Senior police have warned that more violent protests are expected in the coming days, and say nearly 4,000 extra officers are ready to respond. Tensions have escalated since the killing of three young girls in southport on monday, there were more than 90 Arrests Yesterday in cities including bristol, belfast and hull. Earlier i spoke with the bbc s shelley phelps. We heard earlier on from the policing minister, Dame Diana johnson, who was keen to stress that the government are reassured that the police have the resources they need to deal with the disorder that we are seeing this weekend. She said they had been clear about that and they had the powers that they needed. She talked about things like Mutual Aid, so this is where different Police Forces can work together and allow them to put extra officers in certain parts of the country. Another element of the approach to this by the government is focusing on pushing this point that there this point that there will be consequences for pe
GIrls In southport nearly a week ago. More than 90 people have been arrested after far rIght demonstratIons descended Into scenes of vIolence In towns and cItIes on saturday. It follows days of unrest after false InformatIon was spread onlIne about the kIllIngs In southport. Greg mckenzIe reports. TensIons had been buIldIng all week, and yesterday saw an escalatIon of the VIolence And Unrest lInked to far rIght groups across england and Northern Ireland. PolIce forces stretched to theIr lImIts, fIghtIng runnIng battles lIke thIs In lIverpool overnIght. The scene of some of the worst vIolence, whIch turned Into reported lootIng late In the evenIng. A number of offIcers were Injured, wIth the Mayhem SpIllIng out Into the cItys maIn shoppIng areas. There were reports of youths throwIng FIreworks at the polIce. In a statement, MerseysIde PolIce saId. The people who have brought such AggressIon And DestructIon Into the heart of our communItIes do not represent the people of merseysIde. ThIs
Hello im lewis vaughanjones. Senior police have warned that more protests are expected in the coming days, and say nearly 4000 extra officers are ready to respond. Tensions have escalated since the killing of three young girls in southport on monday, there were more than 90 Arrests Yesterday in cities including bristol, belfast and hull. 0ur polictical reporter, shelley phelps, has been giving us the latest. We were hearing earlier on from the policing minister, dame Diana Johnson. She said the government had been reassured that the police had the resources they need to deal with the disorder that were seeing this weekend. She said theyve been very clear about that, she said. They had the powers that they needed and she talked about, um, things like mutual aid. So this is where different Police Forces can work together, and then they can allows them to put extra officers in certain parts of the country. Another element of the Governments Approach to this is clearly focusing on really p
that high pressure, it isjust sitting there, stopping any weather fronts coming in and stopping any meaningful shower is really bubbling up. some signs things might get moving a little more into the first week of may. here is the high, parked up across the uk. various weather systems try to topple in around it. the signs of anything having any great success perhaps saturday, this area of low pressure coming into the north west. but these highs are stubborn so that is by no means a given in terms of its detail. the rest of today, quite a lot of cloud in the eastern half of the uk, some drifting westwards. best of the brightest brightness in the western coastal counties. isolated shower may be in northern ireland, may be for the mountains of wales and the malls of the south west but overall, a dry picture. dry overnight, cloud in the east will hold the temperature is about the further west you are, clearer skies, light about the further west you are, clearerskies, light winds,
hello, i m lewis vaughanjones, welcome to the programme. a un human rights official has accused israel of beating, blindfolding and stripping palestinians detained during its military operation in gaza. the head of the un human rights office in occupied palestinian territories claimed that some of the former detainees he met during a visit to the territory had been held for nearly two months in often cramped conditions. during my time here, i managed to meet a number of police detainees. these are men who were detained by the israeli security forces in unknown locations for between 30 to 55 days. they described being beaten, humiliated, subjected to ill treatment and to what may amount to torture. they reported being blindfolded for long periods, some of them for several consecutive days. one man said he had access to a shower only once during his 55 days in detention. there are reports of men who were subsequently released, but only in diapers without any adequate clothing i