Trump officials defend officer who shot woman in Minneapolis while protests continue
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Vice-President J.D.Vance insists Renee Good was shot by an ICE officer in self defence. We hear the latest from the city amid conflicting accounts of what happened.
Also in the programme: reports of clashes between Iranian security forces and protestors across the country; political prisoners released in Venezuela; and what it's like to be sick in space.
(Photo: US Vice-President Vance addresses the media in the White House; Credit: WILL OLIVER/EPA/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.8 | Hello and welcome to News Air from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:12.8 | We're coming to you live from London. |
| 0:14.7 | I'm James Menendez. |
| 0:16.2 | And later in the program, we'll be hearing from Venezuela, |
| 0:18.6 | where the government says it's begun releasing political prisoners. |
| 0:26.4 | The Bolivarian government, together with state institutions, has decided to release a significant |
| 0:33.1 | number of Venezuelan and foreign nationals. |
| 0:36.4 | These releases are taking place as we speak. |
| 0:39.3 | We'll be trying to find out who's been freed so far on what kind of conditions they've been |
| 0:43.3 | held in. Also, later we'll get an update on the situation in Iran where after 10 days of |
| 0:49.1 | unrest, anti-government protests appear to be spreading and growing in size. |
| 0:56.3 | That's coming up in 15 minutes. |
| 1:04.0 | But we are going to begin in Minneapolis in the aftermath of that fatal shooting of a woman in a car by a federal immigration officer. |
| 1:05.4 | No! |
| 1:07.0 | No! |
| 1:09.5 | Sh-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-a-old. |
| 1:12.4 | 37-year-old, Renee Good, a mother of three, |
| 1:15.7 | were shot at close range by a masked officer with ICE, |
| 1:18.5 | the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency that's been carrying out a series of raids in the city. |
| 1:21.7 | There is extensive phone footage of the incident, |
| 1:24.7 | but wildly different interpretations of the circumstances. |
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