Used in massacres abroad judges find x. Employees from gunmen had clear and called guilty of illegally exporting weapons to mexico we will hear from the lawyer for the plaintiffs. Im sorry kelly welcome to the Program Thanks for joining us pope francis has opened an unprecedented summit on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church with bishops from around the world francis began the four day meeting by saying that the church must listen to Abuse Victims but survivors have voiced concerns that the popes efforts to raise awareness do not go far enough the summit comes after an avalanche of allegations against catholic priests accusing them of molesting young boys and raping none. People are rightly its uncharted territory for the one hundred ninety heads of bishops conferences and religious orders present here. They were summoned to the vatican to publicly address the child abuse crisis within the Catholic Church its a meeting marked by shame cardinal law is taken as a seller pins even broke into tears the wont of the recent cries carried the memory of illicit suffering. But they also carry the memory of our weakness full. But regret alone can change decades of systematic sexual abuse. And i hope francis made it clear to the priests that he wont let them off easy he says but its a sensible part of the holy people of god looking at us and do not expect from us simple and predictable condemnations but concrete and effective measures for the. Survivors when the pope to quickly follow his words with deeds. Zero tolerance for any priest that has sexually assaulted a child around the world written in the Universal Church law because its not Universal Church law right now its not their law pope francis could do it he could do it by monday morning hes the only one that can do it. Minor changes to canon law i expect that as an outcome more consequential demands such as making it ever acquirement to report suspected abuse of priests to the police are unlikely to be met but some remain hopeful emphasizing that the status quo is simply not an option. There needs to be concrete changes why wouldnt it be optimistic also we want an organization that is going to continue to allow the rape of children and they be where bishops are not held accountable. To lead you to maybe listening to the emotional testimonies from victims in the coming days will convince Church Leaders to make the necessary changes. Of the more now were joined by the religious Affairs Analyst martin gak how big is this for the Church Martin its quite big at least it is trumpeted as being quite a sort of a moment of you know change in the church this is something that remains to be seen however it is true that there is a very clear the mind of concrete actions it is also true that the church in twenty years is actually not. Produce concrete actions do you see the potential for that concrete action because i mean many are looking at us theyre saying oh great you know theyre talking about it now but can we see something bigger come out of it than just acknowledging that there is indeed a problem i think that we should disabuse yourself from continuing this talk about talking about it i mean the church has been talking about it and has been talking about it for twenty years victims have been talking about it n. G. O. S have been talking about it the church squad simply has not produced protocol or policy so its unclear whether they have the capacity to do it and there is the political will the fact is that there has been a couple of things over the last two weeks including macquarie from king this very very senior new york former garden will which seem to show that this vatican actually has the political will what we dont know is where they have are to the political muscle they have the capacity to implement changes so lets talk a little bit more about the strategy because i mean they wrote the following about how they plan to approach this responsibility accountability transparency are the words that theyre using i mean they say that these three principles that will guide their strategy when theyre talking about sex abuse in the church what do you make of that well i think that these are two words for any process of adjudication you know i mean clearly responsibility transparency and accountability are important things i think that what is telling about the fact that these are actually headlining topics is that the church understands that it has lost legitimacy in zero three areas i mean the church is seen as somebody thing that is transparent its not seen as something that is responsible and most certainly its not seen as something that is accountable to justice in general so one of the i think most important questions is whether the church is willing to bring in National Authorities to adjudicate what are actually crying ok and do you think that theres first of all the potential for that i think that there is a potential but i think that what you also have is that in a very very Large Institution with very many people any one of these cases that you pull out. It has a lot of people attached to it not only people that are necessarily raped or that abuse but people that actually cover up and people that it might not have willingly covered up but were part of systems so what were turning towards serious about something that is truly truly white spread into truly massive in terms of the connections and amount of political time institutional relations i do not see you know just the will to change us being selfish and this is something that would depend not only on the vatican but it also will depend on the churches at the local level across across the world really religious Affairs Correspondent martin back thank you youre welcome. Ablaze in the bangladeshi capital dhaka has ripped through buildings claiming more than seventy lives the inferno spread quickly in a central area of the city the buildings were in Flammable Materials and