turning to build something new for the next generation gloomily d.s. the environment series of global three thousand on t.w. and online. this is the day of you news live from berlin the rape and murder of a vulgar aryan journalist sparks international concern. victoria martin over his killing has prompted calls from the european commission for a swift and thorough investigation authorities say they're looking at all possible leads including links to her reports on corruption. among drink court finds a doctor guilty of stealing thousands of babies during spain's franco era we have

a report on families trying to find out if the children they were told had died at birth or are actually a lot. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us or gary is facing intense international scrutiny after the rape and murder of t.v. presenter victoria marin over amidst you calls for an investigation police say they are considering all possible scenarios and we have to say so far there is no proof of any links between her work on report into alleged new corruption and her murder she is the third journalist killed in the european union in less than a year. moon is only being murdered generalists victoria marie nova out. the church and the capital sofia. and the journalists home

town who say hundreds turned out playing flowers and lighting candles in her memory . mary novus body was left in a park near the river danube after she had been brutally beaten raped and strangled . are still playing in mangere and so many most and i can't explain. it's so confusing how someone could go out for jogging and never come back course is very young on one. hand he's. with children. it was this was the last time the thirty year old appeared on t.v. before her disappearance she had been working on an investigative report into alleged corruption in infrastructure projects involving european union funds authorities say there's nothing to link her death to her book. release mention

exclude from a new we're not excluding a spontaneous assault and we're not excluding a premeditated assault. one thing is clear the murder was committed with great brutality and cruelty to. carry apparently frank the lowest of all you members when it comes to press freedom someone is here to convince the act was politically motivated the european commission says it expects a thorough investigation into mary novus killing. girls find out more with daniel kerik he's the head of the bulgarian branch of the faith based nauman foundation and joins us now from the capital severe as a character and so much for being with us your organization has been promoting freedom in bulgaria for decades now what is your assessment of victorian era novus investigations into large scale fraud in bulgaria. well indeed there

has been large scale fraud allegations involving corruption of the groups and you funds another large scale she has also been reporting about what investigators had forms up and talk about and therefore this murder highs are as high suspicions especially risible society people are doubting whether was really a spontaneous act or something that was more politically motivated and that people think that it might be politically motivated tells you a lot about the situation here on the ground ok now mark novas colleagues who she was working with on a number investigations into e.u. funding have been expressing fear for their own safety some of gone into hiding will the police in bulgaria both protect them and find mary novus killer or killers unfortunately police bulgari has not the best track record of protecting citizens

and journalists have been numerous cases of journalist being beaten and especially a threat and that has a lot to do with the high media centralization and high involvement of business in politics and vice versa so if it would indeed be a political case i doubt that the murder rove would be found and i still hope that this was not a politically motivated case but we have to see still i'm a bit dog fold when it comes to finding out about ok miss mary snow is the this third journalist to be murdered in e.u. country in less than a year what role should the e.u. need to play in all of this what do you expect you to do now. i mean looking at the galleria we had plays one hundred and eleven and the reporter was up all those frustrated endings that's the worst in the entire balkans hour and there's something that the european union should definitely investigated to seeing what is happening at the outskirts of the union and if the reopen values are set and

mentioning the high level of corruption case there is a lot of embezzlement a lot of corruption and comes to you funds that needs to be investigated thoroughly so therefore we would expect eight that there's a high level investigation in the corruption cases and be. also a mission looking into the killing of the journalist and last leap looking into what happens with you funds when it comes to the issue of media support because you fons i wonder if the crucial factors when it comes to funding media via the bulgarian state which contributes heavily to the media centralization in the country and daniel getting for us in sofia today of the for years now and the foundation thanks so much for your insights into the murder of victoria nova time for a look in some of the other stories making the news today the washington post has published what it says is the last photograph of its missing saudi contributor to malta showed. the surveillance image shows the fifty nine year old walking into the

saudi consulate in istanbul a week ago he disappeared immediately afterwards turkish officials claim he was murdered inside that building which saudi arabia denies. the website belling katz says it has a den of five the second suspect in the poisoning of former spy sergei script all in britain says the man who entered britain under the name alexander petroff is actually alexander miskin a doctor for russian military intelligence last month going out also identified the other suspect as an intelligence officer. police in india have arrested at least nine people after a mob attacked a group of school girls in the northeastern state of bihar more than thirty girls were treated in hospital after a crowd of teenage boys their parents and other locals beat them with sticks they had earlier rebuked the boys for sexually harassing. it's to

