this is bbc news. the headlines... more than 90 people are arrested across the uk after far—right demonstrations descend into riots. those people who have been involved in this disorder over the past few days will be arrested by the police, they will be taken through the courts. we want to make it clear there are penalties, there are consequences. israel's air force strikes targets in southern lebanon after hezbollah fires a barrage of rockets across the border. the israeli military says most of the rockets were intercepted. france has become the latest western country to urge its nationals to leave lebanon immediately amid fears of all—out war and some airlines have suspended flights to beirut. hello, welcome to bbc news.

senior police have warned that more violent protests are expected in the coming days, and say nearly 4,000 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. earlier i spoke with the bbc�*s shelley phelps. we heard earlier on from the policing minister, dame diana johnson, who was keen to stress that the government are reassured that the police have the resources they need to deal with the disorder that we are seeing this weekend. she said they had been clear about that and they had the powers that they needed. she talked about things like mutual aid, so this is where different police forces can work together and allow them to put extra officers in certain parts of the country. another element of the approach to this by the government

is focusing on pushing this point that there this point that there will be consequences for people who commit criminal activity. we have heard yvette cooper again and again talking about how people will pay the price. clearly for a lot of people seeing these images, they might think some of these warnings are not working at the moment. in terms of other measures that the government has talked about, they have been saying they have put extra prosecutors prosecutors in place, so that when arrests are made, charging decisions can be made quickly. dame diana said earlier that if courts needed to sit longer, that is something they will be looking at. clearly, the longer that this goes on, and the more spread it becomes, it becomes more of a challenge for the government. indeed. we saw a number of different towns and cities, these protests but not all descending into violence. significant incidents of violence there. the way that these are organised, these protests and riots, if they end up in that category, is social media and

that is a big issue. yes, there's been a huge amount of discussion about the role of social media and how unrest and disorder has been promoted. so the shadow home secretary, james cleverly, just a month ago was home secretary himself, he is saying that the government should be hauling tech firms into downing street to be grilling them on misinformation, ensuring it is not being spread. earlier this week the prime minister gave somewhat of a warning to social media companies. he talked about violence being "whipped up online", reminding them this is a crime. quite a legalistic language as you might expect from the former director of public prosecutions. we heard 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 as seriously

as possible, rather than adding 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 a very tough and difficult week. it started on monday with the horrific attack in southport and i think the country is still reeling with shock from that. and then during the course of the week we have seen this violent disorder happening 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. yesterday, i was able to speak to some of those frontline officers and talk to them and thank them for the work they are doing because obviously it can be incredibly frightening to be on the front line when you are having bricks and other objects thrown at you.

we have seen arrests which are 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 and taken to court and there will be penalties. so i think that is the focus over the last few days and over this weekend. of course the home secretary and the prime minister, the deputy prime minister, have all been involved in making sure the police have everything they need to be able to deal with these... and presumably to put a stop to the violence? so i wonder what you're expecting in the coming days? what we are expecting is that those people who have been involved in this disorder over the last few days will be found by the police, will be arrested and taken through the courts. we want to make it very clear there are penalties and consequences for people taking the action that they have. i saw yesterday in my own hometown of hull,

people setting fire to shops, looting shops, seeing people going into lush and bringing out cosmetics and other items... i think we've been pretty clear on how bad it's been but the question is is enough being done to tackle it? we hear that 4000 extra officers will be deployed but the police federation speaking to the bbc today say they are concerned they will not be able to attend other incidents are so many other officers are involved in these and carries on for days the concern is whether, they say 999 calls will not be able to be answered if so many police are being directed towards these protests? i think that's a very important question that you ask and we have been reassured that the police have the resources that they need to be able to deal with what is happening at the moment. they have very long—standing plans in place if they need extra police officers to be put into other parts

of the country and we are certainly not hearing that things like 999 calls are not being answered but what we want to do is to make sure that this weekend, we are showing very clearly that this will not be tolerated and that action will be taken against these individuals, that they will be brought before the criminaljustice system, there will be penalties and consequences for this criminal disorder. do you feel that perhaps those warnings are not working and also in terms of the prison space that's suddenly going to be found, we've been hearing from your government that the prisons are full and you will have to release people early and suddenly you've got room? where are the places coming from? the lord chancellor has made it clear that there are prison places available so if people are arrested and they are remanded into custody, some have already been put into custody, those places are there.

we also know that if the courts need to set there will be decisions made with judicially on extending court hours if that is needed but certainly we want to make it clear there is no problem going through the criminaljustice system, that these people who have caused such mayhem on our streets. will you bring in the army? there is no need to bring in the army. there has been no discussion about that. as i say the police have made it very clear that they have all the resources they need at the moment, there is mutual aid as i havejust described and they had the powers that they need. we think that the meeting that the prime minister called earlier this week on thursday, he got all the operational chief constables together to discuss whether they had the powers that they need, and they agreed that they did. they want to work better on sharing intelligence and using things like facial recognition but currently they are able to deal with the situation.

