threatening major travel disruption across the uk. and the takeover of chelsea football club is approved. a deal worth £4.25 billion will see a consortium led by american businessman todd boehly become the new owners. good morning. a gunman has shot dead at least 19 schoolchildren and two teachers at a primary school in the us state of texas. the pupils were between the ages of seven and ten years old. the mass shooting was in the small town of uvalde west of san antonio at the robb elementary school, which is made up of children from a largely hispanic community. it is america s deadliest school shooting since 20 children and six adults were killed at sandy hook school in connecticut a decade ago. authorities say the gunman was an 18 year old man, salvador ramos. he was shot dead by law enforcement officers. he is believed to have purchased two military grade rifles and shot his grandmother, before heading to the school. david willis reports. in the final week of the su
that the country s top civil servant, simon case, will not resign or be sacked over the pa rtygate controversy. iam i am alive here at downing street, bringing you the very latest on the sue gray report and what it means for borisjohnson and his government. i am live. ukraine says its donbas region is facing a massive offensive from russian forces, with attacks on all sides. we report from the front line. and the takeover of chelsea football club is approved. a deal worth £4.25 billion will see a consortium led by american businessman todd boehly become the new owners. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. president biden has issued an emotional appeal for backbone and courage to confront america s gun lobby, after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in texas. the shooting at the robb elementary school in the city of uvalde is the deadliest shooting at a us elementary school since 20 children and six adult
in texas, 19 children and 2 teachers are killed by a gunman the second deadliest mass shooting in american history. president biden has this message. iam sick i am sick and tired of it. we had to act. and don t tell me we can t have an impact on this carnage. and don t tell me we can t have an impact on this carnage. details and pictures emerge of those who died. we ll get the latest from our correspondent on the ground. the issue first came into view at the end of december last year with the end of december last year with the daily mirror carrying a story about a christmas party while restrictions were in place. in the months that followed the story has grown and grown. there is no a parliamentary inquiry and we have had the police investigation which has led to a number of fines and there has been an investigation by there has been an investigation by the civil servant sue gray. and borisjohnson has been asked about these parties in downing street and recent months of
the suspect is dead, killed by law enforcement. we find it painful, trust me, to read these headlines as much as you must find it painful to hear them, but here are the facts as we know them. we learned officers responding to the scene faced gunfire from the suspects. several of those first responders were wounded. we know he was wearing a t tactical vest but did not have the bullet-proof or ballistic plates in it. it remains unclear what weapons the killer used but these show two ar-15 style rifles posted to an nam account linked to the gunman and one of the bios said, kids be scared. one of the first responders to this shooting. uvalde city council member chip king and the fire department said what the scene was like when he arrived and also, how long it took before that killer was neutralized. it was evidence that it was not a secure scene. there was a lot still going on here. it was a very chaotic scene initially. it was probably 30 minutes after we arrived, after i a
decade. officials have identified the 18-year-old shooter. he was killed by law enforcement here at the school. we want to begin our coverage with cnn s shimon prokupecz here with me. shimon, we learned a whole lot of new information a short time ago about this investigation and this timeline. give us the latest. yeah, so we learned that police were called after the grandmother of the gunman was shot, that he shot her and then police were called, this is according to the lieutenant with dps that spoke to us this morning and that he engaged the suspect here with the shooter and then went inside and as you said, he barricaded himself in one room, making it very difficult for law enforcement to get inside and then they had to call in for reinforcement and the tactical team and took some time. they got here but took some time to get inside the room. they were facing gunfire from the gunman, exchanging gunfire from the gunman. some of them took rounds. so there was a lot going o