welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. our top stories: simone biles, a—time olympic champion gymnast, says she too was sexually abused by the former us team doctor. we meet the rehingye—chite‘rerr # wrapped around your finger... dolores o'riordan, lead singer of the cranberries, has died suddenly. we take a look back at her life. and this car went flying — literally — into the upstairs of a dental office, and somehow, everyone lived to tell the tale. one of the world's greatest olympic gymnasts, simone biles, has claimed that she was abused by a former doctorfor

the united states‘ team. she is the latest athlete to accuse larry nassar of sexual abuse. he's already been jailed for 60 years for possessing indecent images of children and has admitted assaulting female gymnasts. he'll be sentenced this month. andrew plant reports. she is a a—time olympic champion with 19 combined world and olympic medals, she is america's most decorated gymnast. now in a statement, the star of the rio games has said that she was sexually abused by the former teen usa gymnastics sports doctor, larry nassar. nassar has already been jailed, sentenced to 60 years for possessing indecent images of children and has also been accused by other gymnasts of sexual abuse and has a limited sexual assault in two cases and will be sentenced this month. her talent clear from a young age,

simone biles is regarded by many as the greatest to ever perform in her sport. team—mates said the abuse happened under the guise of her treatment. in a statement, simone said she would allow the doctor to steal her love and joy. the 54—year—old was jailed in december after child pornography was found on his computer. simone biles said she was not afraid to tell her story anymore, adding, "it's impossibly difficult to relive these experiences and it breaks my heart that as i work towards my dream of competing in tokyo 2020, i will have to continually return to the same training facility where i was abused." andrew plant, bbc news. david willisjoins me now from washington dc. this is just the latest twist in this terrible tale. very much so. she is a woman who has been described as the greatest gymnast ever and she won four gold

medals and in rio 2016. she has added her voice to a list of gymnasts claiming they were assaulted by larry nassar. this statement today, she said she wrestled with the decision to go public with this, but says she has been feeling, as she put it, "a bit broken lately and the more i try to shut off the voice in my head, the louder it screams." she says that she should not be made to carry the guilt that belongs to larry nassar, the usa gymnastics officials and others. she says it breaks her heart that in training for the olympics in 2020, she will have to return to the place where she suffered this abuse. her statement leaves no—one in any doubt of what it has cost her and the three other former olympians who are speaking out.

coming just before the sentencing hearing for larry nassar, which is due to take place in michigan over the next couple of days, are likely to ask until —— last until the end of the week. there could be 80 people giving evidence. some of them in the form of written statements. larry nassar has already of course been sentenced to 60 years in jail, as you mention. that was for child pornography charges. if found guilty of these sexual molestation offences, he could be spending the rest of his life in prison. usa gymnastics has given a statement saying the organisation is absolutely heartbroken and sorry and angry. there are all kinds of questions for the authorities, aren't there? there are, and a lot of these athletes have held usa gymnastics culpable. ditto michigan state

university where larry nasa —— larry nassar had his sports medicine practice. these are allegations which first surfaced more than 20 yea rs which first surfaced more than 20 years ago. they were consistently either ignored or swept under the carpet and there has been a cry from several people involved in this for those people also to be at least brought to light and brought to justice so that this never is allowed to happen again. david, thank you very much indeed. police in california are saying they have rescued a family of 13 brothers and sisters being held against their will by their parents. some were changed to their beds. the parents have been charged with torture and child endangerment. the alarm was raised on sunday morning. one girl escaped and said her brothers and sisters were being held captive at their home south—east of los

angeles. some were shackled to their airand appeared angeles. some were shackled to their air and appeared malnourished, very dirty. the parents have been arrested. neighbours have reacted to it. wejust heard on facebook and on the news that this family hold their children captive in their house and chained them, some of their kids, to their beds. so it's just been really shocking knowing that they had 12 kids locked in their house. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. at least two people have died in venezuela in a police operation against a group linked to oscar perez. he's the police pilot who last year allegedly took a helicopter and fired at government buildings. earlier in the day, a video appeared on instagram of perez with blood on his face, saying the authorities had him surrounded and were shooting at him with grenade launchers. pope francis has arrived in the chilean capital, santiago, at the start of a week—long visit to chile and peru. the crowds are much smaller ij

