:00:05. > :00:12.Extraordinary scenes in London, as fires, riots and looting spread
:00:12. > :00:17.across large parts of the capital. A massive blaze is burning in
:00:17. > :00:20.Croydon in south London tonight as a furniture store was set alight.
:00:20. > :00:23.The latest violence began this afternoon in Hackney in east London,
:00:23. > :00:26.when police were attacked with rocks and missiles. It soon spread
:00:26. > :00:32.south to Lewisham and Peckham, where shops and cars were set on
:00:32. > :00:35.fire. And this was the scene in Birmingham tonight, as the violence
:00:35. > :00:45.spread outside the capital for the first time since the trouble
:00:45. > :00:47.
:00:47. > :00:50.erupted on Saturday. Let me be absolutely clear - those
:00:50. > :00:53.responsible for the violence and looting will be made to face the
:00:53. > :00:59.consequences of their actions. Counting the cost in Tottenham in
:00:59. > :01:05.north London, where it all began - businesses lost and homes destroyed.
:01:05. > :01:08.Just could not believe it - our building was going up in flames. 10
:01:08. > :01:11.minutes longer in that building and we would have been dead.
:01:11. > :01:14.And in the last hour, the Prime Minister has confirmed that he's
:01:14. > :01:17.cutting short his holiday and is flying home to the UK. Also
:01:17. > :01:25.tonight... Share prices across the world continue to fall despite
:01:25. > :01:28.efforts from President Obama to calm fears about America's economy.
:01:28. > :01:34.Markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of
:01:34. > :01:38.America. No matter what some agency may say, we have always been and
:01:38. > :01:41.always will be a AAA country. Syria's President Assad stands firm
:01:41. > :01:44.as his Arab neighbours call on him to stop killing his civilians And
:01:44. > :01:54.how the economic downturn is taking its toll on Britain's summer music
:01:54. > :02:19.
:02:19. > :02:22.Good evening. Fires are burning across large parts of London
:02:22. > :02:26.tonight as serious violence breaks out on the streets of the capital
:02:26. > :02:29.for the third night in a row. The latest trouble started in Hackney
:02:29. > :02:32.in the east of the city late this afternoon before spreading to
:02:32. > :02:42.Lewisham, Peckham and now in the last hour to Croydon in south
:02:42. > :02:44.
:02:44. > :02:49.London. These are the latest pictures gender from Croydon. A
:02:49. > :02:51.furniture store has been a blaze for at least an hour. And for the
:02:51. > :02:54.first time since the trouble began on Saturday, violence has flared
:02:54. > :02:57.outside the capital, in Birmingham. The Home Secretary, Theresa May,
:02:57. > :03:01.has called the attacks "sheer criminality" and said those behind
:03:01. > :03:03.it would be brought to justice. In the last hour it has been confirmed
:03:03. > :03:06.that the Prime Minister, David Cameron, is cutting short his
:03:06. > :03:11.holiday and flying home tonight. Our first report tonight is from
:03:11. > :03:17.our home affairs correspondent, June Kelly.
:03:17. > :03:19.The smoke is a signal of the mayhem in the distance. The death of one
:03:20. > :03:24.mam has driven violence in neighbourhoods north and south of
:03:24. > :03:27.the capital. In Hackney, the disturbances began in the early
:03:27. > :03:32.evening. Police said they would have more officers on the streets
:03:32. > :03:37.of London tonight, and here, they moved in in force. All around this
:03:37. > :03:41.area, the cordons are going up. For the second night running, we have
:03:41. > :03:45.got copycat acts of violence, just what the police feared, what
:03:45. > :03:50.they're calling pure criminality. This group are looting a off-
:03:50. > :03:54.licence, one of them carrying away a whole box of drink, the
:03:54. > :03:59.livelihood of shopkeepers slowly being removed. Tonight, to begin a
:03:59. > :04:06.of London, this was Croydon, a furniture store in flames. And this
:04:06. > :04:13.was the view of one eye witness. They don't care, I have never seen
:04:13. > :04:17.such disregard for human life. The fear they have put in people's
:04:17. > :04:23.hearts, decent people, who have done nothing to anyone, the fear in
:04:23. > :04:28.them... This area is miles from the shooting which triggered this
:04:28. > :04:33.spiral of violence. Let's be absolutely clear, there is no
:04:33. > :04:36.excuse for violence, no excuse for looting, no excuse for thuggery.
