will have a say in the life of the catholic church in china parallel to the approved catholic church in china we have the the so-called underground church and you know there's been some resistance from from from them there have been suggestions by the former cardinal of hong kong cardinals than that giving the communist party more power over the catholic church is in his words evil and they patrol does he have a point not really i don't think so or why because who decides there are two churches it is the catholic church the catholic church excommunicated the communist party in the fifty's because they were a taste however does the differences between. underground church and official church has been lifted with the latter of pope benedict in two thousand and seven and therefore the church recognizes there is only one church in china but you're right there are two communities and maybe more than two communities because the rift has been deep there were a lot of huge there is a lot of hatred between catholics coming from different tradition you betray does you didn't betray as yo

this is deja vu news live from berlin calls for germany's catholic church to take responsibility for the sexual abuse of children for decades a new report reveals thousands of cases of sexual assaults and cover ups the country's justice minister wants to see criminal charges brought against those responsible also coming up never sexually assaulted anyone. brett kavanaugh his nomination to the u.s. supreme court under attack again as a second woman makes allegations of sexual misconduct protesters are calling on him to address in detail the accusations. and it's not messy and has not been although even names true aisha's look at moderate as the best footballer in the world is this the beginning of a new year. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us catholic church officials are set to release a report detailing thousands of sexual abuse cases here in germany that report will be presented later today during a meeting of the german bishops conference but some of his key findings have already been leaked to the public. the study of other priests that abused more than three and

this is deja vu news coming to you live from berlin the catholic church in germany is rocked by new revelations of abuse a leak report says priests in germany raped or sexually abuse nearly four thousand children over a seventy year period and then fail to punish most of the abusers also coming out people in the southeastern united states are bracing for the arrival of hurricane florence authorities fear the storm could cause a disaster on an unprecedented scale. well i'm terry martin thanks for joining us the catholic church here in germany says it is distressed and ashamed by the findings of a new report into the sexual abuse of children by priests the report found that clergymen had abused or raped nearly four thousand children over a seventy year period starting at the end of the second world war most were boys under the age of thirteen one victim told d.w. about the by lance he was forced to endure as a young squire boy. when he was eight years old who was one of the world renowned catholic choir boys in the southern german city of work he lived in a boarding school where he was sexually a

this is due to be a news wire from berlin calls for germany's catholic church to take responsibility for the sexual abuse of children going back decades a new report reveals thousands of cases of sexual assaults of coverups the country's justice minister wants to see criminal charges brought against those responsible also coming out for sexual assaults of any one. u.s. supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh says the allegations against him are baseless but protesters say it's time for him to address in detail the allegations of sexual assaults from two women. and it's not messy and it's not rinaldo even names croatia's look at motegi as the best footballer in the world so is this the beginning of a new year. plus we meet a young man who can walk again five years after being paralyzed in a severe accident a scientific breakthrough is helping patients with spinal cord injury stand and even walk again with the help of an implanted device. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us catholic church officials are set to release a report detailing thousands of sexual abuse cases here

condemned the catholic church the church of my upbringing things are going to change and i don't think and i think at last the pope if nobody else realizes that they can't get away with this criminality any longer phil complicated question that i would ask you to try to answer briefly. national government is complicit in this why aren't national governments national legal authorities prosecuted more of these people well it's a good question we could talk about it for hours in too many parts of the world but the church has had far too much power and far too much of our cozy relationship i mean island being an example a place close to where we were brought up that is no longer the case but the church was a dominant factor in a dominant force in our them for generations last that is no longer the case but in many other parts of the world it still is feel good talking to thank you so much for joining us now from the u.k. set national association for people who abuse the child. now a better president is here and he has your business news welcome ben thank you phil we're talking about the tu

