At ten oclock, clive myrie will be here with a full round up of the days news. First on bbc news our world. Since the election of donald trump, rival groups of far right and far left activists have battled in the streets of some american cities. Violence has broken out in new york, berkeley, and charlottesville. But perhaps most affected is portland, oregon a liberal, progressive city in the Pacific North west. Mike wendling has been there to meet activists from both sides to try to understand why the violence continues. Portland, oregon, in americas Pacific North west. Since the election of donald trump, theres been trouble in the streets. Chant usa, usa, usa the far right is on the march. See, i get very violent. Im, like, one of the more violent, because i dont like to fight for very long so. They are confronted by home grown antifascist groups. Someones gotta stop them. Theyre not going to march in my streets, not in my town. Why has this city become a battleground between the far right and the leftist antifascist movement . Im mike wendling, and ive come here to find out. I get, chief outlaw, whose side are you on . What are little black girls going to think of you, for protecting White Supremacists . I also want bring together two people from opposing sides. They know each other from across the barricades. When they meet again, on neutral ground, will they talk or will they fight . Its a disturbing trend across America Political violence in the streets. New york. Berkeley, california. A murder in charlottesville, virginia. But the main battleground is a hipster utopia, the city of portland. Right wing groups come from out of town, proclaiming the right to free speech. Chant usa, usa, usa as an american, i want to know why extremism is on the rise across my country, and who is invading once peaceful portland and why. I have come 4. 5 hours south of the city to this town, called ashland. Hey, welcome to my town rob cantrall is a local chapter leader of one of americas newest far right groups, the proud boys. How are you doing . Make it up here ok . Yeah, yeah, how about you . Right now he is living in his car, along with all his stuff, his favourite companion, marley, and marleys litter box. Rob is divorced, with a daughter and grandson. He works at a local marijuana farm. Its humble, its dirty, its peaceful and you have not even seen the back yet. Although its illegal in most places in america, in oregon, growing cannabis is tolerated and adults are perfectly free to smoke it. You kind of get an idea of how many plants we have, about 600. Freedom is what rob says he is all about. We are trying to save the way of life, freedom and not let it turn into some oppressive communation or any kind of ism. The proud boys is a mens only club. They say they stand for traditional values capitalism, defined gender roles, free speech. They have ten principles. One of them is abolish prisons. End the welfare state no more welfare. It seems pretty heartless but we can do that by having a more lucrative economy and taking care of each other a little bit more. We just do not want the government to take care of us. But robs main source of income these days is a government disability allowance. What are some other principles . He laughs. Lets see, venerate the housewife. Im sorry but, traditionally speaking, a woman in the home is the best home. The proud boys have been designated a hate group by an anti extremism organisation in america. They deny they are racist or homophobic. They have black members and gay members. What makes them extreme is their violence. One of the tenets is were never supposed to hit first. People have said that the proud boys have started violence, theres been videos. They like violence. There have been people arrested. See, i get very violent in fights. Im, like, one of the more violent because i dont like to fight for very long, and i want to get it done. Rob and the proud boys are willing to make the trip into portland again and again. Proud boys, are you excited or what . Come on, now. They march with other right wing groups, including Patriot Prayer. Sometimes the rallies result in violence and arrests. One man who marched with the far right committed murder. Jeremy christian was extreme even by their standards. In 2017, christian was shouting racial abuse at two muslim women on a portland train. Two men tried to intervene. He stabbed them. When he appeared in court he shouted, death to the enemies of america, death to antifa. I have come to a quiet working class neighbourhood, where patriotism is on display. This is the home of one of portlands prominent antifa, short for antifascist, activists. Hey. Hello, luis. How are you doing . Hi, how are you doing . Nice to see you. Yeah, good to see you. Welcome, come on in. Thanks. On a real bad day, im probably an anarchist. On a real good day, a social democrat. Luis Enrique Marquez grew up in this city, his grandparents were immigrants. He is a comedian and writer and he has lost his patience with american politics. I think its ridiculous that these group of nativists, white nationalists and right wingers keep coming to my town and keep bringing their