in expectation of further violent far—right protests. dozens of people were arrested in towns and cities across england and northern ireland on saturday. those people involved in this disorder over the last few days will be found by the police, will be arrested, will be taken through the courts. we want to make it very clear there are penalties and consequences. israel's air force strikes targets in southern lebanon, after hezbollah fired a barrage of rockets across the border. the israeli military says most of the rockets were intercepted. both sides have so far indicated they're not interested in a wider conflict. several countries urge their nationals to leave lebanon as fears grow of a wider conflict in the middle east.

hello i'm 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 we're seeing this weekend. she said they've 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 government's

approach to this is clearly focusing on really pushing this point on there will be consequences for people who commit criminal activity. so we've heard a yvette cooper again and again talking about people will pay the price. but i think, you know, clearly for a lot of people seeing these images might think that some of these warnings are not working at the moment in terms of other measures that the government has talked about, they've been saying that they've put extra prosecutors in place so that where a resumed charging decisions can be made quickly. and damejohnson was saying earlier that if courts needed to sit longer, that's something that they will be looking at. but clearly that the longer that this goes on and the more spread it becomes becomes more of a challenge for the government. indeed, we saw a number of different towns and cities, these protests happening, not all of them descending into violence, but a significant instance of violence there. now, the way that these are organised, these protests or the riots, if they end up in that category, is social media, that's a big issue. yeah.

there's been a huge amount of discussion of the role that social media has played in the way people have been able to organise and then how, you know, unrest and disorder has been promoted on there. so the shadow home secretary, conservative james cleverly, just untiljust a month ago, who was the home secretary himself. he is saying that the government should be hauling tech firms into downing street to be, you know, really grilling them on this misinformation, ensuring it's not being spread. now, earlier this week, the prime minister did give some of a warning to social media companies. he talked about violent disorder being what he described as whipped up online, reminding them that that was a crime. and he was saying, you know, this is happening on your premises, quite legalistic language, as you might expect from a former director of public prosecutions. and then we've been hearing again this morning that ministers have been talking to social media companies about this, but the emphasis does seem to be on talking to them, getting them to take their existing responsibilities seriously rather than sort of adding any extra

new laws around that. earlier my colleague lucy grey spoke to the home office minister, dame diana johnson, who started by giving her reaction to the past week's events. this has been obviously a very tough and difficult week. it started on monday with that horrific attack in southport, and i think the country is still reeling and in shock from that. and then during the course of the week we've seen this disorder, this violent disorder happen in parts of the country. so i think this weekend the whole approach has been to support the police in dealing with this violent disorder. and yesterday i was able to speak to some of those front line officers and talk to them and thank them for the work that they're doing, because obviously, it can be incredibly frightening to be on the front line when you're having bricks and other objects thrown at you. we've seen obviously arrests, which is very important.

and we want to send a very clear message that if people get involved in this criminal disorder, that they will be brought to account, they will be charged, they will be taken to court, and there will be penalties. so i think that that's the focus over the last few days and over this weekend, and of course, the home secretary and the prime minister, deputy prime minister have all been involved in making sure that the police have everything they need to be able to deal with these incidents and to. put a stop to the violence, presumably. so i'm just wondering what you're expecting in the coming days. well, what we're expecting is that those people who've been involved in this disorder over the last few days will be found by the police, will be arrested, will be taken through the courts. we want to make it very clear there are penalties. there are consequences for people taking the action they have. i mean, i saw yesterday in my own home town of hull, people setting fire to shops,

looting shops, seeing people going into lush and bringing out, uh, cosmetics and, and, uh, other items. yeah. we're pretty clear on how bad it's been. the question is, is enough being done to tackle it? we're hearing about these 4000 extra officers being deployed. we're hearing also from the police federation, speaking to the bbc today, saying that they're concerned that they're not going to be able to attend other incidents if so many officers are involved in these and if it's going to be carrying on for days. you know, the concern is whether they're saying that 999 calls won't be able to be answered if so many police officers are being directed towards these protests. well, i think that's a very important question that you're asking, and we have been reassured that the police have the resources that they need to be able to deal with what's happening at the moment. they have very long standing plans in place for mutual aid. if they need to put extra police officers into certain parts of the country, that that's long standing.