a lot of anger in the german papers today. >> is it even possible to forgive the catholic church anymoreat is what one writer asks. it is a forgiveness institution. it is lacking any have terrible crimes committed. church officials covering it up. the role that this place in the abuse, it is something explored by this writer from another german paper here. , nothing isok place sacred anymore. covering up the systemic failures. this time, levied against the sistine chapel choir. >> the image of the church continues to take a battering. the investigation confirmed by the vatican yesterday into money laundering and embezzlement involving the administrative and priest director of the sistine chapel choir. it is one of the oldest singing groups in the world founded in 1471 and is believed that pair may have redirected proceeds from their concerts to their own personal accounts. australia where a schoolgirl national anthem protest has become a source of major debate in the country. >> very much like colin kaepernick's protest. refusedear-old recently to stand up for the australian national ant

everything radiance belonged to the catholic church enjoys high popularity in. the twentieth probably slightly sloping attendance. rate in especially the sunday masses but i think for him it's four days but if you'll be away from this scandal and from this constant pressure that he experiences from media in other parts of the west but i do think that eventually probably seep into the public discourse in the baltic states too but if you permit me this twenty seconds the thing is that the catholic church structures were read bits in fact from nearly scratch offs up well the early one nine hundred ninety s. and because of that there is much less history and backlog for catholic institutions in these small nations abuse instances are quite red least they are reported by the media but very rare so i think that in fact the catholic church he enjoys much that's out in the edge than in other parts of the west and now to some of the other stories making headlines this hour. iranian president hassan rouhani has criticized the u.s. following saturday's deadly attack on a m

some party leaders demanding that the chancellor fire also coming up a damning report by the catholic church in germany reveals priests raped and sexually abused nearly four thousand children over seventy years and that the church failed to punish most of the perpetrators and the southeast of the united states gets ready for hurricane florence forecasters say the monster storm poses a threat to millions of people will bring you an update from the coast of north carolina. it's good to have you with us tonight the fate of germany's top spy is being decided and that decision has the potential to make or break the entire government as well germany's chancellor and key party leaders held a crisis meeting late today aimed at resolving around over the head of the country's a domestic intelligence service. coalition partners the social democrats they want to resign following his controversial comments about recent far right protests in the city of camden. could the president of germany's domestic secret service bring down the government that's what the papers are asking social democrats a conservati

far up this goes we should say that this these revelations this report on abuse in the german catholic church it came from a church led investigation and this report comes just ahead of a meeting in the vatican with u.s. leaders with u.s. and global clergy abuse on the agenda how is that going to affect how the church addresses this problem you know in a sense that the leak of this document pushed the church to act quicker but i mean you know this is sort of an endless set of meetings that we have seen in the endless set of combined discussions that we have seen over a six year period so it. unclear that this will have an infinite effect at the very same time what one should say. and actually commissioned by the by the by the bishop of the archbishop of of germany in the conference of bishops i mean the problem is access was full access to documents for some not granted so much of the things that we're seeing is really very fraction ari this goes to say that we're both seeing here part of the solution but a big part of the problem which is we have a lack of transparency we have an unwillingne

>> i believe in the catholic church and the teachings of the catholic church. and i'm not about to leave that because we've got some pedophile priests in the church. we've got to clean them up and get rid of them, and the way to get rid of them is to open the door to priests getting married and women becoming priests. >> every time we seem to have given up some of our core tenets we've just declined. >> i don't think we're talking about changing the basic tenets of the catholic church when we talk about changing some of the leadership. the leadership is flawed. w i agree with you, jim. >> and i think you change the doadership by opening the door-- celibacy is unnatural. priests should get married. they shouldn't have to be locked in a-- in a room by themselves. g glor: show of hands, how many of you believe priests should be allowed to marry? 3-3 split. >> there has to be massive iform in the church right now. i do think that if priests were allowed to marry and if women were allowed to be priests this would make a huge dent in what is going on right now. this

that relate to the catholic church. the only recommendation we can't accept relates to removing the seal of confession or priest penitent privilege as it's sometimes called and that will be no surprise i imagine to most of you cathy kesselman is president of the blue not foundation which helps a five or some charter produce she says that it's time for action rather than words from the catholic church look i think we've seen a lot of rhetoric from the catholic church i think it's time that we actually see real cultural sheridan's whereby child safety is absolutely prioritize the crime of sexual abuse against children can no longer be tolerated zero tolerance we've been waiting a long time and let's hope that there is a very rapid generational change because we've seen in this country an absolute this i'm asian children we didn't systems appear and pushing the catholic church. featured a lot in our rule commission there's a lot of pressure on the vatican no i think there's a certain you know apology is one thing but real

