catholic priests told of abuse in confessionals the role commission has been investigating abuse in catholic churches schools and sports clubs in australia over the past ninety years more than sixty percent of the victims in religious institutions were catholics about four thousand institutions were reported to the commission which heard from more than one thousand witnesses the report makes nearly four hundred recommendations to prevent child abuse including vatican reform prime minister malcolm turnbull said the investigation has exposed a national tragedy i want to thank and on are the courage of the the survivors and their families who've told often for the first time the dreadful. stories of abuse that they received from people who actually owed them love and protection. he spent a long hard slog we started off with not being believed not pain not people not wanting us to talk about it the churches and charities in institutions putting pressure on everyone not to believe this that we were lying that it wasn't true and the royal commission is in enabled all of us to to step up and say yes now peo

you talk to certain bishops or cardinals they're well aware of the problems many women in the catholic church are turning away because they don't feel they're taken seriously. women want to be more visible. this isn't in different parts of the world white church there's a growing sensitivity to that desire and it's also reaching the vatican only. becoming more visible is part of the challenge hardly anybody sees what goes on behind the walls of the vatican. bought a quarter of the staff are women many more lay women the nuns and many of them highly qualified. was the editor in chief of the french section of vatican radio for twenty five years looking back she remembers how difficult it was at the beginning how some cardinals thought it beneath their dignity to be interviewed by a woman and simply ignored her. also said the bundle that. as soon as i left the studios to interview somebody at the vatican it was dreadful that when i was in a larger group of men i always had the feeling that i was somehow invisible when i asked a question the cardinals would reply to my male colleagues not to me.

them to the police or to the authorities and in another significant a move it recommends the catholic church make celibacy voluntary for crace. suggesting that celibacy was a major contributory factor julie allegations of child sexual abuse over the years now whether the church and he has these recommendations remains to be see already today one senior cleric in australia has said that breaking the laws of the confessional and celibacy would effectively excommunicate him from the church and he was not prepared to disobey what he sees as god's law i that's journalist roger maynard walking us through the findings of this report in australia five years in the making roger thank you. there's been violent clashes between protesters and police in argentina over the government's planned overhaul of pensions the rioting was so severe that it forced the congress and one of the areas to suspend debate over the reforms president morrissey on mockery says they're needed to bring the country's deficit under control and curb worryingly high inflation but his opponents say this all started dr will leave mi

coming up a high profile stripping body of institutional sex abuse of children especially in the catholic church and says priests ignore longer have to make celibacy prime minister malcolm turnbull describes the findings of the report a national tragedy. plus an end to soap neutrality in the us the government claims it's cutting red tape that topples innovation song uses fear that if web traffic is no longer treated equally the access to information will suffer instead. i'm on with that shima welcome did you have the you summit in brussels and leaders have clashed over the issue of migration european council president. called a mandatory quarter for refugees highly divisive and ineffective as the leaders talked of them to. on the second day of the summit they'll have the rods of german chancellor angela merkel ringing in their years she said member states cannot pick and choose when it comes to burden sharing and solidarity the refugee crisis has not been the only controversial issue on the agenda today is difficult topic is brecht's it they've been are joined. in brussels hi go first of all let

one standard for the globe and one standard for the catholic church. >> laura: cathy? h, but i mean two wrongs don't make a right. the church needs to take care of its problems and the "boston globe" needs to take care of its problems and sexual abuse and harassment is not okay anywhere. so the boston global doesn't need to reveal who it accused the alleged harassers are as much as the church doesn't need to do that. the law will do that if these people are guilty, they will be punished. that's what we saw with the priest who committed the crimes and that's what we'll see with the "boston globe." not a double standard at all. >> laura: this young woman in her 20's said and she filed this complaint back in march said he propositioned her to have sexual regions with his wife. vulgar sexual language according. other sexual harassment language have surfaced. the reporter resigned. >> okay. >> they declined to identify the employee his alleged conduct did not involve contact threats or persistent harassment how do you describe persistent? one allegation? many allegations? mo

