were wearing poppies. it s an important day to remember those who died, but amongst them were 10,000 palestinians whojoined the british army. the atmosphere as the rally began was relaxed and good natured but from early in the day, police have been concerned about what they categorised as a right wing counter protest. there were scuffles a short distance from the cenotaph. the met commissioner sir mark rowley paid a visit to his command team as riot squads in the field worked to keep the two protest groups apart. here in the met police s operations centre, officers are monitoring every aspect of the protest and they ve got fixed cameras and also they ve got evidence gatherers, officers on the ground, who are taking pictures they can beam back live from the scene so the commanders here can decide where to deploy and when to arrest. we watched as the senior commanders instructed their teams in the field to arrest some of the counter protesters. from what we can see they came in