Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service,
coming to you live from London with me, John Donison.
And we're going to start the programme in the United States.
President Trump's decision to deploy 2,000 soldiers to Los Angeles to deal with protests from the Hispanic community has not gone down well with the California state governor.
Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, described the move as inflammatory.
But speaking to CBS News, Bill Azali,
attorney for the Central District of California,
said the federal government had no choice.
You have these agitators who are highly organized, highly coordinated,
and they're coming out and they're impeding our investigations.
They're assaulting officers.
They're throwing Molotov cocktails.
They're throwing rocks.
They're injuring our officers.
It is out of control.
And since the state of California, the governor can't control his state,
then yes, the federal government is going to step in.
The National Guard's on its way and we will have peace and order in Los Angeles.
Well,
the protests started earlier this week when immigration officers detained a number of unauthorized migrants.