This is the moment a masked man was caught making a sinister gesture towards migrants trapped inside a hotel as it came under attack in Rotherham.

The footage was captured by a migrant inside the Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham which thugs attempted to torch on Sunday afternoon.

A man has pleaded guilty to violent disorder after unrest in Sunderland on Friday.

Josh Kellett, 29, of Southcroft, Washington, admitted the offence at South Tyneside Magistrates Court on Monday.

The court heard he was seen on footage throwing a stone towards police officers while part of a large group.

He was wearing a balaclava but was identified by his ‘distinctive tattoos,’ it was said.

Kellett was remanded in custody until his sentencing at crown court on September 2, after a district judge said his case was ‘too serious for this court’.

Another man accused of violent disorder has been remanded in custody with a crown court date set for September 2.

Clinton Morrison, 31, of Saint Barnabas Way, Sunderland, did not indicate a plea when he appeared at South Tyneside Magistrates Court on Monday.

Oliver Coppard, the mayor of South Yorkshire, has told reporters police officers suffered ‘significant injuries’ including fractures during yesterday’s riot at a hotel housing asylum seekers.

Speaking at the scene, he said:

The police officers on the line here were the bravest of the brave.

There were 10 police officers injured, a police horse was injured, those people were facing bricks and mortar being thrown at them by people intent on violence.

They did the bravest of jobs yesterday standing between a far-right hate-mob and those people in the hotel.

Mr Coppard confirmed that everyone living in the hotel has now been relocated.

Residents in Middlesbrough have come together this morning to help clear up the town after riots broke out on Sunday afternoon.

Volunteers in Teesside have been busy fixing windows and sweeping the roads clear of debris.

Cleveland Police said 43 people have so far been held in connection with the disturbances

BBC Radio 4’s Today programme has shared its interview with Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, earlier as the Government look to respond to weekend rioting.

Ms Cooper said some rioters who had planned holidays this week will likely spend time in prison cells instead.

Chief of the Defence Staff Admiral Sir Tony Radakin (right) has arrived at Downing Street where Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is chairing a meeting of the Government’s emergency Cobra committee following ongoing unrest across parts of the country.

Sir Keir called the meeting yesterday following a weekend of violence across towns and cities.

A gang of far-right thugs sparked terror at a Holiday Inn in Rotherham yesterday after forcing their way inside, marauding through corridors looking for asylum seekers to attack and setting fire to the building while more than 100 people were inside.

Hundreds of rioters gathered outside the hotel before attacking police, smashing their way inside and terrifying the 130 vulnerable asylum seekers inside.

At least one guest in the hotel was physically attacked and repeatedly punched until police were able to clear the floor, the Times reports.

Now those staying there have revealed they are ‘too scared to leave’ out of fear for their safety after a sixth day of escalating violence around the UK.

Disturbing videos taken by those inside the hotel show masked men shouting abuse and threatening to slit asylum seekers’ throats, before setting the hotel alight.

Ed Balls said he had ‘genuine questions’ for his wife, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, as he interviewed her on live television over the UK riots.

The Good Morning Britain host quizzed Ms Cooper on the scenes of violent disorder around the country in the wake of the killing of three young girls in Southport.

After his co-host Kate Garraway kicked off the interview, Balls said:

Can I ask, because we’ve talked about this a few times in the last few days, like many of our viewers will have done at home since those terrible killings in Southport, there have been identifiable individuals on social media, who have been inciting not just riots but violence.

They’ve been using racist language. They’ve been using falsehoods about what happened in Southport.

This is this is happening on the social media platforms. What can be done, what should be done now by the social media companies and the police and the Government to stop this happening, because it’s been happening for a week?

Balls also questioned Cooper on whether there has been a ‘two-tier approach’ to policing, and if police have been ‘softer and more cautious’ when policing the Gaza demonstrations, compared to a ‘tougher’ approach over the last week.

Balls and Cooper have been married for more than 25 years, and have three children together.

Tory leadership contender James Cleverly today condemned the Government’s ‘slow’ response to widespread rioting on Britain’s streets.

The shadow home secretary questioned why it had taken nearly a week for Sir Keir Starmer to call an emergency Cobra meeting in response to the violence.

He claimed ministers ‘should and could have been quicker’ in taking action, and demanded they be ‘more agile, more decisive’.

Downing Street is expected to hold an emergency Cobra meeting today after the Prime Minister last night issued a fresh blast at ‘far-right thuggery’.

