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richard preston. we begin in the united states where eight people have been killed in the country s latest mass shooting. the incident took place at a shopping mall in allen, about 20 miles, 35 kilometres, north of the city of dallas. this is the moment police officers hurried shoppers out of the mall, eyewitnesses described a man dressed in black and armed with an assault rifle shooting apparently indiscriminate leave. the government has not been identified and was shot dead by police at the scene. has been no word about possible motive. three more people are currently in a critical situation in hospital. a short time ago emergency services gave this update. my name is jonathan this update. my name is jonathan boyd, - this update. my name is jonathan boyd, divisivel this update. my name is i jonathan boyd, divisive for this update. my name is - jonathan boyd, divisive for the jonathan boyd, divisive for the allen fire department. i want to speak to the medical part o ....
ours. we have our community the disaster happened to that we didn t know how to respond to it. we just want answers. people who live near the toxic train derailment in east palestine, ohio, are demanding answers about the potential health risks, as the biden administration vows to hold the railroad accountable. senator sherrod brown who met with the families today will join me. as those lawmakers were trying to help people, kevin mccarthy was engaing in political theater at the southern border while ron desantis is seeking a rewrite of the constitution. and leslie jones is here. we ll get her take on ufos and much, much more. we begin tonight with the latest rebuke in the ongoing saga of a twice impeached former president who continues to push the unfounded claims that the 2020 election was stolen. newly unsealed portions of the georgia special grand jury s final report looking at potential election meddling by donald trump and his allies detail what literally e ....
good morning to you. yesterday was a really cloudy one right across the board. today we ve got a lot more sunshine around, but it is feeling on the cool side. high pressure sticks with us into much of this upcoming week, so it looks like it is going to stay largely dry and settled, but i will have all the details on that very shortly. it s sunday, the 5th february. our main story: the business secretary, grant shapps, has given energy firms a deadline of tuesday to say what action they will take for vulnerable customers who may have had pre payment meters wrongfully installed. it comes after an investigation by the times newspaper revealed that some debt agents working for british gas had broken into the homes of people struggling to pay their bills, in order to install the equipment. simonjones has this report. debt collectors working for british gas secretly filmed about to break into the home of a single father with young children to fit a prepayment meter. it is not an is ....
iranian state television says that the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei has pardoned a large number of prisoners linked to protests. the state broadcaster says that ayatollah khamenei was responding to a proposal by the head of the judiciary. iranian media outlets say that the letter from the judiciary chief said that a number of people, especially the young, had committed wrongful actions and crimes because of incitement and propaganda by the enemy. our middle east analyst sebastian usher gave us this update. this is a pardon that comes on the eve of the anniversary of the 1979 islamic revolution, so there are pardons quite regularly for that. what we don t know, obviously the numbers. we don t know when or how this will happen. we do know the way that it s written says it s an answer to an appeal, a letter from the head of the judiciary who essentially frames it as being many people who went out to protest, particularly the young, were misled, by foreign agents, ....
what we don t know, obviously the numbers. we don t know when or how this will happen. we do know the way that it s written says it s an answer to an appeal, a letter from the head of the judiciary who essentially frames it as being many people who went out to protest, particularly the young, were misled, by foreign agents, propaganda from abroad, and that they now want forgiveness. and they re still described as riots, nothing more, nothing less. so, in terms of how the authorities frame this, obviously nothing has changed. also, it makes clear that people who are accused, who have been charged with more serious crimes, so that s spying, murder, destruction of state property, won t be pardoned. the issue about that is that many, many activists, many people involved in this say that those people who have been charged with the strongest offences have not had fair trials. they ve been summary trials. so they haven t had a fair look at what their case is anyway. i think th ....