plastics were being stored over fifty people had been taken to the hospital some suffering critical burns firefighters struggled to bring the blaze under control due to the narrow streets and the Traffic Congestion around the incident. Lets get more on this now we are joined by meindl khan he is a journalist joining us from dhaka how did the fire start and why did it spread so quickly. Well the first dr thrown explosion of compressed natural gas cylinder with electric to transform one beer by and the fire started from the electrical shocks that he did it with after the chemical whatever it was it was dead and its in building but also some plastic where holes was there so we stripped it to dick and it was nearby and that and it going to we did have the release just into the building and there were also this truce in the ground over all this for said that it would be sitting just in the kitchen so all is gasoline to explode or so ingeniously. The fire in very deep. And we have to say and we were looking at these dramatic images here this is not the first time that we have seen images like that coming out of dhaka there have been other devastating fires and we also know that there was that major building that collapsed a number of years ago as well talk with us a little bit about the safety regulations are they simply too lax. Well it is true that there was there was a big fire its engine in two thousand and ten where hundred twenty four people rescued. After that incident the government also initiated this to gauge and we didnt have. Any immediate sense of the investigation. But what this is just a relaxed of the boy for students to take this weekend where hope is to move to somewhere else but you look at least Police Officials say that if it is work to get it in they will be able to shift the chemical weapon notices. Of the investigation where it is on the way michael kahn in Dhaka Bangladesh thank you so much. And were going to have more on that fire in bangladesh thats coming in d. W. News asia and thats in about twenty minutes from now but first a quick check of some other stories making news around the world the evacuation of hundreds of people from the socalled islamic states last remaining enclave in syria is almost complete a spokesperson for the u. S. Backed Syrian Democratic forces says that once all civilians are out troops will attack us fighters in the village of bugaboos near the iraqi border. In albania thousands of opposition supporters are taking part in an antigovernment rally opposition lawmakers claim that the socialist government is corrupt they are demanding the resignation of the Prime Minister at the rama as well as fresh elections the e. U. And u. S. Have warned albanians opposition against violence. And the u. S. Police have seized an arsenal of weapons from the home of a coast guard officer they arrested him on suspicion of plotting a mass murder the officer had drafted a target list of democratic politicians and prominent media figures. A court in the southern german city of stood guard has found two former employees of the weapons manufacture hecla and call guilty of illegally exporting guns they have been given suspended prison sentences the court also imposed a fine of three point seven Million Euros on the company for sending assault rifles to crisis regions in mexico the case centered on an attack that killed six people in the southern mexican city of. Thats also where forty three students disappeared and are thought to have been murdered. Police believe the local criminals were responsible and that they were armed with guns manufactured by have called the mexican state of guerrero where the city is located is blacklisted for weapons exports. And i am joined now by whole goal roth power he is the lawyer for the group that launched this procedure by filing an official complaint against heckler and koch welcome to the program thank you so much for joining us this afternoon and id like to begin by asking you is this the verdict that you were hoping for. Well in parts its a historic trial that we have experienced here today and we are very happy that the. Heckler and koch company is being sentenced for three point seven three zero Million Euros as damage payments and. The. Tool of the c. E. O. Is being liberated its and have got to know punishment. So you want higher accountability individual accountability than there internally id like to ask you more about that and also about this fine you reference three point seven Million Euros for the company do you see that as enough of a deterrent to make them think about these policies perhaps rethink them in the future. I definitely think so they have already learned from this nine year long procedure that we have you know and they have lined out a Green Country policy so they dont want to export anymore in countries like mexico and other areas of war so on that point its a good step forward and i also think its a huge signal here from stuttgart for the other companies for the other weapons industry in germany and in europe that if you are doing such risky and deadly. Trials and and deadly deals then you have to get the power of the state that will sentence you for peak payments so lets talk a little bit more about that larger picture that you are referencing here on toward the industry in general because i need it seems and you know correct me if you have a different opinion as of german weapons keep popping up in crisis regions and war zones despite arms embargoes is the onus really on the companies or is this really a failure of the authorities here. Youre absolutely right with your question its not only a failure of the company ok of course the Company Wants to make the deal they want to make the profits no matter how much casualties we have but its also the top fortys in seems they were rather working in a team then controlling and checking if its really possible to send those terrible weapons into areas like in guerrero