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2 anger and grief in the us after a gunman kills 19 children and 2 teachers at a primary school in texas. ah, hello, i'm fully back to boy. you're watching al jazeera alive from doha, also coming up. failure of leadership escaping report is released in the u. k. on violations of crone of iceland, convolt by the prime minister and others. vladimir putin offers passports to people in russian controlled parts of ukraine as the war rages in the east. and the gambia is to prosecute former president via jamie and his allies for crimes committed during his rule.

ah, young students and their families are getting grief counseling after the worst my shoe shooting in the us in a decade 19 primary age children from the same class in 2 teachers have been killed in the town of valentine, texas. but he say the attacker barricaded himself in the classroom and shot at people indiscriminately. he is later killed by police. rob reynolds begins, are coverage with this report. ah, a shocking act of violence as ripped, yet another american town into pieces. an 18 year old gunman stormed an elementary school. and while they texas tuesday afternoon and opened fire. as the news spread frantic, parents waited to find out if their children were safe on. nobody's telling me anything. always telling me make telling me anything. and one of the parents were

saying that there's kids possibly held at the funeral, and that's what brought me over here to find out what's going on. the unthinkable details began to emerge salvador or romeus, an 18 year old male who resided in you. valley is believed that he abandoned his vehicle and entered into the rob elementary school in new valley with a hand gun. any may have also had a rifle. as of now, no motive is known for the man shooting the 600 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 suspect did act alone. during this paying this crime, the killings come less than 10 days after a gunman who posted racist rants 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 is no minimum age limit for children to possess fire arms in texas, the u. s. averages about 10 man shootings per week. nearly $200.00 mast shootings have happened so far this year. that includes $27.00 school shootings. 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 god's 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. this confuse in word and i'm trying to find out where my babies and with an estimated 390000000 guns owned by civilians in the us and few effective limits on gun ownership. the horror in new vol day will likely be repeated again. and again, rob reynolds al jazeera, so gun control laws under scrutiny. again, let's bring in our white house correspondent, kimberly, how can, kimberly, we heard present biden on tuesday, plead for congress to do something on gun laws. how likely is it that they'll do something about this? well, the right to bear arms is entrenched in the u. s. constitution, and at least are roughly 50 percent of the country. largely conservatives, largely, republicans hold this very dear. it's known as the 2nd amendment,

and many in congress really fight any sort of effort to restrict gun ownership of any form or fashion. even some of the most minor laws, fearing that this is a gateway to taking fire, arms away. and so as a result, there is a real effort to resist any form of gun control in any form or fashion. now what we saw in the last 24 hours is senator chris murphy. oh, represents the state of connecticut where we saw back in 2012 another horrific tragedy in newtown, connecticut at the sandy hook elementary school, where again, we saw childrens slaughtered killed by gun violence and begging his colleagues to find some sort of compromise. but again, there is little hope that this might change, given the fact that we saw

a similar number of children, gun down and no tangible action. so many people fearful that this is going to be a similar experience. the u. s. president, for his part calling and pleading for change and we should point out one of the things he campaigned on is to bring back the ban on assault rifles. something that he did successfully as a senator back in 1994 that did last for 10 years. it expired. i. it's a campaign promise that he's working to try and bring that back. but again, there needs to be the appetite in congress and right now, not many have seen that the n r a. kimberly the biggest you as gun lobbies holding its convention in texas later this week. how do we expect them to respond to this latest shooting? well so far and there's been notable silence and one might expect that this would be an opportunity for them to respond. this convention is taking place in texas not far from where this tragedy has occurred. and we should also point out in

attendance will be the texas governor as well as ted cruz, the senator who represents the state and for president donald trump all who are very much in support of the national rifle association and the gun lobby itself. so that will be watching carefully to see whether or not they do respond to this tragedy. how they will defend the, the argument that there is not a need to at least put a limit on these high capacity weapons that are behind. so many of these tragedies in the united states, in the midst of all of this, we're also watching, as there continues to be an effort to push back by this lobby against president biden's appointee to had the body that overseas done regulation in the united states. and that is the a t f for the alcohol, tobacco and firearms bureau. there hasn't been ahead of this since 2015. given the

