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this is bbc news. i'm reged ahmad. our top stories: and helicopter belonging to the leicester city owner crashes. it is not known if he was on board at the time. 11 people have been killed and six injured at a shooting in pittsburgh. a suspect who is in custody has been named as robert bowers who is 46. our minds cannot comprehend the cruel hate and the twisted malice that could cause a person to unleash such terrible violence during a baby naming ceremony. glenn hoddle is taken to hospital after falling ill. ceremony. glenn hoddle is taken to hospital afterfalling ill. at ceremony. glenn hoddle is taken to hospital after falling ill. at 1130, we will take a look at the papers. good evening and welcome to bbc
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news. the helicopter belonging to the owner of leicester city football clu b the owner of leicester city football club has crashed in the car park following a match. 0ne witness said it appeared a trail propeller wasn't working. leicester city had been playing west ham united in the premier league. it is not known whether vichai srivaddhanaprabha, who is the chairman of the club, was on board. their stride out reporter who is at the king power stadium. talk us through these events if you would. i was at the game this evening in a private capacity and left just before eight evening in a private capacity and leftjust before eight o'clock. i heard the helicopter arrived and as
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every leicester city fans will tell you, that helicopter comes at the end of every home game. it is owned by the owners and it takes them wherever they want to go. the ambulance service has said they got ambulance service has said they got a call and within two paramedics we re a call and within two paramedics were here on the scene. an eyewitness has told me he was still on the ground at that time and saw the helicopter arrived. it arrived rather erratically. another eyewitness said on takeoff it seems to be clearly in trouble. it crashed in the car park behind me. police said this evening they are dealing with an incident and are working alongside the fire and rescue service. the air accidents investigation branch and the foot or club. the football club have tweeted this evening that this is a major incident, they will issue a more detailed statement once further information has been established. there are no reports of any casualties or any details of who was on board. the fans have started to
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doubt at the stadium. the advice is for them to stay away. 0bviously they are very concerned because the owners are well loved by the firm. they have poured millions into this clu b they have poured millions into this club and have taken it to premiership victory. that is a situation at the moment and we will bring you more details as we hear them. those of us who know less to know how important the club is and how prominent a landmark the stadium, even though it is pretty new, have become. it is a close—knit community around the club, isn't it? just a few hours ago it was a late kick—off and there were thousands of people here. lots of bands have started to gather. people are very anxious. they want to hear what has happened and to see what the outcome of the crash is and if there are any casualties. we don't know any confirmation on that as yet. it is still very early days. thank you very much.
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john butcher was that the stadium or close to it at the time. we were actually in a bar facing the stadium. with a lot of fire engines came by. as we came out of it what had happened, my nephew came running towards me, he was in a real state, just shock. he said he had seen the helicopter spiral out of control and within a second, drop like a stone to the floor. some eyewitnesses have said they heard a grinding noise. was that what you have been told as well? yes, yes. it was the propeller on the tail of the helicopter that seems to lose power and then the helicopter just spiralled seems to lose power and then the helicopterjust spiralled out of control. and the helicopter is a
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familiar sight to people who are there for home games. yes, after every home game, we see the helicopter landing into king palace stadium. how many people were out in the car park when this happened? you would imagine it is where people would imagine it is where people would congregate for collecting autographs and things like that. yes, luckily, this was a little while after the game ended. but my nephew said luckily it did spiral for a little while and everybody sort of rain. sort of scattered. as far as we sort of rain. sort of scattered. as faras we are sort of rain. sort of scattered. as far as we are aware, nobody around the car park was caught up in this problem. how quickly were the emergency services there? literally within a minute or two. really quick. very impressive response. within a minute or two. really quick. very impressive responsem is the city centre, isn't it? hopefully they would be stationed fairly close by. this will be
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immensely shocking to the fans of leicester city because we don't know yet whether the owner was on board, but he has seen the club through some tremendous successes. yes, the king power group, the family of vichai srivaddhanaprabha, we all appreciate what they have done for the club here. john butcher, an eyewitness to the crash tonight. we have got some pictures of this helicopter, and when it was first of all are rising at the king power stadium this evening, and it was there to collect passengers of course, as we heard, leicester city fa ns course, as we heard, leicester city fans quite used to seeing this helicopter in attendance when there isa helicopter in attendance when there is a home game at the king power stadium in leicester. it is owned by the chairman of the club. it is how
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they leave the stadium when there has been a home game. we are waiting for confirmation from the police of who was on board, and whether vichai srivaddhanaprabha, the owner of the club, was amongst the passengers. a very concerning time for everyone connected with leicester city. yes, we are all concerned for the welfare of the family. it is a great shock to us all that this has happened. they are so well respected for what they have done, notjust for the club, but the city of leicester. they have donated loads and loads of money and things like that. we just
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hope that everybody is fine and they will be ok. yeah, it is a very sad time, very worrying time i think for a leicester city fans at the moment. we just hope everything is ok. what you hearing from people who at the game? we actually parked our car in the car park. we didn't see anything we came away from the ground. with all the helicopter land and it all seemed quite normal, as it is most days. what went wrong, nobody knows. it is an absolute tragedy and we just hope everybody got away safely. as we have said, this family have made such a huge difference to the club, haven't they, since they have been involved in 2010?
