00:00An emotional tribute to a vibrant young life taken far too soon.
00:05On Tuesday, family and friends said a final goodbye to one of the three children killed
00:10during last week's mass stabbing attack in Southport, England.
00:15Right-wing online networks quickly and falsely blamed the attack on a Muslim asylum seeker,
00:21setting off a week of anti-immigrant Islamophobic riots across England and Northern Ireland,
00:26in which more than 400 people have been arrested.
00:29UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the first court appearances are already underway
00:33and the sentences will be severe.
00:36I'm now expecting substantive sentencing before the end of this week.
00:40The criminal justice system really has shown the robust and swift response.
00:45So I think it's very important sending a message in circumstances like this.
00:50Online misinformation and conspiracy theories have been amplified by a number of high-profile
00:55figures in the U.K., including far-right Brexiteer Nigel Farage, who has decried what
01:00he calls a two-tier policing system in which authorities go softer on anti-racism protesters,
01:07a claim that police say is complete nonsense.
01:11Many are instead calling out what they say is a long trend of increasingly
01:15racist and Islamophobic speech across U.K. media and politics.
01:20We are now seeing the culmination of not years, actually, decades of anti-migrant,
01:27anti-Muslim rhetoric being normalized in the political discourse
01:30now playing out in the most horrendous, violent way possible.
01:34London Mayor Sadiq Khan says he is aware of far-right threats to mosques and community
01:39centers there, and that the capital has zero tolerance for racism, Islamophobia,
01:44anti-Semitism or any form of hate.
01:46Thousands of riot police are on standby as the U.K.
01:50faces down its worst civil unrest in more than a decade.
