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>> a a warm welcome.e. you are tuned into live from paris. a court finds philippe barbarin guilty of failing to report accusations against a pedophile thailand's court t thai raksa chart
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party. criticism after tweeting a aval c celebration.s year stay tuned. a ccurt has convicted the roman catholic arch bishop of covering up sexual abuse of minors.
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he failed to report allegationss ofof one of his priests. denies therbarii pharges and d his legal team pls to appeal the decision. %encourages --tion %fragile andeel w we are cannot do anything against thee1 we couldet organized, be a nobody. ifif we are rights,, we are rig, even if it is us againstst the world. >> lets bring in analysis. internanationallaffairs editor1 joins me. it appears this shows what was oncece tolerated in the church s no longer going to b be tolerat. >> this isis the mostt senior
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archbishop,is the to be trred and convicted. what he has been convicted of is failing to denounce a priest who he knew had been accused of abusing young boys. to give you a bit of a timeline in this, thihis goes back to the 1980's and 1990's. the priest in queetion was inn charge of groups of scouts. he was een assan irreproachable familiis of thh scouts in question. he b became almost a member of e family. he took dvantage of theee young scouting trips.were away on
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victims of the abuse started to come forward in the early part of the century, around 2005. thaa ii when philippe barbarin was told about the fact this priest had been had up for abusing young boys and something should have been done. andr victims came forward not and 2014 and it was until 2015 that action was taken against thisis priest and this -ptrial was held. what the p plaintiffs s are sayg arbarin knnwinal b this was taking placc and knew church, was givennpromotions, was put in charge of areas where he would have contact with children and no action was taken.
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wassout to protect itself ann not victims. court.s whyyit was taken to that is why philippe barbarin has been found guiltyy this is more than a french story, it is international. being found guilty of childres abuse and noot of covoveringgup cases. george pell as been found guilty of abusing two boys, one of whom later committed suicide. another high-ranking cathoholic priest wasicicked out ofof offi. last m month, the pope holding
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this catholic bishop onference. the victims of t the abuse who y ignored say more measures need to be ttken. more reactive in dealing withh catholic pririests. >> conviction of philippe up then for covering sexual abuse of minors. thaillnd'ssconstitutional court party.ided to dissolve aa the disbanding of the thaiiraksa chart party will reduce the
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allied to the ruling military juncture. are loyal to thaksin shinawatra. talkerr through the impact this likely to have e on the oppososn make e agoing tolls. difficult task t that much hard. alreadady, thehe deck k was stad agagainst the oppositionn, playg under newew rulules.% wiwith this dissoluluon, they e had an importatant part of their coalition n taken away from th. of thes not the l largest opposition parties, , but it was sizable. they had candidates in over 150 lowerr house district. without those and the potential
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candidates that may have one in those constituencies, it is% going to be hard for the opposition to come up with enough votes. sorry, go head.. new, smalllr parties. among youngar people, ffture forward, with a charismatic, young head of the party. they will be keen to siphon uu as many of the votes thaa might be there for the opposition. untested entity. in terms of the disbanding of this party, does it come as a surprise in n thaillnd? think it will have ssrprised many people. a lot of people thought this
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would happen. some thought thhs was a real possibility. have disbanded parties linked to the former prime minister thaksin. it makes it less surprising. it wwll fade into that perception. >> dressed in black, hundreds of lawyers have taken to the the presidenting stepped down after 20 years in power. protests corrupted a fortnight
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ago. he intends to run for a fifth job.% demonstrations have swept the country and are expected too6 c1 continue friday. formbrella group haa called a boycott of those elections. a verdict in the trial off6 c131 someone accused of killing four people in aa jewish museum is st to be announced. defense team has argued he was mbroiled in a complexx6 c11 plot.agg two israeei tourists.
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this case is being watched because of its connection to --. being part ofof isis. he is the same peeson. this is a lot of significance. this the big attack by a return foreign fighter ffom syria. there were several attaaks after that in brussels, paris, having authorities in belgium or warninggthey suspected more people were going to be coming.
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with he witnesses giving testimony, it is combining those twoothings. theenezuela will expel german ambassador to the country, accusing him of interfering with internal affairs. >> leave venezuela. he was declared persona non graaa. he is accused of aats of meddling in iiternal affairs. he was aaong diplomats for more than 10 ountries. was welcomed back friday. return
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after a tour of latin america, he campaigned for the overthrow of nicolas maduro. juan guaido took the opportunity to criticize the governmmnt to decision. which recognizes glide oo as interim president -- which recognizes juan guaido as interim president. the human humans right -- this has been exacerbated by sanctions. the unprecedented numbers of has serious consequencee across
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the region. >> washington said it was considering new sanctions to prpressure maderero to give up power. facinglsonaro is criticism after tweeting aaclip of this year posco and of the celebrations in a bid to expose -- this year's carnaval celebrations in a bid to expose immomooality. >> he shared a clip from this year posco celebrations. one man rinates on the head of another. the countrys proof is out of control. where the film was made, it has not gone ddwn well with brazil's carnaval goers.%
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>> there areeisolated actt and that is what happened. he did not show the brazilian joy, love,hich is political vindication. reaction oas a political protest. year cclebrations have become polarized. partygoers have launched this week, crowds protested outside his home. year, i thought it was important. it is social and political. uniteimportant to partying with protesting. a large history.
