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Thousands of Olympians leave London after the finale of the 2012 Games. | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
More than 26 million people tuned in to watch the three-hour Closing | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
Ceremony last night, as 16 days of sporting drama came to an end. | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
said at the beginning of this these would be a Games for everyone. I | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
think by the end of last night, we were able to say these were Games | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
by everyone. The Olympic flame is now out and the Games have been | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
passed on to Rio for 2016. Now, the clear-up begins. In just over two | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
weeks' time the Paralympics get under way. In other news; Stuart | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
Hazell, the man accused of murdering 12-year-old Tia Sharp is | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
remanded in custody after appearing in court. Exercising his power - | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
Egypt's new President orders two generals to retire, saying it is | :00:58. | :01:06. | |
for the benefit of the nation. And Rory McIlroy has become the | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
youngest player since Seve Ballesteros to win two of golf's | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
Majors. This afternoon on BBC London: A | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
sporting legacy - the Mayor says more than 3,000 people have come | :01:14. | :01:24. | |
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forward to get involved with sport Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
News at 1pm. The exodus has begun as thousands of athletes begin to | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
leave the Olympic Park. More than 26 million people watched the | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
Closing Ceremony on television, as the Olympic flame was finally | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
extinguished this morning Lord Coe thanked the athletes for creating | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
moments of heroism and heartbreak. He thanked the spectators for their | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
moments of generousty and the volunteers for being the best ever. | :02:09. | :02:18. | |
James is in a rather empty Olympic Park for us. Two things London had | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
to get right - security and transport. Two big challenges which | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
could have threatened the success of the Games. They were one of the | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
biggest strengths came through - that is its people, both the | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
volunteers and the spectators. They ended with a good old sing | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
along, a festival of music, which brought to a close a festival of | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
sport, has left its mark on this nation in a way few had predicted. | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
If there was a nervousness about what was in store for London, this | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
was a celebration, a realisation that the Olympics could have hardly | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
gone any better. The morning after the night before - checkout time at | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
the athlete's villages. Some of Britain's winners were taking more | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
than medals home. Why not? These are memorys that need to last a | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
lifetime. I would like to thank, finally, everybody in the UK that | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
has made, what we have witnessed over the last two weeks and what we | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
will witness in a fortnight's time, possible. I said last night that we | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
said at the beginning of this, these would be a Games for everyone. | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
I think by the end of last night, we were able to say these were a | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
Games by everyone. There was a very London feel at Heathrow. This is | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
the airport as you have not seen it before. A special terminal was | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
built to ease the athletes' departures. As they go it will be | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
just the British left behind. A Team GB basking in the glory of 29 | :03:45. | :03:55. | |
gold medals. We have done it and done it in | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
style! Mo Farah, for Great Britain... It's gold! Oh, my | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
goodness! The final Team GB gold came | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
yesterday afternoon in the boxing ring. Anthony Joshua won the su | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
heavyweight title. Aged just 22, his future is likely to be as a | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
professional rather than an Olympian. I am still a raw talent. | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
To be an Olympic champion on a raw talent, hopefully when everyone | :04:25. | :04:34. | |
starts to fall into place I will be dominating the heavyweights easier. | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
Team GB's 49 medals in Beijing was exceptional. | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
I am so happy that I have the last Olympic medal for Great Britain. It | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
will be with me for the rest of my life. It's a great achievement. I | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
just hope that I have fulfiled the Moto of the Olympics and that is | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
inspire the next generation. I hope someone somewhere is hoping to give | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
pentathlon a go. So London's Games are over. The flame is extinguished. | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
Those who spent seven years planning all this will work hard to | :05:08. | :05:15. | |
make sure the legacy lives on. 16 days until the start of the | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
Paralympics. Tickets are selling fast. It looks like the Games could | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
be a sell out. There has been one reminder of the challenges still | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
facing the Olympic movement - the women's winner of the shot put from | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
Belarus has been stripped of her gold medal today after being -- | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
testing positive for drugs. temporary terminal has been set up | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
at Heathrow. How busy has it been today? It has | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
been pretty busy. The party is over. It is time to go home, whether you | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
want to or not. We have seen quite a few athletes passing through here, | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
looking bleerry eyed and decidedly worse for wear after last night's | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
celebrations. That is to be expected, I suppose. This is | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
usually a car park. They have created a London Green Park, with | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
artificial grass, park benches, all to make the athletes feel | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
comfortable as they come through. They are being checked in here and | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
bused to their terminals, where regular passengers may get a chance | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
