21/07/2012 BBC Weekend News

Good evening. Police in the US state of Colorado have managed to

disable some of the booby-trapped devices inside the home of the

gunman who shot 12 people dead and injured dozens more at a cinema.

Other explosive and chemical devices inside James Holmes's

department -- apartment remain and may need controlled explosions.

We have seen some pretty tense scenes with the police and

authorities having to deal with the immediate threat of a possible

explosion at the apartment of a man being blamed for the killings at a

cinema on Friday night. It was here at his apartment that police say

James Holmes planned the attack on the cinema. But it is rigged to

blow up. Booby-trapped with explosives and fuel. Surrounding

buildings have been evacuated as the authorities move very slowly

and carefully. The operation has now switched to trying to get as

much evidence from his flat as possible without setting off the

booby-trap. Police have told us that at the moment the bomb-

disposal robot is inside the apartment trying to establish the

best way to do that. We have been successful in defeating the first

threat, that require and the first incendiary device. The cinema where

the attack happened in the early hours of Friday morning is still

sealed off by police. People have been traumatised here by the extent

and brutality of the killing. Hundreds of bullets were fired into

the crowds of people trapped in the building. Doctors are still trying

to save the lives of some of the most badly injured. We still have

seven patients in the hospital. We have three patients on the regular

floor, the trauma floor. We have four in the intensive care unit. Of

those four in the ICU, two remain in a critical condition but they

are stable. Jessica was one of those killed. A sports writer who

recently escaped a shooting in Canada. Matt McQuillan died as he

tried to shield his girlfriend from the hail of bullets inside the

cinema. She was shot in the leg. And Michaela was also killed, 23

year-old who had gone to the Batman premiere with a group of friends.

Questions are again being asked about the gun control laws. Police

say that James Holmes bought an assault rifle, shot gun and two

pistols legally in the weeks before the attack. I immediately

recognised him when I saw his picture. The first words out of my

mouth work, oh my God, he looks very familiar. The focus now is on

clearing the Department of explosives, making the area safe

and continuing the investigation into what led this lone gunman on

into a killing spree. The police expect to carry out some

form of controlled explosion in the apartment in the next few hours.

Thank you. Dairy farmers say they will

continue to protest outside milk processing plants unless their

demands for fat milk prices are met. Demonstrations were held in

Worcestershire and Derbyshire. The farmers will meet ministers on

Monday and say that cuts in the price they receive will force

hundreds out of business. James is one of the farmers involved in the

protests. His family has been in the industry in Somerset for three

generations. He has young children to provide for telling his milk at

a shop loss, with some producers expecting more cuts next month. --

selling his milk. To produce milk at 5p per litre below the cost of

production is just not going to happen. The focus has been on keep

milk processors. They have to cut what they pay because of the

falling market value of cream. Supermarkets buy their milk through

the big dairies and some of paying farmers extra to make up for

falling prices. Morrisons, targeted by protesters in Cardiff today, has

announced it is raising that premium to six pence per litre.

have done the right thing today to take farmers through a difficult

period with bad weather and low market prices. That situation might

change but we will review it in October. This move by Morrisons

follows a similar decision by the Co-operative yesterday and other

supermarket chains have long-term agreements in place to make sure

farmers get at least what it costs them to produce the milk. The

farmers have been protesting for the last two nights and say they

need sustainable prices to survive. Ministers are to meet supermarkets,

processors and producers on Monday to meet a voluntary code of

practice on pricing to end the dispute.

There has been more fierce fighting in the Syrian capital Damascus

between Government troops and rebel forces. Clashes have also spread to

Syria's second city Aleppo. Until now it had remained under

Government control. The Muslim Brotherhood says that the state's

authority is collapsing in many areas.

Bradley Wiggins stands on the brink of becoming the first British

cyclist to win the Tour de France after storming to victory in the

race's penultimate stage today. He will confirm his place in history

tomorrow on the Champs Elysees in Paris. From Chartres in northern

France, Tim Franks reports. The ancient town of Chartres provided

brand new territory, at least for British sports fans. What lies

before them, Britain's first triumph in the Tour de France, now

in the hands, or legs, of Bradley Wiggins. And today, after 2000

miles of hard racing, the penultimate stage of the tour was

about playing to his greatest strength. A simple race against the

clock. This has been uncharted territory for British fans in

another sense. The prospect of a victory that can be savoured

without first having to bite your fingers to the bone. Bradley

Wiggins and his team have not just exhibited class. They have shown an

iron grip. He has obviously got his body in shape for it and he

delivered it sooner than lots of people probably imagined he would.

It is great. I would rather have a French guy win but that is not

going to happen this year. It is OK. Amazing. I think one of the most

credible achievements ever, frankly. Bradley Wiggins did not have to

extend his lead today, but he did, whizzing through the French

countryside at 30 mph. His back so straight you could have balanced

claret on it. He posted the fastest time of the day and cemented a

victory claimed by his peers as the best British sporting achievement

ever. Head blows you away a bit. You never imagine it will be you

from when you are wicked. It is brilliant. Tomorrow, the cyclist's

80 mile route into central Paris will be a victory procession for

Bradley Wiggins but the celebrations for a moment of

unprecedented British success can begin today.

Large crowds have turned out in London on the opening day of the

Olympic torch relay in the city. The Olympic Flame will tour every

borough in London before the start of the games next Friday. This

report begins with the oldest person to carry the flame.

A limbering up for London's first sight of the relay, torch-bearer

number 72. But look again. Pounding the pass near his home, he is 101

and he has only just given up marathon running. I don't think of

myself as old, so that is not an issue. Everybody does their bit and

the moment I feel old, that will be the end of it and so I refused to

believe it. From the moment 15 year-old Natasha raised the flame

at the Greenwich Observatory, this was a day packed with remarkable

images. Sir Robin Knox Johnston, circling the Cutty Sark at

Greenwich. An injured soldier from Afghanistan requiring the

ceremonial procession. And the first gymnast to score a perfect 10

back in 76. Throughout his long journey there has been a sense of

competition between different communities as they mount a welcome

for the torch. In Hackney they have brought in 70 street performers

from Rio to mount their own all day carnival. This event looked forward

to the 2016 Olympics. In Stratford, where triple jumper Phillips Idowu

was passing in the street below, the British Olympic Association had

high hopes for the Games that are now so close. The team that we will

be sending to these games will be the best prepared, best-supported,

British Olympic team ever. Newham they had only one athlete on