rioting across france. 16,000 police officers are again being deployed tonight to try to head off further unrest. these talks come as there's been widespread condemnation of an attempt to set fire to the home of a local paris mayor, with rockets fired at the official�*s fleeing wife and children. he's been speaking for the first time about his family's ordeal. translation: there is no doubt that they wanted - to burn the house down, and in fact from the moment they learned that there was someone inside — because the lights were on — far from stopping, they unleashed a salvo of mortar fire that was completely crazy. we are very tired, we are exhausted, we are sad, we are angry, we are scared. at the same time, we are still standing. i was just told that my wife's operation was successful and that she will wake up soon, so we are clinging to small victories, small pleasures, as they come. it's my second mandate. i was mayor for nine years in the city where i grew up.

i never imagined putting my wife, my children, in danger. we also heard from relatives of nahel, the boy whose killing by police has sparked those riots across france. his grandmother, nadia, has called for an end to the violence. translation: i tell them to stop it. it is mothers who take buses, mothers who walk outside. we should calm things, we don't want them to break things. these people should calm down. nahel is dead, that is all there is. and i have lost my daughter. without her child, i have lost her. it is over, my daughter no longer has a life. it is over, and i understand her. and so, as a grandmother, they took away my daughter and my grandson, both of them, that's it. i'm tired, i can't bear this any longer. here in the uk, the head of nhs england says it's patients who are paying the price for continued strikes in the national health service, and that this month's planned industrial action by doctors

could be the worst yet. here's our political correspondent helen catt. the nhs will turn 75 in a few days�* time but in recent months, it's really been showing the strain — for staff, with one in ten posts empty, and for patients, with records of numbers of people on waiting lists for treatment. the woman in charge of running the nhs today insisted things were on the right track. almost all our indicators actually are going in the right direction at the moment. but what we have to recognise... with more people waiting than ever before and fewer people treated, even though you've got bigger budgets? so numbers of patients, you're absolutely right, that's going up, and we've always said, that was going to get bigger before it came down. but the longest waits are reducing and are reducing consistently. what do we want? fair pay! months of strike action have led to more than 500,000 appointments being rescheduled. nurses have now ended their strikes butjunior doctors are set to walk out again later this month for five days. and consultants will now strike too,

just a few days later. for the nhs boss, it's concerning. there has been a significant amount of disruption and that is only, at the moment, going to get more significant as we hit the next round of strikes. so that's seven out of eight days in the middle ofjuly where we'll see action and the truth is, the hard truth is, it is patients that are paying the price. she's calling on both the health secretary and the unions to reach a resolution, but how is not yet clear. the government has said it won't meet the pay demands being made. we stand ready to have discussions. there's other things, for example, in the contract that could be reformed, in the way it often values time over experience, so the pay progression through the consultants' contracts. i don't think 35% demand from the junior doctors is affordable, given our need to bring inflation down. labour won't put a figure on pay but says it would negotiate. i understand the pressure that they're facing, the massive sense of frustration that they have. but alongside that, the conservatives with their

reckless approach last year crashed the economy and we've had a real failure around growth. so if we were the next government, we'd face some pretty tough choices. fair pay! the nhs and the government have this week set out a long—term plan to boost staffing. the immediate pressures, though, are still some way from being resolved. helen catt, bbc news. police in the us city of baltimore have given a further update following a shooting in the city in the early hours of the morning. the police commissioner says they believe that more than one gunman was involved in the attack and that nine of the injured remain in hospital. two people were killed and 28 others injured, ia of which were aged 18 or younger. the white house has announced that president biden will visit the uk next week as part of a european trip. he's expected to meet the king as well as the prime minister after his arrival next sunday. mr biden will then head to lithuania for a nato summit,

before stopping off in finland for a meeting with scandinavian leaders. you're watching bbc news.

now on bbc news... why stories: raising a school shooter. the light on my phone was flashing. it was tom. he was gasping for air.

he said, susan, this is an emergency. i could feel needles and pins are tingling, because i can tell by his tone of voice that something had happened to one of our children. and i thought, where are our kids? my older son was at work and my younger son was at school. he was at columbine. tom just started pouring out, there is a shooting going on at the high school, they think that dylan might be one of the shooters. i got home, and before long a swat team got there and a detective, and it was just craziness. i heard through a window that they were saying that 25 people were dead, and i remember at one point thinking that if dylan is really hurting people the way they're saying he is, i prayed that he would die.

monday morning on march 5, i get up around six o'clock. went in to open up andy's door to say goodbye and have a good day at school, and i went to work. i'm in the back working, and over the intercom, the staff sergeant says, jeff, come to the front, please. so i come to the front, and the staff sergeant said there is a shooting at your school. so i get in my car and i drive towards the high school. as you can imagine, it is all chaos. there is lots of police activity, lots of

ambulances going back and forth, helicopters all over the place, kids in the parking lot, parents in the parking lot, so i began walking around, looking for andy. i can't find him anywhere. every few minutes, i would call the house phone, and it would just keep going to voice mail and saying, andy, if you are home or if you come home, you picked a really good day to skip school, there has been a school shooting. i'm having no luck recognising any parents, having no luck recognising any kids. two and a half, two and a half, three hours since the three hours since the shooting, something shooting, something tells me to turn around. tells me to turn around. and so i turn around, and there and so i turn around, and there right behind me were two girls right behind me were two girls from the apartment complex, and i said, i'm so glad to see you guys, i've been here for two hours looking for andy, where is he? and the kids told me he did it. and, you know, you could tell...

it didn't sink in.