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The police hit back at suggestions that politicians made the key | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
decisions that brought the riots and a control. After criticism at | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
Westminster of their tactics, senior officers insist that they | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
were in the lead. The vital distinction between policing and | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
politics remains. The police service will make the tactical | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
decisions and, quite rightly and robust the, we must and should be | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
held to account. Clearly, we needed to act this week to get control of | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
the streets, to get them back for the law abiding. The police did | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
that and increased police numbers. That was the right thing to do. | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
did you have a hammer wrapped around your leg? 800 people have | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
now appeared in court over the riots. The latest including this | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
13-year-old boy. Naming and shaming. Police say their appeals to the | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
public to track down those involved are working. In the last 24 hours, | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
two mothers have handed in a 15- year-old and 13-year-old boy. Their | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
sons. They can do them into the police because they saw their | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
pictures in the newspaper. We'll be looking at one council's attempt to | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
depict the family of a suspect. A rally on the financial markets. | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
Zero growth in France brings new fears about its economy. The child | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
victims of the Libyan conflict. We returned to Misrata to see how this | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
six-year-old injured in the fighting is recovering. And | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
rewriting the record books. Alastair Cook hits 294 as England | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
push for victory in the third Test against India. And I will be year | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
with Sportsday later on the BBC News channel, with the latest from | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
the US PGA Championship in Atlanta, where Rory McIlroy may struggle to | :01:54. | :02:04. | |
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Police officers have dismissed suggestions that it was the | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
intervention of politicians that proved decisive in their handling | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
of the riots. After criticism of their tactics from the Prime | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
Minister, senior officers said they faced a unique situation and that | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
they alone have been responsible for the shift to more robust | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
policing. Nearly a week after the violence began, our home editor | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
explores the political and police response to the riots. A week after | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
the riots began, senior police officers and government politicians | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
have indulged in a public row, as each seeks to avoid any blame for | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
the lawlessness. Emerging from the latest meeting at the emergency | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
planning committee COBRA, the acting head of Scotland Yard made a | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
clearly barbed remark at criticism of the police operation by | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
ministers who were still on holiday at the time. After any event like | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
this there are always people that will make comments that weren't | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
there. If police officers at the Venice -- benefit of hindsight and | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
foresight, we would obviously do things very differently. It's clear | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
many senior officers are furious at suggestions police only got their | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
act together when politicians banged the table. The vital | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
distinction between policing and politics remains. The police | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
service will make a tactical decisions and, quite rightly and | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
robust become we should be held to account. Yesterday, government | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
ministers accused police of putting too few officers on the streets, | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
being too slow to respond and too timid in dealing with the looters. | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
Today the Home Secretary had nothing but praise for the police | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
response. What I accept was that people who got the riots under | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
control were the brave police men and women who were out there on the | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
frontline, dealing with the riots as they were happening. | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
troubling side of law and order this week means that all | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
politicians and police alike, the stakes in is that they remain very | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
height. The politics of the riots is shifting from condemnation and | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
measures to restore public order and confidence to broader questions | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
about our culture, society and our values. The leaders of the three | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
main political parties in England were all talking about learning the | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
lessons of the riots today. In the early hours of Monday, police in | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
Brixton were pursuing looters. Today, Labour's leader found | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
himself pursued by his own angry supporters. These people have | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
nothing to lose. They have no stake in society and no social mobility | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
at all. We desperately need the Labour party... The criticism is | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
that politicians have been too quick to condemn and too slow to | :04:53. | :05:00. | |
understand. Are they not social reasons for this? Of course there | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
are. Shouldn't we be discussing those instead of just discussing | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
criminality? No, the first priority was to restore public order and to | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
