this is the news live from berlin with germany's governing coalition partners reach a new deal on the fate of the country's embattled domestic intelligence chief interior minister. says monson be made a special advisor with the same pay as before instead of getting a promotion and dreams for his court and it's what it all means for a chance that i'm going to battle is coming also on the program pope francis believes tribute to victims of oppression in the baltic countries in the ukraine and capital building that france is all those who suffered in the the nazi and

soviets on two patients will get more on his trip from our correspondent. welcome to the program the leaders of germany's governing coalition have reached a deal over the future of the country's domestic intelligence chief last week there were calls for hands and to be sacked after here frank you don't plead we sent until my growth violence he was removed from his post and then was given a better paid job in vain to have ministry here's what interior minister has just told the press. it's a good president the current president of the federal office for the protection of the constitution. masson will henceforth serve as a special advisor to the interior minister with the rank of department head there

he'll be responsible for european and international matters. our chief political editor mccain of course now has been following that story for us and she now joins me in the studio it's good to see you so we've just heard lawson will join the interior minister but no peeress for him is this enough to silence the critics was certainly and i'm not sure that will silence the critics but it goes some way to at least sending the message that one has listened to people who were outraged that somebody who openly contradicted the chancellor the head of the domestic intelligence agency who started playing politics really by making statements that really one backed up by facts that he produced later on would then be moved sideways or upwards through a promotion but it also shows how poisonous the situation currently is in the governing coalition because one thing that will for sid said today as well is that at no point in time was there any danger for the governing coalition with the social democrats and nobody around the table ever threatened with this which raises

the question why did we all bother talking about this for a whole week and so why has this episode surrounding the domestic spy chief spot so much outrage here in germany because it's a symptom of the condition in which the governing coalition finds itself on monday will be one year since the general elections here in germany it took six months to get a government up and running i'm going to back off political brand is stability and the governing coalition that she's been heading so far with the old new partners around the table has been anything but stable in fact we've seen yet again this governing coalition being taken to the brink over what really should be stuffing issue that should never even reach the international press and this is all about domestic well actually regional politics that turn tira minister from this c.s.u. sister party in bavaria is playing right now who may well face his doomsday come those elections because his own party is suffering in the polls so we'll still see

kind of a lot of movement and this is something that highlights that i'm going to machall power has been weakened throughout this process this is something that we're also hearing from the european partners. with the very latest in the moving parts of this episode thank you. francis has paid tribute to lithuania and who suffered during the country's soviet occupations he laid a wreath at the morning meant of the vilnius ghetto where the country's jewish population was almost wiped out under the nazis francis is on a tour of the baltic states as lethal india via and asone a mark a century since winning independence from russia after world war one. and at a last earlier today francis urged residents of the baltics to draw on their past experiences to stand up for tolerance in europe. piccoli.

smallest the poorest in our midst whom we should welcome a hundred years after our independence who is it that has nothing to give us to make our effort and our sacrifice is worthwhile perhaps it is the ethnic minorities in our city or the jobless who have to immigrate maybe it is the elderly and the lonely are those young people who fly no meaning in life because they have lost their roots. and for more on the pope's story of the baltics correspondent constantine for an airgun now joins us from vilnius so constantine the pope called on people to keep a watchful eye on and to semitism but was he a mean his comments beyond just the baltic states. well his general message it is was anti-nationalism. exclusivism if you wish so i think that yes this was very much a global message that he repeats very frequently especially since the. major

migrant crisis map to europe in two thousand and fifteen and he repeated it here in this body of thing is that ethnic minorities in lithuania are rather opposed to a russian is ukrainian is basically it's not very combustible stop talking about tensions but generally the message was very clear and of course it was intended for a wider audience than just the baltic countries so global message but very target said visits pope francis made a stop at the various jewish ghetto mario and the former soviet k.g.b. headquarters the occupation's museum how important were those visits phony through a man's. both are very important because the story of the holocaust and its many has its dark sides because some of these variants but it's a page in the extermination of the jews and this is something that the country still continues to tackle i'd say compared to some other countries pretty well but still this is a reminder and of course the pope was joined by the leaders of the jewish community

only twenty have called a day when seventy five years ago the vilnius get over was destroyed by the nazis and then the occupation is in which is very important for the twenty of history because of the proper century of serbia turkey patient that both visited the execution chamber there and the chembur rather the sale where the bishops of the lutheran and catholic church which was also pretty much destroyed in the saudi dazed were kept by the k.g.b. and the message he delivered after that was very much about also diversity being able to overcome and use you know actual experience that is lethal any and. to accommodate new trends new people minorities and people who suffer so she was very much in say on message delivering that over and over and over again during all these two days in this way and i want to shift focus now to the catholic church sex

