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road and we have now heard the us media sources he has been named as ryan ralph, a 58—year—old from hawaii. hello, i am steve ley in singapore. also this hour. heavy rain continued to lash parts of central and eastern europe leaving at least seven people dead and others missing. public hearings into last year �*s submersible disaster which killed five people near the wreck of the titanic begins this week. i los angeles is gearing up for tv �*s biggest night of the 2024 emmy awards takes place later today shows like baby reindeer and the bear among the front runners. welcomed newsday. i'm live in washington, dc where the fbi is investigating a second assassination attempt on former
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president donald trump. lots of details coming to us in the past few hours about what happened but shots were fired quite close to the former president. he was playing golf with a friend at one of his golf clubs and there were shots fired. this is at a palm beach golf course and we had a news conference room at secret service officers saying that they were ahead of the president and they spotted an ak-47 president and they spotted an ak—47 rifle poking up out of the bushes and then they took aim at that suspect. the president was some way back, the former president, at the time, obviously the attacker then dropped the weapon and tried to get away in a car and rather remarkably, lots of praise for a witness who actually saw this happen and took a photo of the suspect and his car stop he was then pursued by the local police and stopped and we have had just from us media confirmation of the name of the suspect. he is
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ryan ralph, a 58—year—old man from hawaii. quite quickly after this happens there was a statement put out by former president donald trump. he said he wanted to stop any spiralling rumours or gossip and to assure people that he was safe and well. lots of images starting to come in from around the golf course. 0ne in from around the golf course. one of the ones we have is this image of the suspect. we can see him here with security services surrounded his vehicle. it has been released by the sheriff �*s office in martin county. this is northbound on interstate 95 and it followed this alert. after the witness took this photo and phoned the police they were able to look out for this vehicle, stop him and then the witness was able to confirm that this was the car and the person that he had sighted.
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details coming to us from palm beach county sheriff and he is going to be explaining what happened. at 1:30pm, a call come out — shots fired — called in by the secret service. because we're in constant contact with them all the time, we were notified of that and we had units that immediately sealed up the area. fortunately we were able to locate a witness that came to us and said, "hey, i saw the guy running out of the bushes, hejumped into a black nissan and i took a picture of the vehicle and the tag, which was great. so, we had that information. 0ur real—time crime centre put it out to the licence plate readers, and we were able to get a hit on that vehicle on i95 as it was headed into martin county. we got a hold of martin county sheriff's office, alerted them, and they spotted the vehicle
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and pulled it over and detained the guy. after that, we took the victim — i'm sorry, the witness that witnessed the incident — took, flew him up there, and he identified as the person that he saw running out of the bushes thatjumped into the car. now, in the bushes where this guy was is an ak—47 style rifle with a scope, two backpacks which were hung on the fence that had ceramic tile in them and a go pro which he was going to take pictures of. so, those are being processed right now. the secret service agent that was on the course a fantasticjob. what they do is, they have an agent thatjumps one hole ahead of time to where the president was at, and he was able to spot this rifle barrel sticking out of the fence and immediately engaged that individual, at which time the individual took off. so that's what we know about the investigation. we have somebody in custody right now.
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it is a potential suspect, we got a little bit more work to do on it, but as we usually do, as soon as we decide we are going to book them into the county jail, and the charges he's going to be booked into, we'll get those to you and we'll get a picture of him and we'll get you his background. an active investigation and the fbi are in charge of that investigation but we have also heard a lot from the local officials there at the same. of reaction coming in from the united including this reaction coming in from the united including this tweet that we have had from vice president kamala harris. she made a short statement that she expressed her relief over the safety of the president and said i have been briefed on...
