this is d.w. news live from berlin a top serb politician gunned down in kosovo serbia calls the murder an attack on the entire nation all over event of it was a prominent leader of ethnic serbs his death has triggered fears of renewed tensions between kosovo and serbia we'll talk to someone who knew him also coming up the children chained to their beds a disturbing find by police in southern california thirteen brothers and sisters held captive in this suburban home tonight the parents are charged with torture.

plus a tough lesson in life for a thousand danish teenagers it takes just moments to share a video online but if that video was considered child pornography there could be devastating consequences. it's good to have you with those we begin tonight with the shooting death of a politician that's being called an act of terror today all over a band of a prominent leader of ethnic serbs in kosovo was gunned down in front of his political party's office in the city of new tributes event of it is murder threatens to inflame ethnic tensions between serbia and its former province kosovo kosovo cleared independence from serbia in two thousand and eight. a decade after

a war that killed thirteen thousand mainly ethnic albanians but belgrade rejects independence for kosovo which it still views as its southern province of serbia and kosovo officials have so far refrained from accusing each other of being behind the killing but serbia's president says that the killing was an act of terrorist. assailants and been fired on evanovich from a car as he arrived at his party headquarters in this a controlled northern city of me to the he was rushed to hospital but don't because we're 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 tools in brussels to return to belgrade delegation leader. described the event of the cheese killing as an act of terrorism

. city in the city this the police goal is to destabilize the situation in kosovo and metohija especially in the north to provoke chaos and drag the home of serbia into conflict. who. always only ever if on of it was considered a moderate opposition politician in the ethnically divided town of me to the tsa he was known for backing dialogue with kosovo's ethnic albanians and he had his enemies of course of a 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 his car was set on fire. said he and president alexander who chief said his country must be included in the murder inquiry. who ever carried it out

a serb and albanian a foreigner carried out an attack on the event of each 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. now we'd like to bring in someone who knew mr oliver personally to sean is the head of the brussels office of the german institute for international and security affairs welcome to the show i want to talk a little bit about mr yvon of it and what you knew about him and maybe you could tell us why was he so significant in northern coast and what was it about him that

would have made him a lightning rod for this kind of attack. oliver iran always was an independent who was very outspoken although he was also pretty much like in his that to build the bridges between the various communities and to improve the political climate in the region he named people who were involved in all kinds of things so if there was someone who fought the culture of impunity which is a very corrupt touristic for most of the regions of former yugoslavia from one thousand negro for kosovo for serbia then it was him so i guess that the number of enemies in the political class that he made in the last two decades was quite significant. would you say that what we saw today was it an assassination is do you suspect who could have been behind it. i cannot suspect

anything because the information is no there for this but the whole assessing nation and it wasn't isis initially through months of very many other killings which happened in the last two decades in the region of formula southern in course it was well one has to remember that all they were had just about two weeks ago warrant that kosovo is in stable mostly because of the activities of organized crime groups which were told the right thing by the authorities and not only by the albanian authorities in priester and the serbian authorities in belgrade but as many critics say mostly overlooked by the international presence there by k for you lax and other international missions hooves prime concern was always to keep stability and avoid any risks for people around the world who are watching and want to know what is going on in that part of the world i mean talk to me a little bit about relations between kosovo and serbia today and how they've been

basically since one nine hundred eighty nine hundred ninety eight nine hundred ninety nine. you know both the kosovo albanians and the serbian authorities still consider their interaction as a zero sum game including the negotiations which are taking place in preached in the auspices of the european union it's about identity it's about serenity kosovo has not been recognized by two out of the five members of the un security council but china and russia and five of the states do not recognize kosovo as an independent state either so it's about who is going to make political games and the moment it looks as if the ambition of kosovo and all the supporters that it has in many western countries that it will become soon a generally accepted country also in the un is not going to be fulfilled so soon on the other hand belgrade these north you know very strong position through even

