ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin 19 children and the u. s. are killed in the deadliest school shooting in years. families endure an agonizing weight as authorities confirmed the identities of vo shot dead by a gunman. at an elementary school in texas. president joe biden asks when will

america stand up to the gun lobby? also coming up russia steps up into attacks on ukraine's dom vast region. but demand savanski says moscow wants to destroy everything there. and he, hales, the courage of his people in resisting the invasion. plus south korea says the north may be preparing for a possible nuclear test after pyongyang fires or 3 more ballistic missiles. ah, i'm pablo foliage. welcome to the program. we begin in the united states where 19 children and 2 adults have been killed in a school shooting in texas. the attack happened at an elementary school in the town of valley near the mexican border. police kill the 18 year old shooter. the tragedy

once again raises the question, for many americans, what can be done to stop gun violence? grieving family members, waiting to know if their kid survived. we can get anything we can get any or anything as little as they're okay. they're not okay. or we're still waiting or you know, no, no information has been raised to any of the parents or they have a list or for her name in here. so she not here. so real it on down and awnings antonio, to look we find her at least 19 children and 2 teachers were killed in this texas elementary school. the death toll is expected to rise, residence in the small town of val, they are still trying to process the tragedy sick break my heart. i just didn't ever expected things like that to happen very well. and then the men person that did this to you today, school he was going to high school. here it was

a student here with more than 200 mass shootings in the u. s. so far this year, many americans asking themselves the same question over and over again, including and be a coach steve kerr, when are we got to do something? i'm tired, i'm so i'm so tired of getting up here and offering condolences to to the devastated families that are out there. i'm so tired of. excuse me. i'm sorry i'm tired of moments of silence enough. as gun control is back in the political debate. the people of valdez gather 2 more in after the deadly mass shooting something far too many families and friends have to go through in the u. s. well, a spring indeed, only washington bureau chief innes pole. who is standing by for us right there you are. hyenas, now, what is the latest information we have on the shooting?

we don't know about any motive yet, pablo, but what we know is that the 18 year old gunman attended the rob elementary school involved himself the know that he shot his grandmother before he entered the school wearing body armor. and a, we know that the gunmen, the board of the 2 assault style rifles right after he turned 18 years. and we know pablo as so often in these cases that there have been warnings or the 18 year old posted days, a go on his take tag channel, the sentence, kids be scared. but obviously nobody really reacted to that. now enos, sadly, this isn't the 1st mass school shooting in the united states. we can forget sandy hogan, of course parkland as well just to americans went to bed last night under waking up

with the news of yet another shooting tragedy. could the shooting in val, they lead to a tightening of the gun laws and the u. s. i just mentioned sandy hook after this happened. i mean, was this 27 dead? 2027 dead and 20 children were killed. then everybody said that something will be happening. nothing happened after sandy hook. there was pulse, the pulse, shooting with 49 people did. and nothing happened. and now this shooting, this is the 2nd deadliest school shooting in the us and show that is hope that something now finally will happen that be will's face or c stricter a gun loss, but quite frankly, so close to the midterm election with this divided a politician political landscape, i really do not expect anything a big really,

to be decided, because everything is so politicized right now in the united states. obviously, even the killing of school. can you just tell us a little bit more about and why it's so divided and why there is this resistance to tightening the gun laws in the u. s. right, so i popped the question about gun loss is probably one of the most divisive questions in the us. why is that the right to bear weapons in this country is, is so deeply ingrained in the identity of americans whenever we are going out and, and doing stories about shooting and stricter gun laws. we hear that this is my right to bear a weapon and no one is allowed to take this away. and on top of that, there is this very powerful gun lobby. the n r a. were to sell, obviously protecting this multi $1000000000.00 business. and they get support from