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yes, that's right. and they treat everybody as family. when it is his birthday, he buys everybody a beer, we all get free beer, mince pies at christmas and things like that. we area big christmas and things like that. we are a big family, a football family. to the fans, they are family members. it is a time to doing things and we really embrace that had he is very popular, a very popular, very well loved. they have made such a huge difference to the success of the club. we can't forget them winning the premier leaguejust club. we can't forget them winning the premier league just a few years ago. they have been instrumental in all the successes last few years, getting us back into the premiership and everything else, the players we
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have signed, it has been incredible, and they have stood by us and there have been times when they could have walked away, but theyjust love the clu b walked away, but theyjust love the club and it means everything to them and everybody at the club just loves the family to what they have done. very anxious wait there. the chairman of the leicester city supporters club. thank you very much for talking to us. a gunman in america has shot dead 11 people at a synagogue in pittsburgh. officials have described the scene as "horrific." president trump called the attack "a terrible thing" and suggested it could have been averted if there was an armed guard in the building. the shooting happened late this afternoon at the tree of life synagogue with the gunman apparently shouting anti—jewish slurs as he opened fire. he's now in custody and has been named as robert bowers, who's 46. 0ur correspondent dan johnson has more. 10am in a quiet pittsburgh suburb. heavily armed police
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surrounded a synagogue that was attacked just after saturday morning services began. people living nearby were warned to stay indoors until the suspect could be tracked down. you could hear the shots when we were standing in our living room and we could just hear, like, just rapid fire. it's scary. i cried. and i'm still... i heard about it and i thought, wow, i thought about the people who i knew would be there. i know people that attend that synagogue. and it's terrible. we are all shocked by it and we are numb at the thought that this could happen. it's a very sad day. four police officers were shot as he was confronted and arrested. it's taken the emergency services some time to confirm that 11 members of the congregation were killed and two injured. it's a very horrific crime scene. it's one of the worst i've seen, and i've been on some plane crashes. it's very bad.
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this was quickly described as a hate crime and the fbi is leading the investigation. members of the tree of life synagogue, conducting a peaceful service in their place of worship, were brutally murdered by a gunman targeting them simply because of their faith. the suspect‘s full motive is unknown but we believe he was acting alone. this is the man in custody, rob bowers, a 46—year—old, who was heavily armed with pistols, an assault rifle and social media accounts filled with anti—semitic hate. he's reported to have shouted, "kill alljews" as he opened fire. questions quickly turned to gun control and the tone of political debate. is this another example of america's aggressively divided politics encouraging extreme violence? the president condemned the killings and called for unity. we must all rise above the hate, move past our divisions and embrace our common destiny as americans.
