this is d.w. news live from berlin pope francis condemns the sexual abuse of children in the roman catholic church and and wider society francis says the church would make protecting children its highest priority and the cover up of abuse that was common in the past also coming up fashion is that israel's borders as the military blocks attempts to bring humanitarian aid into the country opposition their convoy don't urges the international community to keep all options open and says he'll meet with u.s. vice president mike pence on monday. and

a historic day for german soccer and for the first time ever a woman will be making her debut as the coach of a men's hires and there's a new. waiter good to have you with us pope francis has vowed the catholic church will spare no effort to bring child abusers and the clergy to justice the pontiff was speaking at the end of a four day says vatican summit to stop pedophilia and the church conference took place amid an avalanche of allegations against catholic priests and evidence their superiors concealed their crimes and has addressed francis promised the church would end its culture of silence and decisively confront perpetrators. i would like to reaffirm that the church will spend no effort to do all that is necessary to

bring to justice whosoever has committed such crimes. the church will never seek to hush up on not take seriously any case but let's go now to our religious affairs correspondent in rome not in the pope has promised decisive action against abuse what's your reaction to his speech today. oh this speech was given at the end of the first day. in which workshops and papers were presented and one has to keep in mind that this was a speech given a pronouncer pronouncement given to the church it was not intended for the general public however it was very telling that the general public including victims were allowed to listen on on his words what's remarkable about this speech is that for a pope that has generally been accused so far good words and gestures but not sufficient actions and this is the first time at least in my experience that i see

a pope turn on he saw in church and accused him of seriously seriously you know brutal crimes including not only sexual abuse not only a cover up but the use of child pornography the hosting of practices that essentially have no longer only endangered but how about truly made deeper the promise of sexual abuse in the church this was truly remarkable to the extent that it actually snow longer than listening to victims it's no longer apologizing but he sexually pointing the finger there regularly at the institution. that is pretty extraordinary to hear from the pope and he's talking about bringing these perpetrators to justice does this mean the church will start now handing over suspected pedophile see the secular authorities. this is actually a very good question and i think that this is one of the biggest concerns of

victims and victims' associations it is not clear from the words that the pope essentially pronounced that there are any concrete polisi or protocols in place to essentially move either evidence or accused priests to justice systems nonetheless the fact is the statement was actually a massive sea change so far the church has been talking about since we know the church is no longer talking about sex the sexual abuse of sins but it's crimes and actually making the promise of turning essentially bringing justice or turning perpetrators to justice the question no it's about establishing protocols and policies and we can only assume that if this works were actually on this from the pope that the machine is now in movement to try to actually produce appropriate policies not religious affairs correspondent for us in rome thank you so much. and we're joined now by father max cabot bianca the catholic chaplain for students

across the university is in berlin also worked at the vatican for ten years the former. us someone who as we said you spent a lot of time in the vatican. why do you think it took so long for the church to face up to what happened is these were crimes that were committed not just sins i mean child abuse sexual abuse is a crime no matter who commits it of course you know i saw the speech today live on the internet and when i saw all these bishops who are really the leaders of the church i realize also thinking of my time in in the vatican how slow this big institution is about to change and it's like an elephant you know who has to dance now and and what's what i felt today is that the pope really now is shaking the people and and pointing out that in the midst of everything has to have to be the victims and and they came from from all over the world and the situation is very

different in different parts of the world and he stressed in the beginning of his speech and for me it was really impressive to see how serious he spoke so do you think it was a good thing that the pope said what he said about bringing people to justice. yes you know i mean if you checked also the reactions in internet afterwards and i've seen many criticisms against him his and oh he's not getting concrete he's not taking measures you know but then i was really specially from organizations for victims who said that's really a bad speech but then i was thinking are they right i think from their point of view yes because in fact he didn't say anything of concrete but what he did is really. pointing out the principles that no longer silence no longer covering no longer double life no longer of these things and

that's something why i would say yes if it was good that he did it in this way and briefly if you can we have heard some horror stories from victims in the past few days you are a catholic priest how does it feel now to be associated with an institution that has caused a lot of pain to a lot of these people. you know it's really hard because you know first of all i'm a priest and i want to be. i want to feel the the pain of the victims that's my first thing but we also we have pain and the pope also said that he that so many priests were doing a good work are really scandalized by that and he and he acknowledged that and thanked the people the normal people who know they could shop and send it was also good for us to be a little bit yeah consoled because you know everybody industry friend you are going