to meet some of their heroes later on. Heathrow is expecting it to be | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
their busiest day. The exodus will continue for the next couple of | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
days won't it? That is right. Probably the busiest day in their | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
history, with up to 6,000 athletes today. This will continue for a | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
couple more days. It has been interesting speaking to the | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
athletes, all very positive impressions of London 2012. They | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
are being asked to put their favourite memory on that tree over | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
there. I don't know if you can see it behind me. Many saying their | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
favourite memory was winning a medal. Others talk about the | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
volunteers, talk about the crowds. All the messages will be collated | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
into a book and presented to the volunteers who have made these | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
Games so special. Thank you very much. As soon as the Closing | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
Ceremony finished last night, the organisers of London 2012 began to | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
prepare for the Paralympics which start in just over a fortnight. The | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
Olympic Park is closed, while the transformation takes place. | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
For two weeks this place was the centre of the world. Now, gone are | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
all the crowds and the attention. This morning n the athletes' | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
village, perhaps a few hangovers needed to be worked off, after last | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
night's Closing Ceremony. Even a chance to smoke - a guilty pleasure | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
denied for weeks. 20,000 journalists told the stories of | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
these Games. Today, some were packing up. They fed the appetite | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
of billions around the globe. Now their cameras and equipment sit | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
idle. And the hundreds of people running food and gift stores - they | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
too have shut up shop, for now. The end of one Games has heralded the | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
start of another. This was the warm-up pitch for the Olympic | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
hockey. It will turn into the five- aside Paralympic football venue. We | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
have a field all in this blue area. All you see now we will transform | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
into a football stadium. We have about a week to do it. That is just | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
one of the venues that must be adapted. Obviously one of the | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
things you have to bear in mind for the Paralympics is the individual | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
athletes and their impairment and what accessibility they need. LOCOG | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
have done a great job in making sure this is an accessible park and | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
village. I am sure it will be fine. When all the sport is over, what | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
then? Some venues will go like the basketball and water polo pool. In | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
will come more housing. In a sense, the real work begins now. The | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
Olympics and Paralympics are the start of a long process of | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
regeneration. The challenge, once the cameras and superstars have all | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
gone, will be to maintain this park, as a place the pb lick still want | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
to come to -- the public still want to come to after the euphoria of | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
the Games. All eyes will now be on the Paralympians, as their emblem | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
replaces the five rings. The rest of the news now and the | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
man accused of murdering 12-year- old Tia Sharp in London has been | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
remanded in custody. Stuart Hazell, who is 37, was charged after a body | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
was found in the house in New Addington that he shares with the | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
schoolgirl's grandmother. Stuart Hazell, minutes before he was | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
recognised by on-lookers and arrested by police. They had found | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
the body of Tia Sharp in the loft of the house he shared with her | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
grandmother. It was in a black bag, wrapped in a sheet. Stuart Hazell n | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
a blue T-shirt, appeared from a police station via a video link. | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
That is unusual at this stage of a case. It may reflect concerns that | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
the hearing might be disrupted by members of the public. He confirmed | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
he understood the charge and was told his case will be passed to the | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
Old Bailey. Though Stuart Hazell has been charged with Tia Sharp's | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
murder, the body has not been yet formally identified. The postmortem | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
has begun, but it will take some days and a result is not expected | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
until later on this week. The police have been carrying out a | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
forensic examination of the house. After admitting at the weekend that | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
two separate searches and a visit by a police body recovery dog did | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
not find Tia for a week, even though the location where she was | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
finally found had been checked. Tia's mother visited the memorial | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
yesterday. Her grandmother, who had been arrested has now been released | :10:57. | :11:04. | |
on bail, along with a neighbour, who is under suspicion of helping a | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
suspect. Stuart Hazell has protested his innocence in a TV | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
interview, saying Tia was like his own daughter and he loved her to | :11:13. | :11:22. | |
bits. Thousands of Jobcentre staff are on strike today over what they | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
are calling oppressive working conditions and unrealistic targets. | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
More than 6,000 call-centre employees across England, Scotland | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
and Wales are repeating industrial action taken in May this year. The | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
Department for Work and Pensions says it has gone to great lengths | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
to resolve the issues raised. The Foreign Office has urged British | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
nationals in the Canary Islands to stay in touch, as wildfires | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
continue to burn out of control on two islands, Tenerife and La Gomera. | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
