laura: laura:laura: welcome back. i'm laura cellier. you are watching "france 24." british member of parliament jo the townand killed in she represented. campaigns for and against leaving the european union have been suspended a week before the u.k. votes on the referendum. president obama flies to come for the survivors of the country's worst mass shooting. this is investigators revealed there was no direct link between the gunman and foreign extremists. and the cockpit voice recorder flight 804 has

been found. 66 people perished when the plane veered and vanished into the mediterranean sea last month. first, though, a british lawmaker has died after being shot and stabbed in an attack in her constituency in yorkshire. jo cox was a member of the opposition labour party and had been campaigning for britain to stay in the european union. she was attacked as she prepared for a public meeting in the town she represented. ---year-old -- a 52-year-old man has been arrested. campaigning on both sides has been suspended. reporter: jo cox meets with

constituents here in the small town -- in this small town in yorkshire. just before 1:00 p.m., a man stabbed and shot her in the street. she was airlifted to hospital but died of her injuries. whoo was attacked by a man inflicted serious and ultimately fatal injuries. subsequently, there was a further attack on a 77-year-old man nearby, who has sustained injuries that were non-threat -- non-life-threatening. shortly afterwards, a man was policed nearby by officers. weapons, including a firearm, have been recovered. reporter: the 41-year-old mother of two was a labour mp for the area where she was born and grew up. >> i worked closely with jo since she was elected, and i'm deeply shocked that such a talented young woman has been so

senselessly attacked and killed whilst working in her constituency and serving her community. this is a truly shocking incident. i want to try and reassure communities that are information is that this is a localized incident. albeit one that has a much wider impact. reporter: some witnesses said they heard the attacker shout "britain first!" one man who was nearby spoke to local reporters. >> i saw him pulling the gun out. and then he went like that with it, fired one shot. reporter: police believe it was a, quote, "lone incident." the suspect has been arrested. police say they are not looking for anyone else in connection with the attack. laura: the u.s. president,

barack obama, is in orlando to meet survivors of sunday's massacre at the pulse nightclub. he will also meet with families of some of the 49 people who were shot dead by self-proclaimed islamist omar mateen. the community is still coming to terms with what was the worst mass shooting in u.s. history. it's not the first time obama has sought to comfort the victims of deadly violence, having visited sandy hook and charleston in recent times. for more, we go to orlando. obama has been described as a reluctant veteran at the sites of these deadly mass shootings. reporter: yeah, that's right, laura. joeident barack obama and biden, the vice president, are in orlando for what's being called an emotional visit. he is meeting with families of the victims in an undisclosed location. at a sports and entertainment venue downtown.

he is here to stand with the local people of orlando, but more importantly with the lgbt community. he is also meeting with first responders and hotel workers -- hospital workers who acted heroically to save innocent lives. as you were saying, barack obama has taken on the role of " comforter in chief" ever since he came to office in 2009. it's important to note that since he came to office gun sales have risen dramatically all over the country. there are now more guns than pete interview -- then people and united states -- more guns statesople in the united with more than 92 people killed by guns each day. laura: startling statistics. my next guest is a gun-control advocate who is himself a survivor of a mass shooting in

2007. he was sitting in a french class at virginia tech university when a gunman shot him four times. 32 people died in that attack. thank you for joining us on "france 24." here we are in the wake of yet another massacre. 92 people killed per day in the united states. what do you say to people who say it's not guns that kill people, it's people that kill people? colin: i've heard that a lot in my line of work. i would make the argument that guns health people kill people -- guns help people kill people very easily. i would say that they must agree that we need to do a better job of checking people before they buy guns. in the majority of states in the u.s., we don't even check if buyers of guns can legally own them first. we don't even require a background check on every sale.

that is the main points that we .re trying to enact in congress progress in congress has been slow. there has been much more progress on the state level, locally around the country. and after every shooting like this, more and more americans are upset. they have been through this before. they want something to be done differently. every day, we push hard for change. we know it is going to take some time. we are growing bigger and stronger every day. laura: what's really disheartening is -- we had our reporters go around. there are some statistics that -- after attacks like this, gun sales go up, because people are worried that they won't be able to get those guns at a later stage. the pro-gun lobby says, if you crack down on gun ownership, you

are stopping law-abiding people from getting them, whereas criminals will carry on. colin: yes, i've heard a lot of those same statistics. i've also heard the same arguments. the thing about a background check, if they are designed to make sure that law-abiding people can own guns and by them and have no problems -- but they are designed to check people who have felony records, issues of domestic violence, suffering from dangerous militant -- mental illness, or who are known or suspected dangerous terrorists. we can compromise issues and legislation to respect the second amendment and also do more to keep guns from dangerous people. the gun lobby and the nra likes to keep this as very black and white, either you are with us or against us. but in reality, the idea of sporting -- supporting the second amendment can go with wanting to do more to keep guns

