this is bbc news. i'm rich preston. our top stories: more details have emerged from the school shooting in uvalde texas. students repeatedly called 911 pleading for help, as more than a dozen officers waited in the school's hallways for nearly an hour before entering the classroom. from the benefit of hindsight, where i'm sitting now, of course, it was not the right decision — it was the wrong decision. period. there is no — no excuse for that. protesters gather outside the annual meeting of 21 dad, and you will smile and laugh? — 21 dad, and you will smile and laugh? have you got grandchildren? protesters gather outside the annual meeting of the national rifle association, in texas — as the convention continues inside. moscow's advance continues, as russian—backed separatists claim they've captured a strategic town in north—eastern

donbas. latin america reports its first case of monkeypox, as the world health organization warns the number of infections will continue to rise. to her majesty, tuck in. cheers! and, a feast fit for a queen. preparations are in full swing, for the platinumjubilee. hello, welcome to the programme. we began in the united states. police in texas say it was the wrong decision to delay entering the classroom in a school in the city of uvalde, where 21 people were killed by a gunman on tuesday. it took 53 minutes for armed police to eventually go in. as local people come to terms with tragedy, grief is turning into anger. here's our north america editor, sarah smith.

terrified students were rescued from the school while the gunman was still in one of the classrooms. the children trapped inside were desperately calling 911 for help. one young girl called back four times, telling the operator, "some of the students are still alive" and pleading, "please send the police now". authorities now have to explain why there was not a much faster response. we're here to report the facts as we know them now, not to defend what was done or to criticise what was done or the actions taken. it took well over an hour before the gunman was shot. at 11:33am, he entered the school and started shooting, firing at least 100 rounds. at 11:35am, the first police officers entered the school. two minutes later, more shots are fired. by 12:03pm, there were up to 19 officers in the hallway outside the classroom. they do not try to enter.

at 12:15pm, the border patrol tactical team started to arrive. minutes later, the gunman fires again. it is not until 12:50 that the keys are found to open the classroom door and the gunman is shot dead. the police knew there were children, alive, trapped inside the classroom, but waited over an hour before going in. hey, from the benefit of hindsight, where i'm sitting now, of course, it wasn't the right decision — it was the wrong decision, period. there's no — no excuse for that. but, again, i wasn't there. but i'm just telling you from what we know, we believe there should've been an entry at that — as soon as you can. hey, when there's an active shooter, the rules change. protesters are out in force in houston because the powerful pro—gun lobby, the nra, are hosting a huge convention here, today, less than 300 miles from uvalde. the elementary school massacre has not stopped them, not even briefly, from passionately defending their right to own weapons.

all chant: nra, go away! angry protesters outside are demanding new laws to restrict ownership. do you understand why people are now calling for tighter gun control? i can understand it. there's a lot of evil people out there. i think we need to control crime. if evil people didn't have access to semi—automatic weapons, they wouldn't be able to conduct massacres inside schools. that's one way to look at it. what's another way to look at it? control crime. if you have personnel who want to be trained, they can be trained in weapons safety, they can be armed, then you're gonna restrict the access of any crazy nut that decides to come in. it's not the weapon, it's the nut that's got the weapon. it's because the nut has a weapon that he's able to go and kill the people. but — but — but why don't you protect the schools? you say that the schools are gun—free. so are your churches. how many church shootings have we had because they're supposedly gun—free?

all chant: protect our kids! children, some of them the same age as the kids killed in uvalde, say they want to feel safe in their schools. but protests like this will not persuade the gun lobby to agree to any changes in the laws governing gun ownership. sarah smith, bbc news, houston, texas. javed ali previously held senior positions at the department of homeland security and the fbi where he dealt with a number of security threats faced by the us. previously we spoke, i asked whether he felt the law enforcement officers who failed to react quickly should face penalties. a harrowing set of facts that were laid out at the press conference earlier today, and there will have to be a reckoning, going forward, in terms of the accountability for the strategic decisions that were made, the tactical ones that were made — whether that means people will lose theirjobs, there will be some administrative

