this is deja vu news coming to you live from berlin a fire in the bangladeshi capital dhaka kills at least seventy people many others are injured and firefighters through the death toll could rise blazes reported to have started in a 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 verdict is expected today in the trial of several former employees of german arms manufacturers and called their cues to be legally exporting assault rifles to mexico. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us 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 spread quickly through other buildings. the fuss started in the church district in the old parts of doc and quickly spread through at least five buildings according to the fire department.

some floors of the destroyed building supposedly stored chemicals and plastics and used paper reported that one of the buildings house a plastics warehouse and was full of flammable material. that's what i saw with my own eyes 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 driver is alive anymore doing media also reported that firefighters had difficulties finding enough water to battle the blaze and had to draw water from a nearby mosque meanwhile bangladesh's fire chief warned that the number of dead could well rice. well for more let's cross over to dhaka word journalist munyal khan is standing by for us. we understand that at least seventy people were killed in this fire and many were injured what more can you tell us about the victims. but you know the same board

is. believed. to go. you said and it's a fifty million bars and hospitals charge for dear life. i am afraid there are six many. would die would have died in the barn and was that strong night soledad who did this to. know how this fire broke out how it started and why it spread so quickly. so. it is the firefighters and others saying that there they would start this investigation regular in the morning. but the people nearby said that this. you

know. seeing the ceiling get. bars and exploded two with the transformer and then the fire. started with a short circuit and. because of the chemical stored holes. in the billy. does it would it do people polygamist so quickly spread out there now this is not the first fire in dhaka claimed many lives how much of a fire hazard is there in dakar particularly the old city what sort of challenges do firefighters face in trying to address this problem. well what they said that you see this was it is not the first time there was a diversity fire happened in two thousand and two to and at least two hundred twenty four people killed on the spot and i said the

old half that it's been distributed and the lanes in the north a very tiny small and therefore the end of the building said i was in the built shoulder to shoulder and not properly north of course of sheldon i get dick. and believe nettle in this exists. and of. all this law shops are small factories can be defectors. or defend. their lips like. if. it's a truck and they keep it going because in the stores and the plastic factories. but stick shops are also there. the fire is in the market just a few stored in market and then. flips what it would be used to believe they're just going to fight. it. these are the damages within the.

firefighting trucks and the water is very limited. so this day most of the fire trucks stage four hundred we just fire from this boat and they didn't do it what are minor thank you very much for bringing us up to date there that was journalist munnell khan in dhaka three three. now to some of the other stories making news around the world today french president manuel mccall has announced measures to counteract a rise in hate crimes against jews speaking at a dinner for jewish leaders he said the measures would include legislation to fight hate speech on the internet as well as making zionism part of the government's definition of anti-semitism up the ratings agency fitch has warned it could downgrade britain's double a credit rating in the event of

a no deal breaks it the announcement put further pressure on the pound which has already suffered over uncertainty caused by britain's exit from the european union . israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu has two main rivals are joining forces for the country's upcoming general election former finance minister ja a lockheed has announced a centrist alliance with ex military chief of staff benny gantz if they win they say they will rotate as prime minister. thing. pope francis will today open a summit on sexual abuse in the catholic church tended by by cardinals 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 let's look first at ireland it's seen reports of widespread sexual

abuse in catholic institutions estimates put the number of overall victims there and that small country at fourth fourteen thousand five hundred in australia 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 well on wednesday pope francis met with a sexual abuse survivor from yet another country poland marechal is in ski travel to the vatican with a report on the many allegations against members of the clergy in poled and after surviving abuse by a local priest lives in ski founded the organization have no fear he and his fellow victims are still searching for justice. standing in front of this house mission skeet can't help but be overcome by memories of the crimes that were

committed against him with sexually abused here in his home town pony out over inside the scary walls. 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. spots of the causes of the perpetrator took advantage of the fact that i came from a difficult family background and didn't want to talk about my feelings he had access to be fit 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. monica 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. more now we're joined by our religious affairs correspondent martin got good morning martin if so pope francis has called cardinals to rome to talk about the scourge of sexual child sexual abuse so how significant is this for the catholic church and for victims like marc listen ski who we met in our report there well i mean everybody has great expectations it's unclear what is that people are actually expecting from it and the vatican has tried to sort of food some you know dump down the excitement and sort of it. made it very clear that this will actually work for us and for most of us a bit of a conference and gathering in which people will be discussing the position of the church in relation to

