this is g.w. news live from berlin confronting the sexual abuse of children by the catholic church pope francis gathers high ranking members of the clergy to an unprecedented summit in rome he says the world is expecting not just condemnation but concrete action is this the 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 thought to have started hitting warehouse before spreading rapidly through the city's old town and german guns being used in

massacres abroad the judges find x. employees from the gunmaker highclere and call them guilty of a legally exporting weapons to mexico. 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 open to the four day meeting by insisting that the church must listen to abuse victims but survivors have voiced concerns that the pope's efforts to raise awareness don't go far enough the summit comes after an avalanche of allegations against catholic priests excusing them of molesting young boys and raping nuns. let's listen now to more of what pope francis had to say. sensible part of the holy

people of god looking at us do not expect from us simple and predictable condemnation but concrete and effective measures. of god 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 produced concrete actions do you see the potential for that concrete action because i mean many are looking 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 be some users self 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 is white 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 from king this very very senior new york former garden which seem 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 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. you know i mean clearly responsibility transparency and accountability are important things i think that what is telling about the fact that these are actually headlining topics is that the church understands that it has lost legitimacy in zero three areas i mean the

church is not seen as somebody that has transpired and it's not seen as something that is responsible and most certainly it's not seen as something that is accountable to 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 in a certainly 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 and amount of political and institutional relations i do not see you know just the will to change as 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. well now it's going to check of some other stories making news around the world the evacuation of hundreds of people from the so-called islamic states last remaining enclave in syria is almost complete a spokesman for the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces says that once all civilians are out troops will attack i-s. fighters in the village of bog was near the iraqi border. in albania thousands of opposition supporters are taking part in an anti-government rally opposition lawmakers hoping that the socialist government is corrupt they're demanding the resignation of the prime minister and iran as well as fresh elections both the e.u. and the us have warned albania's opposition against the violence and 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. a devastating fire has killed at least seventy people and the bangladeshi capital dhaka more than fifty people are injured many of them in critical condition now 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 caught in the inferno described how the fire started. if that's what i saw a sudden massive explosion with fire and shock waves that hopefully 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 do it firefighters had difficulty finding enough water it's a battle the blaze and had to rely on a nearby mosque for help. but 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. right 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 burns. more on this now we are joined by my mil khan he is a journalist joining us from dhaka how did the fire start and why did it spread so quickly. well the first starter thrown explosion of compressed natural gas cylinder with heat electrical transformer one here by the fire starter for the electric shocks i think. we have to take every single wire holes it was there and it's in building but also some plastics where holes was there so we stripped really to dig them out it was a bite and. end it ended with the police 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 kitchen so all his guest in the exploder seventeen

years he saw the fire in very feet. and we have to say and we were 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. whether it is true that there was there was a big fire student in two thousand and ten where hundred twenty four people was killed. after that incident government also initiated in this together and we didn't have. any any any any injuries or of the investigation. but what this is just a relaxed of the boy for students to date this weekend where hope is to moved

into somewhat hills but you know police police official said today that if all do it is work to get it in there will be able to shift the chemical weapon hoses. and the investigation. is on the way. michael kahn in dhaka bangladesh thank you so much. think. a court of the southern german city of stood guard has found two former employees of the weapons manufacturer hecla and call guilty of illegally export of guns they've been given suspended prison sentences the court also imposing a fine of three point seven million euros on the company for sending assault rifles to crisis regions in mexico the case centered on an attack that killed six people in the southern mexican city mexican city. that's also where forty three students disappeared and i thought to have been murdered police believe that local criminals were responsible and that they were armed with guns manufactured by had the right

call the mexican state of guerrero where the city is located is blacklisted for weapons exports 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 one hundred eighty two million euro varies 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 so that includes. states or members of nato or also countries which have closed association agreements with nato so on paper. i think 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 certainly thrusts 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 the. controls and particularly with a specific asian for the end destination to make sure that these weapons on sold on to other countries but in this case they weren't actually sold to other 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 they're exactly even if you just take heckler and koch for example they really have flooded the world's conflict zones 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 cause and mexico so at the moment when not seeing any soul searching now when it comes to change in or developing the weapons control laws here in germany cape verde thank you. and also 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 in germany with terminations only allowed in certain very restricted circumstances and 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 the conservative and liberal force this is on when information becomes advertize. 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 and the woman doesn't know 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 that's him 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. to the 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. 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 one thousand eight abolished.

