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paying tribute to the queen's tenure. as ukraine approaches 100 days of war, president zelensky urges western nations to step up their weapons deliveries, with russia now in control of 20% of his country. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news — it's newsday. we begin this hour with breaking news from the united stated, where presidentjoe biden has delivered a rare primetime address to pressure congress to pass gun reform laws after a string of mass shootings. from the white house, he said that it is time america needed to strengthen background checks on potential gun ...

oklahoma. police say four people were killed and as many as ten others injured. the gunman is also dead, officials believe of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. this a week after the horrific elementary school shooting in uvalde, texas. we're covering these stories from all angles. cnn's omar himjimenez on the ground. gary tuchman is in tulsa, okl oklahoma, this evening. gary, we're going to start with you with the latest shooting. we're learning this one is at a hospital campus in tulsa. what do you know? >> well, it's really important that we don't get desensitized to this. four peopl...

before the gunman entered. but that is completely different from what the public was told just days ago. cnn's omar jimenez is live for us in uvalde tonight. omar good evening to you. this is another contradiction from officials, what is the very latest? >> on the investigative, side this is another discrepancy of police initially told us, versus what we find out to be reality. police initially said that this teacher propped open a back door that was supposed to be lock the day of the shooting. and we are now learning from authorities, she actually closed that door when she realized ...

entering the elementary school. and we know more than an hour passed between the first 911 call and when the shooter was killed. police now acknowledge that tragic mistakes were made. >> the decision was made that this is barricade the subject situation, there was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team with the equipment to go ahead and breach the door and take on the subject at that point. that was the decision. it was the wrong decision, period. >> the incident commander has been identified as uvalde school district police chief pedro pete arredondo. he made two bri...

neverending tide of gun violence. the annual convention of the nra kicked off today in houston. the keynote speaker is the arguably the most president voice of the republican party, the twice-impeached ex-president. greg abbot pulled out of an in-person appearance to return to uvalde. he'll be holding a press conference there in a few minutes, but back at the nra stage there will also be a speech from senator ted cruz who recently stormed off when he was asked by a reporter why mass shootings only seemed to happen in this country. cruz's decision to appear at the nra convention just ...