news live from her lead a horrifying discovery in southern california police find thirteen siblings held captive in this suburban home. in chains they have charged the parents with torture and we will go live to los angeles for more on also coming up pope francis on a difficult visit in chile the pontiff faces a catholic church there bleeding followers after a wave of sex abuse scandals involving creeks. and swaying the skeptics the social

democratic party leader is on a mission to win over grassroots members of the idea of a grand coalition with angela merkel's conservatives and. an end to months of political uncertainty. welcome to the program thanks for joining us. we begin with a horror story from california where police say they have freed thirteen siblings who were allegedly imprisoned by their parents police say that they were alerted by and a mesa gaited seventeen year old girl who managed to escape when officers entered the home of the city of paris they found some of her sisters and brothers shackled to their beds with chains and padlocks the victims range in age from two years to twenty nine the parents have been jailed on targets of torture and child

endangerment. now one neighbor saw police leading the family out of the house after they were freed and she described the scene to local media they were all in pj's because it was early in the morning. they were very very pale skinned like almost like they've never seen the sign but i've seen a couple older ones and they all them and it was mostly girls and then kind of small framed kind of tiny almost looked a little mounted tertian and and for more let's head to los angeles now where valentino martelly is standing by she is a freelance journalist there valentino welcome to you what more do we know about the details of this case what have the authorities said. well this is one of those discoveries that stand both out or it is a neighbor and this is have been a very small suburban riverside county neighborhood that is

a little over an hour southeast of those angeles out there if you have not released any new details so far so what do we know well you said it already but thirteen brother and sister from two to twenty nine who appear to have been held captive by their parry parents in paris hours were found after one of them and scape and call nine one one the call came early morning of sunday a teenage girl was on the line with an unsettling tale as she said this is recorded by of course the nine one one call the shots managed to escape from earth family's home where her parents have been holding her captive or brother and sister were still locked inside twelve of them some somewhere where chained to their bad of course riverside county police there but you were dispatched to find this seventeen years old girl when they saw her they were struck by her small size and him and stated here in this she looked like she was only ten according to the sheriff

account released monday the parents. turpin and luis and turpin fifty seven and forty nine where arrested on suspicion of nine counts of turd chair and ten counts of child endangerment and bales of been set that nine million each and do we know anything more about you know how the children are being treated right now i presume they must be in some sort of special care. yes the children were starving and the deputy fed them they are now with a social service the children that are under a certain age but please remember that most of them are adults and therefore there have been put in temporary housing while you know the outward these are trying to find a little bit more about this story the story that is all refined and full of horrible allegation that it's are in conference for instance with the turpin parents face

will join page where there are several dozen fault a graph posted this show smiling favorably evident fine in places such as these new and las vegas valentino martelly freelance journalist in los angeles with the latest on this absolutely horrifying stories as those details emerge there and we thank you so much for your reporting thank you. but i want to turn to some other news now because pope francis has arrived in chile for what promises to be a difficult visit the pontiff received a warm welcome from tulane president michel back to let and thousands of supporters on the streets of santiago but francis has come under fire from chileans outraged over the long time cover up of a priest sex abuse scandal that controversy and the catholic church church's position on social issues have pushed many to lay ins to abandon their faith.

chilean police had to yank this protested down from an overhand road sign. elsewhere a crowd of activists full gay and transgender rights also demonstrators this is the pope's twenty second overseas trip but it's here on his native continent that he's met the most hostility yet at just thirty six percent trust in the catholic church in chile is the lowest unless an american. model and it's not a lot of us have been catholics we were part of the church however we feel we belong down by the roman curia in the sense that it is an abusive discriminate tree and intolerant church didn't hear. much of the resentment stems from the so-called kind of demon abuse case for more than a decade local church leaders ignored complaints against the highly influential financial cut a demon a priest accused of molesting children it was only when the victims went public

