The governor of California has said that President Trump is “hoping for chaos” by deploying National Guard forces in Los Angeles. Gavin Newsom condemned the move as “purposefully inflammatory”. It comes after three days of protests against immigration raids in the city.

The Los Angeles Police Department have said the protests are largely peaceful and the LA authorities said they could handle the situation.

National Guard troops have been stationed outside the Metropolitan detention centre, one of several sites that have seen confrontations involving hundreds of demonstrators and federal law enforcement officials.

It’s the first time a US president has deployed the National Guard in the face of civil unrest since the LA riots in 1992. President Trump said: “We’ll send whatever we need to make sure there’s law and order.”

However Mr Trump’s Democrat opponents have said the administration’s use of masked immigration officers with military gear to arrest civilians in restaurants and shops has been inflammatory and the president’s eagerness to deploy trained soldiers was unwarranted.

Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Jon Sudworth in Los Angeles.

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Several people have been killed in a shooting at a secondary school in the Austrian city of Graz, police have said.
 
Students and teachers are believed to be among the casualties after gunshots at the Dreierschützengasse high school.
 
Local media report that at least nine people have been killed, but the number of fatalities has not been confirmed by officials yet.
 
A police spokesman told the public broadcaster ORF the suspected gunman is believed to have killed himself.
 
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US President Donald Trump has ordered 2,000 National Guardsmen to Los Angeles to deal with unrest over raids on undocumented migrants.

Tear gas was used to disperse crowds as residents of the predominantly hispanic Paramount district clashed with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

As many as 118 arrests were made in LA this week as a result of ICE operations, including 44 on Friday, sparking two days of protests.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has condemned the raids as “cruel”.

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Thousands of people in Austria have held a candlelight vigil for the victims of a school shooting, in which 10 people were killed and a further 12 injured.

Police said the 21-year-old suspect, a former student, took his own life in a school bathroom shortly after the gun attack in Graz on Tuesday, the deadliest in the country’s recent history.

In a statement on Wednesday, police said they found a “farewell letter” and a non-functional pipe bomb during a search of the suspect’s home.

Authorities have not confirmed the gunman’s motive.

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