his music is spam to give you. sounds good. video game music starts february twenty fifth on g.w. . this is the w. news live from a year after the u.s. mass shooting that mobilized to young people on gun control school students in florida holding firm which of silence to remember the seventeen victims and they were joined by hundreds of thousands across the country to find out what has happened since also on the program the united states tells us to get on board with its policies against iraq vice president mike pence calls allies to withdraw from

iraq nuclear deal and so stop trying u.s. sanctions. i'm phil gale welcome to the program. hundreds of thousands of students and adults in the u.s. have observed a moment of silence to mark the first on a version of the shooting at a high school in pocklington states of florida americans were shocked when a nineteen year old killed seventeen people at margery stood douglas high school last year the shooting rampage was fueled the debate over gun control and what is different this time was that the students at the high school of turned into political activists they launched a movement called march for our lives for the tightening america's gun laws. valentine's day two thousand and eighteen students at marjorie stoneman douglas

high school run for their lives after a gunman opened fire in the school hallways killing fourteen students and three stocks. right. order. in years over. three full lost friends and siblings quickly turned into activism was was was only six weeks after the pop one massacre more than a million young people took to the streets across the u.s. in one of the biggest youth led protests since the vietnam war. the main event in washington d.c. a learn to a crowd of eight hundred thousand pachmann students were the driving force behind the movement which they dubbed the march for our lives. among them emma comes on as one of the main voices of the protest. against the time that i came out here. it

has been six minutes and twenty seconds the shooter has ceased shooting and will soon abandon his rifle blend in with the students as they escape and walk free for an hour before a rest fight for your lives before it's someone else's child. b. but the gun lobby soon hit back the national rifle association claim to come pain was straightened by gun hating elites chemical and solace and fellow activist david hong who are accused of being paid actors and president trump had the n.r.a. is back the solution to school shootings teaches he tell delegates at their annual convention in the wake of the protests there is no sean more inviting to our mare's killer then or sorry that declares this school is a gun free zone come in attack us was one year

on pop in students continue their campaign hoping the tragedy that turned them into activists may help to change america's gun culture. they do because moment all of a silence is a mockery starting with douglas high school welcome to tell us more about today's events. well it's a very sad day for the community here behind me at the stillman douglass high a commemoration events were taking place throughout this morning they are close to the public as the community is still struggling one year after these attacks but what's different this year and that's what you've just reported evolved in the report that what we've just seen is this movement that survivors and victims and of school mates created right after the attacks this never again movement and also the marches for our lives that took place attracting hundreds of thousands of

protesters taking to the streets in washington d.c. across the country and that has changed the public awareness here in the country and until today really and they have achieved something that nobody nobody else really achieved after a rampage shooting like this which is bringing this topic on the agenda putting this topic on the agenda of lawmakers as congress is also planning to tackle gun law in the future so ben yes you said this was profits i'm sort of a how has the community changed. so the community is still struggling but the big question here right now for everyone is will there be a result out of these protests that we've just mentioned will there be tougher gun laws on the federal level because that has not happened so far but if you take

a closer look then small things have happened for example supermarket change chains like wal-mart have raised the minimum age for buying rifles from eighteen to twenty one also other companies have canceled their discounts for members of the national rifle association as they fear. damaging their their images and so on and that is certainly taken a year or witnessed here in the community and gives them some come forward as well . florida thank you. and you were pm aviation giant adbusters to run production of its super jumbo passenger jet the a three eighty to raze orders from australia's kwanza sat lines on the buyers emirates were cancelled it's good news for rival boeing but a big blow for us the company had hoped the a three eighty would squeeze out boeing seven four seven and revolutionize after apple for the airlines have been cautious about committing to the costly double deckers the a three eighty took off for the

first time in two thousand and eight and seats around five hundred passengers. which take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world british prime minister to resign might have suffered another defeat in parliament i would have bret's it strategy and no make has voted against a government motion asking them to reaffirm support they have planned to suggest to her present they'll vote does not force the government to change tack it is likely to undermine union leaders confidence in the prime minister cameron when parliament support for any revised agreement. twenty people are feared dead after a boat capsized in bad weather in north and zambia with or as you say the vessel was carrying more than forty people want to pass storm struck like more airy where a boat had left the town. and was heading towards some small islands when the accident occurred. at least forty police officers have been killed in a suicide car bombing in india the kashmir pakistan based islamist group mohammad

has claimed responsibility it tells it is a convoy of security forces on the main highway on the outskirts of sure they go main city in the region a bus carrying police officers destroying. u.s. vice president mike pence has called on your up to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal and to accuse washington's european allies of trying to evade u.s. sanctions on the country as the peds was speaking of a middle east security conference in the polish capital warsaw it's also led by the u.s. and israel who want to push a more aggressive status of iraq delegates from all sixty countries including a number of arab nations are taking past several countries including france and germany chose not to send high ranking delegations his men are here and let's listen in now to those comments from u.s. vice president mike pence sadly. some of our leading european partners have not been nearly as cooperative.