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let �*s take you live to west palm beach now and join cbs news correspondent kristian benevides who is there covering all of the developments and there are lots of them. what further details are you hearing and what are being reported in us media about the suspect ryan ralph? we are having a few issues i think getting through to christian who is in west palm beach. as soon as we make contact with him again we will join him for the very latest news updates but i can bring you a few. we have had some reaction from donald trump �*s children. eric trump has been speaking to fox news and said my father is running out of lives here. how many rifles that make how many more are going to come within a distance of my father reflecting on the fact this is a second attempt
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on donald trump �*s live in a matter of months. you will remember the one in pennsylvania a few months ago. donald trump pennsylvania a few months ago. donald trumer also writing a series of tweets in which he has linked this incident with left—wing propaganda so that is coming to us from the trump family. and tim walz, kamala harris �*s running mate, has also said he is glad to hear that donald trump is safe and —— violence has no place in our country, he has put on x, it is not who we are. lots of people from across the political spectrum saying that they asked relieved and saying that not violence has no place in the country. just to confirm, a secret service agent spotted an ak-47 secret service agent spotted an ak—47 style weapon that was poking out of the bushes on the golf course about one whole ahead of where donald trump was playing. he then engaged the suspect was the witness saw the man leave, took down his registration number of his car, took photos, alerted the police
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and then he was detained so we know that that is ryan ralph who is in his 50s, his late 50s, and from hawaii. another detail i can bring you which i can bring you is photos been released by the police from the scene in which they show us the weapon, the ak—47, a scope that was on that weapon and also, interestingly, a gopro camera which was found in a back track so —— backpacker so obviously the suspect was intending to fill what was going on and of course police, fbi investigating this in a massive way at the moment and we will be talking to him, to ryan ralph. —— and they will be talking to him. taking you back to singapore to steve where we will bring you the rest of the day �*s news and we will be back in washington shortly with all the latest developments. ican i can also update our viewers as well that we are following this online as well because of our live pages up and running
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and our social media pictures two pages do show some information about the suspect. reporters online is saying his social media profiles show pro— ukraine and conspiratorial posts. head over to bbc .com and our verify team is looking into that one. moving on to some other news now. poland is set to declare a state of natural disaster, as extreme flooding extends across parts of central and eastern europe, and torrential downpours are forecast to continue until at least the end of monday. at least five people have died in romania, one person drowned in poland, while in austria, a firefighter died tackling the floods there. several people remain unaccounted for in the czech republic. some parts of poland have faced the worst flooding in almost three decades and a bridge collapsed in this historic polish town near the czech border. 0ur eastern europe correspondent sarah rainsford has the latest from southwest poland.
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the river is raging through nysa, close to bursting its banks and putting everything in its path under huge pressure. in the town centre, streets have already disappeared under floodwater — just about passable for those determined to struggle home. but the level is rising fast. a few miles away, things are even worse. we couldn't reach glucholazy. the family who sent us this video were trapped in their home, as the local mayor declared the town was drowning. that's true for a large part of southwestern poland — at the foot of the mountains, after the torrential rains of storm boris. there is a giant rescue operation already under way, but residents are being warned to get out before the waters reach their towns, not to risk waiting. in a school that's now a shelter, people are safe
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but disorientated. they took what they could. now they worry about everything they've left behind. translation: with the wind, with the rain, man won't win. you can put out the fire, but you can't do anything else. the most important thing is that we are alive. the rest doesn't matter. across the border in the czech republic, there've been dramatic rescue scenes, too. soldiers and emergency workers winching people to safety. it is treacherous for everyone involved. this man made it to shore. but across central and eastern europe, these floods have already cost lives. and the danger is not receding. in nysa, soldiers have been drafted in too, in this case to rescue the rescuers. we've just turned a corner here in nysa and found this scene, which shows just how serious things are here. the military have just rolled in to try and rescue a fire
