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A scale of criminality not seen for decades. The Prime Minister's words

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as Parliament is recalled for an emergency session on the riots.

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A pledge to hundred down the rioters one by one. David Cameron

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says they will face the law whatever it takes.

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We will track you down, we will find you, we will charge you, we

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will punish you. You will pay for what you have done. Today as the

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House of Commons we stand shoulder to shoulder, united against the

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vandalism and the violence we have seen on the streets.

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The days when rioters claimed the streets. There is criticism of the

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police tactics when the trouble started. A 12-year-old boy is

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sentenced in Manchester. Half of those appearing in the London

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courts are under 18. The malaisian student robbed while he was hurt

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and helpless speaks for the first time about his attackers.

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I felt sorry for them, but it was really sad, amongst them there were

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children. It was very sad.

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We return to Tottenham where it all began. Also tonight: George Osborne

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says that the recovery will take longer than he hoped. He warns the

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global economy is facing its toughest test for three years.

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Batting their way to the top spot in Test cricket, England dominate

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India at Edgbaston. I'm here with Sports Day later in

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the hour. With the latest on the PGA

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championship as Rory McIlroy plays Good evening.

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A packed House of Commons heard the Prime Minister describe this week's

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riots as a scale of law-breaking not seen for decades. There was

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universal condemnation of the violence with Ed Miliband saying

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that Labour stood shoulder to shoulder with the Government. David

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Cameron outlined a range of measures to help track down the

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rioters and to help businesses affected by the violence, but there

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was criticism of the police response when the violence first

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broke out. We are reporting on the riots, the cause and the victims.

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First, Nick Robertson on the day that Parliament was recalled.

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A smash and grab raid in south London. Today, though, it was the

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police doing it. With the cameras invited along to witness a suspect

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being halled in. They and their political masters

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want the message to go out, that the streets of Britain are back

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under control. To the law-abiding people who play

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by the rules, who are the overwhelming majority of our

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country, I say that the fight-back has begun. We will protect you. If

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you have had your livelihood and roent damaged, we will compensate

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you. We are on your side. To the lawless minority, the criminals who

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have taken what they can get, I say this, we will track you down, find

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you, charge you, punish you. You will pay for what you have done. A

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packed House of Commons spoke as one during this special emergency

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session, almost as if the country were at war.

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Whatever we disagree on, week by week, month by month, today as a

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House of Commons we stand shoulder to shoulder, united against the

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vandalism and the violence we have seen on our streets. There can be

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no excuses. No justification, this behaviour has disgusted us all it

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cannot be allowed to stand, we will not allow it to stand.

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The bravery of individual police officers caught up in the violence

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was praised on all sides, but there was wide spread criticism that

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thinker boss' decisions, the tactics and of the numbers on the

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streets. What became clear, there were too

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few police deployed on the streets and the tactics they were using

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were not working. The police chiefs have been frank about why this

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happened. The police treated the situation too much as a public

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order issue, rather than one of crime.

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The Prime Minister said in future combating gangs would be a national

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priority, the police powers to remove face masks would be extended

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and discussions to limit the use of the internet and instant messaging

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to coordinate criminal con %. The week that Britain would rather

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forget began in Tottenham. Today the MP for the area spelled out the

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anger of his constituents. 45 people have lost their homes in

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Tottenham. Burnt to the ground, running from their homes, carrying

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children in their arms, the cry is where were the police? In Croydon

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on Monday they were asking the same question. According to the local MP,

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who said that his constituency had become a war zone.

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I plead with Prime Minister on the behalf of my constituents to think

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again about the police numbers. The people of Croydon, the people of

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London want more police in London, not fewer.

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Salford's MPs said on Tuesday there were too few police and too many

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under orders not to intervene. Will the Prime Minister give full

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backing to the police to intervene in the circumstances, because it

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was the case that some officers had instructions where they did not

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have riot gear, where they were not trained, that they had to stand by

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and watch what happened. The effect on public confidence is devastating.

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The Prime Minister said up to 16,000 officers would remain

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available to the streets of London to be policed tonight and through

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the weekend. The problem he insists is not the future Government cuts,

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but the current police policies which keep officers stuck behind

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desks. I can make a clear pledge to the

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House. At the end of this process of ensuring that the police budgets

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are affordable, we will be able to surge as many police on to the

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streets as we have in recent days in London, in Wolverhampton, in

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Manchester. One by one officers are identifying those that they believe

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should be brought to justice. Today, politicians united to

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condemn this week's violence, but they divided on the future of the

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police. So far 1,500 people have been

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arrested. Half of those appearing in court in London are under 18. In

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Manchester a 12-year-old boy was among those sentenced today. His

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mother shouted abuse at reporters as the family left the court. Our

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UK Affairs Correspondent spent the day in the courts.

