A very compelling witness was clearly not a lawyer was not a fair interest and was a witness of truth pal is the highest ranking catholic worldwide to be convicted of child sex offenses he was once the vaticans treasurer and one of the popes closest advisers probably. Was his lawyers had argued that the jurys verdict was unreasonable based on the evidence and that the jury relied too much on the account of the only surviving victim through his lawyer that victim said he was relieved by the courts decision it is 4 years since i reported to the police. The criminal process has been stressful. The journey has taken me to places that in my darkest moments i feed i would not return from x. 5 we are now also taking heard elaine and we have now decided the glorious time for us to. The vatican has acknowledged the decision and says its committed to pursuing those whove broken the law as the proceedings continue to develop the holy see recalls that the cardinal has always maintained his innocence throughout the judicial process and it is his right to appeal to the high court but survivors advocates say the Catholic Church needs to prove its taking clergy abuse seriously and you think of all the children who were abused who had crimes committed on the mean carefully goldfinches and childrens homes and think. They were in the name of god just in the ill never get the dying for he is going to rot in a cell he will then rot in hell and i cite farewell pal pal wont be eligible for parole until 2022 when hes 81. Brian al jazeera. Still to come here on aljazeera donald trump gives denmark the Cold Shoulder after his plan to buy greenland is dismissed as absurd. Refugees and migrants embrace as that rescue ship finally docks and italy after being stranded at sea for 3 weeks. Hello the most recent seasonal flooding in china has been so limited to the west and to the high ground in the west a streak of cloud over sichuan gives it away and theres not much else where there is a bit of an arc here thats that is an active area with heavy rain likely in northern vietnam went across the border to you know maybe western ground and still sichuan demonstrated by chengdu is in greenbelt daquiri means the heavy a potential right now that goes away about how we get to friday but a streak of rain just north of hong kong has come into this eastern coast of china otherwise its still a remarkably dry picture for late august. The monsoon rains that made eventually Good Progress right up to pakistan are on the withdrawal slow though it is but this satellite picture which is fairly recent represents more or less to forecast the next 2 days or more us nepal sax words and west words to the west coast have been so much heavy rain but mobilize active it has drying up for you but it does suggest no more significant showers the far west of in the of nor indeed for pakistan because it is still dry to the west that through afghanistan as to iran and to the middle east where humidity is the only trouble. I think looking at your Instagram Account and reading. This is a dialogue when donald trump announced his candidacy for president after them everyone has a points best chance the democrats have to beat donald trump is to nominate an exciting inspirational charismatic nominee join the conversation in your pocket where am. I now to 0. Welcome back youre watching aljazeera live from these are the top stories this hour 10 of the 11 members of sudans newly created suffering council have been sworn in today to lead the country until elections can be held within 3 years general abdel fattah the previous head of saddams military will serve as chairman. Protesters in hong kong have gathered in front of the british consulate to appeal for the release of a man detained in Mainland China earlier Chinas Foreign Ministry said simon chang an employee of the u. K. Consulate violated the law and he will spend 15 days in administrative detention and the form of a 2nd treasure a Cardinal George pell has lost on appeal against his criminal conviction in australia bell was jailed for 6 years in march for abusing 2 choir boys 20 years ago. The leaders of uganda and rwanda have signed an agreement aimed at reducing tensions between the 2 countries once a close ally is rwandas paul kagame me and ugandas your way rima 70 have been accusing each other of espionage and political interference relations have steadily deteriorated rwanda closed its border with ukraine and the in february severely impacting trade on both sides then in may Ugandan Police accused rwandan soldiers of entering the country and killing 2 men a charge rwanda has denied welcome from. Tensions reached a head in february this year and made a sea of accusations and counteraccusations from people in the governments of rwanda and uganda that each was spying on the other followed a series of high profile murders here in uganda over the last few years that included a Senior Police officer as well as other government officials some people in the Intelligence Services here believe that the government of rwanda was responsible meanwhile some people in the government of rwanda have accused uganda of hosting and helping exiled dissidents who want to overthrow rwandas government its important to understand that both president 70 and president. Are military men who both came to power by successfully leading armed rebellion and overthrowing their predecessors and both live to some extent in fear that one day somebody will do the same thing to them todays meeting is the 2nd is being mediated by angolas president. Was a meeting in july which both sides tabled their grievances we didnt hear much more from that meeting suggesting that not much progress was made today we are waiting to find out if some agreement will be reached if things will deescalate and if they get to no border will reopen resuming usual trade between the 2 countries the nigerian president. Has sworn in 43. 