of dublin, and began attacking buildings, and clashing with police. these pictures appear to show a store being looted. at least one bus was set on fire and other vehicles were burned and public transport services were damaged. riot police were deployed. speaking at a press conferrence this morning, police chief drew harris highlighted the unexpected nature of these riots which he blamed on a complete lunatic faction driven by far right ideology. we could not have anticipated that in response to a terrible crime, the stabbing of school children and their teacher, that this would be the response. in effect, those filled with hate and the hate directed towards members of an garda siochana, that they would attempt to storm through our cordon and disrupt the crime scene and then engage in violence, looting and disorder, including very significant criminal damage. nobody could have anticipated that when these events started at 1:30, these awful events, and obviously we were conc
one bus was set on fire. other vehicles were also burned and public transport services were damaged. riot police were deployed. speaking at a news conference this morning, police chief drew harris highlighted the unexpected nature of the riots, which he blamed on a complete lunatic faction driven by far right ideology. what we saw last night was an extraordinary outbreak of violence and we extraordinary outbreak of violence and we have to respond accordingly in terms and we have to respond accordingly in terms of and we have to respond accordingly in terms of our response to the policing in terms of our response to the policing of in terms of our response to the policing of disorder. but these are scenes policing of disorder. but these are scenes we policing of disorder. but these are scenes we have not seen in decades. this is scenes we have not seen in decades. this is not scenes we have not seen in decades. this is not a scenes we have not seen in decade
does feel much colder. that wind will continue to blow in one or two showers into the night. more cloud across northern parts of scotland but away from these areas we will have clear skies overnight. temperatures will fall away very quickly. we will have the first widespread frost of the autumn. not desperately cold but we could see temperatures as low as minus four or minus five in some rural areas. a much colder start to tomorrow. but a sunnier day to come from many of us. still the odd shower blown in a long nose sea coasts, particularly norfolk and suffolk but it won t be as windy on saturday. there will be more sunshine, dry weather around as well. after the trustee started temperatures might be a bit lower than today. only struggling to about five or six at best. things start to change pills top of the weekend because this area of low pressure is slowly ambling in from the atlantic to bring with it more cloud. maybe a bit of light rain coming into northern ireland. even
live now to mark devenport, a freelance journalist and broadcaster based in county down in northern ireland. did you get a sense of shock in dublin and across the country, don t you? i suppose also from the police over what has happened. that you? i suppose also from the police over what has happened. over what has happened. that is exactly the over what has happened. that is exactly the situation. over what has happened. that is exactly the situation. i over what has happened. that is exactly the situation. i think - exactly the situation. i think people in dublin are shocked seeing this date of the capital city today. they haven t had rights of this nature for many decades. we saw this ugly stabbing with schoolchildren being seriously injured, then the spreading of erroneous, unsubstantiated rumours on social media around that, which led to a protest which quickly developed into violence, with far right groups in an opportunistic way using this stabbing in order to s
some of the israeli hostages who were seized by hamas during the group s deadly raids into israel in october, are due to be released. paving the way, for the first time in seven weeks, a temporary ceasefire between israel and hamas has begun. hamas which is designated a terrorist group by the uk has pledged to release 50 israeli hostages. in return israel will release 150 palestinian prisoners. let s look at the timings for the day. the ceasfire got underway at 5am this morning uk time. 13 of the 50 israeli hostages are due to be released at 2pm, at the rafah crossing. and within two hours, by lipm, 39 palestinians are due to be released at a west bank checkpoint. our middle east correspondent yolande knell reports. as the sun rose over the gaza strip the new truce brought relative calm. and soon, after nearly seven weeks of brutal fighting, and soon, after nearly seven weeks of brutalfighting, people and soon, after nearly seven weeks of brutal fighting, people were on t