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there's been condemnation across the political spectrum in france of an attempt to set fire to the home of a mayor in a district of paris, during a fifth night of nationwide unrest. these are pictures from the incident — the french prosecutor says an investigation into "attempted murder" is under way. the mayor's wife was injured during the ordeal — she was forced to flee the home with her children. to flee the home with their children. the prime minister, elisabeth borne, described it as intolerable — during a meeting with mayor vincentjeanbrun a short time ago. ms borne told reporters she was �*very shocked' by what happened, and that the government will do �*everything it can�* to restore order �*as quickly as possible�*. across france, 700 people were arrested overnight — sharply down on the previous night. the rioting began in response to the killing by police on tuesday of a teenager, nahel m. sofia bettiza has the latest from lille in the country�*s north. another night of unrest in france.
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tens of thousands of police were out in force, ready for a fifth night of riots. the worst of the violence was in marseille. police fought street battles with young people. the riots began after a police officer shot dead a 17—year—old of algerian descent called nael. translation: the person who was killed was a child| and that is why more minors are coming into the movement because what is going on is unfair. "imagine if that had happened to my brother," she says. "i mean, we are not safe here. we should be safe with the police but we are scared of them." this is paris, the iconic place normally packed with tourists, lined with security forces. this is a health centre. 35 doctors and nurses work here. rioters broke in in the middle of the night and set the building on fire.
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and people here told us they do not sympathise with the rioters because they feel that they are destroying their own communities, and that this is not the right way to demand justice for nael. but this is notjust about nael. his death has reignited debate about racism in the french police. what many people who want is at least an acknowledgement that there is a problem of racial profiling and excessive use of force by the french police. sofia bettiza, bbc news, lille. the story on life, looking at images purported to be from the riots actually from a french film. plus page, plenty more bbc news in due
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course. now to the us. two people have been killed and another 28 have been injured in a mass shooting the city of baltimore, in the state of maryland. three people remain in a critical condition. the shooting happened as hundreds gathered for annual event in the brooklyn area. police say they are reviewing cctv in the hunt for those reponsible. our detectives are currently working an extensive crime scene. the two deceased victims we have are both adults. we have three other victims who are in critical condition. our hearts and prayers are going out to the families, sending it out to the families and friends of these victims as well as the community in our entire city. this is an extensive crime scene, our detectives are going to be here quite a while. if anyone saw anything or knows anything, please call 911 or call local metro crime stoppers 1—866—7—lockup. we have members of our fire department, also emergency management, as well as otherjurisdictions working with us to try to determine a motive. eyewitnesses told local media that
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20 to 30 shots were fired during the incident. the mayor of baltimore says the tragedy highlighted the need to deal with the over—proliferation of illegal guns on the city�*s streets. brandon scott had this message for the perpetrators. this was a reckless, cowardly act that happened here and that has permanently altered many lives and cost two people their lives. i want those who are responsible to hear me and hear me very clearly — we will not stop until we find you and we will find you. until then, i hope with every single breath that you take that you think about the lives that you took and you think about the lives that you impacted here tonight. i want to again express that this is an absolute tragedy that did not have to happen. it again highlights the impact and the need to deal with the impact and the need to deal with the over proliferation of illegal guns on our streets and the ability
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for those who should not have them to get their hands on them, and also of the need for accountability for each and every level when you are dealing with guns and gun violence. and again, we will not stop until we find those cowards who decide to just shoot dozens of people causing to lose their lives, and we are going to be here until we find them, till we hold them accountable, till they are held accountable for the actions they took because we cannot rest until they do so. let�*s get some of the day�*s other news now. an environmental campaign group has accused a british energy giant of trading russian gas more than a year after a pledge to pull out of the country. global witness says its analysis has found shell handled nearly an eighth of russia�*s liquified natural gas exports by sea last year and is still buying tankers laden with gas. shell says the shipments are part of long—term contracts it can�*t break. the government of iran has decided not to send its new ambassador
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to sweden, protesting the burning of a copy of the koran last wednesday in stockholm. the iranian foreign minister blames the swedish authorities for the incident, which saw a protester burn a copy of the holy book outside a mosque. and sri lanka has repatriated an elephant gifted by thailand, after the thai authorities complained it was being mistreated. the animal was presented by the thai royal family two decades ago, but demanded back after allegations it was being tortured and neglected at a buddhist temple. the four—tonne elephant was flown out of colombo on a specially chartered plane. in the uk — the national health service is to nearly double the number of gambling addiction clinics in england. this is after referrals hit a record high. seven new facilities will open this summer. here�*s joe inwood. gambling has never been easier — every smartphone can become a virtual casino. that ease of access has coincided with a huge rise in the number of people struggling with addiction.
