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Filling up the Olympic venues - organisers have sold an extra 3,000 | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
seats for today's events after they're given back by sports | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
federations. Public anger's grown at the sight of so many empty seats | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
- 1,000 of the extra tickets are for gymnastics where Britain's | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
men's team will aim to make history by winning a medal. And there are | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
high medal hopes too for Britain's Tom Daley and Pete Waterfield in | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
the synchronised 10 metre platform final. It's cross-country day in | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
the eventing - with Great Britain in third place after the dressage. | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
The Queen's granddaughter, Zara Philips, will be on the course in a | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
couple of hours. The first big test for London's transport system as | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
spectators mix with commuters, but so far no major problems. In Syria, | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
fierce fighting continues in the largest city Aleppo. Hundreds of | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
thousands are thought to have fled. Those left behind face shortages of | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
food and water. New moves to tackle the euro crisis - speculation grows | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
that the European Central Bank may be about to step in to try to ease | :01:09. | :01:17. | |
the situation. Later on BBC London, more tickets go on sale to the | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
public, as Olympic organisers renew efforts to fill the empty seats. On | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
the first full working day of the Games, how is the transport network | :01:25. | :01:35. | |
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coping? Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One from the | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
Olympic Park. 3,000 extra tickets have been sold overnight for | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
Olympic events today after sports federations returned them to | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
organisers. LOCOG says 1,000 of those seats were for gymnastics at | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
the North Greenwich Arena, where soldiers filled many of the empty | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
seats as public anger grew about the unused tickets. Organisers now | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
say they are working to release more seats on a day-by-day basis. | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
This afternoon Britain's medal hopes turn to diving and gymnastics, | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
with Tom Daley and Pete Waterfield competing in the synchronised 10 | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
metre platform final and Britain's men's gymnastics team bidding to | :02:19. | :02:26. | |
win the first Olympic team medal in their history. On the third full | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
day of the Olympics, China is top of the medals table with Great | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
Britain in seventeenth position, after Lizzie Armitstead's silver in | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
the cycling road race yesterday and Rebecca Adlington's hard-earned | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
bronze in the 400 metres freestyle swimming. Andy Swiss is in the | :02:37. | :02:47. | |
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Olympic Park for us. More tickets? That's right. As you say, the | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
number of empty seats has been one of the biggest talking point of the | :02:55. | :03:03. | |
Games so far. Over the weekend, we saw wide-open spaces at a number of | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
venues. This wasn't a case of the fans not turning up, but officials, | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
media, sports federations not taking up their allocation of seats. | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
That has caused a lot of frustration, because so many | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
struggled to get any sort of tickets. What the organisers have | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
announced today is a number of sports federations have handed back | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
their allocation of tickets. Around 3,000 in total, including 600 for | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
the gymnastics. Those have already been snapped up, but ter saying | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
they are hoping to release more tickets -- but they are saying they | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
are hoping to release more tickets. Encouraging news for the fans as | :03:42. | :03:49. | |
they urn up hoping for more British success on day three. It's the | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
hottest ticket in town and at least there's now a few more of them. | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
That wasn't the only reason the British fans had a spring in their | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
step this morning, after a night in which one of the home favourites | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
had given them plenty to cheer about. Rebecca Adlington's smile | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
said it all. It might not have been the gold, but it was the gutsiest | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
of bronzes. Remember, it's not her preferred distance, 400 metres, but | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
her performance and her result meant the proudest of parents. | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
get a bronze medal at home with pressure and expectation, we are | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
over the moon and I think it's fair to say so is she. There wasn't the | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
slightest hint of disappointment with Becky last night. She looked | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
over the moon. We spoke to her last night. She is over the moon. So are | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
we. It was an amazing achievement. With Lizzie Armistead's silver in | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
the cycling, the British medal count is now up and runningment can | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
their team-mates now follow their example? This morning, some of Team | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
GB's biggest hopes began their quest for glory, including Kath | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
Grainger. After three consecutive silvers, she is favourite for gold, | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
