and a criminal investigation is still ongoing of the slow response by law enforcement. our north america correspondent will grant first reported from the scenes of the massacre last year, and has gone back to revisit the parents of ten year old alithia ramirez. just a warning, some viewers may find this report distressing. we wanted to make this room alithia s room. alithia ramirez s parents are recreating her old bedroom in their new home. such was the pain of living in uvalde, the city where she was murdered in her classroom a year ago with 18 classmates and two teachers, they decided to move away. this is our reality, and we re going to be carrying this for the rest of our lives. the memories of their vivacious daughter are everywhere, and anything can transport them to that awful, heartbreaking day. just hearing an ambulance, anything with sirens is just. school buses kind ofjust triggers us sometimes where it brings us back to that day where we re trying to figure out wh
the us born singer songwriter tina turner has died at the age of 83. she was known as the queen of rock and roll. in a statement, her representative says, tina turner, the queen of rock and roll, has died peacefully today at the age of 83. that was after a long illness in her home in zurich near switzerland. with us, david cilento looks back on her life. # when you were a young boy # did you have a puppy # that always followed you around. 1966, river deep mountain high. in yourface, hip shaking, sweat drenched, passionate, pop perfection. however, in america, the song was a flop. it would be another 17 years before tina turner truly made it. anna mae bullock grew up in nutbush, tennessee. her family were sharecroppers. she started singing in ike turner s band when she was a teenager. and poor, largely abandoned by her parents, it was, she hoped, her escape. but it was an escape into a different sort of misery. # rolling down a river powerful woman on stage. but, the acid quee
She reigned for almost three quarters of a century as the world changed around her. She was a symbol of unity in good times and bad. Successful because she knew her unique place and she understood it. The act of being there, of being. You know, a. A continuing. Reference point of stability and endless duties is something that i think is. Is of the greatest importance. It was really about service and her definition of service, and that was a lifetime. Literally 24 7, 365 days of the year. It was never something you could turn off and turn on. It was there all the time. It is so strange to almost everyone in this countryl that she is no longer queen. It will take a long while to come to terms with that. I declare before you all, that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and to the service of our great imperialfamily to which we all belong. As Queen Elizabeth ii, she reigned over more than 135 Million People and, as head of the commonwealth, a third
at a vigil, three days after his assassination. and monty norman, the composer of one of the best known pieces of music ever, the james bond theme, dies at the age of 94 it s six in the morning in singapore and eleven pm in london where it s been announced that the uk will get a new leader of the conservative party and therefore a new prime minister on the 5th of september. it will take that long to choose boris johnson s successor due to the way the party organises the contest. anyone who wants the job will have to first secure the backing of 20 of theirfellow members of parliament and then make their way through a series of votes. we begin our coverage with this report from our political editor chris mason. thank you all very much, thank you. from borisjohnson s resignation, to the emerging cacophony of voices trying to replace him. visions and videos, talks of their past and our future, promises and persuasion, and lots of it. is raising taxes during a cost of livi
the earliest galaxies. it s 7am in singapore and 8am injapan where a private funeral will be held in tokyo later, for the former prime minister shinzo abe who died after being shot while at a political campaign event. mourners have streamed into a temple in tokyo to pay their respects. these are scenes from a vigil at the zo joji temple. world leaders have also paid tribute. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, said mr abe did more than anyone to elevate the relationship between their two countries. rupert wingfield hayes reports from tokyo. shinzo abe was a fresh faced 52 year old when he shocked everyone by becoming japan s youngest postwar prime minister. it did not go well. and in less than a year, he was gone. five years later, he plotted his return with a new hairstyle and a new slogan. and this time, he stayed, for eight years, longer than any other postwar japanese leader. today, japan is laying mr abe to rest. his life snuffed out in a way few here thought po