general assembly and germany's catholic church apologizes after a new report. begins children by priests germany's leading cardinal says the perpetrators must be brought to justice. i'm good to have you with us from america's down sexual predator tonight us comedian and former t.v. star bill cosby is in prison where he's been ordered to serve between three and ten years for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman the judge today declared to be a violent sexual predator which means he'll be subject to monitoring for the rest of his life he is the first celebrity to be locked up since the downfall of media mogul harvey weinstein and the start of the hash tag me to move. bill cosby arriving to hear his sentence in a court near philadelphia pennsylvania also present under constant the woman a jury found he drugged and sexually assaulted in two thousand and four and several other of the more than fifty women who have accused cosby of sexual misconduct constance case is the only one that has led to a conviction in pre-sentencing arguments prosecutors called for five

execution chamber there and the chembur rather the sale where the bishops of the lutheran and catholic church which was also pretty much destroyed in the saudi dazed were kept by the k.g.b. and the message he delivered after that was very much about also diversity being able to overcome and use you know actual experience that is lethal any and. to accommodate new trends new people minorities and people who suffer so she was very much in say on message delivering that over and over and over again during all these two days in this way and i want to shift focus now to the catholic church sex abuse scandal the german influence the german influential magazine has a cover story headlined not to lie attacking the pope's handling of the abuse crisis of course a constant thing is this trip taking attention away from that scandal. very much so i think a flaw that it's rather like education from this scandal it did not attract a lot of attention in the baltic states and military which is a seventy five percent catholic because the catholic church is the usual recreate its year after the soviet union wit

the catholic church in germany says it is distressed and ashamed by the findings of a new report into the sexual abuse of children by priests the independent report commissioned by the catholic church found that clergyman had abused all rights nearly four thousand children over seventy years from the end of the second world war most of the victims were boys under the age of thirty one of them has been talking to d.w. about the violence he endured as a young choir boy. when he was eight years old or was one of the world renowned catholic choir boys in the southern german city of work he lived in a boarding school where he was sexually abused by priests for several years two years ago he shared the painful memories that still haunt him iranians but it turns him into the prefects room. down with my. head into his lap. and. i only realized later that he pleasured himself by rubbing his genitals on the back of my head. in the study the catholic church noted three thousand six hundred seventy seven victims of sexual violence over a period of nearly seventy years the victims were mostly male

this is deja vu news live from berlin calls for germany's catholic church to take responsibility for decades of sexual abuse against children. a new report reveals thousands of cases of sexual crimes and cover ups in the country's justice minister wants to see criminal charges brought against those responsible also coming up i've never sexually assaulting anyone the u.s. supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh says the allegations against him are baseless the protesters say it is time for him to address in detail the allegations of sexual assault from two well. and that's not messy that's not rinaldo fever games tro asian football star blue commode rich best male player in the world is of the beginning of a new era. i brought in thomas thanks so much for being with us catholic church officials are set to release a report detailing thousands of sexual abuse cases here in germany that report will be presented later today during the german bishops conference but some of its key findings have already been leaked to the leaked to the public the study found priests at abused more than three

a report by the catholic church detailing child abuse committed by clergy here in germany has been leakedto the media the report makes for disturbing reading investigators documented more than thirty seven hundred cases of abuse since world war two and they warn the real figure could be much higher. when he was eight years old who was one of the world renowned catholic choirboys in the southern german city of work he lived in a boarding school where he was sexually abused by priests for several years two years ago he shared the painful memories that still haunt him iranians but of a consumer into the prefects room. down with my pajama bottoms. head into his lap. and then he thrashed me and groaned loudly. i only realized later that he pleasured himself by rubbing his genitals on the back of my head. in the study the catholic church noted three thousand six hundred seventy seven victims of sexual violence over a period of nearly seventy years the victims were mostly male and mostly children one thousand six hundred seventy priests are accused of committing the crimes. observers complained

