this is bbc news. i'm victoria valentine, with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. president biden calls for calm after five former police officers are charged with murder, following the death of a black man, in tennessee. i don't know anything right now, all i know is my son is not here, he will never walk through that door again. tensions rise between israel and the palestinians — there are air—strikes in gaza and clashes in the west bank. seoul's battle at rush hour — disability activists call for greater access to south korea's public transport system. and, remembering one

of humanity's greatest crimes — ceremonies are to be held to mark holocaust memorial day. hello and welcome. in the united states, president biden has called for calm, after five police officers were charged with the murder of tyre nichols, a black man severely beaten after a traffic stop earlier this month. the officers in memphis, tennessee, who are all black, were fired last week, after being accused of using excessive force. their actions were caught on body cameras. that video will be released within the next 2a hours. our correspondent peter bowes has more on the developments.

another case of alleged police brutality in america. 29—year—old tyre nichols died three days after being stopped the reckless driving in memphis, tennessee. his family say he was severely beaten. five officers were sacked last week after investigation found them to be directly responsible for the physical abuse of tyre nichols. now they are being charged with second—degree murder. charged with second-degree murder. , , . charged with second-degree murder. , ., ., murder. this is a failing of basic humanity _ murder. this is a failing of basic humanity towards i murder. this is a failing of - basic humanity towards another individual. this incident was heinous, reckless and inhumane. video footage of the arrest will be made public in the coming hours. tyre nichols's grieving family had an opportunity to review it earlier this week. i opportunity to review it earlier this week. i don't know an hinu earlier this week. i don't know anything right _ earlier this week. i don't know anything right now, _ earlier this week. i don't know anything right now, all- earlier this week. i don't know anything right now, all i - earlier this week. i don't know anything right now, alli know| anything right now, all i know is my son is not here with me anymore, he will never walk through that door again, he will never come in and say,

"hello, parents", because that is what he would do, he would come in and say "hello, parents". come in and say "hello, parents'-_ parents". in a way, it is absolutely _ parents". in a way, it is absolutely appalling. i parents". in a way, it is. absolutely appalling. let parents". in a way, it is - absolutely appalling. let me be clear. _ absolutely appalling. let me be clear, what happened here does not at _ clear, what happened here does not at all— clear, what happened here does not at all reflect proper policing. this was wrong, this was _ policing. this was wrong, this was criminal.— was criminal. this is a case involving — was criminal. this is a case involving a young - was criminal. this is a case involving a young black - was criminal. this is a case | involving a young black man was criminal. this is a case - involving a young black man and police officers who were also black. it is according to civil rights leaders particularly painful because of the race of the officers.— the officers. for this young man to be _ the officers. for this young man to be beaten - the officers. for this young man to be beaten to - the officers. for this young man to be beaten to death | the officers. for this young i man to be beaten to death by five police officers is horrendous and inexcusable and intolerable but even added to thatis intolerable but even added to that is more interest to me and others that these were five black carbs. we fought to put

black carbs. we fought to put black cops into the police force and for them to act in such a brutal way is more egregious than i can tell you. in a statement resident but instead tyre nichols's family deserved a swift, full and transparent investigation into his death. he went on and called for peaceful protest. outrage is understandable but violence is never acceptable. with the imminent release of the video footage, officials in memphis and called for calm but they are not discouraging people from taking to the streets. the days ahead will be tense. emotions are running high, with many americans asking, why does this keep happening?

peter bowes. jody armour is professor of law at the university of southern california. he has written a book about america's criminal justice system, which he argues is among the most deadliest and racist in the world. thank you forjoining me. good thank you for “oining me. good to be with — thank you forjoining me. good to be with you. _ rodney king, george floyd — it goes on and on. what is it that isn't working? it seems there is an underlying pattern we keep waking up again and again to the same racial injustice groundhog day, it seems, and we never seem to get at the underlying issues or problems. we seem to think a reform here, a tweak their will make the necessary adjustments and we can go on so we think what a game, implicit bias community policing, deescalation training, they have all of that and more in memphis and places like

minneapolis, and you still have these events happening so what it is telling us is of the reformist approach is not working and we need to make a much kind of deeper change in order to avoid waking up to this again, racial injustice groundhog day. do you see progress being made? we have made progress in having more americans recognise that there is a problem. the george floyd protests. in a late it was six weeks tens of thousands of people every day for six weeks, it raised awareness that this is a serious problem. there was a backlash in florida and that kind of thing but there are more and more voters who recognise this as a serious problem and you see prosecutors in places like los angeles and philadelphia and all over the country being elected on a non— castor oil platform. but there

