subscribe to the documentary on. this is t w news why from berlin tonight sex abuse children and the catholic church the vatican the church is leading bishops convene to hear the children's cross. pope francis who has come under pressure to address the string of abuse scandals says the world is expecting not just condemnation but concrete action but is the summit too little too late also coming up german guns being used in massacres

across the world judges find former employees of the gun maker. guilty of illegally exporting weapons to mexico plus a medical breakthrough in the fight against breast cancer german doctors say they've developed a blood test that can detect cancerous cells more quickly and non-invasively. plus new york bans it appears style discrimination the city makes it illegal to target people based on their natural hair or on their hair stock the new legal guidance is aiming at ending discrimination against the way black new yorkers and we're there here. i bring it off it's good to have you with us it. is and on president

a summit on sex abuse today at the vatican pope francis kicked off an historic summit with bishops from around the world to address clerical sexual abuse francis began the four day meeting by saying that the church must listen to abuse victims but some survivors say that the pope's efforts don't go far enough and that he's been too slow to act the summit comes after an avalanche of allegations against catholic priests accusing them of molesting children and raping nuns we pull our rightly as 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 who is taking the philippines even broke into tears the wounds of the recent carry the memory of suffering. but they also carry the memory of our

weakness. 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 at the center 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 it's a universal church law because it's not universal church law right now it's not there 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 common concrete changes why wouldn't i be optimistic also do we want an organization that is going to continue to allow the rape of children and the 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. a majority now with the big table by our religious affairs correspondent martin yeah it's good to see you martin so let's talk about the significance of this conference there's never been one like it before are we getting our hopes up if we expect something significant to come out of. there is

a lot of expectation it's very unclear from reading both media specialist media and people around the church what is the object of that expectation you know i mean one of the things that tends to happen would sexual abuse in the church is that there are a lot of good words there's a lot of praying there's that lot of penance but twenty years twenty years down the line and that's a very long time i mean we have almost nothing in the public sphere that last twenty years we still do not have brought a call we still do not have a policy in the church has still to say exactly what are the steps that they're going to take for the zero tolerance approach of which they've been talking and given the church's history as you say we're talking about decades here with things were covered up and nothing was done. is there is there any reason to expect then that that a change is in the making i mean would a reasonable person be justified in expecting some kind of change to come after this conference i mean recently could mean many different things here is the

reasonable thing to the man would be to the man there truly a way for the church or redress justice and that most likely means turning evidence to national authorities across the board the very same time any body that looks at the church with some degree of you know some degree of detail understands that this is a massive institution that cannot be easily steered so that goes to say that any change in institutional practices that goes all the way from st peter's square all the way down to the small barriers in manila or in. bolivia will take an enormous amount of effort that would most likely less generation so that a very short answer to that is no there is no immediate silver bullet but there are signs that there is something a food earlier we spoke with robert hoatson who was president of road to recovery that's an organization that assists sexual abuse victims and we asked him about the role of pope francis. has not taken actions for this new what he said.

yes he can keep avoiding it as he has done throughout his papacy but it only leads to further and further distress and really 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 that's quite a statement there to make the pope has to resign if nothing comes out of this conference do you agree you know i mean i think that this is this is a bit too much i mean you know it's clear that there has been nowhere near the results that ben would expect i don't think it's true to say that nothing has happened over the last twenty years i mean once again the bone that we have is that

if this is a cover up and we are no longer really just talking about sexual abuse but we're talking actually about all the machine around it so we're really talking about a cover up of these proportions it is perfectly understandable that the boroughs of breaking apart those mechanisms will take a very long time i would agree i mean fully that as a matter of fact the results have not been satisfactory but that this not mean in a new way that there had been no results we say things that twenty years ago or thirty years ago would have been absolutely unthinkable that is true i mean things are talked about now that were not talked about back then this conference will not address martin the problem of sexual abuse of nuns priests raping nuns why because they are here. the most essentially the highest priority is the sexual abuse of children i'm not sure i would lead one to be in the business of having to parse aloud what kind of a sexual crime comes how you're in the least bad you do i do happen to agree that you know with sexual sexual crimes against children a discussion of scale in this many places with this many people in charge is

something that is beyond outrageous and needs immediate immediate action a religious affairs correspondent mark gatiss always martin we appreciate your insights thank you their pleasure. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world and 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 ins a stronghold of rocca the grave is estimated to hold around three and a half thousand bodies this is the ninth mass grave to be found near rocca a fire in the bangladeshi capital dhaka has claimed more than seventy lives dozens more have been injured flames spread quickly through a crowded neighborhood in the oldest part of the city it took firefighters more than ten hours to get the blaze under control the teenage swedish activist grabbed a tool bag is in brussels where she's joined thousands of students who are skipping school to protest climate change the sixteen year old earlier addressed and e.u.

