restrictions apparently ease in the capital pyongyang. and the british government seeks a formal investigation after french police fired tear gas at liverpool fans during saturday night s champions league final in paris. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it ate in the morning in singapore and 7pm in texas where the usjustice department is to investigate the police response to the mass shooting at a school in which 19 children and two teachers were killed. public anger has grown after it emerged officers waited in the hallway for more than an hour as children remained trapped with the teenage gunmen in the classroom. the announcement comes as president biden visited the town and met with the families of those killed. our north america correspondent barbara plett usher reports. this is the hardest visit a president has to make, especially when the victims are so young. mr biden and his wife, jill, joined the mourning of a devastated community, p
one of the greatestjockey s of all time lester piggott, who won the derby 9 times, has died at the age of 86. hello, welcome to the programme. i want to take us live to the us. these are live pictures from texas, where president biden and the first lady are just arriving from delaware. this is the town, of course, that has witnessed the school shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers. president biden is visiting today. he will meet with the families, and of course, this is something deeply unpleasant, and unfortunate ritual biden is used to playing. of course himself his family has lost family members, he is all too familiar with the grieving process and he hopes that his visit there will show some kind of strength and solidarity to so many families affected there. the difficult balance he will have to strike, though, is this is an area of the us where guns are integral to so many people. so many people have guns there. so talk of gun control at a time like this is f
live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 6am in the morning in singapore and 5pm in texas, where the usjustice department is to investigate the police response to the mass shooting at a school in which 19 children and two teachers were killed. public anger has grown after it emerged that officers waited in the hallway as children remained trapped with the teenage gunman in a classroom. the announcement comes as president biden visited the town and met with the families of those killed. our north america correspondent barbara plett usher reports. this is the hardest visit a president has to make, especially when the victims are so young. mr biden and his wife, jill, joined the mourning of a devastated community, pausing to recognise each of those murdered at this school. 19 children and two teachers. the president draws on his personal history in these moments of public grief because he s lost two children of his own. a bouquet of flowers added t
it s very concerned about french police firing tear gas and pepper spray at liverpool fans during saturday night s champions league final in paris. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in the morning in singapore and 6pm in texas, where the usjustice department is to investigate the police response to the mass shooting at a school in which 19 children and two teachers were killed. public anger has grown after it emerged that officers waited in the hallway as children remained trapped with the teenage gunman in a classroom. the announcement comes as president biden visited the town and met with the families of those killed. our north america correspondent barbara plett usher reports. this is the hardest visit a president has to make, especially when the victims are so young. mr biden and his wife, jill, joined the mourning of a devastated community, pausing to recognise each of those murdered at this school, 19 children and two teachers
you have kids getting crushed together and stuff. it was disgusting, really. a young lad who i know who s 12, his dad s posted a message they were gassed. he s 12. a few old people were getting tear gassed. i we got tear gassed. there was a few kids panicking. we got into the stadium, me and my daughter, but it was quite intimidating. but other people we knew didn t get in who had tickets to get in. we got there about 2.5 hours before kick off, and then going into one gate. we tried, what, 1,000 of us tried to go through one gate that only had one turnstile open. so, it wasjust mayhem. they were squashed up against the fences, - all down the side. people were crying. kids. there was children - on parents shoulders. we were in tears. just what we witnessed, it wasjust horrific. - liverpool fans have told us this was a narrow bottleneck created by the police which stopped them reaching the turnstiles even though they were here in good time, so the pressure was on here. there were some p