our ethics and religion correspondent martin gak. as always, martin, thank you very much.ere are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world. belarus authorities have arrested several journalists, including a dw correspondent. his apartment in minsk was also searched. the reason for his arrest has not been officially confirmed. critics say the move is part of a crackdown on independent media. dw has launched a protest with the belarus ambassador in berlin and demanded his immediate release. the democratic republic of congo's long-standing president joseph kabila will not run in the upcoming e election. that i is according to a government spokesman. the announcement ends months of speculation. kabila's second term offificialy ded in 201016 but he refefused o step down. now he has chosen before and -- the former interior minister to represent the ruling amp coalition in the vote. as tensions grow in zimbabwe after last week's disputed presidential election, police today briefly arrested a senior opposition leader as he tried to cross into neighbo

still with me martin gak our religious affairs correspondent martin we've been talking to one irish abuse survivor who doesn't believe you just told us that he doesn't believe that pope francis is fully committed to the task of tackling this abuse scandal within the catholic church what's your view is he committed it seems to me that this pope is committed or us committed sort of the head of the church can be in the conditions of in the institutional conditions in which the church exists this is just a it's a mess of operation it's a massive institution in which most of the people that have actually operated a clerical level have been there for like twenty thirty forty years so the problem that the church has is not simply sort of address. they should selfridges addressing the crimes finding redress for the crimes finding a way to stop further crimes finding a way to stop the cover up of those crimes but on top of that there is a question as to how to change institutional culture within the church and that of course these are all things that are and why it's extremely difficult for just o

brought together no police on the table a few at the end the scandals continue to be discovered martin gak a religious affairs correspondent as always martin thank you a pleasure here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world spanish special forces have raided the home of a man who trying to insult police near barcelona authorities say the man demanded to be let into a locked police station then one shot at officers inside with a knife before being shot dead investigators are treating the incident as a terrorist attack pakistan's new foreign minister has called for a quote and interrupted continuous dialogue with india speaking after he was sworn in shot may mood correction said that it was important for the two countries to talk to each other relations between pakistan and india have been tense ever since independence from britain in one nine hundred forty seven particularly over the divided territory of kashmir. here in germany the cologne zoo has opened a new home for two of its biggest stars the red pandas fred and neil and have been getting used to the

clarify a few words where he's at the right to constabulary you have this on tenterhooks now martin martin gak religious affairs correspondent many things your pleasure. turning to italy now where prosecutors have begun investigating the country's interior minister far right leader vini for his role in preventing migrants rescued at sea from disembarking in sicily the investigation is focusing on charges of illegal confinement illegal arrest and abuse of power the migrants have been stuck on an italian coast guard vessel in the port of qahtani out for five days the government had refused to allow them off the ship until other e.u. countries agreed to take the man on saturday that it's really began allowing them to disembark. wary sick many on hunger strike the migrants on board the dish shotty are finally allowed onto dry land stuck in catan has harvest since monday they're exhausted and many are traumatized after their journeys. say the i don't know what i wanted to sue minus we've heard inhumane stories of female suffering for example a twenty two year old eritrean woman who says it took her

in our ethics and religion correspondent martin gak is following the abortion debate and the decision which is expected to be handed down today in argentina there and martin what do you think we're going to see well right now it looks like the know will actually take the day there are thirty eight bodes that have been sort of declared for the no again thirty first that we have to bear in mind that when it actually cleared the lower house in june the situation was very similar and they started with no essentially ahead and then of course turn the other way so it's hard to say why is this such a polarizing issue especially in argentina i think it's a polarizing issue everywhere you look essential because there are of course are. just intuitions but there are also moral intuitions i think that the particular already of the latin american gays that there are real really no defenders to be found of abortion i mean the discussion concerning the freedom of the woman to choose or the freedom of women to choose is really quite marginal most of the discussion has been centered around abortion i

joins now here in studio by his very own martin gak and our ethics correspondent on your also from argentina of course we know that the divide is really deep in the country and we've seen that play out in the political sphere now where do you see that divide breaking down i mean is this on religious grounds is this on ethical grounds or is that on political grounds there seems to be an agreement across the board which is the. this is not really a single right so a single individual's rights question that's the way that say the american debate would because that is to say that a woman's right and then we have this other thing that the woman has a right over around sort of questions of her own body this is really the entire debate both through lifton's the right has been. just as the right of the fetus even to lift against the right of the mother so competing rights i think this actually very interesting and it's something that we should look with you know with some care because it's quite noble the issue is that most certainly not only the got the lake church but the churches are very very st

