hello, and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states, and all around the world. welcome to cnn newsroom, i m rosemary church. just ahead. some republicans want medicare and social security sunset. i m not saying it is a majority. let me give you decorum goes out the window during president biden s state of the union address, some republicans openly booed and heckled him mid speech. rescuers racing against time to find survivors after the devastating earthquake that has left more than 8700 dead in turkey and syria. thank you for joining us. the u.s. president has delivered his first state of the union address with a republican majority in the house of representatives. he brought an energetic, optimistic message to the country, despite facing some open hostility. one of joe biden s big themes was working across the aisle and he made a huge push for bipartisanship. i signed over 300 bipartisan pieces of legislation since becoming president. from rea
police in the united states who are investigating a mass shooting at a primary school in nashville say the attack appears to have been carefully planned and targeted. audrey hale, a former pupil, shot six people dead, including three children all nine years old, before being shot and killed by officers. there ve already been 130 mass shootings in the us this year alone. a mass shooting is when at least four people are shot in one attack. since january, nearly 10,000 people have died at the hands of firearms. and more than 400 of those have been children under the age of 18. earlier, us presidentjoe biden spoke to reporters. the majority of american people think having assault rifles is bizarre. i can t do anything but plead to the congress. let s hear from nashville s chief of police. we have interviewed the parents of audrey hale and we determined that audrey bought seven firearms from five different local gun stores here legally. they were legally purchased. three of those
tonight, bringing us the context are stefanie brown james, co founder of collective pac, the group campaigning for equal representation in american politics, and former ukjustice secretary and chief secretary to the treasury david gauke. welcome to the programme. for several days now western leaders have been providing political cover for the german chancellor, while privately venting frustration at his reluctance to send the leopard tanks to ukraine. according to german newspapers his refusal to approve the deliveries on friday, at a meeting of nato defence ministers, led to sharp words between him and the us secretary of defence lloyd austin. olaf schulz s office deny that, saying neither the tone nor content of the reports were true. but certainly there was frustration, and you could hear it when the bbc spoke, earliertoday, to the polish prime minister, who has decided to go it alone. let me put it this way, poland and the free world cannot afford not to send leopard ta
about our own checks. most nra members favour things like background checks. we look specifically in research to find out how do we do this in a way that may be at a little bit different from what people keep trying to do this not working. so one thing that i would appreciate if we could talk about this more at another point is that if you have, for example, you commit a violent distant metre, 80% of gun owners think you should not be able to have a gun. that s not a law in most places now, right? so that we reduce, if you have that law in every state, that would reduce homicides with a gun by over 20%. so that s pretty significant, right? red flak laws, which you probably talk about and know at this point if somebody is a danger with themselves or others, you could petition the court to have their gun taken away. we could do a betterjob on that. if we do that that might have worked on this case in natural as well, by the way. if they had a red flag law it turns out their parents did n
roadmap to reduce homicides, but with a 20%, and suicides by 6.7%. the ways to do that, we need them nationally, state background checks are better than federal background checks, what for the president when he is talking about assault weapons man we can t get universal background checks through congress that has a support from anywhere from 89 to win if we re not getting that past were not getting the fully and what i would like to see is a more realistic assessment of what could be, done which is better constraining for example. state background, checks red flag laws, and also, rosemary, this is really important. people who commit violent misdemeanors, they are still able to get a gun. most gun owners would say, they should not be able to get a gun. most people in this country agree, that if you have committed a violent misdemeanor as opposed to a felony, which for that you can t get a gun, a