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welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. we ll turn to the war in ukraine in a moment, but first an update on the primary school car crash in south west london. a girl has died after a land rover crashed into the study primary school in wimbledon on thursday morning. the metropolitan police also said a woman in her 40s had been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. we re expecting a police press conference in the next few minutes we will keep an on that and keep it on screen so that we can take it as soon as it starts. but first. . .. let s turn to the news that the wagner group leader, yevgeny prigozhin, has left belarus and may be in the russian city of st petersburg. that s according to the belarusian leader, alexander lukashenko. mr prigozhin led wagner s short lived mutiny in russia last month. mr lukashenko said he had in his words offered to let mr prigozhin bed down in belarus. on
as he hailed what he called productive talks with his political rivals. this as the clock ticks towards a deadline to avoid missing a payment on the us government s loans. the government is set to hit its borrowing limit of $31.4 trillion next week, raising fears it could run out of money to pay its bills without a deal to increase the debt ceiling . joining me now is danni hewson, head of financial analysis at aj bell. do you think investors are happy to take president biden at his word that no matter how difficult these negotiations get, no matter how much they go down to the wire he will somehow ensure there is no default? i think investors are increasingly nervous as we get further down to the wire and we have seen markets lose about 2% this week as that clock counts down. at the moment i think investors do assume that politicians will not want to tank the us economy. there is some kind of agreement will be reached before it reaches a point of defaulting on debt becaus
hello and welcome. we start the programme with breaking news, a man in the uk has been found guilty of murdering a seven year old girl more than thirty years ago. the body of nikki allen was found in sunderland in 1992. david boyd denied being responsible but refused to give evidence at his trial. live now to danny savage outside newcastle crown court. danny, tell us more. this is one of the most notorious danny, tell us more. this is one of the most notorious crimes - danny, tell us more. this is one of the most notorious crimes of - danny, tell us more. this is one of the most notorious crimes of this i the most notorious crimes of this part of the uk which has remained unsolved for more than three decades. today, that terrible weight that her family have had for 30 years finally came to an end. he was 25 years old at the time when she went missing back in 1992 in sunderland. in the last few minutes, he has been convicted at newcastle crown court. this can be described as
police in the united states who are investigating a mass shooting at a primary school in nashville say the attack appears to have been carefully planned and targeted. audrey hale, a former pupil, shot six people dead, including three children all nine years old, before being shot and killed by officers. there ve already been 130 mass shootings in the us this year alone. a mass shooting is when at least four people are shot in one attack. since january, nearly 10,000 people have died at the hands of firearms. and more than 400 of those have been children under the age of 18. earlier, us presidentjoe biden spoke to reporters. the majority of american people think having assault rifles is bizarre. i can t do anything but plead to the congress. let s hear from nashville s chief of police. we have interviewed the parents of audrey hale and we determined that audrey bought seven firearms from five different local gun stores here legally. they were legally purchased. three of those