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The first bodies from the Malaysian airline crash in Ukraine arrive | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
In a day of sombre ceremony, the remains of some | :00:11. | :00:19. | |
40 coffins are given military honours on a day | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
It is a very important day for the people here and all the people. They | :00:24. | :00:36. | |
want their children back. We'll be live in the Netherlands, | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
and looking at a row brewing here The US Secretary | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
of State flies to the Middle East, as the UN warns of possible war | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
crimes in Gaza An inquest into as the UN warns of possible war | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
crimes in Gaza. An inquest into the death of Peaches Geldof hears | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
how she died of a heroin overdose. And I'm at Celtic Park in Glasgow, | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
as the city prepares to host the 20th Commonwealth | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
Games. The Opening Ceremony | :01:03. | :01:03. | |
is just hours away. The Queen will officially declare | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
the Games open, with more than one billion people expected to tune | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
in from across the Commonwealth This morning the Queen's baton ended | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
its journey here, Labelled a yuppy ghetto, the row | :01:11. | :01:24. | |
over the lack of affordable homes in a luxury project backed by the mare | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
and the mystery of allegations that the Met police fly spy planes over | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
London. Good evening, | :01:32. | :01:47. | |
and welcome to the BBC News at Six. A sombre official ceremony | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
in the Netherlands has greeted 40 coffins containing remains | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
from the victims of the Malaysian The Dutch have held a day | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
of national mourning, and the investigation into the | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
disaster is moving into a new phase, as British experts examine the | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
plane's black box flight recorders. In a moment, | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
our Europe Correspondent Matthew Price will have the latest | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
from the Netherlands, but first, Daniel Sandford saw the planes take | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
off in Eastern Ukraine. They died when Flight MH17 | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
was shot out of the sky. Today, in simple wooden coffins, | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
the first 40 victims left Ukraine. It's an attempt by | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
the Ukrainians to give some dignity to the departure of the passengers | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
and crew of Flight MH17, whose lives were brutally cut short, in a war | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
which has nothing do with them. The victims were being taken to | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
the Netherlands for identification, before being returned to | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
their families. But first, | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
there was a minute's silence. Nobody yet knows whose relatives | :03:01. | :03:10. | |
are in these coffins. They could be Dutch, Malaysian, | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
Australian, Indonesian or British. They could be from Germany, Belgium, | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
the Philippines, We need to remember that for each | :03:16. | :03:17. | |
of those victims' bodies, there are grieving families, | :03:18. | :03:37. | |
grieving friends, and for each of those victims' bodies there is a | :03:38. | :03:39. | |
life that has been needlessly lost. As international investigators | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
cautiously examined the scene of the tragedy this afternoon, the shooting | :03:44. | :03:45. | |
down of two Ukrainian fighter jets just a few miles away was a reminder | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
of the dangers of working here. And as the first victims' bodies | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
left for the Netherlands, it is worth remembering that dozens | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
are still missing in the charred Out of a sweltering sky they flew | :03:58. | :04:28. | |
back in. With the Dutch Air Force, and the Australian. Two countries | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
who lost so many. This was not the return anyone | :04:34. | :04:34. | |
imagined. The Last Post. And a country fell | :04:35. | :04:49. | |
silent. One by one, they brought them out. | :04:50. | :05:13. | |
Yet to be identified. Here, perhaps a holiday-maker, once excited about | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
their trip to distant shores. Here, maybe someone on a business | :05:18. | :05:29. | |
trip. A student, on a gap year. 40 coffins, 40 body bags. | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
And so many more yet to fly out of Ukraine. | :05:34. | :05:43. | |
In towns and city, they marked the return. This has affected so many | :05:44. | :05:51. | |
here, and elsewhere round the world. It's very black day for everybody. | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
Especially for people from this part of the country. A lot of people | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
were, I think, 80 or 90 people come from this part of the country. There | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
are so many innocent people has been killed by political idiots. | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
Terrorists. That make us very angry. And then, with full honour, the | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
convoy set off. Some, the Prime Minister said, would be identified | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
quickly. With others, it could take months. | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
Outside the airfield, hundreds watched. Thes heres heading north, | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
where the grim task of going through each coffin will begin. Many more | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
will follow this route in the coming day, watched by a nation shattered | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
and grieving. This, though, brings no closure. It only makes each and | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
every death more real. And here it is almost as if that | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