make sure that we would never excuse what happened. But excusing | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
is not the same as explaining. And now we are into the phase where | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
we've got to try and explain what happened. On Tuesday, a police | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
station in Nottingham was firebombed. Today the Lib Dem | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
leader paid a visit and suggested that the event post important | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
questions for all of us. We have to ask ourselves why and 11 you macro | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
girl and Boycie feel they have so little stake in their own community, | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
so little sense of belonging that they go around trashing it. Central | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
Manchester was the scene of widespread looting on Tuesday night. | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
Today the Prime Minister was in the city to meet emergency services, | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
before appearing on the BBC. David Cameron was asked whether there was | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
a difference between the attitude of greedy looters and greedy | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
bankers and greedy MPs. People who cheat in banking, they should be | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
punished. MPs who cheat on their expenses should be punished. There | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
are MPs in prison today. We need responsibility right through our | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
country, that's the most important word in politics. But it can't be | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
used as an excuse. The huge extra police presence will remain this | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
weekend. No one dare suggest this crisis can be described as over. In | :06:26. | :06:33. | |
many ways, the questions are just beginning. 1600 people have been | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
arrested so far over the riots, and nearly 800 have appeared before the | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
courts. Among those facing justice today were a 13-year-old boy caught | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
carrying a hammer. Chris Butler has been looking at how the offenders | :06:46. | :06:54. | |
are being handled. 13 years old and found in a riot with a hammer | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
strapped to his leg. This teenager was given a nine-month referral | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
order today. His age means we can't identify him or his mother. I was | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
sat at home. Did you know he was out on the street? No, I didn't. | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
The you know he was carrying a hammer? No. He was just one of the | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
hundreds who have already been held responsible of the havoc of the | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
last week. There are still people waiting to be tried, like another | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
teenager who is accused of starting the fire that left this Manchester | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
store little more than a shell. Many have been jailed, like a man | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
who led this disorder in Salford because he heard the Manchester | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
riots were better. In that city centre are the faces of others | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
suspected of causing that chaos. The police asking for people to | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
shop those who destroyed its stores. In the last 24 hours, two mothers | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
have handed in a 15-year-old and a 13-year-old boy. Their sons. They | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
had a them in before -- because they saw their picture in the | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
newspaper. But in an estate just minutes from where some of this | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
week's violence took place, there are people prepared to admit that | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
they could have got caught up in the looting. If I'd have seen | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
something on the floor I would have taken it home. Is that not wrong? | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
Of course it is but that's what I mean. If it was a mobile phone and | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
it had loads of pictures in it, I would have wanted to give it back. | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
But if it was something that was mass produced and just there on the | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
floor, I would have taken it home. In Salford, most shops are open | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
again but the destruction was the last thing it needed. Jobs are hard | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
to come by, youth unemployment is high and Child poverty and crime | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
are both genuine problems. People have got no money. People are going | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
to do things like that, it's opportunism. In cities across this | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
country the government has promised swift justice. Many are anything | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
but sympathetic to the rioters. However, there is a fear of being | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
seen to talk to the police. They've been brought up to think there's no | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
worse crime than crossing. It doesn't matter what you do, you do | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
not grass on anyone. Do you not think it's important that people do | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
give information? Of course I do. Excuse me, I went to court and | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
suffered for a long time because of it. I couldn't walk past anyone in | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
the street without being his staff and spat at. The public mood is | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
clear. There is a desire to see people punished. Today the prison | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
population in England and Wales hit an all-time high. But Leroy Grant, | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
who spent 10 years in jail for armed robbery, questions whether | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
that will help prevent further crime. They've given up sentences | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
of four to six months. It's farcical because what's going to | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
happen now, in four weeks' time those people will be out on to have | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
any weight. There's no point sending them to prison. But you | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
were in prison at one stage. I've been in some tough jails. It that | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
not deter you? If anything it made me worse. However, if the police | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
appeals are successful, those who already appeared in court will be | :10:03. | :10:11. | |