along with partner, Anna Watkins. You could soon see why. Rowing in a | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
race of their own and smashing a 20-year-old Olympic record. They've | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
powered into the final inspired by the fans. You feel it in your body. | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
It pulses through you. The crowds are sensational. I think we both | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
feel very, very lucky and we have this incredible support from all | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
over the country behind us and we are very conscious of that. When | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
you physically have it behind you, it does literally lift you like | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
nothing else. Meanwhile, further action on the water, this time the | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
sailing as Stevie Morrison and Ben Rhodes competed. There was British | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
success in the fencing. 22-year-old core reign that Lawrence winning in | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
the first round. Perhaps the biggest action of the morning was | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
behind the scenes. The Olympic Flame moved into its new position | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
inside the stadium. Britain will be hoping its athletes can ignite the | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
Games. Another busy day here in the park. There's also plenty of | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
British interest in the swimming finals tonight. Liam Tancock, | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
Robbie Renwick and gem that Spoffoth hoping to Britain hoping | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
the first gold for Britain. On the tickets, what everyone will want to | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
know, if they are releasing them daily how can the public get hold | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
of them? The important thing to say is you can't just turn up here and | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
expect to buy a ticket. Tickets will be made available on the | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
official website the night before. You can buy them on the website and | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
then you come here to the Olympic Park the following day to collect | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
your tickets. Organisers hope by doing that many more people will be | :06:36. | :06:46. | |
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able to come and watch the Olympics. Thank you very much. Tom Daley and | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
Pete Waterfield are competing in the final of the men's synchronised | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
10 metre flat form. Pete won silver in Athens in 2004 with Leon Taylor, | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
whilst this is Tom's second Olympics, despite only just turning | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
18. I was really nervous the first time I dived with Pete. It was one | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
of the things I wanted it to work and be something special and then | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
to actually go to London 2012 and competing with Pete is pretty | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
surreal. The only difference is the age gap. He's bigger than me, but | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
Leon was bigger. Most people are, to be honest. Outside of the pool | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
we were always together as well and Tom's a little younger and I don't | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
want to cramp his style around the young girls and things like that. | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
Everyone says that Tom can mature and learn a lot from me, but when | :07:45. | :07:55. | |
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they say that I turn around and say, I also learn a lot from Tom. We are | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
getting personal bests and British records, so Pete's definitely the | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
right person for me to be diving with and I think we are the right | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
team to be diving in the Games. Obviously, China is the top diving | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
nation for any of the disciplines, so it's one of those things that | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
everyone's out to get China and almost silver is gold in diving to | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
be honest, but our difficulty is quite high in comparison with some | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
of the other teams so it's just about trying to go out there and | :08:22. | :08:29. | |
execute them well. To come home with a medal at London would not | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
only be amazing, but put the icing on the cake for a pretty successful | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
career that I've had. It's such a great opportunity to actually go | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
out there and dive in front of a home crowd and if you dive well and | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
you get up there in the medals that for my athlete is the biggest | :08:43. | :08:53. | |
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reward. What can they achieve this afternoon? With me is Ben Swaine, | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
who is a synchronised diving, but who sadly can't compete because of | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
injury. That must be disappointing for you? It is not being able to | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
compete, but I know all the Divers here and we've been a gelled team | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
for years before, so it's exciting to see all the youngers ones come | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
through. A couple of hours to do before they really can go for gold. | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
Can they do it? I think absolutely. They've got everything to play for. | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
Tom Daley, he's young and talented. We have seen before he's got golds | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
and Pete Waterfield, he's experienced and older and already | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
has a silver in Athens with Leon, so they are very, very strong. | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
chin knees are incredibly strong as well. That is the pair they'll have | :09:40. | :09:47. | |
to beat? They are the top. They seem to win almost every single | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
diving event, so they appear -- so Pete and Tom have to pull it out | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
the bag, but it can be done. Tom's only 18. Huge pressure and he's one | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
