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this is news live from berlin india launches air strikes 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 pakistan denies there have been any casualties but says it reserves the right to defend itself also coming up tonight and her. own little girl called her. one of the catholic church's highest ranking clerics the australian cardinal george pell has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two thirteen year old boy it's
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a dramatic fall from grace for the former vatican treasurer an advisor to pope francis plus a surprise announcement in iraq the country's foreign minister mohammad job at the greek tenders his resignation serif negotiated the twenty fifteen nuclear deal it's unclear why he decided to leave his post or whether his resignation will be accepted. 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 indian media say that up to three hundred people may have been killed in the raid in the alleged camp of balakot close to the line of control now pakistan for its part of knowledge that in. dia violated its airspace
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but denied reports of casualties tensions have been growing since the neighbors since forty indian soldiers were killed i mean militant attack in kashmir two weeks ago the indian foreign secretary said 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. this train does see their commanders and groups of jihad these who are being trained for free they would eliminate to meantime the pakistani foreign minister issued a warning to india not to challenge his country he called india's action and
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aggression against pakistan and a violation of the line of control he said that pakistan reserved the right to an appropriate response in its self-defense. of the war on the story i'm joined now by political analyst. in islam about and correspondent fall is standing by in delhi and the mission i'd like to begin with you and just get a sense of how significant these strikes are. well it's not the significance of this these strikes here just primarily on the attack that happened in fish feed on february fourteenth less than two weeks ago forty indian security forces lost their lives in the delta attack and ever since then the country has been waiting and watching the public has been calling for action against pakistan there's been a lot of onboard mongering sentiment on the streets and because back when the similar attack happened in twenty sixteen india claimed to have shouted out
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a surgical strike another strike was expected this finally is that moment where india has scouted out a strike came from i found out a strike in pakistan and as we heard the foreign secretary say this was a strike that the a c. is emptive and that a gesture camp was wiped out now the g.m. claimed claimed responsibility for that attack and pushed me so this is india pushing back this is and searching that such data would not be tolerated in the valley and of course down pakistan have gone to war at least twice before over the issue of questioning you so this is exactly the kind of cautioning that india wants to put forward at this point ok so that's the view from india meantime we have the response from the pakistani foreign minister essentially saying that the country is reserving the right to an appropriate response in its self-defense and it does with that i'd like to turn to you what could we expect from the pakistani side now. well as up now the response from the pakistani side has been very collaborative very calculated measured the the prime minister headed to
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a meeting of the national security council and the foreign minister just spoke with the media a few minutes ago and the consensus emerging from all those meetings at the prime minister's office where the army also participated as being to in gauge with the world with the world propagators diplomatically pakistan reserves the right this said for a retaliation but it would not retaliate and would rather focus on diplomatic efforts diplomacy for uprising the word of pakistan's position and the position is that yes there were missions are taken place but as far as the government is concerned the army operational consent they're denying they're denying the kind of damages that india is claiming from these aerial strikes ok so you think essentially a measured response here but that mission in the reality is that there have been asking leading tensions arm but tween these two countries just put this into
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context for us because there is a long history here of course. well it was the creation of india and pakistan fish meat has been a flashpoint between the cooper two countries as i've mentioned two wars have been fought over pakistan but what a fight over kashmir excuse me but what is truly significant about this particular strike is that india if it did carry out a strike in the location where it says a did crossed the line of control another line of control of the defacto line the drones between india administers me and pakistan of mr bush me and even back when the last war over happened in one thousand nine hundred ninety and the fog of war indian on forces did not breach the elo sea however at this time they have not only crossed the elysee beyond pakistan administered kashmir but they've actually gone into pakistani territory which is what makes this strike significant back in twenty sixteen when
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a similar attack on indian security forces led to the loss of nineteen lives off indian soldiers india also had claimed that had got it out of surgical strike that in that incident also it had crossed the elysee but it has believed that it was only it only went as far as box funnel quite this means that this is one of the deepest attacks that india you have got about and of course this is something that is being congratulated here in india but for the action of course is dependent on how exactly pakistan reacts and how india decided stick this forward to and even times perhaps you can weigh in when we talk about this because i mean another. factor perhaps here is that we also have a new prime minister also there in pakistan just talk with us you know about the approach that he is having especially with dealing with this militant group. well i think pakistan's prime minister as well as the army leadership has been very clear about all these militant groups that they really unwanted that they have to be