silence that was held at Eindhoven air base behind me is rippling out | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
across the country, because there are hundreds, thousands of people | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
lining the route, as those cars are driven north, and they are falling | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
silent as the cars pass, they are standing on bridge, on overpasses, | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
on cycle lanes along the roads, the cars on the other side of the | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
motorway are pulling to a halt in respect, and watching as those first | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
40 coffins drive past. I think it is a measure of quite how affected so | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
many people in the Netherlands have been by this disaster. | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
David Cameron has said the government will look carefully at | :07:34. | :07:35. | |
all outstanding arms export licences to Russia, to make sure they comply | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
with an arms embargo announced in March. There've been mounting | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
questions over why more than 250 licences are still in place, given | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
concerns that Moscow is supplying weapons to the rebels in Ukraine. | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
David Cameron is also under fire over a ?160,000 donation to his | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
party from the wife of a former member of President Putin's | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
donation to his party from the wife of a former member | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
Our deputy political editor James Landale reports. | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
David Cameron wants tougher sanctions against Moscow, and those | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
he calls President Putin's crone Chrises but today whizz asked why | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
Britain is still selling arms to Russia and the Tories are still | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
taking cash from Russian businessmen. Back in March the | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
policy was clear The UK will now, with immediate effect, suspend all | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
licences and application processing for licenses, | :08:30. | :08:31. | |
licences and application processing Russia. But today, a committee of | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
MPs said that military kit is still being exported to Russia, in all | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
more than 280 licenses worth ?132 million for things like rifles. | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
Night sights and missiles. The Government said some was for | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
civilian use, others for Brazilian warships being fitted out in Russia. | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
I believe that we have been consistent with the terms of the | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
arms embargo we set out which was aimed at Russian armed forces, but | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
we will look carefully at all outstanding licenses and make sure | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
that is the case, course if it is not the case we will act swiftly. | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
But MPs said this wasn't good enough and have written to the Prime | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
Minister asking who the weapons are for? They can't be brushed off for | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
the Brazilian navy, they can't be brushed off for the Government has | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
tried do for clay pigeon shooting. Anybody who looks at that 14 page | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
list, which was published in our report today, can only come to one | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
conclusion, this includes a significant amount of serious | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
military weaponry. But David Cameron is not just facing questions about | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
arms sales to Russia. He has also been asked about donation to his | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
party by wealthy Russian, particularly some who attended a big | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
fund-raiser at this private club in west London earlier this month. Top | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
of the auction list was the chance to play tennis with David Cameron, | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
and Boris Johnson, a prize that was won by a wealthy Russian. He paid | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
more than 160,00 pounds for the privilege, her husband was once a | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
minister in Vladimir Putin's Government but has backed the | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
opposition since he was sacked. And they are not alone, since 2010 | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
Russian born businessmen have given the Tories more than ?1 million, all | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
within the rules. But Labour, said Mr Cameron has questioned to answer. | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
He has got to explain why he thinks that is the right thing to do and | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
tell us what background check he's done personally, because I think | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
otherwise, people in this country will conclude that when he attacks | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
President Putin he wants to have his caviar and eat it. The Tories said | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
they wouldn't be giving the money back, but the questions haven't made | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
Mr Cameron's aim of toughening sanctions against Russia any easier. | :10:46. | :10:53. | |
An inquest into the death of the TV presenter Peaches Geldof has heard | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
how she died of a heroin overdose after losing | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
At the hearing, her husband said she'd started taken heroin again | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
in the months before her death, after being on the substitute drug | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
It was her husband Tom, who found Peaches Geldof, and who today gave | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
the inquest a harrowing insight into her years of heroin addiction. | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
An addiction she even lied to him about. | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
There is no way I'm going to beat this. | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
