programme. i m sally bundock. if you have just joined if you havejustjoined us, you are in time for the top business stories. france is on edge, as you know, because as you have been hearing, it has had many, many days of riots, which has been a real problem for president macron, who will be meeting the mayors of 220 municipal areas today that have been affected by the recent violence. riots in france appear to be calming, after five days of violent protests in response to the shooting and the killing of a teenager, nahel m, during a police traffic stop. there are concerns that the spate of violence will have a long term effect on the tourism sectorjust as the summer season begins. french media outlet le point quoted a tourism official as estimating that up to 25% of hotel bookings in paris had already been cancelled.
because of the number of potholes along it that needed repairing, with the different methods used to fix it, it will now be monitored to see how the repairs last. some methods, like the dragon patcher, are already in use on 0xfordshire s roads. some techniques are trying to be environmentally friendly. we are doing everything we can. are we on top of it? no, we are not. do we want to do better? yes, we do. innovation to try to fix a persistent problem. a hope for a less bumpy road ahead. for more stories from across the uk head to the bbc news website. you re live with bbc news. let me return straightaway to events in france because the three days of writing we have seen after the death of that teenager after a police traffic stop, just the latest
democrats introduced the george floyd justice in policing act. the bill passed twice in the house but died in the senate after months of bipartisan negotiations over several provisions, we ll get to that in a moment. now nearly three years later, we are at the same cross roads with yet another brutal beating of a black man during a police traffic stop. unlike the minneapolis police department, memphis police quickly released all of the footage they had, body cam and surveillance video. they arrested and charged the officers involved and they leveled with the public. this is not okay, they said. what these officers did was disgusting and inhumane and wrong. now, some lawmakers are hoping what george floyd started, tyre nichols can finish. because never again keeps becoming once again. 273 black people were killed by
significant. the action was far more swift than the vast majority of cases we ve covered in the deep south and around the nation. we re going to get into all of it, but i begin with someone we call on when he look at these cases, a former nypd director mark claxton. thank you for being here. thanks, ari. let s start with the case against these officers, that is the big news tonight. and i want to broaden out to some of what i ve mentioned. the d.a. making it clear that they view the evidence that they have, which has not yet been released, as sufficient to support the charge of murder, as well as the culpability of all five officers, the contributions legally they made to this very tragic death that grew out of a police traffic stop. your response to that case based on what we know. i think it should be evident to all of us that whatever is on
A state trooper pulled over a woman speeding through Rowan County, North Carolina. Her Dad had just had chemotherapy for colon cancer at Duke Medical Center and they were driving back to Columbia, SC. Instead of getting a ticket, something magical happened.