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 and jor, an agonizing white as authorities, confirmed the identities of those 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 of its attacks on ukraine's don bass region followed the mayor to lansky says moscow wants to destroy everything there and he holds the courage of his people in resisting the invasion plus the partying. prime minister, a long awaited report, blame senior u. k. officials for holding a legal gatherings during corona virus locked. the revelations once again, turn off the political heat for bars. johnson. ah hello, i'm pablo felice. 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 took place in the town of val day near at

the mexican border at an elementary school. the 18 year old shooter barricaded himself in a classroom where he was killed by police. 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 anything as little as they're okay. they're not okay. or we're still waiting or you know, no, no information has been released to any of the parents here. they have a loser for her name in here. so she's not here. so it on down, pando names 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. britain, i heard, i just didn't ever expected things like that to happen here with

men. person that did this. it was one device. 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 gotta do something? i'm tired, i'm. 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 with filess. enough. is gun control is back in the political debate. the people who bol the gather to more in after the deadly mass shooting. something far too many families and friends have to go through in the u. s. dw correspondent in his pole is monitoring this story from

washington and a short while ago. she gave us this update. 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 bought 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, anus, sadly, this isn't the 1st to moscow shooting in the united states. we can't forget sandy

hook 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 in 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 was 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 wills phase or c stricter a gun loss. but quite frankly, so close to the midterm election with this divided by politicians 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 why it's so divided and why there is this resistance to tightening the gun laws in the u. s. right, so a part of 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 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 very powerful gun lobby, the n r a,

which is obviously protecting this multi 1000000000 dollar 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 paul, thank you. russia stepping up its attacks on ukraine's eastern don boss. region. heavy fighting is reported in and around the industrial city of civil don't ask. the regional governor says at least 12 people were killed by sharing. moscow says

it will continue, it's offensive until it achieves its goals. well dw correspondence mathias berringer is in crime, a tourist in eastern ukraine, and i 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 boss. you 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. i think the gains are, are small each, each one of them are small and often they are, they're, they're ukranian 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 roads here, that's the road that connects with this city and, and other places in ukraine with the town, with the cities of saver adonis. and lucy, 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, or 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. actors, 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 access difficult and the city itself is

by no means a safe haven. oh, what do you think of these normal living conditions? it's very difficult. always this roaring funder above your head, with a few kilometers from here. things are even more jaya says to city of silverado, next is under constant fire, a bridge that leads there has been bombed, effectively trapping those who remain there. that is a fate 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. brutally were hoping that things might be okay. but when shells fly of your head and houses are burning, you just feel that you can't go on. you our nerves erect, yet when you're done, nobody knows when the bus is coming and there's no way to ask internet and phone service are down in the basement. about 80 people have been sheltering for weeks some since the beginning of the war. mama, mama. oh yes, laser will not give me the buffers. mom says she would go if she knew where it's safe, but she doesn't know where to go to you. what it is, right? lira has been given 10 liters of water. that's all for to day. she and

a neighbor galena will have to come back soon. at night, they stay in the basement dark . this is how we get down here. though the whole neighborhood has moved into basement ross. 1234, and over 6 people living here who there's always fear that the next shell my teeth here. i feel sorry for my cat 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 a curation bus has not arrived yet. nobody knows whether it was to come or not mad 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 nato allies have stated publicly that they provide ukraine with satellite images,

intercept russian communication, and help offend off russian cyber attacks. but leaks and statements from within the u. s. intelligence community have 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, and i 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've 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 that 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 mascot. the general's concerning the generals, by the way, it's particularly interesting because one skill nato developed in afghanistan was talking to 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. so the americans rode back on the targeting. doesn't mean they don't provide the information to 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 breakable 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 rate, we can show the other agreements as well. we don't know about space to cause its aspects very largely commercial. frank, the heads of secret services have said that the pace and scale at 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 for that. 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, where the west doesn't leak information and actually openly declares it. that's all saying, look, we know what's going on. you need to need to examine yourself because you don't seem to be knowing what's going on. so as i suspect that behind it's also one other aspect, particularly resting u. k. until quite recently, a lot of us and i say as many people in the, in those countries were still suffering for the legacy and particularly intelligent services of the iraq war. and this bill's confidence again in the telephone services when they got things right. military analyst frank, like which thank you. thanks very much problem. well, here are some of the other stories making news connected to the war in ukraine. hungary is prime minister victor or band has declared a new state of emergency because of the war in neighboring ukraine. emergency power is imposed during the pandemic were due to expire. critics say it means or band can restrict basic right. former german

chancellor gerhard schroeder has turned down a seat on or on the board of the russian energy company gas problem. shooter is a friend of president vladimir putin and has been criticized for refusing to cut his business ties to russia. he recently resigned from a position at another russian energy company. ross russian judges have rejected an appeal by the opposition leader alexi, nevada, against a 9 year prison sentence for fraud and other alleged crimes. he will now be transferred from a peal camp to a high security prison. now val me use the hearing to condemn the war. alarm is growing again over north korea's nuclear ambitions after pyongyang fired off 3 ballistic missiles. south korea's military say they were launched from pyongyang towards the sea of japan and appeared to be preparation for

