much. that conversation is coming up and you don t want to miss it. we re going to begin with the breaking news we re following in louisiana. a deadly shooting at grambling state university of. richard lui is following this for us. we re hearing more details as this thing develops. bring us up to date on what we know so far. yasmin, this breaking story coming in this afternoon. at the moment win person is dead, several others wounded. this shooting took place in the early morning hours today on a sunday as the university was celebrating its homecoming weekend. i want to start with what a student captured in the aftermath and posted on facebook. take a look at this. all right. that video being shown live. police and paramedics racing to the scene. this happened in a popular area called the quad. a student captured scenes of several victims surrounded by friends along the way. in a statement, the school said at the time of the incident, a homecoming event was under way in t
the white house with this for us. john, what more are you hearing about this? reporter: kate, this is a move that european countries and other countries around the world, south africa, the uk, eu countries as you mentioned, have been very impatient for, that the airline industry has been very impatient for. they ve had a difficult time building back up their international business. and the united states, the biden administration in particular is also impatient for it. why? because they want every sign that they have to demonstrate to the american people that life is getting back to normal in the pandemic. now we see cases going down, hospitalizations and deaths going down, finally after that summer surge of the delta variant. things are moving in the right direction and the administration by opening up travel for if you re on a flight, you have to have proof of vaccination and a negative test if you re traveling by land, not required. but this is something that the admini
of wrote 20 years ago from personal experience, and then it s been extrapolated out from there. but in a nutshell, it s set on a remote monastery in the 1940s, so the backdrop is the second world war. and the monastery is being presided over by a nun, who i play, who s officiating mass, the priest is dead. and one night, unceremoniously, a young indigenous boy is dumped on the doorstep of the monastery to be cared for as part of the reprehensible government policy of assimilation of indigenous children, in order to separate indigenous children from their culture. and this powerful spirituality of this young boy destabilises the surety of the catholic faith there, and these strange miracles start to happen. which we see so vividly in the performance by this little boy, by aswan reid, just nine years old, and you can t take your eyes off him when he s on screen. he s absolutely magnetic. erm, i mean, we were so lucky to find him. i remember warwick. warwick thornton and i start
most successful actors. she s won notjust one but two academy awards. brought up originally in australia, she s returned to her roots for her latest film, the new boy, which she s also produced. it s the story of a young boy from an indigenous background who s kidnapped and then forced to live in a catholic orphanage. cate blanchett, welcome to the arts interview. thank you. so i wanted to begin byjust getting you to explain the whole idea of new boy. well, it s a film by warwick thornton, who s one of australia s great directors. he s a cinematographer, he s a writer, and this is a film that s intensely personal that he s sort of wrote 20 years ago from personal experience, and then it s been extrapolated out from there. but in a nutshell, it s set on a remote monastery in the 1940s, so the backdrop is the second world war. and the monastery is being presided over by a nun, who i play, who s officiating mass, the priest is dead. and one night, unceremoniously, a young indige
a sharp fall in its net profit, slipping 25%% in 2023 compared to the previous year. aramco attributed the downturn to lower crude oil prices and decreased production. the company s net income dropped from $161 billion in 2022 to $121 billion last year. despite the challenges posed by declining oil prices, aramco will increase its dividend payments, providing a much needed financial boost to saudi arabia. let s get more now from our middle east business correspondent sameer hashmi. with a big fall off in profit, why is it increasing its dividend? it its dividend? is a steep fall compared to 2022. it is a steep fall compared to 2022. it is still the second best performance in terms of annual results at $121 billion. two reasons why they increased the dividend pay out. number one, aramco abbott is the main driver of the saudi arabian economy. saudi owned entities own 19% of it and they rely heavily on that income to really find some these massive projects inside arabia. they tr