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Extraordinary scenes in London, as fires, riots and looting spread | :00:05. | :00:12. | |
across large parts of the capital. A massive blaze is burning in | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
Croydon in south London tonight as a furniture store was set alight. | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
The latest violence began this afternoon in Hackney in east London, | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
when police were attacked with rocks and missiles. It soon spread | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
south to Lewisham and Peckham, where shops and cars were set on | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
fire. And this was the scene in Birmingham tonight, as the violence | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
spread outside the capital for the first time since the trouble | :00:35. | :00:45. | |
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erupted on Saturday. Let me be absolutely clear - those | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
responsible for the violence and looting will be made to face the | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
consequences of their actions. Counting the cost in Tottenham in | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
north London, where it all began - businesses lost and homes destroyed. | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
Just could not believe it - our building was going up in flames. 10 | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
minutes longer in that building and we would have been dead. | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
And in the last hour, the Prime Minister has confirmed that he's | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
cutting short his holiday and is flying home to the UK. Also | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
tonight... Share prices across the world continue to fall despite | :01:17. | :01:25. | |
efforts from President Obama to calm fears about America's economy. | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
Markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
America. No matter what some agency may say, we have always been and | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
always will be a AAA country. Syria's President Assad stands firm | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
as his Arab neighbours call on him to stop killing his civilians And | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
how the economic downturn is taking its toll on Britain's summer music | :01:44. | :01:54. | |
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Good evening. Fires are burning across large parts of London | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
tonight as serious violence breaks out on the streets of the capital | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
for the third night in a row. The latest trouble started in Hackney | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
in the east of the city late this afternoon before spreading to | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
Lewisham, Peckham and now in the last hour to Croydon in south | :02:32. | :02:42. | |
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London. These are the latest pictures gender from Croydon. A | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
furniture store has been a blaze for at least an hour. And for the | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
first time since the trouble began on Saturday, violence has flared | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
outside the capital, in Birmingham. The Home Secretary, Theresa May, | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
has called the attacks "sheer criminality" and said those behind | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
it would be brought to justice. In the last hour it has been confirmed | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
that the Prime Minister, David Cameron, is cutting short his | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
holiday and flying home tonight. Our first report tonight is from | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
our home affairs correspondent, June Kelly. | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
The smoke is a signal of the mayhem in the distance. The death of one | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
mam has driven violence in neighbourhoods north and south of | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
the capital. In Hackney, the disturbances began in the early | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
evening. Police said they would have more officers on the streets | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
of London tonight, and here, they moved in in force. All around this | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
area, the cordons are going up. For the second night running, we have | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
got copycat acts of violence, just what the police feared, what | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
they're calling pure criminality. This group are looting a off- | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
licence, one of them carrying away a whole box of drink, the | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
livelihood of shopkeepers slowly being removed. Tonight, to begin a | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
of London, this was Croydon, a furniture store in flames. And this | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
was the view of one eye witness. They don't care, I have never seen | :04:06. | :04:13. | |
such disregard for human life. The fear they have put in people's | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
hearts, decent people, who have done nothing to anyone, the fear in | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
them... This area is miles from the shooting which triggered this | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
spiral of violence. Let's be absolutely clear, there is no | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
excuse for violence, no excuse for looting, no excuse for thuggery. | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
The police will deal with any emerging situations as they | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
consider best. But I am absolutely clear, there is no excuse for | :04:42. | :04:50. | |
looters or thuggery or violence on the streets. In Peckham, a clothes | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
store was being turned over as others looked on. A bus was burnt | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
out. Police were guarding a supermarket, but they could not | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
stop a pharmacy being attacked. From the country's most senior | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
police officer, an appeal for help in stopping the law-breaking. | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
We have a lot of police officers on duty, but I urge that parents start | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
contacting their children and asking where they are. There are | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
far too many spectators getting in the way of the police operations to | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
tackle criminal thuggery and burglary. I am employing that | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
