this is g w news live from berlin pope francis celebrates mass in the united arab emirates it was the largest public show of christianity ever seen on the arabian peninsula earlier he called on christian and muslim leaders to work together and project war but his trip was not without controversy. also coming up property prices in the maybe in capital when talk have gone through the roof to speak to a student desperate to find

a decent home and new revelations in the so-called football league says the alleged source behind the largest leak in history of sports goes public for the first time growing pentode discusses his role and his uncertain future following his recent arrest in budapest. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program it's being billed as the largest show of christian worship ever seen on the arabian peninsula hope francis has been celebrating mass in the muslim majority united arab emirates more than one hundred thirty thousand people are attending the event in the capital. it wraps up a three day trip to the country the first ever by a reigning pontiff francis says that his main aim is to promote cooperation and tolerance between christians and muslims he also condemned. war.

let's get more now from our religious affairs correspondent martin i mean just how important is this mass and this is of course a muslim majority country i think it's very important it's not only very important because. i mean them or it's or you know a muslim majority nation and most from a country but also because in a region where christians are essentially forwards to worship in private you have cases like saudi arabia in which actually. churches are not permitted and people are quite literally worshipping on the ground so the fact that you know the united arab emirates have this sort of open the ministration probably a very big deal. shows the force of diplomacy and the public presentation of the public friendly side of the vatican the presentation of the very friendly face of

the got the faith i think that what we're seeing is basically what most likely the church hopes is the first of many but mostly sort of the expression of the public worshipping of catholics it's not a threat to the muslim community and this is something you know muslim leaders centuries essentially should support and he came with this message of interreligious tolerance to the rich and i mean he repeated that call on monday alongside of a muslim cleric how do you see it resonating is it going to make a difference but i think that you know in politically medium term sensors of course no it doesn't really make a difference i mean these are gestures in the more in the longer view i think that this makes an enormous difference in the recent wave makes enormous difference this because it actually treats i mean it shows essentially the muslim world and actually takes it back to the european or to the western world they do you know when you actually have second. express or faith were not allowed to freely express

. your creating a. nation i think one of the things that was said yesterday and was repeated was the fact that we need food for all people living in those countries and of course that is the idea that they should have religious freedom through and through in the united arab emirates this already partly a reality so this message is not only for the countries expected to actually be deployed. if there are. this mass we're seeing pictures from it i mean it concluded within the past hour we have to say we saw more than one hundred thousand people turned out for this event but just generally speaking more broadly in the region how would you say the pope has been received so far the reception has been by christians very positive and very positive. and. i think that generally yes well i mean it does. give a very good sort of good outlook to the united arab emirates at

a time in which there is a lot of conflict focused in this area so in a sense i mean it is true that this is a partial indorsement i think of the united arab emirates in terms of the religious politics even human rights politics which is really what the controversy is because actually the record is really quite dismal but at the very same time the fact that the united arab emirates opened itself to this kind of politics so you know i think that overall the balance is quite possible. affairs correspondent thank you for a welcome. check of some other stories making news around the world authorities in paris suspect arson was behind a fire that killed at least eight people in the capital the sixteenth district a paris prosecutor says that one woman has been detained firefighters rescued some fifty people and dozens were injured by the blaze. a new study warns that two thirds of the glaciers in the himalayas could melt by the year twenty one hundred

if global emissions are not reduced scientists say that even if global warming were limited to one point five degrees celsius a third of the glaciers would still disappear the region's glaciers supplied billions of people with water. well we're going to turn now to the namibian capital where high prices have pushed more than half of the city's population out into rental slums on the outskirts most housing in these areas lack electricity running water or toilet now a youth movement is saying enough is enough. seven years ago they're left to have village. and came to study in vain talk and then able to afford city prizes she rented a shack father out in the township the name cut to tura translates from the local heroin language as the place where no one wants to leave and it's not hard to see

why. everything. this thing is like this. this is not exactly what poor imagined for herself when she made the decision to come to vin talk but decent affordable housing is in short supply anything more central would simply be too expensive she feels as if the country's government forgets people like our. it's really hard in here it's look i mean i'm twenty seven i suppose for my own place. the government to be blamed they don't want to look at people who have low incomes they don't think of those people they are the. people with money but without money we need also

