Thousands of people in florida, including survivors of wednesdays mass school shooting, have taken part in a rally to demand tighter gun controls in the United States. The event took place outside the Court Building in the city of fort lauderdale, a short distance from the school where a former student, nikolas cruz, killed seventeen people. Laura westbrook reports. Chanting no more outside the federal courthouse in fort lauderdale, this was the message to lawmakers. Among the protesters was emma gonzales, who took cover on the floor of the schools auditorium as a gunman started shooting. She had this to say to donald trump. If the president wants to come up to me and tell me to my face that it was a terrible tragedy and how it should never have happened and maintain telling us how nothing is going to be done about it, i will happily ask him how much money he received from the National Rifle association. What shes referring to is the millions of dollars the nra has given towards the tr
Brendan cox, the widower of murdered labour mpjo cox, has announced hes standing down from two charities set up in her memory following historic allegations of inappropriate behaviour with a female colleague. This evening, mr cox took to social media to say he took the action to face up to mistakes he made several years ago, while at the charity save the children, and apologised. With me is out Political Correspondent susana mendonca. Personal, could you explain who brendan cox is . People may remain during 2016, the Eu Referendum campaign,jo cox was during 2016, the Eu Referendum campaign, jo cox was murdered outside her constituency may remember. She was murdered by a far right extremist. Following her murder, she was the mother of two young children, her husband was brendan cox. He then began to campaign, really, against extremism. He set up and got involved in charitable works, thejo Cox Foundation was set up and matt moore in coleman was set up maureen, and were set up. It follows
Survivors of wednesdays Mass School Shooting in florida have taken part in a rally to demand tighter gun controls in the united states. The event took place in a short distance from the school where a former student, nikolas cruz, killed 17 people. There was strong criticism of President Trump and other politicians for taking Campaign Contributions from the powerful National Rifle association. If the president wants to come up to me and tell me to my face that it was a terrible tragedy and how it should never have happened and maintain telling us how nothing is going to be done about it, i would happily asked him how much money he received from the National Rifle association. To every politician who is taking politicians from the nra, shame on you. We will bring you more on that later in the programme. The mexican defence secretary has apologised for a helicopter accident that killed 14 people on friday in the Southern State of oaxaca. The military helicopter was carrying two senior me
Im katty kay in washington and Christian Fraser is in london. Students from parkland, florida, Want Congress to act. Republicans in congress made it pretty clear today they arent interested. On the issue of whether to add new laws to restrict the sale of guns in america, the Republican Leadership is unlikely to take up any new proposals. But polling in the country does show Public Opinion has shifted on the issue even among republican voters. Take a look at this cbs survey. In december last year, 29 of republicans said laws covering gun sales should be stricter. When they were asked the same question again last week the percentage went up to 43 . Or in this cnn poll asking the general public if they favoured or opposed stricter gun laws. In october 2017 just after the mass shooting in las vegas 52 said they favoured them versus 44 against. Compare that to now and 70 of those asked were in favour of stricter gun laws. Whilst those against drops to 27 . Those numbers seem to be out of sy
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