fact that this very powerful lobby has been pushing back on all of these appointees since then. and one other point that we should say very quickly, folly is the fact that we expect that we may hear more from you as president joe biden, on all of this. he will be speaking again later today in the coming hours. he does have a schedule on his calendar. c in the coming hours or he'll be talking about police for form, but we expect that he may also address this tragedy once again. kimberly, thank you very much for that. senior leaders in british, from his voice. johnston's officer being blamed for a legal parties at the height of corona virus long towns. this comes after several 7, so grace steady, 7 page reporting to what's known as potty gate. johnson has told parliament he takes full responsibility for the parties that happened under his watch. i briefly attended such gatherings to thank them for the service, which i believe is one of the essential duties of leadership. i particularly,

i am particularly important when people need to feel that their contributions have been appreciated and to keep her all as high as possible. i'm trying to explain the reasons i reside with the speaker, and it's clear from what su grey has had to say. but some of these gatherings then went on far longer than was necessary, and they were clearly in breach of the rules and they felt follow through at report lay spare the wrought food under this primus has spread in number 10 on it provides definitive proof of how those within the building treated the sacrifices of the british people with utter contempt. yeah. when the dust settles, the anger subsides. this report will start as a body amount to the hubris,

an arrogance of a government yet, but believe it was rotten, we'll put them in another roll for everyone out loud to you in a hole in london. jonah, tell us more about what happened in parliament today. and this report that was long awaited while bar stilton has made the 1st apology of the day, not his 1st since this saga broke in november last year, of course. but his 1st of the day to m. p. 's in the house of commons. you heard him speaking that very shortly he will give an account of himself to the public and apologize to them again in a press conference and later on he will speak to and peace in his own party. and of course, he's worried about them. he'll be trying to dissuade them from moving against him from triggering a potential leadership contest. but in that statement he made in the house of commons. the you heard a little bit about, they took full responsibility for everything that has happened on his watch. he

said he was humbled by the findings of the su great report and that he learned lessons from the last 6 months and made changes in the way that the downing street machine is operated and managed. he said, you heard in that, in his opinion, at the time his presence, that those events that he was present, that briefly, one of which owned him a fine by the metropolitan police, of course, had in his view, been at the time necessary work related and within the rules and opportunity for him to thank and rewards staff for the long i was they were putting in during the coven pandemic. what happened afterwards? he said, was appalling. but he wasn't aware of because he wasn't there kissed armor, of course, firing back, saying this is a question of trust that the great report would be monuments, as you heard him say, to the hubris and arrogance of a government that there was one rule for them and one rule from the rest of us, other opposition leaders talked about the fish rotting from the head down to the su . great report itself. well, not much, but he's getting the brand new. a lot of the contents of the remote has over time

be leaked and easy in the public domain, but she again said that they've been failures of leadership and judgment in number 10 in the cabinet office over events that simply should not have been allowed to happen she didn't didn't point the finger directly at the prime minister, not by name certainly. but she said the senior leadership at the center, both political and official, must bear responsibility for the culture, a culture of excessive drinking and partying in downing street. how damaging could this be for boys johnson, john the hope will be, as i say, because of leaks over recent months because of a police investigation that has intervene because of photographs that will leak just on monday this week. indeed, showing boris johnson holding up a glass of wine at the leaving do for one of his senior employees. the hope will be that much of the sting has come out of the sou gray report and that work can go on

and that people will have had the opportunity to vent their outrage, the one constituency feel, worry about his own. m. p. 's as a say, he's addressing them to not feel hope that he can dissuade them from sending in any more letters of no confidence in him. that might eventually trigger a leadership contest is fair to say that he's a contest he could win. of course, the real outstanding threat devoris johnson is a pending investigation in parliament over whether he lied to m p. 's when he said that been no parties and no rule breaking at all. if all of this accumulated evidence is taken by the committee, investigate, investigating him to, to be evidence that he did lie. well, that is a crime, an offense for which it is widely conceited. a prime minister ought to reside john hall in london. thank you. the the

kremlin has made it easier for residents of rush, unoccupied parts of ukraine to gain russian citizenship present. vladimir putin issued the decree on wednesday. it offers fast track citizenship to people in case on ends operation. the options been available in russian controlled areas of don't yet can hans since 2019 live to dr. jabari in moscow door. so what does this decree mean at this point of the war in ukraine? well it means that has nearly a 1000000 people that are low used to live in the areas of course on ends up alicia in ukraine are now eligible to receive a russian passport within the next 3 months. according to this decree that has just come into effect at this is an indication of what the russian government would like to see happen. providing an opportunity for those residents that are left still after the fighting in those regions to really become part of the russian federation