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people like luke ashton. last week, a coroner ruled that his online losses contributed to his decision to take his own life. after his death, his wife annie got access to his accounts. there was just so much on there. ijust remember sitting there and scrolling, scrolling, scrolling and it was the same day and scrolling and seeing his transactions, it was so apparent at that point there was a major issue. how can someone make that many bets in one day? how can somebody do that and it not be picked up? they considered him a low risk. even having that information in front of them, they still considered him a low risk, so something is wrong. just under moo patients were referred for help with gambling just under 1,400 patients were referred for help with gambling addiction last year, that�*s nearly double the figure from two years ago. it�*s led to strong criticism of the industry and the head of nhs england, amanda pritchard, has raised her own concerns, saying, people can gamble on their phone at the touch of a button
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and everyone, young and old, is bombarded with adverts encouraging them to take part. the solution, seven more specialist clinics. there are already eight running, including a national centre in london. the plan is to have space to treat 3000 people a year, to treat 3,000 people a year, offering cognitive behavioural therapy, family therapy, support groups and aftercare. but there are calls for industry to act too. the nhs cannot and should not do this alone, so, absolutely, we�*ve called upon industry to act responsibly, stop some of the more pernicious and aggressive marketing techniques and unsolicited approaches to people. the government recently introduced proposals aimed at reducing the harms caused by problem gambling. today�*s announcement shows the nhs expects the numbers suffering to rise.
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joe inwood, bbc news. the chief executive of england�*s national health service has called for the resolution of the outstanding pay disputes involving doctors — saying strike action cannot become, �*business as usual�*. the health secretary, steve barclay, says he remains open to discussions with the doctors�* unions — but that their current pay demands are unreasonable. this month�*s planned strikes come as the nhs celebrates its 75th birthday this week. here�*s our political correspondent, tony bonsignore. for the nhs, a big birthday looms. for many, there is little to celebrate. growing waiting lists, record numbers of vacancies. the worsening annual crisis in a&e. today, though, a spirited defence of the health of the nhs by the woman in charge of running it. almost all our indicators are going in the right direction but what we have to recognise...
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but more people are waiting than ever before and fewer people treated, even though you�*ve got bigger budgets. numbers of patients, you are right, that�*s going up. as we have always said that would get bigger before it came down but the longest waits are reducing consistently. the other big challenge is a more immediate one. further waves of strikes. junior doctors plan to walk out for five days later this month, followed shortly after by consultants. nhs leaders are worried. there is no doubt the sooner we can bring this to a resolution, the better for patients. we have had well over 500,000 appointments rescheduled as a consequence of industrial action. so the sooner we bring it to an end, the better. we can�*t let it become business as usual for the nhs. the pressure on the government is intense. it insists it is listening and open to discussion. but there seems little prospect of a truce any time soon. we stand ready to have discussions. there are other things in the contract that could be
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reformed in the way it often values time over experience. so the pay progression through the consultants�* contracts. i do not think of 35% demand from junior doctors is affordable given our need to bring inflation down. labour, meanwhile, has not yet set out what it would be prepared to do to end the strikes. i understand the pressure they face, the massive sense of frustration they have. alongside that, the conservatives with their reckless approach last year crashed the economy and we have had a realfailure around growth. so if we were the next government we�*d face some tough choices. as the nhs marks its 75th anniversary it is clear big decisions lie ahead. tony bonsignore, bbc news. i want to return to the situation in france, as the country has seen a fifth night of unrest, with heavy clashes between police and rioters in the southern city of marseille. 719 people were arrested overnight, down from well over 1,000
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the previous night. let�*s get more on the significance of the riots. renaud girard is a senior reporter and columnist with le figaro. hejoins me from brittany. thank you so much for doing so, thank you for your time. these riots have been going on forfive nights, what is the significance of this for the french nation? it is what is the significance of this for the french nation?— the french nation? it is really significant — the french nation? it is really significant because _ the french nation? it is really significant because a - the french nation? it is really significant because a lot - the french nation? it is really significant because a lot of i the french nation? it is really - significant because a lot of efforts have been done by the government for the last 20 or 30 years to improve the last 20 or 30 years to improve the poor suburbs of paris or marseille, or other cities. the president himself was in marseille recently, investing a lot of taxpayers�* money in this city, and now you have young people who are actually destroying the public goods that have been put in the districts
