11/08/2011

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:00:11. > :00:16.A scale of criminality not seen for decades. The Prime Minister's words

:00:16. > :00:20.as Parliament is recalled for an emergency session on the riots.

:00:20. > :00:23.A pledge to hundred down the rioters one by one. David Cameron

:00:23. > :00:29.says they will face the law whatever it takes.

:00:29. > :00:34.We will track you down, we will find you, we will charge you, we

:00:34. > :00:37.will punish you. You will pay for what you have done. Today as the

:00:37. > :00:41.House of Commons we stand shoulder to shoulder, united against the

:00:41. > :00:44.vandalism and the violence we have seen on the streets.

:00:44. > :00:49.The days when rioters claimed the streets. There is criticism of the

:00:49. > :00:52.police tactics when the trouble started. A 12-year-old boy is

:00:52. > :00:58.sentenced in Manchester. Half of those appearing in the London

:00:58. > :01:02.courts are under 18. The malaisian student robbed while he was hurt

:01:02. > :01:07.and helpless speaks for the first time about his attackers.

:01:07. > :01:12.I felt sorry for them, but it was really sad, amongst them there were

:01:12. > :01:17.children. It was very sad.

:01:17. > :01:22.We return to Tottenham where it all began. Also tonight: George Osborne

:01:22. > :01:26.says that the recovery will take longer than he hoped. He warns the

:01:26. > :01:31.global economy is facing its toughest test for three years.

:01:31. > :01:38.Batting their way to the top spot in Test cricket, England dominate

:01:38. > :01:43.India at Edgbaston. I'm here with Sports Day later in

:01:43. > :01:53.the hour. With the latest on the PGA

:01:53. > :02:04.

:02:04. > :02:07.championship as Rory McIlroy plays Good evening.

:02:07. > :02:12.A packed House of Commons heard the Prime Minister describe this week's

:02:12. > :02:16.riots as a scale of law-breaking not seen for decades. There was

:02:16. > :02:22.universal condemnation of the violence with Ed Miliband saying

:02:22. > :02:25.that Labour stood shoulder to shoulder with the Government. David

:02:25. > :02:29.Cameron outlined a range of measures to help track down the

:02:29. > :02:32.rioters and to help businesses affected by the violence, but there

:02:32. > :02:38.was criticism of the police response when the violence first

:02:38. > :02:44.broke out. We are reporting on the riots, the cause and the victims.

:02:44. > :02:48.First, Nick Robertson on the day that Parliament was recalled.

:02:48. > :02:53.A smash and grab raid in south London. Today, though, it was the

:02:53. > :02:56.police doing it. With the cameras invited along to witness a suspect

:02:56. > :03:00.being halled in. They and their political masters

:03:00. > :03:03.want the message to go out, that the streets of Britain are back

:03:03. > :03:07.under control. To the law-abiding people who play

:03:07. > :03:12.by the rules, who are the overwhelming majority of our

:03:12. > :03:15.country, I say that the fight-back has begun. We will protect you. If

:03:15. > :03:21.you have had your livelihood and roent damaged, we will compensate

:03:21. > :03:25.you. We are on your side. To the lawless minority, the criminals who

:03:25. > :03:31.have taken what they can get, I say this, we will track you down, find

:03:31. > :03:34.you, charge you, punish you. You will pay for what you have done. A

:03:34. > :03:37.packed House of Commons spoke as one during this special emergency

:03:37. > :03:42.session, almost as if the country were at war.

:03:42. > :03:45.Whatever we disagree on, week by week, month by month, today as a

:03:45. > :03:50.House of Commons we stand shoulder to shoulder, united against the

:03:50. > :03:55.vandalism and the violence we have seen on our streets. There can be

:03:55. > :03:59.no excuses. No justification, this behaviour has disgusted us all it

:03:59. > :04:03.cannot be allowed to stand, we will not allow it to stand.