is still a lot to do. —— ulceration. take us through the story of your family's relationship with the criminal justice system. you work at this intersection of law, psychology, politics and the arts. pretty unique cross disciplinary take on race and the role it plays in the failings of the criminaljustice system. what solutions does this perspective offer? implicit bias train out of their unconscious bias even if they do not have any conscious bigotry is not possible. we need to minimise the contact between police and marginalised communities. they should not be at a traffic stop. why do we have police making these traffic stops? getting involved in drug and addiction? we do not need police they. reduce that footprint and have the answer help us to humanise both the police and especially the people who the police are pulling over. you have to look

at this young man not as fully human to beat him as savagely as they did over a three minute period. we need the arts to help us humanise all of us. haifa help us humanise all of us. how is it possible — help us humanise all of us. how is it possible to _ help us humanise all of us. how is it possible to limit _ help us humanise all of us. how is it possible to limit contact between the police and marginalised communities? for examle, marginalised communities? fr?" example, take them out of traffic stops altogether. there are big communities that have taken police out of traffic stops and they have not seen traffic fatalities or crime go up. we do not need to see them do stop and frisk on wheels. that is when you see a lot of the fraud interactions because police are looking up to the car nervous again the motorist might have a gun and it is already a tense interaction don't even need. there are those kinds of interactions you don't need. those kinds of interactions you don't need-— don't need. your family has a particular— don't need. your family has a particular and _ don't need. your family has a particular and a _ don't need. your family has a | particular and a long-standing particular and a long—standing relationship with the criminal

justice system. take us through that you will and how that has informed where you are and the place from which you speak. i dedicate this space to the memory of my dad who was given 22-55 memory of my dad who was given 22—55 years for possession and sale of marijuana when i was eight years old and he told himself the law in prison and represented himself and appealed his way out of prison using the legal lexicon as his instrument of self liberation and it drove home to me the wonders of the law. he is a case that for the proposition that the prosecution cannot deliberately light to a jury to get a conviction against the defendant. before that case established that proposition, it was not recognised in american law. he drove onto me the importance of taking language seriously, the legal lexicon seriously and even using that melody of the law

and he has to say, i made the frozen circumstances that by playing to them their own melody. playing to them their own melod . ., ~ i. playing to them their own melod . ., ~ ., playing to them their own melod . . ~' i., ., i. melody. thank you for your time and our melody. thank you for your time and your analysis, _ melody. thank you for your time and your analysis, jody - melody. thank you for your time and your analysis, jody armour. | and your analysis, jody armour. thank you. let's turn to the middle east now where israel says it has carried out air strikes against palestinian militants in gaza, after two rockets were fired into israel. both rockets were intercepted by israeli air defence systems. the scale of the bombing in gaza is not yet clear. tensions have escalated in the region following an israeli military raid in the occupied west bank, on thursday, in which nine palestinians, both fighters and civilians, were killed. israeli security forces say they entered a refugee camp injenin, to arrest members of the armed group, islamichhad, who they accuse of planning a major attack. it's been the deadliest day in the west bank for several years. our middle east correspondent yoland knell reports from the scene. heavily armed israeli forces arriving in this

crowded urban refugee camp. there were explosions and gunfire in three hours of fierce battles with palestinian militants. sirens wail ambulances struggled to reach the mounting palestinian casualties. still smouldering, the israeli army says it targeted islamichhad militants hiding out here, acting on intelligence that they were planning major attacks. three men were killed in this house and another arrested. just coming inside, you can see how rooms have been reduced to rubble and there's still this acrid smell of burning, and i've seen a lot of blood in here. one woman on this street was killed by a stray bullet. a neighbour, aisha abu al—naj, tells me she and herfamily were terrified. translation: there is no safety. we're not only afraid about ourselves, but about our children.

there is no safety, only fear. everyone is scared, young or old. almost every day, there is a martyr. how long will this way of life last? chanting the dead are buried quickly here. today, fighters and civilians were carried off together on a tide of mourners. since a series of deadly attacks in israel last year, its military�*s been carrying out what it calls a "counterterrorism offensive" and the number of palestinians killed has risen rapidly. in jenin refugee camp, often the target of israeli raids, people know well the taste of the bitter coffee served after funerals. as the crowd gathered here, palestinian officials announced they'd stop cooperating with israel's new far—right leaders on security. the us now says it's trying to calm growing tensions. yolande knell, bbc news, jenin.

