message that biden s are sending as another community reels from gun violence. we re also learning more about the nashville shooting investigation as the search for a motive continues police trying to track down when and where the shooter may have had weapons training. and justin donald trump is appealing a court ruling that would force his former chief of staff and other ex aides to testify in the january 6th investigation. this as a new york grand jury is set to take an extended break from its investigation of the former president. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. this hour. the people of nashville are coming together to grieve for the victims of the covenant elementary school shooting with first lady joe biden there to offer her support. she has just arrived. this comes as do information about the investigation is now emerging. carlos suarez and diane gallagher on the ground for us in nat
immune to the venom of hatred to achieve the peace and prosperity that have eluded them through years of bloody ethnic conflicts. more news at the top of the hour. now it s time for political thinking with nick robinson. his guest this week as mary bousted, one of the teaching union leaders. hello and welcome to political thinking. it was another week when children and parents had to wait anxiously for an early morning text or an email to tell them whether their classroom or their school would open that day. thanks not to covid 19, not to a big dump of snow, but to strike action by members of the national education union this week on political thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone in the news, my guest is the joint general secretary of that union, the neu, mary bousted. she is notjust the general secretary of the largest education union in europe, she has been a leader of a trade union for longer than almost anybody else in the country. she w
union leaders in the uk urge the prime minister to intervene in the dispute about healthcare pay. the biggest week of strikes in the history of the national health service is due to start on monday. the us continues to search for the wreckage of a chinese balloon suspected of being used for spying which was brought down by an american fighterjet yesterday. hello and welcome to bbc world news. iran s supreme leader is pardoning a large number of prisoners, including some of those arrested during the past months of protests. the pardon by ayatollah khamenei comes on the eve of the anniversary of the islamic revolution in 1979, a date on which he regularly offers an amnesty to some prisoners. but the iranian state media says it excludes those facing charges of spying for foreign agencies, murder and bodily harm, as well as the destruction or arson of state property. taraneh stone, from the bbc s persian service, says those freed have several conditions attached to their release.
history. he said it was at the risk of civil war. my report on some of our most beloved heroes, rosie the riveters. sparked generational change for women in the workplace. it was a man s world. they didn t realize how capable women are. there s nothing i don t think that a woman can t do. it s up to a woman whether she wants a career raising a family or whether she wants to be an astronaut. we have that choice now. good day. we begin with breaking news from nashville. the bodycam footage from the nashville police. we want to warn you, this is difficult to watch. they released more than six minutes of video from cameras worn by multiple officers as they move from classroom to classroom at the covenant school on monday. searching for the shooter responsible for killing six people, including three children. their tactical movements sending them through the main halls and up to the second floor for an exchange of gunfire with the suspect. today, the nashville community is
and extreme poverty. hello and welcome to bbc news. us defence chiefs have identified what they say is a second chinese surveillance balloon, this time over latin america. the first balloon is floating across the us mid west. antony blinken, the us secretary of state, has cancelled a trip to beijing, and accused the chinese authorities of being irresponsible. china insists the balloon is a weather monitoring device which has blown off course amd has called for tensions between the washington and beijing to be handled in a cool headed and prudent manner. our north america correspondent peter bowes reports. a surreal but increasingly serious international row. this speck in the sky could be spying on the us the chinese balloon that s been hovering over the country for several days. china insists it s a platform to conduct weather related research that s deviated from its route. beijing has apologised but the us state department says it stands by its assessment that the ball