this is news coming to you live from berlin calls for germany's catholic church to take responsibility for decades of sex abuse against children a new report reveals thousands of cases of sexual assaults and cover ups the country's justice minister wants to see criminal charges brought against those responsible also coming out in a search for his soul to anyone brett kavanaugh this nomination to the supreme court in the u.s. under attack again as a second woman makes allegations of sexual misconduct protesters are calling on him

to address in detail the accusations. and it's not messy and it's not for an older people names croatia's look up mode rich as the best footballer in the world so is this the beginning of a new era. of. hello i'm terry martin thanks for being with us catholic church officials are set to release a report detailing thousands of sexual abuse cases here in germany that report will be presented soon during a meeting of the german bishops conference the study found priests had abused more than three and a half thousand children and teens in germany over seventy years the victims were mostly male and mostly children well over one and a half thousand priests and other officials in the church were accused of committing those crimes critics of the study as well as its authors themselves say

the true scale of the abuse was probably far greater. well for more let's bring in martin god he's our religious affairs analyst is has been dealing with this in different countries for years martin how could so many priests get away with such serious crimes for so long here in germany. essentially what we have this once again sort of this pattern of cover up concealment and essential mutual favors among different parts of the church emerging so basically i mean we have two issues at stake one is of course the sexual abusers themselves but what this is once again showing it's that there was a pretty systematic policy of cover up and this is the reason why sort of in the cases that contemplated in this reported some said about forty percent were dealt with in the journey to go system but no more than that now we're talking about horrible crimes here crimes against children but the cases in the report that's

being released today those cases are anonymous can we be assured that german law enforcement officials will investigate this and that the perpetrators will be persecuted with the full force of the law well the german government has already made it clear that there is some intention at least from the socialist wing or the social exclusion partner to investigate this crime subelements that there has to also be quite a bit of political will because they've got the league church in germany it's an institution that has been very much involved in the political system so the question here is will they actually force the church to reveal documents or not and that is something that we cannot answer yet now the pope has been commenting on this as we know ahead of the report publication on his current currently on a visit to a stone he admitted that the church has effectively been pushing people away let's listen in to what he had to say. believe is a indignant about sexual uneconomic scandals which haven't been clearly condemned.

we've been adequately interpret the life and sensibility of yeah and. people in that sense he need. martin does that sound to you like an institution that is serious about confronting the reality of systematic child sex abuse in its ranks i wouldn't want to sort of build up or sort of try to interpret it to interpret from a single sentence the entire police of the church what clearly this does show is that there is a certain amount of play let's say dial tone deafness i mean the question is not about trust in the church the question right now is not about the state of sort of public appearance of the church that might be interesting for people inside the church the question here is about crimes committed against children redressing those crimes and preventing further crimes and i think that in that sense these questions are whether there east trust in the church as an institution is moot the question is really whether the church as an institution is willing to take the

political steps of bringing perpetrators and sabet suspected perpetrators to justice martin thank you so much the religious affairs analyst martin guy. now to some other stories making headlines around the world today the world health organization is warning that the ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo could rapidly spread in the coming days weeks attacks by armed groups some community resistance to back the nations as well as the geographic reach of the virus could create with the w.h.o. is calling a perfect storm. sweden's prime minister stefan as been ousted in a no confidence vote about two thirds of the parliament voted against the law then who leads the country's social democrats his departure comes two weeks after elections that saw historic gains for right wing politicians. with u.s. supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh has filed not to let what he calls false accusations

drive him out of the nomination process the senate plans to hear testimony this week from at least one of the two women who claimed to have an all sexually assaulted them in the one nine hundred eighty s. kavanagh has denied any wrongdoing here's what he said in an interview on fox news . i've never sexually assaulted anyone not in high school not however. i've always treated women with dignity and respect i'm not going to want to false accusations try boss that out of this process. well the allegations against prompted calls for his nomination to be rejected. in washington went to a protest against the supreme court nominee. it takes a village to bring down a supreme court nomination and that's what these protesters at the u.s. capitol are asking for. allegations of sexual misconduct have cast

a pall over brett kavanaugh president nominated to the supreme court in the era of me to these people aren't taking it lightly it's time to listen to women it's been time to listen to women for like thousands of years at this point but finally since the women's march that was the largest global demonstration in world history we're actually coming together it's no longer he said she said but i believe. should be held accountable and should do anything in their power to correct any injustices that they have committed in their past and i believe that hiding behind power and patriarchy is wrong and i believe that men should stand if they have committed wrongs and admit that. the protest was coordinated by several different activist groups including the same people who put together the massive women's march that swept the world last year as one of the leaders of the women's march it's important for us to ensure that the movement that we created on january twenty first two

