he s also told the uk media that he never intended to hurt his family by writing a memoir. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. war and extreme poverty drive millions of people from their homes every year. some of those desperate people try to reach the rich western world where such inward migration routinely prompts fear and draconian countermeasures. do perceptions change when the story of migration is personalised? well, my guest today is waheed arian, who fled war in afghanistan as a child, made it to the uk and is now a doctor running his own medical charity. his is an extraordinary story. what should we all take from it? waheed arian, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much, stephen, for inviting me and for having me here. it s a real pleasure to have you on the show. ijust wonder, how much distance do you feel today as a distinguished doctor in the united kingdom, how much distance do you feel from your childhood and from your homel
tomorrow and a risk of flooding, up to 100 millimetres on the hills. this is the cloud responsible, which the rocket flight will be flying into as we speak. it is going to be bringing rain quite extensively through the night and into tomorrow, in a cross from the west. and that will be spreading into all but northern and eastern parts by the morning. it is here there will be a touch of frost to start with, a milder start with heavy rain towards parts of western england, wales and northern ireland for the morning rush hour. the end of a shower across eastern parts of england, central and southern scotland, some snow over the hills. it will reach aldershot all but shattered by the end of the day. some drizzle on the end of the day. some drizzle on the hills before the next batch of rain comes in and a windy day across the board. wind gusting to a0 or 50 mph at times. the wind coming from the south or south west. temperatures well above where they should be for this stage inj
is waheed arian, who fled war in afghanistan as a child, made it to the uk and is now a doctor running his own medical charity. his is an extraordinary story. what should we all take from it? waheed arian, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much, stephen, for inviting me and for having me here. it s a real pleasure to have you on the show. ijust wonder, how much distance do you feel today as a distinguished doctor in the united kingdom, how much distance do you feel from your childhood and from your homeland, afghanistan? my family is still in afghanistan. my father, my sisters, five, six sisters are in afghanistan. one sister is newly displaced to sweden and two brothers are displaced as refugees to the united states. so i am all over the world when it comes to my heart, when it comes to my story, it s not finished that i m here in the uk. i m very proud to be an afghan british citizen, both, and i ve got my cultural heritage from afghanistan and i m very proud of that as w
he was read his miranda warnings, offered attorneys, et cetera, he went into details about what he had done. he admitted to what he had done. reporter: the county sheriffs office also revealed that there were red flags about the shooter well before monday s mass killing. in april of 2019, police were called about a suicide attempt of his. five months later, a relative contacted police after the suspect threatened to quote kill everyone in the family. but still, he was able to obtain the illinois equivalent of a gun license in 2020. today the prosecutor tried to explain it. there was never a firearm restraining order. that s what i had used the term red flag. that type of order mr. crimo has never been involved in that type of order. that s an order where family members and other individuals can go to a court and ask that somebody have firearms taken and not be allowed to piurchase firearms. that did not happen in mr. crimo s case. cnn security correspondent, josh gamb
happened here on tuesday, and i m here at a makeshift memorial in the town square in view yauld. it has just been teaming with people coming to pay their respects. people coming from all over texas, really, all over the country, to give gifts i saw a woman who was a teacher who brought a cart full of stuffed animals for the families coming to pay their respects to lay at each individual cross that was put here for each individual person murdered, and that is 21 people. 19 children, of course, and two teachers. and president biden is here as we speak in uvalde. he is playing his all-too familiar role, comforting families following an unspeakable tragedy. they visited the memorial site at robb elementary school before heading to a mass service. they re going to spend the afternoon meeting with families and first responders. it s a solemn task made even more difficult by what appear to be some serious failures of law enforcement and its response to tuesday s mass shooting. the