this is g.w. news live from berlin addressing sexual abuse of children by the catholic church pope francis gathers high ranking members of the clare g. to an unprecedented summit of drone he says the world is expecting not just condemnation but concrete action is this a turning point. also coming up scenes of devastation in bangladesh as a fire sweeps through parts of the capital dhaka at least seventy people are killed and many more injured the blaze is fun to have started in a warehouse before spreading rapidly into the city owns the town and judges find

its employees from german gun maker heckler and call him guilty of illegally extorting weapons what will the ruling mean for the country's other arms manufacturers. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program pope francis has opened an unprecedented summit on sexual abuse in the catholic church with bishops from around the world francis opened the four day meeting by insisting that the church must listen to abuse victims and survivors have voiced concerns that the pope's efforts to raise awareness do not go far enough a summit comes after an avalanche of allegations against catholic priests accusing them of molesting young boys and raping nuns let's listen now to more of what pope francis had to say. the holy people of god are looking at us and do

not expect from us simple and predictable condemnations but concrete and effective measures. let's get more now we're joined by d.w. religious affairs analyst martin gak how big is this for the church martin it's quite big at least it is trumpeted as being quite a sort of a moment of you know change in the church this is something that remains to be seen however it is true that there is a very clear the men of concrete actions it is also true that the church in twenty years has actually not produce concrete actions do you see the potential for that concrete action because i mean many are looking at us they're saying oh great you know they're talking about it now but can we see something bigger come out of it than just acknowledging that there is indeed a problem i think that we should disabuse yourself from continuing this talk about talking about it i mean the church has been talking about it and has been talking about it for twenty years victims have been talking about it n.g.o.s have been

talking about it the church spite simply has not produced protocol or policy so it's unclear whether they have the capacity to do it and there is the political will the fact is that there has been a couple of things over the last two weeks including macquarie defrocking this very very senior new york former cardinal which seemed to show that this vatican actually has the political will what we don't know is where they have are to the political muscle they have the capacity to implement changes so let's talk a little bit more about the strategy because i mean they wrote the following about how they plan to approach this responsibility accountability transparency are the words that they're using i mean they say that these three principles that will guide their strategy when they're talking about sex abuse in the church what do you make of that well i think that these are two words for any process of adjudication you know i mean clearly responsibility transparency and accountability are important things i think that what he's telling about the fact that these are actually headlining topics is that the church understands that it has lost

legitimacy in all three areas i mean the church is not seen as somebody that has transpired and is not seen as something that is responsible and most certainly it's not seen as something that is a countable. justice in general so one of the i think most important questions is whether the church is willing to bring in national authorities to adjudicate what are actually crimes ok and do you think that there's first of all the potential for that i think that there is a potential but i think that what you also have is that in a very very large institution with very many people any one of these cases that you pull out has a lot of people attached to it not only people that necessarily raped or that abuse but people that actually cover up and people that it might not have willingly covered up but were part of systems so what we're talking about here is about something that is truly truly white spread into truly massive in terms of the connections in the moment of political and institutional relations i do not see you

know just the will to change being sufficient this is something that would depend not only on the vatican but it also will depend on the churches at the local level across across of the world really just affairs correspondent martin jack thank you you're welcome. you know devastating fire has killed at least seventy people in the bangladeshi capital dhaka more than fifty people were injured many with critical burns the fire started in a building thought to be storing flammable materials and then spread quickly to other nearby structures. explosions and blazing fire lit up dock us old city as the fire raced through five buildings in the district. some of the buildings caught in the blaze stored chemicals one housed a plastics warehouse filled with flammable material those courts in the inferno described how the fire started. if that's what i saw

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 it's going to be doing firefighters had difficulty finding enough water it's a battle the blaze and had to rely on a nearby mosque for help. chief outlined the scale of the catastrophe. for the dead bodies are being sent to dhaka medical college hospital. and we have rescued forty one injured people and sent them to the hospital and our fire extinguishing operation is almost at the last stage we are now searching the rubble in preparation for dampening the area is under way. large as it. initially struggled to get close to the scene because of heavy traffic and narrow alleyways around the area the death toll is expected to rise and some of the

injured suffering critical. more on this now we are joined by meindl khan he is a journalist joining us from dhaka how did the fire start and why did it spread so quickly. well the first dr thrown explosion of compressed natural gas cylinder which he electric to transform one beer by and the fire started from the electrical shocks that did it with the after giving it away or holes it was dead and it's in building but also some plastics where they're so stripped weakly to decay it was nearby and. and it connected with the other buildings it just into the building and there were also this truce in the ground over all this are said that it will be sitting just