police officers in haiti have tried to storm the official residence of the prime minister and have over run the main air port. they were protesting against the number of their colleagues killed by the many armed gangs that operate with relative impunity in the caribbean nation. fourteen have been killed so far this year, six of them in a shoot out at the police headquarters, in the northern town of lian court on wednesday. disability activists in south korea are being sued by seoul's subway authority for causing major disruption during the morning rush hour. solidarity against disability discrimination say they want all stations to be wheelchair accessible and more funding allocated to disability provisions in the national budget. but the authorities�* hardline response has led to a bitter feud and clashes between demonstrators and security forces. nick marsh's report from the south korean capital seoul contains scenes some viewers may find distressing. in sole, there is a battle

happening at rush hour. underground, disabled south koreans want equal access to their city subway system. blocking train doors and shaving their heads in protest. —— seoul. seoul's met has about zero tolerance but it has not stopped the demonstrations. translation: i stopped the demonstrations. translation:— stopped the demonstrations. translation: i have been hit, followed home, _ translation: i have been hit, followed home, people - translation: i have been hit, followed home, people shout l translation: l have been hit, | followed home, people shout at us, they say, "why don't you stay at home" but the gap between disabled and able people here is so huge, that we have to continue.— have to continue. among commuters _ have to continue. among commuters that - have to continue. among l commuters that sympathy have to continue. among . commuters that sympathy is have to continue. among - commuters that sympathy is in short supply. translation: i was one hour late from a hospital appointment because of this. i doesn't have to cause harm to innocent citizens. translation:— harm to innocent citizens. translation: ., ., , translation: look at all these, how many facilities _ translation: look at all these, how many facilities do _ translation: look at all these, how many facilities do disabled i

how many facilities do disabled people already have? i how many facilities do disabled people already have?- people already have? i agree with police- _ people already have? i agree with police. the _ people already have? i agree with police. the people - with police. the people here say they want to be able to get around that cityjust like everybody else but the way they have gone about it has not exactly one them any friends from commuters than again neither has a response from the authorities. it has been pretty quiet here this morning and get the people here are being outnumbered by police and riot police about 5—1. it is not a great look. authorities say spelling on mobility provisions more than doubled this year. —— spending. but this is notjust about the numbers, it is about attitude to disability and a group of people who say they feel invisible in a wider society. this woman has been using a wheelchair since recovering from cancer at age four. every day brings new challenges for her and her mother. they design interactive

maps. mother. they design interactive ma s. ,, mother. they design interactive mas, ,, ., mother. they design interactive mas. ,, ., ., mother. they design interactive maps-_ not - maps. she cannot go. not accessible. _ maps. she cannot go. not accessible. showing - maps. she cannot go. not accessible. showing web | accessible. showing web disabled people can and cannot go. at 17, she is from a very different generation from those protesting at the subway but she credits them all forcing people to rethink their attitudes towards disability. translation:— attitudes towards disability. translation: south korean society right _ translation: south korean society right now, _ translation: south korean society right now, you - translation: south korean society right now, you do - translation: south koreanj society right now, you do not see disabled people enough. our life as it was been stuck at home, giving up on going places, even if you want to go somewhere. we want to show the world that we exist. we somewhere. we want to show the world that we exist.— world that we exist. we need accessible — world that we exist. we need accessible place. _ world that we exist. we need accessible place. yes. - world that we exist. we need accessible place. yes. i- world that we exist. we need | accessible place. yes. i didn't know. those _ accessible place. yes. i didn't know. those in _ accessible place. yes. i didn't know. those in charge - accessible place. yes. i didn't know. those in charge say - accessible place. yes. i didn't. know. those in charge say they will not accept any more protest because they cause harm to ordinary south koreans. those protesting say ordinary south koreans is exactly what

they. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: earth's very close encounter — the asteroid the size of a bus that almost collided with south america. the shuttle challenger exploded soon after lift—off. there were seven astronauts on board, one of them a woman schoolteacher. all of them are believed to have been killed. by the evening, tahrir square, the heart of official cairo, was in the hands of the demonstrators. they were using the word 'revolution'. the earthquake singled out buildings and brought them down in seconds. tonight, the search for any survivors has an increasing desperation about it as the hours pass. the new government is firmly in control of the entire republic of uganda.

