american football legend tom brady has announced his retirement for the second time in a year. life of our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. we begin in the us, where the funeral of tyre nichols, the 29 year old black man, who died after being beaten by police, has taken place. the us vice president kamala harris was among the thousands attending the service at mississippi boulevard christian church, in memphis, tennessee. following tyre nichols death, five officers, all of them black, were charged with second degree murder. several other police officers and emergency staff have also been fired in recent days. our north america editor sarah smith was at the service. # you lift me up. the grief was overlaid with anger, as mourners celebrating the life of tyre nichols also railed against the injustice of his death. i can t speak for everybody in memphis, i can t speak for everybody gathering, but for me, i believe that if that man h
the disappearance of his wife ana. we learned in horrifying detail what prosecutors say he did to her and the online research he said he did on how. this includes in the space of less than one hour searches for, quote, how to stop a body from decomposing, how to embalm a body and ten ways to dispose of a dead body if you really need to. ana walshe is the mother of their three young children. she s been missing since the new year and today in a quincy, massachusetts, courtroom prosecutors laid out what they believe her husband did to her. jason carroll joins us with the latest. talk about the arraignment. did the prosecutor provide any explanation for motive? reporter: well, anderson, you talked about some of those searches there, and if you re talking about motive, i would direct you to some of those searches. two in particular that walshe allegedly made, one had to do with divorcing, what s the best state for a man to get a divorce. he searched about that. the other was ab
about a0 million americans have already cast their ballots. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone who shapes our political thinking about what shapes theirs. in a new cabinet dominated by public schoolboys and oxbridge graduates, the new education secretary stands out. gillian keegan s old school, a comprehensive in knowsley called st augustine s, was nicknamed st disgusting before it was shut down a couple of years after she left. like most kids at her school, gillian left at the age of 16 and went to be an apprentice at a carfactory. now, that was a springboard, as we ll hear, for a very successful business career. she went on to become the commercial director at mastercard, chief marketing officer at a big travel firm called travelport. her boss now, rishi sunak, says a good education is the closest thing we have to a silver bullet when it comes to making
was nicknamed st disgusting before it was shut down a couple of years after she left. like most kids at her school, gillian left at the age of 16 and went to be an apprentice at a car factory. now, that was a springboard, as we ll hear, for a very successful business career. she went on to become the commercial director at mastercard, chief marketing officer at a big travel firm called travelport. her boss, now, rishi sunak, says a good education is the closest thing we have to a silver bullet when it comes to making people s lives better. gillian keegan, welcome to political thinking. thank you for having me. now, just a month ago, i interviewed the new education secretary, kit malthouse, here on political thinking. and my first question was something along the lines of what s it like being the fourth education secretary in five months? you re now the fifth education secretary in six months. it s not good enough, is it? well, you can t get too much education, can you? but, i
millions of people around the world prepare for lunar new year. and britain s andy murray is out of the australian open. he lost to spain s roberto bautista agut in four sets in what could be his last time at the tournament. the uk conservative party chairman, nadhim zahawi, has responded to reports that he had to pay a penalty as part of a multi million pound tax settlement. in a statement, the former chancellor said the tax office had disagreed about the exact allocation of shares his father had in the polling company yougov, which mr zahawi founded. he said hmrc, which is the uk s tax authority, had concluded it was a careless and not deliberate error, and that he had paid what was due. labour had earlier called for mr zahawi to resign over the matter. let s go through all of this, there is a lot of detail here. reminders to the background of all of this. for almost a week, nadhim zahawi has been under pressure to give more detail about his tax affairs. there is one centr