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truck, and firefighters, and another military truck that's trapped in the water here. and that used to be a road. now it's impassable, even for ambulances trying to evacuate the local hospital. and everyone here has been warned that there's worse to come. sarah rainsford, bbc news, nysa. getting back to our top story where the fbi is investigating what appears to be a second attack assassination attempt against the former president donald trump. �*s crossover to our correspondent christian benevides he is in west palm beach in florida. get us up to speed with the latest. now we have a name, what more can you tell us about the suspect? it is quite incredible. what we know about the suspect according to cbs news sources is he has had a prior run—ins with law enforcement. what that
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means, when he has a prior criminal history orjust been in law enforcement radar or whether he has actually had encounters with law enforcement, we do not know as of yet but there were somehow aware of him. it is quite incredible that the secret service and that this witness were able to spot this individual and that he was able to be brought to custody. here is what we know about how all of this unfolded in this point. all of this happened about 130 pm eastern. the former president was on the golf course, he was golfing. a secret service agent was two holes ahead of him and spotted someone with an ak—47 and at that point the secret service agent engaged, at that point the suspect apparently runs from the bushes and into the street into some sort of vehicle, into a black nissan,
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actually, and is able to speed away. however, priorto him speeding away, there was a witness. somebody who spotted this individual running from the golf course and took down the golf course and took down the license plate of that. i’m the license plate of that. i'm sor , the license plate of that. i'm sorry, cristian, _ the license plate of that. i'm sorry, cristian, we _ the license plate of that. i'm sorry, cristian, we are - the license plate of that. i'm sorry, cristian, we are having a bit of an audio issue and we will come back later in the bulletin to you. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news.
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for the kremlin to prosecute but the allies appeared split on the issue. president putin has warned such a change would amount to direct nato involvement in the war against moscow stop mick ryan spann to five years in the australian army including operation deployments in timor, afghanistan and iraq as well as serving in the pentagon. he told me whether allowing ukraine to fire long—range missiles into russia would drag the western nato greatly into the western nato greatly into the war. nato has been supporting ukraine for 32 months of this war so far, and ever since russia invaded ukraine in 2014. nato is, you know, already there. russia has accepted that. and at the end of the day, this is not an escalation to allow ukraine to use western missiles appropriately. it's playing catch up. and is ukraine taking the fight into russian territory? a good strategy? absolutely. i mean, the laws
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of war allow, um, a country to attack someone who is posing a threat from military bases and other strategic systems within their country. we should remember that russia is the aggressor state. they started this war. ukraine is trying to end it in a way that sees russia leave ukrainian territory. and what would be your assessment of the support that ukraine has had to defend itself to date, given that, as you say, we're 2.5 years into this war. well, after 32 months, the aid has been much appreciated by the ukrainians. it certainly helped, but it's done nothing to help them win this war. at the end of the day, we've seen these discussions on just about every form of equipment provided to ukraine, whether it was towed artillery, air defence tanks or f—16s. the interminable delay on providing sufficient quantities of equipment has hurt ukraine, not helped it. and how do you see putin? or how do you think russia will react if ukraine is able to use these long—range missiles and take
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the fight further into russia? well, the reason putin is complaining is because he knows this will hurt russia. he appears to have the measure of the us administration. he's able to manipulate them around their terrors over escalation. so i think he'lljust continue doing that at this point in time, because he's worried any appropriate use of long—range weapons that have really significant warheads will hurt his military even further. so if ukraine are getting support or more support in the in the aspect of getting more arms from the west, russia, it seems also is receiving shipments from iran, missiles from them. how much does that help them? well, it helps them a lot. it helps them to sustain their long range strikes against ukraine, which they've been doing since day one of this war. it allows them to attack the ukrainian troops on the front line with these short and medium range ballistic missiles that iran has provided, and it allows them to continue this slow, grinding attack
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on the in the donbas with the ammunition that's been provided by north korea. public hearings into the titan submersible disaster are beginning on sunday. the saab owned by 0ceangate was taking passengers down to the wreck of the titanic when it imploded killing all people on board. —— sub. rebecca morelle has more. it was the sub that promised the trip of a lifetime — a chance to see the titanic. but 0ceangate's titan sub suffered a catastrophic failure, killing all five people on board. now, a public hearing will try to answer some key questions. did the passengers have any warning something was going wrong? those who died were british explorer hamish harding, suleman dawood and his father, british pakistani businessman shahzada dawood, french diver ph nargeolet and stockton rush, 0ceangate ceo. a communications log could show if there were signs titan was failing.
