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ALJAZ NEWSHOUR February 21, 2018

Sixty minutes im going to schools how many children have to get shot fury and frustration as president trying to meet students and families of victims of the Florida School shooting. I dont see we can let scenes go on. In these horrendous way as the outrage grows over the bloodbath in syria as east in the hotel russia calls for an Emergency Un Security Council meeting. When i was going to have a stop to this for years after over two hundred girls were kidnapped by boko haram in nigeria another brazen attack on a school. And a billy graham one of the most influential christian preachers of the Twentieth Century dies aged one thousand nine. S. Been an outpouring of anger and frustration at the u. S. President s meeting with students and families of some victims of last weeks deadly Florida School shooting donald trump has had stories and pleas to tighten gun laws hes vowing to take arjen steps to check gun violence but that hasnt satisfied some of those who have been there. Because my daughter has no voice she was murdered last week she was taken from. Shot nine times on the third floor. We as a country failed our children. This should happen. Im very angry that this happened because it keeps happening nine eleven happened once and they fix everything how many schools how many children have to get shot it stops here with this administration and me so lets be strong. For the fall and we dont have a voice to speak anymore. And lets not have her but this happen again please. This is not difficult these deaths are preventable. And i implore you. Consider your own children. You dont want to be me no parent does and you have the ability to make a difference and save lives today all the u. S. President is vowing to take arjuns steps to tighten gun laws were going to be very strong in background checks and we do it very strongly back when you get your response to the issues of the Mental Health of somebody and do we are going to need you when you are the things. That. Hours earlier hundreds of students held a sit in outside the white house they said it was more important to call for gun control than attending class. Well in florida thousands of students gathered outside the Republican Controlled Legislature in the state capital tallahassee denman doing change and he has more on that. The survivors of last weeks School Shooting in parkland would not alone when they came to Florida State capitol chants of no more guns and never again rang out as crowd swells. Many of these students have spent the past few days attending funerals of form and classmates that determination to change u. S. Gun laws is a rallying call for activists across the nation you sent thoughts and prayers as your remedy but refused to take action. Well members of the legislature i am proud to announce i took your advice i have been praying. Ive been praying for you. Was. I bring you that you look in the mirror and figure out your priorities. I presume that you signed the no n. R. A. Money pledge and so many of them out there. Now. Unless some gun owners and now destroying their assault rifles in videos that have gone viral others a turning them into authorities but on wednesday floridas politicians rejected a bill that would have banned assault rifles an indication of just how challenging any change will be that person who died because of an iowa fifteen. Was. You because you sat yesterday you had a chance to stop them and you took that chance the way i was there i dont like bush dont mind our heart you might but it that you calibrate my. Background checks and better Mental Health screening a widely supported by the u. S. Public since the voices of children may make a difference they have to understand that this is really affected everyone not just us the kids in the school its affected the whole community and they need to listen to us and were were smart we can we can talk ourselves were not just children we can you know we can make a difference what you have here is a new generation of voices determined to make themselves heard and right now the world is listening but any change lays firmly at the doorsteps of politicians the next move is theirs and the expectations are perhaps higher than theyve ever been and gallacher aljazeera tallahassee florida ok holly dexter is a board member of the woman against gun violence whos joining us live from barbara in california thank you very much indeed for your time weve heard some really strong words from. Parents and from the students and the president of the United States was in the room live on Global Television being told he has to do something to stop this from happening again how confident are you know that that can happen well pardon me if im a little bit cynical im more concerned with actions than i am with words especially considering there have been a lot of words and promises not followed through in this administration i do remember President Donald Trump coming out after the orlando poll shooting and saying that the solution was that everybody in the nightclub should have had guns i havent been a fan of his solutions so far that being said if we can get some kind of sensible Gun Legislation passed in this Administration Im all for it one of the problems of course will be getting that legislation passed because we just saw as only one was mentioning him in his report that lawmakers in florida took roughly i think about three and a half minutes just to put down a bill that would have got rid of assault weapons so the it seems to be a huge hurdle to overcome to try to get legislation. Well i will say that what they have done in what they did yesterday in voting that down they have really angered a very passionate Youth Movement those kids have cell phones they know how to