Of further disorder but instead mostly peaceful anti racism protests took place across england. The metropolitan police commissioner thanked communities for their show of unity and praised officers for their work. So far nearly 500 people have been arrested, and 140 charged, 149 in connection with the violence seen in towns and cities since last week and more lengthy prison sentences have been handed down to men involved in rioting. Our uk affairs correspondent daniel sandford has the latest. Missile! they were the worst riots in more than a decade. This footage just released show is the intense pressure officers were under at the height of the riots in liverpool. In london, in an early morning knock today as police raided the homes of those suspected of being involved in rioting last week. The tactic is to arrest people as soon as they can be identified and put them before the courts as quickly as possible. London s most senior officer was himself on some of the raids. These are cri
Hello, i m annita mcveigh and welcome to verified live, three hours of checking out the news and the facts behind the stories. The biggest prisoner exchange since the end of the cold war is expected to take place in the coming hours between russia and the west when as many as 2a prisoners could be freed. The biden administration says it has agreed to an exchange to secure the release of three american citizens imprisoned in russia, including wall streetjournal reporter evan gershkovich, marine veteran paul whelan, and russian american radio journalist alsu kurmasheva. And according to the german magazine der speigel, this plane on the tarmac in the turkish capital ankara is taking vadim krasikov, identified by germany as a colonel in the the russian fsb intelligence service, back to russia. He s been serving a life sentence in germany for the murder in 2019 in berlin of a kremlin critic. With me is our security correspondent frank gardner. We have a number of correspondence lining up t
Analysts had estimated. Sales fell nearly 5% in the second quarter and production fell as well. Now, investors are left to see whether tesla can successfully rev up its lagging car sales or begin monetising its ai offerings fast enough to make up for it. But demand for combustible engines seems to be strong with general motors reporting better than expected profit and revenue in the second quarter. Its shares fell, however with analysts saying continued losses in china were partly to blame. The auto maker is leaning heavily on its petrol engine offerings to fuel its profits because of a slower than anticipated transition to electric vehicles. Also reporting and beating expectations overnight alphabet. Google s parent company put it down to a rise in digital advertising sales and healthy demand for cloud computing services. I ve been speaking to dan ives from wedbush securities about all the big tech earnings and started by asking him about tesla s self driving technology. I think
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