this is do you have news coming to you live from berlin and prosecutors say it's far the most horrific cases of child abuse they've ever seen 2 german men aged 56 and 43 have been sentenced to prison terms today for sexually assaulting and dripping. children some as young as $41.00 question being asked is how were they allowed to get away with it for so long or succumbing up the new government of france to take charge and italy promising a new direction for the country the coalition unites 2 parties that will once

rivals the anti establishment find star movement and the center left democratic party a lot of other chances of survival. growing turmoil in britain as lawmakers in prime minister brown is johnson a more setbacks and blocking his hardline gregson plans and voting against discords for this that election plus close by enough not to bang on about him i feel we have a guy out of that but i'm only at the cinema but we're dying because so much progress of a culture of power and of the art. many of yemen's cultural institutions have been destroyed by the country's ongoing conflict but our reporter meets young people there who are determined to keep the answer live despite the war.

on a warm welcome to you i'm. a judge in germany has called 2 child sex abusers monstrous and despicable she then handed them jail terms for sexually assaulting more than 30 children over a period of 4 was 20 years some of the victims were toddlers the men carried out the attacks at the campsite of the town of detmold in northwestern germany police are being strongly criticised for failing to intervene selena. over years these 2 men under e 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. of 48 counts. we

need to believe not in this case when else we expect that this word and it was only in october last year that one of the girls' mothers reported 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 live chat a 3rd defendant who watched the material has already been sentenced in a separate trial the case caused outrage in germany and throughout many questions among them how under the 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 ceased. it is

a is heard it 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. even though the 2 men have been jailed for 12 and 13 years the court labored them both dangerous offenders meaning they can be held indefinitely past their sentences. and i'm joined now by reporter tests. who's been following the story for us a welcome. death 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 importance 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 abusers one more time because they would have to serve as witnesses that were 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 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 white 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. sadistic out of water thank you very much for that yeah thank. that may not be your it's some other stories making news around the world and pro-democracy activists have protested outside the chancellor in germany in berlin and of on the americas visit to china demonstrators called the german chancellor to stand with hong kong

and deliver a message to the chinese government merkel is set to leave for china later today. in japan one person has been killed and dozens injured after a truck collided with a commuter train at a railway crossing 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 going. at least 10 people have been killed by a car bomb in the afghan capital of kabul the blast shook a heavily fortified area near the nato headquarters the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack it's the militant groups 2nd major blast in kabul this week. italy's new government coalition has just been sworn in after a month of political turmoil caused by the collapse of the former populist coalition the new government is led by prime minister just said get gone there and

it brings together the center left democrats the populist 5 star movement and the leftist free and equal sparty the far right interior minister matti of salvini who sparked the crisis myra drawing his support for the government is now in the opposition. now let's head straight to rome and to our correspondent ben to the get bent the new government's just been sworn in tell us more about this new coalition . so this coalition is really an odd couple of these 2 parties which are together now are the political enemies actually on the one hand you have the 5 star movement a populist establish a movement which is fighting all the other parties in italy and 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 the theos out of india that they won prevent him to take over power and they don't want

a snap election which suddenly had actually one of attempt taken place and 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 we likely to see on this the a coalition not to sell many of the controversial far out interior minister well as i mentioned spot this political crisis is no longer in this government he is in the opposition you have 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 well to the test and 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 how. close for the margins all to refugees and nobody is sure if the new interior midst of a change that because it has actually like this migration this until the migration

policy polls show that over and over again so it's unclear if the government will actually change the saudi policies. that was hugh douglas correspondent bent very good reporting there from rome meanwhile there's been a lot political turmoil in the u.k. prime minister barak's johnson had valid 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 his call for a snap election they were supposed to build to prevent him from letting the u.k. leave the e.u. without a deal it's a record number of defeats for a new prime minister in also brings the country no closer to solving its bragg's it 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 speak to well this

is big in my view i do view this government there is now be an election on tuesday the 15th of october. and i might be right over gentlemen to respond to decide which of us is probably this is a 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. . seems to be enemy warming. thank you mr straker the author of election to die is a bit like the offer of an apple to snow white in the working queen because what he's offering is not an apple or even election but the poison of a no day i. called and said however that he would back an election once the government took

a no deal brax it off the table the moment of truth or. then parliament dealt another blow to the prime minister johnson needs when the backing of at least 434 new makers but only 298 felt in favor of this political gamble on the part of the push prime minister that he can win a general election and see person leave the e.u. at the end of october is still very much up india. 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 north and south carolina dorian left a trail of devastation in the bahamas after lashing the islands for 3 days at least 20 people are dead and it's feared the death toll will rise. in the

heart of the hurricane volunteer rescuers struggle to find what they're looking for but then dangling from the attic of a home life trapped by the storm one by one a family emerges from the darkness. of. course. the more fortunate are already returning home to dorian's destruction. the island family's house was flooded everything destroyed all they want for to graf's my wife. she said she turned off she said the window not the front door she said one dr. this was the scene when the islands made their daring escape clutching their most

prized possessions. paradise has been pulverized thousands of homes on abaco island torn apart tossed around as the storm surge locals distraught. my island. everything is gone. no buying no stores. no take at least 4 to 5 years to complete only moksha but i don't know how long it takes for the rest of the i don't but in this you know everything is gone just body. for those left behind putting the bahamas back together is expected to cost billions and the government says allies have promised to pay a chain i spoke with president donald trump who has expressed support and the assistance of the united states of america further behind us and time. back at the island family home offers of help been pouring in.