. and really strengthen their, the narrative here about why at vladimir putin decided to launch the so called special military operation just over 90 days ago. it's an indication of how things will unfold in various other regions as well as far as we understand that according to the russian defense ministry at the region, the southern region of south risha in ukraine is now about 65 percent in control of russian forces. anna, her song, which was one of the 1st areas to fall into russian and military's hands at since the start of the operation is also home to just over $300000.00 people and they're providing opportunities for the residence to really move forward. it's an indication of how things will develop in various other parts of ukraine that will fall into russian hands. we also saw images from her song today of officials handing out special and social assistance in the form of cash handouts and

$10000.00 roubles to each person who came and lined up to receive it. of course, her son was one of the 1st regions as of monday to establish the currency of the rubel, the russian currency ruble, as well as the russian language, is one of the official languages in that region. we've also been hearing from the regional a governments in her son, and they say that they are now in the process of facilitating issues. the visa, rather the passports of a for russian citizens that will become, that will be signing up to join the russian federation. this is really what things will look like down the line where russia will take territories in ukraine door. so thank you dosage. barry live in moscow. ukraine's presence says russia is trying to destroy everything in the eastern dumbass, reaching out to me as a landscape urging the west to keep up a regular supply of heavy weapons to keep back

a defence may 3 says there is no deadline for the fighting and will continue until its goals are achieved. that is not done. my sister lives here. the situation and dumbasses extremely difficult out of all russian might, is now concentrated on this region. the goal, layman, persona, siv road on yet school of the answer of them. the occupiers want to destroy everything there, but in their communication intercepts we clearly hear that they realize that this war has no sense for them. that strategically they are. army has no chance of victory yet, it requires time and a lot of unprecedented if it, from our people to overcome their advantage in the amount of military equipment and armaments still ahead on al jazeera, a show of force have a u. s. and south korea have reacted to the latest miss out in north korea and high security in islamabad, support as a form of pakistani prime minister iran con, march to the capitol, demanding new elections. ah,

there was a monsoon rain falling heavily at me and mom is increased the likelihood of big downpours, further east in thailand, in cambodia, laos, and viet now. and that certainly in the forecast, there's also likely to be from this line northwards pre heavy shouting bornea, eastern jaren's solar waste, which means you've got another day off in sumatra. and as far south as singapore crow lumper, that most of the southern thailand and north of that the seas moraine showing itself up. this is what you would call the plum range looks bit disorganized. there's this line through here which is growing in southern china and sort of inducing a bit of rain to hung shoe as well, which is good news. east was given, took care were wet day. the same time that party china's not wet is enjoying the sunshine too much of it is quite hot in shanghai,

certainly quite hot in beijing. and this is the harvest is taking place of which the moment you speak, celebrated nick. it's ripening this year, largely because we've had more than one of these periods of hope. sunny weather. now here is the monsoon, where you might ask, well, it's really more or less this sort of line here hasn't really affected mainland india very much. there are few showers going on in land, but the north is more affected now by hot and dusty conditions. ah, with join the debate, wonderful as it is, the plan matic language. it really means nothing on the ground on it or online at your voice. the queen is be removed as head of state because she's done absolutely nothing. what these country white man wears the progress. i haven't seen enough racialize. do you see sports journalist i look like me, you need to listen to those voice perspective even when it's hard. it challenges

some of our foundational thinking. this screen on al jazeera lou. ah, you're watching al jazeera alive from doha reminder of our top stories. a gunman has killed 19 primary school children from the same class, and 2 teachers in the us state of texas that happened in the city of avante, near san antonio. and the attack as reunited calls with gun control across the nation. boys johnson says he takes responsibility for several parties under his wash truck bridge. the u. k. corona virus locked don roles. the opposition says the prime minister showed complete contempt for the british people and ukraine's

president says russia is trying to destroy everything in the eastern dumbass region . marsha, the defense minister says there is no deadline for the fighting, and it will continue until it's cold. so i changed turkey's foreign minister says a normalization of ties between anchor and israel will, how bring a solution to these really palestinian conflict? madeline kashal blue is the western jerusalem is in western florida. as the 2 nations were 2 men strained. relations is the 1st senior turkish official to visit in more than 15 years. his promise continued support for palestinians, while meeting president mahmoud abbas on to see that has been new evidence to support witness accounts of how all jazeera journalist marine k was shot dead. according to a c in an investigation, she was killed in a targeted attack by israeli forces. the report says there was no active combat or any palestinian fighters near barclays location. the us base news channel comb

