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another my shooting in the united states. the teenage government opens far at a school in texas, killing 18 children and the teacher do as president joe biden ordered flights to be flown a half moth as the country moines the deadliest elementary school shooting in almost a decade. as a nation, we have to ask when in god's name where you stand up to the gun mom. busy o'clock 0 live from to ha, also coming up calls for an independent investigation into the death of serene acura. you had secured to counsel and you have 3 months off to russia invaded ukraine, fighting rages on in the east, but morale is so high in the capitol.

ah, so 18 young children and the teacher had been killed in a school shooting in the u. s. state of texas, it is the deadliest tank at an american elementary school in almost a decade. rob reynolds is who moore 1st from los angeles. a shocking act of violence has ripped yet another american town to pieces. an 18 year old gunman stormed an elementary school in vol day, texas tuesday afternoon and open fire, salvador romeus, an 18 year old male who resided in you've audi. it's believed that he abandoned his vehicle and entered into the rob elementary school in you valley with with a hand gun. and he may have also had a rifle. as of now, no motive is known for the mass shooting. the 6 under children who attended the primary school were aged from 5 or 6 to about 12 years old. at this point,

the investigation is leading to tell us that the, the suspect did act alone during this heinous crime. the killings come less than 10 days after a gunman who posted racist rance online killed 10 people at a grocery store in buffalo. new york gun laws in texas are among the least restrictive in the country. there's no minimum age limit for children to possess. fire arms in texas. the u. s. average is about 10, mast shootings per week. nearly $200.00 mast shootings have happened so far this year. that includes $27.00 school shooting. these kids weren't unlucky. this only happens in this country. nowhere else. nowhere else to little kids go to school thinking that they might be shot that day. the murders of the school

children in new vall day brought this response from presidential bypass. when in god's name, we're going to stand up to the gun mummy. when in god's name, we do, we all know our gut needs to be done. despite polls that show a majority of americans favor tougher gun laws. the efforts to pass national gun legislation have been blocked. time and time again by republicans and a few democrats in congress. with an estimated 390000000 guns owned by civilians in the us and few effective limits on gun ownership, the horror involved day will likely be repeated again and again. rob reynolds al jazeera well let's get more on or this set was she ever times in washington dc and she had, what is it that holds up the change in legislation?

while the what was interesting about biden's speech was actually as opposed to the speech he gave last week in buffalo, he went for a specific skate. great didn't. he talked about the gun lobby. we have to have the backbone to, to confront the gun lobby. and it is true, the national rifle association does have a huge amount of influence in us politics because it has such a act to this bass who will always go to local elections and vote, but also because they have loads of money, even in their bankrupted states. even in their fractured, bankrupted state, which they will use against any one in, in local races and congressional races to attack you that is necessary support candidates. they'll attack you. if, if, if they didn't agree with the acting interest me, is it a tactic them out a pack israel obvious, started, has started using and actually i just, it was interesting going on from that. then the specificity, i just heard of a senior ra democrats on to say, well perhaps we can put this on the ballot in november because that's consensus.

nothing's gonna happen in washington on gun control until the mid terms, at least. so perhaps they could have some say, well, that we'll treat this as a wedge issue. we know they're trying to do that with abortion already and try and sort of get that's that democratic base excised again when they're actually very enthusiastic about biden, because he hasn't, he hasn't followed through with his 1st election promises. so perhaps that, that some element of that, but then you have to wonder immediately them is, is being cynical. they really think change as possible because tonight the democratic primaries to decide who will run in november, a taking place and who is the democratic establishment supporting in texas right now. but one of the few democrats in the house currently who has a great a from the national rifle association and that supporting that person, that man against the progressive challenge, because frankly, they have other priorities. so we have the questions, we'll have to keep an eye on whether what we're hearing now about, okay, this time we're going to do something vote for us in november and we'll do something is truth for even though they failed constantly in the past,

