We speak to the mayor of freetown in sierra leone, subject of a new bbc documentary. Well hear from Award Winning actress and activist Nazanin Boniadi on whats next for irans women led protests. And iranian female djs use music to defy the islamic republic. Hello, im Azadeh Moshiri and welcome to our bbc news special programme on International Womens day. Im standing in front of the Millicent Fawcett statue, here in parliament square. She was a suffragist in the 20th century, protesting to secure the right to vote for women. Its by the artist Gillian Wearing and it was made after a campaign by a feminist writer, Caroline Criado perez, who wanted to see a womans statue here in the square. Now, of course, what were about to look at for the next half hour are just some of the issues affecting women today. Theres plenty more coverage from the uk and Around The World on the bbc news website and app. So lets begin with ukraine. And after more than two years of war in ukraine, the un says mor
that we can answer. so we ask for your understanding as it relates to that. and i will turn it over to d.a. mulroy and did i mention that we will take questions after, but they will be, we have a really limited amount of time. so thank you. thank you, erica. good afternoon, everybody, thank you for coming. i m joined today, as ms. williams has already said, with the director of the tennessee bureau of investigation, david rauche, as well as assistant director josh melton, i m also joined by other members of my staff, including mr. brooks, but also most relevant for today, the trial team in the tyre nichols case including paul haggerman and tenisha johnson, another member of the trial team is unavailable. we re here today because of a tragedy that wounds one family deeply, but also hurts us all. the death of tyre nichols. we understand and acknowledge the grief that the friends and family of tyre nichols are experiencing right now, as well as the great concern throughout all
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and now a lot more people can. so let s go. the digital age is waiting. new reporting as we come on the wear from washington, a key court appearance, a new white house statement, and more questions for the administration. let s start with what is happening right now this hour. the new mexico suspect solomon pena getting ready to go before a judge, just about 30 minutes from now. arrested on conspiracy charges. among others. for the shooting attacks, the ring leader, police say allegedly targeting democratic officials, in albuquerque. our team is live on the ground with new reporting and what to expect. also this hour, president biden s first reaction to the deadly helicopter crash in ukraine. the interior minister and more than a dozen others killed. we have a live report from kyiv and the pentagon with more on just what happened. plus, any minute, the white house getting ready for you name it, inevitably nor questions on how president biden handled classified documents,