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this is bbc news — i'm monika plaha. our top stories: police video footage of the arrest that led to the death of tyre nichols has been released. i have never seen but what i have heard is that it is very horrific. , ., . israeli police say at least seven people have been killed in a mass shooting at a synagogue in eastjerusalem. a state of emergency is declared in new zealand after two people are killed in severe flooding in auckland.
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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.
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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 officers turned into a deadly confrontation. he was tased and beaten for three minutes. this was his condition after in the hospital — bruised and swollen in a critical condition. he died three days later from his injuries. chanting: justice for tyre! now, another family is asking how this keeps happening, despite worldwide outrage and public demands for police reform following the killing of george floyd. i want to say to the five police officers that murdered my son, you also disgrace yourfamilies. but, you know what, i'm going to pray for you and your families, because, at the end of the day, this shouldn't have happened.
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the five former officers are now facing charges of second—degree murder and other crimes. they were fired last week after an investigation found they were all responsible for mr nicols' death. hello, chief davis. hello. police chief c] davis said she was appalled by how inhumanely the officers acted, and hasn't been able to make sense of the situation. would you say that there is a racist culture in policing? you know, i think a lot of this is character. it doesn't matter what colour these officers were, it doesn't matter what colour the driver is. when you see this video, i think you'll be able to eliminate that race had anything to do with it. footage of the incident was captured from several angles, including security cameras on utility poles and police—worn body cameras.
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the police chief now says they have no evidence mr nichols was driving recklessly — the alleged reason for this fatal traffic stop. and many other questions remain. why did the officers used excessive force? and why did so much time pass before he was given medical help? memphis and other cities across the united states are now bracing themselves for protests, and officials all the way up to the president, joe biden, urge the public to remain peaceful. nada tawfik, bbc news, memphis, tennessee. as we've said, the bbc is reviewing the footage as it comes in. some of it is expected to be too graphic and distressing for broadcast. let's cross live to memphis now and speak to our correspondent barbara plett usher. we know that the video is deeply upsetting — the family called for the release of the video to make sure something like this doesn't happen again.
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what has been the reaction been? iam standing i am standing at the intersection because i was walking with a number of protesters going down the street and stopping traffic. they have not seen the video because they began before it was released but they clearly felt this case was part of a larger struggle against police brutality especially against black people. they were carrying a sign demanding an end to police terror. video is difficult to what you see the officers being very aggressive with tyre nichols they are using expletives and fire what appear to be a taser towards him. they pull out a bat on and beat him with it. he is also calling out for his mother a
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number of times, at one point a piercing shriek. the camera turns towards him and you see his face is bloodied and he in great distress. there is about an hour of footage from a number of different cameras. it is quite distressing and i believe you have been speaking to the mother who has said that no mother should experience what she is going through. what more did the mother of tyre nichols say and what is the family response? i nichols say and what is the family response?— nichols say and what is the family response? i asked her wh she family response? i asked her why she had _ family response? i asked her why she had not _ family response? i asked her why she had not watched - family response? i asked her why she had not watched the video. she said several times she could not bring herself to watch it. she said she knows what happens to her son. his neck was broken she saw him in the hospital, she did not need to see the video to know that he was dead although she urged parents to not let their children see the video. i asked
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about her response to the fact that the five officers who killed her child were also black and she said it is not about the colour whether they are black, purple, white or whatever, it is the fact that you have police behaving badly. this is about police conduct not about race it is about the race of the victim not the race of the police officer carrying out the excessive use of force. she also told me that president biden called her and gave her his condolences and said he would do whatever he could to try to make a change in issues like this. ., ., ., ., like this. following on from that it is — like this. following on from that it is a _ like this. following on from that it is a harrowing - like this. following on from that it is a harrowing case l like this. following on from i that it is a harrowing case and it raises a number of concerns on police brutality. what is going wrong here?- on police brutality. what is going wrong here? that is a big auestion going wrong here? that is a big question because _ going wrong here? that is a big question because after - going wrong here? that is a big question because after the - question because after the racial justice question because after the racialjustice protests around
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the killing of george and floyd there were institutional reforms. including here in memphis where they voted for policies that would have made it easier to identify and prevent instances of excessive force. at the same time, a year orso force. at the same time, a year or so later there was a rise in violent crime so the focus shifted to battling that violent crime. part of that was setting up special crime units to go and patrol and respond to areas seen as high crime areas. some of these police officers belong to those units. that is part of the context of where this case fits in. but people who have followed this for a long time so there is a police culture of impunity. that police tend to see the people they stop as potential dangers to them and many people are armed so they approach more as
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the people they stop as a danger to them. and then, of course there is the complaint about a systemic, racist culture in the police force, that they do see people of colour is more likely to be criminal and as people they will receive fewer consequences from for treating in a brutal way. that is the complaint about the systemic racism in the police force. all of this comes together in different ways. thank you so much. we can now speak to greg donaldson who's associate professor atjothay college of criminal justice. john teaches nypd officers at the executive level, and has written extensively on policing tactics in new york where hejoins us now. thank you very much forjoining us. we had that news conference earlier with some very
