the big. player. played. this is due to be a news line for a bull in a historic vatican some of the catholic church gathers the world's leading bishops to confront sexual abuse of children though francis who has come under mounting pressure to address the string of abuse scandals says the world is expecting not just condemnation but concrete action but is is it too little too late also coming up 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. plus the german guns being used in massacres of broadchurch just fine former employees of gun maker heckler coughed

guilty of illegally exporting weapons to mexico. and new york city bans peristyle discrimination the city makes it illegal to target people based on their natural hair or on a hairstyle on a new legal guidance in a new suit a q. and discrimination against the way black new yorkers where their hair. on little rock thank you so much for your company everyone. an un 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 address clerical sexual abuse francis began the four day meeting by saying the church must listen to abuse 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 on 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 luis cagle 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 the sensible part of the holy people of god looking at us i'm do not expect from us simple and predictable condemnations but concrete and effective measures to. survive this one the pope to quickly follow his words with deeds. zero tolerance for any priest that has sexually assaulted a child around the world written into 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 every choir 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 constant concrete changes why wouldn't it be optimistic on so do we want an organization that is going to continue to allow the rape of children and their being there 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. 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 a self a survivor of clergy sexual abuse and he joins us now from west orange in 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

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 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 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 event dms who have been

criticizing the church for decades it was an insult to those victims and a refit to his 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 the 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 him 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 sir you had the 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. want to tell you now about some of the other stories making news around the world. a fire in the bangladeshi capital dhaka has claimed more than seventy

lives well dozens more have been injured the blaze spread quickly through a crowded neighborhood in the oldest part of the city we'll have more on that story in the news asia right after this bulletin. the evacuation of hundreds of people from these so-called islamic states the last remaining enclave in syria is almost complete a spokesman for the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces says once all civilians are out troops will attack i is fighters in the village of bo's near the iraqi border. forensic scientists in part in a part of syria rather already liberated from i asked say they found the largest mass graves yet containing the bodies of people killed by the militant group while the grave just outside the city of it is estimated to hold around three and a half thousand bodies this is the ninth mass grave to be found.

now to a medical development that's generating a lot of attention doctors here in germany say they've come up with a new blood test that can detect whether someone has breast cancer or researchers at the university of heidelberg say the test is is is as reliable as a mammogram but costs less and comes without exposure to radiation while breast cancer is one of the most common types of cancer it kills more than six hundred thousand people around the world each year now where researchers involved in the project say it would be available for general use this year already. to this one finding i think this is a huge milestone and a real breakthrough because it's a completely new technique for us to use what we already have monograms ultrasound and m.r.i. but this gives us a different type of diagnostic tool it's

a real breakthroughs and all right let's get the latest on this i want to turn to the vicar of bonnie from our science department good to see as can you break it down for us because my understanding is 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 what 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 graham 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 false positive false negative results 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 specially 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 terribly to say whether this will actually end up replacing a mammogram 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 got going here don't compare us what we're comparing it with 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 bonnie from our d.w. science department thank you. and you're watching to see here's what's still ahead. hour for those dreaded lobster eggs you can wear your hair in any way you want in new york after the city makes it illegal to harass or punish people especially black new yorkers because of their hair texture or style. but first the u.s. vice president mike pence has announced that he will be heading to bogota colombia to discuss the situation in venezuela would regional leaders well the news comes as the situation of venezuela's borders intensifies shortages of essential foods and

medicines have already driven millions to flee the country british billionaire richard branson is now organizing a concert in colombia to raise money for aid while president nicolas maduro is planning a rival concert on the other side of the border in venezuela all right so it's turning out to be a battle of a concert so shaping up but there have yet to get us a deal of his latin america correspondent is on the border in the town of colombia have you have good to see you what's happening where you are. pilot i will we are located at the scene leave out of bridges one of the bridges connecting colombia and venezuela back there what you can see is in venezuela colombia at the border is just a few steps in the front and what you're seeing here is the face of the crisis in venezuela people going back and forth crossing the border into colombia to get food

and medicine that they can either not afford or simply not find in their home country authorities here have reported that in the last few days there has been an increased influx of migrants that are trying to get these products they are stockpiling afraid of what could happen during the weekend and dad has let the authorities to declare yellow alert here in the city and of course also to try and reinforce the security with at least one thousand five hundred or more personnel that is going to try and keep people safe right and as all of this is unfolding right behind you there is this rival does rival concepts they are going to take place tomorrow what can you tell us about that. well the first concert as you already mentioned it was called by richard branson it is expected to have an attendance of about two hundred fifty thousand people that are going to get here. including some very known guests in the latin american music scene like or when we get out we will also see some presidents of the latin american region like

