The un human Rights Chief has urged the government in bangladesh to stop targeting protesters. Volker turk described the violence, in which 13 Police Officers were killed, as shocking. Many of the worst clashes were between supporters of the Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, and demonstrators demanding her resignation. She has previously described the protesters as terrorists. Mir sabbir, editor of the bbc s bangla service, sent us this update from dhaka. At least 30 members of police died in a single Police Station in the northern part of the country. The numbers that are increasing are not confirmed yet. There are reports of clashes despite the county and all of this happened on the first day of the total no cooperation movement. Many of these deaths are the result of party members clashing with kurt protesters as they decided to counter the Mass Protest with their own rallies today. The protesters have called for a Long March towards the Capital Tomorrow while the government issued a P
Welcome to Bbc News, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and Around The World. Lets begin in the uk, where there will be a meeting later of senior ministers and civil servants known as cobra. Its in response to the violent disorder that has been seen in a number of English Towns and cities over the weekend and days following the murder of three young girls in southport last week. On sunday, there were ugly scenes outside a hotel in rotherham where Asylum Seekers are believed to be housed. Navtej johal sent this report from there. Anger, violence, destruction. These chaotic scenes are unlike any youd expect on a summers sunday afternoon. At times today, rotherham has felt lawless. It began this morning with a group of anti racism protesters outside a hotel on the outskirts of this yorkshire town, where its believed Asylum Seekers are being housed. But they were quickly outnumbered by a larger group of anti immigration protesters, many of them angry at the idea of Asylum Seekers living in
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tonight is the voting on the biden covid relief bill. the other breaking news of the night is that the fbi has singled out a suspect in the killing of capitol police officer brian sicknick in the attack on the capitol on january 6th. the fbi has found someone on video of the attack who appears to be responsible for the death of officer sicknick. we will have more details on this big break in the fbi s investigation of the killing of officer sicknick after we begin with coverage of the breaking news in the house of representatives of tonight. the house rules committee is voting right now on the $1.9 trillion biden covid relief bill that includes an increase in the minimum wage to $15 an hour. house speaker nancy pelosi was disappointed in last night s ruling by the senate parliamentarian, elizabeth macdonough that an increase in the minimum wage could not be included in the biden covid relief bill as part of a budget reconciliation package because of the unique parliament tear