digital. storage market week long double. play. this is t w news live from berlin disappointment for kenya as l g b g q community as a potentially landmark decision on decriminalizing case acts based postponed we hear what it's like to be lesbian in a country that's right the persecution and hatred of homosexuals also coming up. from political showdown to a battle of the bands and venezuela tens of thousands of people had to rival music

concerts here venezuela's border with colombia the events are kicking off what could be a decisive weekend as the impasse over aid for the country keeps up. and pope francis outlined some new steps to stop the sexual abuse of children in the catholic church the move comes as a summit in rome hears harrowing testimony from survivors of rape and assault by members of the clergy. claim. welcome to the program. l.c.t. activists in kenya say they're disappointed at the high court's decision to delay a ruling on decriminalizing gay sex it's currently not illegal to identify as gay or lesbian but intimate acts between say same sex couples are a crime and can be punished with up to fourteen years in prison the judge deferred proceedings until may twenty fourth citing what he called

a heavy caseload some activists called the decision ludicrous the law dates back to british colonial rule although it's rarely used to prosecute same sex acts between consenting adults activists say it is used as grounds for institutionalized discrimination against the gay community in kenya. miscalls may be for you but never mind rules apply which means. sometimes my so why are you a good mom but just because i used to love before and. if it weren't for marrying with three scars he would have a hard time guessing what she's been through mary identifies as a lesbian that is why her stepfather koster out into the street when she was still a child that is why she was attacked by a group of men as a teenager and infected with hiv be. it took

down. to me all of about. a minute after me baffled. by whom of my own. thinking. and then even killed myself. comb over and over just when i was pregnant. and and i'm so thankful for growth who made clothes so when twenty years later. i consumed the money. to give me. some christopher has given mary strength and pace and prejudice and a lot more that criminalizes mary's very identity. in kenya it's not illegal to be gay but it is against the law to act on it in practice this means that in so many cases like that of mary as a beauty i.q. couples have had their relationships repressed by the state and given the

widespread disapproval of homosexuality they face constant discrimination and the threat of violence in their community. mission we did is really did. because they're bringing evil on the world god groups are. not arguments. it's not accepted. we cantered it and have never learned to it that it's our behavior to be creative themselves although they are born like that i don't know i see it is i'm not it is a good new school. because i'm still a teen she's encountered hasn't broken very spirit. asking yourself. a minute this is. who or how you can move on way to cause a lot different in theirs and make me want to go to one love. love i don't know what these hold will hold. mary hopes that soon

she won't have to be imprisoned for loving women and that one day in kenya she might be able to marry the woman he loves. to. correspondent money quote about this in nairobi following these developments melanie this court ruling was highly anticipated and the judge is now claiming to have a heavy caseload do you have any more insight into the lay. not really but after speaking to a lot of activists on the ground today and they have been telling me that they believe that the court is simply storming they think that the judge just just don't want to deal with the backlash from either side at least not yet but that's of course not what the judge told us today he spoke of the heavy workload he spoke of

a pile of documents which is growing taller than himself and he also mentioned that the other two judges who are on the same case with him ruling currently out of the out of town but this has of course been a huge disappointment for the people who came to the courtroom this morning it was absolutely packed because they hoped that kenya would have been ready to take a decision which would have moved an entire section of the population currently plus it classified as illegal to the state of of equal citizen equal citizens here . and we saw a little bit in your piece about you know how people on the streets for cvs you know being gay but what is the public perception of this case like in kenya what is the debate then like. it's a widely debated topic him and of course you can see on social media repeal one sixty two all over social media and in nairobi it's a big there's

a debate because the idea of the i.q. community here is quite big it's been fighting for them to be seen as equal citizens as human beings just like everyone else for years now but then of course we have the poorer parts of the country too but people are more conservative more traditional and for a lot of people that there is really nothing to be discussed for them it's simply african to conduct and same sex intimacy and yet they don't really question this law which is essentially a leftover from the colonial era from colonial rule rather than a truly african law as they see it so given that what do you think the chances are that the judges will in fact wall to decriminalize same sex relations it's hard to say but the activists i've spoken to today i'm cautiously optimistic that is because kenya has set precedents in the parks for example last year the courts ruled that forced

a not examinations to which we used to determine whether or not man had an gaged in sex legal so there is definitely hope of course we don't know if the judges are going to stick to the date that they have set themselves that that line but people like mary have been saying that they will keep on fighting anyway so that one day they will just be like everyone else. the ball in their own way for us thank you so much and now to some of the other stories making news around the world saudi crown prince mohammed bin salam has praised his country's relations with china as quote troublefree the crown prince on a trade visit to beijing faces intense pressure in the u.s. and elsewhere following the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi at the saudi consulate in istanbul last year. in bangladesh family members are still waiting for news of missing loved ones after wednesday's deadly blaze in the

