near the giza pyramids, killing three vietnamese tourists and a local guide. the authorities say 11 other people were injured. two of them are in a critical condition. president trump has threatened to close the us border with mexico if he's not given funding for his wall. it comes as the government shutdown, caused by the impasse over funding for the proposed wall, looks set to continue. the british home secretary has declared a "major incident" after a surge in the number of migrants trying to cross the english channel in small boats. 75 people have reached the uk in the past three days. and the acclaimed israeli author amos oz has died. he was 79. he wrote dozens of books which were translated into more than a0 languages. and if those are your headlines. now on bbc news, one of the highlights of 2018 from our documentary series our world. in a powerfulfilm, the bbc‘s aleem maqbool investigated why

so many people killed during interactions with the police in america have disabilities. a warning, there is content of a violent and distressing nature from the start. police in america are often in the spotlight, accused of abusing their power. but there is a disturbing trend that rarely gets talked about. put your hands behind your back. 0k! i'm sorry! a huge number of people injured and those killed by the police in the us each year have a disability. in this investigation, as unthinkable as it sounds, we find people with serious mental illness, learning difficulties or physical impairment in fear of their lives. but why are so many dying

at the hands of the police? police. there is a young man here. he's standing naked in the hallway. is hejust naked, nothing else? he doesn't have any weapons? no weapons. he just shut the door. he is saying something about the devil and his brother. police, we want to make sure you are ok. can you open up the door? this is your last chance. we need you to open up, we just wanna make sure you are ok. otherwise we will have to come in.

0k, stand clear of the door. after responding to a call from a neighbour, police broke into the apartment of adam trammell, a schizaphrenic who it appeared had been having some sort of breakdown. his family said when he got stressed, he took a shower to calm down. that is where he was when they found him. we can see exactly what happened from one of the police body cameras. and what it is about to show is very distressing. police say they wanted to check how adam was, but when he doesn't respond to commands shouted at him and splashes water at the police, he is given an electric shock. brandon, i need you to come out. listen to what he is telling you! you are going to get tased. screams now you need to relax, 0k? i don't want to tase you again. adam — not brandon as they were shouting — gets

more distressed, screamed ever more desperately and is tased many more times. he is later dragged out of his apartment, several officers on top of him, as he repeats one word — jesus. he is then sedated, but moments later, 22—year—old adam trammell stopped breathing and died. he is not breathing any more. where is the imminent danger? there was none. to know that he suffered like that for no reason at all. he didn't deserve it at all. you don't tase him 15 times. he is in the top. there is no threat, like they were saying.

you are saying, "oh, oh, we were waiting for backup." he is in a tub, dying. but even after seeing the same footage we have, the district attorney said that in his words there was "no basis to conclusively link mr trammell‘s death to the actions of the officers." i'm sure we are all left with so many questions after seeing something as shocking as that, and a little later, we will hear how the police involved justified their actions. but as extreme as that seemed, it is a staggering proportion of the people killed by the police in america each year who have a mental illness like adam, or a physical disability, or an intellectual one. 26—year—old ethan saylor had down syndrome, and idolised police officers. he'd even wanted to be one. one evening, he had been at the cinema with a carer, but at the end of a film, he went back to his seat,

wanting to see the movie again. hearing someone was inside the next screening without a ticket, three off—duty police officers went in. even‘s mother takes up the story from evidence given in the investigation. by all reports, one of them said to the other gentlemen, "come on, fellas, it looks like we are going to have a fight on our hands." at some point, it becomes, "you need to leave or you will be arrested." and ethan still doesn't move, and so the officers put their arms under his arms to lift him up and to remove him from the theatre. so somehow in those next seconds or minutes, ethan ends up on the floor, face down, and is not breathing. ethan was restrained, handcuffed and had been crying out before he died — though the circumstances were not made clear to his family, who thought he had just passed away from a medical complication. a week and a half, two weeks

later, we were called to the sheriff's department, the autopsy report was back, and they told us the medical examiner had ruled this a homicide, and the death was caused by asphyxiation. that was probably the most dramatic and traumatic moment in all of this, was realising he had been killed. at the time, ethan's death did spark a debate in the us about police interactions with people with disabilities. but the deaths keep on coming. we're in oklahoma city to look into the case of a man who was confronted by police in front of his own home. he was carrying what they perceived to be a weapon — actually, it was a piece of steel piping — and they shouted instructions for him to drop it, but he didn't. and that confrontation ended with him being shot and killed on his own front lawn. the problem was, as all the neighbours around here were shouting at the police, he couldn't hear their instructions, and that is because he was deaf.