It came after further violence on Sunday, with arrests made in Rotherham and Middlesbrough, as hotels, houses, cars, a court and university were attacked.

Defence Secretary John Healey, who is an MP in South Yorkshire, arrived at the scene of a clear-up in Rotherham to talk to residents about the damage done to the town during Sunday’s riot.

This was an estate yesterday that was wracked with shock and fear.

Many people in this estate here got holed up in their own homes or felt that they had to get their families out.

So, fear for the local residents. Fear for those staff in this hotel and the residents who saw the windows put through and people outside trying the set fire to this hotel knowing there were people inside.

Asked, as Defence Secretary, whether he had an plans to mobilise the Army, Mr Healey said:

No. It’s the police’s job, their responsibility and they’ve got the powers to lead on disorder like this.

Four men have been charged by police investigating violence and disorder which followed an anti-immigration protest in Belfast on Saturday.

The charges come as Stormont’s Justice Minister, Naomi Long, hit out at the radicalisation of people online ‘through disinformation and outright lies’.

Several businesses were attacked following violence which erupted in the city after anti-immigration protests on Saturday. Business owners have said the Islamic community was deliberately targeted.

Four men will appear in Belfast Magistrates’ Court on Monday on charges linked to the violence.

• A 53-year-old has been charged with resisting police, three counts of assault on police and disorderly behaviour.
• A 46-year-old man has been charged with disorderly behaviour and resisting police.
• A 38-year-old has been charged with possession of an offensive weapon with intent to commit an indictable offence, possession of fireworks without a licence, and riotous behaviour. He also faces the charge of disorderly behaviour.
• A 34-year-old has been charged with taking part in an unnotified public procession.

A country has issued the first travel warning to its citizens urging them to stay away from parts of the UK amid the ongoing violent riots.

The country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has told its nationals to ‘remain vigilant’ as it reassures them it is ‘closely monitoring’ the unrest – which have led to over 100 arrests

Far-right protests have rocked Britain after misinformation about the identity of a man arrested for the murder of three girls in Southport encouraged yobs to loot from shops, attack police officers and target Mosques with projectiles

On Sunday, violent protesters clad in balaclavas and draped in St George’s flags have clashed with officers trying to protect the Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. while setting bins and furniture alight.

This is the moment an angry far-right mob stormed into a hotel housing migrants and asylum seekers, hurling chairs and spraying fire extinguishers at riot police, while setting bins, a generator and furniture alight.

Around 700 violent anti-immigration protesters clad in balaclavas and draped in St George’s flags clashed with officers trying to protect the Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham, South Yorkshire since around 2pm on Sunday.

At least 10 officers have been injured in the chaos outside the hotel on the northern outskirts of the post-industrial town. One was left unconscious following a head injury, another suffered a suspected fractured elbow and other suspected broken bones.

Local people joined council workers to clear up around the Holiday Inn Express hotel in Manvers, near Rotherham in South Yorkshire, on Monday morning.

Police officers stood guard outside the main entrance and at other locations around the building as teams swept up glass from the numerous broken windows at the front of the hotel.

The fire door where rioters appeared to have got into the four-storey building was boarded up but with the melted remains of a bin still in place in front.

Further damage was visible around the rear of the property where fences were ripped down, doors kicked in and more windows smashed.

The Government is not recalling Parliament ‘right now’, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has said.

Asked whether MPs will be recalled, she told LBC radio:

That’s not what we’re doing right now. What we’re doing right now is keeping in close contact with MPs.

It comes as Nigel Farage and Dame Priti Patel both urged for MPs to return to the Commons in the wake of the riots.

James Cleverly has claimed the Government should have been quicker in its response to riots taking place across England.

The shadow home secretary said he would have called a Cobra meeting ‘much earlier’ and said the Government should be ‘more agile and decisive’.

These are the actions of people who are clearly responding to disinformation online, but are obviously motivated by racism. We’ve seen people with swastika tattoos and giving the Nazi salute, attacking people that have had no link at all with the terrible instance that we saw in Southport last week.

And it is absolutely right that the Government is saying that they will take firm action – they should and could have been quicker. I think it’s worrying that it’s only today that Cobra is going to meet. It was only yesterday afternoon that we found out the Prime Minister was going to cancel his holiday.

Mr Cleverly described the rioters as a ‘group of extreme people’ who are ‘not reflective of the country’.