or whether it's a bit cynical or is you have i such ever times, there wasn't a d. c. and so let's take a closer look. now the number of school shootings more than 300000 students in the united states have been exposed to gun violence at school. since the columbine high school shooting in 1999 in the u. s. in 2022 alone. so far that had been 27 separate school shootings with dozens killed or injured. since 2019 there have been a 119 school shootings across the us. they include the shooting in parkland in florida where 17 were shot dead. john is live now from burbank in california is holly dexter. she's an author, community activists in the former co chair of women against gun violence. and she was also on jo biden's gun violence policy committee when he was running for president holly dexter. thank you for joining us. her. her. we have yet another case. children killed young, young children. it's another terrible tragedy isn't. yeah,

i am. i thought i would try to pull myself together and be very professional for this interview, but i am in reached. i am livid because this should not have had to happen. i work the survivors every day. i've been working on this for over a decade. and i have friends that survive columbine, they're in wheelchairs. i have friends whose children were slaughtered in mass shootings. i have spent very sad christmases with them and nothing enough is time for us to act. i'm tired of being polite and am trying. i'm tired of trying to hold it altogether to to be a prim and i'm angry. i'm really angry. you are on biden's gun violence committee when he was running to say, did you hope for more from him i am hoping for more from him. we had a list of what we wanted to see accomplished. sadly,

very little about has gotten done. i know that biden has a great talent for working with members of congress and getting things done. this is time for him to work with schumer and to put these republican members of congress to the test, make them prove that they have a soul. i don't care if the entering comes after them. i mean, you're going to lose a term. is your being reelected, more important than children being murdered? i mean, make them speak up for themselves and show some courage and do the right thing. and i feel like that's where we have to come to, we can't be polite anymore. we've got to call these people out for being st. louis . and not having any courage to stand up to the owner and our a because we know a lot of those republican members that are blocking every gun bill. they know the date that they want more common sense gun measures to pass, but they just won't do it. they won't speak up. what would you a tag? what would you approach for a situation where you have more guns and americans?

how do you take that on? how do you just look for, you know, the 1st thing and i think your last guess was talking about this more than 90 percent of americans want universal background checks. that seems like a no brainer. that's the 1st thing. another thing that we were asking for in biden's gun violence policy committee was for him to open a white house office of gun violence prevention and to appoint a senior administrator and to have gun violence survivors on the panel. and let us advise what can be done in each state. what can be done federally. you know, this was something that we were hoping he was going to come through on. and i and schumer needs to call for a vote again. i mean on background checks, my god, it's the simplest thing. everybody wants it. whatever happens, you always come back to this, this choke hold, that the gun lobby apparently has on congress. but this is how, how do you ease that grip?

you know, i'm kind of sick of here. i feel like we're giving them too much power. i'm signal hearing about how much power the n r a has. you know, the tobacco lobby used to hold that kind of power and we eventually toppled them. you know that they're not unconquerable, there are more of us than there are entering members. there's money in other places i'm tired of hearing like it'll never happen. begun lobby has too strong hold on us . no, i don't accept it. holly dexter grades get your perspective. do appreciate it. thank you very much indeed. well as her now from john la two's president of the crime prevention research center under pro gun advocate, he argues that gun control does not prevent mass killings 94 percent of the mass public shootings that we have in the united states take place in areas where guns are ban these killers and we look at the buffalo shooter from a couple weeks ago or others often explicitly lead messages, explanations for why they picked the target that they did. in the buffalo shooters

case, you said that you wanted to go to a place where he knew the victims would not have permitted concealed handguns because it would make it easier for him to go and do the hair. if you have some people who are armed law abiding citizens who are armed, that makes it rescued for the criminal, going to attack somebody because with concealed handguns, he doesn't know who it is that might be able to go and stop them here. it's a simple question. namely, one place in the world, any place in the world, the band either, all guns are all hand guns and see murder or homicide rates. go down, you can every, every place, every place has gone up. about 90 percent of murders in the united states are committed by people who have adult violent criminal records. these are people who are not, you know, your normal, everyday citizen. if you think you're going to stop criminals from getting guns,