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emotional and powerful words from the family tyre nichols of with many people calling for change in policing.— change in policing. what is our change in policing. what is your reaction? _ change in policing. what is your reaction? i— change in policing. what is your reaction? i watched i change in policing. what is. your reaction? i watched the video and it was appalling. it was incomprehensible from beginning to end, from the car stop, the state of agitation of the police when they pulled the car over to the pursuit to the lack of training and lack of strategy in containing and subduing the person they had stopped and then the anger that they received as their incompetence. even the fact that during the foot pursuit they were all completely out of breath and poorly trained from a to the and it was awful to watch. it a to the and it was awful to watch. . , a to the and it was awful to watch. ., , ., , ., ., watch. it really was. you have rodney king. _ watch. it really was. you have rodney king, george - watch. it really was. you have rodney king, george floyd i
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watch. it really was. you have l rodney king, george floyd tyre nichols and and you would have thought by now that lessons should have been learned. doesn't need to be a massive overhaul now in police culture and how work with the community? i and how work with the community?— and how work with the community? and how work with the communi ? ~ . ~ community? i think if we take it back, this — community? i think if we take it back, this needs _ community? i think if we take it back, this needs to - community? i think if we take it back, this needs to be - it back, this needs to be looked at on a number of levels. one level in terms of police reaction to spikes in crime. what they did was they create these units, this is the scorpion unit. in new york they have the street crime unit, miami and la have the same thing. these units are designed to strike back at criminals almost as an out of the box unit to intimidate and take back the streets. invariably those units need to be supervised, they are encouraged to act aggressively and they end in tragedy more often than not. we saw that here, this was a unit, think of the name, the
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scorpion unit, it is not a unit designed to help the community, a it is a unit designed to be dangerous and that is exactly what it is. those kinds of units, one aspect that puts those kind of units that should be avoided at all costs because we have seen historically how they can turn into tragedy and thatis they can turn into tragedy and that is what we saw today. find that is what we saw today. and how do you _ that is what we saw today. and how do you think— that is what we saw today. and how do you think trust can now be restored within the police? there is that massive issue of police brutality and it is always black people more likely to be the victims in all this. it is interesting when you saw that they were black officers this time so we could not directly attributed to racial bias but there is race involved in this because the offices are much less likely to be concerned about consequences when violating the rights of a young black man as opposed to a
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middle—class white man. so there is race involved there. to answer your question about restoring trust, i think there has to be a coming together of the police unions who have fought many of these reforms of police training facilities. these officers were so poorly trained i was appalled. they need to be trained in the academies and then there needs to be retraining, periodic retraining and one of the aspects of that retraining is that we often see police brutality following a chase or a pursuit because adrenaline is up. the officers are angry and annoyed and irritated at having to run and grapple. understandably. but they should be trained to quell those instincts, trained to work together and to monitor each other as those things go on. and this incidentjust ran out of control and possibly the worst part of it all was the
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lack of humanity after the incident. those people stood incident. those peoplestood stood around as if it was just an afternoon on the street when there was a person engraved physical danger lying on the ground next to them like a piece of garbage.— ground next to them like a iece of aaarbae. ., ., piece of garbage. you mentioned the officers _ piece of garbage. you mentioned the officers being _ piece of garbage. you mentioned the officers being poorly - the officers being poorly trained and is power being abused here from the people whose job it is to protect? correct. but i think the public is to blame in some ways as well because the public calls out for these units when there are spikes in crime. the public will call out for more aggressive techniques, the public will be against police reform, the public will see these units as a line of defence against a rising tide of violence in that view by the public, ratherthan of violence in that view by the public, rather than looking at ways to improve the conditions in the neighbourhood always to
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limit the proliferation of guns, ways to train police officers it is always let go to this simple fix of hiring tough guys to stop bad guys and that does not work.— guys to stop bad guys and that does not work. greg donaldson it has been _ does not work. greg donaldson it has been interesting - does not work. greg donaldson it has been interesting to - does not work. greg donaldson it has been interesting to get i it has been interesting to get your analysis. thank you for your analysis. thank you for your time here on bbc news. stay with us on bbc news, much more to come. 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
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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. welcome back. seven people have been shot dead at a synagogue in eastjerusalem. a 14—year—old boy is among the dead, and a number of other people were wounded. police said the attacker was killed by the security forces as he fled the scene. tensions have been high since nine palestinians — both militants and civilians — were killed during an israeli military raid in jenin,
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in the occupied west bank on thursday. it was one of the deadliest raids in years. the us and uk have condemned the synagogue shooting. our middle east correspondent tom bateman reports from eastjerusalem. they came to pray as thejewish sabbath had just got under way. tonight, police are counting their bodies in the street. security forces say the gunman arrived at the synagogue and opened fire. some people were hit in the panic to get out, say witnesses, before the attacker managed to escape and drove off. and then, the security forces shot him. this is just a few metres from where the shooting took place close to the synagogue. forensics teams and police now looking at this car, you can clearly see the bullet holes on the driver's side. witnesses told the bbc the driver then managed to get out and run before being shot dead.
