and we saw some violent scenes yesterday, with protesters being held back, being beaten, being lashed. there were journalists who were detained, their cameras and the footage that they'd taken was examined. so we've seen the taliban increasingly struggling to contain crowds, to control protests. and it looks like — even though they've tried to enforce a ban now on gatherings in public places — that people, at least to some degree, are trying to defy that. and we'll have to see what sort of response that brings now from the taliban. the fear will be that there'll be even more violence in reaction. the dup leader sirjeffrey donaldson has suggested his party could leave the power—sharing arrangement in the the northern ireland assembly and trigger an election if their demands over post—brexit trading arrangements are not met. he said that his party was seeking to challenge the legality of checks on goods moving between great britain and northern ireland that were introduced after the uk left the eu. our ireland correspondent chris page has been following developments. unionists strongly oppose this part of the brexit deal known as the northern ireland protocol,