Brown University Shooting; Australia Eyes Tougher Gun Laws After Hanukkah Attack

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I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the
stories we're following today.
Karen, we begin with a weekend that saw two deadly
mass shootings ten thousand miles apart. It started at Brown
University in Providence, Rhode Island, where gunshots interrupted the second
day of finals. At the Rhode Island Ivy Campuses Engineering Building,
Senior Joseph Aduro was leading a study session when the
mask gunman entered their lecture hall and opened fire.
I was laying right next to a girl who got
shot in the leg twice, and the amount of pain
that she was going through was unbearable, and we just
all tried to support her as best as we could.
Two students were killed in the building, nine others were wounded.
A person of interest was taken into custody early yesterday morning,
but authorities released that individual late last night. Here's Rhode
Island Attorney General Peter Naranja.
This is what these investigations look like.
I've been around long enough to know that sometimes you
had in one direction and then you have to regroup
and go in another.
Rhode Island Attorney General Peter and iranha As for the
Brown University campus. Students have been sent home and final
exams canceled before this weekend shooting Brown, where the home
city of Providence had seen just two homicides in all
of this year.
I Meanwhile, Nathan Australia's government says it will consider toughening
gun laws after a father and his son killed fifteen
people and one of the deadliest terror attacks in the
country's history. It took place at a Jewish community celebration
of Hanukkah on Sydney's Bondi Beach. Dozens more were injured.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albinisi described the attack as an
act of evil anti semitism.
What we saw, yes, it was an active, pure able,
an active anti Semitism in an iconic Australian lacation, Bundai Beach,
that is associated with joy and it is forever tarnished
by what has.
Occurred in Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albinizi spoke at a
news conference We get more with the Bloomberg Australia correspondent
Paul Allen in Sydney.
The investigation continues to police say they're going to be
leaving no stone unturned and that the public would be
demanding nothing less, because if I can characterize the mood
in the country today, it'd be shock and also very solemn.
I spent the morning down at Bondai Beach covering the
news there, and it was a scene unlike I'd ever
seen before. That area is usually extremely busy, very crowded.
Of course, we're coming into summer here. Sunday evening when
this attack happened was particularly warm, so there were a
lot of people there today. However, the main street through
their Campbell Parade, a very busy road, was shut. There
was police tape everywhere. People were still able to make
it down to lay flowers, and the pile of tributes
was steadily growing while I was there.
And Bloomberg's Paul Allen says a bystander who rushed and
disarmed one of the attackers has won praise from leaders
around the world.
And another developing story we're following this morning, Karen is
in Hollywood, where actor and director Rob Reiner and his
wife have been found dead inside their Los Angeles home.
Media outlets say they both appear to have died from
Stab Wounds. The son of legendary comedian and writer Carl Reiner,
followed in his father's footsteps. Rob Reiner's breakout role played
came playing Archie Bunker's liberal son in law and All
in the Family. He later branched out into film directing
with classics such as The Princess Bride. Rob Reiner was
a well known activist who contributed to liberal and democratic causes.
He was seventy eight years old.
Now, Nathan, let's get to the latest from the Middle East.
President Trump is promising to retaliate after an attack on
US forces in Syria over the weekend that killed two
Army soldiers and their American interpreter. The President is blaming
the attack on Islamic state.
There will be a lot of damage done to the
people that did it.
They got the.
Person, the individual person, but they'll be big damage done.
President Trump spoke at a White House holiday reception. He
says the Syrian government fought by the US side during
the counter terror operation in the city of Palmyra. US
Central Command says the gunman was killed. Syrian state run
media report five suspects have been arrested in retaliation to
the attack.
In europe Care in Ukraine and the US are due
to hold a second day of talks in Berlin today
on a plan aimed at ending Russia's war. The US
delegation says a lot of progress has been made on
the twenty point piece plan, economic agendas, and other matters.
We get more from Bloomberg senior European correspondent Oliver Kruk.
So we can take it as a good sign that
it turns out that Jared Kushner and Steve Wikoff actually
did show up this weekend to have those talks, because
that was in question going into the weekend. Trump said, basically,
We're not going to send a delegation to these talks
in Europe unless we think meaningful progress can be made.
They spoke yesterday for about five.
Hours in the US said that there had been a
lot of major progress that had been made. They did
not detail what exactly that includes, but we understand also
going into the meeting, we had some conversations and some
comments from President Zelenski suggesting that potentially Ukraine could back
away from the idea of trying to join NATO, which
of course is something that's been a very high priority
for Ukraine. Seeing it really as one of the only
effective deterrens it would have that Article five guarantee from
any other invasion.
