me the news . this is the news alive from berlin. one of germany's leading catholic figures offers his resignation to the folk. cardinal reinhardt marks the archbishop of munich says he has to share responsibility for the catastrophe of sexual abuse by clarity over the past decades. also coming out, police arrest prominent hong kong activists on the anniversary of dtn him and square massacre. child hung tool is known for getting thousands onto the street to remember the 1989 violence in beijing. we caught up with her shortly before she was detained. and 32 years ago today,

chinese troops opened fire on their own. people who were calling for democratic reform will speak to one of the leaders of the student movement from the time, plus 3 lumpkin. fishermen are left without a catch in the waters around a wrecked cargo ship. it's been leaking hazardous, waste the ease, fear. hundreds of tons of oil may spill into the sea. ah. and a warm welcome to our viewers around the world. i'm michael. ok. we start with breaking news that germany's most senior, a cleric has offered his resignation to pope francis unix. cardinal reinhard marks said that he wanted to share responsibility for what he called the catastrophe of sexual abuse by members of the catholic church. marx has long been the last seeing

voice in the call for church reforms whose calls have been growing louder as sex abuse investigations revealed a decades long cover up by the clergy. let's get more on this developing story with our chief political correspondent, melinda crane. melinda, give us some background here. why this letter and why now? well, this letter, it comes after a new report, one in the series of reports about sexual abuse in the german catholic church, like the church in so many other countries. the german church has been rocked by revelations, a major study, for example, in the 2018 that showed that over 1600 clergymen have committed sexual attack against over 3500 victims between 19462014. at that time,

cardinal marx said in the public statement that the church had failed and called for far reaching reform. then in march of this year came another new study showing a wide spread abuse. once again, hundreds of legit cases that particular report that prompted the resignation of the archbishop of hamburg. but cardinal marks at that time did not indicate that there would be other far reaching consequences. now, how will he seems to have reached a turning point saying that he feels that it is imperative that he take personal responsibility? following the latest revelations, there have been some accusations that he was involved in a cover of some kind but doesn't seem to be personally motivated in that sense. rather he says he's concerned about the state of the church as an institution. well,

those numbers you site are certainly sobering, if not devastating, that the catholic church is facing a dead. and that's a direct quote from the cardinal's letter. that's a devastating verdict, isn't it? absolutely it is. he says that the steps that have been taken since the 2018 revelations that they are largely administrative. and in fact, the church had agreed to pay the victim. i think $5000.00 euros per person for their claims and had also agreed to cover their therapy fees. but many victims had said that that was out that will be inadequate. and he is now saying that those essentially represent administrative steps, but that they don't deal with the, the systemic institutional problems of the church. and he basically is saying that only by the true transformation that turns this dead end into

a new beginning. can the church begin to reform itself and that he feels he must be personally responsible for that and take personal responsibility for the church? that's a d. w chief. political correspondent, melinda crane, has always much thanks. melinda. today, march the anniversary of beijing's 989, count him and square massacre. and on this 32nd anniversary, police and hong kong have arrested a prominent pro democracy activists chow, hong kong who you see with a pink mask here, usually leads a massive visual on this day for the child have been victims. hong kong authorities have banned the commemoration for a 2nd year in a row. it was the last place on chinese soil where people gathered to remember the bloodbath. we have team coverage of this story from phoebe kong and hong kong and mathias ballinger in beijing. phoebe,

i'm going to start with you. you're near the park where people normally gather. are people still determined to commemorate gentlemen square, even though the events organizer has been arrested? while you can see i'm standing at the entrance also talks, but now is last the field off by the hong kong police officers say they're now blocking seal coating off the hope hoc with my whole barriers that we along along that we walk through like to, to talk of our heavy presence of police offices, stopping and checking many citizens around to who maybe might try to like commemorate the cat among grocery on their own capacity. and in the ways that were lost, the stop them to turn pi offices on the ground. and those policies have been trying to warn police wanted citizens that they may violate or the public or the audience,