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In court and not even a teenager. We can't identify this boy as he is

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only 12 years old. Today he was given a nine-month referral order

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after admitting looting in riots in Manchester. His parents are being

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hold responsible for the sins of their child. His mother criticised

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by the magistrates. (BLEEP).

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And walking out of court in Nottingham, an 11-year-old girl,

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hiding her face behind a black hood. One month out of primary school she

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pleaded guilty to criminal damage and smirked when asked to apologise.

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They are two of the hundreds of people appearing in koirts after

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evenings spent stealing and vandalising in cities across

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England. Many are adults but large numbers are in their teams. Some

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say that they were powerless to stop the trouble.

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

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I'm not allowed to. I can't lock him in his room. I'm not allowed to.

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Pictures here give an idea of the sheer numbers involved in this one

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robbery. The owners say that those responsible need to be punished.

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If you were here looting, you were not caught up in the moment, you

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made of point of coming into town. You may have been looking and

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caught up, so, you came in. Here in Manchester there are many

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windows boarded up and many properties damaged. As for the

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police, they are still trying to identify all of those responsible.

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Across England more than 1,500 people have been arrested. Over 600

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have appeared before the courts. There are warnings that those

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convicted could lose the right to a council house.

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We have the power to evict people guilty of criminal or antisocial

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behaviour within the city. The question I'm asking... You are

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not asking nothing. This has left families upset. 17-

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year-old Anthony Lloyd lives here, he is awaiting sentence after

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admitting looting. I don't like the riots, but that

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has nothing to do with coming here. But he is a member of your family.

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He is in jail for the riots? We are going to pay for it, so don't worry

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about it. Hest who is without sin cast the first stone.

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But members of the other families know that the police are studying

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the many faces of those suspected of being a part of this trouble.

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And Nick Robertson is at Westminster for us. Nick, as you

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expect, there was praise for the police in the Commons, but you

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could not get away from the fact that there was criticism? There is

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a consensus, that there should have been more police and a criticism

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too of their tactics, but after the unity there was division between

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the political parties with Labour MPs lining up to say that now is

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not the time to cut budgets in such a way that there will be cuts in

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the police officers. Whilst the Government insisted it was possible

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to make the cuts without front line cuts to the police. Officers, why?

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Because they insist that the problem is the wrong decision-

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making by the senior police officers. Using as an illustration

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the fact that this week in London we went from 3,000 police officers

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on the streets to 16,000 police officers on the streets. That was

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after the politicians interfered to say that something more must be

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done. Tonight the President of The Association of Chief of Police

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Officers, Sir Hugh Orde, appeared on Newsnight and will enter the

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fray to say that the budget cuts will mean fewer officers. If the

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Prime Minister wants what he says, more people on the front line, he

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will have to sack sent that something has to give.

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-- he will have to accept that something has to give.

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Are you surprised about the hand wringing, how little there was of

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it of the causes much the riots? We would have expected this debate

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to be dominated by questions of protest, politics, race, perhaps,

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of deprivation. Yet they barely featured in today's debate. There

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seemed to be another consensus a monks MPs that this was about

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criminality, about something that had gone badly wrong in society.

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Now Labour leader, Ed Miliband, says that the answer is to look for

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a public inquiry to investigate this.

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David Cameron on the other hand says, it is a chance to revive his

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theme of the broken society. It is ground on which, surprisingly, he

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finds himself comfortable indeed. Thank you.

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Police in Birmingham investigating the deaths of three men have

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arrested two teenagers and a man. Brothers, Shazad Ali and Abdul

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Musavir along with Haroon Jahan were trying to protect shops from

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looters when they were mown down by a hit-and-run driver. A 32-year-old

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man who is being questioned has been released on bail.

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The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has said that the disorder of the

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recent days is a symbol of a deeper malaise in sofplt the violence

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began after a peaceful protest about the shooting by the police of

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a man in Tottenham in north London. Our Home Editor Mark Easton has

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spent the day there to talk to the locals about what they think lies

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behind the riots. Where the madness began. Tottenham High Road, trying

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to make sense of what happened that night. What was going through the

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heads that burnt and took to robbery. Was it going -- was it

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grievance on greed? Niece lads dripping with designer staples show

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the young men who feel excluded from the consumer society that they

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so much care about. Do you think that anything about

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what was said was justify final? Was it a protest? I think it was

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the best protest that ever happened. The best, ever.

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The copy-cat violence may have been no more than opportunism, but in

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Tottenham, while thought unacceptable, that the Prime

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Minister was wrong to think it was gang-related.