people within those communities actually start clearing the streets | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
to enable my police officers to deal with the criminality which is | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
occurring in front of them. In a development which will alarm police | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
and politicians, tonight, the trouble moved outside London. This | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
was Birmingham, handles and looters out in the city centre. Social | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
media has played a massive part in the spread. Police have warned that | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
anyone inciting violence through social networking sides could face | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
prosecution. The technology company BlackBerry has said it will try to | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
assist the authorities in tracking down of the troublemakers. The | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
shooting by police last Thursday has become the trigger for a chain | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
of destruction. The sense of crisis has been underlined by the Prime | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
Minister's decision to cut short Well, the rioting began in | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
Tottenham in north London on Saturday after what was meant to be | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
a peaceful protest following the death of a local man who was shot | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
dead by police. Our special correspondent Alan Little has spent | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
the day there as residents and local traders count the cost of the | :06:33. | :06:41. | |
violence. Two days ago, this was someone's | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
home. 26 families lived above this shop. The building has teetered all | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
day on the verge of collapse. Tottenham can even now scarcely | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
believe what has happened. This lady lived here. She escaped with | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
her life but lost everything else. There was another neighbour trying | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
to get out of the building, in such a panic. And then we got outside | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
and then I saw the building, flames going up the building. It was just | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
black smoke billowing down from the corner of the high road. 10 minutes | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
longer in that building and we would have been dead. This man | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
opened his bar and restaurant only in December. He came to check it in | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
the early hours of Sunday and found looters ransacking it. One had a | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
knife. Terrified, he escaped through an upstairs window. | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
If they come under attack me here, I'm in danger... He climbed down a | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
drainpipe to get away. You could see him at this angle. He had a | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
knife. That's why I just went upstairs. Were you scared? I was | :07:55. | :08:02. | |
really scared. I was scared for my life at that time. The Deputy Prime | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
Minister came to Tottenham this afternoon to listen. The voices he | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
heard were polite, patient, eloquent, but angry. Can I ask you, | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
is this what is going to happen in England now, because of the cuts? | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
People's homes getting burned, and suddenly made homeless? No, I don't | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
suddenly made homeless? No, I don't think so. We left the flat as the | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
rioters were coming up the road, and the buildings were on fire, we | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
did not see one police person. fire engines could not get here | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
because the police were not there to protect them. This is the image | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
of London which has flashed around the world today, not what the city | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
wants less than a year before the Olympics. The police force in | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
London has two urgent questions to answer - what was the sequence of | :08:50. | :08:57. | |
events which led to the deaf of Mark Duggan, and how did events get | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
out of hand so quickly? Mark Duggan was shot dead by police on Thursday. | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
His family do not believe that he was armed or that he opened fire | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
first. On Saturday there was a small, peaceful demonstration. | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
Within hours, Tottenham was in flames. Tottenham is a poor borough, | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
but not the poorest. It has a history of tension between the | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
police and some parts of the community. But no-one here now | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
believes that the violence that is sweeping the capital has anything | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
to do with Mark Duggan's death. His to do with Mark Duggan's death. His | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
own friends and family have condemned it. If people just carry | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
on doing this, it is not going to heal the pain. It is not the right | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
way to go about it. Tonight, Tottenham's infamous new landmark | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
is coming down. But the flames that started here are spreading, and the | :09:50. | :09:57. | |
emergency goes on. And the questions remain unanswered. | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
In a moment we'll speak to our political correspondent Iain Watson | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
at Westminster. But first let's go to our correspondent Philippa | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
Thomas, who joins us from Hackney in East London. This is where the | :10:09. | :10:16. | |
trouble started today - what's the latest? Just minor skirmishes now, | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
but there is still a major police presence. We spent about three | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
hours on the street corner, moving between rioters and riot police and | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
observing the tactics of both sides. On the part of the rioters, we | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
could see young men pulling T- shirts across their faces, smashing | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
bottles for ammunition, setting fire to cars, breaking bricks, | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
