In parkland, florida, where a vigil is taking place to remember the 17 People Killed by a teenager yesterday. Earlier in the day President Trump promised action to make americas schools safer. Nikolas cruz, a former student at the school, appeared in court. The fbi said it had been warned a year ago about the potential threat posed by cruz, but that there was no evidence he was planning an attack. Aleem maqbool reports. For hours, children at a high school found themselves in a combat zone. I have the gunshot victim. There was mayhem and bloodshed as a gunman stalked its corridors. Shots can be heard close by as these terrified pupils sheltered in a classroom fearing for their own lives. He went up and down the hallwayjust banging and shooting into the classrooms. He shot through the door and broke the window. All of a sudden we heard one of the Student Government teachers say, run as fast as you can, and we heard a gunshot. 17 year old lewis, originally from coventry, moved to florida three years ago and is a student at the school. He was barricaded in a Storage Cupboard for two hours. We heard the door to our room being unlocked. We heard someone say police, police. There were two different people. We didnt know how many shooters there were. We didnt know if it was police. I remember my teacher turning to me and saying, what do we do . Thats terrifying. She opened the door and the relief when you realised it was these guys in military getup holding pistols and assault rifles. I have friends who have been killed, friends who have been shot. How can this be real . This is a school i go to. Im watching video footage and its my friends going out with their hands up. Police did finally get to every classroom. The fear palpable. Police put your hands up. Survivors were ushered through the corridors with hands on their heads, Police Marksman watching closely in case a gunman was still amongst them. The first of those identified as having been killed was a football coach and Security Guard at the school. In the coming days, well learn details of the young victims too. This is one of many vigils being held for those who died. Shocking here to see the faces of so many young people who yesterday were attending what they thought was a regular day at school and today they are mourning friends who sat beside them in their classrooms. The killer escaped with fleeing schoolchildren, but was soon arrested without a struggle. He is 19 year old nikolas cruz. A young man known for having a fascination with guns, and who even, it now appears, threatened in a social media post to become what he called a professional school shooter. The leader of a White Nationalist militia said cruz had taken part in paramilitary training with them. You are charged with some very serious crimes. Kevin found the girl who sat next to him in an english class earlier in the day was one of those who have died. He also knew the gunman, whod been a former student at the very same school he attacked. Hes someone who used racial slurs. He was just awful to other people. Im sure he was bullied himself by some, but he was the type of person who people were scared to bully because they knew something could happen. They just didnt think this could happen. It makes me angry because we all knew him, we all knew that there was a potential for something to go wrong. It just sucks that we couldnt stop him. These thoughts are the type with which no children should have to burden themselves. But in a country where there have been more than 200 School Shootings in less than five years, more and more are being taught by such horrors. Aleem maqbool, florida. Lets take a look at some of the days other news. The leader of the African National congress, cyril ramaphosa, has been sworn in as south africas new president. Jacob zuma resigned from the post last night after pressure from his party over various corruption allegations. This was the moment he took the oath of office. Would you please raise your right hand as the president elect and say macro one hand as the president elect and say macro one so help me god. Hand as the president elect and say macro one so help me god. So help me god. Icon firm that we have both sealed the oath by signing and its my honour and privilege to congratulate the president of the republic of south africa. Congratulations. Also making news today the Australian Government has banned ministers from having sex with their staff. Thats after it was revealed that deputy Prime Minister barnabyjoyce had an affair with his former staffer and now shes pregnant. He now says that hes separated from his wife and is in a relationship with his former staffer. Iam i am saying that from today this change is being made in a way that is very, very clear. Couldnt be clearer. This is a bright line and im saying that in these workplaces here, in ministers offices, ministers must behave accordingly. They must not, i dont care whether they are married or single, i dont care. They must not have sexual relations with their staff. Thats it. The hong kong pop singer denise ho says shes been denied a performance permit in malaysia because of her support for gay rights. She is openly gay and very outspoken on lgbt issues. She had been scheduled to perform in kuala lumpur in april. A malaysian government minister said that performances had to comply with local values. The former oxfam worker, accused of paying for prostitutes while working in chad and haiti, has