conference to burke has inspired students around the world to stages walkout and to march against global warming. or the german gun maker a german gun maker has been fined three point seven million euros for illegally exporting thousands of assault rifles to crisis regions in mexico two former employees of the company heckler and call have been given suspended jail term germany is among the world's top arms exports years and the case has highlighted the impact of german arms manufacturing in conflict reach. the presiding judge said the case was not a tribunals on german weapons makers but it was the company heckler and koch that was held primarily responsible for the illegal sales of on the firm now has to pay a hefty fine. wheaties multi-species i'm through with them this judgment illustrates the excesses of weapons exporting in this country that's clear that

formal declarations in that way arms and go and don't work and can be swapped are falsified it will without any checks by the authorities as the name and it was pulled from the it while the region of mexico was blacklisted but between two thousand and six and two thousand and nine heckler and koch exploded 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. 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. well venezuelan president nicolas maduro is closing his country's vast the land border with brazil and it comes as authorities there were preparing to bring in aid to venezuela but says the aid is a pretext for u.s. military intervention he's also considering closing the border with colombia rival concerts are being planned at that border one staged by the british billionaire richard branson on the colombian side the other by nicolas maduro on the venezuelan stock shortages of essential foods and medicines have already driven millions of people to flee the country. are if we want to go now to our correspondent javier our greatest he is on the border in the town of colombia good evening to you javier tell. what's happening you're there at the border what's happening where you are. over and we are located at the seymour

bridge one of the bridges connecting venezuela and colombia in the back you see then a swell of the colombian border is just a few steps to the front and what you are seeing here is perhaps the most visible of all faces of the venezuelan crisis people piling up on goods like flour like rice of basic goods and medicines that they can either not afford or not really find in venezuela they are crossing the border every single day and that has been going on for months now but the migration of forty's have reported that there is a significant rise in the amount of people that have crossed the border in recent days looking for these goods especially because they are afraid of what could happen this weekend when we see the concerts you were mentioning and of potential military action as well it will have your we know the president maduro he's announced the closure of the border with brazil and he's also threatening to do the same with colombia and how are people reacting to that i mean do they feel like the

president is basically trying to close the borders and keep them trapped in the country how do they see you. while they are deeply worried brand because first they have to step up their pace if they want to return to their homes before that potentially happens we have seen an acceleration of the rhythm of these border crossings today since the news came out of the closure of the border with brazil and many here are counting on exactly that to happen now face goes in line with security measures that have also been augmented in the other side in colombia the city has declared a yellow alert no congregations will be possible from this evening no cars will be able to circulate throughout the border region from six pm this evening so there are increase acuity measures anyway but the problem is that if we see a border closure that will of course means even more resistance from the majority over. and to let that aid in and if that happens the chances of a confrontation with or without military forces of course increases and that

worries many here and what do you understand about these these rival concerts being planned are we talking about basically on each side of the border we're going to have groups and singers singing against and at each other i mean how is this going to work. well the border region is vast there is certainly room enough for two concerts taking place at the same time we do not have many details about the concert taking place in venezuela the official listing of the artists that are coming to colombia is published we know that there are some international celebrity is that are very well known here in latin america like for example one of these get out or also least phones that we do not know what's going to going to happen in the venezuelan border but this concert from the could as little as highly symbolic not only because it's twice as long taking place on friday and saturday but also because he wants to give colombia humanitarian aid

calling a high park or see when he sees colombia giving ativan as well when the country has its very own problems are w.'s of you're on with us on the border between colombia and venezuela tonight it's obvious thank you very much. our question for you know how much should a kilo of bananas cost well that depends on who you ask the cheaper the better for consumers and the supermarkets that supply them but the farmers and the exporters representing them when they say they need livable wages are now germany's develop minister has suggested that the government should get involved in setting prices for but then. the last full german supermarket chain only said it plumb to cut the price it was willing to pay for a could have been on a supply from ecuador from eight to seven euros. but farmers there resisted the move. they had already been struggling financially plus ecuador has

a statutory minimum selling price for exported bananas. the ecuadorians have now stopped supplying aldi. meanwhile berlin has code on german companies to ensure fair pricing and production conditions that it was this acknowledges that customers need to get the message across that's a good if not we'll have to introduce binding rules on social standards no child labor decent living wages for the plantation workers and basically ecological standards. a lot of supermarkets are showing the way forward it will be such as legal and eat it. and want to see others joining them on the on but on those and see i hope these and big about. complying with those social standards comes at a price however and it's not the price of the farmers in ecuador are demanding. the country is the world's largest export group anonymous its main markets are the e.u.

