with president biden and several actual movie stars in hollywood as george clooney and julia roberts, jimmy kimmel, and more were all part of this big campaign event and fundraiser raising over $30 million. that s actually a record-breaking amount for a single event by biden. obama juggling father s day celebrations. we couldn t resist a chance to share a little bit of that. i think, james, we can agree with the importance of family on a weekend like this, but he juggled that with the campaign business. this event did raise money, but it s also trying to raise awareness about the general election. the democrats think the more people they can wake up to the choice of trump and the threat of trump earlier the better. obama s one of the party s most popular messengers, and he used this appearance, his first since trump s conviction, to argue that a jury convicted donald trump of a crime and that matters and that conservatives should reject this republican party, insisting on con
breaking news from north korea. in the last couple of hours, the us military and south korean officials have confirmed north korea has fired a ballistic missile which exploded shortly after liftoff. the launch camejust hours shortly after liftoff. the launch came just hours after a special session of the un security council in which the us pushed for tougher sanctions on the pyongyang regime. the us secretary of state, rex tillerson, chaired the session. let s have a look at some of the state to make statements. with each successful missile test, north korea pushes asia and the world closer to instability and conflict. the threat of a north korean nuclear attack on seoul or tokyo is real and it is likely only a matter of time before north korea develops the capability to strike the us mainland. indeed, the dprk has repeatedly claimed it plans to conduct such a strike. given that rhetoric, the united states cannot stand idly by, nor can other nations which are in striking dist
charity finds one in saeed & mohammed al naboodah group trophy handicap to have been bullied. and a light show and the southern hemisphere. good morning. welcome to bbc newsroom live. a huge car bomb in the afghanistan capital kabul has killed at least 80 people and injured over 350. the huge explosion happened in the diplomatic quarter of the city near the french embassy during morning rush hour. our correspondent harun najafizada is at the scene and sent this report. this is the scene of the huge bombing which rocked the afghan capital kabul. today we understand it was a water tanker or a lorry full of explosives which hated this strategic location right in the heart of kabul. it is very close to the german embassy, the indian embassy, the french and british embassies. it is also walking distance from the provincial palace. the police have cordoned off the area at the moment and we are not allowed to move further than this for several reasons. one of them is that there migh
all. a gunman is holding more than 30 hostages at a high school. eight people have been shot, including at least four students. we can only make an appeal to the gunman. stop. there s been enough already. an all white jury acquitted four white police officers of assault in the videotaped beating of black motorist rodney king. i was scared. i was scared for my life. across the nation, people were paying attention to this. the officers struck him with batons between 53 and 56 times. it was one of the first cases where there was actual video of a case of alleged police brutality. for 13 months, the city of los angeles has been a pressure cooker, building up to the rodney king trial. we, the jury, in the above entitled action find the
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than 30 hostages at a high school. we can only make an appeal to the gunman, stop, there s been enough already. across the nation, people were paying attention to this. the officers struck him with batons between 56 and 66 times. for 13 months, los angeles has been a pressure cooker. we find the defendant
while the nation s eyes are glued to los angeles. police have been called to a bizarre crime scene. fbi agents have joined the search for a missing new jersey executive, sidney risso, if the president of exxon corporation is missing from his home. his wife said he left home early that morning, later that evening his car was left idling in the driveway of their home. they had followed their routine, they had breakfast together and she walked him to the door and said goodbye as she always did around 7: 30. miss his car never got to the end of the driveway, and there was no sign of him, the guy had just gone poof. friends say riso is just like the house they live i