21/07/2012 BBC Weekend News

Police dismantle booby-trap devices at the home of the suspect in the

Colorado shootings. They move into the flat of James Holmes who shot

dead 12 people - survivors speak about their ordeal.

It seemed the very methodical, just the rate at which he was firing.

Just on loading into the crowd. Rupert Murdoch resigns as a

director of News International. Racing into the record books -

Bradley Wiggins is one ride away from becoming the first Briton to

win the Tour de France. And another sporting inspiration,

footballer Fabrice Muamba, carries the Olympic torch in London, four

months after collapsing on the Good evening. Police in Colorado

have managed to disable the booby trapped devices inside the home of

the gunman who shot 12 people dead and injured dozens more at a late

night cinema screening. Controlled explosions were carried out tonight

at the flat of James Holmes, who is due in court on Monday. Alastair

Leithead is in the town of Aurora now.

The focus today of the police operation switched to the apartment

where they say James Holmes planned the attack on the cinema. The 24

year-old is still in police custody but he had booby-trapped his flat.

Winked with explosives and fuel, the surrounding buildings have all

been evacuated. It has been a delicate operation by police to

disarmed the booby-traps left inside the apartment. First this

cent in a bomb disposal robot which dealt with a trip wire. Then

followed a controlled explosion and now they're searching for evidence

was trying to deal with the remaining devices. The cinema where

the attack happened was still sealed off. But people were being

allowed to collect their cars. The community he has been traumatised

by the extent and brutality of the killing. Hundreds of rounds were

fired into the crowds of people trapped inside the building. It was

calculated, definitely. It seemed methodical, just the rate at which

he was firing. Just unloading into the crowd. Jessica Ghawi was one of

those killed. She was a sports writer who recently escaped a

shooting in Canada. Matt McQuinn died as he tried to shield his

girlfriend from the hail of bullets inside the cinema. And Micayla

Medec was also killed, the 23-year- old had gone to the Batman premiere

with a group of friends. Questions will again be asked about

the gun control laws. Police say James Holmes bought an assault

rifle, pistols and thousands of rounds of ammunition, legally, in

the weeks before the attack. recognised him immediately when I

saw his picture. All day people has been bringing flowers as a mark of

respect as they try to understand why this happened. What led the

lone gunman on this horrific killing spree.

Rupert Murdoch has resigned as a director of the companies which run

his British newspapers. A spokesman insisted that the move was simply a

piece of "corporate housecleaning" before his main company, News Corp,

is split to separate the entertainment business from the

newspapers. Let's go live now to our Business Editor, Robert Peston.

What are we to make of the move? certainly has powerful symbolic

value. In the sense that these newspapers of what made Rupert

Murdoch's so passport in the UK and pretty wealthy as well. And they

come in the wake of the phone hacking scandal and the Leveson

inquiry. They are significant to an extent because these are the

companies, the ones that directly control his newspapers. But you

score said to me it is a house- cleaning exercise, that in advance

of breaking the parent company into two separate businesses, one

looking after film television and entertainment and the other looking

after newspapers and publishing, he resigned from something like that

doesn't more across the world and in the UK. The important thing is

that the person who runs the UK businesses has told staff that

Rupert Murdoch will remain chairman of this new company. The one that

will control British newspapers. And in that sense those newspapers

will still report to him and he will still control them. That said,

he will be more distant from those British newspapers and most people

would say that that does matter quite a lot. We are talking about

the quintessential UK owner of newspapers.

Dairy farmers say they'll continue to protest outside milk processing

plants unless their demands for fair milk prices are met.

Demonstrations were held overnight at two dairies in Worcestershire

and Derbyshire. The farmers, who will meet ministers on Monday, say

cuts in the price they receive will force hundreds out of business.

Daniel Boettcher has the details. James is one of the farmers

involved in the protests. His family has been in the industry for

three generations. He has young children to provide for and says he

faces selling his milk at a sharp loss. We will take the protests all

the way to the end. To produce milk at 5p per litre below the cost of

production, it just will not happen. The protests have focused on key

milk processors. They say they have been affected by the falling value

of cream. Supermarkets purges them look through the big dairies.

Morrisons, target of protesters in Cardiff today, has announced it is

raising the premium to 6p per litre. We think we have done the right

thing today, there has been bad weather and low prices. This move

by Morison's follows a similar decision by the call for a tough

group yesterday and some other big supermarket chains already 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

and say they need sustainable prices to survive. Ministers are to

meet producers and supermarkets on Monday to try to reach a voluntary

code of practice on pricing. Fighting is reported to have

intensified across Syria, with the city of Aleppo seeing a second day

of fierce clashes. In Damascus, government troops appear to have

gained the upper hand after six days of fighting. From the Turkey's

border with Syria, Wyre Davies reports.