The travel association ABTA said the fires had not affected holiday | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
resorts, but some excursions in Tenerife had been suspended. | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
Our top story: Thousands of Olympians fly out of London after | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
the finale of the 2012 Games. More than 26 million people tuned in to | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
watch the Closing Ceremony last night. Coming up: Rory McIlroy's | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
big win. He has become the youngest player since Seve Ballesteros to | :12:19. | :12:29. | |
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Thousands of supporters of Egypt's president, Mohammed Morsi, have | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
been celebrating in Tahrir Square in Cairo after he sacked two | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
generals. The removal of the defence minister and his chief of | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
staff is being seen as a sign that the civilian president intends to | :12:50. | :12:58. | |
take powers from the military. James Robbins reports. | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
This is a huge moment for Egypt and the wider world as the country's | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
elected President moves to end the army's dominant role and to push | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
forward Egypt's unfinished revolution. The man chosen only | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
seven weeks ago to lead the country, President Mohammad Morsi, has taken | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
two risks. Sacking the Armed Forces chief who hoped to protect military | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
power and privilege. And, at the same time, the President has | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
cancelled the service chiefs' decree giving them veto powers over | :13:26. | :13:34. | |
change. To go back 18 months and protesters in Tahrir Square were | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
demanding the downfall of President Mubarak's regime. They got that | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
victory but could not be sure of the army's position. Always central | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
to the regime but also holding on to power with him gone. The nations | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
that in the new president and Egypt Field-Marshal were bound to be | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
tense. He decreed ultimate power should stay with them. Now the | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
President has reversed that decree and forced the top two men into the | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
time it but Mohammed Morsi was very careful to keep the rest of the | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
army on side and the people behind him. | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
TRANSLATION: To the Honourable Egyptian people, the decisions I | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
took today were not meant ever to target certain persons or in Paris | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
institutions. Or could my aim ever to be too narrow freedoms for those | :14:25. | :14:35. | |
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whom God created free. The sackings made more headlines | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
for each its people to digest. Is this a President securing democracy | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
and civilian rule or and Islamic leader taking too much power for | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
himself? The countries no longer under military rule, says this man | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
on his way to work. Egypt will become a civil state in which | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
everyone will be entitled to their rights. But another man worries the | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
generals were treated harshly. These people lead the country, he | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
says, through difficult times and should not be put on retirement or | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
the sudden. -- all of a sudden. President Morsi | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
decided to act now, perhaps because Egypt's military chiefs were | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
damaged by last week's failure to prevent the killing of 16 border | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
guards by Islamist militants in Sinai last week. But still it's a | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
risk. And Egypt's revolution may still not be complete. James, thank | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
you very much. The Vatican has announced that the | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
Pope's former butler, Paolo Gabriele, will stand trial on | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
charges of stealing and leaking secret Vatican documents to | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
journalists. Mr Gabriele, who's 46, was arrested in May. A second | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
Vatican employee, accused of being his accomplice, faces similar | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
charges. An official day of mourning has | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
begun in north-western Iran where 300 people were killed by two | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
earthquakes on Saturday. Thousands of people whose homes have | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
collapsed are living in temporary shelters. | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
The trial has started today of a man accused of murdering six people, | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
including three children, in a knife attack on the island of | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
Jersey last year. Polish citizen Damian Rrzeszowski has admitted to | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
manslaughter due to diminished resonsibility. Our correspondent | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
Robert Hall reports from the Royal court in St Hellier. Viewers may | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
find some of the details in his report distressing. | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
He arrived to face trial of 12 months after the deaths which shook | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
his peaceful island. Damian Rrzeszowski, the man who killed his | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
family after a summer barbecue at his flat less than a mile from the | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
courtroom. The court heard that Damian Rrzeszowski had experienced | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
difficulties with his marriage and had returned from Poland with his | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
wife and their two children. At around 2:45pm, that afternoon, he | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
launched an attack. His father-in- law was stabbed as he watched TV in | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
his bedroom. His two-and-a-half year-old died as he painted | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
pictures at the dining room table with 13 stab wounds. His five-year- | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
old sister was attacked alongside him. Her friend also five, died in | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
the hallway of the ground floor flat. Her mother, badly injured, | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
managed to escape to the front door but died in the street. Damian | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
Rrzeszowski produced -- just his wife from room to room following it | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
through a window, the front door, and onto the pavement where he | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
attacked her in front of neighbours. By the time emergency services | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
