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another mass shooting in the us. a teenage gunman opened fire to school in texas, killing 19 children, and 2 adults. as president joe biden ordered flags to be flown at half month at the country, mourned as deadly as school shooting in a decade. as a nation with wind in gods name. we're going to stand up to the gun lobby. ah laura kyle, this is al jazeera alive from dough, also coming up north korea, 53 ballistic missiles. a day after us present wraps up his trip to asia and calls for an independent investigation and the death of showing up in the un

security council in new york. ah, it's time to turn this pain into action. that's the message from us president joe biden. after 19 young children and 2 adults were killed in a school shooting in texas, they're sold by alone teenage gunman is the deadliest as an american school in a decade. and it's once again prompted calls for great and gun control across the country. rob reynolds has more a shocking act of violence as ripped to get another american town to pieces. an 18 year old gunman stormed in elementary school and vall, day texas tuesday afternoon and opened fire. salvador romeus, an 18 year old male who resided in the valley. it's believed that he abandoned his vehicle and entered into the rob elementary school and you validate with

a hand gun and he may have also had a rifle. as of now, no motive is known for the mass shooting. the 600 children who attended the primary school were aged from 5 or 6 to about 12 years old. at this point in investigation leading to tell us that the suspect did act alone. during this i in this crime the killings come less than 10 days after a gunman who posted racist rants on line killed 10 people at a grocery store in buffalo. new york gun laws in texas are among the least restrictive in the country. there is no minimum age limit for children to possess fire arms in texas, the u. s. average is about 10 mass shootings per week. nearly $200.00 mass shootings have happened so far this year. that includes $27.00 school shooting.

these kids weren't unlucky. this only happens in this country and nowhere else, nowhere else to little kids go to school, thinking that they might be shot that day. the murders of the school children and evolve, they brought this response from presidential by. when in gods name, we're going to stand up to the gun lobby. when in gods name, we do, we all know or got 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 u. s. and few effective limits on gun ownership. the horror in move all day will likely be repeated again and again. rob reynolds al

jazeera. a correspondent chaper tansy has morn out from washington, d. c. he went for a specific scape, crated, and 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 activist base 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 anyone in, in local races, in congressional races to attack you that us every support candidates fail, attack you. if, if, if they don't agree with you, actually, again, it's a tactic the now a packing is ready, lobbyist, stuff that has started using and actually i just, it was interesting going on from that and the specificity, i just heard of a senior democrats to say, well, perhaps we can put this on the ballot in november because that's consensus.

nothing's gonna happen in washington, another gun control until the mid terms, at least. so perhaps they got us. i'd say, well, that we'll treat this is a wedge issue. we know they're trying to do that with abortion already and trying to sort of get about that democratic base excise again when they're actually very enthusiastic about buying the house. and he hasn't followed through with his 1st election promises. so perhaps that some of them do that, but then you have to wonder immediately them is this being silicone, they really think change as possible because tonight at the democratic primaries to decide who will run in november. let's take a closer look now at school shootings in the us. more than 300000 students in america have been exposed to gun violence at school since the columbine high school shooting in 1901909 in the u. s. in this year. 2022 that have so far been 27 separate school shootings with dozens killed or injured to 2018. and with a 119 school shootings across the us. they include the shooting and parker and

florida with 17 was shot dead. joining us now from orlando in florida is maxwell frost. he's a candidate for us congress and a gun violence prevention activists. thanks very much for being with us festival. your response to this tragic event? well, it is. it is a hard day for folks in this country because time and time and again, our leaders, you know, it's like a cycle, but it happens all the time. the shootings happen, our leaders give us thoughts and prayers and then nothing happens in the way of action. i mean, i found out about this shooting while i was pulling up to a school board protests because our governors trying to ban books from our schools . when there's folks die. there's 100 people that die a day due to gun violence in this country. and people have had enough of the killing on the senseless violence. and another politician who give lip service when something's on the news, but don't say anything after my heart is with families and with the same with the

survivors. and we have to get something done. we have to get us present biden's saying it's time to turn this pain into action. do you feel that this is stronger restaurant than we've seen in the past? you think, excuse me, to think he might actually take some of that action now. that's the hope. and there are things that president i didn't could do tomorrow through executive action to help push the on look for. but it's not just on president vine and it's on him and also in the united states congress and also on every municipality in this country. and every county commission in this country and every state legislature, we need all hands on to figure out number one, what solutions make sense for communities, implement those solutions and ensure that we're getting to a place where we don't lose 100 people a day to, to come by and i believe that the public outcry has been continuing to increase ever since parkland ever since. just last week with buffalo and i believe we will

