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this is bbc news, i'm shaun ley. the headlines... twenty people have been killed and twenty—six injured in a mass shooting in a walmart store in the us city of el paso, texas a suspect has been taken into custody by police — he's been identified by local media as 21—year—old patrick crusius a second mass shooting has taken place in the us, in dayton, ohio, ten people, including the shooter, have died another 55 homes are evacuated as heavy rain is forecast in derbyshire where emergency services are battling to prevent the whaley bridge dam from collapsing boris johnson announces 1.8 billion pounds of extra funding for hospitals in england a daredevil french inventor has succeeded in crossing the english channel on a jet—powered
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hoverboard —injust 20 minutes and coming up in half an hour — ca nada's legalised it, so three mps go on a weed trip to see if britain could do the same. hello, good morning, welcome to the bbc news. twenty people have been killed and at least 26 have been injured in a mass shooting in the u.s. city of el paso, in what's been described by the state's governor as ‘one of the most deadly days in the history of texas'. the shooting happened at about 10.30 in the morning at a walmart store near the cielo vista mall, a few miles from the us—mexican border. police arrived
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at the scene six minutes later, and a 21—year—old white man was arrested at the scene. he's been named by us media as patrick crusius. police are looking into whether he deliberately targeted the hispanic community. mexico's president manuel lopez obrador said three mexicans were among those killed. our correspondent sophie long reports. oh, my god. parents were shopping with their children when they were told to run. a gunman started firing indiscriminately. 20 people killed, 26 others hurt, many according to the governor of texas sustained life—threatening injuries. on a day that would have been a normal day for someone to leisurely go shopping turned into one of the most deadly days in the history of texas. lives were taken who should still be with us today. one white man has been arrested
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and taken into custody. he's been identified by local media as 21—year—old patrick crusius. police say they are investigating this could be a hate crime and investigating links with a nationalist manifesto published anonymously online claiming the attack was targeted at the hispanic community. it is pointing at this stage in time to a hate crime, we will be investigating that with other federal authorities, we are looking at potential capital murder charges for this individual. el paso sits on the border with mexico, its population is more than 80% hispanic. it's become a focal point in the debate over immigration in the united states. this is someone who came from outside our community to do us harm, a community that has shown nothing but generosity and kindness to the least among us. mass shootings are not
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uncommon here, exactly one week ago a six—year—old and a 13—year—old were among those killed when a gunman opened fire at a festival in northern california. but people are shocked that it happened here in el paso, considered to be one of america ‘s safest cities and they are shocked that such young, innocent lives were lost and so many. but amid the horror and the pain and the great, great sadness, there are demands again for something to be done to stop it. our sympathies go out to the families of the victims. democratic presidential candidate beto o'rourke who is from el paso, linked this shooting to what he called increased levels of hatred and racism that is being seen in the us. he laid blame for at least part of that at president trump's door. president trump has condemned the shooting calling it tragic, hateful and cowardly. sophie long, bbc news.
