all at once. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we start with news that s been breaking in the last few hours or so. police in the northern german city of hamburg say several people have been killed in a shooting incident, several others have been injured. hamburg police said a large scale operation was under way in the alsterdorf area. german media are reporting that the shooting took place at a jehovah s witnesses centre. ambulances are at the scene. police say they have no idea what might have motivated such a deadly act. earlier i spoke tojenny witt, a journalist based in hamburg, who gave us a sense of the situation on the ground. the details are still very scant. the police have said that several people have been injured and several people have been killed. they have not put a figure on the number of fatalities yet. what we do know from police and from reports at the scene is that when officers arrive
there s a misconception that we just go about doing our own thing and we don t need our stories to be told, which is not true. we start with some news that has been breaking in the last hour or so. police in the northern german city of hamburg say several people have been killed in a shooting incident. several others were injured. hamburg police said a large scale operation was under way in the alsterdorf area. german media are reporting that the shooting took place at a jehovah s witnesses centre. ambulances are at the scene. we will show you the scene now live in hamburg. every police presence of the moment we have been told that ambulances have been at the scene and you cannot see them right now but contrary to the reports, police are saying there is no perpetrator at large. it is a very fluid situation and make sense of this, it is a very fluid situation and make sense i m joined now by the localjornalist jenny witt in hamburg. can you give us a sense of what s the lates
jenny kleenman and dr larny chen formerly policy director for mitt romney s presidential campaign. hello and welcome to the programme. just a week ago, 150 people ran into trouble in a small wooden boat off the coast of calabria in italy. on board were asylum seekers from afghanistan, somalia, iran. there were 20 children on board, including a newborn baby. 67 of them drowned. it s an appalling reminder of the risks involved. it is just as dangerous crossing the english channel. more than 16,000 made thatjourney in small boats last year, up from 300 in 2018. but how do you stop them? the new proposal set out by the british government today is heavy on deterrance. those who enter the uk illegally will be detained and removed to their home country or a third country like rwanda. they will be held for up to 28 days, without bail or court hearing, their claim for asylum automatically rejected and they will be banned from ever returning to the uk. and while this bill will not beco
live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. north korea has been accused of firing ballistic missiles into the sea of japan just a day after the us and south korea held a drill in response to a similar launch. north korea said that test was designed to show it was able to fire nuclear capable missiles at short notice in response to threats. chad o carroll works for the korea risk group and told me more. north korea has shown the capability to launch macro in short range tactical missiles over several years successfully. i think the key new thing here is the fact that the north koreans were making clear they could launch this icbm on saturday with a 9 hour window and they responded very quickly today to the us and south korean our drills last night with these tactical tests and i think the message basically is that for all the forthcoming us south korean exercises, there is going to be a very significant north korean military demonstration in response.