like this and that people say oh a pedophile and that's really hot and doesn't if you know i think i know what why they do that but i really want to say we don't cover things up in the future father messed up a bianco we certainly hope that that's true thank you so much for joining us here today. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world north korean leader kim jong un is on route to vietnam and his armor train three thousand kilometer journey is expected to take at least two days kim will meet with u.s. president donald trump in hondo on thursday. at least thirty five more workers have died after drinking tainted alcohol in india it's total number of victims is reported to be at least one hundred fifty so far and at least two hundred more people are still hospitalized officials say the illegal bootleg liquor contained toxic amounts of methanol to increase its potency police have so

far arrested ten people. vote counting is underway in nigeria after yesterday's elections to choose a new president a new parliament polling had been postponed for a week due to logistical hitches the army says it killed six people are described as quote political hoodlums amid unrest in the south the election results are expected in the next few days. in the egyptian seaside resorts a shake leaders from the european union and the arab league are holding a summit together for the first time today meeting seeks to strengthen ties between the e.u. and arab nations european council president on the saudi arabia's king solomon arrived on saturday german chancellor angela merkel will also take part priorities on the agenda include security and migration the leaders are also expected to discuss the middle east peace process as well as conflicts in yemen and syria.

and moving on to venezuela washington has signaled it wants to help venezuela self-proclaimed president juan why don't oust his rival nicolas maduro u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o tweeted that his country is willing to take action to support my doll and vice president mike pence is set to meet with bae doe in colombia tomorrow why don't has urged the international community to keep all options open these developments come after venezuelan troops stopped opposition supporters trying to bring humanitarian aid into the country. opposition groups were hoping soldiers at the border would stand aside for the a chip minutes instead troops loyal to the government used tear gas and gunfire to defend their barricades these clashes took place at a crossing between brazil and venezuela in the east of the country. says the children aren't dying or starving in venezuela yes they are he isn't

because he's sitting in the presidential palace while we're here in the street working like donkeys and you know. hundreds of kilometers away at the u.n. a border crossing to colombia to venezuela national guards fired tear gas and rubber bullets they are under orders not to let foreign aid into the crisis written country trucks carrying food and medical supplies with satellite as they try to cross the border so far president majoris brocade is holding firm. and i'm going to i'm we are trying to get aid into venezuela but they are not letting anything in from the other side they are throwing rocks and firing tear gas like i don't like and i don't know. what happened over there was the repression of unarmed people. people who are going in peace to take humanitarian aid to those who need it. the volunteers and aid convoys have

now withdrawn unwilling to risk further bloodshed to break the government's barricades opposition leader is weighing his next step. for normal and we will not rest. no we will not rest until venezuela is free. and we were turned away great for to the international community and. we ask that all options remain on the table. on monday why do will meet us vice president mike pence to discuss the ongoing crisis. a historic day for the sport of football today in covert hearts becomes the first woman to coach a men's team in one of germany's higher division leagues the fifth year kloppenburg are bottom of the fifth division but their new coach says she is ready for the challenge. cup and burgers a little known place in northwest germany but in conversion horsfall put the town

on the map on sunday never before has a woman been in charge of a men's team in the country's top five divisions it's been a long journey for the thirty year old who has become something of a celebrity on the local streets she played in the women's bonders league before moving into women's coaching at kloppenburg she then applied for jobs at men's teams and eventually got a chance very close to home. they have. always wanted to be a football coach i even wrote it in my childhood diary. it was decided someone within the club should take over the men's team and i said i'd very much like to do that before hand i don't think the idea had occurred to anyone. her bottom of the table side have been hard at work preparing to face second place see how over in the fifty year her appointment took a bit of getting used to for some. it was a surprise but after one or two days would accepted everything and could get back

to concentrating on football programs with the it's. been host as a difficult job to try to avoid relegation but so far big challenges haven't seem to faze her. and a reminder of the top story we're following here for you pope francis has condemned the sexual abuse of children in the catholic church at a special conference he said the church would do everything to protect children and bring perpetrators to justice among the steps he announced was to broaden the church's definition of a minor in the current age of fourteen he maintained the vast majority of priests are good people. you're watching news from berlin i'm my ash waiter coming up next is shifts living in the digital age and we'll be back at the top of the hour with a new poll a tent of international news course you can always get all the latest news and information on our web site t w dot com thanks so much for joining us.

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