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courage to look at me in my face. an emotional day in memphis where the five warmer police officers charged with the murder of tyre nichols appeared in court together with the nichols family for the first time. all five pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct and official oppression. the judge addressing the court room emphasizing the case could take some time. we understand there may be some high emotions in this case which we ask that you continue to be patient with us. reporter: attorneys for the officers began to reveal how their defense would take shape. he was doing his job at that time and there has been no information that we have seen that indicates that there is any sort of information that we can rely on to say that it is murder. reporter: when asked if his client had any regrets i think the regret is that he was a police officer that night. reporter: another warning, not
welcome to the programme. the un secretary general, antonio guterres, has been in kyiv today hoping to shore up a deal struck that was between ukraine and russia in the summer to allow for the export of grain from both countries. the agreement, which was brokered in turkey and is overseen by the un, must be renewed by 18 march, but there s concern, moscow will refuse to renew it. the deal also aimed to facilitate the export of russian food and fertilisers. moscow says those shipments are still being disrupted by us and european sanctions. exports of ukrainian, as well as russian food and fertiliser are essential to global food security and food prices. i want to underscore the critical importance of the rollover of the black sea grain initiative on 18 march, and are working to create the conditions to enable the greatest possible news of export infrastructures through the black sea, in line with the objectives of the initiative. this really matters. ukraine is one of the to
good evening, welcome to bbc news. in memphis, tennessee, five former police officers have pleaded not guilty to second degree murder and other charges in the case of tyre nichols. mr nichols, a young black man, died after a police beating in memphis, tennessee last month. videos showed the officers repeatedly kicking and punching nichols in a traffic stop close to his home. the five officers, all out on bail, entered their not guilty pleas during an arraignment hearing in shelby county criminal court. tyre nichols mother made this statement outside the court. i know my son is gone. i know i ll never see him again. but we have to start this process ofjustice right now, and i want each and every one of those police officers to be able to look me in the face they haven t done that yet. they couldn t even do that today. they didn t have the courage to look at me in my face after what they did to my son. so, they re going to see me at every court date, everyone. exactly. ..u