In Afghanistan to be killed in recent years u.s. Forces in Afghanistan have confirmed they carried out an air strike in the region Pope Francis has vowed to pursue justice for the victims of abuses committed by the Roman Catholic Church and has said it must be firm in establishing the truth after visiting a shrine in the west of Ireland the pope addressed the congregation in the capital Dublin Ireland correspondent Chris page reports. Half a 1000000 people have free tickets for the people in mass but this is the symbolize the challenges for the church in Ireland the actual attendance was a lot smaller but over it was still the largest gathering of Catholics in this country for almost 4 decades and Pope Francis began the service by addressing the historical horrors which have turned so many away from the faith in a lengthy prayer the pope listed numerous ways the church had caused paean to people it should have cared for and said some in the church hierarchy had kept quiet the American playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon has died at the age of 911 of the world's most prolific writers for the stage his output included comedy classics such as The Odd Couple The Sunshine Boys and barefoot in the park enjoying unrivaled success on Broadway many of his scripts were drawn from his own experiences he said it was a difficult childhood that the led him and his brother Danny to embrace comedy not only were we very poor during the Depression but my mother and father had a very up and they broke up maybe 6 or 7 times and my father would move out and I think humor was the best way for Danny and myself to deal with all of this it kept us from really falling apart and going astray the Tony Awards tweeted the final curtain has fallen for one of the gods of Broadway You're listening to the latest world news from the b.b.c. . The Israeli defense minister says Israel will reopen the area's foot crossing with Gaza on Monday a week after it was closed I think the Lieberman said the decision had been made after several days of karma along the border it was closed in response to clashes which have been continuing for several months as part of a major campaign of protest by Palestinians in Gaza people in Colombia are voting in a referendum on anti corruption measures including a cut in wages for members of Congress a former member of government said corrupt officials were stealing everything Nicholas Russia reports despite efforts to tackle corruption through legislation more thorough investigations and even by raising public awareness the outgoing controller general got of them idea recently that corruption was costing the country more than $15000000000.00 a year well Columbia's are trying something different they're voting on a referendum that supporters hope will bring about tougher anti corruption legislation but a yes vote is not a foregone conclusion that referendum is binding but it is only valid if a 3rd of all voters take part just over 12000000 people North Korea's state run newspaper Nodong Shimbun has accused the United States of double dealing and commentary entitled dangerous military moves made behind the curtain of dialogue allege that u.s. Military units based in Japan had staged an air drill and infiltrating into Pyongyang it called such moves extremely provocative and said they threw cold water on implementing the joint statement by North Korea and the United States at the Singapore summit in June the German chancellor Angela Merkel has expressed her opposition to European commission proposals to strengthen targets on Climate Change speaking to the broadcaster a.r.d. She said European Union countries have to concentrate 1st on meeting the existing targets which would be hard enough e.u. Leaders signed up to a target that by 2030 they'd have reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent compared with 1990 levels b.b.c. News. Hello and welcome to News Hour from the b.b.c. World Service coming to you live from London I'm James Kamar saw me today another papal promise to seek justice for clerical abuse victims but Pope Francis Nass to deal with accusations by a former Vatican ambassador that he was part of a cover up is this an attempt by conservative rivals to drive him out or is it a real threat to his papacy Also we'll bring you the latest on that shooting in Jacksonville Florida several people have been killed and we'll remember the King of New York comedy Neil Simon. The theme tune there from the old couple television series which was based on the all Simon's play we'll hear more about his prolific output in just under 20 minutes 1st though he came he apologized for a range of church scandals he celebrated Mass and he left that is a potted summary of Pope Francis his visit to Ireland in scale and tone a far different event from the previous papal trip to the country nearly 40 years ago but after begging for forgiveness and meeting survivors of clerical abuse the issue of Francis his own role in the events which of eroded trust in the institution he heads is coming under renewed scrutiny tonight the pope is facing a call for his resignation from the man who was until 2 years ago the Vatican's ambassador to the United States Archbishop Carlo Wiig I know has claimed that the pontiff was part of a cover up of the disgraced former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick who resigned last month over sexual abuse allegations we'll be discussing that in just a moment but 1st let's hear about the culmination of a short and at times uncomfortable 2 day visit to Ireland today's papal mass in Dublin's Phoenix Park Here's the B.B.C.'s Chris page. Half a 1000000 people have. Free tickets for the people in mass but as if to symbolize the challenges for the church in Ireland the actual attendance was a lot smaller however it was still the largest gathering of conflicts in this country for almost 4 decades and Pope Francis began the service by addressing the historical horrors which have turned so many away from the faith the Muppet alone. You know your own forgiveness. For the abuses in oil and abuses of conscience and sexual abuses perpetrated by members of the