i support protection of life or 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 this happen and they think such alternatives could take years to really happen in germany but for now the long time to brew of abortion has got both german politics and society talking. watching d.w. news still to come on the program shelter give it everything they have got 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. on now to a story of lost childhood and afghanistan in a country where half of the population is under eighteen it's estimated that more than one million children work instead of going to school some initiatives are

trying to break the vicious cycle of child labor and poverty but decades of violence are taking a terrible toll on afghanistan's children. my name is ahmed says this child i am six years old and i work here in the poppy fields where there are no more due to her and i work from sunrise until about ten says this boy sometimes i manage to go to school for a few hours in the afternoon. the seed pods are ready to burst its harvest time the capsules are slashed by hand and the raw opium is collected the work is done by children there are no adults anywhere in sight across the fields. the youngsters earn around one hundred afghanis for an entire day of work the equivalent of just over one year zero. a few hundred metres away is this workshop this young boy can barely hold the heavy hammer in his hand his face is

covered in sweat it's hot and sticky in the dark blacksmith's shop. a village in the province of an ngo heart but it could be any other province in afghanistan almost half the country's population is under eighteen and they have to help support their families otherwise they can survive work instead of school and childhood to threaten yours that many children have to work because the parents need the money to support the rest of the family it's easy to condemn child labor but without their earnings many families would slide into even greater misery. yours ya taught hospital. weaving carpets this work is done by girls it's estimated that more than one million children in afghanistan have to go out and earn money but this due to sticks often don't take girls into account because they work at home. for the american dorm i sit here and work i don't know anything else if i actually manage to make it to school some day i probably won't have any

time to do homework. for impoverished families children who are forced to work and can't go to school one initiative aimed at breaking this vicious cycle involves giving the children lessons in the afternoons along with a warm meal but many villages are very remote and parents often lack the necessary motivation the careens have three children the eldest is helping with their work the two younger ones are sleeping the mother periodically gets up and gives the younger children the small black pellets raw opium is to keep them asleep so the others can continue their work undisturbed. the mother knows exactly what she's doing and it took a while until she was willing to be filmed as she administered the opium to her youngest child did up work i give it to them a few times a day in the morning i weave carpets then i work as a washer woman then i go to the market and buy vegetables and opium for the

children i have to keep them sedate and who got the ones i can't get at all done them they can hardly stand it's either drugs or work instead of school and right he mccurry me isn't the only mother that gives her children drugs now we're heading to venezuela where the army 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 one of my dough worsens shortages of essential foods and medications have already driven millions of innocent lives to flee the country more than two hundred twenty thousand have moved to the colombian capital bogota d.w. 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 as capital bogota for two months after leaving his family behind. my father my mother my cousins nephews. sometimes i saw pictures of him it's not the same thing when my everyday life is a completely. totally different thing when i. 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 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. 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 a little minutes. looking at a place isn't this if you can feel closer to home display it tastes like my own mother made it it was even the most political scene and is 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. to the champions league now and the round of sixteen in europe's top club tournament and maybe manchester city found it tough going on its visit to south korea that is until a former salcombe player how rescue the english side in the first of a two legged tie that went down to the final with. favorite city went in front of

the old through sergio aguero after a loose pass was pounced on by silver but shocker soon turned the game on its head two goals from not be open 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 former shark youngster to leave royce and i leveled the schools sunday refused to celebrate against the club that made him. there was yet another string in the tyo some impressive strength and a characteristically cool finish from raju stirling gave his side a three two victory its advantage shitty going into the second right eye and now the other champions league match saw the return of hernando and his new club ventus to the city of madrid and this time old rivals atletico madrid had the upper

hand to late goals to gave athletico a vital lead going into the return leg next month. well now it is the biggest night in the british music calendar the brit awards celebrated the best achievements and pop at a glittering ceremony in london on wednesday one of the night's big winners was manchester band the one nine hundred seventy five they won album of the year and were also named best british group the scottish d.j. calvin harris also skipped of two words for producer and british single that was for one kiss a collaboration with the singer to a bow and us singer songwriter jake was honored with the outstanding contribution to music award the first international artist to receive. congratulations to all of you watching t w news from berlin i'm sorry kelly focus

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moldova. empty villages abject poverty corruption. many moldovans have left to work in foreign countries others have lost faith in the government. young people are moving overseas. the republic of moldova headed for collapse. next d.w. . entering the conflict zone confronting the powerful.

this week comfort zone is of the amul security conference in munich because. of my guest here is jim risch chairman of the powerful senate foreign relations committee how damaging is this transatlantic divide and how committed is the trumpet ministrations to nato conflict so far in sixty minutes p.w. fox. hey this is not. that's what video game music sounded like thirty years ago. today these tracks take the experience to a. sense to him talk composing limits.

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