berlin. a former insider at facebook turned whistleblower goes on the record. >> i am here today because i believe facebook's products harm children, stoked division, and we can democracy. anchor: she is telling that facebook puts profit over people and regulation of social media is the solution. allegations of child abuse

expanding decades, and a cruel and indifferent catholic church, clergy in france accused of abusing more than 300,000 children. an international trio of scientists was the nobel prize in physics for their work helping us understand our climate and why it is getting hotter. they are still talking, germany's political parties hold another round of negotiations aimed at hammering out a new government. i'm brent goff. to all of you around the world, welcome. a day after a six-hour outage hit millions of facebook users, the u.s. congress has heard damaging testimony from a former insider turned whistleblower. she claims that facebook knowingly harms children, while

ignoring the social fallout it causes. she backed her allegations with hundreds of internal documents today, and cold on lawmakers to rein in the joint company that she says has placed profits over people. correspondent: senators calle d facebook a black box, but today, they had a rare glimpse inside the social network. a whistleblower spoke publicly, a first in the company's history. >> i joined facebook because i think facebook has the potential to bring out the best in us. but i am here today because i believe facebook's products harm children, stoke division, and weaken our democracy. correspondent: the data scientists says it is putting profit over public safety. >> the company's leadership knows how to make facebook and instagram safer, but will not make the necessary changes because they put their astronomical profits before

people. correspondent: she says it is time for facebook to admit that she is right and that the company has serious problems. she made a point using the internal research he took with her from the company. correspondent: facebook once he to believe the problems we are talking about are not solvable. they want you to believe in false choices. they want you to believe you must choose between a facebook poll of divisive content or losing one of the most important values our country was founded upon, free speech. correspondent: senators on both sides of the aisle praised her for her powerful testimony and back her main claim. >> it is not just a made money, again, it is that they value their profit more than the pain they caused to children and their families. the damage to self-interest and self-worth inflicted by facebook

today will haunt a generation. correspondent: blumenthal challenged the facebook ceo mark zuckerberg to look in the mirror, and also to come before the committee and disprove the whistleblowers claims. brent: she was speaking earlier today in washington. let's go to our correspondent in washington. good evening. she said that mark zuckerberg, facebook ceo, she said he is ultimately to blame for the problems that are being discussed at this hearing. talk to me about the pictures she painted of him. correspondent: well, she did not talk specifically about him as a person, but she presented the whole picture. the thing is that she has documents, meaning she has evidence. these documents are a blueprint of recommendations that

facebook's researchers made, how algorithms could be changed in order to do that, but she says the company ignores the recommendations from their own people and says that facebook knows its product can be addictive in harming, and they made decisions against the common good in favor of their own profit. if we talk about facebook, the person who is responsible of this company is mark zuckerberg. she assured that she is aware of the decisions, and therefore responsible. brent: she says the book does -- buck does stop with mark zuckerberg. facebook pushed back in real time today. what was their response to the allegations? correspondent: facebook tried to downplay the testimony today. the company tweeted during the hearing she did not work

directly on the topics she was describing. the company is not denying the allegations coming from her, not yet, at least, and the vice president facebook said this allegation in the documents presented by the whistleblower misrepresent they work the company is actually doing to ensure safety. brent: what comes next?\ are we going to see concrete reposes for regulation on facebook and social media? correspondent: senator blumenthal said mark zuckerberg should appear if he is in disagreement with anything said today in the senate. he added that mark zuckerberg is the one who knows it better than anyone in profits from it. what became clear to the lawmakers from her remarks is that people have to learn how to navigate social media safely.

facebook has to be transparent, sharing information and research to find a solution. since they know the root causes of the problem, they also know the solution. this is what she said. the next steps might go in that direction. regulation of social media to force transparency of these companies. brent: the latest tonight in washington, thank you. here are some other stories making headlines around the world. the u.s. secretary of state antony blinken is in paris to rebuild ties between the u.s. and france. diplomatic relations hit a low point when australia canceled a lucrative submarine contract and s signed one with the u.s. and britain instead. police have fired tear gas and water cannons at antigovernment protesters rallying against tough anti-coronavirus measures on the eve of a major european summit.

this is the third flash in the last month. authorits on the spanish island of la palma are watching the erupting volcano. the core has partially collapsed, sending lava towards the sea. thousands of buildings destroyed and 6000 evacuated during the last two weeks. a devastating report claims that catholic priests and lay members of the church sexually abused more than 300,000 children in france over seven decades. landmark investigation alleges the church showed total and cruel indifference to the victims. most were boars between the ages of 10 years old and 13 years old. the report says the church not only failed to prevent abuse, but sometimes knowingly connected children with sexual predators. [bell tolling] correspondent: he visits the

seminary where he stayed as a child in western france. >> [indiscernible] here i am, a group photo with the superior at the time, here, very proud. correspondent: remembering is a painful back. he suffered sexual violence here at the hands of the priests. >> [speaking in foreign language] the english teacher had his special favorites whom he caressed at the back of the classroom, forbidding us to turn and look. there were showers and certain teachers who would come to see if the water was hot enough. correspondent: he and fellow survivors say there was a system in place to cover up the despicable acts. >> [speaking foreign language] translator: there was a system for all the acts, and there was a system to cover up everything

