21/07/2012 BBC Weekend News


21/07/2012

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Good afternoon. More details have emerged about the gunman who shot

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dead 12 people at a cinema in Colorado. Police say he bought the

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guns legally in stores and 6,000 rounds of ammunition over the

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internet. In the town of Aurora, where the attacks took place, the

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victims of the shootings have been remembered, as Alastair Leithead

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reports. A vigil with prayers for the dead and for those injured by

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the lone gunman. It's hit people here very hard. He's very disturbed

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and I pray for him and his family, because somewhere it went wrong. I

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don't know what it is. To lose that many people, to shoot that many

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people. Why? I really would like to know. There was panic when he

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opened fire. 12 people were killed, dozens shot and injured. This was

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James Holmes four years ago, taken by a friend who remembered him as

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shy and reserved. They went to the midnight showing of the first

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batman film, but this time he came with only one intention. This is

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last 60 days he purchased four guns at local gun shops and through the

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internet he purchased over 6,000 rounds of ammunition. More than

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3,000 rounds of 223 ammunition for the assault rifle, 3,000 rounds of

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40 calibre ammunition for the two globgz in his possession and 300

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rounds for the 12-gauge shotgun. It's still a missary where he --

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why he carried out such a brutal attack. The shooting affected a

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huge number of people in the small community. This is the first chance

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they've had to come together and there was a sense of shock, a lack

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of understanding, as to why such an awful thing could happen here to

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them. One of the main opposition groups in Syria, the Muslim

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Brotherhood, says the State's authority is collapsing, but it's

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calling for restraint on all sides. There are reports of clashes

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between Syrian troops and rebels in the northern city of Aleppo, as

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seen in this unverified footage. While in Damascus, the Government

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says its forces have now regained control of parts of the capital,

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that had been occupied by opposition fighters. Live now to

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our correspondent, Wyre Davies, who's on the Turkey-Syria border.

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What's emerging about the balance of power in Syria today? There's

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not much fighting going on in the heat of the day. It's almost too

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hot, but overnight there were heavy clashes in Damascus and also in the

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city of Aleppo where the regime has been hitting back with heavy

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artillery to reverse some of the gains made by the opposition in

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recent days. There is a lot of concern here in neighbouring

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countries We seem to have a slight problem with the satellite feed

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there on the border there. Rescue teams are searching for a 16-year-

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old boy who was swept out to sea off the coast of Aberdeenshire. The

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teenager disappeared in the waters of Banff Bay in the early hours of

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the morning after playing with two friends there. Coastguards,

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lifeboat crews and an RAF helicopter are involved in the

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search. After being seen by some ten million people since it arrived

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in the UK in May, the Olympic Torch has now started its first full day

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