Florida TV journalist and girl killed near homicide scene

In his first comments since Putin’s announcement on Tuesday, Biden condemned the Russian decision to pull back from the treaty, known as New START

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In his first comments since Putin’s announcement on Tuesday, Biden condemned the Russian decision to pull back from the treaty, known as New START. The move is expected to have an immediate impact on US visibility into Russian nuclear activities, but the pact was already on life support following Moscow’s cancellation late last year of talks that had been intended to salvage an agreement that both sides have accused the other of violating. “It’s a big mistake,” Biden said.

The President’s comments came as he wrapped up a whirlwind, four-day visit to Poland and Ukraine with talks with leaders from the Bucharest Nine, a collection of nations in the most eastern parts of the Nato alliance that came together in response to Putin’s2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.

19-year-old Keith Melvin Moses was taken into the custody for killing a woman in her 20s, a 9-year-old girl and a TV journalist. (Photo: Twitter/@OrangeCoSheriff)

A TV reporter and a nine-yearold girl have been fatally shot outside Orlando, Florida, near the scene of a murder that took place hours earlier.

A second reporter and the girl’s mother were also shot and injured by the same gunman, who police say is suspected of the homicide earlier on Wednesday.The two Spectrum News 13 journalists were covering the killing of a woman in the area that morning when the suspect returned, police say. It is unclear if they were targeted.

The suspect was armed when he was arrested and was not co-operating with police, said investigators. None of the three people killed in Wednesday’s two attacks in Pine Hills, a suburb west of Orlando, have yet been identified. In a news conference, Orange County Sheriff John Mina said the film crew were “in or near their vehicle”, which he said did not look like a TV station’s official vehicle, when they were attacked at around 16:00 local time (22:00 GMT).