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An apology from the company that's failed to recruit thousands of | :00:04. | :00:10. | |
security staff for the Olympics. As more troops are drafted in tonight | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
to fill the security gap, questions remain over why the problem wasn't | :00:13. | :00:19. | |
identified earlier. UN observers in Syria say | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
opposition activists and army defectors were targeted in a | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
village where it's claimed a massacre took place. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
The London to Sheffield rail line is set for a half billion pound | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
upgrade. And from Chelsea to China. Didier | :00:34. | :00:44. | |
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Drogba says its for the challenge Good evening. The chief executive | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
of the security firm G4S has said he's sorry, disappointed and | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
embarrassed that it's failed to recruit enough security guards for | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
the Olympics. Nick Buckles said the company would meet the cost of | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
deploying thousands of military personnel to replace them. He said | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
that he only found out about the recruitment problems just eight or | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
nine days ago. Tonight, more members of the armed forces have | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
been drafted in to fill the security gap. Richard Lister | :01:19. | :01:27. | |
reports. Arriving at London's excel Centre | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
tonight, some of the thousands of troops brought in to fill the gap | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
in Olympic security. Just days ago, G4S was apparently committed to | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
delivering the civilian staff needed to guard the venues. Now the | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
company is having to pay for military personnel to do the job | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
and facing a loss of up to �50 million. Its chief executive says | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
they underestimate the task. security of the Olympics has always | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
been delivered by a large number of individual elements and we were | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
part of that. Clearly, we can't deliver, and we are very | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
disappointed about that, and embarrassed. And very sorry about | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
it. This is a problem which has been years in the making. When work | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
began under Labour on the Olympic Stadium, there were plans for just | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
10,000 security staff but in 2010, the coalition government | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
commissioned a review of that figure but it was not until last | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
December that it decided to double the number of security staff and | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
the military were asked to supply more than 13,000 personnel but the | :02:31. | :02:38. | |
rest was provided by G4S. Now the company says it can't meet that | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
target the MoD is making up the shortfall, increasing the number of | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
servicemen and women to 17,000, more than are serving in | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
Afghanistan. G4S is still time to provide as many security guards as | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
it can. The Home Office said today the government had contingency | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
plans in place and remains focused on delivering Olympic security. But | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
one of those who signed off on the original Security Plan 8 years ago | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
says there are important questions to be answered. Did G4S go into a | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
kind of denial about their inability to deliver this? What was | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
the oversight from the Home Office? Where did that fail? I hope the | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
process will be subject to the most rigorous parliamentary scrutiny | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
once the Olympic Games are over but now we have got to focus with less | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
than two weeks to go, on making sure they are safe insecure. | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
first of the Olympic athletes are due to ride within days but behind | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
the scenes two parliamentary committees are now gearing up to | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
find out what went wrong with the plan to deliver the biggest | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
security operation in Britain since World War II. | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
Our Political Correspondent Robin Brant is at the Home Office. Robin, | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
there's less than two weeks to the start of the Games. How confindent | :03:53. | :04:00. | |
is the government that these security issues will be resolved? | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
Its top of the pile here because the woman in charge, Theresa May, | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
is the person who has responsibility for delivering | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
security of the Olympic Games but what is clear tonight is there are | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
serious questions about the oversight of this now disastrous | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
contract. She found out a few days ago, Wednesday, about how bad | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
things have gone. The man in charge of G4S said he knew it nine days | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
ago saw there is a gap there. That in spite of the fact the BBC was | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
told meetings were going on every day for the last three weeks to | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
discuss security plans with people from the Home Office, Crowe company | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
and the organising committee at these meetings -- G4S. There is an | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
issue for them to address their. G4S say the officials here have had | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
total visibility about what they had tried to do about being in a | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
transparent process but the Home Office was as surprised as anyone | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
when it was revealed how bad things have gone, so tonight the Labour | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
Party are urging Labour -- Theresa May to go to parliament on Monday | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
to update MPs. A party insider said to me if the officials here had | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
been relying solely on G4S for their assurances, they have been | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
behaving just like patsies. Thank you. | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
In Syria, UN observers today entered the village where | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
opposition activists claim 200 people were massacred in a | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
government assault on Thursday. They have said it appears that | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
opposition activists' and army defectors' houses were targeted in | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
the attack on Tremseh. The Syrian government maintains that it | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
carried out a military operation against what it calls terrorists. | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
Jim Muir reports from Beirut. You may find some of the images in his | :05:38. | :05:48. | |
report distressing. It took them 48 hours to get there | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