capital dhaka twenty one of the nearly seventy victims are yet to be identified forensic experts have been brought in to conduct d.n.a. tests. india says it is building dams to block its waters from the indus river from flowing into pakistan the move is a bid to punish pakistan following a suicide attack in india administered kashmir that killed over forty indian soldiers last week. not to venezuela where the standoff between the country's rival leaders is playing out as a battle of the bands groups from the opposing political camps are set to play rival concerts near kuta a colombian city on the border with venezuela british billionaire richard branson is backing the opposition concert people have begun streaming into the venue around a quarter of a million are expected branson is hoping to raise one hundred million dollars for food and medical aid the other concert meanwhile is being planned by venezuela's

embattled president nicolas maduro. has now also closed venezuela's border with brazil to prevent the delivery of humanitarian aid he says the aid is a pretext for military action and our correspondent. on the line for us where the concerts are taking place there if you can hear me what's going on where you stand what's the atmosphere like there. well you can probably hear the noise behind my back because it officially started about three minutes ago that leaves a lot of noise and although we love the beach and there are those big pictures to make videos they're there for the people here who have you today whatever the atmosphere is very positive it's a message of hope and thirty need for the albums of a felon that are listening to their favorite started opening words they need to be found their way but of course there's also a lot of tension in the air people know that or that things could get ugly in

a matter of hours and many of those are pending because their book they overnighted tried to get that ministry and did across the border in the new the tomorrow there are provided by the organizers for them to do so little attention to them here because they know that they're enjoying the day but that they have a big mission tomorrow and people you've been talking to what do they say about this this contest of conference was their assessment of the situation. well of course both events are highly symbolic and they are telling two very different things for them because well it doesn't and this thought and it's showing again as well as that is desperate braid where people are hungry where they can abort method where they actually need leadership to change their country has to have a valid legitimacy marcus the on the other side of the border the picture that is deeper on this very different it is the job of it as well as it is under attack by foreign powers mainly the levy and united states and

a country that has to be determined by hope of ever going to be going to both and especially the military force that there were both on our side to show their strength to the size of the print. to include with us for us thank you so much. you're watching news still to come the italian island of sardinia has turned from a sleepy tourist destination to italy's political hotspot a closely watched election there has drawn in the country's tough talking deputy prime minister the leader of the country's far right league party. today is the second day of the vatican's four day summit aimed at tackling sexual abuse in the catholic church it has brought together bishops vatican officials experts and the heads of religious orders it's also allowed abuse victims to tell cardinals and officials directly about the devastating effect abuse has had on their lives many victims have suffered in silence others have seen first hand

efforts by the church to cover up sexual abuse but as one survivor says in this next report that culture could slowly be changing. its was ten years old when his mother died of cancer it was nine hundred eighty six the boy was sent to a relative a catholic priest in a village and has said the clergyman became his foster father and i was feeling try to create a comfortable sitting on the sofa watching t.v. in the evenings. there were caresses leaning on each other and things at some point the next step kiss was saying i really do love you a lot. more hoots was severely sexually abused for years he fled immediately after finishing school and went to university in munich but he soon began to suffer from plash banks of the trauma. he confided in

a friend of the family she confronted the priest and forced him to admit his crimes to the diocese the priest supervisor spoke to more hits and his friend he offered its therapy and put him under pressure or not even from utah state he informed me that this conversation was never to have taken place he warned me not to take legal steps because he said in his experience when a person a paedophile goes to jail he'll still be a paedophile when he gets out so if it was just a matter of changing a person this would be a fully an appropriate step and of course because he would be stigmatized if he had gone to jail i did not want to ruin this person's life what you would just leave me . he could not forget about what happened about ten years later he confronted the church again with the crimes and again the priest kept his job millet's again spoke with his supervisor without success last december millet's turned to the church once again but this time something changed the diocese filed

a complaint against the priest for. what changed was the perception and the listening to now they are really listening to and not just half heartedly claiming they don't have time for example you're not here to tell your story again. do you think that the time has come for something else than just selling the story you're out of here into returns absolutely i mean you know i was honored to to be there and open the summit you know with my testimony but my testimony wasn't about me and what happened to me and my abuse what what i told them is you know what sexual abuse does to people you've heard it time and time and time again and you and you i think you understand and you know and if you don't you shouldn't be here but but. what i want to tell them is that your murdering you should. the doctor's of the

soul your murdering soul is your murdering faith and my country was a proud catholic country. they fought against dictatorship they fought against things that the church made us proud proud so eighty something ninety percent of the country was very proud suddenly we speak up and we uncover this horror that's happening and now that it's a seventeen percent of approval of the church that's terrible what do you think is the for itself this thing that gets repeated and it was repeated today again that the reason why the church as an institution is not willing to give evidence to national authorities is very often because victims don't want this to happen well that happens i mean there is there are survivors that don't want to. be put in the position of talking to judges or to talking to law enforcement for whatever reason and you have to understand the trauma of being abused raped is it's horrible for

men women whatever the social. pressure and difficulty that that means is horrible so so it's understandable that some people don't want to talk but there are many who do and i'd say the majority do want to talk so. church authority should be facilitating that and helping them and accompanying them to meet with civil law thora these and help them through the process no matter what happens so let's question let's christians actually if you could say i mean if you could imagine what it would be very thing that you would want to see the church do that one thing that would really make the difference i mean it's probably a tall order there given the fact that it's a very large institution but what is essentially the christmas the christmas wish so to say my my wish would be. that zero tolerance is absolutely informed

