and the stakes are high as students in south korea sit a gruelling eight—hour college entrance exam, often called the toughest in the world. after 12 years of each, study, sleep, repeat, the only thing they can do now is their best. a warm welcome to the programme. actor alec baldwin and other producers on the film, rust, are facing a new lawsuit over the fatal shooting of the cinematographer, halyna hutchins. the film's supervisor, mamie mitchell alleges that the script didn't call for a gun to be fired. her lawyer accused alec baldwin of "playing russian roulette" when he fired the gun without checking it. our north america correspondent david willis reports. ba rely barely one month on and the lawsuits are growing. the script supervisor mimi mitchell the latest to sue after a shot fired by alec baldwin killed a colleague just a few feet away from her. i heard someone moaning and i turned around and my director was falling backwards and holding his upper body and i turned around towards alec and i saw halyna hutchins going down to the left of me. 42—year—old cinematographer halyna hutchins died after being shot in the stomach by a bullet that also injured the film's director. mamie mitchell was the first to call 911. two people accidentally shot, by a prop gun. we need help immediately. her lawsuit claims that alec baldwin should have checked the gun himself before firing it and she is suing him in the film's producers for negligence.- film's producers for negligence. film's producers for neualience. ~ . ., negligence. mr baldwin chose to -la negligence. mr baldwin chose to play russian _ negligence. mr baldwin chose to play russian roulette _ negligence. mr baldwin chose to play russian roulette when - negligence. mr baldwin chose to play russian roulette when he i play russian roulette when he fired a gun without checking it. and without having the arm or a do so in his presence. his behaviour and that of the producers on rust was reckless. mamie mitchell also claims that the scene that was being rehearsed at the time of the shooting did not actually call for a gun to be fired. and she says the resulting tragedy will live with her for ever. says the resulting tragedy will live with herfor ever. i says the resulting tragedy will live with her for ever.- live with her for ever. i will never forget _ live with her for ever. i will never forget what - live with her for ever. i will| never forget what happened live with her for ever. i will. never forget what happened on the set of rust that day. the sound of the explosion and the gun over and over again. i am depressed and i do not feel safe. ifeel like at depressed and i do not feel safe. i feel like at any moment anything could happen to me and to those that i care about who were standing close to me. mamie mitchell seeks undisclosed damages and there has been no response to the lawsuit from alec baldwin. previously he said he was heartbroken by the incident and was fully cooperating with police enquiry. shortly we hope to speak to the attorney gloria allred on this programme. that will be coming up programme. that will be coming up later. but for now, let's go to another story coming out of the us. a senior us prosecutor says two men convicted of the murder in 1965 of the american civil rights leader malcolm x are to have their convictions quashed. the manhattan district attorney said muhammad a aziz and khalil islam, who spent decades in prison for the killing, did not get the justice they deserved. aru na iyengar reports. the fire hit the window... malcolm x the charismatic advocate for black empowerment. he was 39 when he was killed, shot dead in a new york city ballroom in front of his family. he was the public face of the nation of islam. unlike his contemporary, martin luther king, malcolm x did not want to see full racial integration. he believed, in his early days, the black separatism was the answer. i the black separatism was the answer. . ., ., ., , answer. i am not for anybody who says _ answer. i am not for anybody who says black— answer. i am not for anybody who says black people - answer. i am not for anybody| who says black people should answer. i am not for anybody . who says black people should be non—violent while not telling the same two white people. muhammad al aziz and khalil islam along with a third man was sentenced to life in prison for murder is a —— murder. islam died in 2009. the fbi and police are accused of having withheld information. a netflix documentary series who killed malcolm x brought to light some of this evidence. this malcolm x brought to light some of this evidence.— of this evidence. this evidence was hiding _ of this evidence. this evidence was hiding in _ of this evidence. this evidence was hiding in plain _ of this evidence. this evidence was hiding in plain sight - of this evidence. this evidence was hiding in plain sight all. was hiding in plain sight all these years, for decades. much of what we revealed in the documentary was known. much of it was published in biographies written about malcolm, particularly the life of reinvention. even the autobiography of malcolm x had kernels of evidence and the fbi had a treasure trove of documents that we were able to uncover through the freedom of information act that let us down this path.