digital. storage is marching on t.w. . this is the w. news live from berlin one of the catholic church's highest ranking clerics the australian cardinal george pell has been found guilty of sexually assaulting children. they'll. tell me there as he left court in melbourne it's a dramatic fall for the former vatican financial chief and close advisor to pope francis will get all the details from our correspondent also coming up. fears of an

escalation as india confirms it has launched airstrikes on what it says are militant camps inside pakistani territory a spokesman says many have been killed. plus a surprise announcement in iran the country's foreign minister mohammad zarif tenders his resignation in the gears you did the twenty fifteen nuclear deal it is unclear why he's decided to leave his post. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us australia's highest ranking catholic cleric the cardinal george pell has been convicted on five counts of child sex abuse according melbourne found pell guilty of assaulting two thirteen year old choir boys in the late one nine hundred ninety s. the verdict was handed down in december. the judge only today lifted the embargo on

reporting on the case. no you will pay your i know you cardinal george pell faced a torrent of abuse as he left his latest court hearing in melbourne so now he's free but victims outside the court are calling for a tough sentence the catholics in victoria we got him on that he be excommunicated from the kids george pell is amongst a freak he has to be child not home detention none of these petty justice we want to seeming gyle we want to see him for all i even tell. the jury found that tell sexually assaulted two choir boys in a melbourne cathedral in one thousand nine hundred ninety six the unanimous verdict was handed down on december eleventh but due to a suppression order reporting is only now being allowed a previous trial resulted in a hung jury pelle has always denied the charges peter and simple.

i'm innocent of these charges of the photos the whole idea of sexual abuse is apparent to me. palis on leave from his role as treasurer the third most powerful position in the vatican. he is also australia's most senior catholic cleric. and. pope francis has in the past praise for his response to abuse but his conviction is another stain on a church whose leaders are accused of failing to deal with child sexual abuse within their ranks. let's get more on this now with correspondent roger maynard he joins us from said they following the case for us today roger good morning to you cardinal pell is now facing a long prison sentence but will he be dismissed from the priesthood and could he even be excommunicated as well. well obviously it's going to take some time before

we reach that stage at the moment he's made it very clear that he's going to appeal against his conviction that could take many months possibly a year or so before we get any outcome from that if that if he if that appeal is rejected in the bathroom probably be passed on to a better gun or than hold their own inquiry into the it's there and the allegations being made against l. and only at that point will we get any possible decisional while the archbishop or the cardinal as he is now will be defrocked or excommunicated but that could be worth some time away ok i mean our media coverage of cardinal pell's case was subject to a new zimbardo why did the judge issue that order well that embargo or suppression order as it was called it was imposed by the court went back in december because it felt that the evidence given during that trial might paint the

our second trial which are held the seat of place in march of this year on completely separate matters involving allegations of child sexual abuse today we learned that some of the evidence to take place in that second trial was regarded or deemed as inadmissible and as a result of that the prosecution decided not to go ahead with the second trial but once that decision was made there was no reason to keep the suppression order. in only the current case the december case and that's a personal it was lifted allowing australians the first time to know what's been going on in that trial involving george bell and i can say that they've been genuinely shocked by the evidence that's been reported today i'm talking about shock a victim's advocate so hope that other abuse survivors will now be stepping forward could we now see more charges against australia's pedophile priests than those who weighed in about them. well brian we should remember that these allegations of

sexual abuse have been going on for many years now there was a royal commission into the allegations a few years ago in australia many many people dozens if not hundreds of people came forward with allegations of the sex abuse they'd experienced while at school or and church orphanages that sort of thing. though those allegations are taken very seriously as a result of that a number of people received financial compensation so the matter has been aired quite widely over the past few years where the appellate conviction will encourage others to come forward remains to be seen but lacking at the moment as i just know the entire syrian population is not so shocked that their senior catholic cleric should be found guilty of effectively paedophilia roger thanks very much for that roger maynard for us from sydney thank you. the north korean leader kim jong un has arrived in vietnam ahead of his second summit with u.s. president donald trump he stepped off his personal armored train in the border town

of don't know dying for traveling for more than two days through china from pyongyang president trump is also on his way to the two day summit in hanoi air force one due to land shortly with trump and kim said to begin their meetings on wednesday after celebrating their initial encounter last year as a diplomatic success white house will be looking to achieve more concrete results in its efforts to reach an agreement on pyongyang's nuclear weapons program. a check in now some of the other stories making news u.s. vice president mike pence and venezuela's opposition leader of one why go have agreed on a strategy to increase pressure pressure on venezuelan president nicolas maduro they met at a summit of regional leaders and colombia this follows deadly clashes between why doe's supporters and venezuela security forces on the borders with colombia and brazil. the un is appealing for four point two billion dollars to

