rest. as the city grieves over an unthinkable act and the questions still unanswered, we re looking to the country s elected leadership to finally take a stand, do anything, to help curb this endless cycle of senseless loss. in just the past week since the uvalde, massacre, there have been 18 more mass shootings across this country according to the gun violence archive in places like fresno, california, chattanooga, tennessee, benton harbor, michigan and taft, oklahoma. we just had the funerals for the victims in buffalo, houston and laguna woods, california. now, many more burials are being planned. in fact there have been 231 mass shootings so far this year, more than one per day. just let that sink in. so how would a rational country react to tragedy after tragedy committed with the use of the same weapons of war almost every time? how about expanding background cheques, banning hundreds of types of military-style weapons, starting a gun buyback program, banning the sale a
Who do you want to ask to do your meds . Theres one major difference in the dingley household, though. What about annie doing them, why doesnt annie do them . Good boy, well done. Alfie is taking his Epilepsy Medicine and he really needs it. His neurologist said he has the worst epilepsy hes ever seen. He would have about 150 of these big seizures. So its arms, legs, eyes going back in your head, you stop breathing. I got up very early in the morning and sat with him, and looked out the window and i held his hand, and i thought about what his funeral might be like, because i thought he was going to die. They brought us into a room and said, weve tried everything and were going to. The last thing were going to give him is intravenous steroids and, if this doesnt work, he will probably die. Alfie and his family have come a long way in the last decade, thanks to a different kind of medicine. So, i give alfie his cannabis oil four times a day. So it comes in a 10ml bottle of oil. Draw the
So, this is what 1,000 Cannabis Plants look like. These batches here are growing for the clinics in the uk. This is a film about a very controversial plant. So, i give alfie his cannabis oil four times a day. He would have these big seizures. So, eyes going back in your head, you stop breathing. Without the cannabis, wed be in hospital in a few days. Cannabis has been legal in the uk as a medicine for five years. I would like to make a statement on the medical use of cannabis. Its legalised, but its not freely available for me to prescribe. So, i think its outrageous. I think its actually a scandal that. So little has happened in the nhs. Weve been up and down the uk meeting those who rely on it. 0h, mercy. Once i vape, its like 30 seconds, im like, 0hh the pain just leaves. And find out why being prescribed Medicinal Cannabis is still a problem. These products are not available within our much loved nhs free at the point of need. Its expensive and its something i cant. I i cant live w
with keir starmer. i have spoken today with rishi sunak and i will bring you our interview with him in the next ten minutes. and more military horses have bolted on the streets of london. on bbc london: the lambeth leaseholders claiming they ve been gagged by the council and coming up on bbc news. coming up in sport she missed the championships last year, can emma raducanu make a winning return to centre court? good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. it s an historic ruling that could have significant consequences. the us supreme court has ruled that donald trump is partially immune from prosecution for actions taken while he was in the white house, over his attempts to overturn the result of the 2020 election. the former president described the decision as a big win . but is it? our north america editor sarah smith is in washington. partially immune? what does this mean? well, first, it means it will be significantly harder now for prosecutors to bring their case
Tv. never mind. it s it s behind the curtains, joy. yes. so i think one of the bickest challenges, as a result i had a conversation with the state senator roland gutierrez and he was very clear that it was shocking and sad that it happened in the part of the school that was 80% latino in the part of time that oftentimeses is forgotten and that the response was so low. this is an opportunity he said for uvaldans to come together and also to recognize that the segregation written in that op-sed very real, and he was describing a situation where many of the families just feel like after decades of trying and protesting that change hasn t happened so they have stopped participating, and one of the reasons we re going to uvalde is to speak to recognize the pain but also recognize that the biggest challenge to texas right now is that it s a non-voting state. only 40% of latinos participated in the last election.