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I have heard people say how can they destroy their community, but I

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don't think that those who have been doing the violence feel a part

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of the community. I think that they have been disengaged from us for a

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long time. A jeweller whose business was

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trashed took issue with the argument.

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Some people are trying to say because the youths are being

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checked by the police, searched by the police. They have to be.

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this is what we are exploring. Two responses from the people I

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have met here. One is that David Cameron is right, that it is about

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discipline, about the personal responsibility, about parenting,

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but the other is that there are underlying social and economic

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factors which if unaddressed will Most of the people who are looting

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have these things already. They had the Nikes, the �100 Janes. So this

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isn't about deprivation or racism? No, it's not racism or deprivation.

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Sometimes it's about senseless violence. Outwardly there's a

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determination to move on. But privately, this is a community

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anxious that the root causes of Saturday night's inSanity won't be

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addressed by tough soundbites and condemnation.

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Today David Cameron said the whole country had been shocked by this

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week's appalling scenes. Among them footage of a Malaysian student

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being mugged by rioters pretending to help him. They've now been

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broadcast around the world. Tonight police arrested a man in connection

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with the attack. And Ashraf Haziq has been speaking for the first

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time. When he watch that's video of

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himself being mugged, Ashraf Haziq says it doesn't seem real. There is

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no disputing that instead of being helped after being assaulted, some

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youths simply help themselves to the contents of his bag. Today, the

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20-year-old student spoke of his ordeal, just a day after undergoing

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surgery on his jaw. The doctor put some metal inside and it hurts my

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mouth because there's metal inside. So far it's good. How do you feel

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about those people who did what they did? I feel sorry for them,

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but it was really sad, because amongst them there were children.

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It was very sad. Did that shock you that they were quite young? Yeah.

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He was in primary school, I think. It was quite shocking. Far from

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fleeing from the UK, he's told his mother he plans on staying here to

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finish his accountancy studies. spoke to her yesterday. She was

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really worried. She wants me to go back home, but I refused. After his

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ordeal on Monday and after having to undergo surgery yesterday,

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Ashraf Haziq has shown an incredible amount of bravery coming

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to talk to us today. I asked him how he keeps so positive. He just

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laughed and said, "I don't know." The ordeal has been watched by

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millions on the internet. It's led to thousands of pounds being raised

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for him by well wishers to help him through the rest of his stay in

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Britain. And coming up on tonight's

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programme: England power on against India in their quest to be the best

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The Chancellor, George Osborne, has conceded that Britain's economic

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recovery would be longer and harder than hoped amid renewed turmoil on

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global markets. He defended the Government's efforts to tackle the

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deficit, saying it had made the country a saifbhaven for investors.

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Ed Balls said the Chancellor was in denial.

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These are extraordinary times in the markets, with the global shares

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plunge beginning last week. interrupt your regular programme.

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The closing bell is ringing now... Fears the governments defaulting on

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debts and a possible second recession have scared investors. So,

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troubled waters, and that's why the Chancellor wanted to brief MPs. He

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said the UK was a secure port in the storm. George Osborne

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acknowledged life would be difficult for awhile. The whole

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world now realises that the huge overhang of debt means that the

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recovery will take longer and be harder than had been hoped. Markets

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are waking up to this fact and that is what makes this the most

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dangerous time for the global economy since 2008. He said his

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deficit-cutting plan would secure the UK's future. These bold steps

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have made Britain that safehaven in this sovereign debt storm. Labour

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threw those words back at the Chancellor. Families and businesses,

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deeply worried about their jobs and mortgages, will hear the

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Chancellor's talk of saifbhaven and conclude he is deeply complacent or

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in complete denial about what is going on in our country. What's

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said over there in Parliament, the success of the Chancellor's

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strategy will depend on what goes on along -- a long way from here.

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There hasn't been much economic growth over the last nine months

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and he needs more of it if he's going to pull in the tax revenues

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to bring down the deficit. Companies like this are still

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waving their way through a challenging economic landscape. It

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designs and markets home furnishings. The boss isn't

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convinced bit Chancellor's recovery plan. There's no confidence out

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there. Whilst we accept there has to be austerity measures and has to

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be cuts, you also have got to encourage growth. At the moment

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nothing the Government is doing is fuelling any growth. Mr Osborne

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says he is implementing an ambitious growth strategy. He also

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points out that Britain's grown faster this year than the US. Some,

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like this company, feel he needs to show he really means business.