getting stones, whatever they could get to throw out the riot police. | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
On the police side, when we got round to their lines, it was the | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
advantage of numbers. About 50 rioters, I would say about 200 | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
police, with dogs and mounted police, trying to contain the | :10:56. | :11:05. | |
situation. For the moment, they have succeeded. The Prime Minister | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
and the Mayor of London have decided to cut short their holidays, | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
Iain Watson... It is extremely rare for a Prime Minister to call off | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
his summer break. It is not something David Cameron took | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
lightly, because he did not want to end gender more of a sense of | :11:23. | :11:33. | |
crisis. Tonight, Downing Street sources say the Prime Minister had | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
witnessed what he saw as a clearly deteriorating situation, and had | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
decided to fly back. He will arrive overnight. Tomorrow morning, at | :11:42. | :11:49. | |
about 8am, he is chairing a meeting of the emergency committee, Cobra. | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
And tonight, I am also told, as well as Boris Johnson returning to | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
London tomorrow, the Leader of the Opposition, Ed Miliband, is also | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
cutting short his holiday, as well as his deputy, Harriet Harman. So, | :12:02. | :12:12. | |
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politicians are trying to get back The rest of the news now. | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
Turbulence on the stock markets of the world has continued today. | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
Tonight, President Obama has tried to reassure the world kits of the | :12:24. | :12:31. | |
world, but it was not enough to halt the slide in share prices. | :12:31. | :12:41. | |
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This was the biggest single-day fall since 2008 on the Dow Jones. | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
Stock markets were down in other markets around the world. Faces of | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
fear on trading floors in three time zones. Yet another tale share | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
price falls, the likes of which we have not seen on Wall Street since | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
the slump of 2008. It comes hard on the heels of sharp drops in Asia | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
and Europe. But what we are seeing here is the symptom, not the cause. | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
This is where the Royal Bank of Scotland trades not shares, but | :13:11. | :13:21. | |
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debt. This is where the great drama is being played out. It is all | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
because of the major doubts over whether the giant economies of | :13:26. | :13:33. | |
Italy, France and the US, can repay all of their debts. -- Spain. | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
Investors say they are increasingly worried about lending to those | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
worried about lending to those countries. Today there has been a | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
sharp fall in the interest rates paid by those governments. That's | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
because this body, the European Central Bank, has taken the | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
historic decision to buy Italian historic decision to buy Italian | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
and Spanish bonds, an indirect way of lending to those countries. | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
It is exactly what the markets were looking for, somebody trying to | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
stabilise Spain and Italy bonds. It is because these countries are too | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
big to bail-out. The European central bank is owned by the | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
passengers on this tram, and the other taxpayers of the eurozone. | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
How much financial risk are the Germans and French taking? | :14:13. | :14:19. | |
It is about 2.5 billion Euros per day, potentially adding up to a big | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
number, around 800 billion euros of sovereign debt from Spain and Italy. | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
American investors have been blue, too. The ratings agency Standard | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
and Poor's took what many saw as a shocking decision, to strip the US | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
Government of its AAA rating for what it borrows. | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
The markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of | :14:43. | :14:50. | |
America. No matter what some agency may say, we have always been and | :14:50. | :14:57. | |
always will be a AAA country. fear remains that America may be | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
heading back to recession. Bank share prices have been savaged, | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
with Bank of America plunging by a 20%. People are selling today not | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
just because of the downgrade but because the US economy looks a lot | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
less promising today than it did one week ago. | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
Behind the market mayhem is a conundrum - what to do about record | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
debts bearing down on which Western economies. Don't pay down debts - | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
creditors and investors take fright. Repay them too fast - back, perhaps, | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
to recession. So, what more come the members of | :15:36. | :15:46. | |
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the eurozone and the United States do if anything? Our economics | :15:46. | :15:56. | |
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editor, Stephanie Flanders, looks There are two big issues. Let's | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
start with the eurozone, many say the solution has to be rapid | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
integration, maybe the muskateer strategy, governments convince the | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
markets that the single currency is all for one and one for all. Today, | :16:10. | :16:19. | |
the German foreign minister told us he wants that too. We are facing | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
now a forked road for Europe and the European Union. We can decide | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
do we go the way of left Europe or do we go the way of for more Europe. | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
