Hes the 21 year old accused of killing 22 people in a shooting rampage in texas. And now an arrest affidavit of Patrick Crusius reveals he told police he was targeting mexicans when he stormed the el paso walmart. Back in his hometown, democratic president ial candidate beto orouke has accused the president of fanning the racial hate. We live in a country where some will try to define us by our differences, and theyll say that those differences are dangerous, theyll warn of invasions and infestations, theyll try to build walls to keep the rest of the world out, theyll talk of people as being less than human and then treat them as less than human. As someone who served 24 years in the military. Both the texas and ohio shootings have reignited fierce debate over gun control. President donald trump has conceded change is needed. Frankly, we need intelligent background checks, ok . This isnt a question of nra, republican, or democrat. I will tell you, i spoke to Mitch Mcconnell yesterday. Hes totally on board. He saidi he said i have been waiting for your call, he is totally on board. I think that the republicans are going to be great and lead the charge, along with the democrats. But the president s biggest hurdle will be the countrys powerful gun lobby the National Rifle association. President trump has suggested he could persuade the nra to change its position. But earlier this week, the nra tweeted even if the republican president goes head to head despite widespread public outcry, its now unlikely senators will be called back from their holidays further delaying Political Action after yet another tragedy. Lets get some of the days other news. As protests continue in indian administered kashmir, delhi has told pakistan it must stop interfering in its internal affairs. Relations have been strained between the two countries since india revoked kashmirs special status earlier in the week. Paksitan has responded by suspending train links, and halting trade. North korea has fired two unidentified projectiles into the sea, according to reports in south korea. They were fired from near the North Eastern city of ham hoong into the sea of japan. Its the latest in a series of launches by pyongyang. Reports from yemen say at least six civilians have been killed in renewed fighting in the southern port of aden. The warring parties are supposed to be on the same side in the fight against Houthi Rebels in the countrys civil war. A powerful typhoon has made landfall in south eastern china, bringing gusts of 200km h and heavy rain. Typhoon lekima is the strongest to hit the country in5years. A red alert has been issued along the path of the storm, which is likely to reach shanghai later in the day. Portugals government has declared an energy crisis, and introduced fuel rationing at petrol stations. A planned strike by lorry drivers means members of the public will be able to buy no more than 15 litres of petrol or diesel. Union leaders are to decide on saturday whether to go ahead with the industrial action. And you can keep up to date with all the latest news, business and sport on our website. There are reports from our correspondents based in more than 80 locations around the globe theres also a section dedicated to reports and articles looking at gun violence in the united states. Thats all at bbc. Com news or download the bbc news app. The Energy Regulator ofgem has called for an investigation after nearly a Million People were affected by major power cuts across large areas of england and wales. Problems with one offshore wind and one gas generator are understood to have been to blame. Katy austin reports. Commuters navigating Clapham Junction station in darkness. This evenings power cuts did not last long but the impact affected more than a Million People. Including thousands of train passengers across the country, some unable to board. I am going to hang around and see if they put the trains back on and fix the issue but if not, im going to have to find somewhere to stay tonight and get a train tomorrow. No one has come over and spoken to me. No one seems to know what is going on. If you go and ask for help, no one really knows what is going on at all. While some were stuck on trains. I was on a train to edinburgh through to london, we stopped in the countryside for an hour and a half with no information. We were starting to conserve water but now they are sending us back to peterborough station where we are just going to have to be, i presume, dumped off. London kings cross is one of the countrys Busiest Railway stations. Passengers turned up this evening to find there were delays and cancellations and have now been told services are unlikely to resume today. Reports of a problem emerged shortly after 5pm. Uk Power Networks tweeted it was aware of a power cut which it believed was due to a National Grid network failure. It supplies london and the south east and said 300,000 homes were affected in that region, but it didnt end there. Half a Million People lost power in the area western Power Distribution covers, south west england, south wales and the midlands. 