good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. we start this hour with breaking news teachers in england and wales will go on strike in national disputes over pay. the national education union says the ballots meet the legal thresholds for both turnout and a vote in favour of strikes. seven strike days are being announced between february 1st and 16th march. for more on this, i m joined by our education editor bra nwen jeffreys. what more do we know about this teacher strike which is going to start very soon? the teacher strike which is going to start very soon? teacher strike which is going to start very soon? the paint teachers have had, 5% start very soon? the paint teachers have had. 5% pay start very soon? the paint teachers have had, 5% pay increase - start very soon? the paint teachers l have had, 5% pay increase in england and separately in wales this year, the union says that falls far below inflation in the cost of living and everyone is seeing that. and the result
killed. phoenix, a 14-year-old girl was gunned down and 8 others shot at a strip mall in south carolina, where bullets tore through a graduation party, leaving one dead and others injured, six children. in texas, georgia, new york, and michigan. add those numbers up with the other mass shootings over the first months of 2022, and you get 240 mass shootings. let me say that again. 240 mass shootings already this year, in a year that s not even half over. what will republican governors, legislators, and members of congress do to stop the continued killing of our children in schools, our teenagers at malls, our mothers at graduation parties, our families in church, our grandmothers in supermarkets, our friends at country music festivals? it looks like nothing. nothing to speak of. i just want to know, this so-called party of life, which is anything but, when will they ever respect the life of those who are actually drawing a breath? i don t know. it looks like never. but i will
good monday morning. i am garrett haake in washington. we are watching a number of major developments this morning, starting with fallout from another deadly weekend of gun violence across the united states. look at what happened over this one weekend. yesterday, mass shootings in arizona and michigan and then in chattanooga, tennessee. second mass shooting in that city in as many weeks. saturday, another shooting in arizona with others in south carolina and in georgia and then that chaotic scene in philadelphia where three people were killed. in all, at least a dozen people killed. this morning, we re seeing new surveillance video of the exact moment shots rang out in philly sending a massive crowd into a panic at an entertainment district. the suspects there are still on the loose. we go to philadelphia for a live report in a moment. we also go to uvalde, texas, hearing from a funeral attendant that tried to go after the robbery elementary shooter but was held back by polic
finally pull back the curtain, but with americans attention focused elsewhere, can they make their case? how do we compete with the form of fantasy? i ll speak with senior adviser to the january 6th committee, denver riggleman, ahead. hello, i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is angry at the lack of leadership. senate negotiators say this is the critical week to see if they can do a deal to respond to anything to the mass shootings in uvalde, texas, and buffalo, new york, that took the lives of 31 americans. talks are intensifying as president biden said enough is enough and outlining a series of measures to try to stem the violence, including a ban on some semi-automatic weapons. even with good intentions from some on both sides, the passage of anything the chances still seem remote. as lawmakers deliberate, americans continue to be killed daily in this uniquely american epidemic. overnight three people were killed and 11 wounded after a mass
gina raimondo joins me. plus, prime time event. the january 6th committee will pull back the curtain. can they make their case? the biggest challenge we have is how do we compete with a story of fantasy? i ll speak with senior advise to the january 6th committee ahead. hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is angry at the lack of leadership. senate negotiators say this will be the critical week to see if they can do anything to respond to the mass shootings. the talks are intensifying as president biden delivered a rare primetime address thursday outlining a series of measures to try to stem the violence. even with good intentions from some on both sides, the passage of anything the chances seem remote. as lawmakers deliberate, americans continue to be killed daily in this uniquely american epidemic. three people were killed and 11 wounded after a mass shooting in south street in philadelphia. it s an area less than a mile from where i gr