get down! orlando three tense horrifying hours. hands up! it was unimaginable. all units. newtown 27 people lost their lives. 20 of them young children. a mass shooting at a fourth of july parade. a shooting in highland park, illinois. why? why? those horrific events and so many others like them have come to define the united states. the most recent figures show that every day on average more than 100 people are killed with a gun in america. in total, there were over 19,000 gun murders and 24,000 gun suicides in 2020. compared to other rich countries america s gun violence is on another planet. the united states has eight times as many gun homicides per 100,000 people as canada, 50 times as many as germany and 100 times as many as the uk. these countries all face the same challenges with mental health. they all have the violent video games. other fashions pale in comparison when it comes to gun violence. another shooting, another angry young man. w
attack. las vegas the deadliest mass shooting in u.s. history. get down! get down! orlando three tense horrifying hours. hands up! it was unimaginable. all units. newtown 27 people lost their lives. 20 of them young children. a mass shooting at a fourth of july parade. a shooting in highland park, illinois. why? why? those horrific events and so many others like them have come to define the united states. the most recent figures show that every day on average more than 100 people are killed with a gun in america. in total, there were over 19,000 gun murders and 24,000 gun suicides in 2020. compared to other rich countries america s gun violence is on another planet. the united states has eight times as many gun homicides per 100,000 people as canada, 50 times as many as germany and 100 times as many as the uk. these countries all face the same challenges with mental health. they all have the violent video games. but other nations pale in comp
we ll be live in westminster. and nasa postpones its mission to the moon after engine issues emerge on its huge rocket during countdown. pakistani authorities say a third of the country is underwater. and that a majority of the country is affected. this map shows the regions that are worst hit. international aid has begun to arrive. pakistan s foreign minister gave the bbc this update. international the bbc this update. organisations are working international organisations are working on the ground in our own ngos are working on the ground, but i think everyone s resources are stretched to the limit. everyone s capacity is stressed to the limit and we look at the human resources of those involved in rescue and relief, those teams involved in waterfrom relief, those teams involved in water from various areas, they re exhausted, they their own homes there are also devastated. there is a calamity that everyone is facing a experiencing of same time. we re getting more detail all
supreme court. millions of women will go to bed tonight without access to the healthcare that they had this morning. right to life has been vindicated. the voiceless will finally have a voice. half the states could ban virtually all abortions, after a ruling that leaves the nation more divided than ever. this decision is an outrage, forced motherhood is illegitimate. i m absolutely ecstatic there are going to be babies lives saved from this. how will it transform america and will it be a rallying cry for the democrats in the fall? roe is on the ballot. plus, trump s power play. you re asking me to do something against my oath and i will not break my oath. new details on how his pressure campaign to stay in power at all costs nearly worked. and push the country to the brink. the system held, but barely and the question remains will it hold again? welcome to inside politics sunday. i m abby phillip. women of child bearing age in america have now lost a
temperatures across the uk rose with a level three alert, and some rider means the uk could be hosting next year s eurovision contest. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the uk s second busiest airport says it will limit the number of flights across the peak summer period because it hasn t got enough staff. gatwick airport said it was aimed at creating a more reliable service for passengers. usually 900 flights run a day, but it ll be 825 injuly, and 850 in august. it comes after the government and regulators wrote to airlines telling them to make sure their summer timetables were deliverable . the decision means thousands of people will have their holiday plans disrupted, as theo leggett reports. this is what airlines and airports want to avoid. over easter and around the jubilee holiday, hundreds of flights were cancelled. some while passengers were preparing to board. people want to travel, but staff shortages at airlines and ground handling companies have become a s