hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i m lynda kinkade. ahead on cnn newsroom calls for justice after the brutal beating of a 29-year-old man in memphis. the controversial police unit linked to his death has now been dismantled. israeli palestinian tensions soaring amid a wave of violence. prime minister netanyahu outlines a new plan after two attacks in jerusalem. and new zealand s most popular city begins to recover after devastating and deadly flooding. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, from lynda kinkade. the memphis police department has announced the permanent end of a special anti-crime unit known as scorpion. it comes just a day after the city released graphic videos of five scorpion officers fatally beating 29-year-old tyre nichols. police have confirmed all the officers were with the special unit. some of the images you re about to see may be disturbing. scorpion was created over a ye
one of our roles here has always been to take away excess money from people who don t know what to do with it, who can t think of a better idea about how to spend their money. in the old days, the mechanism for doing that was you would throw it on a table. put that into the context of throwing away a bottle of 7-up in a club, that s only just we re slightly more honest about it. if you re talking crass commercialism in the very best sense of the word, this is it. is this the cultural center of the country? we may not want to think it is, but is it? what is the rest of the country? i don t know. but it s that place where they all leave and come here. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha what i can go to the desert, but i am not going to get there by accident. but that s part of the whole experience of the desert is that it ain t
our politics nation. i will host keisha lance bottoms, senior white house adviser, as well as martin with the king the third, congresswoman terri sewell and the reverend jesse jackson. american voices with alicia menendez starts right now on msnbc. thank you so much, reverend sharpton. hello, everyone, i am alicia menendez. we begin this hour with breaking news, showing donald trump s stronghold on the republican party on full display at the conservative political action conference, also known as cpac. in the last hour, he won the cpac straw poll with 62% of the vote. florida governor ron desantis with only 20% of the vote. at this hour, trump speaking to the crowded cpac, who want former years of trump in the white house. we are not going to show you trump s comments live, but our producers are listening so you don t have to. you are welcome. for the past four years, trump s turned the must anticipated conservative conference into the trump show, focused on his divisive po
his visit to germany later in the week will go ahead. the bbc has paused plans to scrap the bbc singers, the uk s only full time professional chamber choir, after a public backlash against the move. the singers were due to be axed just before their centenary because of bbc budget cuts, but now, the corporation says they will continue performing while it looks at other ways of funding them, as our media correspondent david sillito reports. singing the bbc singers a part of british musical life for nearly 100 years. however, what began as the wireless chorus of 192a didn t look as though it was going to make it to its centenary year. the bbc said it had to make cuts the choir would close in september. however, there s been a u turn. and in the queue for today s concert, there was relief that britain s only full time, salaried professional choir looks to have been saved. it s something to aspire to, certainly for young singers coming up professionally. ijust read on my phone
owned by rupert murdoch has agreed to pay the equivalent of more than a 3 quarters of a billion dollars for its reporting of false claims of vote rigging in the 2020 presidential election. graham statchell reports. joe biden takes the lead in pennsylvania. trump is now trailing. the 2020 american election, one of the closest and most contentious in us history. in district after district there were recounts and for some conservative commentators a narrative started to emerge. we don t know how many votes were stolen on tuesday night, we don t know anything about the software that many say was rigged, we don t know, we ought to find out. fox news, owned by rupert murdoch and backers of donald trump, questioned the credibility of the election. they echoed and reinforced donald trump s view that this was. a rigged and stolen election. the focus of attention, the machines used to count the votes and dominion, the company that made them. we talked about the dominion software, i k