so. great so many people. actually no big 23 people have offered so much. you know we're all wearing the same clothes that we escaped. so. so it is really good to get support. you can rebuild a north to that after surviving the 2nd strongest hurricane on record he and his family are lucky to be a life. pope francis started just 3 nation tour of southern africa music specter to address the issues of conflict poverty and the climate crisis his 1st stop is mozambique where a fragile peace accord was recently signed on to present treated the pontiff was

treated to a traditional dance performances and a military show pope francis will also visit madagascar before ending his trip in moderation. not to yemen records for life is 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 culture may not seem that important but d.j. obvious family for char met people in yemen seeking a semblance of normalcy through the arts they say more culture could lead to less conflict. strolling through crater the historic 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 lot of. yet so i'm still. living in little and i even knew some books and movie and washington being 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 fundamentalism started being ground with civil war in 2015 things that 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. what do you think about it you know something quite a 150 volts of power. and this screen played color and black and white movies. it was beautiful it was perfect. you got it i. do i used to be responsible for 8 years he still has to keys 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 way. it is not just because of lack of food that yemenis are dying people saw with or away without access to contra the sense that i don't like it and i'm good done what's right about it and then bam. and i feel we're going to die and what i'm only the cinema. but we're dying because cinema told us about culture and art. and been for room for thinner and i walk out if the cinema still existed i would not be in any. kind of good. but these young people want to revive cultural life in yemen 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 the oh i call beats make my life miserable what nonsense talk just. the director 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 all sunk in the syrian 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's support

by. who's back from yemen and is with the funny now when we talk about given it's usually about the conflict there so how common are stories that you wanted to share with us well it's very uncommon to see public performances but it's very common to feel the desire among people especially in a city at the harbor of 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 want a way of expressing of what's going on in yemen is by going to a theatre 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 possibly it is so instructs for example a lot of sites in the north in saddam for example have been destroyed if that has been further destroyed by the limits are in place that there are no theaters no public performances as much as they were before the war and really the country is dying on many levels. given is the limits of the words because humanitarian crisis that is according to the united nations in the midst of all this distress is it a space for culture for the people of yemen the spaces they are but the question is how do you perform for example the film director if you have seen who does yes or play the actor director we have seen industry board he just told me today that he's going to perform rehearsal but you know 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 the evening 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 control and reaches 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 you have obvious it is saudi that coalition official is supporting the yemeni government or whatever is less 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 jihadi is why. put not really amused of having a 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 but 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 yemen how do you see it i believe weapons never brought about unity weapons and violence never brought about some sort of a dialogue it's about bringing people to a dialogue bring people to the 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 themselves 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 now for some sport an austrian skiing legend must sell his share has announced his retirement his sure is why did considered as the best competition skier in the wind the 30 year old said he wants to spend more time with his family. the final powerful one of australia's greatest ever sportsman marcel his share retired live on prime time austrian television they even moved an election debate this such is the esteem in which he is sure is harold he's long been contemplating retirement now the time had come. because it's not a major surprise anymore today is the day and my active career as a ski racer this next step is going to be better and easier for me to be

here sure dominated the slopes for it decade a specialist in the winding world of slalom he won multiple world championships and the overall world cup title a record 8 times all in a row olympic gold eluded him until right until the end to gold simpy on chang last year underlining his status as one of the sport's greatest despite still just being 30 and in good health has just set the rigors of combining skiing with a young family with too much. when i wanted to play football with my little boy go climbing and i felt this is the time to do these things while i don't have any serious injuries on only. this year's world cup season starts in austria next months from now the home crowd will have to find someone else to chair. you're watching video news here's

a recap of the top story that we're following feel each of these new coalition government has officially been sworn in promising a new direction for the country the coalition unites 2 parties that were once rivals the and establishment feinstein movement and the center left democratic party. focus on europe is up next.

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i guess this week outside the camp of the old time paying is cho she way seeking the nomination of these probes maging party the carbon tax as china pushes with increasing urgency for reunification and the time when east continue to reject its own us and sees party come to us in conflict so folks in 60 minutes g.w. . need to know that 77 percent. are younger than 6 o'clock. that's me and me and you. can't even know what time of voices was hard on the 77 percent who talk about the stuff.

from politics to classes from calls like a good stop this is where. welcome to the 77 percent. this weekend d.w. . alone. very warm welcome to focus on europe with me peter craven and we begin this week in the u.k. where with so much at stake dagens are already drawn although members of parliament have only just returned from their summer recess the action and intrigue are intense in and around the houses of parliament in london prime minister boris johnson appears absolutely determined to.