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and it doesn't mean we can't fight hard and be strong and say what's on our mind. but we have to always remember those elements, we have to remember the elements of love and dignity and respect and so many others. armed officers are guarding synagogues across the us. anti—semitic attacks have been on the rise here in recent years. midterm elections are just ten days away now, and this week mail bombs were sent to prominent political figures. now, the peace of morning prayers has been broken by deadly gunfire. another reminder of the threats this country faces. danjohnson, bbc news, washington. you are watching bbc news. sport, and for a full round—up, here's the bbc sport centre. good evening. the former england and tottenham manager glenn hoddle
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is said to be responding well to specialist treatment after being taken seriously ill today. hoddle was working with bt sport when he collapsed. the broadcaster cancelled the saturday afternoon programme he was due to appear on. a spokesperson said the condition is serious, but that his family are with him. he's considered one of the best players of his generation, winning 53 caps for his country. former team—mate and current manager of brighton, chris hughton, reacted to the news after his side's premier league victory today. he is somebody that is a friend that i have known for a long, long time, going right back to spurs youth days. he was always the model professional, he was always the one that we looked up to, and we certainly wish him all the very, very best, and as i said, my thought and prayers are very much with him. liverpool top the table tonight, their 4—1 win over cardiff equalling theirjoint best start to a premier league season. sadio mane scored twice
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with goals too for mo salah and xherdan shaquiri. liverpool remain unbeaten. the result leaves cardiff just above the relegation zone. manchester city can reclaim top spot with a win against tottenham on monday. conceding goals is nice, but today, it was the right game because it work us up, i sent the opponent. it gave us base that we could then finished the game. so i'm fine. and you have a clear week, finally, on top of the league, but i did for hours at least? my whole life i have a lwa ys hours at least? my whole life i have always wanted to be top of the leave the 24 hours. not too decisive. but the 24 hours. not too decisive. but the points are really good. elsewhere, huddersfield are bottom after they were thrashed 3—0 away at watford. brighton beat wolves 1—0 and it was goalless between southampton and newcastle. leicester drew 1—1 at home to west ham. in the scottish premiership, kilmarnok have lea pfrogged celtic into second. they drew 1—1 with hamilton, and just one other result for you,
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stjohnstone beat st mirren 2—0. lewis hamilton has missed out on pole position at the mexican grand prix on the weekend where he could seal the formula 1 drivers' championship. hamilton was third overall behind the red bull pair max verstappen and daniel ricciardo who claimed pole in the final qualifying session. the briton had already said the red bull cars seemed out of reach on this mexico track. his championship rival sebastian vettel will start behind hamilton in fourth. the mercedes driver has to finish seventh or better to ensure he wins the title. really depends how we get away. third race is a nice place to start here, you get a good code from the quys up here, you get a good code from the guys up ahead. naturally i'm going to be fighting to gain a position, but of course i am aware of the bulls ahead. a stunning late try from debutant 0liver gildart sealed an 18—16 win for england's rugby
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league players in their first autumn test with new zealand. this was the first of a 3—match series. england went 1—0 up in it thanks to gildart‘s brilliant run and finish. the wigan player had only been called up to the squad as a replacement for the injured sam burgess. the second test is at anfield next weekend. unbelievable. i just act unbelievable. ijust act myself, i luckily got over. —— backed. unbelievable. ijust act myself, i luckily got over. -- backed. does it happen as fast as we see it or is it in slow motion for you? it happens really quick. i was just printing as fast as i could and i saw the full—back and my best to beat him. —— sprinting. and england have won the one and only t20 match in their series with sri lanka in colombo. jason roy top scored with 69 on their way to 187/8. jon denley, playing his first international in eight years, took four wickets as sri lanka were all out for 157. england won their one—day series and now have the test series to come. that's all the sport for now.
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now on bbc news, the film review. hello there, and welcome to the film review here on bbc news. and taking us through this week's cinema releases, we've got jason solomons. jason, what have you got for us this week? yes, ben. the great pretender freddie mercury brings glam rock to opera, to create bohemian rhapsody — a costumed gala through the highs and lows of queen. we follow the anguished face of one teenage girl as she experiences a dreadful massacre on utoya onjuly 22 in norway. and we have an rebirth of a cartoonist played byjoaquin phoenix and a sobering yet funny true—life memoir called don't worry, he won't get far 0n foot. right, let's start with bohemian rhapsody.
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i'm sure lots of people are going to go just for the music. but how is it, in your view, as a movie? absolutely. i mean, it is a run through queen's greatest hits in a sort of karaoke dress—up fashion. a very unknown actor called rami malek plays freddie mercury and he's very good, i have to say, as impersonating freddie mercury. and even deepening the role so he gets under his skin, like a little costumed action man in all his little outfits as he progresses, up to even the moustache. the film itself isn't a biopic of freddie mercury, that many people were hoping for it. it is a biopic of the band and how they got to their hits, and how they used to in studio with their big hair — brian may and roger taylor and john deacon, ‘deaks' as they call him — and how they used to argue, and all their little tiffs got turned into the famous riffs that we know. stamp to this beat. come on. now i want you to clap on the third beat.