hate to my town. The red sauce is good, its not as spicy as it smells. The antifascists in portland are a broad mix of left wing types. Luiss house is an unofficial activist hub. They need to learn that their violence that theyre bringing is not going to be unopposed. Its not going to be just taken and absorbed. Its going to send a hit back to them. These activists say the other sides claim about free speech is a pretence, hiding a fascist agenda. Most people in portland are repulsed by the far right. They have already killed two people. Lots of innocent peoples lives have been disrupted. Someones gotta stop them. They are not going to march in my streets, not in my town. But many also disagree with the antifascist tactics. Antifa are not afraid to fight. Thats where he challenges me again to fight, i suggest you never walk the streets of portland again. Battles on the streets are mirrored online. And some are deeply personal. Luis plays a message from proud boy, rob cantrall. Im not done with you. Ijust started, dog. Why dont you bleep let me know when youre going to be walking the streets of portland, you little bleep. This is their first encounter, at a rally two years ago. So if you bleep threaten me, im going to take on one of these guys. Rob argued with an antifa activist. Luis tried to separate them. Have a good bleep day. He sent you a picture of you and your partner. Since then they have slung insults and threats back and forth online. You respond to him there. I said, ijust told him i prefer you suicide. Luis gives as good as he gets. There are dozens of proud boy chapters in 37 states, and the uk and canada. Their exact numbers are unknown. But theres a sizeable group near portland, in a suburb just over the state line. Rob has travelled up for a proud boy party and weve received a last minute invitation. Hello. You guys missed out on all the food. Welcome. Who do you think you are . Im your daddy. Really . They are protecting freedom of speech. To become a member of the brotherhood you have to do the following first degree, recite a slogan. My name is rob cantrall, im a western chauvinist who refuses to apologise for creating the modern world. Second degree, name Breakfast Cereals while getting smacked by fellow proud boys. Apple jacks, cinnamon toast, coco pops, frostie flakes. Also, promise not to masturbate. And the third degree, brand yourself in solidarity. Proud boy. Look at that big beautiful, smiling face. Loud and proud. Robs fellow proud boys show off some ink. They flash ok signs meant to mock left wingers. And they wear their uniform of choice a Fred Perry Polo shirt. Most of these men are fourth degree members, but they are a bit cagey about exactly what that entails. I know not everybody on the left is bad. Fourth degrees are awarded for getting attacked by an antifascist, fighting or getting arrested. Not exactly your average drinking club. How many times have you been arrested at these rallies . Altogether, 18 times. All at these rallies that have happened in portland . Yes. All in portland . Yes. Tusitala toese, known by his nickname tiny, is originally from american samoa. This is my weekend right here. Hes one of the groups leaders. His proud boy Brothers Point to him when they deny theyre racist. Tiny has been arrested for disorderly conduct, harassment and assault. Get off get off now dont expletive touch me you ready . Yeah. But he claims that the proud boys are simply standing up for free speech, and antifascists are the real root of the problem. Theyre being selfish. Not everybody in portland agrees with them and if theyre trying to build a community, its a community of masked ninjas that does not follow the law, that does not want a law. Accusations of violence go both ways. When they clash, everyones affected. At the protests, a lot of the times, the police will set up a system of barricades to try to keep the protesters separated, or to try to keep it contained to like one area. Localjournalist mike bivins covers the right wing rallies in portland. You know, they mean business. This is where it begins, but its not where it ends. Brawls spill out onto the streets. On october 13th, Patriot Prayer called for a protest in downtown portland. They eventually clashed with some antifascist, left wi ng protesters, outside of kellys olympian. Yeah, they really started just kind of beating the bleep out of each other once the first punch was thrown. The last time, i didnt even know it was going on until somebody ran in and was choking because they had gotten maced, and then all of a sudden, everyone started choking in the bar and then we went on lockdown. Portlands democratic mayor tried to pass a law to clamp down on the marches. Constitutionally, we cannot prevent people from coming to our city, but we believed there were some pre emptive steps we could take, limit the rights to firearms, close certain public facilities, require notification, keep different groups separated a reasonable amount of distance so that they could not directly brawl. The law did not pass the council because the lawmakers were worried about restricting free speech. The marches cannot be stopped by the city government, and the antifascists say they will not rely on local police. I carry a gun with me at all times and i will say, i really dont like guns, honestly. When i got out of the military, i had gotten rid of every weapon i had. Do you have the gun now . Of course. As were on our way to the barber with luis, i see how easily things can escalate. So this is my neighbourhood. Its a working class neighbourhood thats starting to be re gentrified, we see with the mcmansion homes that are going on here to the right. But then luis and his comrades see a man nearby, they think hes watching us, they think hes wearing a hoodie showing the logo of a far right militia. Expletive you and your 3 er expletive. What . Expletive your 3 er shirt. Your militias hoodie. Your militia hoodie. Its not militia. What is it then . Yeah, get the expletive out of here what just happened . That man was wearing a 3 er shirt, whether he wants to admit it publicly or not. Thats a militia. The 3 ers stand with Patriot Prayer, with nativists and nationalists. I dont want them in my neighbourhood. My personal philosophy is that wherever fascism is, im going to be there and im going to confront it. The fighting isnt confined to the streets, sometimes it comes home. A person ran up to the tree right there and through a rock through my window. You can see its a double glass pane glass window here. Prior to that, this year, on st patricks day, my house was firebombed. Dog barking. This had hit the window and fallen down to the side of the house, so it was shooting out flames, like i said, about that big. Did the police ever find who was responsible . I dont call the police. I dont call a group of people that are out to harm me to try and protect me. Both the antifascists and the proud boys say the police are too hard on their side, and too soft on the other. For antifa, even talking to the cops can get you cut off from the group. People arent lining up to co operate with us. Danielle outlaw has been portlands chief of police for less than two years. I get the chief outlaw, whos side are you on . Right. What are little black girls going to think of you for protecting White Supremacists . We enforce laws but we focus on behaviours, and regardless of which side it is, we still have an obligation to protect and to facilitate First Amendment rights to free speech, regardless of whats being said. Protesters chanting nazi scum has got to go, hey hey, ho ho we have convinced rob and luis to exercise their freedom of speech with each other. Western culture, western culture. They hate each other but they agree to use words, not fists. I just hope they stick to the bargain. What do you hope might come out of that meeting . Is anything going to come out of it . Nope. Im trepidatious. I think hes going to attack me. Rob on the other hand isnt sure what to expect. I worry that hes going to Say Something or im going to Say Something thatsjust going to trigger the other one and itsjust going to go to hell, you know, he might teach me something, i might teach him something, but i never expect to change someones mind. So you hope to have a connection with him . Yeah, everybody should do that. Were still humans. We meet in a cannabis club. They do agree on at least one thing liberalising americas drug laws is a good idea. I wasnt sure the discussion was going to happen at all until they both arrived. Weve hired security, just in case. Robs cat marley is frisked too. The mood is tense as i read out the rules. Number one, no violence. Hey luis, would you take off your glasses, dog . Id feel so much more like im interacting with you if i could see your eyes, dogs. Excuse me. No. Luis wont address rob directly. Body language says it all. Luis, what do you think of rob . I think hes a bigot, i think hes misogynist, i think hes violent towards women, and i think hes a racist. Hes obviously ignorant of who i am. Youre not those things . Well, lets see. You cant be a racist, if you dont subscribe to race. Rob, what do you think of luis . I think hes violent on the street. We saw what you did, all right . We just own up to it. Ok, so, luis, respond to that. Im not the one thats been caught on video camera threatening to punch women in the face. I am more qualified than these peaceful guys to know who what youre about, because im a violent man, you know, and youre a violent man, thats how i see what you do, you see what i do. Ijust, from my own eyes, and from my experience as a violent person, i know that youre a violent person. I show them video clips where theyre verbally attacking the other side. Youre commie scum. Give me a good reason. Youre commie scum, were going to burn down your book store. Give me a expletive good reason. Ok, we have you recorded that you say youre going to burn down our book store. Oh my god youre the ones that are burning books. Well, how is that ever justified, to threaten to burn down a book store . I am sojustified in telling those fools i was going to burn down their book store. Its not illegal, is it . I think burning down a book store is probably illegal. Is it . I could get if i could find a way to do it legally, would you guys all like stop