iii? on the church has been undermined by revelations of sexual abuse by members of the clergy. the visit is seen as members of the clergy. the visit is seen as an members of the clergy. the visit is seen as an effort to bolster the church's standing. the harlot will be an open—air mass on tuesday. —— the highlight. a former guard at the auschwitz death camp, convicted of helping to kill 300,000 prisoners there, is requesting mercy from the german authorities in an attempt to avoid jail. 96—year—old oskar groening was sentenced to four years in prison in 2015, he became known as the ‘bookkeeper of auschwitz‘ for his role as an accountant, counting money collected from those killed. palestinian leaders have ordered the palestine liberation organisation to suspend its recognition of israel. at the end of a 2—day meeting, the plo central council said the status should be revoked until israel recognised the state of palestine, with its borders as they were in 1967, and reversed its decision to annex eastjerusalem, and expand settlements. the fate of the rohingya refugees

who fled violence in myanmar for bangladesh was discussed today by both governments. talks were held about the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of rohingya. meanwhile, the un high commissioner for refugees tells the bbc it can't support their resettlement unless it can monitor the refugees' return. the un is not even part of the talks. more than 500,000 rohingyas are now living in the world's largest refugee camp in bangladesh. the bbc‘s mishal husain is there too. in a camp where hundreds of refugees are still arriving every week, there's much to be done. new wells, new shelters all part of providing for growing numbers and preparing the camp for the monsoon rains. the more construction and expansion that takes place at this last camp, the more permanent it starts to feel. but at the same time,

the talk of repatriating refugees is causing deep alarm. after the circumstances in which they fled myanmar less than six months ago, who would really trust that things had changed enough for them to go home? that's because the destruction of their homes and villages continued even after myanmar said military operations had come to an end. these pictures were filmed by the bbc from the bangladeshi side of the border on 10 september last year, five days after the supposed ceasefire. this was your house? this is my house. that was also the day irfan lost everything. a father of four, he was a secondary school teacher back in myanmar and lived here with his extended family. and then who's that? that is my brother. the authorities told them they'd be safe, and then the soldiers came. translation: the military surrounded the whole area and they had weapons.

they opened fire as people were trying to leave. some escaped, but others were killed. my brother was at home that day, but he went out to check on his shop. he never came back. we don't know if he was burned alive. we still haven't heard anything. away from the main camp, another area is home to hindus from myanmar who were caught up in the violence. they've been identified as among the first to be repatriated. but even they are not ready to go without international protection. translation: if the united nations goes with us, the hindus, we hope we'll get security and be happy. if they are there, and we face any problems, the whole world will know about it. for now, it seems most likely that the children of these camps

will grow up here without a country to call their own. the un's access to their old home, rakhine state, is severely restricted. they too call for change and for the rohingya to be doubly recognised. —— to be properly recognised. at this stage, i think it is premature to talk about returns in large numbers until three conditions exist. number one, the issue of citizenship and legal identity must be addressed. number two, there has to be a safe and secure environment for refugees to return to. number three, reconstruction and the re—establishment of services must occur. services here are more organised. but it's a precarious existence. a community who've been marginalised and persecuted are now entirely dependent on aid, and on what others decide for theirfuture. stay with us on bbc news. still to come — we'll be talking to the california rescue crew that pulled this car out of an

upstairs room at the dentists. and about how it got there. day one of operation desert storm to force the iraqis out of kuwait has seen the most intense air attacks since the second world war. tobacco is america's oldest industry, and it's one of its biggest, but the industry is nervous of this report. this may tend to make people want to stop smoking cigarettes. there is not a street that is unaffected. huge parts of kobe were simply demolished as buildings crashed into one another. this woman said she'd been given no help and no advice by the authorities. she stood outside the ruins of her business. tens of thousands of black children in south africa have taken advantage of laws, passed by the country's new multiracial government, and enrolled at formerly white schools. tonight sees the 9,610th performance of her long—running play, the mousetrap.

