from western nations. and, after winning his defamation case against ex wife, amber heard, we look at whyjonny depp lost a similar court battle in the uk. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. in a rare primetime television address, presidentjoe biden has called on congress to ban assault weapons. from the white house he said that it is time to act, following a string of high profile mass shootings, and appealed to congress not to let the american people down. over the last two decades more school aged children have died from guns than armed duty police officers and active duty military combined. think about that. more kids than armed duty cops killed by guns. more kids than soldiers killed by guns. for god s sake, how much more carnage are we willing to accept? how many more innocent american lives must be taken before we say enough, enough? i know that we can t prevent every tragedy but here is what i believe we have to do, here is what the overwhel
and, after winning his defamation case against ex wife amber heard, we look at whyjonny depp lost a similar court battle in the uk. in a rare primetime television address, presidentjoe biden has called on congress to ban assault weapons. from the white house he said that it is time to act, following a string of high profile mass shootings, and appealed to congress not to let the american people down. over the last two decades, more school aged children have died from guns than armed duty police officers and active duty military combined. think about that. more kids than armed duty cops killed by guns. more kids than soldiers killed by guns. for god s sake, how much more carnage are we willing to accept? how many more innocent american lives must be taken before we say enough, enough? i know that we can t prevent every tragedy but here is what i believe we have to do, here is what the overwhelming majority of american people believe we must do, here is what the families in buf
celebrations. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. in a rare prime time television address, presidentjoe biden has called on congress to ban assault weapons. from the white house, he said that it is time to act following a string of high profile mass shootings, and appealed to congress not to let the american people down. over the last two decades, more school aged children have died from guns than on duty police officers and active duty military combined. think about that. more kids than on duty cops killed by guns. more kids than soldiers killed by guns. for god s sake, how much more carnage are we willing to accept? how many more innocent american lives must be taken before we say enough, enough? i know that we can t prevent every tragedy, but here is what i believe we have to do here is what the overwhelming majority of american people believe we must do here s what the families in buffalo and uvalde, in texas, told us we must do we need to
territory in the east. and conflict erupts in jerusalem amid a controversial celebration. we will take you there for a live report. emotional day in texas as u.s. president joe biden and the first lady try to comfort the heartbroken community of uvalde. just days after a mass shooting inside an elementary school. the two met with families and local officials and laid flowers at a memorial outside robb elementary school, where 19 students and two teachers were killed. this is the second time in less than two weeks mr. biden traveled to the site of a mass shooting to meet with grieving families. cnn s arlette saenz is following developments and has more now from uvalde. reporter: president biden spent about seven hours on the ground here in uvalde, texas, on sunday, trying to offer some sense of solace and comfort to the families grieving the loss of those 19 young children and two teachers gunned down here at robb elementary school just last tuesday. the president and fi
of the country, we report from the frontline in ukraine s eastern most region, luhansk. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. a gunman has shot dead at least 19 students and at least one teacher at a primary school in the us state of texas. the pupils were between the ages of 7 and 10. the mass shooting was in the small town of uvalde, around 135km west of san antonio, at robb elementary school, which is made up of a largely hispanic community. authorities say the suspected attacker was an 18 year old, named salvador ramos. he was shot dead by law enforcement officers. he is believed to have purchased two military grade rifles and is suspected of killing his grandmother before heading to the school. he crashed his car outside the campus and went into the classrooms, wearing body armour. from uvalde, the bbc s angelica casas has more. this is likely the large police purpose and is that this montana uvalde has seen. today it is the target of a school ma