response to some information that was circulated around the internet calling for people from the northern caucuses to come to this site armed if possible and defend themselves and stand up for their own right now there were some incidents that took place at the mcdonald's it was about three hundred yards behind where i am right now on the other side of the european center it was evacuated on a possible bomb scare at that time there were some smoke grenades that were thrown by people in the crowd at police very acrid smell of smoke still lingering in the air you can still catch with the whiffs of it every now and again but also up to a thousand people arrested here and around the city some of them armed as you mentioned in a quarter made effort of people trying to come to this area between these ethnic groups from the northern caucuses and russian nationalist groups as well very intense situation but at this moment in time things have calmed down and are back to normal told let's turn to you now there were reports of some minor clashes in different parts of the city center tell us more about them.

mall here at he had sky and there was a table of ten people they looked like they were from the northern caucuses about four police officers in riot gear came up pulled them up asked for the documents and then they actually took one of the people away we don't know where that person was taken but there are rows of buses here where they are processing people questioning them asking what their intentions are lots of media out here as well to wait and see because of course this is all supposed to go down at six o'clock. police keeping control of the past event on tonight's events though why are the police reacting so strongly to these rallies what's triggered them. well of course . you know if you look at the history of this event rory you know one person shot and killed one person detained immediately in the aftermath of that this is a week ago people went into the streets demanding the arrest saying let's go and make sure that these people are arrested then on wednesday and in slovakia at a sporting match sports fans went and rushed the pitch they interrupted the game twice in violent measure this

response to some information that was circulated around the internet calling for people from the northern caucuses to come to this site armed if possible and defend themselves and stand up for their own right now there were some incidents that took place at the mcdonald's it was about three hundred yards behind where i am right now on the other side of the european center it was evacuated our look past small bomb scare at that time there were some smoke grenades that were thrown by people in the crowd at police very acrid smell of smoke still lingering in the air but at this moment in time things have calmed down and are back to normal talk let's turn to you now there were reports of some minor clashes in different parts of the city center tell us more about them. well we'll call tourist station behind me was one of them it seems that the trouble this started at kiev stiring the groups that congregated there when they were dispersed they were they farmed out to different metro stations around the city one of them was sparkle turi and there was a minor clash there earlier and so supporters glee cal

now in that incident from the northern caucuses. well where you apologize for that for sure we've just lost our correspondent there sean thomas that's just finally returned back to tom and he's there. just just briefly the atmosphere at the moment doesn't look as if they could be any further violence where you are it seems at the moment bill that the atmosphere has calmed down very much i went and checked out the scene just shortly before the moment apart from the odd police car the situation is very calm police have moved into all those areas and into kiev skier itself broken up those demonstrations to disarm people and the moment it seems that everything is calm. thanks very much indeed also. told us we can actually now return to just very briefly. we were cut off way through what you're saying just just finish off what you were telling us. no problem we could go there was this clash between this bar brawl if you will which incited ethnic tensions between a support tech moscow fans some people say that a russian nationalists and p

into more of ethnic tensions at this point and of course with this is to geisha and from the northern caucuses coming it's basically. the prelude to suppose that race wars president medvedev has come out and said we're going to stop this and he's going to do everything you can to make sure the instigators of this violence are taken care of and dealt with appropriately which is why you see such a big police presence here today. sean thomas for us live there in central moscow thanks very much. well you can always keep up to date on our website with all the latest news and other stories here's just some of what's waiting for you online right now. and. suspected happens to be a young russian woman is released on bail in london but banned from parliament plus . an exclusive insight into the war in afghanistan from a man with an intimate knowledge of the country our military contributor. his blog . at. a fresh national strike has paralyzed greece where the more rallies against sweeping new austerity measures being held meanwhile a leading credit rating agency has warned it may downgrade spanish bond