Police officer dies in US Capitol attack

Police guarding the US Capitol building in Washington DC have shot a man dead after he ran over two police officers with his car, killing one of them; they say he also lunged at them with a knife. Dozens of National Guard troops, who have been stationed in the area since Donald Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building in January, were also deployed.

Also in the programme: We hear from Brazil's former health minister amid a political and Covid-19 crisis; and why campaigners in Belgium are calling for urgent reforms of the police.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other stories are Barnaby Phillips, former BBC and Al Jazeera correspondent, who is now with the Elephant Protection Initiative; and Noga Tarnopolsky, a journalist in Jerusalem who writes on the Middle East for the US media.

(Picture: Police officers at the site of the attack outside the US Capitol building in Washington D.C. Credit: REUTERS/Erin Scott)