A moment's silence has been held in Aurora Colorado - to mark the first anniversary of the cinema shooting in which 12 people died. 

The 82 seconds of silence represented the 12 who died as well as the 70 who were wounded at the midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises.

It was preceded by the reading of the names of the more than 2,500 people who have been died in gun violence in the US since the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre in December.

In April, US President Barack Obama accused Republicans of stooping to political stunts in an effort to block gun reform.

In a speech delivered in Hartford, Connecticut, not far from Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20 children and six adults were shot dead, he contrasted the courage of parents whose children were killed with US lawmakers who he said feared the wrath of the powerful American gun lobby.

You can watch a report on the Colorado shootings below: