Good Evening And Welcome to the Bbc News at six. Its the longest Prison Sentence that has been handed down so far after the wave of riots that swept parts of england and Northern Ireland last month. 27 year old Thomas Birley from rotherham has been sent to jail for nine years after helping to set fire to a Hotel Housing Asylum seekers in the town and attacking Police Officers in august. The judge told Thomas Birley, you were a leading participant in an ignorant, racist attempt at mob rule. From sheffield, heres danny savage. It was one of the most notorious events of the nationwide civil unrest over the summer the attack on a hotel at Housing Asylum seekers in south yorkshire. A mob targeted police and those inside. AJudge Today described this as an ignorant, racist attempt at mob rule. One of them was Thomas Birley, seen here at the time. He was filmed throwing a bin at officers. And then stoked the fire in a burning Wheelie Bin rammed against one of the hotel exits. He today received
Lets go outfront. Good evening, i am erin burnett. Outfront, Breaking News on several fronts this hour. At the white house, the president meet whiting on stimu. It is a promise from biden to work across the aisle. We expect to speak to reporters after the meeting, well bring you that as soon as it happens. There at the microphone outside the white house. On capitol hill, major deadlines loom in the Impeachment Trial of former president donald trump. Democrats filing, and trump has to give his papers by tomorrow. President trump may add new lawyers to the defense team. If he does, theyll join the Brand New Team as of last night, two attorneys known for high profile, controversial cases. David schoen and bruce castor. David said i represent all sorts of Reputed Mobster figures, alleged head of russian mafia, straels mafia, and a guy the government claimed was the biggest massive ee owes oh in the world. Castor is a prosecutor that declined to prosecute bill cosby. Cosby was eventually co
steve: good morning this is fox & friends for friday, january 12th, 2024. ainsley: we have breaking news. joint strikes by the u.s. and u.k. hitting dozen of houthi targets in yemen in an effort to stop their attacks on the ships in the red sea iran backed group says they are not backing down. jack keane joining us on the military action taking place as our defense secretary still remains in the hospital. lawrence: texas national guard seizing control of a park stop the surge of illegal migrants crossing the border i jurent returned and got a firsthand look at what is happening on the ground. plus, country music star jelly roll giving emotional testimony on capitol hill on the deadly fentanyl epidemic. i have attended more funerals than i care to share with you all. this committee i could sit here and cry for days about the caskets i have carried of people i loved. i was a part of the problem. i m here now standing as a man that wants to be part of the solution.
submersible which has less than 20 hours supply of oxygen left. also on the programme tonight. more worrying economic data for the uk. inflation the rate at which prices are rising didn t fall last month as expected. that s left many expecting the bank of england to raise interest rates yet again tomorrow heaping more pressure on many people with mortgages and loans. president zelensky tells the bbc that the battle to defeat russia is not a hollywood film and while things are moving slowly, ukraine s counteroffensive will be successful. and the bbc uncovers evidence that hundreds of sick and mentally ill people from the windrush generation were wrongly deported from the uk and returned to the caribbean. less than 20 hours of oxygen remain for the five people who are trapped inside a submersible after they went missing on sunday morning in a remote part of the north atlantic. search and rescue teams have been monitoring underwater noises that were picked up by a can