Today, we look at the almost 400 arrests made after violence across the country over the past six days. Sir Keir Starmer chaired an emergency meeting of Cobra on Monday morning to discuss the government’s response to the violent disorder. He announced a ‘standing army’ of police officers to help tackle the riots. But, what do we know about the people taking part? How will the legal system cope? And, what happens next? James Cook is in for Adam and is joined by political correspondent Alex Forsyth, home and legal correspondent Dominic Casciani and investigations correspondent Daniel De Simone. Sima Kotecha speaks to James from Bolton about the impact of the riots on the community. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Gemma Roper and Sam McLaren. The technical producer was Ben Andrews. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.
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Hello, it's James in for Adam today.
And as I'm sure you've noticed, it's been a weekend with violence in towns and cities around England and Belfast, Rotherham, Bolton, Middlesbrough, Liverpool, Tamworth, to name just a few places.
There's a lot happening, there are a lot of questions about what's happened, how it happened, why it happened, what happens next.
We on newscast are going to try to get to the bottom of some of that.
We've got four friends of the podcast here to try to cover as much as possible.
Alex Forsythe on the response from the prime minister, Dominic Casciani on how the legal system might cope.
Daniel da Simony on what we know about the people involved.
And then we're going to focus on one town in particular with Seema Kotecha.
All of that coming up on this episode of Newscast.
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