good luck with that. it's difficult to stop criminals from getting guns to stop criminals from getting illegal drugs. members of the un security council, a calling for an independent vesta geishas into the death of alger jenna street. i worked with a body has been meeting to discuss threats to global media, freedom protection of journalists. kristen salumi has that report israel's killing of al jazeera. as she read ob lockley in the occupied west bank. prompted ireland to call this meeting on the protection of journalists at the time of her killing. sharyn was on duty in a blue press, vest, a symbol which denotes civilian status, a symbol that demonstrates to parties to conflict, that journalists are notch, a target. the targeting of journalists in conflict zones is considered a war crime. the committee to protect journalists said no less than 18 have been

killed in the palestinian territories in the last 20 years. in ukraine, 9 journalists have died in the war with russia. but as the experts made clear, 9 out of 10 such crimes are never prosecuted. the failure of states to investigate, prosecute and punish crimes against john. this is not only a denial of justice, it is actually an encouragement to perpetuate the cycle of finance. al jazeera is abdur rahim for kara, promised to pursue all legal options for accountability and zeros. position is crystal clear, shit in a black las life matters. and so does a transparent an independent investigation of her killing and of the serious violation of her funeral by these radio security forces. there are other crystal clear issues for i'm 0 network. one sheeting, a black lout was killed by an israeli bullet. and in cold blood,

while she was doing her job to the network has the evidence and the witnesses to support that position. the murphy, yes other media networks have made the same conclusion that the un security council has condemned the killing of sharina walkway and called for a transparent, impartial investigation. but they haven't supported the palestinian authority's call for an investigation by the international criminal court. essentially leaving accountability in israel's hands. kristen silly me al jazeera, the united nation is still a head here. now the 0 pakistan's government deployed thousands of troops to keep protested, demanding new elections out of the capital. ah, the journey has begun. the faithful world copies on its way to catherine book,

your travel package today, right before the plum rain set in. let's look at the wheat harvest because i was taking place now, which is effectively just south of shanghai and cutting back into central parts of china. we to oversee comes to ripeness far quicker in child than further west. and it's looking like a good harvest in short time at the moment. but the rain is still gathering it's gathering further west is coming along the yank. see, the folks is still further south grand dang. down towards hong kong line that goes into pacific across summer jeffery islands. a line of rain, it's heading towards the korean peninsula. we're leaving behind a warming beijing. we shall go up to about 33. but i'm yet to thursday with the rain become a bit more wide spread at the end of the harvest in southern china. that assassin, that the concentration of big showers tend to wander rounds times year. and it's, it did go back toward sumatra now it's more or less this line here. this is forecasts for 1st i eastern bornea salloway sea and maybe lose on

a bit more southern philippines. but the monsoon rains, what take you, a lot of the energy, the moisture at the atmosphere. this is a line currently that stretches in south is for longer up to me and there are few shower head of it. not as many as they were. it's still hot for the north, but not as hot as it was either. i saw official airline of the journey. join the debate. wonderful as it is, the diplomat of language. it really means nothing on the ground, on air or online at your voice, queen is be removed as out of state because she's done absolutely nothing. what these country white man wears the progress. i haven't seen enough resources due see sports journalist. i look like me. you need to listen to those voice perspective, even when it's hard. it will challenge is some of our foundational thinking. this screen on al jazeera, ah ah,

you're watching our dessert or mind about top stories. this are and 19 young children and 2 adults have been killed in a school shooting in the state of texas. it's the deadliest attack of an american elementary school in almost a decade. texas governor gray gabbert name the suspect as 18 year old salvador ramos, he was shot dead by police. the insecurity counsellors calling for an independent investigation into the death of al jazeera journalist screen. i will actually be meeting to discuss threats to global media. freedom, if you answer special report her has urged the government to do more to protect journalists,