them to the police or to the authorities and in another significant a move it recommends the catholic church make celibacy voluntary for crace. suggesting that celibacy was a major contributory factor julie allegations of child sexual abuse over the years now whether the church and he has these recommendations remains to be see already today one senior cleric in australia has said that breaking the laws of the confessional and celibacy would effectively excommunicate him from the church and he was not prepared to disobey what he see is as god's law i that's journalist roger maynard walking us through the findings of this report in australia five years in the making roger thank you. you're watching d.w. news solar come on our program a relationship born of tragedy as israel books for the seventieth anniversary of its foundation we've examined the history that has defined its times with germany. more business news now with helena and in the us the future of the internet looks to be about to change a century what we're talking about sarah is a total about turn in fact that's off the u.s. federa

a child sex abuse commission in australia has called on the catholic church to end its demand that clergy members remain celibate the five year profound the church had seriously failed to protect the children. see that. really isn't a one hundred forty years ago no submission celebrates a month into them. including works of public display and this time a new perspective will be in the mood to ensure. in the. car it's in to sleep in the bundesliga. is this the studio effect dortmund beat minds this week the team's first win in work seemed like forever. after by noon it extended their lead to can only beat preparing for the second division the film sixty minutes on d. w. . images from an isolated country. images from north korea or any telling photographer captured fascinating shots of everyday life in a regimented society. an exclusive peek behind one of the last iron curtain it's. a north korean diary starting december twenty eighth on t w. i t t twenty i don't think it. tells them to and i make us feel i'm telling the famous potato. everybody it's great to have you back for another half

now for attention is turning to the catholic church in the role it might have played. >> the catholic church dropped the ball because they knew of ageson and his past. >> wusa 9. >>> and die diocese. his future as a catholic priest has not been decided we're told. we posted the full two page apology online wusa9.com. >>> we've got some breaking news out of virginia now where the search for over. she was killed nearly eight years ago and butler's brother says can dar dogs located. the butler's ex-boyfriend's confessed to ill canning the d.c. woman and as part of that plea deal jose rodriguez crews promised the lead detectives to her body. shut down portions of 95 express lanes in stafford county as part of the search. derrick butler says the search for his sister's remains is over now. and he wants prosecutors to rescind that deal. >>> a shuttle driver is shot tonight after a long running feud with a co-worker. witnesses say they heard as many as seven gunshots in a parking lot inside the security perimeter at the old walter reed army hospital. police say the shooter gave himself up to

if you're a lutheran church wants to reach out to catholics there are still fundamentalist elements in the catholic church who believe in the infallibility of the pope which is exactly what luther opposed will you ever reach agreement. i think we'll have to live with the fact that there are different forms of christianity we should learn to stop moaning our differences and live with diversity which if you fight pretty is this for you personally the luther years meant hundreds of festivities church services podium discussions it's very stressful what do you gain from the luther year more interest in the church more people joining the church and not just attending church conferences but other events to. let's raise public awareness of basic issues that we address and which matter. and the media has played an important part. in addition to all the events there have been many high quality t.v. programs radio programs and newspaper articles that show that there is considerable public interest in finding out more. everybody wants to be recruited to the church but they're interested in readin

this is only the second visit in bangladesh's history of the head of the catholic church pope francis led a mass in the car around one hundred thousand people we understand attending that mass where he ordained sixteen priests later in the day he is expected to be meeting. the country's prime minister that meeting will be happening at the vatican's embassy he will also be meeting a group of around fifteen range of refugees that are specifically traveled from these camps close to the myanmar border to dakar to meet him it's been described as a bit of a diplomatic tightrope that the pope is trading during this visit yet again publicly at least he has not mentioned the word ranger a word that is used by the entire diplomatic community to describe the more than six hundred twenty five thousand people that have fled that crackdown in myanmar since almost the twenty fifth now where representatives of the catholic community in myanmar said the reason why he didn't do it there was because there were fears of a backlash against the christian community in myanmar the pope last night thanks the

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those who have suffered from my shortcomings and from my mistakes, i once again apolog in the catholic church, law began his career 18 years earlier in march of 1984. when he became archbishop of boston. at the age of 52. as cardinal he took a firm stance on church teachings and became a voice against injustice. but when hundreds came forward saying they were abused by priests, law admitted that had rather than removing those priests, some were simply moved from parish to parish. >> i did assign priests who had committed sexual abuse. >> reporter: the revelation tarnished his legacy forever. >> cardinal bernard law became something of the poster child for everything that the american catholic church did wrong. >> reporter: unable to contain the backlash, law asked to resign and the pope accepted. boston's current cardinal released a statement recognizing the victims of abuse saying -- i offer my they suffered. and promising that the archdiocese will support them in their healing. law spent most of his final years in rome. in a short statement, the vatican says he passed away early wednesday a