but the UN's observers finally made it to Tremseh to try to answer the | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
question, was that a massacre? Clearly, there was a government | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
attack using heavy weapons. That much the Observer saw from afar at | :06:01. | :06:09. | |
the time. The villagers are angry. Look, Kofi Annan, is this your work, | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
this man asks? The people here say the attack was indiscriminate. They | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
came from all directions with tanks and helicopters, bombarded our | :06:19. | :06:27. | |
homes and more than 200 Martyrs were killed, he says. But Syrian | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
state TV gave a totally different picture. Its English-language | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
broadcast said heavily armed rebels and terrorists set up hideouts in | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
the village. The army attack, killing many of them and capturing | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
others who, it said, confessed what they had been up to. | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
TRANSLATION: I'm a resident in Tremseh and my job was to fire | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
brigade video clips and then send them to the internet. But activists | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
have produced a surprisingly little bit here footage to back their | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
claims of a massacre of civilians. They showed the bodies of about 15 | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
young men of fighting age. Very different from the massacre two | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
months ago when there were harrowing pictures of dozens of | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
dead children and women. The mass burial of bodies in shrouds | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
apparently mainly adults also seemed to involve far fewer than | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
the 200 who activists said died but the West has seized on their | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
version to press for stronger measures against Syria at the | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
Security Council. The observers will be trying to reconcile all | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
these claims and to determine how many people were killed, who they | :07:36. | :07:46. | |
were, and who was responsible. Massacre or no massacre, in places | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
like this, and many others, where violence rages on day after day, | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
thus lighter towards civil war is moving well ahead of diplomatic | :07:54. | :08:04. | |
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efforts to halt the carnage. The main rail line from London to | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
Sheffield is to be upgraded as part of a �9 billion programme of | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
government investment. Business leaders have welcomed the plan to | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
electrify the Midland Mainline route, which they say will protect | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
hundreds of jobs. From Sheffield, Danny Savage reports. | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
Monday's announcement on upgrading the railways is thought to be the | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
biggest investment in train travel for generations. Overall, it could | :08:30. | :08:37. | |
be worth �9 billion. Here in Sheffield, the faster service to | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
the capital takes two hours, seven minutes at the moment. A lot longer | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
than the links to some other northern towns and cities. But in a | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
few years' time, these diesels will be replaced with electric trains, | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
more environmentally friendly rolling stock, bring in faster | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
services. The electrification of this, the Midlands Main Line, has | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
been called for by businesses and politicians for years. What we are | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
going to do is attract investors to come up north, see what we have got | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
to offer, and make the necessary investments to make the economy | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
grow. The cost is said to be about �500 million. Some of the money | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
will come from the taxpayer and some of it will come from Network | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
rail borrowing the cash. But there is also concern from some | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
politicians and rail users that train fares will have to rise, too, | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
which would be well above the rate of inflation. But Monday's | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
announcement is not just about the Midland Main Line. It's about other | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
routes, too. And could create jobs in places such as the bombarded a | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
plant in Derby. Speed limits on many rural roads in | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
England could be cut from 60 miles- per-hour to 40 under government | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
proposals aimed at improving road safety. Figures from the Department | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
of Transport show that in 2010 more than two thirds of road deaths in | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
the UK were on rural roads. Under the proposals, local authorities in | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
England would also have greater freedom to introduce 20 mile-per- | :10:08. | :10:18. | |
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hour limits in urban areas. The latest bad weather has caused | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
more flooding and disruption across parts of England. In Shropshire, | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
emergency workers had to rescue an 81-year-old who had became trapped | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
in her home overnight by rising floodwaters. And in Caxton in | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
Cambridgeshire, drivers abandoned their cars after roads there became | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
impassable. Prolific Hollywood producer Richard | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
Zanuck has died of a heart attack. The 77-year-old was best known for | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
his work on films such as the blockbuster thriller Jaws, the | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
Oscar-winning Driving Miss Daisy and a string of Tim Burton | :10:44. | :10:54. | |
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fantasies. Peter Bowes has his # The hills are alive with the | :10:55. | :11:05. | |
He made some of the most memorable films. Richard Zanuck was not a | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
household name but his reputation was second to none as a producer. | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
He was the son of Hoyle would -- Hollywood royalty, his father who | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
put it in charge of twentieth- century Fox. At 28 he was the end | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
his studio chief in history. But for much of his career, Richard | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
Zanuck was an independent film- maker. He made Jaws with Steven | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
Spielberg. In a statement, Steven Spielberg said his long-time friend | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
was a cornerstone of the film industry and taught him everything | :11:38. | :11:46. | |
he knew about producing. You're going to need a bigger boat! | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
Driving Miss Daisy one of Hollywood's ultimate accolade. Best | :11:49. | :11:58. | |
picture at the Oscars. What are you doing? I'm driving you to the store. | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
And his work with Tim Burton produced hit after hit. It's very | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
exciting, I must say, I've made the last four pictures with Tim Burton | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