somebody will gave us just 3 days, but we endured 3 brave heroic months. that was the message from president vladimir zalinski as ukraine marked 12 weeks since russia's invasion. some areas are now returning to normal, but fighting his escalates in the east. cholenski is told the world economic form at davos that ukraine needs $5000000000.00 a month to rebuild. the european union has pledged more than $10000000.00 in financial aid to keep ukraine's economy going way. so it is the largest package of micro financial assistance ever conceived by the european union for certain country . other countries, starting with our friends in the united states, are doing their utmost to it is an economic relief operation with no precedent in recent history. while people in ukraine's capital are still confident about winning the war and even reclaiming their loss land our

correspondence embers, robbie found a lot of optimism and keep, despite the death and the destruction the war in ukraine has not gone. as expected, keith was meant to falter russian invaders in a matter of days. 3 months after missiles shells and paratroopers began landing in and around the capital, ukraine is putting the spoils of war on display. morales and anger at russia are now so high. ukrainian say the only acceptable victory will be taking everything back occupied territories in the east even crimea. duck. yeah, if you do, some was really yes, i believe the return of our territories is possible and i think we should not top, i believe there should not be any negotiations about returning to the theme borders we have before the start of this war on, you know, we should get our citizen call me back. this is our so in country and we should defended green there should not be any negotiations with the enemy. these numbers.

i am happy. of course, i believe full stop. i hope that it will be this way. the truth is on our side, we are defending our land. we really want and hope for this to happen. yes, you probably need weapons and then our, our army will, will do everything and we will when i am not to, i'm sure we will get to victory and yes, to really and there was less optimism when all at war came to ukraine on february 24th russian president vladimir putin so called special military operation was the biggest assault on a european states since world war 2. the, you an estimate at least 14000000 people have been displaced so far, at least 6000000 to neighboring countries. when missile ukrainian army base at yahoo is near the border with natal member, poland. it was the furthest russian attack in the west of the country. the siege of

mario pole so violent it wiped the city off the map. leaving little doubt as to how far russia was willing to go to achieve its aims. unable to penetrate ukrainian defences around the capital, rushes withdraw from boucher revealed civilian killings that ukraine described as war crimes, a dramatic victory for ukrainians. the sinking of russia's lead worship in the black sea. russia blamed and on board ammunition explosion. ukrainians claimed it was a missile strike. the invasion did change the map, but not perhaps has put in that hope. finland and sweden applying to join nato stands to more than double the alliances border with russia. just weeks ago, independent square was under locked down and covered and snow. now people line up to buy stamps commemorating a moment in the early days of the war when ukraine, in no uncertain terms, told russia to leave its territory. i hope was that it is

a good weekend that we live in this war and we can survive. so for me, it's a sign that we have a chance for a good future. and you have a message for russia and russian leaders on the board. i'm sorry, i can say, and this is things look very different in the ukrainian capital today. diplomatic missions are reopening. people are returning and ukrainian seemed far more optimistic, all the cautiously than they did at the beginning of this war that the war is not over. russian forces are escalating offensive in ukraine to east re mobilizing forces to battlefields in the south. all indications are conflict with russia is the new normal. and as long as russia controls the skies over their countries, nowhere in ukraine is completely safe. there's is

a future that remains uncertain. the industrial jazeera keys, the jail russian opposition leader likes in the vall name, his cold president vladimir putin, a madman for what he described as a stupid war in ukraine. the valley has been speaking during an appeal against his sentence on corruption charges. the criminal critic says, russia's leaders will burn in hell for creating blood both in ukraine and moscow. court denied about these appealed north korea is suspected to carry out an intercontinental ballistic missile test. japan and south korea to take to the 3 ballistic missiles being fired from soon on towards the sea of japan. so has described the test as the grave provocation. it comes a day after the u. s. president joe biden wrapped up his trip to south korea, and japan mcbride has more on this from take you these. the 3 miss elsewhere detected just after daybreak,

