:00:20. > :00:25.Good afternoon. The Chancellor, George Osborne, is a Is fla the
:00:25. > :00:31.government is committed it cuts in police spending despite the riots.
:00:31. > :00:35.He said that deep-seated problems in society lay behind the
:00:35. > :00:41.disturbances, solving them is not just a matter of police budgets.
:00:41. > :00:46.Elsewhere, a man is in court charged with the robbery of an
:00:46. > :00:49.Asian man during the disturbances. A week on after the riots. George
:00:49. > :00:53.Osborne says that the Government is committed to cutting police
:00:54. > :00:56.spending and is using resources to tackle wider issues behind the
:00:56. > :01:00.violence. We will spend money where it is
:01:00. > :01:06.necessary. For example in schools to help the most disadvantaged
:01:06. > :01:09.pupils, ensuring that two-year-olds get entitlement if they are from
:01:09. > :01:13.low income backgrounds. We are prepared to spend money where
:01:13. > :01:16.necessary, but this is not all about money. If were a question of
:01:16. > :01:21.throwing money at the problem, this would have been solved many years
:01:21. > :01:25.ago. This is about deep-seated cultural changes in our society.
:01:25. > :01:30.As the debate continues as to how to prevent a repeat of what
:01:30. > :01:36.happened, it has been a busy legal Single European Market in England.
:01:36. > :01:41.There have been over 1,000 arrests so far. Nearly 800 people have been
:01:41. > :01:44.appearing before the courts. Reece Donovan, charged with robbing a
:01:44. > :01:47.Malaysian student, his ordeal caught on camera. Mohammed Ashraf
:01:47. > :01:51.Rosli had been in Britain for less than a month. He was taken to
:01:51. > :01:56.hospital with a broken jaw. David Cameron is now turning to
:01:56. > :02:00.this man, retired police chief Bill Bratton, to help to tackle gang
:02:00. > :02:03.culture and street crime. He's been credited with introducing bold
:02:03. > :02:07.measures in some of America's toughest cities.
:02:07. > :02:14.This morning I had a conversation with Prime Minister David Cameron
:02:14. > :02:19.in which he thanked me for me agreeing to work with the British
:02:19. > :02:23.government to help with the issues of gang crime, violence and
:02:23. > :02:28.intervention. In the short-term, as well as arresting people, other
:02:28. > :02:32.measures are being used. A young man who allegedly took part in the
:02:32. > :02:36.riots in south London may be first to lose his council house.
:02:36. > :02:40.Meanwhile, Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has been out in Hackney
:02:40. > :02:43.in north-east London meeting victims, he has called for an
:02:43. > :02:46.inquiry into the causes of the riots.
:02:46. > :02:53.And the Metropolitan Police have issued a statement saying that they
:02:53. > :02:57.have meat a total of 1,210 arrests in London relating to the riots.
:02:57. > :03:02.698 people have been charged in relation to violent disorder,
:03:02. > :03:05.burglary or thefts. In Syria, anti-government protests
:03:05. > :03:08.continued through the night, despite the bloodshed yesterday.
:03:08. > :03:13.Activists say that more than 20 people were killed when the
:03:13. > :03:22.security forces opened fire on demonstrators after the Friday
:03:22. > :03:25.prays. The number of casualties of five were reported in Dumaa.
:03:25. > :03:31.Two security officers were also shot dead there.
:03:31. > :03:35.Shell is working to stop a leak at North Sea pipeline. A company's
:03:35. > :03:40.spokesperson said that the spill near the Gannet Alpha platform 110
:03:40. > :03:46.miles off the coast of Aberdeen was not significant. They say that the
:03:46. > :03:52.pipeline has been isolated and de pressurised.
:03:52. > :03:57.Germany is marking 50 years since the downing of the Berlin Wall.
:03:57. > :04:01.Angela Merkel joined the Mayor of Berlin and hundreds of others in a
:04:01. > :04:03.special ceremony in memory of the many people that died trying to
:04:03. > :04:09.cross the wall. Robert Robinson has died in
:04:09. > :04:14.hospital in London at the age of 83. He was best known for his role in
:04:14. > :04:16.presenting Ask The Family, Stop the Week and Brain of Britain and Call
:04:16. > :04:21.My Bluff. Nick Higham has this report.
:04:21. > :04:25.When the BBC wanted someone to present its first programme devoted
:04:25. > :04:29.to viewers' letters, Robert Robinson was the obvious choice,
:04:29. > :04:37.witty, dead pan, slightly mocking. Good evening, every Monday at this
:04:37. > :04:41.time I will read your letters, I hope that this will be critical and
:04:41. > :04:47.disobedient and save us from complacency in television.
:04:47. > :04:52.He delighted in aukward questions. Miss Mansfield, I know you will not
:04:53. > :04:57.say I am rude if I say a visit to you is like a visit to the Tower of
:04:57. > :05:04.London, you are incity tuitions. guess that I feel the same way as
:05:04. > :05:08.the Tower of London feels! This one goes into your buttocks, so loosen
:05:08. > :05:13.the trousersers and get up on the couch.
:05:13. > :05:17.For one series he traveled around India, he could make fun of himself,
:05:18. > :05:23.starting in the BBC's documentary, with getting the injections.
:05:23. > :05:26.Here he is presenting Radio 4' Today programme in 1973, on the day
:05:26. > :05:32.that Britain entered the common market.
:05:32. > :05:40.Would the British streets be full of Frenchman selling butter?
:05:40. > :05:44.Germans with two acre faces and twice the normal aloted teeth? --
:05:44. > :05:50.allotted teeth? But, not a dachshund barked, and the outside
:05:50. > :05:54.world bore little evidence to the continental world of bacon and eggs,
:05:54. > :05:57.not Dutch cheese. But his style of programme making
:05:57. > :06:03.went out of fashion. He was sometimes accused of sneering and
:06:03. > :06:09.he was left behind as television became r more informal and less
:06:09. > :06:12.respectful. He turned to presenting quiz shows, Brain of Britain, Ask
:06:12. > :06:15.The Family and Call My Bluff. People think that all of the names
:06:15. > :06:21.and all that is said is the start of the word.
:06:21. > :06:26.It is not, that is... He was a polite host, a relic of a time,
:06:26. > :06:30.when there from gentlemen on television.
:06:30. > :06:36.Cricket and England have made a strong start on the fourth morning
:06:36. > :06:41.of the Test at Edgbaston. James Anderson had Gautam Gambhir caught
:06:41. > :06:47.behind from early on, with Rahul Dravid following later. A short-