roles of responsibility in the church and a lengthy prayer the pope listed numerous ways the church had caused paean to people it should have cared for and said some in the church hierarchy have kept quiet acknowledge that unmarried mothers on the children they've been separated from have been told that seeking each other was a mortal sin but the pope said this was not so. Pope Francis has spoken his most significant words of repentance but the biggest event of his visit the worshippers here will hope that the remarkable sight on sawing the Pope asking people to harden his church will quell anger on stem the religious decline. In the city center abuse survivors and their supporters sent to their message that you know. Several families attended a demonstration at Lockhart sets down for Truth big secular director of Amnesty and Colm O'Gorman was sexually abused by a priest as a child we've spent years and millions of euros investigating what happened here in our to the state has taken responsibility society has taken responsibility this pope continues to dodge and avoid And the fact responsibility for the cover up that is ultimately responsible for not just here anonymous across the world this morning at one of our most secret places the NAACP shrine in County Mayo Pope Francis spoke of the need to be firm on the sites of in the pursuit of just. But victims believe the only way that can happen is if the church itself takes action against those of its members because dreadful harm when Catholicism dominated arland report by the B.B.C.'s Chris page Well the 11 page letter that accuses Pope Francis of being part of a cover up was written by the Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Vega know a conservative who is known to disagree with the pope's more liberal impulses but the man who served as the papal nuncio or ambassador to the United States on the pope's Francis and Benedict uses that letter to go into detail about what he says was Francis his decision to overturn or to ignore sanctions that were imposed on the disgraced ex Cardinal McCarrick by Pope Benedict is highly critical pestle reaches this stark crescendo Francis is abdicating the mandate which Christ gave to Peter to confirm the Brethren indeed by his action he has divided them lead them into error and encourage the wolves to continue to tear apart the sheep of Christ's flock. In this extremely dramatic moment for the universal church he must acknowledge his mistakes and in keeping with the proclaimed principle of 0 tolerance Pope Francis must be the 1st to set a good example for cardinals and bishops who covered up McCarrick so beautiful and resign along with all of them and I've been hearing contrasting views about the letter 1st from Christopher lamb the Rome correspondent for The Catholic Weekly the tablet but these are very serious allegations Archbishop begin those mates but there are also a number of problems with what Michigan though has submitted his tests meets the test of them is that he claims that Pope Benedict put Archbishop McCarrick sanction for his behavior with snaring sex was contact anyone in Rome I will tell you that Archbishop McCarrick was not under any sort of sanction after retirement as archbishop of Washington so that's the 1st issue the 2nd thing is we don't seem to know what exactly was presented to Pope Francis in terms of the allegations that operation began no it's taking the archbishop south has been accused of questioning the report into another archbishop in the United States who was accused of sexual misconduct seminarians option one step so there are a lot of questions around the test its content and not a beginner his themself a strong critic of Pope Francis That being said these are serious allegations and they should be properly investigated so to be clear your questioning some of the facts in the letter but also the motivation the might be behind it yes because this letter has been released Well Pope Francis is in Ireland a trip that has been dominated by clerical sexual abuse and it's released at a set time to cause maximum damage and impact course that should begin now and part off of small but vocal strong group in the church would like to undermine the papacy. Francis it should be pointed out that when the allegations that Cardinal McCarrick now at Bishop McCarrick had abused in mind or that soon after Pope Francis accepted his resignation as a cardinal and removed him from public ministry so sanctions were then placed under the carpet when the when the allegations. Came through and Archbishop Meccano is not saying that he told the Pope that McCarrick could be involved with children and that's an important fact to clarify but abuse is abuse isn't it if it out of Libya and these are very serious claims and I didn't know about that needs to come up with an explanation if he knew about it and he did indeed cover it up to a certain extent as is being alleged in this letter should he resign it does call into question his credibility I don't think he should resign it's no secret that conservative factions within the church have been unhappy about the direction of the Pope Francis wants to take it but for someone who was until recently the envoy the Vatican's envoy to the United States to call for the pope to resign. That he was part of a cover up how unprecedented is that well this is virtually unprecedented I mean you've got the opposition that Pope Francis face and so the church from certain quarters conservative Catholics is unseen and unheard of and it shows the level of opposition that he is facing inside the church that is the real challenge for Pope Francis Christopher lamb their own correspondent for The Catholic Weekly the tablet was a bit of a challenge to him at the end there and that was because he was just about to board a plane to head back to the Vatican well for a different perspective I've been speaking to Damon Thompson the editor in chief of the Catholic Herald the allegations in this letter are the most serious leveled against a pope in living memory possibly for centuries essentially the man. Who was the pope's own representative in the United States from 200-2016 has accused Francis of actively covering up the crimes of the serial sex abuse a fatal McCarrick money that having been informed McCarrick says Reckell with all of the views ing seminarians and priests and he's now accused of paedophilia Francis went on to rehabilitate cult McCarrick and to make him his personal and the story. Should begin their claims allowed him to become the king make of a key appointments in the United States this while knowing that McCarrick was suspected of multiple acts of criminal sexual abuse the most serious of allegations then but they are from one person one person is known to disagree with the pope what do you think the church will do you now to try and get to the bottom of this what should it do well I think the fact that he's known to disagree with the pope it's worth bearing in mind but nonetheless if you look at 11 page document that the Archbishop has written he is incredibly serious about the gravity of the charges he's making he know this that he is doing something absolutely unprecedented and he sway as on a perfect plea that everything he says is true let me make the point that at the moment several of the pope's close associates are facing serious allegations but that has not stopped him from reassuring them and from keeping them in his inner circle handing over that McCarrick when you would absolutely false to what kind of level then of crisis does this put the church into to get this close to the pope for these kind of l. . Geishas to be leveled at him by somebody so senior within the church himself this takes things to a new level would you say it does because in the past other geishas will post but these allegations about a pope and they really are very very shocking what is clear is that the Catholic Church needs to investigate with the greatest Genesee every single allegation made not just against the Pope but against many cardinals in the church as soon as possible not exactly how it goes about that is the big headache that the church will wake up to tomorrow morning who can be an honest broker or an impartial judge in all of this the church has to decide whether this is something that it is capable of solving itself one of the treasure actually has to go outside the Catholic Church in order to examine the evidence because at the moment c.u. Knows that in the case of McCarrick for example despite everybody knowing as we keep hearing a long catalogue of planes and very very credible claims the man is a villain despite everything everything was hushed up for years and years. Pope Francis was the most important figure in rehabilitating him even if the specifics are not proved Do you think that this pope is so damaged that he should resign anyway for the good of the church I think that he must resign if any significant allegations made against him are proven to be true and if that doesn't happen is there a way for this papacy to recover for the the Vatican to restore confidence of all the faithful know and that was done in Thomson editor in chief of the Catholic Herald You're listening to News Hour from the b.b.c. . Coming up in the program more than 130 migrants are allowed on to dry land in Italy after waiting almost a week in a dock in Sicily the children on the boat had already been taken off but many are in a bad way when there was struggling to see because you told us that you've been kept saying of course that the tension and the place in Libya for about a year or less will have more on that in about 15 minutes time now the latest headlines from the b.b.c. Newsroom police in Florida saying number of people have been killed in a mass shooting during a video game tournament in Jacksonville Afghan officials say the leader of the Islamic state group in Afghanistan has been killed in an air strike u.s. Forces in the country have confirmed the death of a senior militant leader. You're listening to the b.b.c. World Service this is News Hour coming to you live from London with James Kamar Sami. I tried in the program we'll be hearing from Italy about the continuing political and humanitarian impact of the mass movement of people across the Mediterranean but it is a crisis with increasingly loud echoes in a different continent South America in recent days the u.n. Has drawn comparisons between Europe's migration problem and the exodus of more than 2000000 people from Venezuela over the past few years now if you're listening to yesterday's program you will have heard 2 powerful testimonies from Venezuelans who are living through their country's economic meltdown today we're looking beyond its borders at the challenges for those who have traveled beyond them are South America correspondent Katie Watson has been following the trail taken by Venezuelan migrants over the past week and she sent this report. Head south from the Colombia Venezuela border is the start of the migrant trail for many. Every day hundreds of Venezuelans walk in streets struggling with suitcases he wheels will wear out long before their journeys over he stopped in a roadside cafe where. The war was on plastic top order in messages of thanks to the owner of the cafe they would have written as well on banknotes which of course are worth nothing now in Venezuela and One Note in particular says where workers were fighting for a better license for us and our families and we thank everybody who can help us and one of the women he signed the letter says she has a little boy who's just 25 days old all of. Us some more trying to sort out. Don't you Mark is the cafe owner she says many of those who pass by children and pregnant women she helps in any way she can. Now majority or even that's what I'm going to most like he thought best. They arrive very thin emaciated they come with 2 thick head ics many have been bribed so they are rife with just one change of clothes. Further along the road and Red Cross health center is open minded and so very happy you know. The world doesn't work for anybody that he is. Accountant Marianna isn't feeling very well she's been walking for 2 days it's all too much for her mother medium who's holding her hand. To say Ok. You know then you know what we want is an opportunity I used to work as a teacher and we left because we were desperate there's no future in Venezuela place help us find work right now but I got better but I don't know that that's a very wide walk outside there's a crowd gathering where dozens of Venezuelans a clambering into a cargo lorry that paying $3.00 each to catch an illegal ride that will take him to the next town it's a fortune for them but it avoids a long war in the cold mountains hypothermia is a real. For many Venezuelans try their luck finding work in Colombian cities it's becoming harder with more and more people fleeing their increasingly moving further south to places such as Ecuador and Peru at the same time countries are tightening their borders over the weekend Peru said Venezuelans would be passports and causing a rush of migrants trying to cross before the regulations came into force or. Dachau I said. That up at all what. 28 year old who used to buy us was one of them he asks us who can leave a voice message for his cousin back in Venezuela he wants to let you know he made it to the border just in time to get his i.d. Stamped what I mean when you look at. What I do my part is to get a job so I can help with family back in by the swell house far more opportunities. It is for those fleeing a promised land but one that with its border getting hard to cross will become unattainable for many who still making the long and arduous journey south. And that was Katie Watson reporting. The Pulitzer Prize winning American playwright Neil Simon has died at the age of 91 a New Yorker whose name became synonymous with Broadway Comedy Here he is talking about his upbringing and the impact it had on him and his brother not only were we very poor during the Depression but my mother and father had a very up and down marriage they broke up maybe 6 or 7 times and my father would move out and I think Hilmer was the best way for Danny and myself to deal with all of this it kept us from really falling apart and going astray are our correspondents and Dowd has been telling me more about Neil Simon's work it's true that he's rather disappeared in recent years but from the early sixty's certainly to the beginning of this century Simon was the dominant Broadway playwright certainly in terms of comedy and maybe overall he started out on t.v. In the fifty's with the likes of this been told many times Larry Gelbart and Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks and then a little bit later Woody Allen but he was the one who always had the big stage ambitions he had a big hit I think almost the 1st time he tried with come blow your horn in 161 barefoot in the park in 1963 which on stage made a star of Robert Redford and Redford then later took it to the movies the biggest hits of all was probably the old couple on stage in 1965 and of course a couple of years later a huge hit in the cinema with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon made my pictures I was just trying to even even up you're wrong. And I was wondering. How long walk would take for I got on your nerves. You said you irritated me I didn't say what did you say I don't remember when I said was It doesn't make any difference I was just repeating what I thought you said my God that's irritating you see you didn't see it the odd couple Well Vince recurring themes in his work with people say oh he was the master of the Broadway joke and he kind of was but you saw there especially when played by Lebanon matter how that really there aren't that many big jokes there it's mainly about tension between individuals he was the great comedy writer but comedy in various different levels of New York Life tension people worried about money people worried about their careers you know there weren't as many big gags as people sometimes thought American Remember Jane when I 1st went over to Broadway which was almost gulp 30 years ago I started to see plays of his like Biloxi Blues and Broadway bound they were kind of at the end of his middle period as it were and actually what they were were gentle comedies reminiscing about him being brought up his family wasn't terribly happy but actually you could see a Neil Simon play and cry just as much as you could laugh and at that point I thought Ok I'm going to slightly reassess what this guy is all about and was his Jewish heritage key to his work. You know without New York Jewish comedy where would we be really. There would be no sign felt if it were not I think for Neil Simon I don't think that's an exaggeration there would be no Larry David of course Woody Allen's been doing what he's done and that's a kind of parallel but different track but actually that anxiety but the tension specifically big city New York Jewish humor runs throughout Neil Simon and to a degree he defined it he was a master of playwriting and assessment of the king of Broadway Comedy Neil Simon from our own Broadway connoisseur Vincent down now just to remind you about the developing story this hour several people have been killed in a mass shooting at an entertainment complex in Jacksonville Florida according to police local sheriff's office said on Twitter that many people had been wounded and urged people to avoid the area they said that a suspect was dead at the scene or dreamy yaka a 19 year old player taking part in a video game competition described the shooting on Twitter as the worst day of his life he wrote I'm literally so lucky the bullet hit my thumb just a reminder that if you miss any live editions of this program you can always catch up with our podcast be updated twice a day 7 days a week just need to look for b.b.c. News Hour podcast in your search engine you're listening to News Hour from the b.b.c. World Service and we're coming to you live from London. This is the b.b.c. World Service where for the next program in our neighborhood series we're going outdoors you want to see my garden I was here in the community garden in Lowell Massachusetts you see the pumpkin over there and you really did you find Coming up on news on the next 30 minutes troubles for China's biggest ride ailing company more than a 100 Eritrean migrants released from a rescue boat in Sicily after 6 days in limbo we'll hear about their condition and find out what Albania has helped with their release also we assess the legacy of the u.s. Senator John McCain and get the latest on the mass shooting in Florida all of that after the news. B.b.c. News with Jonathan Izod there's been a mass shooting in Jacksonville in the u.s. State of Florida officials there said it took place during a video game tournament at an entertainment complex multiple fatalities have been reported the sheriff's office said a suspect was dead Unconfirmed reports say the suspect was among those participating in the video game competition Afghan and NATO forces say the leader of the Islamic state group in Afghanistan has been killed in an airstrike in the eastern province of Nangarhar officials said Abu Sada hobby and 10 others were killed in a joint operation by Afghan and foreign forces Pope Francis has said he will pursue justice for abuses abuses committed by the Roman Catholic Church on his 2nd day in Ireland the pope said no one could fail to be moved by the stories of those who had been robbed of their innocence he also said he was asking for forgiveness for cases of exploitation the Israeli defense minister says the area's foot crossing with Gaza will be reopened on Monday a week after it was closed of Igor Lieberman said the decision had been made after several days of karma along the border it was closed in response to clashes which have been continuing for several months the German chancellor Angela Merkel has expressed her opposition to European commission proposals to strengthen European targets on climate change she said countries had to concentrate 1st on meeting the existing targets which would be hard enough more than 18000 people have been allowed back to their homes in look next half and in western Germany after experts successfully defused a 2nd World War bomb the 500 kilogram device thought to have been dropped by the Americans was discovered by construction workers on Wednesday and one of the world's most prolific playwrights Neil Simon has died in the United States at the age of 91 among the 60 odd plays and scripts he wrote with the comedy classics The Odd Couple barefoot in the park and the Sunshine Boys the Tony Awards tweeted the final curtain has fallen for one of the gods of Broadway b.b.c. News. Coming up in the program after 6 days of negotiations Italy allows more than 100 Eritrean migrants to leave a rescue boat but why is Albania agreed to take in some of them we'll ask the Albanian foreign minister 1st so to China where the country's largest right Hayling firm d.d. Chu Xing is suspending its carpooling d.d. Service following the right to murder of a young woman who was using it it is the 2nd time in the last few months that a female passenger using d.d. Hitch has been killed and there's been lots of criticism of the company on social media for what is being described as its indifference to pass and just safety the loo Chen is a business reporter with Bloomberg in Hong Kong and she's been explaining the problems with the carpooling service when d.d. 1st introduced the service they used it as a social platform allowing passengers to label each other and in the past it was notorious for allowing male passengers to label women as beauty these or babes for example that was one of the reasons people criticized it so much when the 1st murder of a female passenger happened after that the company really revamped features of the platform taking down these labels it also introduced a one stop emergency push button that directly connected. To police hotlines However the reason that this continued to happen again is something probably out of the platform zone control the driver that allegedly did commit the 2nd crime showed his real identity the fake Haitian had official testing recognition test also passed but even that did not prevent this person without who had a clean record no never had a criminal record before allegedly still commit this crime and that's why the platform has halted the service and that they're trying to look into other effective ways of trying to ensure passenger safety in the future. What do you think is going to convince the public and the authorities that it has cleaned up its act obviously the authorities are giving d.d. a Very hard time on this it's unclear when the platform will be allowed to introduce this feature if ever at the scale of the Liam rise in the past 3 years d.d. Obviously sees the function as a very important part of their platform to increase traffic and usage however with something like this especially with authorities in China they want to maintain public safety and also satisfaction 1st and something like this that has really set off an outcry among the public is not only giving d.d. a Hard time it's also making regulators look really bad so at this point it's really unclear how you can prevent an issue like this when d.d. Has obviously already introduced real name registration facial recognition and the usual safety precautions they have entertained the thought of route or 247 real time but that has obviously also come under fire and a lot of public discussion whether it's going to far and really violating users' privacy as well so it's a hard balance to maintain Lulu Ulan Chen business reporter with Bloomberg in Hong Kong on the problems for China's version of. You're listening to the b.b.c. World Service this is News Hour coming to you live from London with James Kim on a Sami 6 days after the Italian rescue ship docked in Sicily with more than 130 mainly Eritrean migrants on board the latest Mediterranean standoff has come to an end Italy's interior minister a terror cell Vini has been making a habit of playing hardball with people arriving in the country illegally had been demanding that other e.u. Countries did more to share the burden Well today the migrants finally stepped onto dry land after the Roman Catholic Church said it would host most of them and 2 other European countries Ireland and Albania each agreed to take in 20 migrants Albania of course isn't actually in the European Union in a moment we'll be asking the country's foreign minister why it's decided to step in 1st so I've been speaking to Teo Dipiazza from the medical charity m.s.f. He visited some of the miners who are allowed to leave the ditch r.t. On Saturday and he told me about their condition we really hear bad but story I have to say why and it was we let that. And clearly these were struggling to see because it taught us that has been kept in force at the tension and the dark place in Libya for about a year or more or less a year it's a year yeah it was a really shocking when you know we heard that it was a very young girl even thought that during this you get a change and for places in all of these 4 places was kept at darkness or when you went how to from there 'd the tension and it was basically it see the really was the weeping girl also where we met him he was weeping there every time it was exposed at the sunlight so all these these young people have pretty horrific stories and what extra damage did it do do you think to them to be sitting in the port not really knowing what was going to happen would it have had an extra effect . M m a day long time ago today a spent at sea and then all these. And we call it political struggle at the port of Qatar here so in total that we're talking about something that can days stranded at sea of course. Has not improved a total of their symptoms and it increases their abilities we met another 2 or 3 boys with the same tone of the dramatic stress the disorder and you need to support the way you have the p.t.s.d. So you need immediate psychological and emotional support or rather than being stuck in a boat which doesn't have to keep meant for a discount of the situation and so yes it's it's going to increase their vulnerability that was already high tailed the Piazza from m.s.f. In Sicily so why did Albania agree to accept some of these Eritrean migrants it isn't an e.u. Member although it wants to become one Albanians foreign minister he did to me push r.t. It has already been a decision that we made public after a long discussions with Italian authorities because they were they were asking for our support in this endeavor it coincides also with the principle position of being in 4 years ago in the refugee crisis started that all countries in Europe regardless whether they are part of you club or not should contribute somehow to these crises because this is a European crisis these migration crosses and therefore it requires a European response and I understand that you see in what's happening now echoes of what happened to Albanians 20 or so years ago that's true when the when the rock there when the rick communist regime was involved a collapse many people were leaving the country because of political and mostly economy reasons. And we should not forget also about our history of 2 and 3 decades ago and this was another motivating factor and to be clear that history involved Italy taking in the Albanians who were there who had escaped the country yes Italy was saving us because many many Albanians have been received but easily during those dramatic times and now it was also our time to bring our contribution into into this process I know very well because there have been also people criticizing us saying that those are not Italians those are Eritreans But here we are speaking again 1st of all about people about human beings and sometimes in the discourse we forget that those are human beings and secondly this is a massive crisis and no European country can respond alone to these crises are you also to a certain extent sending a message perhaps to some no than European countries who have taken a less welcoming view unfortunately we have seeing a Europe being divided we have seen countries not only in the northern part of your but also in the eastern part of Europe who have forgotten about their history because I can collect the times to recollect the moments of the fall of Berlin Wall but also during the communism where many people from the eastern parts were fleeing communism and going to to the west I think it is also a message for European Union that we need a more coherent view and coherent response on such important issues also from a perspective of you can do this country as a baby at this but do you hope this will perhaps make European Union countries look favorably on your candidacy as well we don't see this refugee crisis migration prizes a tradeoff for advancing our our you accession agenda are you accession agenda is based on. Other rules and principles of course we would be happy to see the European Union being more engaged also on those issues with Western Balkan countries including my own we have heard in the past the discussions about building refugee camps outside the European Union there will be an acceptable and because we see this is a joint as a joint exercise with other human the states and that was Albanians from the state determine who shot. Now there is a new eerie coincidence for America's political history books those great friends and rivals Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on July the 4th 1826 I'm sure you didn't need me to tell you that well now 9 years to the day that his great Senate friend Ted Kennedy succumbed to brain cancer the Republican Senator John McCain has died of the same illness at the age of 81 the former presidential nominee and Vietnam War hero fell short of attaining America's highest office but his singular personal and political journey has today been the subject of tributes from far and wide our Washington Correspondent Chris Buckley has been looking back at his life I. Have been fighting for this country since I was 17 years old and I have the scars to prove it. Was all McCain was a politician of principle and the patriot who fought for his country a tremendous cost to himself. As a young Navy pilot during the Vietnam War He was shot down over her noise interrogators and tortured his captors eventually offered to free him when his father became commander of u.s. Forces in Vietnam but John McCain feared they were trying to use his release as propaganda and he refused the offer was despite beaten so severe that they left him an able to raise on top of his head in a soldier the way we're playing army came they took me to a prison camp and one of the interrogators the same thing who knew very bad for you know. It's a story that saw as if it was written for Hollywood and it was told in detail in this h.b.o. Documentary for whom the bell tolls but the film about his life was released as he faced the prospect of death. The Arizona senator has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. Right up until his death John McCain represented the state of Arizona. Grass as he had done for more than 3 decades he was a Republican who had been a strong supporter of Ronald Reagan but he was also fiercely independent an awesome anyway afraid of criticizing his own party's policies only she's like immigration and the influence of big money in American politics party establishment would love to finish me off anywhere that was $1.00 that I haven't ever wanted because I will break the iron triangle in Washington of money lobbying and legislation and they know that would be very very disruptive financially to a lot of people's lives. But in 2000 the Nantz Republicans chose him as their presidential candidate by the however in presidential debates he has difficult questions about Hollywood publicans with dealing with the financial crisis but it's damaged America's economy or shot been talking about it the economy of course I've talked to people like Joe the plumber and his choice of Sarah Palin his running mate was criticized as not least by his opponents Barack Obama the public reports indicated were shouting when my name came up things like terrorist and kill him and that your running mate didn't mention then stopped and say Hold on a 2nd that's kind of the line but at rallies John McCain could never be accused of remaining silent I can't trust Obama I have read about him and he's not he's not he's he's an heir No ma'am no ma'am he's a he's he's a decent family man citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on on fundamental issues and that's what this campaign is all about he's not thank. Ultimately Mr McCain lost to history in the form of America's 1st black president but the respect the 2 men had for each other was never indicts with Donald Trump It was very different Mr McCain couldn't hide his frustration with Mr Trump often rhetoric. Isolationist beliefs some half baked spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats and sharp problems with President Trump took plenty of potshots back many of them seemingly designed to be hurtful yours is a war hero prisoners captured I like people who weren't captured Ok I hate to tell your story about the war hero because he was captured Ok they may have both been Republicans but politically they were far apart and John McCain made a point of using his considerable influence in the Senate after undergoing brain surgery he took pride in stopping Donald Trump's attempt to replace the Obamacare health reforms maybe I'll be gone before you hear this he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer last year but on the illness made him deeply aware of his own mortality as was all vs from the audiobook of his memoir The restless with before I leave I'd like to see our politics begin to return to the purposes and practices that distinguish our history from the history of other nations I'd like to see us recover our sense that we are more alike than different John McCain's family said it was with his usual strength of will that he chose to stop receiving medical treatment but as he made clear in his final speech in Congress he was a man who never gave up hope in politics or in his own personal battles I'm going home for a while the truth my owners I have every intention of running of returning here and giving many of you cause to regret all the nice things you said about me. And I hope to impress on you again that it is an honor to serve the American people in your company thank you the motion of this president a year with. I know it was Chris Buckley reporting on the eventful life of John McCary on the last few minutes says being a police news conference about mass shooting at a video game tournament in Jacksonville Florida several people are reported to have been killed Sheriff Mark Williams said that there are no suspects left alive you're listening to News Hour from the b.b.c. World Service. This is the b.b.c. World Service the home of inspiring documentaries and stories from across the globe you want to see my garden I was here and meet a community garden in Lowell Massachusetts you see the pumpkin over there and you World Service Don't go. Reminder of our top story this hour a former senior diplomat of the Vatican has called on Pope Francis to resign accusing him of failing to take action after a discussion of abuse allegations against an American Card Cardinal Theodore McCarrick the editor in chief of the Catholic Herald Damian Thompson told News Hour that the pope has been slow to act several all of the pope's close associates are facing serious allegations but that has not stopped him from reassuring them and from keeping them in his inner circle clinical rid of McCarrick when you are absolutely forced to now the news police in Florida saying number of people have been killed in a mass shooting during a video game tournament in Jacksonville and Afghan officials say the leader of the Islamic state group in Afghanistan has been killed in an air strike u.s. Forces in the country have confirmed the death of a senior militant leader. You're listening to the b.b.c. World Service this is News Hour coming to you live from London with James Tamara Sami the most recent attacks by the Islamic state group in southwestern Syria have been directed at towns where members of the Druze religious minority live now some of the victims' relatives have been telling the b.b.c. About their anguish many of them live across u.n. Cease fire lines in the Israeli occupied Golan Heights and have been separated from their families for decades as a Middle East Correspondent Tom Bateman reports. Only the wind to get through the fence on the Israeli occupied Golan Heights the barrier snakes