we are certainly not hearing that things like nine, nine, nine 999 calls are not being answered. but what we want to do is to make sure that this weekend that we are showing very clearly that this will not be tolerated and that action will be taken against these individuals, and they will be brought before the criminaljustice system. there will be penalties and consequences for this criminal disorder. thanks to diana johnson for that. this week has seen the largest prisoner exchange between russia and the west since the cold war. 2a people from seven different countries returned home, including three americans but some us citizens are still being held in russian prisons. president biden says he will continue to pressure the kremlin to release americans who were not part of the latest deal. one of those still detained is marc fogel. the 63—year—old school teacher was arrested in 2021 on smuggling charges and is serving a iii—year sentence. you can see him here on the right,

at a russian airport, where he was found to be carrying a small amount of medical marijuana. his sister, anne fogel, says she is hopeful about his chances of coming home. you know, i am clinging to whatever hope i can so, yes, to a certain degree, and, you know, the administration pulled off a masterful, incredible swap. they should be congratulated, and i am very happy for the return of them but ijust wish my brother was among them. this is especially difficult because it comes on the heels of 21 days in a prison hospitalfor him. he was released on the 21st, which ironically is the day that they, i guess, formalised

the list of who was coming home, but marc was in a prison hospital, which is not actually... i'm not certain it is really a hospital at all. but he was given many, many, many shots, injections and drugs, and they did an ultrasound of his liver. of course, he does not speak russian and there are no translators, so it was very alarming for him. it is the fourth time that he has been in a hospital like that. so, i think he is... i think he is, he has really been slammed by this news and is having a very difficult time right now.

alexey yusupov is the director of the russia programme at friedrich—ebert—stiftung, a think tank in germany. he gave his analysis of the prisoner swap. it's large, it's dramatic, it's emotional. but also being responsible for the german part of the deal, or not responsible or being more in touch with it. i can tell you that there were no big pictures because for germany it is an uneven deal. somewhat. there wasn't that same calibre of captives, um, who got out. as for the us and russia, both of them. germany got out five of its citizens and a dozen more of russian dissidents. additionally, but at the same time, we are now discussing in germany whether the, well, the nontraditional way of doing this, because the hard piece for the russian side was vadim krasikov, who is a convicted hit man and murderer in the services of fsb. he had to serve his lifelong

sentence in germany and he got out. now, this is something that the country and the political system at the moment tries to weigh and to balance and to see whether that was a good deal or not. so there are people with genuine concerns that, of course, everyone wants people home, but actually that the abandonment of certain principles, potentially of legal principles, may be a step too farfor some people. indeed, there are different avenues of criticism. there are people who say negotiating with putin's russia is wrong per se. there are people who say that this is an incentive for, you know, a hostage diplomacy from the russian federation in the future. but there is indeed a legal argument saying, look, we convicted a murderer and he hasn't even served five years of his time. and although it's not illegal what the government of chancellor schulz did, it's unconventional. it goes against a legal tradition of actually sticking to your own standards. and, you know, witnesses in the case

against vadim krasikov and family members of his actually, his victim, the person he killed in berlin, were not informed about the exchange and had to, you know, to inform themselves by reading the news about the swap. this is also something that goes against the value of protecting the interests of the victims. and also there is a legal argument saying if we stop treating our own, verdicts seriously, then the deterrence of ourjudicial system will suffer over time. so it's controversial. it's not that there is euphoria. people are happy for those who came back or got out, um, into freedom. but there is also a lot of concern. a woman will be able to eat for the first time in three years after surgeons in the uk corrected a weight loss operation she had in turkey. pinkyjolley almost died twice from infection due to her treatment abroad and the cost to the nhs of saving her life has been over