or even the national security law by commemoration. but we see that some, some churches are going to hold some prayer and commemoration services on their own . and some activists are trying to sell that movie various different goals in hong kong today. so i think this essence and now finding some more innovative way maybe to commemorate online or in the format that they have to do. so in the mathias, let's turn you what's happening on the mainland on this 32nd anniversary. well, nothing is happening in the mail and it has never been possible to publicly commemorate the stay here in inside the borders of the people republic and the chinese mainland. of course people,

there might be people remembering privately now. so people who have tried to post about this to maybe take part in discussions that ahead abroad online discussions. but all of this is heavily sends it activists where try to post just pictures of a candle are reporting that there are comments on chinese social media. have been frozen and anything that is vaguely reminiscent of this day, it seems that on the chinese internet, so somebody once put it to me june 4th, the state does not exist in china. state does not exist in china. i guess it says at all. phoebe kong in hong kong and mathias bootlegger in beijing many thanks. and let's take a look back at what happened on june 4th, in 1989 on gentleman square for several weeks leading up to that day,

the square had become a focal point for protests against economic hardship and corruption. students also gathered to demand democratic rights and freedoms from the communist government. but by june, 4th, chinese leaders sent in troops to crush the demonstrations. footage of a loan protests are standing in front of a line of tanks, has become one of the most enduring symbols of the violence. no one knows exactly how many people were killed. some say hundreds, others, thousands. where she was one of the leaders of their student pro democracy movement in china, back in 1989. he joins me now from taiwan, where he lives. welcome sir. you are a survivor of the massacre that the chinese government seems to want to raise from the memory of its citizens. i imagine you have very strong feelings about that. well, remembrance is one of the most humble form of resistance. and the chinese government

has been exercising its iron says its oppression for any of any kind of challenges that can rise within china. so in the last 13 years, hong callers have been holding tend to like vigil in victoria park for those of us who are in china, could not hold the memory, commemorate commemoration, and they were doing it. and then also the victorian par candlelight vigil has become an organic part of the hong kong own democracy movement. and this year is the 1st time that has been forbidden by chinese reaching and then it's public government in hong kong course where outraged will take us back for a moment to those days in the, in early summer of 1989. you were 21, then. did you suspect that the chinese government would crack down as brutally as it did sending in its tanks, the literally run down the protest?

no, no, nobody could have seen that coming. chinese government has conducted a long time propaganda that the government, the communist government is the people's government. and then the spending to china, people's liberation army is peoples army in 1989. i think nobody can anticipate that the real standing force will using real ammunition should get the people protesters and then along letting tanks roll over them. so it came up in came as a major surprise, a major shock to have be a 1000000000 chinese. and i think it's fair to say what one can only imagine. i hope you're still with us. you look like your pictures frozen, but i'm going to go with the next question here. 32 years on and china is,

is still cracking down on descent. talk to us a little bit about the role of the international community. has the international community done enough basically to push for human rights and freedom of the press? well, i think the international community, the united states, lead western democracy have become an in enabler for the, for the chinese region since 989 or maybe even a little bit before that. so trade the became the currency will cavalry instead of human rights and under the assumption that engaging with china and the trade and economy will enable we will give birth to a major middle class in china, which will give birth to a civil modern society. civil society and freedom and democracy,

that assumption didn't came true while and then the cupboard, another assumption which is not at all innocent and they use that is it. although we know where enabling a, a tony, tara region, there will be consequences. there will be human rights oppressions, but it will be within chinese border guess what? debt assumption was also wrong. china and in the 21st century, when the world is thinking is using every power it has to manipulate the world order, including currency, manipulation, violating intellectual property rights. cyber attacks all you owe these, you can see and then the western world in the last, at least 3 decades. since gentlemen, have been a appeaser, have been a collaborator with the chinese reaching that has lead to what we're seeing today.

