in somalia, hundreds of communities are being ravaged by drought, causing a humanitarian crisis that is harming the country s most vulnerable. we have a special report. and johnny depp s lawyers say accusations of domestic violence have ruined him, during closing arguments in the defamation trial with amber heard. hello and welcome to bbc news. police in texas say it was the wrong decision to delay entering the classroom in a school in the city of uvalde, where 21 people were killed by a gunman on tuesday. it took 53 minutes for armed police to eventually go in. as local people come to terms with tragedy, grief is turning into anger. here s our north america editor, sarah smith. terrified students were rescued from the school while the gunman was still in one of the classrooms. the children trapped inside were desperately calling 911 for help. one young girl called back four times, telling the operator some of the students are still alive, and pleading, please send the polic
defence but it is just not effective. the best way to do this is for ukraine to do counter battery strikes, identify where these weapons are coming from, destroy those weapons. so there would be a meaningful, significant added capability. our stuff is better than their stuff, nato stuff is better than russian stuff, we could destroy those systems as well as target really critical assets that the russians are using to perpetuate this evil war. but in terms of whether it s going to happen, and still have my doubts. i hope is going to happen, i think the conversation has turned to this idea of giving ukraine all the tools they need to win. that has so far been rhetorical. we ve given them a lot, we ve given them offensive weapons, heavy weapons, but we have not given them these types of things, these long range fires. and they still have my doubts. i said. russia and they still have my doubts. isaid. russia is and they still have my doubts. i said. russia is focusing its energies on the d