10/08/2011 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at ten: Calls for calm after three men are killed during

last night's riots in Birmingham. Horror as a crowd sees a car

deliberately run them over in the early hours of the morning. They'd

been out on the streets trying to protect their neighbourhood. The

father of one had this message for the community tonight. I lost my

son. Step forward if you want to use your sons! Otherwise, calm down

and go home. New pictures appear to show police

in Manchester upping the ante last night, as David Cameron declares a

fightback against the rioters. There are pockets of our society

that are not just broken but frankly sick. More than a thousand

people have now been arrested since the trouble began. In Salford,

residents argue over who's to blame. It is young kids that are not

working, nothing to do, so go and smashed the shops. It is pure

ignorance that makes the kids do what they do so jog on.

More pictures of the wanted. The police scour CCTV and publish new

images of suspected rioters. This looter has already been caught.

He's a teaching assistant at a primary school in London. Tonight

there are no reports of large scale disturbances so far. Also on the

programme: Lower growth, higher inflation. The Bank of England

issues a warning about the impact of global economic turbulence on

Britain. And in the last hour, that

turbulence is underlined as Wall And India collapse as England

dominate on the first day of the In business, a fresh slide for

European markets as worries about the sovereign debt crisis continued,

and the Bank of England cut its Good evening. There are thousands

of extra police on the streets in cities across England tonight as

they try to prevent a fifth night of riots and looting. The Prime

Minister has joined police and community leaders in Birmingham to

call for calm there after the deaths of three men who were run

over and killed during last night's violence. The victims were trying

to protect their neighbourhood from looters when police say a car was

deliberately driven at them. A 32- year-old man has been arrested for

murder. Our correspondent, Claire Marshall, has our first report

tonight on the deaths in Birmingham. Every scrap of evidence from the

crime scene is needed. Police believe they hit and run last night

The community pays their respects to the three men who were killed.

The brothers, Shahzad Ali and Abdul Musavir, and Haroon Jahan. This is

a school picture of him. Tariq Jahan tried to revive his own her

son. Somebody from behind told me is my son was behind me, my face

was covered in blood, why? Anything I ever wanted done, I would always

ask Haroon Jahan to sort it out. My eldest, my daughter... My

youngest... They killed him. Friends and neighbours are deeply

angry for. It is mindless and pointless. It is getting beyond a

joke. We need to stand together and fight for peace. Because this is

England. Exclusive footage given to the BBC shows the street just after

the men were mowed down. One of them lies on the ground and a group

This was filmed by a 13-year-old. When I was recording it, it is like,

you can't stop shaking, seeing someone die on your street. It is

unsafe to be out. West Midlands police worry that this may trigger

more violence but this time along racial lines. I would appeal to

people, particularly at this time, to become. If we are calm, I am

absolutely confident that the people of the West Midlands can get

through this. For us, this is a strange and difficult phase. We can

rebuild trust between communities and we can move on with a sense of

purpose. Myth that it is from a local Sikh television station. --

this footage. It appears to show the TV crew giving the police

airlift to chase after the We are helping the community.

are seen arresting a man, won four detained last night. -- one of four

men detained last night. This afternoon, members of the community

press around the lead presenter. It is quite extraordinary that TV

crews are having to help the police. It is extraordinary but in some

ways it is uplifting. It actually shows how much the community cares

about their neighbourhood, their city, their country. A few hours

ago, Haroon Jahan's father made a plea for calm. Please respect the

memory of our son and degrees of our love one's by staying away from

trouble. Tonight the police cordon has been -- police cordon has been

removed and people who knew the men can come right to the stock with

the men were killed. What the police most want is for the

violence to end. Whether this will happen is another matter. With so

many people now feeling so much anger, it would be easy for this to

become another violent night. The Prime Minister has declared a

fightback after four nights of violence and said he wouldn't allow

a culture of fear to exist on our streets. David Cameron, who visited

the West Midlands today, said pockets of British society were not

just broken, but sick. Our political edito,r Nick Robinson,

joined him in Wolverhampton and reports now on the Prime Minister's

Taken now, don't pay later. This was Wolverhampton last night. They

lined up to clean up this family electrical shop, having first

robbed and assaulted its owner. Today, Sham Sharma inspected what

was left of his business after telling the Prime Minister this

story of a night he would rather forget. I was frightened for my

life. All these people poured in. One of them grabbed me by the neck.

I was frightened. David Cameron promised him and other retailers in

the city a tougher police response. Earlier, the Prime Minister

presented himself as the leader of the new, more Rahme, that would

stand up against what he called the worst of Britain -- Moray Low on me.