— information act that let us down this path. the prosecutor also tweeted — down this path. the prosecutor also tweeted that _ down this path. the prosecutor also tweeted that more - also tweeted that more information is likely to be revealed. he has apologised on behalf of law enforcement agencies to the families of muhammad al aziz and khalil islam. earlierthis muhammad al aziz and khalil islam. earlier this year, malcolm x's daughters added their voices to calls to reopen their voices to calls to reopen the investigation in light of new evidence. it is a cause that malcolm x himself may have strongly argued for. let's get some of the day's other news. the american rapper young dolph has been shot and killed in tennessee. he was in a cookie shop in memphis when the shooting happened. in 2017 he survived after being shot three times in los angeles. last year his album topped the billboard 200 charts. police say so far no—one has been arrested. federal and regional leaders are meeting today in germany to discuss measures to curb a fourth wave of coronavirus. angela merkel called for tighter restrictions in light of rapidly rising infections and hospitalisations across the country. 2a aid workers are going on trial in greece today, charged with espionage. they include sean binder, an irish professional diver and sarah mardini, a syrian 0lympic—level swimmer. they were working for an organisation dedicated to assisting migrants. amnesty international has called the case �*farcical�* and dozens of members of the european parliament have written an open letter to support the activists. a state of emergency has been declared in the canadian western province of british columbia, after a major storm caused flooding and landslides. one woman was killed when a road washed away, and two others remain missing. thousands have been forced to leave their homes and access has been blocked to canada's biggest port, vancouver. wes macaulay and his son went and helped sandbag to protect some water pumps with 300 hundred other volunteers. hejoins me from chilliwack, british columbia. thank you so much for being on the programme. can you talk us through the rescue that you were involved in?— through the rescue that you were involved in? there were a u-rou were involved in? there were a a-rou of were involved in? there were a grouo of about _ were involved in? there were a group of about 300 _ were involved in? there were a group of about 300 of- were involved in? there were a group of about 300 of us, - were involved in? there were a group of about 300 of us, local resident listeners from an adjoining community who, through faith or, were alerted to this pump station located in abbotsford which serves a large farming area east of vancouver. we were directed by a local resident who mustered the group at a local pub and 300 of us spent about three hours sandbagging the transformers around the pump station which moves several swimming pools of water out of this area every minute. and so very important to both drain the farming community and also drain the number one transcanada hwy number one tra nsca nada hwy which number one transcanada hwy which connects vancouver and the port to the rest of the country. the port to the rest of the country-— the port to the rest of the count .~ ,, country. were you successful in that? yes, _ country. were you successful in that? yes. we _ country. were you successful in that? yes, we were. _ country. were you successful in that? yes, we were. when - country. were you successful in that? yes, we were. when we i that? yes, we were. when we were there — that? yes, we were. when we were there we _ that? yes, we were. when we were there we were _ that? yes, we were. when wel were there we were keeping an eye on the water levels which dropped when we were there. they were rising one foot per hour and we only had three or four feet of freeboard left on the pump station before the water overran the pumps that would require them to be shot down. so when we were done we had raised protection around the building by six or seven feet and the engineers there said it was a success. aha, said it was a success. a fantastic response on the part of you and others. you say you are part of 300 people who responded very quickly. how did that all work? and how did you have the hat sandbags to hand? this was a multipronged success story. the city of abbotsford, essentially it was cut off because of the flooding from this pump required our neighbouring municipalities to come to their aid so chiller work which is protected by a dyke was able to send sand and sandbags as well to this location and then other residents, just on facebook, caught wind of this so this is a facebook group dedicated to this area adjacent to the pump and so we got word and i think everybody said we understood the seriousness of the situation and they got in the cousin showed up and started sandbagging. it was ready for us when we arrived. it was a wonderful effort. aha, us when we arrived. it was a wonderful effort.