£100,000. just a warning that this report, from our health correspondent michele paduano, contains images of surgery. doctors at this hospital planning to make a small pouch and bypass most of pinkyjolley�*s stomach in the hope she can get some life back. it will change the world, even just not having the feeding tube. i'm going to be able to eat again. it means you can go out with friends and socialise. this is really limiting having this stuck on your face. and hooked up to machines all day. pinky has been fed through a tube for the past three years after leaks from surgery led to sepsis and she almost died twice. her family know the procedure carries risk. the surgery is absolutely next level, and complexity one to ten it is 11. this is as complex as it comes.

previous surgeons have tried to put this right and they have not been able to put it right. an added complication three years without solid food has left her anaemic. two consultants and a senior registrar are involved. they had to avoid a compromised ball which opened would cause sepsis. this is the mass worse than i expected,: here stomach and the spleen behind here. everything stuck together, trying to create some space i can go up. pinky's weight had to be reduced by ten mg ahead of the surgery. after two hours operating the bypass has been achieved but pinky will now start losing weight extremely quickly which she can ill afford,

they are putting on a feeding tube to try to stabilise the weight. she will not eat for a few weeks but the feeding tube in her nose has gone and she can now drink. not having the tube and is like having a free face again. i can always see it, it is not comfortable at all. just the fact you can do a normal human thing like picking up a glass and having a drink is lovely. doctors are worried more and more patients like pinky are suffering complications in turkey and these cases are stopping them treating nhs patients here. those who lose their lives at sea often have no final resting place on land. for the last 100 years, a naval war memorial in plymouth has provided a lasting tribute to those men and women. 0ur reporter emma ruminksi has been finding out more about its history. if you live in the city of plymouth, you'll recognise the naval memorial

as part of its skyline. every november, people gather at its base on the hoe for remembrance day. at its centre is an obelisk, one of three that are identical. the others are in portsmouth and chatham, the ports from which the navy departed during the first world war. many, many of those commemorated on here didn't die in large engagements likejutland, but they were killed when their ship was struck by a sea mine. the memorial bears the names of those whose only known grave is the sea. the memorial is organised quite carefully by year of death and by things like rank, so it isn't making any rank more important than any other rank. but it's allowing people to find someone. the commonwealth war graves commission is recording the stories behind the names on their website. this gentleman here called robert. robert pusey. and interestingly enough, robert was a survivor on the titanic. he remained at sea and he went on to a converted trawler,

the dirk and, he was off the coast of suffolk and again they got torpedoed. robert survived the titanic only to be lost at sea in the first world war. near the plaque that bears his name is a secret door. it might surprise you to learn the memorial is hollow. a door behind one of these plaques leads to a ladder used to maintain the structure's lightning rod. as far as i'm aware, it has never been hit by lightning. quite remarkable, really, isn't it? yeah, because it's obviously the tallest structure on plymouth hoe. and this must get the full force of the elements. yeah, the weather's clearly a concern because the portland stone is a limestone and it gets affected by the weather, wind, rain, it tends to erode it, but it's fared quite well considering it's 100 years old. to plymouth hoe, a site for-

centuries associated with british seamen, comes princess margaret to honour 15,600 men and women of the commonwealth navies who died in the last war. - a new garden has been added to a memorial, which stands i in tribute to the navy's. dead of the 1914—18 war. this garden is to be - opened by the princess. sadly, just 30 years after it was first unveiled, the memorial needed extending. the second world war was an even more deadly conflict for those fighting at sea. i am proud to unveil this memorial to the men and women of the plymouth command. a d—day service was held here recently, and before that, a wave of poppies was used to remind us all of the sacrifice made in the first world war. whatever the conflict, lost sailors will always be remembered here. emma ruminski, bbc news.

