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The UK's flagging economy needs help to kick start growth, possibly | :00:09. | :00:19. | |
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a further cut to interest rates. Under scrutiny. The International | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
Monetary Fund says the Government's made substantial progress towards | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
balancing its books but more could be done. Growth is too slow and | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
youth unemployment too high. Policies to bolster demand before | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
low-growth becomes entrenched are needed. The warning comes as lower | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
food and energy prices lead to the biggest fall in inflation for more | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
than two years. We'll be assessing what this means for the Government. | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
Also tonight: A court has been told the parents of Shafilea Ahmed used | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
a plastic bag to suffocate her in 2003. Allegations of corruption at | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
the heart of Scotland Yard. MPs hear claims that police officers | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
working for an anti-corruption unit received payments from private | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
detectives. Not enough pain killers for tens of thousands of Britain's | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
sickest. The health watchdog says more should be given. And boosting | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
Britain's electricity. Plans for a new generation of nuclear power | :01:17. | :01:27. | |
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plants and giant wind farms. Tonight: The search for hundreds of | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
suspected cancer patients who may have missed urgent treatment | :01:31. | :01:41. | |
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Good evening. A further cut to interest rates and yet more money | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
pumped into the economy by the Bank of England. Those are just some of | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
the measures that should be considered to help get Britain | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
moving. That's the view of the International Monetary Fund which | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
gave its verdict on the UK economy today. The IMF gave its support to | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
the government's policies to cut the budget deficit but said more | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
needed to be done to tackle high unemployment and a lack of growth. | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
It came as inflation fell to 3%, its lowest level for two years. | :02:21. | :02:28. | |
Stephanie Flanders has this assessment. The UK economy has been | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
getting its annual inspection from the International Monetary Fund and | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
the verdict is in. Things are not going well at all. The economic | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
recovery in the UK has not taken hold. The stresses in the euro area | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
affect the UK through many channels. Kriss Akabusi is too slow and | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
unemployment, including youth unemployment, too high. -- growth. | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
Policies to bolster demand are needed. He is still smiling. The | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
fund things the Government is on the right track even if the economy | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
is not. The IMF could not be clearer today. Britain needs to | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
deal with its debts. The fiscal policy is appropriate and an | :03:14. | :03:24. | |
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essential part to our road to The IMF wants the Bank of England | :03:42. | :03:50. | |
to cut interest rates even further. The latest news on prices could | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
make it easier for the bank to follow that advice, according to | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
the consumer prices index was up inflation fell from 3.5% to 3%. The | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
broader Retail Prices Index fell by less to 3.5%. Inflation might be | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
falling but these parents in Hertfordshire are no more upbeat | :04:14. | :04:21. | |
about the economy than the IMF. Everything has gone up. Even school | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
clubs like this one. You cut down on everything. If you see the | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
bargains in the supermarkets, things that a cheaper, you buy them. | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
The economy is flat. The Government should be doing more to help. If | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
things get worse, it things it should take the advice of Labour | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
with a temporary cut in VAT. It is important for the Chancellor. | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
Christine Lagarde does not think things are bad enough for that just | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
yet. Mr Osborne has not stuck rigidly to his bold targets. Right | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
now that is enough to reassure the IMF and not Ed Balls. The IMF said | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
last September, if the British economy underperformers, the | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
Government should act on jobs. There should be a tax cut do get | :05:10. | :05:18. | |
the economy moving. Since then her hour economy has gone back into | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
recession. Dark clouds in the eurozone do not give the Chancellor | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
much to feel good about. It seems he still has a friend in the IMF, | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
at least one now. Our political editor is in Downing Street for us. | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
Some praise from the Government on one hand but more needs to be done. | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
There is something for everyone in the IMF report. The Chancellor has | :05:41. | :05:51. | |
every right to feel most pleased. The image of Mrs Lagarde is one at | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
that he will want to evoke. He will want to protect insane there is no | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
choice in austerity and growth. -- insane. He will insist that more | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
spending is not the solution to the problems in Britain and Europe. The | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
IMF were cleared the British economy is not growing enough and | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
the Government should do more and the Bank of England should do more. | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
There was a puzzle at the end of all of theirs. In recent Mansi | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
International Monetary Fund has said, if the British economy does | :06:24. | :06:32. | |
not get moving and moving soon, it should consider a plan be. Why did | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
they not argue for that today? -- Plan B Macro. The reason appears to | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
be this. Last autumn, the Government did take an important | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
decision. Even though the economy was growing slower, it did not | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
announce further cuts - bigger spending cuts - in order to stick | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
to its deficit plans. It said, we will take a couple more years. The | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
Government will not change its approach. If the economy really | :07:01. | :07:10. | |
does not grow, that debate will start in earnest. The sister of | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
Tapani Kalmaru, who was allegedly murdered by her parents in 2003, | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
