Reuters World News - NY shooting, Trump’s Putin deadline and Murdoch’s deposition

Episode Date: July 30, 2025

A gunman armed with an assault-style rifle kills four people inside a Manhattan skyscraper before killing himself. U.S. president Donald Trump sets a new deadline for Russia to act on Ukraine. And Trump asks a U.S. court to speed up a deposition of Rupert Murdoch in the president’s Epstein defamation case. Sign up for the Reuters Econ World newsletter here. Listen to the Reuters Econ World podcast here. Find the Recommended Read here. Visit the Thomson Reuters Privacy Statement for information on our privacy and data protection practices. You may also visit megaphone.fm/adchoices to opt out of targeted advertising. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, Russia's president is given less than two weeks to make progress toward peace in Ukraine or face secondary sanctions from the U.S. President Trump breaks with Israel in calling out starvation happening in Gaza, and he asks the court to make media mogul Rupert Murdoch answer questions in his defamation suit. It's Tuesday, July 29th. This is Reuters World News, bringing you everything you need to know from the front lines in 10 minutes every weekday. I'm Kim Vinal in Wonganui, New Zealand.

Four people, including a police officer, are dead after a gunman walked into a skyscraper office in New York and opened fire. The building security camera footage shows the shooter enter the lobby, turn right, and immediately opened fire on an NYPD officer. He then shoots a woman who took cover behind a pillar and proceeds through the lobby spraying it with gunfire.

New York City Police Commissioner, Jessica Tisch, says the gunman then allowed a woman to get out of an elevator unharmed before getting in the elevator himself. He goes up to the 33rd floor, which is Rudin Management, and begins to walk the floor, firing rounds as he traveled. Police say he shot and killed one person on that floor before fatally shooting himself. The shooter has been identified as 27-year-old Shane Tamura.

He'd traveled, cross-country from Las Vegas to New York in recent days. His motive for the shooting is unknown. And three people have been killed in another shooting in Reno, Nevada. That shooting happened in the parking lot of the Grand Sierra Resort. Police shot the suspect, who is now in a critical condition in hospital. U.S. President Donald Trump has set a new deadline for Russia to make progress toward ending the war in Ukraine or face consequences. He had set a 50-day deadline. He now says Moscow has between 10 and 12 days.

Andrea Shalal is following Trump on his trip in Scotland. Andrea, why did Trump move this up? Trump has been getting frustrated for quite some time because this is a president who ran on ending the Ukraine war on his first day in office. And he feels like he's made progress. on these other promises. He's imposed huge tariffs and he's seeing that through. And I think he's become gravely disenchanted with Putin for not, you know, I think he thought he had more

clout with Putin than he does. And he misunderstood the dynamics there. So what happens if there's no progress after this deadline? What the US has in its power is to really crack down on something called secondary sanctions. These secondary sanctions are a very powerful tool because they go after the ways that business is done. So you don't just sell Russian oil and it miraculously appears on the other side of the world. You have to have ships and financial services that carry out the transaction, that carry the fuel, that bring it over to another port. And all of those countries and actors that are participating in that, you know, if they mean it seriously with the secondary sanctions, then they can go after them.

President Trump has broken with U.S. ally Israel, saying that many people are starving in Gaza. He's even suggested Israel could do more to allow access for aid. Helpful, so we're going to set up food centers and where the people can walk in. We can save a lot of people. I mean, some of those kids are, that's real starvation stuff. I see it, and you can't fake that. That assessment puts Trump at odds with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said on Sunday, there is no starvation in Gaza.

The U.S. is joining Israel, however, in boycotting a UN summit dedicated to finding a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians. There, UN Secretary General Antonio Gretti, called on nations to take action. We must do even more to realize the two-state solution. We must ensure that it does not become another exercise in well-meaning rhetoric. The US has called the summit a publicity stunt. Another American university is coming under the scrutiny of President Trump. The administration is initiating a probe into Duke University

and the Duke Law Journal over alleged race-related discrimination. The Education Department says it's looking at it looks at. looking into whether the university considers race, color or national origin when selecting law journal members. And in more Trump news, the president has asked a U.S. court to order a swift deposition for billionaire Rupert Murdoch in his defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal. The president is suing the journal, its owners, including Murdoch and the reporters, for their article claiming Trump's name was on a 2003 birthday greeting for late sex offender Jeffrey

Epstein. Legal reporter Luke Cohen has been covering the lawsuit. So Luke, why is Trump going after Rupert Murdoch, who is by all accounts one of the president's allies? So Trump wants Robert Murdoch to sit for a deposition or questioning under oath in this case because he says that Murdoch has information that would help Trump make his case that the Wall Street Journal's story was false and they knew it was false. So Trump says that after the Wall Street Journal's story, Journal reached out to his office for comment on the story, Trump then called up Murdoch and told him, oh, this birthday greeting is fake. So Trump says that that conversation effectively put Murdoch and thus the entire Wall Street Journal on notice that the story was going to be false. And so he needs

Murdoch to testify under oath in order to help him make that case in his lawsuit. He also says that, you know, Murdoch is 94. He has had health issues in the past, you know, effective saying he may not make it to a trial, and so we need it depose him now. And so what's the legal bar Trump has to pass here for his defamation effort to get anywhere? In order to win this lawsuit, Trump, because he is a public figure in the U.S., needs to clear what's known as the actual malice standard. That means it's not enough for him just to show that the letter was false. He has to show that the Wall Street Journal and its reporters either knew it was false, recklessly disregarded the truth, so, you know, didn't do basic

due diligence to find out whether or not it was false. It's important to note, of course, that the journal stands behind its reporting and a Dow Jones spokesperson says, you know, they will vigorously defend against the lawsuit. U.S. and Chinese officials are set to begin their second day of talks in Stockholm aimed at extending a tariff truce. Day one of their talks lasted five hours with no progress. As Trump's August 1st deadline for tariff deals with a swath of country's looms, Canada's leader says the country should be prepared for at least some levies. The negotiations are at a intense phase. It's a complex negotiation. You see with the various trade deals that have been agreed by other jurisdictions.

The US president has threatened Canada with tariffs of up to 35% on some imports. Military commanders from Thailand and Cambodia are holding talks after a truce was called in their border conflict. Displaced residents are trickling back after an agreement to end five days of fighting was reached. At least 40 people have been killed and more than 300,000 displaced in the dispute. It's the deadliest outbreak of violence between the nations in a decade. In China's capital, Beijing, torrential rain has killed at least 30 people. Some 80,000 people were relocated as the rain hit. Remaining residents are being advised not to leave their homes.

Firefighters in Bulgaria try to dampen the perimeter of a wildfire as it engulfs the village of Kosovo. Fires are burning across parts of Southeast Europe, including Greece and Albania. Parts of the region have experienced record temperatures over the past week, with fires fanned by strong winds. And finally today, Queen Bee has retained her title. Beyonce's Cowboy Carter Tour is now the highest-grossing country tour of all time,

with over $400 million in revenue, according to events promoter Live Nation. Beyonce has spoken candidly about not feeling welcomed in the country genre, despite her Texas roots, after she became the first black woman to win Best Country Album at the 2025 Grammy Awards. And for today's recommended read, how Trump policies are reshaping the role of federally owned land against the tide of US public opinion. Reuters reporters have dug into the history and the data,

mapping out where federal land use is changing and what impact it's having. We'll put a link to that story in today's podcast description. For more on any of the stories from today, be sure to check out Reuters.com or the Reuters app. And don't forget to follow us on your favorite podcast player. We'll be back tomorrow with our daily headline show.