dream of reintegrating kosovo into serbia's constitution so they're fighting for inches you know and there has been no significant political improvement while the social economic situation poverty has increased. poorer than it was twenty years ago so for young people there are two options one is to emigrate very many do it because oil has lost about seven percent of its albanian population in the last two or three years or a number a significant number of people in the region there is join the organized crime syndicates and make a living out of drug smuggling in a similar release it is at that mr rutledge the head of the brussels office of the german institute for international in security affairs thank you very much for taking the time to talk with us tonight we appreciate your insights. here's

a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world bangladesh says it has agreed with me and more on a plan to repatriate more than six hundred fifty thousand muslim refugees to me in mar over the next two years the u.n. refugee agency warned that it is essential that the refugees only be returned voluntarily pope francis has held a public mass in front of hundreds of thousands in the chilean capitals on thiago he's asked them to forgive the catholic church for a sex abuse scandal that's turned many away from their faith the visit has sparked protests in santiago u.s. president drums former top aide steve bannon has been called to testify before a grand jury over alleged contacts with russian officials ahead of the twenty sixteen election that's according to the new york times earlier today lawmakers grilled ban in over the trunk campaigns potential ties to russia the kremlin has been accused of meddling in the twenty sixteen vote. a disturbing find inside

a southern california suburban home police say thirteen brothers and sisters were held captive by their own parents in filth and with a little food the children some on the verge of starving range in age from two to twenty nine police say they were alerted by one of the daughters who managed to escape and call for help. 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 to themselves in a sense childish so they only kept to themselves so 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 look really see 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 this it's actually heartbreaking for the staff and. it's just it's unbelievable what you see. the thirteen children are now receiving treatment in hospital their parents are set to appear in court on thursday. this is definitely

a bizarre story for more on it i'm joined now by john baird with kenyon x. news radio in los angeles he is on the scene john good afternoon to you tell me what more everybody able to learn about this family that the turpin family. well they've lived here since twenty four working with kind of a new development that the neighborhood looks good from the outside but i guess the house was extremely dirty and filthy they had the kids some of them still change at bats and furniture and you know our understanding is when the deputy filled up now think about this kids are changed furniture and they said the mom was perplexed she didn't understand why the authorities were there here's what one thing that was said by the officials at the news conference just a coincidence or don't you see if you can imagine when you have to go through a purely state or their children are so now you don't know. and they're not be

fighting and living in these. filthy dirty conditions. they set that these are you know the kids were ages from two to twenty nine there were seven adults they didn't look like adults because they were so malnourished ok so obviously this did not happen overnight so there's one hundred questions here how is it possible for so many children to be killed changed inside their home where these children are not going to school did the neighbors see nothing they were homeschooled apparently that's our understanding is they were home schools and the neighbors didn't notice anything out of the ordinary things that the family kept to themselves and it didn't really interact with the neighbors so they didn't know much about him once one of the neighbors said to me today how are we supposed to know what goes on behind closed doors well that's what that's what being a neighbor is about knocking on those doors what do we know anything is there any more to the story in terms of these children being homeschooled i mean was there

any religious affiliation that could have raised any flags. well they they told us at the news conference here they're still investigating but the basically the impression i got was that religion didn't play a role here although i'm also hearing that the parents of the father are sad that they were religious people so we don't know but at the news conference they indicated that did not seem to play a role but they don't know why the kids were being in the kept in the conditions like this or why the mother was perplexed that police would be knocking on the door all right john baird with k.n.x. newsradio in los angeles with more on that story tonight john thank you very much all right thank you. you're watching the w. news live from berlin still to come it takes just moments to share a video online but a thousand young people in denmark are finding out it could have devastating consequences when that video is child pornography. are going to

