don't expect our pm to. six. it's. the book. the bad. this is due to abuse coming to you live from berlin scandal hits the catholic church yet again this time allegations of sexual abuse of nuns including in india's catholic community d.w. speaks to are not who is refusing to remain silent also coming up nancy pelosi attends a nato gathering in brussels but after president donald trump's frequent criticism

of the alliance the u.s. house speaker over likely have a tough time reassuring members of washington's ongoing commitment. and back of the u.s. opposition to president dollar trunks declaration of a national emergency sixteen u.s. states are going to course to block the president's plan to appropriate funding for the southern border war. on a woman's continue. the catholic church is facing a new still with allegations over the sexual abuse of nuns this after the recent admission by pope francis that such abuse has taken place and is still continuing it's happening in many parts of the world including india in like the most shocking

cases in the southern state of canada a bishop is accused of raping a nun thirteen times over a period of two years the nun says she was ordered to remain silent but one of a fellow sisters is encouraging victims to speak out india correspondent sonia phonic spoke with her and sent us this report. it's early morning in kerala the church here has always been a powerful institution but in recent months its foundations have been shaken by six scandal last september a nun and get accused an influential bishop of repeated rape when officials believe to actually a group of nuns rattled around the victim and held unprecedented public protests. one of those who joined those potus was sister lucy. she cravat from a home here in the district of why not to support the alleged victim. the nun is

wary about being filmed public she chooses an empty auditorium to speak in the thirty six years that she's been a nun she's come across many instances of sexual abuse by the clergy. sex abuse in the terrorists by preach to them as it's happening but to solve this silent a lot of story i have all day. got shared by the sisters and i don't how do we experiences like that prompting me tempting me to their own ambition but they're trying and i said i'm to sit with them that a lot of mistakes inside the turret but they're not there they don't. do. this for. instead of that or they're covering up all this. the catholic church in india has largely stayed silent on the allegations against the bishop was arrested last year following the protests and then greeley's on bail

even here and why not officials were relieved to see one priest who did agree sort to downplay the issue. my position is. my remember you. brought. that you are brought up in the public. so i thought that speaking out against the powerful catholic church and drawing attention to sexual abuse is never easy especially in a conservative state like. nuns who are dead to break the culture of silence faith ridicule isolation and even disciplinary action from the congregations this is. apart from joining protests sister lucy has written articles criticizing the church silence on sexual abuse she's received warning letters from her congregation

ordering her to stop speaking out she's been accused of causing harm to the church and belittling the catholic leadership says it let's say i said like that last anybody can speak freely frankly but only to the world if i am abused to saw them now there that can bring me to them been a stat that so many are coming to the fact many many are coming openly. to that. society today to talk there is not if there is no cult like that we had all the slave. despite the warnings but none has no plans of backing away. i have to do i must be. made like that. hope is that the lead to scandal will shine a light on the church speed leagues and make some much needed reforms.

joining me now from delhi. she's the director of the center for social research in india and an active campaigner for women's rights to the public protests by the nuns over the abuse of the catholic church was quite unprecedented what impact has this had there. well i think it's a deep impact because not only that there is an environment in the country at the moment where women are questioning religious institutions hindu women are questioning their right to enter the temple muslim women's has thing to do away with all kinds of obnoxious cultural and religious practices with people like triple the lock same be it first time ever war someone from inside the church and none comes out and you know the kind of really in their own straw out of the bishops on them by you know trying to prevent them first then second given they

came out on the protest to tell them that they will be released by listing penalise will have done because of the largest support that they got from this was id from him is organizations from all of us they managed to stand the ground and they managed to fight back and i think that is this is if it's deep down investigated this whole idea of celibacy and trying to see that all these people are living by the rules of the church is not true women are sexually getting exploited the maddest and now did we in our country have a law to really protect women against sexual harassment at walkways adding women are able to build again as one of the nuns said that because of me too movement you know it is very strong now women are realizing that they are not supposed to be becoming some kind of a sexual slaves in the institution they are working with the law they're not supposed to speak out so the internet as we've heard in. london as we heard in our report the nun who alleges he was raped no support from within the catholic church suddenly it was the police who arrested the bishop and then let him out on bail

what is expected to happen now. but you know the it is now the ball is in the court of the police and i think because of the way they were trying to suppress the voice within the charge that you know they were the they were really scaring them and they were trying to tell them that if you come out you will be penalized and that is why the voice was not coming out but now that given and didn't of course there was that big outrage in the country you should have seen the electronic media the way print media every read it was there in the social media people started protesting and finally the police was really forced to take action now the ball is in the court of the police the weevil for investigation there is a charge of sexual assault and this is a very very serious offense often in my arc is you know we change the law any kind of sexual or a start really being a look and see done under the law and once you know suggestion is complete and case is filed i'm sure he is going to be punished for sexually assaulting that one and

