In global news, business and sport. And as well be reporting later, apparently millennials are shunning the hallowed sport of golf. Too expensive . Takes too long . Certainly not online is it golf or the fault of the millennials . You can be part of the conversation, just use the hashtag bbc the briefing. The parents of 13 children rescued from a house in california have pleaded not guilty to charges of torture, abuse and false imprisonment. David and Louise Turpin were arrested after one of their daughters managed to escape and raised the alarm. A District Attorney said the rest of the children, aged between two and 29, were found at the property east of los angeles. They were severely malnourished, with brain and nerve damage, some of them chained to their beds. The bbcs james cook reports from los angeles. David turpin appearing in court to deny torturing his own children and sexually abusing one of his young daughters. His wife, louise, also pleaded not guilty. The couple are accus
Allegations of abuse by the parents of 13 children rescued by police from their home in california. David and Louise Turpin have pleaded not guilty to torture, child abuse and false imprisonment. A District Attorney said the children, aged between 2 and 29, were found severely malnourished with brain and nerve damage, some of them chained to their beds. They were rescued after one escaped through a window of the house, east of los angeles. The bbcs james cook in los angeles says the girls escape had been planned for a long time. According to the prosecutor who has been giving a lot more harrowing detail about this case, the 17 Year Old Girl who got out of the house and plotted with her siblings to escape for the last two years, and when she did get out, having taken a deactivated mobile phone she used to make an emergency phone call. She left with a sibling. The prosecutor did not say which one. They said it was a girl who got out with her sibling. Her sister became frightened and went
Welcome to the programme. Last ditch efforts are being made in the us senate to prevent a shutdown of the government. Existing funding expires at midnight local time. After holding a private meeting with President Trump at the white house, the leader of the democrats in the senate, chuck schumer, said there had been some progress in averting the shutdown. Sarah corker reports. It is going down to the wire. The was government stance on the brink ofa was government stance on the brink of a shutdown for the First Time Since 2013. With democrats and republicans fighting bitterly over a funding dealforfederal institutions. The senate is due to vote on it in the next hour. At the centre of all of this, a row of immigration, the so called dreamers. Democrats have demanded the bill include protection from deportation to 700,000 young undocumented immigrants that came to the us as children. And the blame game is in full swing, both parties blaming each other for the impasse, full swing, both pa
Within the past half hour the us senate has voted down a spending bill and a Government Shutdown looks very likely. Senators failed to back a stopgap motion which would temporarily keep Government Departments going for another four weeks. So now, unless a compromise can be found in the next hour, many parts of Us Government will shut down, although essential Services Including National Security and air Traffic Control will continue. Lets go live to washington now and our correspondent, david willis. David, time is pretty much up . Yes. Dramatic events unfolding here in the Nations Capital right now. The vote has been projected in the senate. The republicans, who tabled that financial extension, failing to get the support they needed, the additional support, from democrats in the upper house, having passed this bill in the lower house last night, thursday night, here. So u nless night, thursday night, here. So unless some sort of compromise is reached within the next. What, less tha n r
Government here in the United States has shut down, in the sense that there is now not sufficient money approved to keep it running, or at least keep it running indefinitely. What that means is that starting from monday, we are going into a weekend here, certain non essential staff will get notices to stay at home. Now, depending on how long this goes on, they could see their pay docked and we could see Crucial Services begin to bare the brunt of the pain, if you like. Initially though, all essential services will remain functioning as normal and they include the white house and the pentagon, although there will be certain staff, im given to understand, who will be furloughed, as they say, but this is something which dragged on. Back in 2013, it lasted 16 days, that was the last government shut down here in the United States. And about 800,000 government workers ended up being furloughed. As far as what this means politically, well, it gives the lawmakers, particularly senate lawmakers