cornwall is famous for its rugged coastline and turquoise waters, but the county's wildlife is in trouble — both on land and at sea. to try and reverse the damage, the cornwall wildlife trust has begun an ambitious rewilding project, and it'sjust been awarded lottery funding — as our repoterjohn ayres has been finding out. we might think of pigs and cows as everyday farm animals, which provide us with meat and milk, but the cornwall wildlife trust has a different use for them. they're part of its massive rewilding project between helman tor all the way down to st austell bay. instead of keeping these animals penned up in fields, they'll roam more to help improve the environment. cows will graze the soil, pigs will turn it over. all of this to improve the wildlife habitat and environment of this area. you can demonstrate that here by taking down fences and allowing new livestock like longhorn cows, pigs and things like that to move through that landscape. but equally, we want to demonstrate that to people around us and show that we are protecting

the habitat up here. the trust has received an initial £265,000 grant from the national lottery heritage fund for its first year, and will receive another £35 million if it's a success, which could be transformational for this nature reserve. there are private farms in this area that are surrounded by the nature reserve now. the cornwall wildlife trust see these farms as very important, but they want to work with the farmers to improve the habitats, reduce the use of pesticides and to tackle agricultural runoff within the reserve. unlicensed beavers have arrived at the site. the trust doesn't know how they've come to this area and is seeking a licence to manage them. the beavers are, however, an unexpected benefit. they bring water, they bring life because the food chain is restored, because of that water level that is increased in those aquatic habitats. but obviously there's benefits to people too. and we've seen lots of flood prevention, attenuation of the water

at the top of the catchment. it's really good. it slows the flow through the catchment. water quality benefits. the pools and dams they create improve the water quality, which is a benefit as it runs down towards the coast of st austell bay, which is home to one of the uk's largest subtidal seagrass beds and extensive maerl beds. john ayres, bbc news. now pet owners in a popular beauty spot in lincolnshire, have been told to clear up or risk losing access altogether, as our reporter natalie bell explains. it's one of the country's best loved—beauty spots in the heart of lincolnshire. popular for walking and picnics. but there's one issue at oslers' plantation, as forestry england says the woodland's become a health hazard because some irresponsible dog owners aren't cleaning up after their pets. they've temporarily closed the car park and have called in specialist cleaners. it's notjust an issue in the car park but when you enter the forest,

you have got to be careful where you walk as there are quite a few piles of dog mess along here. and visitors seem to have got the message. it might be the summer holidays and one of the sunniest days of the year, but it has been very quiet at the forest today. but i did spot one family. it's a place where people bring their kids, their whole family so it's not... people need to take care of their pets a lot better. it is notjust people leaving their dog mess, some have bagged it up butjust dump it. people at a nearby spa town have heard about the problem. it's worse when they put it in a plastic bag and just throw it, that makes it worse. with kids running around and on bikes you don't want to go through dog mess. if you have a dog, you must accept responsibility for clearing up. - i thought that was common sense. surely, this day and age people do that. j i would have though the majority do, but clearly people don't. _

one of the problems is there are no bins in the woodland but forestry england says that is down to cost and them being a threat to wildlife. to put a bin in there would be hugely costly and resource—heavy. we could not empty all the time and it would be overflowing and cause further complaints and health hazard. it's not our policy so if people don't take their waste away with them we can't afford to keep carrying out these sort of cleansing operations. it's been a week since forestry england shut the car park to the woodland and they haven't said when it will be open but they have warned it could be permanent if the situation doesn't improve. millions of people in the uk are believed to be hoarders but only a small fraction of those affected ever get help. in york, a community group helping people de—clutter, has recently been awarded 400—thousand pounds to continue their vital work,

as our reporter cathy killick has been finding out. alex is going to start putting newspapers in. are we all rightjust putting newspapers in? nothing in the newspapers? happy with that? yes. it should be his lounge but the rooms injohn wilson's house have become unrecognisable, submerged in clutter and rubbish. if i see in my lovely mush, once a fortnight, we will keep on top of it. now, with help from michaela and alice at community bees, the house is slowly being cleared. the company works with the most isolated and loneliest of people, and that is people that are hoarders, mainly. i want to write a book. you want to write a book? she listened and she didn't try to control me. she let you talk and go through it and that has worked for me rather than people saying they'll clear you in a couple of days. hoarding is a complex condition. john buys newspapers he never reads and cuddly toys that stay in their boxes. it started after his mother died. due to a mix—up, john didn't get to the hospital in time.