responded. Roland Van Hauwermeiren denied paying for sex and said that an event he attended in haiti was not a sex party. One in every six children, is now living in a global conflict zone, according to save the children. The charity says children are at more risk from Armed Conflict now, than at any other time in the last 20 years. When you are travelling, how careful argue with your belongings when you go through security or a train station . Bubbly not as vigilant as this woman. She actually climbed into an x ray machine during a Security Check because she was so worried about being separated from her handbag, much to the surprise of security staff. She emerged a p pa re ntly security staff. She emerged apparently unscathed from the experience and the woman simply left the area immediately afterwards. Its the beginning of what could well be the biggest annual celebration worldwide, the Lunar New Year, also known as the spring festival. 0ver1. 4 billion people around the world marked the official entry into the year of the dog with lanterns, banquets and colourful celebrations. Lets take a look at a few of them. It wouldnt be the spring festival without the annual gala in beijing, which draws in millions of viewers every year. Its the most watched live tv programme in china. Watching the show with family members is a big tradition. Theres singing, dancing and comedy acts, spotlighting all of chinas different provinces. Outside of beijing, different areas have their own local customs to mark the occasion. The local tu ethnic group in northwestern qinghai province prints patterns with chinese characters meaning horse and money on yellow paper and attaches them to door heads. Its believed that horses attract wealth and luck. But celebrations are by no means restricted to china. In kuala lumpur, malaysians gathered in the enormous thean hu temple. Its been decorated with hundreds of red lanterns and, of course, dogs, especially for the occasion. Devotees pray for health and prosperity in the new year. Earlier i spoke to feng shui master chee hiang chua. I began by asking him for his predictions for the year of the earth dog. This year will be a good year because there are five elements in the chinese metaphysics and this year it is the year of earth. You brought us a dog . The colour is yellow, so a yellow doggy for the year. And of course the mandarin is a for celebrations across the region. Yes, happy Lunar New Year to all of our viewers. All of us want to know, who is going to have a good year and bad year in this year of the dog . Any predictions . Depending on which side of the field you are, mrtrump, on which side of the field you are, mr trump, president of the us, is going to have a good year going by his birth chart. So it might be good news or bad news. So the despite the fact that we had tragic incident in florida recently and a lot of issues surrounding the administration, you predicted good year . 0n the surface everything will look calm because of the element of earth which has faith, loyalty and trust. The 57 7 a lot of scandals ~ a lot of scandals and. , had a lot of scandals and revelations surroundigg. Had a lot of scandals and revelations surroundigg sea me too revelations surrounding sea me too movement. Can we expect more of those this year . Yes. The element of earth represents in chinese elderly men, so it might be salacious. We will see a continuation of me too and all of that for the year. For our viewers who want to do something to make sure that they have a good year, is there any advice that you have for the year of the dog . For Chinese New Year it is always a good idea to wear red because the colour of celebration. I am wearing bread and ben has on a red tie. What about yellow . If you want to dress according to the colour of the year, yellow, shades of earth also. Youre watching newsday on the bbc. Still to come on the programme all that exercise must work up an appetite, we take a look at the food on offer at the winter olympic games. Nine years and 15,000 deaths after going into afghanistan, the last soviet troops were finally coming home. The withdrawal in good order, but the army defeated in the task it had been sent to perform. Malcolm was murdered. That has a terrible effect on the morality of the people. One wonders who is next. As the airlift got under way, there was no letup in the eruption itself. Lava streams from an event low in the greater slowdown into the sea east of the island, away from the town for the time being, but it could start flowing again at any time. The russians heralded their new Generation Space station with a spectacular night launch. They called it mir, the russian for peace. This is newsday on the bbc. Im ben bland in london. Our top stories more details emerge about the suspected teenage gunman who attacked his former high school in the us, re igniting the long running debate about gun laws in america. Cyril ramaphosa has replaced jacob zuma as president of south africa, taking over a country with a struggling economy and a divided ruling party. Mr ramaphosa vowed that fighting corruption would be a top priority. Lets take a look at some front pages from around the world. The japan times reports on the fallout from a recent hacking of the Cryptocurrency Exchange coincheck, worth about half a billion dollars. Traders in the digital money have filed a lawsuit in tokyo against coincheck for reimbursement of their money plus interest, and the lawyers say about