in the region so all this ghastly exposure someone genius he saw the fire in very deep. and we have to say i mean we're looking at these dramatic images here this is not the first time that we have seen images like that coming out of dhaka there have been other devastating fires and we also know that there was that major building that collapsed a number of years ago as well talk with us a little bit about the safety regulations are they simply too lax. well it is true that there was there was a big you were fired a student in two thousand. two hundred twenty four people was killed. after that incident the government also initiated this to get certain but we didn't have . any any result of the investigation. but this is just a relaxed of the boy that's going to take this to be given we're told is to move

him to somewhat hills. police official said that if it is his work to get it in there will be able to shift the chemical weapon notices . and even distribution. is on the way michael kahn in dhaka bangladesh thank you so much. let's get a quick check now some other stories making news around the world u.s. police have seized an arsenal of weapons from the home of a coast guard officer they arrested him on suspicion of plotting a mass murder the officer had drafted a target list of democratic politicians and prominent media figures. evacuation of hundreds of people from the so-called islamic states last two remaining enclave in syria is almost complete a spokesperson for the u.s. back to syria democratic forces says that once also billions are out troops will

attack us fighters in the village of follows near the iraqi border. and french president emanuel has announced measures to counteract a rise in hate crimes against jews speaking at a dinner for jewish leaders he said that the measures would include legislation to fight hate speech on the internet as well as making an ism part of the government's definition of anti semitism. according the southern german city of stood guard has found two former employees of the weapons manufacture and call guilty of illegally exporting guns it handled handed both of those men suspended prison sentences the court also imposed a fine of three point seven million euros on the company for delivering thousands of assault rifles to blacklisted regions in mexico the case answered on the attack of the southern mexican city of in which six people were killed after which forty three students disappeared and are thought to have been murdered. now police

believe the local criminals were behind the attack and that they were armed with guns which were manufactured by heckler and koch. let's get more now political correspondent kate brady joins me here in the studio so. is this going to hurt enough to make the company rethink its practices well if you take into consideration that the revenue. in two thousand and seventeen was hundred eighty two million euros and this fine of three point seven million isn't really going to make much of a dent but it is bearing in mind that last year just as this trial was about to start the company did publish a statement saying that their products will now only be delivered to so-called green countries to the. includes e.u. states or members of nato or also countries which have closed association agreements with nato so on paper. i think all standards now seem to be stricter

but at the same time we could now see them moving more towards the civilian market and what are the wider implications of this verdict would you say i mean not only for this specific manufacturer in the way that it changes its strategy but also you know for the industry well it's certainly thrust germany's export controls into the spotlight and there's been a lot of criticism come out of back off the back of this trial especially when it comes to the loopholes in those contractors and particularly with this specific ation for the end destination to make sure that these weapons on sold on to other countries but in this case they weren't actually so to the countries but redistributed to mexican states which were in fact blacklisted under the weapon control laws there have been some questions and we have to address these just about german weapons generally you know there seems to be not so much oversight by the part of the authorities when it comes to weapons exports because

we are seeing weapons you know the do seem to pop up. over the world in places where they should not be told the story there exactly even if you just take heckler and koch for example they really have flooded the world's conflicts with what happens we've seen them pop up in the libyan army we've seen them fall into the hands of the saudi in saudi arabian army and police but when it comes to the oversight by authorities that you mentioned it's actually interesting that actually the german economy ministry in agreement with the german foreign ministry which actually is in charge of these decisions and certificate for weapons exports but when it comes to this case the government is pleading that they had no reason to doubt they steal between heckler and koch and mexico so at the moment when not seeing any soul searching now when it comes to change in developing the weapons

