united states and all around the world. i m rosemary church. just ahead on cnn newsroom. a search for answers in allen texas as investigators try to piece together a motive for saturday s mass shooting. we are learning new details about how the rampage unfolded. and explosions light up the skyline over gaza as israeli forces launch a wave of targeted airstrikes. we will have a live report from israel just ahead. plus, more rain on putin s victory day parade. as russia prepares to mark one of its most important holidays. signs of an actual victory on the battlefield are few and far between. thank you for being with us, here in the united states, a pair of tragedies has put a spotlight on two of the country s most divisive issues. guns and immigration. in allen texas, a mass shooting that killed eight people has devastated an entire community. and it has reignited the fierce debate about gun reform in america. to the south, the border town of brownsville is also coping with t
the electric car battery maker britishvolt has gone into administration after hopes of a last minute bid for the company faded. the collapse raises questions about uk hopes of building a home grown battery industry. the company, which had plans to build a gigafactory to make the uk start up had been expecting to build a new 5.8 billion or $4.7 billion factory in northumberland, as part of a long term vision to boost uk manufacturing. well, this promotional video shows what the factory with a capability to make 300,000 electric batteries a year would have looked like. the plan was to create 3,000 jobs at the plant. now, administrators have taken over the business and most of britishvolt s 300 staff are being made redundant. here s our business editor simonjack. so what went wrong? britishvolt was a start up company with no track record. their battery technology was only at the prototype stage. although there are expressions of interest from lotus and aston martin, they
what they said was a weak securities response. a big question ours may, whether hamas will get involved. hamas of course runs the gaza strip. israeli military often says that nothing happens there without hamas s approval. now hamas has said in a statement that the israeli occupation will pay the price for its crimes. the israeli military has taken pain to say that there are only focusing on islamic jihad and not a mosque. remember last august, there was a short 2 to 3-day confrontation between a lot of jihad in not. hamas did not get involved. that now it is a question, will they choose to get involved now? israeli military is preparing for a response. have told residents in the area that they are under a emergency operation. people closer to cause a need to stay close to their bomb shelters. and the military reserves have been called, or it might? hadas gold reporting from southern israel. many thanks. still to come, thousands are set to mark russia s annual victory day parade in m
huge part of the uk economy. it needs more support from government. ginny, thank you very much for your time. we appreciate it. let s turn to the war in ukraine and the town of soledar, which has seen some of the bloodiest fighting of the conflict. who s in control is disputed. russia claims to have taken it, but ukraine denies this. here s an army spokesperson. ukrainian forces stay in soledar and permanently hit russian troops and wagner criminals. thank you, british people and government, for our support. the fall of soledar would mark russia s first significant battlefield gain after months of military retreats and setbacks against ukrainian forces. it s located in ukraine s eastern donetsk province near the towns of bakhmut and kramatorsk. russia has made multiple claims
but for the ukrainians, it s more or less stalingrad and the alamo rolled into one because what it does is gives them a rallying point and, you know, a point at which they can say we have defended our country and we need to remember those who sacrificed at mariupol and especially at azovstal. i want to touch on what you said about victory day tomorrow a holiday there in russia as they use it to mark russia s victory over nazi germany in world war ii. there is speculation, though, tomorrow that president putin is going to declare war officially on ukraine. up to this point he has not done so. he s just called it a special military operation. if he were to declare war, first of all, what would that look like? secondly, what does the world do then? does it change what the world needs how the world needs to respond? yeah.