and it probably the reason I'm still making pictures after all | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
these years, because he hits such an invigorating experience working | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
with Tim. He is such a individualist, and it's always | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
exciting. His sudden death deprives Hollywood of one of its most | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
revered film makers. Richard Zanuck who died aged 77. | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
Sport now, and Amelia Harris- Lindsay is at the BBC Sport Centre | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
with a round up of all the day's action. Amelia. | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
Thanks. London 2012 is less than two weeks away, so atheletes are | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
fine-tuning their preparations at the Diamond League meeting in | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
Crystal Palace where there were mixed fortunes for our Olympic | :12:47. | :12:57. | |
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medal contenders. Here's Alex South. They came expecting to see | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
Britain's brightest medal hopes. But one was no where to be seen. | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
Whilst Americas Christian Taylor was easing to victory on a triple | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
jumps, Phillips the dough was treating an apology for pulling out | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
of the event citing muscle tightness. Fortunately, the | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
reigning Olympic 400 metre champion put on a show. Gold in Beijing. She | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
has struggled for form R but there's nothing like a home game to | :13:25. | :13:35. | |
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Earlier, Goldie Sayers, who is 30 on Monday, gave herself the perfect | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
presents, a new British record and beating the current Olympic | :13:40. | :13:47. | |
champion in the process. Roderick Abbott was unable to continue the | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
form which has seen him rise to third in the world rankings. He | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
finished second but at least avoiding injury unlike Tiffany | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
porter who was inconsolable after pulling up in the hurdles, but says | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
she will be OK for the Olympic Games. Fingers are crossed for her | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
and for the weather to improve. The open top bus parade seemed ill- | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
conceived but the sentiment rang true. | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
Bradley Wiggins set a new record tomorrow. He'll be the first | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
British man in the Tour de France to wear the overall leader's yellow | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
jersey for seven consecutive days breaking the record set by Chris | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
Boardman. In today's 13th stage, victory on Bastille Day was | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
reserved for Germany's Andre Greipel. He clinched it in a | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
dramatic sprint finish. Wiggins finished safely in the bunch, | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
retaining his position as race leader. | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
Leeds Rhinos will play either Warrington or Huddersfield in next | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
month's Challenge Cup final after victory over favourites Wigan in a | :14:41. | :14:48. | |
thrilling semi final at the Galpharm Stadium. Three tries in 11 | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
minutes, including this one from Ben Jones-Bishop, put Leeds 16-0 | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
ahead. But the Super League leaders kept fighting back. In a first half | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
that produced a total of nine tries, Ben Flower helped Wigan reduce the | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
deficit. A controversial try from Zak Hardaker put Leeds 16 points | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
ahead. Although TV replays subsequently showed a knock on in | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
the build up. Leeds went on to win 39-28 and book their place in the | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
final. British boxing is taking centre | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
stage both in London and in Las Vegas tonight. A heavyweight bout a | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
Upton Park between David Haye and Derick Chisora. Later, Amir Khan | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
steps into the ring in the early hours in America for the light | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
welterweight unification bout with Danny Garcia. So fighting for both | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
the WBC and WBA belts. A tough encounter for confident Khan | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
against the undefeated Garcia, whose last victory earned him that | :15:44. | :15:54. | |
WBC belt. Hundreds of football fans turned | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
out at Shanghai airport to welcome Didier Drogba. The former Chelsea | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
striker's deal with struggling Shanghai Shenhua makes him one of | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
the highest paid footballers in the world. John Sudworth was there and | :16:02. | :16:09. | |
a warning of some flash photography in his report. | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
It's a long way from Chelsea to China, not least in terms of the | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
standard of football. But Didier Drogba's arrival this morning | :16:17. | :16:24. | |
proves one thing. Ambition and money are not in short supply here. | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
For a strike at the very top of his game it may seem like an | :16:27. | :16:34. | |
extraordinary move. His new club would struggle to beat a lower | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
division side on-and-off day, let alone Chelsea, for whom he won this | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
year's Champions' League Trophy with a final kick of the day. And | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
yet, Shanghai have reportedly doubled his salary. Just between | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
you, me and the BBC, are you really being paid at �200,000 a week? | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
Between me and you and the BBC, really I did not come here with the | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
idea of making a lot of money. I came here because it's a completely | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
different challenge than what I've seen in Europe before. His old | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
team-mate Nicolas Anelka is already playing for Shanghai and is not the | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
only club that forking out on foreign talent to gain publicity | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
for the businesses but there may be wider benefits, too. Chinese | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
footballers notoriously corrupt but it's trying to clean up its act | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
with dozens of officials, referees and players convicted of match- | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
fixing in the past few months. The hope is that the arrival of big- | :17:39. | :17:47. | |
name players marks a new era and will help to raise standards. | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
Shanghai has high hopes for Didier Drogba. Its football team is | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
languishing close to the bottom of the league but some fans will fear | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
that all the money in China, and there is a lot of that at the | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
moment, won't be enough to fix the rot at the heart of the game. | :18:02. | :18:10. | |
That's the sport. Back to you, Kate. Thank you very much. The main news | :18:10. | :18:18. | |
tonight: G4S, who has failed to recruit staff of four Olympics has | :18:18. | :18:24. |