role in the future. of. the geopolitical. story. on top of. this new news live from pope francis condemns the sexual abuse of children in the roman catholic church and in a wider society at a vatican summit francis says the church would make protecting children his highest priority but some victims who came to rome say nothing concrete was decided. a groundbreaking diplomatic encounter 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 mutual cooperation. and the oscars hollywood prepares to honor its movie stars and the people working behind the cameras as it holds its annual awards ceremony. welcome to the program next spicer. pope francis has called for an all out battle to bring a 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 concealed their crimes though many victims reacted skeptically francis promised the church would end what he called its culture of silence and would decisively confront

perpetrators he called them tools of say. evil is within the catholic church according to pope francis and the time for apologies is over. 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. is necessary to bring to justice whosoever has committed such crime. 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 a six are from important to your character in the hopefully to remove some of those bishops and. cover up the sexual abuse or sexual abuse themselves 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 gak has been covering the child abuse summit and sent us this analysis 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 institution had been the home to not only sexual predators 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 or theological transcriptions or scenes today what was said is that these are crimes and crimes must be adjudicated by justice systems what was not said with complete clarity was how is it that this is

going to be achieved and whether this vatican explaining to make it policy to turn sexual abusers and evidence and sexual abuse but also on cover ups to national the cross the world ending the wars in syria and yemen and restarting the mideast peace process those are some of the discussions leaders are wrestling with at the first ever joint summit of the arab league and european union it's being hosted by the 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 but they'll have some tough talks ahead. e.u. leaders will be holding important if challenging meetings in egypt result of sharm el sheikh in the host's chair as president abdullah fattah el-sisi nine people were executed in egypt last week. representing saudi arabia aging king sound man after the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi europe's leaders are reluctant to be

seen with the kingdom's real strongman crown prince mohammed bin some also unwelcome so. dans president bashir who's wanted by the international criminal court and who if i only spoke with model democrats my we could be over by tuesday we must talk to everyone and we must be open about it and it was a bit we shouldn't overemphasize human rights but we have to take them into consideration of us of course the e.u. wants more cooperation in fighting terrorism and crucially more help in dealing with migration but any hopes for example of sending refugees picked up at sea back to egypt are in vain. hi i would point out that egypt has already taken in a large number of refugees and we're looking after them despite the difficult economic situation in our country. german chancellor angela merkel later flew in for the first summit between the e.u. and the arab league. did correspondent you're grad has is in sharm el sheikh

covering events i asked him earlier what the key issues at the summit were i think really pressing issues also in terms of migration which is also a key issue here at the summit is really addressing the 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 one 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 the jungle 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. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. british prime minister. until march the twelfth just days before the u.k. is scheduled to leave the european union the vote was scheduled for next wednesday may will travel to brussels on choose day to ask for amendments to the deal the other twenty seven members of the e.u. have already agreed to. bangladeshi security forces have killed a man who attempted to hijack a plane flying from to dubai the flight made an emergency landing in the city of chittagong the suspect died after an exchange of gunfire with commandos all the other passengers and crew were unharmed. police in india say another fifty eight people have died from drinking tainted bootleg taking the death toll from the latest mass alcohol poisoning to more than one hundred fifty another two hundred remain hospitalized the victims were to. state more than

a dozen people have been arrested for the illegal drink. has been held in moscow in memory of the assassinated russian opposition leader. thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets demanding reforms. four years ago as he crossed the bridge within sight of the kremlin organizers say they called the rally of both. and to protest against president vladimir putin. today we remember the. response of. political opponent. who did the killing has not yet been responsible for. evidence of. criminal. vote counting has begun after polling stations closed in an election in

the west african nation of senegal president baccy sall is set to win a second term in office but opponents complain that the leader has blocked the strongest opposition candidates from running against an. incumbent president baccy sall likes to style himself the builder of modern senegal the country has benefited from strong economic growth and is seen as a bastion of democracy in an unstable region. i would like to hail the turnout everywhere in the country and abroad. that has allowed citizens to make their choice in peace and serenity. the election has not been scandal free to have cells main rivals were barred after corruption convictions that were questioned by rights groups but turnout has been brisk. as if. it's

a citizen's duty to take part in democracy i think maybe it's a very important moment for if there's impossible they were done voting for change . and there he had the as a citizen i have to vote when everything's ready. the voting process is going smoothly so far 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 thousand and twelve when synagogues saw the last elections. challenges including former prime minister idris the sec have criticised sells focus on expensive infrastructure they've campaigned for better basic services in a country where many young men in particular risk their lives in search of a better life in europe. and hollywood is gearing up for the most glamorous evening of its year oscar night fans are gathering on the red carpet hoping to

catch a glimpse of their favorites to win one of the little gold guys. hollywood's biggest night out starts early for diehard fans the ratings have been declining for years and this year's ceremony doesn't even have a host but that doesn't matter to them it's all about getting close to the stars. and so say i want to see what they're wearing and this is always so much fun to see them up close. anyway even though this is like a third of that i've been to this will never be old hat these events are incredibly exciting each one is different from the other and yeah i'm just i'm honored to be here and take part in really film history. the favorites for best film the biggest award are poised to make history mexican director alfonso quarrels film roma has ten nominations some uncontroversially roma as

a netflix streaming platform production one few people saw and an actual cinema. black panther was a blockbuster at the box office and it's the first superhero movie ever nominated for best picture it takes superhero movies to new places with story about a mythical high tech kingdom in africa. any movie there is another favorite is actually called the favorite a costume drama about british queen and the early eighteenth century which is not coleman has already picked up a number of best actress award for her portrayal of the ailing queen everyone leaves me. christian bale is a heavy favorite for best actor for his work playing former u.s. president dick cheney in vice. and glenn close is a leading contender for best actress for her role in the wife her sixth the

nomination will seventh time be lucky you smoke i can smell it i went into a cafe to marshfield a smoke. the fate of the oscar hopefuls is already sealed members of the academy had to submit their votes by last tuesday now hollywood is ready for its close up. sports no alpine skiing italy's federer federica but he knew when a completed the world cup hat trick by winning the women's combined downhill and pranced montana switzerland claiming the title for the third year running. after taking only eight lead in the morning downhill bring you on a have produced a solid run in the slalom to beat canada's ronnie run by zero point three eight seconds world cups runaway overall leader schifrin set out the event after her exertions at the recent world cup champs in ships. coming up after the break the bundesliga with. its matched a twenty three find out of and could bring an end to their feeble february for they

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