Amanda Ferguson

This morning I was speaking to the SDLP leader,

Claire Hannah, and she said that overnight masked men strutted around parts of Belfast attacking homes based on the colour of occupants' skin, and she described it as a race-based pogrom.

I also spoke to the Alliance Party leader and Justice Minister, Naomi Long, who started by paying tribute

to the emergency services and the bravery and courage that they showed.

She said that last night was a disgrace in terms of what happened, that she recognises that people are hugely moved and disturbed by events on Monday night, the brutal attack was frightening and so on.

But you said that there are people, bad faith actors, who have no interest or knowledge of Belfast and may never have even been here before, are weaponising fears that exist and attacking people on the basis of their skin colour and that that's racism.

Yes, of course, the emergency services will be on high alert for any further street disorder that might happen.

There has been an enhanced police presence since the incident at the start of the week.

There's a man due in court today in connection with that.

The victim of that attack is still in hospital with serious injuries to his eyes and eyes.

and head and neck and so on.

But the amount of armed Land Rovers that I can see and police armoured vehicles and soft-skinned vehicles that you can see everywhere and across all parts of Northern Ireland highlight how tense and how difficult the scenario is in this part of the world at the moment.

And I think the Chief Constable has described what has happened as

as sort of acts of self-harm.

We know from speaking to some of our elected reps that people who are not white essentially are in fear for their lives, for their homes, for the safety of their family and so on.

And there really is a sense that far-right actors from across this island, from Britain, mainly from England and also in the US and some well-known people

or making mischief that is having devastating consequences.

Obviously, there is individual responsibility for anybody who would be engaged in street disorder and violence, but there are far-right agitators who are whipping up trouble in communities that they know nothing about.

Yeah, it'll be later today around 10 o'clock or from some point from 10 o'clock onwards that we'll have the first sort of hearing in Belfast Magistrates' Court.

There is a man due to appear in connection with attempted murder charges with...