We think it is necessary to answer that crisis with more Europe. | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
Ministers have been saying things like that since the start of the | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
year to convince the markets now that they really mean it could take | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
a much, much bigger bail out fund of at loaf a trillion euros, maybe | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
two trillion. Also, maybe a promise to guarantee the debt of countries | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
like Portugal or Italy. But in return for that, those countries | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
would have accept more central control of tax and spending. | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
Eurozone governments ruled out these kind of radical solutions | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
only a few weeks ago. I think it's becoming increasingly clear that | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
the muddle through solution is not working. The indebted economies are | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
not returning to growth. They're not really getting a grip on the | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
public finances. The markets are rapidly losing faith in that | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
solution. They want to see a more decisive move towards greater | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
fiscal integration. Then there's growth in the US. Last year, when | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
the recovery hit a soft patch, the Central Bank pumped more money into | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
the economy and President Obama got Congress to agree to an emergency | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
stimulus. Now rising inflation is limiting the Federal Reserve's room | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
for manoeuvre and the President and Congress aren't exactly in a strong | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
position to raise spending. Plans to shore up its credit worthiness | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
are colliding with very important plans now to boost growth. I think | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
that is the predicament that the US finds itself and partly also, which | :18:05. | :18:13. | |
Europe now actually finds itself. Markets can be fickle things. Small | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
events can send them no a tail spin. But this time the markets jitters | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
are all too real. Both America and Europe do face tough problems with | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
their economies, which policy makers will struggle to overcome. | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
Let's get more from our business editor, Robert Peston who is with | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
me. Another turbulent day on the markets. Where does it leave the | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
UK? The talk among investors is the greater danger of the US and | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
eurozone slipping back into recession. The problem with that | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
kind of talk is it can be self- fulfilling. Look at the share | :18:48. | :18:56. | |
prices of huge banks today, barving of America -- bank of America down | :18:56. | :19:03. | |
20%, City group down 16%. When you see falls like that creditors of | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
those institutions become more reluctant to lend. They tend to | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
charge more for lending to those banks wh. It becomes harder for | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
banks to borrow, they push up the cost of what they lend to business | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
US and to households. They make credit less available. When that | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
happens there's less spending by households and less investment by | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
businesses. When businesses see share price falls they worry about | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
the outlook. They invest less. That's bad for jobs and growth. And | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
as Stephanie just said, the weapons available for central banks and | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
governments to combat an economic slowdown, they are per received to | :19:38. | :19:45. | |
have become more limited. The eurozone, US are two -- our two | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
biggest markets. If they slipped back into recession, it would be | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
impossible for the UK toe avoid paying. | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
Thank you. There's growing diplomatic pressure | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
tonight on the Syrian government with calls for it to end its | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
violent crack down on opposition activists. King Abdullah of Saudi | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
Arabia has urged the regime to put a stop to the killing machine, | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
before it's too late. The Saudi kingdom has recalled its ambassador | :20:10. | :20:20. | |
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Every day in Syria more protesters are killed. This is Dera Ghazi Khan | :20:24. | :20:33. | |
in the east. With -- Deir al-Zour in the east. | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
Arab channel as cross the region have been reading a strongly worded | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
statement from Saudi King Abdullah. The kingdom of Saudi Arabia Arabia | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
demands a stop to the killing machine, blood shed and calls for | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
an act of wisdom before it is too late. Syria has to enact genuine | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
reforms, not promises. But Saudi Arabia tolerates no real | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
opposition itself and sent armour into neighbouring Bahrain precisely | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
to help crush opposition there. Why has Saudi Arabia moved to such | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
strong language now? Well, partly it's because King Abdullah, | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
guardian of two of Islam's holiest sites at mecca and Medina, feels a | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
responsibility to fellow Sunni Muslims, who are leading Syria's | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
uprising. Partly it's because the Saudi's fear any public unrest | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
against autocrats, wherever it breaks out, could inspire their own | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
people to rise up against them. Still, this is a significant moment. | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
Kuwait has followed the Saudis lead, also recalling its ambassador from | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
Syria. And now the Arab League has moved against one of its own | :21:44. | :21:52. | |