:04:36. > :04:42.The police will deal with any emerging situations as they
:04:42. > :04:50.consider best. But I am absolutely clear, there is no excuse for
:04:50. > :04:54.looters or thuggery or violence on the streets. In Peckham, a clothes
:04:54. > :04:58.store was being turned over as others looked on. A bus was burnt
:04:58. > :05:02.out. Police were guarding a supermarket, but they could not
:05:02. > :05:06.stop a pharmacy being attacked. From the country's most senior
:05:06. > :05:12.police officer, an appeal for help in stopping the law-breaking.
:05:12. > :05:17.We have a lot of police officers on duty, but I urge that parents start
:05:17. > :05:20.contacting their children and asking where they are. There are
:05:20. > :05:26.far too many spectators getting in the way of the police operations to
:05:26. > :05:30.tackle criminal thuggery and burglary. I am employing that
:05:30. > :05:33.people within those communities actually start clearing the streets
:05:33. > :05:39.to enable my police officers to deal with the criminality which is
:05:39. > :05:43.occurring in front of them. In a development which will alarm police
:05:43. > :05:48.and politicians, tonight, the trouble moved outside London. This
:05:48. > :05:53.was Birmingham, handles and looters out in the city centre. Social
:05:53. > :05:57.media has played a massive part in the spread. Police have warned that
:05:57. > :06:03.anyone inciting violence through social networking sides could face
:06:03. > :06:06.prosecution. The technology company BlackBerry has said it will try to
:06:06. > :06:10.assist the authorities in tracking down of the troublemakers. The
:06:10. > :06:15.shooting by police last Thursday has become the trigger for a chain
:06:15. > :06:21.of destruction. The sense of crisis has been underlined by the Prime
:06:21. > :06:24.Minister's decision to cut short Well, the rioting began in
:06:24. > :06:27.Tottenham in north London on Saturday after what was meant to be
:06:27. > :06:30.a peaceful protest following the death of a local man who was shot
:06:30. > :06:33.dead by police. Our special correspondent Alan Little has spent
:06:33. > :06:41.the day there as residents and local traders count the cost of the
:06:41. > :06:46.violence. Two days ago, this was someone's
:06:46. > :06:50.home. 26 families lived above this shop. The building has teetered all
:06:50. > :06:54.day on the verge of collapse. Tottenham can even now scarcely
:06:54. > :06:59.believe what has happened. This lady lived here. She escaped with
:06:59. > :07:05.her life but lost everything else. There was another neighbour trying
:07:05. > :07:09.to get out of the building, in such a panic. And then we got outside
:07:10. > :07:15.and then I saw the building, flames going up the building. It was just
:07:15. > :07:22.black smoke billowing down from the corner of the high road. 10 minutes
:07:22. > :07:27.longer in that building and we would have been dead. This man
:07:27. > :07:31.opened his bar and restaurant only in December. He came to check it in
:07:32. > :07:37.the early hours of Sunday and found looters ransacking it. One had a
:07:37. > :07:43.knife. Terrified, he escaped through an upstairs window.
:07:43. > :07:48.If they come under attack me here, I'm in danger... He climbed down a
:07:48. > :07:55.drainpipe to get away. You could see him at this angle. He had a
:07:55. > :08:02.knife. That's why I just went upstairs. Were you scared? I was
:08:02. > :08:06.really scared. I was scared for my life at that time. The Deputy Prime
:08:06. > :08:11.Minister came to Tottenham this afternoon to listen. The voices he
:08:11. > :08:15.heard were polite, patient, eloquent, but angry. Can I ask you,
:08:15. > :08:20.is this what is going to happen in England now, because of the cuts?
:08:20. > :08:26.People's homes getting burned, and suddenly made homeless? No, I don't
:08:26. > :08:29.suddenly made homeless? No, I don't think so. We left the flat as the
:08:29. > :08:34.rioters were coming up the road, and the buildings were on fire, we
:08:34. > :08:37.did not see one police person. fire engines could not get here
:08:37. > :08:42.because the police were not there to protect them. This is the image
:08:42. > :08:46.of London which has flashed around the world today, not what the city
:08:46. > :08:50.wants less than a year before the Olympics. The police force in
:08:50. > :08:57.London has two urgent questions to answer - what was the sequence of
:08:57. > :09:03.events which led to the deaf of Mark Duggan, and how did events get
:09:03. > :09:07.out of hand so quickly? Mark Duggan was shot dead by police on Thursday.
