Australia: thousands attend Bondi Beach vigil

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

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  I'm Janet Jalil and at 16 Hours GMT on Monday 15th December these are our main stories.

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  The Australian government moves to further tighten gun laws in the wake of the Bondi beach attacks in which 15 people were killed by two gunmen.

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  Police in Los Angeles are investigating the deaths of the Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife as apparent homicide.

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  Also in this podcast, the air which I'm breathing is really heavy.

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  The visibility has dropped sharply.

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  So it's like I'm standing inside a cloud of dust and smoke.

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  We go to Delhi where once again people are trying to cope with hazardous air quality.

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  The Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese,

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  has said his government will move to tighten his country's already strict gun laws in the aftermath of the Bondi beach attacks in which 15 people were shot dead by a father and son.

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  The older man, who was killed, legally owned several weapons.

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  The younger one, who is critically wounded and in custody,

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  had been investigated in the past for his links to the Islamic State Group.

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  But Mr Albanese said the two men who targeted a Jewish celebration at Bondi Beach were not part of a wider extremist cell.

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  The victims include a 10-year-old girl.

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  an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor,

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  a man who saved his wife's life by shielding her from gunfire,

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  a retired police officer, and two rabbis.

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  With more on the investigation and how people are coming to terms with this attack in a place that they thought was safe,

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  here's our Australia correspondent, Katie Watson.

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