politicians like ted cruz, for example, the tax and senator who didn't ask for better background check last night of the shooting or a further gun restrictions quite the opposite. his immediate reaction yesterday after the shooting was that the country needs more guns that people need to be able to defend themselves. he wasn't asking for better background checks. he was asking for policeman in front of every school to stop killers, like the young men who killed these many people yesterday. dw washington bureau chief in his poll. thank you. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. british prime minister bars johnson is facing mounting pressure after the publication of a report into a series of locked and breaking parties in his officers. the report says senior leadership must bear responsibility for the event comes as new photos emerged of

alcohol field gatherings at downing street during lockdown. more than 70 people are missing. after a boat carrying migrant sank off the coast of ch in india. some 24 people have been rescued. the u ends migration agency says the boat set off from neighboring libya before it sank in near the tune. izzy, in city of so vax authorities and breaking a fast. so say rescuers have found the bodies of 4. i have 8 miners missing since mid april contact was lost with the men after their mind flooded rescue teams have been pumping water out of the mind. for weeks, the search goes on for the others. russia is stepping up its attacks on ukraine's eastern don boss. region. heavy fighting is reported in and around the industrial city of seville. don't ask. the regional governor says at least 12 people were killed by shouting. moscow says it will continue. it's offensive until

it achieves its goals. well, dw correspondence, my ts billina is in crime, a tor skin eastern ukraine, and he spoke to us earlier during an air alert. and we asked him how ukraine is doing in its efforts to defend its territory. well i am now at the regional capital of the ukrainian her territories in don't bust. we can see it's very empty here. there are maybe, yeah, i would say less than 10 people that i can see now and at this main square of the city, so many people have left the region. fighting has indeed intensified, and russia has been making gains through these last few days. a big the gains are small each, each one of them are small and often they are, they, the ukrainian lines hold or they can even fight back these attacks. but they had up, they have brought a lot of firepower here and they have advanced and some places and they have

advanced to woods. one of the very important rose here, that the road that connects with this city and, and other places in ukraine, with the town, with the cities of saver adonis. and lisa, chance these are the main chou cities that are still held by ukraine in the north of the territory in the north of the region in the lawns or blast. and this is, and they are at risk of being surrounded now. and they might become another marina . well, we have traveled to list a chance, can had a look what it's like there for weeks listen, chance has been without water to day a truck is expected to bring drinking water. vera and others have been standing here for hours after no one knows when they're going to bring it more than 20000 people remain in the city. fighting along the main road has made axes difficult, and the city itself is by no means

a st. hello. what do you think of these normal living conditions? it's very difficult. always this roaring funder above your head. me a few kilometers from here. things are even more dia. this is the city of c over the next than the constant fire, a bridge that leads there has been bombed, effectively trapping those who remain there. that is a fade that could also await lucy chance. if fighting along the road continues, the city has already taken quite a few hits. the government is trying to arrange evacuations while it's still possible. a few dozen people have been told that the bus would pick them up today.

and they were hoping that things might be okay, but when shell fly of your head and houses are burning, you just feel, but you can't go on our nerves direct yet when you nobody knows when the bus is coming and there's no way to ask internet and phone service down in the basement about 80 people have been sheltering for weeks some since the beginning of the war. mama, mama, will you later will you be the buses? mom says she would go if she knew where it's safe, but she doesn't know where to go to. watch me. it has been given 10 liters of water. that's all for today. she and a neighbor girl you know,

will have to come back soon at night. they stay in the basement dark, this is how we get down here is all the whole neighborhood has moved into basement as 1234, and over 6 people living here. there's always fear that the next shell my teeth here. i feel sorry for my cat than myself. you cry every 5 minutes. what will happen to him if i die or will bury him? don't worry. the evening is approaching to days of accusation. bus has not arrived yet. nobody knows whether it was to come or not. not as we saw people in your report, hoping a bus would evacuate them. how difficult is it to arrange evacuations from those

