welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. six people dead, several more wounded, and now one man arrested. those are the bare facts of another mass shooting in the us. this time in a well to do suburb just north of chicago, at the start of a fourth ofjuly day of celebration. hundreds of people, mums, dads and their children had embarked on a parade through highland park, when a gunman started firing from a rooftop, armed with a high powered rifle. nomia iqbal has this report. the independence day parade had just started. americans in this wealthy chicago suburb were out in the sunshine, celebrating the day their country became an independent nation. gunfire child: are you kidding me right now? - ten minutes in, shots rang out. there was confusion and panic. people moved quickly for safety. rapid gunfire i remember hearing shootings, going like. tsh tsh tsh. and then reloading and then again. and people screaming and running. i thought it was the navy| tha
the world s first fully working sand battery is installed in finland, with developers calling it a major breakthrough for green energy. and england chase victory over india at edgbaston to win the fifth test. borisjohnson s decision to appoint chris pincher as deputy chief whip is facing further scrutiny as a former top civil servant at the foreign office, lord mcdonald writes to the parliamentary standards commissioner this morning, saying that borisjohnson was briefed in person about an investigation into chris pincher s conduct as a foreign office minister. downing street had previously claimed that the prime minister wasn t aware of any specific allegations against mr pincher when he was appointed in february. but the bbc learned last night that boris johnson and the foreign secretary at the time, dominic raab, both knew about the issue. mr pincher resigned as deputy chief whip last thursday and was suspended as a conservative party mp after being accused of groping two
a sadder day here in chicago. no one has really any ability to sort of get past that. it is just such a terrible day, july the fourth. and maybe that is the point. we have individual tragedies here. i can t imagine what individual families are going through of course. but the fact that it was today of all days means that everyone s opportunity to celebrate and have these quite quaint parades up and down the state, up and down the country, has been kind of quashed? in fact all of the parade that followed it in the nearby towns like deerfield, they cancelled their parade. no one in chicago or its suburbs has any appetite for what happened tonight. obviously, there was a safety concern. thankfully they now found this person of interest but before that of course they didn t know where he was going.
perhaps you can give us an idea of this part of chicago, it is not the place you would expect to get a scene like this? it s not, it s a very beautiful place. it is the place that you go to sort of escape are busy life of the city, if you like. it is very affluent, it is very peaceful it has beautiful homes, it is right by lake michigan. it is a family oriented place, and 4 july and hyland park is kind of the iconic day. there is an iconic parade and you would go to that with your kids. it is a place that you would think of as as far away from gun violence as you could imagine, anything being. what we discover today is that gun violence is clearly ubiquitous now and this was, i think, an enormous wake up call for americans realising that it really is it really can happen anywhere. this was. this was eight o clock in the evening here. i don t remember
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. six people dead, several more wounded, and now one man arrested. those are the bare facts of another mass shooting in the us. this time in a well to do suburb just north of chicago, at the start of a fourth ofjuly day of celebration. hundreds of people, mums, dads and their children had embarked on a parade through highland park, when a gunman started firing from a rooftop, armed with a high powered rifle. nomia iqbal has this report. the independence day parade had just started. americans in this wealthy chicago suburb were out in the sunshine, celebrating the day their country became an independent nation. gunfire child: are you kidding me right now? - ten minutes in, shots rang out.