they cannot really they try to bully them but it is not it was not working because there is so much of the support from outside and people like us are standing with the nuns to support them. the catholic sort of a small community and under nine in the december of two percent to what you will see there is a broader support for the nuns among the community there. absolutely absolutely there is a general environment which is changing that is a cultural a shifting india which is taking place where women's right with dignity at work is really getting institutionalize it is through the law and by them and that themselves and by the action of the large of amos woman support that we are trying to really push for this and catholic church has to come up with some kind of a solution they cannot just covered it up because this is not this is one is better none spoken god might support the support of the state there know all kinds of political groups also in the state and that is why they have been able to stand the

ground and in spite of all the critics that the church just had no business or curtain the nuns were big declared the nun bishops have come together and they have taken the nuns know what he's talking nobody see this senior from the church is talking about it at all they're not willing to make a statement but that doesn't matter the crime has taken place we have a lot of the big men and this sexual assault case will be really i investigated and and there has to be some kind of or you know all by the shaman to the bishop right down to the defector of the center for social research in delhi thank you very much for that thank you. that now bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the world pakistani prime minister imran khan has warned his country would retaliate if india takes military action following last week's deadly attack on a security convoy in the disputed kashmir region and this comes after india's top military commander in kashmir accused boxes sounds intelligence agency off involvement of

pakistan militant based militant group hamas has claimed responsibility for that attack. three police officers have been killed in two wounded in the egyptian capital cairo they were chasing a suspect when the device he was carrying exploded government reports say the man was suspected of attempted attack on a police patrol invest in cairo on friday the suspect also died in the blast. brazilian president also not or has fired one of his most senior ministers over a campaign funding scandal. was secretary general of the president's office brazilian markets fell on the news with investors fearing the case could hinder also noddles chances of passing key pension reforms. the speaker of the u.s. house of representatives nancy pelosi is in brussels today she's hoping to convince

officials that washington remains committed to the nato military alliance president donald trump is frequently lashed out of the alliance saying nato members must pull their weight and above all. behind the smiles and diplomatic niceties with belgian prime minister show me show that lies an open political sore u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi must convince nato that president donald trump will not withdraw the u.s. from the alliance. given for the felching an ally. a year to get. there is still the case of all that kind. of thing. it's been a testing twenty nineteen for palosi already the government shutdown saw the house speaker's january trip to visit nato commanders in brussels and u.s. troops in afghanistan challenged trump cancelled palosi military aircraft at the

last minute she did finally make it to europe however and joined the global political elite at the munich security conference over the weekend. back home the democrat presides over the u.s. house of representatives palosi is no stranger to running the house as she has assumed the role before. less than a week ago she helped avert a second national shutdown by signing a bipartisan funding bill awarding trump a fraction of the billions of dollars he is demanding for his mexico border wall. that. her ten people say that they're. protecting them. and it will come here. to the constitution if they are you. going to check that.

nancy pelosi has major clout on her home turf but what about in europe she could face an uphill battle to convince e.u. officials including the european commission president. that washington is still a trustworthy member of nato. joining me now is the. chief was covering that trip unless the washington post is describing this as a democrat's a reassuring still for european allies why the donald trump what kind of reassurance can you give. congress men and women that are in brussels at the moment actually use that same same word reassurance tour and that's the half of the mission really here to show that america's not just donald trump america's not just the administration of the current u.s. president but there are a lot more americans who have their roots in europe and feel connected to europe and committed to transatlantic relations and i must tell you read it was quite

impressive seeing those politicians coming out one by one reaffirming that there are shared values telling their own little stories where their ancestors came from and saying nato is extremely important in fact nancy pelosi the speaker of the house said nato is more important than it ever was. donald trump has come close to suggesting the u.s. might you need an actor leave the drop from nato if other member states failed to substantially increase their spending on the military alliance seriously is the alliance taking this threat in the past i would say many thought he would never act upon that it was just an empty threat but donald trump has proven that he does act upon what he says not all the time but he has done so on many occasions so the question really is can he do that by himself or not and the verdict is still out on that some lawyers say he actually could do that others say he would need congress

and if he needs congress then this is a very important tour by nancy pelosi and her fellow congressmen and women because that would mean they are more or less in the driver's seat here but since we don't know exactly since there's incertitude i would say the worries are beginning to increase in brussels yes and next street is another issue which is dividing the europeans billows the match with the e.u. commission chief what assurances issued lucky to have offered him via think. you know if you had to put up a hit list of the worries that the europeans have at the moment with the u.s. administration then probably the car tariffs are on the top of the list at the moment because there is a possibility apparently a very real possibility that donald trump will declare european cars and the security threat in the u.s. and if he does that then our understanding is he would need congress he could just do that and slap on tariffs and if you don't need congress for that then the reassurances that that's a palosi can give here are very very limited still europeans at least younger the

head of that you commission believes that donald trump will stay true to his word apparently he promised to include your group last year when you were visited in washington that he would not do that he would not raise tariffs on european cars and it's probably going to be in the next days that we see whether he does it or not next of mine in brussels thank you very much he was coming up ahead he's not on par with the big east in liverpool yet bought coaching here and clark has won the hearts of live play football fans the form of industry i coach and his team take on going to stick and champions by him tonight in the champions league. but first in the united states a group of sixteen states led by california is suing the trump administration always declaration of a national emergency they claim the plan to appropriate funds to build