that the vatican investigate the affair and in two thousand and eleven was found guilty. while pope francis has made clear that he's zero tolerance for abuse his appointment of one of kind of demons proteges one battles as the bishop of also no incident she like has reopened old wounds. let's get a quick check now some other stories that have been making news around the world at least nine construction workers have been killed when half of an unfinished bridge collapsed in central colombia the deck and a supporting tower tumbled nearly three hundred meters into a canyon the bridge was part of a major new highway due to open in march an investigation into the cause has begun . libya's coast guard has rescued around four hundred migrants stranded in several locations off of its coast in the mediterranean sea they had placed distress calls after claiming to experience engine trouble libya is one of the key routes for

middle eastern and african migrants trying to enter europe illegally palestinian leaders have voted to call for the suspension of recognition of israel the palestinian central council says that it will no longer it here two existing agreements with israel including the oslo peace accords the meeting came in response to u.s. president donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital. nearly fifteen thousand people have fled from villages around the philippines most active volcano as it spewed lava and ash scientists warn that a hazardous explosive eruption could happen at any time mt mannion had been increasingly restive since saturday prompting officials to issue of accusation warnings german social democratic leader martin schultz is looking to win over the party's grass roots to the idea of another grand coalition with angela merkel's conservatives the rank and file must grant their approval to enter talks around

forming a new government at a party summit on sunday but schultz faces a hard sell with skeptics saying that it betrays social democratic values so he has traveled to the party's heartland an effort to win their support. welcome to dark historically a bastion of the social democrats but many have lost their appetite for a grand coalition saying the party's losing sight of its aims these are. these are the paths of social justice is over and i can see that it's now more about careers and clinging on to seats. while this diner selling coffee voiced as the daily denmark's in short selling the exploratory talks as a success but it's not easy to convince party members to support a new coalition especially here in north rhine-westphalia. we've clarified many things there were lots of question as our members really welcomed the discussion

and i think there was a lot of reflection. and i think. that many still think the s.p.d. is making too many concessions even after the talks the parties seem split off as if the issues of citizens insurance work contracts reform and raising the top income tax rate is all missing from the current blueprint these are key s.p.v. issues so i don't know if members will be convinced. yet. many say it's important to take on the responsibility of government but others say the conservative bloc will damage the s.p.p. in government is a right now we need to weigh up the options and that's a serious and difficult process the party's national representatives will decide on sunday whether to open formal coalition talks north rhine-westphalia will contribute to more than a quarter of the votes. and for more we have joining us now in the studio on a chairwoman of the young socialist within the s.p.d. party in berlin welcome to you good morning good morning how do you feel about

a repeat of the broad coalition i am totally against a repeat of the grand also of all the young socialists in the social democratic parties are totally against the we fear that the future of our party is at stake but not only in. that that germany can take former members and what does that mean for the head of your party martin. that's what i'm feeling right now actually yes that there is a big disconnect and i really don't understand where the leaders of the social democratic party supports these results so much i understand that they have negotiated very hard was a c.d.u. but looking at those results there there's no social democratic handwriting and if my kids wants to connect himself and his faith in the party was these results in south christian of coalition on not maybe in this case he's not the right one for for leading the party at the moment because we don't fear new elections and we also

don't fear changing majorities and the palm and i think i'm in a minority coalition can also be an option would be very good for a democracy and we need people who are up for that and we need people who really fight for the social democratic values ok so we're talking here about the good of your party right just generally speaking i want to talk about the good of the country right now though because you know if we look at the international context what it leaders for example are to turn to the leader of france a manual. in the e.u. commission brussels many other players in the world they really want to stable german government what would you say to them that we want a social europe we want a social germany we want strong workers' rights for example we want a penny in politics in germany that is good for the people here because many people fear to be poor when they're when they're getting older also we want the end of the austerity politics and if we look at what is happening now is a grand coalition we can see that so this government is also not going to be good

