this is c w news live from berlin disappointment for kenya l g b t q community as a potentially landmark decision on decriminalizing case is postponed we hear what it's like to be a lesbian in a country that's right with persecution and hatred of homosexuals also coming up. from political showdown to

a battle of the bands in venezuela tens of thousands of people had to rival music concerts near venezuela's border with colombia the events are kicking off what could be a decisive weekend as the impasse over aid for the country heats up. and pope francis outlines 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. waiter welcome to the program. l.t.c. if you 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 in kenya but intimate acts when same sex couples are crime and can be

punished with up to fourteen years in prison the judge deferred for seedings until may twenty fourth citing what he called a heavy caseload the law dates back to british colonial rule and 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 i'll be speaking to our correspondent melanie cord about in nairobi in just a moment but first here's her report. was close may have been behove but in a minute we'll fly which means bust through. some timeless myself while you were a bit somebody just because i choose to love the flying. if it weren't for marrying with three sky he would have a hard time guessing what she's been through marriott enterprises is 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 b b no. it took down. to me all of about. and then after me baffled. by the pool of my own. thank you. and then even killed myself those. who were going to decide on no i was pregnant. and and i'm so thankful the group who may close some in ten years later. can see them on. his. give me. some christopher has given mary strength and pace unprejudiced and along with it 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 you can see 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. we did. because they're bringing evil on the world god grew up on the not other moms. it's not accepted. we can't do that and i've never learnt with that it's our behavior to be creative selves all they are born like i don't know i see it is a not to beat is a good new school. because i'm still a teen she's encountered hasn't broken mary spirit to start asking yourself. a minute this is. how you need. to do cause a lot different in theirs and make me want to build

a one love. love i don't know what these hold will hold dear. mary hopes that soon she won't have to fear imprisonment for having women and that one day in kenya she might be able to marry the woman. correspondent melanie corrida ball is in their o.b. mel this court ruling was really highly anticipated and now the judge is claiming to have a heavy caseload do you have any more insight into why they delayed this decision we haven't gotten an update since this morning but spoken to a lot of activists hold believe that the court is stalling that is because they

think the judge just don't really want to face a backlash from i've a sight at least not yet that's not what the judge told as of course he spoke of this overwhelming load a pile of documents which is growing taller than himself the fact that the other two judges are currently out of town but this has been such a huge disappointment for so many people who are really hoping that kenya would take this morning a mental decision which could possibly even have a ripple effect across the entire region. and we saw a bit in your piece what people in the street thought of being a person what is the public perceptions of this case in kenya what's the debate and like my i have this topic has been debated wildly especially in the local media and of course in nairobi where we have a large community which has been fighting to legalize al-tikriti i.q. identity for years now but then you have the other parts of the country of the

rural areas where people are much more conservative much more traditional and west same sex intimacy is really seen a something african people that don't critique question a rule which is a left over from the colonial rule rather than a truly african or what are the chances that the judges will in fact rule to decriminalize same sex relations. it could really go both ways the activists of spoken to a coarsely optimistic though that is because they have one cases in the past kenya has set precedence for example last year a court here ruled that the forced anal examination which was used to determine whether men had engaged and sex is now illegal so there is hope and so many people like mary i determined to keep on fighting until one day they are seen as equal

citizens as kenyans who have the same rights as everyone else melanie quoted about in the row before us thank you so much and that is some of the other stories making news around the world russian authorities have extended the detention of a former u.s. marine paul whelan who has been charged with spying a court denied his request to be released under house arrest until and said he'll be held until late may he was taken into custody in late december by the russian security service which said he was caught quote while carrying out an act of espionage. the united states says it plans to keep a small unit of around two hundred troops in syria as part of an international stabilizing force in december the troubled ministration announced it would pull out all two thousand troops in the region a decision that shocked u.s. allies and military commanders. a powerful earthquake has hit

ecuador near its border with per who witnesses said the seven point five magnitude quake shook the surrounding area but the region is reported least partially populated there are no initial reports of casualties or damage officials also warned out a tsunami warning. and now 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 venezuelan border british billionaire richard branson is backing the opposition concert people have been streaming into the venue 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 backed by venezuela's embattled president nicolas maduro says the aid is a pretext for military action and has now also closed venezuela's border with brazil to prevent the delivery of aid it's now been reported that at least one