areas that russian troops are advancing on the bus that they were waiting for? actually arrived late that night, but another evacuation that was happening after was already very difficult. they brought out 6 people at this last evacuation. instead of planned several dozens 40 usually fit into that armored vehicle that they need to take people out. so it's very difficult and from day to day it is becoming more and more difficult. it's a big question. how long these of occasions can go on daily news. my taylor spelling are reporting from the city of crime, tor scan, ukraine's eastern dundas region. thank you. well, as the war rages in ukraine, the role of western intelligence has come under scrutiny. the united states and its nato allies have stated publicly that they provide ukraine with satellite images, intercept russian communication,

and help fend off russian cyber attacks. but leaks and statements from within the u . s. intelligence community has also alleged even closer involvement. like with the sinking of the russian missile cruiser mosque of the ship was struck by ukrainian missiles. but there are reports, the u. s. provided information about its location earlier this month in new york times reported that the u. s. had provided intelligence that helped ukraine kill several russian generals on the front lines. when i speak now with military analyst, frank language, who joins me from oxford in the united kingdom. hi and welcome to d w. how much do we know about the role of western intelligence in this war? but what we know is what they told us, and what we can infer that already said that pablo americans have admitted and declared that they provide information to inform us

a develop the credit military response we're told daily briefings or what's going on. the british are particularly good with that daily announcement from the defense intelligence stuff. so that's the 1st way. we can also infer from what happens and you already mentioned the mosque. the generals concerning the generals, by the way, it's particularly interesting because one scale it nato developed in afghanistan was talking individuals. however, there is a big caveat to that. and that is west, has to be really careful that they are not suspected suspected of course, but they don't demonstrate that targeting individuals that makes a direct participant to the americans to the wrong road. back on the targeting doesn't mean they don't provide the information or the commercial aspect as well. yeah. sorry. go ahead. i'm sorry. go ahead there. tell us about the commercial aspect. yeah, there's a one aspect to this which isn't mentioned enough i think is the space element is

the communications part, which is a mask of space actually affectively provided you credit. i'll be with, with unbreakable communications. but it's also the intelligence aspect. what we know is that macs are, i think, did a deal quite early on in the war to provide, to provide commercial commercial but now secret, but high end a bit rate. we can show the other agreements as well. we don't know about space constants, aspects, very largely commercial, frank, the heads of secret services have said that the pace and scale of which intelligence is being released is unprecedented. why is that? yeah, well it is a maybe i think a couple of a couple of reasons. first i think is to demonstrate to the russians that they have an operational security problem. very clear that so we know what's going on. what you have to do is wonder why we know what problems have you got,

and of course expose the russian lack of proper intelligence preparation of the battle field, poor assumptions, and so forth. so that's all part of the information war. when the west, it doesn't leak information, actually opened to class it. that's all saying, look, we know what's going on. you need to need to examine your cells because you don't seem to be knowing what's going on. so i suspect that's fine. it's also one other aspect, particularly lesson until quite recently a lot of us and i say many people in the, in those countries were still suffering for the legacy and protect the intelligence of the iraq war and bills confidence. again, in the times when they got things right, military analyst franklin bridge. thank you. thanks very much. problem. alarm is growing again over north korea's nuclear ambitions. after pyongyang fired off 3 ballistic missiles, says 3 military se they were launched from pyongyang towards the sea of japan and

appeared to be preparation for a possible nuclear test. the united states and have 3 carried my cell trails. in response, u. s. president joe biden has just wrapped a trip to asia, which he agreed to new measures to deter north korea. well, we can, i've talked to josh smith, senior correspondent for reuters in the south korean capital. so i am welcome to d w. now these miss all tests come just after the visit to the region by u. s. president joe biden is the timing of these tests by north korea, korea, a provocation on north korea. hasn't said anything about the reasoning behind it, but it's hard to see the army as a coincidence. and we as a new administrator in with

me on my end as well to united states in south korea during biden's visit here in u. s. leader. basically pledge to increase military rules and potentially even deploy new us weapons to the region if necessary to her north korea. so there was a major message of deterrence to north korea. at the same time, they reiterated their calls for young to return to diplomacy. saying that they hadn't yet got a response to that. this would seem at least an implicit response to those over now . now its am suspected that the corona virus has hit north korea's mostly unvaccinated population. killing young has called it a fever. how might that be influencing peeling gangs decisions at the moment?

