i want with safety debbie to come smoke free come join us on facebook j w for. the. oh. oh. oh. oh. oh. the c.w. news live from birth lead india launches airstrikes on targets inside pakistan the country's foreign secretary says that fighter jets hit militant camps in kashmir and that many people have been killed in pakistan denies there have been any casualties but says it reserves the right to defend itself but. also coming up the time it was a little bit short on the top story one of the catholic churches highest ranking

clerics the australian cardinal george pell has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two thirteen year old boys it is a dramatic fall from grace for the former vatican treasurer and advisor to pope francis plus a surprise announcement in iran the country's foreign minister mohammad job at some brief tenders his resignation zarif negotiated a twenty fifty nuclear deal it's unclear why he decided to leave his post or whether his resignation will be accepted. oh. oh. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program india says that its war planes have targeted what it says is a terrorist camp in pakistan india media. is that up to three hundred people may

have been killed in the raid on the alleged camp in the baloch kot close to the line of control pakistan acknowledged that india violated its air spray splits deny reports of casualties now tensions have been growing between these neighbors since forty indian soldiers were killed in militant attacks in kashmir two weeks ago the indian foreign secretary says that delhi acted on credible intelligence that pakistan based militants were plotting more attacks across india in the face of. a preemptive strike became absolutely necessary in an intelligence led operation in the early hours of today india struck the biggest training camp of the just a moment. in this operation a very large number of jeshua moment this train does see their commanders and groups of jihad these who are being trained for free they in action would

eliminate to. and speaking with local media the pakistani foreign minister issued a warning to india not to challenge his country he said quote india has violated the line of control pakistan reserves the right to self-defense and a buffeting response we have respond to sponsor will nation and our forces are capable of defending each and every inch of our motherland. and more now on the story we are joined from delhi by d.w. correspondent in a mission gys fall so tell us how significant are these strikes. but so far as you mentioned the strike for little it's a terror attack and push pull in bomb a district and this was something that has been anticipated for the last two weeks india was expected to respond and this is the first skynet extract as they call it often that attack forty indian soldiers were killed in that strike on february fourteenth and now india claims that it has wiped out a jesse mohammad camp the j.m.

. mamma is what claim to stick to that attack in kashmir so this is a direct strike back what is also significant is that india actually says that it into pakistan dedicated which makes it a landmark strike but this is the response that also the country was calling for india was calling for on social media as well as across the media that because the direct association but that it has been with pakistan and this was in response to some of the pressure of the famous movie and movie is have been feeling and this is the response that india's claims that it has made out so a landmark strike here and it's really coming on the background we have to mention more against the background rather of escalating tensions between these two you just walk us through that side of the story. well then sions between india and pakistan have historically been high over the last seven decades because of me of the two wars and pakistan have fought have been over

kashmir now the strike this two weeks ago i mean sorry the terror attack two weeks ago in kashmir had escalated tensions even further but i must also mention that back in twenty sixteen there was a similar attack against indian security forces that at least nineteen indian soldiers was killed even back then india had gathered out what it called a surgical strike in pakistan occupied markets on administered kashmir but this is what makes this strikes that should be significant is that india crossed the line of control and we heard prime minister of pakistan iran khan mention the line of control this is the de facto line that divides india administers fish meat and pakistan out of mr bush meat but even in the war that india and pakistan fought in one thousand nine hundred ninety indian forces did not cross the sea the line of control today india claims that it has gone far into pakistan the. reports say that this was because of the long range missiles were used but this is what makes this landmark and historic that this is a clear why elation as this day off box on into

a tree and barkus on flames the same and of course you know sometimes when we see moves like this that there is politics also involved because we can't ignore the upcoming elections in india what are the political implications of this strike and any potential further escalation. well saw some analysts would actually say that this action was even more political than military because there has been immense pressure on prime minister and the more the of the claws of his first storm as the indian prime minister to act he has always been he's always held a strong man always when it comes to pakistan so there was a lot of pressure on him to take immediate action and military action and because of this his response is significant now this kind of action on the political front actually allows her to gain political mileage after the card war in one thousand nine hundred ninety minute stop the same party as prime minister nouri and the more the other behavior which break him back to bar after that war played out at india

