hello and welcome to bbc news. tens of thousands of people have been demonstrating across the united states, demanding stricter gun laws in response to a series of mass shootings. president biden encouraged the protesters to keep marching, and called on congress to pass common sense gun safety legislation. the democrat controlled house of representatives passed a package of gun reforms last week, but republicans in the senate are likely to block them. barbara plett usher reports. another march against gun violence banging on the doors of the nation s capital. this is a movement powered by young people, demanding the country s leaders take action after yet another school shooting a horrific massacre in uvalde, texas. if our government can t do anything to stop 19 kids from being killed and slaughtered in their own school, and decapitated, it s time to change who is in government! all: vote them out! again! vote them out! for years, congress has failed to pass gun safety meas
wartime powers to try to expedite the production of solar panels. that is a head-scratcher. you are watching fox & friends first on a tuesday i m todd piro. carley: carley shimkus, the energy crisis with a blow to morale nationwide. americans say it is a key factor in determining how they plan to vote midterm elections. todd: seven states with primary elections with each party to nominate candidates and the opponents this fall. alexandria hoff with the latest on the economic crisis. but kicks us off with a look at what we are watching today. hello, brooke singman. another date don t make big dayo primaries, just five months away. hours from now americans head to the polls in seven states with economy and soaring gas prices weigh heavy on voters mines. the democrat incumbents are looking at strong g.o.p. challenges hoping for a big pickup in november. democrat michael will face republican brian marriott and a veteran christopher rodrigues among others. and katie porter
and bts, the wildly popular south korean k pop group, visits the white house to speak about the growth in anti asian hate crimes in america. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. . it s 8:00 in the morning here in singapore, and 3:00am in ukraine, where it s reported that a russian air strike has hit a chemical plant in the embattled city of severodonetsk, releasing a cloud of dangerous gas. residents have been told to stay in bomb shelters to avoid the fumes. the ukrainians say russian forces now control most of severodonetsk, the main focus of the russian offensive in the donbas region. the local governor said the city wasn t surrounded, but continuous shelling was making it impossible to bring in supplies or evacuate the remaining civilians. and russian troops are pushing deeper into the region. this is the city of slovyansk, where three people have been killed in a russian missile strike. ukraine s president zelensky has been talking about the
visits the white house to speak about the growth in anti asian hate crimes in america. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to bbc news and to our viewers in the uk and around the world. and to our viewers in the uk it s 6am in the morning here in singapore and 1am in ukraine, where it s reported that a russian air strike has hit a chemical plant in the embattled city of severodonetsk, releasing a cloud of dangerous gas. residents have been told to stay in bomb shelters to avoid the fumes. the ukrainians say russian forces now control most of severodonetsk, the main focus of the russian offensive in the donbas region. the local governor said the city wasn t surrounded, but continuous shelling was making it impossible to bring in supplies or evacuate the remaining civilians. and russian troops are pushing deeper into the region. this is the city of slovyansk, where three people have been killed in a russian missile strike. ukrain
visits the white house to speak about the growth in anti asian hate crimes in america. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in the morning here in singapore and 2am in ukraine, where it s reported that a russian air strike has hit a chemical plant in the embattled city of severodonetsk, releasing a cloud of dangerous gas. residents have been told to stay in bomb shelters to avoid the fumes. the ukrainians say russian forces now control most of severodonetsk, the main focus of the russian offensive in the donbas region. the local governor said the city wasn t surrounded, but continuous shelling was making it impossible to bring in supplies or evacuate the remaining civilians. and russian troops are pushing deeper into the region. this is the city of slovyansk, where three people have been killed in a russian missile strike. meanwhile, ukraine keeps calling for more weapons from the west. this is the former defence minister speaking to the