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translation: i heard shots, there were flashes, and then i saw a car here open, body of the terrorist down. he yelled, "allahu akbar." there's no security in the streets. we need to go down and find these terrorists, ruin their houses, take them out of israel. at the scene, the head of the jerusalem police said the attack was one of the worst israel has seen in years. translation: the attacker is a resident _ of eastjerusalem. we are completing operations at the scene. right now, unfortunately, we are talking about seven people killed and another three seriously wounded. as the wounded are taken to hospital, police have closed off nearby areas, searching to see if anyone else is involved. a deadly attack on a jerusalem synagogue as the world marks international holocaust memorial day. siren wails
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it comes as tensions flare in the region. yesterday, nine palestinians were killed by israeli forces during a raid intojenin refugee camp in the occupied west bank. the dead included militants and at least two civilians, according to health officials. israel said it had acted on intelligence of imminent attacks by islamichhad, a palestinian militant group, calling it a counterterror operation. in the aftermath, the group vowed to respond. several rockets were fired overnight from the gaza strip, shot down by israel, which then launched air strikes on a base operated by hamas. the escalating violence follows the most deadly period in years in israel and the west bank, as security forces start to piece together who was behind tonight's deadly attack. tom bateman, bbc news, jerusalem. we're joined from massachusetts by sara yale hirschhorn, who is an historian and political analyst. thank you forjoining us on bbc news. israel's foreign ministry
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say this was the deadliest attack on israel since the shooting back into the adelaide which killed 80 people. how worried are you by this tax. —— backin worried are you by this tax. —— back in 2008. i worried are you by this tax. -- back in 2008.— back in 2008. i am worried because — back in 2008. i am worried because we _ back in 2008. i am worried because we have _ back in 2008. i am worried because we have seen - back in 2008. i am worried because we have seen the | back in 2008. i am worried - because we have seen the cycle of violence continuing in israel proper as well as the occupied palestinian territories. they can certainly devolve into a new intifada or some other kind of violence which we saw in may 2020. we are in persepolis and possibly dangerous moment. we know tensions have _ dangerous moment. we know tensions have been _ dangerous moment. we know tensions have been high - dangerous moment. we know tensions have been high over| tensions have been high over the past day or so, nine palestinians were killed in the israeli radiojenin, why israeli radio jenin, why attention israeli radiojenin, why attention is escalating so much now? —— raid injenin. these attacks come after a long several months of increasing tensions in the west bank, particularly in the city of jenin which has seen many incursions by the israeli
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defence forces, the idf, in what they call counterterrorist tax, you might remember several months ago the death of the palestinian journalist who was caught in crossfire in one of these raids.— caught in crossfire in one of these raids. these tensions in these raids. these tensions in the west bank— these raids. these tensions in the west bank have _ these raids. these tensions in the west bank have been - the west bank have been simmering for many months. new elections in israel brought in the most far right government in israel's history, has also seen a deterioration in relationship between palestinian authority and israel. i think it is no surprise that these attacks are coming now. after so many months of tension and concern. and many world leaders have condemned the attacks, including the us and uk. tell us more about the international reaction to all of this? i think it is a very poignant moment that this attack came on the tail end of international holocaust remembrance day which is being commemorated around the world. i think the international immunity is extremely concerned about the rising tide of violence,
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whether they escalate further into other events. the international security adviser from the united states is on the ground, egypt has been involved in quite the scenes, and the international community would like to see some form of deescalation, it seems very unlikely that the leaders in israel and palestine will enter any kind of negotiating table anytime soon. the any kind of negotiating table anytime soon.— anytime soon. the israeli government _ anytime soon. the israeli government are - anytime soon. the israeli government are saying i anytime soon. the israeli. government are saying there will be a cost —— proper security assessment now and benjamin netanyahu will visit benjamin neta nyahu will visit the benjamin netanyahu will visit the site himself. what happens now? �* ., ., , now? ben'amin netanyahu is in is uuite a now? benjamin netanyahu is in is quite a quandary. _ now? benjamin netanyahu is in is quite a quandary. he - now? benjamin netanyahu is in is quite a quandary. he has - is quite a quandary. he has been calling for calm and tensions to be resolved, meanwhile some of his other coalition members in the far right party, particularly the
