if you all of us have to. talk to around enough. cattle that. packed a rat still or live wrong. alone would have to turn around most of us. are told me that it's your stuff that's in us that are seconds if you have stamina said it and now they're going to shift. school to. my old horse that scrushy this is his percentage that. there. are farmers i'm with him for there are certain. my grandfather was born in the twenties so he's now ninety. one week only walter sort of. when i grill him about the soviet union it mystifies me that he doesn't feel bitter about the things it did to his family. he was only nine years old when the

secret police came to their home but in eighty years the memory has not there. wasn't a mama that kind of got that out of forget him. among the most lucid and we're not sure newt has time to get into loser. schönberg and i would have as kind of said how much is true and he said when he said they're going to answer as you know american morning i'm going to share with you as you know it's reassuring to think a room from children early settlers the initial of three demolition a matter i don't not sure got over it all we're not that i'm always down by washington. on this and it usually most venues for its use are the times says run through just as concert your movie. is or should i say good night you're listening i'm not. somebody who's here i'm very well no. one can question i can't answer sure

because that is it if you got my going through around town hall i'm going to. i'm going to beat you to censor one. now mr. took on the. system must come out of calling us out on this one it's about that the coming of the. one going. in. such a sewer with when i'm not so. much your little girl you've got a policeman in this side of his citizenship. and i'm going to go into the muck in your reality kind of. to tell your family i meant a chance to have a sort of she and then i'm sure it's over. she shouted at me it's. also finest how detailed their memory off the past is it struck me that

my dad was still upset with the way they had to live and my mom seems to have modified her views because the more time passes. the more i guess she realizes that lived in an illusion. i feel sad that they have to endure. the difficult times here. when. i would be scared if i. had to bring out the children in good times oh for a change when your country has to be rebuilt again after two hundred years so folks ok patient first by the russian empire and then the soviet union.

in one thousand eight hundred nine this was the parliament building and people gathered here in dish thousands to protest weeks against the roof moscow. the georgian police was overseeing the protests but actually it was the russian special forces who cracked down on them on april ninth in the middle of the night and killed twenty people mostly women. they just chased them. down an alley ways and some people like in the stairwell somewhere hiding where just battered and killed. i was not even

two years old when april nine events happened. my parents and my relatives they describe it. as. the biggest trustee committed by the soviet union in their lifetime. we still remember it and it still defines how we view soviet union and now russia. exactly seven months later the berlin wall fell. this is the world remembers not our protesters who were killed and honestly and deliberately under the cover of darkness and. please please please please this is my room i can put you to match death is a photographer who covered to build up to the ninth of april my past is collected in negatives not only in files i mean digital but the real negatives which was not

present when the soviet army attacked but he took a picture in the days that followed that has become a symbol of our resistance to the soviet union it was shot from top you know what about the protesters did they realize what they were doing the protesters were from seventeen through twenty five mainly all youngsters but i mean there's a ninety percent there on this is only girls are because there were some kind of show they are part of this have been sort of sure it was a criminal act for people who were going to as they were seen to have a. result like sex it was a. size of power. this woman was not. just one but as. you know never say just because she is young but good intentions play with the rules to the hill sometimes and you know this it happened doesn't moscow or as an

apology for sending in special forces then nobody wanted to kill somebody you know this is a all died in stumpy top twenty ladies died but due to the us speaks you no one has ever hit them but there were wounded but there were no killings but if you want to live now in the soviet union if you want to have a good soviet union i don't know hearts to imagine soviet union as a place where a person would be happy oh my god i don't like good people they're so happy i remember mine because my all i've got brains of all shit been a six are really right but the countries that went towards western values developed better the countries that stuck to the ideology of russia and soviet union what's wrong with that i'm sure we have two hundred years under russia and we were able to put the parents in the unhappiness oh my good said she

your point of view or please keep this point if you really are why do you ask me and that's why so what's i am asking otherwise because it's a real world idea it was history of our country our beloved country georgia so if you want to expels these pages of history from your mind to offer your history that means you are doing very well wrong think you know because if you are expelling your past if you demolished your past you will never have a future. well. i felt angry because some also had an opportunity to andy's protest peacefully i feel very much for the arctic and i think that it was unfair that russia was the was making decisions for us and he doesn't recognize that russia owes us an apology i think that russia owes us an apology for sending in troops a crackdown on people who did nothing wrong nothing wrong.

