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beating. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world, i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. we begin our coverage this hour with the expected release of the tyre nichols arrest video. cnn is on the ground in memphis covering this developing story from every angle. our don lemon has been speaking to local officials and family members including the chief of police there. but first, our senior national correspondent sara sidner is joining us with the very latest developments. what should we anticipate today, sarah? reporter: well, we know there is going to be a prayer vigil tonight. a gathering. beyond that, it is been prayerful and peace this whole time throughout these announcements from police, throughout the firing and charges that we now know five officers charged with second-degree murder among other very serious charges. but there is a concern, there is always a concern that once this video comes out, video that has been ....
thousands of royal mail workers in the uk stage a second day of strike action in a row over pay, disrupting deliveries of packages and letters. a new study shows the impact of climate change on the shrinking glaciers of switzerland. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk, or around the world. the last leader of the soviet union, mikhail gorbachev, has died, aged 91, following a long illness. mr gorbachev was crucial to ending the cold war. he was one of the most influential political figures of the 20th century. world leaders have been paying tribute. the un chief antonio guterres said he changed the course of history . president biden described him as a man of remarkable vision , who created a safer world . however, in a stamement this morning the kremlin said his romanticism about better relations with the west had been misplaced. our moscow editor, steve rosenberg, looks back at his life. he was the kind of russian leader the world had never seen. mikhai ....
was rushed through to allow it. she never hid her ambition, though, for the topjob. asked if she would run for leader here before her boss had actually resigned. i ll be straight with you, robert, yes, iwill. in the resulting contest, she came sixth, but suspicions swirled that her punchy style was, in part, but setting the ground for another run. it s the guardian reading, tofu eating, wokerati, dare i say, anti growth coalition that we have to thank for the disruption that we are seeing on our roads today. for now, suella braverman will return to the backbenches. it seems unlikely, though, that she ll do it quietly. helen catt, bbc news, westminster. helen catt reporting. i have been looking at our live page and our political editor chris mason has been sharing his thoughts on this morning in westminster. he says as moments go in politics as corr blimey moments go. he says it is not unprecedented for the foreign secretary to be someone in the house of lords. but th ....
Burnett. out front tonight, the video of 29-year-old tyre nichols arrest. when the city posts it, cnn will air it in its entirety. moments ago president biden who says he just spoke to nichols mother is urging calm as this video, we re told, is both graphic and excruciating to watch. i was really pleased to see call for peace protests, no violence, no movement at all, and so i you know, i spoke with her about, i don t know, 10, 15 minutes. well, i am, i m obviously very concerned about it, but i think she has made a very strong plea. president biden you hear saying he s very concerned about potential violence, and cities across the united states are prepared for protests tonight. ....
Damian, throughout the day, of course, we re looking back on the life of mikhail gorbachev. when he took power in 1985, there was west germany and there was east germany and a few years later, at the end of the cold war, germany reunited. i wonder how germans see his role in their country in history? with a great deal of gratitude, actually, james, i think a lot of people here feel that if he hadn t been leader at that time, if it had been someone else, you possibly might not have ended up with a united germany today. german chancellor 0lav schulz put it succinctly this morning, he said that he described mikhail gorbachev as a courageous reformer. he said it was thanks to him or it was under his policy or partly thanks to his policy that reunification was possible. i think in germany there are two main views about him. 0n the one hand, in the late 80s, he s seen as someone who inspired the peace protests here on the streets of berlin. it was, of course, thanks to east germans bravely p ....