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Aerial footage from County Antrim shows a large crowd continuing to throw objects at police.

The group have gathered close to the Sandyknowes roundabout, about seven miles from Belfast city centre.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) says crowds are throwing “missiles” at officers who are using water cannons in an attempt to maintain public order.

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The crowd appeared to be gathering around a bin which was set on fire.

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The PSNI says it is continuing to monitor the situation.

Ita Dungan
Reporting from Sandyknowes roundabout

Earlier, having spent about an hour filming at the Sandyknowes roundabout where a large crowd clashed with police, our team was making our way back to our car a group of masked men began to move towards us.

One of the group pointed at our camera and another shouted at a member of our team saying we should not be filming.

We walked about ten metres to our car and as we closed the doors, a large stone smashed through the back window, shattering glass across the back seat, and we quickly drove off.

Footage from Sandyknowes roundabout, an area north west of Belfast, shows people damaging property and throwing objects toward police officers.

In an update to our reporting today, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has clarified that the victim of Monday's knife attack was Stephen Ogilvie, not 'Ogilvy' as previously indicated.

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Here's everything you need to know about what's been happening tonight:

• About 200 people gathered at Sandyknowes, just outside Belfast, where there have been clashes with police
• People threw bricks and objects at a line of PSNI Land Rovers, while a water cannon was deployed to keep people at bay
• There have been protests elsewhere but they have been peaceful
• About 100 people gathered at housing near Ulster University in Coleraine, before dispersing
• There was also a protest at Stormont with about 140 people in attendance - referring to the low turnout, one attendee described the event as "a scam"
• Things are also quiet at the moment on the Newtownards Road, where much trouble flared on Tuesday night

Dan Johnson
Reporting from Newtownabbey

We're just beneath the helicopter and just behind the water cannon which the police are using to try to drive back the crowd.

We've seen the crowd throwing bricks and rocks at the lines of police officers. There have been some bottles and stones that have come over.

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That's why the line of police officers has been advancing towards the crowd, trying to drive them back - and more reinforcements are arriving.

They've managed to push the crowd around the road and back into another community.

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You can see on the road the sort of debris that's been used to attack the police officers by the people making up this crowd this evening - they've been pulling bits of people's walls apart to give them debris to throw at police.

We've seen a much heavier police presence on the streets than we did last night. The message is firmer that the police are not going to tolerate any violence or disturbance and that's why the water cannon is out and in use.

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There's another water cannon just standing by at the other side of the road and another line of police Land Rovers and officers blocking the exit to the road.

Police are having some success, it looks like, in driving those people back but you can see there are some people still throwing bricks and rocks and bottles at the police.

Some fireworks are just going off here as well.

We're continuing to see images from the scene at Sandyknowes in Newtownabbey where water cannons are still being deployed as a some people repeatedly attempt to approach a line of police vehicles.

Some of the individuals also appear to be throwing objects towards the vehicles.

We're covering the scene live at the top of the page - or there's more from our reporter in the clip below.

Paddy Fee
Reporting from Belfast

A much quieter night on the lower Newtownards Road so far this evening compared to yesterday when a number of homes were set alight on nearby streets.

About 150 people, many of them wearing black, gathered at Freedom Corner as a significant policing presence looked on.

Just around the corner on McMaster Street two burnt out vehicles sit next to the road, a reminder of last night’s violence.

Police say there has been little trouble here and few arrests have been made, though some had occurred after some refused to remove their masks.

Many people are now beginning to drift away.

Dan Johnson
Reporting from Newtownabbey

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Here, it sounds like this group of people in Glengormley was actually trying to get to the other side of the motorway where there is a migrant hotel.

But the police have been able to stop this crowd reaching that hotel and causing any destruction there.

It has been a huge challenge for the police officers to keep this crowd contained, to keep them in an area where they can control what they're doing.

We've seen repeated barrages of rocks, stones, bits of wood the crowd have ripped up and torn apart.

You can see there's still something burning in the middle of the road.

While water cannon is being deployed at Sandyknowes outside the city, inside Belfast it has been a day of considerable disruption after the trouble that flared last night.

The potential for more violence led to the suspension of all buses and trains by early evening, the early closure of some schools and many businesses shutting up shop even before lunchtime.

This meant the usually busy city centre became extremely quiet by 5pm this evening.

For many people in Belfast who went about their usual business today, the disruption meant that even getting food in the city was more of a challenge.

That issue has now extended to home deliveries, with Deliveroo apparently suspending services across the city.

When requesting services to a Belfast postcode, the app says that "for the safety of our riders, we have paused deliveries in this area".

Aerial footage taken at Sandyknowes roundabout in Newtownabbey shows a water cannon being used to disperse the crowd.

People could be seen firing objects, possibly bricks, at police before retreating.

It also captured what appears to be the group adding to a growing pile of bricks.