:04:03. > :04:08.The bravery of individual police officers caught up in the violence

:04:08. > :04:14.was praised on all sides, but there was wide spread criticism that

:04:14. > :04:17.thinker boss' decisions, the tactics and of the numbers on the

:04:17. > :04:21.streets. What became clear, there were too

:04:21. > :04:25.few police deployed on the streets and the tactics they were using

:04:25. > :04:30.were not working. The police chiefs have been frank about why this

:04:30. > :04:32.happened. The police treated the situation too much as a public

:04:32. > :04:36.order issue, rather than one of crime.

:04:36. > :04:41.The Prime Minister said in future combating gangs would be a national

:04:41. > :04:46.priority, the police powers to remove face masks would be extended

:04:46. > :04:52.and discussions to limit the use of the internet and instant messaging

:04:52. > :04:58.to coordinate criminal con %. The week that Britain would rather

:04:58. > :05:02.forget began in Tottenham. Today the MP for the area spelled out the

:05:02. > :05:06.anger of his constituents. 45 people have lost their homes in

:05:06. > :05:11.Tottenham. Burnt to the ground, running from their homes, carrying

:05:11. > :05:16.children in their arms, the cry is where were the police? In Croydon

:05:16. > :05:19.on Monday they were asking the same question. According to the local MP,

:05:19. > :05:22.who said that his constituency had become a war zone.

:05:22. > :05:27.I plead with Prime Minister on the behalf of my constituents to think

:05:27. > :05:32.again about the police numbers. The people of Croydon, the people of

:05:32. > :05:36.London want more police in London, not fewer.

:05:36. > :05:39.Salford's MPs said on Tuesday there were too few police and too many

:05:39. > :05:43.under orders not to intervene. Will the Prime Minister give full

:05:43. > :05:47.backing to the police to intervene in the circumstances, because it

:05:47. > :05:51.was the case that some officers had instructions where they did not

:05:51. > :05:55.have riot gear, where they were not trained, that they had to stand by

:05:55. > :05:59.and watch what happened. The effect on public confidence is devastating.

:05:59. > :06:03.The Prime Minister said up to 16,000 officers would remain

:06:03. > :06:07.available to the streets of London to be policed tonight and through

:06:07. > :06:11.the weekend. The problem he insists is not the future Government cuts,

:06:11. > :06:14.but the current police policies which keep officers stuck behind

:06:14. > :06:19.desks. I can make a clear pledge to the

:06:19. > :06:23.House. At the end of this process of ensuring that the police budgets

:06:23. > :06:28.are affordable, we will be able to surge as many police on to the

:06:29. > :06:32.streets as we have in recent days in London, in Wolverhampton, in

:06:32. > :06:37.Manchester. One by one officers are identifying those that they believe

:06:37. > :06:41.should be brought to justice. Today, politicians united to

:06:41. > :06:48.condemn this week's violence, but they divided on the future of the

:06:48. > :06:53.police. So far 1,500 people have been

:06:53. > :06:57.arrested. Half of those appearing in court in London are under 18. In

:06:57. > :07:03.Manchester a 12-year-old boy was among those sentenced today. His

:07:03. > :07:08.mother shouted abuse at reporters as the family left the court. Our

:07:08. > :07:13.UK Affairs Correspondent spent the day in the courts.

:07:13. > :07:19.In court and not even a teenager. We can't identify this boy as he is

:07:19. > :07:23.only 12 years old. Today he was given a nine-month referral order

:07:23. > :07:27.after admitting looting in riots in Manchester. His parents are being

:07:27. > :07:31.hold responsible for the sins of their child. His mother criticised

:07:31. > :07:36.by the magistrates. (BLEEP).

:07:36. > :07:41.And walking out of court in Nottingham, an 11-year-old girl,

:07:41. > :07:45.hiding her face behind a black hood. One month out of primary school she

:07:45. > :07:50.pleaded guilty to criminal damage and smirked when asked to apologise.

