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 was sexually abused by the former us team doctor. growing up in the world's biggest refugee camp — we meet the rohingya children who fled violence in myanmar. # got me wrapped around yourfinger... 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 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 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. he's also been accused by other gymnasts of sexual abuse, has admitted 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 have said that nassar‘s 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. 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. she'll be at the sentencing hearing of dr nassar on tuesday. i asked her what her expectations are.

i think it's going to be a really difficult hearing. there are or of a 90 survivors giving their impact statements. i also expect it to be very freeing for the truth to be able to be heard and the survivors to be able to raise their voices in a context where they are being believed, it will be very powerful. you were the first whistleblower on all this. you have been right through it as an athlete. what is your take on the whole thing? it 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 an 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 10—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 is a symptom of the problem. the fact that so many gymnasts have suffered horrific sexual abuse at his hands is because of the policies that usag have, creating an environment where it was 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, that literally buries reports in a file cabinet and goes so far as to defend

the practice of burying these reports in under—oath testimony in criminal trials, you know, you really create a perfect dynamic for sexual predators. and that is precisely what you see with usag with larry and other elite coaches. just briefly, because you are a lawyer, and i know that we cannot accuse people who are not here to speak for themselves, but it sounds very clearly as if you expect to see other people in the dock at some point. these actually are gymnasts that have come forward. for example, there was... this came to light because a usag certified coach named william mccabe was prosecuted for sexually abusing gymnasts, and in his trial, it was revealed that usag had a file about two inches thick of reports of william and the president of usag at the time was called to give an under—oath deposition and was questioned about usag policy and the fact that they had 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 had 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 and that usag responded to publicly and they have defended that policy. rachael denhollander that, the first whistleblower. some tough words. usa gymnastics has given us a statement: it went on to say: and it also said: police in california are saying they've rescued a family of 13 brothers and sisters being held against their will by their parents. it's reported some were chained to their beds.

the parents have been charged with torture and child endangerment. the alarm was raised on sunday morning when one girl escaped and called the emergency services, claiming her brothers and sisters, ranging in age from 2 to 29, were being held captive at their home in the city of perris, south—east of los angeles. some were found shackled to their beds and appeared malnourished and very dirty. the parents, david and louise turpin, have been arrested. neighbours have reacted to the news. 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 started his visit to chile. thousands of people lined his route into santiago, but the crowds were much smaller than those seen on the pope's previous visits to latin america. the roman catholic church in chile has been undermined in recent years by revelations of sexual abuse by members of the clergy, and the pope's visit is seen as an effort to bolster the church's standing. the highlight of the visit will be an open—air mass in a park in santiago on tuesday. 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 has been discussed by both governments. more than 500,000 rohingyas are now living in the world's largest refugee camp in bangladesh. the aid agency unicef is calling it "a children's crisis" because of the large numbers of children who live in the camps. last september the bbc‘s justin rowlatt met one rohingya woman who crossed the border when she was heavily pregnant. he's been back to see how she and her new baby are. hey, hello. mohammed is 3.5 months old now.

hello, mohammed. hello. but right from birth, he's faced discrimination. the bangladeshi authorities won't issue birth certificates to rohingya babies, so, officially, mohammed does not exist. we first met his mother the day she escaped from myanmar. she was nine months pregnant. she told me how the myanmar army and local buddhists had attacked her village. but their troubles were far from over. guards moved her and herfamily on. they said there was land over the hill. but not enough for everyone. rishida's husband tried to stake out a plot, but was driven off by other refugees. her family had to sleep in the open, despite the rains.

finally, they found space to build a rickety shack. her baby was born on the soggy, muddy floor. translation: he was born right here. there was no midwife, no medicine, no mat, no wood to light a fire. it was so painful, but by god's grace, a girl from next door came and cut the umbilical chord and then i picked him up from the mud. that's how my baby came into this world. luckily, mohammed hasn't caught cholera or diphtheria, two of the deadly diseases that have broken out in the camps. but not having any official identity will be a real problem. it'll be hard for him to get into school, to register for services and may make getting back into myanmar even more difficult for his family. so, like the rest of the refugees, he will have to eke out an existence here in bangladesh, stateless, with just a shack for a home, denied even the dignity

of an official identity. justin rowlatt, bbc news. 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. we will explain quite 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. 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. dolores o'riordan # 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. stephen thomas erlewine there. in the political fights currently taking place in the us over immigration policy, we can lose sight of the impact they're having on people's lives. but it's quite apparent in washington state's pacific county.

the majority of people there voted for donald trump. but in 2017 the number of arrests and deportations in the community quadrupled, leaving some questioning the policies they're now bound to uphold. there are some republicans here who are delighted with what is going on, with the enforcement of immigration. but there are also a number of republicans who are feeling very distressed, and saying this isn't being done in the proper way. i consider myself very politically conservative. i thought it sounded great. i mean, you break the law by going, and then when you actually... for me, you think wait a minute, wait a minute. this year, what we have noticed is a lot of people who have been in our community for a number of years have been arrested and detained by ice. we are talking people who have been here sometimes ten, 12, even more years. so it's impacting the fisheries, the cannery workers, the cranberry bogs,

but even more so than that, i think people are just emotionally in turmoil, because they have seen people they have known for years, friends, acquaintances, neighbours, people that they have gone to church with, those kind of things, kids they went to school together, are just gone. they are taking the easy targets. i have been told people are just going to work for the day, and ice is there waiting for them when they arrive at work. and it's frustrating, because they have not yet been able to tell us the names of people that they are taking away, or any details. so sometimes we have had cases where maybe somebody is missing, and we don't know if they were taken by ice, or if they are actually a missing person. i have no problem whatsoever in seeing people who are committing crimes deported. since i have been the sheriff in the last seven years, i think they have only taken people about a half—dozen times from our jail facility.

the turning point for me was a guy that i have known for many years. it's easy to hear soundbites and say, yes, that is a great policy. it is different when you are implementing it and you start saying, wait a minute, this is actually affecting people's lives, and i didn't sign for this. second thoughts in pacific county. astonishing new footage has emerged of the moment a car flew across a road and smashed into a building in california. 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's 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. and the timing, i guess, quite possibly a factor in the state of the driver, but a major factor in nobody getting hurt in the building. it was lucky. yes, we were very, very lucky. you know, people can look at this, and we have received lots of very interesting comments on our twitter page and our facebook page, when people have seen photos of this. but the bottom line is that nobody was seriously injured. if this had happened at noon,

or 5:00pm in the afternoon, the outcome would have been, we think, far more tragic than what we've seen today. is it clear why the car actually took off in that way? well, the centre of the street, is a median that actually has a large mound of dirt that has been placed on it, i guess that has been placed there. the car had such a great rate of speed that, approaching it, the mound of dirt actually acted as a launch ramp for the car. and so we had a scene of something, as i said, you would see in some action movie. a car actually went through the air and landed into the second floor of the dentist's office. the owners of the building, who showed up, they were as shocked as we were about this. 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. now on bbc news, hardtalk.