inforced zero tolerance has to be enforced you abuse a child or a person or anybody you're out and you're turned into law enforcement you cover up something like that you're out and you're turned into law enforcement as well but you're out of the church that's the door this is always something the church is doing not you not not at all they're not doing it all no one got recruits thank you very very much and she. this hellion island of sardinia goes to the polls on sunday in a closely watched reason election commentators believe the polls serve as an indicator of the growing popularity of italy's far right league party leader deputy prime minister mal tales of eeny has been campaigning in sardinia and. to sick reports from the campaign trail. they celebrate him like a rock star i feel the need italy's fall right into your young minister is cranking

out. here in this small town square in sardinia. the beach is only one flag one language one identity history culture i'm tradition about must survive . to be able to. move in sharp rhetoric against migrants and praise the homeland. is not to back. lakshman sardinian it's only a regional one italy's paul ryan is flying high in nationwide a situation that's all he now wants to exploit even if he's keeping a low profile in front of our camera not only if i should minister the know i minister of the interior and it's not my aim to become prime minister but my business right now is public safety the mafia drugs i'm going to have this job and i want to keep doing it but only a few months into an easy government coalition between salvini sleek and the five

star movement of luigi my you italy's right senses a chance to govern alone believe has already overtaken its previously stronger coalition partner in the polls. the setting for this political battle is now the holiday island of sardinia here both camps are pitted against each other in the regional boat. for an entire week interior minister has been travelling around the islands to. in pain it shows just how important this region election here in sardinia has become it is a test of strength for the parties and an indicator that the entire country of italy is moving even further to their right at sardinia second largest paper than we have outside dania the elections are of course front page news salvini himself even paid a visit to the news from. a space i think salvini is just waiting for the european

elections and if his party wins which is pretty likely then the time is right for him to pull out of the government she's especially since if the five star movement loses again they will be in a serious crisis with. his coffee saying i can use either morning or at a small market in the west of the island so the news media or supporters barack railing against migrants. for gavino mobutu who's been selling fruit and vegetables here for twenty years so he would be the ideal man for italy's top job you know but i want him as prime minister he's the only one who knew really delivers the only one thing all the others have done nothing but he kept his promise. fishmonger sabato of the monk also liked the speech. in the second he's doing so many things right he loves public order and the people

love him look around everything's going smoothly in the market here today at the end of the event as usual but he also being asked the audience to join him on stage a selfie with italy's most popular politician and if their wishes office followers come true the next prime minister. powerhouse english football club chelsea has been banned from signing new players until the twenty twenty summer transfer window after breaching rules about signing minors fifa found. premier league club guilty of twenty nine incidents related to the transfer of players under the age of eighteen the soccer governing body also find the english football association the club released a statement refuting the charges insisting they have complied with his rules and regulations chelsea plans to appeal the decision. and to discuss further we're joined from london by rob harris if football writer with the associated press rob thank you so much for joining us can you break down for us

what exactly he has done and how common is this among the big clubs. well faith that this is all about protection over young players we're so used to hearing about fee for and all the politics involved in the governing body but at the heart of one of their main functions is protecting footballers and there is a ban on the international transfer players under the age of eighty there's an exception within europe that you can move between sixty and eighty something that will be affected by breck's it potentially and what chelsea are accused of or is engaging in bringing players to the clock under the age of eighteen without properly registering them as well which is under question and this is just yet the latest example of a big club being sanctioned might this we've seen a classic only trip around the dreaded barcelona all transfer bans in recent years for failing to properly. sign players in terms of those under the age of eighty

and how badly is this ban going to affect the club. well it's going to potentially be a significant blow to them as it stands now chelsea won't be able to sign a player until the twenty twenty summer transfer window so the entire next season they were able to sign a single player but given the fact they have announced an appeal already and that process could go on for some time there is the potential that the ban is probably hold for the summer transfer window upcoming and only kicks in later which also we hope consider is cheap like ramit trade did which is get there and harp though at let's go driven past alone it did fail to reduce their bans on appeal we knew this was coming oh so chelsea good news and a part one that's why you seem so shit big transfer already christine pulis it's obvious you joining from dortmund for sixty four million euros in january and then immediately sent back on loan until the summer and chelsea has flatly refused the findings a thief and they've said they will appeal does that alter the situation at all well

as i say it does and there's a go this first became under suspicion because bomb players picking up fast so in that international at bertrand's are already whose parents were played for the at chelsea team as a trial is while under the age of eighteen he signed with them when he was eighteen but the fact he played for them at that young age is not something that should be allowed that international transfers are banned under the age of eighteen unless your family moves to that country for non football reasons or you are from a country with a nearby border iraq harris but the associated press in london thank you so much. you're watching d.w. news live from berlin on my ass waiter eco india is coming up next don't forget you can always get all the latest news and information around the clock on our website d w dot com thanks so much for watching.

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