Call to Arm “Adept” US Schoolteachers

President Trump says he is considering proposals to allow “gun adept teachers” to carry arms at work as a way of preventing further school shootings. 17 people were killed by an armed man last week at a high school in Parkland, Florida.

Also in the programme: The UN claims that the hundreds of thousands people in the besieged Syrian region of Eastern Ghouta are trapped in a “hell on earth”; and was Neanderthal man also a renaissance man? A look at new research which claims our prehistoric cousins created their own art.

Image: A firearm instructor (left foreground) teaches a concealed-weapons training class to 200 Utah teachers on 27th December 27, 2012 in West Valley City, Utah. Credit: George Frey/Getty Images