switch gears now and talk about the business world funny chars year with germany's biggest i.p.o. there you go brian thank you so much it is indeed germany's biggest i.p.o. in more than twenty years health in years to medical imaging and diagnostics division of siemens will soon receive a separate listing on the docks index the i.p.o. comes at a time when global markets all strong and it's likely to get healthier is funding for future takeovers in the health care sector and analysts expect house in years to be valued are on a forty billion euros siemens will offer as much the quarter stake in the form or about ten billion euros those shares for pay high dividends that's an attractive offer in a market that's already baked and getting the medical imaging market is estimated at their at more than forty fifty billion euros fatherhood annual growth of three

to five percent so twenty twenty one. now how about driving the belt all driver up talking about the latest creations by benefactors at the detroit motor show and analysts say the future is here regulars there say well not quite yet it carefully and responsibly review what's on offer so is technology getting ahead of itself there is more. it may not look like it but this could be the vision of the car industry future it's a so-called low in our system and creates a real time thirty minutes of anything it's aimed at it allows cars fitted with the system to cut out the middleman and take care of the driving themselves. with car manufacturers the world over betting big in the technology industry analysts say lawmakers need to remove regulatory roadblocks. it's not as vehicles are still under development but it's growing so fast and i think this is faster than any technology we've ever seen in the past we need to have the laws in place insurance and planes and all those infrastructure things as well because it's not just about

automaker technology. the sun is also continuing its focus on semi autonomous vehicles in detroit unveiling its x motion concept car featuring what they call a pilot technology similar to tesla's autopilot it takes over some of the heavy lifting but still requires human intervention in emergencies. it might not be as glitzy but ride sharing options like this bus might be the real future of driverless tech. so i will be a long time before we have them in our driveway and when we do it right now we want somebody else on them we'll have a subscription service we'll have a pay by the mile kind of fairness all business model for acquiring transportation would change. self driving ride sharing analysts say would be a development that could change the car industry as we know it. and to detroit right now is carsten phenomenal correspondent carson vendor all of this has

actually become reality what are the main challenges. i think the biggest challenge is the trust of all in there if people in that technology i mean we all know that computer is helpful and necessary but we also know how frustrating it is when they fail when the technology doesn't work and of course if you have a car that is driven by a computer that is even more important now i sometimes get nervous when i'm on the road and there's a big truck with the driver coming behind me but now imagine this coming from behind and you see that in your rearview mirror it as clearly no driver there's just this big machine coming here and i have no idea how that is supposed to work properly and safely but think gaunts there is someone who can robert follow is here the co-founder and c.e.o. of enron it's a swedish company that developed this truck so how does this work without the driver it's actually

a combination of different techniques this is cell phone technology and remote so we're actually using different later systems and to actually create a system second actually replaced the truck driver. right and what happens when the technology fails we have a combination of self driving so when the self for having can solve problems it's the aftermath looking removed and connects to the remote so we actually get the driver in and reap the benefits of sense trying to quality and well as human decision making so there's a human fallback option that someone from headquarters can steer this ok so when do we see this on the road how long will it take to get this on the road really very doing testings right now and the first installation of customer insist you mean do during q free this year so this year this truck or the some of these trucks will be on the roads in sweden and actually working yes and we are installing the first ones as our customers and they will be able to provide transport back and forth

between two warehouses that we're actually using and installing right now thank you robert so expect a truck like this on the road near to you any time soon twenty cars looking into the future other brands looking into that future for example v.w. in order to sort of polish their sort of destroyed image in the united states. what are they doing to promote their brand well basically folks long in particular is emphasizing that they have learned a lesson that they want to be a reliable partner for customers in the u.s. actually folks long is already apparently on a very good way because they're one of the few car companies that actually has a rise in sales in the last you know five percent more in a slightly decreasing market so they're quite optimistic and so are most german companies here because they feel that these of gate is no longer a big topic here and most customers believe in german quality and german

