Hello, im martine croxall. We start with the breaking news from the uk, where there have been more violent far right protests in england. Since saturday night, police have made 147 arrests, and that number is expected to rise. Police say at least ten officers have been injured in rotherham in south yorkshire, where they had been trying to prevent a mob from storming a hotel thats believed to House Asylum seekers. In middlesbrough, protestors smashed windows of cars and houses, and threw bricks at police, and in rotherham, hundreds of demonstrators clashed with Riot Police before storming that Hotel Housing Asylum seekers. Now, lets get more on how this unfolded, our correspondent Navtej Johal has this report from rotherham. Anger, Violence, destruction. These chaotic scenes are unlike any you would expect on a summers sunday afternoon. At times today, rotherham has felt lawless. It began this morning with a group of anti racism protestor, outside a hotel on the outskirts of this yorksh
Just as the taliban begins a major advance. So what does that mean for the western backed government in kabul. And its Manic Monday at the all england club. Djokovic is through, federer is through, and on court now the british teenage sensation emma radakanu. Hello and welcome. Borisjohnson says england is on course to end all Covid Restrictions Byjuly the 19th though a final Decision Wont be taken until more data is released next week. The Prime Minister said the pandemic will not be over onjuly 19th, in Fact Modelling suggests there could be as many 50,000 cases a day by the time all legally enforced restrictions are dropped. The Chief Medical Officer said currenly cases are doubling every 9 days. But you will see from these graphs that while hospitalisations and deaths are also starting to rise. The success of the vaccine programme, means they are at a much lower rate hospitalisations almost 10 times less than they were mid december at the height of the second spike. With deaths als
first, at this hour, vice president kamala harris finally visiting the southern border. 93 days after she became the point person on the crisis. her trip comes during a record surge in illegal crossings in the united states. hello. i m john roberts in washington, this is america reports. good to be back with you again today. seems like we have a busy news day every day. today is. i m gillian turner in for sandra smith. vice president harris is on the ground in el paso. that s where you ll recall that we saw one of the most heart breaking videos from this currents iteration of the border crisis. you can see border patrol footage from april. shows smugglers scaling a 14 foot fence and dropping two girls on the other side. the smugglers completely abandon the girls leaving them defenseless, alone in the desert outside el paso. john: critics point out the epicenter of the border crisis is hundreds of miles away in rio grande. the white house says el paso was a perfect case
Meaning they cant say he didnt get up and defend himself, so equate your silence with guilt. Do you understand that . Yes. Have you ahead a Decision Today whether you intend to testify or whether you intend to invoke your fifth Amendment Privilege . I will invoke my fifth Amendment Privilege today. Is this your decision not to testify . It is, your honor. That was Derek Chauvin on trial for the murder of George Floyd telling the court he would not be testifying. A short time later a controversy over new evidence that led the judge to warn the prosecution of a potential mistrial. Were going to break that down, all those key elements, and a preview of mondays Closing Arguments in just a moment. But as that trial nears a Clon Collusion legal proceedings for the nearby Police Killing of Daunte Wright are just beginning. Kim potter was arrested yesterday and charged with Serkd Degree Manslaughter for fatally shooting wright during a Traffic Stop. In the next hour she will make her first Cou
as the burqa and the niqab. the five year jail sentence imposed by iran on the british iranian woman nazanin zaghari ratcliffe officially ends today, but it s unclear if she ll actually be released. hello and welcome to bbc news. the british prime minister, borisjohnson, has described the reopening of schools in england to all pupils tomorrow as the first step in moving closer to normality. nearly 57 million lateral flow tests for coronavirus have been delivered to schools and colleges. the national education union has called for a phased reopening, similar to the process in scotland and wales, warning that what it describes as a big bang approach is reckless . but a survey by the insitute for fiscal studies suggests the vast majority of parents are happy to send their children back, with two thirds concerned about the amount of lost learning. our education editor, branwen jeffreys, reports. it s been tough for parents, home schooling while juggling work. but it s back t