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happened in the town of annecy in the french alps. the interior minister says the suspect has been arrested. the french parliament held arrested. the french parliament held a minute s silence while the country s prime minister elisabeth borne is on her way to the scene. france s president has tweeted. emmanuel macron wrote, an attack of absolute cowardice this morning in a town in annecy. children and an aduu town in annecy. children and an adult are between life and death. we will cross live to france with more details, but let s just run you through what we do know. this attack happened at around 9:45am local time. 7:1i5am gmt. it happened in a park near a lake in annecy. it is being reported that these children, some as young as three, with their childminders for their morning outing when this man wielding a knife suddenly appeared and started to stop them. some of those children were in their pushchairs. it being reported by local media and local sources that the ....
nursery school children have been attacked by a man with a knife in the east of the country. two children are thought to be in a critical condition. it appears they were playing in a park by a lake when they were attacked. it happened in the town of annecy, in the french alps. the interior minister says the suspect has been arrested. the french parliament held a minute s silence when news of the stabbings emerged, while the country s prime minister, elizabeth borne, is on her way to the scene. this is the scene in the french parliament a little earlier when news of that attack emerged. in the last few minutes, france s president has tweeted. emmanuel macron says: attack of absolute cowardice this morning in a park in annecy. children and an adult are between life and death. the nation is in shock. our thoughts are with them as well as their families and the emergency services mobilized. our paris correspondent, hugh schofield, has the latest. we hear the detail, more ....
the alleged attacker as a syrian man with refugee status in sweden. it s not currently being linked to terrorism. the foreign sector a james cleverly has said that one of the injured children was a dish national foreign secretary. the children, all aged three and under, were on an outing to a park, some in pushchairs. the attacker also stabbed an elderly man walking nearby, before he was overpowered by police. we are expecting a news conference and we will go there as soon as it begins. the french parliament held a minute s silence when news of the stabbings emerged. the country s prime minister, elisabeth borne, is at the scene. france s president has tweeted about the attack. france s president has emmanuel macron said. live now to our paris correspondent hugh schofield. it looks like there has been a hasty rearrangement of the press conference, so while we wait for that to begin, let s discuss what we know so far and crucially what we do not know. bring us up to d ....
sent this report bells ring a nation paused today to remember the victims of an attack people here can t make sense of, that has brought pain and suffering. church bells rang out across the czech republic to mark the moment. to honour those killed when a student attacked his own university, shooting in the corridors and classrooms. so far, we know three of the dead, including lenka hlavkova, a teacher who was 49. here at the arts faculty that was attacked, some have personal connections to the victims. a friend of these women survived by locking herself into a classroom to hide. translation: she cowered under the table. i saw her yesterday and felt sorry for her. she was still shaking. shouting images from a body camera show the police hunt for the gunman inside charles university. at this point the 24 year old was prowling the corridors above. we re told most of his victims were female, but we have no idea of his motive. in the end, he turned his gun on himself. many ....
2023 was a remarkable year for sport. up here, an historic treble. down under, a women s world cup. england and australia couldn t be separated in the ashes, whilst cricket, rugby union and netball all had world cups of their own. golf came togetherfor the solheim and ryder cups. but the start of this sporting year was, for some, less a beginning and more a resumption. football had onlyjust returned after its unprecedented winter world cup break. also resuming, returning, the australian open once more welcomed novak djokovic, a year on from his deportation over his covid vaccination status. still no vax for novak but here he was, back and unbeatable. his was a 22nd grand slam title. for irina sabalenka, a first. saudi arabia s bid to become a major player in global sport was laid bare. cristiano ronaldo becoming a figurehead for the fledgling football league. before the end of the year, they had all but been awarded a world cup. there was shock, too, injanuary, after bu ....