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Israel calls up thousands more reserve troops as it presses on with | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
It comes as the UN says a quarter of Gaza's population has been | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
We'll be assessing the conflict from Gaza and Israel. | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
British Gas reports a sharp drop in profits, | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
The first team of international investigators are finally allowed to | :00:25. | :00:38. | |
the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines plane. | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
Concerns about the Ebola virus - Sierra Leone declares | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
And on the second day of our journey to the battlefield, I'm live at the | :00:44. | :00:53. | |
sight of a giant camp near Winchester to ask how British | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
soldiers were equipped for the Western front. | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
And England fightback with a conference of victory over India to | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
square the series. Could ankle tags, | :01:02. | :01:02. | |
monitoring how much you drink, And a Palestinian flag is removed | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
from Tower Hamlets Town Hall Good afternoon | :01:06. | :01:14. | |
and welcome to the BBC News at One. Israel has called up thousands more | :01:15. | :01:32. | |
reserve troops to take part It's said it will investigate | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
yesterday's strike on a UN-run school where | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
at least 16 refugees were killed. The UN says it's sheltering 240 | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
thousand refugees who've fled the fighting, | :01:46. | :02:00. | |
with a further 200,000 people Overall a quarter of Gaza's 1.8 | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
million inhabitants,according to In a moment we'll talk to | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
our correspondent in Jerusalem, but first from Gaza here's | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
Martin Patience. Even amid the darkness of war, the | :02:10. | :02:20. | |
children of Gaza still play. These children have lived through three | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
conflicts in their short lives. Crammed into a sweltering | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
apartment, they've taken refuge from the fighting. But there is no | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
electricity and no running water here. And no food, either. | :02:34. | :02:46. | |
Look. Nothing. Israel forced everyone from my neighbourhood to | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
leave, says this man. "They've destroyed my house". The UN now says | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
that up to a quarter of the population in Gaza may have been | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
displaced by the fighting. In recent days, the news came of more | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
evacuations that were going to be ordered by the Israeli defence | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
forces. Our message is, that is -- if that is the case, Israel will | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
have to start taking into account the need to assist these people | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
because we will reach a breaking point. That is the reality. Here in | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
Gaza, Israel continues to carry out air strikes and has vowed to push on | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
with its military operation. That's likely to mean yet more Palestinians | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
are forced from their homes. The Israeli military has now called up | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
thousands of reserve soldiers. They released this video of their troops | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
fighting on the ground in Gaza. The soldiers searched one home and they | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
found an entrance to a tunnel. Israel says that until it destroys | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
all the tunnels used by Hamas militant to cross-border attacks, | :03:52. | :03:59. | |
this operation will not end. In an effort to protect its own civilians, | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
Israel has brought ruin too much of Gaza. And with no cease-fire in | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
sight, that looks set to continue. Martin Patience, BBC News, Gaza | :04:12. | :04:12. | |
City. Our Middle East correspondent | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
Bethany Bell is in Jerusalem. Bethany, Martin Patience was making | :04:15. | :04:22. | |
clear that Israel intends to press ahead and the Israeli Prime Minister | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
has said as much again this morning. Yes, Benjamin Netanyahu said that | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
Israel's priority is destroying these cross-border tunnels through | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
which Palestinian militants have been trying to enter Israel from | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
Gaza. Cease-fire or no cease-fire, he said, the Army won't stop until | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
it has destroyed the tunnels. The Israeli army has been telling us | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
that they have identified more than 30 of these tunnels so far and have | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
destroyed about half of those but they say it is quite a complicated | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
process. Some of these tunnels are booby-trapped. They're trying to use | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
robots to explore some of those tunnels but they're saying that | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
Israeli combat engineers are sometimes having to dig under the | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
tunnels in order to face explosives to demolish them. Yesterday, three | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
Israeli soldiers were killed when they were trying to uncover a tunnel | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
in the southern Gaza Strip. But despite the casualties, most | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
Israelis are firmly behind the Army's operation in Gaza. Thank you | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
very much. British Gas has reported | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
