America will hear Tyre Nichols' screams for mother in video - lawyer
Summary
- The city of Memphis is bracing for the release of police video of an arrest that led to the death of Tyre Nichols
- It's due to be released around 18:00 local time (00:00 GMT Saturday)
- In an emotional interview with CNN, Tyre's parents describe how the 29-year-old was beaten "to a pulp" - they say the video will show him being kicked "like a football"
- America will hear Tyre's "gut-wrenching screams for his mother" in the bodycam footage, the family's lawyer Ben Crump says during the same interview
- Memphis police chief Cerelyn Davis has described the incident as a "failing of basic humanity"
- Five police officers - who have all now been fired - are facing murder charges
- Lawyers for two of the accused ex-officers say they will fight the charges
- President Biden is urging protests in Tennessee to remain peaceful
Outside of Tennessee, protesters in Washington DC are also planning to take to the streets, according to social media.
As we reported earlier, security is being increased around the US Capitol building ahead of the release of the video.
The DC police, which is different from the Capitol police, are also fully activating their force today.
Police departments across the US are thought to be preparing for protests over the weekend.
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The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said he feared the security situation could worsen after two rockets were fired from Gaza early on Friday and Israel responded with airstrikes on the territory.
The top US diplomat is set to travel to the Middle East on Sunday to discuss the situation, with a visit planned to Egypt, Israel and the West Bank.
Holocaust remembered at Auschwitz as Europe’s peace is shattered by Ukraine war
Auschwitz-Birkenau survivors and other mourners commemorated the 78th anniversary on Friday of the liberation of the Nazi death camp, some expressing horror that war has again shattered peace in Europe.
The former camp, in Oswiecim in southern Poland, became a place of systematic murder of Jews, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Roma and others targeted for elimination by Hitler during the Second World War.
In all, some 1.1 million people were killed at the vast complex before it was liberated by Soviet troops on 27 January 1945.
OPCW blames Syrian troops for 2018 chemical attack
The Syrian government used banned chemical weapons against opposition forces in 2018 in the city of Douma, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said on Friday.
The watchdog noted that there were "reasonable grounds to believe that the Syrian Arab Air Forces were the perpetrators."
In a new report, the organization said at least one helicopter of Syria's air forces dropped two yellow cylinders, containing toxic chlorine gas, on residential apartment buildings in Douma, killing 43 people and affecting dozens more in 2018.
Haiti police block streets, force entry to airport to protest officer killings
Haitian police officers on Thursday blocked streets and forced their way into the country's main airport to protest the recent killing of officers by armed gangs expanding their grip on the Caribbean nation.
Protesters in civilian clothes who identified themselves as police first attacked Prime Minister Ariel Henry's official residence, according to a Reuters witness, and then flooded the airport as Henry was arriving from a trip to Argentina.
Henry was temporarily stuck in the airport, unable to leave, but returned to his residence in Port-au-Prince later on Thursday, followed by police protesters. A Reuters witness heard heavy gunfire near his home.
Peru’s embattled president could have eased the crisis. What happened?
When Dina Boluarte was anointed Peru’s sixth president in five years, she faced battles on two fronts: appeasing the lawmakers who had ousted her boss and predecessor Pedro Castillo, and calming protesters enraged by the dethroning of yet another president.
She called for a “political truce” with Congress on her first day of her job — a peace offering to the legislative body that had been at odds with Castillo and impeached him in December after he undemocratically attempted to dissolve Congress.
But nearly two months on, her presidency is looking even more beleaguered than Castillo’s aborted term. Several ministers in her government have resigned while the country has been rocked by its most violent protests in decades. She was forced to once again call for a truce on Tuesday – this time appealing to the protesters, many of whom hail from Peru’s majority-indigenous rural areas, saying in Quechua that she is one of them.
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