twenty five deliberate more years ago so there is much less history of that history with the catholic church institutions here so i think that's very much for the pope this trip was a real exception and it turned away from this scandal. correspondent constantine for an egg in vilnius lithuania thank you and. now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world the main opposition candidate in the maldives ibrahim mohammad saudi is claiming victory in the country's presidential election local media said official results showed he had scored an upset win over president of do and i am being. his first time in office was mobbed by a crackdown against a sentence. by the indian prime minister narendra modi has launched a new health insurance scheme the promises pre coverage for half a billion of the country's poorest citizens the launch of the so-called more program comes ahead of national elections next year critics have questioned how the government will fund the one point six billion dollars. serious voters have rejected two proposals aimed at protecting farmers and promoting ethi

twenty five deliberate more years ago so there is much less history of that history with the catholic church is that yours is here so i think that's very much for the pope this trip was a real exception and it turned away from this scandal. correspondent constantine for an exit in vilnius lithuania thank you and let's now look at some of the other stories making headlines this hour the main opposition candidate in the maldives ibrahim mohammed so he is claiming victory in the country's presidential election for provisional results gave him more than fifty percent of the vote handing him a surprise we knowing come vent a do not young mean guy whom his first time in office was mobbed by a crackdown against a sentence. indian prime minister narendra modi has launched a new health insurance scheme the promise is free coverage for half a billion of the country's poorest citizens the launch of the so-called more de camp program comes ahead of national elections next year critics have questioned how the government will fund the one point six billion dollars scheme now even as the syrian government

the torrent of accusations against the catholic church keeps coming. i speak with one of america's most powerful catholic leaders cardinal timothy dolan of new york. super chef jose andres. also from the nfl to the mit, talking to john urschel. he walked away to pursue a doctorate in mathematics. >> announcer: additional support has been provided by:. by contributions to your pbs station by viewers like you. >> welcome to the program, i am christiane amanpour in new york. pope francis brought great hope to catholics everywhere. shining a bright light. the sins that lurk in the shadows of the catholic church seem to be threatening his very own papacy. this germany today, details show 3,700 sexual abuse cases last month, reported implicated hundreds of priest. and we have seen the same allegations in chiles ireland, the netherlands, the philippine examines more. we need to be mindful of what it means to be a survivor of sexual abuse in the catholic abuse. >> as absolutely destroyed me. >> my children suffered. my wife suffered. >> my dad find out, but he

>> yes, i was born into a catholic family, even though at the time the church was all closed and we did not have priests or anyone serving us. but my family held onto the faith and i was brought up as a true catholic. some training and discovered your vocation as a priest by the aid of the divine word society? >> yes, from very young, because my mom is a very faithful catholic, she wanted us to be priests, i have six siblings and she educated us in that way. when i was very young, my mother already asked me to pray for my vocation, my late mother as she passed away my two years ago. that is where i got my vocation. i prayed for it. and when i grew up i had the opportunity to get to no some missionaries in china. so i joined the wide world of missionaries. >> i look at the website and i knew very little about them before meeting you but the divine word missionaries are a very large organization with 4000 priests, 2000 brothers, they work and how many countries? >> 84 countries now. we continue to grow. a few years ago we were in 72 countries but we expanded to 12 more countries. so we co

catholic family. even though at the time, the church was all closed and we did not have priests or religious services. but my family held onto the faith and i was brought up as a true catholic. >> it seems to be that you got some training and discovered your vocation as a priest by the aid of the divine works society. >> yes, from very young because my mother is very faithful, she wanted us to be religious priests or -- i have six siblings and she educated us in that way. so actually, when i was very young, my mother already asked me to pray for my vocation, my late mother, she passed away two years ago. so that is where i got my vocation, i prayed for it. when i grew up, i had the opportunity to get to know some missionaries in china. so i joined divine word missionaries. >> i looked at their website, i knew very little about them before meeting you but the divine word missionaries are a very large organization with 4000 priest, 2000 brothers, works in how many customers, 84 ? >> 84 countries now and we continue to grow. a few years ago we were in 72 countries but after three years we expanded. we ad