the most senior archbishop of the region, the roman catholic church, heads into the square here. he was accompanied by dozens of palestinian scout troops. playing the bagpipes. that's a legacy of when british troops were here, scottish troops, during the british mandate period. they made their way in up manger street, into manger square, and it is there where speeches are given and dignitaries meet the archbishop before midnight mass takes place tonight on christmas eve. the crowds have turned out in the hundreds for the day. but numbers are much lighter than previous years. that's because tourism has taken a severe dent here because of fears over clashes that have taken place in the last few weeks in the occupied west bank, ever since donald trump announced that the us officially recognise jerusalem as the capital of israel. and all of this, whilst there is a severe diplomatic stand—off between the palestinians and the us, the palestinian president, mahmoud abbas, who will be here tonight, will be talking about the fact that he will not accept any

catholic church the voluntary.is a wide—ranging enquiry and as i say, we'll have to wait and see what the federal government intends to do with those dozens government intends to do with those d oze ns of government intends to do with those dozens of recommendations. more to come over the next few hours. thanks very much. a sure sign today of the way the media landscape is changing, and how streaming, especially, has changed broadcasting for ever. the entertainment company walt disney is buying a large part of twenty first century fox, the business controlled by rupert murdoch and his family. the deal is worth more than $50 billion and covers the film business and international operations of fox. not, though, its us news network or the times and sun newspapers in britain. 0ur media editor amol rajan has the story. when rupert murdoch bought the news of the world in 1968, he was an outsider. but this canny australian with news in his veins made his way to the heart of the establishment in both britain and america, w

now a commission investigating child sexual abuse in australia has called on the catholic church to end their requirement that clergy members be celibate it also calls on religious leaders to be prosecuted for failing to report child sexual abuse a critical including priests who hear about crimes in confessionals the five year inquiry found this australian institutions including the church had failed to protect children with tens of thousands of used over decades of responding to the reports of prime minister malcolm turnbull found people who'd come forward to tell their stories of courage and help to uncover a national tragedy. though this report looks at a range of australian city institutions the catholic church was singled out for particular criticism religious affairs correspondent as well welcome thank you so compulsory celibacy is a thing in the catholic church the read the report says get rid of it. because of contributes to to. sex abuse what is the link between the two there is a superstition that very repressive sexual environment produces sort of scape so to say that sort of

and the catholic church as i mentioned is singled out for particular criticism in this report to talk more about that i'm joined by our religious affairs correspondent martin got martin welcome you know one of the things that this report is saying this is this compulsory celibacy for catholic clergy contributions to child sex abuse is how do they make that link well the journal position is a very repressive sexual environment in salou a city of course being essentially the prohibition of any sexual encounter sexual activity contributes to putting those who are more in more precarious positions children particular. in a kind of environment in which they become the only target of sexual of sexual activity and of course this contributes to this contributes to abuse this is something that the church has flatly flatly rejected exactly those training missions that. dejected any kind of idea of making celibacy one entity why are they still opposed to changing this really given that this scene what is happening in the church well i mean it's first of all because it's not clear that the link i

report describes a catastrophic failure of leadership within the catholic church we have to be ready to to to to give what ever it takes to bring healing and justice compassion to the victims but will compassion be anough among the report's more than four hundred recommendations the new laws forcing priests to report any admissions of child abuse they hear during confessional and then to mandatory celibacy but already senior clergy in australia say such changes would be a distraction that would put a strain me and laura thoughts with important tenets of the faith for damien demarco who fought off an abusive teacher his catholic school in the one nine hundred eighty s. the fear is that inquiries in other countries haven't fundamentally changed the catholic church and nor will this one island was ignored us i was ignored. pretty arrogant to think that what we've got to change the church to marco thinks there's worse changes to the law catholic organizations should be penalized by for example disqualification from running schools if they can't accept the commission's recommendations and

a commission in australia has called on the catholic church to change its rules on celibacy in confessionals after finding thousands of children were abused the royal commission has delivered its final report into its five year investigation it looked at abuses at institutions and schools in the polls communist party is claiming a landslide victory in the country's general elections supporters waved red flags on the streets of katmandu to the left alliance announced nabbing one hundred sixteen seats out of a total one hundred sixty five the new nepalese government says it will maintain relations with both china and india but called for less micromanagement from new delhi its inside story next so stay with us. mending relations all widening the gulf between then south korea's president moving makes his first state visit to china he hopes to repair the damage done by the deployment of a u.s. missile defense system can he also north korean.