u.t. and my parents lived through turbulent times following the end of soviet rule. georgia today is far from perfect but it has come a long way since one thousand nine hundred eighty nine and it seems inconceivable that people could still miss such a repressed and repressive past. in theory to some people and thirty years ago. in practice the occupation continues. i've never been here

before and somehow that nobody ever mentions this building and every time i traveled outside the city i saw me then i always wonder what it is. we tried to shut our minds to the existence of the soviet mournin some buildings but the reality is they still dominated our lives is there were meant to. they squawked on the hillsides of our towns and cities as if and waiting the return of their soviet masters. to give you the e.-ring impression that our world is this temporary one and it is the soviet one that use permanent. but most of all it's the blocks row after row street after street perhaps it seems strange if you have never lived in one but it is these

blocks that have left the d.p. scar on me. this block is quite elaborate. is an expert architecture he has publicly supported the preservation of these buildings. quite spacious yanks better think. of their own needs core and. korean operated and the greater. it was. already. nine when the u.s.s.r. collapsed so there was no one of them to run the government to remember. we were on the bridge. i grew up

in one of the buildings that was built in the seventy's during soviet union and i wrong that i'm dreaming about the time when this buildings will be demolished is it fair to say let's just raises this painful history. you know i don't think it's a right and i don't think it's possible first of four buildings they are just buildings in rome. their buildings which keep their memory all tried to be our long humans like concentration camps in germany are kept in order to be remind the you know about the history of government buildings and then monuments they seemed to inspire or did they want to just scare people like are what the what did they want to do you know of course one of the means to show the power of the state has always been architecture it was always there mean to show

your own people that they are small they are a leo and they should be afraid of the state to tell your people that we are great . in georgia our monolithic architecture is not the only permanent reminder of the soviet union. the man who ruled in moscow from one thousand twenty four to one nine hundred fifty three was not the russian george just most famous son. joseph stalin in. gori east on his hometown. it's still celebrates his birthday and at its heart it hosts george just off the shore star museum. outside the museum his

parents' home has been preserved so we can see his humble beginnings. when you enter you face styling and it makes you look up and admire him it's designed that way it makes you feel like he's great and he must be respected. well if it was last child you are least able to negotiate it off that scientists are still going to. publish your book he's. well as deciding to rest up a lonely i'm going to. find ever saw one someone tell you sorry i'm never gonna. look something remarkable that's iraq from the big. other least i can promise you he lives there are that i bend it on brokaw and earlier. i thought maybe he was doomed to repeat with the mugger she'll be mine smoke but they will be awkward

because the children got this i should be them my grandma. talking to real. good cigarettes. are out but i can't see consequence of virtue especially where you want gram morality of mines relating to say it's about eskimos only on a quest remember. gandhi did this to sharon i don't i can be a bus train wreck our lives are very. good i pack they discuss the factory i don't go much about this and not all the gear much but given what i want this i realize i used. to be cultured and oh i see how few minutes how it is so not silly reese daryn my toes are curved to go she roommates about graham partly a story or. opportunity in the period when the pushy should be done it's work or picking your own. or shareholders question their subcommittee or.

even if its curator says it's not trying to do so the museum still seems to be glorifying starving. its ninety nine percent about the greatness of stalin and somewhere hidden is the one percent about how cruel he was and how many people he killed. they make you circle around his death must the same we do funerals. they make you mourn him they make you take part in his death ritual. even this room like you come in and you feel that his presence like he if feel here is dead and we should be sorry for. i cannot help but feel how