Tommy Robinson has been stoking far-right race riots across Britain from the safety of a sun lounger at a five-star hotel in Cyprus, MailOnline can reveal.

The former English Defence League leader has posted a constant stream of inflammatory social media posts from his foreign bolthole while on holiday with family and friends.

Robinson, 41, who had a UK arrest warrant issued against him last Monday after he skipped a court appearance had tried to keep his holiday location a secret.

While his supporters have rioted in recent days across the UK, he failed to mention his location in a series of video rants posted to his 800,000 followers on X, formerly Twitter.

But MailOnline can now reveal that he has been staying at an all-inclusive resort on the outskirts of Ayia Napa, Cyprus.

Violent disorder took place across Britain last week amid fears more trouble could follow on the streets.

Here’s a map showing where rioting has broken out since Friday, although disturbances stretch back even further to Tuesday when tensions boiled over in Southport following a vigil for three girls killed in a knife attack last Monday.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has been on the media round for the Government this morning and has told BBC Radio 4 that the courts are on ‘stand-by’ to ensure ‘swift justice’.

She told the Today programme:

We have made sure that the courts are on stand-by. We’ve made sure that there are additional prosecutors in place this weekend, and hundreds of arrests have already taken place. So we do expect swift justice to take place.

Asked if the Army would be called upon, Ms Cooper said:

So, the police have the expertise and also the powers in terms of dealing with public order and crime, because this is crime.

There are also significant additional numbers of public order-trained police, who were not deployed this weekend, so there are considerable additional policing resources that forces can call upon.

Pressed on whether the Government will take action against Tommy Robinson, who has been accused of stoking tensions from afar, Ms Cooper said: ‘If it’s a crime offline, it’s a crime online.’

Far-right mobs in Middlesbrough stopped people to ask them if they are ‘white and English’ before letting them through as vile riots continue to sweep the nation.

Unsettling video shows thugs standing at a crossroads and confronting drivers in cars as they tried to pass.

‘Are you English? Are you white?’ one could be heard shouting at a car trying to cross the intersection where hundreds marched with anti-immigration groups earlier today.

Two cars narrowly avoided colliding as they sped away from the mob, prompting one of the agitators to whine he had ‘nearly been run over’ and calling out ‘where’s your police?’

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Nothing quite like this has ever happened in this country before.

There have been previous race riots, to be sure. In 1958, white youths attacked West Indian homes in Notting Hill in London.

In 2001, there were racial disturbances in several northern towns and cities. The most serious was in Bradford after white thugs attacked Asian businesses. Some 300 police were injured, and as many people arrested.

That violence in Bradford was more explosive than anything we have seen in the past week in one place. What is probably unprecedented is the range of the present racial unrest – from Sunderland in the North-East to Hull on the East coast to Bristol in the West, and across the Irish Sea to Belfast.

This is alarming. It’s also a challenge for a Government that assumed power a month ago today. Has Sir Keir Starmer risen to the occasion? I’m afraid not.

Parliament should be recalled to deal with the outbreak of rioting in the UK, Dame Priti Patel has said.

The former home secretary, who is standing to become the new leader of the Conservative Party, told Times Radio:

What we are seeing across the country right now is just extraordinary criminality.

At the end of the day, crime and criminality is the responsibility of those who are perpetrating this and we now need to, in my view, as politicians, get some kind of grip of this, which is why I am calling for the recall of Parliament right now so that we can actually discuss these issues in a similar way…back in 2011 those discussions took place and actually we put our arm around the communities that were affected at the time.

And I think that’s really what we should be doing right now.

Riots and disorder in England and Northern Wales this week have seen police cars set on fire, shops broken into and pedestrians attacked – with more violence set to come this week.

Multiple towns and cities have seen clashes between anti-immigration demonstrators and counter-protesters, with many police officers attacked and injured.

The string of violent incidents over the past few days began on Tuesday in Southport, after three little girls were killed in a knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class.

Arrests have been made across the country, with police warning of more to come once CCTV, social media and body-worn camera footage has been scoured.

There was violence on Saturday in towns and cities such as Hull, Liverpool, Stoke-on-Trent, Nottingham, Bristol, Manchester, Blackpool and Belfast, which saw several police officers injured. It followed a riot in Sunderland on Friday evening.

Here is a snapshot of the riots that broke out across Britain yesterday with police called to respond to several incidents.

