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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, im joined by our education editor bra nwen jeffreys. what more do we know about this teacher strike which is going...

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 thats not even half over. what will republican governors, l...

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 ch...

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? >> ill speak with senior adviser to the january 6th committee, denver riggleman, ahead. hello, im 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 bu...

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? >> ill speak with senior advise to the january 6th committee ahead. hello. im 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 sh...

thursday is the first time that theyre going to present their findings to the american people, and as you mentioned, theyre going to do it in prime time. it shows you theyre going to try to present the most compelling case possible around what they have collected. now, we know that theyre going to present or they promised to present material that we havent seen before. we know theyre going to preview future hearings that havent released a witness list yet. but we expect thursdays heari...

your prayers and your prayers and your thoughts, and if we give enough of these thoughts and these prayers, these mass shootings will stop. >> we are going to talk to our friend, the comedy due out of the good liars, about the stuff that made waves around the country. thats later on this, our you dont want to miss this conversation. we want to begin with that breaking news that out of wisconsin, where a retired judge was shot and killed by a gunman who police say was preparing to targe...

Bringing back assault style weapons ban. thats not one of the things on the table for senate negotiators, but we continue to hear the same buckets of three or four policy items that include things like mental health, school safety, narrower background checks and red flag laws, whether thats pushing states to have incentive to create programs or something else. but we know thats where the negotiations are hinging now. of course, senators coming back this week. and over the weekend, one of the lea...

Of legislation on the table that is going to ban assault weapons. were not going to pass comprehensive background checks. right now, people in this country want us to make progress. they just dont want the status quo. ive never been part of negotiations as serious as these. there are more republicans at the table talking about changing our gun laws and investing in mental health than at any time since sandy hook. >> the house is scheduled to meet on two gun safety bills tomorrow. one for red fla...

Right now people in this country want us to make progress. they just dont want the status quo to continue for another 30 years. >> is raising the age limit, as these texas conservatives say they want to happen, from 18 to 21, because disproportionately, crimes committed with semi-automatic rifles, ive seen statistics that show are disproportionately committed by men between 18 to 21. is that on the table? >> i think were trying to figure out what can get 60 to 70 votes in the senate. it is true ...