deeply scarred we are by our past we live in a country dominated by soviet more newmans and i caused but we still try to ignore what really happened here unfortunately escaping your past is not that easy. a disease so stigmatized that those suffering are still shunned by society people is drunk on the penley from the libby from their wives and then they don't have a place in the war can be done so that they are no longer outcasts in that own community al-jazeera meets the health workers who are challenging al qaeda attitudes and working tirelessly to combat leprosy in india lifelines ancient enemy. or. the latest news as it breaks the saudis narrative contradicts the information that turkish officials have been

giving for the past two weeks with detailed coverage this whole flap feria of mud was shops and houses and it was completely washed away along with the people who were inside from around the world the government doesn't call this a detention center but it's surrounded by barbed wire fences and it exits are manned by armed guards. hello i'm barbara starr in london these are the top stories on al-jazeera a former marine has opened fire in a crowded bar in the u.s. city of thousand oaks killing twelve people the borderline bar and grill is a popular venue with college students and young people most of the victims are believed to be between the ages of eighteen and twenty five it's the third mass

shooting in the u.s. in under two weeks. democrats are demanding hearings in the house of representatives to investigate president removal of attorney general jeff sessions warning that a constitutional crisis is looming nancy pelosi who leads the democrats in the house of representatives called the move a blatant attempt to end or impede the investigation into russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election kimberley half it has more. they've got a couple of concerns and they've outlined them into formal letters the first letter is requesting emergency hearings but is also being sent has also been sent to michael whitaker the acting attorney general saying to him look at you need to recuse yourself from this investigation and here's why we think you need to because you've got the power to curtail this investigation you've got the power to halt lives of questioning you can even get rid of the budget the second one has been sent to the white house counsel here and is essentially saying we need you to

preserve any of the documents any and all documents related to jeff sessions firing turkish sources have told al-jazeera that traces of hydrofluoric acid were found at the residence of the saudi consul general in istanbul this stuff after suggestions that the body of saudi journalist. could have been destroyed using the chemicals the turkish government is the man being that saudi arabia reveal who was behind the murder. the world food program says it's doubling the amount of food aid it provides yemen to try and prevent what it's calling mass starvation with yemen currently suffering the largest hunger crisis in the world the u.n. agency says it's amy to reach up to fourteen million people syrian state media is reporting that the army has freed a group of druze women and children from eisold they were abducted from the southern province in july. and those are the top stories

i'm going to have. a half an hour correspondent continues next.

if you look down on to police you will see a european capital. ancient city walls and orthodox churches mingling with the glass and steel structures of a modern state. mother georgia looking out over her people sword for any means a cup of wine for her friends. the reality is very different georgia had the misfortune to sit at the axis of empires and we

were seldom strong enough to resist our powerful may burst. for the last two hundred years these invaders have come from the north first the russian empire and then the soviet one. behind these once grand facades the soviet terror operatives snow as the cheka began. a few georgians want to engage with this history and it is slowly being raised by indifference and decay. solve that is an organization that is trying to preserve these sites or at least document them before they disappear you know is a check oh yes it's a mango and from here or toss a prisoner stressed out and and so it was a interrogation and also there was

a space and there was this fresh prawn completely dark and without them but on which to us. face for say torture is the blood this time was nine twenty four in august the entire so it uprising started and soviet authorities charts a protocol prison there says everywhere which in all of georgia yes i'm going for external force i was a person was killed during say swan week twenty eight total guests street of september night which. were. these they are now in the basement of say it's a. prison cell it was a place for say no must or char sometime killing off and would be like us who provides from the us on us yes it's just prison thought we think it's origin along

when the first time meant this room war was screen and on say wall and you can find say inscriptions of say prisoners or we're sitting here in ninety twenties and ninety's. and do people actually know now what was the story of this building generally our society absolute think doesn't. kind of sum them up. i think we actively avoid dealing with our past. this has always been the mindset of my parents' generation. they were born into and soviet union which was against people asking questions and curiosity go to into trouble. even though the u.s.s.r.