spain now in a painful chapter of that country's recent past has been reopened with a court case centering on babies stolen during the franco dictatorship accords been found guilty of stealing a doctor rather has found been found guilty of stealing a newborn infant and passing it on to another couple positions played a major role in a scheme that provided infertile couples for decades usually with ties to the franco regime was stolen newborn infants were taken from left wing government opponents the practice was later expanded to those from poor families thousands of babies perhaps tens of thousands are thought to have been taken from their mothers the telly of bach meyer heard from one mother trying to find a stop a song stolen some fifty years ago. every day doloris ruiz comes to the cemetery in tatties with her daughter she couldn't stand to watch her

son's grave be exude on her own is he really buried here she gave birth to him in one thousand nine hundred seventy but saw him only for a few seconds before he was taken from her. phone of the maid of the nurse later came out of the newborns room and told me that my child had died period just like that. did he really die or did the hospital sell him in counties alone dozens of families have applied to have grave sites exuma bones clothes and guards are carefully removed and are then analyzed by experts and geneticists. six families have already determined their children are not varied in this graveyard as they were told. in spain stealing newborns was an instrument of refreshen in the one nine hundred forty s. the franco dictatorship punished its political opponents that way. the practice

continued long after spain became a democracy in the late one nine hundred seventy s. . it was a lucrative business for maternity clinics which sold the babies to childless couples. the newspaper reported that some hospitals even kept corpses of newborns in cold storage they would bring them out as evidence of a baby's death whenever biological mothers showed up saying they did not believe the story. but only one case has ever gone to court that both in s. . her evidence was enough for a lawsuit against a new out of a lot of gynecologist from madrid he was accused of stealing from her biological mother in one nine hundred sixty nine many families looking for their lost children showed up when the trial opened for them the case proved that the practice of stealing babies had been a bitter reality for thousands of people it's a nose make us it's no longer just my case it's now becoming clear that babies were

stolen throughout spain alessi is less a month away do we are going during the trial the eighty five year old defendant appeared confused he said he remembered nothing yet. and deny any responsibility. for his comments at the time sparked angry protests outside. he says the doctor and his nurses who claim they know nothing that they're criminals oh and i'm like they should finally admitted they stole their children now the government will have to do something it can't come yet not yet. although if you out of eight i was found guilty the court didn't convict him for his crime in a smattering says she'll appeal the decision. for you meanwhile back in cuddy's dolores ruiz still waits on tenterhooks for the results of the exhumation.

on the top of the room whenever my family comes together i feel there's something missing someone is missing here and i will never be able to fill this gap. even if he were still alive how would i be able to find him no more noble. if her son is indeed buried here the noise really says she would be heartbroken but at least it would give her closure she says and finally some peace of mind. and meyer who produced that report for us joins us now from madrid good morning natalia possibly tens of thousands of babies stolen from their mothers over decades why has it taken so long for anyone to be convicted of this crime. see i think for decades there had not been much awareness of the problem as some people knew that there was something strange going on but there was actually a refusal to accept that this was a crime and very large scale oh you have to take into consideration that the

perpetrators knew very well that they were committing it for a lot of documentation has been destroyed actually in the in the case that we've seen in the report the doctor and who was accused closed his clinic in the mid eighty's he destroyed all documentation all the earth pretty serious and all documentation that was there so it was actually very hard to assume also that you have to take into consideration that this started in the early one nine hundred forty s. and went on into the late ninety's so a lot of cases say that happened will have taken place in the sixty's the the people in question are very old now and the doctor we've seen there in court doesn't remember anything he says he's very old he doesn't know if this actually had happened and this is the case of many people also adopt the children very often don't know that they have been legally adopt that many of them who probably don't

know that they have been adopted at all because their parents never told them so how can you actually solve these crimes when people are old or don't know that they have been victims of crimes ok and now the doctor in this case eduardo bello was found guilty but he wasn't convicted can you tell us why. it sounds strange but for the courts it's actually logic they say that this case the plaintiffs rico knew since her eighteenth birthday that she was adopted when her adoptive mother sold her but she actually only sued in two thousand and twelve and the most severe crime that this doctor was accused legal restraints in this case. now that holds on to the statute of limitations after ten years so they say she actually missed the time bar and that is why the doctor had to be acquitted. in madrid thanks so much for your report and for being with us today. the

international committee has picked its first african host for an olympics awarding the twenty twenty two years of games to senegal it was a unanimous vote so i guess president has promised the country will build a new fifty thousand seat stadium and that the entire nation will benefit economically. this is. brian thomas for the entire team thanks so much for being with us. when we were wrong when do we want to know any percent of americans in some. experience friendship.