investigators say robert aaron long gunned down people in a spa in cherokee county. investigators say long travelled less than an hour south to atlanta and shot and killed two more people at massage businesses across the street from each other. today the sheriff s department said long is talking to investigators and telling them a sexual addiction drove him to violence. it s still early but the indicators right now are it may not be, it may be targets of opportunity. again, we re we believe that he frequented these places in the past and may have been lashing out, and part of that in your media packet as well. but it s a sexual addiction rather than a racial profiling? during our interviews we asked that specific question and that did not appear to be the motive. cnn s natasha chen is in atlanta. officials say the gunman was headed to florida when arrested and his family was critical in the arrest. reporter: yeah, the family of the suspect was critical in helping
And the health secretary, jeremy hunt, are chairing a meeting of the Emergency Response committee, cobra, this morning, to discuss the handling of the cyber attack, which hit parts of the Nhs In England and scotland on friday. Dozens of hospitals in england and scotland have been forced to cancel some operations and appointments today, and some gp surgeries are still experiencing problems as staff begin a new working week. Lincolnshire hospital said all tests, and routine surgeries have been cancelled. Meanwhile microsoft said governments around the world should treat the attacks as a wake up call blaming them for storing data on Software Vulnerabilities which could then be accessed by hackers. Its thought over 200,000 computers have been affected worldwide with russia hardest hit. In the past half hour the National Crime agency has tweeted this saying if youre a victim of ransomware do not pay theres no guarantee that access to your files will be restored. Here, security minister ben
The issue a list of demands in a growing crisis. Welcome to World Leaders today. More than 800 hollings in tower blocks on a Council Estate in camden, north london are being evacuated because of safety concern. Camden council says residents in flat in five towers and the Chalcots Estate will be moved for urgent safety work. It follows the fire in last week in which 79 people died. The last few minutes, we have heard from georgia gould, leader of camden council. She explained why the decision has been made. Ever since the tragic fire at grenfell, we have done everything we can to check the safety of our blog. On wednesday we were first in the queue to check the cladding on our blocks. What we found was the installation was safe but the external cladding was not up to the standard that we wanted and was not fire retardant. Obviously this was very disappointed and we share that disappointment with our residents. Weve had a Public Meeting on thursday with residents were they concerned abou
Its100 years since women were allowed tojoin its100 years since women were allowed to join the uk armed forces. We found out what has changed between their women who served them and those who serve now. Good morning. Its friday 7th july. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. President trump has met russias president Vladimir Putin face to face for the first time. The two leaders shook hands at the 620 summit in the german city of hamburg. They are due to hold further talks later. Ros atkins is in hamburg. Welcome to the vast Conference Centre in hamburg, where the g20s summit is taking place. The leaders are here and ready to start negotiations, moving to what they hope will be a communique on saturday afternoon with commitments on some of the most pressing issues oui on some of the most pressing issues our world is facing. There had been broke out last night and into this morning. The German Authorities are telling us that over 70 Police Officers have been injured in the la
Optimism . She said she did not. This is relevant not just optimism . She said she did not. This is relevant notjust because of how the world response to this pressing global problem. It is also relevant to the nature of global leadership. It is the end of the second world war, america has been a powerful and potent voice. On this one, President Trump has stepped away and is allowing others to move into that space. Just in the last hour, president macron of france has confirmed that, in december, he will host a Summit Looking at the financing of climate financing project, an example of how other countries are moving into the space created by america on this issue. The second Biggest Issue at this 620 summit is trade. We also have a lot of detailfrom angela summit is trade. We also have a lot of detail from Angela Merkel on that who says the 620 is committed to fighting protectionism. Donald trump is keen on protectionism, he has been very critical of free trade deals. She said trade ne