mechanisms. let's get more on this from journalist and middle east experts kristin held back a welcome to d w. the u.s. has been around for some time but that seems to be this renewed push well actually the u. s. is planning to withdraw their own troops from syria and they were there from the point of view from the president trying to contain iran's influence inside syria so what they are trying to do now is to find partners in the region and in eastern europe especially together with israel obviously and prime minister netanyahu to contain iran even while u.s. troops won't be there so that's the whole point how to create an alliance to push back iran and they see this because there's this very clear this is a political as well as a military strategy yes i mean president champ would like to have regional countries neighboring countries to fill the gap maybe saudi arabia egypt maybe the

united arab emirates they are there and they are the ones who really all rivals of iran in the region they want to clearly contain iran's influence in the region because iran during the past few years have really gained a lot of leverage inside of the middle east look at lebanon look at iraq look at syria now to get yemen so what they are trying to do is to create this alliance to really push back influence inside syria why even without u.s. troops on the ground many of these countries have to have signally failed to get completely involved in this in this conflict so what can he tell them or offer them now what will change their minds well it's not that he has a lot to offer a president that's the whole problem because he's basically saying that you know america first we don't really care for the region could you please take care of your own problems while at the same time selling them american weapons that's the only thing that he kind of you know offer us. take care by all weapons and take

care of your terrorism problems you know to make sure that isis won't come back and to contain iran and look for your own interest so the big part of this and if the the biggest part the biggest jigsaw that is that has moved around is the fact that american troops are now leaving so once we america has gone you people now know that that you will have to do something so this is him just just out of focus minds this is what he tries to focus on this is to reassure israel and they have basic feeler off iranian nuclear weapons and this is to reassure prime minister netanyahu that you know the u.s. will be still on this and it's it's you know confronting iran thank you for the christian help. and while iran was the focus of talks in sochi the country's president hassan rouhani was attending a parallel conference today in the russian city of sochi rouhani joined the leaders of russia and turkey to discuss how the war in syria to be brought to a close yet welcome the planned u.s.

withdrawal from syria they also agreed to lead to clamp down on al qaeda linked militants in the syrian problem so in libya while russia and iran backers syrian president bashar al assad turkey is supporting the forces fighting against him. the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria will be a blow for kurdish forces which are closely allied with the us of a fair an all out offensive from turkey once and us is out of the way turkey regards the kurdish militia in syria as terrorists we have this report from the kurdish city of karbala on the border with turkey. layla visits this grave and every thursday to pray and honor the memory of her only son rody he died fighting the so-called islamic state in twenty thirteen as did thousands more kurds leila hopes her sons commitment to freedom wasn't in vain it's a hope that unites many mothers who have lost their sons in this region. home and

i'll never forget them it is truly a tremendous loss that we're keeping our composure by remembering our sons and our hometown god forbid that blood has been shed in vain them and not a hail high levels but many kurds in northern syria have misgivings this is where the kurdish militia the y.p. g force the i asked to retreat in a major offensive in late two thousand and fourteen the price of freedom was high a heavy death toll and enormous destruction. today another danger the rains from the turkish side. across the border nearby president type and a one day use the y. p.g. as an offshoot of the outlawed kurdish workers' party the p.k. k. he's threatening a military offensive because of the don't have to education invasion of northern syria would be nothing short of colonialism but if we're defending our country here . what does add to one wants here but what does he want from us to do when.

everyone insists on creating what he calls a security zone along the turkish border he's calling on the y. p.g. to pull out of this thirty kilometer strip. if it complies turkey would then control the area for many kurds living in co bana that amounts to a nightmare but this myth is b.s. i think security zone is the wrong term this area has been secure for a long time now the whole world knows that syria's north and east is the safest region and the entire country could. but that could change dramatically grieving families like layla's would be all the more and better if turkey were to take control of her fallen son's final resting place. this is dave news live from coming up in business africa in just a moment despite being one of the world's biggest growers attacks of flowers kenya

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