00 ministers into his new cabinet its almost 3 months since bihari began his 2nd term in 6 months after he was reelected president took the opportunity to assign ministerial roles but chose to keep the Key Petroleum portfolio to themselves nigeria is africas top producer of crude oil has more now from the capital. The swearing in ceremony for the nigerian cup when it comes to for base to the day president obama was sworn in for a 2nd i am he says he needed even more time but phased a lot of pressure from officials of his own party who felt that any further delays of naming the cup in it would have a knock on effect on the budgeting process and also the entire Government Operations at present one has said he wanted a good mix of technocrats and politicians in his cabinet to ensure that not only progress the chip in the 1st time is built on but also his legacy is also protected to faces a lot of the challenges here among them in security these this massive fighting going on in the middle belt of nigeria between farmers and. Pastoralist and along ethnic groups which has created not only the displacement of those of people but the deaths of hundreds in the past few years and this is a continuing problem and also these kidnappings where young frustrated and employed nigerias taking matters into their own hands and kidnapping people for once a month then these issue of boko haram which has not been defeated yet and of course start off shoot of it which has pledged its a little too eisel which has been the cause of some of the wasta tox in the north and part of the country in recent months of course all these problems has created some sort of disappointment among many in a genius with some not only calling for a revolution but also protesting for it the u. S. President donald trump has canceled a state visit to denmark on twitter after the danish Prime Minister rebuffed his interest in buying greenland Betty Fredrickson describe the u. S. President s idea as. He fired this off. Of denmark is a very special country with incredible people but based on Prime Minister fred recent comments that she would have no interest in discussing the purchase of greenland i would be perspiring on meeting churchill in 2 weeks for another time the Prime Minister was able to save a great deal of expense and effort for both the us and denmark by being so direct i thank her for that and look forward to we should have been some time in the future and the danish Prime Minister was talking just the past 2 hours or so in copenhagen saying shes disappointed mr trump has called off the trip at discussion. However been very gracious about a potential sale of greenland this has clearly been rejected by kim petersen a position that i share of course. This does not change the character of our good relations and we will of course from denmark continue our on going dialogue with the u. S. On how we can develop our cooperation and deal with the many common challenges we are facing ok lets bring in my colleague kimberly even by the standards of this white house is this all a bit kind of out there. It is and it caught a lot of the white house staff by surprise we know including the ambassador who had just previously to this announcement tweeted a photo of the anticipated arrival of donald trump despite Donald Trumps tweet in the cancellation that this is not going to or this is going to save a lot of money thats not necessarily true either this is been a trip that was planned for many many weeks in advance theres a lot of expensive forward planning that takes place so on the one level this was a big surprise and then on the other hand you have to ask was it a big surprise this is the 1st time weve seen donald trump taking a transactional approach to diplomacy particularly given his real estate background the other time weve seen Something Like this is that in the case of the relationship between north Korean Leader kim jong un and the u. S. President repeatedly donald trump has talked about how he believes he can make the deal that other president s have not been able to achieve to give have north korea give up its Nuclear Weapons by selling the prospect of opportunity Economic Opportunity through real estate other things done travis repeatedly refer to north korea as great waterfront property so pulling back from all of this this has caught a lot of people on both sides of the atlantic very surprised but at the same time when you look at some of Donald Trumps other transactional deals you have to kind of shrug your shoulders and say this is something that he does but to put it in context and we shouldnt just criticize donald trump i mean everyone else on twitter is doing that but you and i shouldnt of course i mean there are precedents for this kind of thing this is how we kind of got alaska this is how the Virgin Islands became the u. S. Virgin islands you know and greenland does have clearly strategic and military importance for the very very front line of the defense of the United States ok its a bit of a throwback to the cold war and the relationship between the u. S. S. R. And washington but there are real reasons why on paper it might actually not be a wholly bad idea. Yeah and i think it was in the context of those discussions with white house staff that donald trump kind of went to his default setting of thinking like the Real Estate Developer that he has been for his entire professional career but youre absolutely right not