we start with news that s 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 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 very scant, several people been injured and some have been killed they have not given a figure on the number of fatalities do know from police reports of the scene is that when officers arrived at the scene, they heard a shot inside the building and went inside and found several people injured and dead at the scene. whether the perpetrator was among these people is not clear at
israel s due to the source system. the critics say it threatens israel s democracy. occupying the west bank and raising questions over the strategic direction of netanyahu s orchard nationalist neta nyahu s orchard nationalist government. netanyahu s orchard nationalist government. my guess simcha rothman is an architect of those judicial reforms. rothman is an architect of thosejudicial reforms. it s israel plunging into chaos? simcha rothman in jerusalem, welcome simcha rothman injerusalem, welcome to hardtalk. simcha rothman in jerusalem, welcome to hardtalk.- simcha rothman in jerusalem, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for havin: welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it is welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it is a welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it is a pleasure i for having me. it is a pleasure to have it for having me. it is a pleasur
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
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ask her about is the government s new small boats policy, and that s something you re going to be talking about on friday because you re going to head off to paris to see president macron. yes, there is an anglo french summit at the elysee palace, the home of the french president, hosted by emmanuel macron. the prime minister is going on friday morning and a whole load of ministers are going as well. there will be more than a dozen ministers if you add up the ministers on each side, gathering for a one day get together. it ll be about half an hour chat, i would have thought, bilateral, as they are known diplomatically, between the two leaders. lots on the agenda. ukraine, obviously, central. there s a sense that with the northern ireland brexit deal that the relationship is a bit better than it might otherwise have been. quite a lot in personal terms of similarity between the two leaders. both former finance ministers, both former investment bankers. current nerves. ner