the vatican has expressed shame and sorrow over a recent report on church abuse cases in the u.s. and says pope francis is on the victims side of the report by an american grand jury was released on tuesday it accuses three hundred priests in the state of pennsylvania of sexually abusing children over seventy years. while it s to italy now and that country s transportation ministry has opened an investigation into the collapse of that major bridge in genoa that killed at least thirty eight people the ministry is also calling on the private toll road operator to quickly build a new bridge not its own expense as rescuers work to find people who may still be trapped beneath the rubble there s growing anger d.w. charlotte telson pill spoke with the talons worried about the condition of the country s other bridges. this is a scene replicated across this region homes nestled in mountains in the shadow of
to me like the ill fated brain chain many in italy were built in the fifty s and sixty s they would have designed to withstand the amount of traffic passing over them today and as one expert tells me many were only ever expected to have a fifty year lifespan you need. a new construction in that we tend to forget that a structure is something that becomes old. and the situation should be control of the much better we have to allocate the money from the beginning to be sure that we are. controlling volution of our structure in other countries very very strong in italy is growing but probably is not enough strong the company operating the marandi bridge insists its maintenance checks were up to date back on the outskirts of genoa giani says regular maintenance work is also being done here but for him that s now another reason to worry. that there is so much maintenance means
sports now and spanish football is coming to north america league is organizing body says it plans to hold regular season games in the united states and canada the league assigned a fifteen year deal with a multinational media group to promote football by bringing teams like real madrid and barcelona to play games across the atlantic there is no word yet on when the first match will happen but there is word from the spanish football players association which is highly critical of the plan. well just as they did at the chiang winter olympics north and south korea are combining sports teams and there isn t games to help bridge their political divide a combined women s basketball team is shaping up as one of the favorites for a medal. a single flag for a divided nation this young korean fan is watching history in the making. neither north nor south only korea that s who s playing and that s who these
many were only ever expected to have a fifty year life span. or. structure in that we tend to forget the threat. becomes. and the situation should be control of the much better we have to allocate the money from the beginning to be sure that we are. controlling volution of us that are in other countries very very strong you need. is growing but probably is not enough strong the company operating the marandi bridge insists its maintenance checks were up to date back on the outskirts of genoa giani says regular maintenance work is also being done here but for him that s now another reason to worry. that there s so much maintenance means it s not really necessary after so many years fifty sixty seventy years maybe we have to consider building
marandi bridge is just a short drive from here its collapse is made giani reassess just how safe this. because i ve been thinking for years that something could suddenly happen to this bridge because i believe that the pillars probably only have about sixty percent of . compared to what. so. it s not just residents living underneath structures like this who are now concerned it s also the drivers who paul say that bridges like this every day everybody images of the bridge crumbling and you cannot help but picture that when you re driving across bridges like this one and then not just across genoa throughout the whole of italy there are many people now asking if that can happen