arrived, he had used the knife on himself. He told police he could | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
remember little of his actions. The prosecution counsel told the court | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
that Damian Rrzeszowski had been stressed over the potential | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
breakdown of his marriage and had been unable to control his emotions. | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
Violence had been bottled up inside him like a pressure cooker. It was | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
a potent mix of characteristics, he said, and but it was not diminished | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
responsibility. Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy has | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
become the youngest player since Seve Ballesteros to win two Major | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
golf championships. The 23-year-old from County Down won the US PGA | :18:09. | :18:15. | |
Championship by a record eight shots. He's younger than Tiger | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
Woods was when he won his second Major. And as Mark Simpson reports, | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
the first thing McIlroy did after winning last night was thank his | :18:22. | :18:31. | |
mum and dad. He won it in style. A quite | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
extraordinary performance. By winning the US PGA Tour by eight | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
shots, Rory McIlroy tore up the record books. He is one of the | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
youngest men to win two major championships. It's been a | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
remarkable journey from Northern Ireland. Your father is with you. | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
What does it mean to share this with your father? It's great. | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
Wherever he is, thanks, mum and dad. She's watching at home, I'm sure. | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
Before his latest victory, Rory McIlroy had had a disappointing | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
season by his own high standards. Some claimed he was spending too | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
much time with his girlfriend. The Danish tennis player, Caroline was | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
any ackee, but in Hollywood, County Down, no one ever doubted him. | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
Everyone has an opinion. He just showed on the golf course what is | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
capable of and to have two majors by the age of 23 is obviously | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
fantastic. A club is trying to find the next Rory McIlroy. With summer | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
camps for the local children. Rory McIlroy now spends more time closer | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
to Hollywood USA than Hollywood, County Down. But here on the | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
streets of his home town, he's not forgotten. Every time he wins a big | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
tournament, that a cream makes special biscuits. And, in recent | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
years, I have had plenty of practice. As for the man himself, | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
he's hungry for more major victories and with Gulf included at | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
the next Olympic Games, he could turn his silverware into gold -- | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
golf. Let's return to the Olympics now. | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
Greg Searle won an Olympic Bronze for Team GB in rowing as part of | :20:14. | :20:23. | |
the Men's Eight. But 20 years after he won a gold medal in Barcelona. | :20:23. | :20:30. | |
Lovely to see you. How was last night? A great night. Fantastic | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
that we have put on such a good show. I think we are so proud. We | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
do music quite well for quite a while, and we are doing sport as | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
well at a high level now, so it was a good event. What, for you, was | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
the highlight of the Games? There's so many. I know everybody says that. | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
For me, just walking into the venue before the race. The home crowd | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
cheering and clapping and chanting our names. As we came into the | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
venue, the hairs on my arms stood up and I had shivers down my spine. | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
It was special to have that support behind us. The question is, Team GB | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
has this extraordinary haul of medals, a huge number of gold | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
medals, so how do you keep the momentum going now? That's the | :21:16. | :21:24. | |
challenge now. Back in 1996, when we did very badly at the Olympics, | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
we had a National Lottery backing and we now see success 16 years | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
later. This time around, we have to make sure we capitalise when we are | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
at the top and don't get complacent. I think people will get involved in | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
sport that maybe they have seen in the last few weeks but never really | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
tried. That's going to be the crucial thing, isn't it? The whole | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
point of these games was to inspire a generation. That is going to be | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
the real test, isn't it? Yes, whether people get into the sport | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
and go and try them and have some fun. I do know there are programme | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
is going on, so many little programmes and charities, but ideas | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
of clubs are opening their doors and say, bring down the people if | :22:10. | :22:16. | |
you are a beginning. Come down and try it. Do the same if it is Water | :22:16. | :22:23. | |
Polo, hockey, netball. It's a great sport. Get down there for that I | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
think the most important thing, we need to recognise what Rory McIlroy | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
just spoke about, his parents. And the role they played in his career. | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
If my parents had not made the effort, taking me a long and | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
putting sport in front of me, I wouldn't have had a chance to do it, | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
so I think we can't just expected to happen but, as parents, we have | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
got to get involved. We rely on a coat is and volunteers to give | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
their time but we need people to do that, and maybe we will get some | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
more backing for it, as well. have got three Olympic medals now, | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
including your gold 20 years ago. What has it been for Team GB who | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
have these medals in front of the home crowd? It's very hard to | :23:05. | :23:12. | |
describe. It's an immense pride to be part of this team, not just Team | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
GB but part of London, and the whole thing has gone so well. If I | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
wanted to describe it as a feeling, I guess it's a bit like, as a team, | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