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and our correspondent sophie long is at the scene in el paso and sent us this update children and their parents out shopping in the walmart behind me. they were shopping for school uniforms, school bags, stationery, all those things that families shop for in this the week before school reopens. a gunman opened fire and suddenly they had to run for their lives. we know very little about the victims at this stage, 20 people killed, some of them reportedly very young. we know three of those people were from mexico. we know that one white man was arrested, he has been identified locally as 21—year—old patrick crusius. one line of investigation is establishing whether he had anything to do with a white nationalist manifesto that was published online. they are investigating whether he had anything to do that. that is where the investigation stands at the moment. the governor of texas was speaking earlier today,
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and he described the scenes that unfolded behind me as horrific. he said it was one of the deadliest days in the history of texas. as you heard, mass shootings are not uncommon here. only a week ago a six—year—old and a 13—year—old were among those killed when a gunman opened fire at a festival in northern california. so there is a shock here today, el paso is considered to be one of the us‘s safest cities. shock that such a young, innocent lives were among those lost in shock that so many people were killed. we heard from the governor that of the 26 injured, many are facing life—threatening injuries. the community here coming together in grief, calls again for something to be done, we heard from beto o'rourke, the democratic presidential candidate who is from el paso, he blamed the shooting at least in part on the rising levels of what he called hatred and racism that america is experiencing and he
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put at least part of the blame for that at the door of president trump. president trump has been tweeting throughout the day. he sent his condolences and condemned the shooting, he and the first lady send their love and prayers to the people coming to terms with what has happened here. police are investigating whether a white nationalist manifesto posted online — which says the attack deliberately targeted the hispanic community — was written by the gunman. the ages and genders of all these people the ages and genders of all these people injured and killed are numerous and the age groups, the situation, needless to say, is horrific. it has a nexus at this point in time to a hate crime, the fbi will be looking into that with all the federal authorities, right now we are looking at potential capital murder charges for this individual.
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right now, we have a manifesto from this individual that indicates to some degree, it has a nexus to potential hate crime. that was the police chief in el paso ata that was the police chief in el paso at a news conference giving information about the killings. victoria balderrama was shopping in the mall with her parents when the shooting broke out. they were in lockdown in the shopping centre for an hour before a swat team arrived to help them escape. we were there about 30 minutes when they announced they were closing down the store. locked the doors, which i didn't really think much of at the time and then they told us to huddle in the corner of the store and that's when i really started to worry. because i didn't think it was, you know, normal to be doing that. it was something so minor. but they let us know that there was an active shooter inside the mall, on the second level and ijust went
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into survival mode, i mean, it was so scary being in that kind of situation. being from el paso i was born and raised here, nothing like this ever, i mean ever, would have imagined, could happen in my hometown. they were going to try and evacuate us through the exit of jcpenney and so we waited for about an hour when swat teams showed up and they ordered us to put our hands up and run through the building and exit. so we walked throuthcpenney, through the mall and out of dillards where we waited in the parking lot. and we waited for about three hours, the police officers they told us to be patient, they were doing everything they could, trying to provide some shade.
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el paso is so hot, triple digits, i mean, it was a waiting game, guess. we assumed they were looking for these active shooters. i just really have no words, honestly. because i've never been in a situation like this. and i didn't know how to feel and looking at people around me, people were crying, panicking and i really was just thinking the worst, you know, what am i going to do? how am i going to get out of the situation? making sure my parents were all right and we were going to be ok. you're just so indisposed to these people that have guns and they're shooting at you, they are targeting you. and you know, there's a lot of talk that they were targeting because of you know, the race, you know, most of the people here in el paso are hispanic. we can hear now what
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the former texas senator, and democrat presidential contender beto o'rourke — who's from el paso — said, about how president trump's own rhetoric was fuelling hatred and violence. what i'm hearing from statements from el paso police department, preliminary indications that this is motivated by hatred, by racism, by an intolerance that is foreign to el paso and in fact had to be brought somewhere else and this community to do something like what we are seeing right now. and so, i would just say that in addition to everything that we are doing for our fellow el pasoans right now and meeting them in this time of suffering and need and crisis, in addition to making sure that we change our laws so it's harder for something like this to happen again, i think we also have to ask ourselves about the level of hatred and racism that we are seeing in this country right now.