especially germany and russia. you're watching t.w. news live from berlin seven afros a drug launch drags you can walk your hair anywhere you want in new york city that's after the city made it illegal to harass republish people especially black new yorkers because of the way they wear their hair. coming up in just a moment but first now a medical development that is 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 they say the test is as reliable as a mammogram but cost less and comes without exposure to radiation breast cancer is one of the most common types of cancers it kills more than six hundred thousand people around the world every year. just a few drops of blood could be all it takes to detect whether a woman has breast cancer or not scientists in heidelberg develop this blood test. which helps doctors detect the disease in its early stages using

a technique known as liquid biopsy doctors can identify certain markers released into the patient's blood by a cuma. was in there for safety we are very careful about publicizing this and so we don't want to raise too many hopes to feel what i'm absolutely certain that we have passed a very important milestone here. five hundred women with breast cancer were tested and in seventy five percent of patients that cancer was detected using this technique that figure rose to eighty six percent among women younger than fifty and high risk patients with breast cancer in their family for patients over fifty the detection rate was only sixty percent. the blood test won't be able to replace the imaging based diagnostic techniques most used by doctors at the moment mammograms and ultrasound but it could help with the case is that it difficult to identify in that way scientists say more research needs to be done. you could also challenge now is to replicate these positive results in a much bigger group of patients when that's completed will be able to say that the

test really is reliable. that new study will include two thousand women and the hope is to launch the blood test on the market later this year. all right imagine being judged at work or school on your hairstyle with your natural hair affecting the status of your job well new york city's commission on human rights has just set new guidelines to fight based discrimination through my pov my colleague not my pov one of my colleagues. joins me now in the studio yeah this is what some people are saying they're quite conundrum and deeded is now you've said guidelines but in fact these guidelines give legal recourse some this was released by the new york city commission on human rights and basically what it does is that it gives individuals who've been harassed threatened punished demoted or fired even because of the texture or style of their hair and. it's aimed at basically remedying the

treatment especially of african-americans because of their natural hair and in fact in the new york city commission on human rights says that basically what they want to do is protect people would a lot of them have their natural hair treated or untreated hairstyles such as locks cornrows twist braids buntu knots fades afros and the right to keep hair and untrimmed state penalties of up to two hundred fifty thousand dollars so i assumed that people were actually being fired or not being promoted because of the way the they're here is how would people reacted into the announcement of these guidelines will basically got to this point after an investigation after complaints from workers in the bronx which is in new york city and then the human rights commission chairwoman carmel and. she welcomed this change we're just seeing her tweet come in here now she said hair is a part of you race discrimination based on hair is legal in new york city and we saw the image there and of barack obama the former u.s. president of course now her colleague. also welcome this we're seeing

a couple of images here of some young girls with beautiful hair and there she is and she also welcomed it's a black hair matters i'm so glad that they'll be able to wear their natural hair as they wish in new york city of course referring to her daughters that's marissa esque who is also in this human rights commission now as you know everybody welcome this we're just seeing a tweet here from somebody who says just one more reason for business to move out of new york city and get away from new york city mayor now he also says that he's a supporter of u.s. president donald trump now this change will say to the law doesn't affect. other. garments we'll call them relate related to health and safety and also we're going to hear now from a mississippi t.v. anchor who says that she was actually fired because of her hair. i didn't

mind because my father told me i did a little of the beauty and then i naturally it was best known now my theory all anyone wants to talk about i didn't is that happy so that's a woman in mississippi so this is not just a new york situation no it's a york city in fact and the thing is of course across the rest of the united states this is going to you know it's really got a lot of interest but it's not just there it's across the water in the united kingdom in fact and in africa where many black women straighten their hair or even wear wigs to cover their natural hair using and we're just seeing here a tweet from charlie bring curst cofs she's an award winning magazine writer and she says well you know new york city is right to ban hair discrimination but what about the u.k. and also we're seeing a tweet here from jamaica to see this is a problem that affects particularly black women and then. in many many different countries yeah i mean it's good to see that because it i hate to think what we have

to do lots of us when we have a bad hair day if the law wasn't there to tell you as always thank you thank sprint . our for young football players across the african continent the chance to play for a top european club is and remains a dream but for a fourteen year old this is showing that he is such a dreamer he's hoping to be a global football star our correspondent there followed him his bahrain meetings 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 in the bigger picture and looking

forward to. the man they are trying to impress is former buying legend klaus. now in 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 coach to see what life is like for some of his boys 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 off

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 sooner than he expected. my life. i'm. pretty sure. thank you no. it's the day everyone has been waiting for and it's time to are announced the ten best play as that would be representing nigeria at the world cup in germany and. unfortunately bad news for jabril jabril 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 a long time. and his reminder of the top stories that we're following for you pope

francis is hosting a summit in rome on the sex abuse of children by members of the catholic church he said the world was expecting not just condemnation but also concrete action on the scandal that has dogged the church. you're watching the news from brooklyn quadriga is next i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news followed by the day i hope to see you this.

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