this is. from berlin tonight germany's government in crisis as party leaders decide whether the country's spine she should stay or go. and was forced to explain himself following controversial comments about recent far right protests in eastern germany he's become a divisive figure for the government with some party leaders demanding the chancellor fire him also coming up 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 state of north carolina plus is this the end of a long running environmental battle police remove activists from a german force that's due to be cleared for coal mining the protesters say they're not giving up. hybrid golf it's good to have you with us tonight the fate of germany's intelligence chief is straining at the country's governing coalition germany's chancellor and key party leaders have held a crisis meeting aimed at resolving the dispute over georg mohsen now i'm. partners the social democrats they want musson to resign following controversial comments that he made about recent far right protests in the city of.

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 angular 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 mohsen he's accused of improperly passing on sensitive information to germany's far right populist party the f.t. 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 islamist threat. 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. and i'm joined now by my colleague chris first brigade he's been covering the story for us here in berlin good evening to you chris diverse so how widely is it that will be out of a job. well the interesting thing is that last night he looked he was going to survive this crisis but the tide seems to turn either during the night to this morning in particular the social democrats or the junior coalition partners in chancellor merkel's coalition have their stance stiffened quite considerably and they are fairly categoric in that demands for his resignation the opposition liberal free democrats they were also dillydallying last night but they now have stiffened their stance as well so i would say there's a very big question mark on how long. it's going to survive in his post there's one

persistent rumor going around in this evening which is that the three leaders who are talking to each other coalition leaders who are talking to each to each other in the chances office today their best solution to this most elegant solution to this would be if mustn't himself decided to step down thereby freeing them from the responsibility of firing him i want you to take a look at this tweet that was posted today the general secretary of the social democrats the s.p.d. lars clean bottle he tweeted it's completely clear to the s.p.d. party leadership that mohsen has to go medical the german chancellor must act now. how politically explosive is the decisions around and how explosive is it for the survival of this government. well that tweet that we just saw there is exactly what

i was saying the way that the social democrats have very much stiffen their stance in this crisis i don't think though that the chance of michael's coalition is going to crumble over this quite simply because the social democrat leadership i understand had a telephone conference earlier in the day during which they decided to stiffen their stance but not at the cost of leaving the coalition they seem to have been in agreement that that would not be a clever political move at this moment or responded christopher's brigade on the story for us tonight here in berlin christopher thank you and welcome. here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world two men have appeared on russian state television claiming to be the men that british prosecutors have accused of poisoning former spy sergei's cripple and his daughter the men say they did visit the english city of souls bury where the script balls

were poisoned but that they were just tourists the british government has called that interview quote an insult to the public's intelligence russian in protest group pussy riot says one of its members is in a grave condition due to possible poisoning peter there's a lot of was hospitalized in moscow after losing his eyesight and the ability to speak the group last made headlines by briefly disrupting the world cup soccer final. in our many world leaders and dignitaries have attended the funeral of former u.n. secretary general kofi anon they held the veteran diplomats record as an advocate for humanity and world peace and none died in a swiss hospital last month at the age of eighty evacuations have begun in the northern philippines ahead of typhoon monk who which is expected to make landfall

on saturday the philippines weather bureau says the storm is nine hundred kilometers wide and is packing maximum sustained winds of two hundred five kilometers per hour more than five four i should say a million people live in its path. yeah from the pacific to the atlantic the u.s. eastern seaboard is also bracing itself this time 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 and it's debated ten million people live in the storm's path and 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 kohls widespread flooding. well our correspondents myers where you are 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 fred already feeling the at the first tendrils of the edge of the storm brushing us as much windier a gray or day that it wasn't even got some rain already you can see we're standing on a river that leaves out to 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 see enjoying the day it's actually a very warm day here today but this well park 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 the difference is like night and day and what are authorities there what are they telling you that they are most concerned about right now. the biggest 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. 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 there looks like there are simply no fortifications for strong winds or for flooding this is what concerns authorities the most. people

heeding visual advice and 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 evacuations out 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 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 they've been handing out sand for sandbags and communicating with people but virginia is expecting far less of a gale force than 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 wader of the story for us in elizabeth city in north carolina