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that could lead to an event like the one that we saw here today. and that is on all of us to both call out and to stop. there's been a second mass shooting in the united states, just hours after the killings in el paso. police in dayton, ohio say nine people were killed and at least 16 wounded by a gunman who opened fire near the city centre. the shooter has also been killed — police say officers were near the scene and were able to respond rapidly. earlier, i spoke to jae williams, who was a couple of blocks away when the shooting happened. i was at iwas ata i was at a venue, it was only a few blocks away from the shading that was happening. in the oregon district, downtown dayton. it was only about a six, seven minute walk from where i was. when did you know something was wrong? we were just in
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there, the guy who was running the show came on stage and said he had to cut the show early because there was a shooting going on in the oregon district that five people at time had been shot. we needed to evacuate. i was like, ok, five people, that's crazy, getting into my car, leaving, i had to drive past the oregon district and i see a lot of cops and multiple ambulances leaving and going to the scene. i'm just like, and then i am looking in social media and i see there's five people being shot, more people, it's an actual mass shooting going on right now as i'm driving past and i am like, this is crazy. we expect to get some fresh pictures from dayton and of course we will bring that to
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you on bbc news as soon as we have it. borisjohnson has announced 1.8 billion pounds of one—off funding for the nhs in england. writing in the sunday times, he said he was determined to deliver on the promises of the eu referendum campaign, which used a misleading figure for the amount of money sent to brussels which could instead be spent on the nhs. responding to the funding announcement, shadow health secretary jonathan ashworth said the amount pledged "falls sig nifica ntly short of what's needed." good morning to you, it looks like a lovely morning there. good morning, but it's always a lovely morning in leicester. he welcomed news of any extra spending on the nhs? of course, because the nhs is in desperate need of spending but i would caution, i'm a little bit sceptical because in the last two yea rs, sceptical because in the last two years, something like 145 separate schemes for new buildings, equipment, it have been announced for the nhs by ministers to the
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total of two and a half billion and matt hancock has only delivered £100 million of it, that's sheer incompetence on his part. nhs hospitals, the ceilings are collapse and inboards, sewage pipes bursting, cancer diagnosis appointments being cancelled because of old and faulty equipment, the tories have done these smash and grab raids on the investment budgets, coaching £4 billion from the investment budgets. —— cutting £4 billion. it's leftist with a huge repair bill, putting patient lives at risk. in terms of the prospects because you have a health announcement as well, your concerns about the impact potentially government policy on the cost of drugs which i will ask you about ina cost of drugs which i will ask you about in a moment but let me pick up on these developments this morning, ifi on these developments this morning, if i may. we talked about health funding, what about the suggestion that appears on the sunday telegraph this morning that suggests dominic
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cummings, senior adviser in downing street, has been briefing to ministers that it is now too late for there to be a general election before the 31st of october and that therefore, brexit will go ahead on therefore, brexit will go ahead on the 31st of october whatever attem pts the 31st of october whatever attempts your party or other opposition parties make to bring this government down? first of all, dominic cummings, the top adviser to borisjohnson said on the record tory mps don't care about the nhs and then there's 4.4 million people waiting for surgery, when an accident and emergency is in crisis and people can't get to see a gp on time because of funding, cuts to services, privatisation, cuts to social care, we know tory mps don't ca re social care, we know tory mps don't care about the nhs but when it comes toa care about the nhs but when it comes to a general election and it comes to a general election and it comes to stopping a new deal brexit, it's clear that across parliament, mps including tory mps, want to stop a
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note deal brexit because we know no deal, which tory ministers say they are charging towards will be a disaster for the country, for the national health service, a disaster for the economy, it means the nhs could lose lots of staff who work from the eu in it, it means access to medicines could be put at risk when we import 37 million packs of medicine every month, it means access to radioisotopes which are vital for cancer treatment could be delayed, putting cancer patients treatment journeys seriously at risk. so actually, tory mps, liberal mps, need to work with the labour party in september when parliament returns to block a damaging no—deal brexit. the essence of the claims the newspapers making this morning is because of the rules that exist, you will be familiar with them, on the minimum number of days you can have between a general election and parliament being probed, to stop a short election campaign that there
