on the streets of our country. catalan separatist carles puigdemont takes to the stage after returning to barcelona, despite facing an arrest warrant. mohammed yunus has landed in bangladesh to lead a caretaker government, following weeks of turmoil in the country. president biden says he's not confident there will be a peaceful transition of power if donald trump loses november's election. three taylor swift concerts in vienna are cancelled after two men are arrested on suspicion of planning an attack. and the willy wonka disaster, that lead to a fringe golden ticket. hello. i'm lauren taylor. let's start here in the uk where thousands of anti—racism protesters have rallied in cities and towns across england

after a week of anti—immigrant rioting. britain's most senior police officer has praised the show of unity and said fears of extreme—right violence had abated. police had been prepared for further violence, and thousands of officers were deployed, but there was no sign of any disorder on the scale of recent days. the marches were mostly peaceful — and the government says it "cautiously welcomed" the scenes last night. more than 6,000 police officers had been mobilised on wednesday evening — from newcastle to birmingham, liverpool to brighton, sheffield to london. the week of violent unrest was sparked by misinformation that spread online following the fatal stabbing of three girls in southport, just over a week ago. the chair of the police federation which represents rank and file police officers in england and wales says it's too early to say if the run of violent protests is over. it's estimated more than 100 police officers have been injured in the disorder over the last week. with more on the counter rallies, here's our correspondent, joe inwood, reporting from bristol. the city had been braced for trouble. so this part of bristol

is where a couple of immigration lawyers are based, whose addresses have been leaked online. and there was a real fear there could be a far right protest taking place here today. but we've been here the last couple of hours, and there's not a sign of that. instead, something very different has happened. chanting thousands of anti—racism protesters, trade unionists, members of the local black and asian community, students, took over the streets in what was broadly a good natured evening, but one that sent a message. i feel ashamed for our country right now. it'sjust, we're not representing ourselves in any sense of a manner that's, like, admirable at all. you can see a lot of places are boarded up, so there's been a lot of fear about what could happen. and itjust felt really important that we were here to, yeah, to protect our community. it was a picture repeated across the country.

walthamstow in london saw vast crowds gathered, as in bristol, to oppose the far right. while there were colourful scenes in west london. refugees are welcome here! in sheffield, police had prepared for trouble, but none came. in croydon, although there were a few arrests, things were generally peaceful. while a march between two mosques in accrington was greeted by people drinking at the pub. and this was the scene in newcastle. of course, protect our mosques because we believe this is our house and this is house of god. and i think for them to stand up and really want to go around and try to destroy our mosques is something really heinous. there were some isolated incidents. aldershot was seemingly one of the few places the right wing protests materialised. in brighton, they were so outnumbered they needed

police protection. nazi scum, off our streets! according to the man who used to oversee the police, it's not only the counter—protests that kept the far right off the streets, but also swift prosecutions. the techniques and the instruments that the police have now for identifying people, even with face coverings, i won't go into detail, are very, very advanced. and also, it is an offence to have a face covering — to maintain a face covering — if ordered to take it off by a police officer. so, um, i think that the community has come together and i think it's an extremely positive step. back in bristol, and while there was a heavy police presence all evening, by 10pm there had only been one arrest. so this is castle park in bristol, and it's here on saturday that there were running battles between the far right and anti—fascist protesters.

and there had been real fears that those scenes could be replicated tonight. but as you can see, nothing has materialised, and it seems across the country that picture has been repeated. and both government, and the protesters on the street tonight, will be hoping that this could be a turning point in this disorder. joe inwood, bbc news in bristol. the minister for policing, dame diana johnson, said that the counter protests against the far right show that the majority of the country is law—abiding and peaceful. well, i think this country has a tradition, doesn't it, of peaceful protests? and i think last night was an example of that. now, clearly, because of what had happened in previous days, we were very anxious that we didn't add to the burden on the police by having to police counter demonstrations and protests. but luckily, last night, everything on the whole was peaceful, so that's important. but i think what last night illustrated was the vast majority of people in this country are law

abiding, are tolerant, respect the police, want their communities to be ones that are safe for all communities. and i think that that was demonstrated last night by some of what we saw on the streets with those people who came forward to make their views clear because, unfortunately, in the last few nights, what we'd seen was those kind of very small criminal element, the extremists were out on the streets, engaging in disorder and violence, and that's not what britain is. that is not what the british people are about. the metropolitan police commissioner mark rowley gave his assessment the met police said there have been ten more arrests since last night. the metropolitan police commissioner mark rowley gave his assessment of wednesday night's events. massive policing operation. i'm really pleased with how it went.