michael thank you. the catholic church here 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 which was commissioned by the church itself 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 you about the violence 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 of a consumer 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 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 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. 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. well i'm joined now here at the big table by peter eisler he is a founding member of snap that's the survivors network of those abused by priests is the world's oldest organization of survivors of childhood rape and sexual assault by clergy with over eighteen thousand survivors and hundreds of chapters worldwide there as the it's good to have you here on the show i mean we've got germany that has been added now to this list to be alongside australia ireland what we've seen in south america the u.s. state of pennsylvania are we talking about

a global crisis in the catholic church there's been a global crisis in the catholic church about this for a very long time probably centuries and what we're seeing in germany is the exact same systematic widespread pattern of the sexual abuse and rape and molestation of children the cover up of those crimes and the system that covers it up and that unfortunately continues it covered up there there has been some changes that have been made but globally the changes that need to be made and that the pope needs to make and that the church needs to make which actually lives within their own laws people need to understand that globally you can rape and sexually assault a child as a priest and you can remain a priest or king with children and families well you know that in itself is an indictment against the church a nother indictment would be to say that the canon of confessional confidentiality

of the church has to be changed. and you try suggesting that a lot of people will say no but isn't that part of the problem that priests may know about sixty six if it is but it's been confessed to them and therefore they can't tell anyone that that's one of the things that's beginning to change in australia where the us surely has had a five year governmental commission and that was that result is really the gold standard of how this should be done the church should not be investigating themselves and they should not be determining what it is that happened and didn't happen and that's the problem with this why would you allow them to do it and i'm not i'm not questioning the people they hired but but this particular study is extremely limited there's real problems with the results some of the results of the study although it does give us something but in australia you have outside you have the government you have the justice department of the government doing that investigation as you did in pennsylvania yeah i want to ask you when you look at

the case here in germany the church today saying it's distressed and shamed by the report the commission the report itself when you compare that to what we saw in pennsylvania in the u.s. what do you say with the comparisons there did in the united states these allow them to do their own commissions ok but once the once the justice department finally got involved like in pennsylvania that's not the only grand jury there's been ten or eleven grand juries in the united states you'll see a magnitude of difference first of all like the like the percentage of abusive priests under the church's own percentages was like four percent when the grand jury granger's around the country looked at it it was ten percent and what you also see revealed in those granger reports is the systematic widespread as was talked about in pennsylvania sophisticated this is a sophisticated cover up you cannot cover this up for decades without

a sophisticated operation and involves the entire senior management of clerical senior management of every diocese in art. dioceses around the world and the other thing is that it costs a tremendous amount of money to do it do you when you see it in bombs into the levels of the clergy does that include the pope and past folks of course it does so what does it mean for pope francis that he met today with u.s. bishops he says that he wants to change the i mean is he are you saying he is a. perpetrator we're expecting to be part of the of the solution i'm saying this is about pope francis and this is what makes things difficult and confusing about this this kind of two pope francis's there's the one that expresses personal remorse as the bishops here have in germany he clearly feels personally horrible that this has expressed that but then there's the other pope francis' that that has delayed that he said of a big commission to deal with this

a papal commission they've had for years they have achieved nothing but why do you think why do you think he's doing it though what what you know what is in his interest to have this delayed well there's there's two things one is what i talked about in order to really resolve this in order to really reform this they're going to have to make two major changes in their own laws so if you have real zero tolerance because there isn't zero tolerance if you if you have in their law under their law where if you've a sexually abused child you're no longer going to be a priest and that's going to change the definition of the priest and that's going to change the power of ordination that's going to change what the structure of the church is and the other thing they need to do because this won't work you know that zero tolerance won't work unless you also have a law that makes bishops accountable for it so you have zero tolerance for bishops that have covered up child sex crimes the problem is so many of them have done that and the other thing about pope francis we don't know his own record he was a jesuit prevention and he ran an archdiocese himself and it is inconceivable that