hating on me on that . Luis, im going to show you this. Next, its luiss turn. You come find me you can find me, expletive so im going to ask you the same question, how is that behaviour justified . That march turned into a personal feud between me and a right wing journalist, and that in no way is right. So that was a misstep . It was in no way correct. It takes a big man to say so. A breakthrough . Maybe, but it doesnt last. Youve seen the text where hes threatened my girlfriend. Threatened her with a good time, thats it, i threatened her with a good time. Youve seen the threats. How does this end . Proud boys have been told make a video renouncing hate and the proud boys, go away, thats how it ends. You want me to leave my own town . You want us to just walk off a cliff . How do you see this ending . Badly. So no meeting of minds, but at least it all went off without a fight, and marley the cat had a good time. Hammering. Luis is back with his fellow antifascists. They wait for nightfall, before dropping their banner on a bridge. Portland is a warning about where american politics could lead. One thing is clear these two groups will keep fighting. Hello. Last week, our focus was very much on the heat, record breaking heat, in fact. For the week ahead, its a much fresher story, and i think the main focus of our weather will be showers, plenty of them to come in the days ahead. Through the weekend, weve struggled with this weather front thats brought some heavy rain, particularly into Northern England and the midlands. Its drifting away north now and it will leave us between weather systems as we move into the beginning of the new week, with a low trying to approach from the south west through the day on monday. Still some showers courtesy of the remnants of that front for scotland on monday. For many, though, a dry day with a light breeze and sunny spells, but by the end of the day, look out for strong and gusty winds up to 45mph for some of our coasts around the south west of england and perhaps south wales too. Up to 26 in the sunshine in the south east of england. And then, this low is the feature really that will define the weather for the uk through this week. Monday into tuesday, it drifts slowly further eastwards, more heavy showers for the south west of england and for wales. And again, strong gusty winds all the way along the south coast, and the showers breaking out further north as the day progresses. Driest and brightest likely to be eastern counties of england, and here we could get temperatures up into the mid 20s. Further west, where we have the rain, well, perhaps the high teens at best, so for some in the course of the week ahead, temperatures will be 10 to 15 degrees down on the figures we saw for comparable days last week. Wednesday, the low still with us, drifts a little bit further eastwards. Notice its becoming a little bit flabbier, were losing some of the isobars, the winds will become lighter. That, though, means that showers can tend to stick around in one place longer, so the rainfall totals could start to tot up particularly for parts of northern, central and Eastern England on wednesday. Drier and brighter, with lighter winds, by this stage, for wales and the south west. Thursday, the low still with us, by this stage, though, its trying to head out into the north sea, and so the focus of our showers definitely for eastern counties of england, parts of eastern scotland. Further west, some patchy cloud, maybe the odd isolated shower around, but things are calming somewhat here. That is because High Pressure is trying to take hold, and for friday, the high looks like it will come to dominate somewhat more across the uk. But its not a particularly strong high, so still the chance of some isolated showers developing here or there, but friday, overall, quite light winds, perhaps quite a bit of cloud around, but some sunny spells, and we should see temperatures around average values for the time of year. High teens across northern scotland, up to 25 in the south east. Now, what that high then does is the biggest question in terms of our outlook further ahead on into next weekend and beyond. At the moment, it looks like the high will be quite transient and low pressure will take hold again by the end of the weekend. Here we are by sunday, with some showers around for a time, and then a bigger low trying to approach from the atlantic as we go in into the following week. So, our outlook, certainly for friday, a drier day. For saturday coming, it doesnt look too bad either but by sunday and monday, showers or longer spells of rain becoming more widespread. So, the contrast really between this week and last is that its going to feel much fresher, and it will be considerably more unsettled. Tonight at ten violent clashes in hong kong, as riot Police Confront thousands of pro democracy protestors. Security forces advance on crowds, refusing to disperse. Riot police have been moving people through the streets, theyre now making arrests. Theyve fired more tear gas. Reinforcements are coming in. So how will beijing react after dozens are arrested . 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