Prime minister, sir keir starmer is holding an emergency response meeting with senior police leaders as they look to de escalate the violence following the fatal stabbing of three young girls in southport a week ago today. Misinformation about the identity of the southport attacker, spread on social media, led to far right riots. Police forces across the uk have made more than 400 arrests since the disturbances began. And that number is expected to rise. This morning, the home secretary, yvette cooper has condemned what she called the disgraceful scenes of violence and thuggery, promising swift justice violence and thuggery, promising swiftjustice for violence and thuggery, promising swift justice for those involved violence and thuggery, promising swiftjustice for those involved in the unrest. Now this footage, taken from social media, and looked at by our team at bbc verify, shows rioters are starting fires at a holiday inn express hotel in tamworth. Staffordshire police said an offi
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in part two of our conversation, we talk about u.s. support for israel, the boycott divestment and sanctions movement known as bds, and the blockade of gaza. israeli experts have calculated in detail exactly how dozenslories, literally, need to survive. if you look at the sanctions they imposed, i mean, even john kerry condemned them bitterly. their sadistic. just enough calories to survive. noam chomsky for the hour. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. president obama warning of a lengthy bombing campaign in northern iraq as u.s. airstrikes enter a fifth day. over the weekend, u.s. warplanes and drones attack what the pentagon said were artillery positions in armored trucks along into the militant group islamic state near the kurdish regional capital. obama authorize the strike last week in what he called an effort to halt the militant advance on thel, where the u.s. has u.s. consulate and m