:07:50. > :07:54.They are two of the hundreds of people appearing in koirts after

:07:54. > :08:00.evenings spent stealing and vandalising in cities across

:08:00. > :08:03.England. Many are adults but large numbers are in their teams. Some

:08:03. > :08:08.say that they were powerless to stop the trouble.

:08:08. > :08:13.I can't tie him to a bed, I'm in the allowed to. I can't hit him,

:08:13. > :08:18.I'm not allowed to. I can't lock him in his room. I'm not allowed to.

:08:18. > :08:23.Pictures here give an idea of the sheer numbers involved in this one

:08:23. > :08:27.robbery. The owners say that those responsible need to be punished.

:08:27. > :08:33.If you were here looting, you were not caught up in the moment, you

:08:33. > :08:38.made of point of coming into town. You may have been looking and

:08:38. > :08:42.caught up, so, you came in. Here in Manchester there are many

:08:42. > :08:46.windows boarded up and many properties damaged. As for the

:08:46. > :08:51.police, they are still trying to identify all of those responsible.

:08:51. > :08:55.Across England more than 1,500 people have been arrested. Over 600

:08:55. > :08:58.have appeared before the courts. There are warnings that those

:08:58. > :09:02.convicted could lose the right to a council house.

:09:02. > :09:06.We have the power to evict people guilty of criminal or antisocial

:09:06. > :09:12.behaviour within the city. The question I'm asking... You are

:09:12. > :09:16.not asking nothing. This has left families upset. 17-

:09:16. > :09:19.year-old Anthony Lloyd lives here, he is awaiting sentence after

:09:19. > :09:24.admitting looting. I don't like the riots, but that

:09:24. > :09:30.has nothing to do with coming here. But he is a member of your family.

:09:30. > :09:34.He is in jail for the riots? We are going to pay for it, so don't worry

:09:34. > :09:37.about it. Hest who is without sin cast the first stone.

:09:37. > :09:43.But members of the other families know that the police are studying

:09:43. > :09:47.the many faces of those suspected of being a part of this trouble.

:09:47. > :09:50.And Nick Robertson is at Westminster for us. Nick, as you

:09:50. > :09:55.expect, there was praise for the police in the Commons, but you

:09:55. > :09:58.could not get away from the fact that there was criticism? There is

:09:58. > :10:03.a consensus, that there should have been more police and a criticism

:10:03. > :10:06.too of their tactics, but after the unity there was division between

:10:06. > :10:10.the political parties with Labour MPs lining up to say that now is

:10:10. > :10:14.not the time to cut budgets in such a way that there will be cuts in

:10:14. > :10:19.the police officers. Whilst the Government insisted it was possible

:10:19. > :10:22.to make the cuts without front line cuts to the police. Officers, why?

:10:22. > :10:25.Because they insist that the problem is the wrong decision-

:10:25. > :10:30.making by the senior police officers. Using as an illustration

:10:30. > :10:35.the fact that this week in London we went from 3,000 police officers

:10:35. > :10:40.on the streets to 16,000 police officers on the streets. That was

:10:40. > :10:44.after the politicians interfered to say that something more must be

:10:44. > :10:48.done. Tonight the President of The Association of Chief of Police

:10:48. > :10:51.Officers, Sir Hugh Orde, appeared on Newsnight and will enter the

:10:51. > :10:55.fray to say that the budget cuts will mean fewer officers. If the

:10:55. > :10:59.Prime Minister wants what he says, more people on the front line, he

:10:59. > :11:03.will have to sack sent that something has to give.

:11:03. > :11:07.-- he will have to accept that something has to give.

:11:07. > :11:12.Are you surprised about the hand wringing, how little there was of

:11:12. > :11:17.it of the causes much the riots? We would have expected this debate

:11:17. > :11:21.to be dominated by questions of protest, politics, race, perhaps,

:11:22. > :11:27.of deprivation. Yet they barely featured in today's debate. There

:11:27. > :11:31.seemed to be another consensus a monks MPs that this was about

:11:32. > :11:35.criminality, about something that had gone badly wrong in society.