of the poster boys of the Games. What a pressure on very young | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
shoulders. How does he cope? loves it. He's fantastic. He's good | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
in front of the camera and judges. He seems to thrive and perform | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
better. The extraordinary thing, you see them together and they are | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
new? They've known each other for a long time and once you have the | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
same dives and you are training at the same strength, it's as simple | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
as one, two, three, go. Tom watched Pete win in Athens in 2004 and he | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
says he was on holiday with his family in a caravan. It must be | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
extra order, surreal for him to be competing? When I started diving I | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
could not believe the things that the Divers were doing and then a | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
few years down the line suddenly you find yourself doing it and | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
competing with the best of the world as Tom has done. We are all | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
hoping we want a goad. Team GB needs one. Do you think they can do | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
that or are the Chinese perhaps too good? I think they can, but | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
everyone has it to play for. It will be exciting on the day. Ben, | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
thank you. Well, let's have a look at some of the big events ahead. | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
It's cross-country day in the eventing, with Great Britain in | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
third place after the opening dressage stage of the team | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
competition in Greenwich Park. The Queen's granddaughter, Zara | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
Phillips, rides just after 3.00pm this afternoon. Medals will be | :11:14. | :11:23. | |
decided on Tuesday. Our correspondent, Joe Wilson, is there. | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
Well, I think that the eventing, cross-country in particular, has a | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
whole different dimention. You can tell behind me, the number of | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
people behind me. We are expecting 50,000. There was some local | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
opposition here, but it gives us something unique. Spectators from | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
Italy and everywhere. You will see behind me, the backdrop. We have | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
the main arena and naval college and the Thames and City of London. | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
Normally for Olympics the cross- country in particular requires a | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
six kilometre course is way out of town. In Beijing it was in Hong | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
Kong. You are almost in the heart of London here. The cross-country | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
is under way. We have had riders on the course for about 30 minutes. | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
The idea actually of the fences is to make use of these stunning views | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
and also to reflect something on London, on Greenwich and the way | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
the fences are designed. To make it clear, the idea is when we get to | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
the end of the eventing and there's show jumping, it's the team with | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
the fewest penalty points and the individual riders who get the | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
medals. How do you get penalties? Well, by your horse refuse ing to | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
go over a fence or indeed by being a little bit too slow. That could | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
be a big issue, because everyone says the course is twisting and | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
turning and hard to do in ten minutes. The British were third and | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
supposedly in theory, the British horses are very good at cross- | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
country. You may be wondering about Zara Philips. A final thought about | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
her, we are expecting her to be in action on her horse, High Kingdom | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
in just a few minutes past three this afternoon. A big afternoon | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
ahead too for the British men's gymnastics team as they're hoping | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
to make history by winning an Olympic medal. The five-man team, | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
which includes Louis Smith and Sam Oldham, are the current European | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
champions. Dan Roan is at the North Greenwich Arena where the action | :13:11. | :13:21. | |
will take place. After so many years in the doldrums, British | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
gymnastics has undergone a renaissance in recent years. Thanks | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
to a golden generation of talent, led first and foremost by Lucy | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
Smith, who won Britain's first gymnast tick medal for 100 years | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
back in Beijing.S can you can see, he was reduced to crying tears of | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
joy two days ago on Saturday, when -- as you can see, he was reduced | :13:45. | :13:55. | |
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to tears. The sport has changed beyond all recognition. Back in the | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
early days, when Britain won its team medal in 1912, road climbing | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
was part of the -- rope climbing was still part of the disciplines. | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
You can see the six now. The pommel horse, which Lewis Smith has | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
excelled at. Beyond that, the rings. Then the Long Runup, which leads to | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
the vault. On the far corner, the parallel bars. To the right of that, | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
the high bar and in the middle the Matt for the floor part of the | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
programme. Five gymnasts, six disciplines. No room for error. If | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
