US Democrats Occupy Congress over Guns

A protest by Democratic Party members, demanding tighter gun controls, is continuing into the night at the US House of Representatives.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, is on her way to Thailand where she is expected to address the plight of an estimated four million of her fellow Burmese living there.

One of the most controversial journalists in Russia, Dmitry Kiselyov presents Russian State Television's flagship news programme and is the only Russian journalist to be on the EU sanctions list over his coverage of the conflict in Ukraine. In a rare interview with the BBC's Steve Rosenberg he hits back at western media.