in philadelphia where the suspect was wearing a ballistic vest. good evening, bill. as you mentioned, this has been an incredibly violent fourth of july holiday weekend including a mass shooting in philadelphia tonight that left four people dead and four others injured. it happened in southwest philly after police say a man in his ballistic vest opened fire with eight people shot in total including two juveniles. police now have that suspect in custody. meanwhile, in baltimore, police are hunting for suspects after shooting left two people dead and 28 others injured at a large block party in the brooklyn home area. the fbi offering a $28,000 reward for any information that can lead to an arrest the city s mayor is vowing that the shooters will be caught. this was a reckless, cowardly act of violence that has taken two lives and altered many more. as i said earlier, we will find those who are responsible. we will not stop until we do so. in washingtoning d.c., police are
the united nations secretary general, antonio guterres, has asked the security council to urgently consider haiti s request for deployment now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with zeinab badawi. welcome to hardtalk with me zeinab badawi from south africa where my guest has been described as one of the world s greatest living artists. william kentridge is versatile, hard hitting and his talents span many different genres. he is william kentridge and this is a major exhibition of his work in cape town. in 2020 i travelled to his studio and asked how south african politics influenced his art. william kentridge in johannesburg, welcome to hardtalk. zeinab, thank you very much and welcome to the studio injohannesburg. you were born in johannesburg in 1955, the son of two prominent anti apartheid lawyers, wow did growing up under apartheid affect you? i think because my parents were both very much aware of and involved in legal questions around the anti apartheid struggle, from a young
Became a member of the Royal College of psychiatrists in 1997. He is a consultant forensic psychiatrist. He has a particular interest in neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism. He interviewed the defendant for four hours on the 6th of march 2023, and has had access to the other psychiatric reports and records. Professor blackwood concluded that, while the defendant demonstrated some evidence of difficulty in developing relationships, and a degree of fixation in his interests and attraction to routines, he does not meet the required criteria for an autism disorder. He said that in his 18 months after leaving six from couege 18 months after leaving six from college the defendant struggled to establish settled employment and medium term plans for his life. He played socially isolated, lonely, angry and frustrated. His twin sister left to go to university in autumn 2020, and his grandmother died. Professor blackwood does not think that the observations of the defendants family, the
Terrifying. It is a National Crisis and what is worrying at the moment is that the government is not treating it like a crisis. It has not have Cobra Meetings. Ed miliband was tweeting earlier that when we have things like foot and mouth, there were Cobra Meetings and it was coordinated as a national level. There were Cobra Meetings and it was coordinated as a National Levelli Wa Nt to coordinated as a national levelli want to look at the Sunday Telegraph, they are saying it is not just about cladding, installation is the real inferno threat. It will have to widen out the scope of the investigation and maybe that will trigger these emergency meetings. The cost of what will have to be doneis the cost of what will have to be done is now having a significant threat to budgets of government, local governor and national government. This seems to be an escalation. And it has to be done. Nobody can be a cheapskate is now. In case Something Else happens. And they were to blame. It is going to