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a local doctor who delivered two of the 19 murdered children spoke out reflecting on this profound loss. >> those lives are gone and well never know what they could have done for the world and their families. it will never be the same. you know, were not innocent anymore. >> also this morning, in an exclusive interview with savannah guthrie, she spoke to an off duty border patrol agent who rushed to the scene with only his barbers shotgun to rescue his daughter trapped inside the schoo...

before going down the ice waterfall in svalbard, norway. he described the experience as "like kayaking on another planet". we might all have some words for it. time for a look at the weather. heres helen willetts. have we got some of that weather? certainly we have some wintry weather. some of the coldest november nights for about 12 or 13 years and is leading to some ice and snow issues and freezing fog will just add to the hazards as well. the rain and the snow that we had through de...

About slapping a female reporter. I deeply regret the comments i made. Thats certainly not the person who i am. And why china is experiencing a baby boom, driven partly by older mothers. Coming up in sportsday later in the hour on bbc news a vote of confidence over three months before the start of the womens european championship, england name theirfinal squad. Good evening. At least ten people have died in a suspected Suicide Bombing on the metro system in st petersburg. President putin, who wa...

And david was saying it is probable that the russians will be able to take that area in the near future. what are your concerns and would do you think needs to be done now? >> i think that what you see -- i was just in donbas and traveling back and forth talking to our allies there. and i think that that connectiveness and that unity is still tremendously important. you have to remember that putins plan has been stopped in that he thought that he would march right on into kyiv and take over the ...

Purchases from russia. russia needs to be pressured economically. >> can that be done? and that would also take some time. >> it would. and then the problem here is that the president of hungary is blocking this, he is sort of pro putin and he is the one who slowed this process down. to be blunt, i feel like he has blood on his hands because germany which is a much larger economy would suffer most from this sort of embargo and agreed to it and many other much larger economies. so again, i worry ...

Part in eastern ukraine? >> i hesitate to say this, but it is working militarily. i think that severdonetsd in the days or weeks ahead. and they have twice the range of the ukrainian artillery. so there are just carpet bombing from a distance and the ukrainians cant fire back and reach them. so there was an announcement that the united states plans to send some rockets that would help the ukrainians, but i think that it is important to face the reality here, this new strategy by vladimir putin i...

Putins pretext for this invasion. and sever is important to the area, they say that they need one thing from the u.s., from the international community which is longer range artillery. because right now they are outgunned. the other point ill make about the fighting around severdonetsk, right now russia is concentrating so much of his artillery power on that area. what it means that is they have left other areas absolutely more open and that is seen in the last 48 hours, weve seen ukrainian coun...

As you see the terrible events unfold in ukraine and you reflect on more than two decades of putin in power, do you in any sense feel a sense of responsibility and deep regret that going back to the late 1990s and early 2000s, you were one of the power brokers in russia that actually aided and supported putin in his bid to take power after yeltsin? without you putin might have struggled, with you he was a political force. do you regret your association with him?

No missiles going up. we have a good relationship. >> the frustrations going in both directions. >> the white house announced on twit their putin is coming to the white house in the fall! say that again. >> you putin coming -- >> did i hear? >> yeah. >> okay. thats going to be special. >> white house officials say they are preparing for coats departure but caution they are not sure how long coats will remain at his job. >> white house officials say conversations about who could replace dan coats...

Members. here is the canadian prime minister, his response. >> i said very simply that it is not something we are even remotely interested in looking at at this time to have russia return to the g7. >> and here is what is even more striking. russia was kicked out after it went into ukraine and annexed crimea. and the very same day the president of the united states says they should be allowed back in, his director of national intelligence in a speech in europe says this, as russia is still meddl...