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welcome to bbc news — i'm david eades. our top stories. at least ten people have been killed and many more injured in a series of stabbings in canada. police say two suspects are on the run, and are urging people to stay inside. we are still looking for the two suspects. we're asking residents across saskatchewan and neighbouring provinces to be vigilant. rejected — a radical new constitution for chile, offering gender equality, minority rights and healthcare for all, is soundly beaten in a referendum. britain's wait for a new prime minister is nearly over — the result of the governing conservatives leadership election will be known in a few hours. and the venetians are back
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on board — the annual regatta takes place in full for the first time since covid. hello. we begin in canada where police are searching for two suspects thought to have stabbed ten people to death. at least 15 others have been wounded. the prime ministerjustin trudeau has described the events in the province of saskatchewan as "horrific and heart—breaking". police there say they are investigating 13 possible crime scenes and are looking for two men they believe carried out the attacks. at this point in our investigation, we have located ten deceased individuals in 13 locations in the areas of james smith cree nation
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and weldon, saskatchewan. several others have been injured, 15 of which at this point have been transported to various hospitals. there may be additional injured victims who transported themselves to various hospitals. let me be clear. we are still looking for the two suspects. we ask residents across saskatchewan and neighbouring provinces to be vigilant. at this stage in our investigation, we believe some of the victims have been targeted by the suspects, and others have been attacked randomly. the two suspects are damien sanderson and myles sanderson. damien sanderson is described as a 31—year—old male, 5'7", 155lbs, with black hair and brown eyes. myles sanderson is a 30—year—old male, 6'1", 240lbs, with brown hair and brown eyes. if damien and myles
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are listening or receive this information, i would ask that they turn themselves in to police immediately. they are considered armed and dangerous. jason kerr, the editor of the prince albert daily herald in saskatchewan, spoke to me earlier. i asked him if the two men were still on the run. yes, as far as we know, they haven't been ta ken into custody. officials have not updated the number of victims that were killed or injured, so that's the most recent thing we have on that front. the other recent development, the first community where the stabbing occurred has declared a state of emergency due to the murders and assaults that occurred this morning. leaders there asking for help from the red cross and other
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mental health organisations, helping residents deal with the traumatic things they witness today. i can well imagine why they would want to do that. trying to piece this together, 13 possible crime scenes across a number of towns. it's an extraordinary, i don't know what you call it, rampage? it's something people are used to seeing in major cities, the type of thing we read about with new york or los angeles, but to see this happen in small—town saskatchewan, the james smith cree nation, 2,000 people, and weldon, only about 200, they have very small numbers of people, so it's shocking for people. everyone is going to know someone either who has been killed or is now in hospital. any more on the rationale behind all of this, jason?
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police were asked about this at a press conference this afternoon but they are being very deliberate in their investigation, not saying anything about a possible motive, not saying anything about whether these men were known to police or had a criminal record. all they will say is some of the initial killings were believed to be targeted but others appeared to be random. once again, it's so early in the investigation that they are not willing to talk about it. now to chile, where voters have rejected a new constitution that would have radically transformed the country's social and economic structure. 62% were against and just 37% in favour of the proposed changes. the referendum result is a setback for chile's left wing president, gabriel boric. he said he would to listen to the voice of the people and adopt a more inclusive approach. the new constitution, focused on social rights, the environment, and indigenous rights, would have replaced the current text dating back to the augusto pinochet dictatorship.
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earlier, i spoke with chilean journalist paula molina. i began by asking her if the referendum result has come as a surprise. it's beyond the expectations. even of the supporters of the reject option. there was no poll capable of annoyncing this trend. reject was 62% of the vote, which is really something unprecedented in terms of what the polls had announced before. so yes, it is a backset for the president. but he has said democracy is stronger today, and they will begin to work with a new constitutional route.
