the west midlands fire service are liaising with police closely and we are confirming the exact naturedent before deployment, they have confirmed they have got fire engines at the holiday inn at the moment, two appliances currently in attendance so the west midlands fire service working alongside staffordshire police but everyone being asked to avoid the area around the holiday inn, in tamworth, following that violence. we can now talk to marc 0wenjones, who is associate professor of digital humanities at the northwestern university in qatar. he is also the author of one viral analysis showing interesting online behaviour on x (formerly twitter) related to the riots. thank you very much for talking to us, first of all tell us about you methody, what have you been looking at and why? 50 i methody, what have you been looking at and wh ? ., ., at and why? so i tend to download tweets from _ at and why? so i tend to download tweets from twitter _ at and why? so i tend to download tweets from twitter or _ at and why? so i tend to download tweets from twitter or x, - at and why? so i tend to

from the west midlands fire service who have confirmed that they are assessing the risk and liaisingd understand the exact nature of the incident before deployment. they do have two fire engines at the scene. they would not confirm whether the fire is ongoing or extinguished at this point in time for the staffordshire police have urged the public to stay away from the holiday in in tamworth. they describe what's going on as violent acts of thuggery. they say a large group of individuals are in the area and they've been throwing projectiles, smashing windows, starting fires and targeting police. some of the social media videos you can see people throwing bricks and smashing windows. you can actually see right police in the window frame of the hotel using their riot shields to stop people from gaining entry inside the hotel. staffordshire police also confirmed that one officer has been injured in the violence tonight in tamworth. they are trying to keep the public say. they have put a police helicopter in the air to scan the area and they are also using specialists drone surveillance f

investigation remains ongoing and they say there are partner agencies now involved with this west midlands fire service, ambulance service and west midlands police are all involved in this major incident with walsall council as they look to how these investigations go further and how they treat this sodium cyanide spillage . this sodium cyanide spillage. >> jack, do we know how the sodium cyanide got in the in the canalin sodium cyanide got in the in the canal in the first place? >> no. so this is still part of the investigation that we're still waiting to hear more detail from. we are expected to have some kind of update this lunchtime, as well as to directly whether there has been any information that can be shared publicly around the spillage. all we know that the spillage. all we know that the spillage came from the pleck area in walsall. that's as far and as much as we know. but those investigations do remain ongoing . ongoing. >> fascinating, scary. all right. >> that's jack carson. he'll be back with us later in the program when we have more to tell you about. >> yeah, absolutely. >> yeah, absol