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is no chance for proper debate, that means you've already missed the deadline. no, no, look, if the government which they will have to do, bring form some sort of legislation under some form of agreement to leave the european union, either with some sort of withdrawal agreement or because they are going for a no—deal brexit, there will be an opportunity in parliament to amend the legislation and give the prime minister and government a mandate to tell them they cannot leave the european union with a no deal. a note deal would be disastrous, i think is highly irresponsible to be leaving the european union, turbo towards a no deal when we know it has huge and catastrophic implications for the health service and we are on the cusp of the winter in the nhs, we had the flu vaccine manufacturers warning might not be able to get flu vaccines on time if we go for a note deal. the idea that we should have a
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no—deal brexit putting at risk access to flu vaccines before winter in the nhs is gambling with people ‘s lives, that's what borisjohnson is doing. let me ask you about a story of the labour party has put out today, researchers conducted which have suggested common treatments could rise sevenfold if there is a us trade deal. the prospects of a us trade deal are pretty remote at the moment whatever president trump passe, congress has indicated that it would be a long time before any such deal could be made. at best, this is speculative, isn't it, at worst it's to suggest to people they may end up being charged with a trade deal for the us? it's based on fact, liz truss was writing in the telegraph that she wants to quickly develop a trade deal with the united states but a trade deal with the united states will depend on us pharmaceutical companies getting access to art markets here and forcing the nhs to
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pay more for drugs, forcing the nhs to buy more expensive drugs for diabetes, asthma, cancer. that's what the health secretary in the us has said. and it's why it's so important, so important that we roll out a trade deal with the us put the future of the nhs at risk. that's why we've been raising these concerns today, it's not scaremongering, it's pointing out the facts. jonathan ashworth, shadow health secretary, thank you so much for joining health secretary, thank you so much forjoining us from leicester. let's talk to our political correspondent jessica parker. the paradox of this, it's a one—off announcement to fulfil the prime minister ‘s pledge when he took office but the government also says we want to put an end to one—off announcements, we wa nt to an end to one—off announcements, we want to have a long—term care funding framework. theresa may 's announcements work long—term funding framework announcements when she was
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in office, anyway i think the conservative government had said they have fulfilled that pledge and this is a bonus on top but as you've heard from jon ashworth, in his view, the money going to the nhs simply isn't enough and this one off spent to help with a backlog of repair work in various hospitals and we'll hear more about the 20 hospitals getting some of that 850 million tomorrow, not enough in his view and i think the labour party is probably nervous of being outdone on public spending pledges. the labour party likes to think of itself as the party of the nhs, that invests properly in public services and you can see what borisjohnson is trying to do with his tactics at the moment, i'd brexit the brexit party by saying do or die, leaving on the 3ist by saying do or die, leaving on the 31st of october and he's trying to ta ke 31st of october and he's trying to take the fight to the labour party as well. jessica, thank you.
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steve is a very good player, don't get me wrong, we are trying to get him out as well. when you're new player at the crease you attack them as them as much as possible, it's when you are most vulnerable as a player. you know, we obviously saw in the first innings, will be built a lot of pressure at the other end, put pressure on the batters. we try and do that again. at the same time, we will be looking to get steve out if we can. filaments say they will ta ke if we can. filaments say they will take the strongest possible action after their defender claimed his sister was head and racially abused by clu b fa ns sister was head and racially abused by club fans during their defeat at barnsley. he posted on social media after the championship game to condemn the supporters behaviour
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sent regardless of how you felt about the result, the actions are shameful. fulham have launched an investigation into what happened. bronte law and charlie hull go into the final round of the british open golf still in contention, both five shots off the lead, the japanese player who plays in herfirst japanese major is at 14 under, a lead of ten shots from the south african. the defending champion georgia hall is ten shots of the lead after a disappointing 74 yesterday. the rugby football league in super league say they are appalled by clashes between fans of catalan dragons and warrington wolves. tempers flared on and off the field. ten minutes of the game to go. warrington players, two of them, and one from the opposing side were sent off, disturbing scenes in the crowd as fans clashed in the stands, both clu bs as fans clashed in the stands, both clubs condemning the incident, the
