the but. thanks. this is you know we resign for growing a historic a vatican some of the catholic church gathers the world's leading bishops to confront sexual abuse of children pope francis who has come under pressure to address the strain of abuse scandals says the world is expecting not just condemnation but concrete action we ask a survivor of clergy sexual abuse if it's too little too late also coming up german guns being used in massacres of rotten judges find former employees of gun maker

a heckler and koch guilty of the illegally exporting weapons to mexico. it was. only a lark thank you so much for your company everyone an unprecedented 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 he began the four day meeting by saying that the church must listen to abuse victims but some survivors say the pope's efforts don't go far enough a summit comes after an avalanche of allegations against catholic priests accusing them of molesting children and raping nuns all right i'm now joined by 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 has 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 low . has to do a radical reshift ing 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 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 read 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 in 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 it were to

a 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. and we shift our attention now to bangladesh where a fire in that country's capital dhaka has killed more than seventy people dozens more have been injured and flames spread quickly through a crowded neighborhood in the oldest part of the city it took firefighters more than ten hours to control the blaze. 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 stuart chemicals one housed a plastics warehouse filled with flammable material those coats in the inferno described how the fire started. if that's what i saw

a sudden massive explosion with fire and shock me i said hopefully destroyed the roadside wall i was in a rickshaw when the explosion took place i don't think my rickshaw driver is alive anymore is going to do doing firefighters had difficulty finding enough water it's a battle the blaze and had to rely on a nearby mosque for help. chief outlined the scale of the catastrophe. for the dead bodies are being sent to dhaka medical college hospital. and we have rescued forty one injured people and sent them to the hospital and our fire extinguishing operation is almost at the last stage we are now searching the rubble in preparation for dampening the area is under way. right as it. is initially struggle 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. well now to some of the other stories making news around the world. 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 iowa stronghold of aka the grave is estimated to hold around three and a half thousand bodies this is the ninth mass grave to be found. a group of lawyers in turkey has gathered outside istanbul's main courthouse to protest against the jailing of journalists earlier this week an appeals court upheld jail sentences for fourteen former staff members of the opposition newspaper quarter yet some have called the ruling the quote end of the free press in turkey. 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 germany is 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 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. with these multi-use because i'm through with them 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 or. it was proven 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 blamed local criminals and believe they used car weapons. got caught 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. venezuelan president nicolas maduro has closed his country's vast land border with brazil as authorities there were preparing to bring an ativan is a whale of one that all says the aid is a pretext for u.s.

military intervention is also considering closing the border with colombia now and meantime rival concerts are being planned at that very border one staged by british billionaire richard branson on the colombian side the other an across mother up on the venezuelan side by comes as the situation on the colombian border intensifies shortages of essential foods and medicines have already driven millions to flee venezuela and earlier i had the opportunity to speak to you he is a latin america correspondent have yet to get us he's. in the colombian border town of kuta and i asked him to tell us what's happening around him. pilot i will we are located at the seimone border leave out of bridges one of the bridges connect in colombia and venezuela back there what you can see is 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 these rival concerts they're 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 this 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 aid to toobin as well and organizing it despite the fact that the country has problems of its own have here in conclusion what about one point zero is going to turn up where you are. he has been traveling for about four hours he is planning to arrive this evening to the venezuelan side 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 low tolerance of the i get us reporting thank you business africa is up next with a look at efforts to help zimbabwe's ailing economy that and a whole lot more coming up with first thank you for spending part of the day with me. and to demand. language courses. video for you. any time. takes a person with people in stories. so special you went.