in oklahoma city, authorities launched an investigation after police shoot and kill a deaf man. police say it's unclear whether the two officers involved heard what the witnesses were yelling. right after i yelled that he was deaf, it it was bang, bang, bang! they both discharged their weapons after sanchez did not respond to verbal commands. police said they went to the home of the man because they suspected his father had been involved in a hit—and—run incident where someone had been injured. surveillance footage from the house across the street from magdiel‘s home shows that, at one point, he did run towards officers before walking away again, pausing for one moment to point the pipe. the officer follows him away and moments later, out of shot, he was killed. i came to the window after the shots were fired, and i looked down and seen the young man and the two officers.

but what was clear, speaking to neighbours like regina, was that magdiel sanchez, as well is being deaf, also had learning difficulties. i knew it was him because i know his build, and i have seen the back of him. i knew it was him. and i was like, "what could he have done?" what kind of person was he? he was a special needs child, and he was deaf, and he was real timid. and he was an older boy, but he was like a child. the question many had was, "why was he holding a piece of pipe?" we met the neighbour who encouraged him to carry it. he would see me going up and down the street with a stick, and one day, one morning he came by the house, and he held his stick up and he smiled, he goes, you know, and gave me the thumbs up. because you inspired him to carry the stick? the stick.

why was he carrying the stick? the dogs. mainly the dogs scared him. it was not to go out and hurt anybody. under the circumstances at that moment, what they had to work with, it was the best possible outcome. police said the officer killed him in self defence. he knew they were police officers. even if this person could have heard, ithink he was in a position... he may have known they were police officers, but if he was deaf and had learning disabilities, he may not know how to interact, and what was happening, he obviously would have been startled. ok, and i'm not going to argue with the level of disability that he had. in our findings, in looking at it, this person was capable of understanding what the situation was. already this year, right across the us, at least 130 people with a range of disabilities are confirmed to have been killed by police officers. these are just the ones we know about. in hundreds more cases,

it was never determined whether the person killed have a disability at all. but what of the officers who have taken the life of someone with a disability? i was involved in this critical event where i had a subject who was armed with a knife outside a school, and... i was forced into a situation where i made a choice to shoot and kill the individual. we were outside a school, she was armed with a large knife, she was not responding to my instructions. after the incident was over, i was able to be told that she had a history of mental illness. i didn't know that at that time. i didn't understand what was going on at the time. you said at the time, you felt you had no choice. do you feel differently about the event now? no, i don't feel

differently about it now. outside of that event, outside of the pressure cooker, outside of those milliseconds that the officer has to make a decision — many people have the benefit of looking back at that with minutes, if not hours or even days, to contemplate what they would have done. and then theyjudge the officer because "they didn't do the thing that i would have done." sergeant nooner told me of his anger at those who believe police officers in the us are too eager to use their guns. the reality is is that no one wants to be involved in that moment, where they have to point a weapon at another individual and pull the trigger. then why does it happen so often, with so many people with disabilities killed by the police? well, all police here are of course armed, and they face members of the public who are as well. often. show me your hands! you get a sense of why police

would be on their guard, and so much of their training is geared towards protecting themselves. when you talk about police killings in america, of course the biggest stories over the last couple of years have surrounded those that have sparked massive race riots. butjust because we are talking about disability, it doesn't mean that race and poverty don't also play a part. they do. a lot of cases we are looking into where people are killed by police with disabilities happen in low—income areas.

that is partly because of the greater police presence and greater potential for violence, but also, according to people who look into this issue, the attitude of police when they come into areas like this. chicago's southside is predominantly african—american, has serious challenges in terms of crime and poverty and is one of the most heavily policed areas in the country. the complaint from many here is that officers too often command and control, shouting orders then physically taking charge, especially when someone does not immediately comply. and that can include the use of lethal force. the problem is, some people — as we have seen — just can't comply. candice coleman works with young people who have autism, schizophrenia and learning impairments. she sees a clear reason why so many may be injured or killed in interaction with officers. if they do encounter a police, it's a scary situation. they don't know this person, they've never seen who's this

person with the gun, or in blue. like, "why are these lights flashing?" these loud sounds — "what are all these things?" another reason is because, again, that enforcement of control on the body. like, i have to control you. if i'm not used to that, then i'm going to respond in a way that would look as if i'm being defiant. the parents of adam trammell, who'd seen their son get repeatedly tased in that bodycam footage, can identify with all of that. there's times where you couldn't touch adam. he got really withdrawn or he'd get excited. i would listen to him, back off of him, and say, "ok, think about it." he had that understanding. if i went in there and used my authority — "i'm your father, do this