a sharp drop in profits for the first half of the year - because, | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
they say, of the warmer weather. Centrica, its owner, insists average | :05:34. | :05:44. | |
bills will be lower this year, despite claims by the regulator that | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
profits at the big six energy firms are set to double. A tale of two | :05:50. | :05:58. | |
winters. In January 2013, temperatures plummeted and | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
households across Britain turned up their thermostats. But this year, | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
while some were hit by flooding, overall, temperatures have been mild | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
so we've all used less energy and that hit British Gas's profits. On | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
the British Gas side, because of the very warm weather, average | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
consumption for our gas customers was down 24%. That means that bills | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
this year, when you combine it with our price reduction at the beginning | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
of the year, means that bills this year will be down some ?90 or 7% | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
this year. In the six months to the end of June, Centrica saw profit | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
plummet by 35%, although it still made ?1 billion. At British Gas, | :06:40. | :06:47. | |
profits also fell by 26%, its worst performance in years. But now it | :06:48. | :06:55. | |
expected profit per household to be ?51 in 2014, well down on the year | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
before. That is a lot lower than the profit margin is published by the | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
industry regulator. Its estimate of profit per household of ?106 has led | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
to a major industry row and has left many bear world at. Consumers will | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
be confused about what is going on with profits being down, yet the | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
forecast for profits being up. We need to see this investigation from | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
the competition authority to get to the bottom of what's going on with | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
energy prices. Centrica insists it needs a reasonable and will need for | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
decades to come. This huge platform, under construction here in | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
Hartlepool, is part of a ?1.4 billion overseas project. Within a | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
year, all of this will be installed offshore, where it will produce | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
enough gas for more than 1 million UK homes. A stone's throw away from | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
the yard, I met Ronnie, a British Gas customer. He accepts the need to | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
invest but is more worried about his bills. I either eat or heat. I've | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
cut down on the light bulbs, I switched things off, try to save | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
pennies here, pennies there. Every penny counts. Centrica is one of | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
Britain's most important energy firms but with a competition | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
investigation under way, ordering changes and investigating profits, | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
it could faced challenging times. MPs are warning that NATO is poorly | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
prepared for a possible attack by Russia on one of its member states. | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
It said the situation in Ukraine demonstrated serious problems. It | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
said radical reforms were needed. Nick Childs reports. | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
Vladimir Putin savouring the moment in historic Sevastopol of Russia's | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
annexation of Crimea. But according to this hard-hitting report, this | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
and earlier crises in Georgia and Estonia have been a wake-up call for | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
NATO. Having not considered Russia and an adversary for 20 years, MPs | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
say the alliance is now poorly prepared to defend its vulnerable | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
Baltic allies in particular, if Moscow turned its attention in their | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
direction. What Moscow is doing is difficult to respond to because NATO | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
is set up for an armed attack and assumed tanks would cross borders | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
but when you are looking at separatist groups with intelligence | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
officers, cyber attacks and intelligence warfare, it is a much | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
harder thing to deal with than that is where the challenge lies. NATO | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
has responded, including boosting air patrols of the Baltic to try to | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
reassure its uneasy allies in the region. But is that realistic? | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
They're talking about more exercises, and changes in the NATO | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
command structure. This will come at a cost but the report also | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
underlines the degree to which NATO is still a very powerful military | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
alliance and, in some ways, rather more powerful than Russia. Britain | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
has sent Typhoon fighters to the Baltic. The report says recent | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
events are also a game change of a British defence policy but the | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
Government insists it hasn't popped its guard. We are spending to debate | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
of GDP and want other countries to commit to that. Many of them spend | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
less. We have the largest defence budget in Europe, the largest in the | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
