Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service.
We're coming to you live from London.
I'm James Menendez.
And later in the programme we'll be hearing from Venezuela,
where the government says it's begun releasing political prisoners.
The Bolivarian government, together with state institutions,
has decided to release a significant number of Venezuelans and foreign nationals.
These releases are taking place as we speak.
We'll be trying to find out who's been freed so far and what kind of conditions they've been held in.
Also, later we'll get an update on the situation in Iran where after 10 days of unrest,
anti-government protests appear to be spreading and growing in size.
That's coming up in 15 minutes.
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.
37-year-old Renee Gooder, mother of three, was shot at close range by a masked officer with ICE,
the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency,
who's been carrying out a series of raids in the city.
There is extensive foam footage of the incident,
but wildly different interpretations of the circumstances.
The Department of Homeland Security that's in charge of ICE says the officer was acting in self-defense,
fearing he was about to be run over.