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What's Behind the Violence on England's Streets?

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.46.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Today, we look at what causing people to riot on the streets of England.

Unrest has broken out in multiple towns and cities through the week, the first example of which was see in Southport, where three young girls were killed on Monday.

In Sunderland on Friday night, three police officers were injured and needed hospital treatment during what police called the "serious and sustained levels of violence".

Home an legal affairs Dominic Casciani tells us what we know about who’s behind it, and why it’s happening.

Plus, after warnings about the country’s finances from the chancellor, chief economics correspondent Dharshini David gives us the expert view on how worried we should or shouldn’t be.

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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming and Paddy O’Connell. It was made by Chris Flynn with Cordelia Hemming. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:04.7

Paddy's here, hello.

0:05.8

Hello.

0:06.8

Darshini's here.

0:07.8

Hello.

0:08.8

So Darshini just to explain, right, we, this is so matter.

0:12.4

So you know during the election,

0:14.0

we did the Saturday episodes of newscast,

0:16.0

but they went out live on Radio 4.

0:18.0

Yes.

0:18.7

That was an experiment, and like all the best experiments

0:22.0

is now being continued.

0:23.0

They've let us back.

0:25.0

Yeah, exactly.

0:26.0

But because nothing ever runs smoothly.

0:29.0

And previously, for example, Patty and I got locked out at the studio one weekend.

0:32.8

I think that was deliberate by the powers that be.

0:34.8

Do you think just to like give us a bit of a jish?

0:36.4

It was very early on in the experiment.

0:38.4

Exactly.

0:39.4

See how they get on with no door open.

0:40.9

But we like something to kind of go wrong every week just to keep that

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