district attorney. voters blaming boudin for a rise in crime. the mayor will appoint his replacement. bill: san francisco, one of the many democrat-run cities where crime is running rampant up 35% this year. in chicago 40%. in new york and voters are taking notice. dana: the recall is sending a message to soft on crime prosecutors across the country including los angeles d.a. george gascon. he is facing his second recall attempt in two years. bill: easy to see why. the city has been plagued by smash and grab robberies. staffers looked on helplessly. dana: people are around to ride the subway in new york. a man threw a woman onto the tracks. the suspect has a long rap sheet, the latest in a string of unprovoked attacks against passenger. bill: philly trendy district. gunfire sent people running for their lives. an argument escalated into a shoot-out. three people killed and a dozen more wounded. dana: for more on the recall vote let s go to claudia cowen in san fra
sometimes without running water and then to makeat the humiliationerand complete, police collected household pets, tore them from their owners handsolhe and beat them tocl death in the streets, claiming the dogs and cats somehow spread disease. anyone who complained aboutho this got a very clear answer from the government, which was broadcast at full volume from drone circling overhead. they said quoteth controlso your soul sul desire for freedo. so people did they had no . ice that sn what life is like in an authoritarian society and not just in chinaaus, also in new-w zealand. less than a year ago, the leftin wing new zealand governmentnt shut down the entire country over a single covid case. don t talk to your neighbors, commanded the prime minister. keep too yo your bubbles quotey in neighboring australia they did pretty much the same thing. police in australiay po beat a man for daring to have a cigaret outside his own apartment. now that may all seem horrifying to you,
children and two teachers shot dead by a teenage gunman in texas. another day of travel disruption. waits of six hours reported for ferries at dover and hundreds of flights cancelled at some uk airports. and one of the greatest jockeys of all time lester piggott has died aged 86. we start in ukraine where, in a gesture of defiance directed at russia president zelensky has made a rare trip to visit his troops on the front line in the east of the country. he went to kharkiv, close to the russian border, an area once again under attack. mr zelensky described the situation in some parts particularly serevodonetsk as indescribably difficult for the ukrainian army. it s the first time since the start of the war that the president has ventured to the devastated eastern region, as our correspondent caroline hawley reports. with heavy artillery, russian forces are continuing to pound ukrainian positions in a war that s taking more lives every day. with all this firepower
in a moment, huw edwards will be here to bring you more on all those headlines when we re joined by viewers on bbc one. but before that, we ll start with ukraine. and president zelensky has visited troops on the front line in eastern ukraine. he went to the kharkiv region an area once again under attack from president putin s forces. this evening, the european union failed to reach agreement on an embargo of russian oil, on the eve of a summit of eu leaders in brussels. the ban on oil imports is part of the eu s sixth sanctions package on russia over its invasion of ukraine, which the commission has been struggling to finalise. the package is being held up by hungary, which says an oil embargo would be a body blow to its economy, because it can t easily import oil from elsewhere. earlier, i spoke to kira rudyk, ukrainian mp and current leader of the political party voice. she told me the effort of building international support for ukraine is ongoing and that she has not
john, good evening to you. that s exactly what this absolutely horrific keep in mind, rob, elementary school here, this is mostly for the second, third and fourth graders. so that is predominantly seven ,eight and nine year olds. and as you mentioned tonight , we ve now learned there are 18 children who were murdered by a gunman at the school tonight as well as one adult. i want to show you one little girl who is missing tonight . this is a photo provided to us by her father. this is 10 year old annabel guadalupe rodriguez. her dad tells us he has lost contact with he is looking for her . he doesn t know where he is. he is desperate to find out if she is okay or not. he provided this photo to texas rangers as well. again, she s a 10 year old at this school. take a listen to what that father told us earlier tonight . i was at work in the including my dad was in school where they were shooting and i ll wait for more details and nobody ever called me back on detail and now come