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one that will come out of an agreement between the left and the centre, and that will take place in the congress. i imagine that's going to be a hard sell. it's taken three years to put all this together, and some 388 articles in the document, so wide ranging. issues like gender equality and environmental protections, lgbtq rights, indigenous rights, health care for all, this was a massive package. yes, it was, and it was a long process. it came out of political agreement, a wide agreement that was reached just right after the social unrest of 2019. so on the bright side, we chileans have followed a route to a constitutional process and this referendum, the majority of the voters
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said no, we don't want this constitution. but what still remains is 80% of people voted in favour of changing the constitution, of a deep reform of the 1980 constitution. so the political process will now have to take that into account, that 80% of the people voted for a change of that constitution. but now the political system will have to think about how to replace it. well, exactly. i don't know if this is an unfair question, but what do you think was in the proposed constitution that turned so many people off? that's an excellent question. perhaps it's related to the way the convention was written, the proposal... it was made by independent people not connected
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to the political parties, and i think it was hard to negotiate inside the convention, that was one of the problems. there were some scandals in terms of a few members of the convention, and all this process began to create a distance between public opinion and the convention. here in the uk, we're a matter of hours away from learning who'll become the next prime minister. whoever wins the leadership election for the conservative party will take over from borisjohnson on tuesday and will immediately face a number of challenges — perhaps chief among them, soaring energy prices. 0ur political editor chris mason has this report. behind millions of doors right now, anxiety about spiralling bills. and behind this door by tuesday afternoon, a new prime minister. is it in the bag now?
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liz truss is all but certain to replace borisjohnson, and is promising a big intervention within days, to help. i understand that people are struggling with eye—watering energy bills, and there are predictions of even worse down the track. and so the only question that matters — what will she do? if i'm elected as prime minister, i will act immediately on bills and on energy supply, because i think those two things go hand—in—hand. we need to deal with the immediate problem. we need to help people. we need to help businesses. but we also need to sort out the supply issues that have ended up... made us end up being where we are now. liz truss also explained today the rationale at the heart of her approach to tax and the economy. in short, her desire to cut taxes. cutting national insurance, as she has promised,
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benefits better—paid people more than poorer—paid ones. inevitably, when you cut taxes, you tend to benefit people who are more likely to pay tax. of course, there are some people who don't pay tax at all. but to look at everything through the lens of redistribution, i believe, is wrong. because what i'm about is about growing the economy, and growing the economy benefits everybody. so far, the economic debate for the past 20 years has been dominated by discussions about distribution. and what's happened is we have had relatively low growth. the immediate focus, though, is energy bills. labour say they would freeze them over the winter, and point out... the two leadership candidates, liz truss, you've just heard from, cannot give a specific answer to the one question, frankly, that everybody wants an answer to, which is, what the hell is going
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to happen to my bills? still smiling while walking towards defeat, this was rishi sunak this morning. it's all over now, isn't it? last week, he sounded conciliatory towards his rival. take a listen to his tone of concession today. if you don't win this time, would you ever run again? oh, gosh, wejust finished this campaign, laura. so i say i need to recover from this one. but i look forward to supporting a conservative government in whatever... so that's a yes. you're not ruling it out. no, gosh, no, no — i think that myjob now is to just support a conservative government. how much others will be willing to support the government may depend on the extent to which they feel the new prime minister gets the reality of life for many. people in leeds told us what they're hoping for. costs need to come down, and the government need to take action and help support people. i want them to think about working—class people. because we work hard, and we can't afford lots of things. everything's going up, so- everyone's feeling the pinch.
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it's a struggle when you've got children because you feel- like you can't do the fun things you used - to be able to do. yeah, it's a difficult one. i wouldn't want to be a politician trying to figure all this out, because where's the money come from? i guess they're gonna have to pull it from somewhere else, aren't they? and yes, this is some distance from an easy time to take office. the dilemmas and difficulties of government will begin the moment the new prime minister walks through that door. chris mason, bbc news. earlier, we spoke to emilio casalicchio, a correspondent with politico, covering british politics, author of the westminster playbook newsletter. i asked what the likely winner of the conservative leadership election, liz truss, might do in herfirst weeks as the prime minister. we are trying to work out at the moment what liz truss might do when she gets into office about the cost of living crisis.
