Alec Baldwin 'shock and sadness' at film set death

Actor Alec Baldwin has expressed his shock and sadness after fatally shooting cinematographer Halyna Hutchins with a prop gun on a New Mexico film set. We speak to an "armourer", a person who manages firearms in film sets.

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Taliban banned girls from secondary schools in most of Afghanistan, and most women have not been allowed to return to work yet. Our correspondent Yogita Limaye has returned to the country to speak to people about the life since the Taliban took control of the country in August.

(Photo: A distraught Alec Baldwin lingers in the parking lot outside the Santa Fe County Sheriff"s offices on Camino Justicia after being questioned on 21/10/2021 about a shooting when a prop gun misfired earlier in the day on a local movie set. Credit: Jim Weber/The New Mexican)