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new national security minister have called openly for arming israeli citizens, other members of his party have made what are considered very racist and xenophobic comments about killing civilians in the occupied territories, benjamin netanyahu will find himself in a difficult situation trying to restrain some members of his coalition who would like to capitalise on these events to spread their political message and advance their political agenda, and hopefully it will not lead to a further escalation of tensions. and when tensions _ escalation of tensions. and when tensions flower, - escalation of tensions. and when tensions flower, no—one wins at all do they? how does peace get restored at this point —— when tensions flare. pete's nearly —— piece needs to begin on a society level. there was a troubling poll released recently by a palestinian research centre and tel aviv university, which showed a very
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worrisome trend, multiple palestinians and israelis, a significant drop in support for a two state solution, endorsement of militant activity and a refusal to return to any kind of dramatic talks or face—to—face discussion. so i talks orface—to—face discussion. so i think the peer relationships are most important way of advancing peace at this point, if even in the absence of the commitment of palestinian and israeli leadership to return to the negotiating table. dr sara yale hirschhorn, thanks forjoining us. in new zealand, two people have died as flooding has caused widespread damage and landslips. a week—long state of emergency has been declared in auckland, many international flights have been cancelled. meteorologists say around an entire summer's worth of rain fell in just a few hours, and the deluge will continue for the next few days. tvnz reporter logan church has
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been covering this weather event in auckland, and says the rain came hard and fast — and the full extent of the damage is yet to be known, with continued search and rescue efforts. about 4230, 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, that rain came torrential within minutes, flooding streets of the areas we saw was up to my neck in floodwaters. we have seen incredible pictures of residents having to swim through these floodwaters to leave their homes or quite bravely swim back through them to rescue residents who are unable to leave on their own accord. flights aren't going in and out at the moment. they're hoping to change that later on today, weather permitting. damage right across the international terminal, in particular, with floodwaters throughout the check—in areas. stay with us on bbc news.
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find me on twitter at @monikaplaha. hello. the weekend is getting off to a relatively tranquil, sedate start in most places. it won't stay that way for all of us. something livelier heading to the north of the uk by sunday, but for saturday, largely dry with some sunshine, some quite large areas of cloud around as well. in fact, we've got this stripe of cloud pushing its way southwards out of northern ireland and southern scotland, down across northern england into the north midlands and parts of wales through the afternoon. and with that, there mayjust be the odd spot of drizzle. to the south of that, some early fog giving way to limited sunny spells and quite large areas of cloud. best of the sunshine for northern ireland and for scotland, albeit with some showers in the west of scotland and temperatures of seven or eight degrees. now, during saturday night, we will see this area of cloud sinking further south across wales,
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central and southern parts of england, again with the odd spot of drizzle. further north, there'll be some patchy clouds, some clear spells, most places probably avoiding a frost. we mayjust see a touch of frost in one or two locations. into sunday, high pressure keeps things relatively calm in the south, but this frontal system is going to change things in the north of the uk. a lot of low clouds and messiness around southern parts to start sunday morning. then we'll see some spells of sunshine. but from northern england northwards through the afternoon, it is going to turn really very windy, particularly gusty conditions to the eastern side of the pennines, around the coasts of northern ireland and in some exposed parts of the north of scotland, we will see gusts of 65 mph or more with this band of rain pushing its way southwards. but just ahead of that rain band, it's going to be very mild indeed — 12 degrees for a time there in aberdeen and a mild day generally for most of us. now, into monday, we will have a brisk north or north—westerly wind blowing into these north—eastern parts of the country,
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so feeling a little bit chilly here. but behind that, we see a ridge of high pressure building, some dry weather, some spells of sunshine, temperatures between 7—10 degrees. but let me show you what might happen with our weather as we move out of monday into tuesday, because this deep area of low pressure is expected to move close to the north of scotland. and depending onjust how deep this low ends up being, well, we could see some very strong winds indeed. so, it could be that through the first half of next week, things turn livelier still in the north of the uk, staying calmer further south.
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this is bbc news, the headlines: police video footage showing officers beating a black motorist has been released to the public. the victim — tyre nichols — later died in hospital. it later died in hospital. shows him being repeatedly punched, it shows him being repeatedly punched, kicked and pepper sprayed. while lying on the ground he can be heard screaming for his mother. a palestinian gunman has killed at least seven people outside a synagogue in occupied eastjerusalem where israeli worshippers had gathered for prayers. the attacker was killed by israeli police. prime minister benjamin netanyahu has urged israelis not to take the law into their own hands. in new zealand, two people have died
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