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in order to improve their lives. i can give you an example. in a suburb south of paris you had a totally new tramway which has been used for one week and which has been burnt. so yes, this violence is very significant. it shows that the what in french means city politics, if you like politique de la ville,, strategy, has not been working and it showed when president macron had to cancel a visit to germany, he had a visit to germany, to stay under french territory, to manage this big crisis. i think we didn�*t have such a crisis since 2005. crisis. i think we didn't have such a crisis since 2005.— crisis. i think we didn't have such a crisis since 2005. how does this aet a crisis since 2005. how does this get resolved. _ a crisis since 2005. how does this get resolved, renaud? _ a crisis since 2005. how does this get resolved, renaud? in - a crisis since 2005. how does this
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get resolved, renaud? in many . get resolved, renaud? in many respects ending the rights is perhaps the easier part of the weather changes and it rains people stay at home, even of police are deployed at the writers are suppressed and enough stay at home, if enough people are arrested people lose the impetus to riot but the societal contempt that has built up for many years, that�*s a far harder to unpick and like you say, many of these regions have had significant investment in that seemingly hasn�*t been enough. investment in that seemingly hasn't been enough-— investment in that seemingly hasn't been enough. yes, so, you could say at first that — been enough. yes, so, you could say at first that there _ been enough. yes, so, you could say at first that there is _ been enough. yes, so, you could say at first that there is lawlessness - at first that there is lawlessness and drug trafficking in marseille, lyon, paris, the north and rotterdam, whatever. the drugs route, if you like. and you could say the same map is the map of the riots but now you have events also in the east of france, near switzerland, in strasbourg, in metz,
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south of lorraine, so all over, so obviously there is a significant part of the youth which is coming from immigration coming from north africa especially, who doesn�*t feel like being part of french society and who are destroying public goods, even schools have been burnt. so it is a very serious situation. you can say the french society is kind of sick. ~ ., ., ., , sick. we will follow development closel . sick. we will follow development closely- in _ sick. we will follow development closely. in the _ sick. we will follow development closely. in the meantime, - sick. we will follow development | closely. in the meantime, renaud girard, thank you so much for joining us. girard, thank you so much for joining us— girard, thank you so much for - joining us-— now joining us. you are welcome. now it's time to _ joining us. you are welcome. now it's time to look _ joining us. you are welcome. now it's time to look at _ joining us. you are welcome. now it's time to look at today's - joining us. you are welcome. now it's time to look at today's sport. | for all the criticism england have faced for their new style of test cricket during the second ashes
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match agaisnt australia, ben stokes is currently trying to employ it to provide an extraordinary victory. under 100 runs are required for them to do so. after england lost their second wicket of the day, which left australia needing four more to win. he launched a massive counterattack, eventually reaching his century with three sixes in a row. since lunch, he�*s been just as aggressive, and was dropped by steve smith. he is still there. it�*s breathless stuff at lord�*s, where the atmosphere has been described by those there as febrile. this is why. jonny bairstow�*s wicket was controversial. leaving the crease at what he thought was the end of the over, australian wicketkeeper alex carey threw the ball at the stumps, it was adjudged to be out, with suggestions that while following the law, it was agasint the spirit of the game. australian captain pat cummins didn�*t withdraw the appeal. so everything that�*s happened since has played out in that context. 276-6, 276—6, england, with stokes unbeaten on 132, so under 100 runs needed,
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371 is the target for the home side to level the ashes series at 1—1. meanwhile, sri lanka have guaranteed a place at the men�*s 50—over world cup in india later this year, securing one of the two spots available at the qualifying competition. they beat hosts zimbabwe, the only other team who had a 100% record before the game, by nine wickets in bulawayo. after bowling zimbabwe out for 165 in under 33 overs, they knocked off the runs needed in almost exactly the same time, pathum nissanka ending on 101 not out. zimbabwe can still qualify if they beat scotland on tuesday. novak djokovic might not be the number one seed at wimbledon, but there�*s still a feeling that he�*s the one to beat. not only is he attempting to equal roger federer�*s record of eight titles, he�*s also still on course for the first calendar grand slam in sa years. and, while carlos alcaraz is ahead of him in the rankings, djokovic isn�*t thinking about who might stand in his way. i don�*t need to have carlos