We needed to fight back and a fight back is under way. There are

pockets of our society that are not just broken but frankly sick. When

we see children as young as 12 or 13 looting and laughing, when we

see the disgusting sight of an injured young man with people

pretending to help him while they are robbing him, it is clear there

are things that are badly wrong with our society. Move it! John

gone! The Prime Minister did not risk walking through the city on

edge. I will go when I am ready! When the police move in at the

first sign of trouble. Wolverhampton tonight is a city

that is still living in fear. A rests on the street. And shops that

have closed early in order to avoid another night which people fear

might bring more trouble. The Labour leader Ed Miliband dictate

to the streets of Manchester. -- did take to the streets. For now at

least, political leaders are speaking with one voice about what

went wrong. We must resist simplistic explanations and

simplistic responses because they are complex reasons, reasons to do

with the responsibility that we need in society, responsibility we

need from top to bottom, including parental responsibility. Back in

Wolverhampton, they are preparing for the West tonight. Businesses

have closed early or boarded themselves up. -- preparing for the

worst. People are staying home. Except those who roam the streets.

More than a hundred people have been arrested in Manchester and

Salford, where a thousand youths were involved in last night's

violence. Shops were looted and cars burned. Our correspondent

Chris Buckler spent the day gauging the mood in the city and has the

latest on the Salford riots. In the aftermath of the violence

that scarred Salford's shops and streets, this is the community

asking one question. How do you stop all of this from happening

again? Many who ransacked and ruined the stores were young

teenagers but while no parents said they condoned the writing, some

fell well short of condemning it -- condoned the rioting. A lot of them

see the response, bases come and they act like scum. Is it any

wonder? Look around, they have got nothing. That does not give them

the right to smash things up? I said it condoned it? Do you think

it is there that someone was shot in London for nothing? -- do you

think it is fair? Have you got kids? That has nothing to do with

it! It is young children, not working, something to do, smash up

the shops. Pure ignorance that makes them do what they do? Jog on.

The images of children at the heart of trouble and looting has shocked

many. And it is members of every generation, left frightened.

couldn't sleep. It is too hard to sleep. This disorder has been

taking place near to many doorsteps. The shopping area that has been at

the centre of the trouble in Salford was very close to houses.

You can probably see people are standing at the front of their

homes. They are quite nervous at the moment because they are worried

there could be further trouble. When you look at those pictures

last night, you must know some people who were involved. They are

wrecking their own place, really. The police say they faced

unprecedented levels of violence but this video posted on the

internet has led to claims that they have been heavy-handed.

Greater Manchester Police say they are investigating but they don't

know where the pictures were taken. And all along, they have said,

parents should be ensuring that their children are not out during

these might have trouble. They are blaming the parents. I saw 10,000

people last night, they were all grown up. No kids. There was a few.

Look at me, let's have a right! will see people on the streets

encouraging a return to pay us. have got to do it. They are letting

all the parish and the BEEP into our country, getting everyone to

our jobs -- letting all of the Polish. You will not get all of the

jobs if you are burning down shops, that will not make people invest in

Salford. That is down to them. the work is needed not just in

rebuilding property but also in the community.

A lot of police on the streets in Manchester tonight. Is it working?

Yes, it is calm in both Manchester and Salford. You mentioned a very

visible police presence. One place that is busy is the court house

behind me. A number of people have been appearing before magistrates

tonight. It opened at 7 o'clock and we believe it will not close until

the early hours of the morning and of course we also have security

guards standing in front of shops as well. They are here to try to

protect them from the kind of scenes we saw last night in central

Manchester, so that is visible police presence. Also, the rain has

deterred people. But the question is why did this happen? Why did the

rioting spread from London? Some will say it is down to the shooting

in the capital, others will say it is down to cuts. But the number of

people appearing in the court has tonight suggests it is also about

criminality and greed. In London more than 800 people have

now been arrested since Saturday in connection with the riots. Some of

them have already appeared before magistrates in courts that are

sitting 24 hours a day so they can deal with the large volume of cases.

This morning, one of the first to appear was a teaching assistant at

a primary school in South London. Our special correspondent, Allan

Little, looks now at how the justice system is coping with the

Go away from me. This 31-year-old from Stockwell, South London,

charged with burglary with intent to steal, to be sentenced later.

Normally he's a primary school teaching assistant. The website

says he's a mentor to the young. Magistrates courts sat through the

night. The suspects include an army recruit, university students, a

graphic designer and an 11 year old boy.

Jason White and Richard Miles- Palmer were found guilty with 15

�1500 of power tools. We are getting accused. False accusations,

mate. Get me? At Camberwell, 18- year-old James Antwer is charged

with violent disorder and assaulting a police woman. His

father is dismayed. Do you think he is not guilty? He is not guilty. He

is not violent. Today, police released a second batch of pictures

of others they want to question. They posted the images online, and

there are more to come. The process of justice matters. For

London has felt real insecurity for days.