only is there history but theres strategy in all of this the history as you point out the United States has tried to Purchase Green land in the past most recently in 1906 under president harry truman and then a 100 years before that as you point out fresh off the back of the purchase of alaska so its not out of the realm of history thats for sure and then there is important strategy in all of this and thats again where i think these conversations 1st surface given the fact that not only is greenland the airbase theyre part of americas early Ballistic MissileWarning System its also used by the u. S. Air force as well as north American AerospaceDefense Command so where some of the absurdity comes from well its just been so long since he was had a discussion like this that people are going wait a 2nd what and then even donald trump injected some humor into it as well he put out a meme that has been said across the world you pointed out on twitter where he said i promise not to do this to greenland it shows very sort of a desolate space with one of his gleaming golden towers with trump across the top so it is a little bit absurd when you see the u. S. President doing that and then to think about in the midst of all this were talking about defense were talking about diplomacy but thats how donald trump rolls absolutely can be good still to thank you so much. Nearly 100 refugees and migrants who spent their 1st night in weeks on dry land after their rescue boat docked in italy prosecutor ordered it to be seized ending a standoff between the Spanish Charity operating the ship and the Italian Government hardline migration policies are at the heart of italys leadership crisis which forced the Prime Minister to separate conti to resign sonia gago has more from the island of lampedusa. Several e. U. Member countries have agreed to take on the nearly 100. 00 or so people who are on board the open arms vessel that would be spain portugal luxembourg and france there being willing to take them on and so they will now be able to claim asylum in those countries as well the prosecutor did immediately order the disembarkation after having visited the vessel and saw for himself the state the condition that the vessel was in which we are told that was were in poor hygiene conditions as well as the very fragile condition of the people on board both physically and mentally as well but there is also another ship is not too far away circling the Sister Island of lampedusa the island of the noise and it has been circling the area for several days now with 356. 00 people on board this is already another cause for concern because they will have to at some point go to adopt for a safe landing they have already requested that an executive with the European Commission has already called out the e. U. Member states to show compassion and try and simply provide a solution with which these people can be taken on and given the opportunity to seek asylum in e. U. Member countries but of course this is all part of the process which has been happening in these islands here even though the interior minister my peers salvini has said that he has banned these landings from taking place the reality of the of the matter is that they keep turning up while there are people who are desperate to try and escape the conditions that they found themselves in libya they will do anything they can. Possible to try and find safety in the European Union country an unprecedented number of wildfires have been recorded in brazils amazon rain forest this year nearly 73 funds and of the been detected between january in august the president has been condemned for his Environmental Policies that have accelerated the deforestation of the amazon. As the coordinator for forests and biodiversity of friends of the Earth International she says the corporate interests in the amazon rain forest are being protected by political power in brazil. Internationally everywhere we see thats the extreme right its really links to the interests of and corporate interests at once just to sell more products that want to have more access to all door environmental places and we see this especially very very strong in brazil where there are pretty interests dont have access to more Agricultural Land is really represented by also not all we have heard earlier this year and minister of environmentalists gargle soliciting in the next an Environmental Program reza president us not to agree with the alarm dont use to criticize the Agricultural Production of developing countries and so what a release for them the amazon is there for business its there for making profits its their its not their product in the environment and they are not worried about the International Consequences and the consequences for the country itself at the same time they are interrupting our older than normal processes as well as they are of the human rights of Indigenous Peoples which there are multiple in brazil and they are actually the ones who dont normally protect the forests which they are just completely outlawed in the situation. This is al jazeera these are the top stories 10 of the 11 members of sudans newly created sovereign comes all have been sworn in to lead until the elections can be held in 3 years time general abdel fattah the previous head of sudans military jumper will serve as chairman. Protesters in hong kong have gathered in front of the british consulate to appeal for the release of a man detained in Mainland China earlier Chinas Foreign Ministry said simon chang an employee of the u. K. Consulate violated the law and will spend 15 days in administrative detention but the Foreign Ministry is urging the u. K. To stop int