this is the news live from berlin a first for top level international talks arab league and european union leaders meet for their first ever joint summit forty nine heads of state and government are in the egyptian resort of sharm el sheikh to talk peace politics and neutral cooperation. and pope francis condemns the sexual abuse of children in the roman catholic church and in water society francis said the church would make protecting children at its highest priority but some victims say nothing concrete was decided at a vatican summit on such abuse. and we'll talk about

a worrying trend that's going global the anti-vaccination movement a french child is suspected of reintroducing measles to costa rica will explore the international community's response to a viral movement. ending the wars in syria and yemen and restarting the middle east peace process those are some of the discussion leaders are wrestling with at the first ever joint summit of the arab league and european union is being hosted by egyptian president abdel fattah el-sisi in the egyptian seaside resort of sharm el sheikh the goal is to tighten relations between the two organizations the two day gathering is also intended to strengthen ties between the e.u. and arab nations leaders are discussing security migration the stalled middle east peace process as well as the conflicts in yemen and syria. for more i'm joined by

our correspondent in sharm el sheikh again org this is the first meeting of these two institutions why are they speaking now. the european union and arab states traditionally have strong ties about it is at particularly this time that they do want to strengthen these ties and that's why they've put up a broad agenda everything on it from trade security the environment is there to be discussed here in sharm a shake and to give you an idea of where this is going one diplomats said to me this is supposed to kick off a process of multilateralism and it is in this spirit i think that the quote following quote from the organizer if you want from the european union the council president donald turks has to be seen our cooperation in this more important than ever we are not here to pretend that we

agree on everything today we are here to strengthen our cooperation for the benefit of our people we need to do this together and not leave it to global powers from other regions global powers far from our region who could happy. well the hint i got from one diplomat is that it has to do with the united states and two other key players china and russia now first of all the united states regarding the middle eastern peace process the decision by donald trump to move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem is seen as the threats to the two state solution something that the e.u. propagates and that it does concern e.u. officials here just like. representatives and leaders so a lot of common ground here on this field particularly at a time when the u.s. withdraws from

a number of political fields here in the arab region particularly syria as a case in example and that leads me to the second point is this power vacuum that is filled by china and russia and that does concern not only the e.u. but also a number of arab states ok well let's look at a simple bilateral was simple a bilateral affair between the e.u. and the arab world the e.u. wants arab help in reducing migration in part from north africa but also syria is that likely to happen president i'll seize the end of the e.u. representative so you're both mentions the topic of migration as easy emphasized that they have worked very hard and that is something that the e.u. has appreciate not a lot of migrants have let to come from egypt but rather from libya where conflicts are are growing at is these conflicts that leaders not only arab leaders but also european leaders would like to resolve in order to stem this flow of illegal migration to stop people the business of people smugglers that's what

a number of leaders have emphasized in their speeches however when it comes to concrete action the you for instance has this idea to open disembarkation platforms if you want a refugee centers in arab countries and no concrete proposals are expected to be made here in sharm el sheikh ok thank you there was political correspondent george metes in sharm el sheikh egypt. pope francis has vowed the catholic church will spare no effort to bring child abusers in the clergy to justice he was speaking at the end of a four day vatican summit to address paedophilia in the church after an avalanche of allegations against catholic priests and evidence that their superiors had 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 involvement. in front of an audience of international bishops francis spoke not just of human sin but of intentional crimes and the need for justice. to reaffirm that the church will spend no effort but. it is necessary to bring to justice whosoever has committed such crimes. the church will never seek to hush up or not take seriously any case. pope francis says an all out battle is necessary to rid the church of a culture of sexual abuse and cover ups. but survivors criticized 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 no action was taken and. we feel that is secure from the important for your character in the 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. our correspondent in rome martin has been covering the child abuse summit and sent us this analysis on the pope's speech today something quite extraordinary happened today in the speech that the pope gave

