This looks less like the random attack on members of the public seen 2 years earlier at London Bridge the incident began at fishmongers hall where a criminal justice research group were meeting which the attacker appears to have targeted before being pursued out on to the bridge where he was shot authorities were able to identify him quickly it s understood and that priority since then has been to understand what motivated him whether he had anyone to help and if there is anything that suggests a residual threat there was no advance warning or intelligence of an attack but the details of the man and his posse may well raise questions about whether enough is being done to monitor and understand the risks posed by former prisoners the B.B.C. s Gordon Corera Police say the 28 year old man killed 2 people and wounded 3 others before being tackled by bystanders and then shot by police there was also a knife attack Friday night in the Netherlands police in The Hague say a man stabbed 3 peop
Thought but eventually candidates are in Atlanta for the 5th Democratic debate which gets under way at this hour N.P.R. s Scott data reports a lot has changed since the candidates last gathered last month Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren was the surgeon candidate this time in South Bend Indiana Mayor Pete Gedge But the judge is surging in the polls in Iowa and doing well in New Hampshire though he doesn t have anywhere near as much support in the 2 other early states South Carolina and Nevada or in a spent much of the past month on the defensive about her health care plan and all the candidates have had to work hard to break through a news cycle so focused on it Pietschmann 10 candidates will be on the stage tonight former Housing and Urban Development secretary who Leon Castro will not be there though he didn t make the Democratic National Committee s cut for qualifying for the debate Scott Petro n.p.r. News Washington on Wall Street stocks lost ground today the Dow is down 112
Marco Bristow has more details at the moment the u.s. Treats Hong Kong separately from mainland China when it comes to economic affairs that brings many advantages to Hong Kong the u.s. Legislators have now passed a bill that would require Washington to review that status each year with the possibility that it could be revoked he could soon become law the Senate wants to show support for pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong and stop China and a mine in the territories autonomy Beijing said the bill gave support to violent extremists and was aimed at halting China s development Twitter has accused Britain s governing Conservative Party of attempting to mislead people by rebranding one of his accounts to look like an election fact checking agency the party made the move during the 1st televised election debate between the Conservative Prime Minister Barak s Johnson and his main rival Jeremy Corbyn of the Labor Party the party account which was renamed fact checker u.k. Declared the Mr Jo
Detention Senator De Lima is one of the faces critics of President Roderigo deterred Howard Johnson reports from taking out a full page spread in a national newspaper supporters of Senator De Lima including Vice President Lenny Robredo called on the government to drop the charges against her they say the former Justice said the Jewish child has been protected and that the evidence against her is based on jus b.s. Testimonies of convicted criminals the government have always insisted that the senator s case is being afforded full due process by the Philippine justice system reports from motor further one of the island s top businessmen Yogen Fenech has been arrested when his yacht was intercepted at sea just off the island it comes a day after Motors prime minister Joseph Muscat said he would recommend a pardon for a man who murdered a local journalist if he revealed who ordered the assassination the Janice Stephanie Cutter on a glitzy it was well known for her investigations into corr
To military personnel and veterans Labor says it will provide pay and housing conditions the conservatives have pledged new protections to stop soldiers facing historical prosecutions because of the service they ve given and the Christmas tree has arrived in city center set up in the marketplace alongside giant for me to Christmas presents that were announced last month now the sport has dived letter a double counting remain positive according to Christian Bale it despite losing one nil to Nottingham Forest in the even contest at the City Ground the Rams will focus on the charging the batteries heading into the international break but album will discover their potential if I keep 2nd round opponents this evening the Brewers face a 1st round reply with sulphur after drawing one all in Manchester and Liverpool are right points clear at the top of the Premier League have to be 2 months just a city 3 want to feel they were also wins from Manchester United and will b.c. Radio news hounds b