— wonderful effort. a fantastic response — wonderful effort. a fantastic response on _ wonderful effort. a fantastic response on part _ wonderful effort. a fantastic response on part of - wonderful effort. a fantastic l response on part of everyone. thank you for being on the programme. that's wes mccauley joining us from british columbia. stay with us here on bbc news. still to come, concerns grow over the whereabouts of chinese tennis player pang who has not been heard from since she made sexual assault allegations against the top chinese official. benazir bhutto has claimed victory in pakistan's general election, and she's asked pakistan's president to name her as prime minister. jackson's been released on bail of $3 million after turning himself in to police in santa barbara. it was the biggest i demonstration so far of the fast—growing _ european anti—nuclear movement. the south african government has announced that it's opening the country's remaining whites—only beaches to people of all races. this will lead to a black majority government in this country and the destruction of the white civilisation. part of the centuries—old windsor castle, - one of the queen's residences, has been consumed by fire for much of the day. - 150 firemen have been battling the blaze, - which has caused millions. of pounds worth of damage. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: the actor alec baldwin faces a new lawsuit over the fatal film—set shooting of a cinematographer on the western rust, with lawyers calling him reckless. let's go straight to california where mamie mitchell's renowned attorney, gloria allred, join us from now. welcome to the programme. we heard some of your comments already as to the feeling that you say a lot baldwin was playing russian roulette when he fired the gun onset without checking. from a legal perspective, what are your key arguments in this case? flour perspective, what are your key arguments in this case? our key arguments _ arguments in this case? our key arguments on — arguments in this case? our key arguments on behalf— arguments in this case? our key arguments on behalf of- arguments in this case? our key arguments on behalf of our- arguments on behalf of our client, mimi mitchell, the script supervisor on the set, standing there in the line of fire when her colleague and friend halyna hutchins was shot by the bullet that was discharged from alec baldwin's gun and killed and that bullet then proceeded to lodge itself in the director's clavicle and injured him. but mamie, being so adjacent to halyna hutchins is certainly traumatised, and physically injured and just emotionally upset by what she saw and heard and what she suffered. 0ur saw and heard and what she suffered. our key legal arguments, the theories of our case have to do with assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress and also deliberate infliction of harm. those are our theories. but throughout all this production there were numerous violations of safety protocols or ignoring safety protocols. it demonstrated themselves in many ways. let's talk about alec baldwin for a moment. the gun, for example, was handed to alec baldwin by the assistant director. according to the safety protocol, guns from motion picture and and for television are never to be handed by anyone other than the p"°p handed by anyone other than the prop master or armourer to the actor. and mr baldwin, an industry veteran knew that the gun in question should never have been given to him by the assistant director and he could not rely on any statement by the assistant director as to whether or not the gun was safe to use because the industrywide safety bulletin for the use of firearms requires that all firearms requires that all firearms are treated as though they are loaded and mr baldwin should have assumed that the guiding question was loaded unless demonstrated to him by the armourer that it was not or checked by him that it was not loaded. and even if the assistant director made an alleged statement to him that the gun he was handing to him was, quote, a cold gun,", mr baldwin should not have relied on that statement. so these are some of the issues in the case involving, you know, guns and ammunition that was supposed to be secured throughout the production. the armourer who was required to keep guns and ammunition locked up or to stay with the guns until used. instead, the armourer was alleged to have allowed guns and ammunition to be left out unintended on a rolling cart. 0utside unintended on a rolling cart. outside the church at midday during lunch break. and it is still a mystery as to how that bullet got into the gun that mr baldwin used. it sounds like according to you, a lot of the blame is at the door of alec baldwin, as opposed to others who were onset you