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Up All Night: 07/08/2011

07/08/2011

BBC Radio 5 Live - Up All Night, 07/08/2011

Tottenham violence, soldiers killed in helicopter crash, US debt and the virtual jukebox.

Petrol bombs are thrown at police - a shop, three cars and a bus are set on fire in Tottenham in North London. Plus New Zealand outlaws synthetic cannabis and our New York hour.

Dotun Adebayo with news from around the world. 

A major disturbance in Tottenham in North London has left eight police officers injured. It's all over the death of Mark Duggan who was shot by the police earlier in the week. We speak to the police, reporters in Tottenham, residents and Clasford Stirling MBE, a Youth and Sports Development Officer at Broadwater Farm Estate.

A helicopter crash in Afghanistan kills 31 American special forces. The Taliban says it shot the Chinook down. We get the latest from our correspondent in Washington as President Obama pays tribute to the dead. 

Mark Webster joins us for the virtual jukebox. Lots of great music this week - and Dotun does his usual job of trying to sing along. You can find out which new tune we chose just before three o'clock.

Simon Derrick watches the US and UK economies at the Bank of New York Mellon. He's based in London but knows chapter and verse about the world's current economic problems. We discuss the US debt crisis and ask how it could possibly be resolved.

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