i lost a bit of focus and that because i thought, you know, my mother and father, we were a very close family, i was there for my dad dying and not for my mother. i should have been there because i promised me dad i'd look after me mam. that was part of a thing of punishing yourself, and never forgiving yourself. with us working on a one—to—one, very slowly, understanding and letting them talk if they want to talk, we don't ask questions. it is entirely up to them if they want to talk, and having a laugh with them as we go, it works. john is slowly changing his mindset and feels optimistic that he can get better with support. just put these in the drive? lottery money given to community bees will let them help others them trapped by possessions they no longer need or want. cathy killick, bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather. hello.

it's a slightly cooler, fresher feeling day than we've seen of late across the southern half of the uk. some hazy sunshine around, but further north a different picture. this is the rainfall we're expecting to accumulate over the next couple of days. it's looking particularly wet for the west of scotland and northern ireland as well, whereas further south, barely a drop of rain in the forecast for many of us. now, for the rest of today we're looking at some spells of hazy sunshine in the south, but wet and windy weather in the north west, so some big contrasts in our weather out there. the rain this afternoon will become more persistent across northern ireland, western scotland as well. some brightness for the north east of scotland. further south, across the bulk of england and wales, it's looking dry. hazy sunshine in the south and east, and temperatures between about 15 in the north to 23 in the south, won't feel as humid as it has done recently. through this evening and tonight turns windy, especially across the west of scotland. we've got that rain continuing for northern ireland and scotland, but it's dry for the bulk of england and wales, with lows between about 12 to 16 degrees first thing tomorrow. so into monday then low pressure sits to the north west of the uk. that's going to push this weather front in across scotland

and northern ireland. but towards the east of the front we've got the winds coming in from a south or southwesterly direction. so it's going to feel quite warm, quite humid again, especially in the south and the east. so a bit more sunshine for england and wales than we've got out there today. it is looking wet for northern ireland, although the rain will ease, but for the west of scotland could be up to 75mm of rain, so localised flooding possible. a little bit warmer than today, 20 to 26 for most of us. and then as we move through monday night into tuesday, eventually that front gets its move on, heading across england and wales, but tending to peter out as it does so. still a little bit of light rain left on that across the south east and east anglia into tuesday, but for the rest of the uk, sunny spells, few blustery showers, most of them in the northwest, and temperatures between 15 to 25 north to south. a similar day on wednesday. we'll lose that front, so we're left with a westerly airflow, low pressure and this frontal system in the northwest bringing more persistent wet and windy weather across the west of scotland, tending to turn more showery later on. but for many of us it's looking dry.

lighter winds further south and temperatures fairly typical of the time of year between about 15 to 23 degrees further ahead into next week, then high pressure, keeping things mostly dry and fairly warm towards the south. there will be some showery rain at times though further north. bye for now.

live from london, this is bbc news. uk police say they're ready

to deploy thousands more officers to contain riots across the country, after more than 100 people were arrested on saturday. those people who have been involved in this disorder over the last few days will be found by the police, will be arrested, will be taken through the courts. we want to make it very clear, there are penalties, there are consequences. israel strikes targets in southern lebanon, after hezbollah fires a barrage of rockets across the border. france becomes the latest western country to urge its nationals to leave lebanon amid fears of a wider conflict in the middle east. it's day 9 of the paris olympic games, 20 gold medals up for grabs today, and the men's100 meterfinal later

hello, i'm lewis vaughanjones.