on t w. this is t w news coming to you live from a fire in the bangladeshi capital dhaka kills at least seventy people many others are injured in pyar fighters fear the death toll will rise blazes reported to starting to you know warehouse before spreading rapidly across parts of the old city also coming up addressing the sexual abuse crisis in the catholic church pope francis convenes an unprecedented summit in rome we speak to a polish man who was abused by a priest as a child he tells us about his quest for justice. plus under the gun

a verdict is expected in the trial of several employees of the germans. and call their accused of illegally exporting assault rifles to mexico. hello i'm terry martin welcome to the program a devastating fire has killed at least seventy people in the bangladeshi capital dhaka more than fifty people are injured many with critical burns the fire started in a warehouse thought to contain flammable materials and then spread quickly to other buildings. in the church district in the old parts of dhaka and quickly spread through at least five buildings according to the fire department some floats of the destroyed building supposed to. the stored chemicals and plastics and use

paper reported that one of the buildings house a plastics warehouse and was full of flammable material. if that's what i saw with my own i use a sudden massive explosion with fire and shock waves that totally destroyed the road side wall i was in a rickshaw when the explosion took place i don't think my rickshaw drivers alive anymore doing media also reported that i just had difficulties finding enough water to battle the place and had to draw water from a nearby mosque meanwhile bangladesh's fire chief warns that the number of dead could well the rise. of more now let's bring in mind all khan is a journalist in bangladesh is capital dhaka model first of all let's talk about the victims at least seventy people were killed in this fire many more are injured what's what's the latest on the victims. and it just is this

same until now. from the sport into the building where the fire broke. out but it does. mean maybe. it has been difficult to find those people because it was people who lived. in this same building and in the air. so we know where it's fifty people. in the hospital. and they're. getting a bunch so do we know yet how this fire actually started and why it was able to spread so quickly. the reason. some. people who are nearby this is it it started with the explosion

a fair guess the linda. private some. on c. and g. and the heat in an electric transformer and then next to it the door and. the electric start getting it started the fire in the beginning. but it is still. said that they will investigate the recent of the fire and because you see the doctor and. the living is a bit dense they decide to pull and believe. you know close by shoulder to shoulder so. many plastics and we know those that when those of chemical. goods so best way the fire in the spindle pretty quickly ok minor thank you very much for bringing us up to date there that

was journalist munnell khan in dhaka. pope francis will today open a summit on sexual abuse in the catholic church attended by bishops from around the world the meeting comes after an avalanche of allegations against catholic priests accusing them of molesting young boys and raping nuns in the past the church has been reluctant to deal with these crimes which have now become a global issue ireland has seen reports of widespread sexual abuse in catholic institutions estimates put the overall number of victims there at fourteen and a half thousand australia there are more than fifteen thousand possible sex abuse survivors have come forward since two thousand and twelve according to a national inquiry and in the united states the number of survivors is suspected to be well over one hundred thousand while on wednesday pope francis met with

a sexual abuse survivor from yet another country poland marechal is in speed travelled to the vatican with a report on the many allegations against members of the clergy there after surviving abuse by a local priest lisicki founded the organization have no fear in his search in his search for justice for fellow victims. standing in front of this house. can't help but be overcome by memories of the crimes that were committed against him with century abuse here in his home town. inside. he was only twelve years old when it happened. the perpetrator was the local priest . i didn't understand what was happening to me no one spoke to us children about sexuality or masturbation fact. i didn't understand it. and it

wasn't until i realized that this person had no right to do those things to me that i decided to stop coming here. it took mark a long time before he could speak about what happened to him his own father had left and the priest had been a father figure mark was an altar server at the local church when he was abused today there are three hundred thousand altar boys and girls in deeply catholic poland. although the subject was to bu for decades more reports of priests who sexually abused children are surfacing. the perpetrator took advantage of the fact that i came from a difficult family background and didn't want to talk about my feelings when he had access to me and sexually abused me for months and the experience nearly destroyed monic he changed school several times he became increasingly isolated and began drinking heavily at age forty he was finally able to open up to

a therapist. it was during one of those many sessions that i was able to talk about the abuse for the first time. i now also think my alcoholism was caused by my childhood experience. for. modoc has begun to fight back he's researched reports of sexual abuse and found one hundred fifty confirmed cases he says there are many more. things to mark's courage more and more people are taking to the streets to protest sexual abuse in the church now modoc is taking part in the vatican summit on sexual abuse he hopes officials will no longer keep the problem secret and will speak publicly about the incidents in poland. well for more now we're joined by our religious affairs correspondent martin got good morning martin so pope francis has called cardinals to rome to talk about the scourge of sexual child sexual abuse how significant is this for the catholic

