Tom Bateman

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Mr Trump declined to say whether the agent who shot Mr Preti had acted appropriately. Our correspondent Tom Bateman reports from Minneapolis. One of the sounds you get used to here is the combination of the crunch of the snow and ice beneath your feet and the repeating chance of the protesters to get ice out of Minneapolis. And thousands have turned out

What does the sign say?

Protesterit ovat pysyneet yleensä rauhallisena. Koneet tulevat eteenpäin, hommat ylöspäin, yrittävät näyttää yksityisyyttä. Olemme kuitenkin saaneet rauhallisen retorikin demokraattisissa valtio- ja valtio-alueissa ja Washingtonin Trumpin hallituksessa.

It really feels like a standoff now between this Democrat city and the Trump administration. It represents a much wider story about the battle for contemporary America. A Trump administration that says it's delivering on its elected pledge to carry out a mass deportation campaign, accusing people here of inciting an insurrection.

And the protesters and the Democrats here saying that they are seeing their city occupied by agents geared up more for war than carrying out immigration enforcement.

The 42-minute video by conservative YouTuber Nick Shirley presented itself as an expose of Somali-run child daycare centers in Minnesota using the on-screen techniques of an investigative documentary claiming the centers were defrauding the state of assistance funds.

but the video lacked the standard journalistic checks, right of reply or editorial process usually involved in making such published allegations. It went viral and has been praised by the Trump administration, which has now announced a freeze on federal childcare funds to Minnesota. A backlash accusing Mr. Shirley of whipping up tensions with unsubstantiated claims has also taken place online and on the ground.

amid a highly charged atmosphere drawing on issues of race, immigration and electoral politics. Mr. Trump has for weeks used a series of fraud cases already uncovered by officials in the state to attack Minnesota's Somali community more broadly using highly derogatory language. Last month he said Somalis had ripped off Minnesota, calling them garbage from a country that stinks, who he said he didn't want in the U.S.,

Some 90 people, mostly Somali Americans, have been charged or convicted in Minnesota over fraudulently claiming millions of dollars of public assistance funds, mainly relating to COVID-era aid programs. Mr. Trump has accused the state's Democrat governor Tim Walz of failing to address the issue, echoing a central charge from Republicans ahead of a 2026 election race in the state, a claim Mr. Walz has rejected, saying the state has spent years cracking down on fraudsters. Tom Bateman.

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Although leaked government figures suggest the dragnet has rounded up many with no criminal past.

We just followed the Border Patrol.

There were several vehicles.

There's another one passing.

Some masked Border Patrol agents.

We don't know where they're off to now.

But the other thing you can notice is everywhere they have been, they're now being followed by activists and people trying to document exactly what they're doing.

As recently as 2000, there were over 10 million preventable child deaths a year.

That number has been coming down year by year, every year of this century, until now.

2025 marks a massive historical setback in the fight against preventable child mortality, and our hope is by showcasing this in the report, we can make sure that this is a temporary setback.