2025-01-03
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This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Janat Jalil and in the early hours of Friday 3rd January, these are our main stories.
The FBI says it now believes the man who killed 14 people in a car ramming attack in the US city of New Orleans on New Year's day acted alone.
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Syria's new rulers carry out a crackdown in the city of Homs targeting what they say are pro Assad war criminals.
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Meeting.
We begin in New Orleans where A Minute's Silence was held at the Superdome Stadium on Thursday before the Sugar bowl football match to remember the 14 people who died after a man drove a truck into a crowd in the city.
The FBI has now said it's confident that the suspect, Shamsuddin Jabbar, was acting alone.
He died in exchange of gunfire with the police, initially in the hours after the attack on crowds celebrating the New Year.
Investigators said they feared he'd had accomplices.
The 42 year old from Texas is believed to have converted to Islam.
An Islamic State or ISIS flag was found in his vehicle from New Orleans.
Tom Bateman sent this report.
Footage has emerged from the moment of the attack showing the white Ford pickup truck careering down Bourbon Street.