and shops were looted overnight in kwa zulu natal province. major roads were blocked with burning barricades. the police said at least 26 people were arrested. the statue of confederate general robert e lee in charlottesville has been removed. the controversial monument was the focal point of the white supremacist unite the right rally in 2017, which saw anti racism protester heather heyer killed by a neo nazi. it s just over a week before covid restrictions are lifted in england, but medical leaders are warning that people should remain cautious, as cases continue to rise. the academy of medical royal colleges says the nhs is under unprecedented pressure as staff are having to isolate and it tackles the backlog of patients. 0ur health correspondent katharine da costa reports. covid infections in oxford have soared to their highest
to the imprisonment of the former president jacob zuma. 25 lorries were torched and shops were looted overnight in kwa zulu natal province. major roads were blocked with burning barricades. the police said at least 26 people were arrested. the statue of confederate general robert e lee in charlottesville has been removed. the controversial momunement was the focal point of the white supremacist unite the right rally in 2017, which saw anti racism protester heather heyer killed by a neo nazi terrorist. police in bangladesh have arrested the owner of a food and drinks processing factory where more than 50 people died in a fire. the blaze broke out late on thursday. shahan shah azad, the owner of hashem foods, is one of eight people arrested so far. he s expected to face murder charges. most of those who died were trapped inside the building. children were among the dead and this has led to an investigation into the use of child labour at the factory. akbar hossain is in the bangladesh
the other stories making the news. the islamist militant group al shabab says it carried out a car bombing in somalia which eyewitnesses say killed at least five people. a vehicle laden with explosives rammed into a police convoy at a busy intersection in the capital mogadishu. the blast targeted the city s police chief, farhan mohamud, who survived unharmed. south africa s president cyril ramaphosa has called for calm following violent protests linked to the imprisonment of the former president jacob zuma. 25 lorries were torched and shops were looted overnight in kwa zulu natal province. major roads were blocked with burning barricades. the police said at least 26 people were arrested. the statue of confederate general robert e. lee in charlottesville has been removed. the controversial momunement was the focal point of the white supremacist unite the right rally in 2017, which saw anti racism protester heather heyer killed by a neo nazi terrorist. south korea has reported more tha
that s where we are in america, and the president has a tremendous responsibility to do more than he did today. what van jones is talking about is this is all based around the removal of a statue of robert e. lee in charlottesville. the legislature there called for the removal of that statue. it has not been removed yet. these were protests staged by white supremacists groups to keep the statue there. we should note this 20 year old, james alex field, from ohio, has been charged with murder. we don t more about him. we don t know if he is a white supremacist. we are waiting to learn more about the motivations there. chris eliza, to van jones point, you wrote a piece this evening about the response which you feel fell well short from the president of the united states. yeah. i mean we look to presidents not every day, sometimes not every week, maybe once a year at times, in moments like these to
of this planned protest, and you can see them as our nbc news cameraman approaches the police line there. they appear to be dressed in tactical outfitting by probably for nothing more than to be prepared in the wake of the deadly attack yesterday in virginia. we know that terry mcauliffe is planned to speak in about an hour from now in a planned vigil. you see the marchers walking in seattle, washington. this is something that police will have to treat sensitively given how what we saw play out yesterday. i wantto turn now to more on yesterday from charlottesville. the events there yesterday stem, of course, from the city s decision to relocate the confederate statue of robert e. lee. cities have been debating how to handle confederate monuments for some time now and since dylan