this is the w.'s line from berlin a historic vatican summit the catholic church gathers the world's leading bishops to confront sexual abuse of children pope francis who has come under mounting pressure to address the string of abuse scandal says the world is expecting not just condemnation but concrete action but is it too little too late also coming up scenes of devastation in bangladesh as a fire engulfed 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 through the city's old town. and german guns being used in massacres abroad judges find former employees of gun maker heckler and koch guilty of illegally exporting weapons to mexico we'll hear from a lawyer for the plaintiffs. plus a medical breakthrough in the fight against breast cancer german doctors say they've developed a blood test that can detect the killer disease more quickly and non-invasively and that should be available this year. thank you so much for your company everyone. and the president at summit on sexual abuse is underway right now in the vatican pope francis kicked off a landmark gathering with bishops from around the world to read. clerical sexual

abuse crisis began the four day meeting by saying that the church must listen to views victims and survivors have voiced concerns that the pope's efforts to raise awareness don't go far enough and that he's been too slow to act while the summit comes after an avalanche of allegations against catholic priests accusing them of molesting children and raping nuns 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 lewis take all of the philippines even broke into tears the wounds of the recent carry the memory of illicit suffering. but they also carry the memory of our week. full. but regret alone can change

decades of systematic sexual abuse here and 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 time 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 it's a 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 every cryer meant 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 common concrete changes why wouldn't it be optimistic also do we want an organization that is going to continue to allow the rape of children and their being where bishops are not held accountable. to lead you to maybe listening to the emotional testimonies from victims and the coming days will convince church leaders to make the necessary changes. right i'm now joined by a former priest and now victim advocate dr robert hoatson he is the co-founder of road to recovery a foundation that assists sexual abuse victims he is himself a survivor of clergy sexual abuse and he joins us now from west orange new jersey a very warm welcome doctor what are the chances that this summit which is

currently underway the first of its kind will lead to a meaningful accountability and change. well based on the the run up to this summit we don't have much hope for for high expectations because the pope himself said that there were not to be high expectations the expectations are low now any c.e.o. of an organization who talks about the expectations for his organization being too low. has to do a radical reach shifting of his leadership in order to say we are not going to settle for anything less than the highest of expectations and that is to end the scourge of clergy sexual abuse for ever so do you think that victims should not get their hopes up well no i think the victims should keep their hopes up because it is only their courageous coming forward that has made any change at all for the pope

just mentioned when he opened the summit that he with the bishop should listen to the victims and yet he himself yesterday attacked the very effective who have been criticizing the church for decades it was an insult to those victims and to refix them is ation of those victims for the pope to say that those who are constantly critiquing the church are working with the devil what is the pope attempting to say are you pope francis siding with victims or are you not you have to make a preferential option for victims and you have to then raise the expectations for this summit to say no child in this church will ever be unsafe again. now let's continue talking about the pope because the pressure is on pope francis to to do something concrete but as you've outlined as well in your answers he's

been very slow to act i'm wondering can he continue ovoid ing fundamental change in applying zero tolerance when it comes to abuse within the ranks of the catholic church yes he can keep avoiding it as he has done throughout his papacy but it only leads to further and further distress and re traumatization of victims and yes he certainly can't continue on this path but it's going to lead to a further implosion of the catholic church which is imploding daily because actions have not been taken to this point and if this summit does not create substantive changes in the way the church operates then the pope probably will be called to resign so you really think that that's going to happen that if this summit ends and nothing changes that that will be the next step. well that's

the only alternative you know he he defrocked cardinal theodore mccarrick who are dating me to the priesthood in one nine hundred ninety seven and we thought that that was a major step and a signal to victims that that the hierarchy was going to be held completely accountable well there are many many other bishops that should be defrocked as well but pope francis seems not to be rushing to do those kinds of things at the present time if this summit doesn't come out with concrete actions to hold a particular bishops accountable well then we're going to go back to square one and francis is not going to be the one to clean it up the sir you had the were to recovery foundation a foundation that assists sexual abuse victims you were unfortunately also yourself abused as a young man how has that changed your life well i was i was sexually abused