. >> do you feel as though you can raise three young boys in the catholic church? >> that's a question i'm grappling with definitely, but i would like them to be raised in the church. the church needs to change. >> do you think it is changing? >> not right now. >> when you saw the headlines come out from the grand jury report, what was your reaction? >> i was just heartbroken, devastated, just really like viscerally sick. >> are you leaving the church? >> no. >> it's interesting that this was so difficult for you to process and hit you so hard. >> uh-huh. >> but you're firm that there's no way you're leaving? >> i find the church helped me to think about what the good life meant for me and gave me a real hope, and that's very, very difficult to walk away from. >> if the catholic church makes dramatic wholesale changes, is it still the catholic church? >> i believe in the catholic church and the teachings of the catholic church, and i'm not about to leave because we've go church. we've got to clean them up and get rid of them and the way to get rid of them is to open

here in the city of the catholic church in germany is holding its bishops conference and at a news conference a little earlier germany's leading catholic church man was confronted with some very harrowing insights into precisely herron many young people who are abused by peter for priests. in all clarity i say sexual abuse is a crime whoever is guilty of it must be punished for far too long the church has either turned a blind eye to it or tried to cover it up for all the failures on the hurt i asked the leader of the church in germany i must apologize parts of the research we saw at that news conference pulled no punches basically saying that those that we know about now those cases are just the tip of the iceberg and for the victims who have heard what was said there the question now is is that enough what more do they want the catholic church to do to recognize the problem that it has created in this country and really hope there are some bishops. talking that way that at the end of the other week they will come up with a declaration saying that we admit that we as a as a c

while the pope was making that statement in rome the catholic church here in germany says that it is distressed and ashamed by the findings of a new report into sexual abuse the independent report which was commissioned by the church itself found the clergyman had raped and abused nearly four thousand children over seventy years starting at the end of the second world war we're joining me tonight here at the big table is peter isley he is with c a global dot org ending clergy abuse he's also a founding member of snap the survivors network of those abused by priests peters good to have you on the day i mean we've got a long list here don't we we've got. we've got ireland we've got the what we've seen in south america we've got pennsylvania and now we've got germany i heard someone this week say this is the nine eleven for the catholic church do you agree well i tell you where it's going to end up as africa and that that's where it's the most dangerous for children right now but yeah i mean it's this is been a long time coming and this is a historic opportunity for true reform and chang

are we talking about a global crisis in the catholic church? >> there has been a global crisis in the catholic church about this for a very long time, probably centuries. when we are seeing in germany's is the exact same widespread systematic pattern of the sexual abuse and rape and molestation of children, the cover-up of those crimes, and a system that covers it up, and unfortunately continues to cover it up. there has been some changes that have been made, but globally, the changes that need to be made, that the public needs to make in the church needs to make, which actually lives within their own laws -- people need to understand that globally, you can rate and sexual assault a and child as a priest and remain a priest working with children and families. brent: that in itself is an indictment against the church. another indictment would be to say that the canon of confessional confidentiality of the church has to be changed. you try suggesting that, and a lot of people will say no. isn't that part of the problem, that priests may know abou

they were heavily persecuted does the catholic church have a large following with the white house. yes that's right is the largest catholic country in northern europe actually probably the only well we didn't say seventy five percent to seventy seven percent of the population identifies catholics as in many posts a communist society as well that the side is emerging from communism state is very frequently tightly linked to cultural identity attendances are lower than in neighboring pulled in but once you know you've seen these pictures of israel's welcoming the coke you see that the pain is still there and in many respects it's a very very. religious a compassion a great story of which ranks among the least really just countries in europe probably close to majority at least right now he or in germany the influential magazine dish spiegel has a cover story this week focused on the church sex abuse scandal its title yvel shalt not lie attacking the pope's handling of the abuse crisis and is this trip into the baltic regions a break away from all of that very much so rebecca i think

