Jennifer last night on cnn, larry prat the president of the group gun owners of america proposed an idea for how to stop mass killings. Flood the country with more guns so all of that socalled good guys are armed. With guns come safety if the guns are in the hands of the good guys. If you believe and understand that there is evil in the world, you try as your first line of defense to solve it psychiatrically. You protect yourself with a gun. Jennifer in other words create an army of individual landties. Listen to this. Good guys carrying guns can and do make a difference. The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Jennifer but the facts just do not bare that out. Consider the Gabby Giffords shooting. An armedman was there and afterwards he tells reporters this. I carry a weapon and when i heard gunfire i ran out and i would have shot him. Jennifer the man he thought was the shooter was not actually the shooter, it was another man who wrestled the gun away from
Capitol building on wednesday were a riotous mob and domestic terrorists. He blamed donald trump for what he called an unrelenting attack on american democracy. White has a spokesperson says that once a puzzling violence was appalling, reprehensible and antithetical to the american way and that the president condemned it. She said it did not represent in ministrations values. Administrations values. Facebook has extended its block on Donald Trumps accounts for at least the next two weeks untiljoe bidens inauguration saying he was trying to incite violent insurrection. Twitter has also temporarily suspended his feed. And thereve been numerous demands for an inquiry into wednesdays violent protests. The mayor of washington called them an affront to democracy. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are lizzy burden, uk economy reporter for bloomberg news, and Faiza Shaheen, inequality lead at the centre for International Cooperation at
Cant handle the bodies. Theres so many of them. This is, essentially in my community, queens, new york. Ive seen things ive never seen before. Over the bridge from queens, there is now an emergency Field Hospital being built in central park to help deal with the overflow of those sickened by the coronavirus. This is the new grim reality on this monday morning. Streets lined up with refrigerated trucks, acting as makeshift morgues, while hospital staff and First Responders struggle to keep their heads above the dizzying death toll. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is monday, march 30th. We begin with the many fastmoving developments on the coronavirus. The Trump Administration is now extending its guidelines on social distancing. Instead of the president s goal of easter, the guidelines will now extend by more than two weeks, to april 30th. The death toll is increasing rapidly, now at nearly 2,500. It took a month for the u. S. To go from 1 to 1,000 deaths. According to the n
Than a third of the global population confined to their homes because of covid 19, the world is going through an unprecedented social experiment. Heres Martine Croxall with stories of life in lockdown. Hello, and welcome to this special programme on the world in lockdown. Im Martine Croxall. We start this week in new york, one of the places the world hardest hit by the coronavirus outbreak, notjust the city itself, but new york state has recorded more than 10,000 deaths from covid 19. Anna and jango, who live in brooklyn, are engaged and were planning on going to venice to get married, but unfortunately, jango fell ill. Heres what happened next. Clapping and cheering so, thats anna and jangos story of life in lockdown in new york, but for other couples, especially those in new relationships, the experience can be slightly bewildering. We asked three couples, including kellyn whos been quarantining with a man shes just met. What living circumstances look like for them during lockdown .
Hello this is bbc news. The headlines uk ministers say the public must adjust to a new normal as the coronavirus outbreak remains at a delicate and dangerous stage. Latest figures show another 413 people died in uk hospitals. Senior nhs officials insist that social distancing measures remain vital. We now have a very definite trend in a reduced number of people in hospitals. That is definitely showing that our compliance with social distancing is proving to be beneficial. Boris johnson is back in downing street, two weeks after being discharged from hospital treatment for conronavirus symptoms. Italy reports its lowest coronavirus daily death toll in over a month as the government is set to announce a gradual easing of the countrys lockdown. Children in spain are allowed out for the first time in six weeks, as the daily number of deaths fell to its lowest level in more than a month. Theres continuing concern in care homes in england over testing for staff and residents. I will be runni