abuse scandal the german influence the german influential magazine has a cover story headlined not to lie attacking the pope's handling of the abuse crisis of course a constant thing is this trip taking attention away from that scandal. very much so i think a flaw that it's rather like education from this scandal it did not attract a lot of attention in the baltic states and military which is a seventy five percent catholic because the catholic church is the usual recreate its year after the soviet union with twenty five that would be more years ago so there is much less history of that history with the catholic church is that yours is here so i think that's very much for the pope this trip was a real exception and a turn away from this scandal. correspondent constantine for an exit in vilnius lithuania thank you. a sound look at some of the other

stories making headlines this hour the rain and president has said rouhani has lashed out of the u.s. following saturday's deadly attack on a military parade in the city of as gunmen killed twenty five people including twelve soldiers civilians and a four year old girl granny said the quote bully us and its gulf state allies had enabled the attack washington has dismissed the allegations. swiss voters have rejected two proposals aimed at protecting farmers of promoting ethical and sustainable food voters appeared to be put off by concerns about the cost and government opposition to the so-called fair food initiative the government argued the proposal could limit choice raise prices and dangerous space trade agreements. now an australian filmmaker who was jailed in cambodia on espionage charges has arrived back in sydney sixty nine year old james ricketson was granted

a royal pardon last week and deported after his release from jail cambodia has come into international fire for an increasingly authoritarian stance on free speech and the media the money to group human rights watch slammed the filmmakers trial as a ludicrous charade. the end of a nightmare. james ricketson expressed his relief upon arrival in sydney. this lot of things. necessary to my family get to some of his birthday right now that supported me enormously of a lot of things without this so i don't think i'd be here. the australian filmmaker was facing six years in prison on espionage charges. he'd been detained without bail since june twenty seventh teen after flying a drone to photograph a rally by cambodia's then main opposition party.

while. ricketts ins arrest came as prime minister hun sen stepped up a crackdown on critics and political rivals. hun's party won a landslide victory in a july election that political observers said was deeply flawed phnom penh relations with the international community have been increasingly strained it see you calling for all charges against opposition officials and activists to be dropped in recent weeks several political prisoners have been released. ricketson who received a royal pardon has always insisted he had no political agenda. my relationship with them but there's been a great love of this basically and what has happened in the last fifteen almost if they must see this kind of like i love this part. of it is that you know

despite his ordeal ricketson love affair with cambodia isn't over he's determined to get back to work in the country he loved so dearly but first some time at home in australia to recover it. in sunday's going to sleep the action by a live occurs and picked up their first points of the season when they inform mines one nil at home germany is chi have it grabbed the go on sixty two minutes to file a vickers and up to fifteenth spot front foot later drew one one with with in the final game of match day four and in a stand out game on saturday hoffenheim to conduct mind in a contest which has some interesting history a group of don't want fans were banned from hoffenheim stadium by the owner because of abusive chats chance two words in last season fury off the pitch and quality on

it as one battled to a draw is well. this clash had a bit of feels with the head of kick off and fans are unhappy with this match my hope hoffenheim zoner is taking legal action against a group of their supporters for verbal abuse received on the final day of last season the first case of its kind in german football i'm up to mad as the travelling fans respond showed the home side rose above the armrests to steal a first half lead however surely don't when defending a lousy job in terms of the boys' team in front of them struck the proper time of of. the brazilians first ever been dizzy you go. i'm often high and then double daily in the fifteen minutes. five or so they folds the referee awarded a free kick off the vi all spotted an offside in the buildup. thing soon went from bad to worse for dortmund not to the all over since all for this last match

challenge in the seventy fifth minutes. was. the frenchman a little hard done by perhaps given the scene appeared to be a regular tussle for the ball. my butt ten man don't instruct but in a tone marker royce's pinpoint possible christie who misses the simplest definition by a bill to blow the game wide open. to shut bell for bill was handed a gilt edged opportunity to restore his side's lead is the quote well down five he somehow managed to miss the target in the job without scoring would have been easier. so a point each for two of the bonus league is european representatives a fair result on a day of hard tension. and his own mind of the top story we're following for you german interior minister says the country's embattled domestic spy chief will be

made a special advisor. instead of give being given a promotion and brains coalition partners revisited the issue during crisis talks following widespread public anger. you're watching the news live from berlin wall coming up the top of the hour thank you for watching. and one which of course is. video. anytime anywhere. w. me john.