A doctor guilty of stealing thousands of babies during spains franco hero we have a report on families who are literally digging up the past in search of the truth about their lost children. And could the wind be the next german city to see streets declared off limits for diesel cars and trucks a court in the capital decides today. Im brian thomas thanks so much for being with us and welcome to the show is facing intense International Scrutiny after the rape and murder of investigative journalist victoria marin over amidst e. U. Calls for an Investigation Police say they are considering all possible scenarios so far we have to say there is no proof of links between her reporting and her murder she is though the third. Journalist to be killed in the European Union in less than a year. Mourners on the ring murdered journalists victoria marie nova outside a church and a capital sofia. And the journalists hometown who say hundreds turned out playing flowers and lighting candles and 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 plainer mangere and so many emotions i can explain. Its all gone through the files someone could go out for joining in never come back because this very young on one. Hand hes 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 theres nothing to link her death to her work. Release which a nice quote from a new were not excluding a spontaneous assault and were not excluding a premeditated assault. Well one thing is clear that the murder was committed with great brutality and cruelty. To carry apparently frank the lowest of all human this when it comes to press freedom some moon is here to convince the experts politically motivated its the European Commission says it expects a through investigation into marino this killing. Goes fine no more with Daniel Carrick hes the head of the Bulgarian Branch of the fleet a phenomenon foundation and joins us now from the capital sofia thanks so much for being with us today 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 corrupt the corruption and you funds. She has also been reporting about what investigators that forms of talk about and therefore this murder no ties rise high suspicions especially risible Society People are doubting whether it 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 mera novus killer or killers. Unfortunately police in bulgaria has not the best track record of protecting citizens and journalists that the numerous cases of journalist being beat and especially is threatened 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 murderer rove would be found and i still hope that this was not a politically motivated case but we have to see still im a bit dog fold when it comes to finding the book ok miss mary snow is the this third journalist to be murdered in any 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 the e. U. To do now. I mean looking at the galleria we had plays one hundred and eleven in the report it was up all those frustrated mendax thats the worst in the entire balkans hour and theres 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 a that theres a high level investigation in the Corruption Cases and be. Also a mission looking into the killing of the journalist and last week looking into what happens with the you funds when it comes to the issue of media stuff because you funds are one of 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 canning for us in sofia today of the figures now on a Foundation Thanks so much for your insights into the murder of victoria nova. Lets take a look now at some of the other stories making the news today new u. S. Supreme Court JusticeBrett Kavanaugh has promised to be impartial and to be a team player after being sworn into office at the white house he said he has no bitterness about his contentious confirmation process earlier President Trump apologized to kavanagh for quote the terrible pain and suffering he and his family endured. Hurricane michael has passed by cuba now heading towards florida is expected to reach the u. S. State by wednesday with forecasts of constraint than to a category three storm. Residents of northwest and florida have been told to evacuate. Low upside belling coude says it has a den of fire the second suspect in the poisoning of former spy sergei script all britain the man who entered the u. K. Under the name Alexander Petroff is actually alexander michigan the website says a doctor for all terry intelligence in russia last month going how to divide the other suspect as another intelligence officer. Camerons Opposition Leader maurice come to zero as declared victory in the countrys president ial election even though no results have been announced he did not provide any data to support his claim the party of incumbent president paul bia rejected those claim an accused him of breaking the law. Its to spain now and an ugly chapter of spains past has resurfaced with a court case that found a doctor guilty of stealing a newborn baby and putting her up for illegal adoption under the franco dictatorship but dr eduardo vela will not face any jail time the court ruled that the statue of limitations had expired campaigners say tens of thousands of babies may have been taken. Reported and heard from one mother trying to find the son stolen from her almost half a century ago. Every day doris ruiz comes to the cemetery in toddys with her daughter she couldnt stand to watch her sons grave big zoom on her own is he really buried here she gave birth to him in one nine hundred seventy but saw him only for a few seconds before he was taken from her. Phone 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 close 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 repression 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 babys death whenever biological mothers showed up saying they did not believe the story. But only one case has ever gone to court that of enos. Her evidence was enough for a lawsuit against him to out of a lot of gynecologist from madrid he was accused of stealing in a smattering guys 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 is a nose make as its no longer just my case its now becoming clear that babies were stolen throughout spain unless hes less im annoyed who we are clearing the trial the eighty five year old defendant appeared confused he said he remembered nothing and denied any responsibility. In his comments at the time sparked angry protests outside. He says that the doctor and his nurses who claim they know nothing that theyre criminals. And. Im not haitian finally admitted they still are children now the government will have to do something it cant come yet not know it. Although it too out of date i was found guilty the court didnt convict him for his crime in this matter guy says chill appealed the decision. But