when they heard of her death today, the management considered whether to cancel tonight's performance, but agatha christie would have been the last person to want such a thing. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: the four—time olympic champion gymnast, simone biles, says she was sexually abused by the former usa team doctor, larry nassar. officials from myanmar and bangladesh have had more talks about the returning rohingya refugees with the returning rohingya refugees with the un excluded from the talks at the un excluded from the talks at the moment, who say that it cannot approve the return unless un officials are allowed to monitor it. dolores o'riordan, lead singer of the irish rock band the cranberries, has died suddenly at the age of 46. she'd been involved in a recording session in london when she died. the cranberries formed in the 1980s,

had a string of hits and sold a0 million records around the world. our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba reports. # do you have to let it linger? # do you have to, do you have to? # do you have to let it linger? linger was the first song dolores o'riordan ever wrote with the cranberries. it turned her and the band into stars. # ijust want to be with you...# linger was about teenage rejection. # i'm such a fool for you...# folks, do me a favour. please welcome, and just in time for thanksgiving, the cranberries. their rapid success, particularly in america, soon saw the young singer—songwriter move on to weightier topics. # with their tanks and bombs...# zombie was a wrenchingly powerful protest song, written after two young children were killed by an ira bomb. # in your head...

# zombie, zombie, zombie...# last year, the band were ready to tour once more, but it was cut short by health problems. i've had health issues a lot in the last few years, but one of the worst things was i had a disc problem in my back, and i had stopped playing guitar. today, the irish prime minister said, for anyone who grew up in ireland in the 1990s, dolores o'riordan was the voice of a generation. # you got me wrapped around yourfinger...# a generation tonight mourning the loss of one of music's great talents. # do you have to — do you have to? # do you have to let it linger?# earlier, i spoke to stephen thomas erlewine, a musicjournalist who writes for tivo and rolling stone among others. he said the news of the sudden death of dolores o'riordan had taken the music industry by surprise.

it's a shock. i mean, at a6, she's way too young to go, and even though it was mentioned that she's had some health problems, it's still quite a surprise. and it also is pretty sad because the cranberries had reunited, and they had started to — on this tour, and it feels like she still had a lot left to give. i think you — i mean, you will know, i think it was nick kent who said, rock ‘n' roll — we pay these people to go to hell, so that we don't have to. i mean, she really went through it. she really did, and you could always tell that in her voice. that was something that always struck me about dolores's voice, is that it's really powerful even in its quietest moments. there is a real sense of being tough and defiant, and it gave the softer songs, like linger, a little bit of a spine that you might not expect. it also brought some vulnerability into something like zombie, which was a wrenching protest song. and that vulnerability and power

is absolutely there in her stage presence, as well, isn't it? absolutely, she was a commanding presence. the rest of the cranberries, they sort of would fade into the background, because she was such a forceful presence at the front of the band. there must always be some kind of bargain, i suppose, when she had had, and was having, such a tough time. how much do you think she drew from that? how much do you think itjust damaged her beyond repair? i think she — based on the art, she drew from it. because the art was always personal, even when she was trying to do political statements, which was a fair amount of the time. it felt like it was something that really affected her deeply and personally. so, to me, it always seemed like she drew sustenance from it. and unfortunately, she had to go through that to make the art that she did.

i guess there would be quite a few people now who don't know the cranberries, don't know her. how much of the music do you think will live? i think for sure the first two albums, that were produced by stephen street, they are the ones that have dream, linger, zombie. that's a type of song that didn't belong to any country. they were popular throughout the world, because you couldn't quite define them. they stood outside of time and space a little bit. and there are some interesting people now, aren't there, talking about her impact, and the band's impact on them. yes, i have noticed there was a big outpouring from peers, like liz phair, dave davies of the kinks, who mentioned he was going to write songs for her. and it seemed like she still had a lot to offer. rachael denhollander was the first person to speak up about dr larry nassar. she was abused when she was a 15—year—old gymnast and has now gone on to be a lawyer.