:11:35. > :11:37.Now Labour leader, Ed Miliband, says that the answer is to look for

:11:38. > :11:42.a public inquiry to investigate this.

:11:42. > :11:46.David Cameron on the other hand says, it is a chance to revive his

:11:46. > :11:51.theme of the broken society. It is ground on which, surprisingly, he

:11:51. > :11:54.finds himself comfortable indeed. Thank you.

:11:54. > :12:00.Police in Birmingham investigating the deaths of three men have

:12:00. > :12:04.arrested two teenagers and a man. Brothers, Shazad Ali and Abdul

:12:04. > :12:08.Musavir along with Haroon Jahan were trying to protect shops from

:12:08. > :12:11.looters when they were mown down by a hit-and-run driver. A 32-year-old

:12:11. > :12:15.man who is being questioned has been released on bail.

:12:15. > :12:19.The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has said that the disorder of the

:12:19. > :12:23.recent days is a symbol of a deeper malaise in sofplt the violence

:12:23. > :12:29.began after a peaceful protest about the shooting by the police of

:12:29. > :12:33.a man in Tottenham in north London. Our Home Editor Mark Easton has

:12:33. > :12:41.spent the day there to talk to the locals about what they think lies

:12:41. > :12:45.behind the riots. Where the madness began. Tottenham High Road, trying

:12:45. > :12:50.to make sense of what happened that night. What was going through the

:12:50. > :12:58.heads that burnt and took to robbery. Was it going -- was it

:12:58. > :13:03.grievance on greed? Niece lads dripping with designer staples show

:13:03. > :13:07.the young men who feel excluded from the consumer society that they

:13:07. > :13:12.so much care about. Do you think that anything about

:13:12. > :13:17.what was said was justify final? Was it a protest? I think it was

:13:17. > :13:23.the best protest that ever happened. The best, ever.

:13:23. > :13:26.The copy-cat violence may have been no more than opportunism, but in

:13:26. > :13:30.Tottenham, while thought unacceptable, that the Prime

:13:30. > :13:34.Minister was wrong to think it was gang-related.

:13:35. > :13:37.I have heard people say how can they destroy their community, but I

:13:37. > :13:42.don't think that those who have been doing the violence feel a part

:13:42. > :13:47.of the community. I think that they have been disengaged from us for a

:13:47. > :13:50.long time. A jeweller whose business was

:13:50. > :13:53.trashed took issue with the argument.

:13:53. > :13:58.Some people are trying to say because the youths are being

:13:58. > :14:02.checked by the police, searched by the police. They have to be.

:14:02. > :14:07.this is what we are exploring. Two responses from the people I

:14:07. > :14:10.have met here. One is that David Cameron is right, that it is about

:14:10. > :14:15.discipline, about the personal responsibility, about parenting,

:14:15. > :14:25.but the other is that there are underlying social and economic

:14:25. > :14:28.

:14:28. > :14:36.factors which if unaddressed will Most of the people who are looting

:14:36. > :14:41.have these things already. They had the Nikes, the �100 Janes. So this

:14:41. > :14:45.isn't about deprivation or racism? No, it's not racism or deprivation.

:14:45. > :14:48.Sometimes it's about senseless violence. Outwardly there's a

:14:48. > :14:53.determination to move on. But privately, this is a community

:14:53. > :14:59.anxious that the root causes of Saturday night's inSanity won't be

:14:59. > :15:02.addressed by tough soundbites and condemnation.

