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This is BBC World News Today, broadcasting in the UK | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The main suspect in the killing of five police officers in Dallas | :00:07. | :00:19. | |
is named as Micah Johnson - a former army reservist who'd | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
The suspect said he was upset at white people. | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
The suspect stated he wanted to kill white people, specially | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
President Obama has called the shooting a despicable act - | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
and ordered flags to half mast as a sign of respect | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
Nato leaders formally approve the deployment of a force | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
in the Baltic states and Poland designed to deter any | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
And Andy Murray makes it through to the Wimbledon final | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
where he'll face Milos Raonic - the first Canadian ever | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
It was the deadliest day for police in America since the September | :00:55. | :01:13. | |
Five officers shot dead - another seven injured. | :01:14. | :01:27. | |
The main suspect has been named as Micah Johnson. | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
Police say he was upset about the recent police | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
And had stated that he wanted to kill white people. | :01:33. | :01:45. | |
Well the attack began at 8:45 on Thursday evening | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
It happened as a peaceful protest made its way through Main Street. | :01:49. | :02:01. | |
when it reached this crossroads, gunfire broke out. | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
Our North America Correspondent - James Cook reports from Dallas. | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
In downtown Dallas, this is the moment a peaceful | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
The crowd was demonstrating against police violence when one | :02:11. | :02:19. | |
man apparently decided to seek his own bloody vengeance. | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
There was panic as the crowd and the police tried to figure out | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
It's a sniper from up here somewhere. | :02:30. | :02:40. | |
And, as ever, in the America of 2016, the horror | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
Michael Bautista was in the thick of it. | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
They're shooting right now and there's an officer down. | :02:55. | :02:56. | |
It's coming from the right over there from around these buildings. | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
There had to have been five or six cops getting shot down. | :03:03. | :03:13. | |
Police poured into the area, running towards the danger, | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
heavily armed but, at the same time, suddenly exposed and fragile. | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
This footage seems to capture a gunman, on the street by now, | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
murdering at point-blank range, in scenes that are too | :03:26. | :03:27. | |
Eventually, after a shoot-out lasting several hours, | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
police sent in a robot to blow up a suspect. | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
We cornered one suspect and we tried to negotiate for several hours. | :03:39. | :03:46. | |
Negotiations broke down, we had an exchange of | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
We saw no other option but to use our bomb robot, for it | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
Police arrested and released two men and a woman, and the chief says | :03:55. | :04:06. | |
the suspect who died had told negotiators he was working alone. | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
He's been identified by US media as 25-year-old Micah Johnson - | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
a former US Army reservist, seen here in pictures | :04:16. | :04:17. | |
The suspect said he was upset at white people. | :04:18. | :04:26. | |
The suspect stated he wanted to kill white people, | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
And now the faces of the dead are beginning to emerge. | :04:29. | :04:36. | |
Brent Thompson was 43 and had just got married. | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
Patrick Zamarripa said he was addicted to the thrill | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
His family said they were mourning a hero, remarks echoed | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
Today is a wrenching reminder of the sacrifices | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
We also know that, when people are armed with powerful weapons, | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
unfortunately, it makes attacks like these more deadly | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
And, in the days ahead, we're going to have to consider | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
Some of the police officers here have told me that they have | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
friends who didn't make it last night. | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
And yet they're out here in force again today, | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
protecting a crime scene which sprawls for several blocks | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
around the building here, where the shooting began. | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
And across Texas, across the United States, they are praying. | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
This was the deadliest attack on US law enforcement since 9/11, | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
revealing a country in turmoil, convulsed by controversy about guns, | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
The protest in Dallas was mirrored in other cities across the country. | :05:36. | :05:50. | |
Where there has been fury - over the force used by police | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
This week - the shootings of two black men in Minnesota and Louisiana | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
Our correspondent Nick Bryant - has been assessing | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
This week, America celebrated its national birthday, July the 4th. | :06:03. | :06:15. | |
But what seems to be uniting this country right now is not an idea, | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
an aspiration, a dream, but rather, feelings | :06:20. | :06:21. | |
Saint Paul, Minnesota started as a focal point last night | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
for vigils and demonstrations which unfolded in New York, | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
No words can express the way that we feel. | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
And here, the main speaker was the mother of Philando Castile, | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
the school cafeteria worker shot dead by a policeman. | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
It was my son today, but it could be yours tomorrow, | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
or yours the next day, or your grandmother, | :06:45. | :06:46. | |
50 years after the landmark civil rights reforms of the 1960s, | :06:47. | :07:07. | |