as a young man in the religious life but i was also sexually abused by clergy as a child and so it has affected every aspect of my life i am in my forty third year of psychotherapy attempting to recover from the ravages of sexual abuse that lasted from the ages of approximately three to the age of thirty and i was abused not only as a child but also as a young man in a religious order of men and i was propositioned in the seminary when i was preparing to become a priest and so this dysfunctional culture of the catholic church has to be reversed and of pope francis doesn't take significant action to reverse it then the church will continue on its downward spiral dr robert hoatson co-founder of road to recovery thank you sir for joining us thank you for having me it was

a pleasure. a blaze in the bangladeshi capital dhaka has ripped through buildings claiming more than seventy lives well the inferno spread quickly in a central area of the city through buildings where flammable materials and plastics were being stored over fifty people have been taken to hospital some suffering critical burns firefighters struggle to bring the blaze under control due to the narrow streets and traffic congestion around the incident. scenes of devastation there let's get you the latest now from dhaka where. is he is a journalist a model if you were at the scene of the blaze what more have you learned. there today. when the plant but there's almost. a list of broken down and i felt the whole area was small crime people all over the day

and for the villagers. who byron and i have seen two cars to buy and own are just floor relief and only lifting this truck just. i have seen you know a small book just of different. goods we're scared to leave yet and then it was huge so. many bodies have been taken to the hospital level port say the latest reports say that seventy people are feared to have died in this a devastating blaze is the number of victims expected to rise. yes it did but the seven years in the hospital. that has been the focus has been to the number of these this is the off the ship and don't disturb it it may be

others to begin to enjoy. it to proceed to push environment so there are several to give against this the most you just expect the dense demetri's manoharan in dhaka bangladesh thank you very much for updating us. on all our next want to tell you about some of the other stories making news around the world. a group of lawyers in turkey has gathered outside istanbul's main courthouse to protest against the jailing of journalists while earlier this week an appeals court upheld jail sentences for fourteen former staff members of the opposition newspaper at all some have called the ruling the quote and a free press in turkey. forensic scientists in syria say they found the largest mass grave yet containing the bodies of people killed by islamic state

militants located just outside the former i asked stronghold of the grave is estimated to hold around three and a half thousand bodies while this is the ninth mass grave to be found near a. teenage swedish activist. is in brussels where she's joined students for skipping school to protest climate change climate change while the sixteen year old earlier dressed in a new conference tom burke has inspired students around the world to stage school walkouts to march against global warming well the students are urging politicians to double their carbon reduction targets. a german gun maker has been fined three point seven million euros for illegally exporting thousands of assault rifles to crisis regions in mexico while two former employees of the firm heckler and koch have been given suspended jail terms all the guns are

said to have been involved in the deaths and disappearances of dozens of people in the southern mexican city in twenty fourteen while germany is among the world's top arms exporters and the case has highlighted the impact of german arms manufacturing in conflict with. the presiding judge said the case was not a tribe you know on german weapons makers but it was the company heckler and koch that was held primarily responsible for the illegal sales of arms the firm now has to pay a hefty fine. this judgment illustrates the excesses of weapons exporting in this country it's clear that formal declarations about where arms are going don't work and can be swapped are falsified it will without any checks by the authorities. and it was proved that. the it while the region of mexico was blacklisted but between two thousand and six and two thousand and nine heckler and

koch exported four point one million euros worth of assault rifles there in two thousand and fourteen six people were killed and forty three students disappeared without a trace mexican police blame local criminals and believe the weapons. that got court should leniency to five defendants accuse who want germany to scale back the highly profitable arms manufacturing sector say the case shows that the country is too cavalier about selling guns throughout the world germany approves some six point two billion arm sales in the year twenty seventeen. like. your washing you do when you are several a lot more to tell you about it coming up gave it everything they had in the first leg of their champions league match up with manchester city but it was one of their former players who have the final say. that story coming up a little later on first here in germany the issue of abortion is currently the