the head of the roman catholic church has used his christmas eve message to highlight the plight of refugees and migrants around the world speaking during midnight mass at st peter's basilica in rome pope francis compared refugees to mary and joseph recounting the bible story of how they had to travel from nazareth to bethlehem but found no place to stay the pope stress that faith demanded that foreigners be welcomed everywhere. to safety. so many other footsteps are hidden in the footsteps of joseph and mary we see the tracks of entire families forced to set out in our own day we see the tracks of millions of people who did not choose to go away but driven from their land and leaving behind their dear ones who must. descend faith impels us to make space for a new social imagination and not to be afraid of experiencing new forms of relationship in which none have to feel that there is no room for them on this earth christmas is a time for turning the power of fear into the power of charity. the president of guatemala says his country will move its embassy in israel to jerusalem making that t

pope francis the head of the roman catholic church has delivered his annual christmas message known as the irby et orbi which translates to the city of rome and to the whole world he is expected to call on the world to help ease the suffering of people stuck in a conflict. and in peru the former president alberto fujimori has been pardoned on health grounds the seventy nine year old was taken to hospital last saturday after a severe drop in his blood pressure he's been serving a twenty five year jail sentence for corruption kidnapping and human rights violations. the economy and the fight against corruption will be key issues when liberians vote in a presidential election runoff on tuesday the former football star george weah is taking on the country's vice president joseph. the winner will replace president ellen johnson sirleaf is governed liberia for twelve years in the capital monrovia . the liberian elections happening in the middle of the festive season but is not holding back the people of liberia there's a huge momentum here for people to cast their vote these. elections very c

taking a bribe from an ally of president vladimir putin and of course to end celibacy in the catholic church this australian inquiry reveals sex abuse of children over decades long list of malcolm turnbull pulls the findings of the report a national tragedy. in the next half hour at the feet of young european women who married. linda is awaiting trial and bug it's the first time the german teenager has seen her parents since running away to join the extremist group. hello i'm i'm touchy about good to have your company day two of the e.u. summit in brussels and a breakthrough on bragg's it counts of president to skip said leaders that agreed to move on to the second phase of talks on britain's departure from the bloc it's a big boost for prime minister to resign me but the summit began with discord over migration donald tusk called refugee quotas ineffective and highly divisive earning a rebuke from german chancellor angela merkel who said member states cannot pick and choose when it comes to burden sharing and solidarity that we now join our correspondent in brussels gil they must be huge re

the head of the roman catholic church is lead a mass for some one hundred thousand people in bangladesh's capital dhaka pope francis is on a six day visit of the region he's been criticized for not publicly mentioning there were hanging crisis during the me in my leg of the tour but he will meet ringle refugees in dhaka later on friday more than six hundred twenty thousand of them have fled to bangladesh since august escaping a military crackdown in me and my let's bring in charles stratford in cox's bazar in bangladesh where many rangar are living in camps first to talk about the pope what's he up to today. well he has given a mass in one of the cars large parks around eighty thousand people turning up for that mass where he ordained sixteen priests we saw him arrive in what is being described as a locally made popemobile the pope's visit here basically having come from myanmar is treading very much a diplomatic tight rope here's what is being described as later in the days going to be speaking to the prime minister holding a meeting with the prime minister in the vatican ambassador here

the head of the roman catholic church has called for a negotiated two state solution to end the israeli palestinian conflict it's the second time that the pope spoken out since u.s. president donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital and he says that talks are the only way to peace. but if. we see jesus in the children of the middle east who continue to suffer because of growing tensions between israelis and palestinians on this festive day let us ask the lord for peace for jerusalem and for all the holy land let us pray that the will to resume dialogue may prevail between the parties and that a negotiated solution can be finally reached one that would allow the peaceful coexistence of two states within mutually agreed internationally recognized borders and live as a rome al-jazeera as peter sharp is in speeches square peter what are we to make of what the pope had said after his remarks that during midnight mass many people thought that he'd have stronger words on the status of jerusalem. i think so that the pope moved so quickly and were so articulate in his. condemn