we have delivered. And anybody has opened up at present and are | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
looking at it and saying, this is just what I always wanted for the | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
it's a pretty good feeling to be on the giving side of that. Lovely. | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
Thank you very much. The Olympic flame is due to arrive | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
later today in Rio de Janeiro, host city of the 2016 Games. Brazil is | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
the world's sixth biggest economy and organisers there say the Games | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
will mark a great transformation for the country. From Rio, Quentin | :23:50. | :24:00. | |
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Sommerville sent this report. Brazil on the Olympic stage. South | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
America gets ready for its first ever Olympic Games. As London said | :24:05. | :24:13. | |
goodbye, the mayor of Rio to possession of the Olympic flag. | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
put a lot of weight on our shoulders because it was so good so | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
we have to do it better but it all to do with passion and a | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
transformation. It's going to be great games. In an apartment in | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
Brazil, some friends gathered to watch the ceremony for the the | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
London spectacular will be hard to top, they agreed, but Rio can | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
deliver a great Olympics. We have lots of problems. TWI have an | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
expertise to make, for a month, everything working very well. Maybe | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
after that, we will have the same problems. A more stunning backdrop, | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
it would be hard to find but the coastal roads make the city | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
difficult to get around. A huge transport upgrade is under way. Rio | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
says it will be ready but not since Athens have so many questions been | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
raised about the readiness of an Olympic host. Of staging the Games | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
is a source of pride for people here. They say the Olympics will be | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
good for Brazil's self-respect as well as its international | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
reputation. It is still four years until the first events take place | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
on the beaches here in the Rio but Brazil's Olympic journey is well | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
and truly under way. The flag is coming from London and it will | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
arrive here later today. After their triumphs at the | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
Olympics, some of Team GB's athletes have been turning their | :25:39. | :25:49. | |
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# Don't stop me now... #. Jessica Ennis, Sir Chris Hoy and | :25:56. | :25:58. | |
Victoria Pendleton were among some of Britain's top Olympians | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
performing a version of Queen's Don't Stop Me Now. The clip was | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
filmed above the Westfield shopping centre's car park, near the Olympic | :26:04. | :26:06. | |
Park. It shows the athletes strumming air guitars and lip- | :26:06. | :26:16. | |
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A little bit of sunshine in that. After these wonderful Olympics, | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
wonderful weather? I think it's Isn't it ironic now the Olympics | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
have closed, the final ceremony is over and the weather is going to | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
Turner. Yes, very grey skies around me at the moment with a band of | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
rain from the West. A real contrast in temperatures. Yesterday, up to | :26:40. | :26:47. | |
27 degrees across the board. Today, seven degrees less for some areas | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
but in Belfast, actually, it will be warmer today. At the moment, the | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
radar shows it has been raining in Northern Ireland, western Scotland, | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
Wales and south-west England and heading eastwards. The same for | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
central and eastern areas. If it is dry and bright, it won't last but | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
it will turn grey with outbreaks of rain. It is heaviest through | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
western Scotland in the afternoon. Fragmenting as it moves its way | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
through England and Wales. Worth pointing out for south-west England | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
and Wales, yes, the sunshine will return, but then it showers will | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
develop and some of those will be heavy falls of Northern Ireland, | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
yes, you will also season sunshine but watch out for showers which are | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
heavy with the risk of thunder. Fairly grey and damp for much of | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
the day across much of Scotland. Cooler than yesterday with | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
outbreaks of rain and for Northern England, the Midlands, expect grey | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
skies to lurk as we go through the coming hours were outbreaks of rain. | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
In the Far East of England, Norfolk and Suffolk and Kent, the brightest | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
weather and here, the best of the temperatures, as well. This evening | :27:51. | :27:57. | |
and overnight, the rain were edged eastwards. The last of the showers | :27:57. | :28:02. | |
will fade away but it will be a mild night. 16-17 degrees across | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
the board with some mist and fog patches developing, as well. | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
Tomorrow, looking very different from today. It is a story of | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
sunshine and showers. The sunshine first ball and then the showers | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
will develop through the day. Fairly widespread, heavy and | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
certainly thundery. But still, in the sunshine, temperatures in the | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
high teens and low twenties, feeling humid. The weather, though, | :28:27. | :28:33. | |
takes it down will turn as we head through to Wednesday. A deep area | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
of low pressure driving in from the West. The isobars will come closer | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
together and it will turn windy and then the rain will move and as well | :28:41. | :28:46. | |
so, by Wednesday, it will turn a very wet and very windy. Gales in | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
the south-west and the north, as well. Outbreaks of rain it for that | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
it could be heavy and we could see an inshore more and as we head | :28:53. | :29:03. | |
towards the weekend, things remain Typical. Thank you. That's it. | :29:03. | :29:06. | |
After 17 days of sporting drama, London's golden Games came to an | :29:06. | :29:09. | |
end with a spectacular closing ceremony. Lord Coe said it had been | :29:09. | :29:12. | |
a wonderful Games in a wonderful city. We'll leave you with some | :29:12. | :29:22. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 84 seconds | :29:22. | :30:47. |