they re causing quite a stir in britain today. matthew chance is outside the london restaurant where the incident happened. matthew, the restaurant employees say they didn t see anything. tell us about the pictures that set all of this off. reporter: yeah. the restaurant is right here in this very upscale neighborhood, don, of central london. it s called may yn fair. the restaurant is just over there. they were sitting, the couple, at a table just outside under those black screens there. absolutely stunning pictures that have really shocked this country. they ve gone all over the internet, of course. we ve got them here on the front pages, sflaplashed all over thi daily newspaper in britain. nigella lawson, one of the world east most famous celebrity chiechie chefs, you re able to make out there there s a hand gripping her throat. that hand belongs to her millionaire husband who s an advertising executive. also one of the world s most prominent collectors of
while there are some fringe political parties out there waving flags, there are also an awful lot of advertising executives and law students and teachers and normal middle class people who feel like their leader, though he was elected, has started losing touch and he isn t paying attention to them and he s implementing policies without asking them first, and that s what s triggered this explosion of anger. is there any clear sense of where this goes? reporter: i don t know. i have not been able to predict from one day to the next. i thought today things would die down, go back to work and not want to come out in the streets. instead, once they finished their university courses or finished work, they came out to the square to demonstrate or in
thousands of people coming out into squares like this, you ve got young turks hurling themselves against riot police, and demanding that their prime minister listen to him. and you know, he s taken a page from the playbooks of some of these arab dictators who were toppled by repeatedly coming out on television and calling the demonstrators extremists and members of marginal groups, and while there are some fringe political parties out there waving flags, there are also an awful lot of advertising executives and law students and teachers and normal middle class people who feel like their leader, though he was elected, has started losing touch and he isn t paying attention to them and he s implementing policies without asking them first, and that s what s triggered this explosion of anger. is there any clear sense of where this goes? reporter: i don t know. i have not been able to predict from one day to the next. i thought today things would die
and you know, he s taken a page from the playbooks of some of these arab dictators who were toppled by repeatedly coming out on television and calling the demonstrators extremists and members of marginal groups, and while there are some fringe political parties out there waving flags, there are also an awful lot of advertising executives and law students and teachers and normal middle class people who feel like their leader, though he was elected, has started losing touch and he isn t paying attention to them and he s implementing policies without asking them first, and that s what s triggered this explosion of anger. is there any clear sense of where this goes? reporter: i don t know. i have not been able to predict from one day to the next. i thought today things would die down, go back to work and not want to come out in the streets. instead, once they finished their university courses or finished work, they came out to the square to demonstrate or in some cases, we saw high sch
themselves against riot police, and demanding that their prime minister listen to him. and you know, he s taken a page from the playbooks of some of these arab dictators who were toppled by repeatedly coming out on television and calling the demonstrators extremists and members of marginal groups, and while there are some fringe political parties out there waving flags, there are also an awful lot of advertising executives and law students and teachers and normal middle class people who feel like their leader, though he was elected, has started losing touch and he isn t paying attention to them and he s implementing policies without asking them first, and that s what s triggered this explosion of anger. is there any clear sense of where this goes? reporter: i don t know. i have not been able to predict from one day to the next. i thought today things would die down, go back to work and not want to come out in the streets. instead, once they finished their university courses or