did well let's say and this time again it's actually going to give a lot of brownie points two points a million more who did this strike has been got out but then surely escalation can also be expected because of these of this political mileage but the next move of course will be about the funds that we should do so far in delhi thank you so. so. australia's highest ranking catholic cleric cardinal george pell has been convicted of five counts of child sex abuse a court in melbourne found that held guilty was guilty of assaulting two thirteen year old choir boys in the late one nine hundred ninety s. the verdict was handed down back in december but the judge only lifted the embargo today on reporting on the case. i don't know if you will make your own 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 courts are calling for a tough sentence to the catholics and he told a week i'm on it that he be excommunicated from the church george pell is amongst a freak he has to be child not home detention none of these pathetic weak justice we want to seeming gyle we want to see him for all i tell. the jury found that pell 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 tell has always denied the charges peter and simple. i'm innocent of these charges of the photos. the whole idea of sexual abuse is power and to me. hell is on leave from his role

as treasurer the third most powerful position in the vatican. he is also australia's most senior catholic cleric. pope francis has in the past praised 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. so let's get more now we are joined by roger maynard who has been following this case from australia roger we have george pell now facing a long sentence legally speaking but you know we saw in that piece that there are many people that also want the church to go further could we also see him dismissed from the priesthood or even excommunicated well it's academic of the stage or you know of the mood is the well is appealing the conviction that proves this

may take some time same some months maybe even if that appeal is unsuccessful then it's possible the inquiry will be taken up by the bench are going. to consider the allegations against him and if they decide then he could be deep throat or excommunicate it but we're talking about a fairly long time right here some may take many months possibly even years ok so the story is certainly not over yet in the meantime we know that the media coverage of his case it was subject to a news embargo why did the judge issued that order. well the those suppression order was imposed because there was a second case involving george bell due to a in march involving separate charges of sexual abuse and it was felt that the first trial if it was reported that it might taint the case it might have

some kind of effect on the jury in the second trial therefore the judge decided that we better to impose a suppression order so that none of the evidence in the first trial would be made public but of course that all changed today when that suppression order was lifted the australian public at least were given the full opportunity to see what what will the allegations were against pearl and what his reaction was and of course you know and amid all of that the victim's advocate perhaps other abuse survivors following this case very closely what do you make of the environment now there in australia where you are are we likely to see more target is brought in the wake of this case. well it's possible i suppose but at the story of the the allegations involving the roman catholic church of been swirling around for many many years in australia as in do they have another part of the world too there was

a royal commission held or a few years ago and after the royal commission a number of people were given financial compensation for the claim was all for the bad experiences they had or claim they had at the time in church schools in the catholic institutions when they were when they were children so the issue has been really is fairly extensively over the past few years with more people will be encouraged to make claims against get through church in view of what's been going on in the bill case remains to be seen but certainly there's those there's no suggestion that more people will will will will will make allegations against the church although of course it's still relatively early days roger maynard in australia thank you and thank you. well it's going to check now some other stories making news around the world the u.k.'s biggest opposition party says that it is prepared to call for

a second referendum and brags that labor says that it will push for another public vote if parliament rejected alternative plan for leaving the european union in a balance week. officials in cuba say that voters have overwhelmingly backed a new constitution a document in shrines the country's one party socialist system while recognizing private property and foreign investment as well as modest social changes electoral commission says that eighty six percent of voters backed those changes. and the u.n. is appealing for four point two billion dollars to fund aid for yemen which it describes as the world's worst humanitarian crisis the organization says twenty million people lack stable food supplies after four years of war it comes as an international donor conference opens in geneva switzerland. in an unexpected move iran's foreign minister mohammad javad zarif has tendered his resignation he