have to change it. we've heard that the gun that lobby, that the and all right, that it attacks candidates, congressional candidates who campaign against guns. you'll. so if you're running for congress on you, have you experience any of these attacks? i haven't, i'm running in a very blue area, orlando, florida. it's unlike a lot of other places in florida, but i have been subject to attack from folks from the n r a and even people from white supremacist groups. i mean, i remember just in 2019, when i worked for march for our lives myself and 12 other students went to the virginia capital to advocate for safety laws. and guess what? we were met with death threats from tons of folks who came to do arms protest, so we had to leave overnight in the capital. the day before i'm talking to 1816 year olds. we had asleep overnight in the capital, fearing for safety. this is the type of rhetoric that the right and the n r ray is pushing, and they bear some responsibility for

a lot of this violence as well. why do you think the n r a is so adamant on maintaining this u. s. right to own a gun, what is it about that that they can't let go of? well, i think a lot of that has to do with the culture and a lot of it has to do with the political power that we we know that the n r a is in the business of intimidating people and using fear mongering to push politicians to be, have a specific stance, and let's be clear to, there's no democrats in congress saying we need to go door to door and take everybody's gun. however, that generate tells its members, we believe we do believe that there is a 2nd. of course, people have the right to protect themselves, but what people don't have the right to do is walk into an elementary school and murder, children, and teachers. and so what we have to do is as not just democrats, but as people in this country is fight back against these lies and let people know that we have real tangible solutions. yes,

some of them have to do with the regulation of guns. yes. other ones have to do with getting money directly into what's called community violence intervention. so we can stop violence before it happens. yes, mental health is a piece of that too. we have to look at this problem holistically. we're going to end it because again, we lose a 100 lives a day. and i think a lot of times we're having these mass shootings, it's easy to just kind of think about these numbers and forget about the people behind every or there's a human being. and we have to make sure that no one forgets that. yeah, it's a shocking number of people at maxwell, frost. thank you very much. taking the time to join us here on out to 0. thank you for that's. that's another news now. and north korea is suspected of carrying out a long range intercontinental ballistic missile test. the 2nd time this yeah. japan and south korea detective 3 ballistic missiles bang, fired from soon on towards the sea of japan. 2 of them were thought to be short range. so has described the test as a great publication. and it comes

a day off to you as president joe biden wraps up his trip to south korea and japan . but mcbride has more on this from take care. 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 a 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 missed 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 loans,

ballistic missile type being tested for the 1st time, fired from the water. so the north koreans are mastering the technique of launching this else in submarine. also at the end of march, there was an intercontinental ballistic missile, 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 and 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, maybe more military exercises, joint exercises. but those are the kinds of things that often anger, north korea, prompting them to launch more. missiles still had her on algebra. 3 months after russia invaded ukraine, fighting rage is on the east, but morale is still high in the capital. and the pressure is back on morris johnson

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spread from the well, the canadian border right down to the gulf. it's going to move slowly eastward, once again. denver, which is if you like, face it gives you the code is warming up nicely to a point where you get to 32 by friday records. 35 and your average is 22, your 10 above average. so the cold really isn't as cold as it was in the sun is really doing its work here. this is thursdays picture radish jumps. are the big showers here? well, they're all that many, to be honest with the feet of moisture tense, produced them in this line. across the us was so costa rica, maybe panama nicaragua, maybe honduras, and on the pacific coast of mexico's looking what is gain as well in columbia potentially heavy rain, but in brazil, pretty dry official airline of the journey with the ocean with witness differences, change witnesses, happiness with sunlight witness de la last witness.

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present. joe biden has ordered flags to be flown at half month after the shooting in texas. i didnt plead for action to address garden violence, saving manufacturers under supporters. blocking legislation in washington and north career is suspected of carrying off men's confidential ballistic missiles. has japan on south grid? detective 3 ballistic missiles being fired from strand on towards the sea of japan . pillars described the test as a grave provocation. members of the un security council are calling for an independent investigation and the death of al jazeera journalist showing a black it's been meeting to discuss threats to global media. freedom and the protection of journalists. christian salumi has this report. what israel's killing of al jazeera, serene of lockley in the occupied west bank, prompted ireland to call this meeting on the protection of journalists at the time

of her killing. sharina 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 not a target. the targeting of unless 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 violence. al jazeera is abdur rahim for kara, promised to pursue all legal options for accountability and diseases. position is crystal clear. shaheen black, las life matters. and so does

a transparent an independent investigation of her killing and of the serious violation of her funeral by the israeli 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 in 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. kristin folemi al jazeera,

the united nations some people gave us just 3 days, but we enjoyed 3 brave heroic months. that was the message from president vladimir zalinski as ukraine monk, 12 weeks since rushes invasion, some errors and now returning to normal. but fighting is escalating in the east. the landscape told the world economic forum, a devil's that you quoted me. $5000000000.00 a month to rebuild. the european union has pledged more than $10000000000.00 in financial aid to keep your queen's economy going. it is the largest package of micro financial assistance ever conceived by the european union also to country. other countries starting with our friends in the united states doing that at most to it is an economic relief operation with no