front of him ok mountain always going to talk you did of these religious affairs correspondent martin gak. turning now to venezuela where an estimated two million people have left the country in recent years fleeing food shortages poverty and economic chaos united nations officials are now saying the region is heading towards what they describe as a crisis management similar to the one europe in the mediterranean back in twenty fifteen with neighboring states trying to hold the influx across the. routine has been accompanying one group of venezuelan mark once. they've got so much luggage they need help carrying it downhill. these two families have come together travelling from caracas all the way through colombia to the ecuadorian border. the crossing point here isn't as full as it had been during previous weeks as ecuadorian authorities were only letting those in who had a valid passport fortunately gabrielle was able to get her family's documentation on time it took her several months to gather the money to leave her home country. we were thinking about going to peru for about three mon

lunch in a low thirty seven cents this has to change the question is where this pope will allow it martin gak our religious affairs correspondent thank you so much for your insight. it was a night for new stars to shine at the m.t.v. video music awards cuban born singer company that coverdale dethroned some of the music's top acts as the night's big winner she joined the ranks of rock royalty for her moment in the spotlight. the queen of pop announcing one of the top prices of the year come you look around the out thank you for her song have done a good luck of the cuban born singer also to come all the top prize artists of the year can't believe this is how many think you saw was. the best paul price points to ariana grande date the twenty five year old singer performed two new songs got a sublime and. just later joined by her grandmother and mother on stage i was told. i was. playing. one of the highlights of the night jennifer lopez performing a medley ok hit songs before accepting the band got aboard on the ring for lifetime achievement thanks. to many of the big prices went to women this

clarify a few words where he's at the bottom step there you have this on tenterhooks now martin martin gak on religious affairs cost on a many things and pleasure for. the new bundesliga season got underway this weekend and one of the title contenders is already facing a setback shall come up in a tough opening game against all spoke a club you may remember clearly on the rebound after barely avoided relegation last season. szoka have newcomers mark stuart sage and sunny sunday in the starting line up with a little effect both with the shop aside top set pieces would prove to be key in this match the arnold to join group one of the hopes. groups with acres of space and famine with no shot to many quits disco was having a hard time. after the break it got pretty turbulence a brutal attack obama time to start it first so yellow but then the video referee got involved and the decision was overturned but they got was from the sausage meat that is much easier i was more outraged the match came so close brooks took the. penalty shaka. equalize for the guests in the eighty fifth minute. with the

so that is the pope's response and to help us make sense of it all is just affairs correspondent martin gak who joins us now in the studio. and you're a very measured reply i think we can say from the pope so just walk us through these claims and who exactly is making them here i mean who is big on oh. you know just give us an overall view of all the figures and this is going to work for a member of the vatican to washington d.c. and before that who is actually an administrator within the quite high who is involved in the bowtie leaks and his claim is that he was displaced to washington after having aired or present accusations against other members of the church for mishandling of funds now it is important to him that these eleven pages are by and large around a very long run and that contains not just like you say sions but sort of large extracts of sort of pretty runs that homophobia. like using many of the people that's associated with the pope of being essentially participants or supporters of gay rights or of gay activities or things of the guy no it's not a chris but you say she and

we're joined by martin gak he's our religious affairs correspondent martin it's good to see you again i want to talk about what was not in that letter. you know we expected to hear the pope say that what has happened is terrible and we don't want it to happen again but there was nothing said about those responsible for these atrocities and bringing them to justice indeed there is snow clear sense from this letter and. other than sort of talking about penance fust thing and cetera et cetera the things that we usually hear from the vatican there was anything concrete really even by way of policy that would actually bring about what has been no trumpeted for sixteen years ciro zero tolerance we've been hearing a lot about zero tolerance for a very long time this has clearly not materialize and this letter that's not falling in any evident way in any of their direction this of course could change when the pope goes to ireland but it's off right now littered self-esteem show that way and why what do you write the letter is he under pressure or is this a strategic move by the noise i think