we put thousands of officers on the street and i think the show of force from the police and, frankly, the show of unity from communities together defeated the challenges that we've seen. it went off very peacefully last night. a couple of locations where some local criminals turn out and try and create a bit of anti—social behaviour, and we arrested a few of them, but it was a very successful night and the fears of sort of extreme right disorder were abated. so, a successful operation, thanks to communities and police. now, for people wondering what kinds of people you're arresting, could you tell me about those? are we talking about the average person on the street? definitely not. these are criminals. they're thugs. they're not patriots. we've been out doing some dawn raids this morning. the people who were most violent in the whitehall protest and violence last week, and yesterday, today, it's going to be sort of more than 20 people, about 70% of them have got criminal backgrounds. we've got criminal damage, violence, weapons offences, football banning orders. these are criminal thugs. any suggestion they're patriots

or they've got a cause that they're protesting about is nonsense. they're criminals and, frankly, most of them are going to be charged with violent disorder and most of them are going to be going to prison for a few years. what are your thoughts on the government response? yeah, clearly, we've been working with government. we've had several cobra meetings this week. so, as police chiefs across the country have been working together, putting these big operations in place to protect communities, we've been briefing government on that, and they've been putting in plans for other parts of government, local authorities, to support us and support communities. 0ur political correspondent, hannah miller, told us what the reaction has been from political leaders. a sense of quiet relief here but they are not at the point at all of saying that this is the job done. there's intelligence the policing unit has or protests over the coming weekend, so they are weekend,

so they are clearly on the lookout and while last night was encouraging, they are not at the point of saying this is all over and done with. it's really been downing street's strategy all along with justice being seen to be done would have an effect of making people think twice about whether they really want to go out onto the streets and the suggestion is that some tough sentences being handed down yesterday, more sentencing and court appearances due today, some due to be televised sends a message, and that in combination with more police being out in communities has helped to quell some of the violence. there are questions though about if this isn't the end of it, how possible will it be to maintain this level of policing? there is a suggestion from police that some officers have been working on rest days

and the knock—on impact of that. but downing street quietly relieved this morning with perhaps a suggestion that the way they hoped their strategy played out may be playing out and with more arrests are expected in the coming days, a quiet hope that we may have seen the back of the worst of this. you mentioned that this is not the end of it in terms of the response. what about things like the online aspect of that? how much will they focus on that next? the policing minister said this morning they would look at what more they could do about the online presence and the science and technology department in conversations with social media companies. they have a situation where the online safety act has come into law but 0fcom, the regulator

who have put it into place are still consulting on draft guidelines and those guidelines and mechanisms within the online safety act are not fully enforced at this point but 0fcom, the regulator, did write to the social media company saying, look, there may not be a legal duty fully in force at the moment but that does not mean that you couldn't just take down any criminal activity that is on your sites and that's the message coming from government as well, that while the fine print of the regulation is still to come into force and is still being worked on and they will look whether to strengthen it or bring it into force more quickly. they don't necessarily have to do that for social media companies themselves to decide to take further action although whether many would choose to do so is clearly a different question.

the far—right violence and anti—racism counter—protests are dominating this morning's newspaperfront pages in the uk — "far right rioters face football ban as ministers bid to curb unrest" — the i newspaper reports that those involved in rioting may face a football ban as the government looks to end the violence. "united britain stands firm against thugs" is the headline on the front of thursday's daily express underneath a wide shot photo of anti—racist demonstrators gathering in walthamstow on a street outside an immigration centre. a man boarding up a samaritans charity shop in southend features on the front of the daily telegraph along with the headline, "britain shuts up shop". the paper also says mps have been told by the house of commons speaker sir lindsay hoyle to work for home if they feel they might be targeted by demonstrators.

the guardian's describes the ongoing situation and comments on the biggest mobilisation of police officers and staff since the 2011 riots in london. and today's daily mail also splashes on the anti—racism protests, describing them as the "night anti—hate marchers faced down the thugs". the northern ireland assembly meet today to discuss the violent disorder in belfast over the past few days. the first minister and deputy first minister have stated that their top priority is to face down racism and intimidation. this follows attacks on businesses in the city after anti—immigration protests turned violent. the northern ireland assembly meet today to discuss the violent ask what they can do to try and bring this violence to an end. and they'll also receive a briefing from the northern ireland police service chief constablejohn boucher. they'll have questions for him, no doubt, about his policing of events here on saturday, but he too will have questions for them in terms of resources. he has already made it clear his police force budget is stretched this morning.

