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Violent clashes at a demonstration that saw police attacked and vehicles set alight have been condemned as “shameful” and “unacceptable”.
Protesters clashed with officers as thousands turned out for the Kill the Bill march in Bristol on Sunday. Twenty officers were injured, two seriously – one with a punctured lung. Seven people have been arrested.
A reporter with the BBC Burmese service has been detained in Myanmar as clashes continue between security forces and protesters.
Aung Thura was taken away by men in plain clothes while reporting outside a court in the capital, Nay Pyi Taw. The BBC said in a statement that it was extremely concerned and called on the authorities to help locate him.
Four women have been treated for stab wounds after an incident in north Belfast early on Wednesday.
Police received a report just after 02:00 GMT that a woman had been stabbed and a man attacked in the York Street area. When officers arrived, four women reported injuries as a result of being stabbed. Two of the women, one in her teens and the other in her 20s, remain in hospital.
The UK is pledging to shift its focus towards countries such as India, Japan and Australia, after a year-long review of its foreign policy.
The government said it would boost alliances in the Indo-Pacific region, describing it as “increasingly the geopolitical centre of the world”. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the UK would work with China on issues such as climate change. And he warned against adopting a “Cold-War mentality” with the country.
The review, which Prime Minister Boris Johnson will set out later in the House of Commons, also paves the way for an increase in nuclear warheads.
Labour says the strategy will leave the UK “woefully unprepared”.
Women must feel their complaints about violence are “properly heard”, the PM has said, after concern about how a vigil for Sarah Everard was policed.
Boris Johnson said footage of officers forcibly removing a number of women from the event was “distressing”. He added it was “fundamental” that women felt listened to and he was “going to make sure that happens”.
Asked if he still had confidence in Met Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick, Mr Johnson said: “Yes I do.” “The reality is that the country is united still in shock and grief about what happened to Sarah Everard and we must do everything we can to find the answers,” Mr Johnson said. “I think the fundamental issue that we have to address as a country, and as a society and as a government is that … women in particular must feel that when they make serious complaints about violence, about assault, that they are properly heard. “We are going to make sure that that happens.”