thank you very much for talking to us. thank you very much for talking to us. really appreciate your time. i know you're going to be a hearing coming up. what you expect from that hearing? i think it is going to be a really emotional hearing. 90 survivors will give impact statements. i expect it to be difficult. i expected to be very free for the truth to be heard and for survivors to raise their voices ina for survivors to raise their voices in a context where they are being believed will be very powerful. you we re believed will be very powerful. you were the first whistleblower on all of this and you have been through it as an athlete, as a victim at 15, a survivor and our lawyer. what is your take on the whole thing?m shines a light on a broader cultural problem that we have. the reason larry nassar‘s story came to light was because the indianapolis star did and expose on the united states

association of gymnastics, just abhorrent behaviour in handling these allegations. it came out in criminal trials that usag had a policy of literally burying reports of sexual assault against member coaches, putting them in a file cabinet and it came out that they had buried 5a files on coaches accused of sexual assault within a ten year period. when you see the number of victims coming forward with larry nassar‘s investigation what you are seeing is a drop in the bucket and this in terms of a cultural problem at usag. what impact do you think it will have that simone biles has decided to talk about this? i really hope that it will draw attention again to the broader cultural problem. larry nassar is a symptom of the problem. the fact that so many of the genus have suffered horrific sexual abuse at his hands is because of the policies that usag have, creating an environment safe for predators to

prey on little girls and even on their most premier athletes. when you have an organisation that has a tone of not reporting allegations of sexual abuse and that literally buries reports in a file cabinet and go so faras buries reports in a file cabinet and go so far as to defend the practice of burying these reports in under oath testimony in criminal trials, you know, you create a perfect dynamic for sexual predators. and thatis dynamic for sexual predators. and that is what you see with usag with larry and other coaches. just briefly because you are a lawyer and i know that we cannot accuse people who are not here to speak for themselves, it sounds clearly as if you expect to see other people in the dock at some point. these are genus who have come forward. for example, there was... this came to light because a usag certified coach named william mccabe was prosecuted for sexually abusing genus and in his trial it was revealed usag had a file about two inches thick with reports of out william and the

president of usag at the time was called to give an under oath to position and was questioned about usag policy and the fact that they have this file on william mccabe and did not report it and the director's response in his under oath testimony on public record was that they have the policy because they wanted to" avoid a witch—hunt" and so this is a matter of public record that has been supported by numerous victims that usag responded to publicly and they have defended that policy. thank you so much for talking to us. a lot of tough stories around — something light for a moment. astonishing new footage has emerged of the moment a car flew across a road and smashed into a building in california. the vehicle was travelling at high speed, and narrowly avoided a bus. amazingly, no—one was seriously injured in the incident, which happened in the city of santa ana. the bbc‘s tim allman reports. it is around 5:25am in the morning. the streets are practically deserted, and this bus is driving northbound on 17th street.

it is approaching the junction with french street, when this happens. "what was that?" you may ask. well, let's look at it again, this time slowed down. that is a white, five—door sedan, flying across the street and burying itself in the top floor of a dental office. we can see it again from a different angle — the car, travelling at speed, hitting the central reservation, and shooting into the air. this was the scene afterwards. nearly 1.5 tons of popular family motoring, wedged into a two—story building. the two people on board, driver and passenger, suffered only minor injuries, and the local fire department, not having much experience with flying cars, had to call in specialist equipment to remove the vehicle. police say this was a misdemeanour, and no further legal action is expected. officers believe the driver took narcotics. so high in a chemical sense, then high, quite literally. larry kurtz is from the orange county fire authority,

and he told me this was a whole new experience for him. mike, i've been in this agency for 28 years, and this is a first. a lot of times we come across cars that have collided into buildings. normally they enter in on the first floor, not the second. this was a new one for us. so what did you think, when you see this footage, and then when you saw the scene, what were you thinking? well, when we arrived on scene, we received a notification that, ok, vehicle into a building. and then you see "vehicle into the second floor ofa building." well, that changes things a little bit. the number one thing on our minds, obviously, is the safety of the people in the building and the safety of the people in the car. it turns out that the driver of the car was actually able to exit the vehicle. he dropped down to the ground, you know. law enforcement was able to catch up with him quickly. the passenger of the car