survivors of the _ auschwitz concentration camp have been commemorating the 40th anniversary - of their liberation. they toured the huts, - gas chambers and crematoria and relived their- horrifying experiences. this is bbc news. our top story — president biden calls for calm afterfive former police officers are charged with murder, following the death of a black man in tennessee. ordinary people is the theme for holocaust memorial day which takes place each year on 27 january. it is a day to mark the anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz—birkenau, the largest nazi death camp, and to remember the six millionjews murdered during the holocaust, alongside the millions of other people killed under nazi

persecution of other groups. dr kori street, is the deputy executive director of usc shoah foundation — shejoins us now from los angeles. what meaning does the holocaust day of memorial take in 2023? what a great question to start off this conversation. it is about honouring the victims, those who perished and those who survived, those who were murdered, and those who witnessed it and continued on to have full lives. i think it is more essential to remember as we are facing with a rising tide of hatred, which you mentioned, but anti—semitism which became a genocidalform of hatred under the nazi regime when it became unchecked, and ordinary people did what we

might consider abhorrent and participate in this systematic murder of 6 millionjewish people. these moments that we can to memorise and memorialise and think about what these moments mean to us on the day of today are crucial when we move forward to fight hate. in your work in the foundation, do your work in the foundation, do you see semitism on the rise again? you see semitism on the rise auain? ~ , ,., , , you see semitism on the rise auain? ~ , ,., again? absolutely. it is a sace again? absolutely. it is a space we _ again? absolutely. it is a space we are _ again? absolutely. it is a space we are working - again? absolutely. it is a| space we are working and again? absolutely. it is a - space we are working and most diligently across our educational programmes, we have recently partnered with unesco to offer worldwide credential opportunity for teachers to learn about how to recognise and address anti—semitism in their classroom. we work with partners worldwide and all of it comes down to listening to the testimonies of survivors from the holocaust, from that

moment where anti—semitism resulted in the concentration camps, and horrific violence, this really dark period in our history. the stories of hope and resilience can help students and any individuals to really understand what they themselves can do and why it is still relevant today.— still relevant today. there is an issue. — still relevant today. there is an issue, insofar— still relevant today. there is an issue, insofar as - still relevant today. there is an issue, insofar as many i still relevant today. there is an issue, insofar as many of the survivors are now of an age where they are dying. they are dying of natural causes. so what can be done to ensure that the stories of survivors are still heard?— still heard? one of our initiatives _ still heard? one of our initiatives right - still heard? one of our initiatives right now, i still heard? one of our. initiatives right now, we still heard? one of our - initiatives right now, we call it the last chance just a minute collective initiative, we are hoping of the next two and a half years to collect between seven and 10,000 survivors but it is really a race against time. today in israel, some 42 survivors are dying every day, they are reaching the end of their lives, they are in the 80s and 90s, but they still have powerful stories to say, and

one of the things we are doing is not only capturing those, working with partners worldwide, but also to preserve those in perpetuity and capture them in new ways, using all sorts of new technologies, so that students, young people can continue to interact with their stories, there powerful stories, there powerful stories, working with organisations like the holocaust education trust, which is in your neck of the woods, and developing these interactive survey of biographies that will allow us to ask questions and learn for decades to come, even after the survivors are gone.— survivors are gone. thank you for our survivors are gone. thank you for your time _ survivors are gone. thank you for your time and _ survivors are gone. thank you for your time and for - survivors are gone. thank you for your time and for your - for your time and for your work. ~ , , ., , stay with us as we will be live are a number of the memorial events taking place across the world and throughout the day. in the last few hours, an asteroid the size of a minibus made one of the closest approaches to our planet ever recorded.