church and for victims. who we met in a report that well i mean everybody has great expectations it's unclear what he's that people are actually expecting from it in the vatican has tried to sort of put some you know dump down the excitement and sort of it has made it very clear that this without actually word for his and for most it's a bit of a conference and gathering in which people will be discussing the position of the church in relation to responsibility transparency accountability what is not clear is whether any concrete policy and protocols will come out of this and this is i think by and large what most people would actually want to see what's going to actually happen at this conference that's going on for three days i understand what is going to actually happen aside from acknowledging that there is a problem well i mean the way that the things that are it's really very much like a conference in a sort of we're a group so there are going to be meetings in the morning meetings throwed afternoon

and there will be in the middle different plenary sessions in which different dorothy's within the church but even some of them make psychologist and people that come from n.g.o.s and so on will be essentially presenting their positions so there will be also a significant amount of praying and devotional were done in relation to penance and you know of this is fine and well bed none of the basic issues are yet address which is what is the bolasie that the church will adopt in norther to address these issues well talking of policy i mean this is a big consultation exercise as you are describing with input from n.g.o.s to and victims can the problem though in the church really be addressed of sexual abuse against children by by priests can that problem really. be addressed without ending without fundamental reforms like ending celibacy for priests for example my opinion is that salutes is not directly connected to the question of abuse i think it's

a legal c. is something that is in shrine in many traditions particularly of the churches that you know salue is actually mandatory as an obligatory ten and i think that one of the issues that you clearly have and i think that this is become very visible over long but the long period of time i mean we've been on this and this particular set of cases for the last eighteen years so there's a very very long time it's very clear that the broom the structural problem is actually the organization they're going to say sion has a tendency to believe that they can actually solve their own problems within their own walls and they have actually shown that this is simply not the case so the question is really about the secrecy or the policy of secrecy and the relation to national justice systems martin thank you very much for your analysis of religious affairs correspondent martin got there with. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today ratings agency fitch has warned it could downgrade britain's double a credit rating in the

event of a new deal bragg's it the announcement put further pressure on the pound which has already suffered over uncertainty caused by britain's exit from the european union . in morocco police have clashed with teachers protesting for higher wages and promotional opportunities police beat teachers with batons when they tried to walk towards the royal palace in the capital run. multiple injuries have been reported. to chinese tortoise believed to have been extinct for more than one hundred years has been found in the galapagos islands an adult female specimen of the species known as the. island this was discovered during a recent expedition conservationists are preparing to search for more of the species in the galapagos. well here in germany the issue of abortion is currently the subject of a fierce debate abortion is

a criminal offense here with terminations only allowed in certain very restricted circumstances the current controversy centers on whether german doctors should be allowed to advertise that they carry out the procedure gabriella there is one of thousands of doctors in germany caught in the center of the country's ongoing debate over abortion. the fact that abortion is criminalized. that it's illegal in germany the woman doesn't do that and. abortion in germany is in fact a crime but there are exceptions in cases of rape on medical grounds and on certain conditions prosecution is avoided if the abortion is carried out within the first twelve weeks of pregnancy if the woman attends mandatory counseling and then waits another three days before the abortion. but at the center of the current debate is tiny article two hundred one thousand nine hundred eighty of germany's criminal code it dates back to the nazi era and makes it

a crime for doctors to publicly advertise abortions. after being overlooked for decades it's now sparked a political debate. over to the principle must be that we do not advertise abortions it's forbidden and unborn life must be protected i cannot allow abortion advertising and we want to prevent it even in a limited number of attempts. there is one of the hundreds of doctors who have been accused of violating the article in her case it was due to a flyer on the clinic website stating that she carries out of fortune's the flyer was removed and the case was then dropped but many doctors still feel persecuted since two thousand and three the number of them who carry out abortions has fallen by forty percent. women on the side from going to the counseling centers or clinic there simply frightening their traumatizing for women. and then there's the fact that this criminal

punishment weighs down on the issue of abortion. and you compromised by the german government would allow doctors to state that they offer abortions but more advertising remains forbid and prior to forming a new coalition with conservatives germany social democrats wanted to abolish the abortion advertising ban isn't the time when it's also from the social democratic side with two main objectives to safeguard women's right to information and to guarantee legal security for doctors and for dr holder the legal compromise doesn't go far enough she wants to see article two hundred nineteen a abolished. i support protection of life for it but not when it's against women instead it should be with women offer something to women offer assurance that their careers won't be damaged if they have children make contraception free for all ages but we

just don't have that as how many such alternatives to take years to really happen in germany but for now the long time to boot of abortion has got both german politics and society talking. staying in germany a verdict is expected today in a court case that being closely watched here five former employees of the arms manufacturers and call a bit on trial in stuttgart since may of last year they stand accused of illegally supplying mexico with. german made weapons. a quarter inch to guard has been trying five former heckler and koch employees on charges of exporting weapons illegally in two thousand and fourteen six people were killed in protests in the southern mexican city of equality and forty three students disappeared without a trace police believe local criminals were behind the attack and that they were

