People have been killed and nine others injured in a shooting at a school in georgia, 50 miles northeast of atlanta. Police have named a myearold, colt gray, as being the suspect of killing two of his fellow students, and two teachers, at apalachee high school. One eyewitness who lives across from the school described what he saw. Crazy, like it, it looked like. I didn't really pay attention at first, i was like those sound like they were at school, and i look over and the alarm started going off. The school alarms and people were going out around the school. Like, they were doing like the drill, the fire drill stuff. I knew something was seriously wrong then. You don't hear about that happening. You hear about it happening all around the world, but it shows that it can happen anywhere, you know? the local sheriff, jud smith, spoke at a news conference earlier about how the incident will not break the town. I was born and raised here. I went to school in this school system. My kids go to this school system. I'm proud of this school system. My heart hurts for these kids, my heart hurts for our community. But i want to make it very clear that hate will not prevail in this county. I want that to be very clear and known. Love will prevail over what happened today. I assure you of that. President biden says, we cannot continue to accept this as normal. And, the vice president, kamala harris, has spoken about the shooting at a campaign event in new hampshire. Now, our hearts are with all the students, the teachers and their families, of course. And we are grateful to the first responders and law enforcement that were on the scene, but this is just a senseless tragedy on top of so many senseless tragedies. And it is just outrageous that every day in our country, in the united states of america, that parents have to send their children to school worried about whether or not their child will come home alive. It is senseless! we have got to stop it, and we have to end this epidemic of gun violence in our country once and for all. You know, it doesn't have to be this way. It doesn't have to be this way. Our north america correspondent peter bowes, with more on what we know about the suspect. Colt gray is his name, 14 years old, as you say. He was apprehended at the school. It seems quite quickly by a two school resource officers. These are in effect law enforcement officers assigned to the school. It happens quite frequently across this country now that police officers are assigned to individual schools. And it was those officers that apprehended the suspect without, it seems, any further incident. He was taken into custody for questioning. We know that he will be charged with murder and tried as an adult. Clearly it is very early in the investigation, but the fact that the suspect is still alive, which is not always the case in shootings like this, it means that the authorities, that the police detectives can talk to the suspect about a possible motive, talk to the suspect about the gun. Where did someone of 14 yearsold get a gun from and was able to take it into a school? those are the questions on so many people's minds after, well, yet another school shooting tragedy that has become all too familiar in this country. Another one, as you mentioned, peter, 14 years old, that is a very young age for the shooter to be. And to be tried as an adult, certainly more information we are looking forward to coming out of this as we follow the story. I want to get your reaction to as well what we have seen from kamala harris. We heard from joe biden as well, giving his comments. This is happening, you know, in the runup to the election come november. How else have candidates been responding? well, it is, as kamala harris said, it is an election issue. I've got to say it isn't at the moment one of those issues that's been uppermost. We've heard a lot about immigration, the american economy, not necessarily guns and longrunning problems with guns in american society, but clearly kamala harris would like to make it one of those big issues. We also heard from donald trump, the republican candidate. He didn't talk about guns as an issue, but i willjust tell you a few of the things he had to say on social media. He said, our hearts are with the victims and loved ones of those affected by the tragic event in winder georgia. He said, these chairs children were taken to as far too soon by sick and deranged monster. The words of donald trump. It clearly as you imply, steve, there will be politicians around this country once again raising this issue and i think suspect many americans asking the question, will anything actually change? because there's been so many attempts in washington, in congress to change gun law and a big part of that will depend on the makeup of congress, the political makeup after the november election. Staying with the us, which is trying to counter what it sees as russian attempts to influence the upcoming presidential election. Sanctions have been imposed on 10 people, including the two top editors of the russian statefunded broadcaster rt. They are accused of using american social media influencers to try to influence the 2024 election. These websites were designed to appeal to american readers as if they were major us news sites, these websites were designed to appear to american readers as if they were major us news sites, like the washington post or fox news. But in fact, they were fake sites. They were filled with russian government propaganda that had been created by the kremlin to reduce international support for ukraine, bolster prorussian policies and interests and influence voters in the united states and in other countries. Internal documents of the kremlin described the content as, bogus stories disguised as newsworthy events. This malign influence campaign has been referred to as doppelganger. The russian public relations companies drove viewers to these websites by deploying influencers and paid social media advertisements. They also created fake social media profiles, posing as us citizens, post comments on social media platforms with links to the site. With links to the sites. According to sda's records, it actively sought to, eliminate the possibility of detection of the russian footprint. Richard fontaine, is the ceo of the center for a new american security, an organization that conducts research and analysis on national security issues. He told me the sanctions the us government has put into place are appropriate. Russia's behaviour is shocking, but it certainly not surprising that the russians interferred in the 2016 presidential election and as recently as 2022 in the midterm elections in the united states. So they are shocking, they are not surprising, the indictments and the kind of sanctions that the us government has put into place are good but they are also limited. We have tried these kinds of measures before, you can shut down some of the means through which russia operates but you are not going to be able to shut down all of them. In the russian see this generally is a low cost potentially high consequence way to interfere in what they see as a