george florey the protesters are gathered outside the american embassy here on the banks of the river thames there are people chanting black lives showing their solidarity with george floyd and his family and of course the other victims of police brutality in the united states now as far as the government here are concerned they've been trying to discourage these types of protests but health secretary matter. making reference to the coronavirus pandemic to try to discourage people from attending that is the case it hasn't quite worked there are thousands of people who have had time to today the police is one of taken a more hands off approach than they did yesterday we saw those images coming out of the police charging it's just as on a horse today they've taken a much more hands off approach and we can see here for the us has the police who are not in that type of standoff but we saw in those images yesterday. i was. i. know these protests are expected to go on throughout the off the newness unclear yet whether they will stay here outside the embassy or whether they will be moving on to the

which isjust the other side marched down to the us embassy which is just the other side of the river thamesed all the way back to parliament which has been the focus of these protests. there was a long protest position held by the protesters held outside downing street and the police held their lines there as they have over their lines there as they have over the days these protests have been taking place. as i said earlier, the temperature was much lower of the protest tha n temperature was much lower of the protest than it has been, and it just raised when police moved in. we just raised when police moved in. we just saw it happen in front of us. a tea m just saw it happen in front of us. a team of about 15 moves to make an arrest, young man standing on a traffic island just on the corner of parliament square. and immediately the reaction from the crowd was they we re the reaction from the crowd was they were not happy that was taking place. and they then pursued that tea m place. and they then pursued that team of officers as they led that man away to a position where they cordoned off r

this is what the area looks like around the embassy on the south side of the river thames in london. thousand protesters are still there. just to show you the geography, this is on the south bank at nine elms, vauxhall bridgejust a little further down the embankment there. earlier the uk health secretary matt hancock repeated his call for people not to take part because of the risk of spreading coronavirus. 0nly only six people are officially allowed to gather. here in london, the demonstration began at 2pm with protestors kneeling in a tribute to george floyd. yesterday's demonstrations in london saw 14 people arrested after clashes with police and 14 officers were injured. 27 in total last week. police chief cressida dick urged protesters to "find another way" of making their views heard, which does not involve coming out on the streets of london. 0ur correspondent, chi chi izundu, gave me the latest from central london. it is indeed. i don't know if you can see the people behind me, they have taken be me in a peaceful protest a nd have taken be me in a peaceful protest and they ar

are also marching in the city speak to across want to join how who's just the other side of the river thames from westminster genocide to. what's the latest from your point of view. all well i think this is a very fluid situation for the police and for protesters here in central london in westminster across the river over their parliament square and just up whitehall trafalgar square the 2 focus is now of on going protests and rolling clashes between right wing protesters and the police it all began 3 or 4 hours ago in parliament square as right wing protesters gathered as advertised to protect the statues of bargain square some including that of winston churchill was the face last weekend in the black lives matter protests there so they've come these groups to guard their monuments in the words of the leader of britain 1st one of the groups represented there and there was an expectation that a number of matter protesters would still gather at the opposite end of whitehall essentially moving from hyde park towards trafalgar square even though their organizers had called for that march to be

this is what the area looks like around the embassy on the south side of the river thames in london.n nine elms, that us embassy build five years ago. a highly state—of—the—art embassy, with a moat there as well. earlier the uk health secretary, matt hancock, repeated his call for people not to take part because of the risk of spreading coronavirus. elsewhere in the uk, protestors in the city of bristol pulled down a statue of the 17th century slave trader, edward colston — a number of landmarks in bristol are named after him. he was a philanthropist locally as well. here in london, the demonstration began at 2.00pm, with protestors kneeling in a tribute to george floyd. the 46—year—old black man killed in minneapolis. yesterday's demonstrations in london saw 29 people arrested after clashes with police — and 1a officers were injured. police chief dame cressida dick urged protesters to "find another way" of making their views heard, which does not involve coming out on the streets of london. 0ur correspondent, chi chi izundu, is in central london. that is, she was in central london e

embassy on the south side of the river thames all the way on the other side of the river. in the evening on saturday and sunday, they're on downing street on the seat of the prime minister. it's on the other side of the headquarters and it was at that time when these crowds began to converge and remains there as the day was coming to an end, both on saturday and on sunday that we saw skirmishes, skirmishes that saw the police put on their riot deer on sunday evening, which is quite unusual in this country, and arrest about a dozen people. these scenes are being condemned by boris johnson who's accused, quote, thugs of having hijacked what was otherwise a peaceful protest. overall the government is concerned about the lack of sougsal distancing. this is a country that is about to reopen its economy. they want to desperately kick the wheels in motion in just a few days' time. they are very concerned about the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. for that reason they are appealing to people reminding them it is technically illegal to gather in large numbers. having said t