:09:07. > :09:11.His family do not believe that he was armed or that he opened fire
:09:11. > :09:16.first. On Saturday there was a small, peaceful demonstration.
:09:16. > :09:19.Within hours, Tottenham was in flames. Tottenham is a poor borough,
:09:19. > :09:23.but not the poorest. It has a history of tension between the
:09:23. > :09:26.police and some parts of the community. But no-one here now
:09:26. > :09:31.believes that the violence that is sweeping the capital has anything
:09:31. > :09:36.to do with Mark Duggan's death. His to do with Mark Duggan's death. His
:09:36. > :09:40.own friends and family have condemned it. If people just carry
:09:40. > :09:45.on doing this, it is not going to heal the pain. It is not the right
:09:45. > :09:50.way to go about it. Tonight, Tottenham's infamous new landmark
:09:50. > :09:57.is coming down. But the flames that started here are spreading, and the
:09:57. > :10:00.emergency goes on. And the questions remain unanswered.
:10:00. > :10:02.In a moment we'll speak to our political correspondent Iain Watson
:10:03. > :10:09.at Westminster. But first let's go to our correspondent Philippa
:10:09. > :10:16.Thomas, who joins us from Hackney in East London. This is where the
:10:16. > :10:21.trouble started today - what's the latest? Just minor skirmishes now,
:10:21. > :10:26.but there is still a major police presence. We spent about three
:10:26. > :10:30.hours on the street corner, moving between rioters and riot police and
:10:30. > :10:34.observing the tactics of both sides. On the part of the rioters, we
:10:34. > :10:38.could see young men pulling T- shirts across their faces, smashing
:10:38. > :10:43.bottles for ammunition, setting fire to cars, breaking bricks,
:10:43. > :10:48.getting stones, whatever they could get to throw out the riot police.
:10:48. > :10:52.On the police side, when we got round to their lines, it was the
:10:52. > :10:56.advantage of numbers. About 50 rioters, I would say about 200
:10:56. > :11:05.police, with dogs and mounted police, trying to contain the
:11:05. > :11:09.situation. For the moment, they have succeeded. The Prime Minister
:11:10. > :11:15.and the Mayor of London have decided to cut short their holidays,
:11:16. > :11:19.Iain Watson... It is extremely rare for a Prime Minister to call off
:11:19. > :11:23.his summer break. It is not something David Cameron took
:11:23. > :11:33.lightly, because he did not want to end gender more of a sense of
:11:33. > :11:37.crisis. Tonight, Downing Street sources say the Prime Minister had
:11:37. > :11:42.witnessed what he saw as a clearly deteriorating situation, and had
:11:42. > :11:49.decided to fly back. He will arrive overnight. Tomorrow morning, at
:11:49. > :11:53.about 8am, he is chairing a meeting of the emergency committee, Cobra.
:11:53. > :11:57.And tonight, I am also told, as well as Boris Johnson returning to
:11:57. > :12:02.London tomorrow, the Leader of the Opposition, Ed Miliband, is also
:12:02. > :12:12.cutting short his holiday, as well as his deputy, Harriet Harman. So,
:12:12. > :12:14.
:12:14. > :12:20.politicians are trying to get back The rest of the news now.
:12:20. > :12:24.Turbulence on the stock markets of the world has continued today.
:12:24. > :12:31.Tonight, President Obama has tried to reassure the world kits of the
:12:31. > :12:41.world, but it was not enough to halt the slide in share prices.
:12:41. > :12:42.
:12:42. > :12:48.This was the biggest single-day fall since 2008 on the Dow Jones.
:12:48. > :12:52.Stock markets were down in other markets around the world. Faces of
:12:52. > :12:56.fear on trading floors in three time zones. Yet another tale share
:12:56. > :13:02.price falls, the likes of which we have not seen on Wall Street since
:13:02. > :13:08.the slump of 2008. It comes hard on the heels of sharp drops in Asia
:13:08. > :13:11.and Europe. But what we are seeing here is the symptom, not the cause.
:13:11. > :13:21.This is where the Royal Bank of Scotland trades not shares, but
:13:21. > :13:22.
:13:22. > :13:26.debt. This is where the great drama is being played out. It is all
:13:26. > :13:33.because of the major doubts over whether the giant economies of
:13:33. > :13:35.Italy, France and the US, can repay all of their debts. -- Spain.
