this is due to our viewers coming to you live from berlin prosecutors say it was one of the most horrific cases of child abuse they've ever seen 2 german age 56 and 43 have been sentenced to prison terms today for sexually assaulting and raping more than 30 children some as young as 41 question being asked is how they were allowed to get away with this was sort. of coming up. a new government prepares to take charge and promising a new direction for the country the coalition unites 2 parties that bill wants

driver's anti establishment 5 star movement and the center left democratic party more to its chances of survival. overbite no doubt and banged. up and i feel we are dying out of that but i'm only the cinema but we're dying because cinema targets of a culture of power and art. many of yemen's cultural institutions have been destroyed by the country's ongoing war but fortunately it's young people today who are determined to keep the arts alive despite the conflict. i'm. a judge in germany has called 2 child sex abuse this monstrous and

despicable she's then handed them jail terms for sexually assaulting more than 30 children or almost a period of 20 years some of the victims were toddlers the men carried out the attacks at a campsite near the town of detmold in northwestern germany police have been criticized for freedom to intervene. over the years these 2 men and 3 s.v. and mariel as sexually abused more than 30 children at a campsite in north west germany among the victims and 8 year old foster child today the 2 men were sentenced to 13 and 12 years in prison the court convicted under a s.v. of 223 counts of sexual abuse mary as of 48 counts. we need to believe not in this case when else we expect that this word it it was only in october last year that one of the girl's mothers report of the crimes to the police 2 months later the 56 year old child molester was arrested one month later

his accomplice mario as was also detained both confessed to the crimes from the start of the trial evidence showed the man firm the abuse and shout the images by a life chat a 3rd defendant who watched the material has already been sentenced in a separate trial. the case cost outrage in germany and throughout many questions among them how andrea sui was allowed to foster child when he was unemployed and living on a campsite and despite the fact that he had been under suspicion many times over the years the police are also facing mounting pressure after a suitcase full of $155.00 d.v.d.'s with child abuse images disappeared after it had been seized. it is a put their story to is hurting should not mean that the whole story is now over and done with yes we have convicted the 2 principal accused the 2 main perpetrators who did this to the tutoring themselves but in the background there are people who

could have helped save many children from these experiences. actually one can even though the 2 men have been jailed for 12 and 13 years the court labeled them both dangerous offenders meaning they can be held indefinitely past their sentences. and i'm joined now by reporter tessa botha who's been following the story for us a welcome. to set out the details of this case are quite hard to find and what is likely to be the reaction to this verdict in the fact that these children some of them as young as 4 were being raped and abused for almost 2 decades yes one of the fast reaction was definitely it or happen very quickly now i mean after all of these errors that were detected leading up to the trial we now have to keep in mind that it's only been 9 months that the main suspect was arrested and now the trial only took 10 weeks which is very little for german standards so it will happen very

quickly and this shows of just how most important this trial was not only to the judges but also to the german public watching this trial all along and we can really resume as one of the worst child trials and now it has finally come to an end now given the gravity of the crimes why won't these 2 men given the full 15 years jail terms which is what is permitted under german law i mean the public prosecutor persecutors they demanded just about what they finally got to the 12 and 13 years but what definitely played a decisive role was the confessions i was there the 1st day and already on that 1st day. we had a confessions made by the 2 alleged abusers and that was very important to the judges because they didn't want the children to be needing to come into the courtroom facing their views as one more time because they would have to serve as

witnesses that was spared from them and probably decrease the sentence in the end but what we have to keep in mind is that there is still something which is called preventive detention which is something a very german phenomenon which is going to be applied right after their sentence which means probably until the end of their lives they will not step out of prison and this is you would know this was one of the most shocking aspects of this case was that they were grave mistakes made during the investigation by authorities at multiple levels was this addressed by the court today no that wasn't addressed at all but that was made clear right from the start this trial was only covering the days of the alleged suspects and now convicted it and what they said though is that a separate investigative committee was set up this is already working on the mistakes that have been made by the police by you've been a zation run by the state and they really have understood that something like this