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match saw catalans beat warrington by 30—10, st helens when the league leaders shield. that's of your sport. listen to the ashes on radio 5 live. play is under way at 11am. also in play clips available from the sport website plus more. that's over now. more in the next hour. another 55 homes have been evacuated near a dam in derbyshire which is in danger of collapsing. police say it's because more heavy rain is forecast. efforts continued through the night to reduce the water levels at toddbrook reservoir and stabilise the whaley bridge dam. michael cowan has the latest. the battle to save whaley bridge dam is entering its fourth day after fresh evacuations last night. 55 homes were evacuated, joining the 1500 people already forced to leave. water levels at the reservoir have reduced by 1.3 metres since thursday
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but with the threat of storms, authorities worry it's not enough. raf chinook helicopter is now a regularfixture in whaley bridge are continuing to drop bags of aggregate as they try to shore up the damage to the dam that's protected this community for almost 200 years. but there was relief for some yesterday, residents were allowed back into the deserted town for 15 minutes to collect essentials. we sort of knew we needed to get things, we knew we had to do things and as long as you move quickly and i would say listen all the time, because they told us if we here three blasts on the horn we were to just run. a yellow weather warning for thunderstorms and heavy rain is in place from the met office this afternoon. leaving this community to ask, when their nightmare might end?
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michael cowan, bbc news. sixty firearms have been found hidden in a car arriving in doverfrom calais. it's believed to be the largest seizure of lethal weapons at a uk port. a 37 year old man from dublin is due to appear in court on monday. two united airline pilots have been arrested at glasgow airport, for allegedly failing a breath test before boarding a flight to new york. the men, aged 45 and 61, have not been charged, but remain in custody and are expected to appear before court on tuesday. they face up to two years in prison. pro—democracy protesters in hong kong have called for two more marches today, continuing their ninth consecutive weekend of demonstrations. they're also calling on residents to join a strike tomorrow. there were more clashes last night between security forces and protesters. riot police fired tear gas while missiles and rocks were thrown by some demonstrators, who wore masks and used laser pointers to try to avoid identification by facial recognition technology.
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a french inventor has successfully crossed the english channel this morning on a jet—powered hoverboard. franky zapata took off from sangatte near calais, stopped half— way on a boat to refill his kerosene backpack, and completed the crossing in twenty minutes. it was franky zapata's second attempt to cross the 20—mile stretch of water. he tried it last month but fell into the sea when he failed to land on a refuelling platform. all great achievements don't tend to happen on the first occasion. now, coming up next for viewers on bbc one, sunday morning live. ina in a legal challenge to curb the snoopers charter filled this week. we'll have more. ruby wax touring with a buddhist monk, will find
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more. and while we found out a row with wolverhampton bus drivers reverberated around the world. we'll hear more. now, time for a look at the weather with susan. good morning, the forecast remaining of great concern to the northern half of britain, heavy downpours to come, through the day and the week ahead. here's the outlook for buxton, you can see a significant chance of whaley bridge being in the same part of derbyshire, there is more heavy rain on the way. showers, ad breaks in between them, some areas will miss the worst and there will be decent sunny spells across the southern half of the uk today but with energy from this and helping the showers to mushroom across the north midlands through into northern england and scotland through the afternoon, there is heavy downpours. the met office modifying the warning area, making it slightly more extensive and extending the period of the morning until midnight. if anything, it's the latter part of the afternoon and on into the
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hello. this is bbc news. the headlines... 20 people have been killed and 26 injured in a mass shooting in a walmart store in the us city of el paso, texas. a suspect has been taken into custody by police — he's been identified by local media as 21—year—old patrick crusius. a second mass shooting has taken place in the us, in dayton, ohio. ten people, including the shooter, have died. another 55 homes are evacuated as heavy rain is forecast in derbyshire where emergency services are battling to prevent the whaley bridge dam from collapsing.
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