Hello and welcome to News Hour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service

studios in Central London. I'm Tim Franks. As we were coming on air this time yesterday a picture of utter mayhem was unfurling on the streets of the Kenyan capital Nairobi today the human cost of that mayhem is being counted.

More than 20 people were killed during the protests against the government's

planned tax rises.

More than 150 are currently being treated for injuries,

many of whom were shot.

The police used live ammunition.

We had our correspondent attesting to that live on air yesterday.

There is some dispute as we'll hear at, as to at what point exactly the police did open fire whether it was before or after the Parliament complex had been breached.

We'll have our first interview with someone from the government in a moment, but first one of those demonstrating against the proposed tax rises which so many Kenyans say they simply can't afford on top of their already squeezed incomes.

Among the protesters in Nairobi yesterday was the British Kenyan activist Aouna Obama.

She's the half-sister of the former US President Barack Obama and runs a foundation in Kenya called

Saoutikoo for disadvantaged young people. She's been telling my news our

colleague Julian Marshall what she saw on the streets. The young people were being tear gas.

They were shooting them with rubber bullets and later on with live bullets.

So nobody was expecting to be shot at.

And we came out there in order to protest peacefully and to raise awareness

for the plight of young people and suddenly we had all these trucks and armed policemen throwing tear gas and throwing you know live

ammunition the young people were peaceful and in a way I feel sorry for the

police because they were just doing what they were told I guess,

you're following orders, but really there must be a human factor to following orders

and knowing what the right thing is to do.

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