we begin in the united states, where florida governor, ron desantis, has dropped out from the republican presidential race and endorsed donald trump. the surprise video announcement comes ahead of this week s republican primary in new hampshire where mr desantis was polling in the single digits. his departure leaves nikki haley as mr trump s only significant rival. let s take a listen to what he had to say. if there was anything i could do to produce a favourable outcome, more campaign stops, more interviews, i would do it. but i can t ask our supporters to volunteer their time and donate their resources if we don t have a clear path to victory. accordingly i am today suspending my campaign. i m proud to have delivered on 100% of my promises. i will not stop now. it s clear to me that the majority of majority republican primary voters want to give donald trump another chance. they watched his presidency get stymied by relentless resistance and they see democrats using law
and a huge payout by william hill one of the world s biggest betting companies after the uk regulator issues it with the largest penalty it s ever imposed. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. we begin today in the united states where police who are investigating a mass shooting at a primary school in nashville say the attacker had legally purchased seven guns and hid them at the family house. audrey hale, a 28 year old former pupil, shot six people dead, including three children, all nine years old, and the school s head teacher before being shot and killed by officers. let s take a look at gun violence in the us. a mass shooting is defined as four or more people being injured or killed. it s only march, and there ve been over 130 mass shootings across the us so far this year. and there ve been more than 600 mass shootings in each of the last three years. our north america correspondent nomia iqbal sent this repor
for next month. at least a0 people have died in a fire at a migrant processing facility on the us mexico border. a billionaire s son who fled to yemen hours after the death of a student in central london 15 years ago admits to the bbc that he was involved in her death. and the bbc is granted rare access to london s new £5 billion super sewer, aimed at cleaning up the river thames. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. we begin today in the united states where police who are investigating a mass shooting at a primary school in nashville say the attacker had legally purchased seven guns and hid them at the family house. audrey hale, a 28 year old former pupil, shot six people dead, including three children all nine years old and the school s head teacher before being shot and killed by officers. let s take a look at gun violence in the us. a mass shooting is defined as four or more people being injured or killed. it
the source of the leaks that resulted in highly classified documents being released on the internet. in the last hour, the pentagon says they are looking at the impact those leaks could have on us national security and that a criminal investigation has been opened. the bbc s carl nasman is here with more carl, what exactly is the pentagon saying? well, i mean, clearly these documents, which are making the rounds for a few days, they are starting to concern the us department of defence officials were getting in the most recent statement from the pentagon, i want to summarise a bit of that here. depending on saying we have engaged with allies and partners and have informed relevant congressional committees and the department of defence, we also know that a criminal investigation has now been opened into the source of these documents. us government looking to find who may have leaked this, was country may have been behind it if it originated from the us, potentially from russia
at the time of 9/11, the man who took over as al-qaeda leader after bin laden was killed by u.s. navy seals. the string of attacks and murders attributed to ayman al-zawahiri is stomach churning. he was the ideological mastermind behind the fraters of al-qaeda and groups like that, toward indiscriminate mass murder of civilians anywhere, including muslims, all in the name of islamic piety. and how we got there, we are now looking back, and it seems like a straight shot. but if you dropped in anytime in his biography, you wouldn t know if he was going there. he was trained as a doctor, he was trained as a surgeon. he was from a respected family in egypt, born and raised in cairo. by the time he was 15 years old, he was a committed radical, that wanted to try to impose islamic theocracy by force. he formed his first terrorist cell, with the aim of overthrowing the government of egypt, when he was only 15 years old. when islamic militants did assassinate egypt s president, anwar