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 people were seriously injured, ca
bell rings. bell rings. bell tolls. bells peal. bells peal. the bells tolling in memory of the dead. this is an incident which has deeply, deeply shocked this country. as well as those who died, people are thinking about the people who were injured, a number of those are still in hospital, some with serious injuries. we know that many of the casualties were cheque, three czech. czech. details have been emerging about the identities of some of the victims, one of them was the director of the institute of musicology at the university. she was 49 years old, she was the mother of two children. the institute put out a statement saying that this was an extremely cruel time for us all. meanwhile, the police investigations are continuing, people here continuing to ask themselves what it was that could have driven this 24 year old gunman to behave in this way. this is a very sad moment coming as it doesjust before is a very sad moment coming as it does just before christmas, a time
been evacuated this year, because of concerns about fire safety or cladding panels. in the wake of the grenfell tower disaster in london, almost 4,000 tower blocks are under scrutiny. phil hendry reports. all wrapped up for christmas, and the hammers ring out. for residents of these south london flats, a white christmas takes the form of protective plastic sheeting, while their cladding panels are stripped and replaced. as first time buyer sitara sorts out her presents, there s another presence that keeps on giving. talking about workmen stuff straight outside your bedroom window from first thing in the morning until the very end of the day. i can t even think about christmas, to be honest. i m going to be probably leaving the flat for as long as possible. the building s management are apologetic, offering compensation and to buy back many of the 270 flats. as we approach the seventh year since the grenfell tower fire, there are now nearly 4000 blocks of flats identified as h
susan caruana waited six long years for this message from her grandson, alex batty. their first direct contact since he failed to return from a holiday in spain with his mother and grandfather. now back in the uk, alex and his grandma have been speaking to the sun newspaper, describing the last time they spoke over the phone in 2017 from a beach in spain. i said to him, you are coming home on saturday, aren t you? and then i heard in the background his mother telling him to put down the phone. all the phones had been switched off, all communications were cut. and ifelt so betrayed. and i was absolutely devastated. alex spent the next few years living a nomadic lifestyle in france and spain with his mother and grandfather. during the whole six years, susan told the sun, i never knew if they were dead or alive. with no school or formal education, alex said he resorted to books. i used to read harry potter, gosh, i ve probably read it about 20 times in complete order. i used