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Good afternoon. The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has defended the | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
government's plans to go ahead with police budget cuts amid continuing | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
tensions between police chiefs and politicians over how the riots in | :00:24. | :00:34. | |
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England were handled last week. After the riots, the search for | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
answers, as huge numbers of police continue arrests across the country, | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
London's police chief has criticised the mixed messages | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
politicians were giving them as they tackled the mayhem on the | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
streets. There is often inconsistency of feedback in terms | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
of our policing of public order. We are sometimes accused of excessive | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
force and then accused of not being forceful enough. A David Cameron's | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
decision to appoint a former Los Angeles police chief as an adviser | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
on gang culture was criticised. Sir Hugh Ward said today, we do not | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
need lessons from America. And there was more pressure from within | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
Conservative ranks. The case I make to government and will continue to | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
make is that numbers matter. Boris Johnson weighed in against his own | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
party's plans to cut police funding. But the Home Secretary is standing | :01:30. | :01:36. | |
firm. I was clear that the public wanted to see the police taking a | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
tough approach. The police have to change their tactics to deal with | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
this. And we have been able to see over the last few nights a much | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
calmer situation in towns and cities across the country. Where | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
you get the Home Secretary saying she has ordered the police to use | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
certain things, where the Prime Minister has said he has ordered | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
them to do certain things when they have no power to do it, you can | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
understand why the police felt frustrated that the politicians | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
were trying to take credit for things that the police decided to | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
do. Police continue to work long hours processing up to 3000 | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
suspected rioters in London alone. The sheer scale and cost of the | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
clean-up proves that politicians will have to find better ways of | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
protecting Britain's streets and paying for it. | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
A 26-year-old man and a 17-year-old youth has appeared in court in | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
Birmingham this morning, charged with murdering three men in the | :02:26. | :02:36. | |
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city during last week's riots. Our correspondent is in Birmingham. | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
Yes, 26-year-old Joshua Donald and a 17-year-old who we cannot named | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
for legal reasons were charged overnight with the murders of the | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
three men who were killed after they were hit by a car in the early | :02:54. | :03:01. | |
hours of Wednesday morning. A district judge heard these cases in | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
very short hearings. The two men appeared separately, only speaking | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
from the dock to answer to their names, addresses and ages and | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
nodding that they understood the charges. Their applications were | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
not used today, and the two were remanded in custody to appear | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
before a court tomorrow. Elsewhere, people in Birmingham will be coming | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
together in their thousands this afternoon for a peace gathering | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
demanding an end to the trouble which has blighted the City this | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
week. A British soldier has been killed | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
by an explosion in southern Afghanistan. The soldier, from 1st | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
Battalion the Rifles, was killed by a bomb while on foot patrol on | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
Friday in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand Province. His family has | :03:43. | :03:51. | |
been informed. The pro-democracy leader in Burma, | :03:51. | :03:54. |