Cameron's Crackdown; Who's To Blame?
MAX FOSTER, HOST: Cameron's crackdown -- the British prime minister promises swift justice, as police round up more than 1,000 suspected rioters. Speaking out -- the victim of this mugging during the London chaos now has a message for his attackers. No escape -- why some children in Somalia are getting sicker when they reach aid camps. And gold rush -- inside the trade for what some consider the safest haven of all. These stories and more tonight as we connect the world. We begin, though, with the whiplash on Wall Street. The closing bell has just capped yet another dramatic day. The Dow soared around 400 points. It's been an extremely volatile week and the only thing we can say with certainty is the roller coaster rolls on. Richard Quest joins us. I mean I -- you can't really grab hold of anything here, can you? But it's an interesting day.</s>RICHARD QUEST, HOST, "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS": Oh, come on. It's -- it's more than just that. It's been a lively session, with gains -- we're off the top of the session. I noticed on one of those numbers, we were up nearly 500 points at one point. So we gave back a bit just toward the end. Why today? Look at that, up 422, a gain of 3.9 percent. Would have been considerably higher. Why, today, did it go up? Because it didn't go down. We had a very strong session. Down yesterday. A bit of a bounce back today. But the fundamentals do not justify this sort of move. It was a bit of -- better numbers on the jobless claims and rumors about Europe, whether France was going to be downgraded again. That was bescotched (ph), French banks. What we're seeing is volatility pure and simple.</s>FOSTER: It's interesting, isn't it, because the economics is obviously dominating things right now. But the reporting season, the corporate figures have actually been quite good. So...</s>QUEST: Very good.</s>FOSTER: -- people are grabbing...</s>QUEST: -- very good.</s>FOSTER: -- grabbing hold of that a bit?</s>QUEST: No.</s>FOSTER: Are they?</s>QUEST: No.</s>FOSTER: No?</s>QUEST: Well, Cisco. Right.</s>FOSTER: Yes.</s>QUEST: Cisco Systems' results were good.</s>QUEST: They -- that's not the reason. You've got to keep your eye on the underlying weakness in the economies, which has caused people to test the low levels of markets. And then when they find that level holding, it bounces back up again. This volatility, I can't remember seeing in 15 or 20 years.</s>FOSTER: As you say, it is either up or down and there is a bit of an overreaction either way. Are we getting a sense of which way is going to go in the morning, by the end of the day? Because yesterday, it kept going down. Today it kept going up. Are we getting a -- is there any sort of pattern falling in the stock market?</s>QUEST: What we need to look for is GDP numbers, unemployment -- this is in the U.S. -- unemployment numbers. You need to see how this committee, the super committee in the U.S., is going about its work. In Europe, we need to make sure that the ECB's purchase of Italian bonds continues. And fundamentally, let's see what Sarkozy and Merkel come out with when they have their meeting next week about further European integration. Those are the fundamentals that will ultimately move this direction -- this market in one direction, not just the bling, bling, bling.</s>FOSTER: -- ordinary times. Richard, thank you very much, indeed. We'll have more on the markets later in the show. But first, there weren't enough police on the streets initially and their tactics didn't work. But that was an admission that came from Britain's prime minister today, as he -- he promised the country would recover from the violence which has swept through its inner cities. As the arrest of suspected troublemakers continued, David Cameron warned those responsible that there were few places to hide.</s>DAVID CAMERON, BRITAIN PRIME MINISTER: If you've had your livelihood and property damaged, we will compensate you. We are on your side. And to the lawless minority, the criminals who have taken what they can get, I say this -- we will track you down, we will find you, we will charge you, we will punish you. You will pay for what you have done.</s>FOSTER: With just a year to go until the London Olympics, Mr. Cameron says Britain had to show it could move forward from all this violence. Phil Black is at Westminster, in Central London -- Phil, what else did the prime minister have to say?</s>PHIL BLACK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: There are a number of suggestions to help police tackle some of the new practical problems they experienced in policing these riots. There was a list of them. First of all, interestingly, he announced that the government and the police are going to look at whether or not it is possible to block or shut down social networking sites or communications services like the BlackBerry messenger services, in cases where it's believed they are being used to coordinate crimes. Police say they were used for that during these riots. It enabled the rioters to stay a few steps ahead of them, made their job a lot harder. If this is possible, it's likely it's going to take quite a bit of cooperation from the companies themselves. Mr. Cameron said the police will also be empowered to order people to remove facial coverings or masks in instances were crimes are being committed. There's a little bit of detail here that still needs to be worked out, specifically, how you define that sort of facial covering, just when police will be able to issue those orders and what will happen to people who deny them, especially if there happens to be hundreds of them on the streets at any particular time. And the issue of gangs was something that David Cameron spoke about at length. He said that tackling the gang problem -- street gangs will become a national priority. Departments across government are going to come up with a plan for tackling this. And he said Britain would also follow the advice and the lessons learned by other countries, like the United States, that have made real progress in tackling gang culture. He specifically mentioned a name by the name of Bill Bratton, who's the former police chief of both New York and Los Angeles and who is credited with making real progress with his anti-gang strategies. Bill Bratton says that he hasn't been contacted by the British government just yet, but he believes he can help them. And if he's asked to do so, he will -- Max.