:15:02. > :15:07.Today David Cameron said the whole country had been shocked by this

:15:07. > :15:11.week's appalling scenes. Among them footage of a Malaysian student

:15:11. > :15:14.being mugged by rioters pretending to help him. They've now been

:15:14. > :15:20.broadcast around the world. Tonight police arrested a man in connection

:15:20. > :15:24.with the attack. And Ashraf Haziq has been speaking for the first

:15:24. > :15:29.time. When he watch that's video of

:15:29. > :15:33.himself being mugged, Ashraf Haziq says it doesn't seem real. There is

:15:33. > :15:39.no disputing that instead of being helped after being assaulted, some

:15:39. > :15:43.youths simply help themselves to the contents of his bag. Today, the

:15:43. > :15:52.20-year-old student spoke of his ordeal, just a day after undergoing

:15:52. > :15:57.surgery on his jaw. The doctor put some metal inside and it hurts my

:15:57. > :16:03.mouth because there's metal inside. So far it's good. How do you feel

:16:03. > :16:09.about those people who did what they did? I feel sorry for them,

:16:09. > :16:18.but it was really sad, because amongst them there were children.

:16:18. > :16:24.It was very sad. Did that shock you that they were quite young? Yeah.

:16:24. > :16:30.He was in primary school, I think. It was quite shocking. Far from

:16:30. > :16:34.fleeing from the UK, he's told his mother he plans on staying here to

:16:34. > :16:41.finish his accountancy studies. spoke to her yesterday. She was

:16:41. > :16:44.really worried. She wants me to go back home, but I refused. After his

:16:44. > :16:49.ordeal on Monday and after having to undergo surgery yesterday,

:16:49. > :16:53.Ashraf Haziq has shown an incredible amount of bravery coming

:16:53. > :16:58.to talk to us today. I asked him how he keeps so positive. He just

:16:58. > :17:01.laughed and said, "I don't know." The ordeal has been watched by

:17:01. > :17:05.millions on the internet. It's led to thousands of pounds being raised

:17:05. > :17:10.for him by well wishers to help him through the rest of his stay in

:17:10. > :17:15.Britain. And coming up on tonight's

:17:15. > :17:25.programme: England power on against India in their quest to be the best

:17:25. > :17:26.

:17:26. > :17:30.The Chancellor, George Osborne, has conceded that Britain's economic

:17:30. > :17:33.recovery would be longer and harder than hoped amid renewed turmoil on

:17:33. > :17:39.global markets. He defended the Government's efforts to tackle the

:17:39. > :17:45.deficit, saying it had made the country a saifbhaven for investors.

:17:45. > :17:49.Ed Balls said the Chancellor was in denial.

:17:50. > :17:53.These are extraordinary times in the markets, with the global shares

:17:53. > :17:58.plunge beginning last week. interrupt your regular programme.

:17:58. > :18:02.The closing bell is ringing now... Fears the governments defaulting on

:18:03. > :18:06.debts and a possible second recession have scared investors. So,

:18:06. > :18:11.troubled waters, and that's why the Chancellor wanted to brief MPs. He

:18:11. > :18:14.said the UK was a secure port in the storm. George Osborne

:18:14. > :18:18.acknowledged life would be difficult for awhile. The whole

:18:18. > :18:23.world now realises that the huge overhang of debt means that the

:18:23. > :18:27.recovery will take longer and be harder than had been hoped. Markets

:18:27. > :18:31.are waking up to this fact and that is what makes this the most

:18:32. > :18:36.dangerous time for the global economy since 2008. He said his

:18:36. > :18:41.deficit-cutting plan would secure the UK's future. These bold steps

:18:41. > :18:46.have made Britain that safehaven in this sovereign debt storm. Labour

:18:46. > :18:49.threw those words back at the Chancellor. Families and businesses,

:18:49. > :18:56.deeply worried about their jobs and mortgages, will hear the

:18:56. > :19:00.Chancellor's talk of saifbhaven and conclude he is deeply complacent or

:19:00. > :19:03.in complete denial about what is going on in our country. What's

:19:03. > :19:09.said over there in Parliament, the success of the Chancellor's

:19:09. > :19:12.strategy will depend on what goes on along -- a long way from here.