in terms of the prevention, your title is the minister for police and crime prevention but the issue here is the amount of lies spreading quickly online and what is being done to counter that and whether enough was done initially to counter those lies being spread? do you think you have got that under control? clearly the social media companies have a responsibility for posts that go up which are spreading misinformation and disinformation and i know that peter kyle, the secretary of state for technology has been having discussions with social media companies. there's certainly been attempts made to deal with that disinformation by putting notices onto postings to show that that information is not correct. there's fact checking that goes on, there's that goes on, there's a whole range of things that have already happened but obviously

we need to do more because you're absolutely right, there has been that spread of misinformation which has caused problems this week. this week saw 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 abroad, including in russian prisons. president biden says he will continue to pressure the kremlin to release americans who were not part of the 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 to the prisoner swap. it is large, it is dramatic, it is emotional. but also being responsible for the german part of the deal, i can tell you that for germany

it is an uneven deal, somewhat. there was not that same calibre of captives who got out as for the us and for 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, well the non—traditional way of doing this. the russian hit man, the murderer that had to serve his sentence has now got out and this is something that the country tries to weigh and to balance, to see whether it was a good deal, or not. so there are people with genuine concerns that of course everyone wants people home, but actually the abandonment of certain principles potentially, of legal principles, that may be a step too far for some people. indeed.

there are different avenues of criticism. there are people who are saying that negotiating with putin's russia putin's russia is wrong per se. some people say this is an incentive for a hostage diplomacy from the russian federation in the future. but there is a legal argument saying look, with convicted murderers, he had not served five years of his time, although it is not illegal what the government did, it is unconventional and goes against the legal tradition of sticking to your own standards, right? witnesses in the case against vladimir and family members of his victim, the people he killed in berlin, they were not informed about the exchange. they read the news about this swap. this is something that goes against the value of protecting the interests of the victims. there is a legal argument that says if we stop treating our own verdicts seriously then the deterrence

of ourjudicial system will suffer over time. it is controversial so there is not euphoria. people are happy for those who came back or who got out into freedom, but there was also a lot of concern. let's return to the olympics now, and one of the biggest surprises of the games so far — julien alfred won the olympic women's 100m title at paris 2024 last night, to make history as st lucia's first ever gold medallist. last year's world champion, america's sha'carri richardson took silver with her compatriot melissa jefferson in third. straight off the starting blocks it was neck and neck, with richardson pegged as the favourite to win. but alfred stormed through to take the victory by a clear margin in a national record of 10.72 seconds. and in the past hour, jamaica's world champion shericka jackson has withdrawn from the 200 metres, less than a month after she suffered an injury at a warm up event in hungary.

a short while ago, i spoke to kerry linden, who's a volunteer at paris 0lympics, i started off by asking her about her role out there as a volunteer. i am based at a stadium to the east of paris. it is where the rowing, the kayak is going on, but also the white water sports, which are coming to a culmination tomorrow. fantastic. the weather and the scenery behind you looks wonderful. i suppose it is an easy question to answer, but why are you volunteering? i started in 2012. i got the bug then and i really wanted to be involved in london. and ijust wanted to help make the 2012 olympics the best it could be. and i ended upjoining a choir and made some amazing friendships from that and i kind of got

the volunteering bug. i volunteered for lots of stuff, this is my third 0lympics. i went out to rio as well, as a uk volunteer there, and now i am here in paris. i am with a large contingent of uk volunteers. that is absolutely magical. how does it work? i don't want to be boring and logistical, but you are a volunteer so you are not being paid, so what do you get for free and what you have to pay for yourself? i always say to everybody, it is an expensive hobby. it's a bit like a working holiday without being paid. we just do it for the buzz, if i'm honest. we don't get our transport to france covered, we don't get our accommodation covered. i have been incredibly lucky and been put up with a lovely, lovely family very close to my venue. i am only a 20 minute walk from my venue, so i have been very lucky with that.

what do we get? we get a lovely uniform. the paris uniform is just fabulous. the colours, it is stylish and very chic, as you would expect. we do get a pass to help us to travel around paris, so that is helpful as well. and so you get, presumably, the best thing is the access, the behind—the—scenes feel? i guess you get access, depending on what your role is. i am fortunate that i am working with media and press down at the rowing centre, so i am very lucky to be able to see some of the sport from my position, whereas in rio i was stuck in a portakabin behind all the sport and saw nothing! i have been able to buy a couple of tickets as well. there were no free tickets, no perks like that, but i did get to see some tennis in the opening round and i got to see the gb women play hockey yesterday.

let's take a look at the current medal table heading into day 9 of the games. china are currently in the lead with 16 gold medals, followed by the united states on 14. france and australia currently both have 12 gold medals each, followed by great britain in fifth with 10 golds. 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 solihull hospital planning to make a small pouch and bypass most of pinky'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. it 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. 0n 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 have to avoid a ball inside her, which opened would cause sepsis. this is the mass — it's worse than i expected. here stomach and the spleen behind here. everything is stuck together, i'm trying to create some space so i can go up. her weight had to be boosted ten kilograms 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, so they are putting in a feeding tube to try to stabilise her 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 in 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 that more and more patients like pinky are suffering complications in turkey and these cases are stopping them treating nhs patients here. 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 to reverse the damage, the cornwall wildlife trust has begun an ambitious rewilding project, and it's just been awarded lottery funding as our repoter john 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. pet owners in lincolnshire have been told to clear up after their dogs or risk losing access to a popular beauty spot. 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 0slers' 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 but then just dump it. people at a nearby spa 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. 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.

british police say they're ready to deploy thousands more officers to contain riots across the country, after dozens were arrested on saturday. those people have been involved in this disorder over the past 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 fired 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. we start here in the uk, where senior police leaders have warned that more protests are likely in the coming days, and 4000 extra

officers are available to respond.