theyre going meanwhile back in counties dolores ruiz still waits on tenterhooks for the results of the exhumation. When the public go home whenever my family comes together i feel theres something missing someone is missing he would and i will never be able to fill this gap. Even if he were still alive how would i be able to find him now from the level. Of the first son is indeed buried here the noise ruiz 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 the 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 and some people knew that there was something strange going on but there was actually a refusal to accept that this was a crime at a very large scale oh you have to take into consideration that the perpetrators knew very well that they were committing it so a lot of documentation has been destroyed actually in the in the case that weve seen in the report the doctor and who was accused closed his clinic in the mid eightys he destroyed all documentation all the earth pretty serious and all documentation that was there so it was actually very hard to see 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 ninetys so a lot of cases say that happened to have taken place in the sixtys the the people in question are very old now and the doctor weve seen there in court doesnt remember anything he says hes theyre old he doesnt know if this actually had happened and this is the case of many people also adopt the children very often dont know that they have been legally adopt that many of them probably dont 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 dont know that they have been victims of ok and now the doctor in this case eduardo velo was found guilty but he wasnt convicted can you tell us why. Yeah its sounds strange but for the court is that its actually logic they say that this case the plaintiffs in as much rico knew since her eighteenth birthday that she was adopted when her adoptive mother told her but she actually only sued in two thousand and twelve and the did the most severe crime that the doctor was accused of was a legal restraint in this case of the baby now that falls under 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 quick ok to tell you what does this mean for other cases could they be rolled out now could we see charges being brought against other doctors perhaps against former officials. Yeah well actually this is very interesting because. The plaintiff is planning to go to spain Supreme Court. In order to to fight that verdict and to find out if it actually falls under the statute of limitations because he says for a long time i knew that i was adopted but i didnt know that i was a crime victim how could i have taken any legal action if i didnt know that only in two thousand and ten i found out that this was actually a crime at large scale and that i might be one of those cases so if the Supreme Court actually follows that are going to shoot it could mean for many other families that their cases arent either that they can still go to court also there has been a lot of suffering i have talked to a woman for example who says she had a son in the mid eightys that she cant go out on the street without looking around and asking herself could this be my son coup and if he were but i recognize him so actually it is a very important case for all of their families because it shows that it is not part of their imagination that they havent been hallucinating as many people have told them that decades but that this has been a very sad reality so the possibility out there that the courts could could end some of this pain and bring closure for a lot of people that tell you a bomb in madrid thanks so much for your report and for being with us today natalia. Well were turning now to china and the fallout from the weekend disappearance there of the former head of interpol chinese authorities have revealed that a man hong way has been detained and is now under investigation there for bribery hes apparently the latest target of beijings sweeping crackdown on corruption heres a timeline of the story so far. Home way went to his homeland china two weeks ago for what was to be a short trip he was last heard from after landing in beijing when he sent his wife a message on social media. Question that was followed minutes later with an emoji of a knife possibly indicating that he was in immediate danger. When his wife that race heard nothing more from him over the coming days she filed a missing persons report with French Police she doesnt want her face shown the couple live in leone france where interpol is headquartered. At First Chinese authorities would only say that man was being investigated for breaking the law now theyve elaborated saying hed been detained for accepting bribes. From many modern and grace meng remains on certain about her husbands fate shes appealed to the International Community for help out here although i promised the madoff and we are always the cannot save my heart. They were caught me doing days. No matter of enough to the very need and the geography of the matter be tough to the International Community in the matter belongs to the people of my mother that. The Chinese Government defended its actions. But you know i believe being hong wave being suspected of breaking the law and being investigated shows the Chinese Governments resolution to promote the rule of law and fight corruption make hong way is suspected of bribery and breaking the law. Interpol has also now received manx resignation could not be reached for comment however questions also remain about how a chinese minister could be hired for the post of interpol chief to quote up the International Olympic committee has picked its first african host of any olympics awarding the twenty twenty two youth games to senegal it was a unanimous vote the i. O. C. Says with senegal beating botswana nigeria and tunisia setting goals president macky sall also promised the i. O. C. Voters that his country would build a new fifty thousand seat stadium and make sure the entire country benefits from the global event. Going to business with kristoff now political leaders are looking at ways to save the environment or at least air quality thats right bryan environmental ministers are meeting today told tens talks on reducing harmful car missions by twenty thirty and hammer out a unified position on Climate Change in advance of the un climate talks in december carnations targets have taken on a new urgency after a u. N. Report on monday called for drastic measures to reducing Global Warming and labeled them a matter of life and death at the same time a debate is raging about the harmful impact of diesel engines with some countries on the verge of banning them altogether. Germanys motorists dont know which way to turn nitrogen oxide emissions have breached