collapsed their mindset hasn't changed. in two thousand and four the ministry of the interior opened the cheka and k.g.b. files to the public. but neither my parents nor my grandfather have come here to find out what happened to his grandfather in one nine hundred thirty seven. like so many georgians their anxiety is that someone they knew perhaps even a family member might have been involved. call him as a sign that it's like they were that agreement but. that is only such a machine to those you don't need me to sort through. the documents are all in russian. is just for you don't know this. is

the interviewing local it's not everyone. on the same day. which. we just found a document so my father's great grandfather. was in the u. so hussein son was a sentence on the twenty sixth of october nineteenth thirty seven. band he was executed on the twenty nine seventy seventy something people he was executed as number thirty one. he was executed but to me but my grand father thought that he was actually taken to tbilisi for execution so they have no idea what happened but it doesn't say why he was killed what had to do

to deserve death. well now we are going to have a bigger document that says like the has all the details about this case. now you have. to go commit yourself to. your. local community to question your treatment. he was accused of plotting. some protests and actions against the government. shooting. scott see your vote a little color should. be tryna be so. lucky. to live almost double the. contribution because there you see it wasn't almost. done

was in this year one thousand nine hundred thirty thousand cuts then thousand people were executed by the soviet interior ministry so there were very busy killing people and we still want to do is there really that's why they called this period great terror period of great terror. it has been eighteen years since my grandfather's grandfather was killed but i think that finding the truth still matters i feel it helps us to understand why and how we were controlled as a country. heavily are the comment that was sort of a kind of i don't know. reason or a holiday or it was you know a child trip which i'm sure. this. order to move the. cue done as. it really showed a double whammy at bottom she mobius but. a more generous you know the

truth now that i'm the tardy side is from the part of the ivy. i don't talk. about i'm not oh so cool like you know it all people like you almost a test of our survival while i'm told though that. out of. all the important. how to look without medical all this. but i live in a god that really don't want to miss. what it was the only thing you got was your arm all over the house or something. but a bomb to as it were was over. the body of. the girl who then i showed her the horrors . that ensued. the time or evil.

and there go. well. i mean those are. i said. i feel it weight has been lifted for my family we have taken back our memory from the soviets but there are parts of the soviet legacy that i fear we'll never be within our control in august two thousand and eight i was traveling from tbilisi when all of a sudden carse came to a standstill. when we started to see the georgian military rushing in the same direction as on its own was like what could be happening it was so scary we turned on the radio and found out that war broke out on the border with russia the russian tanks were rolling from the south the said directly way region

to tbilisi they were on the edge off invading the capital of georgia. the toasts unbelievable. russia claim to be supporting south a certain independence but sided with georgia holding a vote on joining nato a clear challenge to russian power. this is one of the villages that it's the closest to. the divide between file said here and georgia proper i feel that i have to be very cautious because i have heard many stories of people being picked up by the russian military just because they go too close to the barbed wires. i just like oh now they're in georgia that's the thing. said tax part of our country so it is

a little strange. being kept out of your territory. south of said to cross into georgia but very few georgians screw the way at least. my. twins have with us. but i go with a. reason to worry tommy love. so he says. he needs. the approval of his boss to let us through for security reasons the car is going to escort us to and from. where. the feeling that you get is so mixed off anger and fear that the you're approaching a hostile place but it's actually your own country. there

are books. i was only allowed a couple of minutes at the border and your presence here soon draws attention. to weeks after the war russia recognized south a certain independence. twenty percent of our land was occupied annexed by russia. barbed wire started appearing in villages that border the breakaway regions the villages split into the residents about how this house might be related if a person dies on the other side these residents have to spend weeks to get permits and go over there. so it makes people's lives very different.

controlled by the soviet union or controlled by russia are for me indistinguishable . the order still come from moscow. in georgia we may have freed ourselves from soviet fools but we seem incapable of freeing ourselves from the soviet mindset. perhaps this is because the soviets infiltrated our georgian identity so completely. this memorial the chronicle of georgia just outside to be d.c. depicts heroic moments from our long history. emotionally as a georgian i am still caught up in the power of its imagery. but

it is to mourn human sanctioned by the soviet state. it was built to make us believe we were free when we were not. sometimes you have to look elsewhere for answers to your own problems there is another country that was ruled from moscow and at the same time had to come to terms with its own troubled past. berlin was the capital of germany during the rule off one of the twentieth century's other murderous totalitarian movements the nats. often germany's defeat in one thousand nine hundred five printing was split in half at the brandenburg