penalties. i also have to suspect families will be behind civil lawsuits as well. so there will be consequences for the lack of action, unfortunately. there are federal training programmes available to law enforcement, there are guidelines set out for dealing with incidents like this, why weren't these followed? and that's another one of these deeply troubling questions that we don't have the clear answers to. and when i was on the programme last night, i tried to explain that over the past 25 years — almost 25 years since the columbine attack in 1999 and after 9/11, because of terrorism threats, that there have been a number of federal programmes, first sponsored by the fbi, then dhs — and i worked in both organisations to train and provide standards and guidance to law enforcement across the united states. and thousands and thousands of officers have received that training in hundreds of departments, but it's still up to people at an individual level to implement the training

and follow the guidelines and standards that have been delivered to them and, in this case, tragically, doesn't look like that happened. the investigation that follows will be a criminal investigation, but there never seems to be any sort of public enquiry as to how these kinds of things happen and what we can learn from them. well, one idea that a colleague of mine and i are working on right now in an opinion piece is to potentially think of, or get some attention behind, the potential for an organisation that looks like the national transportation safety board, which investigates accidents with transportation in the united states. we think it's now time to develop something similar — at least at the federal government level — that looks at these massive shooting events and can take a step back independently and assess what happened, what went wrong, and what fixes and measures need to be put in place going forward to prevent those same incidents from happening again. that obviously doesn't

exist right now. let's get some of the day's other news. greece has protested to iran over what it called the "violent seizure" of two greek—flagged vessels in the gulf by iranian forces. the move appears to be in direct response to the temporary seizure by greece of a russian—flagged ship carrying iranian oil on suspicion that it had breached eu sanctions over ukraine. beijing says the united states is trying to smear china by accusing it of being the most serious long—term the us secretary of state antony blinken has said he's optimistic finland and sweden could join nato in time for the alliance's summit in the spanish capital, madrid, at the end ofjune. following talks with his finnish counterpart, mr blinken expressed confidence that turkey's objections to the two nordic countries joining nato could be resolved swiftly. russia's finance minister has given an indication of the huge financial cost of the war in ukraine to his country. anton siluanov said around eight trillion roubles had been spent to support the russian

economy so far — that's roughly $123 billion usd. financial reserves, known as the russian national wealth fund, are now being used with the russian economy struggling under the effect of western sanctions. meanwhile, the fighting continues, centred on donbas. russian—backed separatist leaders in eastern ukraine say they've captured the town of lyman — a town on the road to the ukrainian city of slovyansk, which is a key russian target as moscow tries to take full control of the donbas. there's no way of verifying the claim. ukraine's president volodymyr zelensky has accused moscow of being intent on reducing cities in the east to ashes and that the russian offensive could leave the donbas region uninhabited. earlier, i spoke to michael 0'hanlon, seniorfellow at the brookings institution. i asked him for his assessment of russia's position. in the grand scheme of things, russia has done very badly but tactically, i think they are gaining a town here, a town there, ukraine gains one back.

the bottom line is this is sort of starting to resemble old—fashioned trench warfare in many ways. but i think that, unfortunately, russia may have the slight upper hand because it has the preponderance of force and so, any hope that ukraine can somehow reverse the gains and take back its own territory, essentially defeat russia in a decisive and definitive way, i think is pie in the sky, so unfortunately, we are settling into a period where both sides will see how much land they can take based on artillery shelling and brute force. and it is likely to be a spring and summer of a lot more dying and probably not a lot more movement of frontlines. i think we have to accept the reality that ukraine has done incredibly well so far, but there is no obvious prospect for how they win this war. and so, we have to start thinking about the next stage of strategy. there has been talk of the us providing long—range rockets to ukraine. right.

what do we know about that and what would they do to ukraine, having the upper hand? it will help because these long—range rockets actually now have terminal munitions that can be guided to their target. you can actually fire an artillery round 20 miles away and have it hit a tank, but only if you know where the tank is and only if the tank does not move or is not camouflaged. and so, with 100 of these kind of systems, or 150 or 200, i think it will help some of the ukrainian cause. i do not believe they will shift the basic trajectory. and russia can still put these artillery systems of its own behind buildings, behind other vehicles, hide them in one way or another, fire a round and move, and russia still has enough heavy bore artillery to decimate these cities — which are, of course, helpless targets, unprotected, indefensible.

