to speedily apologise for the situation and address the situation in congress. thank you very much. more than 200,000 children have been victims of paedophile priests and other clergy over the last 70 years in france, according to a report published in the last few minutes. the head of a commission into sexual abuse within the catholic church said the perpetrators were protected by what he called a veil of silence with victims often treated with a cruel indifference . 0ur paris correspondent hugh schofield has been listening to a press conference on the report this morning and gave us this update. abuse by lay members of church run institutions, for example, if you include scout groups that are run by the church, catholic schools, other institutions which come under the rubric catholic. if you include them, you get this monstrous figure of a third of a million children abused in between 1950, and 2020,