the tiniest redeem is becoming a major threat to civilization. we're living in for the universal value to the world. or there we all enjoy. we have very little time left, but i do want to ask you a couple more questions. and i'm very curious as you watch what's happening in hong kong. how safe do you feel in taiwan? time one is democracy is one of the most vivid democracy in today's world. and then we have earned that freedom and democracy with our own when the whole world abandoned us, when the whole world excluded us. so we breathe in and out freedom and we know it and we will defend it. taiwanese and it's one of the most threats it place on earth by the chinese region, and did not urge the world to come in. the defend the freedom and democracy of ty,

one together with us know you had to flee china after the 1989 massacre. and i understand that you haven't seen your family ever since sensitive question, but i do want to ask you, was your commitment then worth the decades of sacrifice that followed? well, issue is safe worth that, you know, it's really hard to calculate make that calculation. but if you really ask the question, do i regret the answer is much easier. no, there is no regret. the simplifies it's, it's huge my personal lives. and then also last of lies many, many people of their freedom for decades and that sacrifice we, i hope it doesn't go then and then that we need to spend

strong to make what we demand come through. that's the only way sacrifices would have already made will carry some significance. where can she one of the leaders of their student pro democracy movement in china, back in 1989? certainly appreciate your time and especially your perspective, sir. thank you very much. let's take a look at some of the other stories. now, making news around the world at this hour, detain journalists rama and pretty say that has appeared in an interview on dilution state television making and apparently forced confession. the opposition says his admission to plotting to overthrew alexander lucas shanker. came under dress for the savings and his girlfriend have been in detention since may 23rd. when their flight was forced to land in ment, russian police have released a well known opposition. politician from custody after holding him for 2 days.

dmitri good cause had been planning to run in september's parliamentary elections. russian authorities have been cracking down on descent recently ahead of the elections. the white house has announced a plan to give away millions of doses of corona virus vaccine. initially, the us will donate 25000000 vaccines. they will be distributed to countries in south and central america, africa, and asia, through the global vaccine sharing initiative. kovacs overall, the u. s. plans to donate 80000000 vaccines. by the end of june, greece has begun to vaccination campaign for asylum seekers living in often overcrowded can't. on his island. vaccines have already been offered to the general public for several months. the greek government has been criticized for being slow to knock late migrants, many living in unsanitary conditions. you're watching the w news still to come

returning to live in the shadow of africa, the most active volcano. people in goma asked why they weren't given more warning before their homes were swept away. 3, like a is struggling to contain the environmental damage from a rec cargo ship, which has been leaking hazardous waste into the ocean. the ex press pearl, it stuck off shore, near the capital colombo, where it partially sank, following a day's long fire. through luck, plans to shew the ship's operator, though it says the real costs may be incalculable. india has dispatch vessels to help the clean up and prepare for a possible oil. still. the ghostly rec, still smoldering, now sunk into the sea floor. attempts to tow the vessel to deep water failed. it may have to be broken apart in its place. the ships operator says most of the fuel and toxic cargo burnt in the blaze,

but authorities readying for another wave of waste. if there is an oil spill, we have different methods of dealing with it, depending on the weather conditions. when we are ready to face all possibility, the 1st option is we can lay a boom around the ship. i think we're ready with that. if that's not possible, we can drop oil dispersed from the air even at sun beaches along shoreline. because western coastline have been coated by billions of plastic pellets. similar scenes could come to other nations shore lines as current carry the waste across the indian ocean. environmentalist described the other lead substances as a chemical soup and we found the number of very hazardous chemicals the more than a to contain itself. hazardous chemicals that include sodium, metal oxide, and copper flags lead in gods and nitric acid

and lot of plastics. and also the bookseller things fishing has been banned, a long, large stretches of the shoreline can. coastline fishermen fear for their health and their livelihoods. you know me to follow. they had told us sufficiently 15 kilometers away. we went and put our 25 kilometer away. even though it was that far when we went to check out next in the morning, we didn't catch a single fish. not even a baby fish, but without warning, the singapore flag, the vessel was only 4 months old when it caught fire in late. may the navy says the 12 de blaze was likely caused by the chemical cargo. the captain and some crew members have been barred from leaving shore lanka. i made a criminal investigation into the country, works maritime environmental disaster. nearly 2 weeks ago africa's most active volcano erupted in eastern democratic republic of congo. the