so, yes, our transfer of weaponry can change a bit but it's not going to shift the overall balance decisively, in myjudgement. i think we have to accept that any expectation that ukraine is somehow going to comprehensively win this war on the ground and take back all of the territory that it has lost is not realistic. ukraine has had a fair amount of support from the west, but it is still a non—eu country and non—eu member state. how much longer can that support continue? will ukraine ultimately be left to fight this war on its own? no, i think we will keep helping ukraine but the problem is each side, ukraine and russia, can point to advantages. russia knows it has four or five times the population and the industry, and ukraine knows it has the international support, so both sides are going to have a theory about how they could prevail and when. unfortunately, my expectation is neither side will have their theory vindicated. and what we will see is a lot of tough, high—intensity, high—casualty fighting, a lot of losses on both sides,

and probably not much movement in the frontlines. latin america has reported its first case of monkeypox as the world health organization warned it expects the number of infections to continue to rise. argentina's health ministry says the confirmed case is a man who recently travelled to spain. about 200 monkeypox infections have now been detected in countries outside africa, where the disease is usually found. mark lobel reports. the latest laboratory to confirm a case of monkeypox outside of africa, reportedly a ao—year—old man who recently returned from spain to argentina, where residents reacted to the news. translation: where is this going? for example, this pandemic, is it going to end or not? i think this is going to continue and pandemics will come one after the other, all the time, unless we become more conscientious.

translation: | hope - that it is not something that evolves to be more and more complicated for our everyday life. of the 200 cases recorded recently, around half are in the uk, where where its health security agency says monkeypox patients should avoid any contact with their pets for 21 days as virologists fear the virus could get into domestic animals and ping—pong between them and humans. cases are also mounting in spain — one of over 20 countries where the disease has spread. but the message from the world health organization is this can be controlled. we are afraid that there will be a spread in the community but currently, it is very hard to assess this risk. we think that if we put in place the right measures now, we probably can contain this easily. the who said a mass vaccination programme was not required but smallpox jabs should be given to close contacts of people affected.

mark lobel, bbc news. you are watching bbc news. the headlines: police in texas admit they delayed storming a school where a mass shooting was taking place because they believed no more pupils were at risk. moscow's advance in ukraine continues as russian—backed separatists claim they've captured a strategic town in north—eastern donbas. the united nations has warned that somalia is suffering its worst drought in a0 years. the crisis, fuelled by a lack of seasonal rains, has left more than 6 million people vulnerable. many families are being forced to migrate from their homes in search of water and food. our correspondent catherine byaruhanga has more from southern somalia. the mass movement of people across somalia — grandparents, children,

neighbours leaving their homes, carrying all they have because their land has become hostile. abdikhadirabdi nurand his family walked 300 kilometres to get to this camp in southern somalia, but some were left behind. translation: i'm feeling sad because the other people - we left back there, i'm worried about their survival. where are the children? our children are suffering. there are children we left on the road. and some children do not survive the journey to get help. a child who was three years old is buried here. she died shortly after arriving at the camp. she was malnourished and suffering from measles and hepatitis. her mother and grandmother come here to visit her grave.

translation: she suffered a lot the night before she died - and by the morning, she was gone. another grave is being dug for a little girl who we understand died from measles last night. the people here tell us she was also malnourished. most children won't die because they're simply hungry — itjust means that their bodies are too weak to fight off infections that they could survive. every bed on this specialist ward is taken, so there's no space for this baby, carried in by her mother hamdi. they will have to wait until a bed is free. translation: if we could cultivate our farms, - we could have eaten our own food and stored some of it, but now, where can we get food? somalia needs aid to get through this drought but international prices are already going up.