joined by many others in be named and shamed. As a result of the | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
court cases, some families may now find themselves evicted from their | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
council homes. Tonight, one council in south London has begun | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
proceedings against a family. Ian Watson is at Downing Street now. I | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
suppose this is in line with the tough talk we heard from David | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
Cameron earlier. Yes, we've heard tough talk from the Prime Minister | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
all this week. Now some councils are taking him at his word. They | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
are saying, look, if you are writing, you are no longer simply a | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
using your liberty, you could lose your permanent home as well. | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
Wandsworth council believe that the first local authority in the | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
country to try to depict a rioter. A rioter and his mother. That is | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
simply because it's the mother's name which is on the tenancy | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
agreement, not just the person who himself has been charged with | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
polluting a shop in Clapham Junction, so therefore, if she is | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
evicted, he is evicted as well. Ultimately, the decision will be | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
taken by a court and not by councils. This approach has been | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
condemned by the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, who says that the whole | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
priority now should be on top sentencing, not on the victims. He | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
believes that David Cameron has got his priorities wrong. Even though | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
the Prime Minister is praising Labour councils such as Manchester | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
and Salford for considering doing exactly the same thing as | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
Wandsworth council. We could see more depictions tonight. But even | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
the Liberal Democrats within the coalition fear that some of this | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
tough rhetoric will look like a knee-jerk reaction and a gimmick. | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of a 68- | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
year-old pensioner badly injured in rioting in west London on Monday | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
night. Richard Bowes was attacked as he tried to stamp out a fire. | :11:56. | :12:03. | |
June Kelly reports on the latest death in the riots. The heart of a | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
suburban shopping centre is now a place where people are coming to | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
remember a life lost. It was at the start of the week the attack took | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
place in Ealing, west London. Today it became a murder enquiry. Richard | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
Bowes was 68. He'd lost touch with his family and it was only | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
yesterday that he was finally identified. He was said to have | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
been set upon as he remonstrated with rioters who had set fire to a | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
large bin. As he tried to put the fire out he was attacked. His leg | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
was lying very close to the fire. I got the young lads to help me move | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
him into this Ali weight, so it used to his torso and head was | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
protected. Because on the left here were the rioting youths, and they | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
were throwing stones down the road towards the police on the right. He | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
was in a vulnerable position. is the flat where Richard Bowes | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
lived. It's just a short distance from where he was attacked. He was | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
known as someone who would confront people if they were behaving in an | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
antisocial way. He may have been a quiet man but he thought that | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
wrongdoers needed to be challenged. In the neighbourhood nobody knew | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
him well, he was seen as a solitary figure. But he was a familiar face | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
to local business people. It's just a really awful thing that somebody | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
who was just a very quiet and a gentle kind of guy, obviously was | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
trying to help put out the fires. He was quietly dignified. He | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
reminded me of a bygone age when people said please and thank you | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
and were courteous to each other. He always symbolised that | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
generation to me, which seems to be lost for the time being. At Ealing | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
Town Hall the flag has been at half mast as a mark of respect. One man | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
is currently under arrest. Police are appealing to anyone who can | :13:57. | :14:04. | |
The police watchdog, the Independent Police Complaints | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
Commission, has admitted tonight it may have misled journalists into | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
believing that the man who was shot dead by police last Thursday fired | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
back at the officers. Mark Duggan, who was 29, was shot in Tottenham. | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
His death sparked the initial riots in London last weekend. Our | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
correspondent Jon Brain is in Tottenham tonight where a vigil is | :14:25. | :14:35. | |
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being held in memory of Mr Duggan. In the immediate aftermath of the | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
shooting, the IPCC were criticised for allegedly not giving enough | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
information and not quickly enough. They are now admitting the | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
information they did give may have misled journalists and ultimately | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
the family. The police fired two shots at Mark Duggan, one hit him | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
in the chest and killed him, the other went through his arm and was | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
lodged in a police radio. Because of that, the IPCC said they | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
believed they had been an exchange of shots and Mark Duggan had used | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