whole of Europe. -- the whole of NATO. It is time other countries do | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
more. With a NATO summit in Wales in September, the report calls on the | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
British Government to take the lead in what it says is not just a | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
challenge for the Alliance but a unique opportunity to re-establish | :10:35. | :10:34. | |
its relevance. After days of being turned away, | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
a team of international investigators in Ukraine has finally | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
been able to access the crash site Our correspondent Tom Burridge is | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
in the capital, Kiev. Tom, this appears to be a sign of | :10:45. | :10:56. | |
real progress. It is, because for four days running, that team of | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
international experts has been unable to get to the crash site of | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
age 17 because of the fighting in that area. But there are still much | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
larger teams - Australian, Dutch police and friends expect - based | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
several hours' drive away waiting to get there. The Ukrainian parliament | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
has approved a plan for a much larger deployment and it said that | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
those police from Holland, the Netherlands and Australia can be | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
armed for their own self defence but the real question is, when come out | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
much larger deployment happen? That's really unclear because it's | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
very unclear when the UN might take control of the site or when the | :11:38. | :11:39. | |
fighting might come down sufficiently for that happen. Then, | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
really, the investigation into flight damage 17 can begin. When | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
they get access to that site and when they can first collect any | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
human remains that might be left in that countryside where the plane | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
went down two weeks ago. Tom, thank you very much. | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
Sierra Leone has declared a public health emergency to tackle | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
the worst ever outbreak of the deadly virus Ebola. | :12:05. | :12:06. | |
It follows similar measures announced by neighbouring Liberia. | :12:07. | :12:08. | |
Ethiopia and Kenya have also announced that airline passengers | :12:09. | :12:10. | |
arriving from West Africa will be screened for the virus. | :12:11. | :12:12. | |
Our correspondent Thomas Fessy is in Dakar in Senegal. | :12:13. | :12:20. | |
Thomas, the countries badly affected are announcing emergency plans but | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
this is five months after the outbreak. Yes, some say it would be | :12:26. | :12:36. | |
a bit late. At least what some of the experts or medical staff on the | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
ground will say better late than never. The government have come | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
under criticism for their poor handling of this outbreak. The | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
little action that they had, the feeling was that it fuelled the | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
context of suspicion and fear and didn't contain the outbreak. The | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
long-standing defiance of people who had never received a great deal of | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
health care from the state turned into hostility and health workers | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
are still being accused, in some communities, of spreading the virus. | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
So quarantine is a crucial step but it is hard to imagine exactly how | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
you can quarantine entire communities. This is what the | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
authorities in Sierra Leone and Liberia are looking to do and the | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
response they will get from the people - either cooperation or | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
understanding or more hostility - is the main question. What is certain | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
is the fear that the main virus may spread further is growing. Ethiopian | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
and Kenya have said today that they will start screening passengers | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
coming from West Africa. Thank you very much indeed. | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
Here, Customs and Immigration staff say | :13:56. | :13:57. | |
they feel unprepared to deal with the possibility of people arriving | :13:58. | :13:59. | |
Yesterday the Foreign Secretary talked about the risk here in the UK | :14:00. | :14:08. | |
and how the UK was prepared. What is the scale of threat? Clearly, | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
members of the union which represents order control staff are | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
concerned. They are saying they've had no proper guidance or the | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
facilities at airports. -- border control. That said, the agency which | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
is involved in border security and controls has made it clear that they | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
have issued guidance to staff, making it clear what steps should be | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
taken. They say that if a person is identified at the border of being a | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
potential carrier of Ebola that person is immediately referred to a | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
specialist medical care provider via ambulance. I think what Philip | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
Hammond, the Foreign Secretary, was trying to do was make it clear to | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
all these agencies that they need to be very aware of the potential | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
threat without overplaying the risk. It's worth pointing out that border | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