city of goma was flooded with lava and thousands of locals were forced to flee the area. now people are slowly beginning to return to the area, looking for what remains of their homes and their livelihoods. the w corresponded mario mueller is in the city to meet with some of those who have been affected. masika house was lost, everything. her house where she lived with her children and her family business. the entire life she had carefully built up over the years, consumed by flames in a matter of seconds. was so good. we decided to flee, hoping that lava would not affect our house. but on sunday, when he came back, everything was gone and we were left with nothing. she had no time to take any belongings with her. now she's living with friends that could only take 2 of her 10 children, the others. i was neighbors. one here, one day, one, okay, i'm on

a low. it's making me very sad. there's nothing i can do about it. like messy get over 4000 people have lost their homes and the entire livelihood. some of them contrast at friends houses or in nearby towns, but now they depend on humanitarian assistance in order to survive me. why was there no warning for goma? about 2000000 people live in the area director of the coma volcano. to recess the world bank did not renew the funding for their work. with no funds they were unable to monitor the volcano properly. in october, the internet was cut off that caused problems. we have stations that 150 kilometers away, but then we didn't have enough fuel to get there. but because you know, from when the internet is working, the observatory receives data from sensors on the volcano every 4 minutes for 7

months. that was not the case that everyone knew that we didn't have the means that we worked with difficulties. but some broken ologist say there were clear signs that they will cain or could erupt in the next few years. civil society activists say the aimless, squarely with the government and the goma volcano observatory itself. those fancy for the wedding carotid, if they didn't spend money or for j founded by war bank they, we could prevent the dead. my dad right now, my father who is responsible. oh she cares about is trying to rebuild her life. going off i seen in the z. what there is nowhere else. i can go. there's only one goma. there's only here for me to stay with my children. i get to know what like my figure, the people of goma live under the shadow of one of the world's most dangerous

volcanoes. they can only hope the city will be better prepared by the next time erupt. dw mario mueller reporting their from governor in boxing undefeated champion, former world champion floyd money may, whether we'll step back into the ring to box logan. paul, a youtube star turned amateur on sunday. there is no championship belt that steak in because the 2 boxers are so different in size, it wouldn't even be allowed to be an actual fight. nevertheless, it's already garnered attention and no shortage of trash talk. logan paul, on the left in floyd money may, whether on the right, the youtube or towers over the undefeated former champion. and paul outweighs may, whether, by more than 20 kilos, that size difference gives the unceasing box or a rules of confidence going into sundays exhibition match. or some of them. it's not going to be me. may,

whether retired from professional boxing with a record of 50 winds in 0 losses. and he has his reasons for getting back into the rain and doing what i like to do. i retired but i didn't retire from entertainment and i didn't retire. making money fun for may, whether but not for park. people will realize that i actually got going to the sport. i'm going to say it say say it again till sunday. and people are going to surprise the thing i have to worry about. because we know one thing about me, i can give it and i can take it, you know, going on here sunday. i could be on cruise control, curious of sport, or calling this a mockery. but the 1000000 is expected to tune and couldn't care less. the match has already generated millions of dollars in the build up. in some estimate, the boxers could burn, pay days of up to $100000000.00 each, no matter the outcome. and finally, people in the vendors will in town have no go out the mark. the catholic feast of

corpus christi, the with fewer tourists than usual this year, but no less color and energy. the dancing devils perception has a long tradition and hundreds dressed up to take part in the celebration despite cobra 19 and an economic crisis. in fact, the obligatory mask wearing certainly added to the spectrum. and before you go, here's a quick reminder of our top stories. germany's most senior cleric has offered his resignation to pope frances munich, cardinal reinhardt. mark said that he wanted to share responsibility for what he called the cast task trophy of sexual abuse by members of the catholic church. marx has long been a leading voice in the call for church reforms. watching d w. news business is up next. don't forget, you can find us on social media. we're at the w news on instagram and twitter. a

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