this is the w. news live from berlin pope francis come dems 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 terribly and european union leaders meet for their first ever taught summit forty nine heads of state and government are in the egyptian resort a shot shake to talk peace tala sex money and mutual cooperation. and

we'll talk about a worrying trend that's going global the anti-vaccination movement the french child is suspected of reintroducing measles to coaster reka will explore the international community's response to a viral movement. i'm irish waiter thanks for joining us pope francis has vowed the catholic church will spare no effort to bring child abusers in the clergy to justice the pontiff was speaking at the end of a four day vatican summit to address paedophilia in the church amid an avalanche of investigations and allegations against catholic priests and evidence their superiors conceal their crimes francis promised the church would and 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 involving. the fifth 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 but. 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.

was very disappointing no our train was straight and. we feel better secure for important to. the whole free to remove some of those bishops of. cover up of 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. 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 pronounced 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 if it's good words and gestures but not sufficient actions 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 practice is that

essentially have no longer only endangered but have actually made deeper the promise of sexual abuse in the church this was truly remarkable to the extent that it actually snow longer the listening to victims is 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 we movement to try to actually produce appropriate policies. religious affairs correspondent for us in rome thank you so much. and alice take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world a u.n. report says twenty eight thousand was the deadliest year in afghanistan's nearly two decades long war almost four thousand civilians were killed and thousands more wounded in attacks and bombings the u.s. and the rebel taliban hold a new round of talks aimed at ending the conflict on monday. police in india say

another fifty eight people have died from drinking tainted bootleg liquor taking the death toll in the latest mass alcohol poisoning to more than one hundred fifteen another two hundred remain hospitalized the victims were teeth plantation workers in awesome state more than a dozen people have been arrested for selling the illegal booze. north korean leader kim jong un is on route to vietnam on his armored train the three thousand kilometer journey is expected to take at least two days kim will meet with. u.s. president donald trump and hunt on thursday. 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 egyptian president. is hosting the gathering where leaders are expected to discuss security and migration the two day meeting seeks to fix to strengthen ties between the e.u. and arab nations other priorities on the agenda include the middle east peace

process as well as the conflicts in yemen and syria for more on this i'm now joined by our correspondent gary 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 schedule 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 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 of the civil wars that 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 junk at 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. not just in china shaky egypt where the arab league and the e.u.

are meeting for the first time thank you so much. the world health organization says a vaccine has it in see is one of the top ten health threats facing humanity in twenty nineteen as defined as quote the reluctance or refusal to vaccinate despite the availability of vaccines the new age trend is bringing back deadly disease as previously thought eradicated and now an unvaccinated five year old french child is suspected of reintroducing measles to coasta rica which had been measles free for five years before the boy and his family arrived there on holiday a reporter all they also has been following this for us so all of this sounds not super great tell us what happened so what we know so far the boy on holiday in costa rica he broke out in a rash his parents took him to the doctor and he was then diagnosed with measles and later they found out that there had been a measles outbreak at the boy's school by confronts the family has now been

quarantined in costa rica while authorities try to figure out who the boy might have been in contact with while in the country and on his way there gears to tell us more about vaccine hazard and see where these people coming from so it's important to say it's not clear why and this boy nor the mob was not vaccinated against measles but just as just saying nothing but vaccine has intensity that dates back to the one nine hundred ninety s. and specifically to an article in the medical publication the lines linking and then our vaccine to autism that's a big scene against measles mumps rubella this is long been debunked and the lancet has retracted that article years ago but unfortunately unfortunately this claim is still being spread by many people who don't want their children vaccinated and now these so-called antibiotics is the movements they are critical of all vaccines but this vaccine in particular the and the monica. has gotten a lot of attention recently because of the increase in measles cases around the

world now just last week the world health organization reported that there had been a fifty percent increase in measles cases from twenty seventeen to twenty eighteen and that is being linked to this anti-vaccination movement now we have a clip from the head of that organizations vaccines department that's have a listen to what you have to say we have a fantastic vaccine against measles unfortunately the vaccine isn't being used to the degree that it needs to be used since the year two thousand we've had a massive reduction in the cases of measles and deaths for measles unfortunately we're backsliding now and we're having an increase in the number of cases and this is actually a tragedy for families and children why is it that despite all the scientific evidence that's out there all the real life evidence out there why does this movement persist but i love this misinformation is being spread online and so the

social media companies has to take some of the blame for this just of the british newspaper the sunday times they published an investigation showing how search results on you tube directs you to vaccination conspiracy theories if you're looking for you know expert advice about a vaccination we tried some of these searches ourselves and as you can see if you search the autocomplete fish i'm sorry the autocomplete function will give you things like flu jab gone wrong through job if you search for flu jab you know this is one of many examples of the sunday times for example google which owns you tube they are now saying they will remove ads from the vaccination videos they're also saying that they're taking steps to address medical misinformation on their platforms so you know that's a small step there's still a lot of work to be done for her at this site vaccinate your children people well so far for us thank you so much. voters in senegal are

heading to the polls in a presidential election with incumbent maki self-seeking to clinch a second term today jennifer boyd a runoff four candidates are vying to replace solve two main opposition challengers were barred from running fears a possible election violence were stoked by recent clashes that left two people dead. correspondent gathered from areas in senegal scaffold a car following how the vote has gone today the voting process is going smoothly so far there were only this morning some minor incidents as independent observers told us but they told us also that this time it's going far better than in two cells and twelve when synagogues saw the last elections since seven years the government of mucky salis and office and in this time with this plan assume they got in with the plan of emerging senate he did it chief the major project second new airport regional train and also who will city but there are also some issues especially use

employment rate which is fifteen fifteen percent roughly and which is far too much so if there we might be a second round this might be difficult for the side because then his opponents can reunite and this also they could stress this weak point and perhaps difficult for him to get. here watching news from berlin i'm coming up next as world stories and we're back at the top of the hour with more news thanks for joining. the. gun tard and in the end this to me you're not allowed to stay here anymore we will send you back. are you familiar with this. with the smugglers with lions of the.