hostile nation state. Give us a sense of how sophisticated these techniques are to try to influence elections? there's plenty of tools out there, and they seem to increase by the day available for malign actors who wish to use them. The russians employ fake websites, they hire companies inside the united states and underfalse pretences to be able to in turn hire influencers. They also use artificial intelligence to create images which were then propagated on social media platforms. They use chat gpt in order to generate messages in proper english and so forth. So there's a lot out there to be able to use, and of course, the digital space is a big surface area in which to be active. And that is where this is mostly being waged. This is in part why authorities want social media platforms to be more accountable for the content that takes place on their platforms. It is. And of course it is also. . . We should say that social media platforms generally speaking, especially since 2016 have increased our efforts to root out some of this, but it's difficult and it's not going to always be a complete solution to this phenomenon. Really, it's going to continue to happen until either of the russian government or whoever else might do this and there is evidence that iranians in chinese and others are involved in these kinds of things either believe their actions aren't going to be successful or that they are going to pay a cost higher then the benefit they think they might get, so that is where the us imposing costs on the government of russia needs to come into play. With regards to this specific case, do we have a sense of what outcome russia is looking to gain? well, again, according to the us government officials, they have a favourite candidate in donald trump in the presidential election and would like to channel sentiment in that direction. I think he would be lighter on ukraine and its defence than would kamala harris if she were elected, so they have a perverted candidate they would like to see support to go toward. And they also want to soften up any support for continuing assistance in ukraine which of course has to be appropriated by the congress. Beyond that, dissension and confusion inside the body politic, they've got a lot of kindling to work with, given our own divisions, but in the russian mind, a divided america is one that is less threatening to them and that is one they would like to see happen. More than seven years after a fire tore through grenfell tower, in london, killing 72 people, an inquiry has blamed a series of failures by successive governments, the construction industry and what it called dishonest cladding firms. The blaze broke out on the fourth floor of the tower block in 2017, before spreading up the sides of the building with the help of cladding. The inquiry said a company had deliberately concealed fire risks, while previous governments had ignored, delayed or disregarded concerns. Tom symonds reports. There have been seven years of mornings over grenfell with no definitive answers to the question why did this happen? today was different. But this is how it all began. A fridge caught fire. The owner called 999, then got out, then turned on his camera. 31 minutes later, flames reached the roof, then unstoppable. Buildings are designed to prevent fires spreading. As these pictures show, this one totally failed. Nick burton was among the few rescued, guided to safety. I don't actually remember coming out into the light. I don't remember, like, being handed over. I don't remember when i took my first real breath. I know that i thought i was going to die and melt at some stage. . . He coughs. . . In the tower. They call that the grenfell cough. But he lost his wife, pilar, after the fire. She was the last of its 72 victims. And this was the final conclusion of the chairman of the sevenyear public inquiry. The simple truth is that the deaths that occurred were all avoidable, and those who lived in the tower were badly failed over a number of years and in a number of different ways, by those who were responsible for ensuring the safety of the building and its occupants. The largest group representing victims of the fire have always said exactly that. Human life was never a priority, and we lost friends, neighbours and loved ones in the most horrific way through greed, corruption, incompetence and negligence. If you're looking for the one person or company that might have been to blame for the deaths of 72 people at grenfell, you won't find it in this massive sevenvolume report, because this was a failure of the system at all levels across the board, and it started at the top with governments labour and conservative. They were warned. Fires involving flammable cladding over 18 years. Six died at lakanal house in south london, but ministers and civil servants didn't change the regulations governing building materials. In 2010, david cameron and nick clegg's government wanted a bonfire of regulations to help businesses. In the runup to grenfell, the inquiry says matters of safety were ignored, delayed or disregarded. In 2016, the ageing west london block was refurbished with new cladding to make it look good next to a newly constructed school. But look at the design sheets of aluminium and plastic shaped into square boxes. A multinational, arconic, made the sheets. It didn't come up with the design, but it knew the box shape was extremely dangerous, according to the inquiry. It had commissioned tests and found the boxes collected molten plastic. Yet this was deliberately concealed from the construction market, and arconic must take responsibility for the use of cladding at grenfell, the report says. A host of contractors were involved in the work itself, including an architect, studio e, a cladding installer, harley facades, and a project manager, rydon. They were incompetent, the inquiry found, and passed the buck when it came to safety. That night, firefighters had to improvise a plan to evacuate grenfell when the fire got out of control. Noone, the inquiry said, appeared to have thought they needed to be trained. The london fire brigade said today that's changed and hundreds of lives have been saved. In the commons, this was the prime minister's response. I want to start with an apology on behalf of the british state to each and every one of you, and indeed to all of the families affected by this tragedy. It should never have happened. The prime minister visited grenfell two weeks ago without any publicity, leaving a wreath. Today, he said it was imperative there was a swift police investigation. And he went further. So i can tell the house today that this government will write to all companies found by the inquiry to be part of these horrific failings, as the first step to stopping them being awarded government contracts. And we will, of course, support the metropolitan police and the prosecutors as they complete their investigations. No charges are expected until the end of 2026 at the earliest, nearly ten years after grenfell. Tom symonds, bbc news. Around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. You're live with bbc news. Pope franc