gate. east germany was never officially a soviet state but it took its orders from moscow and brilliance bombed out streets where an ideal setting for stalin to express his architectural drawings. the soviets did not scar germany in quite the same way as they did my country but the nazis did. some of their buildings have been preserved but the symbols have been almost entirely erased. in east berlin the air ministry became the headquarters of the soviet military and then the east german state. this was because where we moved

they were soon replaced with another form of iconography. for me as a former soviet subject this seems like swapping one tyranny for another. but this is not the prevailing view in germany. this soviet occupation is few differently here i would say that in germany we have that culture of respect so we are still using even buildings from the nazi time so from an intellectual point of view if you reach this point that you can divide. the building its construction and its design from the content and its political ideas you can find a new function for the building but you should somehow documents its history i want to those people who like feel angry at buildings do you think that young people

here would agree with you. you know the young to the youngest generation. told them the wall is something which is an experience of the herons of the grandparents so it's quite far away with the should be aware that the socialist time was a time of repressions and today we might use those ridiculous from the nazi time off from the from the socialist time to educate the young generation to show them what kind of freedom they can live today. germany has shown that these painful memories of the past need to be acknowledged. the holocaust memorial sits in the heart of burning and leaves the visitor in no doubt as to what happened here. the generation responsible for the war

have all but disappeared. germany still remembers the terrible price of under strain nationalism. i wonder if this is the lesson that can only be learned to defeat. soviet berlin small symbolic structure was the wall built in one thousand sixty one in response to mass defections from east germany when the wall fell a section was preserved and artists from east and west where commissioned to painted that stadium asked to be of the muslim. and moscow based on. this was one of them like a deer at a kartini. because i still like a stylish good personal read. you call us new because it's you could still. use the church when you do not probably like me personally but that my meeting will

follow the way you see abortion whether you made the first of the. many russians like irina moved to germany after one thousand nine hundred eighty nine. there are no clear figures but if you estimated that over a million became germans. at to understand the oil. through the postal service to say it's a dull. deal it's. my out of you and your chin had a shot then you would. not last but you would. be stupid to move to the most most of them did it is that you would she would just go in there with this in the middle of the deal if it was then when the going. call on you.

will do this over the spears was just over the knee of the gun with. a group we didn't use in the budget you know but just this is. the one who was it was interesting. brushwood for the first time in that this but. you. move. through. the list is. good enough attitude both to the wall and to the soviet union are for me though so if a cohen answers. the soviet union never stopped trying to sell itself as a union of equals but it never was. berlin is home to many hundreds of thousands of russians. every year on the ninth of

may they come to trump tower park in berlin to celebrate soviet victory day. after two thousand and three we stopped celebrating the ninth me and i'm very happy about it because it was not georgia swore it was a war that georgia second france a lot for but we would not be in this war if we were not occupied by the soviet union. overhearing their conversations and the things they're saying to their children is suggesting that for them this is more than liberating germans they're making it seem like it's russia's stick to. this is for them an opportunity to express their imperialistic dreams. they're still dreaming about

a time when russia was so powerful that it could come all the way to berlin. the most uncomfortable thing for me is to witness the bikers known as the ninth wolves. they stand for everything i think should be condemned the occupation in ukraine the annexation of crimea and the continued occupation of georgia and seeing them celebrating victory day was like they were promoting the imperial ideals of russia. i feel that the victorious atmosphere that was there was distasteful for me it's like dancing on the grave of an enemy you killed like. it's really not necessary and i'm really happy that the georgia flag is not here it's just the russian flag and solve it flags. how do we deal with the scars

of far past we cannot erase them i accept that but i don't think you should celebrate the mind they're. finding out about what really happened to my family has helped my grandpa my parents and me. but watching the russian triumphalism here today makes me realize how unlikely it is that my country will ever be truly free. and without that freedom it's hard for me to see how our scarse can ever fade.