fund aid for yemen which it describes as the world's worst humanitarian crisis the organizations as a quarter of a million people are suffering catastrophic levels of hunger after four years of war this comes as an international donor conference opens in geneva switzerland. tesla's founder is again in trouble with us to go shaders and regulators were publishing a misleading tweet if we had last week that tesla would make about five hundred thousand cars a year the securities and exchange commission says that number's wrong moscow to resign as chairman of tesla last year over another incorrect tweet. it's revenge britain's biggest opposition party says it is prepared to call for a second referendum on bracks and labor says it will push for another public vote if parliament rejects its alternate plan for leaving the you in a ballot this week. so. while india says it's targeted

a militant camp in pakistan and an overnight air strike across the ceasefire border known as the line of control in media reporting that more than three hundred cal casualties it were in the raid on the alleged camp in balad called pakistan acknowledged that in the in military aircraft had violated sarah space but denied reports of casualties the strike comes amid heightened tensions between the nuclear our neighbors after a militant attack killed forty in the in troops in the speeded kashmir region that was earlier this month the indian foreign secretary has accused pakistan of failing to take concrete action to dismantle camps that arm and train hundreds of jihadi s. on its soil he said delhi acted on quote credible intelligence that pakistan based militants were plotting suicide attacks across india in the theories of. the strike the absolute necessity in

a. position in the you know that in india has been his dream capital in just a moment. in this volatile issue of a number of generation moment that is you know the scene of a hot and groups of. people going action on. the indian foreign minister there while in an unexpected move around foreign minister mohammad zarif has tendered his resignation and made the announcement on social media offering an apology for what he called the shortcomings it is still unclear if president hassan rouhani has accepted his wish to stand down a number of prominent members of parliament of called on zarif to withdraw the offer a negotiated duran's twenty fifteen nuclear deal with major world powers. a modern take on resigning but cerise instagram post was vague he offered quote an

apology for all the shortcomings and flaws but no reason for his departure all of this written on a drawing of fatima the prophet muhammad's daughter whose birth was being commemorated on monday in tehran a foreign ministry spokesperson quickly confirmed the news but also gave no reason . it's an abrupt end to more than five and a half years as a rainy and foreign minister zarif had a prominent role in negotiating the landmark twenty fifteen nuclear agreement between iran and major international powers in exchange for limiting nuclear activities tehran had economic sanctions lifted. but zarif has been under pressure since the united states withdrew from the pact he expressed his frustration at washington at the munich security conference earlier this month. on. this we have long been the target of an

unhealthy fixation let's say an obsession which continues to this very day. the demonisation of my country has been a convenient cross for seven consecutive american presidents. zarif resignation could play into the hands of hardliners in iran they've been growing more vocal about their anger towards the country's moderate president hassan rouhani for the weakening state of the iranian economy. jevon serif has been one of rouhani is main allies and his departure could weaken the president's position. we have some football now and in the final game of match day twenty three of the bundesliga leipsic hosts hoffenheim they were in a position to leapfrog clawed back into third place with a when meanwhile hoffenheim have their eyes on a european spot for accies spoils were shared after a frantic finish. the union not does money look very much at home ahead of kickoff

the hoffenheim coach takes charge of leipsic from the beginning of next season and this was a chance to get used to his future surroundings. his side took the lead after twenty two minutes on three com are rich for an easy tap in one no two the visit the croatia international tenth gold this been to see that campaign chrono reach just avoided being offside. it was the only goal in a hard fought first half. his hoffenheim side nad but not us money is always a man with a plan and he handed out clear instructions minutes after the restart. they didn't seem to work though six very often close with a free header. night six current coach nick will be novice months boss at the club next term. but there was no love lost as the hosts kept at it.

and eventually captain often did grapple equaliser just a minute from time. when i'm going to strike at losing the lead so late good awareness from my cell house and the ex had a organs equaliser. hoffenheim fluffed a very late chance a one one draw leaves the visitors eight and might see comfortably in fourth now knows money is on course for champions league football with his new site next term . scary reminder now of some of the top stories we're following for you today or the catholic church's highest ranking cleric's the australian cardinal george pell has been convicted of sexually assaulting two boys toward melbourne finding guilty of molesting the thirteen year old choir boys in the church will be sentenced on wednesday in faces years of prison. india has confirmed that it's notorious

conduct. airstrikes against militant camps inside pakistani territory. any media reporting more than three hundred militants killed pakistan denies there were any casualties. this is deja vu news live from for lent up next the documentary film on the music that provides the soundtrack for video games i'm brian thomas for the entire news team thanks for being us.