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Woman shot dead by immigration officials in Minneapolis

The Trump administration says it was an incident of self-defence.

A US immigration agent has shot dead a woman in the city of Minneapolis further deepening the row between Washington and Democrat-run states over Trump's immigration crackdown.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he will meet with Danish officials next week to discuss the future of the Danish territory of Greenland which Trump wants to make part of US territory. We speak to a member of the Defence Committee in the Danish Parliament.

And we look at the continuing protests in Iran. On Wednesday two police officers were killed in the western town of Lordegan. At least 36 people have been killed since the protests began over worsening economic situation.

Presenters: James Copnall and Anne Soy

(Photo: A woman takes a moment as she places a cross at a makeshift memorial at the scene in which a woman was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Minneapolis. Credit: Craig Lassig/EPA).

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