he has asked for additional resources from great britain police, concerned about further violence and disorder over the coming weeks. after that executive meeting, politicians will then come up here to stormont chamber, where they will meet to discuss again racism and violence and put out a united message. politicians the first time this will be that we can see our first minister and deputy first minister stand shoulder to shoulder with a united message against violence and condemning those scenes we've seen now forfive nights in a row. and you mentioned the police service input there. what are they saying, if anything, about any links with the paramilitary world to the violence? that's right. police confirmed yesterday that there was paramilitary involvement in these incidents, which are focussed mainly in the greater belfast area, with the with some incidents taking place outside belfast. i can give you an update on the police investigation. actually, in the past few minutes they've confirmed that so far 16 males have been arrested, seven have been charged.

police say they are continuing to gather further evidence and review cctv promising that more arrests will come. they have appealed for more support from great britain because they are concerned of what's going to happen over the coming days and weeks. and in a message posted on the city's youtube channel, the psni chief constablejohn barker message to the muslim community in northern ireland is that the police here stand beside you. he says his officers will stand in the way to... in harm's way to protect them. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news.

let's turn to bangladesh — where the nobel peace prize winner, muhammad yunus, hasjust landed back in dhaka — to lead a caretaker government after protests forced the resignation of the long—term prime minister, sheikh hasina. yunus is a long—time politicalfoe of the ousted prime minister. he was announced as leader following talks between the president and student leaders who played a key role in the weeks of unrest that let's get the latest

from the bbc�*s akbar hossein who joins us from dhaka. quite a dramatic return for muhammad yunus? , ., ., ., , ., yunus? yes, a return from paris one hour a90- — yunus? yes, a return from paris one hour a90- he — yunus? yes, a return from paris one hour ago- he was — yunus? yes, a return from paris one hour ago. he was attending - yunus? yes, a return from paris one hour ago. he was attending the - yunus? yes, a return from paris one| hour ago. he was attending the paris 0lympics. when he arrived he was welcomed by many people and he made a statement. he urged people not to indulge in any violence. he said no revenge should be taken and he thanked the revolution and the bangladesh youths that made it happen. he said progress can be achieved. he said that he is actually aiming for a new bangladesh where there will be no fear, no

government oppression or torture. he says it's the responsibility of everyone to cooperate and if he doesn't get cooperation then he will not continue. 0n the other hand, we have seen after the downfall of sheikh hasina, we've seen a lot of violence across the country and civil disobedience and those supporting sheikh hasina came under attack, their houses and for many hindus they are secret supporters are sheikh hasina and in some areas in the capital were targeted. the police force came under attack, more than 500 police stations were set on fire so this some sort of anxiety

around the situation and i think that muhammad yunus will take over in the evening, the main task for him is to stabilise the country and bring normalcy in the country. regarding establishing the interim government, what kind of ministers and so on? ., , government, what kind of ministers and so on? . , , , government, what kind of ministers and so on?— and so on? certainly, this is going to be a government _ and so on? certainly, this is going to be a government that - and so on? certainly, this is going to be a government that will- and so on? certainly, this is going to be a government that will have | and so on? certainly, this is going i to be a government that will have no political affiliation. it's a nonparty interim government whose job it will be to look after the country and we don't know. there is no timeframe yet. it could be six months, one year, two years but there responsibility will be to conduct a general election and oversee the country. the bangladesh nationalist party by one of the former prime ministers are demanding the election should be held within

90 days but many people think that it's not conducive to any thing right now. muhammad yunus has a long list ahead and he has to perform those stages, bring back normalcy in the country, restore confidence in the country, restore confidence in the administration and so we don't know how long it will take. president biden says he's not confident there'll be a peaceful transfer of power if donald trump loses the us presidential election in november. mr biden told cbs news that people should take seriously the republican candidate's threat that there would be a "blood—bath". the us president suggested that mr trump would say the election had been stolen, as he did in 2020. he's been speaking to robert costa, chief election and campaign correspondent with cbs. are you confident that there will be a peaceful transfer of power in january 2025? if trump wins?

no, i'm not confident at all. i mean, if trump loses, i'm not confident at all. he means what he says. we don't take him seriously. he means it. all the stuff about if we lose, there'll be a bloodbath. it's happened. it's stolen. look what they're trying to do now in the local election districts where people count the votes or elected, or putting people in place in states that they're going to count the votes. right. you can't love your country only when you win. the separatist former leader of catalonia, carles puigdemont, has risked arrest by returning from exile to spain — openly addressing supporters in front of the catalan regional parliament. although spanish parliament passed an amnesty law pardoning those involved in the failed independence bid in 2017, mr puigdemont still faces arrest. he's returned to barcelona as the catalan parliament votes on electing a new president for the region. earlier, i spoke to our europe editor, danny aeberhard, who told us about the significance

of this development. the timing of his return is very deliberate and disruptive. there is a socialist giving a speech in the catalan parliament, if he is elected head of regional government, would be the first head of catalonia's regional government not to advocate for catalonian independence for more than a decade so a considerable shift. so one of the pro independence heros returns, disrupts this ceremony. if he is arrested, his party have said they will push for that vote to be suspended and it puts spain's democracy in a dilemma because as carles puigdemont has said already, what country passes an amnesty law but then does not advocate amnesty. that poses a problem of the democratic nature to spain.