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It's not just in Britain that MPs have been recalled. Some Italian

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politicians have had to break their holidays for an emergency session

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on the country's economic crisis. Worries over the size of Italy's

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debt have forced the government to speed up its austerity drive. Gavin

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Hewitt reports from Naples. Four markets, Italy is the big one,

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the financial eruption they fear. For this country is too big to be

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bailed out if it can't meet debt repayments. On the streets of

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Naples, everything is marked down. The problem for the government is

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that Italy's debt has reached �1.6 trillion. Today the Italian finance

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minister briefed MPs on possible measures to tackle the debt crisis.

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They included balancing the budget, making it ease tkwrorhoir and fire

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workers and even moving public holidays to Sunday to boost

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productivity. In all of this, where will the growth come from? Take

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this resort. It's a successful business, but the manager sums up

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his frustration in one word - buer Rossracy. -- ruer rockracy.

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Italy they have this thing where whatever they decide to do, they

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can never be fired. They can steal, go sick leave as long as they want.

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For ten years Italy's growth has been anaemic. Rosaria understands

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the lack of growth. She is part of the 60% of young people in Naples

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without work. TRANSLATION: I live with my mum and

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she's helping me. It's difficult because I'm 25. I'd like to have a

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family, but I can't because I haven't got a job. The problem for

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Italy is that all the signs point to an economy stagnating. So, the

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big fear remains that Italy won't grow fast enough to bring down its

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debts and certainly the markets fear that. For the moment, the

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European Central Bank is intervening, helping to drive down

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Italy's borrowing costs, but that can only be a short-term measure.

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There's a dilemma here and not just for Italy. Like other countries,

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it's planning to make big cuts. Yet at the same time, it needs its

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economy to grow to help reduce its debts.

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Cricket now and England are on course to claim the world number

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one ranking, after dominating the second day of the third Test

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against India at Edgbaston. The home side are building a commanding

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lead, helped by an unbeaten 182 from Alastair Cook. England ended

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the day 456 for three in reply to Sentri duty, on hand to advise,

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seeking seats, no problem. Who now can possibly come to the assistance

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of India? England's opening batsmen rediscovered their form against

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Indian bowling that was puppy dog, gentle and tame. Strauss and Cook

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took their partnership to 186. Strauss eventually seemed to

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confuse himself, losing his wicket to Mishra for 87. Cook pressed on.

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Is this a dive in the field or just a collapse? Four more said the

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score. India did get rid of Bell. That just brought in Pietersen.

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England's batting goes on and on these days. Pietersen went for 63,

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but Cook relentless, reached 150. England's lead already looks

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decisive and there are three days left in the Test. There's no way

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this game's won or close to being won. We've got to go out tomorrow

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and score a lot of runs. I don't think it's going to be batting last

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will be easy on this wicket. many more could England score? If

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the skies stay reasonably blue, the sky's the limit.

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Returning to our main story, and the aftermath of this week's riots.

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Fears over security have led to the postponement of the Premier League

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match between Tottenham and Everton. All other games will go ahead. But

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the Prime Minister says some matches may now be played earlier

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in the day to assist police. David Bond looks at what role

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football and footballers could play in rebuilding communities fractured

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by this week's events. The return of the self-proclaimed

:24:40.:24:44.

most exciting league in the world should have been a high point in an

:24:44.:24:51.

otherwise troubled English summer. Berbatov! Wonderful.

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Tottenham were due to kick off the season against Everton at their

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White Hart Lane ground, seen here in the distance. Instead, the

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violence that flared on the club's doorstep last weekend today forced

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the postponement of that match. The head of the Premier League says the

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other nine matches should go ahead. We want the matches on, not for

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selfish reasons, just because we're a part of the normal fabric of

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English life. We want normality to resume to our streets, that

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includes football. England's top players are often accused of

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setting the wrong sort of example. But with the friendly international

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against the Netherlands conseld due to the riots, some, at least, tried

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to reach out. Rio Ferdinand and Wayne Rooney used their Twitter

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accounts to post messages appealing for calm.

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Many players, like the England captain, came from underprivileged

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backgrounds. He might be rich now, but he says it's important players

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don't forget where they came from. All we can do is collectively come

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together and send a message out that we urge for calm on the

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streets. They know that we've been in a very similar position to where

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they are. Football clubs now invest millions

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of pounds in community projects like this one, run by Arsenal in

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Islington in North London. But can multimillionaire players, playing

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at clubs which have become increasingly expensive to get into

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really make a difference to kids from deprived areas like these?

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They've got big cars, big houses and yeah, they're having a nice

:26:31.:26:35.

life. Some people don't even have a job, cars. They live in the streets.

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What did you think about it when you were watching it on television?

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I thought two years ago, maybe, but now I'm doing this and that, no.

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Too much to lose. Superstars like Rooney have turned the Premier

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League into one of the richest and biggest sporting brands in the

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world. The last week has shown that even football cannot forget its

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