the geopolitical. starting munching on g.w. . this is the w.'s lie from germany jails child pornographers full man received sentences about to ten years one of the world's biggest child abuse platforms on the dock that also on the program. germany's ambassador expelled from venezuela for backing off position later when quite a self-proclaimed interim president also has to support him at quarter of the country's finest president tells t w y. n d's life is safe really as harmless as

it's made to say you may soon find out an e.u. course says officials must release studies on the safety of the controversial we will hear from one of the lawmakers who cults bring the case. i'm phil gale welcome to the program. so we start in germany where one of the worst cases of child sexual abuse a doc net house ended a regional court handed down prison sentences of up to ten years to full man who operated a massive child pornography platform one of child abuse pornography websites in the world until investigators closed it down just under two years ago. it took prosecutors months to gather the evidence the four men work used of setting up an

operating and child pornography platform on the darkness and investigators said the men had managed the illegal pornographic content on the elysium network does not to be out of us of the material posted on elysium showed every kind of abuse imaginable of children and teenagers about and i was playing on the victims included newborns and babies the platform was discovered in twenty seventeen and immediately shut down the case made international headlines due to the large number of subscribers investigators found one hundred twelve thousand user accounts paedophiles around the world were offered photos and videos of the worst kind of child abuse on a platform operated from germany prosecutors said the network allowed the exchange of illegal material to be as easy as online shopping investigators will continue to sift through the evidence and work with international authorities to bring additional prosecutions worldish from database chief correspondent melinda crane welcome melinda those jail sentences were between three and ten years what

determined the lives they were sentences that were based on possession and publication of child pornography and in the case of one of the defendants who got the longest sentence also on his having molested children himself and then put the images of those acts online they were in fact the sentences more or less that the prosecutors had asked for in fact they even slightly exceeded what the prosecutors had asked for nonetheless child protection n.g.o.s here in germany have said the sentences aren't harsh enough. like the ventilator itself this was an investigation that crossed borders. absolutely it was those hundred twelve thousand user accounts mentioned in the report they in fact did span countries all over the world and germany cooperated here closely with law

enforcement authorities in other countries most particularly australia one of the first tips about german involvement in this website called elysium came from australia the investigators there had been looking at a different pornography website called gift box exchange and became aware of a german who was involved in that he was one of the ones who then went on to create this website illegally and the german authorities then worked with them now one reason for that is that investigators in other countries sometimes have more room for maneuver than investigators here do particularly in areas that involve data protection for example in this investigation german investigators also work very closely with a chat site called chat step that's an american based site because it's based in

america it is required to notify the authorities immediately when it suspects pornography is involved and for that reason again in vesta gaiters had more leeway than they might otherwise have under germany's very strict data protection laws and with more than a hundred thousands uses on this it leaves the network they will speak and so that someone else is going to set up something else to replace it. absolutely it is very very difficult to police the dark web as it's known it is entirely encrypted investigators liken it to essentially working in fog where it's very very hard to trace ip addresses for example in fact one of the breakthroughs here in this elysium case came because very briefly the dark web didn't work and an ip address was visible but it is very very hard to get it other such cases and there are

millions in the dark web melinda craig thank you. for the european union says it hopes venezuela will reconsider its decision to expel germany's ambassador president nicolas maduro accused daniel craig of interfering in venezuela's internal affairs after he held a press conference expressing support the opposition leader. mr guide who has declared himself interim president says the german ambassador should stay and that europe should increase sanctions against maduna regime he was speaking during an ash wednesday mass in caracas. this regime the disease power has no right to declare anyone persona non-grata this is simply a threat and that's how it should be same by the free world the german ambassador and his country have helped bring in humanitarian i. mean it seems the madeira regime want tolerate anyone who wants to help then that's why i love you out of.