innovations to cause the phenomena thank you so much for your reporting from detroit. all right then from automated car smell that to another automated a car that's what i'm going to try to stay in on all day desires like yeah thank you we want to take you to denmark now more than a thousand young people could face charges of distributing child pornography this after they shared video clips of two fifteen year olds having sex anyone found guilty would face jail time and be put on a child pornography register. it took just a few seconds to share the video of the young people who did so i never imagined how serious the consequences would be. for kill i am shocked and i also think it is strange that only one thousand people are being charged that it is not many more because there are so many who have the video there could be many more people charged for this i don't think it's fair if it is only this handful who are convicted when so many others are involved. investigators say the

scale of the case is unprecedented most of the suspects under twenty five years old . it was good i'm sorry it may be a prank but it can have adult consequences if you're convicted of distributing child pornography or you will have a criminal record and it will appear on the background check if you want to work with children that could have some ugly consequences there are many jobs in denmark we need to have a clean record of job. but the ramifications are also far reaching for the victims in the case the young couple featured in the video. the young people who were fifteen at the time the video was made have tried to put it behind them but they're reminded of it on a regular basis they'd like to forget about it but they can't so we must at least make sure they feel they're being taken seriously. the danish government wants the

case to send a clear message i hope but i hope this could be a wake up call for many young people to say it's illegal and not acceptable what we have seen is deplorable. if convicted the defendants could appear on the child pornography register for ten years. it's very serious consequence is that how do we get to this point where we are tonight to talk about that i'm joined now by theresa walker she is editor at mother board of the tech and science but form from vice is good to see you again you know last night on the show we spoke with a former content manager with facebook and is that what we're looking at here that a content management received a complaint and said this looks pornographic and send it up for inspection is that what happened well most likely because as we all know facebook tends to be a big black box especially when it comes to their inner workings but what happened was that facebook received complaints and these complaints were received in not on

the public platform but within facebook messenger which usually allows for one or many people to discuss something which is not public but assumed to be private i was reading the authorities are saying that the pornography charges could be thrown out by the judge because the judge could say listen all of these youngsters they didn't even realize that the two people were having sex were minors now if that's the case we certainly don't want to talk about this notion of pushing kiddie porn but if the judge can say they didn't the kids didn't know what they were looking at then how can facebook be able to say this looks like pornography yeah well there they are legally they are legally obligated to forward any complaints to a particular and you know in the u.s. that deals with possible exploitation cases on minors and since there are this n.g.o.s better safe than sorry they forward a lot of to law enforcement and europe also in germany we get

a lot of these complaints from this particular and. the head of cyber crime of the danish police and i spoke to today in germany gets about eight hundred thousand to nine hundred thousand complaints each year we heard from the police to do. indeed mark saying that they really want to pursue this case they're being very hard with it because they want to send a message to young people that it's not ok to to share your images of other people doing these things and that's one point right there is one point another point is i think there is a case to be made for privacy so when you have a messenger system that you think is something that is a close communication line between two people you have to assume it's especially if it's encrypt it's that this is bulletproof but facebook proves otherwise because if they receive a complaint they can actually decrease and read back into the most recent messages

somewhere in the fine print and then it's disconcerting because if i'm going on to facebook messenger and i think that this is encrypted and i've been told that it is that's a law i write if someone complains then the content manager has the authority and the ability to look into my message which means it's not encrypted really let you know you can find out about this when you click on the report button when you are with an messenger otherwise i personally have never heard of it so i mean there are systems messages systems that are entered and encrypted that are still bulletproof i personally did not know that facebook can also read this message and you don't know a lot because as we heard from this former continental last night there are these nondisclosure agreements that all of the content is have to sign the point is the transparency levels and facebook is so other social media platforms very it's very so we don't know what happens once we send a message or share something to yeah exactly what i do know what i can what it what

i know now that facebook puts all of the links that have ever been shared into a giant database and so when a complaint arrives about this particular link they can assign this thing an idea and find out all of the instances where that link has been shared and this is why i was seasoned. to filter out all of the data and forward it's the law enforcement along with the names and amazing amount of power. that these companies have i mean you just you know you're not really aware until you see a case like this theresa walker as always thank you we appreciate your insights very valuable thank you thank you after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day.

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