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

for joining us pope francis has vowed the catholic church will spare no effort to bring child abuses the child abusers and the clergy to justice the pontiff was speaking at the end of a foretaste vatican summit to address paedophilia and the church amid an avalanche of allegations against catholic priests at evidence that their superiors concealed their crimes francis promised the church would end its culture of silence and decisively confront perpetrators. evil is within the catholic church according to pope francis and the time for apologies is over. no explanation suffice for these abuses involved.

in front of an audience of international bishops francis spoke not just of human sin but of intentional crimes and the need for justice. 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 as. the church will never seek to hush up or not take seriously any case that. pope francis says an all out battle is necessary to rid the church of a culture of sexual abuse and cover ups but survivors criticised how much time the pope spent pointing out that child sex abuse wasn't limited to the catholic church . one said his speech was too light on any concrete reforms. it was very disappointing and was stricken. we feel that are suffering important to

take action hopefully to remove some of those bishops and. cover up the sexual abuse or sexual abuse themselves or the church is is wholly incapable of policing itself and its its statutory practices really have allowed this to continue and they have not to this point changed aside from anything he may have said positively but some are optimistic that a first step towards real change in the catholic church has arrived because its leaders have finally admitted the enemy is within. and we're joined now by father max cuppa bianca the catholic chaplain for students across the universities in berlin also worked at the vatican for ten years before that you are 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 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 immediately checked also the reactions and 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 a few 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 path. a 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 stand last by that time today and he acknowledged it 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 trends are going like this 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 next couple bianco we certainly hope that that's true thank you so much for joining us here today. and now to some of the other stories making news around the world in northeastern india police now say one hundred fifty people have died from drinking tainted bootleg liquor another two hundred remain hospitalized the victims were tea plantation workers in some state it's india's second toxic liquor tragedy in a month more than a dozen have been arrested for selling illegal booze. the vote counting is underway in nigeria after yesterday's elections to choose a new president and parliament polling have been postponed for a week due to logistical hitches the army says it killed six people described as quote political hoodlum amid unrest in the south the election results are expected in the next few days. north korean leader kim jong un is on route to vietnam on his

armored train a three thousand kilometer journey is expected to take at least two days jim will meet with u.s. president donald trump and honda on thursday. voters in senegal are headed to the polls in a presidential election with incumbent maki saul seeking a second term he's hoping his economic record will help him avoid a runoff for challengers are vying for a place to keep opposition figures were barred from running and there have been tensions ahead of the ballot recent clashes between rival parties have left two people dead results are expected on friday. that washington has signaled it wants to help venezuela self-proclaimed president juan quite go out of his rival nicolas maduro u.s. secretary of state mike pompei oh tweeted that his country is willing to take action to support and vice president mike pence is set to meet with white oh in colombia tamara 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 and said troops loyal to the government used to take us and gunfire to defend their barricades these clashes took place at a crossing between brazil and venezuela in the east of the country. says that 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 ridden country trucks carrying food and medical supplies was set alight as they tried to

cross the border so far present majoris blockade is holding firm. but when i got up 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 and i don't know if i don't like in all fairness this is 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 why dole is weighing his next step. in the effort normally we will not rest. no not rest until venezuela's free. were turned away grateful to the international community. we ask that all options remain on the table.

on monday why do will meet u.s. vice president mike pence to discuss the ongoing crisis. in the egyptian seaside town of shon a shake leaders from the european union and the arab league are holding a summit together for the first time the two day meeting seeks to strengthen ties between the e.u. and arab nations and council president oliver thomas and saudi arabia's king sound on iraq on saturday german chancellor angela merkel will also take part priorities on the agenda include security and migration leaders are also expected to discuss the middle east peace process as well as conflicts in yemen and syria and for more on this i'm now joined by our correspondent gail mathis in shake the georg this is the first meeting of these two very significant institutions what are we expecting out of this and why is this happening now. it is indeed leaders have set

themselves a rather relaxed sketch a very broad agenda of topics here we're looking at all sorts of topics everything from environment climate but also trades the e.u. being the most importing trading partners of the states of the arab league and so wonderful about said to me here in sharm el sheikh it is the idea is to start a multilateral process in a time when donald trump is putting that issue of multilateralism very much into the critique interesting all of all of those issues that you just named what do you think are the ones that are the most pressing that they are discussing. i think really pressing issues also in terms of migration which is also a key issue here at the summit is really addressing the as the civil war steps are taking place within that union of arab states and most of all you have a syria a war that apparently is partly won now by bashar al assad and the leaders here of

the e.u. but also arab leaders will have to think about how they deal with this and then you have conflicts a civil wars in yemen but also unstable very unstable situation in libya also a big issues here and the question of course for european leaders is how do they deal with these issues and how do they deal with the liberal and non democratic elected counterparts here that it was a question put to juncker the head of the european commission and he said he has a headache talking to these people but he said if that be the criteria his week would end on tuesday so he said we really have to talk and this is the place to do it. now since you mentioned donald trump and this question of multi-lateralism there's also this issue of the arab league which seems to be very divided around questions like the wars in syria and the wars in yemen that can't make it easier no of course this is divisive issues but it is the puppets of the exercise here really also when it comes to migration policy i mean the you really hopes to start

a dialogue here also on this device if issue of migration and many have said a part of the reason the summit is taking place here is because egypt has done a great job in stopping illegal migration coming to the european union and so this is a way of the you also of saying thank you for for this excellent work in that in that particular case. matters in china shaky egypt where the arab league and the e.u. are meeting for the first time thank you so much. and of honor of the top story we've been following for you pope francis has condemned the sexual abuse of children in the catholic church a special conference he said the church would do everything it could 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 maintains the vast majority of priests are good people. you're watching news from berlin i'm my actuator coming up next is doc film where we will meet

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