made the announcement on social media offering an apology for what he called his shortcomings it's still unclear if president hassan rouhani has accepted his wish to stand down now a number of prominent members of parliament have called on serif to withdraw the offer he negotiated of course iran's twenty fifteen nuclear deal with world powers . a modern take on resigning but more homage of odd saudis instagram posts was vague he offered an apology for all the shortcomings and flaws but gave no reason for his departure all of this was written on a drawing of the prophet muhammad's daughter whose birth was being commemorated on monday in tehran a foreign ministry spokesperson quickly confirm 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 two thousand and fifteen nuclear

agreement between iran and major international powers in exchange for limiting nuclear activities to run economic sanctions lifted but saudis 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. we have long been the target of an on ten c. fixation that say an obsession. which continues to this very day. the demonisation of my country has been a convenient cross for seven consecutive american presidents. saudis resignation could play into the hands of hard liners in iran they have been growing more vocal about their anger towards the country's moderate president hassan rouhani for the weakening state of the iranian economy mohammad javad zarif has been one of rouhani is main allies his departure could weaken the president's

position. and let's get more now i am joined by iran based political analyst about to buy he is the c.e.o. of the center for applied research in partnership with the orient welcome to you and like to begin by asking you what do you think is behind this resignation. it has been quite open in the media here in tehran that it had a lot to do with the meeting of the syrian president bashar al assad yesterday and that the foreign ministry and more importantly the foreign minister was not included in that meeting. there is a lot of debate about why that is and it is yet to be to be seen whether it was a mistake whether there was a lack of coronation whether it was she was deliberately sidelined by president rouhani or what was really behind it but that has been. the key element here but you know if we look at the political side of things i mean zarif he's seen as as

a moderate relatively speaking does this resignation do you think it now weakens the position of the also moderate president rouhani now. in general we have to say that the situation in iran not only internally but primarily in international politics has certainly weakened the the moderate direction this country wanted to take that has this has to do with the frustration of where the nuclear deal has been going and that this moderates political current which was led by rouhani and zarif certainly is under tremendous pressure and the resignation if it is accepted if it goes through is certainly weakening this political group in iran so if you had to just you know perhaps make a projection here where do you see the political current now going because i mean we have the u.s. upholding sanctions on tehran. do you think that we could potentially see now

a new hawkish foreign minister with a tougher anti american posture coming in here. i mean in your report we just saw speaking at the munich munich security conference he had he held quite hawkish positions on the u.s. so in fact even with moderate figures like has a hundred honey and john what's. the political sentiments here in tehran are such that you can no longer afford soli banking on outreach with the west and particularly with the u.s. there has to be a harsher retro rhetoric position and regardless of whether he stays or is replaced by someone else we have to expect more harsher rhetoric towards the u.s. for short i've had to battle by joining us with the very latest on the situation there in iran thank you so much. there pleasure. right to d.w. news still to come on the program picture perfect we catch up with one of germany's

that most sought after illustrators to find out what makes for work so special. but first north korean leader kim jong un has arrived in vietnam ahead of his second summit with the u.s. president donald trump kim stepped off his armor train on the border town of dangdang after traveling for more than two days through china from pyongyang u.s. president donald trump is also on his way to the two day summit in hanoi air force one is due to land in a few hours from now and trump and kim are set to begin their meetings on wednesday after celebrating their initial encounter last year as a diplomatic success the white house will now be looking to achieve more concrete results in its efforts to reach an agreement on pyongyang's nuclear weapons program . you need to be a correspondent john hartigan joins me now from the noise so he came has arrived as you just heard trump is on his way what are the expectations for this summit now.