legal limits in seventy major towns and cities but which of them intends burning diesels from this city centers and which cars will be affected. Politicians that did the ring at the socalled diesel summit a week ago they greed with Company Chiefs the coming years would clean diesels up but just how theyll do it remains an open question and the mooted measures are not legally enforceable anyway. All that certain is that anyone buying a diesel cant be certain theyll still be allowed to drive it in german cities cities are imposing restrictions or plan to in countries including germany denmark norway sweden britain belgium the netherlands friends italy spain and greece some countries like denmark and norway want to completely ban all petrol and diesel cars from their roads. Its a response to a pollution data which shows four hundred thousand europeans primitive deaths because of auto emissions e. U. Wide limits have been in force since two thousand and eight but hardly anyones inforced the me at the Auto Industry is far too important an employer especially in germany you know the wind just changed brussels is insisting that emissions limits are effectively enforced pressuring governments and automakers alike but so far theres no answer to the conundrum about how fossil fuel driven cause could be made and driven whilst also improving quality. The International Monetary fund has cut its Global Growth forecast for this year and next one major reason for the move is the rise in trade disputes the i. M. F. Believes the tit for tat terror spat between the United States and china could have a contagion effect on economies around the world another source of concern is rising debt you can see the trend here now in the last decade average national that has risen from around a third of g. D. P. To more than half the facts are likely to be felt in most emerging markets where borrowing tends to be particularly high. Turkey is among the countries for which the i. M. F. Has slashed its growth forecast turkeys debt tops fifty three percent of g. D. P. And inflation is rising faster than at any time in president wants fifteen year rule with the tanking and inflation soaring present everyone has now told over one hundred companies to justify recent price increases theyve made with a view to imposing fines on what he calls opportunists. For some more insight lets bring in Gareth Jenkins hes a turkey analyst at the institute for security and development and he joins me from istanbul welcome gareth turkeys finance minister who is also president and one son in law is to announce a program for a what he calls full fledged fight against inflation on tuesday what do you expect the program will entail well we dont really know i mean its only a couple of weeks since he announced the Medium Term Program several years and that was supposed to set the template really Economic Policy for the turkish government and now weve had this almost panic reaction and guess whats probably going to be a hastily coupled together a program to try to bring down the regime i think of bigger concern than the constant is credibility of the government and these doubts about whether i understand how serious the problem is im your central nature of the problem this is a problem with the turkish economy not that hasnt had a lengthy say resulted from a conspiracy to undermine so youve mentioned a debt been several announcement in recent weeks on plans to strengthen the economy despite the plunging lira you droned really seem really convinced that ankara has got a grip on the current crisis. No not to talk weve seen lots of measures with everyone trying to go after what he calls profiteers retailers who are increasing their prices yet when you look at the inflation figures we now have an annual consumer inflation rate twenty four percent a wholesale inflation rate of forty six percent so the essential problem doesnt mean its the retail price its very very large inflation with wholesale inflation usually takes a couple months for retaliation as its very large hike coming through as a result of these weaknesses in the economy and the turkish government basically appears to be in denial about the essence of whats happening and. Weve heard inflation hitting twenty five percent in september weve seen the probe of the government into companies raising their prices how are people getting pie in these circumstances at the moment you know. When the a a quarter when the turkish lira collapsed in august there wasnt even eat it impacts and we went to a supermarket crisis didnt change overnight but were beginning to see now prices rising in the short term of course people can survive the Family Structure is still very important in turkey still very strong so if one person in the family has some of the help their relatives have the worst is yet to come and i think the real crunch is going to come next year most people salaries and wages are raised at the beginning of the year a large portion of the turkish population is on the minimum wage which is set by the government and its a major dilemma coming because if the government doesnt allow wages three people a country really. Took a starting price a small girl jenkins of the institute for security and development thank you for your thoughts thank you. And staying in turkey the country is slapping import quotas on steel in a bid to protect its domestic industry anchor as urged argued that the us president own steel tariffs and subsequent trade restrictions by the e. U. India and indonesia diverted steel towards turkey bringing turkish prices down in your limits will be set at approximately half the steel imports levels of last year imports exceeding these quotas will be subject to twenty five percent additional duties starting wednesday next week. In a drive alphabet says it is shutting down the consumer version of its Online Social Network google plus after fixing a bug which exposed private data of up to five thousand five hundred thousand accounts the company said in a blog on monday it had discovered and patched a leak in march of this year and says there is no evidence user data was misused during the bank branch breach legally that would mean it had no need to notify authorities at the same time the company said it would quote sunset google plus for consumers citing significant challenges and very low usage. Youre watching d. W. News coming to you live from berlin we have a fresh posen coming up at the top of the hour for me and the entire team thanks for watching. And this starts twenty one special. Needs mumbai india used campus bunch of. Young kids from germany and india explore each others musical forms the result. Of a breathtaking concert at the Beethoven Fest in bonn from the from st louis. 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