Where does he get this from its significant that the pope calls abuse a crime and not just a sin because two thousand words its just too much to really have started from a new continent. Also coming up tonight a great city sort of those three years in that Sixty Two Billion euro bailout for greece are over but the pain remain. Static still to continue affecting the population and. So bit of a catch twenty two situation. Or we begin the day with that letter from pope francis the pontiff sent a letter to all members of the Catholic Church to address the growing list of child abuse claims against priests of the popes hand appearing to be forced after last weeks unprecedented report from the u. S. State of pennsylvania. And investigation alleging some Three Hundred priests
molested and raped at least a thousand Boys And Girls and while pope francis has made clear his condemnation of the sins and crimes he has left uncertain how or if he plans to use his authority to bring to justice those accused who are still serving in the clergy in his letter today the pope said that the church must acknowledge its past sins and mistakes and he admitted the pain of the abuse survivors was long ignored kept quiet or silenced by the church and he promised that no effort would be spared to prevent abuse and its cover up again no mention of sanctioning the clergy found to be guilty i for more on this now im joined by Martin Jacques hes our real live religious Affairs Correspondent martin screwed to have you back at the big table i want to share with our viewers a tweet posted today by Marie Collins as she was
this Two Thousand And two on steroids i mean losing the magnitude of the off that you say sions its not completely unthinkable that the pope will not actually put on the table precisely some sort of polices solution however it must be said that as of right now nothing actually has been said and other program he said there are very very powerful forces within the church that remain either mentally opposed to the church essentially having to. Having to make itself accountable to you know terror and all to reno justice so you know what happens then when you got to kings like that i mean if you look at all the polls that have been conducted in the last week youve got confidence youve got faith in the Catholic Church as an institution plummeting so what can the pope do now i mean is it up to the pope himself to save the institution from the people inside it i think that there is there is there are two things to be said the first one is not just the people
inside it so i mean you have the berm of clerical ie some of this is the middle management and the management of the church at Different Levels and these people some of them have to be saved from accusations that do not respond to them but some of them clearly should pay for what they have done but the church is much broader than that it has a lot of people that actually are the pendant on it so i think that its very clear what he says that the pope can actually do and that hes bring justice into the game Bring NationalJustice Systems into the game this is something that would actually make the process much more transparent about sanctioning bishops though i mean the pope is the only one who has the authority to do that certainly but then the question would be what kind of sanctions would we be talking about i mean for the Civil Society at bishop that loses his job or somebody that is too fast and too ben and is quite simply not enough and certainly not for the kind of crazy crimes that were talking about so i think that the issue here is that. You know there is a very clear thing ahead and that is really bringing and for meeting crimes to be
revolutionary theological positions and i think that this would just add to that you know mark you get the religious Affairs Correspondent as always martin fascinating talking with you thank you leisure. Or greece has today emerged from the last of its three Bailout Programs athens is no longer dependent on aid from the European UnionEuropean Central bank and the International Monetary fund the loans amounted to Two Hundred Sixteen Billion euro. Finally no more aid packages and no more funding requirements but the last eight years have been tough for greece and brought drastic cost cutting measures many greeks lost their jobs and their homes income is fallen by a third on average the taxes however remain time for most people it will be a long time before the situation improves and some people dont even believe its possible like this silversmith but i still think i am personally for me in the
coming years i dont see any Hope Everything looks bleak to me. Because he sees the middle of the great crisis brought down me and thousands of people in my position women werent interested in buying our clothes anymore and as a result my Manufacturing Company closed we started this combined cafeteria and many market he hopes hell soon gain a foothold again many people in greece are trying to fight their way through. It because like i pin my hopes on Something Better even if weve left the Bailout Program i believe we greeks will be paying for years to come but we all hope for Something Better hope dies last. And the government knows theres still plenty to do even with all the loans paid off. But as it will make more needs to be john starting with the tax system which is in business friendly right now the Justice System must deliver decisions faster that will have a direct influence on attracting investments on the whole thing should become more
structures that we have built in greece make this country capable to recover attractiveness to attract investors to be competitive and to create a lot of jobs and thats what i expect that did now the people in greece will really see that the efforts to have been taking bear fruit lets be mistaken its not because there was austerity that there is a crisis in greece its because there has been terrible crises that we need to have a more Solid Structures for economy and society in greece. That was there from the European Commission talking about the end of this bailout for greece i want to ask now journalist. Hes a Freelance Journalist whos based here in berlin is a familiar face to some of our viewers here. Mr vargas what do you think i mean is it going to only get better now the way we just heard from the European Commission
well the bottom was Something Like two years ago so i dont expect it to get much worse but mostly depends on how the political personnel in greece is going to react after the next elections lets say. Because one of the main problems in greece is. A very astute political and social pull our a zation ok the socalled left of the socalled center right see each other as enemies and they have shown no intention of trying to work willing to Work Together you know noted to solve big institutional problem for it still exist which these. Programs that mr muskerry see. Talked about didnt tackle if you dont see the needle see a risk in greece. Something happening similar to what weve seen in italy for
example that you have you have groups that are at different ends of the political spectrum coming together and looking at the European Union and seeing that as a common. A common enemy in this iteration is a little bit different in greece because italy is whether we like it or not in the Dust Industrial Country but also. Also a polarized country north south left right and after years of pain because even a tad nearly run tellings felt it as well. They they will lose. This image of getting out and going our know our own way except their except i dont think greece is in this kind of a danger i mean it is august right now its high season for tourism we know that greece lives from that what what are things going to look like in terms of
