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last year, a devastating fire at a guatemalan children's home left 41 teenage girls dead and 15 with life changing injuries. the tragedy revealed a terrifying tale of mistreatment at the home. guatemala is one of the most murderous nations on earth. as you can see, there is a pretty large police presence here and that is because we are here. for parents, state care for their children is often a desperate last resort. this area is very familiar for you.

stephanie arriaga has spent many hours here in guatemala city's general cemetery. how old was kimberly? kimberley died in the flames at the virgen de la asuncion children's home on march eight, 2017. in a nation used to tragic events, the fire shocked guatemalans.

after a failed mass escape, 56 teenage girls had been locked into a classroom overnight by police. in an attempt to force the officers to let them out, one of them started a fire. the door was not unlocked until it was too late for too many. no one took charge. so stephanie founded a charity that helps families waiting outside the morgue for news of their daughters. so, you were here for 15 days? the children's home, that is now closed. guatemala has 5000 children in care, and this was the largest government facility. this is our guide.

she left the home before the fire but as a teenager, she lived here for more than a year. looks like a prison. doesn't look like a children's home. and how do you feel being back here? whoa. a tower with a guard.

it was built to house 400 children, but on the day of the fire, 600 were living here. now it is empty. we are not allowed inside. all you can see inside is some corrugated iron fencing that has obviously been put around the room where the girls died. that's about, i don't know, maybe 30 or a0 metres from this main gate. you can't see anything else. she came here because she was an orphan, but there are also boys and girls with disabilities, gang members, victims of sexual abuse, and children whose parents werejust too poor to keep

them at home. many of the children were desperate to get out. escapes happened often. in one 18—month period, more than 200 attempts were reported. some of the runaways were never found. why did the kids try and escape so often? because we understand that it happened a lot. at midnight! what was that?

how many days? it must have been terrifying. when the home closed after the fire, other institutions stepped in to help. some of the former residents went to this refuge, a charity running children's homes.

lionel is the director, and promotes a therapeutic environment. a stark contrast to the stories we've heard about the virgen de la asuncion. the girls are going to show us around the home now. just 28 girls live here — all survivors of sexual abuse. lionel is a well—known campaigner for child protection reform in guatemala. he had inside information about conditions in the virgen de la asuncion home. 50!

you were telling them what was happening in the home. and what were the authorities telling you? eight officials are in prison facing charges, including culpable homicide. but 15 months on, no one has been convicted. the streets of guatemala city are often terrorised by violent gangs. the most troubled areas are known

as zona rojas, red zones. we are meeting this couple in one of them, zone 18. here she is. 0k. they placed their daughter ashley in the home, and she perished in the fire. ashley was 14 when she died. i imagine that it costs you to look at that. tell me a little bit about why ashley was in the home.

for her, there were no options. she believed the only way she could protect her child was to put her in care. she takes us on a tour of the deceptively peaceful looking neighbourhood where ashley grew up. they do come now, but they sell their wares

from the safety of their vans. this is a potato chips lorry and he's got an armed guard with him. in areas like this, where the state's so often absent, the pressures on young people to get involved with gangs are immense. her own personal history made her acutely aware of the choices facing ashley. after the fire, more than 200 children living at the virgen de la asuncion children's home were sent back to their parents, many in marginalised neighbourhoods. in this brigt sunlight, the red zones, the zona rojas, the quite dangerous parts of guatemala city feel quite benign. but we have been told story after

story of killings in these streets. we know that at least three adolescents who were returned to their families after the fire were assassinated in their own communities. it's grim. insecure at home with their families, often unsafe in children's homes, the safety net for people in guatemala is practically non—existent. we tracked down a teenager who escaped from the children's home six months before the fire. elizabeth, as we will call her, doesn't want to be identified. she now lives on the streets of guatemala city and comes here every day to a charity helping homeless youngsters. she spent four years in the virgen de la asuncion. in 2016, she succeeded

in getting away. but how do you keep safe on the streets, because the streets of guatemala, they are not a safe place for a young woman, are they? and if there are risks on guatemala's mean streets, elizabeth dulls her fears by sniffing glue. as night falls, we visit the city's central park.

