Motives of suspected Washington gunman under scrutiny
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
The suspected gunman at the White House correspondents' dinner, Cole Tomas Allen, is a 31-year-old Californian who reportedly worked as a tutor. Donald Trump says the suspect had a manifesto and "hatred in his heart" - but the president defended security arrangements in Washington after the third attempt on his life. Also: Ukraine says long-range drone attacks on Russian oil facilities will escalate; Mali's defence minister is killed in a car bomb; Iran's foreign minister makes stop-off in Pakistan as diplomacy with the US continues; Kenya's Sabastian Sawe makes history by running the London Marathon in under two hours; we look back at the life of renowned Indian photographer Raghu Rai; and what an orangutan on a canopy bridge teaches us about conservation.
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| 0:36.8 | I'm Seeley Hatton. In the early hours of Monday, the 27th of April, these are our main stories. The latest on the shooting at the |
| 0:39.1 | White House correspondent's dinner, Donald Trump has reacted angrily when asked about the shooting |
| 0:44.0 | suspects alleged manifesto. We also hear from the journalist who was sitting next to the U.S. |
| 0:49.4 | President when the shooting happened. And Mali's defense minister has been assassinated in a car bomb attack, |
| 0:56.2 | part of a wave of jihadist and Tuareg separatist led violence sweeping the country. |
| 1:02.8 | Also in this podcast, |
| 1:04.5 | An historic performance, 159.30, absolutely incredible. I've never seen anything like that. What a finish. |
| 1:13.8 | A big day for the London Marathon as a canyon athlete smashes the world record. |
| 1:22.5 | Our top story. More than 24 hours on from a believed assassination attempt on the U.S. President and his |
| 1:29.2 | cabinet. The third time, Donald Trump appears to have been targeted in less than two years. |
| 1:35.3 | Look at the questions being raised about the suspect behind that attack and how he might have got |
| 1:40.1 | past security. This latest violent episode happened at one of Washington's glitziest annual |
| 1:46.0 | events, the White House correspondent's dinner. A suspect, Cole Thomas Allen, will appear before a |
| 1:52.1 | D.C. court on Monday morning local time. We'll hear more details about him in a moment. But first, |
| 1:58.6 | in an interview with American media, Donald Trump has said he wasn't |
| 2:02.4 | worried during the believed assassination attempt on him in his cabinet during the Saturday |
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