or other cities and states so yes the german. Government has to definitely rethink. If the. Codex and the laws to prevent these kind of illegal exports are good enough if the control system that we are having and which germany says we are proud of it because its one of the strictest in the world no its not because there are so many so conventions and as weve seen in the mexico deal they all Work Together and even politics is involved so its a bit of the training of the german public to say we have the strictest laws and everyone is asking why is germany on number three and four especially in small weapons exports well we want to thank you very much for joining us to share that you whole globe the lawyer for the group that launched this procedure and against the arms make a heckler and koch we appreciate your insights. Thank you. Youre watching news still to come on the program shell to give it everything they have got in the first leg of their champion think that chap with Manchester City but its one of their former players who has the final say. Meantime here in germany the issue of abortion is currently the subject of a fierce debate abortion is a criminal offense here with terminations only allowed in certain very restricted circumstances the current controversy centers on whether german doctor should be allowed to advertise that they carry out the procedure Gabriella Hall there is one of thousands of doctors in germany caught in the center of the countrys ongoing debate over abortion. The fact that abortion is criminalized. That its illegal in germany the woman doesnt know that isnt. Abortion in germany is in fact a crime but there are exceptions in cases of rape on medical grounds and on certain conditions prosecution is avoided if the abortion is carried out within the first twelve weeks of pregnancy if the woman attends mandatory counseling and then waits another three days before the abortion but at the center of the current debate is tiny article two hundred one thousand nine hundred eighty of germanys criminal code it dates back to the nazi era and makes it a crime for doctors to publicly advertise abortions after being overlooked for decades its now sparked political debate. The principle must be that we do not advertise abortions its forbidden and unborn life must be protected i cannot allow abortion advertising and we want to prevent it even in a limited number of attempts. There is one of the hundreds of doctors who have been accused of violating the article in her case it was due to a flyer on the clinic website stating that she carries out of portions of the flyer was removed and the case was then dropped but many doctors still feel persecuted since two thousand and three the number of them who carry out abortions has fallen by forty percent. These activists these activists who stop women on the sidewalk from going to the Counseling Centers or clinic theyre simply frightening theyre traumatizing for women. And then theres the fact that this criminal punishment weighs down on the issue of abortion. And you compromised by the German Government would allow doctors to state that they offer abortions but more advertising remains forbid and prior to forming a new coalition with Angela Merkels conservatives germany social democrats wanted to abolish the abortion advertising ban isnt. Also from the social democratic side with two main objectives to safeguard womens right to information and to guarantee Legal Security for doctors and for dr holder the legal compromise doesnt go far enough she wants to see article two hundred nineteen a abolished. I support protection of life or but not when its against women instead it should be with women offer something to women offer assurance that their careers wont be damaged if they have children make contraception free for all ages but we just dont have a lot of how many such alternatives to take years to really happen in germany but for now the long time to brew of abortion has got both german politics and society talking. And now it has been hailed as a medical breakthrough doctors in germany say that they have developed a new blood test that can detect whether a woman has Breast Cancer researchers at the university of heidelberg say that the test is as reliable as a mammogram it costs less though and comes without exposure to radiation Breast Cancer as one of the most common types of cancer kills more than six hundred thousand people each year. Lets bring in bonnie from our Science Department now to tell us more about this so i mean how does this blood test compare to america. Well i got to say straight off thats whats a little bit odd about this whole research why i would say we should err on the side of caution because on the one how we are being sold that is as good as a mammogram or perhaps even better in the future and yet at the same time we shouldnt compare the two at all because theyre completely different so i would be confused actually on the face of it a blood test is less invasive we know that much a mammogram as you said is basically its an x. Ray its radiation and radiation can cause cancer itself so theres that to bear in mind mammograms also bring back false positive and false negative results especially in younger women and this test it will apparently do better in that area but thats just the problem we dont really know its been a very small test so far only nine hundred people among them five hundred known Cancer Patients so we need bigger tests at this point we need to know more about what specific types of Breast Cancer can be detected and yet at the same time its apparently going to be market ready by this autumn so i really think that this is a great step in the right direction but we need to know more at this point and how does it actually work i mean is it just simply as as going to the doctor and the doctor takes a blood. It is actually i mean the process is called liquid biopsies evasively takes in blood you look for