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but deep sea experts like victor vescovo had serious safety concerns. he'd taken his friend hamish harding on a dive to see the mariana trench. he'd warned hamish about 0ceangate's sub. i told him in no uncertain terms that he should not get in the submersible. and i'll neverforget. he told me he thought that it was "safe enough". and i said, "hamish, i'm not sure what else i can say after that. i wouldn't go if i were you." he really, really wanted to see the titanic. a crucial question is which part of the submersible failed? this is a full sized model of the titan sub. there were significant issues with different parts of its design. concerns had been raised about its viewport and whether it could cope with the pressure at the bottom of the atlantic. the central area where the passengers were is called the pressure hull. most subs are spherical, so the effects of the immense forces are evenly spread. but this was cylindrical. this section was made from carbon fibre, a material that's unpredictable at depth
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and would have been weakened by every previous dive the sub had made. then there were the titanium end rings, which connected different parts of the sub together. but these junctions between metal and carbon fibre could have created weak points. the 0ceangate contraption was an aberration. the thing was so amateurish in its execution. the ideas that i saw, many of which were really half baked, just led me to believe that thing's actually never going to dive. so, how was titan allowed to dive? the sub wasn't assessed by an independent safety assessment. it's not mandatory. 0ceangate's stockton rush said he didn't need a piece of paper to show titan was safe. 0isin fanning, who made the last dives before the disaster, said the team was safety conscious. but he didn't know titan hadn't been certified. i would be lying if i said i didn't think that it conformed with certain norms. we all knew that the titan
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was experimental. we were very confident because obviously there'd been a few dives before that and it seemed to be working well. so, really, you didn't dwell too much on the danger. the hearings will last for two weeks. this investigation should stop a disaster like this from happening again. rebecca morelle, bbc news. it is one of television �*s big nights with the emmy awards taking place in los angeles. emma vardy has the latest from the red carpet. the red carpet is really heating up right now. the stars are sweeping in, all hoping they will be walking away with an emmy this evening. this is a series that has become more popular now with american audiences as well as the uk audiences as well as the uk audiences and it is getting recognition now with the semi—
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nominations. tonight with the drama among many others but there is other competition from other british dramas, too. the crown is in its sixth and final series and nominations for its final series of that royal drama so it will be completing with —— competing with slow horses. the one everyone was talking about a few months ago and it really set the internet on fire, of course was baby reindeer. it is an almost overnight success, show that people didn't really hear that myjob people didn't really hear that my job when people didn't really hear that myjob when it was released and all of a sudden itjust created so much intrigue. 0f all of a sudden itjust created so much intrigue. of course it was about and obsessive stalker and sexual abuse and what happened in the aftermath of that series going on netflix was that audiences tried to start doing internet detective work and trying to work out who the real—life characters were that this show was based on and the show of course claimed to be a true story. the result of all of that fallout was legal battles going on, but tonight, they are hoping to do well on they are hoping to do well on the red carpet and enjoy their
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success. we will have to see how those british shows do against some of the big american hits. they really did take on the life beyond the screen as well. tell us about the show that is a surprise given it is mostly in japanese. a surprise given it is mostly in japanese-— a surprise given it is mostly in japanese. that has been a bi hit in japanese. that has been a big hit for— in japanese. that has been a big hit for american - in japanese. that has been a i big hit for american audiences rather than in the uk but it has the most emmy nominations this evening of all the shows so you would expect them to walk away with a hold —— a whole clutch of those trophies. we have just seen some of the stars of shogun coming in, beautiful dresses coming in on the red carpet. this is not a night to take away the prestige but about the conversations people get to have on the red carpet and you have all the publicists trying to run around as well trying to get their actors in front of the camera and get them onto the red