employment if when we talk two months from now two three months from now i think its going to go up. On Employment Unemployment is going to be more than twenty percent again and whats more in the last year is. Most new jobs are jobs that pay well below subsistence level. The same problem that exists overthrowing italy sometimes in germany as well people work and cannot feed themselves or their kids but in germany you have a so with a social state there are social benefits nobody is going to die of hunger greece has a rude mental. Social system cannot afford pain what is lacking. So what happens then moving forward there was talk about a great sit you know three years ago about about greece leaving the the eurozone
and trying to rehabilitate its economy and its currency that way do you think thats off the table completely or do you think that can still be a possibility if d. P. Doesnt bend on greece if there is a major crisis you need to leave or space well of everythings on the table but. Get into account that greece should never have joined the euro the eurozone in the first place you know it needed another ten years noted to bring things properly a state where it would accept. Minimal Interest Rates which existed right after joining the euro zone thats what Pierre Moscovici was talking about he said the crisis the the real problem existed before the euro piece right for once for once hes right right the problem existed. And it existed in the last forty
fifty years we had political mismanagement we had corruption who had extreme polarization the right wing the left wing. The exile island emptied the only in One Hundred Seventy Four its quite recent right and there has never been a truth rikan see haitian. I cheated maybe we need a long time frame here to look at it i mean the debts they have to be paid back for example go all the way to the year twenty sixty thats a long time had a future but lets say that does happen can you foresee then greece in forty years and fifty years having all of this behind him being a healthy european economy people who get voted every four or five years dont tend to kick the can as far as they can and thats what they did now so nobody knows if the European Union will still exist in ten years or in five years or in twenty and
forty. It was a ridiculous. Non solution to an actual problem. And this problem will come back. Theodore kovach is fascinating having you on the show and getting your insights we appreciate it thank you welcome. But i spent all night at the border the authorities said wait be patient be expected an answer by the morning but there was no response they had meetings and nothing back to venezuela they said go home because we dont want to know where it is whelans hear. All that was the voice of even its way the refugee desperate to escape the deepening economic crisis in her home country and the growing poverty and hunger which have gone hand in hand with the rule of president Nicolas Maduro now the u. N. Says more than two point three Million People have left in the last three years and
thats more than seven percent of the countrys population most head to colombia brazil ecuador you know there peru and chile ecuador tightened Border Controls at the weekend brazil has reinforced troops at its Northern Frontier on it trying to bring some stability. Threat to the country even a toy as president Nicolas Maduro has launched a new currency to combat Hyper Inflation and soon expected to reach a million percent a year now a million percent five zero zero been knocked off the beleaguered bowl of our currency and they give you an idea of the daily hardship that people are facing the pile of old bowl of ours that you see here right now will buy you just one chicken like wives this is how much just a handful of tomatoes cost in Downtown Caracas and when it
costs this much paper money will have that justify a roll of toilet paper some people are saying why bother buying the world at all in this kind of crisis for many it makes more sense to gamble it all on the chance that theyll be able to escape. I argue a lot has been dragging her suitcase along the highway she is fleeing desperation and Economic Hardship back home in venezuela crossing into ecuador on foot as an undocumented migrant. We spent all night by the border the authorities told us to be patient they said they would guess announcer in the morning but there was no response they just told us to head to venezuela especially that we dont want more venezuelans here. Off to ecuador imposed new Entry Restrictions on saturday and have friends felt that they had no choice but to cross illegally while they press On Thousands Of Obvious stranded at the checkpoints hungry and cold fearful
assumes the emptying of an as well that completely would be a change of government because with this latest measures president has shown that hes simply not capable of of dealing with the underlying economic and financial problems what we understand that the opposition is calling for nation. Wide strikes and protests to take place tomorrow on tuesday do you expect people to actually go out on the streets i mean its hard to imagine that youre going to get protests when youve got people who are basically you know overnight becoming refugees. Well thats right theres a number of problems one is that the opposition is deeply divided is divided into this lead so three major segments its not the whole of the opposition thats calling for this strike a lot of people feel that its poorly organized this badly timed because after rule the president has Just Announced a massive increase in the minimum wage for the maybe people who are thinking well you know lets see if that waging crease solves my my immediate problem is not the
best day to do it i think is likely to be a failure and that say they would like to tease disillusion still for the Opposition Supporters and lets assume that there is no change in government and that mature road stays in power for the first Seeable Future and you see any talk of scenario taking place at that realistic that would bring in an end to this crisis. Well my daughters been in power now since Two Thousand And thirteen coming up for six years hes announced any number of economic plans on each occasion he told us that this was finally the solution that now at last he grasped have to deal with the crisis and every single one of these plans is worsen the situation i think is very little grounds for optimism the could be a scenario in which perhaps more more sensible elements within the the ruling group would to take over from him and try to seek some solid sort of solution but
the problem is the event as well as under International Sanctions and unless theres a political settlement the end for the for the case of the violations of democracy human rights then those sanctions are not going to be lifted in the car on the. Solution ok pollution the crisis ok phil gramm some Senior Analyst for the andes of the International Crisis group in caracas mr gross we appreciate your insights tonight thank you thank you the day is nearly done but the conversation continues online you see right there were to write to us and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day to see if. Come across in greenhouses across spain and its nice looking Missions Alexander said. Despite the dangers politicians prefer to avoid the subject which is the motion and. Gallstone how far can the exploitation. Europes toughest. Cusa be. Lehman brothers ten years on a story of Ambition Greed and megalomania. Were so clever the Return Trolling Rate Cuts with the. Old Investment Bankers cultic ourselves with the first on. Everything wrong the want you to ignore the reality