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what's going on? you would know if you were on time. i want to give the audience a song that they can perform. so what can they do? stamping. imagine, thousands of people doing this in unison. huh? what's the lyric? # we will, we will rock you! of course, thousands of people did do that, hundreds of thousands. they're doing it now. maybe millions. but none the less, her critics
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have sort of said it's a bit of a sanitized version of queen. what do you make of that? it is. i mean, it was produced by brian may and roger taylor in a way, so they definitely had a say in they wanted to make sure that everyone knew that brian may wrote we will rock you and john deacon came up with the riffs for another one bites the dust. so it is about the kind of collect this. —— collective. and it takes a fairly linear romp through how they met at university and then how freddie joined the band and how he charged his name from farrokh bulsara to freddie mercury. and then from killer queen on top of the pops to we will rock you all the way to live aid. that's when it climaxes, in 1985, that famous show of all shows went down. most people agree queen stole the show of all shows, and freddie mercury was fantastic that day. the film climaxes — no spoilers here — in a sort of step—by—step shot—for—shot recreation of that gig, which is quite extraordinary. it has its high points and it has its low points when they argue, it doesn't quite go into the real wrestling match that freddie mercury clearly had with his sexuality. i mean, when freddie mercury died of aids in 1991, the world was shocked. it was like, "freddie
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mercury's gay? !" you watch this and you think, well, how did he get away with it? that's the real story, and that's not quite what's gone into. the band seems to have topped at freddie's excesses and his debauchery and go home for their cup of tea with their wives. and it's got a slightly moralizing tone. that said, it's there so that you can take your kids and your family, introduce them to the hits of queen, go and buy their best—selling hits album called volumes 1 and 2, and kind of stomp your way through them from i want to break free to great pretender to don't stop me now. i mean, everything freddie saying everything he meant. and he was doing in real life too. all right. let's talk about the next film — utoya: july 22. and this was the absolutely horrific massacre on utoya island back in 2011. i think anybody who remembers that, in a way, you wonder why you'd want to see it. that's right. i think you're absolutely right there, ben. and they are notjust one film, there are two films out about this. paul greengrass did a film called july 22, which is currently out, it is on netflix. greengrass is normally good
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at these documentary style recreations, like he did united 93, just on the plane that hit the towers on 9/11. he did sort of a multi—stranded take on utoya, focusing on anders breivik, the right—wing gunman who perpetrated massacre and all the way to his trial. this film, which is made by a norwegian called erik poppe, is just on the island, just on the face of one girl, kaja, who is a sort of quite where was elected member of the young labour party, she wants to help everybody. and we are with her as this massacre unfolds. now, in this version, we don't see breivik at all, we just hear the boom of his gunfire and see the people running from him. it's a real kind of distillation of what it must‘ve been like to be on that island, not knowing what was going on, the confusion. it's almost done in one single breathless take. i have to say, i was sitting near the front of the cinema, right at the front, and after about five minutes, i had to move to be back of the theatre to get some distance and perspective. it was too overwhelming.
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i was to thought about motion sickness, i was too shaken by it. i had to say that even with that distance, it was still very harrowing experience. but it did make me understand what it must‘ve been like to be caught in that situation. i don't understand the mind of the man who perpetrated it at all. and that sort of leaves me wanting a bit more from it. but it is, as a piece of film making, a rather breathtaking experiment if you like. but whether this is the right topic to be experimenting with left a slightly bitter taste in my mouth. yes, it sounds like a hard watch. 0ur third film is don't worry, he won't get far 0n foot. not the snappiest of titles, but tell us what that's about. actually, the title comes from a joke. because it's aboutjoaquin phoenix was is cartoonist, sort of in the gary larson style, sort of new yorker, that sort of cartoonist. and he plays an alcoholic called john callahan who is so drunk one night, he gets into the car with jack black —
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a man played byjack black — and they have a car accident and he's left paraplegic. the film is about him recovering from his injuries and also recovering from his alcoholism and discovering his gift as a cartoonist, and giving him a black kind of look of humour at the world. he comes under the spell of a very charismatic sponsor, they called him in rehab, played byjonah hill called donnie. phone ringing. hello. hey, is this donnie? yeah, who's this? hey, donnie, this isjohn callahan. the neon cripple from outer space. oh, the man with the tangerine hair? well, i always thought of my hair as electric orange. but that's yeah, that me. look, i got your number off the board. i'm calling because i need a sponsor. i do have a lot of piglets at the moment. what are piglets? i need a sponsor. my sponsees are piglets. laughter. that's funny. you want me to help you get sober. well, i saw you speak and i really like what you had to say about... i know, ijust, and i don't know if you're serious. 0h, jesus christ.