a thousand more people want to do the same. Gulf news looks at a possible distraction for drivers in the united arab emirates, a road side gallery. Motorists driving from dubai to abu dhabi will be able to see 10 billboards with pictures of artworks at the louvre abu dhabi, and tune into a radio channel to hear 30 second lesson on each piece. And the Financial Times has a look at sticker rules in london planned for driver hours, that could hit ride hailing apps like uber. Londons transport authority says all private Car Companies will be compelled to hand over data on driver working hours, in a move the paper says thats seen as specifically aimed at uber. Sparking a lot of discussion online as well. Yes lets looks at what is trending right now. The shooting in florida is getting attention online and a lot of it is calling out american politicians. Screenwriter bess kalb, who writes forjimmy kimmel live, has been singling out senators who are tweeting their condolences. She is responding with the amount of money they have received from the National Rifle association. For example when floridas senator marco rubio tweeted that today is that terrible day you pray never comes ms kalb replied with a figure ofjust over 3 million. And staying with that story. While the shooting has rekindled calls for gun control in the us, President Trump has been trying to put the focus on Mental Health. Well, earlier i spoke to leeza gold a clinical professor of psychology at georgetown university, and editor of book gun violence and mental illness. Heres what she told me about this line of thought. Really, it is a very unhelpful and unproductive lying to follow. It increases the stigma associated with mental illness, anything that increases the stigma decreases the likelihood that people who need help will come forward. Even if you did give everybody who needed the help that they wanted all could take, it wouldnt make a dent in the kind of gun violence we are seeing in that gets so much publicity. If a lack of attention to helping people with Mental Health problems is part of the problem, what can be done to help . Well, it is really a Public Health problem, both Mental Health and firearm violence in the United States are both public Health Problems and need both need to be addressed as public Health Problems. Mass shootings get the most public attention, but are actually the least common form of gun violence in the United States. Two thirds of the gun violence is actually firearms suicide and the other third are, says that are not typically related to people with mental illness. Mass shootings account for less than 1 per year, which is not to say that they are not horrible and tragic but to try to focus on preventing Mass Shootings by looking at those who are mentally ill, most Mass Shootings are not committed by those with mental illness. As evidenced by the fact that we are just repeating the fact that we are just repeating the same script over and over at again overagain, the same script over and over at again over again, focusing on dental illness each time, the knee jerk reaction, is not effective. Of course there is the focus on the Mental Health of the perpetrator, but then the rest of the a focus on the Mental Health of those who have been through this because they would have seen some horrific things. I just wonder what the best way to help them to recover . In some cases it may take months and years that. Well, each person has to be offered the opportunity to do a very immediate and acute trauma debriefing, so to speak, and do not try to avoid the very Natural Inclination to try to avoid or ignore feelings ought to go on as if things are at a or appear to be ok. And really that is the best way to avoid longer term issues, although it is inevitable that this kind of trauma, some people, not everyone, will have longer term issues. Some people will be more vulnerable and some people will be more resilient. Korea is known for its food. And with the Winter Olympics taking place there, the food is in the spotlight. 0ur correspondent Stephen Mcdonell checked out some of the local dishes available around the Olympic Village in pyeongchang. Athletes, coaches and spectators visiting here for the winter 0lympics visiting here for the Winter Olympics will no doubt be keen to try some korean barbecue. In the area where the games are being held is known for a particular type of beef, making barbecue experience in this region a special one. But for many, the striking cuisine in these mountains is actually to be found hanged up outside. When you walk around pyeongchang, you cant help but notice all of this dried fish hanging out beside the river. 