13/08/2011 BBC Weekend News

Good afternoon. The Chancellor, George Osborne, is a Is fla the

government is committed it cuts in police spending despite the riots.

He said that deep-seated problems in society lay behind the

disturbances, solving them is not just a matter of police budgets.

Elsewhere, a man is in court charged with the robbery of an

Asian man during the disturbances. A week on after the riots. George

Osborne says that the Government is committed to cutting police

spending and is using resources to tackle wider issues behind the

violence. We will spend money where it is

necessary. For example in schools to help the most disadvantaged

pupils, ensuring that two-year-olds get entitlement if they are from

low income backgrounds. We are prepared to spend money where

necessary, but this is not all about money. If were a question of

throwing money at the problem, this would have been solved many years

ago. This is about deep-seated cultural changes in our society.

As the debate continues as to how to prevent a repeat of what

happened, it has been a busy legal Single European Market in England.

There have been over 1,000 arrests so far. Nearly 800 people have been

appearing before the courts. Reece Donovan, charged with robbing a

Malaysian student, his ordeal caught on camera. Mohammed Ashraf

Rosli had been in Britain for less than a month. He was taken to

hospital with a broken jaw. David Cameron is now turning to

this man, retired police chief Bill Bratton, to help to tackle gang

culture and street crime. He's been credited with introducing bold

measures in some of America's toughest cities.

This morning I had a conversation with Prime Minister David Cameron

in which he thanked me for me agreeing to work with the British

government to help with the issues of gang crime, violence and

intervention. In the short-term, as well as arresting people, other

measures are being used. A young man who allegedly took part in the

riots in south London may be first to lose his council house.

Meanwhile, Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has been out in Hackney

in north-east London meeting victims, he has called for an

inquiry into the causes of the riots.

And the Metropolitan Police have issued a statement saying that they

have meat a total of 1,210 arrests in London relating to the riots.

698 people have been charged in relation to violent disorder,

burglary or thefts. In Syria, anti-government protests

continued through the night, despite the bloodshed yesterday.

Activists say that more than 20 people were killed when the

security forces opened fire on demonstrators after the Friday

prays. The number of casualties of five were reported in Dumaa.

Two security officers were also shot dead there.

Shell is working to stop a leak at North Sea pipeline. A company's

spokesperson said that the spill near the Gannet Alpha platform 110

miles off the coast of Aberdeen was not significant. They say that the

pipeline has been isolated and de pressurised.

Germany is marking 50 years since the downing of the Berlin Wall.

Angela Merkel joined the Mayor of Berlin and hundreds of others in a

special ceremony in memory of the many people that died trying to

cross the wall. Robert Robinson has died in

hospital in London at the age of 83. He was best known for his role in

presenting Ask The Family, Stop the Week and Brain of Britain and Call

My Bluff. Nick Higham has this report.

When the BBC wanted someone to present its first programme devoted

to viewers' letters, Robert Robinson was the obvious choice,

witty, dead pan, slightly mocking. Good evening, every Monday at this

time I will read your letters, I hope that this will be critical and

disobedient and save us from complacency in television.

He delighted in aukward questions. Miss Mansfield, I know you will not

say I am rude if I say a visit to you is like a visit to the Tower of

London, you are incity tuitions. guess that I feel the same way as

the Tower of London feels! This one goes into your buttocks, so loosen

the trousersers and get up on the couch.

For one series he traveled around India, he could make fun of himself,

starting in the BBC's documentary, with getting the injections.

Here he is presenting Radio 4' Today programme in 1973, on the day

that Britain entered the common market.

Would the British streets be full of Frenchman selling butter?

Germans with two acre faces and twice the normal aloted teeth? --

allotted teeth? But, not a dachshund barked, and the outside

world bore little evidence to the continental world of bacon and eggs,

not Dutch cheese. But his style of programme making

went out of fashion. He was sometimes accused of sneering and

he was left behind as television became r more informal and less

respectful. He turned to presenting quiz shows, Brain of Britain, Ask

The Family and Call My Bluff. People think that all of the names

and all that is said is the start of the word.

It is not, that is... He was a polite host, a relic of a time,

when there from gentlemen on television.

Cricket and England have made a strong start on the fourth morning

of the Test at Edgbaston. James Anderson had Gautam Gambhir caught

behind from early on, with Rahul Dravid following later. A short-