control laws here in germany kate brady thank you. for now in germany the bundestag is due to debate changes to a law on how doctors can inform women that they perform abortions abortion is a criminal offense year with terminations only allowed in certain very restricted circumstances german doctors are also forbidden to provide information about the procedure the new law would allow them to do just that the main focus of the debate between conservative and liberal forces is on when information becomes ever ties. gabriella halder 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 have that . 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. 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. these activists these activists who stop women on the sidewalk from going to the counseling centers or clinic they're simply frightening their traumatizing for women. and then there's the fact that this criminal punishment weighs down on the issue of abortion. or the thought of the thought applied to a new compromise by the german government would allow doctors to state that they offer abortions but more advertising remains for didn't prior to forming a new coalition with angela merkel's conservatives germany social democrats wanted to abolish the abortion advertising ban isn't the time we need to talk to 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 eight abolished it is that i support protection of life 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. 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. and meantime china recently ended its one child policy but the country is still very traditional when it comes to family planning people to be fined for having children out of wedlock the young one 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 alan is single and she doesn't want to be a wife but she does want to be a mother. so has it is interesting to show what do you hope. of wanted to have adult life had to fit. tim 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 have that trait of course. alan 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 she's realistic about her chances of immediate success if you were only seen you know him often through getting access to artificial reproduction technology is 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 unit 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 and 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 the dictionary which in china 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. 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. alan 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 or alone.

still to come on the program shell to give it everything they 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. now consumer groups in russia are warning about a decline in food standards they accuse companies of selling counterfeit products and are calling for more controls on the food industry situation has become worse since moscow bad imports of e.u. and u.s. food in response to sanctions imposed after russia annexed crimea. as more. this is one happy cow she's allowed to go out regularly farmer could be a loafer make sure of that there are five cows in his ban about seventy kilometers north of moscow in the coming weeks they will be more. and more this milk is very

high quality because we only give the cow natural feed no chemicals no additives you know anybody. could be a lot of cultivates a total of ten thousand square metres of land which he bought fourteen years ago he and his wife produced kurtz sour cream and cheese but also sausage they sell their products directly from the farm many customers come extra from moscow they appreciate the quality and they distrust their own commercial food industry a wise choice consumer advocates have stated over and again just because cheese is written on it doesn't mean it's cheese dairy products in particular are often counterfeit they sometimes contain vegetable fat such as palm oil or even more dangerous additives food quality went downhill after the start of ukrainian crisis in two thousand and fourteen at the time the worst imposed sanctions on russia and the kremlin slapped an import ban on food from the u.s. and the e.u.

. mostly. after the embargo food producers focused on increasing production. quality was just an afterthought. so you must question what. consumer advocates tracked down the food adulterated through inspections in the meantime fraud has taken on a whole new dimension. experts estimate the economic losses to be several billion euros a year but there's no political motivation to take action against the food swindlers . short each year we need much stricter food controls our statistics prove it lemuria the situation has hardly improved in recent years you start seeing this you know. controls alone will not be enough overall russia must produce more high quality food like to me it is doing what he can on his small farm.

some sports news for you now we're starting with the champions league in the round of sixteen in europe's top club tournament and mighty manchester city found it tough going on its visit to show that until a former player helps rescue the english side in the first of a two legged tie that went down to the final whistle. favorite city went in front of the old through sergio aguero off to a loose pass was pounced on by silver but shaka soon turned the game on its head two goals from not be 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. but with five minutes to go a perfectly placed free kick from form a shy kid youngster to leave royce and i levelled the school's sunday refused to

celebrate against the club that made him. and there was yet another sting in the tyo some impressive strength and a characteristically cool finish from rai stirling gave his side a three two victory it's advantage city going into the second leg. and the other champions league match saw a return of rinaldo and his new club event has to the city of madrid and this time old rivals that particular dread had the upper hand two late goals have given athletico a vital lead going into the return leg next month. on now it is the biggest night in the british music calendar the brit awards celebrated the best achievements in pop and a glittering ceremony in london on wednesday one of the night's big winners was manchester band one nine hundred seventy five they won album of the year and were also named best british group no scottish d.j. calvin harris also scooped up two of wards for producer and berger single that one

for one pass a collaboration with do a b. . and us singer songwriter pic was honored with an outstanding contribution to music award the first international artist to receive the crux. you got to listen to all of. you know the top stories we're following for you here pope francis has opened a summit in rome on the sexual abuse of children by members of the catholic church he said the world was expecting not just condemnation but also concrete action on the scandal that has dogged his papa see and of these seventy people have been killed and many more injured in a devastating fire in the bangladeshi capital dhaka the blaze is thought to have started in may where house containing flammable materials before spreading quickly to other buildings in the old city. and with that now you're up to date here on deputy news i'm sarah kelly in berlin up next seems a bastion interviews

a senator chairman of the u.s. senate foreign relations committee in conflict zone all that more coming right up thanks so much for watching have a great day. the

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