:19:12. > :19:16.There hasn't been much economic growth over the last nine months

:19:16. > :19:20.and he needs more of it if he's going to pull in the tax revenues

:19:20. > :19:24.to bring down the deficit. Companies like this are still

:19:24. > :19:27.waving their way through a challenging economic landscape. It

:19:27. > :19:30.designs and markets home furnishings. The boss isn't

:19:30. > :19:35.convinced bit Chancellor's recovery plan. There's no confidence out

:19:35. > :19:40.there. Whilst we accept there has to be austerity measures and has to

:19:40. > :19:45.be cuts, you also have got to encourage growth. At the moment

:19:45. > :19:49.nothing the Government is doing is fuelling any growth. Mr Osborne

:19:49. > :19:53.says he is implementing an ambitious growth strategy. He also

:19:53. > :19:59.points out that Britain's grown faster this year than the US. Some,

:19:59. > :20:02.like this company, feel he needs to show he really means business.

:20:02. > :20:06.It's not just in Britain that MPs have been recalled. Some Italian

:20:06. > :20:10.politicians have had to break their holidays for an emergency session

:20:10. > :20:15.on the country's economic crisis. Worries over the size of Italy's

:20:15. > :20:24.debt have forced the government to speed up its austerity drive. Gavin

:20:24. > :20:29.Hewitt reports from Naples. Four markets, Italy is the big one,

:20:29. > :20:32.the financial eruption they fear. For this country is too big to be

:20:32. > :20:37.bailed out if it can't meet debt repayments. On the streets of

:20:37. > :20:46.Naples, everything is marked down. The problem for the government is

:20:46. > :20:50.that Italy's debt has reached �1.6 trillion. Today the Italian finance

:20:50. > :20:54.minister briefed MPs on possible measures to tackle the debt crisis.

:20:54. > :20:57.They included balancing the budget, making it ease tkwrorhoir and fire

:20:57. > :21:04.workers and even moving public holidays to Sunday to boost

:21:04. > :21:08.productivity. In all of this, where will the growth come from? Take

:21:09. > :21:18.this resort. It's a successful business, but the manager sums up

:21:19. > :21:19.

:21:19. > :21:23.his frustration in one word - buer Rossracy. -- ruer rockracy.

:21:23. > :21:28.Italy they have this thing where whatever they decide to do, they

:21:28. > :21:34.can never be fired. They can steal, go sick leave as long as they want.

:21:34. > :21:38.For ten years Italy's growth has been anaemic. Rosaria understands

:21:38. > :21:42.the lack of growth. She is part of the 60% of young people in Naples

:21:42. > :21:46.without work. TRANSLATION: I live with my mum and

:21:46. > :21:50.she's helping me. It's difficult because I'm 25. I'd like to have a

:21:50. > :21:56.family, but I can't because I haven't got a job. The problem for

:21:56. > :22:00.Italy is that all the signs point to an economy stagnating. So, the

:22:00. > :22:03.big fear remains that Italy won't grow fast enough to bring down its

:22:03. > :22:07.debts and certainly the markets fear that. For the moment, the

:22:07. > :22:13.European Central Bank is intervening, helping to drive down

:22:13. > :22:18.Italy's borrowing costs, but that can only be a short-term measure.

:22:18. > :22:23.There's a dilemma here and not just for Italy. Like other countries,

:22:23. > :22:30.it's planning to make big cuts. Yet at the same time, it needs its

:22:30. > :22:33.economy to grow to help reduce its debts.

:22:33. > :22:37.Cricket now and England are on course to claim the world number

:22:37. > :22:40.one ranking, after dominating the second day of the third Test

:22:40. > :22:46.against India at Edgbaston. The home side are building a commanding

:22:46. > :22:56.lead, helped by an unbeaten 182 from Alastair Cook. England ended

:22:56. > :23:01.

:23:01. > :23:07.the day 456 for three in reply to Sentri duty, on hand to advise,

:23:07. > :23:11.seeking seats, no problem. Who now can possibly come to the assistance

:23:11. > :23:16.of India? England's opening batsmen rediscovered their form against

:23:16. > :23:21.Indian bowling that was puppy dog, gentle and tame. Strauss and Cook

:23:21. > :23:25.took their partnership to 186. Strauss eventually seemed to

:23:25. > :23:30.confuse himself, losing his wicket to Mishra for 87. Cook pressed on.

