this is the w.'s life from berlin the tops of politician gunned down in cost of a all about iran of their choice of prominent leader of ethnic serbs his murder bears the hallmarks of a political assassination triggering fears of renewed tensions between kosovo and serbia also on the program. thirteen brothers and sisters held captive some in chains in this suburban home in southern california police charged the parents with torture. and pope francis asked chilling to forgive the catholic church for a sex abuse scandal expresses his pain and shame over

a scandal that has turned many chileans away from their faith protesters joined crowds welcoming him to the capital santiago. i'm phil gayle welcome to the program. problems leader of ethnic serbs in kosovo has been gunned down in front of his political party's office in the city of mitrovica all of a lot of it just murder threatens to inflame ethnic tensions between serbia and its former province kosovo declared independence from serbia in two thousand and eight a decade after a war that killed thirteen thousand mainly ethnic albanians but belgrade has rejected the independence of casa but which is still views as its southern province serbian cause of an official so so far refrained from accusing each other being behind the killing but it's already cast a shadow over efforts to normalize relations between the two countries. assailants

unpinned fire on evanovich from a car as he arrived at his party headquarters in the serb controlled northern city of me true. he was rushed to hospital but doctors were unable to save him he had been hit at least five times in the chest the assassination occurred on the very day serbia and kosovo had resumed talks on normalizing ties after a break of more than a year this delegation immediately left the talks in brussels to return to belgrade delegation leader marco duration described ivanovich is killing as an act of terrorism. so to them to see this to believe its goal is to destabilize the situation in kosovo and the metal here especially in the north to provoke chaos and drag the whole of serbia into conflict. only if on of it was considered a moderate opposition politician in the ethnically divided town of meter viets

a he was known for backing dialogue with kosovo as ethnic albanians and he had his enemies a kosovo court convicted him of war crimes committed during the war for cost of an independence in the one nine hundred ninety s. that verdict was overturned and a retrial had been underway when he was killed in july by his car was set on fire serbian president alexander who change said his country must be included in the murder inquiry. be able to have a carried it out a serb and albanian a foreigner carried out an attack on the event of its family on the serbs in kosovo in the north of kosovo and on the serbs as a whole. you know sort of you would salute. predominantly ethnic albanian kosovo unilaterally declared independence from serbia in two thousand and eight serbia does not recognize its independence evanovich is

killing is likely to raise tensions between ethnic albanians and minority serbs in the region. w.'s frank hoffman has extensive experience of reporting from the balkans so welcome frank all of it out of it is killing me looks like an assassination what are authorities saying well the doctor came out after he treated all of a van of which this morning saying that he probably was already dead when he arrived at the hospital he was shot as you just mentioned with five bullets and he was probably already debt right after that he had no chance to the wife half an hour later after he was gunned down here right at the hospital and i must tell you this this is a shocking events because i believe one of which was a leading figure of peacemaking in the balkans and so what are people saying about suspects not so much yet but it's obvious this region is a very nationalistic stronghold of serbian nationalist north and nature of its own

and many experts are saying we have to go into in that direction during a war and allies and it's very much likely that serbian action was behind that as a nation tell us more about the man and all of a vision has significance in over the course of the book they are not so many serbs in kosovo that started to. give a hand to kosovo albanians a majority say the overall majority in kosovo after independence and after the war he was a pacemaker he was building bridges to britain i was even a member of the government of the cause of a government in the united nations rule after the war of one thousand nine hundred ninety nine so seems that war in one thousand nine hundred what have relations between cause of and serbia been like that not so much in the headlines now but very tough not very good relationships trips of course this is why these negotiations today that was scheduled that were scheduled today in brussels were so important it up with the first meeting of the one year. technical discussion group

negotiators from belgrade and from question well to mate in brussels to keep the process going. to move on again and to facilitate practical discussions practical issues for the daily life of people especially in the northern part of the city of middle of it so that it's divided between albanians and so now that he is dead what will that mean for those talks on for those on going negotiations about daily life look only two days ago the united states issued a travel vor and there were warning to go into north and middle bits of the serbian dominated part because obviously they fear that new tensions might raise especially after that as nation of today. thank you experiment for thirteen brothers and sisters thought to have been imprisoned by their own parents have been rescued from a house in california the victims ages range from two to twenty nine police say they were alerted by

a teenage daughter who managed to escape. authorities were shocked at what they found hidden in this quiet suburb describing emaciated captives in foul smelling surroundings with padlocks and shackles. neighbors described the family as reclusive the children nearly invisible. they were the type that you didn't really get to know anything about them they were very good themselves and if so scottish so they only kept to themselves. and the only time you would see him he would never see them and visit him you would never see anyone come outside all you have really seen is that. they go out maybe make a grocery run and that was about it. parents david and louise turpin were arrested after one of their children broke free and managed to find a cell phone to alert the police the couple are now prisoners themselves being charged with torture and child endangerment. but photos posted by the couple on

