live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 6am in the morning in singapore and 5pm in texas, where the usjustice department is to investigate the police response to the mass shooting at a school in which 19 children and two teachers were killed. public anger has grown after it emerged that officers waited in the hallway as children remained trapped with the teenage gunman in a classroom. the announcement comes as president biden visited the town and met with the families of those killed. our north america correspondent barbara plett usher reports. this is the hardest visit a president has to make, especially when the victims are so young. mr biden and his wife, jill, joined the mourning of a devastated community, pausing to recognise each of those murdered at this school. 19 children and two teachers. the president draws on his personal history in these moments of public grief because he s lost two children of his own. a bouquet of flowers added t
before the invasion, and this is what it looks like now. it fell to russian forces earlier this month. and moscow s emissary here has defended their conduct in the city. these are residential areas. these are not legitimate military targets. we have a lot of registered cases when ukrainian artillery- was shelling residential areas. i do accept that mariupol is destroyed by fighting. | but you won t accept that it s the result of russian forces? no, it can be both- because this is a fight. as i have said, russians are - targeting military infrastructure. collateral damage is possible. the town of bucha has become synonymous with atrocities, but the ambassador di5missed allegations of war crimes here as a fabrication. and what of an incident caught on cctv in which these two soldiers are about to kill two unarmed ukrainians? these men, sir, are walking away from the soldiers. you can see it there.
pretty soon. we have just seen evidence of war crime, another one committed by the russian troops in ukraine. they are using cluster munitions. shelling residential areas in various cities indiscriminately. what else do we need to see in order to understand what is going on right now in ukraine? what do western allies, european allies need to do to stop this? we have to arm ukraine and this is what we are doing right now. also other nato allies, all allied country. this is incredibly really. what extent mr. putin has achieved what we have been struggling to accomplish for so many years. he has resuscitated the european union. he has re-enforced nato s unity. he has strengthened the national identity of ukrainians and basically reversed many political trends in germany. this is absolutely superb. i mean, this is what we were expecting for so many years. now it is happening
mariupol has been broken. let s listen for just a second. i m not sure if he s speaking in english, in polish, let s take a listen. the most important situation arising from the ongoing conflict between russia and ukraine, poland s two eastern neighbors. both are polish, american, and allied cooperation, with nato, as well as for the coordination of political activities. poland will never recognize territorial transition brought about by unprovoked aggression. the way in which russia conducts hostilities, based on the desire to break the will of ukrainian resistance, by means of attacks that terrorize civilian populations, shelling
because it s hard to imagine ukraine being interested in any talks with the kremlin while the bombs are still falling. oh, yes, i would say that the peace talks will definitely happen. ukraine has to agree to peace talks. ukraine has to show that the leadership of ukraine has to show that it cherishes lives. it tries to prevent russia from shelling residential areas but unfortunately, we understand these peace talks will lead to nowhere because russians and ukrainians are so far apart. russians want to destroy ukraine and ukraine wants basically their independent state to survive. yeah. let me bring you in, congresswoman. we have a refugee crisis. europe is absorbing nearly a million people and we don t know