his gun. Tonight they have apologised for giving potentially | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
inaccurate information. It was the controversy over the shooting that | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
led to the protests here and ultimately this sort of devastation. | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
Tonight Mark Duggan's family are among 500 people at a gathering to | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
remember him. Their message is they condemn the violence, but they | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
still want justice for their son. The day's other news and there are | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
fresh concerns about the health of one of Europe's biggest economies | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
tonight after growth in France ground to a halt. The figures put | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
more pressure on the French government to tackle its budget | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
deficit. The news came as shares recovered some of the ground lost | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
in a turbulent fortnight on the markets. Here's our chief economics | :15:46. | :15:56. | |
It was full steam ahead today for European markets, but the problems | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
have not gone away, not least for France, which has been in the eye | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
of the storm this week. There was no growth in the second quarter, | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
with consumer spending plunging. didn't spend a lot of money. I | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
saved a little bit. Looking at the stock markets, it is really | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
difficult. A stalling economy create headaches for President | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
Sarkozy. He had to break his holiday this week to hold an | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
emergency cabinet meeting and press for faster deficit-reduction, but | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
slow growth will hit tax revenues. Some investors are concerned about | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
French government debt and questioning its AAA rating. Debt is | :16:36. | :16:43. | |
82% of annual economic output, head of the UK's, around 80%, Spain's | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
debt is 60% of annual output. The French finance -- Finance Minister | :16:48. | :16:55. | |
said there was no cause for concern. TRANSLATION: I am not stressed. Not | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
for a second. I am very confident because we have strong basics in | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
our economy. But there have been worries about the health of French | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
banks after their shares plummeted. Regulators have banned a practice | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
known as short-selling to try to stock speculators making money out | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
of falling bank shares. French banks are big and they have a lot | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
of exposure to countries like Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and | :17:22. | :17:29. | |
Spain and Italy. They have been under the microscope recently. | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
the UK the government argues it has a credible deficit reduction plan, | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
which investors support, and British growth was stronger in the | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
second quarter than France's. But events on the financial markets | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
over the last fortnight demonstrate that the UK is as vulnerable as | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
that the UK is as vulnerable as anyone to a global slowdown. A | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
fortnight ago today, the FTSE 100 index was at around 5,800. Tonight | :17:54. | :18:01. | |
it closed just above 5,300. Upon the day but still a fall of 8.5% | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
over two weeks. That means a total over two weeks. That means a total | :18:04. | :18:11. | |
loss on paper of �132 billion. Despite protests, the Italian | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
government has denied approved more spending cuts and tax rises. We | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
will have to wait until next week to see how the financial markets | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
react to that. Coming up on tonight's programme: | :18:24. | :18:31. | |
The struggle to rebuild lives in the aftermath of the riots. | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
It is not about the furniture or the refrigerator or something like | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
that, it is about your memories and the things you have been saving | :18:39. | :18:46. | |
Four months ago, she was fighting for her life in a Libyan hospital | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
with 30 separate pieces of shrapnel lodged in her body. When we first | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
reported her story in Misrata, six- year-old Arwa was one of thousands | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
of casualties of the fighting between Colonel Gaddafi's forces | :18:57. | :19:05. | |
and Libyan rebels. Now, Orla Guerin has returned to Misrata to find | :19:05. | :19:15. | |
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Arwa. Her report contains This is Arwa as we last saw her in | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
April. A child of Misrata and a victim of the regime, lacerated by | :19:31. | :19:41. | |
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And this is Arwa today. How are you? Back home and back to normal, | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
her family say. But there are reminders all-around of the Grad | :19:52. | :19:59. | |
rocket that landed on her doorstep and ruptured her childhood. Arwa | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
will carry her scars for life. Her grandfather says she has managed to | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
forget her injuries, but when she hears explosions in the distance, | :20:10. | :20:19. | |
her fear is back. I get scared. I run inside, Arwa tells us in a | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
whisper. Her wish list includes a bicycle and the chance to go to | :20:24. | :20:32. | |
school. When the schools are open again, I want to go there, she says, | :20:32. | :20:42. | |
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This is her retreat, a pigeon loft where she plays with her cousins, | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
but her grandfather fears that children can't escape the lessons | :20:48. | :20:58. | |
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of Colonel Gaddafi. TRANSLATION: He is teaching them new things, about | :20:58. | :21:04. | |
war, destruction and killing. Arwa's rooms have healed, at least | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
the physical ones. Her dream is to be a singer, but war could re write | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
her future. The Independent Police Complaints | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
Commission is investigating allegations that a police officer | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
on the Milly Dowler murder investigation gave information to | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
