this is news coming. in russia multiple people have been killed at a high school in the central russian city of. at least one teenage gunman was involved we'll have the latest. coming up. between israel and palestinians israel and hamas militants exchanged heavy fire

through the night and into tuesday tensions for soaring after clashes on monday i. feel. is the calls for. studies show a new variant spreads more easily. welcome to the program we begin with some breaking news at least 7 children have been killed and many are wounded after a shooting at a school in russia local authorities that's according to local authorities the shooting happened at a school in the city of. the details are still becoming clear but we understand that one suspect has been. the motive for the attack is not clear.

let's bring in our correspondent in moscow emily shore when she's covering this for us emily what more can you tell us. well we know that the shooting took place in a school just outside of the center of cazan in a kind of suburban area because on is located in the southwest of russia over a 1000000 people live there and according to official report shots were fired at that school and there was an explosion this morning officially and now 8 people are dead according to officials and 20 people have been injured the dead include pupils and at least one teacher and the attacker has been arrested according to officials now the area around the school has been sealed off by officers of the national guard now ambulances are working on site as well and the president of the republic of tatarstan where cousin is located made an emotional statement he's on the scene

he called what had happened a huge tragedy for the whole country and he has announced that tomorrow will be an official day of mourning and we don't know as you said about the motives of the attack but usually when these attacks happens happen it's a former pupil of us of the school in this case the interior ministry as actually announced that a counterterrorism operation is in in is happening now and the president of cats are still on has called the attacker a terrorist now we don't know whether that's just strong language being used there or what that really means we do know that the attacker had an officially registered when then and we also know that touches done in the muslim majority republic but absolutely i think it's much too early to jump to conclusions there on whether there could be some kind of an imminent factor background initially when reports are coming through it was said that there may have been multiple shooters can you

do you know anything about the timing we know one person is in custody or police still looking for others. that's a bit unclear at the moment according to officials is just one. attacker there had been reports in various media outlets that there could be one more attacker who perhaps had even taken hostage is the authorities have actually been saying that that is not the case and i have funking that i think we'll have to wait and see on that to get confirmation so calm and or school shootings in russia only. i would say that school shootings are very rare in russia it's not easy to buy guns here it's not easy to get licenses for guns and it kind of thing has happened before in recent years in 2014 for example there was a shooting in a moscow school where 2 people died but mostly when there have been school attack

it didn't happen with a gun in recent years there's been attacks. of the occasional attack you know $11.00 with a knife one with a hammer another one with a knife and usually as i said the pupils from the school itself who carried out the attack for personal reason family thank you very much for bringing us up to date that was our moscow correspondent emily surely. of course we'll bring you more details on that school shooting in russia as they become available. countries worldwide have appealed for calm following deadly retaliatory attacks between israel and palestinians israel has launched fresh air strikes on tuesday against targets in gaza and hamas has fired dozens of rockets toward israel authorities in israel say 15 militants were killed in its prior overnight strikes on gaza health officials say $24.00 published in eons died including children the escalation of violence follows days of clashes in eastern. israel launches

a series of deadly retaliatory strikes on gas. hours after rockets were fired from the palestinian enclave. they retaliate tory attacks which began on monday night marked a significant escalation in tensions in jerusalem they followed a day of heavy clashes between palestinians and israeli police inside the x. gun mosque. hundreds of people were injured when police fired stun grenades and tear gas at palestinian demonstrators later israeli nationalists gathered for a nanny will march through jerusalem's old city to celebrate israel's capture of east jerusalem during 19676 day war many palestinians view the march as a provocation the catalyst for the violence is israel's plans to evict and number

of palestinian families from east jerusalem to make room for jewish settlers for many the evictions are just part of a wider trend it's a matter of the border policy that has really targeted notes. that are going to say you are. not getting a salary and other places and they have said under truce enormous settlements trying to extricate jerusalem from its pristine and run. the international community is now calling for all sides to deescalate. this cross straight over to our jerusalem correspondent ton your cramer turn you know the situation has quickly escalated from street starvations to rocket attacks and air strikes is there any indication where this is headed. focus has shifted now to god and. seen continued rocket