The hearing was told the 25-year-old broadcaster tried to | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
come off heroin, but two months before she died she'd | :11:30. | :11:31. | |
In the inquest, her husband Tom was asked if she was a heroin addict. | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
The coroner then asked about her lies over weekly drugs test. | :11:39. | :11:52. | |
Tom Cohen also told the hearing of seeing Peaches flush heroin down | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
a toilet here, and of discovering her body surrounded by a needle, | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
burnt spoon and knotted tights - the kit of a heroin addict. | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
The hearing heard that Peaches probably hadn't intended to kill | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
herself, but that she had taken exceptionally pure heroin. | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
In another room, her baby son Phaedra was found alone, | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
Sir Bob Geldof wasn't at today's hearing, but spoke recently | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
I'm walking down the road and suddenly out of the blue, | :12:24. | :12:34. | |
there's an awareness of her, and you know, I buckle. | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
The coroner today referred to Paula Yates Peaches' mother, who died | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
from heroin 14 years ago, asking if history was repeating itself. | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
He said no-one will ever know why Peaches went back to the drug, | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
but it was a decision that cost her her life. | :12:54. | :13:03. | |
The family of an Asian student who went missing seventeen years ago, | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
and who was eventually found dead, say they've been told they were | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
spied on by undercover officers from Scotland Yard. | :13:10. | :13:11. | |
It happened as the family of Ricky Reel were campaigning | :13:12. | :13:13. | |
for the police to treat their son's death as murder. | :13:14. | :13:24. | |
Ricky Reel, a university student was 20 when his life ended. | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
This was the last time he Wes seen alive, caught alone on CCTV on a | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
night out in Kingston in south-west London in 197. Just before this he | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
had been with some friend and they had been attacked and racially abuse | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
by two white men. A week late Ericy's body was found in the River | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
Thames. The police said his death was probably an accident. His family | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
campaigned for it to be treated as murder. | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
Now, his mother says she has been told by a senior officer that on | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
five occasions in the late 90s undercover police spied on her, as | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
she campaigned for justice for her son. | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
This was happening at time when we were feeling very low. The family | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
was really torn apart. And I just sort of feel what were they trying | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
to do, to see how Groved we were? This was the time we should have | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
been left alone. -- grieved. To grieve for our son instead of being | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
spied on. The family and their supporters were | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
highly critical of the rigour of the police inquiry. There were two | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
investigations, neither of them established how he died. Meanwhile | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
officers with gathering intelligence on his mother. Earlier this year it | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
was Cop confirmed the parents of the murdered black teenager Steven | :14:46. | :14:47. | |
Lawrence Steven Lawrence were spied on by the police. The Scotland Yard | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
unit monitoring the Lawrences was called the SDS. The same unit was | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
gathering intelligence on Ricky Reel's mother. Campaigners are | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
horrified. I think they need to ensure there isn't more spying on | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
families like that, and the first real gesture that needs to take | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
place is for the police to come open and explain who these officers were, | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
and exactly what their remits were. Tonight, no comment from Scotland | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
Yard which is currently subject to an inquiry into undercover policing. | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
The senior officer heading that inquiry criticised the force, he | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
didn't name any families, but he said information had been kept after | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
being gathered by undercover officers. | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
It was information which served no purpose in preventing crime, or | :15:39. | :15:39. | |
disorder. The first bodies from the Malaysian | :15:40. | :15:49. | |
airline crash in Eastern Ukraine And coming up the stage is set | :15:50. | :15:59. | |
for the Commonwealth Games - I'll The opening ceremony is about to get | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
underway. Businesses say it's | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
a scandal that so few crimes And a personal view | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
on how to end the capital's housing crisis - the call to stop companies | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
buying up land Israel may be committing war crimes | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
in Gaza, according to the UN Human Rights Commissioner, by not | :16:20. | :16:28. | |
doing enough to protect civilians. Navi Pillay also condemned Hamas for | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
indiscriminate attacks on Israel. It came as the US Secretary of | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
State John Kerry said mediators had made some progress in efforts to end | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
the fighting between the two sides. Gaza's health ministry says 678 | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
Palestinians have now been killed 32 Israeli soldiers have been | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
killed over the same period. