he was working in the treasury in the late 1980s, and described a growing sense that public money would be needed to support the families affected. it was becoming apparent how serious the issue was, and how widespand it was, and how unsustainable it would be for the people who were suffering without some form of practial compensation. but his description of the disaster as bad luck drew gasps from the families watching, who ve always believed more should have been done to understand the risks. i mean, there s no amount of compensation you can give that could actually compensate for what had happened to them. what had happened to them was incredibly bad luck. gasps awful. and it was not something that anybody was unsympathetic to. i was falling asleep, i was being sick. melanie was another of the thousands infected when she was just 17. she was diagnosed with hepatitis c, a disease which can slowly destroy the liver, and has suffered
a left over from the colonial era from the colonial rule rather than a truly african law and now we have these judges deciding whether or not to decriminalize same sex relations where could this possibly go melanie i mean do we have an indication as to how they might rule. anything could happen really the chances are fifty fifty but the activists i ve spoken to are hopeful that course the optimistic because kenya has set precedent in the pots for example last year a court ruled that fullest anal examinations which were used to determine whether a man engaged in sex and no illegal so there is hope and people like mary and the activists here they won t stop fighting until one day they all seeing this as equal citizens and can love whoever they choose to love melanie card to ball joining us from nairobi thank you melanie. today is the second day of the vatican s four day
a man engaged in sex and no illegal so there is hope and people like mary and the activists here they won t stop fighting until one day they all seeing this as equal citizens and can love whoever they choose to love melanie card to ball joining us from nairobi thank you melanie. watching date of you news still to come on the program the italian island of sardinia has turned from a sleepy tourist destination to italy s political hotspot a closely watched election there has drawn the country s tough talking deputy prime minister the leader of the country s all right party. but first today is the second day of the vatican s four day summit aimed at stopping sexual abuse in the catholic church bishops top vatican officials experts and the heads of religious orders have heard stories from abuse survivors about the devastating effects the trauma has had on their lives many have suffered in silence other survivors have seen firsthand efforts by the church to cover up sexual abuse.
for those who did survive having to go out and big crowds has been difficult and has been challenging but for today they have decided they will go out they will sing and they will show that sign of resilience that leave them mock of resilience and hope for all of those who can hear them. right melanie for us in manchester thank you melanie. now to some other stories making news around the world in afghanistan at least sixteen people have been killed and dozens injured after a container packed with explosives detonated while security tried to diffuse it officials in the southern city of kandahar said the area around the container had been cleared when it exploded bomb attacks have been on the rise across afghanistan with hundreds killed since the beginning of the year. scores of people are feared dead as an intense heat wave smothers the pakistani city of karachi authorities are