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Post brexit trade arrangements. If youd like to get in touch this morning, you can tweet me vicderbyshire or email victoria bbc. Co. Uk. A team from the World Health Organization visits the high security chinese lab at the centre of claims over the source of the covid 19 pandemic. And the queen and british Prime Minister have led tributes to captain sir tom moore, whos died at 100 years old, after Testing Positive for Coronavirus Last week. The uk government says it will ensure hes officially remembered. I think we should find a way to make sure that we mark the memory of captain tom and thank him for the contribution that he made for the nhs. So i will ensure that we mark his contribution properly and appropriately at the right moment. Hello and welc ....
trayvon martin was shot and killed, could be a key piece of evidence. he had a closed fracture of his nose, two black eyes, two cuts to the back of his head in a minor back injury. i want to go to martin savidge covering the story for us. with all these new details and developments does it help zimmerman s argument he was in fact standing his ground they killed trayvon martin in self-defense? reporter: it depends on who you talk to. here s the way it breaks down. this information coming from the prosecution, the special prosecutor angela corey, they had to provide the basics of their investigation over to the defense so that s why we re starting to see this information come out this week. two reports caught her eye, the autopsy report on trayvon martin and that s the one you re referring to that says bruising on the hands of trayvon martin that would seem to support the defense s claim that george zimmerman says that trayvon martin came up to him, punched him in the n ....
murder of 16 afghan civilians by a u.s. soldier accused of acting as a one-man death squad. afghan officials say the shooting spree took place in two villages in kandahar province in the district known as the birth place of the taliban. sara sidner joined us with the latest on this story. sara, what do we know right now? reporter: president hamid karzai has released a statement saying 16 people have been dialed including 9 children, 3 women, and 4 afghan men. he s called this a deplorable 5k9 saying it s an act of terrorism that s unforgivable, and he is has been talking about what has to be done going forward. now, there is a full investigation going on, as you might imagine, from nato officials as well as afghan officials looking into this incident. what we re hearing from the international security assistance forces officials, they re saying there s one soldier, an army staff sergeant who acted alone, who went off base around 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning, went out ....
that horrible day one year ago. plus a new documentary targets bullies, the motion picture association rates it r because of strong language but that r rating will keep kids from seeing it. an army staff management goes on a shooting rampage in afghanistan opening fire in at least two villages. the american sergeant acted alone, he turned himself in after the rampage and right now he is in nato custody. the president of syria kofi annan spoke face to face again today in damascus. he is the first to meet with assaad. annan wants a cease fire. i have been here for a very short time. almost every city imaginable wants peace. they want to move on with the alliance. while the few men talk peace in damascus, violence raged across syria. activists say at least 32 people were killed in fighting today. and a dramatic rescue in italy after a cargo ship ran aground off sicily. the ship had started to take on water after it ran aground in extremely rough seas. we re told ....