control staff already have to deal with diseases. We are in an | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
interconnected world with lots of flyers coming into the UK, | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
potentially with fevers like to book your noses, means we are already | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
faced with potential threats. It's worth saying that scientists are | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
stressing again you can only catch a bowler by coming into contact with | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
blood or bodily fluids of another patient and that is very different | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
from the common cold spread by sneezing across a coded room. Thank | :15:23. | :15:24. | |
you very much. Businessman David Hoare is | :15:25. | :15:49. | |
the new chairman of England's He replaces Baroness Sally Morgan, | :15:50. | :15:51. | |
whose contract was controversially Let's speak to our political | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
correspondent Vicki Young. The appointment of the new chair of | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
state has been controversial. Michael Gove caused controversy when | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
he an expertly did not renew the contract of the Labour peer doing | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
the job. Rumours circulated that a millionaire Tory party donor might | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
be in the frame for the job. But infuriated the Liberal Democrats. | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
Michael Gove was accused of trying to politicise the whole process. It | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
seems Harmony has broken out over the appointment of David Hoare. He | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
was praised for his leadership skills. He has been the chairman of | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
several wide-ranging companies over the years. He will stand down as a | :16:26. | :16:33. | |
trustee of the large Academy chain. It has been criticised by Ofsted for | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
not improving standards quickly enough. One of the questions he will | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
be asked when he first takes up his post in September is whether he does | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
believe that Ofsted should inspect how these Academy chains work. | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
Something they can't do at the moment. Our top story: Israel calls | :16:50. | :17:01. | |
at thousands more reserve troops as it presses on with its military | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
offensive in Gaza. And at the Commonwealth Games, I'm | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
on the finishing line of the cycling time trial. The men's competition is | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
under way. England's hopes for the | :17:13. | :17:14. | |
Women's Rugby World Cup - we speak to the Richmond player who says this | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
time, the trophy can be theirs. And he's a true legend | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
of London sport - now could David Weir win | :17:22. | :17:23. | |
his first Commonwealth Games medal? Next week, a series | :17:24. | :17:38. | |
of ceremonies across Britain and Europe will look back 100 years to | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
the start of the First World War. Our correspondent, Robert Hall, | :17:43. | :17:44. | |
is spending three days travelling the route that British soldiers | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
would have taken, and today in Winchester he looks | :17:50. | :17:50. | |
at the final preparations for war. This is just outside Winchester. | :17:51. | :18:02. | |
Peaceful today, very different a century ago. Let me show you some | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
pictures which show a hint of the giant military camp sprawled across | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
miles of countryside. Around 2 million soldiers passed across here | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
during the First World War. Winchester is still a military city. | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
We decided to compare the protection offered to today's Army with the | :18:20. | :18:20. | |
protection offered back in 1914. at the final preparations for war. | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
A call to the quartermaster at the Army Training Regiment. | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
In the city where, a century ago, another generation prepared | :18:32. | :18:33. | |
for war, today's recruits were drawing their uniforms. | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
In the summer of 1914, more than 100,000 men assembled for | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
the journey to France and Belgium. Their officers believed they were | :18:45. | :18:46. | |
equipped and ready for the battles ahead. | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
A belief, according to historian Andy Robertshaw, | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
based on lessons learned elsewhere. We'd just fought a war in South | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
Africa, the Boer War, ends in 1902. After that one, | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
the Army looks at all the equipment, uniforms, weapons, training, | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
and says no, not good enough. The outcome was clothing | :19:11. | :19:12. | |
and equipment designed for the battlefield, but still a | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
world away from modern combat gear. We've got a pair of ankle boots worn | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
with puttees, trousers, and a tunic. Colour, of course, is khaki, that's | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
an Indian word that means 'dusty'. The British Expeditionary Force | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
faced the enemy clothed in wool and brass, with | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
a single-shot rifle and no helmet. And yet our volunteers | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
did find similarities. It's extremely hot, it really is. | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
Compared to what we normally wear, which Sgt Starling's wearing now, | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
this is definitely much more cumbersome. | :19:47. | :19:48. | |
It's bigger, it's bulkier, and I feel quite restricted. | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
When you look at the outside equipment, | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