that is that the us embassy, just south of the river thames. you're watching bbc news.crease in fees because of the extra costs of the coronavirus pandemic. the charity, age uk, says some people who fund all, or part of, their care are being asked to pay over £100 a week more. it's estimated that more than half the 400,000 people who live in care homes in england fall into the self—funding category. we can speak now to caroline abrahams, who's charity director at age uk. how widespread is this? we don't know, but what we do know is we have had lots of calls from older people and their families telling us the different situations in which they have essentially been asked to cough up have essentially been asked to cough up some have essentially been asked to cough up some more have essentially been asked to cough up some more during the pandemic, in order to pay for extra ppe and to help care homes, who obviously having hard time at the moment, not only with all they have to deal with with the virus, but the extra costs they are incurring. we can't say how many. it may be

starting off in the marches that have taken place over the weekend from the south side of the river thamesre the u.s. embassy is now based all the way up towards parliament and westminster. each time they get closer and closer toward the real seat of power in this country, downing street, the official residence of the british prime minister, by the way, only just a stone's throw away from the headquarters of the metropolitan police that we've seen these ugly scenes at the end of the day when things have turned violent. objects have been tloefr hrown police officers and also the horses they're riding, and as a result, as you mentioned in your introduction, michael, there were about a dozen arrests yesterday. the culmination of this otherwise peaceful protest movement that has been happening over the last few days. it doesn't show any signs of awaiting here. abating here. it stretches across all four corners of the united kingdom. in bristol, we saw some of the most dramatic scenes as the statue of that 17th century slave trader edward colston, a well-known, prominent figure, but also someon

attended by thousands of people, they came from the american embassy on the other side of the river thamesth and they are backing out. some are leaving but a lot are still saying and as you say, there is a general feeling that it is right, despite the coronavirus pandemic, to protest. some protesters have put it to me in this way, they feel the bassis to me in this way, they feel the bass is right, despite the coronavirus pandemic, to protest. some protesters have put it to me in this way, they feel the racism in britain is in itself a pandemic and that justifies them britain is in itself a pandemic and thatjustifies them and being here. we are obviously keeping a distance and wearing masks about who to talk to you by now. lots of people here, you are right, i wearing masks, but this is a breach of the law, eve ryo ne this is a breach of the law, everyone has the right to protest but the law specifically prohibits gatherings. so have the police taken a decision not to get involved because the numbers are simply too large? absolutely, the metropolitan police said earlier in the week that th

oxford calling for the removal of the statue to the victorian empireialist here on the banks of the river thamesemoval by local authorities of a statue to the 19th century slave trader robert milligan, lifting from its place to scenes of crowdi cheering crowds. we have a statement from the culture minister who writes further removal of controversial figures, he says, would be the airbrushing of history. i have been speaking to various historians about this, and in fact, they say the removal of statues is nothing new. take a listen to what professor from the university of manchester had to say. >> history of removing statues is as long as statues themselves. the idea that statues are permanent, that they don't -- that they're not moved or replaced because society has moved and changed in ideas, that's a very strange idea that seems to have come about in the last few years. it's normal when societies change for them to reassess the statues that they have. >> now, chiming with that, we have also heard from the mayor of london, sadiq khan, and he says in terms of where do we go from here, he says ne

embassy in london just on the banks of the river thames and the people attending that were at least $15000.00 people in attendance according to one police source that i spoke to possibly even law and the march went off without any violence until it reached the. area of parliament square and downing street even then things were quite normal people were sitting outside downing street or sitting outside parliament street making a trance and so on but then later in the evening when the crowd started to thin tensions increase between those in the crowd and the police the police were seen on some occasions going into the crowd trying to make arrests that then seemed to provoke some type of backlash by people throwing. bottles and other things at the police and resulting in clashes up and down a white hall and a number of arrests were made in the evening however it's so outside of london as well where as some of the headlines have been got it would culls that he was a slave trader in the 16 hundreds one of his statues which has long been the subject of people making petitions and counting time it re