Britain can win a medal it will go down as one of the greatest | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
performances. Thank you. It's almost 1.15. Organisers have sold | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
an extra 3,000 seats, after they are returned by sports federations. | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
They say they're taking issues of empty seats very seriously. Coming | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
up, life below the ocean waves as we join one of the nave's nuclear | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
power hunter-killer submarines towards the end of a marathon 10 | :15:00. | :15:10. | |
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Makele the Games go with the flow. All of that at 1.30ment. | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
-- making. In Syria, 200,000 people have fled | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
the fighting in Aleppo during the past two days, according to a | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
senior United Nations official. The UN humanitarian chief, Baroness | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
Amos is concerned about the imPACT of shelling and the use of heavy | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
weaponry. Drinking water in parts of Aleppo | :15:43. | :15:50. | |
is believed to be in short supply. We have this report. | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
Starting to claim victory, step by step. Syrian state television is | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
now following the Aleppo fighting on the ground, as it did for the | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
struggle for Damascus last week. It says that government forces have | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
moved into the south-western quarter of Aleppo, which had become | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
a rebel stronghold, but activists say there is fighting in that | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
quarter and that in other areas, Syrian troops have defected, | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
handing over government tanks to the rebels. | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
As the battle rages, there is concern for the many civilians | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
trapped in the City. The UN believes00,000 have fled, but that | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
is less than 10% of the city's population. Many of the casualties | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
flooding in to improvised field hospitals are civilians. | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
TRANSLATION: Some days we get 30, 40 or 50 wounded. That not | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
including the bodies and the body parts. All are civilians. Some of | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
the bodies are so disfigured they cannot be identified. | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
Water supplies have been cut off, the only shops open are the | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
bakeries, they are working around the clock to produce bread for the | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
hungry. It is Ramadan, the fasting month and mid-summer heat is adding | :17:02. | :17:10. | |
to the ordeal. Increasingly embattled, the regime | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
is turning to Iran. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad assured the Foreign | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
Minister that Iran would stand by Syria, but the Americans, believe | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
that the Aleppo battle with herald the regime's doubtful. | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
If they continue this kind of tragic attack on their own people, | :17:33. | :17:42. | |
in Aleppo, I think it, ultimately, will be a nail in Assad's coffin. | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
So if neither regime wins back Aleppo they could see the rebels | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
controlling the north and Damascus will surely be next. | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
Speculation is mounting that the European Central Bank is to step in | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
to try to ease the eurozone crisis. Hopes for some kind of intervention | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
have led to falling borrows costs for Spain as the figures show that | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
its recession has deepened. The news comes as the US Treasury | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
Secretary is to meet with the German Finance Minister to discuss | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
the crisis. Hugh Pym is in the BBC's business centre to explain | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
more. What more can the European Central Bank do to help? Well, | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
there is mounting speculation about precisely that. Following Mario | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
Draghi, the President of The ECB's comments last week, which took | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
everyone by surprise, when he said that the ECB would do whatever it | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
takes to preserve the Euro and dropped a hint that the ECB would | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
start to buy up Spanish and Italian bonds, that is government debt, to | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
try to alleviate the crisis. How this may happen, what form it takes, | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
the markets do not know. They want to hear a lot more. Then we had the | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
French President and the German Chancellor on Friday talking about, | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
again, a joint commitment to securing the single currency. That | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
adding to the feverish speculation about some sort of very concerted | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
action. Now the danger is, if come Thursday, at the next monthly | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
meeting of the European Central Bank, there is not anything | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
detailed, very solid in terms of what the ECB may do it will lead to | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
intense market disappointment and borrowing costs shooting up again. | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
So all eyes on this Thursday. The confusion and the speculation is | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
one reason why the US Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner is in | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
Europe, meeting the German Finance Minister while on holiday, to find | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
out what they have in mind. Now, themselve been at sea since | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
September of last year. They missed the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
