Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service coming to 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 Azale, 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 guards on its way, and we will have

peace and order in Los Angeles. While the protests started earlier this week, when immigration

officers detained a number of unauthorized migrants, there have been some clashes with the LA police.

Trump, the administration, the Border Patrol, ICE, they know, now they know that they cannot

go to anywhere in this country where our people are and try to kidnap our workers, our people,

and they can't do that without an organized and fierce resistance.

We're just here living, working.

They stopped at Home Depot where they know that people are undocumented.

So us as a community have came here to try to make peace

so that they don't make families separate one another.

It's right to rebel.

I see it's very disturbing. You know, you're separating people from their kids, family.

Younger kids don't understand what's going on, seeing this going on. So it's just, it's very disturbing.

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