hello there for many of us in western australia it's going to be pretty hot over the next day or so friday's the hottest day the temperatures in perth are expected to get to thirty two degrees and then to around twenty seven or twenty eight as we head through saturday there will also be quite a few showers in this region as well and some of them will be very high with funda maybe some rather lively hail as well meanwhile for the east there could be a few showers around the coast but the main area of rain here has cleared and it's now affecting us in new zealand so here's all that cloud at the moment it has given us a phenomenal amount of rain and some very strong winds as well some of the heaviest rains that i've seen around three hundred forty millimeters has fallen here we've

also had winds way over one hundred forty kilometers per hour and as well as that is been surprisingly warm with the temperatures over thirty one degrees the some of us that all changes of that system pushes its way northward behind it the winds will swing southerly and it will be a little cooler so christchurch only around ten there as we head through friday a little bit milder as we head into saturday and then that rain clears altogether finally as we head into saturday and we head further towards the north we've also got some very heavy rains here particularly way over the western parts of japan. every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories to the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they were called on the stories that matter the most they're listening posts on alex's nira in twenty twenty tokyo will host the paralympic

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sources say how to for an assett has been found at the saudi consul general's residence. a decorated former marine opened fire at a popular bar in california killing twelve people and sending hundreds fleeing the world food program says it plans to double its food eighty yemen to avert mass starvation. on paul recent dialogue with the sport as we meet the millennial grandmasters who are bringing chess to a new audience. turkish sources have told al-jazeera that traces of hydrofluoric acid have been found at the residence of the saudi consul general in istanbul the house was searched following the murder of journalist who disappeared after entering the saudi

consulate five weeks ago they believe his body could have been destroyed using the substance andrew symonds reports now from istanbul. the revelation follows the poetry analysis of samples taken by turkish investigators more than a fortnight after jamal khashoggi is murder a source of the turkish prosecutor's office has told our jazeera it was here at the consul general's residence that traces of hydrofluoric acid and a non-domestic chemical were found the source says the dismembered body parts were dissolved in a chemical process and the source speaks of samples also taken from a well in the garden of the residence and in nearby sewage systems this information follows on from an early arrival lation by the newspaper accusing two saudi men said to be a chemical expert at a toxicologist being involved in the cover up operation even though they had been sent out in an official saudi investigation team i took is present brigette tell

you heard of one appeared in public on thursday but made no comment about the new leak all remarks made by the us president officials in turkey is ruling party say it's stronger action not opinion that's needed from the u.s. soldier was going to was an underneath about it turkey's position was made clear from the beginning but a stance adopted by president early on we will not allow any person to cover up his inhumane crime committed in this cruel and brutal manner but even if as the prosecution source says investigators are convinced that georgie's body was totally destroyed here in the consular residence is there enough evidence to convict the suspects in this case turkey believes there will be enough evidence and it wants the united states to pressure the saudis to extradite all of the suspects not only that the turks want saudi arabia to reveal who ordered the killing of

a man whose remains appear to have been washed away in the sewage system andrew symonds al jazeera istanbul. well a teacher hanis a criminologist an instable she explains how the unsaved may have been acquired. it would have been impossible really very difficult to actually bring a message what. with that team it could have been bought by other people protect the thirty's people working at the consulate or the embassy for example that's a question that. would have that i'm sure put have been provided to the team as i said because it's their lease that they actually travel placidly although they were traveling on diplomatic passports and did go through different it's an entry a. i believe that it could have been perhaps purchased by somebody else and give the people before hand time ease of the waves since that trade and that is where we

actually understand the class that stalling tactics that were displayed from day one by the saudi officials because right from the beginning they denied they said that sequentially had met and then it was the denial in tripoli to actual to go into the building and that to go about almost two weeks as well so the mall for example dismembered body is actually in essence is going to dissolve. time he's the most important thing and we saw that stalling tactic and the fact that. when the crime scene investigators that's which is the phone to the residence of the consulate general's office that. we have heard of through the media as a what has broken out in the us the late one i want to search the well police say the gunman who killed twelve people after opening fire in a crowded bar in california was a decorated marine who had served in afghanistan his most known and they've also