cannot happen again and what they want now and what we can see is that on a german level germany what level really the focus has changed and child abuse crimes are really put under special scrutiny now because another child abuse like this would really be a catastrophe in germany right d.w. statistic out of water thank you very much for that yeah thank. turning now to actually when the new government coalition has just been sworn in after a month of political turmoil goes by the collapse of the formal populist coalition the new government is led by prime minister just sepic on day and invents together the center left democrats the populist 5 star movement and the leftist free and equal spotting the far right interior minister matteo salvini who spot this crisis by be drawing a support from the government is now in the opposition. now let's head

straight to rome and correspondent ben to get bent the new government's just been sworn in tell us more about this new coalition. this coalition is very odd couple these 2 parties which are together now or are the political enemies actually on the one hand you have the 5 star movement a populist and establish a movement which is fighting all the other parties in italy you know the other hand you have an established well known force the social democrats and these 2 parties don't have much in common despite the fact that they want to fend off matthew salvini that they won prevent him to take over power and they don't want a snap election which suddenly had actually one of attack taking place so many experts say thou the lifespan of this coalition but not last long a couple of months maybe

a year and then what kind of policies are we likely to see under this new coalition much yourself many of the controversial far right interior minister well as i mentioned spot this political crisis is no longer in this government is in the opposition. yeah the far right leader now is already complaining against his new government and he is replaced by a technocrat a civil servant. who gave them berets and which is not. known valid to the we don't know have policies yet the rhetoric has toned down a little bit and so the anti migration rhetoric is down but the deeds are not following the hot. closed for the migrants altar of refugees and nobody is sure if the new interior minister of a change that because it has actually like this migration this until the migration policy polls shows out over and over again so it's unclear if the government will actually change the soviet policies so ben from what you are saying this government

is not likely to leave a stable it's not likely to last very long what do all these developments mean for europe for the european union that voters in brussels are expecting some stability in italy they want a budget that brings down the overriding public debt t.-a that boost the economy which is not doing well but the hopes are not very high in italy and in the process already because they are already know that italy is it's not going to have a very stable coalition and maybe if this is only can ever save some time to have a budget for next year and then process would seem. then previous in rome thank you very much for bringing us up to date but developments that. meanwhile there's more political turmoil in the u.k. prime minister barak's chance and had van to take back control by taking the country out of the e.u. but now it seems he's the one who's losing control on wednesday night lawmakers

rejected to score for a snap election they also passed a bill to prevent him from letting the u.k. leave the e.u. without a deal now it's a record number of defeats for a new prime minister and also brings the country no closer to solving its brakes at crisis. yet more setbacks for british prime minister boris johnson parliament voted to pass legislation blocking a no deal breck's it so he called for an early election. to see the world this is big in my view i do view this government there was now be an election on tuesday the 15th of october erudite might be right over gentlemen to respond to decide which of us is probably this is that crucial council on thursday the 17th of october the leader of the main opposition labor party jeremy called an appeal to

lawmakers not to back an early general election before october the 31st the current deadline for britain to leave the e.u. . comes to the enemy will be. thank you mr straker the author of election the diary is a bit like the author of an awful to snow white in the working queen because what he's offering is not an apple or even election but the poison over now dale. called and said however that he would back an election once the government took a no deal praxis off the table the moment of truth or. then parliament's dealt another blow to the prime minister johnson needed to win the backing of at least $434.00 lawmakers. but only $298.00 voted in favor of this political gamble on the part of the british prime minister that he can win a general election and see britain leave the e.u.