civilian has been killed there after government troops opened fire and our correspondent is in kuwait where the dueling concerts are taking place what's going on where you stand right now. well we are located just outside the concert you have to move in just because of the sheer noise that wouldn't allow us to talk to you right now but you can see the atmosphere right here people are still getting in still trying to see their favorite stars as they are also arriving through this road behind me so it is an atmosphere still possible gratian and of hope for all those who are wanting change and as well we're going to get some live pictures of the concerts as it's starting now there have been these reports of a person killed and near the venezuelan border with brazil so what's the atmosphere there have things become more tense. they definitely have

and we will probably have to get used to these kind of informations and news that will come along in the next coming hours because we know that borders are closed and that means more resistance by them a dural government against the entrance off humanitarian aid that could also play out very similarly here tomorrow. and the volunteers try to get that humanitarian aid into them as well will they have to brace for the worst. what do people on the ground think will be the result of these dueling concerts happening at the same time. well i think both concerts are here to send a signal to send a message share message of and as well as the needs a message of desperate as well if you will on this side of the border calling the world to help down on the other side we will have a concert that is also very symbolic by the way because missouri government trying to sell the picture of it as well that is under attack and that needs to be

defended those concerts have the same goal to ask for the favor of the public opinion and it's a very difficult task for both sides. is this just sideshow are these concerts just sort of a laughing matter in venezuela or is it actually a sign that the standoff between these two sides could intensify. well it's definitely a sign the tensions are going to get higher because on the one hand we know that the moderate government won't let losers on this side something unprecedented has happened on the one hand the international support offline by go as a self-proclaimed interim president and on the other side a unified opposition something that been as well had hoped for for years and that now appears to be happening at the question is who will the military obey or one going to do that is the most important question for that we still don't have an answer but we'll certainly have it tomorrow. yeah thank you so much.

you're watching news still to come the italian island of sardinia has turned from a sleepy tourist destination political hot spot a closely watched election their head. brought in the country's top talking deputy prime minister the leader of the country's far right party. and today is the second day of the vatican's four day summit aimed at tackling sexual abuse in the catholic church bishops vatican officials experts cardinals have all heard testimonies on the devastating effects that abuse has had on the lives of survivors many of them have suffered in silence others have seen first hand the effects the efforts by the church to cover up sexual abuse but as one survivor says in the next report a 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. was feeling try to create a comfortable and sphere sitting on the sofa watching t.v. in the evenings i hear 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 that's 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 flashbacks 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 moderates and his friend he offered therapy and put him under pressure or not even from utah after 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 were 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 work here would just leave the suspension. 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 most 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. doing listening change to. that is the bishop of limburg really spent two hours with me and i noticed he seemed affected by the discussion. of a tough night the judiciary also hopes to hold someone accountable not just the perpetrator but also his supervisor there may have been an obstruction of justice the statute of limitations has passed but the church too is investigating the case raising markets as hopes for the abuse summit in rome. i expect this summit to be the beginning of an ongoing process and for it not to be like now that we've talked about it everything is ok. christiane markets will continue to fight by telling his story again and again. correspondent martin jack is at the vatican martin where on day two of this four day summit what can you tell us about the debate there so far has there been anything new. so there is

nothing completely new i mean there are some things that have been brought up mainly concerning this sort of repeated twenty one points that were read the twenty one point spread up by the pope yesterday many of the things said or suggested including background checks on new recruits into the church seminarians that cetera are things that essentially had been put in place in different places around the world for instance in the u.s. it's already policy but it's not at this point very clear that any concrete actions are on the table and this is something that it's unlikely to actually come to full fruition by the end of the summit and speaking of this twenty one point plan that pope francis has proposed you have been talking to survivors of clerical abuse what do they think of this well the people we talked to you mean have

varying opinions some of them find them to be actually very positive steps or steps in the right direction some of them think that they don't go far enough the one thing that is seems to be quite clear across the board is that changes are actually happening perhaps not a squeakiest people would like them specially victims but changes are taking place what is a bit curious is that there seems to be a bit of waffling so to say on what the church will concede there to be ciro tolerance concerning you know sexual abuse of minors and this is actually quite beautiful in some of those questions today earlier today a bishop addressed one of the main demands of the survivors which is that the church porch cases of sexual abuse to national authorities let's take a listen to what he had to say is. the sexual abuse of minors that are devotedly people who not only breaks divine and ecclesiastical lol let's also public behavior