In many areas communities had to defend themselves.

This is Dalston, home to many Turkish and Kurdish family

businesses. Here looters came face- to-face with organised resistance.

It's now clear that in places like this it doesn't take long, in the

absence of effective policing for the community itself, the small

business owners, the shopkeepers to organise themselves into a defence

force of their own. In effect, to take the law into their own hands

to defend their own properties and businesses.

On Monday customers found themselves barricaded into this

confectionary shop. Hundreds of local men went on to the street to

chase the rioters away. A lot of people had baseball bats. A lot of

people said, our fists are enough. They were prepared to do a lot, I

guess. They did chase them. They passed them on to the police. No-

one caused damage. They didn't harm them or anything like that. How did

they chase them? Down to Dalston Junction. They chased them quite a

long time. This restaurant worker, asked not to be named. He also took

part in defending the neighbourhood businesses. That's a bit of culture,

even in Turkey. When there is some danger to your village, to your

street, to your town, that is the culture. The people come together

in one second. This is a culture.

It's a bit, OK you can tell a lot about it, and it is the same thing

here. Ethnic groups banding together in

self-defence against external threats. This too is part of the

story of London's riots. Our political editor Nick Robinson

is in Downing Street for us tonight. We've heard tough talk from the

Prime Minister today about the response to the riots. The question

is, are the resources there to deal with it? That is a question. Not

only have the tactics toughened up, but the rhetoric too. Standing away

from where I am now the Prime Minister talked about the use of

rubber bullets and water cannon. Yet, within hours of that the

Association of Chief Police Officers said they did not foresee

either having a place in dealing with these disturbances. What they

did want to hear from the Prime Minister is he would put a stop to

cuts to their budgets. They got the support not just of the Labour

Party, but significantly of the Tory Mayor of London, Boris Johnson.

Yet, despite that pressure to say they will not cut police numbers in

future, the Government say the current economic situation means

that is a promise that simply cannot be given. David Cameron very

publicly branded pockets of our society as sick today. People are

now going to want to know what the cure is. They will ask that. In a

sense what the Prime Minister is doing is trying to present this in

a particular way. He wants to ensure this has been seen, this

week, as protest and not as criminality. That it is seen as a

political, not a political problem, but a moral problem, that in other

words, this is not rioters against the Government, this is looters

against the people. It may therefore be that people then say,

well, it's a bit vague this talk of a sick society, this talk of better

morals, better values, better parenting. Much, much better for

the Prime Minister though, if it is a debate about that than a debate

he was hearing from some when I travelled into the West Midlands

today, which is, where were the authorities when we needed them?

Thank you. Coming up on tonight's programme:

He was mugged by rioters pretending to help him. Now this student from

Malaysia is recovering in a London hospital.

R The Bank of England has lowered its forecast saying the economy

will remain sluggish in the coming months. Mervyn King said inflation

could rise as high as 5% by the end of the year. He insisted that

putting up interest rates would do little to prevent it. His warning

came on another frenetic day on the market. In the US the Dow Jones

closed 4.6%, wiping out aut the gains made yesterday -- out all the

gains made yesterday. The message today is it cannot do a lot to

prevent a slowdown when the UK's financial future is linked so

closely to the United States and the eurozone. And things could go

wrong there. The big risks facing the UK economy come from the rest

of the world. We must work with our colleagues abroad to tackle the

challenge of how to reduce the overhang of private and public debt.

But, there is a limit to what UK monetary policy can do. What he

means is British companies like this one, run by Jim Watson, will

suffer if foreign markets go into reverse. It sells up-market

stationary and other luckurery items by mail order. Half goes to

overseas orders. We have seen a slight dip in sales to Europe and

the US. Whether that's to do with the summer holidays, or whether

it's to do with the economic crisis affecting people's wallets, I think

we will know early next month. does the bank think will happen

here? It has downgraded its forecast for growth for this year

and next. It thinks inflation will get to 5% in a few months time and

then fall rapidly. Probably below its 2% target in two years' time.

None of that suggests the ban sbg in any hurry to raise interest

rates. -- banks are in any hurry to raise the interest rates. What does

it all mean for consumers and workers? What do you think British

households should be expecting over the next year or so in terms of

jobs and growth? Obviously a great deal of uncertainty. No-one should

expect to know what the future holds. What we said in our report

today is we do expect growth gradually to recover. It will be

slow, but we expect a gradual recovery. The conditions for that

are in place. There was no sign of recovery in European markets today.

Shares plunged in Frankfurt, Paris and London, amid-st rumours about

the health of -- amid rumours about the health of French banks.

rumour can hit. And with Wall Street closing down

more than 4.5%, it all underlined the bank governor's point that the

UK can be at the mercy of events a long way from here.

