another warning on energy bills half of all uk households could face fuel poverty this winter. a record day for channel crossings in small boats on monday nearly 1,300 people arrived in the uk. and man s emotional best friends how dogs can cry with joy. and coming up on the bbc news channel: after ellen white s retirement, jill scott is the latest lioness to call time on her football career after 20 years at the top. good evening. police in liverpool have named the nine year old who was shot dead in her home last night. olivia pratt korbel s death has sent shock waves through her community and beyond after she was shot in the chest by a gunman who was targeting a man who d run into the house. let s go straight ot our correspondent danny savage who s at the scene. danny. i think it was shocking enough for many people to wake up to the news a nine year old girl had been shot home, but then came the detail and i think this is the most tragic series of evends surround
The ongoing manhunt in lewiston, maine. And the surrounding communities. Where theres fear among residents this may not be over. E death toll from two separate shootings at a Bowling Alley and restaurant is 18 with 13 others injured, after a senseless assault devastating the community and the state of maine. Look, lewiston is a special place. Its a closeknit community with a long history of hard work, persistence, of faith, of opening its big heart to people everywhere. I love this place, just as i love our whole state with my entire heart. Im so deeply saddened, as is everyone of the 1. 3 Million People of this beautiful state. This city did not deserve this terrible assault on its citizens, on its peace of mind, on its sense of security. No city does. No state, no people. This Attack Strikes at the very heart of who we are and the values we hold dear for this precious place we call home. Devastating and emotional for the governor and all the residents. Photos released overnight show
Disabled grandfather stabbed to death on his mobility scooter. these are not age groups that are generally victims of violent crime and if you look at the surveys that have been done, back to 1994, violence has been falling. but if you look at offences reported to the police, gun offences for example, there is a different story. look at these figures. the gun crime rate in england and wales, you can see it fell until about 20 15 and then started to rise. during the pandemic dropped after. there is no yet no sign of it coming back, but these figures don t include the summer and we have seen shootings in merseyside and in london. another set of figures for assaults using knives, again from 2015 a rise, up to the point of pandemic. a dip during the pandemic. but the number starts to go pandemic. but the number starts to 9° up pandemic. but the number starts to go up again after the pandemic and
no question. the thing that stops somebody from shooting somebody is another person with a gun. let me tell you how it stops the problem. universal background check make sure that people who are mentally ill do not get weapons. but they re still going to get them. the charleston loophole killed one of our friends. the fbi only had three days to conduct a background check, wasn t able to do it so dylan roof went and got a gun and killed people. it will stop violence. the assault rifle ban worked. the minute it lit up you saw 83% increase in massacres look at the cities in america that have the highest gun crime rate and there are cities that have total bans on guns. it s not working. take me to chicago, take me to o-d.c. right here where we are. you are wrong. nick wrote a whole column like this where he looked
There to move forward. has it really stopped the problem? let me tell you this. let me tell you how it stops the problem. it makes sure people who are pl mentally ill and it killed one of our friends. the fact that he got a gun is because of the simple fact that the fbi only had three days the conduct a backgrounds check. he got a gun and went and killed people. and the assault rifle ban worked. you saw 283% increase in massacre. in all due respect look at the cities in america that had the highest gun crime rate and cities that have total bans on guns. it s not working. take me to chicago and dc right here where we are. you are wrong.