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Good afternoon. Flags are flying at half-mast across America as people | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
mourn the killing of 20 young children and seven adults in the | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
state of Connecticut. The gunman, named as 20-year-old Adam Lanza, | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
went on the rampage inside a primary school in Newtown. Earlier, | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
he had killed his mother, a teacher at the school, at their home before | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
driving to the school. Last night the community held a vigil for the | :00:45. | :00:55. | |
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victims as Laura Trevelyan reports. At a vigil to remember the victims, | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
the church was overflowing. The grief for the dead children was | :01:04. | :01:14. | |
overwhelming. Families held one another close. For this prosperous | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
New England community that had seemed to embody the American Dream, | :01:16. | :01:24. | |
the killings are a devastating shock. It should not have happened | :01:24. | :01:33. | |
to our children. They are little. They do not understand. It is hard | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
and I grieve for their parents. see it on the news and I see the | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
school I went to and do not believe that is where I was from. It is not | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
clear what happened here. News organisations report that the 20- | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
year-old killed his mother and opened fire inside the school | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
before killing himself. Surviving children were rushed at -- from | :01:57. | :02:06. | |
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this scene. A teacher at the school explained how she protected her | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
class. I told them they had to be absolutely quiet. I was afraid if | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
he came in, he would hear us and might shoot at the door. I said we | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
have to be absolutely quiet. I said there is a bad man and we need to | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
wait for the good guys. Newtown Connecticut is now notorious | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
because of the mass killing, during a roll-call of American towns. The | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
President asked for a re- examination of gun laws. We have | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
endured too many of these tragedies and each time I learn the news, I | :02:33. | :02:43. | |
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react not as a president but as anybody else would, as a parent. | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
The Newtown pastor who lost young members of his congregation to this | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
latest massacre added this. Guns are intended for one thing and we | :02:53. | :03:00. | |
are not living in a war zone, we are living as human beings together. | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
I hope this town will wake up to anything that means violence to | :03:03. | :03:13. | |
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other people. Tonight the small town is trying to understand the | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
incomprehensible. People ask questions to which there are no | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
answers and the parents of the dead are facing an agonising void. Our | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
correspondent is in Newtown. It must have been a difficult night? | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
That is right. It is early in the morning. I suspect many people in | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
this rural community will have got very little sleep as they struggled | :03:39. | :03:46. | |
to come to terms with the events of the past 24 hours. Little is known | :03:46. | :03:53. | |
about Adam Lanza. He is believed to have shot his mother first, before | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
travelling to the school, where he opened fire, firing as many as 100 | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
rounds, and killing 18 students, who are still in the building. And | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
two others who died at hospital. We are waiting for the police | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
authorities to update what little they have learned. This is a | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
community still very much in morning as the country discusses | :04:18. | :04:28. | |
what next for gun-control. Voting has begun on Egypt's controversial | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
draft constitution. The document, which is supported by President | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
Mohamed Morsi, has sparked nationwide protests. There are not | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
enough judges and officials to oversee nationwide voting, so polls | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
are happing in Cairo and other big cities and provinces first with the | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
rest of the country voting in a week's time. Jon Leyne has been | :04:42. | :04:50. | |
assessing the mood across the nation. | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
The moment of decision. A simple question, do you support the new | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
constitution for Egypt, or do you suppose it? The voting is | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
supervised by police and troops, who have been given special powers | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
to enable them to maintain order. Despite fears of violence and many | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
deaths in the run-up to the voting, so far it has been largely peaceful | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
and orderly. There is plenty of enthusiasm, even after weeks of | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
protest, debate and argument over the new constitution. Egyptians | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
waiting patiently to have their say on the future of their country. | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
President Morsi was one of the first to vote at a polling station | :05:34. | :05:41. | |
near his palace. He supports the new constitution, as do most of his | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
Islamist allies, including the Muslim Brotherhood. Opponents | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
include Liberals and others who want a more secular future for | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
Egypt. They say the constitution introduces too much emphasis on | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
Islamic values and not enough guarantees of freedom. This is the | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
first of two days of voting. Some results may emerge during the night. | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
The final outcome will not be known for more than one week. Egypt's | :06:10. | :06:19. | |
future is on hold and in the balance. | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
A mass has been held in memory of the nurse who was found dead days | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
after answering a hoax call at a hospital treating the Duchess of | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
Cambridge. Jacintha Saldanha's husband and two children attended | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
the service at Westminster Cathedral. In a tribute, they | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
described her as kind-hearted, generous and well-respected. Your | :06:36. | :06:43. | |
loss is a painful one and nobody can take the place -- your place in | :06:43. | :06:53. | |
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my life ever again. I love you and I miss you for ever. England's | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
cricketers have had a good third day in the Test in India but they | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
had to be patient before reducing their hosts to 297-8 at the close. | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
England, who lead the four match series 2-1, were left frustrated | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
for the first six hours of the day, Virat Kohli scoring a century in a | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
partnership of 198 with captain MS Dhoni. But, in the final hour of | :07:13. | :07:16. |