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we start with some breaking news from ukraine. local media is reporting that loud explosions in kyiv and the surrounding region are happening. no reports as of yet on any specific targets or damage, but there were earlier reports of explosions in cities from central ukraine to the mykolaiv region. air raid alerts sounded throughout the country. the uk ambassador to ukraine dame melinda simmons has tweeted: apparently, confirming those reports we are hearing about explosions. and these pictures on social media, shared by our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse, show apartment buildings ablaze in the town of uman, which is in central ukraine. the bbc has not yet verified these pictures but they are being widely shared. we are of course working to verify those images and get more information about what is happening overnight and in kyiv and central ukraine, where those reports of explosions have happened and we are getting our correspondence set to confirm some of tho ....
Of the terrible, terrible refugee camps in northern mexico, as seen by the terrible fire we saw in ciudad juarez, just a few weeks ago. john feeley, executive director of the center for media integrity of the americas. thank you so much forjoining us on our programme. it is a pleasure, sumi. now to turkey, where president recep tayyip erdogan has suspended election campaigning after he fell ill during a live tv interview in which the broadcast was abruptly brought to a halt. after a 20 minute break, he returned to say he had a serious stomach flu after two days of intense campaigning. mr erdogan, who is 69, is facing his toughest election campaign so far. 0rla guerin has more on the president s reported health scare. it isa it is a fight for every single fighter now and the fact that president recep tayyip erdogan has to miss important appearances in person gives us some indication he is quite ....
Hit the russians with harder sanctions, especially the oligarchs in putin s inner circle and really going after the mafia assets in russia because right now what the sanctions what the expulsion of the diplomats does is it strengthen s putin s bond with the russian people, especially after the horrible fire we saw in siberia so this is something that if the u.s. went after the assets, went after the oligarchs it would have a greater impact than just expelling the russian intelligence officers. andrea, that s what i was going to ask you following up on natas natasha s last point. richard haass last hour said these are the type of sanctions that vladimir putin loves because it s the old soviet union versus the old american imperialists and suddenly it s a bipartisan world again. suddenly it s the west versus russia and that plays into his hand at home. ....
Man of means, a millionaire could have afforded a machine gun and no felony convict slps. he could have registered for one in nevada. police haven t said whether there was a fully automated weapon. our sources have said he did pie what s called a bump buy what s called a bump stock, a modification that allows a semiautomatic legal assault rifle to fire like an automatic weapon. uses the energy of the gun to rapidly depress the trigger. that may have explained the rapid success of fire we saw. these are questions that will become important for the public policy debate in washington, craig, because we re already seeing today calls for the banning of modifications like bump stocks to assault rifles that allow them to fire like machine guns. ken delaney in washington, thank you. just hours before the music went silent, and gunfire took its place, there was this tremendous moment of unity at the route 91 festival. ....