US TV host Jimmy Kimmel suspended over Charlie Kirk shooting comments

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  I'm Alex Ritzen and at 0500 GMT on Thursday the 18th of September these are our main stories.

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  American TV host Jimmy Kimmel is taken off air indefinitely over comments about Charlie Kirk's shooting.

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  Jimmy Kimmel is one of America's best-known faces on late-night TV.

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  His talk show has been on air for more than 20 years and has interviewed everyone from A-list actors to presidents.

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  But Jimmy Kimmel Live has now been suspended indefinitely over comments the host made about the shooting of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk.

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  The ABC announcement has reignited a debate about press freedom and free speech in the US.

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  Our North America correspondent David Willis told me more.

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  Well, this goes back to Monday's show, the start of the show, Alex,

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  when Mr Kimmel, who has hosted four Academy Awards ceremonies in the past for ABC,

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  suggested that the man responsible for the death of Charlie Kirk was a so-called MAGA Republican,

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  that's a reference to Make America Great Again,

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  Mr Trump's slogan, and accused Donald Trump's party of seeking to score political points from it.

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