use social media they know how to organize quickly and they could be bringing a revolution when it comes to gun reform let me ask you about something you did touch on just a couple of moments ago the suggestion that donald trump had picked up on of course this is just an informal meeting its not setting policy or an agenda but he did pick up on the suggestion that some teachers or members of staff or even Undercover Police officers should be in schools carrying weapons tell me if you think that that is at least a step in the direction towards trying to prevent this happening again. Its a terrible and dangerous idea on our board of directors we also have Los Angeles Police department and sheriffs detectives we get to go back to the l. A. Crime lab which is the largest crime lab in the nation and work with forensic scientists who are experts in ballistics and firearms and i specifically asked them could a civilian stop a mass shooter they told me that police only have an eighteen percent accuracy rate for hitting a live target during a live shooting the reason for that is that when youre in a live shooting situation you go into fight or flight mode you have tunnel vision your hearing is impaired time slows down your fine motor coordination is impaired so were expecting americas teachers who are by the way underpaid and under appreciated to now become the nations swat team its a really unfair ask and its a dangerous ask there were several suggestions that were made by some of the students and parents and teachers as well who with their they included having increased drills for lockdowns in the schools they had addressed the possibility of looking at bullying situations that might have exacerbated in to creating a situation like this dealing with those earlier and so on a lot of it seem to be dealing with the circumstances surrounding the actual weapons themselves given the fact that as weve talked about the lead getting legislation maybe difficult is this a least a step in the right direction again to look at those issues. Well definitely i think we should be looking at bullying issues and making sure that children feel included but i will also say that we have children all around the world who have Mental Health issues who are bullied that are not going out and committing Mass Shootings because they dont have easy access to guns and what theyre trying to do is side step talking about guns and thats because a lot of these members. Of congress are beholden to the n. R. A. Vice president mike pence supported terrible gun laws in indiana took a lot of money from the n. R. A. And as ive mentioned previously donald trump accepted thirty Million Dollars from the n. R. A. For his president ial campaign so theyre not going to talk about guns. Thanks very much indeed as weve been talking weve just been looking at some of the live pictures that are coming from outside park in the school thats a vigil thats going on at the moment a Helicopter Shot you can see some of the flowers and tributes that are being placed on the street there holly thank you very much indeed always good to get your opinion on this holly dexter is a board member of women against gun violence she was talking to us from california now despite the growing condemnation Syrian Government bombs continue to rain down in the rebel held districts of east in the hotel near damascus more than three hundred people have been killed since sunday the head of the United Nations is called the situation in east and go to hell on diplomatic editor james bays will have more on that but first as in a hold a look at whats happening on the ground. I. There is no frontline in eastern. Residential neighborhoods have become battlegrounds the Syrian Government and its allies are bombing the besieged rebel enclave into submission. The suburb of damascus is under attack well hook was. We heard a plane overhead or the messiah landed people were torn into pieces i was with my nephew and we were both injured or i heard was the sound of an ambulance and i found myself here hundreds killed hundreds more injured the United Nations says makeshift hospitals are being hit some are now out of service there is a humanitarian crisis and there is nowhere to hide. There is no safe place i tried to convince my parents to stay in the first floor of our building thinking it would be safer but they told me theres no difference because buildings are being used in the strikes. The government said military reinforcements to the front lines around the besieged enclave the progovernment newspaper says the Bombing Campaign comes ahead of what it said will be a vast operation which may start on the ground at any time. The thousands of rebels there are promising to repel any advance a ground offensive will not be easy the government and its allies have repeatedly tried to storm in the past the rebels have strong defenses and an underground Tunnel Network that they use to their advantage. For the Syrian Government and its allies. To the capital. At times causing casualties. Even. Pointing to the president. Accusing them of using civilians as human shields and what it calls armed provocations. Many including the u. N. Are warning the battle for eastern could turn into a repeat of the battle for aleppo. The battle for aleppo lasted for months there was so much suffering among the civilian population before a ceasefire deal was reached that involved a Mass Evacuation the people of eastern fear they could face the same fate. Beirut. The Security Council met to discuss the uns charter the governing document of the World Organization the charter drawn up over seventy years ago gives the council the key role of maintaining peace and security a job its miserably failed to do over the last seven years in syria as it met once again divided and impotent some of the worst