that was going on. someone, a priest, if they behaved two scandalously the weather the parish or another place, he would be moved to another parish unaware he would do the exact same thing he had done before. correspondent: the journey has been long and difficult for survivors, but now finally there is some clarity on the extent of the problem inside the catholic church. >> [speaking foreign language] translator: above all, there was neglect, a series of failures, silence, and an institutional cover up which had a systemic character. correspondent: also shocking is the estimated number of victims. >> [speaking foreign language] translator: this figure, 216,333 is more than just bothersome, it is calls for strong

measures. correspondent: the commission confirms sexually abused by the clergy remains a problem. >> [speaking foreign language] translator: we must turn away from the idea that sexual abuse in the church has been completely eradicated and is behind us. no, the problem remains. correspondent: now that years of abuse have come to light, it is time to ask the question, what can be done for the survivors? brent: i am joined tonight by a member of the independent commission that investigated the sexual abuse in the french catholic church. it is good to have you on the program. this number, more than 300,000 children, just getting your mind around that is almost

impossible. did this number come as a shock for you? >> inffect, there were other committee members working on this for a couple of years, two and a half years or so, so the numbers are very important and in line with what we have seen elsewhere. what was the real discovery was that there is no way out for victims. they cannot put this aside, and they have to live with it, so the number is huge. it is devastating. it cannot be appealed or compared in any way to what you see elsewhere within french society, yet, it is not a total shock, given what we know from foreign investigations. brent: i know that you spoke with dozens of priests from all

over france. some of the priests you spoke with were also alleged abusers. what did they tell you? did they try to justify what they had done to these boys? >> most of those who spoke to us had gone through quite a long reflection. that being said, the attempts, the practices put in place, the weight -- way to entrap the victims, to use the youth, faith, to create a sacred bond between them and the perpetrators is something we have seen again and again. in effect, the tactics were the same. brent: i know that the commission president said that the problem of sexual violence in the catholic church has not

been eradicated. with that statement, what are parents in france supposed to do and think this coming sunday, for example, if they want to go to church? >> well, i am one of those, an i can tell you that over the past couple of years that it has been very difficult to face that reality with a church that has not yet accepted, and i hope they will, and they have announced in november that they will give the answer, if you will, to the committee's work, but it is disconcerting. they have to accept the truth as it is andut in plac safeguards and except the -- accept the truth must prevail in all circumstances and acknowledge the terrible ph that the victims have to go

through. and us as, you know, churchgoers, if you will, we absolutely must refuse to concede any, any aempt, to concede in any way that we are noallowed to know and that we are not part, we should not partake in the debate and impose checks and balances, and that any allegation that the investigators to and so forth. brent: i am sure there are a lot of people everywhere hoping that a lot of good comes out of this report. many thanks. >> thank you. brent: the search for a solution to global warming dominates this year's nobel prize in physics. a veteran german-japanese duo w

on the prize on climate change, and entertain scientist is being honored for identifying complex climate patterns. the nobel committee says it is sending a message to world leaders before this month's united nations climate summit in glasgow. correspondent: global warming has been making headlines increasingly frequently. the complex ways we influence our environment have arguably never had more prominence, but the work showing how clyburn dioxide can increase -- carbon dioxide can increase global temperatures dates back several decades. he predicted in the 1990's what is today common knowledge. >> [speaking foreign language] translator: we expect in the coming decades that if we don't do anything to reduce emissions, we will see global warming which will almost be a strong between today's climate in the ice age. we can expect to degrees to 3° warming over the next 100 years. if we continue to have high emission rates over the next 100

years, then we will have an additional global warming of the same amount was so that will mean a significant climate change. correspondent: today, a panel of nobel judges in squeezing said they laid the foundation for the knowledge of the earth's climate and how humanity influences. >> [speaking foreign language] translator: i started my research out of curiosity because i was interested in climate. i never thought it would become an important issue. correspondent: another person one the other half of the prize for physics for his work on complex systems. >> [speaking foreign language] translator: i was happy for myself, collaborators, and the field of research. i have worked on the past years on this. correspondent: the combined work means weather can be predicted, and climate trench can be looked

at decades in advance. he told the ceremony that for the sake of future generations it was urgent that action was taken on the climate now. brent: more than one week after the election in germany, the political parties are trying to build the governing coalition. in the latest talks, outgoing chancellor angela merkel's party met with the greens, despite suffering the worst election result ever. the conservatives maintain they can still lead another government, both the conservatives on the social democrats have been holding talks with the business friendly free democrats and the greens. the greens code leader is stressing the need for a new beginning. >> [speaking foreign language] translator: it is clear that a three-party coalition is a new step for germany, and this step has to be shaped by a new beginning for this country. to that end, our talks today