so many foreign minister of course has also condemned the decision to expel us the ambassador said germany would continue support for one quite. kinds of lies the dots of. this will in no way mean that we would reconsider our support for one who i don't know is in turn president with the task of organizing free fair and democratic elections lies are you putting. supporters you're a vocal and it will stay that way but just live. ecuador is one of about fifty countries expressing support for mr why don't he was there last week to meet the president and now the country's vice president is here in berlin political correspondent simon asked autozone holt's know what ecuador could offer one glider . well support for him he was proclaimed by the nationalist family all sorts of men as well as press interim president and we think since he's offering

a way back to him ocracy were backing him up on the way that's what all all that he's asked for and we're supporting the idea that one though what you do all can call for a new election in venezuela your government has recognized one quite as president interim president. as has the united states mr maduro says that the united states is planning a coup against him what do you say to that that's hold theories that he has been as well as of east who we are facing that issue in a quote every day with the hundred thousands of immigrants that are coming through our border colombia is also facing the venezuelan issue every day so there is proof over three million people three million people have less than us were left in as well in the last two years at least and it is clear that the only way to solve their own as well i'm problem is with democracy in the contras missing that venezuela has expelled the german ambassador and what does that tell us about

whether this conflict is hotting up those are issues between venezuela and germany we don't have an opinion on that i know that germany is also backing and recognizing one way doors as president in term of venezuela and in that sense we're all together in the contact group even with venezuela working on solutions for the venezuelan people and finally how destabilizing east these conflicts for the region generally it's the biggest migration issue that we have seen in the in many years maybe even decades in latin america i cannot even think about another comparable fent issue like that one as i told you colombia alone has over one and a half million call it a venezuelan immigrants in colombia we have around four hundred thousand per our own eight hundred thousand chile these are people that are willing to go buy food for. in venezuela i mean kendry magine the situation that they're leaving in venezuela so it's it is a big issue and we are thankful for all the support that we get from the

international community in order to handle this issue you hopeful that it can be solved without violence but that's all we're hoping we're not here we will not back a military intrusiveness will lower against that we think there would not be a solution so we're working on the democratic solution thank you very much thank you. it was vice president also resigned and holds not speaking with simon the night or some of the other stories making news around the world the former chairman of donald trump's twenty sixteen presidential campaign has arrived in court to be sentenced for tax and bank for his conviction stand for an f.b.i. investigation into the twenty sixth engine campaign and reveal that paul manifold had hidden foreign income from what he did with ukrainian politicians allied with allied with russia sixty nine year old could be sentenced to up to twenty years in prison. court in brussels has convicted a french citizen of terrorist of murder for shooting four people dead at

a jewish museum in the city the attack in twenty fourteen was believed to have been kind of the first carried out by the hardest with european citizenship after returning from syria it's alleged that tammy did the move a fort there for the so-called islamic state. french cardinal phillipa barbaro says he will resign as archbishop of leo here is the decision after a court found him guilty of failing to inform the authorities about sexual abuse allegations against a priest that priest has confessed to abusing boys in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's and will be tried later this year. now the european union's top court has ruled that the block food safety agency must disclose details of its studies regarding the disputed weed killing life is saying members of the european parliament suit to see the findings of which the european commission based its ruling but life as a safety use commission had previously refused to release the life of state is the key ingredient in roundup of idli used we can solve by german chemicals joined by

a. critic suspected can cause cancer and harms the environment. my friend d. gold is a green party member of the european parliament and back this case joins us from brussels welcome to d.w. have you not got what you wanted well we have very happy of course that transparency has prevailed over business secrets that this shows the e.u. is finally enforcing european legislation but i have to say it's not yet the very top level of court still the f's could go and appeal the judgment we hope that they are reasonable and are now releasing the documents the public is waiting for and look what is the commission's a reason for keeping these documents secret. well that two different legal

principles business secrets on the one hand and public safety on the other hand but such a key decision as you were quite rightly saying on approval of a pesticide which is so widely used and of which they're responsible you and body is saying it's likely to cause cancer in such a situation and the studies have to be published because signs is about replication and only if the studies published which have been put forward by the chemical company that independent scientists can check whether they're accurate but that the u.n. has has one opinion whereas other countries have others france and belgium a skeptical for instance well brought to germany broadly accept the use of life a state so why this lack of consensus. well first of all i

wouldn't say that germany is backing it there's also a decision by our government to phase out lifeless eight but so far they haven't delivered on the promise and it's lead to high time to do it generally to use less pesticides because we have if you're forgive me for interrupting for interrupting but time is short how do you explain the lack of consensus the lack of consensus is simply that economic interests are struggling with public safety and sometimes unfortunately even against reason and public safety narrow economic nomic interest when we're talking to thank you for joining us i spend a good gold green party and maybe. this is day two of you coming up next the business show with stephen bitsy welcome stephen what you got. a look at huawei in the latest twist in the saga of its relationship with the u.s. it's now suing the u.s. saying that its law prohibiting the use of huawei instruments these network gear

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