concluded midterm elections so while not as a high profile as such other issues as health care or immigration but nevertheless i noted that several campaigners for the stricter gun control were elected to congress including lucy make bath in georgia her son was shot and killed by a man in a gas station parking lot because he refused to turn down the music on his radio in his car so mrs mcbeth is now congresswoman macbeth and she together with a number of others. like chris murphy the senator from connecticut that's a state where the newtown massacre at the school there took place they were reelected and they do form a voice in congress but we've seen time and time again efforts to. apply any kinds of restrictions on the federal level to guns to things like bump

stocks that were used in that vegas massacre that i reference and nothing has happened what has happened has been on the state level and california where we are now where this tragedy has just occurred is a state with very very strict gun laws nevertheless it just seems that that there are so many millions and hundreds of millions of weapons in the united states that a person determined to create mayhem can lay their hands on one at this stage it doesn't appear that there's going to be a lot of movement on that issue at least not on the national level as long as the president trump is in the white house as long as the senate is controlled by the republican party for the moment we'll leave it there robin of course come back to you as we get more information on but investigation back from thousand oaks thank you. well to the middle east and to yemen where un brokered political talks between warring sides of push been pushed back to the end of the year un's yemen envoy

martin griffiths was hoping to get rival factions to come to the table this month griffiths who is due to brief the security council next week is trying to salvage stalled peace talks between the rebels and the internationally recognized government backed by saudi arabia the u.a.e. . the world food program says it's doubling the about the food aid it gives to you but to try to stall they should the country is clearly suffering the largest food crosses the world. to reach billion people of the causes all exclusively beings with the old civil war creating huge economic food supply problems. is a spokesperson for the world food programme she says the warring factions have showed little regard for the great cuba tarried there are already people dying there are already people who are starving there are ready children who are too known nourished to recover and so our our job is to try to keep things from getting

that bad that's what we've been trying to do for years why we've been ramping up our assistance so intensely for so long and why we're going to you know regardless of what the analysis determines we it's very clear already that we're going to have to double our efforts to reach more people with more food assistance but it's even more clear that the conflict that's led to that hardship in the first place absolutely has to end the guns have to fall silent the parties to that conflict every one of them every one of them claims that they care about the people of yemen and that they're concerned about the welfare of civilians but the actions that they've taken in pursuing that conflict have made a mockery of those claims and it's absolutely vital that they end that conflict as soon as possible so that humanitarian agencies like mine can do our job and can get the assistance to people to try to keep a famine from happening or turn it around if in fact we are already looking at one

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