Far-right Trump supporters, egged on by a speech from the President repeating claims of election fraud, have stormed the US Capitol, forcing police to barricade doors to the Senate and House of Representatives and keep protesters at bay at gunpoint as Congress met to certify president-elect Joe Biden’s win.
Hong Kong police have fired water cannon and tear gas and arrested more than 300 people as protesters took to the streets in defiance of sweeping security legislation introduced by China that critics say is aimed at snuffing out dissent.
South Australian television reporter Ben Avery, one of two Australian journalists assaulted live on air overnight, says he felt like he and his camera operator “had a target on our backs” – but insists the incidents aren’t representative of the London protests, part of a broader backlash sweeping the globe.
Three fired Minnesota police officers who were at the scene of George Floyd’s death have been charged with aiding and abetting a murder, and a fourth has had his charge upgraded to second-degree murder.