ahead of the roman catholic church has led a mass for some one hundred thousand people in bangladesh's capital dhaka pope francis is on a six day visit of the region he's been criticized for not publicly mentioning the wrangel crisis during the min my leg of the tour but he will meet the refugees in dhaka later on friday more than six hundred twenty thousand of them have fled to bangladesh since august escaping a military crackdown in myanmar. is following developments from cox's bazar in bangladesh where many are living in camps. pope francis is only the second pope ever to visit bangladesh he has been holding mass one of the large parks in central dakar the capital of the country he's been ordaining sixteen priests as well and is scheduled to meet a group of ranger refugees that have traveled from these camps now his visit was planned well before this recent most recent ranger crisis but there's no doubt that his presence here is drawing massive attention to what can only be described as one of the worst humanitarian crises crises in the world at the moment more than six hundred and

now meeting religious leaders in bangladesh his capital dhaka it's where the head of the roman catholic church is expected to see a small group of refugees. zimbabwe's new president emerson man and god has appointed senior military leaders to top posts in his new cabinet as well as veteran ministers major general. morial is the new foreign minister he was a key player in the ousting of former president robert mugabe the head of the air force marshall parents has been picked to be land minister former finance minister patrick chinamasa has been reappointed to the post he held the job under mugabe's administration which has been widely criticized for mismanaging the economy as more from chinoy. reactions. happening. on friday at a university capping university graduates and some people say they are disappointed with his. army officials like him. and major general if you remember he's the man who. when the military into the. gobby was under house arrest and eventually saw him resign. robert mugabe and also a lot of people in cabinet some of them are part of the old guard they've been in governmen

catholics. we don't want our great nation run by a foreign church.know what to do with these people when the time comes. they and their faith must be destroyed. then freemasons. in germans we have no place for secret societies. there is one society and that is the nazi party. there will be no secrecy about that in the new greater germany. >> one by one he attacked each minority and split them off, one from another. these men were all fellow germans when they came here today, now they were split in rival groups, suspicious of each other, hating each other. they were being swindlers, all of them. but the man who was really being fooled was hans. he was pure german, according to nazi standards. to him they promised everything, and he fell for it. >> you who are true germans you share the destiny of our father land, the pure blooded, the master race, a divine right to rule and the nazi party stands ready to put you into power. it is for you to command our germany and someday the entire world. >> that's how hans became a superman. they gave him a uniform

it wasn't until 2008 that the catholic church convened a formal investigation into the reported of theitions here at this site. and in 2010 the church concluded that the visions experienced by adele bryce were indeed worthy of belief by the catholic church. the church's sanction of this site as worthy of belief is significant. it is only one of 12 sites worldwide that is approved by the church. it's the only site in the united states at this time. so it ranks right up there with some of the others as far as church sanctioned sites where there have been reported images of the virgin mary. >>> this is where the united society of believers in christ's second appearing were first able to realize their vision of creating a communal utopian religious society in america. the shaker started in the mid 1700s in manchester, england. peop people referred to them as shakers which consisted of shaking, crawling around on the floor, barking like dogs. they were not the only religious group doing that sort of thing in that time period. it was a stastatic kind of exprn of worship. some had been quaker

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. >> if they are the bones of peter, then they are one of the catholic church's most significant discoveries. >> it's very exciting because it puts us into direct contact with the historical peter. >> peter was the most important disciple of jesus. >> peter is in the traditions of the church the first pope. he's the first pope in a line that lasts all the way to pope francis today. >> i think peter was jesus' best friend. i think he was his brother. >> according to the gospel of matthew, peter is the rock on which christ will build his church, but clear evidence that peter came to rome to lay the foundations of the christian church is not in the bible. now can scientific testing of peter's relics reveal new truths about the life of the first disciple, his role in the christian church in rome, and help tell us if the bones discovered beneath st. peter's basilica are really his? the gospels tell us peter is a fisherman on the sea of galilee. >> he's one of the few aposles that we have hints about his home life. so we know he's married. he has a mother-in-law who he might be financially respons

saying, in the catholic church, how does new year's come before christmas? >> actually, advent is the beginning of the liturgical year in the catholic church. so we actually start -- i could say happy new year on december 3rd. because that is actually the first sunday of advent. what happens -- is we go four weeks for advent. and then there are 12 days of christmas. then we go into ordinary time. and their are six weeks of ordinary time which will be followed by the season of lent which leads us to the most holiest of weeks with the tritium and with easter. and then it ends with ordinary time again until we hit advent next year in 2018. >> i suggested earlier we were all rushing toward christmas. i think you would agree. and you say there is a season called advent which is the new year. it strikes me that, if we treat it like the new year, there is kind of an impulse to renew are self discipline -- our self- discipline. is advent part of that? >> it is really a time to slow down. in the busyness of the real world, where as you said earlier, we are already se