the pouches, the ammunition being the key thing, being | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
a combat soldier, is available, it's on the left-hand side, | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
in an easy-to-open pouch, similar to that fitted to the Osprey system. | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
Next Christmas, today's Army will end | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
its most significant role overseas as it returns from Afghanistan. | :20:09. | :20:10. | |
The 1914 Army packed their dress uniforms away, | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
hoping they, too, would be back for the festive season. | :20:17. | :20:18. | |
They couldn't have been more wrong. Winchester has just about the | :20:19. | :20:29. | |
memorial to the soldiers who pass through here. They did not does come | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
from Britain, they came from dozens of countries around the world. They | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
were ill-prepared for the harsh winter of 1914. They started life in | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
tense. Over 500 died of illness and were buried just up the hill from | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
where I was standing. This summer, they too, are being remembered. | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
They couldn't have been more wrong. Health officials | :20:51. | :20:52. | |
in England are urging people to monitor their waistlines, | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
to help avoid type 2 diabetes. Men with a waist measurement of more | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
than 40-inches - and women with more than 35 inches - run a much higher | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
risk of developing the condition. Dominic Hughes reports. | :21:02. | :21:10. | |
Not enough exercise and putting on weight are a recipe for ill health. | :21:11. | :21:19. | |
It seems obvious but we are learning about weight gain and type 2 | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
diabetes. Walking clubs like this help those at risk, as well as some | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
of those who have already been diagnosed. It has made me fitter and | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
leaner. I could so easily sit back and think, I will not do that today. | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
You get up and get on with it. I'd add a walking groups like this can | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
be a great way to help people shed excess weight. Not enough of us are | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
getting as much exercise as we need. Experts are saying, as we pile on | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
the bounce, there is a real link between waist size and developing | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
diabetes. -- pile on the pounds. Today we are being warned that a | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
larger waist size increases the risk of type 2 diabetes. For men with | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
waste a little more than 40 inches the risk is five times greater than | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
a man with a waist just three inches smaller. Women a threefold increase | :22:14. | :22:21. | |
in risk when there waist is over 31 inches. You can eat a healthy and | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
balanced diet. The single, big tip is to lose weight. Not so long ago, | :22:26. | :22:33. | |
Tommy Brown enjoyed a diet of fast food and fizzy drinks. Now it is | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
fresh veg and chicken after he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. If I | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
knew then what I knew now I would have adopted a more healthy | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
lifestyle instead of eating kebabs and going to the GP. He takes | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
medication every day to control his diabetes which can cause serious | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
health problems, including blindness and amputation. It is a preventable | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
disease but growing numbers of us can still fall victim. | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
Dominic Hughes reports. It?s day eight of the Commonwealth | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
Games in Glasgow and 25 gold medals are up for grabs across 12 sports. | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
One of the first medal events was in cycling, the women's individual | :23:16. | :23:17. | |
time trial, in which England's Emma Pooley claimed silver. | :23:18. | :23:19. | |
The men's individual time trial is currently under way and Jane | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
Hill is at Glasgow Green for us. Yes, we're here at | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
the finishing line where every rider has been greeted by huge cheers. | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
This is one of the Games' free events, and | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
thousands of people are lining the route to watch, despite the rain. | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
Natalie Pirks been watching all of today's action. | :23:44. | :23:52. | |
Here is Emma Pooley. Tiny in stature but a giant on the road. England 's | :23:53. | :24:01. | |
cycling star Emma Pooley set off from Glasgow Green on what would be | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
her last major time trial race. Set to retire from cycling after the | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
games, this was a chance to help England's continued aerosol on the | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
top of the overall standings. British Cycling has been a toured a | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
force over the last few years. Here, in Glasgow, on the track at least, | :24:17. | :24:24. | |
England has been dominant. That rivalry is continuing at the top of | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
the medal table. It was not an Australian causing her problems. | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
This Australian has always seemed to be the bridesmaid. In tricky | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
conditions, it was a straight fight for the fastest time between the | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
two. Superb riding from start to finish. It was not enough. Emma | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
Pooley settled for second. That silver means England are still top | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
of the medal table. Greg Rutherford 's long jump last night helping to | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
