Vincent McAviney: UK Correspondent gives Southport stabbing update, accused named

The 17-year-old accused of the fatal Southport stabbings at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class has been named. 

Axel Rudakubana has made his first court appearance in the UK. 

British newspapers successfully argued the minor should be named, given public interest. 

Three children died and five more were critically injured in the attack earlier this week. 

UK Correspondent, Vincent McAviney told Ryan Bridge that Rudakubana has been remanded in youth custody. 

He says it's a complex operation, with the trial likely to take place early next year. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Linton Meka is an exa U can europe correspondents with
all the details, all the juice on this UIs Russia
and I should say European prisoner swap Vincent.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yeah, that's right. This was thought to be coming for
a few days, but this surprise announcement this afternoon that
this deal has been agreed. Twenty fourth prisoners being held
in six countries, Sixteen detainees from the West being swapped
with eight who are returning to Russia. This is the
biggest prisoner exchange since the end of the Cold War.

(00:33):
We exclude some of those that have been in the
Ukraine conflict, and of course the most famous of those,
Evan Guskovich, the Wall Street journal journalist. He is being
returned in exchange. The Russians have managed to get the
Dim Krasikoff, who German officials identified as a colonel in
the colonel in Russia's FSB intelligence service. This swap happened

(00:58):
in the last few hours via Turkey, and President Biden
has been able a press conference in the White House
marking the end of what he's said to be a
brutal ordeal for many of these families and the victims
and has been seeing as quite a diplomatic triumph for
President Biden, whose administration has been working on this for
years to coordinate with multiple countries, as you mentioned, across

(01:20):
Europe to get this exchange over the line.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah, it's pretty incredible that they hand over a convicted
murderer though from Germany, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Hey, Vincent?

Speaker 1 (01:29):
That rioting that happened in Southport. The murder accused has
now been named and appeared in court. Who is this person?

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, this is seventeen year old Axel Ruder Kubanna now
under Eighteens in British justice are normally kept anonymized unless
there is a public interest in revealing. The newspapers here
mounted a claim and that was accepted by the judge
that he should be identified given the nature of the crime.
He has been charged for three counts of murder, ten

(02:03):
council attempted murder and one counter possessing a bladed article.
He's been remanded in youth custody. And of course this
is a complex operation. This traveling likely to take place
next year at the earliest. But what's been interesting is
the Kirstama has taken two Downing Street for a press
conference this afternoon where he's been denouncing the actions of

(02:23):
what he said were gangs of thugs who've exploited this
tragedy and traveled to Southport and then to Downing Street
last night, fueled by false information wilfully being put out
on social media by the far rights, not just in
this country but other countries to soak up resentment towards
migrants to this country. And we have over one hundred

(02:46):
rests in London's night for what was a pretty violent,
horrible protest. At some point Nazi salutes were spotted in it,
all of them claiming that they were there because they
wanted to see greater child protection, but really it was
a pretty ugly.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Affair sounds so, thanks so much for your time, Vincent mcavinie.
How you can your correspondent it.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
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