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No end to UK protests as government expands jail capacity
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8/6/2024
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Next now to the U.K., where some 6,000 specialist police officers are being deployed to deal
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with the far-right rioting and violence that's broken out following the murder of three children
00:09
last week at a dance class in Southport in northwestern England.
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Violent protesters have been attacking officers and throwing bricks and fireworks at them
00:18
around the country.
00:19
There have been hundreds of arrests so far.
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Our London correspondent, Benedict Pavio, has more now on the violence overnight.
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There's been more unrest in parts of the U.K. overnight, with police coming under attack
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in Belfast, Darlington and Plymouth.
00:36
Several vehicles and a pub were also damaged in Birmingham.
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In Belfast, in Northern Ireland, riot officers had stones and petrol bombs thrown at them.
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In Plymouth, six more arrests were made.
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The government has now announced that more than 500 extra prison places are being created
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to help cope with this ongoing violence.
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Which has meant that there have already been nearly 400 arrests over the last few days.
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So there's been violent disorder in towns and cities since last Tuesday.
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And this, of course, was all sparked off after the killing, stabbing of three young girls
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aged between six and nine in Southport.
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The government has accused social media companies of helping to fuel these protests by spreading
01:25
false claims online that the suspect in the killing of these three small girls a week
01:30
ago was an asylum seeker who had arrived in the United Kingdom illegally.
01:36
Downing Street said yesterday that action taken by social media companies to tackle
01:41
this misleading and what they called inflammatory material, quote, doesn't go far enough.
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So they've been having talks with the heads of many social media companies, including X.
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Downing Street also warned that some foreign state actors were amplifying online disinformation.
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So an ongoing and tense situation here.
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