from dangerous people. that's the middle ground conversation that more and more americans are getting behind. that's how we are going to break out of this gridlock and eventually make some significant change. laura: there is a real fierce resistance to any kind of change to the gun laws, isn't there? stopping people who are on an fbi terror watchlist, people with mental health issues -- why is there such resistance to stopping people like that from getting guns? explain it to a european. colin: it's largely because the gun industry and their lobbyists at the nra have an absolutist view of this issue, and they cannot give any ground to reasonable measures that we can take. unfortunately, because of that, they equate these issues of background checks and the terror gap as the slippery slope that

comes down to registration and confiscation and the government coming to kick down your door and take your guns from you and your way of life. and they couldn't be further from the truth. but the way that they talk about it is really effective in mobilizing their base of supporters and really scaring people into saying, oh, i need to buy my guns now and i need to organize on this now, because the government is coming for me. that's not the truth. laura: we have run out of time, sadly. thank you very much for your perspective. let's talk about more about obama's role in orlando tonight. he will be meeting with the families of some of the 49 victims and survivors as well. to talk more about that, i'm joined in the studio by a clinical psychologist who specializes in the technology -- in victimology. it was a particularly complex attack.

there are many different layers to the orlando shooting. a vulnerable community attacked. a component of radical islam. there's the sheer scale of the attack. where will obama start in trying to comfort people? >> already, the fact that obama has gone to see families and survivors is a major element in terms of people being able to be resilient and to get through this traumatic event. when people have been through trauma, be at the survivors or families, they need to be recognized as victims and they need some recognition of the gravity of what has happened. after theald trump, attack happened, attacked obama for not calling this an act of radical islamic terrorism. do you think this has made it harder for victims? don't think there is confusion over the attacker cost motives -- attacker's motives.

later on down the road, they may need to understand why the person did this. the question of whether it is radical islam or another form of terrorism -- we are getting into things where we are splitting hairs between a political group and another opinion or viewpoint. laura: a lot of people have been talking about survivor's guilt in the wake of the orlando shooting, people struggling to come to terms with that they survived and their loved ones didn't. is reallyrs guilt difficult, especially in a closed setting, in which people could have been running over each other to get out, in which other people were shot in the bathroom and they managed to not make noise or to play dead. one of the biggest issues around guilt is being able to forgive themselves and to realize that one is not responsible for what one did in order to risk -- to survive. the person responsible is the attacker.

it's a long and rocky road. people can get support from specialized therapists, their family, and their community. laura: are you confident that the survivors will get that kind of support in the united states? >> i think it's possible they will get that kind of support. amongere is solidarity people, which is one of the major forms of social support. laura: whenever we have these atrocities, what happens these days is hashtags and online movements and things like that. in your opinion, is that helpful to people? >> i think it is helpful to people. it's a good development to be able to go online and see support from people. i saw a video from somebody in scotland who was supporting the victims. that type of thing is social support, and that's the most important element to get over trauma. laura: thank you very much. now, moving on to news from egypt and reports that the

government in egypt has salvaged the cockpit voice recorder of one of the missing -- of the missing black boxes. 66 people were killed last month when a plane mysteriously veered off course and plunged into the mediterranean sea. let's get more on that story now from cairo. have we got any more information about what was on those cockpit recorders? reporter: we have yet to hear what's going to be retrieved. they salvaged the device over several stages as it was damaged, but they were able to recover the memory units from the black box, which is the most important part of the recorder. this voice recorder should contain a record of the last 30 minutes in the cockpit. it should allow investigators to hear what the copilot and pilot were saying to each other, plus any noise or alarms in the background. the beacon signal was first detected on june 1.

there is still no signal from the flight data recorder, which is the information from the plane's onboard computers. the battery life of those beacons will end in about eight days, on june 24. they are still looking for that. the voice recorder will be transferred to alexandria, the coastal city here in egypt, where representatives from the government and investigators are going to receive it and go through it. this also comes a day after the said that the search vessel had spotted and obtained images of the wreckage of the plane. another thing they are doing is doing a degree not of the ocean floor -- a debris map of the ocean floor. depending on how it looks and where it is scattered, it could provide information on whether the plane was intact when it hit the water or whether it was broken up midair, which would indicate an explosion. laura: thanks very much for

joining us. the latest on the action off the pitch in the euro 2016 tournament. three russian football hooligans have been jailed here in france over the violence in marseille last monday. 20 others will be deported. last sunday's opening match was marred by violence on both sides. that violence moved north yesterday. there were more classes and arrests. -- clashes and arrests. russia is claiming its fans were unfairly targeted by police after a turbulent first week of euro 2016. the bodies of 34 people, including 20 children, have been found in the sahara desert. authorities in niger say the victims were people trying to reach europe. they were found several days ago near the border of -- with algeria. the interior minister has vowed to crack down on traffickers who demand high prices to transport