for you pin partners so i would call at our european partners to trust us and also to fight together for a strong and socially europe and for coalition options and governments which support these ideas and i don't see that the c.d.u. . it's doing any of that looking at their refugee politics looking at what they're doing with their us territory politics to greece for example and i think that we can support that and tech can't take that any longer well thank you so much this morning for coming on the program to share your views on a closer chair one of the chairwoman of the young socialists within the s.p.d. party here in berlin we appreciate it. threats and outrage coming from turkey aimed at plans for a u.s. backed security force along turkey southern border with syria and iraq the force would defend territory held by syrian democratic forces which are led by kurdish fighters but turkey's president of type regards the kurds as terrorists and is vowed to quote drown the force of forts or. syrian

government forces fire on rebel fighters in aleppo this some verified footage was posted online by the syrian government the syrian observatory for human rights say the army has captured dozens of villages in the past three days and is closing in on rebel forces further north turkey has threatened to attack the kurdish held town of a free monitoring group say shelling has already begun ankara had been hoping for washington support instead of fresh conflict is brewing between the countries the us led coalition says it is setting up a thirty thousand strong security force to inhibit the activities of the so-called islamic state along the borders with turkey and iraq these areas are controlled by the syrian democratic forces a u.s. backed militia alliance led by syrian kurds but turkey regards the kurds as terrorists and does not want them controlling territory along its border turkish

president rich type aired one accuse the us of acting against turkish interests should the article. how the u.s. has acknowledged it has a stablished an army of terror along our country's border. it's up to us to drown this army of terror before it's born. the syrian government and its key ally russia also denounced the coalition's plans at a news conference in moscow russian foreign minister sergey lavrov warned the move could lead to syria's partition. even if we take into consideration that i yes hasn't been completely destroyed as the americans say because some groups still remain. in the current us actions shows that they don't want to maintain syria's territorial integrity. super cute. to do that and it's almost musudan despite being on opposing sides russia and turkey

have recently supported each other in a bid to bring peace to syria it's unclear how to he's threats against a free might affect that cooperation in the future. next up we are heading to the united states with monica jones and the detroit motor show andy to we asked sara and of course twenty seventeen was a difficulty a of a car dealers in the u.s. with dwindling sales especially when handling german brands why the focus on diesel scandal still weighed on consumer sentiment and donald trump's attack on german com makers accusing them of unfair trading practices didn't help either but you won't find to do and gloom of the north american international auto show in detroit quite the contrary. the phenomena reports. the automobile industry is all about salesmanship some people want to buy the feeling of independence and getting away from it all of us want speed technical innovation or simply an affordable ride

in detroit germany's comic us demonstrate optimism that they can cater to any perceivable need and a clearly back on the road to success. this is a huge market seventeen million cars were sold in two thousand and seventeen and we are quite proud that we could increase our market share in two thousand and seventeen the germans got some unexpected headwinds from washington president donald trump accused them of exporting too many cars to the u.s. and threatens to punish them with tariffs but a concerted information culture offensive seems to have had some success recently as the attacks from the white house abated i think people in washington have in the last twelve months learned more and more that we are not only selling cars here but that we are also producing lots of cars in the united states one of the best examples for this is b.m.w. the company explicitly criticized by trump for being too successful the company has

defended itself by pointing out that its biggest car plant worldwide is actually in the u.s. and that b.m.w. is securing tens of thousands of american jobs not only in its own facilities. also at its suppliers internally we called the u.s. our second home some problems of german automakers in the u.s. were of their own doing the image of german engineering took a hit when folks bargain cheated on diesel emissions tests but after it paid billions in fines and wholeheartedly apologized he was bio seem to be giving v.w. a second chance to fact folks bargain was one of the few car companies to report higher sales last year. so it's a wonderful time to restore this brand to its old glory over a time the optimism is also high quality and innovation will prevail says one of the company's leading engineers if you look at the altar industry these days it's

always the germans who make the next big step forward an assessment confirmed by strong sales figures by professional service from one of america's then in the german auto industry in general in terms of people's perception i mean people are still buying porsches people still buy and b.m.w. and mercedes benz is and they still think they're great cars and with the economy booming unemployment low and donald trump's recent tax reform handing money to corporations and high end customers alike german com makers are expecting another year of growing profits in the us. to asia now welcome bodie and china have signed deals worth billions that will mainly improve infrastructure but a lot off the chinese money is already flowing into the province containing the country's beach boom town and many of the locals there less than thrilled at the results. they have big plans here up to ten thousand factories are supposed to be