thousand and seventeen translates into action and in this particular moment important for women and allies to be out here it's a very important moment in our generation cavanagh cannot get on the supreme court back decades on things that folks before us fought very hard for us to have and i'm here because i don't want my daughters to have less rights than i have and the specter of the midterm elections coming up in less than two months hangs over everything republicans fear they could lose their control of both houses of congress despite flagging public support for the president's nominee republicans have stood by him the stories that kavanaugh his accusers tell are difficult to prove but these protesters bill. i absolutely believe her the fact that it's now been corroborated or his actions have been corroborated by other women is good but i was fine with just that one woman i wonder how many other women in his adult life have. also been harassed or worse by him the first the first accusation

should should be enough to have him would withdraw withdrawn the second is just now embarrassing at this point it's shameful and he should be gone i mean i hope to accomplish that we start treating these women with with some kind of seriousness and respect i don't think they came out of nowhere i think they're i think they're for real i'm not for ruining anybody's life but if they ruin these women's if he's ruined these women's lives and we need to talk about this. one of the accusers is scheduled to testify later this week to the senate judiciary committee in the face of growing hostility pavin on the republicans have indicated they will not give up without a fight neither are these activists. soccer's governing body has named croatian midfielder luka moderate the world's best male player at an awards ceremony in london bridge was chosen for the prize after helping real madrid win a third consecutive champions league title he was then a player of the tournaments while captaining croatia to the country's first ever

world cup final. in the women's category brazilian great marto took the world for a sixth time she scored thirteen goals as orlando pride reached the playoffs and she captains brazil to victory in the copa america. well joining me now to talk about the fifo awards talkee from t w sports highly so what made luka moderates so special this year yeah his specialty definitely on not you know that's not rich doesn't do goals but makes him so special. is that he's a maestro he dictates the field he was the creative genius that basically pushed to the world cup final he was this country's most important player he had he showed impressive leaderships skills and on top of that he did the same thing at club level you know for reality madrid he was the bridge in midfield he helped them to a third consecutive champions league title and i think you know at a time

a decade where we have strikers and forwards dominate i think it's just so over freshening to see a midfielder when they end the award oftentimes it is bias it does tend to favor goalscorers more and i think that comes down to the fact that i think gold just a lot more easily like you can quantify goal speak you can put a number on them whereas you look at a midfielder how do you you know put a number on vision or creativity and i think that's why also in the past when it comes to the awards some of the best midfielders have not won it like in yester a spate of us want to for example and this is the first time since two thousand and seven that the winner hasn't been either messi or renault is this the end of an era may i think you're still going to see both of them probably pick up the award a few more times and i know you know i get it they're in their thirty's but in football nowadays you know thirty is the new twenty and if you look at messi if you

look at ronaldo they still playing at the highest south ever like at their highest level and i don't think they're going to drop like their performances are going to drop anytime soon and you know and i mean just to appreciate the greatness of these two you just have to take a look at well wait a minute who second best who comes after these two guys and then you know you start to think and you're like well maybe name or even has odds and that's when you realize just how great these two guys are as i always say the odds of having two of the best players of all time you know born around the same time let's enjoy it because we're not going to have a remind button where you know once it's over it's over so let's enjoy every play there to argue from did every sports things. scientists in the u.s. are reporting success in helping patients with paralysis to stand and even take steps again it's all thanks to an electrical implant that zaps the spinal cord along with months of intense rehabilitation of course the research is giving new

hope to people suffering from spinal cord injuries. one step at a time jerry is able to walk again five years after an accident that left him paralyzed to be able to move. my legs and. to walk even a stand it means a lot. that there is hope for not only me but other people. is one of three patients taking part in two separate studies in the united states has managed to walk again albeit assisted. the twenty nine year old was the first patient at the mayo clinic in minnesota to have an electrical stimulation device implanted near his damaged spinal cord. the original function of the electrical stimulator was to treat chronic pain. but it's being used experimentally to try to activate dormant circuitry in the spinal cord. and allow movement.

because we were able to stimulate the wreck plea the spinal cord itself and we believe that that was very important to be able to regain volitional control or voluntary control and. just one month after surgery commute his toe on his own again he underwent forty three weeks of intense physical therapy and stimulator adjustments at one therapy session managed to walk the length of a football field but for him it's not about the distance. the whole full side of that maybe i'll gain that where i can leave the wheelchair behind even if it is to walk. to the refrigerator and back or some tender you know like not very far. and hope is given to those with spinal injuries who never thought standing up . or walking would ever be possible again. they're watching the

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