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🗓️ 6 August 2024
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Riots have engulfed Britain after the stabbing of three girls in Southport. The far-right are being blamed for inciting the violence and disorder - but how has the far-right gained momentum and what does it stand for?
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0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind, |
0:06.1 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. Well today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
0:16.0 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in |
0:26.0 | 2023. VP.com slash and not all. From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. |
0:37.0 | I'm Manveen Rana. It's normal for the foreign office to warn us not to travel to countries that are |
0:50.8 | racked by war or civil unrest. |
0:55.0 | What feels strange is to find other countries adding the UK to that list. |
1:01.0 | Several, including Australia, are now advising their citizens to avoid Britain after a week in which violent riots have erupted in towns and cities across the country. |
1:14.0 | It all began last Tuesday in Southport, |
1:22.0 | a town in shock. |
1:26.7 | A grief-stricken community came together |
1:29.6 | at a vigil to mourn the killing |
1:32.3 | of three little girls in a knife attack. |
1:35.0 | Never want to be that person that's in that situation what these poor families are going through at the moment |
1:40.0 | so I just wanted to come and show our respects really. |
1:43.0 | It is really a caring place. |
1:45.0 | People help each other. |
1:48.0 | And I feel so many just wanted to come and be part of it. |
1:59.0 | This information about the killer was already spreading online. Within hours, hundreds of rioters from the far right, spurred on by social media, descended on the town, |
2:07.0 | attacking the police and the local mosque. The mother of one of the three girls killed in a mass stabbing in Southport has called on the violence in the town to stop. |
2:30.0 | Within days, violence had flared up in cities from London to Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Bristol and even Belfast. In Sunderland the police station was set on fire as protesters chanted |
2:53.0 | whose streets our streets. |
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