110,000 customers served by northern power grid in the north east, 26,000 supplied by Electricity North West in areas from penrith in cumbria to stockport in greater manchester, and 16,000 sse customers in central and southern england, and tens of thousands more were affected in cheshire and merseyside. National grid said the issue was caused by the loss of two generators that connect to the gb Transmission System which led to a fall in the frequency of the electricity system and it had to disconnect part of the network. It said that by 6 30pm, all demand was restored by the Distribution Network operators, and the system was operating normally. By then the loss of power had affected drivers, too, with some traffic lights out. Newcastle airport experienced power issues too, as did ipswich hospital, where the back up generator failed. My mum got stuck in the scan lift, so we were looking at her ten feet off the ground, wondering how on earth she was going to get into the lift, because it wasnt working, or get down again, and it was quite a terrifying 20 minutes, wondering what is going to happen, are we going to have to get the Emergency Services . People whose friday evening journeys turned into a nightmare will be wondering how this could have happened. For the first time in 6. 5 years, the uk economy has shrunk, falling in the 3 months tojune by 0. 2 percent. The contraction in gdp, or the total value of goods and Services Made and sold by all sectors of the economy, was worse than some had expected. But the chancellor sajid javid says the fundamentals of the economy remain resilient and strong, and hes not expecting a recession. 0ur economics editor, faisal islam reports. This is a stockpile. Reams of printing material, labels, plastics, inks shipped into this leicester food labelling company to beat the last brexit deadline. This across tens of thousands of british warehouses boosted the economy before march, and took away from it between april and june, helping leave the british economy shrinking for the first time in years. For now it isnt generally expected the uk is in its first formal recession that is two consecutive quarters of the year where the economy gets smaller since the great financial crisis a decade ago. But this is the first shrinkage over a three month period for 6. 5 years, when the crisis in the eurozone was raging. The First Quarter of this year was flatted by the effect of billions of pounds of stockpiling which explains some, not all of todays weakness. The question now what happens in the next three months . What a welcome for a new chancellor of the exchequer, who played down his shock on a visit to the National Grid. No one will be surprised by todays figures, there was a general expectation growth in this quarter would be slower than the previous quarter, and the important thing is the fundamentals of the uk economy remain very strong. Can you rule out a recession . Im not expecting recession at all, and dont take my word for it, there isnt a single leading forecaster that is expecting a recession. The east midlands is a hub for logistics and freight and in these lorries and giant storage sheds is an economy trying to deal with the prospect of more fundamental changes to the way this country trades. The governments argument that the disappointing numbers are down to the fact that in warehouses up and down the country they had to wind down the extraordinary level of stockpiled parts and products for the brexit that never was in march. But this is only part of the story. A recession, although not likely, is now possible. The economy far from turbo charged at a sensitive point. Here in nottinghamshire, the chancellor was meeting apprentices and acknowledged a brexit factor in the numbers but not a jolt from the rising chances of no deal in october. Most of all we want to bring certainty which is why we must leave on october 31 and if that means leaving with no deal, that is the way its going to be. It is the certainty of no deal that is impacting on intentions, that is what the bank of england has said. Businesses want certainty around brexit. But what sort of certainty . Back in leicester, the labelling boss, zed, says he is fed up of stockpiling and he has delayed investing to fit out his new factory. We went through this before march and now between march and october. We have had a lot of unstable, uncertainty, and the cloudy skies are upon us again. We cant move forward or back, we are stuck in a rut, thats where we are. The expectation is britain avoids a formal recession by growing but with the pound tumbling again, nothing seems too certain in the british economy. Thirty migrants have been intercepted crossing the English Channel in four small boats, including a kayak. The vessels were picked up by a Border Force Patrol and taken to dover. The home office says the group was made up of 27 men, one woman and two children. Simonjones reports. The small boats brought back to dover have become a common sight less so this. Migrants sitting on the hull. Two other people had attempted to paddle across the channel. This is extraordinary, to come across the English Channel