strikes from gaza militants into southern israel the israeli army said in a briefing this morning about 200 rockets were fired there from gaza. according to the army they attacked what they called military targets $130.00 sites in the gaza strip there are casualties there are injuries in israel at this hour now. the army they say this is in the early stages and that they will respond forcefully to this very serious aggression they call it and what for hearing from the militant groups in gaza they have been stating that as long as the aggression on the. compound goes on they will also continue. the u.s. . what can the international community do to prevent further violence. well we saw the foreign secretary

blinken saying longside the foreign minister of jordan. who called for restoring or keeping the status quo calling for calm and also the foreign jordanian foreign minister was saying that he's calling for respecting the palestinian rights in east jerusalem specifically now what we have seen in previous rounds of such confrontations mediation efforts usually happen behind the scenes these are usually actors like egypt qatar and the u.s. and others who might get involved at the moment we have no indication that this is already happening be every don't know at the moment how that day will develop and what you know this conflict with see it's still in the early stages tony thank you very much that was our jerusalem correspondent tonya kramer. sketch up on some of

the stories making headlines around the world today new government data in china show its population grew at its slowest pace in decades the world's largest country by population counted 1410000000 people in 2020 a net gain of about 600000000 since 2010 an aging population could have a long term impact on china's economic prospects. u.s. t.v. network n.b.c. says it won't be broadcasting next year's golden globes ceremony the decision follows complaints about alleged ethical lapses and lack of diversity at the hollywood foreign press association which hand so the t.v. and film awards. u.s. officials have authorized the pfizer cover 19 vaccine for use in children aged 12 to 15 previously regulators had only allowed its use for those aged 16 and above officials hope giving jobs to younger children will boost the u.s. vaccination program which has slowed in recently. the world health

organization says the credible as variant 1st identified in india last year is being classified as one of global concern some initial studies show it spreads more easily. as india's 7 days of new cases hit a record high on tuesday of over 390000 experts say the actual numbers of infections and deaths could be much higher the government is facing growing calls for a nationwide lockdown. those dealing with the sick and dead say india's approach to distributing vaccines and oxygen has failed. another kovac 19 victim to an already overcrowded crime atory am in the city of bengaluru sowing case rates have now suspended the city to impose a lockdown. police in some areas of beating those violating the strict rules and seizing their vehicles.

it is a very very. liberal. system and. then it is the ball settled. for now bengaluru is markets and stores are closed. there aren't many people here but they don't maintain social distancing after providing some relief to the poor there's nothing wrong with a lockdown. faxon nations are happening slowly in a country desperate to bring infections under control. the. people are facing so many problems they're sitting on a powder keg they can easily get infected unless an alternative is found distributing the vaccines in more places like community halls or playgrounds. there's no country wide policy in place critics say the government has abdicated

responsibility by leaving facts and nations to individual states that's resulted in a scramble important job province people crowding a vaccination center put themselves and others at risk and the police we would know we had to call the police to maintain social distancing but to no avail people are not listening to us at all and we have been telling them continuously since morning to maintain distancing medical workers have mounted protests against the government's handling of the corona virus and the indian medical association has called on the government to impose a lockdown across the country. for weeks now states of being competing fiske ass results is including oxygen. they've been left to the messy of the market needing to more anger and frustration with the government in delhi. earlier the mischa just why why the indian government is hesitating to impose

a nationwide lockdown why you didn't even write knocked out more so the country is living under construction when will all over me just say d r c the door you know down in many other districts i was listening i couldn't sell it or to possibly lock down so this hesitation to important national lockdown is being criticised still because i need to delete the gene of trying to mission is still prevalent now live yeah it's just or just when i want to it's so pretty even more sort of maybe it's not you can be diagnosed left untreated because of the lack of health can't just stop so and what matt seems incentives for legal restrictions in these areas is limited right now which is why going to such forums so i would last us national extremely unpopular and then gives analysis if i have to hesitation of the names of all the dog it wasn't out of whack rests on this fact.

i mean should just while they're in delhi just a reminder the top story we're following for you here today on the news at least 8 people mostly children have been killed and many are wounded after a shooting at a school in russia at least one suspect has been arrested the motive for the attack in the southwest city of. is don't get players. watching t.v. news up next we've got a documentary looking at how solar storms can pose a threat to our power supply thanks want to. try to it's. a low flush weeks. glitter glitter glitter for their fight against prejudice i don't call playboy. recognition. little stores on the big stage. thank you it's

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