Hello and welcome to bbc news. The attorney general in the us state of texas says that between 15 20 people have been killed in a gun attack on a Shopping Centre in city of el paso. Police have arrested the suspected gunman described as a white male in his twenties but not yet established a motive for the attack. He has been named by us media as patrick crusius. Our north america correspondent Chris Buckler has been following developments. Oh, my god. Families were out shopping on a saturday morning when they were advised to run. Run, run, run. Inside the mall in el paso, armed officers moved in, responding to another report in america of an active shooter. Its believed somewhere in the region of 20 people have been shot, however its not clear how many have been killed. This is a large crime scene, a large area, so we are systematically going through it and making sure that anybody in the area number one, were ruling out that no one is a suspect and were also making sure that those peo
In siberia, an area the size of belgium is burning. The kremlin has sent in the army, by pedro pierluisi. Military planes doing what they can to extinguish the blaze. The fires are sparked by hot weather and dry thunderstorms. Theyre mainly in remote areas, the governor of the bank of england, but could the effects mark carney, has warned be more widespread . Theres concern that Carbon Emissions from here may be melting ice in the arctic and speeding up global warming. So black carbon is black, small particles, which falls down on ice and turns them from the white to black, so the ice cannot reflect sun radiation and sun starts to heat the ice in the arctic and it melts faster. And as if fire wasnt bad enough, there have been floods too. In this town, injune, a dam burst, following torrential rain, 23 people died. Now, the town has flooded again. From forest fires, to flooding, so far this has been a summer of hell for people in siberia. And its because of wild fires and the floods tha
Hello and welcome to bbc news. Russias arctic north and far east are being ravaged by huge wildfires, with up to four million hectares ablaze, and vast areas engulfed by smoke. The Prime Minister, dmitri medvedev, has ordered police to investigate whether the fires were started deliberately to hide evidence of illegal logging. Russian militaryjets are providing back up to firefighters battling the blazes, which have been burning in some cases for weeks. Fires are common at this time of year, but record breaking summer temperatures and strong winds have made this year particularly bad. Our moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg has travelled to the remote irkurtsk region of siberia, and he sent this report. For weeks now, siberia has been smouldering. Vast swathes of forest shrouded in smoke and many ravaged by fire. Wildfires are common here, but not on this scale. In siberia, an area the size of belgium is burning. The kremlin has sent in the army, military planes doing what they can to
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Weeks in june and as diplomatic efforts intensified to prevent the bonnets misplacing class Human Rights Watch of cases israel of committing new crimes by using white folks for us and civilian areas during the complex the its just gone 6 am and goals are whether un is warning of a growing humanitarian disaster. Essential supplies of food fuel medicine have open cods the territories and darkness as wells for bottom and continues through the night. In total, more than 1500. 00 palestinians have been killed since on today. That includes 45 people who are killed just on thursday when an asteroid kit, a residential building. In the java lea, a refugee camp in northern casa, and tie it neighborhoods had been destroyed. More than 423000 palestinians have now fled their homes and had been forced to take shelter elsewhere. Meanwhile, at least 1300 is rileys, have been killed since. How much launched it . Surprised submitted to be offensive on southern israel on the saturday. Among the dead, all