in a 2 man kayak, Something Like this is an example of a 2 man kayak, great forjust off the beach and paddling around the coastline, but to go through the English Channel in Something Like this is taking a massive risk. How dangerous do you think this was . Extremely dangerous, it is more luck that they got spotted where they did rather than actually found by a ship or not hit by a ship, without a doubt. We could be talking about a fatality . It is just luck that we are not. So far this month 77 migrants have reached the uk by boat, and total 837 have been picked up this year by the border force and other 179 by the french authorities. Charities supporting migrants say conditions like these in calais, with some migrants sleeping rough in tips, is leading people to take evermore Desperate Measures to get to britain. This shows the desperation that people are feeling to want to have to have a flimsy means of transport like a kayak coming over to the uk, and also shows that the countermeasures that have been taken dont really address this particular situation. Shouldnt people be claiming asylum in france which is a safe country . Many people feel they have connections with the uk, which means that they feel they have a right to actually claim asylum in the uk. One of calaiss top officials in a recent interview with the bbc insisted he was taking the issue seriously. Translation for us, the french authorities, we need firstly to save lives, avoid any serious incidents, and also disrupt people trafficking networks. But this will not be a quick or easy task. This is bbc news, the Headlines Police say the el paso shooting suspect has confessed that he was deliberately targeting mexicans. 22 people died in the attack last saturday. Lauren viyagran is a reporter for the el paso times, who has been covering the story. I asked her how the community has been coping with the tragedy. Imean, it i mean, it is the subject of every conversation, every day, everywhere. This was a huge tragedy for this community. We lost so many lives and so community. We lost so many lives and so many people were impacted. We are hearing these media reports now that details of the Police Arrest report have come out and they say that the shooter targeted mexicans. What has been the reaction to that development . We knew from just minutes, hours after the shooting, but there was a so called manifesto posted online that had been linked to the shooter, that was very quickly linked to the shooter. That uses quickly linked to the shooter. That uses language describing immigration as an invasion, describing immigrants as invaders. Some of this language echoes language used by the president of the united states. The ma nifesto, president of the united states. The manifesto, as it were, is filled with hate, and specifically states that the shooter would target people of hispanic ethnicity and dissent. We learned today, as you said, in some court documents, but there is Additional Information about the shooter may have told police directly that he did in fact target hispanic people. I was at a protest a few days ago on the day that the president arrived in el paso to meet with the victims families, and the young man read the names of each of the 22 dad, and it was startling to hear those names roll off his tongue in spanish. 22 dead. The vast majority of the people who died were of hispanic descent. Our people still feeling a sense of anger, a sense of shock, or are issues moving on to what can be done, what happens next . Are people still feeling stop i would have to say a mix of everything. There is obviously a daily morning here. We are going through each of the funerals, there have been funerals injuarez and el paso. At the protest i attended, speaking to both survivors of the massacre and walmart people who were in that store when the shooting occurred, they do also want to talk about guns. I am hearing an all out ban on assault style weapons, those high powered rifles that are available in the us, that have been used so often in the Mass Shootings we experience here. On that issue of gun control, of course, that is a national debate, it is interesting that people are talking about a ban on assault rifles or assault powered weapons, given texas still has very liberal, relaxed gun laws. Now, you have to remember, el paso is in west texas which votes democrat. That being said, it is still texas, and many people here are gun owners. Even those gun owners told me that they see no reason for an individual to have an ak 47, for example. In italy, the often fraught coalition between the five Star Movement and the league party appears to have broken apart beyond repair. The leagues leader, matteo salvini, has called for a no confidence vote, blaming the five Star Movements opposition to a high speed rail link. James reynolds reports from rome. The leagues leader matteo salvini, surely the most photographed man in italy, wants to break up the populist coalition and head for an early election. But that is no particular surprise. For the last year, salvini has had to share power with the five Star Movement, as one of two deputy