Chelsea winning the Champions League and now the nuclear attack | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
submarine, HMS Triumph has returned home to Plymouth after taking part | :20:01. | :20:10. | |
in the Libyan campaign and patrolling the straits of the hom | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
ooze. A rare sight of a Royal Navy | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
hunter-killer submarine, out on patrol. | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
This is how HMS Triumph spent much of the past year. Submerged and | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
hidden, somewhere in the Arabian Gulf. A mission as mysterious as | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
her precise movements. We do what the submarines do best, | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
that is to utilise the stealth of the machine. | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
The fact that we cannot comment on what we do, about lots of it, make | :20:44. | :20:51. | |
us almost the Special Forces of the maritime world. | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
The submarine's sophisticated sonar can be used to gather intelligence, | :20:54. | :21:01. | |
but she packs a punch too, armed with torpedoes and cruise missiles. | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
This time, it is a drill, but last year, they were launching strikes | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
on Libya. More recently, she's been patrolling near the region's | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
hotspots, Somalia, Yemen and Iran. We are a silent service. | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
There there are certain aspects of our job that we have to keep silent. | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
It is in the interests of the British public. | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
You know, it is our security. We are keeping the sea lanes open at | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
the end of the day. It is all done with few creature | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
comforts. You roll that out and put the | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
pillow down. The 120-crew use every spare inch. | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
This one cabin sleeps 30 men. Living in a submarch, there are the | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
challenges of cramped conditions, no day light and no privacy, but | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
the unseen dangers of living under water too, such as the threat of | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
collision, fire and flooding. Deep! Go deep! There are the | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
endless drills for safety, not least as they are living next to a | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
nuclear power plant. Food is the only thing that they have to | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
replenish. Essential for marrally, along with weekly messages from | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
home when they are on silent patrol. It is a sign of lean time force the | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
Royal Navy. They have missed out on much, not least the start of the | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
world's biggest sporting event, but it is the thought of being away | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
from loved ones that is the hardest to bare. Though they are now, at | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
least, happily reunited. More on the Olympics. London's | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
transport network is facing the first major test of the Games as | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
the city copes with juggling all of the spectators and a full working | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
day. So far, no major problems have been reported. | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
Our Transport Correspondent is at London Bridge for us now. | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
Richard? Well, the transport has been a bit of an unsung hero. There | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
is a good reason I'm at London Bridge. First much all, here are | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
the volunteers in the pink and purple, guiding the people where to | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
There have been more volunteers than problems, but tonight this | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
will be the hottest spot in London. I will tell you why, here about | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
50,000 people are coming through after the equestrian events in | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
Greenwich. In theory, thens of -- tense of thousands of commuters are | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
going the other way. There could abterrible bottleneck, but what is | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
the plan? We are asking people this evening to get on a train at | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
Charing Cross or canon street. Rather than originate their journey | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
here. This afternoon there are lots of people coming back from | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
Greenwich, coming back from the equestrian events. We have | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
rehearsed it, it worked well this morning. We hope it works tonight. | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
Ten big tests for you, what number is this? This is number three. The | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
torch was a big one, the cycle race was a big one and it goes right | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
through to the athletes' parade in September. This is the third big | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
one. There are London commuters coming in, people going to the | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
events and people going to work and tourists because London is a great | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
place to be. You musting feeling great? Feeling | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
OK, but tonight will be a good one. If you are not a Londoner coming to | :24:33. | :24:43. | |
:24:43. | :24:45. | ||
see the Games, what is the best one-stop shop? Well, gettaheadofthe | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
gaiplgs.com is the best place to go. Well, it will build up tonight | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
after 6.00pm. You may not be able to get on trains here. Possibly | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
half an hour waits. So far the transport system has gotten through | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
the heat. It has done well, but there is a long way to go before it | :25:03. | :25:10. | |
wins medals! Now, looking behind me in the Olympic Park, the clouds are | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
queuing waiting to get into the O2 Centre this afternoon where Tom | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