places we need to have something that is of our own. around half of poorest income from waitressing in the city goes to what. once she has paid the taxi fare to work there's hardly anything left to get by on i would love to have please where. did that i don't have to go in and go far to fish for their. access to clean toilet. so i hope that every person and that. they have their own lives and the able to have their own x. is. that they belong to them. it doesn't look like property prices here will be falling anytime soon but poor and her friends are already planning what their dream house would be like modest

dignified and most importantly something all of their own. are now to a new development in the so-called football leaks the whistleblowing platform that has revealed some of the murky aspects of the global football business really pinto a major source for the stunning revelations has now gone public for the first time after his recent arrest speaking with german broadcaster. secret location in budapest it's here in this modest apartment building we're told wants to give his side of the story. on january sixteenth last he was arrested in the hungary in capital in response to a portuguese arrest warrant on charges of attempted extortion and cyber crimes. he's under house arrest and wearing an ankle monitor while awaiting a decision on whether he is a whistleblower who legally obtained the documents which could exonerate him or

whether he is a cyber criminal. which could lead to extradition. i'm a whistleblower what matters for me and for football leaks is the documents are authentic i don't care about the origin i'm a whistleblower so i have i have to expose and we have to jordan. the real deal. of those documents are details of confidential plans for an elite super league or for president john yoo frontino helped top european clubs get around the financial fair play rules who also admitted to contacting sports investment company under a false name i'm eating was organized which led to accusations of attempted extortion . i think i was naive if i did. i mean something stupid i decided to play with them and basically said that yeah i have some documents. and they wanted i wanted to see their reaction i wanted i

wanted to know. how. how valuable were these documents for them i want i wanted to know fall for how far they were ready to go and you really really know now. faces up to ten years in prison in portugal if convicted. and i've beaten are both. because i'm a target and. and i feel that at the moment i will enter portuguese until move through you know. i can end up that. i'm aware of. a home gary in court times until march nineteenth to decide if being too it will be extradited to his native portugal. a complicated case cross harrington from sports is here to make sense of it for us so first of all cross

give us the background because there have been some major revelations over the past year or will football leagues onli in two thousand and fifteen and they started just really no players' salaries i'm speaking of the world of football of course you know and other issues regarding tax evasion or the allegations of tax evasion and so forth most recently the latest revelations or allegations they came forward were more alarming there were rumors that the top clubs in europe were forming a european super competition a super club competition that was supposed to start in twenty twenty one you know also there are a few major clubs in europe were tried to evade the financial fair play laws laid down by you a from speaking of p.s.g. pre-sales your mana big club in france as well as manchester city you know and they alleged that thief was president giani if it's you know was involved in the cover up and protect shit of these said clubs so these and last but not least the

crescendo are naldo revelations about the alleged rape situation. currently being investigated in the united states so a lot of this information has been picked up and investigated by major publications such as dispy go along with a team of investigative journalists all across europe and as i mentioned investigations have commenced so allegations that go really straight to the top as you're highlighting what what do we know about intel and the allegations that he faces the allegations that he faces he's facing from the portuguese authorities suspicion of qualified extortion a violation of secrecy and illegally obtaining information he shared over seventy million documents with dispy go to german publication as well as other investigative journalists and that's what we know right now and we have to wait to determine whether or not what he'll be classified as as we heard in the report will he be a whistleblower or a hacker the concern for him is going to be illegally accessing information that's

the issue for him if as he cares for his life and sot there in that piece is it really that serious yes i do think it could very well be that serious because he also has been linked to the disclosure of information that resulted in a very popular club in portugal been feet being charged with corruption and ito he's been demonized so to speak in the portuguese media and he's also received death threats on facebook and so forth authorities have told him you need to take those threats serious and as we heard you know a very chilling comment from himself at the end of the report that he's afraid if he goes to a jail or prison in portugal he will be left there to die and be killed possibly as as he says by very aggressive fans of bin speak of so many different dynamics in this case of the football leaks and press herenton making sense of it all for us thank you so much ok. quick reminder now of the top stories we're following for you here at the year pope francis has been celebrating mass in the united arab emirates

more than one hundred thirty thousand people attended the events in the capital on dobby it has been the largest show of public christian worship on the arabian peninsula. coming up next on new news doc film dream empire china's real estate bubble is documentary it looks behind the chinese real estate industry . here's what's coming up for the booklet is what you have plenty to talk about here on the job you know it's going to take a look a little bit means for the people of course. the bundesliga every weekend here on w.