ah ah ah ah, this is the w news alive from berlin in the united states. 4th of july celebrations marred by yet another massive shooting. i decided police in the chicago suburb of highland park say at least 6 people are dead and 30 wounded after a man fired from a rooftop during an independence day parade. a suspect is now in custody. was

coming up on the show, russian forces are a significant step closer to taking control of eastern ukraine after claiming victory in the loo hahn screech n. russian forces are now aiming to capture neighboring to nats. ukraine's president is vowing to take back the territory and leaders talk about how to rebuild the of cray will meet some of those 2 are already trying. ah hello, i'm claire richardson. thanks so much for joining us. in a chicago suburb, a another mass shooting this time as americans celebrated independence day at a parade. a gun man firing from a rooftop in highland park in the state of illinois has killed 6 people and injured 30 others. after hours of uncertainty, police now have

a 22 year old suspect in custody. it was supposed to be a day of celebration of fun with friends and family. instead, people had to run for their lives. minutes earlier, families with young children had been gathering for the parade when gunshot suddenly bang out panic perrins trying to protect their children. i remember hearing shootings and i like i'll, i thought about it is, you know, getting my daughter to safety and i ran with her. we went to the nearest mcdonalds . and now she lost her shoe along the way, my daughter. and so, you know, she was scared, started shooting again, and we ran behind the building and i put my, my son in a dumpster, and he sit there with his dogs. and i went back to look,

the rest of my family is horrible. police say the shoes are fired into the crowd from a nearby rooftop. with a high powered rifle, 5 people were killed at the scene. another victim died and hospital. dozens of people were injured among them. children. the attack comes just the month after 2 mast shootings and texas in new york. it is devastating that a celebration of america was ripped apart by our uniquely american plague. a day dedicated to freedom has put into stark relief. the one freedom we as a nation, refused to uphold the freedom of our fellow citizens to live without the daily fear of gun violence. the shoes managed to flee before police storm, the rooftop authorities issued to stay at home order for residence in the area. while a huge man hunt got underway. meanwhile, police announced that had identified a 22 year old man as

a person of interest. he was arrested without incident and taken into custody more than 8 hours after the shooting. shooting. that means that for some families, july 4th will no longer be associated with celebration. but with tara and grief, and more on this from amber gilmore, a journalist, based in chicago. and we're good to see there. we've just heard that person of interest in custody. what more can you tell us about the details of his arrest? thank you here. good evening. good morning from chicago and my last intervention that did mentioned around 6 pm, the highland, i believe we're still looking for the shooter at 6 30 pm, just 30 minutes after that. and he was arrested in the suburb of lake forest, is about 15 minutes from highland park, just to give up respect that highland park is about 27 miles outside of the city of

chicago. we know that he was arrested at 6 30 pm without incident. we know he's named is according to highland police. he's name is robert e cream or the 3rd he is that 22 year old and he's a resident of high. we know also that a family member of the i lead shooter. he was also arrested in chicago and we know for now at the, you know, the house a search by b, i and by local authorities as well. and what about the victims from this attack? as of now, we know that i know that that information has been changing since the start at 10 in the morning when the shooting happened has been almost 10 hours. as of now, we know the 6 people have been killed. we know that 31, at least 31 had been injure from this shooting. we know the lease, the ages of the victims. are we talking about 8 years to 85 years old. we know for

those kids, 4 of those victims were actually kid get, we know that at least a one of the people that it was actually kill me, the mexican of the sand. he was visiting his family from mexico here in the state. he was 85 years old. okay, so by some accounts we know that there have been over 300 mash shooting, carried out in the u. s. since the start of the year, president biden has expressed shock at this shooting. but how likely do you think we are to see any further gun control measures come into law either the interesting point or, you know, we just last week we just report a couple weeks ago about involved in texas world. this was kits inside of the same thing, it just keeps happening now just in the city of chicago, but in different states in the united states. and obviously we need more software gun control to prevent this happening. but it seems that politicians are not

getting their act together perhaps. okay, and bar gilmore journalist in chicago. thank you so much for that update. thank you . let's go to ukraine now where advancing russian forces in the east have claimed victory in this chance. ukraine's military withdrew from the strategically important city, leaving the lou hans grecian under russian control. ukraine is now braced for further attacks against the city of sla yonce, as russian forces continue to advance westwards. russia is expected to push to take control of the 2 nets region, which along with lou haunts, makes up the wider don bass area, ukraine's president zalinski says his country will recover the lost territory. that has international leaders have been gathering for a 2 day conference in switzerland to discuss how to plan for the massive reconstruction effort needed in ukraine. cave says it will cost some

