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Diabierna 21 Januari 2022

First aid flights arrive in Tonga after big volcano eruption

nook helicopters will depart Zealand is also expected to houses have apparently been
as soon as it is ready, the De- arrive later Thursday. It is destroyed on the island of
fense Ministry said. carrying hydrographic equip- Mango and only two houses
ment and divers, and also has remain on Fonoifua island,
Defense Minister Nobuo a helicopter to assist with de- with extensive damage re-
Kishi told reporters that his livering supplies. ported on Nomuka.” He said
ministry “will do everything evacuations are underway for
we can for the disaster-hit Officials said the ship’s first people from the islands.
people of Tonga.” task would be to check ship-
ping channels and the struc- According to Tongan census
U.N. humanitarian officials tural integrity of the wharf figures, Mango is home to 36
report that about 84,000 in the capital, Nuku’alofa, people, Fonoifua is home to
people — more than 80% of following the eruption and 69 people, and Nomuka to
Tonga’s population — have tsunami. 239. The majority of Tongans
been impacted by the volca- live on the main island of
no’s eruption, U.N. spokes- Another New Zealand navy Tongatapu, where about 50
man Stéphane Dujarric said, ship carrying 250,000 liters homes were destroyed.
pointing to three deaths, in- (66,000 gallons) of water is
(AP) — The first flights any outbreaks of COVID-19 juries, loss of homes and pol- on its way. The ship can also Dujarric said the most press-
carrying fresh water and and has reported just a single luted water. produce tens of thousands of ing humanitarian needs are
other aid to Tonga finally case since the pandemic be- liters of fresh water each day safe water, food and non-
arrived Thursday after the gan. Communications with Tonga using a desalination plant. food items, and top priorities
Pacific nation’s main air- remain limited after Satur- are reestablishing communi-
port runway was cleared Rear Adm. James Gilmour, day’s eruption and tsunami Three of Tonga’s smaller is- cation services including for
of ash left by a huge volca- the commander of New Zea- appeared to have broken lands suffered serious dam- international calls and the
nic eruption. land’s Joint Forces, said there the single fiber-optic cable age from tsunami waves, of- internet.
had been a “mammoth ef- that connects Tonga with ficials and the Red Cross said. Tonga has so far avoided the
New Zealand and Australia fort” by Tongan troops “to the rest of the world. That widespread devastation that
each sent military transport clear that runway by hand. means most people haven’t The U.N.’s Dujarric said “all many initially feared.
planes that were carrying wa- And they’ve achieved that been able to use the internet
ter containers, kits for tem- this afternoon.” or make phone calls abroad,
porary shelters, generators, although some local phone
hygiene supplies and com- Australia said the assistance networks are still working.
munications equipment. The would help Tonga’s govern-
Australian plane also had a ment meet the community’s One phone company, Digi-
special sweeper to help keep needs and support the imme- cel, said Thursday it had
the runway clear. diate cleanup efforts. managed to restore the abil-
ity to make international calls
The deliveries were dropped Japan also said it is sending from some places by using a
off without the military per- emergency relief, including satellite link, but that people
sonnel coming in contact drinking water and equip- would need to be patient due
with people at the airport in ment for cleaning away vol- to high demand. It said it
Tonga. That’s because Tonga canic ash. Two C-130 Her- hoped to enhance its service
is desperate to make sure cules aircraft left Thursday over the coming days.
foreigners don’t bring in the evening, and a transport ves-
coronavirus. It has not had sel carrying two CH-47 Chi- A navy patrol ship from New

Report on sexual abuse in German diocese

faults retired pope

ly. The law firm examined the then-archbishop, Cardi- When the church abuse scan-
church files and spoke to wit- nal Ratzinger, can be accused dal first flared in Germany
nesses. of misconduct,” said one of in 2010, attention swirled
the report’s authors, Martin around another case: that of a
Church officials weren’t in- Pusch. pedophile priest whose trans-
formed of the results ahead fer to Munich to undergo
of publication. The current Two of those cases, he said, therapy was approved under
archbishop — Cardinal Re- involved perpetrators who Ratzinger in 1980.
inhard Marx, a prominent offended while he was in of-
reformist ally of Pope Francis fice and were punished by The priest was allowed to re-
— was faulted in two cases. the judicial system but were sume pastoral work, a deci-
(AP) — A long-awaited ignite criticism of Benedict’s kept in pastoral work with- sion that the church has said
report on sexual abuse in record more than a decade af- Marx’s predecessors include out express limits on what was made by a lower-ranking
Germany’s Munich dio- ter the first, and until Thurs- the former Cardinal Joseph they were allowed to do. No official without consulting
cese on Thursday faulted day only, known case involv- Ratzinger, who served in action was ordered under the archbishop. In 1986, the
retired Pope Benedict ing him was made public. Munich from 1977 to 1982 canon law. priest received a suspended
XVI’s handling of four before becoming head of sentence for molesting a boy.
cases when he was arch- The archdiocese commis- the Vatican’s Congregation In a third case, a cleric who
bishop in the 1970s and sioned the report from law for the Doctrine of the Faith had been convicted by a court Another of the report’s au-
1980s. The law firm that firm Westpfahl Spilker Wastl and later being elected pope. outside Germany was put thors, Ulrich Wastl, said
drew up the report said nearly two years ago, with a Benedict gave extensive writ- into service in the Munich Benedict’s claim not to have
Benedict strongly denies mandate to look into abuse ten testimony for the report. archdiocese and the circum- attended a meeting in 1980 in
any wrongdoing. between 1945 and 2019 and stances speak for Ratzinger which the priest’s transfer to
whether church officials “In a total of four cases, we having known of the priest’s Munich was discussed lacks
The findings were sure to re- handled allegations correct- came to the conclusion that previous history, Pusch said. credibility.