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oh, i call him chucky. what? it's directed by gus van sant. the role was originally intended for robin williams, but phoenix does very well with that, as does hill. they're both very good together. the film is a mix of sentimentalism and funny and dark humour. and very serious about rehab and alcohol is in as well. it's a strange mix, but sometimes it really works. and it's quite funny when you read the acerbic cartoons byjohn callahan. so a fitting monument to him, if you're aware of his work. 0k, best out this week? i'm going to have to say that the best out, everyone is going to see, its top of the box office, it's still a star is born. we've got a freddie mercury sort of biopic about the music industry. this one is really about the music industry. the music scenes, i think, are particularly well done. bradley cooper directing and lady gaga performing. i think a terrifically, finding her voice in a star is born. maybe the sexual politics are a bit odd, about a man who can't really survive because the woman's
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doing better than him. but, you know, maybe he should get over it. that's what people are talking about, and it's what i like about this movie. it's getting people polarised, it's getting people talking and it's getting people into the cinemas because it's really a good old—fashioned hollywood melodrama. yeah, i loved it. i have to say. a little bit long perhaps. and the first half felt sort of better than the second half. they're all a bit long, ben, to be honest with you. well, what about best dvd? dvds, you can always spin through them if they're too long, but what's the best dvd? don't do this one or you might miss a start because it's 0cean's eight. just out what has got it all—star cast — cate blanchett, rihanna... you never thought you'd see those two together! helena bonham carter, sandra bullock and anne hathaway. it's about the women who join together to perform a heist at the very fashionable met gala, the heist of a very valuable necklace. and the double—cross. i thought this was a really enjoyable, good old —fashioned sort of caper fun from hollywood, but with a female twist because of the female cast. i think they were all very good. it's very slick and it's often very funny as well. and it really shouldn't be seen as anything more than that. somebody said, "it wasn't very, it was a very dangerous, "there wasn't much jeopardy."
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it's a lot of costumes, lot of good outfits and a lot of laughs. yeah. all right, jason. thank you so much for being with us this week. thank you. and that is it for this week, though. thank you so much for watching and goodbye from us. good evening. really has been a day of mixed fortunes today. sunny spells and scattered showers across the country. in fact, some of the showers up into the north—east on higher ground were snow. we had a nuisance rash of showers running down to yorkshire, the midlands, over towards the south—west of england. those willjust sit over towards the south—west of england. those will just sit across the south—east corner overnight tonight and we will have those showers running in off the north sea coast as well. further west, clearer skies, that is where the lowest values are likely to be. in sheltered rural parts of scotland, at touch of light frost. the best of
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the sunshine looks to be on the west on some ship —— on sunday. showers in the south—east hopefully easing through the day. always the risk of showers along the east coast. in the sunshine temperatures are likely to peak at 9— 11 degrees. if you dodge the showers, it might feel a bit warmer. as we move into the early pa rt warmer. as we move into the early part of next week at looks likely to turn increasingly milder, but u nfortu nately a little turn increasingly milder, but unfortunately a little wetter as well. hello. this is bbc news with martine croxall. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. first, the headlines. the helicopter belonging to leicester city's owner crashes outside the club's stadium. it's not known if he was on board at the time. in the us, at least 11 people have been killed and six injured in a shooting at a synagogue in the city of pittsburgh. a suspect who's in custody has been named as robert bowers who's 46. meanwhile, president trump says he will visit the the city. hello and welcome to our lookahead
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at what the papers will be bringing us at what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are susie boniface, who's a columnist for the daily mirror, and the broadcaster penny smith. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. as you would hope, really. the main picture in the sunday times is on tonight's helicopter crash outside leicester city's ground. its main story reports on the pittsburgh synagogue shooting in which 11 people were killed. the express looks ahead to monday's budget in what it says will see the chancellor's red box unveil a plan to bring together post—brexit britain. sticking with the budget, the sunday telegraph reports

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