people from sub-saharan africa to europe. many people attempt to reach africa and europe -- north africa and europe in search of work. let's get an update on the business news for you. markus karlsson is with us in studio. we've been talking about russian football fans. now, western sanctions over russia's activities in ukraine. markus: this as russia and its president vladimir putin are trying to perhaps change russia's international image. they are hosting a business for them in st. petersburg -- busine ss forum in st. petersburg. the president of the european commission says that the eu won't drop its sanctions until russia implements the minsk agreement. that agreement, as you may remember, is meant to cease hostilities in eastern ukraine. let's take a listen to jean-claude dunker --

jean-claud juncker. >> this is the only way to lift the economic sanctions that have been imposed. markus: that was john kline juncker. jean-claude he was defending his decision to show up in st. petersburg. he said it was in the european union's interest to keep talking to russia. he was speaking to business leaders. some say it is time to phase out the sanctions. the russian economy saw a sharp contraction last year, contributed -- attributed to lower oil prices and the western sanctions. will hilderbrandt has more. will: russia's agriculture is flourishing, taking off one of the -- off once they banned west -- western food imports.

beingus cheese substituted for russian equivalents. the wider economy is not doing as well. last year, it shrank 3.8% under pressure not only from international sanctions, but also low oil prices and high inflation. related effects such as reduced foreign investment and moscow's retaliatory -- >> the economy is looking like it as stabilized -- has stabilized. the oil prices up from $30 to $50. that makes a big difference, too. william: russian officials are urging the eu to lift the economic sanctions, but there may not be a significant change unless the americans also get on board. >> getting rid of european sanctions, helpful. getting rid of american sanctions -- that holds back investors from

getting involved. will: russia has laid out an ambitious set of reforms to woo investors. markus: the bank of england has warned that a brexit would -- a brexit boat could send -- a brexit vote could send the british pound plunging. there is evidence that businesses and consumers are pushing off investment decisions. campaigners for the leave vote criticized the forecaster, saying that the central bank could be in danger -- could be endangering financial stability. there has been pushed back, saying -- pushback, saying it is the bank's duty to learn of upcoming risk. we'll take a look at how stock markets are faring. u.s. stocks started the day in negative territory, but they

have perked up over the last hour or so. the dow jones and the s&p trying to snap a five-day losing streak. this as investors are digesting lower oil prices and brexit fears, an issue that has been very much in focus in recent days. earlier, the bank of japan chose not to increase its stimulus for the japanese economy. in europe, the indices have finished in the red with the same issues are much in focus. the frankfurt dax was the hardest hit out of the main indices on this side of the atlantic, down around 0.6%. 5%. cac 40 down by 0.4 the ftse 100 down by about 0.25 %. the french economy is picking up pace and so is job creation. the forecast is that the economy this year, by 1.6%

up from 1.2% in 2015. insee also expects the unemployment rate to drop below 10% by year-end. books why didn't roll out more than 30 all electric -- volkswagen aims to roll out more than 30 all-electric vehicles by 2035. volkswagen is trying to reposition itself after the deep -- the diesel emission scandal that broke last year. speaking of car sales, they picked up in the european union. as we saw them continuing to accelerate in may, they grew by 16% in the same month last year, according to figures from an industry body. one point 3 million new vehicles were registered in the eu last newh -- 1.3 million vehicles were registered in the eu last month. sales in italy jumped by as much

as 7%. disney has opened its first theme park in mainland china. it's the largest foreign investment ever made by the entertainment empire. it is seen as a bet on china's growing middle class. their dreams have finally come true. thousands flocked to the opening of shanghai's new theme park, the first disneyland in mainland china. >> i want to go and see this ride. it's only in shanghai. the other disney parks in the world don't have it. i've been to all the parks. we've been looking forward to this one because it's the biggest and we are from shanghai. >> i think it's really lively here. it can make every girl realize her dream of becoming a princess. reporter: in a fairytale inauguration ceremony featuring communist party officials, a

children's choir, and beloved disney characters, the chinese vice president, and disney ceo outeiger rode -- iger rode letters from president obama and president xi jinping. >> i write to welcome the grand opening of the shanghai disney resort. blending an american business with the beauty and rich cultural heritage of china. reporter: even the rain could not cloud the optimism. >> even -- in chinese culture, water represents wealth. we can say that it's raining dollars. billion: with a $5.5 price tag, it is disney's priciest attachment -- attraction yet. despite facing competition from other 3000 theme

parks, tickets sold out in just two hours and there are no more available until next month. theness analysts expect human shanghai to become the most visited themepark worldwide shanghai tosney become the most visited themepark worldwide. markus: apparently that cinderella castle is the tallest in the world. laura: thanks very much. markus karlsson. we will take a short break.

06/16/16 06/16/16 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from pacifica, this is democracy now! >> fundamental disconnect with the american people when these tragedies continue to occur and we just move forward with business as usual. remain onm going to this floor until we get some signal, some sign t that we c cn come together on these two measures, that we can get a path forward.