the war in ukraine is the latest shock to global supplies, and the fact that the world's attention and donor funding are focused on a war thousands of kilometres away, many warn the crisis affecting somalia and its neighbours is being forgotten. resources are really, really small. 15% of the somalia appeal has been funded. so that's really — and needs are increasing every day, so i think there's a lot of concern that we might be heading to a risk of famine is coming soon. and when the needs grow, i really don't know. unless we get the money now—now, it's going to be extremely difficult. the focus is now on keeping everyone, especially the youngest, alive. catherine byaruhanga, bbc news, doolow, in southern somalia. jury deliberations in the defamation case involving the actorsjohnny depp and amber heard have begun

after a six—week trial in virginia. mr depp sued his ex—wife for $50 million over an article she wrote in which she claimed to be an abuse victim. ms heard counter—sued for $100 million. the jury of seven must come to a unanimous decision. an extreme hindu movement is spreading among young people in india. trads — short for traditionalists — are social media savvy, they borrow memes from western alt—right groups, and they think the current bjp government should pursue an even more radical pro—hindu nationalist agenda. critics worry that the movement will make tensions worse in a country where racial and religiously motivated violence is in the headlines all the time. in a rare interview, reha kansara spoke to a trad and she sent us this report. this provocative image is one of many posted online by govinda who is just 16. of many posted online by govinda who isjust16. i mean, you have to admit this is very shocking. you have to admit this is very shocking-— shocking. that is not a nazi

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trump. but some experts take a different view. trads are taking ultralight memes and making them their own. pepe the fro , the making them their own. pepe the frog. the big _ making them their own. pepe the frog, the big brain _ making them their own. pepe the frog, the big brain memes - making them their own. pepe the frog, the big brain memes and i frog, the big brain memes and dojo memes, they have added an indian context to it, the blue frog for instance and orange represents right—wing hindus. this other green pepe represents muslims. earlier this year. — represents muslims. earlier this year. is _ represents muslims. earlier this year, is meant - represents muslims. earlier this year, is meant was - represents muslims. earlierj this year, is meant was that the epicentre of an online hate storm targeting prominent muslim women.— storm targeting prominent muslim women. storm targeting prominent muslimwomen. , ., ., muslim women. why would you do that? why would _ muslim women. why would you do that? why would somebody - muslim women. why would you do that? why would somebody do - that? why would somebody do that? why would somebody do that? it's a question i think we all need to think about and address. six. we all need to think about and address. ,, ., , , ., , address. six arrests have been made and _ address. six arrests have been made and police _ address. six arrests have been made and police believe - address. six arrests have been made and police believe trads| made and police believe trads are behind it. govinda did not have anything to do with it. he insists his memes are a of non—violent comedy but he is

them in a country where religious tensions are not a joke. india is reaching boiling point and there are signs that the hindu trad movement is growing stronger but the question is will this extreme fringe movement impact the country that has done in the west? reha kansara, bbc news, delhi. the uefa champions league final will kick off in paris on saturday night and it should be a cracking match. around 60,000 liverpool fans are expected to descend on the french capital to watch their team take on real madrid. the spanish team has won the league 13 times and liverpool has won it six times, but with both teams at the top of their game, it's impossible to predict who will take home the trophy. platinum puddings, coronation chicken sandwiches, victoria sponges — they will be some of the many tributes that will be served at thousands ofjubilee street parties across the uk next weekend to mark the queen's 70—year reign. not my breakfast of choice! our royal correspondent sarah campbell has been speaking to a group of women from across the generations about what the queen means to them.

are you a fan of lemon puddings? oh, yes! always! an afternoon tea fit for a queen. different generations but in the background of all their lives, one woman. she's constant, she's stoic, she's loyal. she's done a lot for everyone, holding the country together. she is not a person that throws up her hands and says "oh, - "i can't cope with it." i think she gets on with it. newsreel: from the farthest corners of the world, - they've come to see the first lady of our nation journey in rich majesty to her crowning. i was in the front row with my flag, waiting anxiously for this gold coach to come by. it was like a fairy princess, you know, when you're that age, when you're that young. it was just awe—inspiring. 25 years later and the nation took to the streets again to celebrate the silverjubilee. susie, this is you.