let's get more now on this issue i'm joined here in the studio by very own martin gak he is our ethics correspondent he's also from argentina welcome to you martin we know the country is very divided i mean we we saw it there with those illustrations what do you think there is this divided mean is this a question of religion a question of ethics a question of politics i think that there are many many parts to this bus one of the most certainly is religion and it's not just a couple of churches have been jellicoe churches that have been a lot of to retore a lot of to rain throughout latin america over the last couple of years that put a lot of pressure into the political system but at the very same time i think that argentina has a very conflicted story with pregnancy and they do you need in the lift if you will find women on the left that are actually opposed to abortion of both the beale part of this has to do with the fact that many women had disappeared during the military government break and many of these disappeared britons these reappeared into the national scene and became very

and i'm joined here at the table now by our ethics and religion correspondent martin gak mortons good to see you again is it accurate to say that the senate vote the deciding factor last night was the pressure that came from the catholic church no i don't think that is all true so i don't think that i mean most certainly there were a bunch of religious groups that were lining up in the no vote that got the church certainly flex muscle but so did evan jellicoe are going to say sions that were actually very strong the issue however is that the informal channels of power that mostly sort of define the argentine political landscape are really quite divided between very conservative provinces to the north and more or less progressive bronzes to the south and the fact is that if one looks at the map the way that people voted it was really the north where the majority was no and it was really the south where the majority was yes it's interesting to take into consideration that you know there were women on the left that voted against the bill this would be unthinkable in the normal abortion d

lunch no authority said with and this has to change the question is where this pope will allow it martin gak our religious affairs correspondent thank you so much for your insight. the most terrible place in the world those are the words of germany's foreign minister heikal mosse on a visit to auschwitz the nazi death camp in poland on the first visit by a foreign minister in twenty six years wrote the following in the visitor book it was a german creation by the name we need this place because our responsibility never ends here's more about a solemn reckoning for. more than one point one million people were killed here most of them jews it's been described by many as hell on earth among those the german foreign minister michael must. keep a to visit to auschwitz on what is his second visit to poland since taking office earlier this year. introduced a sign or it's this is a place of remembrance that reminds us germans above all what we did to millions of others. and we need this place because all responsibility never ends. earlier this year moss claimed he entered politics because of what ha

ethics correspondent martin gak welcome and we heard a bishop that talking about mistakes having been made but this this report says this was not a mistake this was a systematic cover up yeah absolutely i mean so i think that this is really just paying lip service to the entire problem i mean they have to say something and this is essentially what they went out and presented to the public but the fact is that we're not talking or mistakes at all we're talking about something that seems very well engineered and that lasted for at least at least seven decades so very clearly this was not a mistake this is something that was actually developed the details are really quite lurid they're very very difficult to read but they really show the systematic structure of not only covering up you know perpetrators but also system in which victims would necessarily reproduce and sort of the numbers of victims expand but help me to understand is this is clearly this is not the first of these sorts of cases that the catholic church and indeed many other churches have faced what is it about the time or

important but it should not be read as a sort of black or white thing it most certainly it's not martin gak following the abortion decision in argentina for us it's going to be a close one and we thank you for putting an end to context for pleasure. now let's get a quick check of some other stories that have been making news around the world the democratic republic of congo's longstanding president joseph kabila will not run in the upcoming election according to a government spokesman the announcement and months that speculation kabila second term officially ended in twenty sixteen but he had refused to step down now he has chosen former interior minister a manual ramadani to represent the ruling a m.p. coalition in the vote. zimbabwe's main opposition party says that it will formally challenge the results of the country's presidential election nelson chamisa and his m.d.c. party narrowly lost last week's poll to president anderson and not a god was an o.p.'s the result sparked protest that was met with deadly force by the military involved ways the electoral commission has dismissed allega

to talk more about this i'm joined now by martin gak he is our religious affairs correspondent martin why did the pope decide to break his silence now i think the the pennsylvania case was such a sort of such a pressure point that essentially he could not really keep quiet to this. the d.c. cardinal wuerl was actually mean bited to the familiar bunion meeting in arlon and he had to pull out precisely in the wake of of the grand jury report so essentially he really did not have much for choice he had to actually come out and say so well let's talk a little bit more about how much pressure he's currently under because pope francis has called on all catholics it's kind of a call of action that he's issued there how much pressure is the pontiff under currently to eradicate the scourge of sexual abuse in the church you know it's been this this case the pennsylvania case has been described as two thousand two thousand and two on steroids i mean meaning we have the original scandal when the scandal broke out in two thousand and two this actually must have. terms of its scope of course if one