Donald Trump evacuated from dinner after shots fired

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

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  I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Sunday, the 26th of April, these are our main stories.

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  In dramatic events in Washington, security agents whisked President Trump away

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  from a dinner for White House correspondents after there were loud noises sounding like gunfire.

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  "And that's where I heard the noise come from, and to me,

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  it sounded like that booming noise that assault rifles make."

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  The president is safe. He posted on social media that a shooter had been apprehended.

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  We'll hear from BBC reporters who were at the scene.

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  Also in this podcast, a few hours before the dinner, President Trump announced

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  that he would not be sending his two special envoys to Pakistan for talks about the war with Iran.

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  And we hear about a deadly explosion on a bus in Colombia just weeks before a presidential election.

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  There were extraordinary events in Washington on Saturday night when President Trump

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  had to be evacuated from a prestigious dinner for White House journalists at the Hilton Hotel

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  right after this happened.

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  It wasn't clear at first if the loud bangs were gunshots,

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  but the First Lady Melania Trump and the White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

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  were seen saying "What happened?" as they, along with President Trump,

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  were quickly taken out of the building by security personnel.

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  There were cries of "Stay down" and "Get down."

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