nothing up in virginia where we were yesterday officials there have been more communicative have been holding press conferences have been telling people where the shelters are have they've been handing out sand for sandbags and communicating with people but virginia is expecting far less of a gale force and the hurricane is likely to actually miss most of virginia at this point all right well we will be checking in with you throughout the course of the evening by amyas waiter lives for a force in elizabeth city in north carolina mike thank you. well

police in western germany are facing fierce resistance as they attempt to remove dozens of protesters from a forest known before is due to be razed cut down to make way for a coal mine many of the activists have been living in tree houses in an effort to prevent the forced destruction despite being forcibly removed they say more protests are on the way. this is the escalation of a long running environmental conflict police dragging activists out of the forest the wooded area near cologne has been fiercely contested first six years activists have occupied the forest illegally now the police are sending in a large number of officers to evict them. we're committed to not injuring people it's to making everything as nonviolent as possible we have a monopoly on the use of force they won't come down on their own so we've set up a so-called high altitude intervention team which goes up there and tries to

persuade them to come down if they don't they're brought down using physical force by talking to. a few weeks before the escalation we know who wants to remain unidentified. she lives in a tree house in the homburg forest. i don't know if it's too much to say i want to save the planet but i'm concerned about whether future generations will still see trees for example and. ninety percent of the forest has already disappeared. for forty years the energy group r w e has been clearing the forest to extract lignite or brown coal. it's the largest opencast lignite mine in europe. unfortunately the forest is located right in the way of the bulldozers so you can't

dig under it or around it that's just not possible still the activists are committed to their values and challenge the energy company with their lifestyle of absolutely no consumption no and the up to one hundred activists want to survive self sufficiently in the forest if possible without money eviction has been a constant threat for years there have often been clashes. as a film which is for me what our job he is doing here is incredibly violent there are relocating entire villages they want to clear this forest they're destroying our climate i don't approve of violence against people from either side but when you're standing up for your comrades i don't consider sabotage violence. so. it's unlikely the activists will give up the tree houses where they've lived for years they've called for a nationwide demonstrations and some do not even shy away from violence. the

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