Daley and Pete Waterfield are going for gold. Great excitement there, | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
no doubt. An estimated quarter of a million of people arest maithed to | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
head to the Olympic Park for -- are estimated to head to the Olympic | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
Park. So, Clive is there to tell us more. | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
Sophie, ip close and personal with some of the finest athletes on the | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
planet. That is the opportunity that all of these people have. A | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
sea of hiement. Including one family from the Midlands to arrive | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
here in East London today. The baby is in the back seat. The backs are | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
bags, oh, don't forget the tickets! Meet the Putt family. They are off | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
on a trip of the a lifetime. The anticipates has been building | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
up. Now we are leaving. Really looking forward to it. Getting on | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
the road to go to see some hockey. Ben is an amateur player. They have | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
tickets for the matches today. They travelled down from Worcester, | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
overnighting in Bath, now they are in Stratford. | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
Hello, guys. It is great to see you. Welcome to | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
London! First impressions, what do you think? It is so exciting. It | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
feels almost unreal to be here. For so many people here it is a | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
rare opportunity to see Olympic athletes at work. It is also a | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
chance to enjoy a family day out. It is amazing. It is huge. That is | :26:43. | :26:50. | |
the first thing. It goes on forever. Jes, you were saying you were close | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
to tears? I really was. It is so amazing to be part of such a | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
momentus thing. It is quite overwhelming, really. | :26:58. | :27:05. | |
As the teams line up, Ben and Jess take their seats. | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
And for the next 70 minutes it is edge-of-the-seat stuff. | :27:11. | :27:18. | |
It has to be said, this trip has not been so cheap for Ben and Jess, | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
the tickets, the transport, the food, but the success of the of the | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
Games depends on ordinary people like them, filling the staid yums, | :27:28. | :27:34. | |
helping to create the buzz. Little Joshua, well he was no problem at | :27:34. | :27:40. | |
all. He spent the whole time asleep. It has been fine. He has been very | :27:40. | :27:42. | |
good. I'm really glad we brought him. | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
He will not remember, but we will tell him about it. He will be able | :27:46. | :27:52. | |
to look back and say he was there in a very, very small part. So, | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
yeah, it has been great. So, worth the money? Worth the | :27:56. | :28:02. | |
time? This is one happy family. Sophie, I have to tell you, there | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
are so many people here who, frankly, they cannot believe they | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
are at the Olympics. They are pinching themselves. That | :28:09. | :28:15. | |
experience of the Putt family, that will be repcationed -- replicated | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
over the duration of the Games many times over. | :28:19. | :28:26. | |
Well, the blue skies that we had last week have gone, so too has the | :28:26. | :28:31. | |
last week have gone, so too has the heat, but how long will it be | :28:31. | :28:39. | |
shining? Well, those are some clouds behind me. Today is a much | :28:39. | :28:42. | |
clear cooler day. Every day this week will be different. All the | :28:42. | :28:46. | |
more reason to stay tuned to the forecast. | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
Especially if you visit the events this week. A lot of thick cloud | :28:50. | :28:54. | |
coming in from the west. That will bring a change time. For | :28:54. | :28:59. | |
us today, broken cloud, so most of us should look forward to sunshine. | :28:59. | :29:03. | |
Especially for the sailing in Weymouth and also in Wales. This is | :29:03. | :29:08. | |
4.00pm. Head to the north we encounter thicker shower clouds. | :29:08. | :29:14. | |
Heavy in parts of Northern Ireland and Scotland, cool and showery and | :29:14. | :29:20. | |
heavy thundery downpours. Parts of East Anglia too. In the north, one | :29:20. | :29:24. | |
or two showers in the north of England. For the archery, the winds | :29:24. | :29:28. | |
are not too strong. So reasonable conditions there for the | :29:28. | :29:32. | |
competitors and the spectators and the same goes for the beach volley | :29:32. | :29:37. | |
ball, tennis and the equestrian. We are plain-sailing, bright and | :29:37. | :29:41. | |
breezy. This evening, lingering showers in | :29:41. | :29:45. | |
the north. They fade and under clear skies turning chilly. | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
In the rural areas down to single figures. In the south here comes | :29:49. | :29:54. | |
the rain. Turning damp in southern England, Wales, the Midlands and | :29:54. | :29:57. | |
parts of northern England. Milder in the southern areas, though. | :29:57. | :30:02. | |
Tomorrow it will be a completely different day. This is the picture | :30:02. | :30:06. | |
at Eton Dorney. A head wind, but for the spectators if you are going, | :30:06. | :30:12. | |
there will be rain around. Take some waterproofs! Rain for | :30:12. | :30:16. | |
many of the Olympic events tomorrow. For the sailing in the south-west, | :30:16. | :30:20. | |
the rain could ease off with a bit of cloud and wind. That will make | :30:20. | :30:24. | |
it challenging conditions. Through the day, the cloud and the rain is | :30:24. | :30:28. | |
edging to the north, up to northern England. Knocking on the door of | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
Northern Ireland into the afternoon. Scotland is seeing the best of the | :30:32. | :30:37. | |
sunshine tomorrow. It may brighten up in the south. | :30:37. | :30:40. | |
But don't hold your breath. The temperatures on the low side where | :30:40. | :30:44. | |
it is raining. Then another change as we go into | :30:44. | :30:52. | |
Wednesday. Turning windy in the west. Strong winds for the sail ers. | :30:52. | :30:57. | |
-- sailors. More details day by day can be | :30:57. | :31:02. | |
found online, but today is looking found online, but today is looking | :31:02. | :31:05. | |
good, fine and sunny. Now the top story: Olympic rgers | :31:05. | :31:10. | |
have sold an extra 3,000 seats for events today after the return by | :31:10. | :31:14. | |
sports federations, they say they are taking the issue of empty seats | :31:14. | :31:19. |