the president of chile who is going to attend here of course a big challenge for this country and for the city particularly now on the other side trying to make his concert as symbolic as possible extending it twice as long it's going to take place on friday and saturday and he will also deliver humanitarian aid to colombia a symbolic gesture to show what he calls is a hypocrisy by the colombian government giving aids to win as well and organizing at the spite the fact that the country has problems of its own i have here in conclusion a what about when not going to go is going to turn up where you are. he has been. travelling for about four hours he is planning to arrive this evening to the van as well inside where the venezuelan concert is going to take place let's not forget that he cannot leave his country despite the fact that he has proclaimed himself president of venezuela authorities are still not necessarily obeying him and that is the risk here we do not know how events are going to unfold because

there is uncertainty about what orders the military will have both in venezuela and colombia. get us reporting thank you. i'm back here in germany 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 and to germany is now considered among the world's top arms exporters and the case has highlighted the impact of german arms manufacturing in conflict regions. the presiding judge said the case was not a tribunal 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. with these more time because i'm through with them this judgment illustrates the existence of weapons exporting in this country that'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 authority. and it was proven 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 they used weapons. while the state got court should leniency to five defendants accused of being involved in the illegal arms sales to were given suspended sentences while three were acquitted . activists 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 now imagine being judged at work or at school or on your hairstyle or your natural hair that it might even affect the status of your job well now new york city's commission on human rights to set new guidelines to fight hair based discrimination recognizing it as a form of racial discrimination and i call it publically ileus joins me now to talk more about these a new set of guidelines tell us what are they about well first and foremost this is coming in black history month so it's up to being well particularly this time of year it's been celebrated in the united states at the moment now the new guidelines released by the new york city commission on human rights and aims to end the targeting the targeting of people based on their hair or hairstyle at work school or in public spaces no. the guidelines give legal recourse and this is key here because guideline sounds like it's not going to be implemented in any way legally

but it is basically this gives individuals the right to make any sort of legal complaint if they've been harassed threatened punished demoted or fired based on the texture or style of their hair and the aim is to remedy the treatment of particular black people and african-american people in the states and it mentions specifically i'm going to read it it says it's the right of new yorkers to maintain their natural hair treated or untreated hairstyles which is locks corn corn rows twist braids buntu knots fades afros and or the right to keep their hair and on coat or on trim state now there's fines of up to two hundred fifty thousand dollars this is very serious and the move was actually prompted in part by investigations after complaints from workers and a new york area of the bronx right ok so how have people reacted to the you now sent of these guidelines but as you can imagine it's being welcomed broadly in new york city and if we take

a look at some of the tweets and the social media content that's a little to us at the human rights commission chairwoman carmen medalists she tweeted a picture of a young boy touching former u.s. president barack obama's hair and she said hair is a part of you race discrimination based on hair is now illegal in n.y.c. your hair your right and what i see now we're seeing some images here of her colleagues children they're her daughters and she rides marisa esca says black hair matters i'm so glad that they will be able to wear their natural hair as they wish and you york city of course referring to her daughters so i think everybody has been so positive about it we have this tweet there were others from somebody who is . he says he's a u.s. supporter of u.s. president donald trump he says just one more reason for business to move out of new york city and get away from new york. city mayor so they can affect health standards he says ok now this isn't just

a problem in new york city i mean this is also taking place elsewhere have other places that we acted with similar guidelines yeah you're right but before we move on to that in fact it's affecting like made mention to the health issue and there's hair napster's toys and all that are still going to be required for health and safety and in fact i think the best thing is that we hear from a former mississippi t.v. anchor who claims that she was even fired because of her hair all right and we've got to leave it there a problem is thank you so much for bringing us up date on those well trendsetting guidelines certainly thank you. for a young football players across the african continent the chance to play for a top european club is a dream fourteen year old boy. is such a dream are you hoping to be a global football star in our correspondence a flourish to followed him as foreign 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 entire family to be able to. afford. the man 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 to brill is randomly selected to receive a surprise visit from coach. it's a chance for the courts 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 house the group makes a quick stop at his place of work here he's paid less than a euro to load off 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 fun international team could become a reality soon as that he expected. new hampshire. for the face. thank you no. it's the day everyone has been waiting for and it's

time to announce the ten display as that would be representing nigeria after walt called 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. you're watching new day over news live for roland coming up next in w news asia will mean a woman in china who wants to become a mother but a very different kind of mother her society considers appropriate and another fashion house kicks off a controversy in china this time it is this freckled supermodel imposing western beauty standards. you're watching you know we news from berlin the army leyla herad of it you can get all the latest news and information

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