hello. thank you for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. we begin with the u.s. once again facing an outbreak of gun violence. in the last 24 hours, we have seen at least four mass shootings, all of which come on the heels of a judge s decision in california reversing a 32-year ban on assault weapons. last night s shootings bring the total up to 250 shootings for the year. in miami-dade county, florida, a shooting left three people dead and two others wounded outside of a graduation party. in chicago, aeight people were rounded when a car pulled up and someone opened fire. this weekend in that city, five have been killed and at least 40 hurt by gun violence. in new orleans, at least eight people were hit by gunfire on a service road of i10. in utah, police say a white car drove up to a group in salt lake city and shot at least five people, killing one. in all of the cases, police are still searching for the people responsible. with me now is congresswoman barbara lee, a demo
south africas battered economy tries to recover from a double downgrade, but it won t be easy especially trying to borrow money from its internationalfriends. and all on board. yep, how a group of enterprising berliners, fed up with paying ever more for their daily train tickets clubbed together to crowd fund their own train line. we re going to take a ride with them. welcome to world business report. i m aaron heslehurst. welcome to the programme. if you give me your eight minutes, i will give me your eight minutes, i will give you an exciting snapshot of the world of business and money. we will start south, south africa in that. as south africa s president jacob zuma celebrates his 75th birthday, festivities may be rather more low key than usual. in less than a week, the country s members of parliament are scheduled to hold a vote of no confidence against the president. why? well it comes after he ousted some of his key political opponents in a recent cabinet reshuffle.
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An investigation by The Guardian has revealed numerous cybersecurity issues at the Sellafield nuclear site, the largest such facility in the UK and home to the world's largest storage facility for radioactive plutonium.