john: brand-new at 2:00, america s crime crisis kids edition. cities across the nation seeing huge spikes in violent crime committed by children and teens. sandra: instead of cracking down, democrat-led cities and states are making it even easier for teens to do the crime and serve no time. the same progresstive prosecutors for things like no cash bail in new york are branching out, bringing similar soft on crime policies to teens. critics ask why would this time be any different. john: welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour on this friday eve. hi, sandra. john: john, great to be with you. so-called juvenile justice reforms have a lot of people scratching their heads. a 12-year-old brought a gun to school without fearing any criminal charges as a result. lawrence jones is one of the people asking how that is justice for anyone. he ll join us ahead. fox news alert. can you say how many people the white house counsel s office added to prepare for t
and why light pollution the interference caused by towns and cities is making it more difficult to see the stars. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the hollywood actor alec baldwin is being charged with involuntary manslaughter, after a gun he was handling on set went off, killing the cinematographer halyna hutchins. the armourer of the film, rust, who was responsible for the weapon, will face the same charge, after the gun that baldwin fired was found to contain live ammunition. ms hutchin s family have released a statement saying they support the charges. sophie long reports. the frantic efforts to save halyna hutchins in the moments after she was shot. it was during rehearsals on the set at the bonanza creek ranch in new mexico when the shootings and deaths depicted on the 19th century western they were filming became all too real. alec baldwin was holding the gun that discharged the bullet that killed her. he was also one of the film s pro
are you concerned about the influence of andrew tait on boys or young men? get in touch with me on twitter. laterthis young men? get in touch with me on twitter. later this hour, the number of stars people can see with the naked eye has reduced dramatically over the last decade. welcome to bbc news. ukraine s president, volodymr zelensky, has made a direct appeal to germany to provide tanks ahead of crunch talks involving western allies in germany. ahead of crucial talks. the us and european nations have already promised more equipment to fight russia s invasion, but kyiv wants them to go further amid fears moscow will order a new offensive in the spring. ukraine wants nato countries to supply it with germany s highly regarded leopard 2 tanks. but european coutries are not supposed to export them without berlin s permission. and germany is reluctant to allow that unless the us also sends its own tanks. meanwhile, the uk has already promised to send 1a of its challenger 2 t
rangers and australia have discovered what is believed to be the world s biggest toad. it is a cane toad, it was found in queensland and weighed £6 back. the poisonous amphibians were reduced to australia in 1935 and are linked to the decline of native species. the toad we are told was put down and will be donated to a museum. i didn t look at that at all. hello, ben, it is where the time. she was looking away, i can assure you of that. you may not want to look away from this, we have got some beautiful scenes and this is from a weather watcher in wales. there is snow on the ground in parts of scotland, northern england, northern ireland and into wales. there are areas of cloud around as well and they are on the north sea coast, most falling as rain, but some sleet and snow on high ground. this cloud brings a bit of patchy rain into the far west of cornwall, but elsewhere sunny skies overhead. it is a chilly day, three to 8 degrees, but in the sunshine it will not feel too b