many African-Americans still feel they are second-class citizens. | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
It has fuelled the Black Lives Matter campaign. | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
Why, in 2016, we're still talking about, | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
Why do we have to keep saying, we're human? | :07:20. | :07:37. | |
The mood this morning in Saint Paul was very different. | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
A handful of people where yesterday thousands had gathered. | :07:45. | :07:46. | |
But fury quickly came to the surface over the events here and in Dallas. | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
And I'm sorry to their families, that you feel what we feel. | :07:52. | :07:59. | |
But I'm going to tell you something, and don't think this is insensitive. | :08:00. | :08:09. | |
Many hoped that the election of the country's first | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
African-American president could heal the breach | :08:16. | :08:16. | |
in race relations, that it would usher in what was called | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
Well let's get more on this Kimberly Kindy is a journalist | :08:20. | :08:35. | |
with the Washington Post - she joins me now from their newsroom. | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
You've been looking at data about fatal shootings for some time - | :08:40. | :08:59. | |
What have you found? We started investigating after Ferguson. The | :09:00. | :09:09. | |
FBI were woefully under counting the number. In our efforts we have found | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
that fatal police shootings are up by 6%. At this point last year, | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
there were 465 people who had been killed. As of June 30th, we had 491 | :09:22. | :09:30. | |
people who had been killed. A 6% increase. The other thing we found | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
was that more and more these incidents are being captured by | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
video. An increase of 38% over last year. We also, this year, in the | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
second year effort, we are looking with much greater depth at the | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
officers themselves. Beginning to gather more information on them. The | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
first piece of this that we rolled out this week was that most of the | :09:56. | :10:04. | |
officers who shot and killed people, at least this year, have been | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
veterans, rookie officers, with one to three years experience. They only | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
represented less than 20% than the largest group with ten or more years | :10:16. | :10:27. | |
of experience, they represent the largest group of shooters. | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
Interesting that most of the officers you found are quite | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
experienced. Why is that? There are a number of theories. We have spoken | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
to criminologists, police experts, and the operating theories are that | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
we have a number of veteran officers that have not gone through the new | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
style of training. The old style of training was rush in, aggressively | :10:55. | :11:03. | |
take control of a situation, and force people to comply if they don't | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
immediately comply with your demands. The new style of training | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
teaches officers to use different tactics. In situations where | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
de-escalation tactics could work. Taking cover. Perhaps call in other | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
offices for back-up. Sometimes that will save the lives of officers and | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
will save the lives of civilians. But that kind of new style of | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
training really is just beginning. Veteran officers have not | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
necessarily been through that. Another theory also was that a lot | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
of veteran officers sign up for high profile high risk assignments. | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
Traffic stops can be incredibly dangerous. They quite often sign up | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
for those because they get good overtime pay. They are dangerous. | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
Those are some of the theories as to why we are seeing more veterans | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
versus Rockies firing these shots. -- rookies. Thanks very much. | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
Well if you want more on this story you can go to our web page. | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
There you can find a live page - | :12:17. | :12:18. | |
being updated minute by minute on developments. | :12:19. | :12:20. | |
You can also find more analysis and interviews. | :12:21. | :12:21. | |
Go to our website - bbc dot com forward slash news. | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
Now a look at some of the day's other news. | :12:25. | :12:32. | |
The population of the European Union increased by nearly two million last | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
The EU statistics agency revealed that it rose to 510 million, | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
largely due to the influx of refugees and migrants, | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
And for the first time the EU recorded more deaths than births | :12:42. | :12:51. | |
Indian company Tata Steel has announced it's to postpone plans | :12:52. | :13:00. | |
to sell some of its UK operations, including the Port Talbot | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
plant in South Wales, where thousands of jobs are at risk. | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
The company has said it has started discussions with "strategic players | :13:07. | :13:08. | |
in the steel industry" - and is considering a possible joint | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
venture with German firm Thyssenkrupp over the future | :13:12. | :13:13. | |
A former model has been awarded a $97 million divorce | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
settlement from her Saudi billionaire ex husband - | :13:18. | :13:18. | |
after he divorced her and married a younger woman. | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
Christian Estrada - who was married to Sheikh Walid Juffali | :13:22. | :13:23. | |
for more than twelve years - said that she needed almost two | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
for more than twelve years - said that she needed almost | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
?200 million to meet what she called her "reasonable needs". | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
Nato has said it doesn't want to isolate Russia - | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
despite its decision to deploy thousands of troops to the eastern | :13:39. | :13:40. | |
Meeting at a summit in Warsaw, Nato leaders have approved | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