a possible nuclear test. the united states and south korea carried out miss al drills in response. you as president joe biden has just wrapped a trip to asia during which he agreed new measures to to turn north korea. what we can now talk to. so based journalist frank smith. hi frank, and welcome to d w. so these missile tests come just to after a visit to the region by u. s. president joe biden is the timing of these tests by north korea, perhaps a provocation. i'm not sure if it was a provocation so much. north korea conducted 17 rounds of missile test so far this year. national intelligence service officials here in south korea briefed law makers last week prior to by summit with president news. so if you'll be told the chamber that north korea was prepared to conduct

a missile test at any time and also had a reconstituted, it's a re nuclear test site ready for a nuclear test at any time. so it didn't come as an entire surprise. there was no rumors that perhaps you agree would conduct the test a missile test or nuclear test even when biting was here. so if anything, perhaps north korea waited a little bit not to provoke the u. s. response to severely. well, frank, what's the reaction being where you are in south korea the, the reactions been pretty strong here in south korea. so 3 inaugurated a new president on, on may 10th you. so you'll, and he takes a hard line with north korea. he advocates, for example, preparing a pre eminent strike capability, should it looked like ne, go launch in a miss missile toward so create. he also advocates quite strongly increasing the

power of the alliance with the united states. that was the main point of their meeting. and he is also called for american strategic assets. these are american weapons, farmers and ships that are capable of delivering nuclear weapons to participate in military exercises here in south korea puddle. it's suspected that the corona virus has hit north korea's mostly on vaccinated population. pyongyang has cold fever. i might be influencing pyongyang decisions at the moment. well, whenever north korea does something like this, you know, we don't have a good window into the decision making process. they're rather opaque in terms of journalism. people make the case that perhaps kim john is doing this provocation or that activity in order to distract people from their poverty,

or in this case, the cobit 19 pandemic. well, that might be a credible strategy, might be something that is taking place in terms of north korea's thinking. i think that the other influences on north korea decision making process are stronger than northridge liter king john said many times that he was going to continue his development of nuclear and missile capabilities. we can see this development broadened to include a hypersonic missiles, cruise missiles summary and launched ballistic missiles. so really. busy this test this morning doesn't come entirely as a surprise. tablo sole based journalist frank smith. thank you.

british prime minister bars johnson is facing mounting pressure to resign after the publication of a long awaited report into lockdown breaking gatherings in his offices. the report looked into 16 gatherings, attended by johnson and his staff, while the rest of the country was barred from socializing 22 corona virus restrictions. it says senior leadership must bear responsibility for what it calls a culture of rule breaking downing street. well, johnson has just given a statement to parliament and said he took full responsibility for the parties that's taken us. some of these gatherings then went on far longer than was necessary, fresh. and they were clearly in breach of the rules and they fell, follow the rules. i have to tell the house because the house will be to know this. and again, this is not to mitigate who to extenuating. i had no knowledge of those subsequent proceedings because i simply wasn't ah,

and i have been as surprised and disappointed as anyone else in this house, as the revelations have on covey. well, earlier i spoke to our correspondent in london, big at mass and asked her for her assessment. interestingly, pablo there were quite some details about what was going on behind the closed doors in downing street a details of alcohol, of loud music. even of people getting sick. so the impression of some of these events were quite wild parties. then apart from the details though old, say some judgment on the culture of how downing street of how government was conducting itself and as soon grey, the civil 7 said that there was a failure of leadership and a failure of judgment that, that some of these events should not have happened and that they fell short of the highest standards of behavior that the public has a right to expect of government. so all in all, not

a pretty picture for prime minister boys johnson and his government. so they're going to pretty damning report. so we heard bars johnson there, but can you tell us, sir, you've been watching it. i'm following him at there in parliament said what more had he had, did he have to say overall, i think he wanted to come across as somebody who was humbled. he said he was humbled, showing contrition, being quite apologetic. i think his strategy is to admit what he calls small mistakes. he has been fined over one of the gatherings that took place, so he can't say that he wasn't involved to. he's knowing the, having a you was involved, but then he said that he didn't have any knowledge of how the parties went on. so basically arguing, yes, he was present at some gatherings and that was not okay. and with hindsight, he shouldn't have done it. and he was apologizing for that, but insinuating that he didn't go and he didn't stay very long and that he didn't

know that these big parties became these layer wild events. and that he had no knowledge of this. so defiant in on one hand. but on the other end, he also clearly i will try to you to stay in power. he's saying he wants to move on . he wants to move the country forward. he's basically he trying to, to set the agenda, cost of living crises and, and he's saying that this is what the british people are really caring about. burger mass in london. thank you. 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, some 100 meters high and just 2 centimeters white. it took him 2 hours to make his way along the slack line, which was suspended between a crane and an abbey on mon, sammy shell, a feat that might make even those of us who aren't scared of heights

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