elizabeth sleeps here and we wonder how many more former residents of the virgen de la asuncion children's home we might find. 0k, adios. what we have been told is there are quite a lot of kids who are living here on the streets, who also escaped from virgen de la asuncion and, like elizabeth, it is too dangerous for them to go home and this is the only option. there is a very strong smell of glue. it is a cheap, nasty drug and does lasting damage. somebody has got a baby there. she looks very young, the mum. he is too high to make much sense but, like elizabeth,

this 17—year—old chose the streets of guatemala city over the virgen de la asuncion. and on the 7th of march last year, the day before the tragic fire, more than 100 boys and girls, also desperate to leave this notorious children's home, planned a mass escape. it was this that provoked the ultimately lethal response of the state. claudia was the guatemalan journalist who published testimony of the survivors of the fire. it was recorded while they were in hospital and described their capture. the recaptured youngsters were held

for hours outside the home. at around 1am on the 8th of march, they were taken back inside the home. bare mattresses were thrown into a classroom and 56 girls were locked inside by police officers. we still don't know who gave that order. nine minutes is what we have been told, nine minutes. nine long minutes. at the department of social welfare,

we visit the official responsible for guatemala's looked after children. when we meet him, he has been in his job three weeks. what responsibility does the department have for what happened at the children's home last year? as we understand it, there have been dozens of complaints against people working in the home, against the conditions there. why was it still open? the challenge to child protection reform is huge,

not least because of a national malaise — corruption. two of guatemala's former presidents arein prison on fraud charges, and nepotism, budget skimming and cash for contracts are all part of the virgen de la asuncion story. this girl, who lived here as a teenager, now has a job she likes and lives with extended family. but her experiences in this children's home have left their mark. how much time did you spend here? exactly.

hello again. well, it was another warm, muggy, humid day across much of england and wales and, although it started off pretty cloudy, we did get the cloud breaking up across eastern parts of england and it was a fine end to the day in cromer, in norfolk. as far as the temperature contrasts go, again, the warmest day was across eastern england — 26 degrees — the high 70s in terms of fahrenheit — compared with the cooler air we had across the north—west of the uk. the air coming from very different areas. the cool stuff coming from greenland, washing across scotland and, to a degree, northern ireland. the air from the subtropics into england and wales and that's why it felt humid. we have this bulge in the cloud that's working its way at the moment across the north of the uk and that is rain—bearing cloud. yes, we've got some wet weather to come for the first part of wednesday morning across northern ireland, although that rain will be easing with time. in scotland, a wet start to the day with some fairly heavy falls of rain first thing in the morning — there could be quite some large puddles out on the

roads first thing. wet weather also swinging southwards to reach cumbria and north lancashire as well. south and east of this, it's dry. a few spots of drizzle in south—west england. again, some mist and fog patches around the coast and hills. through wednesday, our weather front continues its journey southwards. see how it weakens and not much rain left on in as it grinds its way south. a few spots of rain left. to the south—east, warmer air hanging on and temperatures reaching mid— to perhaps high 20s, perhaps the best of the sunshine in south—east england. a fresher feel to the weather. temperatures between 12—16 degrees. heavy showers in the north—west of scotland and these showers through wednesday night will be sinking southwards. one or two into north—east england for a time. the wind strengthening a little. a much cooler night stop turning quite chilly in scotland, in rural areas. and even further south, a fresher feel to the weather. takes us into thursday, these north—westerly winds blowing right across the country, dropping the temperatures significantly across south—east england. not that it will be a cold day. it will still feel pleasant in the sunshine, for sure, but the temperatures instead of the high 20s,

around 21 degrees as the maximum towards the south—east. around 17 further north in edinburgh. about 15 in belfast. this little cool—down in the weather is not going to last. although it'll stay dry, temperatures building again through the weekend and into next week with the potential of getting some pretty hot weather. that's your latest forecast. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is mike embley. our top stories: deep divisions in the us congress, as president trump demands new laws to clamp down on immigration. this law has been broken for many years and decades. the us quits the united nations‘ human rights council, saying it's a "cesspool of political bias".

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