as of right now, there s no official confirmation as to what led to the shooting but president biden has described it as outrageous and unacceptable . one of the four killed has been identified as philstavious dowdell by local media. he was a standout high school athlete and was planning to attend jacksonville state university on an american football scholarship. earlier, alabama police gave this update on the victims. some of those injuries are critical, they are in critical condition, and that s why it s so important we absolutely need everyone to continue to pray for those individuals to allow them to recover from what they re enduring, as well as their families. earlier, i spoke to our correspondentjessica parker, who is in dadeville, alabama. jessica, i understand you have just arrived there. can you give us a sense of how the community is reacting? yeah, well, we arrived just as a vigil had been taking place just up the road from here in a kind of parking area and do
the fbi has arrested the suspected leaker of classified pentagon documents. his name is jack teixeira, a 21 year old member of the intelligence wing of the massachsetts air national guard. agents swooped in to arrest teixeira at a property in north dighton, massachusetts. he oversaw a private online group named thug shaker central, where 20 to 30 people, mostly young and men teenagers, came together over a shared interest in god, video games and guns. his online friends include individuals in ukraine and russia. one member of the group spoke anonymously to the washington post. the group really became close during the pandemic when we were all locked down together. and every single day we would watch movies, play games, do activities together, we d stream our houses and mess around, dance and have fun. we didn t realise the sheer, just immense nature of these lea ks until a bit later. i spoke to 06 about two days ago before he gave his final goodbye to us. he signed off saying
brazil s new president lula da silva prepares to meet his counterpart xijinping as he continues his trip in china. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers around the world. the fbi says it s arrested a suspect alleged to be linked to the leak of hundreds of highly classified us intelligence documents. jack teixeira, who s 21, is an air national guardsman, and was arrested outside his home in massachusetts. the us attorney general, merrick garland, said he was taken into custody without incident, and he d be appearing in federal court. the contents of the leaked documents, spread widely online, have been highly embarrassing for the american authorities. they lay bare security secrets, including ukrainian troop deployments against russian forces, and the extent of american spying on it s own allies. our diplomatic correspondent, paul adams has more. a week after the leaks first appeared, and arrest on the suburban streets of massachusetts. with the media already naming the
on the right and 59 year old chenjinping, pictured on the left are both new york city residents and face charges of conspiring to act as agents for china and obstruction ofjustice as us officials said in a conference this afternoon. the defendants actions under the direction of the chinese government are flagrant violations of american sovereignty and thanks to our investigation and arest today, with the fbi, the defendants will be held accountable and the mp5 is on notice that we will not tolerate similar threats to our national sovereignty. let s look at what we know. the secret station is believed to be a a part of a network of at least 100 operating across the globe( in 53 countries, including the uk and the netherlands.and last month, canada s federal police announced an investigation into two sites in montreal thought to be police outposts. the fbi s director christopher wray spoke about this in november, saying to me, it is outrageous to think that the chinese police
Malachy McCourt, the Irish-American actor, raconteur and author best known to TV audiences for his long-running role as Kevin the bartender on ABC's soap Ryan's Hope, died today in Manhattan after battling a heart condition and cancer. He was 92.