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

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

In dramatic events in Washington, security agents whisked President Trump away from a dinner for White House correspondents after there were loud noises sounding like gunfire.

And that's where I heard the noise come from.

And to me, it sounded like that booming noise that assault rifles make.

The president is safe.

He posted on social media that a shooter had been apprehended.

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

Also in this podcast, a few hours before the dinner, President Trump announced that he would not be sending his two special envoys to Pakistan for talks about the war with Iran.

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

There were extraordinary events in Washington on Saturday night when President Trump had to be evacuated from a prestigious dinner for White House journalists at the Hilton Hotel right after this happened.

It wasn't clear at first if the loud bangs were gunshots, but the First Lady, Melania Trump, and the White House Press Secretary, Caroline Leavitt, were seen saying what happened as they, along with President Trump, were quickly taken out of the building by security personnel.