boston, and d.c.. take a look at your screen right there. just to name a few of the places where we are watching this demonstration on s unfold. it s no secret that tyre nichols death is another reminder of the cycle of police violence normalized in this country. like so many of these cases, it started at a traffic stop. the driver just trying to get home. those were among nichols last words. in fact, as police video released yesterday clearly revealed. tonight we still don t know what led to the traffic stop in the first place. memphis police initially said officers pulled nichols over for reckless driving on january 7th. however on friday a memphis police chief told msnbc a review of police video shows no evidence that nichols was driving recklessly. we are going to show you some of that video, nichols traffic stop and initial interaction with police. it s very graphic but it shows with the 29-year-old was up against as he drove to take a picture of the sunset. man, i did
we have another hour of velshi, right now. good morning to you, i m ali velshi. is this saturday october 8th day 227 of russia s war in ukraine. breaking news this morning out of crimea. an explosion has crippled the bridge. this is a remarkable development. take a look at this bridge. look at the multitude of fires across it. it has collapsed part of the bridge into the sea. russians think the truck bomb exploded. it set fire to several oil tankers that were traveling on the bridge by rail. now, here is the important part. you probably never heard about this. it is new. it is the only bridge connecting mainland russia and crimea. this is a pet project for vladimir putin belt after russia s illegal annexation of crimea in 2014. north of crimea, on the battlefield front, ukraine continues to regain its land in the northeast, and east. this week the captured about 2000 square kilometers in the south near the area of kherson. it is the blue areas over here. ukraine has now captu
the rules will have to be changed. china s president, xijinping, has been defending his controversial zero covid strategy as a historic communist party congress kicks off in beijing. the iranian authorities say four inmates are dead after a fire at a prison in the capital as protests continue. more than 1,000 paddington bears and other teddies left by the public in memory of the late queen elizabeth are to be sent to charity. good afternoon. the new chancellor, jeremy hunt, has asked conservative mps to get behind the prime minister, liz truss. he has insisted that she remains in charge of the government and said the country needed stability, not another protracted leadership campaign . mr hunt is holding talks with ms truss today on further changes to the government s tax and spending plans, which led to turmoil on the financial markets. she s faced another blow to her authority with criticism from the us president, joe biden. 0ur political correspondent, peter saull, repor
decided to postpone tomorrow s proceedings. we re praying for all those in the path. we start tonight with a major political battle taking place across the country. as of today, we are just six weeks out from this year s midterms. despite economical and historical trends that should favor republicans, this election is shaping up to be closer than anyone expected, thanks in part to republican extremism to states across the country. from roe v. wade to state abortion bans to election denial to political stunts to silence asylum seekers, the republicans are executing on april radical agenda. red state governors like texas greg abbott and florida s ron desantis. men pushing the extremism while they raise their own political profiles and jockey to raise trump s mantles as leaders for presidential hopefuls. on the other side of that fight are a handful of democratic governors, the people leading the charge against ready cal republican policies. chief among them is california gov
hello, and welcome to our look at what the the papers are saying today. with me are rachel shabi, who is an author and journalist, and camilla turner the chief political correspondent at the telegraph. welcome, both of you. talk to you in a moment but welcome, both of you. talk to you in a moment but first welcome, both of you. talk to you in a moment but first let s welcome, both of you. talk to you in a moment but first let s run - welcome, both of you. talk to you in a moment but first let s run through | a moment but first let s run through the front pages. the sunday times leads on polling on the nhs which says the majority of people now expect delays in treatment. the sunday telegraph leads with plans of liz truss who is said to be thinking about what s described as a nuclear option of a 5% cut in vat. but still no confirmation that that is what she would do if she wins the leadership contest and becomes the next prime minister. in the sunday express, bori