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carpet to get their profile raised. notjust the awards and not just the raised. notjust the awards and notjust the parties raised. notjust the awards and not just the parties afterwards but a big important moment for people walking down the red carpet. it is all for now. do stay with bbc news. see you soon. hello there. well, we've seen plenty of sunshine throughout the weekend, also a few outbreaks of rain for some, but that is the last of the wet weather that we'll see for quite a few days yet, because for much of next week, it's looking dry and settled. high pressure dominant, more sunshine and it will feel warmer by day and milder by night too. just watch out for the possibility of some rather murky mornings, with mist and fog patches developing, especially where the winds stay light. now, here's that area of high pressure building
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in from the southwest. it's centred more or less right over the uk as we head through monday, deflecting these low pressure systems out towards the north and the west. now, as we head into monday morning itself, there'll be some mist and fog, particularly for north—west england, south—west scotland, perhaps. it's milder towards the south with that legacy of cloud for a while. coolest out towards the north and the east, but a whole range of temperatures as we start off the day. now, the mist and the fog will readily lift and clear as we head through the morning, and there'll be plenty of sunshine around, lots of blue skies. high cloud turning the sunshine hazy at times. more of a breeze out towards the far south and the east. we could see one or two very isolated showers for kent, but it's still unlikely. more cloud for northern ireland later on through the day and temperatures in the high teens, the low 20s. 21 celsius for parts of central and eastern england — it's close to the seasonal average. and then on tuesday, well, we could see any mist and fog, really, across parts of yorkshire, lincolnshire, down through the east midlands, more of a north—easterly wind for east anglia, south—east england here and a bit more in the way of cloud for northwest scotland. but with a southwesterly wind blowing, then, for parts of the moray firth, the highlands, temperatures could reach 21 or 22 celsius,
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so certainly feeling warm here. wednesday and thursday, our area of high pressure starts to meander further northwards and eastwards. it's still dry towards the north. towards the south, we'll see more of an easterly breeze take hold, but it is going to be feeling warm here. again, there's a more noticeable north—easterly blow. windy through the channel, perhaps, but 24 celsius in central—southern england and southeast england, and again 21 or 22 celsius for those sheltered areas of scotland. so here's the outlook for our capital cities, then, as we head through the week. there's a lot of sunshine around. it's dry and it's settled. we could potentially see a few showers break out on friday. bye— bye.
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boeing faces yet another setback as thousands of workers go on strike in seattle and portland. plus, we discuss the challenges facing the media industry with the boss of the wall streetjournal. thank you forjoining me on business today. we begin with boeing where thousands of its workers went on strike on friday after union workers at the west coast vestry is overwhelmingly rejected ——
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factories, overwhelmingly rejected a pay raise. this is how the company negotiated the latest setback.— latest setback. certainly cominu latest setback. certainly coming at _ latest setback. certainly coming at a _ latest setback. certainly coming at a terrible - latest setback. certainly | coming at a terrible time latest setback. certainly - coming at a terrible time for the company because they really were trying to rejig their 737 max production after the issues they had last year, so a real effort to undergo that, and also some critical issues around the certification of the new 7/7—9 widebody. a lot of things happening where boeing is trying to really kind of reboot its product line and this just comes at a terrible time for the company. thisjust comes at a terrible time for the company. workers have rejected _ time for the company. workers have rejected an _ time for the company. workers have rejected an offer- time for the company. workers have rejected an offer for- time for the company. workers have rejected an offer for the l have rejected an offer for the company for that 25% pay rise overfour company for that 25% pay rise over four years. company for that 25% pay rise overfour years. what company for that 25% pay rise over four years. what is company for that 25% pay rise overfour years. what is it they want. over four years. what is it they want-— over four years. what is it they want. over four years. what is it the want. , ., ., they want. they want more. the union's leaders _ they want. they want more. the union's leaders accepted - they want. they want more. the union's leaders accepted this - union's leaders accepted this last week, and it is a 25% pay rise over the next few years but actually the union i think originally wanted 40%. so
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