New Orleans: Biden says attacker had a "desire to kill"
Newshour
BBC
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🗓️ 2 January 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The US authorities are investigating whether Wednesday's deadly truck attack in New Orleans is linked to an explosion outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas on the same day. The FBI believes the man who rammed his car into a crowd in New Orleans killing fifteen people was not acting alone.
Also in the programme: Netherlands to open archive on people accused of wartime Nazi collaboration; and 250 years since the birth of the novelist Jane Austen.
(Photo: The attack took place in an extremely busy area full of bars and restaurants. Credit: EPA)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsAft from the BBC World Service. We're coming to you live from London. |
| 0:08.3 | I'm James Menendez. And we are going to start in New Orleans as the city and the US more broadly |
| 0:13.8 | tries to piece together what happened in the early hours of New Year's Day. Both the impact on those |
| 0:19.7 | caught up in the attack, 15 people are now |
| 0:22.4 | known to have lost their lives, a college football player, an aspiring nurse and a young |
| 0:27.1 | mother among them. And also why it happened? What led to US Army veteran Shamsuddin Jabbar |
| 0:34.2 | driving into a crowded street of revelers and then opening fire. |
| 0:38.8 | Was he acting alone? |
| 0:40.3 | And furthermore, was there a link to an explosion yesterday of a Tesla cyber truck outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas? |
| 0:47.6 | It is early days in the investigations. |
| 0:50.7 | And for many, the grief and shock are still raw. |
| 0:53.5 | Speaking to the BBC, J.P. Morel, |
| 0:55.8 | vice president of the New Orleans City Council, described the mood. |
| 1:00.2 | The public, our citizens, they're devastated. I mean, we are a city renowned for our fun festival |
| 1:06.3 | and culture and New Orleans parties like no other, and to wake up on New Year's Day right before |
| 1:15.1 | the nationally televised playoff game for our for our college football series to this |
| 1:21.3 | has really just been jarring and shocking and people in our city are still coming to grips that |
| 1:27.4 | this happened to us in this way. |
| 1:29.9 | Some details about the suspect have emerged. |
| 1:33.1 | This YouTube video from 2020 shows Shamsadine Jabbar introducing himself as a real estate agent in Texas. |
| 1:41.6 | Good evening. I'm Shamsadine Jabbar, property manager with Blue Metal Properties and team lead at the Midas |
| 1:47.0 | group at Core Realty. |
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