well on the one hand people here sara very excited that this summit is taking place here in their city that this huge event that draws so much international attention the vietnamese government of course they see this as an opportunity to present the country to the world in a positive way to boost the countries to boost the country's reputation internationally and if you look around the city here they've put up huge posters everywhere with white doves on them portraying peace and they're saying annoy city of peace so you can tell that the vietnamese government they're really hoping for substantial results in this summit that substantial results that will then forever be connected so they hope with the noise and with vietnam sarah and you know if we look at vietnam itself it's really been seen as a strong economy their strong economic growth it's being held up as a model for north korea to emulate isn't it. absolutely

vietnam has managed to evolve from a war stricken impoverished country to a vibrant economy to one of the fastest growing economies in all of asia another way that they've done that is by implementing rigorous economic reforms and opening up to the world economically at least enough spoken to local entrepreneurs here in the course of the past few days and foreigners who run companies here and they're saying it's a great place to invest it's a great place to do business not at the same time vietnam has managed very well to keep a lid on calls for political reform by threatening and by jailing dissidents cracking down on political dissent and on calls for political participation i think that's what north korea is interested in how do you open up economically because kids are going to said he wants to and he needs to develop his country economically without making yourself and without making the political system in the regime vulnerable to

calls for political reform sarah boston heartache and one noise thank you. well cat men chick is one of germany's most sought after illustrators her pictures are in magazines newspapers comic books and novels she is also the favorite illustrator of the bestselling japanese author are more a commie we met with her at her studio in berlin. welcome to the world of kept mentioning where the prize where the literature crime thrillers cookbooks or gardening books her distinctive illustrations turn them all into works of art. with author tillman schleck elves and men she put a modern spin on old songs as they launch their retelling of the georgia national epic poem the night in the panther skin at the two thousand and eighteen frankfurt book fair. mentioned has illustrated the graphic novel version of babylon berlin was

a focus also chance to with illustrating its prequel moer beat at the same time the t.v. series was shot but men she didn't want her drawings to be a storyboard for it. this kind of illustrating i do allows me the greatest possible freedom because the text is in the book in this case the reader can immerse themselves in one thousand twenty lens through the words so i'm not obliged to draw it all. death. the result is a book in the format of one thousand nine hundred twenty s. magazine the story is told in the form of an article complete without bertelsmann send illustrations for example a character in the story falling ill is accompanied by pictures of the appropriate medication. the most crucial call of my career came from to moment many many years ago the publisher asked me if a i was familiar with more a commie and b. whether i wanted to illustrate one of his short stories. and of course.

i was standing in my garden at the. time i knelt down in front of my cherry tree and thought a yes i'm familiar with more economy totally admire him have read all his work and yes i absolutely want to illustrate it. more a commie was so pleased he had her illustrate all his stories from then on. the japanese author even signed one of her pictures. in february a cookbook is coming out about her quote desperate attempts despite extreme dislike of cooking to throw something tasty together this book about her garden in brandenburg was voted one of twenty four teens most beautiful german books in it men she tells personal anecdotes with plenty of self mockery for example how she

and her daughter nearly poisoned themselves with elderberry juice. and tales of the legendary garden parties she throws every year for over one hundred good friends. are now in the final game of match day twenty three in the bundesliga leipsic hosted hoffenheim they were in a position to leapfrog gladbach into third place with a win meanwhile hoffenheim have their eyes on a european spot for the next season the spoils were shared after a frantic finish. e.u. yet not as man looked very much at home ahead of kickoff the hoffenheim coach takes charge of light 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 break from a rich for an easy tap in one nil to the visit to croatia international tenth gold this been a sega campaign chrono rich just avoided being offside. it

was the only goal in a hard fought first half. his hoffenheim site lead but not a smile is always a man with a plan and he handed out instructions minutes after the restart. they didn't seem to work though like six really often close with the free header the only six current coach nick will be not was months boss at the club next. but there was no love lost as the hosts kept at it. and eventually captain often did crappy equaliser just a minute from time. to time were distraught at using the lead so late good awareness from marcel house organs equaliser. hoffenheim fluffed a very late chance a one one draw leaves the visitors a implied see comfortably in fourth nanos man is on course for champions league

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