it passed just 2,200 miles from the earth's surface. experts say that while this space rock, known as 20.23 bu, is too small to do any damage it illustrates how little we know about the near—earth environment. well, joining me now from birmingham here in england is space science commentator andrew lound. good morning. there was only spotted last saturday, not very long ago, is probably a piece of another major asteroid, a fragment that got blasted off maybe many thousand millions of years ago. every self and it crosses the earth's path, and it has probably passed the earth numerous times already but we just happen to stop it for the very first time, and when it did, we found out it was actually going to make a close flyby of the earth, as you rightly said, very close indeed, within the orbit of many satellites, but it was not going to enter the earth's amateur this time, it was going to whizz around the earth and then zoom off and have its orbit to change slightly by the's gravity but it will still

maintain orbiting the sun and it will likely encounter us again at some point, but fortunately it is of a size where it would be likely to burn up in the atmosphere, rather than cause any damage, if it did come through the atmosphere. 50 if it did come through the atmosphere.— if it did come through the atmosphere. if it did come through the atmoshere. ., , ., ., atmosphere. so how big or how close to asteroids _ atmosphere. so how big or how close to asteroids need - atmosphere. so how big or how close to asteroids need to - atmosphere. so how big or how close to asteroids need to beat| close to asteroids need to beat causes problems, either to satellites and space or to us here on the earth's surface? even a small grain of sand could damage a satellite because the velocities they are moving out. a piece of sand moving out. a piece of sand moving at 30, 40,000 miles an hour will damage and destroy a satellite. to enter the earth's atmosphere, famous one russia, if you remember blue windows out and caused all sorts of chaos. that was only about 66, 60 seven feet across. if something is about 80 feet across, usually than it can really hit the ground with quite a bit of a thumb. but then you want something about 25 metres across, which is a lot bigger indeed. that kind of

event happened usually once every hundreds of years, and that is what you call an air burst with a type of event that happened in 1908, which destroyed a forest in siberia, and then only happen every 100, 150 years or so. there was a report they may have been won over the amazon in 1970. then things that are a lot bigger, four orfive times the things that are a lot bigger, four or five times the size of that happen every 20,000 years and they can cause quite a big crater on the ground and cause big damage, and as we all know, once in every 100 billion years orso once in every 100 billion years or so you get one that will hit the earth and cause mass extinctions on the planet. bearing in mind the asteroid that hit the earth 66 million years ago, which caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, that actually led to the rise of mammals, which is us, so we actually owe our lives to such an extinction event, and we are the first species that probably can stop it happening again. silver lining this, thank you very much.

join me for the business news in about four minutes' time. we will be talking about uk inward investment and plenty more as well, including older influences. are you one? reach me on twitter. you can reach me on twitter — i'm @vvalentinenews hello, there. for most of us, the working week is going to end on a dry note, but cloud amounts will vary. i'm hopeful that most places will get to see at least a little bit of sunshine. it will be largely dry, but i can't completely rule out just the odd shower. where we're starting friday morning with clear skies, a cold start across scotland and northern ireland, a touch of frost, some patchy fog which could also affect parts of northern england and wales. further south and east, a bit more in the way of cloud and one or two morning showers, many of which will fade by the afternoon. and then for england and wales, it's a mix of patchy cloud and sunny spells. some sunshine too for northern ireland and scotland. but for northwest scotland, eventually northern parts of northern ireland, we will see more cloud fringing

in ahead of this frontal system — the breeze picking up in the far north as well. light winds elsewhere, highs of six to nine degrees. and then through friday night, this band of cloud and increasingly light and patchy rain will push southwards across scotland, northern ireland, into northern england. ahead of that, that's where we'll have the coldest weather through the night with a touch of frost and perhaps some fog patches as well. some of that fog could be quite slow to clear. the winds in the south will be light on saturday morning. this is our weatherfront by this point and not much more than a band of cloud, and maybe the odd spot of drizzle over high ground, especially in northern england, the north midlands and into north wales. to the south of that, some spells of sunshine. to the north of that, some spells of sunshine, and temperatures 6—8 degrees for most places. now, high pressure across the south of the uk will tend to kill off what's left of that first weather front, mainly dry in the south on sunday, but further north, this frontal system approaching which will thicken up the cloud for scotland and northern ireland. it will bring some outbreaks of rain, some heavier rain to the northwest later where the winds must be picking up, gales are likely. some exposed coasts in the northwest of scotland

and through the northern aisles, we could see gusts of 65 mph or more. but ahead of that weather front, very mild indeed. 12 degrees in aberdeen, that frontal system will sink southwards through sunday night into monday, very windy towards the north of the uk. briefly, some cold air from the north, but actually, then the winds start to come in around an area of high pressure back the atlantic, and so, it's looking pretty mild through next week. a lot of dry weather around some rain, particularly in the north. south koreans is exactly what

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