should have been responsible for the safety at the time of filming. first of all, we have sued all of the producers, we have sued also the assistant director, also the assistant director, also the assistant director, also the armourer, hannah, but, again, mr baldwin is very important in all of this because we allege he chose to play russian relate, firing a gun without checking it, without an armoury doing so in his presence, and so that is why we say has behaviour and that of the producers on rust was reckless. from the point of view of alec baldwin, the actor, those working on the set, they haven't made much in terms of comment because, of course, they have probably been advised to say very little, given the fact that lawsuits are under way, but mr baldwin has denied the films that was unsafe. well, you know, you can deny it but the problem is that there is evidence there, for example, there were two mishaps with guns prior to this incident, one in which allegedly one of the crewmembers ended up shooting herself in the foot. another was an incident with mr baldwin's stunt double, a misfire. when it comes to what you can improve, one thing you mentioned earlier is that there needs to be intentional affection of emotional distress. that is something very difficult to prove, isn't it, in a court of law? whereas the other issues such as safety, procedures not being followed, that is more likely to be proved, is it not? well, we do think we have evidence to support our legal theories, all we wouldn't have argued those legal theories in this lawsuit that we are failing. and we do, by the way, have more evidence than we have been presenting to the public. for example, i think another important point is there was nothing in the script of the scene that alec baldwin was going to be filming, and by the way, one that gun was discharged, it wasn't even a rehearsal. a rehearsal is a called rehearsal. no rehearsal was called. also, in the script that he was going to film after rehearsal was called, hadn't been called depot but the gun went off, there was nothing in the scene he was going to be shooting orfilming, i should say to make it clear that called for a discharge of a gun. by him or anyone else. so why was that gun even discharged? it didn't call for that. that is a very good point to make. i am afraid to say we're going to have to stop this conversation here but we will follow the case very closely. thank you for talking to us on the bbc. my for talking to us on the bbc. my pleasure, thank you. ajenny macklin is —— that was gloria allred representing mamie mitchell over what happened on the set of rust. time now for the latest sports news. hello, i'm gavin ramjaun, and this is the latest from the bbc sports centre. we'll start with the developing story in tennis concerning chinese player peng shuai. she hadn't been heard from for a while, after making allegations of sexual assault against the country's former vice premier. chinese state tv has since published an email, which they claim is from peng directed at womens tennis bosses. it says: "i am not missing, noram i unsafe... "i've just been resting at home and everything is fine." but the chairman of the wta, steve simon, responded by saying the statement, "only raises my concerns as to her safety and whereabouts". he says, "the wta and the rest of the world need independent "and verifiable proof that she is safe". the tennis journalist ben rothenberg has been following this story, and feels the sceptism is justified. i think ithink so, i think so, reading that post i was immediately very dubious. it doesn't sound like something she had written. we see this very long, detailed emotional post from her on her social media in her own words that was quickly covered up and it does didn't seem like this message, you know, put out on state media was anything that should be trusted as being authentically from her. there was no evidence it was from her, and i think there is a history of any fire scepticism in these sorts of situations with the chinese state media. to the action on court now, another semi—final spot is up for grabs, in the season ending atp tour finals in turin later on thursday. alex zverev and jannik sinner are looking to progress from the red group. they'll be looking to follow the lead of the world number one, novak djokovic, who beat andrey rublev in straight sets — two wins out of two for him now in the green group round robin phase. djokovic is hoping to win the the competition for a record equalling sixth time. in the day's other game, the number eight seed casper ruud came from a set down to beat to great britain's cameron norrie — the man who was drafted in to replace the injured stefanos tsitsipas. ruud, who's looking to win his sixth tour title of the year, took the deciding set 6—4. the norwegian will face andrey rublev on friday to decide which of the goes through to the semi—finals. there's more women's european champions league action on thursday, including wolfsburg vjuventus. holders barcelona are into the quarters — they thrashed hoffenheim. alexia putellas set them on the way to a 5—0 victory in germany, with a penalty just before half—time. barca maintain their 100 per cent record with four wins out of four. elsewhere, arsenal need just one more point to go through after beating the danish side koege 3—0. lyon remain top of group d, despite suffering their first defeat. saki kumagai scored the only goal of the game as lost 1—0 at bayern munich. benfica won 2—1 at hacken in sweden. and finally, freestyle motocross rider tom pages has done something no one's tried before, and when you see it, you'll realise why. students in south korea are currently sitting the suneung college entrance exam. the gruelling eight—hour marathon is smetimes called the toughest exam in the world. the stakes are really high, with students feeling the pressure to perform well, to secure university placements, jobs and even future relationships. 0ur korea correspondent, laura bicker, has been documenting the preparations of three korean students. the big day has arrived. so much depends on this one exam that parents can't help but watch and worry. and make sure their loved ones have everything they need. for the last 100 days, we are three students to record their thoughts as they prepare for this life changing test. she goes to school on an island with only 19 has to go to the mainland. good luck, somebody shouts as she leaves. she goes to an alternative school that puts less emphasis on exams and more on getting real life experience. 10,000 suneung on time. and even to help them focus, plans will be stopped from flying overhead for the listening exam. after 12 years of eat, study, sleep, repeat, the only thing they can do now is the best. we have everything crossed for those students. we have the top stories here next. don't go anywhere, see you in a moment. hello there. the weather isn't changing in too much of a hurry over the next few days, because high pressure keeping things dry, settled, and very mild still for this time of year. so another mild and quite breezy day to come on thursday. dry weather for most of us, but not everywhere. we have got this weather front sitting close to the north of scotland, so that'll produce outbreaks of rain mainly for northern and western scotland, but high pressure to the south dominating the weather for most places. and with that high pressure, we're drawing in winds from a south—westerly direction, so bringing the mild air and the orange colours really right across the uk. might be a bit of a chilly start for some southern and eastern parts of england first thing, the odd misty patch around. generally, the cloud will increase from the west through the day, but there will be some spells of sunshine for east anglia and the south—east, up towards eastern scotland, as well. still a bit of rain to come for the north—west of scotland, but the breeze blowing over the mountains is likely to create something called a foehn effect, lifting temperatures to around 17 degrees for aberdeenshire. widely 1a or 15 the top temperature, and compare that to the average temperature this time of year of only about 9 degrees, so well above average. it'll be windy again particularly in the north—west, with gusts of wind about aomph, but lighter winds further south. so through thursday evening now and heading overnight into friday, it'll be a pretty cloudy picture. a bit of low cloud and hill fog likely, some drizzle around some coastal hills in the west once again. but it will be a very mild and certainly frost—free start to friday morning, but we've still got that rain continuing across the western isles and northern highland, as well. into friday, no great changes — there's that weather front across the north of scotland, there's the high pressure in charge for most places. so quite a cloudy picture, i think, but predominantly dry through the day on friday, away from the north and north—west of scotland where we've got that weather front continuing to bring outbreaks of rain. temperatures again getting up to 1a, 15, even 16 degrees, bit of a foehn effect once again through the east of scotland. it won't last forever, this mild weather, though — into the weekend, saturday, we'll see a cold front moving south across the northern half of the uk. into sunday, that slips its way further south, and it'll introduce the blue colours, the colder air mass with these northerly winds moving across all areas. so gradually through the weekend, things will be turning colder. we'll still look at temperatures in double figures through the day on saturday, but by the time we get to sunday, things will be noticeably cooler — maybe time to dig out the winter coat. bye for now. bullet got into the gun that mr baldwin used. this is bbc news with the latest business headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the republic of ireland goes into partial lockdown at midnight with people told to work from home and opening hours cut for pubs, bars and restaurants. as 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