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or anybody else really to find that extra drive and motivation when i enter slams because i know that i have to win seven matches to win a title. so whoever i get to face across the net is, you know, it doesn�*t make a difference for me. the tournament starts on monday, with women�*s number one seed iga swiatek in good form and, having recovered from the possible food poisoning that led to her withdrawal from her first ever grass court semifinal on friday in germany. fresh too from a third french open title in four years swiatek says she feels more relaxed going into this year�*s wimbledon. last year, i felt a lot of pressure here because i was world number one and i don�*t know, i feel like this time, actually, that was the first year where i could just focus on practising and actually learning a lot. so hopefully i�*m going to be able to use that on my matches and for sure, getting used to the grass was always a tricky part because when you play well at roland garros, you have less time to
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prepare for wimbledon. the austrian grand prix is well under way with red bull�*s max verstappen starting in pole postition and aiming to extend his lead in the driver�*s championship. to extend his lead in the drivers�* championship. it�*s been announced that the austrian grand prix will remain on the formula one calendar until at least 2030 after a new long—term deal at the red bull ring was confirmed ahead of sunday�*s race. the circuit has been a permanent fixture since 2014. you can follow the progress at the red bull ring on our website, race with four wheels and also two because the tour de france and giro d�*italia for the women are both enjoying their second stage, at bbc.com/ sport. that�*s all the sport for now. thank you so much. asa as a mention at the beginning of the programme attackers in france try to set fire to the home of a suburban paris mayor�*s home overnight and fired rockets at the officials as
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they fled, including his wife and children. the suspects in the incident in the south of paris have not yet been identified. rajini vaidyanathan is there, joining us live now. what is the latest? this is the streetwear _ live now. what is the latest? ti 3 is the streetwear vincent jeanbrun lives is the streetwear vincentjeanbrun lives with his family about 45 minutes from the centre of paris and as you can see there is a police cordoned here, there officers guarding the road and just over the back of the car is the house where the incident happened last night. not too long ago the prime minister of france elisabeth borne actually came to this area. she called the attack on the mayor�*s home unjustifiable. earlier we heard from vincentjeanbrun who described it as cowardly. he said he felt this was an assassination attempt on him. now, he wasn�*t actually at home at the time the car which was set alight was driven into the family
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home. he was at a nearby town hall, at 1:30am in home. he was at a nearby town hall, at1:30am in the home. he was at a nearby town hall, at 1:30am in the morning. but his wife and two young children were at home, they tried to escape. his wife has a broken leg, we understand, i�*m not sure where the family are at the moment. but many people saying this really is a kind of turning point in what we have had night after night of protests. in a statement that vincentjeanbrun issued, he said tonight a line has been crossed in the horror and ignominy. there is a lot of anger and shock about the damage and destruction. but i do think for some people this is kind of tipped the balance, even for people who sympathise with the sentiments that the protesters have. despite this shocking incident, we saw far fewer people arrested last night than the night before. do you think may be like you say this inflection point, this turning point, might see potentially these riots quietened down?—
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riots quietened down? difficult to know, we riots quietened down? difficult to know. we know — riots quietened down? difficult to know, we know that _ riots quietened down? difficult to know, we know that there - riots quietened down? difficult to know, we know that there were i riots quietened down? difficult to - know, we know that there were around 700 arrests last night, compared with 1300 the night before. one thing that was deftly different where we were in the centre of paris last night was the police presence really felt like it had been beefed up. we were at the champs—elysees, a popular tourist street but at night there were just police officers everywhere. you could see blue flashing lights all the way down the avenue, police officers in vans and on bikes almost trying to outnumber the protesters. earlier in the day there was talk on social media that protesters would gather at the champs—elysees but it felt like the officers overpowered them. there were not the tensions there that people thought there might be. but let�*s not forget this isn�*t a protest movement confined to the capital paris. and so last night we did see very violent clashes in the south of the country, for example, in marseille where police and
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protesters clashed and tear gas was fired into the crowds to disperse them. it is still very much a situation that is on edge. there is talk that we will hear from, maybe not hear from the president, talk that we will hear from, maybe not hearfrom the president, but that he is having more crisis talks later today. we are expecting to hear from the police late this evening as well. some people have been calling for a state of emergency to be imposed to contain the ongoing violence. 0ne emergency to be imposed to contain the ongoing violence. one of the people who has been making those calls happens to be the mayor vincentjeanbrun whose house we are outside at the moment. there have been differing opinions on whether giving police sweeping powers of arrest and breaking up organised gatherings would be a good idea, whether it would just provoke people further but that�*s definitely one option on the table for president macron as protests continue. rajini macron as protests continue. ra'ini vaidyanathan. fl macron as protests continue. ra'ini vaidyanathan, thank d macron as protests continue. ra'ini vaidyanathan, thank you. i the owner of twitter, elon musk, has limited the number
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of tweets users can read in a day. he says unverified accounts are now limited to reading 1,000 posts a day. for new univerified accounts — it�*s 500. and for �*verified�* accounts — that you have to pay for — it�*s 10,000 posts a day. musk says the limits tackle what he says is — �*extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation�*. this is a story about the world�*s most loyal dog. he went to his own�*s work and waited outside at the station at the exact time when the train was due to greed the owner and after the man died at the dog returned to the station every day for the next nine years waiting for his owner to get the train. the cream white dog was born a century ago and has been memorialised in everything from books to movies and cult science fiction and futurama, the second. the bronze statue outside the station has been there for almost a decade, celebrating
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that incredible story. plenty more stories on our website and on the bbc news app will stop you can also stay with us here on bbc news. i�*m gareth barlow. thanks so much for watching. hello, plenty of spells of sunshine through the rest of your sunday afternoon into the evening too. we have a few showers around mainly across the northern half of the uk. further south is where you have longer spells of dry and sunny weather but a fairly bright and breezy sort of day, noticeable wind coming in from a west or north westerly direction and it�*s blowing around this area of low pressure as it is just drifting slowly across scandinavia. drawn in on the atlantic air we are seeing a few showers, particularly affecting scotland and northern ireland through the remainder of the day, a fifa northern england and northern wales but further south and east likely to stay dry with some late sunshine today. more persistent rain and cloud lingering across the far north of scotland for the likes of caithness and sutherland and 0rkney,
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but overnight most places relatively dry and clear. temperatures down into single figures for many northern areas in particular as we head into the early hours of monday morning. so a fresh start to the day but quite a bit of sunshine around from the word go. it isn�*t going to stick around everywhere because we have got more showers on the way. we have got more showers on the way. we have this system you can see here drifting in from the west. so initially that will bring rain across parts of wales in the middle part of the morning. it will drift eastwards into england through the day but tending to fragment and become quite showery as it does so. more rain to come across the north of scotland with another weather front over there. sunny spells for many of us in between those showers. temperatures 13—20 , so a little below par, a couple of degrees below average for the stage injuly. monday is the first day of the championships at wimbledon. a lot of dry weather through the day but as cloud thickens in the afternoon there is a chance of some passing showers during the latter part of the afternoon. into tuesday it looks like the next area of low pressure will move in toward southern parts
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of the uk, bit of uncertainty for tuesday on the detail for how far. that rain gets across southern england, likely to see the rain during the day on tuesday and sunshine and showers for the rest of the uk. an unsettled sort of day and relatively cool for this stage in earlyjuly. 13—19 out of temperature on tuesday. a bit of a breeze around where you see the showers as well. it is looking relatively cool and fairly unsettled over the next few days but there are some drier and brighter weather, particularly further south, and by that we can look at those temperatures, we could get up to around 28 degrees in the london region. goodbye for now.
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this is bbc news, the headlines: condemnation in france after an attempt to set fire clinics�* this summer — to the home of a mayor during a fifth night of nationwide riots. the violence was sparked by the killing by police of a teenager of algerian descent. in the us, two people have been killed in a mass shooting in baltimore. twenty—eight others were injured — with three in critical condition. a search for the shooter is under way. debris from eight british hurricane fighter planes, dating back to world war two, has been found buried, in a forest in ukraine. the aircraft was sent to the soviet union by britain after nazi germany invaded the country in 1941. in england, the national health service
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