were constructive and to the point, and marked by a real seriousness. because it is clear that especially when it comes to social policy, our parties are relatively far apart. brent: the conservative leader has also acknowledge differences between the two parties, but made clear he would like to keep the conversation going. >> [speaking foreign language] translator: some opposing positions have become clear, after all, we belong to different types of parties, but it is not as though these opposing positions cannot be overcome. we would have to hold talks in greater depth, and it would be worth it, but whether we continue on this path together is up to the party and the greens. brent: for more, i am joined by our political correspondent. good evening. the most interesting part happened after the talks,

between the conservatives and the greens. tell us more about that. correspondent: well, that is right, brent. someone seems to have been leaking from these talks, and the greens are very annoyed about it, as happened after the previous talks between the conservatives on the free democrats. a newspaper, mass-selling newspaper in germany, is full of details or what it claims or details about what was said at these talks, so the suggestion is that other, that some of leading christian including those who ran against another opponent this year for leadership of the party have been spreading around some of the talking points in an effort, late to make it a bit more difficult to put this coalition together, and possibly in the hope of pushing this person out

from the cdu, so a bit of cloak and dagger stuff going on around us. brent: could this party mean the end of a governing coalition comprised of the conservatives, the greens, and the free democrats? correspondent: well, it certainly just makes it more difficult. as i was saying, it is clear the greens on one side and the free democrats on the other side have been annoyed as leading members of both of those parties, tweeting, saying when we talk to the social democrats, there were no leaks, but from these talks with the christian democrats, there have been leaks, and it is clearly getting on our nerves, so it definitely makes things more difficult, also for anyone in his position as he tries to put his conservatives back in the frame, possibly to lead germany going forward. he also said he was very annoyed

about leaks. there are plenty of policy areas the greens and christian democrats disagree on, so any coalition deal would be tricky to do, but with this in the media, it does not make it easier. brent: the latest on these exploratory talks in berlin. thank you. germany is marking 60 years since the landmark labor agreement which brought hundreds of thousands of turks into the west german workforce. most of them work in agricultural and manufacturing. the german president today praised their contribution to germany's postwar economic miracle here and he said it was a move that had a lasting impact , even though many turkish germans faced racism and prejudice. almost 3 million people with turkish heritage now live here in germany. >> [speaking foreign language] translator: your contribution to our country requires more than

just a footnote. only when your stories are publicized, when we know your stories and we treat them as an integral part of the history of this republic, only then will we understand the history of all of us. you helped build germany. you enriched our country economically, but above all, as human beings. her hard work, your passion, and your humanity has made our country what it is today. i am deeply grateful to you who are with us today as representatives of the first generation. brent: germany emerged from the ruins of the second world war with the desperate need for workers to help rebuild the shattered country. many of these guestworkers stayed on for decades, and they settled here. correspondent: he is a berliner

through and through. nearly 60 years ago, she left her home in turkey and came to rlin. she still is happy she decided to accept an offer to come work here. e says she would still do it again. >> [speaking foreign language] translator: i have to say it quite honestly, i love berlin, and i have loved it from the beginning. correspondent: she was 20 years old when she arrived in berlin. she was not a shy country girl. she was a self-confident young woman from istanbul. she trained as a seamstress is and was eager to see the world. >> [speaking foreign language] translator: i am a bit of an adventurous person, and i had already learned to do a lot of things at home. my family was pretty relaxed and let us do everything.

i am a bit of anarchist relate. -- anarchist, really. correspondent: she was one of the first turkish women who came to berlin after the recruitment agreement. >> so that is the departure. correspondent: she came from istanbul to berlin by train. it took three days into nights. she worked alongside a few dozen other young women from istanbul doing work at a big german electric goods company here they all live together in a dormitory. >> [speaking foreign language] translator: yeah, those are all the dormitory women. we worked at a company and spent the evenings in a dormitory. this is new year's eve. correspondent: she h little to no contact with germans back then. she did n speak german. neither did the others. integration was anything but easy. >> [speaking foreign language] translator: i think they did not take us seriously. they looked down on us.

we just could not speak the language. correspondent: her experience was similar to that of many turkish workers who came to the former west germany in the years following the recruitment treaty of 1961. at the time, germany's booming postwar economy desperately needed more workers. by the time recruitment ended in 1973, about 850,000 so-called guestworkers moved from turkey to west germany, most eventually returned home. but not her. she married, had a daughter she had her own small shop, got divorced, eventually retired, so today, after nearly 60 years in germany, does she feel turkish or german? >> [speaking foreign language] translator: what a funny question? i feel like me. brent: sports news and football.

italy face pain wednesday and did nation's league semifinal two months after the two clashed in another semifinal. italy won the game on penalties, part of an unbeaten run that stands at a record 37 games. belgium and france face-off in the other semifinal. the final will be played on sunday. you are watching "dw news." after a short break, i would take you through "the day." tonight, a whistleblower, and what facebook and instagram are doing to us and our children. we will be right back. ♪

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>> welcome to life in paris, world news and analysis from france 24. these are the world news headlines. over 200 thousand youngsters sexually abud by french catholic priests. this is the shocking finding of any report which concludes the church turned a blind eye for too long. we will get reaction from the vatican from room, with our correspondent. good evening. taiwan needs to be strong and rey for china's over military threat