</s>FOSTER: It's lucky, he says he's available and he wasn't actually warned that he would be helping out the British government. But bring us up to date on a story. We've reported on this story of this young man being mugged on CCTV. It's a horrendous scene. But we've had an up -- update on that, haven't we?</s>BLACK: Yes, this was one of the examples of violence that David Cameron himself has referenced a number of times. A young man who was beaten up on the street. Smoot rioters then stopped, pretended to help him but actually robbed him while they were pretending to offer him assistance. This was captured on video. It's been seen from around the -- it's been seen around the world and really has triggered a global response. Take a look.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm actually helping him up.</s>DAVID CAMERON, BRITAIN PRIME MINISTER: When we see the disgusting sight of an injured young man with people pretending to help him while they are robbing him, it is clear there are things that are badly wrong in our society.</s>BLACK (voice-over): It has become one of the defining images of the London riots.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But aren't these bad? (ph)</s>BLACK: Bloodied and dazed after being attacked by a mob, Malaysian student, Ashraf Haziq, is helped to his feet...</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And he's just going from his</s>BLACK: -- only to be robbed.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He said you realized that the people were taking things off your rucksack when they were pretending to help you?</s>HAZIQ: I realized that.</s>BLACK: Despite surgery on a broken jaw, the 22-year-old accounting student has recounted his ordeal, claiming his attackers threatened to stab him.</s>HAZIQ: I felt sorry for them, but it we are really sad, because</s>BLACK: Images of the mugging were posted on YouTube and have gone viral. Outraged, people across the globe have used social media to rally around Ashraf, calling for donations and justice. Everything from a new PlayStation, a replacement bike to airline tickets and dental work has been offered to the injured yet grateful student.</s>HAZIQ: Thank you. It was very nice of you to help me. I really appreciated it.</s>BLACK: Mostly, Ashraf is being sent messages of support. From New Zealand, this Facebook comment: "We were disgusted and horrified to see what happened to you." From the</s>UK: "I am ashamed to be British today." And from Somalia: "Get well soon, Ashraf."</s>DATUK ZAKARIA SULONG, HIGH COMMISSIONER OF MALAYSIA: I feel that there are lots of British people who wants to see that the country continues to be peaceful. They feel equally responsible to what happened to him. And they can't see how this can happen to a boy from Malaysia in the UK. So to -- to express that key</s>BLACK: Ashraf was attacked less than a month after arriving in the United Kingdom on a scholarship. In that space of time, he has seen the worst and the best of British culture. But he intends to stay on.</s>HAZIQ: I'd like to finish my study here. I will finish my study here and then after I finish it, then I'll return back home. That will be after two year's time.</s>BLACK: So Ashraf there insisting that he doesn't hold a grudge, he actually feels sorry for some of those rioters and he has now been released from hospital. The police, though, say they have made an arrest in connection to that assault -- Max.</s>FOSTER: OK, Phil. Thank you very much, indeed, for that. Well, some have suggested that the violence was carried out by young people, the ones you saw in that video, for example, who are out of work and out of luck. But the British prime minister says poverty isn't to blame. Instead, Mr. Cameron points the finger at a culture which fails to teach children right from wrong. So want do Britain's teenagers think of all this? Well, Atika Shubert went to find out.</s>ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): As Britain reclaims its streets, many are now asking, how did a protest over the shooting of 29 -year-old Mark Duggan in North London trigger a countrywide looting spree? Some have pointed to a yawning gap between rich and poor. Youth unemployment is at record levels. One in five between the ages of 16 to 24 are out of a job, says the Office of National Statistics. On Monday night, at the peak of the violence in London, this young man attempted to explain his anger to</s>CNN.  UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I love England, everything about it, roast dinners, whatever, blah, blah, blah. But what I'm trying to say to you, sometimes there's -- there's like, you know, like -- there's like -- there's not a fair balance and we're getting the brunt of it. You have to start doing something for people like us.</s>SHUBERT:  (on camera): On Thursday, Prime Minister Cameron told MPs the problem was a culture of violence -- teens that don't know right from wrong, absentee parenting that leads to gangs. But teenagers on the street told me it was more than that. (voice-over): Nineteen-year-old Dominique smith says she understands the frustration and anger of those who rioted because she believes her brother was also a victim of police violence.</s>SHUBERT: Others, like 18 -year-old Kieza Silvera de Sousa, say that frustration doesn't justify the violence that followed.