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dealt with but then they also explain that it has its own social political i've got mentions and business associated with it too or to go in as asians have have a huge number of following it's to religious seventies they're running across the country several hundred and about top a million a young students are studying at those seven it is primarily religious studies so there is a there's a difference between militants terrorists and the students who are seminaries and it's a good way to difficult proposition paxson is trying after having banned them in two thousand and two it's trying to neutralize the impact of these militant organizations constrain them in their activities and or push it has been no nor allegations you know from the from india backed in this case this was strange that there was a curious claim of responsibility and he has made that view this claim as the
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justification for getting out right these incursions into the sunny experts who want to thank you very much and it has good and islam about animation gys fall in delhi we appreciate your insight. on how the vatican has responded to the conviction of cardinal george pell on five counts of child sex abuse describing the landmark ruling as painful knaves it said that it would now wait for the outcome of the appeal process now pelle said that he is innocent and will contest the conviction a court in melbourne found that pelle was guilty of assaulting two thirteen year old squire boyce in the late one nine hundred ninety s. . no you will take the girl because 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 to the catholics and be told the a week i'm on that he be excommunicated from the kids george pell is amongst
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a freak he has to be child not go home detention none of these petty weak justice we want to seem jolly we want to see him for all i help. a jury found that tells 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. and simple. i'm innocent of these charges of the photos the whole idea of sexual abuse is apparent to me. hell is on leave from his role as treasurer the third most powerful position in the vatican. he is also
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australia's most senior catholic cleric. and. pope francis has in the past priest held 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 on this case from melbourne where we can speak with reuters journalists and on the policy has been following the case closely so now what happens now because you know he's facing a long sentence here but there's also an appeal process. that's right so tomorrow there will be a sentencing hearing and that's where the lawyers will argue over how tough a sentence paul should face and then within a couple days after that we'll get the ruling by the county court judge on how long he's going to go to jail for and he's likely to be imprisoned then and meanwhile
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the appeal has been logged and that court of appeals still has to decide whether they're actually going to hear the appeal and then on which grounds they would allow it to go ahead. if that if successful then he could face facing retrial and it's interesting because the. sorry for interrupting you there it's interesting because you know this guilty verdict was actually handed down back in december but you know because media coverage of the case was subject to a news embargo and we're only just learning about it now why did the judge issued that order. yes so we were all subject to a suppression order because there was some other charges that health faced and that was going to go going to go into a second trial and so the court didn't want the jury in the second trial to be prejudiced by the outcome of the first trial and so that's why they banned all coverage of the first trial and of the verdict in order to protect the jury in the second trial but however today the office of the public prosecutor dropped the
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charges in the second trial. over. the birds. now we have i mean if you just look at generally what has been done here and this is a senior church leader being tried in a court of law this is not church justice here is this being seen as setting a precedent. art in terms of president i mean i'm sure it will encourage other abuse survivors to try and bring charges and to pursue justice. but i mean this is just been such a huge case because of just because of who cardinal pell is you know he is the most senior catholic in australia and you know he used to be a close advisor to the pope and the church here is just been absolutely rattled to
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its core because this is this is he has been the face of the catholic church here and i think a lot of abuse dividers also see this outcome in this trial as as. sort of justice for all the people who haven't actually pursued other priests and people who feel like hell didn't do enough to clamp down on abuse in the church so nobly paul reuters journalists joining us from melbourne thank you. thanks. let's get a quick check now of some other stories making news around the world the u.k.'s biggest opposition party says that it just prepared to call for a second record referendum on braggs that labor says that it will push for another public vote of parliament to objects its alternative plan for leaving the european union in a ballot this week. officials in cuba say that voters have overwhelmingly back to a new constitution the documents in shrines the country's one party socialist
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system while recognizing private property and foreign investment as well as modest social changes the electoral commission says that eighty six percent of voters backed those changes. and 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 organization says that twenty million people lack stable food supplies after four years of war it comes as in an international donor conference opens up in geneva switzerland in an unexpected move iran's foreign minister mohammad job as raef 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 step down a number of prominent members of parliament have called on to reve to withdraw the offer. the reefs negotiated of course iran's twenty fifteen nuclear deal with world
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powers. a modern take on resigning but mohammad javad studies 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 fatima 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 so he's had a prominent role in negotiating the landmark two thousand and fifteen nuclear agreement between iran and major international powers and exchange for limiting nuclear activities to run had economic sanctions lifted but seventy five 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
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have long been the target of an unhealthy 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 to pit. saudis resignation could play into the hands of hard liners 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 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 and partnership with the orient welcome to you and i'd like to begin by asking you what do you think is behind this resignation.
