Trump says he is 'reviewing everything; about Minneapolis killing
Newshour
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🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
US President Donald Trump says his administration is now “reviewing” Saturday’s shooting in Minneapolis, where 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti was shot dead by ICE agents during a protest. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, Mr Trump also indicated he would eventually remove the agents from the Minnesotan city, but no timeline was given. BBC Verify takes us through the shooting of Mr Pretti step-by-step.
Also on the programme: China’s top general has been accused of bribery and leaking nuclear secrets to the US, and a lost portrait of the Scottish poet Robert Burns has been found after 200 years.
(Photo: President Donald Trump climbs a staircase during the 56th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. Credit: Laurent Gillieron/EPA/Shutterstock)
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| 0:10.6 | Hello, I'm Celia Hatton and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service, coming to you live from London. |
| 0:17.8 | We're starting this program with some news breaking just in the past hour or so. Israel |
| 0:22.4 | says it has recovered the remains of the last Israeli hostage from Gaza. Ran Gavili was a policeman |
| 0:29.1 | whose body was taken to Gaza after he was killed in the October 7th attacks in 2023. |
| 0:35.5 | The return of all hostages was a condition of the ceasefire deal with |
| 0:39.3 | Hamas. Well, let's speak live now with the BBC's Dan Johnson in Jerusalem. Dan, a significant |
| 0:44.7 | moment. Tell us about Ran Gavili and the search for his body. Yeah, this is significant on a number |
| 0:50.8 | of levels. Firstly, of course, for Rangavilli's family. He was a 24-year-old policeman, |
| 0:55.7 | a member of an elite unit who was actually off-work sick when the October 7th attacks happened, |
| 1:01.6 | but put himself back on duty, answered the call and was killed defending a kibbutz when Hamas |
| 1:07.3 | militants attacked. His body was believed to have been taken to Gaza. His family |
| 1:12.0 | have staged sit-ins, protests every week waiting for his return with hope that he may be alive, |
| 1:18.4 | but at least that they would get his body back. All 251 hostages have now been returned. |
| 1:25.0 | It's not clear why it took so long to locate and retrieve his body in |
| 1:29.5 | particular, but this will be a moment, not just for his family, but for all across Israel, |
| 1:34.0 | who've been waiting for this dark chapter to end with all the hostages now returned. |
| 1:38.8 | And Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken saying this is an extraordinary achievement for Israel. |
| 1:45.0 | He said, we promised and I promised to bring everyone back and we brought everyone back to the very last one. |
| 1:52.0 | There is a statement also from Hamas saying that this move, the intelligence, the information that they gave to the IDF to enable this search and recovery shows their commitment to ending |
| 2:02.5 | the war in Gaza. And it does open up the possibility of moving now to the next stage of |
| 2:07.5 | the ceasefire. Can you take us through? What's involved in that second stage? Yeah, so the important |
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