a wall on the mexican border violates the constitution the president's emergency declaration is also drawing opposition from activists. and. they were doing it in fool view of the white house. in new jersey. texas. on the inside carolina. and in colorado a grass roots show of force and opposition to the us president in colorado we will be on the side of the rule of law was in because colorado would be over by this illegal washing having funds that are dedicated to be spent here elsewhere we will be joining in action to challenge it was

there among sixteen states to challenge what they see as a cash crop taking disaster relief money to pay for a more than two thousand kilometer long vanity project on the mexico border the wall standoff came to a head on friday when president trump said he would invoke a rarely used power bypassing congress to fund his campaign promise i could do the wall over a longer period of time i didn't need to do this but i'd rather do it much faster for his opponents that statement appear to undermine his case there's a crisis president trump got it right when he said. he didn't have to do this but i would now pressure is mounting from within his republican party with senators object i think it's a bad idea whether the last currently written permits it or not if it does it's a moment to sort of study whether congress is delegated to much power to the executive but i actually i just think it's about. as she arrived back at the white

house donald trump may have missed the protests but the brewing political row will be harder to escape. the one group of migrants who have made it to the u.s. the venezuelans in total more than three million have fled the country in recent years some one hundred thousand of those have settled in south florida did obvious all of a silence visited the community as they've watched the ongoing crisis unfolding in their homeland. life could be so nice in miami beach. new home in exile but when the venezuelan refugee fled to the united states he had to leave behind everyone he left after six months behind bars as a political prisoner he feared for his freedom his safety and his future. because. i felt persecuted every day the police published

a list of one hundred people and my name was on the list published in several papers it was a dangerous situation but the only thing i did wrong was the money and liberty. his new home lies in the neighborhood of stately mentions fancy on the outside but so rundown on the inside he's embarrassed to show that he is safe here he says a job in a hotel earn some money to survive and to help his mother in venezuela. i don't i don't recall trying this young. if there is nothing to eat many people either undernourished even becoming fat because the only things that you can buy are pasta and flour that's it. i'm in. southern florida is home to one hundred thousand venezuelans bringing with them the tensions of two opposing sides protests are common here against the business

partners of venezuela's president mud dural self declared president why don't supporters say they are trying to keep their money safe by investing in real estate in the neighborhood of asean collina represents the politically persecuted venezuelan so brought he shows us around the miami suburb off to rile which many moderate supporters and i'll call home with a dozen or so that i want us out we try to find these people and suggest they are expelled from the us and have their assets confiscated it doesn't make sense that there is some flick persecution have to live next to the perpetrators and it's like . this venezuelan restaurant is the preferred meeting place for why dual supporters for our own b m e's are an active member of one party the self declared president represents the country's biggest chance for freedom in decades but i mean in a time when the fanatic i believe we are now witnessing the end of the my two year

old regime we just have to carry on and he will lose popularity and power which is already happening pay by day. and the end of the idea. it's optimism that keeps. a life and his hope that one day he can return to his home safely. to cement its dregs with the rich the specter of overnight talents longboard accuse could become a reality while politicians are promising to avoid such a scenario you can businesses are not quite so sure one third of them now say they're planning to move to the to ensure market access their yes. breck that day edges ever closer at the face of economic ties between the united kingdom and the rest of the world continues to lie in the balance. the lack of clarity has

prompted many u.k. companies to come up with contingency plans some are stockpiling goods in case of a messy transition others are considering moving abroad every sin study of over twelve hundred u.k. business leaders finds that sixteen percent of firms are already pressing ahead with relocation plans a further thirteen percent are actively considering doing so the institute of directors which conducted the study has thirty thousand members two thirds of them export to the e.u. . chief among the concerns of exporting companies is the prospect of overnight tar ifs which could come into effect of british lawmakers fail to sign off on a deal with the e.u. . now this was fought in turning to europe's top club tournament and the ronda sixteen in the champions league tonight's premiere match up sees england heavyweights liverpool hosting munich liverpool is jailed and coach club has

managed to bring new energy to liverpool and is gaining or less legendary status in the legendary city. of liverpool loves its legends among them the beatles and hometown club never poor f.c. since its foundation and eight hundred ninety two the club has won eighteen league titles but it's been twenty nine years since they were last a champions under coach. their fans are allowing themselves to dream big again jurgen klopp the but. if you need him. being in charge at liverpool since twenty fifteen where his management style is popular with most of the supporters past year his side reach the champions league final but lost to real madrid. if they want to keep their hopes alive of reaching the final again they'll need to get past german giants bar new nick. to finish the season but

you don't think. if you think about. night really big. games if i was really happy about being in. a german team has never won a champions league or european cup match and on field. barn have tried on three occasions coach nico is familiar with klopp who used to coach dortmund only respect for him. because he doesn't give a. he's a fighter he just keeps going you can see that with his team well we're expecting this on tuesday and in the second leg in the exclusion of about it if you're going top manages to lead liverpool to champions league glory he may well become one of the club's legends. here watching the devaney is coming to you live from berlin i'm on the touch and i want to leave you now with some beautiful impressions from the snow up in italy's south region enjoy.

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