you diane eastabrook has this report . >> these are photos of us at the age we were when the priest sexually violated us. >> barbara blayne points out members of her be network who suffer from sexual abuse at the hands of priests. she was one of those kids. blayne says if the vatican is serious about rooting out the priests, they don't need a special tribunal. >> we know pope francis has complete authority to take whatever action he wants. if he wanted to he could have sacked any bishop at any time. and he is the boss. >> bowing to criticism from victims and advocacy groups the vatican says its new tribunal will examine cases and deal with bishops negligent in handling abuse in their districts. resources from outside the vatican as well. he should open up the files and turn over all information that he has about sex crimes to police and prosecutors. there shouldn't be investigations within the church. we're talking about criminal action here. >> reporter: the pope answer answer actions -- the pope's action he come more than a year, requiring rules thousands of pages of secret documents alleg

diane eastabrook joins us from charleston. how are people reacting to this? >> well tonight there are people gathered for a quiet vigil at the emanuel ane church the sayings where people were shot less than a week ago. in charleston we talked to people. they said that there's no place for the confederate flag in south carolina, and they want it to come down. >> reporter: the canons from a civil war honour the city's role in a war that divided the nation. it is a part of history and d.n.a. some say it's time to leave the past behind. >> that flag does not represent the black culture. >> reporter: charleston neighbours leave baskets on the street. they say the war is part of charleston's rich history, they thing the confederate flag is hurtful and divisive. >> it means, like slavery to me. and we still being oppressed. oppressed by that demrag and it's not -- flag and it's not representing us. >> it is kind of hurtful when i think about the negativity going behind it for the wrongful use. >> reporter: after governor nickry hayley said on monday that the flag sh

. >> diane eastabrook, al jazeera chicago. >>> coming up, some property owners near the mexican border, are just trying to protect their property. we'll talk to one of the residents next. and nasa, millions of miles from earth. earth. >> so consider this. the number of migrants crossing the u.s. mexico border surged past 100,000. that often takes them into private property. heidi zhou-castro met one rancher in brooks county, texas. >> what does it feel to be shocked with 200 -- >> not good. it will make you wet your pants. >> reporter: when it comes to stopping illegal immigration to the united states, mike vickers sees himself as part of the solution. >> there's two of them. they get over the first one they're going to get into the second one. >> his ranch is prime real estate for people trying to avoid border patrol. that's because i.t. sits just north of one of the busiest immigration check points in the country. when we visited him last year vickers said he was seeing dozens of people crossing his property every day. now he says it's down by half. not all of them are coming here lo

. >>> as you heard, diane eastabrook reported that the vatican charged a former archbishop with child sex abuse. a prosecutor ordered a criminal trial for a one-time ambassador to the dominican republic, and he is accused of abusing children between 2008 and 2013. he was defrocked and remains under house arrest at the vatican. >> pope francis appears ready to call out climate change deniers. the hope is expected to release a document this week. in the document the pope criticizes those that deny humans caused climate change and called for steps to fight global warming and changes to manufacturing and energy consumption. >> 20 demonstrators were arrested in seattle after using kayaks to prevent an oil rig from leaving port. the kayak-tivists were protesting a drilling process. they say it's a top spill. the project will bring economic growth to the area. a bottle over animal rights raises questions about rites with the humans. activists were protesting plans for an animal testing labs. some took the protest to the homes of lab employees. >>> animal rights protesters tart a home in a po

diane eastabrook joins us from columbia. thousands turned out to pay their respects. >> that's right. many of the mourners who came out to the state house today to pay tribute to clementa pinckney say they didn't know him, but felt compelled to come out because of the tragedy of the shootings. >> a horse drawn case carrying state senator clementa pinckney's body arrived at the carolina state house this afternoon. honour guards men from the state guard patrol inside. his family and two daughters walking behind. the line to view clementa pinckney's body stretched from the row tonneda to the streets. thousands waited for hours in the heat. >> i wanted to pay tribe ute for what he has done in the years. >> i represent the university of state carolina he was always interested in the wellbeing of the south carolina. >> this family affected the whole nation not just south carolina, i felt compelled to be here. >> it has been a clash point since dylann roof gunned done clementa pinckney and others inside emanuel's a.m.e. church. he