prime ministers. But current opinion polls suggest that he may have a chance of winning a snap vote and taking over as italys prime minister. He is calling his members of parliament to rome to organise a no confidence vote. Translation all the parliamentarians from the league will be in rome on monday, they will be there on tuesday, on wednesday, on thursday and on friday. It is absurd that someone says, as i read in some newspaper, that we cannot force parliamentarians to work on the ferragosto public holiday. They should get off their bums and go to work, even on a public holiday. This puts pressure on the five star leader luigi di maio, who is also a deputy prime minister. His party has been losing support, but he says he is not scared of an early vote, and he accuses salvini of being destructive. Translation minister salvini, after having spent two weeks at the beach, came to rome only to bring down the government and accuse parliamentarians of not working. Next week members of the senate will break their holidays to discuss holding a formal no confidence vote which may take place later this month. If it passes, the initiative would then fall to italys president , sergio mattarella, who has the sole power to decide whether or not to call early election. The Electoral Commission says britain needs laws fit for the digital age, to take into account the rise of Companies Like facebook and google. The independent body which regulates party and election finance, is calling for greater transparency, and more powers to investigate campaign spending. Heres our media editor amol rajan. Are you going to vote liberal on thursday . Certainly, yes. Very good. And my boyfriend. Not so long ago, the most effective political campaigning took place face to face and door to door. Such campaigning still has its place, of course, but today the persuasion machines of social media offer a more efficient route to voters. In just the past month, conservative spending on such ads has boomed, fuelling rumours of a snap election. What is the attraction of social media platforms like facebook to people who have a political message they want to get across . Its really incredibly low cost, and its really easy to use. Anyone sitting on their own can get open a laptop, they can create a page, they can start advertising to very small, very targeted communities that they want to reach out and engage, so the barriers in terms of getting involved are just so much lower now. The leave campaign in the brexit referendum was masterminded by dominic cummings, played here by Benedict Cumberbatch in a channel 4 film. There is a new politics in town. One that you cant control. He is now a Senior Adviser in number 10. In 2017, he articulated his digital strategy. We sucked in data on the precise same basis that facebook marketing allows, and then we had therefore large subsamples of the overall polling samples, which you could actually rely on, and then you could take that data and plug it straight back into facebook. But this is about much more than one man or one plebiscite. Social media Companies Like facebook and its subsidiaries are radical extensions of the 20th Century Advertising industry. They are giant persuasion machines that provide campaigners, whether commercial or political, with thousands of data points that enable very cheap micro targeting. But the perennial question is, who regulates this stuff . I dont understand why the government is taking so long. I think we should be looking at emergency legislation to bring our electoral law up to date, to at least establish the basic principle is that the same requirements that exist in a poster or a leaflet should exist in an online ad on facebook as well. There is a regulatory void here. The information commissioner said it regulates use of personal data, but has no role in regulating the content or the money. The Advertising Standards Authority said any ad intending to influence voters would be unlikely to be covered by our rules. And the Electoral Commission, which regulates political finance but not content, say they want new powers in this arena. We have been calling for changes to the law to make political campaigning online more transparent, and to make the funding of it known much quicker than it currently is. We think that absolutely needs to happen so that the voter can know where the money is coming from. Technology always outpaces legislation. The trouble is, social media now threatens to undermine the very democracy it once promised to improve. Amol rajan, bbc news. Norwich cathedral, one of the oldest in england, has installed a realfairground helter skelter to allow visitors a closer glimpse of its medieval roof. It hasnt escaped criticism, though. 0ne bishop has called the move a mistake. 