Let’s take a look at these pictures taken yesterday:

Drone views shows a far-right mob gathering outside a hotel in Rotherham

A police dog attacks a protester in Rotherham

Police officers respond as far-right activists hold a demonstration in Middlesbrough

Police officers restrain a protester during a ‘Enough is Enough’ demonstration called by far-right activists in Weymouth

A second asylum hotel in Tamworth was also targeted with ‘Get out England’ graffiti daubed on the building

There is no excuse for the “thuggery” and “disgraceful criminal behaviour” taking place across England, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said.

Speaking to BBC Breakfast, she said:

We saw disgraceful scenes of criminal violence and thuggery in some of our towns and cities.

There is no excuse for that kind of behaviour, throwing bricks at police officers, the targeting of mosques, the looting of shops.

It was total disgraceful criminal behaviour, and we should be clear, there will be a reckoning those criminals will pay the price. There have already been hundreds of arrests.

Social media companies need to take some responsibility, we also need to make sure that criminal activity online is being pursued, and I think it’s really important that none of us forget this minority of thugs do not speak for Britain.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has today urged for Parliament to be recalled for a ‘honest debate’ about riots in towns and cities.

Mr Farage also suggested the Army could be drafted in to help quell the unrest.

Here’s his tweet posted in the last hour:

Cobra meetings are named after Cabinet Office Briefing Room A on Whitehall and are held to provide an emergency response to an unfolding crisis.

It will likely see ministers, civil servants, police officers and intelligence officials round the table to discuss what response is needed to more violence on the streets.

It comes after Sir Keir Starmer met with police chiefs in Downing Street on Thursday while senior ministers convened on Saturday.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer vowed rioters would ‘regret’ engaging in ‘far-right thuggery’ and promised those involved in unrest would ‘face the full force of the law’ as he addressed the nation on Sunday.

Sir Keir made his second national address on the unrest after he spoke to police chiefs on Thursday following violence in the wake of the Southport knife attack.

In his message to rioters yesterday, the Prime Minister said: ‘I guarantee you will regret taking part in this disorder, whether directly or those whipping up this action online and then running away themselves.’

Before we look at the day ahead, let’s just recap what happened yesterday as violence erupted in towns and cities as far-right mobs gathered up and down the country

Let’s remind ourselves of some of the flashpoints where riots broke out as shops were looted and passers-by attacked:

• In Rotherham, at least 10 police officers were injured on Sunday as rioters smashed windows of a Holiday Inn Express where asylum seekers were being housed
• A second hotel was attacked in Tamworth where hundreds of masked thugs threw a burning bush inside a side entrance and ‘Get out England’ was daubed on the side of the building
• In Middlesbrough, far-right mobs stopped drivers in their cars to ask them if they are ‘white and English’ before letting them through
• Skirmishes broke out in Bolton and Weymouth as clashes broke out between opposing groups with shouts of ‘Nazis go home’ and ‘Tommy Robinson’ heard
• In Manchester, police issued a Section 60AA order requiring people to ‘remove face coverings used to disguise or conceal their appearance’

The violence followed similar scenes of unrest in Southport, Belfast, Hartlepool, Hull, Liverpool, Stoke-on-Trent, Nottingham, Sunderland and elsewhere last week.

Rioters will face a ‘reckoning’ after far-right yobs across the country torched hotels, attacked police and brought chaos to the streets of Britain, the Home Secretary warned.

Yvette Cooper slammed actions taken by rioters as ‘disgraceful thuggery’, after more than 420 people were arrested, as she warned ‘many more will follow’ as authorities scour CCTV footage to identify all those involved.

Clashes, sparked by the murder of three little girls in Southport last Monday, deteriorated further yesterday when a second migrant hotel was set ablaze in Tamworth, while hundreds cheered and clinked beers outside.

While in Middlesbrough the protestors were filmed stopping traffic to interrogate the passengers to check they are ‘white and English’.

Keir Starmer also waded in to warn far-Right rioters ‘you’ll regret taking part’ as he tried to stamp his authority over the first major test of his Premiership.

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Sir Keir Starmer will today hold an emergency Cobra meeting inside Downing Street after he vowed to bring thugs to justice in an address to the nation on Sunday.

Two hotels housing asylum seekers were attacked over the weekend in Rotherham and Tamworth while police responded to unrest in Middlesbrough, Bolton, Hull and Weymouth.

We will bring you the latest news and reaction throughout the day as the Prime Minister takes on what he described as ‘far-right thuggery’ on the streets of Britain.