has been giving evidence against them at Chester Crown Court. -- | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
Shafilea Ahmed. Alesha Ahmed said her parents abused Shafilea Ahmed | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
every day. Her parents used a plastic bag to suffocate the 17th | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
year-old, the court was told. Iftikhar Ahmed arrived at court | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
this morning with his wife walking behind him, in the knowledge that | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
one of their daughters alleges they murdered her sister. Tapani Kalmaru | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
was said to have been physically abused by her parents nearly every | :07:49. | :07:56. | |
day. -- Shafilea Ahmed. The jury heard it resulted in them | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
suffocating her, forcing a plastic bag into her mouth and putting | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
their hands over her face. There had been daily conflict at the | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
family home in Warrington. Her sister told the court that, on one | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
occasion, their parents had threatened her with a knife. They | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
said -- she said they were hitting have. It was out of control. She | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
was just taking it. The jury was also told that Shafilea Ahmed had | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
been taken on a trip to Pakistan to stay with family. Was there, have | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
father had threatened her saying, there is a gun back there, and if | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
something were to happen to you, no one would find out. The body was | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
discovered in February, 2004, by a river in Celtic in Cumbria. The | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
prosecution say her parents killed her because they felt she was | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
bringing shame on the family. The parents deny murder. The court has | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
heard that Alesha Ahmed only came forward to give her allegation | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
after being involved in a robbery at the family home. The jury is | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
being asked to consider whether she is lying to somehow help herself | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
when she is sentenced for the rub real issue is telling the truth, | :09:14. | :09:23. | |
having lived with the family's secret Panathenaic Stadium seven | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
years. Scotland Yard to -- for at seven years. Scotland judge is | :09:29. | :09:37. | |
investigating charges of allegations. -- Scotland Yard. The | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
home affairs select committee has heard allegations a private | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
investigation firm paid money for information. The former detective | :09:45. | :09:55. | |
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has denied any wrongdoing. Mark Easton has this exclusive report in | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
August of last year a bundle of documents was received by the IPCC. | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
An identical bundle turned up at the office of the then Commissioner | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
of the Metropolitan Police. Although anonymous, paperwork | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
included detailed invoices and expense ledgers which the picture | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
show a firm of private investigators had handed over | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
thousands of pounds in cash to Metropolitan Police officers in | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
return for confidential information. The officers were members of the | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
proceeds of Corruption Unit, based at Scotland club. The private | :10:31. | :10:40. | |
investigators are working for the man they were pursuing -- pursuing. | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
James Ibori was the former state governor of the oil-rich delta | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
region in Nigeria, a corrupt official who stole hundreds of | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
millions of pounds from his homeland. He used cash to buy | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
luxury cars and property, including homes in the UK. A specially funded | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
unit was set up but Scotland Yard to capture him. Last month he was | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
sentenced to 30 years for money laundering. Protected by the legal | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
privileges of the Houses of Parliament Ramagge the lawyer for | :11:11. | :11:19. | |
another man jailed as part of the clot said they had themselves been | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
corrupted. -- the plot. A private investigations paid the police. | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
Half-a-dozen payments totalling about �20,000 had a pit for over | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
eight or nine months. There is a detailed list of expenses occurred | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
by risk management, including one in April, 2008, just before the | :11:42. | :11:52. | |
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London solicitor of James Ibori was Immediate -- below the Leger reads: | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
Risk management denies they had ever paid any police officer. | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
information we received to date we will pursue to give those who are | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
not present the opportunity of responding to the very serious | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
allegations that have been made by this firm of solicitors. The man | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
who led the inquiry, former Detective Inspector Gary Walters, | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
was described as a key culprit to the affair. He denies any | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
wrongdoing. The serving officers also named today where John | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
MacDonald and Peter Clark. They have declined to comment on the | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
allegations. DI Walters appears to have been working with risk | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
management. You see him giving conference speeches. The police | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
officer involved is working for the private investigator? That appears | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
to be the case. Scotland Yard has said that since last October they | :12:56. | :13:06. | |
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have been investigating an However, been there seven month | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
since it began, I have learned the inquiry has not spoken to risk | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
management, not to the legal firm whose name appears on the invoices. | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
No police officer has been asked about the allegations. It is not | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
possible to be certain whether the documents are genuine or elaborate | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
fakes or whether any money was received by a police officer - of | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
those who might gain most from the claims are convicted fraudsters. | :13:39. | :13:48. | |
The allegations put extra pressure A series of new measures has been | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
outlined to tackle antisocial behaviour in communities in England | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
and Wales. ASBOs would be replaced with a system of orders giving | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
communities a greater say. Ministers also want to speed up the | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