its way through valleys and over mountains this divided land has separated families for half a century. Oh. Near the hilltop town of mashed all shams I visited National I'm a shaikh like most people here she is Druze the religious minority splits across national boundaries melody have to have a normal now she washes me an ornament from Suede up in southwest Syria little bit about the before the so it's a way to is her hometown. So she wants to see it again before she dies and I will left in 1979 a bright on a one way journey to join her Druze husband who came from the Israeli controlled side of the Golan Heights in Alice effect the name I have. Sadly have been a mom she closes the blinds and tucks her grandson in bed her family in psuedo cannot have such comfort several of her cousins were among more than 200 people killed in last month's attacks there dozens of women and children were also ducted as militants rampaged through Druze villages and towns in southwest Syria what was it like for you. Being here and hearing about what was happening and that is that the job the thing that sets and. Now the tragedy has been awakened for us we are constantly on adds the anguish and the burden are indescribable at any moment we could hear that there has been a terrorist bombing. A any now it was nephew died a few days before the attacks an accident cleaning his gun fear grips a waiter I don't know if I'm to sure have lived as I was there video called his sister here in tears or notes was smart phone screen in the company Nick if. But are you going to. This is the closest these relatives can get strong current war divided by an old one. And the world wouldn't change the idea of life. Every event every option on their own Damascus means hundreds of phone calls from by the shops or for that matter of fact Christine took me for a walk through the hills that had opposite walks with a Shakespearean picture. He was born in measured all shams when the town was well within Syria's borders but in the War of 1967 Israel captured the Golan Heights and later an extent in a move that was not internationally recognized Syria tried and failed to take it back in 1973 the 2 countries have stayed technically in a state of war ever since Druze communities remain severed across cease fire lines you know it's it's a. Tragic event and how would people make contact in those days of the 1st 7 years that it wasn't. Them loose. Until 75 and 10 releases were to meet on the fence and the value of t. It was that they were having their ports improved but just to shake hands sometimes the case for all the friends. Later civilians were further distanced Dru's families would make contact across the divide from the so-called shouting Hill Israel and Syria agreed to let students from the Israeli occupied Golan go to university in Damascus. The wedding parties would meet at the fences only crossing this truce bridesmaid a one way trip to join her husband on the other side. But even these short reunions stopped in 2014 as fighting in Syria closed the crossing Now government forces a back in control of nearly all of Southwest Syria as we walk south man tells me he does not support President Assad and he moans his Druze friends killed by us and how does it feel for you being on the Israeli controlled side here where things are very calm and safe. And knowing that friends and family on the other side are not and yet many people here of course have I mean many years oppose the Israeli presence here it is the. Facts in life that the safety that I'm enjoying here it came from but a memory. But make me shy Israel has been watching the buffer zone more closely than ever after the fighting on the other side and wary of the strategic threat it sees from Syria's allies for now fewer bombs are falling in the valley of tears but many Druze still waits anxiously for another phone call. Report was from our Middle East correspondent Tom Bowman. Finally let's return to the map. Shooting in the u.s. State of Florida there has been a mass shooting at a video game tournament there the sheriff's office in the city of Jacksonville has reported multiple fatalities and said that many people were taken to hospital here is Sheriff Mike Williams from Jacksonville Florida speaking at a news conference in the last 15 minutes we have one suspect in this case he is deceased at the scene at this point he is a white male we are still working to confirm his identity we have to see victims at the scene we also have injured people at the hospital we can't play the role we don't don't have a county today. We are aware of the video that is our social media we have that video but we encourage people if you have additional video or any other information about the incident we reach out through you know 630500 our non-emergency number to Crimestoppers that you know it's 186 they say for 5 Tips we just finished clearing the jacks for any of the potential witnesses other victims that type of thing we would encourage people not to come downtown to spectate we get a very large crime scene down to have a very large regular We go to Virtue wait for that and that was Sheriff Mike Williams from Jacksonville Florida there on the mass shooting at a video game tournament you can find out all the latest information if you go to the b.b.c. News website just go to b.b.c. Dot com forward slash news you can also find plenty of background there on the all the stories that we've covered here on News out that though is the end of this edition of the program so for me James Tamara Sammy and from the rest of the team here in London thanks very much for listening until the next time good bye. This week on the b.b.c. World Service global beats takes a trip to Finland I am Iraqi unda I'm a huge fan of heavy metal I'm going to be introducing you to some of my contribution as exciting metal bands and exploring why the genre of rock music is so incredibly popular here in this biking thing going on I know it's very cliche but there's something that matches John or global beats Heavy Metal in Finland at b.b.c. World Service dot com. And it's $23.00 g.m.t. 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