</s>KIEZA SILVERA DE SOUSA, BRITISH TEENAGER: This is actually silly. I mean people are saying that it's because someone got shot by the police. OK, fair enough, someone got shot by the police and it was probably unjust. But that's no reason to ruin people's livelihood, you know, burning down houses, going and breaking people's shops. At the end of the day, that's not going to solve anything. That's not going to stop the police from, you know, being unjust.</s>SHUBERT: Cameron has issued tougher police measures and a gang injunction, market it illegal to engage in gang activities. But that anger and resentment is still on the streets and the government must now find ways to ensure the violence of this week doesn't flare up again. Atika Shubert, CNN, London.</s>FOSTER: Where does the government even begin, though? These are big issues. To discuss that, I'm joined by social outreach coordinator, Alvin Carpio. He works with young people in some of the areas of London worse hit by the violence over the past week. Thanks so much for joining us.</s>ALVIN CARPIO, SOCIAL OUTREACH COORDINATOR: Thank you very much.</s>FOSTER: David Cameron firmly pointed the finger today at boys, he said, from dysfunctional families in gangs. Are they at the heart of this?</s>CARPIO: Well, in terms of why this happened, I guess we can point out two things. I mean one of the things is that this and everything that happened collectively was due to the individual decisions we made as people. Self-discipline is doing what should be done when it should be done whether you like it or not. But...</s>FOSTER: What do you mean, self-discipline? There's -- there's been no self-discipline here, has there?</s>CARPIO: Exactly. And this is the problem, is individual choices that we make in response to what was happening in the crowds. And I guess when you think about the individual we're then talking about, actually, the community. We have often talked about how these people who are on the streets aren't members of the community. But what is missing in the debate is, actually, this is a community unto themselves, as well. And, actually, the people who are doing this have their own code of conduct, which is very separate from the law and where loyalty is so important. And so when one person decides to break a window, it's disloyalty to not join in with that person and it's not backing up that person.</s>FOSTER: So you wouldn't say that -- this community that you're talking about, you wouldn't say the whole community shares the -- the need to go and break into a shop? It's just the...</s>CARPIO: No.</s>FOSTER: -- there's a dynamic there which is driving them to do that?</s>CARPIO: Yes. I guess it's the crowd mentality. And I guess one of the things that we are seeing talked about, when you're talking about who is to blame, is when we are looking at a minority of people who are doing this. And we look, then, at the response of the community. You know, on Sunday, when we gathered, 30 people, to decide what we're going to do about this. And then in less than 23 hours, we've gathered 200 people onto the streets of Tottenham to say that this is not what we stand for. We are peaceful, law-abiding citizens who want to make changes in our community and do not at all condone what was happening in -- in Tottenham. And that's exactly who the community is. And I think it's our responsibility now to see that, you know, we, as a community under people in power, now have a choice and there are decisions to be made, which are so important. And it's vital among the community.</s>FOSTER: Well, one of the choices...</s>CARPIO: I'm sorry. Just let me finish.</s>FOSTER: Yes.</s>CARPIO: And, actually, we cannot always build the future for our youth. But we can build the youth for our future. And I guess our responsibility now is to think about the young people...</s>FOSTER: Well, let's talk about...</s>FOSTER: -- that now, because David Cameron is saying he's going to throw the full force of the law at people found guilty.</s>CARPIO: Right.</s>FOSTER: And they really have been, haven't they? We've got one girl, an 11 -year-old girl in Nottinghamshire has been put in -- she was charged for an offense and she's been put in a cell. That wouldn't happen normally.</s>CARPIO: Yes.</s>FOSTER: And that's a good response, though, isn't it...</s>CARPIO: Yes.</s>FOSTER: -- to deal with the criminals in a hard way and to be seen to be dealing with them in a hard way, right?</s>CARPIO: Yes. In terms of setting precedents, I think there need -- these cases that are going through the courts now, the people who are responsible for causing hellish nights where mothers and sisters -- my sister herself, fearful of going out at night, they need to be punished for the things that they have done accordingly. But also to set an example that this can never be accepted ever again.</s>FOSTER: But isn't that almost enough? Why do we then have to go into a whole social arrangement with...</s>CARPIO: Because...</s>FOSTER: -- these groups?</s>CARPIO: -- in the magistrates, the -- the maximum sort of penalty is six months. And not many will go on to further than that. And when they come out, we need to think about what it is we do. And I think as a community, we have a responsibility as citizens, as police, to keep safe and politicians to lead, to make sure that when they come out, we're working with them. As we mentioned, this is a community and we need to work with them in order to find out what they want to change but also how we can help them to get out, because they do have a choice still to make. And their punishments will make them think about those choices.</s>FOSTER: OK, Alvin, we're going to be talking about this a lot in the future, I think, because it's a priority now for the government, isn't it?</s>CARPIO: Yes.</s>FOSTER: Thank you very much, indeed. Coming up, Syria defies international condemnation, more die as the government's crackdown against protesters continues. Then, Tiger Woods shoots his worst ever score in the opening round of a major championship. And the new gold rush -- why investors are flocking to the yellow metal.