a man has died after getting into difficulty in the river thames in berks. is expected to be even warmer and there are warnings for people to take care notjust outdoors but inside too. younger people are particularly vulnerable this year, and people who may be fielding or staying indoors, or people isolated and staying indoors because they're either concerned about infection just had an infection with covid, so we just wa nt to infection with covid, so we just want to make sure that everyone looks out for people who are isolated in the heat. sometimes homes can get very hot, so just to ensure people don't get overheated. uv levels are expected to be unusually high, meaning there a risk of sunburn. and social distancing is an issue. this was the beach in bournemouth yesterday. elsewhere, this was whitby — people were making more of an effort to spread out. with many expected to be holidaying at home this year, how people enjoy the sun safely is likely to be an issue for much of the summer. temperatures, though, are expected to dip at the weekend. jon donnison

a man has died after getting into difficulty in the river thames in berkshire.ust outdoors but inside, too. some people are particularly vulnerable this year, and they're people who may be shielding or staying indoors, or people isolated and staying indoors, because they're either concerned about infection or they've just had an infection with covid, so we just want to make sure that everyone looks out for people who are isolated in the heat. sometimes homes can get very hot, so just to ensure that people don't get overheated. uv levels are expected to be unusually high, meaning a greater risk of sunburn. and social distancing is an issue. this was the beach in bournemouth yesterday. elsewhere, this was whitby — people were making more of an effort to spread out. with many expected to be holidaying at home this year, how people enjoy the sun safely is likely to be an issue for much of the summer. temperatures, though, are expected to dip at the weekend. jon donnison, bbc news. that makes it the perfect moment to check the weather forecast. matt taylor has that.

demonstrations who are also marching in the city let's go straight to jenna help alongside the river thames our house of parliament behind you what picture you're getting. what we were there until a few minutes ago inside parliament square nic we've made a prudent group treat if you like across the river now pretty ugly scenes in the last couple of hours certainly those protests began maybe 34 hours ago but in the last couple of hours have descended into quite considerable chaos as well several 100 up to 2000 according to some estimates right wing and far right protesters have mounted a series of confrontations with the police as they tried to make their way up whitehall towards the center top they were blocked there bottles and cans thrown at the police there they were pushed back also at other lines in other access points to parliament square confrontations have taken place there essentially here in a counter demonstration to as you said those anti anti racist black live matter the protests to be going on for the last 2 weeks in solidarity with events in the united states and more recentl

embassy building just south of the river thames.e come out today, marking the death of george floyd, showing solidarity with americans and pointing to instances of police brutality in the u.k. today's protests began at the embassy and stayed here throughout the day. some groups marched across the river to the center of british government, that's where they also are right now, gathered late in the day. they're massing in front of government buildings like the 10 downing street office and residents of u.k. prime minister boris johnson. we've seen skirmishes, police seem to be holding their ground. here's what we heard from some of the protesters earlier today. >> you just have to support people who need the support right now, you know. i would hope that if i was in this position that someone would be out there marching for my lives. >> we can make a difference, we make a difference by coming together in numbers, in unity in numbers. >> it's about democracy, to exercise the freedom to protest. so we have to do this. >> reporter: of cou

you can see a large crowd gathering there again today, marching along the thames river, calling for equal justice outside the u.s. embassy. similar crowds came out in berlin, madrid, and hong kong. we have also got new polling today that shows a nation in need of leadership and imagination. our nbc news/"wall street journal" poll finds 80% of americans feel like the country is out of control amid the ongoing turmoil surrounding the coronavirus pandemic and the aftermath of george floyd's death at the hands of a minneapolis police officer. for more, let's bring in jacqueline, the author of "the washington post" power up newsletter, and shauna thomas, nbc news contributor. shauna, you look at those numbers, 80% of the country feeling like things are out of control. how much of that is the cultural moment we find ourselves in? how much of it is a condemnation of washington's leadership at large, and how much of it is about the president himself? >> i mean, i think it's a combination of all those things. but i think it's interesting because that question of whether things are out of control i

this is a view of the area around the embassy on the south side of the river thames in london.n the south bank, close to battersea. but you can see, quite a considerable number of people already there outside the embassy, which was only built about four or five years ago. earlier the uk health secretary matt hancock repeated his call for people not to take part because of the risk of spreading coronavirus. tens of thousands of people took to the streets across the uk yesterday, after the police killing of george floyd in the united states. from coast to coast in the us — there've been some of the largest demonstrations against police violence since mr floyd's death in minneapolis nearly two weeks ago. in los angeles a crowd marched from hollywood to beverly hills, at one point kneeling down for five minutes and chanting: " peaceful protest" before breaking into applause. and tens of thousands of people marched in washington dc, in the city's largest protest so far. security forces blocked any approach to the white house. here in london, police chief cressida dick urged proteste