:23:30. > :23:37.Is this a dive in the field or just a collapse? Four more said the

:23:37. > :23:43.score. India did get rid of Bell. That just brought in Pietersen.

:23:44. > :23:49.England's batting goes on and on these days. Pietersen went for 63,

:23:49. > :23:53.but Cook relentless, reached 150. England's lead already looks

:23:53. > :23:57.decisive and there are three days left in the Test. There's no way

:23:57. > :24:01.this game's won or close to being won. We've got to go out tomorrow

:24:01. > :24:06.and score a lot of runs. I don't think it's going to be batting last

:24:06. > :24:12.will be easy on this wicket. many more could England score? If

:24:12. > :24:16.the skies stay reasonably blue, the sky's the limit.

:24:16. > :24:19.Returning to our main story, and the aftermath of this week's riots.

:24:20. > :24:24.Fears over security have led to the postponement of the Premier League

:24:24. > :24:26.match between Tottenham and Everton. All other games will go ahead. But

:24:26. > :24:31.the Prime Minister says some matches may now be played earlier

:24:31. > :24:36.in the day to assist police. David Bond looks at what role

:24:36. > :24:40.football and footballers could play in rebuilding communities fractured

:24:40. > :24:44.by this week's events. The return of the self-proclaimed

:24:44. > :24:51.most exciting league in the world should have been a high point in an

:24:52. > :24:55.otherwise troubled English summer. Berbatov! Wonderful.

:24:55. > :24:59.Tottenham were due to kick off the season against Everton at their

:24:59. > :25:05.White Hart Lane ground, seen here in the distance. Instead, the

:25:05. > :25:08.violence that flared on the club's doorstep last weekend today forced

:25:08. > :25:13.the postponement of that match. The head of the Premier League says the

:25:13. > :25:16.other nine matches should go ahead. We want the matches on, not for

:25:17. > :25:20.selfish reasons, just because we're a part of the normal fabric of

:25:21. > :25:24.English life. We want normality to resume to our streets, that

:25:24. > :25:28.includes football. England's top players are often accused of

:25:28. > :25:32.setting the wrong sort of example. But with the friendly international

:25:32. > :25:38.against the Netherlands conseld due to the riots, some, at least, tried

:25:38. > :25:42.to reach out. Rio Ferdinand and Wayne Rooney used their Twitter

:25:42. > :25:45.accounts to post messages appealing for calm.

:25:45. > :25:50.Many players, like the England captain, came from underprivileged

:25:50. > :25:55.backgrounds. He might be rich now, but he says it's important players

:25:55. > :25:59.don't forget where they came from. All we can do is collectively come

:25:59. > :26:03.together and send a message out that we urge for calm on the

:26:03. > :26:08.streets. They know that we've been in a very similar position to where

:26:08. > :26:12.they are. Football clubs now invest millions

:26:12. > :26:17.of pounds in community projects like this one, run by Arsenal in

:26:17. > :26:22.Islington in North London. But can multimillionaire players, playing

:26:22. > :26:26.at clubs which have become increasingly expensive to get into

:26:26. > :26:31.really make a difference to kids from deprived areas like these?

:26:31. > :26:35.They've got big cars, big houses and yeah, they're having a nice

:26:35. > :26:40.life. Some people don't even have a job, cars. They live in the streets.

:26:40. > :26:44.What did you think about it when you were watching it on television?

:26:44. > :26:49.I thought two years ago, maybe, but now I'm doing this and that, no.

:26:49. > :26:52.Too much to lose. Superstars like Rooney have turned the Premier

:26:52. > :26:57.League into one of the richest and biggest sporting brands in the

:26:57. > :27:03.world. The last week has shown that even football cannot forget its