hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you are watching cnn newsroom and i m rosemary church. just ahead, aid groups around the world are rushing to help turkey and syria after monday s deadly earthquake. i ll speak with the head of the norwegian refugee council, about the efforts to help survivors. plus, parts of the southern u.s. are surveying damage after severe storms ripped through the area. we re live at the cnn weather center with the latest. and after surprise visits to the u.k. and france, the ukrainian president is headed to belgium where he s been invited to an e.u. summit. we re live in brussels and london, on zelensky s unannounced diplomatic tour of europe. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with rosemary church. thanks for being with us. the death toll from the devastating earthquake in turkey and syria has nearly doubled in just the past 24 hours. now, more than 16,000. president erdogan
speaking in poland a former eastern bloc country that s no stranger to russian aggression, biden started off by saying that the war has so far defied two big expectations. one, that kyiv would fall within days, and two, that the western alliance would splinter as the war dragged on. watch. one year ago the world was bracing for the fall of kyiv. well, i can report kyiv stands strong. kyiv stands proud. it stands tall. and most important it stands free. when russia invaded it wasn t just ukraine being tested, the whole world faced a test for the ages. europe was being tested. america was being tested. nato was being tested. all democracies are being tested. the questions we faced were simple as they were profound. would we be strong if we looked the other, would we be weak? all of our allies would be united or divided? one year later we know the answer. we did respond, we would be strong, we would be united, and the world would not look the other way. president biden also
begin this week as the justice department opens an investigation to the police department. and the president vowing to meet with members of congress about enacting new gun legislation. we ve been i have dealt with more mass shooting aftermaths than any president in american history. it s just so much of much of it is preventible. in a moment, senator rowan gutierrez has this message for my potential school shooters in his county. we re going to shoot you graveyard dead if you come to a campus shooting at our children or shooting at us. we re with jeff paul with more. good afternoon. yeah, trace. the first of many funerals getting underway today as the memorial here in the city of uvalde grows. this is the beginning for the city as they say good-bye to the 21 that were killed and will continue on the next few weeks. if you look at the schedule of these memorials and funerals and visitations, there will be one until mid june almost every day for this city. one of
finding any way to back out of not just seizing the donbas and retaining crimea, he s seizing all of ukraine. so he s a one way road to disaster for russia. however, it is clear to me the crux of the matter is can the western alliance stay together and support ukraine? if they can, if they stop the metering out of military technology, armor, deep strike artillery, and rocket weapons, lethal drones. if they if we firmly support them over the long run, ukraine wins completely, russia loses completely. and let me add one other comment. i was in warsaw having lunch with a senior polish defense official a few years back, and he reminded me. he said, barry, you know, we live between germany and russia. the germans will seize your freedom when the russians grab
is standing by in brussels. what can we expect to come out of this e.u. summit? certainly, in terms of support for ukraine and, of course, the reason why the president is there is he wants to get more weapons for his war to push russia out of his country. reporter: long-range specific rocket weapons. he wants the be able to reach deeper behind russian lines to target the ammunition depots, the xhcommand and control areas that have been pushed back a little by systems like the u.s. system. but he wants a longer range version of these rocket systems. very importantly, and he made this point very squarely and very firmly when he was in the u.k. fighter aircraft. what president zelensky says that he can do is help drive the