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report in the papers this morning that she is going to look at freezing energy bills, which is an idea that the opposition labour party has been pushing for a good few weeks now. the way that would work is either the government would reimburse the energy companies for the money customers wouldn't pay or they could take out loans for the energy companies and pay the loans back later. it sounds like that is a plan that is definitely on the table, with reports she could come up with a package of something like £100 billion to try to help people, which would be bigger than the furlough package that paid people while they were not working during the coronavirus. it does sound like something big could well be coming. huge amounts of money once again, post—covid,
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where once again huge amounts of money were spent to bail out many businesses and individuals. on a more granular issue, who she will have with her is going to be intriguing, isn't it, as to whether it is a distance from a borisjohnson feel, or whether the likes of rishi sunak will step in line if called upon. so i would be surprised to see real difficulty coming from someone like rishi sunak. although they have fought this campaign quite hard and he came at it from a very different perspective, i don't think he would go hard on the political attacks and make life difficult for liz truss. it is possible she could try to offer him some kind ofjob to ameliorate him and keep his supporters on side, but we will have to wait and see. it does seem like his supporters, at least that
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i have been speaking to tonight, they do seem worried that she is just going to give lots of cabinet jobs to her supporters that have backed her in the leadership race. it does feel a bit like it could be a bit of a winner takes all, which could create tensions in the party. stay with us on bbc news — still to come. return of the regatta — a venetian tradition makes quite a comeback after the covid lockdown. freedom itself was attacked this morning, and freedom will be defended. the united states will hunt down and punish those responsible. bishop tutu now becomes the spiritual leader of 100,000 anglicans here,
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of the blacks in soweto township as well as the whites in their rich suburbs. we say to you today, in a loud and a clear voice, enough of blood and tears. enough! translation: the difficult decision we reach together| was one that required great and exceptional courage. it is an exodus of up to 60,000 people, caused by the uneven pace of political change in eastern europe. iam free! this is bbc news — the latest headlines. at least ten people have been killed and many more injured in a
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series of stabbings in canada. police say two suspects are on the run, and are urging people to stay inside. pakistan's climate change minister has said industrialised countries must keep their promise to pay reparations to countries facing the consequences of global warming. sherry rehman was speaking after floods that have affected the lives of more than 30 million people. balochistan is one of the most affected provinces with many districts still out of reach as roads and bridges are swept away. the bbc�*s farhatjaved has been given access to one rescue mission there by the pakistani army. shocked, shattered and starving. the fight for survival gets harder. abbas and his cousin havejust been rescued from a village that has been cut off for days. translation: the rains destroyed everything. i then all my equipment was washed away by the flood. my house was razed
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to the ground. i still have the key of my shop. i don't have the courage to throw it away. it was my bread and butter. this is the province of balochistan. almost half the country's total land, and the least developed. fields, usually used as farmland, now completely submerged in water. and people run after aid, even if it means putting their lives in danger. what we are seeing here is complete destruction. everything these people owned is destroyed. every bit of their land, every piece of their belongings is gone with the water. military helicopters carry out daily rescue operations in this remote area, but there are not enough of them to reach every part of this vast province. at a relief camp in dera murad jamali district, families get basic aid. but the emotional toll of this disaster is clear.