:13:35. > :13:37.Investors say they are increasingly worried about lending to those
:13:38. > :13:42.worried about lending to those countries. Today there has been a
:13:42. > :13:46.sharp fall in the interest rates paid by those governments. That's
:13:46. > :13:49.because this body, the European Central Bank, has taken the
:13:49. > :13:52.historic decision to buy Italian historic decision to buy Italian
:13:52. > :13:56.and Spanish bonds, an indirect way of lending to those countries.
:13:56. > :14:01.It is exactly what the markets were looking for, somebody trying to
:14:01. > :14:05.stabilise Spain and Italy bonds. It is because these countries are too
:14:05. > :14:08.big to bail-out. The European central bank is owned by the
:14:09. > :14:13.passengers on this tram, and the other taxpayers of the eurozone.
:14:13. > :14:19.How much financial risk are the Germans and French taking?
:14:19. > :14:25.It is about 2.5 billion Euros per day, potentially adding up to a big
:14:25. > :14:28.number, around 800 billion euros of sovereign debt from Spain and Italy.
:14:28. > :14:34.American investors have been blue, too. The ratings agency Standard
:14:34. > :14:39.and Poor's took what many saw as a shocking decision, to strip the US
:14:39. > :14:43.Government of its AAA rating for what it borrows.
:14:43. > :14:50.The markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of
:14:50. > :14:57.America. No matter what some agency may say, we have always been and
:14:57. > :15:02.always will be a AAA country. fear remains that America may be
:15:02. > :15:07.heading back to recession. Bank share prices have been savaged,
:15:07. > :15:11.with Bank of America plunging by a 20%. People are selling today not
:15:11. > :15:16.just because of the downgrade but because the US economy looks a lot
:15:16. > :15:21.less promising today than it did one week ago.
:15:21. > :15:26.Behind the market mayhem is a conundrum - what to do about record
:15:26. > :15:32.debts bearing down on which Western economies. Don't pay down debts -
:15:32. > :15:36.creditors and investors take fright. Repay them too fast - back, perhaps,
:15:36. > :15:46.to recession. So, what more come the members of
:15:46. > :15:46.
:15:46. > :15:56.the eurozone and the United States do if anything? Our economics
:15:56. > :15:58.
:15:58. > :16:02.editor, Stephanie Flanders, looks There are two big issues. Let's
:16:02. > :16:05.start with the eurozone, many say the solution has to be rapid
:16:05. > :16:10.integration, maybe the muskateer strategy, governments convince the
:16:10. > :16:19.markets that the single currency is all for one and one for all. Today,
:16:19. > :16:25.the German foreign minister told us he wants that too. We are facing
:16:25. > :16:31.now a forked road for Europe and the European Union. We can decide
:16:31. > :16:35.do we go the way of left Europe or do we go the way of for more Europe.
:16:35. > :16:38.We think it is necessary to answer that crisis with more Europe.
:16:38. > :16:42.Ministers have been saying things like that since the start of the
:16:43. > :16:48.year to convince the markets now that they really mean it could take
:16:48. > :16:54.a much, much bigger bail out fund of at loaf a trillion euros, maybe
:16:54. > :16:58.two trillion. Also, maybe a promise to guarantee the debt of countries
:16:58. > :17:02.like Portugal or Italy. But in return for that, those countries
:17:02. > :17:05.would have accept more central control of tax and spending.
:17:05. > :17:10.Eurozone governments ruled out these kind of radical solutions
:17:10. > :17:15.only a few weeks ago. I think it's becoming increasingly clear that
:17:15. > :17:20.the muddle through solution is not working. The indebted economies are
:17:20. > :17:23.not returning to growth. They're not really getting a grip on the
:17:23. > :17:28.public finances. The markets are rapidly losing faith in that
:17:28. > :17:32.solution. They want to see a more decisive move towards greater
:17:32. > :17:36.fiscal integration. Then there's growth in the US. Last year, when
:17:37. > :17:40.the recovery hit a soft patch, the Central Bank pumped more money into
:17:40. > :17:45.the economy and President Obama got Congress to agree to an emergency
:17:45. > :17:48.stimulus. Now rising inflation is limiting the Federal Reserve's room
:17:48. > :17:54.for manoeuvre and the President and Congress aren't exactly in a strong
:17:54. > :18:00.position to raise spending. Plans to shore up its credit worthiness
:18:00. > :18:05.are colliding with very important plans now to boost growth. I think
:18:05. > :18:13.that is the predicament that the US finds itself and partly also, which
:18:13. > :18:17.Europe now actually finds itself. Markets can be fickle things. Small
:18:18. > :18:22.events can send them no a tail spin. But this time the markets jitters
:18:22. > :18:26.are all too real. Both America and Europe do face tough problems with
:18:26. > :18:32.their economies, which policy makers will struggle to overcome.