three taylor swift concerts in vienna have been cancelled due to security concerns. it comes after two men were detained on suspicion of planning an islamist attack. the first show was due to start on thursday — with more than 65,000 expected to attend the gigs. the austrian chancellor says the situation was "very serious" and a tragedy had been averted. 0ur correspondent in vienna, bethany bell, has this report. # are you ready for it?# taylor swift was supposed to hold the first of three concerts in vienna tonight, as part of the eras tour. but the shows have all been cancelled after two people were arrested on suspicion of planning an attack. yesterday, austrian police arrested a 19—year—old austrian man who lived in the town of ternitz, south of vienna. they found chemical substances at his home. nearby houses had to be evacuated while the search was going on. another person was later arrested in vienna.

police say they were planning an islamist attack. translation: according to the current state - of the investigation, the suspects radicalised themselves on the internet. the 19—year—old citizen swore allegiance to the current leader of is at the beginning ofjuly. subsequently, the suspects carried out concrete preparatory acts for a terrorist attack. police say the suspects had planned to target large events in vienna, including the taylor swift concerts. investigations are continuing. the organiser, barracuda music, said it had no choice but to cancel the shows for everyone's safety. it said all tickets would be automatically refunded.

65,000 people were supposed to attend each one of these concerts. the organisers say, of course, safety has to come first, but there are a lot of disappointed fans in vienna right now. bethany bell, bbc news, vienna. you can find all your news updates on our website. [30 you can find all your news updates on our website.— you can find all your news updates on our website. do stay with us here on our website. do stay with us here on bbc news- _ on our website. do stay with us here on bbc news. we _ on our website. do stay with us here on bbc news. we will— on our website. do stay with us here on bbc news. we will be _ on our website. do stay with us here on bbc news. we will be back - on our website. do stay with us here on bbc news. we will be back in - on our website. do stay with us here on bbc news. we will be back in a i on bbc news. we will be back in a minute. hello, again. some of us started the day with some sunshine but a weather front coming in from the west with some more cloud and rain and it will remain fairly murky for much of the

day may western areas. rain moving across northern ireland, northern england and eventually into central and southern scotland. as we go through the day, rain will push eastwards and after that bright start, we can see that cloud building with splashes of rain around later and for scotland, a windy day. temperatures 15 in the north, 23 as we push down towards the south so still feeling humid. 0vernight, heaviest rain continues in scotland, clears england and pushes into the northern isles where we had the dregs of another weather front across southern areas. is able hang onto some murky weather. a breezy and humid night to come. we then head on into tomorrow, with the dregs of the weather across the south—east first thing. that will clear and then we are looking at sunshine and scattered showers but the strongest winds across the

north. as the rain clears away, showers but for much of the uk bright and sunny spells with some showers, the heaviest of which will be most frequent in the north and the west. 25-26 c be most frequent in the north and the west. 25—26 c in the south—east. as we head on into the weekend, what's happening is we've got this little system scooting across wales and the southern half of england during the course of the morning, bringing cloud and rain. we will have some showers across the north of the country, drifting eastwards through the day, as well. as this system pushes eastwards, it will brighten up across wales and south—west england, dry weather around with a fair bit of sunshine. these are the temperatures, 15 celsius in the north and 25 cell mists in the south. —— celsius. quite hot on monday, especially in

the south—eastern corner but the scotland and northern ireland, temperatures around average for this time of year.

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the recent violence online. mohammed yunus has landed in bangladesh to lead a caretaker government. the nobel laureate said his first job was to restore law and order following weeks of turmoil in the country. catalan separatist carles puigdemont returns to barcelona despite facing an arrest warrant. the leader has been in self—imposed exile in belgium for the past seven years. three taylor swift concerts in vienna are cancelled after two men are arrested on suspicion of planning an attack. these are live pictures of a news conference — these are live pictures of a news conference happening in vienna to do with the _ conference happening in vienna to do with the cancellation of taylor swift — with the cancellation of taylor swift concerts.— swift concerts. the austrian interior minister _ swift concerts. the austrian interior minister has - swift concerts. the austrian interior minister has said i swift concerts. the austrian | interior minister has said the situation was very serious and continues to be serious. and we have also heard that there was a search of a suspect�*s house linked to the

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