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translation: the water was this high. _ my husband and i picked up our children, but the water was flowing very strongly. we tried really hard to keep holding on to our children's hands. they kept slipping. my husband held my hand and kept telling me to stay strong, to keep walking and not to be scared. and the fear now is that time is running out for some of those most desperately in need. farhat javed, bbc news, balochistan. police in ireland are questioning a man in his 20s about the deaths of three members of the same family, in what they've called a "violent incident" in dublin. 18—year old lisa cash, and her younger brother and sister, eight—year—old twins christy and chelsea cawley, were attacked at their home in the irish capital. high security is in place in kenya, where the supreme court is expected to deliver
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its judgement on a challenge to the result of last month's presidential election. the electoral commission declared the deputy president william ruto the winner. but his rival, raila odinga, alleges the system was hacked to deduct some of his votes. both kenyan leaders have said they will accept the court's decision. a fire which broke out during the extreme heatwave in california has now destroyed more than 4,000 acres of land and forced the evacuation of thousands of people from their homes. the so—called mill fire began close to the small town of weed. it comes as the power grid operator in california urged consumers to reduce their electricity usage, as demand soared because of the extreme heatwave. tourism has been one of the most affected sectors during the coronavirus pandemic. but many cultural events are finally returning to normal, bringing back some of the pageantry that attracted the tourists in the first place. that's certainly true in the italian city of venice, as the bbc�*s tim allman
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explains. venice always looks pretty spectacular. but it rarely looks much more spectacular than this. a procession of boats filling up the grand canalfor the annual historic regatta. 300 people taking part in a tradition that dates back centuries. but there is something a little different about this year's event — the spectators have returned. for the first time since covid, the full regatta is taking place, and not a moment too soon. translation: last year- we couldn't stay because there was a ban due to covid. this year we are much freer so we have more fun. and now we stay here in venice on an important day, so it's very important to stay here and i am very happy to be here.
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translation: it was | exciting, you could see people were passionate. for the last three years, it hasn't been done, so you could see the people who were participating, they had a lot of emotions. this was the regatta last year. plenty of boats, but a limited number of people watching. with the end of covid restrictions, the city can enjoy the event in full, a spectacle like no other in a place like no other. now, we're all familiar with taking photographs on our phones of our favourite dishes. but when an artist from the southern indian city of chennai shared her image of a cup of coffee online, the reaction on social media was red hot. her pet subject is food. take a look.
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mixed reviews on those pictures. stay with bbc news. hello, it's been a weekend of extremes across the uk, warm sunshine helping temperatures up to 26 celsius across east anglia, torrential rain, particularly, for northern ireland and scotland. heavy rain is the dominant feature. for those of us that need the rain, there will be some notable rain in the forecast over the coming days, there will be warm spells of sunshine and gradually temperatures will start to come down. we start monday with rain across north east england. behind it, warm spells of sunshine for many, a few heavy and thundery showers, showers becoming more frequent across wales and south—west england
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throughout the afternoon. a breezy day, some gusty winds across south—west england, the northern isles, but warm in the sunshine, south—west england, and temperatures getting up to 25 celsius across eastern parts of england. through the evening, the showers pushing further northwards and eventually we will see rain across scotland as well, some heavy and potentially thundery. behind it, some clearer skies, maybe patchy mist and fog. another warm, muggy night with temperatures not much lower than 1a or 15 celsius. on tuesday, the area of low pressure parked to the west of the uk, still some gusty winds for irish sea coasts and once again plenty of showers. some of us will start dry on tuesday, but it won't be long before the showers start to get going, you can see them developing like a rash across a large swathe of the uk.
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they could merge together longer spell of rain, warm in the sunshine again, 23 in the eastern side of england, where you have a showers and the breeze, more like 18 or 19 celsius. low pressure makes slow progress eastwards as we head through the middle and latter part of the week. winds easing, plenty of showers, they will be slow—moving and it looks like we should get some rain for areas that need them. the week ahead will be a mixture of sunny spells but also some heavy and potentially thundery showers and slowly the temperatures start to come down as well. goodbye.
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this is bbc news — the headlines: police in the canadian province of saskatchewan are searching for two suspects after ten people were stabbed to death. at least another 15 people were wounded. the royal canadian mounted police are investigating 13 possible crime scenes — including the indigenous area ofjames smith cree nation. voters in chile have overwhelmingly rejected a new constitution that would have transformed the country's social and economic structure. in a referendum, 62% voted against the text that was meant to replace the constitution imposed by the military in 1980. it's a setback for chile's left wing president.
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