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the big. lead. the bits. this is the news coming to you live from berlin prosecutors say it's one of the most horrific cases of child abuse they've ever seen 2 men aged 56 and 43 i've been sentenced to prison films today for sexually sexually assaulting and ripping more than 30 children some as young as 41 question being asked in germany's why they were allowed to get away with it for so long. also coming up. grueling tell more than britain those lawmakers did find mr buzz johnson more sex facts blocking his
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hardline dregs of plans and voting against his calls for a stop election. and pope francis is vulcan then mozambique at the start of history nation tour of africa he praises the country's leaders for signing a peace deal to tell you about the other issues on the pontiffs agenda plus the bible and if not a banner about him i feel we are the guys that are after only the cinema that we are dying because so much promise by culture and it's hard for. many of parents cultural institutions have been destroyed by the country's ongoing conflicts the report of needs young people that were determined to keep the arts alive despite the conflict.
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a judge in germany has called to child sex abuse is long stress and despicable she then handed them jail terms for sexually assaulting more than 30 children over a period of almost 20 years some of the victims were toddlers the men carried out the attacks at a campsite in the town of detmold in northwestern germany police have been severely criticised for failing to intervene. over years these 2 men under e.s.b. and mariel as sexually abused more than 30 children at a campsite in north west germany among the victims under every state your all foster child today the 2 men were sentenced to 13 and 12 years in prison the court convicted andrea 3 of 223 counts of sexual abuse. being used in this not in this case when i also expect with this verdict. it was only in october last year that one of the girls' mothers reported the crimes to the police 2 months
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later the 56 year old child molester who abused the children at this campsite in luke was arrested later his accomplice mary s. was also detained both confessed to the crimes from the start of the trial. the case cost outrage in germany and threw up many questions among them how andrea's wee was allowed to foster a 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 of d.v.d.'s with child abuse images disappeared after it had been seized it is up to this verdict should not mean that the whole story is not all over and done with yes we have gone to they did did 2 principal accused the 2 main perpetrators who did this to the children themselves in the background there are people who could have helped save many children from these experiences one can even
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though the 2 men have been jailed for 12 and 13 years the court labored them both dangerous offenders many they can be held indefinitely past their sentences. and i'm joined now by the reporter tessa. 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 all happened very quickly now i mean after all of these hours there 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 just very little for the 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 converted
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recently as one of the worst child trials and now it has finally come to an end now given the gravity of the crimes why weren't these 2 men given the full 15. jail terms which is what is the method 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 the abusers 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
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preventive detention which is something 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
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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 it is a kind of want to thank you very much for that yeah thank you. there's no political turmoil in the u.k. prime minister barres johnson had van to take back control about bringing the country out of the e.u. but now it seems he's the one who's in control on wednesday lawmakers rejected his call for a snap election they also passed a bill 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 and also brings the country of no closer to solving its specs of crisis. yet more setbacks for british prime minister boris johnson parliament voted to pass legislation blocking goodnow deal breck's it so he called
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for an early election. to see the world this is big in my view i do view this government there is now be an election on tuesday the 15th of october . vij 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. . mr jenner me warmly. thank you mr spray can be also the election to die is a bit like the offer of an awful to snow white in the wake of queen because what he's offering is not an apple or even election but the poison of a no day i. called in said however that he would back an election
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once the government took a no deal praxis off the table the moment of truth or. 10 punishments dealt another blow to the prime minister johnson needed to win the backing of at least $434.00 lawmakers but only $200.00. 98 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. with me now being up to date with some other stories making news around the world italy's new government coalition has been sworn in after a month of political turmoil caused by the collapse of the former populist coalition prime minister just sceptic on they believe the new government which brings together the center left democrats the populist 5 star movement and the
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leftists free and equal spotty. pro-democracy activists have protested outside the chancery in berlin ahead of america's visit to china demonstrators called the german chancellor to stand with hong kong and deliver a clear message to the chinese government maggie 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 real be crossing south of tokyo the collision course the 1st 3 carriages of the train to d.v. the truck then burst into flames and investigation into the cause of the accident has been launched. 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 the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack it's the militant group's 2nd major blast in kabul
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this week. pope francis has started just 3 nation tour of southern africa where he'll address the issues of conflict poverty and the climate crisis the pontiff was welcomed at his 1st stop in mozambique by president felipe nursy the pope encouraged leaders to honor the country's fragile peace. court the pope will then head to the on a nation of madagascar which is suffering from the effects of deforestation and the last leg of his 2 was taken to maurice this it's the pontiff 4th visits to the continent now from on the pope's visit to have a. religious affairs correspondent welcome martin and all the pope was in mozambique with suffolk 15 s of civil was because he school of the country to maintain peace how much reach do his words carry that well i mean that remains to be seen the fact is that the previous peace agreement and as a matter of fact he's there in part to sort of underscore the importance of
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maintaining the peace agreement and furthering it was something that was actually negotiated place in part by the former taken by john paul the 2nd vatican and you know in some sense the church has been very much involved in peace negotiations. being said the fact is that you know these are barred the parties in the in the conflict continue to relapse and sort of slide back into a state of war so how far he actually can push you know political will that remains to be seen of course the question sold so on the ground how much weight church is actually railing in. their members and him actually pushing around political political weight well let me issues that the pope is carrying during this tour is his message of climate change and yet he's not visiting the edges of mozambique which are of a badly hit by hurricane and that's led to some criticism that's correct i mean so he will not be visiting today he actually said in his 1st communique that he's
