Afternoon briefing Wednesday 10th June

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0:43He's been named as Stephen Ogilvie. Hadi Al-Adid, a 30-year-old Sudanese man, has appeared at court, charged with Mr Ogilvie's attempted murder on Monday evening. He's also charged with threatening an NHS radiographer earlier that day and with possession of a knife. Police in Belfast say they responded to more than 60 incidents last night. People were forced from their homes after multiple properties and vehicles were set alight. Jamie Corey's house has been destroyed after a car was on fire nearby. He saw it take place. He says I was standing there watching it. And that's what I told him before they lit the fire.

1:17He says it's my house here. I'm sure it didn't care anyway, did they? What's your message to the people who have wrecked your property? They're one of their own. One of their own. I understand they're all angry and all that, but I've just lost a home. Jim Allister from the traditional Unionist voice party, as told Times Radio, the demonstrations did not all get out of hand. In my area, for example, we had absolutely peaceful protests in the Northampton constituency. No violence, but of course the violence in Belfast takes away from that. And people were on the street legitimately and peacefully because they've reached the end of their tether as to the unhindered, unfettered, taking over of some areas by an uncontrolled migration.

2:03Cabinet Office Minister Anna Turley has told Times Radio if she condemns what happened. Peaceful protest is fine, but that is not what we are seeing on the streets at the moment. What this is doing is creating more victims, creating more dissatisfaction, more fear. It is dividing communities and innocent people are being caught up in something that has nothing to do with them. And I would urge people to continue to just stay calm and to let the justice system take its course. But Chancellor Rachel Reeves has suggested there might need to be tax rises to help fund defence. Sir Kirstam is expected to announce a£13.5 billion increase in defence spending this week, but defence chiefs want considerably more than that.

2:44Retired Army officer Major General Tim Cross has told Times Radio the politicians are simply not up to the job. If I'm brutally honest, I just think the Prime Minister and others are out of their depth when it comes to this. I don't think they understand defence. I don't think they really want to get to grips with the difficult choices that need to be made. And they are difficult choices. Taking salami slices from every other department to try and produce some sort of fund is not the way to approach this. I mean, this takes leadership. And the NHS is going to give men with prostate cancer something called mega beam radiotherapy, which cuts the number of treatments from 20 right down to five.

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