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The Metropolitan Police says that more than 1,000 people have now been charged following several days of rioting across the capital.
Jon Snow
Disconnect is the order of our massively interconnected day. Condemning and jailing the looters is one thing. Trying to identify the nature of their disconnect is another. Damning and punishing the faceless hoody comes a lot easier than seriously challenging the faceless banker who broke our economy, or the politician who thieved in our own Houses of Parliament.
Prime Minister David Cameron says “criminality” was at the root of many of last week’s riots but the Government will review policy to tackle other causes, as Labour’s Ed Miliband calls for an inquiry.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg pays tribute to communities and the police in Nottingham for their quick recovery from the “ugly and unacceptable” violence of the riots.
Listening to politicians trying to explain the riots has begged a question that doesn’t usually spring to mind : do they have the faintest idea what is going on?
In the run-up to the Olympics the Met Police are dealing with chaotic scenes of violence on London streets. Channel 4 News asks a former senior officer if plans for London 2012 will be affected.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says eurozone debt problems are caused by a “crisis of faith” in the markets, as he seeks to reassure Europe that Italy is financially solid.
Members of the digital collective Anonymous are collecting donations for the legal fees of Jake Davis, the 18-year-old who has appeared in court facing five charges related to hacking.
Essex police hand a file to the Crown Prosecution Service containing details of allegations relating to Energy Secretary Chris Huhne.
As the Murdochs face tough questions over phone hacking from a panel of MPs, Channel 4 News profiles the committee members, including Rupert Murdoch’s “tormentor in chief”, Tom Watson.
The “most humble” day of Rupert Murdoch’s life, apologies, regret, revelations and foam pie. As MPs grilled the key players in the phone-hack crisis, here’s how the day unfolded – start at the bottom.
Is this what they always thought but never said? What they now think after thinking something different before? Or just what they think we think? It has been thoroughly confusing watching MP’s declare victory over Rupert Murdoch. A victory for parliament, they call it. That remains to be seen.
As an MP calls for proper regulation of private detectives in the wake of the phone-hack revelations, one investigator tells Channel 4 News about the inner workings of his shadowy trade.
Somehow the slightly awkward ones often fall on my days in the chair – those interviews about one thing with somebody currently famous for another, when colleagues say things along the lines of “obviously you’re going to ask about the sex change” when we are really supposed to talking about credit default swaps, writes Krishnan Guru-Murthy.
A top barrister tells Channel 4 News that courts have to trust jurors to follow the rules, despite the temptations of technology.