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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. ....
bruce willis is diagnosed with dementia at the age of 67. and in the capital: how london s firefighters saved 11 lives in turkey. and the doctor whose surgery has never been busier he tells us about the pressures he s facing. good evening. a spy at the british embassy in berlin has beenjailed for more than 13 years for selling secrets to russia. david smith was caught in an undercover sting which involved fake russian agents who in fact worked for the british security services. the 58 year old was passing details to russia of other members of staff, as well as photographs and videos of buildings. police described smith s actions as reckless and dangerous . our home affairs correspondent tom symonds reports. secretly filmed, david smith, the embassy security guard with an access all areas pass, stealing secrets for the russians. scottish, married but separated, a lover of military memorabilia, the court found he hated britain and felt sympathy for vladimir putin. se ....
and yet, more negative impacts in our society of covid s lockdown isolation. is this young man, allegedly escaped into a world online forming an alternate community that somehow evaded our top investigators for months. so how does that happen? congressman from the house intelligence community stands by with his thoughts. and she is having all the action happening this afternoon at the courthouse in boston, massachusetts, high alexis. mike hi, this is when the suspect was just in front the judge a short time ago. the question remains again this afternoon my thought of how does a 21-year-old with a high school diploma could have access to some of the country s top secrets into new topic at good chance to look at so that you look like he knew some federal authorities were looking into him. take a look at the new documents we got in our newsroom a short time ago. as of the newly released affidavit there saying that that air national guard had me using his clearance to s ....
france has had little rain in the last few weeks, and water levels have dropped alarmingly. spain has also suffered from the drought. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. nicaragua s veteran autocratic leader daniel ortega has been locking up political dissidents for years now. he has a new tactic mass deportation and withdrawal of citizenship from those who dare to criticize him and his family. my guest today is felix maradiaga, who was recently taken from his nicaraguan prison cell and flown to america. the good news is he s been reunited with his family after years apart. the bad news is ortega is trying to eliminate all opposition. so has resistance become impossible in nicaragua? felix maradiaga in miami. welcome to hardtalk. thank you, steve. and it s a pleasure to be back here. well, it is great to have you back on hardtalk, not least because you have just emerged from more than 600 days in a nicaraguan prison. was it a surpr ....
welcome to the programme, it s great to have you with us. a committee of experts will investigate the cause of tuesday night s rail disaster that killed at least 43 people. rescuers have been working through the night at the wreckage but there have also been protests over what many see as an accident that was waiting to happen. rail workers are planning to strike on thursday in protest at what they say is official neglect of they say is official neglect of the railways. the aftermath of greece s worst ever rail disaster. a stationmaster in a nearby city has now been charged with manslaughter by negligence and already the country s prime minister says tragic human error was to blame. but that has sparked anger overnight. including in the capital athens, because for years, there are been warnings the rail network was not safe. this surgeon who came out of retirement to help the injured says the many young lives lost with the victims of systemic failings. with the victims ....