official confirmation of what led to the shooting but president biden has described it as outrageous and unacceptable. one of the four killed has been identified as philstavious dowdell by local media. he was a standout high school athlete and was planning to attend jacksonville state university on an american football scholarship. earlier, alabama police gave this update on the victims. some of those injuries are critical. they are in critical condition. and that s why it s so important that we absolutely need everyone to continue to pray for those individuals to allow them to recover from what very enduring, as well as their families. live now to our correspondentjess parker. i understand you havejust arrived there. can you give us arrived there. can you give us a sense of how the community is reacting? we a sense of how the community is reactinu ? ~ . , a sense of how the community is reactin: ? ~ . , ., , ., reacting? we arrived ust as a viuil reacting? we arrived ust a
as of right now, there s no official confirmation as to what led to the shooting but president biden has described it as outrageous and unacceptable . one of the four killed has been identified as philstavious dowdell by local media. he was a standout high school athlete and was planning to attend jacksonville state university on an american football scholarship. earlier, alabama police gave this update on the victims. some of those injuries are critical, they are in critical condition, and that s why it s so important we absolutely need everyone to continue to pray for those individuals to allow them to recover from what they re enduring, as well as their families. earlier, i spoke to our correspondentjessica parker, who is in dadeville, alabama. jessica, i understand you have just arrived there. can you give us a sense of how the community is reacting? yeah, well, we arrived just as a vigil had been taking place just up the road from here in a kind of parking area and do
to mark its place in the sand saying that china can choose if it wants to be friends with the us and international if it wants to pursue partnership or instead take a more aggressive route when it comes to aspects such as taiwan and it seems this provocative announcement that comes at such a fraught time does seem indeed that china is perhaps choosing its path. katie silva, thank you so much. dissident farc rebels who rejected a peace deal with the colombian government in 2016 have said they are ready to begin negotiations to end decades of conflict. the leader of the group estado mayor central representing more than 3,000 leftist rebels said the talks would begin in a month s time. he suggested norway as a site for the negotiations after its role in the original peace deal. colombia s left wing president, gustavo petro, has promised to bring total peace to the country through dialogue with its remaining rebel groups.
a spoke earlier to the former us ambassador to colombia, kevin whitaker. this is a recurring pattern in columbia and one that actually i think is a laudable ambition, and the idea is to come up with a comprehensive solution that brings in all of the armed groups. it has really been going on since the 80s and through the 90s, practically every president of columbia over the last a0 years has embarked on this kind of negotiation. the problem is that the underlying conditions which have resulted in this kind of criminality, especially in the countryside, continue to exist. this is the lack of government presence, the lack of infrastructure and economic opportunities, and a lack of the basic services provided by government including health and education. without those, the basic conditions for criminal groups to move in and undertake these kinds of activities will continue to exist.
admire and people should admire the ambition that is represented by the total peace approach but again, until the fundamental conditions which have made this kind of criminality po55ible have made this kind of criminality possible in the countryside are addressed, it country5ide are addressed, it is difficult to see that this will really take hold. kevin whitaker. will really take hold. kevin whitaker, the will really take hold. kevin whitaker, the former - will really take hold. kevin whitaker, the former us l whitaker, the former us ambassador to colombia, thank you so much your perspective. my you so much your perspective. my pleasure, thank you. in other news: elon musk and his spacex team are preparing to launch what is described as a mammoth rocket named starship into space on monday. the stainless steel machine is 394 feet tall more than twice the height of a na5a space shuttle. the rocket and spacecraft combination can hold more than 100 people and is said to play a major