well, in terms of the patient type of testing, they carried out, we haven't seen much change. they conducted multiple missile tests so far. so they continue to do that. analysts see that as likely as a short string to make sure that tell me enemies in its opponents, don't see this at the moment of weakness, potentially pressure them. however, one interesting change we have seen is that at least the last few missile test that they conducted, unusually, they didn't release photos or report on those weapons tests, which they usually do the next day. and so this signals, perhaps that they're not going a domestic audience that they need for that there is a chance that that may be something we're seeing as a result of the kobe locked down there. josh smith, senior correspondent for reuters. and so thank you.

now to sri lanka, the island in the indian ocean is facing its worst economic crisis. in decades. the new prime minister says he will take charge of the finance ministry as it negotiate a bailiff package with the international monetary fund. shenanigans are facing critical shortages of fuel power and food. often queuing for hours for basic necessities. inflation is at a record high and the nation is on the brink of bankruptcy. for student who drives a rickshaw in the commercial hub, colombo, looking for fuel, has become a full time job. since the fuel shorted started in sri lanka, it's very difficult to find the field. so i have stayed with for 3 weeks and it's really hard to run my day to day life. even if i have to get fuel, i have to say the whole night to get it in the federal state. and

so i have it on them. they're like, nope, it's earlier and because of the fuel, to be honest, i didn't get that cindy us. i was like, staying in the queue for the whole week to get like if i get picked up today or tomorrow, tomorrow from the day and day after tomorrow to stay in the queue again. because of that reason, so i have to wait. we'll skip monday to stay in the queue. i will be loosing passengers for the one. no, i don't get burned. and yeah, that's a big loss for me. in the stuff they only process going, i really had a bad so it made me leave the bathroom. do they go on the phone to price everything and so you guys go on. the prices are normally like everyday we used to buy a bid to have with the in the evening. the price of

the has been w. donte make me your straight before you know, sometimes i stop at my 1st place. i think i was more said. so he saw auto driver. i have plenty of friends, so a drive auto. yeah. they always have the i've been kept at their place because they couldn't find, feel right now at my house. i think i was annoyed. so costa. so this one really end up the kiddos in latest on willows. they end up doing woods like you haven't done engineering and it's hard to find a job. i wouldn't get my degree it because i have a pending payment to be done. uh huh. so i thought i couldn't afford by you. it's funny, auto and seems this problem has been come up. it's very difficult for me to pay it,

of course fees. some of my friends like 11. what's out there in the patrol station like if they see, and if that process and bumping pitcher then quickly inform us, we all will get to get in and stay in the queue to get to i've come here to bump it . my pen gave me some theory and that wouldn't be enough for me to them the whole day. and i may have blocked my order there. i think i left away the whole night to get through. but if i'm lucky, i'll get the fuel by tomorrow morning. i never thought that mike on cleveland update me right nowadays. no, there will be a few things here, like i'd like to take some time for the country to recover a dare devil tightrope walker has claimed a new world record for the longest slack line. crossing frenchman nato pola inched his way along. a 2200 metre long wire,

so 100 meters high and just 2 centimeters white. it took them 2 hours to make his way along the slack line, which was suspended between a crane and an abbey. on one side, me shed a feat that might make even those of us who aren't scared of heights a little nervous. mm wires. a reminder of the top story we're following for you. families are waiting for officials to identify the victims of a mass shooting in the us state of texas. at least 21 people died. most of them children, police, kill the attacker at the elementary school in the time of valving. and don't forget, you can always get dw news on the go, just download our app from google play or from the app store that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications

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