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heart is with the people of the region despite the fact that he will not be visiting bed understanding he said there are very serious security concerns which will not allow him to leave the capital that being said i mean very often what the vatican has been involved in doing it's essentially shedding light on r.d.s. and which you know i met issue. sir environmental issues are essentially being played out and this is specifically a case of my mother got a scar where the where the pope will be in the next few days because it didn't somebody come out the other issues that he hopes to raise during his 2 i mean i think that what 2 to a large degree there is into africa will have to do with essentially just continue to foster relations between different communities and sort of bringing forth the knesset essentially of christian communities around of course the region where the pope stands now as a region which was heavily influenced by the party's church and that goes to say that there he said predominance of got the lake of presence at the very same time
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it's also an artificial in the north where there has been a line of confrontation with muslim muslim communities and there is sort of an ongoing issue of religious violence. you know this at a time in which the church itself is trying to find its footing in other parts of the world but clearly it is about to and that has a very very strong commitment to foreign policy and i think that this eventually what we're seeing in africa during these days of the trip right religious affairs correspondent thank you very much for bringing us up to date on the pope's visit. and millions of people have been evacuated in 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 has left a trail of devastation in the bahamas off to lashing the islands for 3 days at least trente people are dead and spread the death toll will drive. in the heart of
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the hurricane volunteer rescuers struggle to find what they're looking for but then dying going from the attic of a home life trapped by the storm. one by one a family emerges from the darkness. the more fortunate are already returning home to dorian's destruction the island family's house was flooded everything destroyed all they want a photograph of my wife. she said she turned off she said the window not the front door she said one driver. this was the scene when the island's made their daring escape clutching their most prized possessions. paradise has been
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pulverized thousands of homes on abaco island torn apart boats tossed around and as the storm surge locals distraught. because it is everything is gone. no buying no stores. no take at least 4 to 5 years to complete only matia i don't know how long it takes. them but in this here nothing at all 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 chain i spoke with president donald trump who has expressed the support of. the assistance of the united states of america for the bahamas and time. back at the island family home offers of help have been pouring into. it is.
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great so many people. are trying to help. but 23 people have offered so much. you know we're all wearing the same clothes that we escaped this house and. tonight. 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. now to yemen records for life there has nearly come to a standstill since the start of the civil war 5 years ago now in a place where many struggle for basics like food housing and health care culture may not seem that important but they don't be as funny for charnock people in yemen seeking a semblance of normalcy to the arts this sea wall culture could lead to less conflict
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. strolling through crate 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 an act of. yet so i'm still. living in little and i even knew some books and movie and would usually 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 nineties when fundamentalism started to being ground with civil war in 2015 things the clicking through. this place right here is just one example. this is the all the cinema in yemen but not much is left of its former glory. but how do
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you think about something quote after about $150.00 volts of power. and this screen played color and black and white movies. it was beautiful it was perfect. that i. used to be responsible for 8 years and still has a key to show me around for him thinking about life before the war he's paying for it quite a nice good. people came with their wives others with their families and you could find a culture change and respect. people were dressed in their own clint's. it is not just because of lack of food that yemenis are dying people saw wither away without access to contra the sense i know mr lim did then wash out of my. pain and i feel we had to die. but i'm only the cinema. but we're dying because
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cinematographs of a culture of art. invaded for moonfire thinner and walk out if the cinema still existed i would not. have it for. my god it would not. 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 a oh i hope it's made my life miserable what nonsense talk just. the director of mit 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.
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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 expressed through art for artists in yemen it's a way to promote dialogue and ultimately peace in their country. and that support. 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 us turris that they 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 in term 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
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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 to its cultural heritage and if that's being destroyed as possibly it is for airstrikes for example a lot of sites in the north inside the for example have been destroyed if that has been further destroyed by the limits that are in place that they are of course no public performances as much as they were before the war and really the country is dying on many levels to give. it is the myths of the once because humanitarian crisis that is according to the united nations in the midst of all of this distress is to space for culture for the people of yemen the spaces they are but the question is how do you perform for example i'm going to commit the film director
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that if you have seen who does yes or play the actor director we have seen in this report 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 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 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 you have obviously the saudi that coalition officially supporting the yemeni government or whatever is the last left of the
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yemeni government because as we all know most of it is in exile in the other 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 this was done through 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 in art and culture can bring a bit of normalcy in the lives of people and maybe even contribute to green 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 about 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
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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's 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 are dialogue on different grounds than a dialogue with weapons right funny for cho well said thank you very much for the insights from yemen now this is for an austrian skiing legend muscle his show has announced his retirement at a press conference in salzburg bringing his illustrious career to an end keisha's considered the best competition skier in the. world cup title a record 8 times and is a multiple limbic champion the kind of hero and said he wished to step back from ski to spend more time with his family. and the winter games in new zealand feature
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a few events that are definitely not for the faint of heart like the free ride skiing event which you're about to see american skier jenny simons is attempting to ski down this mountain when things go wrong tumble off the tumble it looks like a hollywood stunt gone drunk but some of the 20 year old survived human avalanche routine without serious injuries summons finished 8th on the day but gets stopped mox will simply be able to walk away from all those tumbles. coming up next on deja vue news asia hong kong pro-democracy activists have asked for support from taiwan but the island's government is already on their side so why this interest in hong kong spro tests. and a look at the hardships on the kashmiris communications blackout one month off to india security crackdown. those stories and more coming up on the news
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