he did not himself and all these cases and he needs to really come forward and come clean about his own experience himself with these cases they will pick up our conversation a little bit later on the day we appreciate you coming on the show tonight sherri your thoughts and your insights that you are. all right christoph is here with business news and good news crews that will leave it for the turkish lira that's right brant is surged after a decision by the central bank to raise the interest rate by more than six percentage points turkey's financial authorities met on thursday in a last ditch effort to halt delay or as dramatic descent or at least slow down the currency is value has plunged more than forty percent against the u.s. dollar this year analysts had argued for a drastic rate hike to keep prices from skyrocketing further but turkish president. had a poll such a move claiming higher interest rates would worsen the country's economic problems

turkish regulators have also decided to ban all real estate businesses in foreign currencies all transactions will now be handled in their own. ten years on since the global financial crisis it is c.v. president mario draghi says there is no room for complacency calling for stronger regulation to avert another crisis the bank has trimmed its growth forecast today while announcing it's set to wind back economic stimulus from october on words the monthly purchases of government bonds are going to be cut in half to fifteen billion euros these purchases are executed to keep troubled european economies afloat but the e.c.b. did leave its key interest rate untouched the all time low of zero point zero percent. well so much for the banks now for a look at stocks and our wall street correspondents over a few months he is standing by in new york sophie how is wall street reacting to

apple's latest i phones. well we did see some positive movement off the stock on per se but on the day of the event itself this started nothing really it opened a hundred twenty dollars and this is exactly why close so to investors it does not matter how cool the new i phone is and how with the new apple watch looks like at least not as much as it matters if these products are going to sell so they're going to pay attention to the next quarterly earnings and to the earnings after the holidays the most important season of course so yeah maybe some guys here on the floor will live streaming the events of but just because they maybe think about getting their mother it be apple watch for christmas so she can check her pulse and so it looks like big tobacco's not out to get us all still and what's happening there. yes a fascinating market chris up not only for consumers but also for investors you

don't see growth rates like that anywhere else i want to say estimates are that the global cannabis market is going to grow at a two hundred thirty percent great am to twenty twenty to thirty two billion dollars in spending and here in the united states it makes sense fun vestas so they're ready for the nationwide legal like they should and states are working hard on that and needs to find the source of income because he is cutting taxes he is a businessman who is going to want to take advantage of this market someone on the floor just told me and these and best of one to buy and hold stocks of canopy grohl tough to go before all these the massive investors come in and make the stock prices pop investors like make tell bacco and breakout call and both have either and now nce to check out their options or are already invested with billions of dollars and so shares of cannabis companies in august alone have gained ninety six

and a half percent so if you're not in new york thank you. talks between french fishermen and british rivals for a new deal on access to scallop bridge waters in the english channel have broken down last month friendships confronted in the boats the french were upset about rules allowing english boats to fish in their waters year round while their boats were forced to stay home and now it looks like scenes like these could soon return to the high seas. a spat over seafood boiled over last month as french fishing boats blocked their u.k. colleagues from dropping their nets. currently boats bound from the u.k. are allowed to harvest scallops year round while their french counterparts are banned from fishing in the summer leaving a bad taste in many a sailor's mouth. if you have played a. british caught the scallops shelled them and sold them back to us. but it's ok

after the bricks that they won't come back. and without a deal in the so-called scallop war there's likely to be rough waters ahead. and expect a brand and what looks like it could be the end of a long running environmental battle that's right and is not good news for the people living in the tree hells this crystal felice in western germany they're facing fierce resistance as they attempt to remove dozens of protesters from a forest it's due to be raised to be cut down to make way for a coal mine and many of the activists have been living in tree houses in an effort to prevent the forest 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 humbug 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. were committed to not injuring people is 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 that brought down using physical force if i thought it was. a few weeks before the escalation we need know who wants to remain unidentified. she lives in a tree house in the hombre forest. cause 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 open cast 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 few matches on purpose for me what are you 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 much going to go but it's on likely the activists will give up the tree houses where they have lived for years they've called for a nationwide demonstrations and some do not even shy away from violence. the eviction that began today is far from over. you're watching b.w. news live from berlin after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around for that. and.

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