built and the province of see how that's according to a master plan laid out by the company government construction has already started with investments from china the region could become one of us most important economic. centers the whole project is inspired by the industrial zones in thailand's eastern economic corridor. for the future it's a good thing a lot of investment is coming here a lot of knowledge a lot of shops and a lot of tourists growing numbers of chinese visitors have to cover at the nearby beaches also very popular casinos new ones seem to open up at every corner. really is a little i know a lot of chinese have come here to invest their money and build hotels and restaurants i think the fact that many of the new businesses are chinese operated is really important in helping to attract more and more chinese tourists to come here because it feels like home ok. it doesn't feel like home

for many of the local slow they feel pushed out of their own city. now tonight now that the chinese have come it's difficult to find new places to rent both for business and for living like you to tell you about and. you know to do just that. several restaurants and stores have recently lost their rental agreements at the most popular beaches they were asked to move out to make room for a large investor with roots in both in china. and i can't play the piano but i love music and if you like than sarah my tough just the right story for you yeah it's a music documentary in fact monica check this out because this is a new documentary film it's made by d.w. in cooperation with the ram a phone. about russian pianists and you're out treif and off the film follows this

extraordinary musicians were her saying to shop on concertos with the mahler chamber orchestra and it is all about the music have a listen. in the spring of twenty seven the german industrial city dawn is the setting for a special musical encounter. it's the first time pianist don united front and the munger chamber orchestra record both from frederic chopin's to me you know in terms with the new orchestration. because you know responsible for the arrangement is also wielding the paternal. doing vocal peds again why is the sisterhood. technically perfect soonest since i like to have i. guess it's fifty to of icebox. it's about i knew was tired and there's and that has less money is a technician is item often does my double as much as does most other one.

the man on the stage he stable to his feeling for all the. sounding material from the hearts of people while instant the few. downy on twitter and off was born in one thousand nine hundred one in russia at the age of five he starts playing the piano he studies in moscow and the united states question off wins numerous piano competitions and has already released five albums his latest release is devoted to. that is it doesn't have a fixed q it's like every node. goes to the new for me is it. different off lives in new york that he spends much of his time traveling the world

he performs about one hundred sixty concerts a year. but we get our sports news on a somber note now because four time olympic champion simone biles says that she was sexually abused by the former team usa gymnastics orts dr larry nasser the american artistic gymnast and star of the twenty sixteen rio games for least an emotional statement on twitter saying that she is quote not afraid to tell her story anymore in december nasser was jailed for sixty years for possessing child sex abuse images

and will be sentenced this month over two cases in which he admits assaulting female gymnasts more than one hundred thirty women have filed civil lawsuits against him alleging abuse. now you may think that a country needs a lot of snow or ice to breed winter olympic champions ahead of next month's games in south korea but in the case of britain they have become powerhouses in women's skeleton bob despite lacking a supposedly crucial ingredient to success. this is as close to ice as british pubs lay in skeleton athletes getting their own country great britain doesn't have a single ice track so the pros have to make do with this dry push start track but it hasn't stopped them from winning medals great britain has won gold in skeleton and each of the last two a lympics and hopes are high that they can add another to the collection in pyongyang much of that depends on the performance of reigning olympic skeleton champion lizzy yarnold she says team spirit builds up at the

training center at bath university is key to their success. teams hate and please come and train with each other and encourage each other and it just it is hiding from. one of the people behind results. he's helped write the country's surprise success story. we. achieved. a vision. of. peace from both the. what you can see below winning olympic medals despite the lack of an ice truck has been an extraordinary achievement next month team great britain will be hoping to rights to go again. a quick reminder now the top stories that we have been following for. allegedly kept captive by

their parents a seventeen year old girl who managed to escape alerted. the parents have been jailed. and child. pope francis has arrived for his first visit to. pressure to confront. the catholic church of a long time cover up which has contributed. for watching.

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