:18:32. > :18:35.Let's get more from our business editor, Robert Peston who is with
:18:35. > :18:40.me. Another turbulent day on the markets. Where does it leave the
:18:40. > :18:43.UK? The talk among investors is the greater danger of the US and
:18:43. > :18:48.eurozone slipping back into recession. The problem with that
:18:48. > :18:56.kind of talk is it can be self- fulfilling. Look at the share
:18:56. > :19:03.prices of huge banks today, barving of America -- bank of America down
:19:03. > :19:06.20%, City group down 16%. When you see falls like that creditors of
:19:06. > :19:10.those institutions become more reluctant to lend. They tend to
:19:10. > :19:14.charge more for lending to those banks wh. It becomes harder for
:19:14. > :19:18.banks to borrow, they push up the cost of what they lend to business
:19:18. > :19:22.US and to households. They make credit less available. When that
:19:22. > :19:25.happens there's less spending by households and less investment by
:19:25. > :19:29.businesses. When businesses see share price falls they worry about
:19:29. > :19:34.the outlook. They invest less. That's bad for jobs and growth. And
:19:34. > :19:38.as Stephanie just said, the weapons available for central banks and
:19:38. > :19:45.governments to combat an economic slowdown, they are per received to
:19:45. > :19:48.have become more limited. The eurozone, US are two -- our two
:19:48. > :19:50.biggest markets. If they slipped back into recession, it would be
:19:50. > :19:54.impossible for the UK toe avoid paying.
:19:54. > :19:57.Thank you. There's growing diplomatic pressure
:19:57. > :20:01.tonight on the Syrian government with calls for it to end its
:20:01. > :20:05.violent crack down on opposition activists. King Abdullah of Saudi
:20:05. > :20:10.Arabia has urged the regime to put a stop to the killing machine,
:20:10. > :20:20.before it's too late. The Saudi kingdom has recalled its ambassador
:20:20. > :20:24.
:20:24. > :20:33.Every day in Syria more protesters are killed. This is Dera Ghazi Khan
:20:33. > :20:39.in the east. With -- Deir al-Zour in the east.
:20:39. > :20:43.Arab channel as cross the region have been reading a strongly worded
:20:43. > :20:46.statement from Saudi King Abdullah. The kingdom of Saudi Arabia Arabia
:20:46. > :20:51.demands a stop to the killing machine, blood shed and calls for
:20:51. > :20:57.an act of wisdom before it is too late. Syria has to enact genuine
:20:57. > :21:01.reforms, not promises. But Saudi Arabia tolerates no real
:21:01. > :21:06.opposition itself and sent armour into neighbouring Bahrain precisely
:21:06. > :21:10.to help crush opposition there. Why has Saudi Arabia moved to such
:21:10. > :21:16.strong language now? Well, partly it's because King Abdullah,
:21:17. > :21:21.guardian of two of Islam's holiest sites at mecca and Medina, feels a
:21:21. > :21:27.responsibility to fellow Sunni Muslims, who are leading Syria's
:21:27. > :21:30.uprising. Partly it's because the Saudi's fear any public unrest
:21:30. > :21:33.against autocrats, wherever it breaks out, could inspire their own
:21:33. > :21:40.people to rise up against them. Still, this is a significant moment.
:21:40. > :21:44.Kuwait has followed the Saudis lead, also recalling its ambassador from
:21:44. > :21:52.Syria. And now the Arab League has moved against one of its own
:21:52. > :21:55.members and expressed seer yuz -- serious worries. The response to
:21:55. > :22:00.President Assad, seen visiting wounded soldiers in recents days,
:22:00. > :22:04.he has now sacked his Defence Minister. Few people believe that
:22:04. > :22:11.will lessen the pressure. He's already isolated internally within
:22:11. > :22:15.his country. If he becomes isolated regionally, this will tip the
:22:15. > :22:20.balance drastically against him and his regime. It will force him
:22:20. > :22:26.either to speed up reforms or to leave power all together. He cannot
:22:26. > :22:29.continue the way he is. But so far President Assad has simply toughed
:22:29. > :22:33.things out. Human rights organisations say the regime has
:22:33. > :22:38.killed more than 1600 civilians. Since anti-government protests
:22:38. > :22:43.broke out in March, at least 12,000 people have been arrested.