diane eastabrook has this report. >> these are photos of us at the age we were when the police sexually violated us. >> reporter: barbara points out members of her survivor network, still pointing to emotional scars at the hand of priests. she was one of those kids. she said if the vatican is serious about rooting out abusive priests it doesn't need a special tribunal. >> we know that pope francis has complete authority to take whatever action he wants. if he wanted to, he could have sacked any bishop at any time. he is the boss. bowing to criticism to victims and advocacy groups the new tribunal will examine complaints of covering up sexual abecause, and will aviewed kate them weigh -- adjudicate them weighing up the cases in their districts. blaine is demanding more transparency, and resources from outside the vatican as well. >> he should open up the files, turn over all information that he has about sex crimes to police and prosecutors. there shouldn't be investigations within the church. we are talking about criminal action here. >> reporter: the pope's action comes more than a yea

diane eastabrook is in rome. diane. >> one victim advocate i talked to said in the past, the conflictvaticanhasn't done well to police itself. >> this is the age we were when the priest sexually violated us. >> reporter: still suffering emotion abuse they suffered as children at the hands of priests. she was one of those kids. if the vatican is serious about rooting out abuse it doesn't need a special tribunal. >> we know that pope francis has complete authority to take whatever action he wants. if he wanted to, he could have sacked any bishop at any time. and he is the boss. >> reporter: bowing to criticism from victims and advocacy groups, the vatican says its new tribunal will examine and lay out a formal process by which the vatican can deal with bishops negligent in handling abuse cases in their districts. but blayne is demanding more transparency from the pope and resources from outside the vatican as well. >> he should open up the files and turn over all information that he has about sex crimes to police an

diane eastabrook is at the state capital with more. diane. >> thousands turned it to pay their final respects to clementa pinningclementapinckney. >> just after noon. honor guardsmen from the state highway patrol carried pinckney's casket inside. his family and two daughters walking behind. the line to view pinckney's body stretched from the state hoation house rotunda to the street. standing in the heat. >> for all of south carolina's for all americans. >> i represented the university of south carolina up at the state house for years and he was always interested in the well-being of the people of south carolina. >> this tragedy has affected not only south carolina but the whole nation. so being in colombia i felt to come over. i didn't know him. >> the confederate flag flying on the state house grounds has become a flash point since 21-year-old dylann roof gunned down pinckney and eight others last wednesday. governing nikki haley wants it taken down and the state legislature is expected to debate the issue later this summer. and senat

diane eastabrook, al jazeera chicago. >> earlier i talked to tito hardeman. executive director of violence interrupted. tito says one of the things contributing to the violence is african american self hatred. >> just a certain number of african american youth that engage in this violence towards one another. i believe it's based on self hatred compared to gang violence and gun violence. the guys are shooting each other about any and everything. grand mothers being shot, babies being shot. over 80% of the homicides and shootings in chicago occur in the african american communities. >> male family members share some of the responsibility and fathers, uncles and brothers should be discouraged from committing gun violence. >>> the gunman who opened fire investigator say he rammed a police car with his van and fired dozens of rounds at officers inside and outside of the building. the attack be stopped when he was shot and killed by a police sniper. bullwear's mother felt she lost him to mental illness. >>> italy's president mateo renzi, feels european union needs

diane eastabrook talked to the only family trying to rebuild their lives in chicago. >> reporter: walking home from school this woman and her 9-year-old son are a world away from the chaos they left behind in syria four years ago. the civil war landed on her doorstep when soldiers forced their way into her home with guns drawn. >> they stole everything, they came to the house, carried the gun and said you must give us everything >> reporter: what came next was worse. >> they destroyed our house, my house was burnt. they burnt everything in the house. >> reporter: while the war raged around them. the family including her husband, fled syria for lebanon. last winter they came to the u.s. and settled in this chicago apartment with help from catholic families they have a 2-year-old son. her husband has a job in a laundry. life is looking up. the family is hand by the war. >> always the army. he is afraid. when he remember that night, he is very afraid. >> reporter: the united nations estimates roughly 4 million syrians left the homeland since the civil war broke out four years ago. most settl

diane eastabrook says the numbers don't lie. >> we as a city must and can do better. >> reporter: in his inaugural speech in may chicago major ron emanuel promised change. >> when young men and women lose their lives, we as a state must do better. >> reporter: over the past yu years chicago has become infamous for final crime, and there's a spike during summer especially over the july 4th weekend. >>> as of june 7th, a thousand people have been shot, one shooting every 3.5 hours. the flow of illegal guns say the police is a bigger problem in chicago than it is in los angeles or new york. in new york city there were 510 shootings through end of may. chicago's tally is nearly double that, even though the city is about a third the size. >> we can't sit ideally bias elected officials and allow this to happen. blood is on our hands much the blood of innocent children. the blood of grant mothers, the blood of innocent bystanders. the blood of trauma associate with this gun violence. it's on the hands of elected officials who are not willing to stand up and have the courage to lead. >> much