through 11 videos of the scene showing is a military convoy from different angles before during and after she was shot, 8 witnesses, an audio and explosive weapons expert backed up. the findings are members of the un security council accounting for an independent investigation into sharina. beth. it's a meeting to discuss threats, the global media freedom, and the protection of journalists. christian salome reports from the un. what israel's killing of al jazeera, serene ob lockley and 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 violence. al jazeera is abdur rahim for kara, promised to pursue all legal options for accountability. as a 0 position is crystal clear. shitty and r block las life matters. and so does a transparent an independent investigation of her killing and of the serious violation of her funeral by these rated 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 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. christian salumi al jazeera, the united nations, the gambia says it's ready to prosecute former president. d'ye jeremy and other officials involved in crimes under his rule, a truth commission investigated atrocities committed between 19942017. the government accepted all but 2 of the 265 recommendations. at least 10 members of the security forces have been charged with murder disappearances,

and torture on the dresses in banjo. with more, a lot of recommendations were made by the t r. c or the truth reconciliation repression, commission. 256 recommendations were med. i'm out of those 456. the minister of justice had only to what rejected. one of them, of course, was the banning and the trial or prosecution of foreign just walking in the can be under for my lead i a job then jump gumby was looking for our judicial offices and they had to go to sucking countries to get some judges with expertise in the judicial system who's subbed under jamie, those were the ones who recommended for ban for being banned from the gumby, also being prosecuted. not the government rejected. however, victims survivors, victim families, activities, diplomats, and everybody came here this morning with expectations that they will be

disappointed at the end of the day. however, i spoke to one lady whose father, by the way, she's nice to for my president, jeremy, how father and his sister disappeared was forcibly taken from their homes. and nothing has been heard from them since 2005. and i asked him what tom feeling about the government wide paper. she said she was really shocked. she came expecting disappointment. but what she says is that they want to see these recommendations for these plan of action being put into action by the government of the can be so that people will find closure flaws. she said it's very difficult. at least 200 people have been killed in camino violence in northern chad and the fighting between the comma tribe. and our miners happened in a town close to the border with libya. the area is rich in golden. witnesses say, members of the tama community stole from the prospectors, additional security has been dispatched to the region. an overcrowded migraine boat

has sunk off the coast of tenicia. at least one person is known to have drawn in 75 . others are missing. 25 were rescued. the vessel capsized off the city of fox after leaving the ira in libya to pakistan. now where former prime minister in non con, has called on his supporters to stage a city in islamic bar to demand new elections can arrive in the shower and he's expected to march into his drama bond with his supporters. but the government has banked roads leading into the capital and deploy thousands of security personnel. iran con was removed from office after no confident thoughts last month. i correspondent command hider is in his rama body. and he said, obstacles have been billed to slow the protesters to go to dick. streamline, died and die. a section of islam abad. the red. don't all shaded all the more debate have been shaved off. m. ron honda has been speaking to tens of thousands of people. we adored that. what 2500 wake,

conway is heading. and we're also told that the people gather dead are going to be crossing and do the pun. job proven dead at a board, kill, got food and many on job hit days between the police. despite the fact that the buckets i knew, constitution allowed for peace voted, protest. richard appointed a mentor, right of the citizens. but the government came, panic ended over reacting despite the fact that they were court ordered not to are . they still had raj, what goods we saw as judge and political workers being judged outside our office. members of congress in the philippines have confirmed 39 marco's junior as the next president. bong bong, as is widely known, succeed president rodrigo to tattoo after winning the recent election by landslide is a son of a former president of many regarded as a dictator. the latest may find launches by north korea have been followed by south

korean and us soldiers doing lie fire drills. they started in hours after president joe biden flew home after meeting half create a new president. young. so at the weekend, both agreed to hold launcher, military exercises. and normally how to regulate those drills from north korea? follow north korea, firing 3 misses. one of them. i need to continental ballistic miss japan and south korea detective and being fired from soon on towards the sea of japan. south korea is government described to miss ontario says a grave provocation. person she jane paying has defended china's record to the un high commissioner for human rights. michelle bosh lays on a 60 visit to china. it coincides with the leaking of thousands of photographs, reportedly showing wiggle people in so called reeducation camps and shoot to kill orders from for escape attempts. china has repeatedly denied detaining a 1000000.