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it has been quite open in the media here in tehran that it had a lot to do with the meeting elvish the syrian president bashar 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 he 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 it's very few see 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
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politics has certainly weakened them the moderate direction this country wanted to take that has this has to do with the frustration about 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 quote i caucused positions on the us so in fact even with moderate figures like. the political
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sentiments here in tehran are such that you can no longer afford soli banking on creech with the west and particularly with the us 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 a more harsher rhetoric towards the us for sure i've not had to bow to by joining us with the very latest on the situation there in iran thank you so much. north korean leader kim jong un has arrived in vietnam ahead of his second summit with u.s. president donald trump kim stepped off his armor train in the border town of dong dang 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 cam are set to begin their meetings on wednesday after celebrating their initial encounter last year as
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a diplomatic success the white house will now be looking to achieve more concrete results and its efforts to reach an agreement on pyongyang's nuclear weapons program. need to be a correspondent and heartache joins me now from hanoi so fast and they came has arrived as we have just heard trump is on his way what are the expectations for this summit now. well on the one hand people here sara they're excited that this summit is taking place here in their city that is 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 hanoi city of peace so you can tell that the vietnamese government they're really hoping for substantial
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results in this summit that substantial results that will then forever be connected so they hope with hanoi and with vietnam sara and you know if we look at vietnam itself it's really been seen as a strong economy their strong economic growth it's been hyped 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 if 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
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down on political dissent and on calls for political participation and 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 any needs to develop his country economically without making yourself and without making the political system of the regime vulnerable to calls for political reform sarah boston heartache and how noise thank you. can't mention is one of germany's most sought after illustrators her pictures are magazines newspapers comic books and novels she's also the favorite illustrator of the bestselling japanese author iraqi war coming we met up with her in berlin. welcome to the world of kept mentioning where the prize where the literature crime thriller has cookbooks all gardening books distinctive illustrations turn them all into works of art. with author tilman schleck elves and men she put
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a modern spin on old songs as they launch their retelling of the georgia national epic poem of the night in the panther skin at the two thousand and eighteen frankfurt book fair. i mentioned has illustrated the graphic novel version of babylon berlin was the focus also chance to with illustrating its prequel mo a 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. was 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 nine hundred twenty lens through the words so i'm not obliged to draw a tool. to tell you. the result is a book in the format of a nineteen twenties 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
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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 commie and be whether i wanted to illustrate one of his short stories. and of course. i was standing in my garden at the time and i knelt down in front of my cherry tree. thought a yes i'm familiar with more a commie totally admire him have read all his work and be yes i absolutely want to on the straight but intention of. humor 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
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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 mention tales personal anecdotes with plenty of self mockery for example how she and her daughter nearly poisoned themselves with grew elderberry juice. and tales of the legendary garden parties she throws every year for over one hundred good friends. a quick reminder now of the top stories that we're following for you here at the deputy news one of the catholic church's highest ranking clerics australian cardinal george pell has been convicted of sexually assaulting two boys according melbourne found that help was guilty of attacking the thirteen year old choir boys to church health says that he is innocent and will appeal the conviction. india has confirmed spend its military has conducted air strikes against the militant camp
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inside pakistani territory indian media reporting that more than three hundred militants were killed pakistan tonight there were any casualties. as are forget you can always go to that we're news on the go if you believe us news and information on our website at the d.w. dot com up next a closer look at the weekend's bundesliga story. recall
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