welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you are watching cnn newsroom and i m a church just ahead. one more american city shattered by yet another mass shooting this time . five killed after the gunman opened fire in a bank. the attack on folding the very same day that the tennessee lawmaker expelled for protesting gun violence made his dramatic return to the statehouse, plus the pentagon shifts into damage control after classified documents ended up online, giving a glimpse at us spying efforts on allies and enemies alike. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. two deadly mass shootings within two weeks into american cities less than 200 miles apart. we are following the heartbreak and the fallout in tennessee, a lawmaker kicked out of the state house for taking part in a gun reform protests on the chamber floor after a fatal school shooting in his community two weeks ago, was just reinstated. the nashvi
and the response to such calls from the republican stat legislature, in the republican governor has been thus far t just keep getting rid of law around guns, to keep getting them more and more prevalent and more more places, giving them to more and more people who previously, under othe laws, would not have bee allowed. to have them and that was the context a wee and a half ago, when three democratic state legislators some middle aged white women and two young black men, the three of them got wowed on the floor of the state legislature essentially, cheering on kid in the gallery who had come to peacefully, but very loudly, protest. that state legislature, only acting to make things worse, i terms of gun violence. even after that elementary school massacre in nashville you see the three stat legislators there, in th front. you see them there that picture, political headline as the whole country now i well aware, the republican dominated tennessee stat legislature that vot
really happy to have you here. on a news day like today it is i will admit a little bit hard to know where to begin, but today is yet another day when one place to begin is with today s american mass shoot. this time in louisville, kentucky downtown louisville, right next to the minor league baseball park there police say a 25-year-old man armed with a rifle shot 13 people at a bank at which he was either currently or very recently employed. four of the people he shot were killed, nine were injured, and of those nine injured three are consi considerered to be critically wounded. because this is what it s like in our country increasely awash in high powered weapons, while the louisville police were responding to that absolutely devastating just catastrophic multiple murder scene at that bank, while they were responding to that call, they got a second call from less than 2 miles away, a call about multiple people shot at a nearby community college, one person dead there as well
and the other main headlines this lunchtime. the family of nicola bulley says they re in agony, as they wait for police to identify a body found in the river, close to where she disappeared. the true cost of a cup of tea sexual exploitation on the tea farms that supply some of britain s most popular brands. scotland s finance secretary, kate forbes enters the race to replace nicola sturgeon as snp leader and first minister. and after a tour of the uk, dippy the dinosaur, finds a new home in coventry. and coming up on the bbc news channel. we ll tell you how ireland are getting on in theirfinal women s t20 world cup group game against india, still searching for theirfirst win. good afternoon from kyiv, where an american president, has made an extraordinary visit, to an active war zone. it s joe biden s first trip to ukraine, since russia invaded almost a year ago. rumours had been swirling for 2h hours that a high level visitor would be here today, but the trip was shroude
this historic fight. we hope that this year the 2023 will become a year of victory, this unprovoked and criminal, russia s waragainst ukraine and against the whole world. in other news, the family of nicola bulley describe their agony as police find a body in the river near the place she went missing. scotland s finance secretary, kate forbes, becomes the third candidate to enter the leadership contest to replace nicola sturgeon as first minister. bbc analysis shows that some of britain s local bus networks have been slashed by more than a third. and after a tour of the uk, dippy the dinosaurfinds a new home in coventry. good afternoon. welcome to the bbc news channel. us presidentjoe biden has made a surprise visit to kyiv his first to ukraine since russia invaded almost a year ago. he met ukraine s president, volodmyr zelensky and both men visited a memorial for ukraine s war dead. at a news conference mr biden announced more military, political and financial support for