Fiona, hello. Hi there. How are you . Im very well, thank you. And welcome back to newscast. Thank you. But in previous, well, in previous episodes where weve had about 50 minutes, weve now got about a0 minutes. So good job. The world is quite chaotic at the moment. Theres plenty of Trouble Spots that we can that we can look at. Um, but before we go on a tour around the world, ijust wanted to do a bit of a bit of your, your kind of personal history. And so what was happening in County Durham in the 80s, when you were a teenager and you decided that russian was the thing that you wanted to get into . Well, look, that was the period that actually its the subject of a Netflix Series at the moment about the Cold War and the bomb, where we had the War Scares with the Soviet Union, the 1980s, you know, there were several. But the most memorable, at least from my perspective, was about 1983, when you just could palpably feel the sort of tension internationally, even, you know, as a kind of a
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amol rajan, bbc news. the princes and the press will be on bbc two at 9pm tonight and available on the bbc iplayer. police in the us state of wisconsin are holding the driver of a vehicle which ploughed into a christmas parade, killing at least five people and injuring dozens more. the vehicle drove through the back of a marching band the local hospital says it has treated 18 children among the injured. let s speak to our correspondent barbara plett usher, who s in waukesha for us. with the latest. we are expecting a police update shortly, sophie, but the suspect has been named. he is darrell brooks, 39 years old, an african american man who appears to have a lengthy criminal history. an online court document shows he had recently been charged on several counts of reckless endangerment and had been released on bail on friday,
named as 39 year old darrell edward brooksjunior. the vehicle drove through the back of a marching band the local hospital says it s treated 18 children amongst the injured. in the past hour, waukesha police have been holding a news conference, giving more details about the investigation. ijust received information that two of the 48 are children and are in critical condition. we have information that the suspect prior to the incident was involved in a domestic disturbance, which was just minutes prior and the suspect left that scene just prior to our arrival to that domestic disturbance. when the suspect was driving through into the crowd, one officer did discharge his firearm and fired shots at the suspect to stop the threat, but due to the amount
she was aware there was an affair going on, and she was going to confront him. that was made clear. her girlfriends have told us that. investigators eventually discovered the identity of steve s girlfriend. she was employed by the local hospital where steve worked as a lab supervisor. when questioned, she openly admitted the affair. she basically said that they d been seeing each other for a year. they were in love with each other. they went on outings together. and she admitted that they had sex that day in his cabin. the cabin was the hollermanns summer home at green lake. it was just a mile and a half from the crash site. with a warrant, investigators searched the cabin and found evidence confirming the story they d heard from steve s girlfriend. you could see a bed where it looked like it had been recently slept in or used in some way. and they also discovered that