laughs. this is you, in 1977. oh, gosh, yes. this is you, in 1977. this is your first street party. chaos! was it? no, it was wonderful, because in that era, nobody had specificjobs. everybodyjust rolled up and did it, and you asked for help and somebody helped. god save the queen plays. in 2002, queen's brian may memorably played the national anthem on the palace roof. a few miles away in south—west london, a young kamar celebrated the goldenjubilee with her family and friends. i remember it as amazing, with all the flags and tables decorated, food everywhere, everyone's laughing, having a great time. most of my family were there as well, having a good time, so it was really nice. that's a really nice photograph. eileen isjust 18 months

younger than the queen. orla made the news a decade ago as a diamond jubilee baby. i think it's amazing that she's 96, and i don't know anyone in their 90s who's still working. she's more agile on her pins than i am! she's not bad for 96. she is very good for 96, definitely. first, there was the victoria sponge and now, inspired by the lemon posset served at the queen's wedding... does everybody want some? all: yes! all right, here we go, then. ..how else to thejubilee tea party than with a dollop —— ..how else to finish a jubilee tea party than with a dollop of platinum pudding? tuck in. cheers! sarah campbell, bbc news. before we go, let's turn to sydney, australia, where the famous vivid mod festival took place for the first time since the pandemic began. it showed landscapes of australia's landscapes of australia's landscapes and indigenous culture and will be lighting up

sydney's landmarks for the next few weeks. it was 20 million visitors in 2019. you can reach me on twitter. i'm @richpreston. hello there. it was a warm and sunny day across the southern half of britain from friday and we saw temperatures pretty widely across the south and south—east reach around 21 degrees. now, we're not going to see temperatures that high for quite a few days now. certainly into the weekend, things are set to turn cooler as we start to pick up a northerly breeze. we could even see a few showers as well. now, many places will be dry on saturday, thanks to high pressure, but as this area of high pressure continues to push towards iceland, it will open the floodgates to this northerly wind which is coming down from the arctic. so, for saturday, we start dry, on the cool side. there'll be plenty of sunshine around but into the afternoon, clouds will develop most across northern and eastern areas and we could see the odd shower here. northern scotland, down parts of eastern england could see the odd shower, too, but further south and west you are, the best of the sunshine and the best temperatures — we could see 19

or 20 degrees in south wales — but quite cool across north sea coasts, especially with that onshore northerly breeze. now, through saturday night, most of the showers fade away. there could still be a few pushing into northern and eastern scotland. it does remain breezy. elsewhere, the winds will be light and the clearest skies with it and a cool night to come — i think, a range of around 5—8 degrees typically. sunday is looking cooler. we could see why — the blue hue extended its way southwards around this area of high pressure will be pushing towards iceland, so it's going to feel quite disappointingly cool, in fact, across northern and eastern parts of the country throughout sunday. more cloud around generally across the country and anywhere could catch a shower. there will be sunny spells in between but quite limited — i think a lot of places holding onto the cloud. it's going to be breezy in the north and east — that willjust make it feel even chillier — but lighter winds across the south—west. it's here where we'll see the highest temperatures again —15, 16 degrees, disappointing for the time of year across northern and eastern scotland and eastern parts of england.

into monday, we could see quite a bit of cloud around generally. we've got a shallow area of low pressure across the uk but there'll be barely any wind, so any showers that develop will be pretty slow—moving. sunshine will be quite limited, so that will affect the temperatures again. i think on the cool side — 11 to 1a or 15 degrees in the south. as we move into tuesday and wednesday, it's a similar sort of story with a slack air flow across the uk. i think most of the showers will tend to be across more northern and western areas through tuesday and wednesday, perhaps turning a bit drier and warmer in the south.

this is bbc news. the headlines: police in texas have admitted they took too long to storm a classroom, where a gunman was carrying out a mass shooting on tuesday. officials have admitted they thought no more pupils were at risk at the school in uvalde. protesters have gathered outside the annual meeting of the pro—gun, national rifle association, in texas, as the convention continued inside. former president donald trump spoke out against tighter gun controls and said he believes "evil like the texas massacre "was a reason to arm, not disarm, law abiding "citizens." moscow's advances in eastern ukraine are continuing. russian backed forces have gained more ground close to a strategic town in north—eastern donbas, and are close to encircling severalimportant cities. the regional governor has warned that ukrainian forces,

may have to retreat to avoid being captured.