with decades of idle chatter about with decades of idle chatter about the need of security for all while about the need of security for all while the other side carries all while the other side carries out its own plans. hello and welcome to bbc news. good to have your company. a former police officer in minnesota has been found guilty of manslaughter, following the killing of a black motorist, daunte wright. kimberley potter says she mistook her handgun for a tazer during a routine traffic stop. the prosecution argued she d shown culpable negligence during the incident, which led to several nights of intense protests. the jury was shown bodycam footage of the traffic stopping short of the moment when daunte wright died. taser, taser! kimberly potter says she thought she was drawing her taser, rather than her handgun, when she shot daunte wright in the chest. the incident occurred at a very sensitive time in the us not far from the court where white police officer derek
hardtalk s review of 2021. welcome to a special year ending edition of hardtalk with me, stephen sackur. this is our chance and yours to look back at some of the drama, the passion, the emotion generated by our interviews in 2021. when the precedent is established against bad people, it then is used against good people. if afghanistan sinks into chaos, that will be a stinking spot in the conscience of the global community. if you want to sit behind a computer and write i terrible things to people, you re a coward. - this is hardtalk, right? your view of the american political system, i think, is not right. i think you re missing the elephant in the room. 2021 began with the world gripped by events in washington, dc. donald trump had lost his bid for re election, but he didn t slip away quietly. he claimed without foundation that the election had been stolen. 0njanuary 6th, a trump supporting crowd fired up by a defiant trump speech invaded the us capitol. was trump guilty
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on omicron. what it found about the risk of hospitalization. the holiday travel rush two days before christmas. over 100 million on the roads. air travel now topping pre-pandemic levels. and the hero tsa agent leaping into action to save a baby s life. the deadly winter storm on the move. flooding and up to nine feet of snow. we re tracking it. former president trump taking his fight with the january 6th committee all the way to the supreme court. vladimir putin taking new aim at the u.s. and what he said about the possibility of war with ukraine. and celebrating one of america s all-time greatest authors. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. a former minnesota police officer is back in custody and likely facing prison time. whether kim potter meant to fatally shoot daunte wright, a jury in effect today said she should have known better. they found the officer guilty on two counts of manslaughter, rejecting her defense that she mistakenly f