:22:43. > :22:47.Protesters are now celebrating King Abdullah's condemnation, but
:22:47. > :22:53.Syria's regime may still calculate its survival depends on crushing
:22:53. > :22:56.dissent by whatever means. Two Arctic expedition leaders,
:22:56. > :23:01.injured trying to fight off a polar bear that killed a British teenager
:23:01. > :23:04.in Norway, have returned to Britain. Michael Reid and Andy Ruck were
:23:05. > :23:08.discharged from hospital this morning. They're said to be in a
:23:08. > :23:13.stable condition in hospital. The Royal Navy has appointed a
:23:13. > :23:18.woman to command a warship for the first time. Sarah West will take
:23:18. > :23:23.command of HMS Portland from April next year. The frigate carries two
:23:23. > :23:29.missile systems and anti-submarine torpedoes.
:23:29. > :23:33.More than a dozen music festivals were held this weekend. With a
:23:33. > :23:37.grand total of 600 festivals this summer alone, more than 30 smaller
:23:37. > :23:39.ones have gone to the wall. Declining ticket sales and the
:23:40. > :23:45.squeeze on household budgets mean fewer people are willing to part
:23:45. > :23:49.with their cash. We look at whether we've reached
:23:49. > :23:55.saturation point when it comes to saturation point.
:23:55. > :24:02.The UK's music festivals range from the massive to the minute. From the
:24:02. > :24:05.radical to the relaxed. And from the funky to the folky. Many of
:24:05. > :24:11.Britain's smaller festivals are now in big trouble. Over the summer
:24:11. > :24:14.months, not a single weekend goes by without small music I vents --
:24:14. > :24:18.events like the one being prepared here, taking place in fields all
:24:18. > :24:23.over the UK. In the past few years, they've been springing up
:24:23. > :24:28.everywhere. Now many are disappearing, just as quickly. In
:24:28. > :24:34.four days' time, this piece of farmland in the Surrey countryside
:24:34. > :24:39.will be transformed into Leefest. It's been going for five years now
:24:39. > :24:42.and will see 2,000 fans enjoying a line up of more than 40 acts. Its
:24:42. > :24:48.founder and organiser says things are getting more difficult for
:24:48. > :24:52.events like his. So many small festivals out there, doing similar
:24:52. > :24:55.things, that coupled with the decline in ticket sales, seen
:24:55. > :24:58.across-the-board from the big to very small festivals, is making it
:24:58. > :25:02.really difficult to balance the books. I don't know whether less
:25:02. > :25:06.people are coming because of the economic climate or festivals are
:25:06. > :25:10.going out of fashion. It's making it really tough. Already this
:25:10. > :25:16.summer more than 30 have been cancelled. And with festivals in
:25:16. > :25:20.the UK also facing growing competition from similar events in
:25:20. > :25:24.sunnier climates abroad, organisers recognise to survive they need to
:25:24. > :25:30.recapture the unique elements that first made so many festivals here
:25:30. > :25:34.so popular so quickly. Let's return now to tonight's main
:25:34. > :25:38.story, and the rioting that has spread across parts of London.
:25:38. > :25:42.There has been trouble this evening in Hackney, Lewisham and Peckham.
:25:42. > :25:46.There have been blazes in Croydon and looting outside the capital in
:25:46. > :25:50.Birmingham, for the first time. Let's return to Philipa Thomas in
:25:50. > :25:55.Hackney now. There are a lot of very frightened people in London
:25:55. > :25:59.tonight. Can you give us an idea of how widespread the violence is at
:25:59. > :26:04.the moment? There is still violence. There are skirmishes going on.
:26:04. > :26:08.There are rioters out there, but it's in pockets. One of the most
:26:08. > :26:13.serious incidents is the huge fire in Croydon, which is still going on.
:26:13. > :26:17.There's some activity here in Hackney, in Tottenham, in Peckham,
:26:17. > :26:20.in Lewisham and Clapham Junction we're hearing. The police are
:26:20. > :26:23.telling us they have good quality CCTV pictures and that's going to
:26:24. > :26:29.help them with their investigations. They are saying to us so far, I
:26:29. > :26:34.think the total arrested over these last few days comes to about 215
:26:34. > :26:38.and that's rising tonight. Even before tonight, Sophie, 25 police
:26:38. > :26:42.officers had been hospitalised. As we say, there are still incidents
:26:42. > :26:46.going on, not London-wide, but in pockets across London.