armed with assault rifles manufactured by the german company heckler and call. weapons in a region to which they never should have been extorted according to german law overall between two thousand and six and two thousand and nine rifles and munitions worth four point one million euros and it up in the conflict ridden mexican province. there are several regions in the country that are blacklisted for export permits but state prosecutors say the employees hid the real destination of the arms they were selling in their applications for export licenses. well joining me now is. political correspondent kate brady good morning kate so first what are the defendants actually accused of doing in this case well we have five defendants on trial in that charge with violation of geminis and also war weapons export control laws now this is due to the export of more than four thousand assault rifles to

mexico which we just saw there in their report specifically to areas which were the lack listed under these export control laws and prosecutors say that these heckler employees who are on trial what in fact aware of the of the and destination of these weapons ok but apparently they're accused of trying to conceal the actual destination there is this an isolated case kate or is it symptomatic of a bigger problem well this case has indeed opened up a big problem in german exports and the responsibility of these five defendants has actually been mitigated by some evidence which was found during this trial which actually showed that there was actually irregularities in how the export certificates were drawn up by government authorities who apparently misinterpreted the law and state government authorities in this case exactly is

worth pointing out that it's actually the german economy ministry in agreement with the foreign ministry that actually is in charge of these decisions but in this case no government official has officially being charged over the crimes and this is something that the plaintiff is actually calling for so it raises questions also about government oversight when it comes to arms exports interesting what sort of sentence could the defendants face if they're found guilty of the charges they're facing well prosecutors of call for prison sentences for just two of the of the defend. that's the sales department manager for myself department manager and also a clerical welcome both of those are actually implicated in an e-mail. that actually showed that the company was attempting to influence the end user agreement say so to say where these weapons were actually going to end up ok and i

understand that a verdict is expected within an hour or so well so be back with you i'm sure to get that thank you so much to that was kate brady for our political desk you're watching t.w. news still to come shall could give it everything they've got in the first leg of their champions league match up with manchester city but it's one of their former players who has the final say. first to the army in venezuela has been put on alert at the country's borders to head off attempts to bring in international aid that's as the standoff between president nicolas maduro and his rival. worsens shortages of essential foods and medicines have already driven millions of venezuelans to flee the country more than two hundred twenty thousand of them have moved to the colombian capital of bogota

the w.'s mela met some of them. delivering food shopping for strangers picking up cash seven days a week twelve hours a day that's life for michael garcia he's from venezuela and has been living in colombia's capital bogota for two months after leaving his family behind. my father my mother my cousins. sometimes i saw pictures. it's not the same thing when my everyday life is a completely. totally different thing. said look at. michael uses his mobile phone to stay in touch with his parents in venezuela but he sends the money when he can but it's not enough to change their desperate situation during breaks michael and his colleagues often talk about

venezuelan politics a bit more and we hope that interim president can help us bring in this regime. carlos is also from venezuela he runs a restaurant here in bogota. back home he worked in the tourism industry before the economic crisis. he wanted to go to the united states or cheery or peru but he ended up here in colombia. to begin and i plan to go back as soon as the regime falls. but now i have my business here and my family. i need more time to think about it. i guess i'm staying here for another day. carlos has figured out how to make a living by helping his fellow venezuelans they relieve their homesickness with products from across the border. it is all the terrible stuff from our home

country or you're just like the little minutes where the right. place is if you can feel closer to home display it taste like my own mother made it and i think the man political scene and he's going to taste like i miss my country so much. only a few of the transplanted venezuelans make a good living here in bogota most have to rely on casual labor or the goodwill of colombians and almost none of them actually want to be here but the situation back home leaves them no choice. michael desperately needs things to change but as long as the government stays in power in venezuela he plans to stay put delivering food and perhaps finding a future here in colombia. some champions league soccer the round of sixteen in europe's top club turning in his under way and money

manchester city found it tough going on its visit to shock a but of course shock a player helped rescue the english side in the first of two legged time that went down to the final with a favorite city went in front of the old through sergio off the loose paulse was pounced on by silver but she soon turned the game on its hades two goals from. shortly before. both of which came from the spot gave the hosts a shot lead going into the break the home crowd had plenty to shout about. but with five minutes to go a perfectly placed free kick from form a shy kid young stud leave royce and i leveled the schools sunday refused to celebrate against the club that made him and there was yet another sting in the taiyo some impressive strength and a characteristically cool finish from rai startling gave his side

a three two victory its advantage city going into the second rate. the other champions league match saw the return of rinaldo and his new club eventis to the city of madrid and this time old rivals that madrid had the upper hand too late goal that they had to go a gave that they had to go up by the lead going into the return leg next month we're told by the way was jeered throughout the game. and just reminder the top stories we're following for you at least seventy people have been killed and many more injured in a devastating fire and bangladeshi capital dhaka the blaze is thought to have started in a warehouse containing flammable materials before spreading quickly to other buildings in the old city. oh yes

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