We ask if it is a gift or a right . Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Glad you could join us. Its 9am in singapore, 1am in the morning in london, and 8pm in the eastern United States where the american gun lobby has lashed out against calls for tougher weapons limits. Relatives and friends of the 17 students who died in florida have called for the measures to stop another School Shooting. But the head of the National Rifle association said it was an elitist plot to infringe american freedoms. Wayne la pierre said teachers should be armed instead, an idea supported by President Trump. Heresjon sopel. Will the Florida School shooting come to be seen as a landmark moment, when impotence gave way to rage, and rage led to action . Neveragain the vociferous students who have taken to the streets are bringing change. But not always in the way they wanted. The president , making clear that he thinks the way to make schools more secure is to tra
Midnight in london and 7pm in the eastern United States where the american gun lobby has lashed out against calls for tougher weapons limits. Relatives and friends of the 17 students who died in florida have called for the measures to stop another School Shooting. But the head of the National Rifle association said it was an elitist plot to infringe american freedoms. Wayne lapierre said teachers should be armed instead an idea supported by President Trump. Heresjon sopel. Will the Florida School shooting come to be seen as a landmark moment, when impotence gave way to rage, and rage led to action . Never again the vociferous students who have taken to the streets are bringing change. But not always in the way they wanted. The president , making clear that he thinks the way to make schools more secure is to train and arm more teachers. Tweeting today, if a potential sicko shooter knows that a school has a large number of very weapon talented teachers and others who will be instantly sh
Someone picked me up that was the last time i saw her she was taken. On the ground a Northern Nigeria as officials try to establish what happened to nearly one hundred schoolgirls. Flames from the sky activists say rockets are being used to spot fires across eastern ghouta. And a crisis five years into the conflict in the Central African republic half the population now needs urgent humanitarian aid. Im joining the sport where the olympic athletes from russia have got their first gold medal in pyung chang but just hours later a Second Russian athlete is confirmed to us at these winter games. We begin this news hour in northeast nigeria with her. Apologize for telling the parents of dozens of missing schoolgirls that their daughters have been rescued the announcement turned out to be false and has sparked outrage the girls were taken from their school in the town of your boy state on monday aljazeera our interests was the First International journalist on the ground and has this report
And western diplomats say this delay gives Syrian Government forces more time to attack the rebel held area. Dozens more people have been killed in a fifth day of strikes which have already killed hundreds. This report from our middle east editorjeremy bowen it does contain graphic images. More air strikes, more bombs and more casualties. It is not letting up. Across Eastern Ghouta, rescue workers sprint into broken and burning buildings before the dust of their destruction settles. This was another attack a few miles away. A temporary ceasefire is under negotiation, brokered by russia, egypt and turkey. Even if it happens, the horror of these days will stay with the survivors for a lifetime. Two sisters, alaa, aged eight and moor, 11, were in their home when it was hit. Warplanes bombed our building. Now. Ghouta. Look at home. This was sent to us by their mother. Please help us. Please save our children here in east ghouta. Where is the humanity . I ask you in the name of motherhood,
Security council awaits a vote on a cease fire plan. President rallies the conservative faithful saying a school with no guns is a dangerous place. The u. S. Confirms it will open its new embassy in jerusalem in may this year palestinian leaders call it an obstacle to peace. And Nigerian Government officials apologized to parents falsely told that missing daughters had been rescued we have an exclusive report. Top story in sport a second the olympic athlete from russia failed a drug. All the details coming up for you later in the program. We begin the news hour in syria where the governments relentless Bombing Campaign on a rebel held enclave near the Capital Shows no signs of abating rockets have been fired into eastern for a sixth straight day pushing the death toll to four hundred thirty two people in the past week alone the United Nations last minute wrangling is delaying a Security Council vote on imposing a thirty day ceasefire to end the hostilities. Reports from gaza on the tur