Patrick Fee
BBC News NI

The protesters at Stormont have largely dispersed.

Some in attendance told the BBC they suspected that misinformation had been spread to try and defuse the protests.

One attendee, Paul Corry, says he believed this protest was "a scam", intended to pull protesters away from other sites.

“I think it’s just a total scam what happened today. The post was shared all over Facebook by many people, but look at the turnout - there’s nobody here.

"There’s no speakers, there’s no PA system, there’s nothing.

“I think somebody just made a poster up, and these are the consequences of it, people are turning up and it’s a total waste of time."

Patrick Fee
BBC News NI

About 140 protesters have gathered at Stormont estate.

After some confusion about the exact meeting point, most made the trek up the hill to Stormont’s Edward Carson memorial statue.

A fairly low-key demonstration so far, as small clusters of protesters continue to arrive.

One attendee, Kelly Ayre, tells BBC News NI it was the knife attack on Stephen Ogilvy that moved her to attend.

“Everybody’s absolutely gobsmacked. It was horrific what happened. We’re here as concerned parents. I would like to know who is in my area, who is in my country and living next door to me,” she says.

Ayre adds that last night’s violence distracted from that message.

“Now the whole focus is on that, ruining their own areas, putting people out of their homes who have lived here for many years,” she says.

“Innocent people are going be affected by this and that is the government’s fault.”

Eve Rosato
BBC News NI

More people have begun to gather in Coleraine where police are now blocking the road.

Numbers have grown in the past half an hour to well over 100 people and some of the crowd have been remonstrating with police about the HMOs and those living in them.

Police are appealing for calm but several people have been shouting things like: “Get them out”, “They are a risk to our community”, and “It ends tonight”.

An organiser is speaking to the crowd saying HMOs are not wanted in this area as people applaud.

Ita Dungan
BBC News NI

About 200 people have gathered at the Sandyknowes roundabout in Newtownabbey where a row of PSNI Land Rovers have blocked the road.

The roundabout sits about eight miles north west of Belfast city centre, close to the M2 motorway.

What appears to be a Department of Infrastructure street cleaner has been set alight.

A few people hurled objects at the police but heavy rain has meant some are leaving.

Eve Rosato
BBC News NI

Between 90 to 100 people have gathered at row of houses near Ulster University in Coleraine.

A social media post from Our Northern Ireland Voice called for people to protest at houses of multiple occupancy (HMOs) near the campus.

There are about 10 police officers present, and patrol cars are blocking the entrance to the housing.

Everything is peaceful so far, and there are families and children among those gathered.

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Tánaiste (Irish deputy PM) Simon Harris has described the events of Tuesday night as "beyond chilling".

"The idea that we had masked men on the streets of Northern Ireland, looking for people on the basis of their race or ethnicity, it's vigilante behaviour.

"I don't think any of us can fully comprehend the fear that that must have caused for so many innocent people and indeed so many children."

He told the Irish news outlet The Journal that, while there's a place in society for protest, what happened was "utter thuggery. Illegal, disgusting, despicable, racist thuggery".

Harris added that debating immigration policy is "a perfectly normal thing to do" in a democracy, but "what we saw last night was criminality and it was despicable".

Our correspondent Dan Johnson has been on the streets of Belfast following last night's disorder.

In the report above he explains the unrest seen last night started with groups of mostly masked young men blocking the road.

You can watch above to see how events unfolded.

There is a "perception" in some communities that immigrants are "entitled to everything when they arrive" and that they receive certain benefits in preference to local residents, a Belfast community worker has said.

Emma Shaw is the executive director of the Phoenix Education Centre which works to tackle educational underachievement in the east of the city.

She took part in a discussion on the BBC's Evening Extra programme about why hundreds of people in the area got involved in violence protests on Tuesday.

"I'm not condoning anybody's behaviour, but I'm what I am saying is we need to understand the context as to why it happens," she said.

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Shaw explained perceptions of immigrants had "gathered momentum over time", such as being given access to benefits, social housing and job opportunities "that young people from here don't have".

"Like others, I would appeal for calm and use their legal right to protest in a safe way," she said, but added there needs to be a space for conversations about "the struggles with immigration".

"Just because communities maybe aren't always expressing their frustration in the right way doesn't not mean that their concerns are not valid," she said.

"I'm not justifying any of the violence, I'm not justifying going in and pulling people out of their houses. What I am saying is we need to have a conversation with people to articulate what are the challenges."

Lili Busby
BBC News NI

As we move into the evening, we're keeping an eye out for any sign of people gathering onto streets across Northern Ireland.

It's quiet in several areas where it's thought people could gather, including Stormont, where the Northern Ireland Assembly sits.

At Belfast City Hall, there was a handful of protesters but they have since dispersed to move elsewhere.

Our reporters are keeping an eye out and we'll update you with all the latest.