ari reveals institutional abuse over decades especially within the catholic church prime minister malcolm turnbull calls the findings a national tragedy. i feel gail welcome to the program. you leaders have made the decision that britain has been waiting for you council president donald tusk says bracks it talks have made sufficient progress to allowed negotiations to move to the second face talks will now focus on future relations between the two sides and most importantly for britain the issue of trade but e.u. leaders are already warning that the next phase is likely to be even tougher than the first this is what relief looks like on the faces of european council president and commission presidential claude younker the european union gives britain the go ahead for phase two of the brics in negotiations but it also warns that it will be dramatically difficult. for sure the. second phase. first phase without the british premier present the other member states signed off on the european commission's recommendation that london had given enough guarantees on the most important divorce issue

this type of situation could occ occur. >> >>> a legal setback for the catholic church's efforts to put christmas ads on the side of metrobuss. the archdiocese of washington wanted to place -- the church filed an emergency injunction that would have required them to put the ads up. the metro has a policy of not showing ads by religious or political groups. the archdiocese says the policy violates its right to free speech. if you ride the circulator bus, you may be in for a surprise. the winter wonder bus will be making a debut. this is a fegs special holiday-themed bus making rounds on the d.c. circulator route. paying the fare of $1 on the spruced up >> i felt like a kid on christmas morning watching that bus turn the corner. because this is my first time getting a look at it as well. we've seen the drawings of the mock-ups. until you see it in person, you don't appreciate all that's gone into it. >> you can track the wonder bus location online. we spoke to the link in the nbc washington app. search winter wonder bus. >> i think that wonder bus and the holiday cheer surrounded by it, i

butler along with their attorney, ted williams, say they're considering a lawsuit against the catholic church for what they describe as a blatent attempt to cover for father acheson, 40 years ago while in college he burned a cross on their front lawn, in recent weeks he wrote the butlers apology letter stating hissings was test pick job that was dis inch jen you us, it was phony, and we believe it was a conspiracy on the part of the catholic church. as a result of that, suffered definitely emotional distress, in light of the fact that this matter was brought back up. >> the diocese of arlington posted a response on their website saying plans for his future ministry work are still being considered. >> all right, national news, those wild fires still raging out west. the president now taking action to help with relief efforts, and we will have those details for you coming up. >> we want to show you more textures from southern maryland, some traffic problems out there. it is rush hour, but no doubt, the wet weather is aiding in that, there is some snow on the ground, we've seen some snow falling

the head of the roman catholic church has led a mass four hundred thousand people in bangladesh is capital dhaka pope francis is there's part of a six day trip also taking in neighboring me and my is being criticized for not publicly mentioning the range of prices during the me and my leg of the tour but will meet ranger refugees in dhaka later on friday. syria's union mediator stuff on de mistura is held separate meetings with governments and opposition delegates in geneva the eighth round of u.n. sponsored talks to end the civil war have been extended until december the fifteenth the opposition is still demanding the departure of syrian president bashar al assad but that's not been discussed yet jimmie's president has held talks with chancellor angela merkel and the leader of the opposition social democrats trying to break a deadlock over the formation of a new government germany has been without one since an election in september those are the headlines the news continues but first it is back to al-jazeera world. well so stick to. sleep. and it should be. a. good. plan we shall see oh w

it also makes some interesting recommendations around the catholic church.y of the allegations of abuse were centred around religious organisations and the commission says information passed to ministers during a confession, for example, related to abuse, those ministers should be forced to hand over that information to the authorities. the royal commission also suggesting celibacy in the catholic church be voluntary. so this is a wide—ranging enquiry and as i say, we'll have to wait and see what the federal government intends to do with those dozens of recommendations contained in those 17 volumes. a sure sign today of the way the media landscape is changing, and how streaming, especially, has changed broadcasting for ever. the entertainment company walt disney is buying a large part of twenty first century fox, the business controlled by rupert murdoch and his family. the deal is worth more than $50 billion and covers the film business and international operations of fox. not, though, its us news network or the times and sun newspapers in britain. 0ur medi