at the end of october is still very much up in the air. let me now bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the world pro-democracy activists have protested outside the chancellor rhee in berlin and of anger back his visit to china demonstrators called on the german chancellor to stand with hong kong and deliver a clear message to the chinese government merkel is set to leave for china later today. at least 10 people have been killed by a car bomb in the afghan capital kabul the blast shook a heavily fortified area near the nato headquarters that dolly ban has claimed responsibility for the attack it's the militant groups 2nd major blast in kabul this week. in japan one person has been killed and dozens injured after a truck collided with a commuter train at a really recrossing south of tokyo the collision course the 1st 3 carriages of the

train to d.v.d. the truck then burst into flames the investigation into the cause of the accident has been launched. iran's president hassan rouhani says he's taking another step away from the 2015 nuclear deal with world power as iran would start to develop centrifuges to speed up your reasoning and richmond under the deal iran agreed to limit its nuclear activities in return for the easing of economic sanctions the u.s. withdrew from the pact last may. millions of people have been evacuated on the southeastern coast of the u.s. as hurricane dorian approaches the storm has weakened but still has dangerously high winds and is threatening to flood coastal areas. in georgia and in north and south carolina dorian has left a trail of disturbed station the bahamas after lashing the islands for 3 days at least 20 people are dead and it's feared the death toll will rise. i and the heart

of the hurricane volunteer rescuers find what they're looking for life dangling from the attic of a home trapped in the storm. i for. one by one an entire family emerges from the darkness. i. mean. of course. as the floodwaters have receded so comes the chance to salvage memories from dorians destruction the island's family home flooded their possessions destroyed all they want now are photographs of my wife. she said she turned the car off she said the window not the front door she said on drying up . this was the scene when the islands made their daring escape.

paradise has been pulverized thousands of homes on abaco island torn apart. from the sea by the storm surges locals distraught. my island and it is everything is gone no buying no stores. no take at least 4 to 5 years to complete only moksha don't know how long it takes for the rest of the island but in this you know nothing at all everything is gone just body. searching the bahamas back together will cost billions of dollars and the government says allies have promised to pick chain. i spoke with president donald trump who has expressed their support and it's the assistance of the united states of america for the bahamas and time. back at the island family home

offers of help been pouring into. it so. great so many people. actually no big 23 people have offered so much. you know we're all in the same clothes that we escaped is how innocent. so i think. so it's really good to get support and know that you can rebuild like a north to that after surviving the 2nd strongest hurricane on record he and his family a lucky to be a life. return to yemen now an unusual story cultural life there has nearly come to a standstill since the start of the civil war 5 years ago in a place where many struggled for basics like food housing and health care godship may not seem that important. family for charmouth people in yemen seeking

a semblance of normalcy through the arts this is a culture could lead to less conflict. strolling through crater the story part of aden is not easy for people here most are struggling to survive and young people are fed up with the limited opportunities they have due to the lack of security. they have not a lack of. yet so i'm still. living in little and eating some books and movie and watching shouldn't be the only museum in town was partially destroyed in the civil war. cultural life in public has already been quite limited in the early ninety's when it's coming fundamentalism started being ground when there were war in 2015 things you clicking through. this place right here is just one example. this is the old the cinema in yemen but not much is left of its

former glory. well how do you think about a. report got about $150.00 volts of power. and this screen played color and black and white movies. it was beautiful and was perfect. and you got that idea of did i used to be responsible for 8 years he still has a key to show me around for him thinking about life before the war he's paying for it quite a nice get you know. people came with their wives mothers with their families and you could find a culture. and respect. people who are dressed in their best clothes and. it is not just because of lack of food the yemenis are dying people with their own way without access to contra the sense i don't look at him good doesn't wash out of my. pain and i feel we have to die. when i can only the cinema.