$750000000000.00 to repair the damage that's already been done. or correspondent and manuel cha spoke with some people in keith who are already confronting the difficult task of rebuilding. they've been acc, we met khattab a chance on the site that they made a main road at above. we were filming the destruction caused when a missile hit her building. she was keen to show us inside, back in march, when russian troops were advancing on key. if fierce fighting took place in the area with hundreds of homes made an inhabitable settles of all, everything is falling apart like here and here. oh boy, it was but i'm above the water came. as you can see is dripping on the windows. here it looks. it's the same in the room. everything is destroyed with nothing left . there are no windows year, so called catches says local authorities assess the damage,

not long after the strike, but she hasn't received any help since then. boldly as i paid for the repairs myself. i used all the money i had and i installed new windows to keep the crows in the sparrows from coming inside. lisa de la keeley, the girls only katya, is doing what we pers, he can well, but some require qualified personnel. so some emotions little booth and we can fix the windows ourselves. but we need specialists for the roof. whatever might be, you need to have special skills for the actual thumbs with it'll be pensioners, bob, old women and men who live here, like they can't do it by themselves in order that will be send me the ability for the very val though she wasn't home at a time of the attack you catchy, i see really come to shock of the miss are strike norman of all of the nipple. me. i just can't imagine how such a thing could happen. well, if you swim on us that the russians on you are so called brothers more, you could launch a war on us, seem you so much destruction with about it. ok. ukrainians will never forgive that

. oh, a screw. the local authorities do what they can, the day too overwhelmed nor do for what a 100 more. there are 2 options. either people wait for payment from the regional or state government or we at the local level can also help problem all the we always had a problem finding people for such work. and now even more so, given the number of people went abroad. vicki, we who from a record along to city counselor, says temporary housing is planned for dakota msr, but many vulnerable people in katya situation. don't want to leave their homes no matter how damaged they are. you will know when you would have to go. now i will stay here because we need to fix everything, but i look as you can see, i'm trying with our roof while it's still summertime. we're gardening because afterwards the rainy season will come. she said over me before, now the russian troops may have left

a key if area with the damage to have inflicted on civilian infrastructure will take months. if not is to be repaired. i'll take a quick look now at some other stories making news around the worlds. sedans military says it will withdraw from political talks and make way for civilian rule . a crew in october ousted civilian leaders from a transitional government and prompted international condemnation and aid cuts. pro democracy protesters have been calling on the army to step back from politics. and italy has declared a state of emergency and 5 of its northern regions following the worst drought in 70 years. the country has experienced only half its annual average rainfall so far . this year. major rivers are drying up and the lack of water is now threatening. summer harvests of fruits and vegetables and 50000 people across australia's east coast have been ordered to evacuate with the country's

biggest city sydney, facing its 4th flood in less than 18 months. emergency services have warned. this could be the worst one yet. a days of tranquil rain have inundated the state of new south wales. some areas received almost their average annual rainfall in just 24 hours. was really has seen an increase in the frequency and intensity of natural disasters like floods and bush fires in recent years. the country's emergency minister said this shows that climate change must be taken seriously. laura chung is a journalist with the sydney morning herald and i asked her for an update on the latest conditions. yes, co since friday we sort of had it typically curse low hanging over stray leah, which has brought about really heavy rain and a lot of flash flooding vision of which we've seen for lot of residency. the 3rd or 4th major flooding event that they've seen this year, a learn and from speaking to a lot of them, a lot of them just tired and exhausted and don't know how there will be able to

rebuild after these events now. so i guess the main focus in what we sort of seen overnight is further evacuation orders coming for a lot of people around that great region. it means that we've got more than tens of thousands of people that are still out of harms. and we're expecting the weather is to, to ease overnight and, and sort of the rest of today. what we are expecting to see is that the clean up and recovery of these communities going on for weeks and months on end. so relentless for those still cleaning up from the last one. the new south wales premier has said there is no doubt these events are becoming more common to what extent is the government connecting this disaster to climate change? we certainly are seeing the connections happen and it's important to remember that we've just come out of a really wet summer. so we've had a linear weather system hanging in the trailer, which means that we've had an average range for quite some which is being one of the driving factor that a lot of the events we've seen quite recently. and now we're coming into the cool

months here in australia, which means that we do have our taper, colo storm season. but what we've also got behind a lot of climate drive is, which is sort of exacerbating the problem here. so we can stay without any sort of argument of climate change while we are going to see these types become more intense and more and with wild weather becoming more frequent and intense, as you say, how well prepared is australia for future natural disasters like this is a great question and then a lot of research going into this, i think sort of the main problem and, and challenge for us in the future. looking at infant structure and how we communicate with these types of communities in the flood zone. been in bush 5 areas, but it is a massive work in progress and it's not just a question, but it's trailer is grappling, but certainly a question that authorities around the world and looking at laura chung from the sydney morning herald. thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us on deed of the union with me. and just before we go, let's get

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