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‘Our presence exacerbates problem’ – Congressman Adam Smith on Afghanistan
President Biden made another major foreign policy call this week declaring that all US troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan by September this year.
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Chicago police release video showing 13-year-old boy shot dead by officer
Bodycam video footage has been released in Chicago showing the moment a police officer fatally shot a 13-year-old boy.
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’Withdrawal of US troops will make things worse’ says Afghan mayor
We speak to Zarifa Ghafari, one of Afghanistan’s first female mayors, and Professor Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, from the University of Pittsburgh, who’s a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council as the US prepares to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, after two decades of conflict
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US troops to withdraw from Afghanistan by September 11
President Biden has begun setting out his plans to withdraw all US troops from Afghanistan by September 11 this year. He will declare that “it’s time to end America’s longest war”.
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Jacob Blake Snr: ‘It’s larger than George, Daunte, Jacob and Breonna’
Last August, Jacob Blake’s 29 year old son, also called Jacob Blake, was shot seven times in front of his children and left paralysed by a police officer in Kenosha as he resisted arrest and was in possession of a folding pocket-knife. It led to massive protests in which two people were killed. That officer,…
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Police officer who killed Daunte Wright charged with second degree manslaughter
In the Derek Chauvin trial lawyers are trying to argue that drugs and a heart condition contributed to George Floyd’s death, and not the more than nine minutes that the former police officer knelt on his neck. But this whole trial has been overshadowed by the rising tensions over the death of a young Black…
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‘There is structural racism embedded within the police force in this nation’, says Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown
We talk to the political strategist LaTosha Brown, who’s the co-founder of the Black Voters Matter group.
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Protests in Minneapolis after killing of Black man by police
In the United States, a new wave of Black Lives Matter protests are beginning around the country at the killing of a young black man by police.
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Activists urge Biden to cancel oil pipeline through Native American land
President Biden has made the fight against climate change a key priority of his new administration, cancelling the planned Keystone XL pipeline on his very first day in office. But he hasn’t done the same for Enbridge 3, a pipeline carrying oil across much of Northern Minnesota, including swathes of Native American land. Protesters claim…
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George Floyd: Police chief testifies force used during arrest was direct violation of conduct
In America it’s the seventh day of the murder trial of the former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin who is accused of killing George Floyd last summer.
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Police officer killed at the Capitol honoured with police procession
Police in Washington DC have lined the streets in a procession for police officer William Evans, who was killed in an attack on the Capitol building yesterday.
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US Capitol in lockdown after car rams into security barriers
In the last hour, the US Capitol has been locked down by police.
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Derek Chauvin trial: Court hears testimony from George Floyd’s girlfriend
In America, another case that is putting police practises under the spotlight is the trial of the Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin over the death of George Floyd. The court heard tearful testimony from his girlfriend today. And footage from Chauvin’s bodycam was shown. In the previously unseen video, Chauvin is heard saying that George Floyd…
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‘A modern-day lynching in broad daylight’ – George Floyd’s brother Philonise
Derek Chauvin has pleaded not guilty to three charges relating to the killing of Mr Floyd, whose death sparked a wave of Black Lives Matter protests across the world.
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Derek Chauvin trial ‘carries the weight of the country’s history’, says Princeton’s Prof Eddie Glaude
We speak to Eddie Glaude, professor of African-American Studies at Princeton University.