precedent in recent history hungry, its prime minister, had declared a state of emergency citing the war in ukraine. victor albany said he needed to enact the powers to lot of cabinets, respond quickly in the event of any challenges and move caves, all of our great powers to approve measures faster. bypassing usual procedures is used emergency powers twice before once during over 19. and another time to deal with migration of the log in the office of the world is on the brink. economic crisis hungry must stay at this war, and it must protect families, financial security. this re cause room to maneuver and to take immediate action, the government, exercising its right under the basic law or declare a war emergency from midnight we introduced a similar emergency situation to fight the pandemic. this allows the government direct immediately. i know situations protect hungry and non gary and families

are the mosque as to james base has more from the world economic forum in double. this is something that we'd had heard talked about, but still comes i think is a bit of a surprise hungry already a somewhat controversial nation in the european club. because there's, you know, there's been real unity among the you on those sanctions. if you compare it to the start of the war, i don't think anyone it expected than the level of sanctions the you would put in place. they had probably packages of sanctions. they've all agreed that now trying to negotiate the sick. and that's where the problem is arisen. they've been all ban this was a call about for hungry, hungry is still objective. and i think people are wondering is that because hungry is so concerned about this package of sanctions, or is it that mr. all band was somewhat constrained by the elections in his country, and now he's going back to being the most favored leader of putin in the european

union club. will neighboring countries have real concerns about what's going on in ukraine? clearly economic affects across the region. and remember how many refugees have been taken in by those countries in the immediate neighborhood. all people in ukraine's capital are still confident about winning the war and even reclaiming the last land correspondence saying best. robbie found a lot of optimism in keith despite the death and destruction the war in ukraine has not gone as expected. keith was meant to fall to 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 said the only acceptable victory will be taking everything back occupied territories in the east even crimea. duck. yeah,

if you do some was we will. yes, i believe the return of our territories is possible, and i think we should not stop. 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. reason of ours . 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 week, terry. and yes, you will, when 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 state 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 had a ukrainian army base at yahoo as near the border with nato member, poland, it was the furthest russian attack in the west of the country. the siege of mario poor 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 rushes 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 was the weekend when 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 anderson. i think the 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's east re mobilizing forces to battle fields 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 is a future that remains uncertain. then disrupting al jazeera keys. thousands of photographs have been released proportionally taken in so called week reeducation camps and china, shin jang police files of the known relief to research with the groups of the group victims of communism rights groups have accused beijing of crimes against humanity . china says foreign powers are trying to sabotage a visit by you and human rights commission. i michel, michele, but your lead age, and then the is from the victims of communism. memorial foundation, i was sent the trove of data by an anonymous source. he says the material is very

revealing and links right to the top of china's power structure where we have him different types of documents. we have speeches by sion, jones, former party secretary chandler, who said that if anyone seeks to escape in the context he spoke of when they're being arrested should kill, you're authorized to do so. and the local police fire to say it at the police authorities in the camps. if trainees seek to escape, then the police can fire wanting shot can. they're not required to apparently and, and if they did any continues to escape. they are to shoot to kill. that's the chinese what very significant findings are, how to fire asleep. she jumping himself to the atrocity even much more so than before. she didn't pick was closely informed, not only about the mass and tournaments which proceeded according to

a 5 year plan agreed between beijing and the local region. and also he knew that the camps were overcrowded, and then he ordered officials to make resources available for more prison guards for more police guards for expanding camps and building new camps. and obviously also incredible are the images, especially of the police drills. new pictures have emerged showing new k prime minister boys johnson drinking at leaving party at the height of the current of virus, locked them. images published by u. k. media renewed accusations. johnson knowingly broke his own rules. he was fined by police for attending another gathering. during the hall has moved from london, it was only last week when there was reported to be palpable relief in downing street when they heard that the metropolitan police inquiry was over into these rules breaches during lockdown. the prime minister had only received one fine out of $126.00,

handed out altogether that had been expectations he might receive more than one final, but that might have tipped the scales among tory and looking to unseat him. these photographs that show bodies, johnson holding a wine glass up in an apparent toast to a departing senior staff member of the people in the picture as well as a table littered with alcohol bottles. it is not the image that number 10 downing street would have wanted to see pasted across the nation's media. defenders have said look at the police, have seen this evidence. they deemed non criminal. but there are now questions, of course, about the nature of that police inquiry. why didn't he receive a fine for attending this event when others who did apparently did receive fine. they've been calls more calls the resignation for the opposition, of course, and uproar on social media uncovered survivors. so public opinion is not good on this. the rather wait, the question is, does this constitute evidence that he misled m. p. 's in parliament when he spoke.