. the church does not leave an isolated wound up its own making church lives in the woods and with that was. those who are of criminal behavior justly accountable to civil authority forgot behavior martin does this mean the church is rethinking the traditional attitude it's had to not report these incidents to authorities. i think that there are many people inside the church at the highest of positions they would even really go as far as suggesting that the pope himself might be of the opinion that in fact crimes which is what he called them he didn't just call them sins but he referred to as abuses crimes how to be treated in the places where we treat crimes and that he's in civil or criminal court what it's not clear he said the institution itself is willing to push in that direction as a matter of fact part of the conversation today was to turn to those victims that

have actually expressly yes no to have these cases turn to civil with already because one of the survivors we spoke to said today having to retell the story again and again and again it's essentially a return to trauma now generally speaking beyond the victims if there are crimes committed most people would actually take the position that crimes have to be punished in court a flaw decease i think one of the biggest if not the biggest question that will have to be answered over the next forty eight hours in what's left of the summit martin got for us at the vatican thank you very much. you're welcome. the italian island of sardinia goes to the polls on sunday and a closely watched reason election commentators believe the poll will serve as an indicator of the growing popularity of italy's far right league party their leader deputy prime minister mateo county has been campaigning in south india and shell to

six reports from the campaign trail. they celebrate him like a rock star i feel italy's fall right into your e.-m. in history is cranking up the ball i hear in this small town square in sardinia i couldn't use only one flag one minute which one identity history culture and tradition that must survive. good even if you. didn't sharp rhetoric against migrants and praise of the homeland. is not to back my election sardinian is only a regional one italy's paul right 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 mr dylan to know i'm minister of the interior and it's not my aim to become prime minister 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 far right senses a chance to govern alone the league has already overtaken its previously stronger coalition partner in the polls. and the setting for this political battle is now the holiday island of sardinia here both camps are pitted against each other in the regional vote. for an entire week interior minister much as been travelling around the islands to complain 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 struck. me as best 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 their. feet saying that i could easily be a murderer at a small market in the west of the island so the news media or supporters of barack and railing against migrants. for gavino movie too who's been selling fruit and vegetables here for twenty years so he would be the ideal man for at least top job you know look like i want him as prime minister he only one who knew really delivers the only one all the others and i'm nothing but he kept his promise. fishmonger salvator the monkey also liked the speech.

in the sequel 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 will still be asked the audience to join him on stage a selfie with italy's most popular politician and their wishes office followers come through the next prime minister. were to some sports news now powerhouse english football club chelsea has been banned from signing new players until the twenty twenty summer transfer window after breaching rules about signing minor. found the premier league club guilty of twenty nine incidents is related to the transfer of players under the age of eighteen a soccer governing body also find the english football association the club released a statement the feuding the charges insisting they have complied with. rules and

regulations chelsea plans to appeal the decision. with the rugby world cup due to take place in japan this autumn the city of come icy is ahead of its neighbors and recovering from the devastating two thousand and eleven earthquake and tsunami world cup organizers hope that hosting the games in the city will boost the morale of its people and continue to speed up the reconstruction there. the earthquake and tsunami that struck japan in two thousand and eleven brought death and destruction on the city of qom i. a former rugby player for the local team still called the cam i.c.c. waives remembers the day well. it's in the top of the tunnel more than a thousand people lost their lives since all of that i myself have not experienced a war but on the day after the tsunami when i saw the city it looked as if it had

been ravaged by war. but you know a distant second also represented japan three rugby world cups now come my she is preparing to host thousands of visitors from around the world as a host city in d.c. as tournament she said a lot of the audience we might be a small city but will realize a big dream with the rugby world cup games it will be strongly linked to the bigger dreams ahead and pioneering for the future of everyone concerned. with its brand new stadium and a brand new cd will come i.e. she has become a symbol of reconstruction in japan. when the rugby world cup kicks off this year its story will be carried to the world. you're watching d.w. news live from berlin coming up next a wus asia anger in okinawa over plans to relocate a u.s. military base residents will have their say this weekend in

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