Bloomberg's Oliver Cook says about ten European leaders are expected
to attend today's summit, along with NATO's Secretary General Mark
Ruta and European Commission President Ursula Vonderline.
Let's turn to the markets now, Nathan. Futures are higher
as we kick off the last full trading week of
the year. This week we get the long delayed announcements
of monthly employment and inflation figures. Morgan Stanley strategist Mike
Wilson says moderate weakness in this week's job data could
feed bullishness and equity markets. That's because he says it
would raise the probability of further rate cuts from the Fed.
And speaking of the Fed, Karen one of the front
runners to be the next chair, Kevin Hassett, says he
would consider President Trump's policy opinions if he is picked
to lead the Central Bank, but Hassett says the President
would not set the Fed's action.
I think he has very strong and well founded views
about what we ought to do, But in the end,
the job of the FED is to be independent and
to work with the group of people that are on
the Board of Governors at the FOBC to drive a
group consensus on where interest rates should be, and to
do so, you know, basically with the guidance of the
FED chair. But in the end it's a committee that votes.
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett made those comments on
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Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager. The world is reeling from
two deadly mass shootings on both sides of the world.
Old first at Brown University, where a gunman killed two
people and wounded nine others studying for finals, and at
Bondai Beach in Sydney, Australia, where two shooters killed at
least fifteen gathered for the first night of Hanukkah. Australian
Prime Minister Anthony Albanie says it was an act of
pure evil.
There is no place for this hate, violence and terrorism
in our nation. Let me be clear, we will eradicate it.
There was Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanize in the aftermath
of the shooting at Bondai Beach. Joining us now is
Bloomberg News Chief Asia correspondent Rosalind Mathieson and Roz. First off,
what is the latest that we know about what the
Australian Prime Minister is calling an active terror on his shores?
Good morning, Good morning. Well that's right. So the Australian
government has said this was a targeted attack on the
Australian Jewish community. The worst terrorist attack in Australian history.
Seems to have been a father and son duo who
carried out the attack. They're accused of doing so, and
the father was shot dead during the attack. He came
to Australia from an unknown country on a student visa
many decades ago. His son is an Australian born citizen
critically ill in hospital now with gunshot wounds. He did
come on the radar of the Australian intelligence community back
in twenty nineteen. It's a bit unclear exactly the circumstances
of that, and we don't know again exactly their motivation,
but we do know what they were targeting, and it
comes at a time as Australia, like many countries, is
dealing with a domestic debate around the events in the
Middle East, the war in Gaza, the recognition of a
Palestinian state and more, and certainly Australia has not been
immune to rising anti Semitic incidents. There's been certainly an
uptick in those in recent years. So the motivation does
seem to be pretty clear in that. Although we've not
heard directly from the perpetrators, well.
We certainly have heard though from global leaders, including Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu, who had some pretty strong words
for the Australian government in his mind, seeing them as
not doing enough to counter anti Semitism. This raises so
many questions riz not just about that issue, but about
the immigration issue, the gun rights issue, that so many
of these issues have parallels in this country as well.
Well, that's right. It's going to reopen a lot of
those debates in Australia and they are very delicate and
tricky as they are in many countries. I mean, Australia
is not the only country that has moved to recognize
the Palestinian state. A lot of other countries, including in Europe,
have done similar and Israel's been critical of all those
countries for those moves. But you've got the debate internally
around the war in the Middle East. You've got issues
around immigration. As you were saying, the rise of far
right parties in Australia have been really playing on that
immigration mood and pushing the existing government potentially further to
the right in the process, and that's going to feed
into that debate again this terrorist attack. And on the
gun side, Australia has some of the most stringent gun
control laws in the planet. They've been lauded for the
laws they've had in place for decades since a lone
gunman opened fire on people in Tasmania and killed more
than thirty banning automatic and most semi automatic weapons. However,
in recent years there's been a proliferation of guns again
in Australia, people holding more than one weapon, and so
the government's saying they're going to re examine those laws,
bring them up to date. Perhaps and bring in further
rules around gun control, because it's clear, you know, this
incident is an unusual one for Australia. It doesn't have
a high rate of gun violence compared to other countries.
But that seems to be that the feeling that perhaps
that's led to a little bit of complacency as a result.
In just thirty seconds. The same could really be said
about Rhode Island, home to Brown University. Also with some
of the strictest gun laws in this country. You wonder
where that debate's going to go in the US.
Now, well, that's right and particularly shocking for that community.
As you say, gun violence is extremely rare where this
attack occurred, and it's been shocking to people as a result,
and you know, essentially closing the university, sending students home
who have not completed their final exams for the semester,
shuttering the university in a real sense of shock, both
in the university and the community that this could happen,
you know, and someone still potentially at large.
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