a 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 and a sort of work 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 academic 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 while 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 little bit see is something that is in shrine in many traditions particularly of the churches that you know celebrities are actually mandatory as an obligatory tenet i think that one of the issues that you clearly have and i think that this has become very visible over long 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 problem the structural problem is actually there are going to say sion they're going to say she 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 religious affairs correspondent. you're welcome. well here in germany a verdict is expected today in a court case that's being closely watched five former employees of the arms manufacturer hecht and call have been on trial in stuttgart since may of last year they stand accused of illegally supplying mexico with hecla and call german made weapons. a quarter inch to a car it has been trying five former hackler and cock 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 koch. weapons in a region to which they never should have been exploited according to german law overall between two thousand and six and two thousand and nine rifles and munitions worth four point one million euros ended 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 pretty good morning kate so first what are the defendants actually accused of doing in this case well we have five defendants on trial in the charge with violation of japanese exports 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 blacklisted under these export control laws and prosecutors say that these hechler employees who are on trial what in fact aware of the of the end 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 experts exports it if it gets were drawn up by government authorities who

apparently misinterpreted the law and so i government authorities in this case exactly is worth pointing out that it's actually the german economy ministry in agreement with the german 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 to do so raises questions also about government oversight when it. two 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 cool for prison sentences for just two of the of the defendants and 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 will be back with you i'm sure thank you so much to that was kate brady from our political desk you're watching news still to come shock and 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. more of that coming up in just a minute first though here in germany the issue of abortion is currently the subject of a fierce debate abortion is a criminal offense technically 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 actually carry out the procedure. gabriella hall 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 political debate. but 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. the activists these activists who stop women on the sidewalk from going to the counseling centers or clinic they're simply frightening they're traumatizing for women. and then there's the fact that this criminal punishment weighs down on the issue of abortion. rights in a new compromise by the german government would allow doctors to state that they offer abortions but more advertising remains for britain prior to forming

a new coalition with conservatives germany social democrats wanted to abolish the abortion advertising ban isn't the time we need to talk that 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 hall there the legal compromise doesn't go far enough she wants to see article two hundred nineteen a abolished. i support protection of life but not when it's against women instead it should be with women offer something to 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. the problem any such alternatives could 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. china recently

ended its one child policy but the country is still very traditional when it comes to family planning people can be fined for having children out of wedlock but one young woman is trying to challenge the system not only does she want to have a child without getting married she also wants to access a sperm bank. reports from beijing. for allah on hanging up the chinese character for double happiness is an ironic gesture it is usually reserved for newlyweds but single and she doesn't want to be your wife what she does want to be is a mother. so high as it is interesting to show what kind of yeah you hope. some of wanted to have adult life had just it. oh i want to be a mother and as a woman i want to experience getting pregnant and giving birth by studying it

doesn't tell the court. arlen has petitioned delegates of the national people's congress china's parliament asking that single women give access to sperm banks but who in china where family planning authority is can still find unmarried mothers for unsanctioned babies if she's realistic about her chances of immediate success they were only seen you know in one for getting access to artificial reproduction technology as an unmarried woman is certainly going to be very difficult but i think sometime in the very very distant future it will be possible alan alter your name has talked about her your name for motherhood on social media her posts have sparked a lively debate in a society where traditional family values do rule in a park in beijing parents gather on sundays to lay out their children's resumes for prospective partners an unmarried child can stigmatize the whole family women in

particular are under huge pressure to marry by their late twenty's and. then you put that issue marriage and shiner is an arrangement between families everything that happens in that marriage becomes the business of the couple's parents and extended family but i want a relationship where two people decide for themselves how to live and whether they want children in the city. i don't know as those aspirations would make it easy to find a partner so she's now looking for a sperm donor online currently she holds down three different jobs in the creative industry she belongs to china's me generation those born after one thousand nine hundred and often considered more individualistic and demanding. that. our generation's ideas about marriage and childbirth a very far away from the last generations may sound. most people don't want to

discuss these issues but if you look at their behavior there's a clear message and that message is that our generation is less ready to compromise and wants to have more personal choices you know somebody at national weather center island says she would love to find a father who would take care of the child without the expectations of a traditional family but if that doesn't work out she's willing to go it alone. champions league soccer now in the round of sixteen and europe's top club tournaments mighty manchester city found it tough going on its visit to shocker but a former shock a player helped rescue the english side in the first of a two leg tie that went down to the final whistle for favorite city went in front of the old through sergio quero off the loose balls was pounced on by silver but cheika soon turned the game on its head two goals from dobby opened today shortly

before half time 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 i 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. there was yet another sting in the tyo some impressive strength and a characteristically cool finish from rai sterling gave his side a three two victory its advantage city during its of a second right. the other champions league match so the return of renault and his new club eventis to the city of madrid this time old rivals at politico madrid had the upper hand to late goals at letting go of by the lead going into the

return leg next month. you're watching t w news from berlin i'm terry martin we've got focus on europe up for you next and don't forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our web site that's a t w dot com thanks very.

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