this is g.w. news live from berlin confronting the sexual abuse of children in the catholic church pope francis gathers high ranking members of the clergy to an unprecedented somebody in rome 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 thought to have started in a warehouse before spreading rapidly to the city's old town and german guns being

used in massacres abroad judges find x. employees from gunmen had clear and called guilty of illegally exporting weapons to mexico we will hear from the lawyer for the plaintiffs. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us pope francis has opened an unprecedented summit on sexual abuse in the catholic church with bishops from around the world francis began the four day meeting by saying that the church must listen to abuse victims but survivors have voiced concerns that the pope's efforts to raise awareness do not go far enough the summit comes after an avalanche of allegations against catholic priests accusing them of molesting young boys and raping none. people are rightly it's uncharted territory for the one hundred

ninety heads of bishops conferences and religious orders present here. they were summoned to the vatican to publicly address the child abuse crisis within the catholic church it's a meeting marked by shame cardinal law is taken as a seller pins even broke into tears the wont of the recent cries carried the memory of illicit suffering. but they also carry the memory of our weakness full. but regret alone can change decades of systematic sexual abuse. and i hope francis made it clear to the priests that he won't let them off easy he says but it's a sensible part of the holy people of god looking at us and do not expect from us simple and predictable condemnations but concrete and effective measures for

the. survivors when the pope to quickly follow his words with deeds. zero tolerance for any priest that has sexually assaulted a child around the world written in the universal church law because it's not universal church law right now it's not their law pope francis could do it he could do it by monday morning he's the only one that can do it. minor changes to canon law i expect that as an outcome more consequential demands such as making it ever acquirement to report suspected abuse of priests to the police are unlikely to be met but some remain hopeful emphasizing that the status quo is simply not an option . there needs to be concrete changes why wouldn't it be optimistic also we want an organization that is going to continue to allow the rape of children and they be where bishops are not held accountable. to lead you to maybe listening to

the emotional testimonies from victims in the coming days will convince church leaders to make the necessary changes. of the more now we're joined by the 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 mind of concrete actions it is also true that the church in twenty years is 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 squad 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 will 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 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 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 seen as somebody thing that is transparent 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 crying 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. it has a lot of people attached to it not only people that are 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 turning towards serious about something that is truly truly white spread into truly massive in terms of the connections and amount of political time institutional relations i do not see you know just the will to change us being selfish and 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 the world really religious affairs correspondent martin back thank you you're welcome. ablaze in the bangladeshi capital dhaka has ripped through buildings claiming more than seventy lives the inferno spread quickly in a central area of the city the buildings were in flammable materials and plastics were being stored over fifty people had been taken to the hospital some suffering critical burns firefighters struggled to bring the blaze under control due to the narrow streets and the traffic congestion around the incident. let's get 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 with electric to transform one beer by and the

fire started from the electrical shocks that he did it with after the chemical whatever it was it was dead and it's in building but also some plastic where holes was there so we stripped it to dick and it was nearby and that and it going to we did have the release just into the building and there were also this truce in the ground over all this for said that it would be sitting just in the kitchen so all is gasoline to explode or so ingeniously. the fire in very deep. 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.

well it is true that there was there was a big fire its engine in two thousand and ten where hundred twenty four people rescued. after that incident the government also initiated this to gauge and we didn't have. any immediate sense of the investigation. but what this is just a relaxed of the boy for students to take this weekend where hope is to move to somewhere else but you look at least police officials say that if it is work to get it in they will be able to shift the chemical weapon notices. of the investigation where it is on the way michael kahn in dhaka bangladesh thank you so much. and we're going to have more on that fire in bangladesh that's coming

in d.w. news asia and that's in about twenty minutes from now but first a quick 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 spokesperson for the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces says that once all civilians are out troops will attack us fighters in the village of bugaboos near the iraqi border. in albania thousands of opposition supporters are taking part in an anti-government rally opposition lawmakers claim that the socialist government is corrupt they are demanding the resignation of the prime minister at the rama as well as fresh elections the e.u. and u.s. have warned albanians opposition against violence. and the 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 court in the southern german city of stood guard has found two former employees of the weapons manufacture hecla and call guilty of illegally exporting guns they have been given suspended prison sentences the court also imposed 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 of. that's also where forty three students disappeared and are thought to have been murdered. police believe the local criminals were responsible and that they were armed with guns manufactured by have called the mexican state of guerrero where the city is located is blacklisted for weapons exports. and i am joined now by whole goal roth power he is the lawyer for the group that launched this procedure by filing an

official complaint against heckler and koch welcome to the program thank you so much for joining us this afternoon and i'd like to begin by asking you is this the verdict that you were hoping for. well in parts it's a historic trial that we have experienced here today and we are very happy that the . heckler and koch company is being sentenced for three point seven three zero million euros as damage payments and. the. tool of the c.e.o. is being liberated it's and have got to know punishment. so you want higher accountability individual accountability than there internally i'd like to ask you more about that and also about this fine you reference three point seven million euros for the company do you see that as enough of

a deterrent to make them think about these policies perhaps rethink them in the future. i definitely think so they have already learned from this nine year long procedure that we have you know and they have lined out a green country policy so they don't want to export anymore in countries like mexico and other areas of war so on that point it's a good step forward and i also think it's a huge signal here from stuttgart for the other companies for the other weapons industry in germany and in europe that if you are doing such risky and deadly. trials and and deadly deals then you have to get the power of the state that will sentence you for peak

payments so let's talk a little bit more about that larger picture that you are referencing here on toward the industry in general because i need it seems and you know correct me if you have a different opinion as of german weapons keep popping up in crisis regions and war zones despite arms embargoes is the onus really on the companies or is this really a failure of the authorities here. you're absolutely right with your question it's not only a failure of the company ok of course the company wants to make the deal they want to make the profits no matter how much casualties we have but it's also the top forty's in seems they were rather working in a team then controlling and checking if it's really possible to send those terrible weapons into areas like in guerrero or other cities