eviction of the most disruptive tenants. Labour says the overall | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
plans will make matters worse. Tens of thousands of patients with | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
advanced cancer and other chronic illnesses are suffering because | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
they aren't being given adequate pain relief. That's according to | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
the health watchdog NICE. It has issued new guidance in the hope of | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
increasing the use of morphine and other strong painkillers known as | :14:17. | :14:24. | |
opioids. Fergus Walsh reports. A these medicines are so potent, they | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
must be kept under lock and key. Morphine and diamorphine, or | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
heroine, are produced from opium poppies, used to control pain for | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
thousands of years, but they are being overlooked by 21st century | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
medicine. Daniel Hopkins has terminal lung cancer and until he | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
came to St Gemma's Hospice in Leeds was in excruciating pain. | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
Tremendous pain. On the scale of 1- 10, it shot off the top of the | :14:55. | :15:03. | |
scale. Morphine has changed that. After, it just can't see down. I | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
have no pain at all now. At 10 pence a tablet for morphine, cost | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
is not an issue, so why are so many doctors not using opioids to | :15:13. | :15:21. | |
control patients' pain? Doctors share the fears of their patients, | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
that patients may become intolerant or addicted to painkillers. Often | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
these are misplaced fears. Doctors fail to mention side-effects and | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
how to deal with them. There is also the legacy of Dr Harold | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
Shipman, who used diamorphine to murder his victims. It has made | :15:39. | :15:47. | |
many doctors are wary of prescribing strong opioids. | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
Research suggests that one in two patients with advanced cancer do | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
not have adequate pain control and the problem applies to other long- | :15:55. | :16:02. | |
term conditions, such as heart failure and neurological disorders. | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
Natalie's husband, Mark, was diagnosed with motor neurone | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
disease shortly before their wedding. Within months he was | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
totally paralysed and in severe pain. She said the final days | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
before his death or agonising. was awful to watch. He was asking | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
me to help him and I could not help him. He would close his eyes and | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
say, help me, and there was nothing I could do. I was having to beg the | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
nurses to help him. It was the middle of the night and there were | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
no consultants around. Many opioids are now produced synthetically, | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
like this slow release patch. The message to doctors is simple. These | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
medicines work and used responsibly, they can make a dramatic difference | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
to the well-being of patients. Coming up on tonight's programme: | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
With London 2012 just weeks away, an Olympic official at the centre | :16:56. | :17:06. | |
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If you thought your energy bills were already high, they could go up | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
even more under proposals contained in a new energy bill. Power | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
companies would be given guaranteed returns as an incentive to invest | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
in a new generation of nuclear power stations and in renewable | :17:18. | :17:28. | |
energy. -- giant wind farms. It is part of a major overhaul of the | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
power industry, aimed at meeting electricity needs without pushing | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
up greenhouse gas emissions. David Shukman has the details. | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
Britain at night. Bright, but for how much longer? Our power stations | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
are getting older so massive spending is needed. But what to | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
invest in? One option is more conventional power stations, | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
burning gas. They are the cheapest but also the most polluting and | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
they rely on imports. Newt nuclear power stations could generate low | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
carbon electricity but building and is expensive. Wind farms out at sea | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
could generate carbon three power but they are very pricey. Whatever | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
happens, the government says we need major new investment. | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
should not discount any low carbon technology. I think keeping the | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
lights on and making sure we meet our climate change obligations are | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
so important that we need to face up to all the challenges. Here is | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
the dilemma. The government needs new power supplies but its own | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
climate targets means that these should be low carbon, so the | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
investment could cost over �110 billion in the next decade, and | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
because the government does not want nuclear power to receive any | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
public subsidy, consumers will carry the cost. An extra �105 a | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
year on their bills by 2030 according to one government | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
estimate. Ministers say that with the risk of rising gas prices, that | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
investment is worth it. The whole strategy depends upon the energy | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
companies and whether they invest. They are still waiting for key | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
details. If is an important step, it is a wide ranging and complex | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
set of reforms. Ideally it would be simpler. There is a lot of work to | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
do on the detail and we will be working with the government. | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
Exactly how much bills will go up and for how long? Consumer groups | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
are worried. Ultimately, the policies in place are designed to | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
make sure that bills are more affordable in the longer term but | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
we have got to get there and it will probably mean a painful time | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
for lots of consumers. It is built of the transformation of the | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
electricity market, some think everybody agrees is owed and, but | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
what matters now is the small print of the new measures and that is not | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
settled -- everybody agrees is urgent. | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
The prospect of some convicted prisoners getting the right to vote | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
