and this year saw major protests in britain including a wave of looting and destruction in august other spread from london to various other english settings authorities struggle to contain the country's worst unrest in decades groups of young people on the rampage said buildings and cars on fire raided stores on four police with bottles and fireworks our correspondent laura smith witnessed the events unfold as you know joins us live from london. laura good to see you as i was saying you cover the event so from the capital there tell us about the looting that we saw spread across the u.k. many saying it was history in the making. yes i mean that's certainly how it seems from here and how it seemed at the time when it kicked off at the beginning of august that i mean we as journalists really couldn't believe what we were what we were seeing and hearing as soon as dogless fell on the night of the six when it started the unrest began the riots saying the looting of shops and it all stems as my colleague a nice a set from a demonstration following the alleged murder of a young black man in t

it was common thieving and looting.do not need an inquiry to tell us that. >> the decision not to hold an inquiry left unanswered questions. after four months, no one seemed to know exactly why they began here and spread across england. there have been no attempts to speak to large numbers of people who took part in the disorder. our team of researchers have interviewed 270 people who rioted in london, birmingham, liverpool, and rochester. their testimony has undergone rigorous analysis giving insight into why people took to their streets. you are about to hear their stories, in their words. >> i was standing outside having a cigarette wonder why the crowd was gathering. i found out it was a protest about him being shot. >> mark dugan had been shot dead by police two days earlier. there were rumors he had been assassinated. at 5:00 p.m., friends and relatives gathered at the local police station. >> that was the first time we heard he was shot. another injustice in london, another killing by the police. it was peaceful.

at the top expect looting at the bottom and you're destroying your economy by allowing this looting to go on david cameron george osborne so you reap what you sow my friend you know the water and sewage rates were due to go a point two percent per year for the next three years but that is now more likely to be ten percent a year or more some are saying that it might go up as much as twenty five percent according to the a court appointed receiver john as young so in response sheila tyson a community activist says quote these people are going to end up writing about this if they let this stuff happen they are going to get the biggest riot the south has ever seen over the sewer business i can see it coming oh absolutely it's a civil war is brewing between the rich and the poor and this is going to happen in the us it'll explode quite. adequately at some point i wouldn't dissipate and of course there are over two hundred fifty million guns in that country saw to add a little spice and flavor to it before i move on to the next example of what it's like to be a victim of fraud i want to n

are sitting there back home thinking about you know what within five minutes from now i could be looting that liquor store and walking away with fifty pounds that i deserve and now let's again look at this to tear system that we see around the world but especially in the u.k. ian duncan smith the government has saved more than one hundred million pounds in benefit fraud crackdown a quote from the article by ian duncan smith we prosecuted almost ten thousand benefit fraudsters in two thousand and ten eleven up from eight thousand two hundred the year before in all cases benefit fraudsters are required to pay back the money that they have stolen now max can you tell. me how many bankers have been arrested in the city of london how many have been prosecuted. how many have paid back their ill gotten gains zero exactly and you can see that in this next headline money found in britain may belong to m.f. global about two hundred million dollars and customer money that vanished from m.f. global is believed to have surfaced at j.p. morgan chase and britain according to people briefed on the matte

who are all i need to hear in this year and see not only looting in the u.k. but also protests in ukraine goes through what we saw throughout the year in terms of demands and rallies throughout the u.k. . where i'm not sure if you can hear me and you say here i just want to ask if you can take us through some of the other protests not of looting that we saw throughout the summer lots of people coming out onto the street for other causes to take them through or through them if you will. all right we think to have lost lauren there live from london this new year's eve but our coverage. from the heart of moscow. with of course what happened in the u.k. throughout the years people were more stand about the u.k. right then the british people themselves let them talk to investigative journalists and was in bristol and joins us live. it's written several months now since the violence is it possible to say exactly what the motivation behind the riots was why did they happen at all. well i think that it's actually now crystal clear i mean many of us believe that the th

riots and left authorities helpless talks of possibly bringing out the military bars to shops were looted car set on fire and windows smashed across the u.k. the police the job center all the banks everything that's happening the recession you know there's a lot of anger about that social experts also threw a fountain multicultural program and racism into the mix you know stop and so. on a sense that the police certainly institutional. and probably institutionally racist as well the riots faded but the problems are still passing some say only a spark is needed to set the public off again. occupy wall street became a household name in the u.s. and around the world when the protests began in september if you were talking about the mainstream media stayed silent until seven hundred people were arrested on the brooklyn bridge and that was truly based in the end of his fruits of american politics the crowd is easy some. they are disorganized they look funny what are they protesting nobody seems to know but negative coverage didn't stop us from spreading from small towns to huge ports occupied

why you go yeah they respond so the people in the street looting was not spontaneous it's based on the fact that they've been oppressed and repressed with financial apartheid whereas by masters of the credit default swap that was spontaneous it was immaculate conception it spawned out of the lawyers after she had a thought about how to defraud people effortlessly using digital manipulation that was an effortless spontaneous event but this looting was was coming a mile away if you steal money from the impoverished and you give them no recourse . revolts it now the other big bank in the news this year was goldman sachs and first i want to turn back to this little clip of you on france twenty four zero about two or three years ago where you said this about goldman sachs do what is it about goldman sachs or how does the motion to turn the figures around like. goldman sachs are scum that's a bottom line they basically have co-opted the u.s. government co-opted the treasury department the federal reserve functionality to the obama administration barack obama you know dances to goldman sachs.

the ships and then they sell shares in the next ship that they're going to loot on an informal exchange like a group honor. or a facebook share market or shares post isn't like an electronic internet based market that only people who actually have a proven record of criminality aren't eligible to be involved with and they take those public the somali pirates and hold us and watch unified for vision here because you know like i got to go there all right so so the perfect vision for free version of the somali pirates yeah the somali pirates somali pirates they got the right idea. oh i want back to the beginning. we minister we have listen here i mean don we know you're already with us three minutes is going to be a special hour we're going to be charlaine guys are you for coming to a theater near you well again we were on to something that we could release a feature length is a report online just like louis c.k. there should raise money to send us to somalia to do a report on pirates you know once raise money on pirate my film bucko. anyway you know there are a lot of predictions being ma

people effortlessly using digital manipulation that was an effortless spontaneous event but this looting was was you can see it coming a mile away if you steal money from the impoverished and you give them no recourse . revolts it now the other big bank in the news this year was goldman sachs and first i want to turn back to this little clip of you on france twenty four zero about two or three years ago where you said this about goldman sachs do what is it about goldman sachs or how does a motion to turn things around like. goldman sachs are scum it's a bottom line they basically have co-opted the u.s. government they've co-opted the treasury department the federal reserve functionality to the obama administration barack obama you know dances to goldman sachs and they're really crooked and abominable in what they've done they just remember hank paulson the congress hostage to go in the back room and said give us some hundred billion dollars are going to crash this market he's an arsonist he's he's an outlaw and yet he's given you're a strange researcher who was c.e.o. of. goldman sachs y