and states so yes the german. government has to definitely rethink. if the. codex and the laws to prevent these kind of illegal exports are good enough if the control system that we are having and which germany says we are proud of it because it's one of the strictest in the world no it's not because there are so many so conventions and as we've seen in the mexico deal they all work together and even politics is involved so it's a bit of the training of the german public to say we have the strictest laws and everyone is asking why is germany on number three and four especially in small weapons exports well we want to thank you very much for joining us to share that you whole globe the lawyer for the group that launched this procedure and against the arms make a heckler and koch we appreciate your insights. thank you. you're

watching news still to come on the program shell to give it everything they have got in the first leg of their champion think that chap with manchester city but it's one of their former players who has the final say. meantime 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 doctor should be allowed to advertise that they 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 know that isn't.

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 portions of 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 they're 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 angela merkel's conservatives germany social democrats wanted to abolish the abortion advertising ban isn't. 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 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 a lot of how many such alternatives to 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. and now it has been hailed as a medical breakthrough doctors in germany say that they have developed a new blood test that can detect whether a woman has breast cancer researchers at the university of heidelberg say that the test is as reliable as a mammogram it costs less though and comes without exposure to radiation breast

cancer as one of the most common types of cancer kills more than six hundred thousand people each year. let's bring in bonnie from our science department now to tell us more about this so i mean how does this blood test compare to america. well i got to say straight off that's what's a little bit odd about this whole research why i would say we should err on the side of caution because on the one how we are being sold that is as good as a mammogram or perhaps even better in the future and yet at the same time we shouldn't compare the two at all because they're completely different so i would be confused actually on the face of it a blood test is less invasive we know that much a mammogram as you said is basically it's an x. ray it's radiation and radiation can cause cancer itself so there's that to bear in mind mammograms also bring back false positive and false negative results especially in younger women and this test it will apparently do better in that area but that's just the problem we don't really know it's been a very small test so far only nine hundred people among them five hundred known

cancer patients so we need bigger tests at this point we need to know more about what specific types of breast cancer can be detected and yet at the same time it's apparently going to be market ready by this autumn so i really think that this is a great step in the right direction but we need to know more at this point and how does it actually work i mean is it just simply as as going to the doctor and the doctor takes a blood. it is actually i mean the process is called liquid biopsies evasively takes in blood you look for what's called biomarkers you basically looking for cancer cells that are circulating in the blood and this is why it's kind of interesting because you can use that they hope to detect the cancer but also to track a cancer as it progresses we already do that with prostate cancer with a p.s.a. test but it will be interesting then if it works if it's good for younger people for early detection but also to say people who have a specific cancer gene that they know of or a family history of cancer will say again we need to know a little bit more about what's what what the details are and we need to launch this

out into a bigger test area and put it into a wider context for us have there been any other attempts to develop a blood test to detect cancer like this yet they have indeed as i said i mentioned that the p.s.a. test for prostate cancer there is also some new research called cancer seek that came out that got apparently to take about eight different types of cancer with an accuracy rate of seventy percent the problem here is though that a lot of these there are tests you know the cancer already needs to be fairly advanced for it to be detected in in the blood so again more work needs to be done it is pretty good a good step but essentially for now you need to be aware you need to get professional advice go to your doctor and and basically check you and monitor your health regularly so that you're on top of this because we all need to know about cancer and be on top of it sort of got a bunny a bit of a science thank you. so

the champions league now and the round of sixteen in europe's top club tournament and mighty manchester city found it tough going on its visit to shelter that is until a former player helped rescue the english side in the first of a two legged tie it 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 cheika soon turned the game on its head two goals from not the shortly before half time both of which came from the spot gave the host 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 foam a shock youngster to leave royce and i leveled the schools so i may refuse to celebrate against the club that made him and there was yet another sting in the

tail some impressive strength and a characteristically cool finish from raw in stirling gave his side a three two victory its advantage city going into the second leg. now for young football players across the african continent the chance to play for in top european club is a dream fourteen year old a well a jew bill is such a dreamer he's hoping to be a global football star and own correspondent florence to kwara followed him as buyer munich's top talent scout visited nigeria. for fourteen year old jabril the next few days could be life changing he's one of eighty boys hoping to catch the eye of one of the world's biggest football clubs they are competing for selection in the buying to use world cup the ten best play as we travel to germany to take part many of the players are from low income families and getting scouted by the

german team could mean a change of fortune for their entire family is a big occasion. for. the mound they're trying to impress is former buying legend klaus. now the club's top talent scouts because america it's a big opportunity for byron munich to find the best players and big talents here in nigeria maybe this time we'll find the next message or cristiana ronaldo it's very difficult because we have our own academy with very good players but in case we find a very good player his level must be much higher than that of our kids because of the difficult legal procedures involved in bringing them over after the training to brill is randomly selected to receive a surprise visit from coach. it's a chance for the coach to see what life is like for some of his voice he tells the coach he has to work every day after school before going to the peach to train.

before heading to bill's house the group makes a quick stop at his place of work here he's paid less than a euro to load up a truck with sand. that sometimes takes a toll on his body at the house to brill is proud to show his special guests his medals his dream of playing for an international team could become a reality sooner than he expected. my life. brings you here. for sure. babbit you know this. is the day everyone has been waiting for and it's time to our nouns the ten best play as that would be representing nigeria at the world cup in germany and joining us. unfortunately bad news for jabril to bill will not be traveling to germany this time but the memory of having one of his football icons in his house who stay with him for

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