was still in the vehicle. firefighters actually entered into the building, and i'm sure you have some additional photos there of the inside of the building, when the car was inside. they were able to tie it to the studs, the internal walls, load—bearing walls, and sort of tie the car into that second floor. after that, we were able to remove the passenger of the car, who had moved to the back seat of the car for some reason. after that, we needed to call our friends from los angeles, our northern neighbours. they have a specialised crane that they could use to help us extract the car from the second floor. as i said, this is something that is highly unusual, something usually reserved for action movies at the theatre, but not something you normally see in real life. that's it. thanks for watching. hello there.

i think some people might welcome the change to the weather this week from what we had last week — grey, damp, drizzly conditions. this week, it is looking colder. certainly we're getting our air sourced from the arctic, from greenland. it's going to bring strong winds, sunshine, and showers. some of these showers will continue to be quite frequent, as they will be through the course of the night, and early on into tuesday. with snow falling over the higher ground of the north, even some wintriness down to lower levels. to the south, largely of rain. on tuesday itself, looking colder than it has been. windy, as well, and there will be a mixture of sunshine and showers. some of these will be heavy and frequent, most of them in the north and the west of the uk. watch out for ice first thing, as well, across parts of scotland, northern ireland, and into north—west england. there'll be accumulating snow on the hills. some wintriness down to lower levels. add on the wind, it's going to be quite a wild morning. there could be some ice, as well, across parts of northern and western wales. but i think, to the south of here, these showers should be mainly of rain, just maybe a little bit of wintriness over

the very highest hills. but, for east anglia into the east midlands and the south—east, a largely dry start. but chilly wherever you are, if you factor in that wind. and then, throughout the day, it's going to be a blustery one. west or north—west winds will be touching gale—force in exposure, blowing in plenty of showers, as you can see here, most of them in the north and the west. snow, maybe even blizzard conditions, with accumulating snow over the higher ground in the north. if you factor in the wind, it's going to feel more like sub—zero in that wind across central and northern areas, but at least some places will have the sunshine to compensate. on wednesday, fewer showers. they will be most frequent across the north and north—west corner of the country. again, accumulating snow over the hills, wintry down to lower levels, and some good, lengthy spells of sunshine for parts of england and wales. temperatures of 3—7 degrees. now, things get quite interesting as we head into the middle of the week. we look out to the atlantic to the next area of low pressure. it looks like it's going to be a deepening area of low pressure, and could bring a significant spell of gales, maybe even severe gales, to england and wales.

and to its northern flank, in the cold air, we could see some significant snow through central southern scotland. so either where you get the gales or the snow in the north, it's likely there could be some disruption possible to this system, so keep tuned to your bbc local radio. but the good news is it will hurtle through quite quickly, and in fact, for thursday morning, those winds will have died down, the snow will have eased away. not a bad day for many central, southern, and eastern areas. plenty of sunshine, further blustery showers across the north and the west. and things look like they've calmed down slightly as we head on in towards the end of the week and into the weekend, but remaining on the cold side. this is bbc news. the headlines — the a—time olympic champion gymnast, simone biles, has said she too was sexually abused by the former usa team doctor, larry nassar. he was jailed last month for possessing child pornography and is awaiting sentencing for assaulting other female gymnasts under the guise of treatment. the un high commissioner for refugees has told the bbc he cannot support the return of rohingya muslims who fled violence in myanmar unless un

officials can monitor the return. more than 500,000 rohingya are now living in bangladesh in what's become the world's biggest refugee camp. dolores o'riordan, lead singer with the irish rock band the cranberries, has died suddenly at the age ofjust 46. she was in london for a recording session and police say they are treating her death as unexplained. ireland's president said her passing is a big loss to all those who follow irish music. the ukip leader, henry bolton, says he's ended his relationship with his girlfriend after she made offensive remarks