Hello and welcome to News Hour live from the BBC World Service in London.

I'm Rebecca Kessby. It's a dark and sorrowful day for New Zealand, said the Prime Minister Christopher Luxon

earlier today following the publication of a major report into abuse in the care system.

The report found that over the past 70 years one in three children and

vulnerable adults were abused in both state and religious care systems that's

more than 200,000 people. Those with disabilities or from the indigenous

Maori and Pacific Islander communities were particularly badly affected.

The report is the result of the biggest and most expensive inquiry ever held in

New Zealand, taking six years to put together and costing around $100 million.

As Prime Minister Christopher Luxen reacted to the findings, he spoke directly

to the survivors of abuse.

The state was supposed to care for you to protect you, but instead's subjected you to unimaginable physical, emotional, mental and sexual abuse.

A number of faith-based schools, institutions and people in positions of authority who you should have been able to

have trust failed you in the worst possible way. This is a dark and sorrowful day in

New Zealand's history and as a society and as a state we should have done better and I am

determined that we will do so. Well I've been speaking to one survivor with a

disturbing story. 62 year old Bernie O'Donnell spoke to us earlier.

He's Maori and I asked him first how he responded to the findings of the report today.

Really, really, for a lot of us, we've been waiting for this for a long, long time.

We help put the report together some of our, a lot of our testimonies in the report.

Traditionally was sort of the forgotten lot if you like as of what we had to

endure during our lives. So today was significant. The report was tabled to Parliament and the response

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