hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. police video said to show five officers in memphis, tennessee viciously beating a black motorist is due to be released to the public. tyre nichols died three days later, and the officers who are all black each face multiple charges including murder. his family say the video shows him being kicked like a football. the bbc is reviewing the footage as it comes in, some of it is expected to be very graphic and too distressing for broadcast. president biden has spoken to his family by phone and appealled for calm in the city. and appealed for calm in the city. from memphis, nada tawfik reports. the death of tyre nichols has prompted americans, yet again, to confront the reality of police brutality and its consequences. this 29 year old loved skateboarding and was on his way home from a local park when a traffic stop by five black police officers turned into a deadly confrontation. he was tased and beaten for thre
politicsnation. tonight s lead, some justice, but not enough. right now all five of the former memphis police officers whose encounter with motorist tyre nichols, ultimately ended his death three weeks ago are facing potentially life-changing punishment themselves. all five now facing second degree murder charges in addition to several others. two deputies that arrived after the police beating of nichols have now been relieved of duty pending investigation. at the county prosecutor is not ruling out additional charges. as tonight attorneys for two of the former officers, desmond mills and desmond mills junior and emmett martin the third, say their clients plan to plead not guilty. we are also getting word of this afternoon that the so-called scorpion special police unit they were part of has been disbanded. also tonight, the white house is balancing the message of sympathy for the nichols s family and community with calls for calm on the streets of memphis where demonstrators
two people have died in new zealand s largest city, auckland, after torrential rain caused severe flooding. a state of emergency has been declared. hello and welcome. seven people have been shot dead in a synagogue in eastjerusalem. a 14 year old boy is among the dead, and a number of other people were wounded. police said the attacker was killed by the security forces as he fled the scene. tensions have been high since nine palestinians, both militants and civilians, were killed during an israeli military raid injenin in the occupied west bank on thursday. it was one of the deadliest raids in years. tensions are once again rising in the region. the us and uk have condemned the synagogue shooting. our middle east correspondent, tom bateman, reports from eastjerusalem. they came to pray as thejewish sabbath had just got under way. tonight, police are counting their bodies in the street. security forces say the gunman arrived at the synagogue and opened fire. some people were h
dollars worth of damage. and to mark martin luther king day, boston has unveiled a bronze sculpture to celebrate the life of the the civil rights leader, but its not universally popular. tonight with the context, the democratic strategist mary anne marsh and the writer and broadcaster chris morris. hello welcome to the programme. when david carrickjoined london s metropolitan police in 2001 he was already a criminal suspect in a domestic abuse case. the vetting procedure failed. not once but throughout a career that spanned 20 years. in the two decades he was an officer, later becoming a fire arms officer, the met and three other police forces received 1a complaints. seven of them involved allegations of criminal or predatory behaviour towards women. he was not re evaluated for 16 years, and even then incidents were not given the attention they should have been. today he was unmasked as one of britain s worst ever serial rapists, admitting 71 sex offences. pleading guilty t
we begin with tragedy in nepal. at least 68 people are dead in the country s worst plane crash in 30 years. search and rescue teams were at the site and will be back there at daylight on monday. four people are still unaccounted for, and now the search for answers begins. this is apparently just moments before the crash. take a look at this. the plane rolling on its side while flying low over a populated area, and then this. we re following the story, and we re joined now. that video shows some really unusual movements by the plane just before it crashed. what more are you learning? quite a bit. you barely see such videos just before a plane crash, but that was caught on camera. we believe that is just moments before the plane crashed. now, according to officials, 68 bodies have been recovered. four yet to be recovered. and search efforts have stopped for the day. and they will resume monday morning local time in nepal. the prime minister has ordered a probe in nepal, and a