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Kay Oliver: UK correspondent on the rioting sweeping through Britain following Southport stabbing · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Kay Oliver's with us our UK and europe correspondence. Kay,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for being with us. Violent outbreaks. This is
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  Speaker 1: continuing in Southport, but also now Belfast and other places
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  Speaker 1: around the UK.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, Ryan, We've got a Britain in the middle of
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  Speaker 2: a summer of chaos. Here, we've got a new labor
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  Speaker 2: government and Sir Keir Starma, the new Prime Minister, has
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  Speaker 2: just said this is violence, not protests. We have seen
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  Speaker 2: riots on the streets here. We've got people in Rotheram, Middlesbrough, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Bristol.
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  Speaker 2: The latest breaking news is that lots of the media
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  Speaker 2: have been urged on these streets to put their cameras away.
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  Speaker 2: It is a dangerous place. We've had protesters attempting to
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  Speaker 2: get into the holiday in Express in Rotherham where asylum
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  Speaker 2: seekers are being housed. That's just been confirmed by the
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  Speaker 2: Home Secretary of At Cooper. They've gone through and they
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  Speaker 2: are trying literally to break up this hotel. The asylum
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  Speaker 2: seekers are hiding in their bedrooms. They're a chance of
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  Speaker 2: stop the boats. We want our country back. We've got
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  Speaker 2: Hamza Yusuf. He's a former First Minister of Scotland saying
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  Speaker 2: this situation is so out of control now that the
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  Speaker 2: army should be brought in. We've got politicians from all
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  Speaker 2: sides saying this is actual violence. They're condemn it, condemning
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  Speaker 2: it and saying that it has to be brought under control.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a second man has been charged with a
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  Speaker 2: city center violent disorder in Liverpool. He's been remanded in custody,
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  Speaker 2: but there are around about one hundred people now who've
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  Speaker 2: been arrested. They obviously are going to have to go
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  Speaker 2: through the legals and the legal and prison system which
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  Speaker 2: is quite overstretched here anyway, and move. They're going to
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  Speaker 2: have to be made to clear clear the decks so
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  Speaker 2: that these people can be processed. But basically it's a
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  Speaker 2: situation where Malaysia has become the first country to actually
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  Speaker 2: advise its citizens over to the UK. I mean, all
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  Speaker 2: this violent protests, so it really is building up to
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  Speaker 2: be something unimaginable. We haven't seen riots here since twenty eleven, Ryan,
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  Speaker 2: and this really is actually the lid has come off here.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just looking at a live feed from Rotherham where
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  Speaker 1: the police are being vetted by projectiles. They're trying to
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  Speaker 1: hold the line. This is in front of the hotel
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  Speaker 1: with these poor asylum seekers are being housed. I mean
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  Speaker 1: this is unreal.
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  Speaker 2: Well, absolutely, the police have become the targets. They're in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of this. You've got on one side, you've
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  Speaker 2: got the far right. On the other side, you've got
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  Speaker 2: the anti racist protesters. The police are in the middle
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  Speaker 2: and they're getting it from all sides. A number of
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  Speaker 2: police officers have been taken to hospital. We've seen a
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  Speaker 2: female police officer officer who literally had a table hurled
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  Speaker 2: into her face. So they really are taking a battering
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  Speaker 2: here and it's getting worse. The situation is not dying down.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's certainly not. Thank you very much for your report.
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  Speaker 1: K all Over our UK and Europe correspondent. The violent
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  Speaker 1: outbreaks in Southport now spreading across the UK, Belfast, you
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  Speaker 1: name it. Honestly, these images that we're seeing, it's shocked.
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