fired from the su 9 area. this is northwest of the capital young gang. it's the location of young young's airport flying east towards the sea that separates the korean peninsula from japan, the national security council of south korea. they convened a meeting straight afterwards as they often do. there's also been a response from the japanese. the japanese defense minister is saying that these are provocations which are completely unacceptable. this is the 17th round of missile launches so far this year. sometimes they have been multiple launches, as with this one today, wednesday. in the past though, we've also seen single miss our launches, i think what concerns the intelligence community here in japan and south korea and in the u. s. is the sophistication of some of these missiles. we've had a submarine launch, ballistic missile type being tested for the 1st time, fired from the water, or the north koreans mastering the technique of launching this also in submarine. also at the end of march,

there was an intercontinental ballistic with the kind of heavy, a missile capable of reaching the continental united states. and the kind of missile that hasn't been fired since 2017, with a warning from defense officials in japan, in south korea. and also in the us that we can probably expect more testing of icbm in the future at the south koreans and the u. s. military have promised greater cooperation in response to all list is now a conservative administration in south korea, including of course, what may be more military exercises, joint exercises. but those are the kinds of things that often anger, north korea, prompting them to launch more missiles. pakistan's government is banned. the plan protest was by answered prime minister and run con. he's demanding new elections. as a political and economic crisis deepens, come hider has more from islam of that. i'm on j avenue way to connect to parliament. and it's, i'm about ready to go and read diplomatic enclave. the foreign ministry parliament,

the supreme court and other white, an installation of faith, god of god, have been handed over to deposit on the military aid of the civilian government. successive governments have guarded upon the army. you're protected white installations whenever they find protested, hey, think what is about even m ron car died during hit daniel. but what did, what do you this time is the fact that there had been a major crackdown by the government offered a prime minister. hes a constant dated meeting of his cabinet. it was decided, dad cameron's mom will not be allowed into his lama bought 22000 security forces. personnel have been deployed from the adjoining provinces as read . the pattern military forces have been forwarded and we have been door dead up to $15000.00 rounds of deer gas has also been brought into the city where that rotate

if that apron 2 and it's about now as you can see the security for that already on red lug and focused on the former prime minister was ousted in ron font address there. don't press on friends in the provincial capital of the time of booking for robin saying that his march will continue on islam abroad as scheduled. and that the government or not, you order the order at the same time, he requested the establishment your stay out of the fray saying that they should remain neutral if they said they are neutral. indeed, men show like a liquid with god's will. i will start marching towards his dom about tomorrow either. and this will be an historic reality if someone wants to stop it to stop us is no one has the courage to stop. people sit alone. interprovincial travel is

already badly disrupted a long road of drug and commute or do i start going dog barriers? the situation is escalating far, but there are deep impact on and already drop the economy by should have had been unable to come to grips with escalation writing of essential commodity. and that means that any pro long confrontation of political instability and budget on will also affect the logistical supply chain. and that report to another drain on driving right of a central food item. to pounds accused china and russia, publication of the military planes flew over the sea of japan. beijing says drills are part of an annual exercise. and tough scramble, jet fighter jets when the warplanes got near the rest base. the 13, our joint control came as japan was hosting the lead to the leaders of the so called, which includes australia, united states,

and india. thousands of photographs to be released, reporting taken in so called weaker re education camps. and china mission giant police files is the known, were linked to researches with the group of victims of communism. they reveal more details about the mast attention of the weakest, as well as this shoot to kill policy for anyone trying to escape. right, groups of accused beijing of crimes against humanity. china says foreign policy trying to sabotage visit by the un human rights commissioner. i tonic symbol of new york city has been taken into retirement. the city has removed his last public pay for him. it's the loss of 7000 phones carried away, replaced by 2000 kiosks, offering free, why fi and device charging final phone booth. now answers its next calling, display the museum at the city of you anymore. websites.