the deployment of four thousand troops in Estonia, Lithuania, | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
They're specifically aimed at deterring threats from Russia, | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
in the light of what happened in Ukraine and Crimea. | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
Nato leaders also discussed the consequences of the UK's | :13:56. | :13:57. | |
Our Chief International correspondent Lyse | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
Nato often stresses defence, deterrence, and dialogue. In Warsaw | :14:01. | :14:15. | |
it is very much the deterrent side which is the key focus for their | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
discussions. With the establishment of this new brigade along with what | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
they call their eastern flank, a new brigade with four battalions | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
stretching across four Baltic states. Nato members, most of all | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
Germany, have tried to emphasise to Moscow that this isn't meant to be | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
something aggressive towards Russia. They are still open to dialogue. But | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
that has meant an angry response from Moscow today as the Nato summit | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
got underway, saying that the idea there was a threat from Russia was | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
actually absurd. Another aspect Russia is very concerned about is | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
not just this new brigade, but also the sanctions which are taking their | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
toll on the Russian economy. It is for that reason there is concern, a | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
concern in many ways, about Britain's decision to leave the | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
European Union. Britain has long been a strong voice within the | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
European Union for maintaining sanctions against Russia. When I met | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
Philip Hammond I asked him whether or not there would now be a wobble | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
in the EU about maintaining those sanctions against Russia. | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
We remain a full member of the European Union. We will do for some | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
time to come yet. We will continue to make the arguments, as we've done | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
over the last couple of years, to stiffen the resolve of partners to | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
maintain these sanctions. I am sure that we will be able to maintain a | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
robust stance over Russia's aggression in Ukraine. But it is a | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
different question over whether in the future a European Union without | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
Britain in it will have the same political will to do these things. I | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
hope it will. Because economic sanctions are a very good way of | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
dealing with this kind of aggression where we are, frankly, not willing | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
to make a military response ourselves but we do want to send a | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
clear signal that actions have costs to those who are mounting the | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
aggression. British leaders are also trying to send a strong signal here | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
that when it comes to Britain's membership of Nato its place at the | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
top table it will not change. It will remain now and in the future a | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
strong member of the transatlantic alliance. Brexit isn't formally on | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
the agenda here, but everyone is talking about it and expressing | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
anxiety is over what will happen to Britain's defence spending, what | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
will happen to the relationship, really crucial relationship, between | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
Nato and the EU. All of the leaders here are trying to send out a signal | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
to say they will -- there will continue to be a strong relationship | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
between Britain, Nato, and Europe. And they also say in it that both to | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
reach out and send a strong message to Russia, as well. | :17:10. | :17:11. | |
Stay with us on BBC World News, still to come: | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
The build-up to the final of 2016. Everyone has got the final they were | :17:16. | :17:25. | |
hoping for. It is France against Portugal on Sunday and the | :17:26. | :17:26. | |
excitement is already building. The headlines: The chief suspect of | :17:27. | :18:45. | |
the Dallas shootings that have left five police officers dead has been | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
named as 25-year-old Micah Johnson. He served in Afghanistan. Barack | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
Obama called the shooting of a despicable attack. The Dallas police | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
chief said it was a well-planned, evil tragedy. | :18:59. | :19:00. | |
The Islamic State group says it's behind an attack near a Shia | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
mausoleum in the town of Balad - north of Baghdad, which has killed | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
It comes days after almost 300 people were killed in the worst | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
single bombing in Baghdad since Saddam Hussein was toppled. | :19:13. | :19:14. | |
Here's our Middle East Correspondent, Jeremy | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
The entrance to the shrine in Balad has been badly damaged. The shrine | :19:19. | :19:31. | |
itself has been untouched, but here, where there were shops, it is really | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
very badly damaged. What the people are saying is that around midnight | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
four jihadists gunmen came in. Heavily armed. And there was a gun | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
battle lasting one to two hours. Finally the men blew themselves up. | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
They have taken a lot of lives with them. A lot of people wounded, as | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
well. All this is happening because the jihadists of IS have been under | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
attack. That is why they hit back last weekend in Baghdad with that | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
enormous bomb that has killed almost, by now, 300 people as the | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
wounded are still dying. Here, the intention is to try to provoke a | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