NATO has said that its forces have killed the Taliban fighters

responsible for shooting down an American military helicopter in

Afghanistan. US helicopters circled the crash site on Saturday where 31

American personal and seven Afghan commanders were killed. It was the

largest loss -- it was the largest single loss of life for the United

States. A court has approved the extradition of a British man

plotting to kill his wife on honeymoon. Prosecutors say they

have evidence that Shrien Dewani paid a Cape Town taxi driver to

arrange the murder of his wife Anni. He denies any involvement in the

killing. The final decision will be made by the Home Secretary. There

was a new warning today on the impact of the drought in East

Africa. The latest assessment by a group of experts is that it could

last for several more months. Around 116,000 people have fled

from Somalia into Kenya this year, pouring into the refugee camp at

Dadaab, currently the big nest the world. It is home to 300,000

Somalis who fled drought and civil war in the 19le 0s.

-- 1980s. It has put a huge strain on resources at the camp.

For a few hours every day, the children of section N6 can pretend

they are like children everywhere. The play room, cocoons them from a

harsh world. The make-believe houses they build are one million

miles from their reality. And the country, well-meaning aid workers

encourage them to imagine is largely a fiction.

In fact, this boy and his brother were born here and have never been

to Somalia. Their parents left the country 20 years ago. Would you

like to go to Somalia? The answer is, no. Their parents say it's a

bad place. This massive aid operation sustains

300,000 people who fled the Somali conflict of the 1990s. They have

never gone back. They need help, but they are not starving.

Three out of every four people you see in the camp have got nothing to

do with the current crisis. In some cases they have been collecting

their rations like this for a decade or more. It is a graphic

reminder there is a deeper problem at work than this year's drought

alone. It begs a question - is all this aid solving a problem or

simply prolonging it? This woman has an answer. It is not one for

the faint-hearted. Let the aid be stopped, then we'll have to go back

home. Some will die. Others will find a solution.

Over the years, parts of Dadaab refugee camp have begun to look

more and more like a town. There are markets, mebgkanics, even a --

mechanics, even a juice maker. Refugees sell a part of their

ration and spend what they get at one shop with other traders.

TRANSLATION: Of course it would be better to run our business in our

country. This war is going on in Somalia. And the failure to solve

the deep-seated crisis drives a new generation across the border.

Another mother, building another shelter in this no-man's-land of

hopelessness. Cricket now. And England's bowlers

dominated day one of the third Test against India. England lead the

four-match series 2-0. They know one more victory would see them

take over from India as the number one side in the world. England's

batsmen were 84 without loss at the close of play.

If the beat goes on, the cricket must follow. Fans did their best to

maintain enthusiasm and sense of the bizarre. It means it's business

as usual. The play was blissfully familiar for England. A faint brush

with the glove, revealed on replay dismissed Virender Sehwag first

ball. Many of the dismissals were obvious. Bresnan too good for

Gambhir. Sachin Tendulkar came and went

before lunch. Great names, struggling to live up to their

reputations. Dravid could not resist this time. Now, perhaps

sensing there was little to lose MS Dhoni remembered his aggression.

Here was the captain who won India the World Cup. Dhoni threw his bat

once too often. England were all out soon after. England batting.

Coaker and Strauss put on a 50 partnership. Another day when

England look like the world's best team. It's a great day of Test

Cricket for us. To stick and be 80 odd is a day you would take if you

got offered it at the start of play, which, I am sure is a massive

cliche, but it's definitely true. England's cricketers promise to do

something here to lift the mood of the nation. So far, their

performance has been almost faultless.

Let's go back now to our main story and the violence that has swept

cities in England for the past four nights. One image which has shocked

the world is of an injured young man helped to his feet in the

middle of a riot and then robbed T today the 20-year-old student from

Malaysia has been recovering in a London hospital.

These images have come to define a vicious mind-set on display on

British streets this week. The 20 year old foreigner, bloodied,

dazed, being robbed by those who pretended to help him.

He took something from his bag! This is him at the Royal London

Hospital, where he had surgery today on his broken jaw. He says he

hit the ground when attackers pulled him from his bike. Then

others in the group threatened to stab him. He's one of 14,000

Malaysian students in Britain. Many scared by what they have seen here,

as I heard from the diplomat who oversees their welfare. It's very

disturbing. You don't do that to somebody who is just harmless.

does it make you think about London and the people who could do that?

Well, basically my... I have a strong relationship with the

British people here. They have always been very well mannered,

very gentlemanly in their ways tosm see this happening is just -- ways,

to see this happening is just p... Here at the high commission they

say they are his family for now and they are working on bringing his

parents here to see him. As for interest back home, a senior

diplomat tells me everyone in Malaysia knows what happened to