move England ahead in the number of golds won. We would have these big | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
battles with Australia. If we can come out on top, we will be over the | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
moon. People are killing it at that and getting multiple medals. That is | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
what we need. That rivalry looks set to continue in a hockey. Australia | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
look the most likely opponent in a daunting semifinal for England men | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
after they beat Canada three to one this morning. Nothing says elite | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
sport like the sight of grown men in inflatable hamster wheel. That is | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
one of the wave bands are being kept amused in matches ahead of these | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
Games. The police need to improve their technique if they are to win | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
gold. The parables triples team did not fall flat during their moment. | :25:45. | :25:55. | |
They beat Scotland to bronze. There have been many memorable moments. | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
Not all of them sport related. Let's remind ourselves of one inside the | :26:02. | :26:11. | |
velodrome. Chris Prichard has proposed and has just got engaged. | :26:12. | :26:22. | |
How about that? Long plan or spur of the moment? It had been planned for | :26:23. | :26:30. | |
six months. I am embracing the atmosphere. The atmosphere is | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
unbelievable today. A fantastic turnout. Cycling is one of the | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
sports that will really benefit from the legacy of these Games. They are | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
benefiting from the legacy of London. From here, cycling will | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
explode in Glasgow. Have you seen it grow and grow? Year on year, it is | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
getting bigger and bigger. Enjoy your wedding. Thank you very much | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
indeed. From Glasgow Green, back to you. | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
England have won the third Test against India in Southampton by 266 | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
runs, to level the five-match series at 1-1. | :27:12. | :27:18. | |
It is England 's first Test match victory in nearly a year. Our sports | :27:19. | :27:25. | |
correspondent reports. A car ferry from Southampton to the Isle of | :27:26. | :27:33. | |
Wight, one leaves every hour. Manoeuvring the cricket side in a | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
positive direction has been a liberal rear is task, to test | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
anyone's patience. On Thursday morning, the win was coming. The | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
ninth ball of the day and a fifth wicket fell for India. Things were | :27:46. | :27:53. | |
moving. Holiday time and ?1 for children to get in today. The | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
challenge of Hampshire to generate a crowd and an atmosphere. It is an | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
out of town ground and not the easiest to reach. India were | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
unravelling. That was the captain gone. Not even half an hour played | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
and another for Anderson. India running at a batsman. India could | :28:13. | :28:20. | |
win the match, remember, if they got to 445 - hypothetical. Instant were | :28:21. | :28:26. | |
not bothered about Andries. He could not quite understand it. He had been | :28:27. | :28:32. | |
undone by the bowler, fast becoming England 's spearhead spinner. Eight | :28:33. | :28:46. | |
down, I. Unplayable? A duck. He had been picked for his batting but his | :28:47. | :28:50. | |
sixth wicket finished it off. The margin that really mattered was the | :28:51. | :28:59. | |
long wait that had happened and the heavyweight removed. Now for the | :29:00. | :29:01. | |
weather. July is in the top ten for its | :29:02. | :29:14. | |
warmth and sunny weather. Not as warm as July three -- July 2013. It | :29:15. | :29:21. | |
continues a successful months where we are seeing temperatures above | :29:22. | :29:23. | |
average. In the south and east we will end with someone as well. The | :29:24. | :29:29. | |
cloud is advancing elsewhere. More cloud elsewhere. Showers quite | :29:30. | :29:33. | |
potent in parts of Wales and the and South West. That is a different | :29:34. | :29:38. | |
compared with yesterday. There is more chance of catching a shower or | :29:39. | :29:43. | |
downpour across parts of England and Wales. The Southeast is favoured. | :29:44. | :29:52. | |
Some sunshine between the showers elsewhere. Slow-moving showers in | :29:53. | :29:56. | |
Northern Ireland and Scotland could bring downpours. Some more | :29:57. | :30:00. | |
persistent rain in the North of Scotland. You can see through the | :30:01. | :30:04. | |
central lowlands there are some showers around. Touch and go with | :30:05. | :30:07. | |
the showers in Glasgow for the Commonwealth Games and the athletics | :30:08. | :30:13. | |
this evening. The winds are not as strong as yesterday. The showers | :30:14. | :30:16. | |
will continue for a time this evening. They will largely die away | :30:17. | :30:20. | |
to the coasts. We could see some mist. It is warm again but the | :30:21. | :30:25. | |
humidity not as high as it was earlier in the week. Reasonably | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
comfortable. The humidity is rising towards the West. Tomorrow, sunshine | :30:31. | :30:34. | |
and showers. Not all catching the showers. Some good spells of | :30:35. | :30:38. | |
sunshine in between. Slow-moving showers in Northern Ireland and | :30:39. | :30:43. | |
Scotland. Probably more so in the west and north. Again we are seeing | :30:44. | :30:48. | |
temperatures wheezing towards the mid-20s. Temperatures average | :30:49. | :30:55. | |
elsewhere. On Friday night and into Saturday, a warning from the Met | :30:56. | :30:59. | |
Office. We could see a couple of inches of rain. The chance of | :31:00. | :31:03. | |
thunder we rein in the year but less likely and still a risk. You can | :31:04. | :31:09. | |
seem Wales, northern England and Scotland looking pretty miserable | :31:10. | :31:13. | |
during Saturday. Gradually the low pressure will move northwards into | :31:14. | :31:17. | |
Scotland. That means that for Scotland for Sunday with the closing | :31:18. | :31:22. | |
ceremony of the Commonwealth Games it looks wet, windy with potential | :31:23. | :31:24. | |
gales on the hills. | :31:25. | :31:26. |