0ur religion editor, martin bashir, went to take a look. Amid the ancient cloisters of this hallowed place, not the sound of evensong but a fairground ride. It is faster than i thought it would be, it is good fun. Did it make you think about anything more deeply . If i am honest, no, other than what a random thing to have in a cathedral. I think it was very good and fast. It took four days to build and costs £2 per ride. The cathedral says its designed to give a close up view of the stunning mediaeval ceiling, and start conversations about faith. I think we have to remember that we are dealing with a great diversity of people in our nation, and if we are going to reach out to lots of different people we have got to use different methods to reach them. At 55 feet tall it is certainly closer to the heavens, but will it take people closer to god . Isnt this a sign that the church has lost faith in its gospel message, and is now reduced to basically having gimmicks . Oh, no, this is a sign of a confident church. English cathedrals are the Great Success story of the church of england. 0ur numbers coming to worship are increasing, numbers of visitors across all cathedrals are rising. So if that is the case, why do you have a helter skelter . Because our job has always been to re tell this story. Okay, im now going to climb the 36 steps myself. Six flights of stairs, and i am nowjust over ten feet from the cathedral ceiling. Are you ready . Iam. Thank you very much oh, that is quick havent seen much of the ceiling from here. Well, i have to say, i think i prefer evensong for understanding the gospel and the christian faith, butjudging by the line over there, i think im in the minority. Martin having a little too much fun. Now lets get the weather. Hello there, we have seen impacts already from this unseasonal weather, and we are not finished just yet either. Some more rain to come which will be quite heavy, perhaps some thundery downpours as well this weekend, and those winds are strengthening more widely now across england and wales. Thats because our unusually deep area of low pressure for the time of year is drifting its way northwards, winds strengthening on its southern flank, there is more rain around overnight as well, but where the winds are lighter, later in scotland and Northern Ireland, there may be a few mist and fog patches. 13 14, its warmer further south, 16 17, with more showers, even longer spells of rain, quite a few of those in the morning across wales and the south west of england. A number of heavy showers developing further north, and those will be more slow moving and more frequent as well. Not too much rain for the north west of scotland, i think it will be more towards eastern scotland later in the day that we will see some thundery downpours, and throughout the day, they are never too far away from southern scotland and also close to Northern Ireland as well, this line of downpours running over the irish sea into the north west of england. Further south showers more fleeting, because it will be so windy, those are the wind gusts, widespread gales for england and wales, gusts of 60 miles an hour across southern coasts. A very windy conditions, and it wont feel as warm or as muggy either, 27 east anglia yesterday, looking at low 20s at best. Winds do continue to ease a little during saturday night into sunday morning, but you can see we still have some areas of rain, and again that could be heavy and thundery with the prospect of some localised flooding as well. Those temperatures begin to drop away towards southern parts of the uk, typically 13 14. So to the second half of the weekend, it is not completely dry, there will be some sunshine around, but we will see more showers developing across england and wales, for a time across Northern Ireland, and a spot of rain is slow moving, central and southern scotland and the far north of england, underneath that it will not be very warm at all for the time of year, 14 15 for northern parts of the uk, 22 or 23 towards the south east at best. An area of low pressure is pulling away on sunday, hence the winds easing down, but look whats coming in from the atlantic. All these weather fronts, another area of low pressure developing around the middle part of next week, there is no sign of summer returning really in the outlook as we head into next week, it remains very unsettled, we will get some showers or longer spells of rain, some sunshine at times but not particularly warm for the time of year. 22 people died in the attack last saturday. This is bbc news, the headlines the suspect in the el paso shooting is reported to have confessed to police that he was targeting mexicans deliberately. He is said to have waived his right to silence. 22 people died as a result of the attack last saturday, dozens more were injured. As protests continue in indian administered kashmir, delhi has told pakistan it must stop interfering in its internal affairs. Relations have been strained between the two countries since india revoked kashmirs special status earlier in the week. Paksitan has responded by suspending train links, and halting trade. China has ordered the Hong Kong Based Airline Cathay pacific to suspend any staff who support pro democracy protests in the territory. Beijings latest tough stance comes as thousands of activists stage a sit in at the territorys International Airport the first of three planned days of rallies
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