a bipartisan group of us senators say they ve agreed a limited deal for gun control measures. following a spate of recent shootings. ah, norton taylor, this is al jazeera, alive from london, also coming up, france votes renew parliament with projections. putting emanuel michael s party ahead of a united left wing block. russian forces blow up a bridge and came several burnett s with a nearby city, cutting off a possible evacuation route for civilians. and russia s 1st, mcdonald s replacement opens in moscow that will a burger by any other name, taste as sweet hello bipartisan group of us senators has agreed on a framework for new gun control laws aimed at curbing rising gun violence. amend proposals including include funding to help the states create and administer red flag laws, which ensure weapons are kept out of the hands of dangerous individuals. buyers under 21 years of age would be subject to tougher background checks, including their mental health records. and funding
no protest is riley across america calling for strict gun laws in the wake of last month s mast shooting at a texas elementary school. ah, i m norton taylor. this is al jazeera live from london, also coming up warnings. ukraine is running out of ammunition in the east. as e commission president aust left on the lion pays a surprise visit to keith. one month after hours there journeys, she re network lay was shot dead by israeli forces, the calls for justice. go on. and qu orchestrator or the victim of a political vendetta. olivia s former president is sentenced to 10 years in prison . lou begin in the united states where hundreds of march is taking place all over the country. calling for strict to gun control after a series of mass shootings including at a texas school last month when 19 children and 2 teachers were killed. yes, in the last couple of hours, thousands have been marching on the west coast with the biggest events in the cities of los angeles and san francisco. t
people who are displaced by previous droughts. the horn of africa is experiencing its worst route in 40 years. ukrainian troops are battling the street to street to defend the eastern city of several. jeanette, president little. miss lensky says, stalemate is not an option. while russia has sent more troops to the area in an attempt to encircle a city. and as he says, russia may have the numbers in the dumbass region, but his country has every chance of fighting back. ukrainian forces are using battle tanks to carry out quick hit and run attacks as part of their counter offensive. some ukrainian troops in the dorm bus region was seen using a t 80 tank. they said was captured from the russian army. charles stratford is in keep with more in the fighting sir than it s and neighboring lucy chance got the last 2 towns in the lou ganske region that are not under full russian control. and we understand, according to the ukrainians, they actually contradicting the russians and saying
inconsistency and av. you ve talked to the, the nato be to go and nick, all lucian will do. big nato is a security entity hallway. therefore, we cannot say yes to depriving this security organization of security yet to demand finland s prime minister wants native embassy to ratify the applications as soon as possible. i think at this stage we have to keep our eyes on the ball and that is a very smooth and fast ratification of our membership in every nato, amanda country. so this is what we are focusing now. and i think our most important job in nato is to defend our own country, our own region, also making sure that the whole nordic, nor did reach and is secure for confident that at the end of the day, feminine sweden will have been effective and efficient a session process, the turkey s concerns can be addressed and then in sweden or working directly with turkey to do this. but we re also talking to the church to try to help facilitate i spoke with my counterpart today. secr
Nonviolent corn ending committee helped integrate georgias house , of representatives, and then chaired the naacp. He fought for environmental and gayrights. We will speak to Eleanor Holmes norton, delegate to congress representing the District Of Columbia, former naacp chair benjamin jealous, Pulitzer Prizewinning historian taylor , president of the Southern Poverty Law Center. And we will hear julian bond in his own words. We march because Trayvon Martin has joined emmett till in the pantheon of young black martyrs. We march because the United States Supreme Court has eviscerated the Voting Rights act for which we fought and we march because every Economic Indicator shows gaping whitelike disparities. We march for freedom from white supremacy. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Civil rights pioneer julian bond has died at the age of 75. For more than half a century, bond helped found student nonviolen