may have moved a step closer after a ruling at the European Court of | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
Human Rights in Strasbourg. In the past, David Cameron has said he | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
feels physically ill at the idea, but the government has been given | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
six months to respond to a test case that has come before the court. | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
Leaders from across Europe will meet in Brussels tomorrow to try to | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
agree measures for economic growth and to find a solution to the debt | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
crisis in Greece. Fresh elections will be held there next month. They | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
are being seen by many as a vote on whether to continue with austerity | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
measures imposed to tackle the deficit. Hugh Pym reports from | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
Athens on the challenge facing Greece. | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
Thousands of years of history and prestige, but where does Greece go | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
from here? You come to the future it is as uncertain as ever. There | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
is the sense of waiting for something to turn up but as for | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
what that something is, nobody is given to guests. Many people in the | :20:58. | :21:04. | |
UK and Europe will be asking a game, how did Greece get into this mess | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
and why are concerns about the Greek economy causing such | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
shockwaves across the world's financial markets? Greek government | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
debt soared so it had to be bailed out. It would have to pay a | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
crippling 30% interest rate if the ballot -- bail-out stopped now and | :21:20. | :21:27. | |
it had to go back to the markets. By comparison, UK costs are below | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
2%. The economy has been shrinking in a lengthy recession. By the end | :21:32. | :21:39. | |
of 2012, output will have fallen by more than 17% in five years. So why | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
is the economy stuck in reverse? I asked the head of the leading Greek | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
business organisation. People prefer to keep whatever Euros they | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
have in a safe and in their wallet and not spend it, and of course, | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
you know, business investment is about taking a calculated risk for | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
the future. It is not possible to calculate any risk at this time, so | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
investment is at a total standstill. Tax rises and spending cuts are not | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
helping growth. Without it and higher tax revenues, Greece will | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
struggle to reduce its borrowing. Its debt problem has become | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
Europe's debt problem because financial markets are so closely | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
interlinked, and leading European banks are still dealing with bad | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
debts caused by the downturn. There are fears that further losses in | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
Greece could damage confidence across the system. There are | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
warnings of severe consequences for European banks, including the UK's, | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
if there is the complete default. If Greece is not in they've | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
situation to continue with the bail-out package and instead it has | :22:48. | :22:55. | |
to officially go bankrupt, then the contagion is going to be very | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
significant. I do not see a way that this can be avoided. | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
Speculation about Greece's ability to repay its debt and membership of | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
the currency will intensify as elections approach. One tourist | :23:09. | :23:16. | |
then dip the selling points of the old currency. -- tourist Sella. | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
Right now it is a souvenir, but what for the future. | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
The first commercial flight carrying supplies to the | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
International Space Station has successfully blasted off from Cape | :23:26. | :23:34. | |
Canaveral in Florida. And launch of the Falcon 9! Falcon 9, an unmanned | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
privately owned rocket, is expected to dock at the space station on | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
Friday. The mission marks a new chapter in the history of space | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
flight. A BBC investigation has discovered | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
that a senior Olympic official from Ukraine was willing to sell | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
thousands of pounds of London 2012 tickets. The General Secretary of | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
Ukraine's National Committee told an undercover reporter posing as a | :23:53. | :24:02. | |
ticket tout that he could provide up to 100 tickets. Under a law | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
introduced for this summer's Games, it is illegal to sell tickets to | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
touts and tonight he has been suspended from his Olympic duties. | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
Adrian Warner reports. Very few tickets are left now for | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
the top events at the Olympics this summer so this is often the moment | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
when touts step into the market, but where do they get their tickets | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
from? It has been suspected him past Games that tickets allocated | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
to Olympic committees around the world have been sold on the black | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
market. In Britain, that is against the law. But a BBC investigation | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
indicates that it is likely to happen again. This is Volodymyr | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
Geraschchenko, general secretary of the Ukrainian Olympic Committee. An | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
undercover BBC reporter arranged a meeting with him in London to | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
discuss buying tickets. He explains that he was in the process of | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
distributing tickets to Ukrainian fans, coaches and officials but | :25:01. | :25:11. | |
:25:11. | :25:13. | ||
indicated that he should have some Volodymyr Geraschchenko was willing | :25:13. | :25:23. | |
:25:23. | :25:25. | ||
to discuss how any tickets would be 13 years ago, the International | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
Olympic Committee was hit by a major corruption scandal and vowed | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
to clean up the ranks, so this is particularly embarrassing because | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
it involves one of the big success stories of the Olympics. | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
Unprecedented ticket sales. Do you think it is pie in the sky | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
that you will stop ticket touts? Absolutely not and if I thought | :25:45. | :25:54. | |
that, we would not have increased We ask Volodymyr Geraschchenko | :25:54. | :26:04. | |
:26:04. | :26:10. | ||
London 2012 and the International Olympic Committee say they will | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
investigate the allegations but with 1 million tickets allocated to | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
Olympic Committee's worldwide, any suggestion of them getting into the | :26:17. | :26:24. | |
wrong hands could be damaging for the Games. | :26:24. | :26:27. |