0vernight it is dropping down to 20 degrees celsius, absolutely freezing. Why would you hang out this fish in such harsh conditions . A p pa re ntly this fish in such harsh conditions . Apparently this is crucial to the process which delivers such a unique flavour. Translation the reason why we hang it in the winter is because we hang it in the winter is because we need to repeat the process of freezing and falling. We hang on to drive from december to april, around 120 days. Locals by this fish by the ba gful to 120 days. Locals by this fish by the bagful to take home and you can get it at restaurants, what is more, the good news for athletes going into celebration overdrive after their events is that the fish is also used to make a famous hangover cure soup. Soi to make a famous hangover cure soup. So i might get some of that. Bon appetit. Pretty good. And staying with korean food, over in the north, a competition other than the olympics drew attention. This is the 8th National Cooking competition to honour the birth anniversary of late leader kim jong il. The video provided by the north Korean News Agency shows cooks preparing traditional dishes with fish and meat. The contest is said to have drawn over 300 cooks. Lets stay with food, because it has a big place in the Lunar New Year as chinese communities around the world celebrate the arrival of the year of the dog. One Lunar New Year tradition for families and friends is lucky low hay. This is when you mix a messy fish salad for good luck. First you assemble the ingredients like shredded vegetables, lime, peanuts and fish, saying auspicious things, like may you have a sweet life. Then with family and friends you toss it all up. So mariko, what will you be doing for Lunar New Year . I was just talking to my colleagues, and doing the office cost of. That got some criticism that it is a waste of food so i want to ensure all of our viewers that we finished all of our viewers that we finished all of our viewers that we finished all of that food. After this shift ifi all of that food. After this shift if i can stay awake i will be heading my colleagues house for the new year celebration and i will take my two children who can receive lots of money. Moving on from the food to animals. Keeping wild animals in private property is illegal in india. But a social activist has built a private zoo for almost 100 animals. It has been operating as a rescue centre for newborns whose mothers were killed by local hunters. Lets take a look. You have been watching newsday. Stay with us. And before we go, lets take a look at these pictures. We leave you with this group of baby pandas in Chinas Sichuan province enjoying their Lunar New Year gifts. The cubs are members of the new born family at a breeding base in the province, which saw the births of 42 panda cubs in 2017. The weekend is fast approaching and the weather is looking mixed. A little mixed at the weekend. Friday for most of us is looking absolutely fine, what of clear skies out there so there is the sunshine on the way. Friday is going to start off ricky frosty. Here is the satellite image, we have some snow clouds across scotla nd we have some snow clouds across scotland right now. A cold airstream come in all the way from the arctic regions from greenland, from iceland, tucking into scotland, so here we could see over the next couple of days or so quite a bit of snow. That will be mostly across the hills. Towns and cities and coastal areas will be mostly getting rain. The rest of the country, the early hours look clear, england and wales. The temperatures will be around freezing or below, even on the south coast around plymouth on the temperatures barely above freezing. Here is the pressure map for friday. This is an area of High Pressure, the closer you are to this area of High Pressure today to the weather will be. For places like hull city, norwich and london and southampton will have plenty of sunshine and actually a lot of sun further north as well. Across scotland, more cloud and rein in the western isles, stronger wind and thicker cloud for northern ireland. It wont be cold, around about 10 degrees in the south and around the north, a decrease in newcastle, aberdeen seven. Friday daytime. Lets look at friday night. Into the early hours of saturday and the weather front is approaching, thick cloud on the tip of cornwall through wales into western scotland there will be some rain around too. Snow there will be some rain around too. S now m ostly there will be some rain around too. Snow mostly across the hills, first thing on saturday morning in the north of the pennines, the highlands as well. Saturday itself we have weather fronts grazing northern parts of the uk, so this is where we are most likely to have the thickest of the cloud, again, wintry showers around across scotland but for most of us the weather on saturday actually doesnt look too bad at all. Some hazy sunshine around and those temperatures will be just about double figures in the south, seven or eight in the north. Lot more cloud in the atlantic. That will be coming our way, so come sunday thick cloud right cross the country here, a very different day, over two days, saturday is the sunny day, sunday will be more cloudy with outbreaks of rain getting into cardiff, birmingham, belfast. Maybe a bit of brightness in the north east of scotland and east anglia. Im ben bland with bbc news. Our top story more details continue to emerge about the american teenager suspected of a gun attack on his former high school. 19 year old nikolas cruz has appeared at court in florida, charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder. It was the 18th School Attack in the us this year. Cyril ramaphosa has been sworn in as south africas new president. He replaces jacob zuma, who stepped down on wednesday after caving to pressure from his own party, the anc. And this story is trending on bbc. Com. Do you worry about your bags being stolen when passing through Security Check . Well, one chinese woman joined her handbag through an x ray machine to preventjust that. Apparently she emerged safely on the other side. Its still unclear what the cherished handbag contained. Thats all from me now. Stay with bbc news. Now on bbc news its time for hardtalk