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Speaker 1: Devin Gray is our UK correspondent this evening. Welcome back, Devin.

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Speaker 1: Hi there he yees. So unfortunately more gatherings planned for

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Speaker 1: this evening in the UK. Yeah, yeah, people I think

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Speaker 1: holding their breath a little bit about what is going

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Speaker 1: to happen, because there are claims up to thirty potentially

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Speaker 1: forty right wing far right gatherings are being planned tonight

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Speaker 1: and they are across the country and in some of

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Speaker 1: the major cities, but also some of the areas that

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Speaker 1: I think have been potentially very very annoyed by the

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Speaker 1: housing of asylum seekers and those crossing the channel illegally

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Speaker 1: in hotels near them, So plenty of hotels being targeted

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Speaker 1: as well. The Prime Minister held is second Cobra or

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Speaker 1: emergency meeting with ministers and heads of staff and security

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Speaker 1: and police yesterday. He says communities will be safe and

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Speaker 1: announced more than four hundred arrests that have already been made.

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Speaker 1: One hundred people have been charged in connection with the disorder.

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Speaker 1: They're beginning to trick through the courts now and six

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Speaker 1: thousand public order officers are being mobilized to respond tonight

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Speaker 1: are times six thousands. They've also made five hundred extra

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Speaker 1: prison places available in order to ease the pressure on

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Speaker 1: the justice system here, but quite extraordinary and already riotally

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Speaker 1: standby forces setting up neighborhood policing patrols, teams of detectives,

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Speaker 1: drawing up on CCTV and body worn footage and using

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Speaker 1: facial recognition to try and pin down those who are responsible. Kevin,

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Speaker 1: what was the straight to the T shock about? Well,

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Speaker 1: of course we're not alone in this sudden veer two

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Speaker 1: getting violent about migration and asylum in Ireland. Over the

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Speaker 1: last few weeks they've had an ongoing pressure there where

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Speaker 1: so many migrants have arrived, some incidentally coming from the

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Speaker 1: UK and getting into Ireland over the land border with

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Speaker 1: Northern Ireland, and plenty of people they're just saying, can't

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Speaker 1: get hospital, can't get housing, can't get anything, and pressure

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Speaker 1: preferences being given to migrants. In this particular instance, the

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Speaker 1: TA shock, as he's called, the Irish Prime Minister Simon

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Speaker 1: Harris and his wife have had a threat against them.

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Speaker 1: It's thought there was a mention of knives on an

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Speaker 1: Instagram post about them, and he says he won't be

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Speaker 1: deterred from doing his job. But actually it comes just

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Speaker 1: a couple of days after a van was rammed into

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Speaker 1: the gates of his department, a big sort of rather

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Speaker 1: grand building with big raught iron gates. Yeah, van rammed

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Speaker 1: into those. And it was six weeks since a hoax

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Speaker 1: bond threat was made at Simon Harris's family home in

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Speaker 1: County Wicklow. Also, so many high profile Irish politicians have

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Speaker 1: had crowds of people gathering outside their home shanting things

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Speaker 1: and all this really predominantly carrying anti immigration banners and

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Speaker 1: wearing masks. As I said, it's not just the weather,

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Speaker 1: the son weather that's hot here. It is also the

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Speaker 1: tension and the heat that's brought about with the asylum process. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: At that Polish guy who punched in Mark's Prime minister

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Speaker 1: aarently can't remember doing it, Kenny, no, no, So you

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Speaker 1: may remember that the Prime Minister of Denmark, Meta Frederickson,

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Speaker 1: suffered minor neck and shoulder injuries. She was walking out

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Speaker 1: and about and she was simply punched by a man

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Speaker 1: is her or the security detailer there but didn't manage

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Speaker 1: to prevent the act because it sort of came out

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Speaker 1: of the blue. And the suspect, who can't be named

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Speaker 1: for legal reasons, but we've been believed to be a

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Speaker 1: Polish man has gone on trial in Copenhagen, the Danish capital,

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Speaker 1: charge with violence against a public servant and several counts

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Speaker 1: of indecent exposure and fraud relating to other incidents. Now,

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Speaker 1: what he's saying is that he remembers he was having

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Speaker 1: a bad day, he remembers approaching the prime minister, but

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Speaker 1: then doesn't remember ending until being effectively arrested. And so yeah,

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Speaker 1: he can't remember rending. We'll wait to see where this

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Speaker 1: goes with the court. But interestingly made Frederickson, the Prime Minister,

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Speaker 1: won't have to give evidence, which probably spares quite some

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Speaker 1: political embarrassment. Yeah, fair enough, I Gevin, thank you so much,

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Speaker 1: really appreciate it. Gavin Gray, UK correspondent gees, you'd think

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Speaker 1: you'd remember punching the Danish prime minister, or maybe it's

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