hello and welcome to bbc news. police video showing five officers in memphis, tennessee viciously beating a black motorist has been released. tyre nichols died three days later and the officers who are all black each face multiple charges, including murder. his family say the video shows him being kicked like a football. the bbc is reviewing the footage. some of it is very graphic and too distressing for broadcast. this is what we will show you the first few seconds of the initial dashcam footage. we ve ended the footage there as we still continue to review it. president biden has spoken to tyre s family by phone and appealed for calm in the city. he said he was outraged and deeply pained by the video. nada tawfik reports. the death of tyre nichols has prompted americans, yet again, to confront the reality of police brutality and its consequences. this 29 year old loved skateboarding and was on his way home from a local park when a traffic stop by five black police of
almost 30 years. the us department of defence is that it was monitoring the situation but did not currently see any reason to adjust its nuclear posture. vladimir putin has that russia will station nuclear weapons in belarus. now on bbc news, witness history, women led movements. hello and welcome to witness history. i m farhana haider, at the people s history museum in manchester, with more remarkable moments from the past, as told by people who were there. in this episode, we look back at five campaigns and protest movements led by women. coming up, we ll hear about the fight for the equal right to pray for women at the western wall injerusalem, the argentinian forensic pioneer unearthing war crimes, the anti nuclear protest that was the biggest women led movement in the uk since the suffragettes, and a watershed moment for canada s indigenous people. but we start in london and a story about the strikers in saris, a group of south asian women employed in the grunwick fil
suburbs of paris to the river thames, meet oarsmen taking part in the university boat race. welcome, first, the governor of mississippi has declared a state of emergency after tornadoes ripped through the us state. at least 25 people were killed. the authorities say the storm of the trail of damage for more than 150 kilometres. president biden has called the storm s heartbreaking and vowed federal support. storm s heartbreaking and vowed federalsupport. one storm s heartbreaking and vowed federal support. one of the worst affected towns is rolling fork where a entire neighbourhoods were flattened to rubble. david willis has the story. this is all that remains of the mississippi town of rolling fork. heavy vehicles were picked up and tossed around like toys after the twister touched down, all but wiping this tightknit community of the map. this tightknit community of the ma -. ~ ., , this tightknit community of the ma. ~ ., , this tightknit community of the ma. ~ ., .
she was taken from her home in southern israel, beaten up and transported by motorbike into gaza. her daughter translated her story just hours after her release, at the hospital in tel aviv where she s being treated. my mum is saying that she was taken on the back of a motorbike with her body, with her legs on one side and her hide on another side. she was taken through the ploughed fields with the men in front on one side and a man behind her. and that whilst she was being taken, she was hit with sticks by shabaab? yes, shabaab people. until they reached the tunnels. there. there, they walked for a few kilometres on the wet ground. there are huge network of tunnels underneath, it looks like a spider web. ms lifschitz also described clean conditions and guards who treated her well and took care of every detail . this video, released by hamas, shows the moment she was released, and shook hands with one of the gunmen, saying in hebrew: peace peace. ms lifshitz was released alo
on bbc london. reaction as a muslim student on newsnight at 10:30pm. it seems the prime minister will get his smoking and vape ban, but only because the opposition rode to the rescue. what does it tell us that a senior cabinet minister, five other ministers and two tory former prime ministers refused to support rishi sunak? the vote in the commons was overwelming and never destined to be a close run thing, with labour backing the government s plans to ban anyone born after 2009 from buying cigarettes. 57 conservative mps did vote against the bill, including the business secretary kemi badenoch, arguing it was an attack on personal freedoms. but the health secretary victoria atkins said, there s no liberty in addiction. in a moment, hugh pym will look at the implications of any new law for the nhs, but first, chris mason is at westminster. good evening. this is a place normally associated with tribal and noisy party politics but there was less of that today because there was