subject of affairs debates abortion is a criminal offense here with terminations only allowed in certain very restricted circumstances while the current controversy centers on whether german doctors 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 an. 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. and the activists these activists who stop women on the sign 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. the thought of. a new compromise 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. it 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 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. this how many 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. it's being hailed as a new medical breakthrough doctors in germany say they've developed a new blood test that can detect whether someone has breast cancer or researchers at the university of heidelberg say the test is as reliable as a mammogram but costs less and comes without exposure to radiation the rest counsellor is one of the most common types of cancer it kills more than six hundred thousand people globally each year all right let's get the latest on this i want to turn to a body from a science department good to see is all fit can you break it down for us because my understanding is that there is already

a blood test out there that is being used to detect whether a person carries a gene that could lead to breast cancer how is this one different. well look there are other tests out there but i want to explain first of all why this compares to mammograms is very important i think amanda graham is it is still considered to be among the best way to detect breast cancer in a woman and yet it's a very heavy procedure for a woman to undergo a blood test is less invasive and there are other tests on there i'll get to that a second amount of ground you've got to remember is an x. ray it's radiation and radiation can lead to cancer in some cases you probably wouldn't have that with a blood test mammograms also come out with a positive false negative result which can lead to anxiety or a false sense of security and this blood test should do better in that area it is said the only problem is we don't really know the details because the study so far relatively small is none of the people have been tested on five hundred of which were known cancer patients that could have jumped the stats slightly so we really

need a bigger study on this we need to know more about what specific kinds of cancer this breast cancer this test can detect especially as we hearing that the researchers say this will be ready for the market within about six months or so so if we don't nail this down right now we could be heading into a large scale public clinical trial on unwitting patients so we really need to know more now on this and other blood test as well like cancer see for instance so it's basically to early to say whether this will actually end up replacing and them a gram people should still have a mammogram well at the moment the research is one of the university clinical saying look it's not going to replace we don't want to replace the monogram we don't replace other detection methods either it's a kind of a strange sort of ping pong they've got going here don't compare us what we're comparing it we may be better than or that the point is it could end up being just another one of the many tests that you can take to test for and track the

progression of a cancer so the mammogram is still out there. all right says the thicker bonnie from our daily science department thank you for making. our right to the champions league now the round of sixteen in your top club tournament and my eighty manchester city found it tough going on its visit to a shelter that is until a former shelter player house rescued 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 after the loose pass was pounced on by silver but shocker soon turned the game on its head two goals from not bill bedser there 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 foma shy kyung stood 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 child some impressive strength and a characteristically cool finish from raju stirling gave his side a three two victory it's advantage city going into the second leg. for young football players across the african continent the chance to play for a top european club is a dream or fourteen year old jew bro is such a dreamer he's hoping to be a global football star in our correspondent a florist. followed him as by an 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 by any 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 get in scouted by the german team could mean a change of fortune for their and tire family in the bigger picture and looking forward to. 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 messi 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

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 bill is proud to show his special guests his medals his dream of playing for an international team could become a reality soon of that he expected. brings you here. for the show. standard you know. it's

a good day everyone has been waiting for and with times you are now stuck with ten display as that would be representing nigeria of the world cup in germany and joining us. unfortunately bad news for jabril would 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 a long time. and now reminder of the top a story there we're tracking for you this hour pope francis has opened a summit in rome on the sexual abuse of children by members of the catholic church is that the world was expecting not just condemnation but also concrete action on a scandal that has dogged his papacy. there watching you don't years from now on layla rock focus on europe is up next and don't forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our web site just had to do w dot com for now thank you so much for spending as

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