reporter: sexual abuse in the catholic church is a deeply rooted problem in germany.hat is the scathing conclusion of a study that economics worked on for four years. the chairman of the german bishops conference now says he wants to deal with the consequences. >> sexual abuse is a crime. it has to be punished. for far too long we in the church have looked away, patched it up, denied it. we did not want to accept it. for all these failures, and for all this pain, i must, as chairman of thee bishohop's conference, apologized. and i also mean this quite personally. reporter: the authors of the study believe structures in the catholic church, that even facilitate the crime of sexual abuse, continue to exist. the study says over the past seven decades, priests have abused more than three -- more than 3500 minors. more than 1500 priests are accused of committing the crimes. >> the real number is higher because of unreported cases. the actual number is probably much higher. reporter: the pope believes the scandal will scare off young catholics from the church. >> the unfait

discourse in the baltic states too but if you permit me this twenty seconds the thing is that the catholic church structures were read bits in fact from nearly scratch offs up well the early one nine hundred ninety s. and because of that there is much less history and backlog for catholic institutions in these small nations abuse is this is a quiet read least they are reported by the media but very rare so i think that in fact the conflict church he enjoys much of that's out image than in other parts of the west d.w. correspondent constantine phoning it in venice thank you thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world iranian president hassan rouhani has criticized the u.s. following a deadly attack on a military parade in the city of us on saturday gunmen killed twenty five people including twelve soldiers civilians and afore you kill a four year old girl rouhani said the quote bully us and its gulf state allies had enabled the attack. in the old dave's hundreds of thousands of casting ballots in presidential elections that have been marred by charges of vote rigging o

discourse in the baltic states too but if you permit me this twenty seconds the thing is that the catholic church structures were read bits in fact from nearly scratch offs up well the early one nine hundred ninety s. and because of that there is much less history and backlog for catholic institutions in these small nations abuse is this is a quite red least they are recorded by the media but very rare so i think that in fact becomes the church he enjoys much of that's out image than in other parts of the west w. correspondent constantine phoning it in venice thank you thank you now to some of the other stories making news around the world in the mole days hundreds of thousands of accosting ballots and president-elect that have been mobbed by charges of vote rigging opposition candidate abraham mohammad sold a cast his ballot in the capital my lai he's looking to on say president abdoulaye young mean he's been criticized for cracking down on democratic freedoms. the first high speed train connecting hong kong and the chinese mainland has arrived in the city of shenzhen the connection cost around

is the only route that the catholic church could possibly take to get out of this, but to your point, they're not, and i want to talk about archbishop because you're representing 50 victims of sex abuse in the pennsylvania catholic diocese. one of those cases you settled with the pittsburgh diocese in 2016 for a whole lot of money. it involved an abusive priest who served in alleghany county from '85 to '88. talk to us about where he was then and where he was in the state of pennsylvania during this period of time because, again, even if he's going to the vatican tomorrow to meet with the pope, we know that cases have been settled several years ago. we know that this big situation came out several months ago, and the pope has done nothing. archbishop weurl has been in hiding. he's been in protective mode. trying to figure out, like the rest of the leaders in the catholic church, how not to let the truth out, how to prevent transparency because through transparency, victims can heal and the world will see the truth. i mean, it's an absolute insult for pope francis and all these other

so far on this style pope francis has had little or nothing regarding the catholic church sex abuse scandal here in germany though the influential spiegel magazine has published an extensive report titled the house shalt not bear false witness now he details the pope's alleged gross mishandling of abuse cases and we spoke with correspondent constantine fun agates in vilnius about whether the pope's baltic trip has diverted attention from the ongoing scandal i think of for the pope it's rather like indication from this scandal it did not attract a lot of attention in the baltic states until it's ready which is a seventy five percent catholic because the catholic church is the usual recreate its yeah after the soviet union withdrew twenty five fell a bit more years ago so there is much less history of that history with the catholic church institutions here so i think that's very much for the pope this trip was really exception and it turned away from this scandal. time now for some of the other stories making headlines around the world the main opposition candidate in the maldives ibrahim moh