return to the worst days of the sectarian wars of eight to ten years | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
ago. The idea is to try to destabilise the country, unhinge it, | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
if they can. IS have been losing ground in Iraq. They know that if | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
they lose this country it is going to be much harder for them to hang | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
on to what they have in Syria. And if that goes it is the end of their | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
dreams of a so-called caliphate. The likelihood is they will keep on | :20:45. | :20:46. | |
fighting, keep on hitting, continue trying to provoke another sectarian | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
war or a deepening of the existing sectarian war here in Iraq. So the | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
future, I am afraid to say, is likely to include many more of these | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
kinds of incidents, and many more dead. | :21:02. | :21:03. | |
Sunday's Wimbledon men's final will be between Britain's Andy Murray | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
Murray booked his place with a straight sets victory | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
It's his third final - he hasn't won the title since 2013. | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
The match they had all been waiting for, hoping to record the moment | :21:18. | :21:26. | |
when Andy Murray reached another Wimbledon singles final. | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
He has been at least this far six times in the last seven years, | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
and maybe that experience made the difference. | :21:36. | :21:37. | |
Berdych made 13 unforced errors in the first set. | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
In contrast, Murray was almost infallible. | :21:40. | :21:40. | |
Two breaks of serve to one, the first set dispatched 6-3. | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
Both players settled in the second and showed what they are capable of. | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
Although this was just to hold on to his serve early on. | :21:51. | :21:58. | |
Tomas Berdych has been a top ten player for more than six years now | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
and is more than capable of giving Murray the runaround. | :22:03. | :22:04. | |
They were neck and neck for six years. | :22:05. | :22:13. | |
Relief when Murray finally made the breakthrough | :22:14. | :22:15. | |
in front of a good 90% of the centre court crowd. | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
It was not long before they got what they wanted. | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
An outright winner for the second set. | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
Berdych had made it to the final back in 2010. | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
But as the third set progressed it was obvious it wasn't | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
As good as the Czech was, Murray was just that bit better. | :22:33. | :22:42. | |
COMMENTATOR: Murray continues to torment Tomas Berdych. | :22:43. | :22:43. | |
It would not be long before it was all over. | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
Just under two hours, in fact, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3. | :22:47. | :22:48. | |
Perhaps he will appreciate being that little bit | :22:49. | :22:50. | |
fresher for Wimbledon final number three. | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
He will be hoping to give British tennis fans something to really | :22:54. | :23:03. | |
Milos Raonic stunt Roger Federer with a dramatic five set win. Roger | :23:04. | :23:19. | |
Federer looked on course for victory when leading 2-1. Then he was | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
hampered by a thigh problem. Milos Raonic will be the first Canadian to | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
play in the final of a major tournament. | :23:28. | :23:36. | |
France's victory over Germany in Euro 2016, | :23:37. | :23:38. | |
which secured them a place in the final of Euro 2016. | :23:39. | :23:40. | |
Well understandably it led to scenes like these - | :23:41. | :23:42. | |
right across the country - thousands of proud French fans - | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
It is the first time they have won against Germany in 58 years. | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
France now face Portugal in the final on Sunday. | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
Ros Atkins is in Paris - Ros how expected was this final | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
Hopes must be high. The scene has been set. The weather | :23:56. | :24:02. | |
is good, the Eiffel Tower is looking glorious, and the French are in the | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
final. Something shifted last night. At the beginning of the tournament | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
you could walk around Paris and he would not even know anything was | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
happening. Lots of people not tuned in. But walking around last night, | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
there were people all over the streets, tooting their horns, waving | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
their flags, and suddenly this tournament is centre stage. France | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
take on Portugal on Sunday night. Despite runout though, the French | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
will be the favourites. They have just applied the faith people have | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
put in them. An incredible homecoming in Cardiff | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
today, as well. Yes, it's been what we have | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
expected. The Welsh have done well in this tournament, getting to the | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
semifinals where they lost to Portugal. Going through a packed | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
Cardiff City centre, cheered all the way from the airport and around the | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
city streets. Their destination was the home of Cardiff City football | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
club. Let me show you what happened when the team got there. | :25:06. | :25:20. | |
There is the slow handclap the Icelandic fans have made so popular. | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
A few people in Icelandic watching this might feel that it has been | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
pinched from them. France were doing it last night. It has become a | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
feature of the tournament. It is just one of the ways the French are | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
choosing to celebrate their amazing run through to the semis. I will be | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
live throughout the day on Sunday as we cover the final on BBC world | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
News. I will either be here or in Portugal depending on who wins, | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
Monday. We look forward to it. -- on who | :25:53. | :25:54. | |
wins come Monday. That is it from me. Have a good | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
evening. | :26:03. | :26:04. |