Huge manhunt underway for Charlie Kirk's killer

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  This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

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  I'm Valerie Sanderson and at 1300 hours GMT on Thursday the 11th of September,

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  these are our main stories.

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  A huge search is underway for the killer of the influential conservative activist and ally of President Trump,

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  Charlie Kirk.

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  Britain's Prime Minister has sacked the UK ambassador to Washington,

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  Peter Mandelson, over his ties to the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

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  Also in this podcast,

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  a BBC investigation has revealed the scale of an international charity's involvement in the systematic disappearance of children during former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime.

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  An inquest has been opened into the death of the anti-apartite campaigner Stibico nearly 50 years after he died in police custody in South Africa and The mating call of one species of peacock spider scientists explain their unusual diversity.

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  We start in the United States.

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  Where vigils have been held for 31-year-old Charlie Kirk,

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  a US conservative activist and influential ally of Donald Trump,

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  who was fatally shot in the neck on Wednesday while speaking at Utah Valley University.

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  A manhunt is now underway for a lone sniper.

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  Here's FBI Special Agent Robert Bowles.

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  As soon as we heard about the shooting,

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  special agents and personnel from the Salt Lake Field Office responded immediately.

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  We have full resources devoted.

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  to this investigation, including tactical, operational, investigative and intelligence.

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