Italy hit by new cost of living protests

Let's get more on that now with our correspondent Seema Gupta standing by for us. Seema, so what's the scene like in Rome where you are and other cities there in Italy at the moment? Well, there's tight security in piazzas of cities throughout the country. Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence and Naples and of course here in Rome as well, the capital. Now, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, after the violence that we saw last weekend in Milan, stepped up security and increased some of the penalties that can be faced by anyone involved in those protests in violent ways, including minors. Now, she's deployed 500 army troops as well to join the thousands of police that are involved in security in that city, army vehicles, drone surveillance, as well as online monitoring with the security officials patrolling train stations as well. Here in Rome, 1,500 police officers deployed. Luxury shopping streets have been on lockdown with shops boarded up here, but also in Florence and in Milan. The Circus Maximus and Piazza del Popolo, if you're familiar with Rome, these areas seeing tighter security. So far, there have been some peaceful protests. Italian far-right student groups taking to a march. And in central Rome, an anti-war demonstration as well. Now, the Interior Minister, Matteo Piantedosi, saying this is a complicated day, but we are ready. So far here in Rome, we understand over 100 people have been identified with some 60 or so taken to the police station because of concerns that they may be thinking of doing some violent activity in the protests. And we also understand from reports that the leader of that movement you mentioned, the 17th October movement, Now, this movement, named after the day of the violent protest last weekend, that called for more demonstrations today, as well as a manifesto of why they are demonstrating, the leader of this, the alleged leader, has been taken in and accused of incitement to commit a crime. He's supposed to be a 30-year-old man of Moroccan origin. So that's what we know so far. There have been reports of some tensions in Turin and, of course, concerns about potential repeat of violence in the fashion and financial capital, Milan. Seema, thank you so much for bringing us those updates from Rome. Seema Gupta for us there.