died in the attack just outside los angeles he opened fire on the borderline grayle in the city of thousand oaks a venue that's popular with college students this is the three hundred and seven smash shooting in the u.s. this year alone she had reports. the borderline bar and grill was packed for its wednesday college country music night it was before eleven thirty pm in the city of thousand oaks about sixty kilometers from los angeles there were people saying i'm just hanging out having a good time running you hear that and you just. stay in an open fire. with an extended magazine witnesses said he was also throwing smoke bombs. like a ski mask over his face but on the bottom. out of whack a baseball cap on it is just. everything.

was. just. taking off so we decided we couldn't get out of there police was. dead as he entered the building was found dead police believe he shot himself he was a twenty eight year old marine corps veteran who lived nearby in april of this year . for a subject disturbing they went to the house they talked. a little irrationally they called out our crisis intervention team our mental health specialist who met with them talked to. this comes always two weeks after another mass shooting eleven people killed at a synagogue in pittsburgh pennsylvania. the families. of. the brady campaign says an average of thirty two people are murdered each day in gun violence in the u.s. control advocates had mixed results in the midterm congressional i'm going to tory elections but many concluded that the intensity with which the national rifle

association has previous elections is now being matched by those supporting the restriction of ability. jennifer. news joins us live now from thousand oaks jennifer good to see you again we now know his name david long what else do we know about the shooter. well we know that he was an active duty u.s. marine for five or so years from two thousand and eight to two thousand and thirteen that he spent about eight months stationed in afghanistan whether he saw combat or whether he had any sort of post-traumatic stress disorder issues after his military service we don't know but we do know that that is where he probably got his proficiency with firearms we know that they are searching his home at this time and trying to put together some sort of motivation as to why he chose this venue on this particular night when it was mostly young people in country music

dancing the eighteen and over crowd who normally can't get into the bars that are twenty one and over during the weekend so a very popular venue for older high school students and college students in the area it must be obviously i mean it always is but very shocking for a for the town and for all the relatives of course i mean it's quite a few hours now since the shooting what is going all in this specially for the loved ones the families who must be worried of must be trying to trace their loved ones. you know in the last few hours the notifications have been going out to the families the official notifications the investigators didn't want to make any mistakes they had evidence to go through and. so much carnage inside and so many so many i things to do to make the proper identifications before they were calling parents to give them news so in the last few hours they have been

making those notifications and confirming deaths but there are others who came to the nightclub maybe left and haven't called in so so there's still hope among people who haven't heard but it is fading with every minute and we were just hearing that report said that often when things like this happen you get the usual debate in the states in the states about gun control how is that being lived there especially you know california and quite a young town as well. yeah you know it's interesting california is a very divided state on on all things especially those those issues like gun control and we did hear some of the students who came out and survived this one might think that they might want more gun control after having survived this but there was an even number of people coming out saying if we all had guns we could have stopped it so it continues to be a division even for survivors of these types of attacks jennifer björk lynn from

n.b.c. news with the latest from jennifer thank you. u.s. democrats have demanded emergency hearings in the house of representatives to investigate donald trump's for a move all of attorney general jeff sessions they accused of trying to undermine robert miller's investigation into russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election sessions has been replaced by matthew whitaker who's openly criticize the inquiry atika hain reports from washington. a day after losing one of the houses of congress the president was a man on the defensive we keep hearing about. investigations now facing investigations on two from special counsel robert mueller looking into potential russian collusion and obstruction of justice and in january a democratic controlled u.s. house of representatives looking into pretty much anything it chooses to. with that

a dramatic move his attorney general fired replaced by matthew whitaker a man close to the president in tweets in articles he's made it clear he thinks the moeller probe should be limited whitacre will have tremendous power over the investigation now not just the scope of it but under law he has the ultimate say as to what happens to muller's findings he could simply shred his final report but the midterm elections makes that less likely that the democrats will in fact invite. special counsel mauler to testify before the committee and testify in public about what were the findings in other words there are more ways to get the information to be public.