I have one thing to repeat, that is a profound and heartfelt apology on behalf of the BBC to every victim. It is the victims, these women who were subject to criminal actions, who must be central in our thoughts. And it is the fundamentally criminal nature of many of these allegations that has made supporting the police, my first priority; but the BBC will not avoid confronting the events of its past.

Doctors in Argentina have carried out an abortion on a woman rescued from a

prostitution ring

follow a Supreme Court ruling allowing the

termination

. The case led to days of protests in Argentina whether the practice is illegal except in rape case or to protect women's health. From Buenos Aires Vladimer Hnenders reports.

The Argentine Supreme Court had ruled that the abortion can go ahead saying it was well within the country's laws. Argentina allows abortions in rape cases or to protect women's health. But in many provinces, medics, judges or local officials attempt to prevent them by taking the cases to court. In this case, a judge in Buenos Aires blocked the procedure claiming doubts as to whether the woman was actually a rape victim even though she had been kidnapped and kept as a sex slave.

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The Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has apologized to

indigenous

leaders in the Amazon region for the devastation caused by the rush a century ago to harvest latex from rubber trees. Mr Santos asked for forgiveness for the killing of around 80,000 indigenous people and the destruction of communities. A Peruvian rubber company backed by the Colombian government tapped rubber near the southern town of La Chorrera from 1912 until 1929.