If this is not a civil war then it certainly looks like one. There is

now fighting in almost every major Syrian city. Homs, already in ruins,

has again been blitzed by shelling and tank fire from government

troops. In the north, the second city is also feeling the wrath of

President Azad's anger. The residents of the Siddique scatter

under heavy gunfire as the Government hits back. And in the

capital, captured rebel fighters are lined up after one distant was

retaken five government forces. Levels of violence that brought

this response from the UN Secretary General. The onus above all is on

the parties and with the Syrian government in the first place, they

must stop the killing and the use of heavy weapons in population

centres. All operations must end. After fighting spread to the

Borders, today Turkish officials in effect closed one border crossing

because of the chaos on the other side. Here in Turkey and with

Syria's other neighbours there is concern that the longer President

Assad clings to power and the more force he is prepared to use, the

greater the destabilising effect on the whole region. Not just in the

sheer number of refugees crossing the Borders, but how volatile and

find that Syria might become post President Assad.

Bradley Wiggins is on the brink of becoming the first British cyclist

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

penultimate stage of the race today. Wiggins will confirm his place in

history tomorrow, on the Champs Elysees in Paris. From Shartra 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 incredible 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 a

glass of 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. It blows you away a bit. You never imagine it will be

you. 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. As the world of cycling saluted

Bradley Wiggins, back in his home county of Lancashire, friends and

fellow riders were celebrating a local hero. Nick Ravenscroft

reports from Wigan. These are the lanes near his

Lancashire home where Bradley Wiggins puts in the miles that

making them were there. These are the amateurs, training hard, they

can only dream of his speed and success. Now it seems almost

certain that the biggest prize in cycling, the yellow jersey, will

soon be amongst them. Bradley Wiggins comes here to present

prizes to local winners. Now they have come to see him make history.

Bradley Wiggins comes to the starting line. He is in full flow.

This is his strongest discipline. But even so the atmosphere here is

tense. The finish is strong. As soon as he set off, the way he

set off, it was brilliant. It brought tears to my eyes. This

time tomorrow, champagne in Paris. Here amongst Bradley Wiggins's

friends, the celebrations have already started.

Large crowds have turned out in London for the first full 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. Robert

Hall reports. Limbering up for London's first

sight of the relay, torch-bearer number 72. But look again. Pounding

the paths near his home, he is 101 and he has only just given up

marathon running. The moment I feel old, that will be the end of it and

so I refuse 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 acquiring

a ceremonial procession. And the first female gymnast to score a

perfect 10 back in 1976. And this was just one more community with a

hero to celebrate. 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.

Thousands lined the route to cheer on a man whose presence now seems

miraculous. Fabrice Muamba, four months after the heart attack that

nearly cost him his life. I'm still here, are still breathing.

flame will mauled one but has helped far the determination of

this torch-bearer to return to the sport he loves.

Australia's Adam Scott will take a four-shot lead into the final round

of the Open at Royal Lytham. Scott finished on 11 under par, but

strong winds are forecast tomorrow, and a certain Tiger Woods is among

the chasing pack. Andy Swiss reports. Perfect conditions for

watching golf and pretty good for playing it as well as ably

demonstrated by Adam Kszczot. He has never won a major title. Until

today he had not dropped a shot or been in the bunker. But he soon

made up for lost time. Now all four shots back. As is Graeme McDowell,

leading the British Challenge. With this sort of form, a second major

could be coming his way. Tiger Woods is also still in the hunt

thanks to sporadic flashes of genius. The prize for the shot of

the day, no contest. India's Anirban Lahiri, a hole-in-one. Not

a bad first impression. But the day belonged to Scott. Four shots clear

up after another nearly flawless round. So how feed for Adam Scott

and breezier conditions expected tomorrow, it could all be to play

for tomorrow. England have been made to toil in

the field as South Africa piled on the runs on the third day of the

first Test at the Oval. There were centuries for Hashim Amla and

Graeme Smith as the tourists reached 403 for two, 18 in front of

England's first innings total. Patrick Gearey watched the action.

The sun was out of the start of day three but to a South African

batsmen were very much in. Mother's situation would change for quite

some time. Graeme Smith and Anirban The pair were a brilliant

combination of flair and defiance. The Tote will until the afternoon

for England to find any malfunction. Even the ball seemed reluctant to

end the innings. And there was no let-up in the South African advance.

The tourists past England, moving into a first innings lead that will

only build. Sometimes you just have to laugh.

Ferrari's Fernando Alonso is on pole position for tomorrow's German

Grand Prix. In the heavy rain at Hockenheim, the world championship

leader finished ahead of Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel. Jenson Button

will start in sixth, Lewis Hamilton in seventh. That's all the sport