and this" — it wouldn't work. don't get up. don't move. larry says his son, a schizophrenic, would often have delusions and hallucinations, and that the police couldn't have done a worse job of handling that. they escalated it, and the point is, if adam was going through one of his emotional things is that when the police came in, and he looked at them, he might have not thought that was them. relax, relax. and by calling them by the different name, that fed into it. see, by calling him not adam, he was thinking this ain't real. brandon, can you listen to us? if you hold on one moment, i'll put the district attorney on. great. this is john chisholm. after weeks of trying, we finally managed to speak — on the phone, at least — to the district attorney who ruled adam did not die as a result of the actions of the officers who tased him numerous times.

they're not doing this because they wanted to harm adam. it's the exact opposite, right? they're doing it because... but it doesn't look like that, does it? but it does, though. their expressed intent any number of times is that they were there to help him, that they wanted to get him out of that... they kept saying that as they tased him. right, right, because they had to get him under control so that they could get him to some medical attention. you're saying that it was not unreasonable that they tased him? that's correct. not based on their training. if that's what their training tells them to do, there's clearly a problem. this ain't a big deal, i promise. but more and more because of a mental health system widely thought to be failing, police are being forced into encounters that trained medical professionals should be handling. put your hands behind your back real quick. i'm sorry! can you please let me go?

and so many people go untreated because of a lack of access to healthcare. i guarantee i'll smoke you. i guarantee it. but if there is no option and police are to be the first to be called, how can things improve so no one gets harmed? didn't work, did it? patty saylor took the devastation caused by the death of her son ethan, who had down‘s syndrome, and tried to turn it into something positive. the world is very frustrating to somebody with an intellectual disability. today, she's taking herfirst full training session with police officers, to teach them how to deal with people with disabilities. it includes lessons from what happened to her son. ethan didn't have the cognitive ability to recognise those officers needed an explanation. like, "oh, officer, it's ok,

i'm going to sit in the seat here and watch this movie a second time. my mum is on her way and she'll pay the ticket when she gets here." he would not have known in his mind that they needed an explanation. see how complex it can be? sadly, the department whose officers were involved in ethan's death has not engaged with patty. they agreed a financial settlement with her, but never so much as apologised or admitted any wrongdoing. they refused all our interview requests. we're going to be en route to a husband who's calling in on his wife. he believes that she needs help with a mental health issue. i adam 1—22. we'll respond out there with adam 70. not every police force takes steps like training to try to stop its dealings with disabled people going disastrously wrong.

but sergeant nooner has now been trained to be one of those called out to such incidents... you're the homeowner, so you need to walk us in. ..often dealing with those with serious mental illness. i think your family's just worried about you. i get it, but they are not in my head. and who are, as in this case, delusional. it's an anomaly. on the computer, i see the tick, and i'm like, "oh, they're watching me." 0k, so we have to take you to the doctor to let you talk to the doctor about what is going on. they are taking me without consent. ok, that's right, you're not consenting. i did not consent to this. that's clear — you're not consenting. i'm leaving voluntarily... but disability, mental health history or not, people often still do end up in handcuffs. i'm a crazy woman. even officers who have had disability training ultimately fall much of which is focused on personal protection,

as sergeant nooner knows from the incident where he felt he was forced to kill a schizophrenic woman. i have to make sure i go home to my family at night. and so whether the person is mentally ill or not, they have a knife, and they're pointing at me and walking toward me and i am telling them to drop the knife — "drop the knife. stop, just stop." my priority has to be my safety. 0nce those issues are addressed, then we can talk about what's the cause of the actions that will force to intervene with. but that still sounds like people who can't comply, for whatever reason, could still get harmed almost before police can compute that there's a problem there, a mental health issue. absolutely, they can. for some, there is only one major

way police across america themselves could help bring down not just the number of people with disabilities killed by officers, but of the hundreds of others in society who die in these exchanges every year. you shouldn't always be... immediate reaction to pull out your gun or your taser, or to yell or scream. so i think that all of those policies and ideas need to change. i had to watch everybody else play sports because i was in a chair half the time... but as things stand, candace says the disabled young people she works with — like tj, who has autism — and their families, are just looking at all these deaths and wondering who might be next. it has made parents fearful of calling the police. it also has made individuals with disabilities themselves fearful of being around police.