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this year's carnaval winter franco as marielle its centerpiece. >> more than 2 million french people have taken an online survey. more than 80% said they'd like to end the twice annual change between winter and summer time. of changingis tired its clocks. a consultation garnered morere than 2 millilion entries,s, a r1 ountnt. springingmes to forward and falling back, frrnch citizens are uniteted, 83 point% want to end daylight savings -ptime.
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franne is divided over whether to keep winter or summer time. better.rtime is we get to see more daylylight. winterer is depressing. winter would be better. a.m., it would be terrible.9:00 60%0% said they would rather remain on permanent summertime. 37% would prefer winter. an online consultation was held1 py the eu last year. citizens chose to switch to permanent summertime. individual governments remain split. the results will be passed on to european authorities. the online vote is not binding. they hope to make a final decision about the future of daylight saving time in 2021.
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>> the frerench arch bishhp, philippe barbarin, says he will resign following a conviction. the thai raksa chart party has been disbanded after it nominated a member of the royal family for its representative. -pbolsonaro is facing criticism for posting a graphic clip off immomorality chineseicking off with techchnology giant huawei, susug the u.s. governmeet.t. >> the governmnment sayst t actd
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illegally. the case is unlikely to succeed. admits a a part of the revenue comes from the united states, but it feared the damagg to its reputation rom theeban. the chairman of huawei says the ban has gone too far. >> [indiscernible] it goes against the very nature. [i[indiscernrnible] turning the s social nenetwork o
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a privacy platfoform. >> facebookkis r recognizing uss are moving away frfrom publicc cebobook pososs and towowards privat interactions. this is an effort to stave off scrutiny of mesessages different apps. to prprivacy is the direrection facecebook wilill fs on. -pmark zuckerberg outlineddhis vision. >> i believe the future of communication will shift tt prrvate, encrypted services, where people can be confident what they say to each ther stays secure and messaggs and content will not stick around forever. this issthe future i hope we will bring about. >> the muse -- the move comes after a scandal of misused
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persrsonal data, including the sharing of the data with cambridge analytic a. confirming plans to interconnect the company's messenger services. questioned the >> it suggests s t ii regulatory efforts. >> the shift will affect t the company's buuiuiness mododel. faceeook b built itself f into a giant by monetizing uuer information for targeted advertising. there are other earning opportunities for r encrypttd communications, such s online payments and e-commerce.
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>> the ecb will react to the latest growth figures showing things slowwng down. a slash ofwe had growth forecast, particularly for ittly and germany.. let's look ahead to today's meeting. what hould we be expecting?% there rr a number of factors people should be looking at. people go into these meetings, looking out for that headline. that is not something people are going to be looking at. goingpectation is we are to see revisions in terms of growth. that is forming the basis for
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them to start looking toward the liquidityfor new being provided to banks across the euro zone. ofsome ways, this is a form stimulus. how far they go in terms of this and explaining what they are going to look like and the expiration date, are they gging to be short or long-term? look at. are we going to get a lot of detail or a littll detail? are the ppojectiins going to be like? factors.eegoing to be the main record lowve had interesttrates for a long time. is that a targeted measuree are they looking at a country in about a boost in plans? >> if you are a bankk in german,
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when you are looking at the previous take-up, it was spain and italy. we are seeing within the next 12 around a huge amount of $700 billion, sorry, euros, having to be paid back. when coming at a time downside. the ecb is laying outta potential for a rate hike, unlikely, but they are not going to want to squeeze thh banks and the euro zone ecoconomy t too h, given the growth projections..61 it is likely they will lay out the potential for this increase in liquidity almost, if anything, to make up for the fact they are coming towards the end of the maturity of the previous round. life easier for the banks.
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we pay close attention when mario draghi speaks. is he likely to say anything about brexit? he takes his stance when it comes to things like that is he talks about external risks. toward the downside. that is going to be the case. there are a number of questions around it. going to be a majoo riskk given that we are such major trade partners with the he will not take too much of a major stance, but he is alluded to the fact it is a risk and somethhng worth bearing in mind that could have sense of shock ways -- shockwaves thrrugh europe. speaking to us.or we will have thehe decisision i0
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minutes, folollowed by a presss1 conferencece frotthe ecb president.t. mamarkets artrtradinahahead that decision, european markets in the red. the ecb will provide inspiration when it makesers its decisision in 20 minutes. mario draghi is going to be watched closely. popound and the dollar sterling. toht tends to move as reeard projects on that subject. sterling is down slightly against tte euro. >> it is theeend of an era for thooe who remember going to rent a video. >> i assume you a and i f fit io tttte categogory. b blockbuster store will% be in the u.s. state in oregon.
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the second last in western australia is closing at the end of this month. hadears ago, blockbuster 9000 shots around the world. they filed for bankruptcy protection in
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