members and expressed seer yuz -- serious worries. The response to | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
President Assad, seen visiting wounded soldiers in recents days, | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
he has now sacked his Defence Minister. Few people believe that | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
will lessen the pressure. He's already isolated internally within | :22:04. | :22:11. | |
his country. If he becomes isolated regionally, this will tip the | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
balance drastically against him and his regime. It will force him | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
either to speed up reforms or to leave power all together. He cannot | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
continue the way he is. But so far President Assad has simply toughed | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
things out. Human rights organisations say the regime has | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
killed more than 1600 civilians. Since anti-government protests | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
broke out in March, at least 12,000 people have been arrested. | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
Protesters are now celebrating King Abdullah's condemnation, but | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
Syria's regime may still calculate its survival depends on crushing | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
dissent by whatever means. Two Arctic expedition leaders, | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
injured trying to fight off a polar bear that killed a British teenager | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
in Norway, have returned to Britain. Michael Reid and Andy Ruck were | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
discharged from hospital this morning. They're said to be in a | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
stable condition in hospital. The Royal Navy has appointed a | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
woman to command a warship for the first time. Sarah West will take | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
command of HMS Portland from April next year. The frigate carries two | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
missile systems and anti-submarine torpedoes. | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
More than a dozen music festivals were held this weekend. With a | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
grand total of 600 festivals this summer alone, more than 30 smaller | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
ones have gone to the wall. Declining ticket sales and the | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
squeeze on household budgets mean fewer people are willing to part | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
with their cash. We look at whether we've reached | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
saturation point when it comes to saturation point. | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
The UK's music festivals range from the massive to the minute. From the | :23:55. | :24:02. | |
radical to the relaxed. And from the funky to the folky. Many of | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
Britain's smaller festivals are now in big trouble. Over the summer | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
months, not a single weekend goes by without small music I vents -- | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
events like the one being prepared here, taking place in fields all | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
over the UK. In the past few years, they've been springing up | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
everywhere. Now many are disappearing, just as quickly. In | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
four days' time, this piece of farmland in the Surrey countryside | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
will be transformed into Leefest. It's been going for five years now | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
and will see 2,000 fans enjoying a line up of more than 40 acts. Its | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
founder and organiser says things are getting more difficult for | :24:42. | :24:48. | |
events like his. So many small festivals out there, doing similar | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
things, that coupled with the decline in ticket sales, seen | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
across-the-board from the big to very small festivals, is making it | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
really difficult to balance the books. I don't know whether less | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
people are coming because of the economic climate or festivals are | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
going out of fashion. It's making it really tough. Already this | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
summer more than 30 have been cancelled. And with festivals in | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
the UK also facing growing competition from similar events in | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
sunnier climates abroad, organisers recognise to survive they need to | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
recapture the unique elements that first made so many festivals here | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
so popular so quickly. Let's return now to tonight's main | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
story, and the rioting that has spread across parts of London. | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
There has been trouble this evening in Hackney, Lewisham and Peckham. | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
There have been blazes in Croydon and looting outside the capital in | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
Birmingham, for the first time. Let's return to Philipa Thomas in | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
Hackney now. There are a lot of very frightened people in London | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
tonight. Can you give us an idea of how widespread the violence is at | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
the moment? There is still violence. There are skirmishes going on. | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
There are rioters out there, but it's in pockets. One of the most | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
serious incidents is the huge fire in Croydon, which is still going on. | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
There's some activity here in Hackney, in Tottenham, in Peckham, | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
in Lewisham and Clapham Junction we're hearing. The police are | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
telling us they have good quality CCTV pictures and that's going to | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
help them with their investigations. They are saying to us so far, I | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
think the total arrested over these last few days comes to about 215 | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
and that's rising tonight. Even before tonight, Sophie, 25 police | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
officers had been hospitalised. As we say, there are still incidents | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
going on, not London-wide, but in pockets across London. | :26:42. | :26:46. |