welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i m arunoday mukharji. let s get you the headlines. ajury has found hunter biden guilty of all three felony gun charges in the first criminal trial of a child of a sitting us president. hamas responds to the latest peace proposal for gaza, saying its ready to engage but still wants israel to commit to a permanent ceasefire and completely withdraw its forces. india confirms two of its nationals have been killed while fighting illegally for the russian forces in ukraine. welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in the united states where the president s son, hunter biden, has been found guilty of lying about his drug use to illegally buy a gun. the jury in the trial in delaware convicted him on all three counts. he could face a maximum of 25 years in jail. our north america editor sarah smith has been following the story and has more. handin hand in hand with his step mother, the fi
guns. to this day, people still do not believe it, but look it up. it is true. and now, naturally, along that same plot line, now we have kid-sized fully functional semiautomatic military style assault rifles that fire real bullets. california last year and illinois now are trying at the state level to at least block the marketing of those. but the guns exist. and gun groups and their republican supporters are very much opposed even to trying to regulate the advertising around this new product. i understand, i think i understand perhaps as well as anyone, i m going to guess, that national level american politics is hurly-burly right now. but i am also here to tell you what s going on in the states in many cases, it is just as wild. and it doesn t get enough attention, i think, even when it directly illuminates or relates
assuring people this is not a projected plot line from the simpsons or a borat movie to dramatize how insane things can get in this country, no, this is a real thing. is it designed for children? true, yes. it s in the news today because in the great state of illinois, where there is a pugnacious democratic governor named j.b. pritzker, in illinois, they re about to pass a new law that would ban gun marketing, gun advertising that specifically markets guns to kids. this is sort of a poster child kid assault rifle for that new law. now, of course, they re not banning the gun itself. heaven for fend, we cannot do this in this country, but they re at least trying to ban the advertising of these assault rifles for babies. california passed a law along
power once they got it. but it s true. it is as real as the military sized assault rifle sized down for ripreschoolers, the first substantive thing the new republican congress did in 2017 when they got full control in washington was the republicans passedhe legislation that would facilitate access to firearms for people who had been formally adjudicated to be mentally ill, not just people who seem a little off, but people formally adjudicated by the government to be mentally ill and unable to handle their own affairs. the first thing republicans did with full power in washington was literally make it easier foa officially crazy people to get guns. to this day people do not believe it,da but look it up. it is true. and now naturally along the same plot line now we have kid-sized fullyd- functional semiautomati
the junior ar-15, the jr-15 for toddlers is a real thing. for its part the company who makes the kid gun says the reason it s so great for kids is not only f because it only weig 2 pounds and it s sized for little fingers and little arms and little hands, but they re hot to tell you it has special safety features. the special safety feature appears mostly to be a second deliberately awkward safety knob on the other side of the gun from the regular safety because surely kids won t s be able to figure that one out on their own. the website which debunks fake things on thenk internet had too a post assuring people, no, this is not a rejected plot line from the simpsons or borat movie, it s true. o is a jr-15, a real rifle