at the end of the summit to summarize much of the work that had been done in workshops and presentations we heard the pope turn on the church and quite openly pointed out that the institution had been the home to not only sexual predators and to massive cover up of sexual predators but also to use of child pornography this is about to see that no longer talks about sexual abuse as theological transgressions or scenes today what was said is that these are crimes and crimes may be adjudicated by justice systems what was not said with complete clarity was how we said that this is going to be achieved and whether this vatican explaining to make it policy to turn sexual abuse or is an avi the nz and sexual abuse but also one cover ups to national authorities across the world now let's turn to some of the other stories making news around the world. british prime

minister theresa may has delayed a final parliamentary vote on bret's that until march the twelfth just days before britain is scheduled to leave the e.u. the vote was scheduled for next wednesday or travelled to brussels on tuesday to ask for amendments to the deal the other twenty seven members of the e.u. have already agreed to. a u.n. report says twenty eight thousand was the deadliest year in afghanistan's nearly two decade long war almost four thousand civilians were killed and thousands more wounded in attacks and bombings the us 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 from the latest mass alcohol poisoning to more than one hundred fifty another two hundred remain hospitalized the victims were tea plantation workers in assam state more than a dozen people have been arrested for selling the illegal booze.

the world health organization has named it one of the top ten health threats facing humanity in twenty nineteen vaccine hesitancy it is the reluctance or refusal to vaccinate despite the available availability pardon me of vaccines today we learned an unvaccinated french child this is spect and to have reintroduced measles to costa rica after the country had been free of the disease for five years our reporter soccer has been following this story for us tell us a little bit more about this and what we know so far is this french boy on holiday in costa rica he broke out in a rash so his parents took him to a doctor who diagnosed him with measles and then later found out that there had been a measles outbreak at the boy's school back in from now the family is corns he in costa rica authorities are trying to figure out who the boy may have been in

contact with. while in the country and on his way there. can you tell us a bit more about this vaccine hesitancy concept. first of all it's it's important to say it's not clear why neither this boy nor actually his mum vaccinated against measles vaccination hesitancy that they spoke to the one nine hundred ninety s. specifically to an article in the medical publication the lens at which lengths. and ah vaccine with autism that's a vaccine against measles mumps and rubella now this has long been debunked and the lancet has retracted that article years ago but unfortunately these claims are still being spread by people if you don't want their children's children vaccinated now this so-called anti vax movement they are they have issues with over scenes not just us and the mob acts in but that's statistically specific vaccine

has got a lot of attention raised leave because of high outbreaks of meat of measles even in the western world you know such as fronts now just last week the world health organizations they announced that there have been a fifty percent increase in measles outbreaks just from twenty seven thousand to twenty eighteen and they are linking it to this and the vaccination movement now we have a clip of the organizations direct for vaccines to let's have a listen to what she has 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 so why is there backsliding and why is the n.t. voxer movement still gaining traction well it has been said much of this misinformation is being spread online and so these social media companies need to

take some pots of this blame not just today the british newspaper the sunday times they published an investigation into you tube and how if you search on you tube for . this and for expert advice on vaccinations you quite often directed to anti vaccination conspiracy theories now we tried some of these searches ourselves and as you can see the auto complete function for example if you search for flu jab gives you results like flu jab gone wrong. this is just one of many examples of this on the toms brings up now google which owns you tube they saying they are pulling ads from videos connected to the anti vaccination movement there was a trying to taking steps to addressing medical misinformation all their platforms so that's a small step but this little work to be done very viral stories you were saying earlier. thanks very much for that and here are the

results for match day twenty three of the business leaders so far dortmund what a thriller against labor queues in frankfurt took down head over dusseldorf came from behind to beat nuremberg our new nick edged out her to berlin and glad backdrop points at home towards berg mights defeated shocker and freiburg thumped hausberg on friday bremen share the spoils with stuttgart and on monday leipzig entertain hoffenheim. and now for a look at the bonus think a table ahead of the monday game. restored their three point lead over by a new nick at the top later cues and slipped behind walls in frankfurt who both moved up in the lower half there was precious little movement stuttgart had over and nuremberg still make up the bottom three they're watching the news from berlin spicer coming up next is groups talk show stay tuned for that or we'll be back at

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