and he is only 16 but already the best flat jockey and he is only 16 but already the best flatjockey in britain. we make the teenager who was the talk of the racing world. but before we meet. 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 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 dash cam footage. we won t show any more than this clip at this time as we still continue to review it. what is at stake is, first of all, the lives all of innocent people, number one. number two it has a lot to say about america, a lot to do with whether or not we are the country we say we are, a country of law and order and means by which we can peacefully protest and let the courts make the judgeme
it. but a jur: y of his peers disagreed. alex murdaugh found guilty of murdering hi s son paul and wifes maggie and sentenced to life in prison. it s, magg a stunning fall for the disgraced attorney whose family not only practice disgrdw in a tiny south carolinain town for a century, they were the lasouth caw. that is at, until alex went fro lawyer to defended the judgefr, tearing down that dynasty.g down your family that , including you,, in have been prosecutinclg people here in this courtroom and many have received the death penalty probab probably for lesser conduclyt. and the question is , when will it end? wh when will it end?en end and it is ended already for the jury because they ve concluded that you continueat yu to lie and lie throughou ct your testimony. ughout judge also had this chilling warning for your testi the convicted murderer. i know you have to see paul and maggie durin see the night times when you re attempting to go to sleep. during i m sure they
point, partisan politics and a sitting u.s. attorney general cot in the cross fire. eric holder is in copenhagen this morning. yesterday a house committee voted to recommend citing him for contempt of congress for not turning over documents from that botched fast and furious gun operation. you will remember that program allowed guns to end up in the hands of mexican drug cartels and is connected to the death of at least one u.s. law enforcement officer. those documents are now off limits to republicans and everybody else because the president has invoked executive privilege to keep them under wraps. it brings us to joe jons live from washington, d.c. this morning. good morning. good morning, soledad, the contempt issue moves to the full house of representatives as early as neck week. holder is the first obama administration official to be held in contempt by congressional committee. the point man on all of this for the republicans, of course, is chairman darrell issa. he ta