facebook in two thousand and sixteen portray a happy family. authorities will now be asking what went wrong. in the time we live and it's unfortunate to see that it's actually heartbreaking for the staff and. it's just it's unbelievable what you see. this thirteen children are now receiving treatment in hospital their parents are set to appear in court on thursday. john back from cairo next news radio in los angeles joins us on the line from the scene welcome to the topic or more we learned about the top and family. well we expect to learn a lot more on the news conference this morning i guess he used to be an engineer with an aerospace company and that their kids may have been home schooled but

neighbors are still reacting they can't believe that this happened in the neighborhood their capital and get to know this is an average middle class neighborhood and it's a bunch of new houses tract homes nice neighborhood nice and neat home used to be a model home it was one of the homes you go to when you go and look at by one of the houses there and the deputy said the conditions inside were deplorable when they got there thousand melling kids shackled to their bad and the neighbors can't believe this was going on under their noses and what about contact with the old farts is the council's police and social services you can't have thirteen children and nobody knows this well that's another good question the neighbors say they almost never saw them and they never saw all thirteen at the same time they see a couple here in a couple there but they also say they didn't know anything was was going on they didn't know anything was wrong so as one they were just put it to me

a few minutes because the interviewing neighbor who said how are we supposed to know what's going on behind closed doors we couldn't have known that. and this is as you say this is a middle class lady with this didn't happen in the middle of nowhere so aside from the the shock and surprise that it's happened i told i suppose people are wondering well could this be happening next door to me. right and that's what that's why did neighbors are so shocked it's like this in my neighborhood this neighborhood this is a nice neighborhood this doesn't happen here you know and people are raising the question how could no one have known this i had a pastor tell me people here don't even know their neighbors and he said we're in he said in his own neighborhood everybody knows each other and they watch out for each other but he says it's pretty typical that people don't even know who lives next door and they don't know the people at all and this is why stuff like this happens so bed next news radio los angeles thank you so much.

all right france's president emanuel macro has been addressing security forces in the northern french port city of cali he talks about migration policy including plans to create a better system for people entering the country the speech came days ahead of a meeting in britain to discuss border controls between the two countries earlier on this tuesday president micro visited a migrant center where he spoke with staff and asylum seekers he's promised to speed up the processing of asylum applications and to ensure that people were unsuccessful i dealt with more from the. pope francis has held his first public mass in front of hundreds of thousands in the tonight capital santiago it's his first official visit to the country amid a child sexual abuse scandal that's cast a cloud over his trip just before the mass francis asked for forgiveness for irreparable damage done to children who essentially insulted by priests in chile

the scandals greatly damaged the catholic church's image in the country several churches were firebombed in the days leading up to the pope's visit there. yes let's get moving from religious affairs correspondent to martin again to welcome and thank you this trip is being viewed as particularly important why well it's one more attempt by the vatican in the future of this pope to repair some of the relations and some of them it's done to its public image in latin america so in a way this spoke is the first one to visit the list since john paul the second visited it in nine hundred eighty seven essentially offering what was seen then correctly in my in my in my assumption as support for the region even given the knowledge of the mountain or for some knowledge for the amount of human rights violations so the vatican was seen by the latin american left by and large and she listened particular as a very close ally of very unsavory political figures i think the deceased the one

first trip into one of these areas which actually tries to mend that so so that is the the background to the church is the catholic church is status within chile and appalled that is this is that is the problem of sexual abuse and a bishop who was appointed by the pope who may have shielded an abuser absolutely so on top of these which is sort of the story called the heart of the story grievances in relation to the vatican and now we have also over the last ten years or so in latin america an increasing opening on the questions of sexual abuse this pope in particular has offered support to a bishop that was actually the assistant to the most infamous priest probably in the history mother and he sort of in terms of sexual abuse he was accused and it is said by some of his some of his victims or presumed big tim's that this be sure but it also had actually protected host of use or this is not quite clear this is not

gone through cards so the question really remains sort of open nonetheless it. clearly was a bit of a political misstep on the part of this pope. essentially but dressing somebody who came with this kind of credentials so pope francis in his speech expressed what he calls his pain and his shame over child sexual abuse scandals. how far is that going to go to address of the grievances of people have with the church itself not very far i mean this is sort of a gesture and i think that there are gestures of this pope that quite clearly have a lot of political impact their gestures of this pope that very often fall into the category of just being jesters i think that this in a sense if it's not accompanied by a serious attempt an overt attempt that can be seen by the population and reburying some of them it's done by all of the stories of sexual abuse including bringing this cases to justice with essential to be taken us just one more of the nice words that sometimes it's about taking

a first nonetheless it is worthwhile saying that the opening in that direction he's at least heartening. thank you a pleasure. as it you up tonight i'll have both you at the top of the hour in the meantime of course as always the website d w dot com i've been presumed it will be here in just a moment with your day's business update have a good. pizza in about today. it's all about this is in some ways. it's all about george chance to discover the world from different perspectives. join us to sponsored by distinctive instagram or others at g.w. stories on topics each week on instagram.