but we're dying because cinematographs my culture and art. invaded for moonfire thinner and walk out if the cinema still existed there would not be any. kind of good luck. but these young people want to revive culture alive in yemen and they are rehearsing a play to be performed in public for the 1st time in more than 4 years in aden with basics like electricity hard to come by the theater is a way to vent. turn the power on from the other line. is your hobby to make my life miserable what nonsense talk just. the situation they're up to ahmed ahmed believes that art is necessary to channel people's emotions about the difficulties in their lives but is it the right time to

talk about art. or sport but that's not true because if everyone stopped doing what they have to do with all sunk in the same situation real life express through art for artists in yemen it's a way to promote dialogue and ultimately peace in their country. and that reporter. who's back from yemen is with me funny now when we talk about given it's usually about the conflict there so how common stories that you wanted to shed with us well it's very uncommon to see public performances but it's very common to feel the desire among people especially in the city at the harbor the interim capital since the war broke out in 20 of 14 it's very common when you speak to young people and the majority of them is under 25 years old in aden that they say

they don't want to just stay at home and basically wait for a better future and but you want to talk to each other and one way of expressing of what's going on in yemen is by going to a theater play for example as we have seen in that report so it is very important but also in the context of in fact it's culture that brings about unity that's something that the people are very much convinced of that i've spoken to they say that yemen used to be a united country even though of course has been always differences between the north and the self but it comes through its cultural heritage and if that's being destroyed as poss that is so instructs for example a lot of sites in the north in saddam for example have been destroyed if that is being further destroyed by the limits that are in place that there are no theaters no public performances as much as they were before the war than really the country is dying on many levels. given is the myths of the ones because humanitarian crisis that is according to the united nations in the midst of all of this distress is

that a space for the people of yemen the spaces they are but the question is how do you perform for example the film directors if you have seen her to see her play director director we have seen industry board he just told me today that he's going to perform rehearsal but in a wedding hall and he doesn't know how many people are actually going to attend because even though there's no official curfew in aden people feel inclined to sort of like have a self-imposed curfew when it comes to. even when it becomes dark because you really do not know what challenges you encounter when you pass through different checkpoints and you do not know who is in charge so yes culture does exist but the question is whether people people can actually attend those cultural events and as i say yes that's very difficult simply because of the situation on the ground and how. he's responding to these creative cultural and religious initiatives that's a question of how do you define actually a local authority right now in aden because you have so many elements in play that

are competing for their own power or you have obviously decided that coalition official is supporting the yemeni government or whatever is the last left of that yemeni government because as we all know most of it is in exile in saudi arabia you have the separatists who want to have an own state they want to have a south of yemen you have jihad it's. done through put not really amused of having culture performed in public so you have all these elements in place where you may think ok because of the chaos you can actually do whatever you want to but when it comes to performing a play that of course also is a way to criticize what's going on in a country and that criticism in between the lines can of course put you in danger some of the artists you spoke to hoping that you know their endeavors. can bring a bit of normalcy in the lives of people and maybe even contribute to bringing peace to yemen how do you see it i believe weapons never brought about unity of weapons and violence never brought about some sort of a dialogue it's

a balance of bringing people to a dialogue bring people to a table to talk to each other and if a play for thier to play if that is something that could not just distract people from doing things like radicalizing them selves or being bored and as a result of that i mean a lot of people in yemen are actually chewing khat afternoon because there's not much more to do if there is more on the ground that helps people to come together and to talk about what's going on the country i'm not saying there's going to be peace right away but at least these a dialogue on different grounds than a dialogue with weapons funny well said thank you very much for the insights from yemen they've just come back from yemen. this is deja news these are top stories italy's new coalition government has been sworn in it ignites 2 parties that were once rivals the anti establishment 5 star movement and the center left democratic party far right you don't lie to yourselves you need to cause the previous government to collapse has now been sidelined and is in the opposition.

british prime minister boris johnson has suffered for the defeats over his brags of policy lawmakers passed a bill aimed at stopping a no deal gregg said then later rejected discord for an early election johnson wants a snap poll in the hope of winning a majority so he can keep his promise of leaving the e.u. by october 31st. the un says 70000 people in the bahamas need lifesaving assistance following hurricane dorian the storm inflicted widespread destruction at least 20 people have been killed many are still missing dorian is now moving towards the u.s. where it has started to affect areas of south carolina millions of people have been ordered to evacuate. this is the news from berlin you can always find the latest headlines d.w.

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