the News of the World. The allegation against a Surrey police | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
officer dates back to 2002. The police watchdog says it will write | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
to the Dowler family and offer to meet them. | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
His batting was instrumental in helping England win the Ashes and | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
today Alastair Cook rewrote the record books once again. He hit 294 | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
in the third Test against India at Edgbaston, where England declared | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
on a mammoth 710-7. India closed on 35-1. Our sports correspondent Joe | :21:50. | :22:00. | |
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India's players arrived at Edgbaston fully expecting a | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
challenging day. They were crushed. Powerless to resist the man who | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
would back to eternity providing someone would bowl at him. Alastair | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
Cook. He collects runs calmly, with touch and timing, energy preserving. | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
Massive scores depend on skill and stamina. Watch him sprinting like a | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
man at the start of his innings as he took his score to 200. An | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
outstanding individual in a world leading team. As England's total | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
headed to 600, the scoreboard couldn't cope. A Power overload put | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
paid to the floodlights. It was too dark to continue for a while. The | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
happiest India looked all day! But normal service quickly resumed. | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
Eoin Morgan's turn to complete the century. His contribution | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
reinforced England's ascendancy. And he kept Coke Company. This was | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
an Everest innings for Alastair Cook. Passed his previous best, | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
boundaries were rare butt end orca could only stare. Remembering when | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
he used to do this kind of thing. After tea, a shock. He made a | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
mistake and India held a catch. By then England had reached 710, their | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
biggest-ever total in a five-day Test. Alastair Cook's 294 was the | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
highest score by anyone at Edgbaston. It is mad how you can | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
still be disappointed when you have scored 290. Only cricket can do | :23:26. | :23:32. | |
that to you. A tinge of disappointment, but if I am being | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
realistic, I am absolutely thrilled that I managed to put a really big | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
score together. All that remains for England is to complete victory, | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
which will presumably happen here some time tomorrow. Do | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
Let's return to tonight's main story - the riots that have taken | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
place in parts of England this week. The scenes of looting and public | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
disorder have sparked a major debate on the challenges facing our | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
society. But for many, those who've lost homes or businesses, there are | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
more immediate concerns. Our special correspondent Allan Little | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
looks now at the aftermath of the riots and the impact they've had on | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
ordinary people. Benetton and leisure centre we | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
found the spirit of a better London. -- in a Tottenham leisure centre | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
and. Thousands of donation have come in, clothes, towels, pots and | :24:15. | :24:22. | |
pans, books, toys. It is the quiet generosity of the majority. This | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
couple need his help. They lost everything when their home was | :24:26. | :24:32. | |
burnt to the ground. When you look at the building, you feel empty, | :24:32. | :24:39. | |
you feel like you have lost everything. It is not about the | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
furniture, it is not about the refrigerator or something like that. | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
It is about your memories and the things you have been saving from | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
your childhood. The gifts you get from your mother, to keep forever, | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
or the gift you get from your husband when you first met. | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
Tottenham High Road is a battered mess. But the clear-up has begun. | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
Everywhere the waste is evident and appalling. A safe is all that is | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
left of what was once a jeweller's shop. It is clear from the accounts | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
that have emerged this week that many people were shocked first of | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
all by the violence, but also by the spirit of malice which appeared | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
to accompany it, the gratuitous vindictiveness of many of the | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
rioters, we seemed to take real pleasure in their own | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
destructiveness. That has been profoundly unsettling. Onelia | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
Giarratano's hairdressing salon was trashed on Monday. She told me the | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
rioters goaded her and mocked her for looking scared not top she | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
still feels insecure. I have never been that scared. Not even as a | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
child. Having to run for your life, not knowing what is happening to | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
your property. I spent all night not being able to sleep. More than | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
half the riot victims I have interviewed this week have been | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
immigrants. A Congolese bar owner, a Kurdish restaurant worker. They | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
have built a stake in London. Why has the same city youth also | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
produced so many young people with no similar sense of belonging? | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
the situation wasn't as it was, if we didn't -- if we had young people | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
in full employment, if we had youth services, qualified professionals | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
working with young people, but would not have happened. Public | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
opinion may not be ready for this, for can you blame poverty without | :26:38. | :26:42. |