Good afternoon. There have Been more arrests in towns and cities in england and Northern Ireland after another night of violence. In a moment, well be reporting from birmingham, where cars were smashed and a pub was attacked. Well also have the latest from plymouth, where a number of Police Officers have Been injured. First, though, police say they are treating the serious assault of a man in belfast as a raciAlly motivated Hate Crime after witnesses reported seeing people stamp on his head. Our Ireland Correspondent Chris Page joins us now from belfast and can tell us more. Chris. Yes, this area has seen more trouble for the second time in just a few days. The south of belfast, where i am now, is the most diverse part of the city, and it is worth saying the vast majority of people, politicians, community leaders, business people, have Been trying to send out a message that everyone is welcome here and that this violence has to stop. Just behind me as a Grocery Store that was All but d
Lets ta ke lets take a look at the weather prospects, louise is with me. We have been all over with the weather this week, it has been rain, wind and, this morning, it was mild. Many of us seeing temperatures around 16 degrees, this is above daytime maximum at this time of year. Yes, there was quite a lot of cloud to go with it and for some of us some rain around. Its been a miserable couple of days across parts of Northern Ireland and Western Scotland, as long as along with the west highlands. The best of the Sunshine Today so far has been across the north, where we are likely to see the best of the sun because there is a little bit of Nuisance Cloud across east anglia and South East England, may be the odd spot of drizzle this afternoon but if you keep the sunshine, you will see temperatures continue to climb up to 21 degrees and whether you have cloud or rain, its an incredibly mild story for this time of year. Through the evening and overnight, the Weather Front continues to feed i
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families of israeli hostages who are still being held in gaza have broken through security and stormed a finance meeting in the israeli parliament, the knesset. they were protesting that the finance committee was sitting, deliberating, while their children were still in captivity. shouting shame on you and demanding that committee members get up and act the families called for the government to do more, to secure the release of their loved ones. the protest highlights growing domestic dissent in israel, about the war with hamas that s now in its fourth month. it comes as palestinians in southern gaza say the israeli bombardment is the most intense they ve experienced since the war began. the gaza health ministry says that 190 palestinians have been killed in the past 2a hours. earlier i spoke to our middle east correspondent mark lowen who is in jerusalem. he gave us a sense of the pressure benjamin netanyahu is coming under from hostage families. pretty significant p