i am an organiser, so i organise young adults, and immediately, the plan centres around — what will we do about the police in this case? how do we protect ourselves? it's extraordinary to hear you talking about groups of people with disabilities having to come up with a plan, or talking through how to defend themselves against police, but that's where things are. yes, it is. so with few hopes of a major shift in police culture that would save disabled lives, where de—escalating situations is really their focus, and even fewer expectations that mental health provision will radically improve here, some of the most vulnerable in american society are being left to work things out for themselves if they're not to be added to the grim numbers that are growing across this country all the time. hello there.

with the new year just around the corner, the weather patterns look likely to stay the same, so it doesn't look as though we're going to see any significant change to bring in our new year. for the next few days, we keep those cloudy conditions and it's going to stay pretty mild. as we move into the weekend, we're still under this influence of high—pressure, and the winds are blowing in a clockwise direction around that high. so, driving in this milder air from the south, and that is going to be the story for the next few days. it means that temperatures above the average for the time of year, but they will keep quite a lot of cloud around. we start off, then, on saturday on a windy note through scotland and northern ireland, but those winds will ease as the rain pushes quite quickly off into scandinavia. and then behind it, it stays quite

cloudy with some poor visibility along south—west coasts, and maybe the cloud thick enough for a spot or two of drizzle. on sunday, it's almost a repeat performance. we start off with showery outbreaks of rain moving its way out of scotland, slowly brightening up behind. parts of aberdeenshire to the east of the pennines seeing some sunny spells. the thicker clouds, some poor visibility of along west—facing coasts. and the highest values, again, of around 10—13 degrees. now, as we move out of sunday into monday, still under this influence of high—pressure. so still, things very quiet. now monday is new year's eve, and it does look as though we will see some glimpses of sunshine. sheltered eastern areas perhaps seeing the best of any drier, brighter weather. again, a dry story and a relatively mild one, with temperatures still in the double digits. that means if you've got outdoor plans monday, into the early hours of new year's day, i don't suspect you're going to be disappointed with this story, really. that high—pressure stays with us. again, we keep that dry theme. and with light winds, it'll feel quite pleasant out there as well. now, the high—pressure will start

to just change its direction a little as we move into the new year. so, a few subtle differences. we've got a weather frontjust toppling across the high on new year's day itself. could bring some outbreaks of showery rain and a stronger wind, perhaps, into the far north. but elsewhere, the cloud should break up and we'll see temperatures of around 9—10d. now, the high—pressure willjust build and centre itself across the uk during wednesday, as you can see quite clearly. but that means that the winds will start to topple across the high and come in from more of a northerly direction. so perhaps on wednesday, yes, we might see more in the way of sunshine coming through, but it could be a noticeably cooler feel, particularly on those exposed east coasts, i suspect. and the temperatures will suggest this. so we might not see those double digits that we've been used to, and in fact, by wednesday afternoon, we're likely to see highest values around six or 7 degrees into the east.

maybe eight or nine if we're lucky. so, back to pretty much where we should be at this time of year. now, looking further ahead, we've got a similar pattern. we've got this undulating jet stream toppling across that area of high—pressure. now once the jet stream is always to the north of us, we're always on the milder edge, and that milder weather is going to be dictated as to just where the high—pressure‘s likely to sit. as january continues, the high—pressure could topple away, and we could slowly start to see a change. but the beginning ofjanuary will certainly be mild at first. there's going to be a lot of cloud around, and it could be dry. further ahead, really from the longer 6—10 day period, it does look likely that that high could lose its grip, and there's the potential for seeing some wetter weather to move in from the west. take care. tonight at ten, the rising number of migrants, trying to cross the english channel, is declared a major incident, by the home secretary. as more people are detained off the coast of dover today, ministers warn it's only a matter of time before lives are lost. also tonight, hmv goes

into administration, putting thousands ofjobs at risk, as customers turn to online and streaming services. the english channel is declared a major incident by the home secretary. as more people are detained off the coast of dover today, ministers warn it's only a matter of time before lives are lost. also tonight... hmv goes into administration, putting thousands ofjobs at risk, as customers turn to online and streaming services. i haven't bought a cd or dvd for years. years and years. no, i don't buy any, i download everything. following an explosion in leicester in february — three men are found guilty of murdering five people, including a mother and two sons. the us border with mexico could be shut down by order of president trump, unless he gets congressional