hello and welcome to the bbc s newsroom here in new broadcasting house in london. this week on unspun, the ferocious riots right across france seems to have died down after the shooting of a 17 year old boy at a police check. in cities and towns, the housing estates and the grim outer suburbs, kept far away from the attractive centres have seen people of mostly arab, north african or african backgrounds out on the streets. translation: being a young - north african, black or arab male in the estates is intolerable for french police. boys suffer abusive controlled racial profiling. now they are killing them. this is far from the first time this happens. i ve lived in france and i ve covered plenty of riots there. they re rarely as violent as these latest ones, and i ve seen for myself the way the french police deal with them with a ferocity that often shocks a mere anglo saxon. after the major riots of 2005, the police were given the kind of anti riot weapons which are banne
it s saturday 8th july. our main story: tributes are being paid to the eight year old girl who died when a car crashed into her school in wimbledon on thursday. she s been named as selena lau. her family says she was adored and loved by everyone . another eight year old girl and a woman in her 40s are still in a critical condition. a woman who was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving has been released on bail. louisa pilbeam reports. an intelligent and cheeky girl, adored and loved by everyone. selena lau s family have paid tribute to the eight year old. she was killed when a land rover crashed through a fence at the study preparatory school in wimbledon, where an end of school school tea party had been taking place. 12 people taken to hospital, among them another eight year old girl who remains in a life threatening condition. a woman in her 40s is in a critical condition. large numbers of people have been coming to the school to lay flowers and ref
hello and welcome to the bbc s newsroom here in new broadcasting house in london. this week on unspun, the ferocious riots right across france seems to have died down after the shooting of a 17 year old boy at a police check. in cities and towns, the housing estates and the grim outer suburbs kept far away from the attractive centres have seen people of mostly arab, north african or african backgrounds out on the streets. being a young north african black or arab male in the estates boys suffer abusive controlled racial profiling. now they are killing them. this is far from the first time this happens. i ve lived in france and i ve covered plenty of riots there. they re rarely as violent as these latest ones, and i ve seen for myself the way the french police deal with them with a ferocity that often shocks a mere anglo saxon. after the major riots of 2005, the police were given the kind of anti riot weapons which are banned in most european countries, and they use them. on
when they put me in prison, i heard they were recruiting. serve six months and they pardon you, he tells me. so he signed up with storm z, a unit made up of convicts attached to the russian defense ministry. after only two weeks of basic training, he was shipped off to the frontlines near bakhmut. [ gunfire ] after days of intense shelling, with only rainwater and no food, he heard ukrainian troops outside his foxhole. he assumed they would execute him. i thought that was the end, he recalls. i switched my rifle to single shot mode and thought, i ll shoot myself, but i couldn t. this video, shot by soldiers of ukraine s assault brigade, shows the intense moments when he and his comrade surrendered. the ukrainian troops told them, unlike russians, we don t kill prisoners. we spoke to him and another soldier in a jail in eastern grain, concealing their faces and not using their real names. the third assault brigade granted us access to the p.o.w.s, and two of their soldie
so long, they have a pretty good sense of what they re going to get asked and what response they should have. that was sarah fisher, senior media reporter and cnn media analyst this morning joining us now. so, sarah, the big moment from today s hearing is when meta ceo mark zuckerberg was pushed by senator josh hawley to turn around and apologize to the families of various victims of nefarious activities that happened on social media. here say is a little excerpt. [ applause ] the things that your families have suffered and this is why we invest so much and efforts to make sure that no one has to go through the types of things that your families have had to suffer. what was your reaction to that? i thought it was very emotional, jake, and it wasn t just him, it was also snapchat ceo evan spiegel who apologized to the families. normally the tension is between the ceos and the members of congress. what made this testimony different was that you had those family memb