violence of the war as Eastern Ghouta was once again bombarded four and a thousand people that leave. In hell on earth and so my appeal to all those involved. Is for any immediate suspension of all war activities in eastern guta there were in fact for one day two secretaries general in new york mr good terrorists his previous sesa bank kimoon had also been invited to speak he also expressed concern at the continued bloodshed in the syrian situation youd really have must come to an end its going to be a seventy year in for a come march tenth even the seventh year of doing daughter seven years a sore many civilian population have been killed there is now a new peace effort the ambassador of sweden hopes to bring a new draft resolution to a vote in the council in the coming days were asking for a cessation of hostilities for thirty days throughout syria throughout syria forty or forty eight hours after that access for weekly u. N. Humanitarian and convoys aid aid convoys to. Areas in need particularly urgent busy areas russia had blocked previous efforts to get a resolution on a cease fire in eastern guta facing mounting criticism and bassa vasoline the benzine has now himself called for a Security Council meeting on the situation on thursday the charter which the un has actually been discussing is in effect the constitution of the world body it begins we the peoples of the United Nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war now compare those words to the pictures from eastern guta history is bound to judge that in recent days and over the past seven years the u. N. Has failed the people of syria james pays out his era of the United Nations russias military says talks with a. Rebels to end the conflict in eastern go to have broken down it says opposition fighters are getting norrington calls to surrender on the preventing civilians from leaving the area meanwhile the Russian Foreign minister has stressed that dialogue with all parties is necessary to stop the bloodshed you know pretty much the book. Its necessary for all the external players with no exceptions especially those who have a presence in syria to realize how necessary it is to start a dialogue with the Syrian Government within the principle of its sovereignty and territorial integrity plenty more ahead in the news hour including south africa unveils its new budget which the finance minister calls tough but hopeful. The vaticans investigation into sex abuse by a paedophile priest in chile hits a road bump. And in sports Manchester United target a place in the Champions League quarterfinals santa is going to have all the latest. Officials say fifty schoolgirls a missing following an attack by book a hot on fighters in a village and nobody state initially some ninety one students at the school and in the northeast were reported as missing but there are conflicting reports that some girls were found after fleeing the attack and that some may have been rescued by the military in twenty fourteen the armed group abducted more than two hundred and seventy girls from the town of chibok its quite unfortunate that were having a repeat of the tragedy yet again. This is a time when a lot of people asking questions when are we going to have a stop to these. Lives disappear for close to four years now weve been asking questions guess the remaining ones. And experience us come up. How we before the security in this country and put a stop to young girls appearing from schools under streets all that it just says more from a degree in northeastern nigeria well there are differing accounts as to exactly what happened at the government goes cool in depth in your b. State our initial reports say the fight is went into town started fighting sporadically in there and then went to the school raided the school food store but nobody was taken then a day later after the attack or at least one student told local media that you saw some of our colleagues being taken away so when the fighters moved into the Institution Members of staff of the school and the girls killed the first and ran into the bushes then reports emerged that more than ninety have been unaccounted for from then there were reports that some of the girls who file are found their way back into town and back into the school back to the school now some parents also approached the School Authorities telling them that in fact some of their daughters have met or found their way home so the obvious to a statement saying that at least fifty students have been unaccounted for as of the time it released that statement but said the military and other Security Services are calming the bushes trying to rescue those who fled and found their way why they actually couldnt get home now this is coming at a time when there are still up to one hundred schoolgirls kidnapped in two thousand and fourteen in chibok and now a lot of people are oppressive astray exactly what happened and many people are complaining as to why there was no clear statement more than twenty four hours after the attack. Location ability is the cofounder of the bring back our Girls Movement it was launched after the kidnappings of more than two hundred girls in chibok in twenty fourteen shes joining us on skype from abuser thank you very much for your time i know that you have worked with some of the girls and some of the families of the girls who were kidnapped in twenty fourteen can you draw on your experience and give us some indication of for the girls might be feeling and also the families of those girls. Where all of the gas. Went missing from chibok on in the fourteen twenty fourteen these incidents that have happened in your busy state seems to grab the same line so. The only pretend incidents and particularly the fact that the occurrence

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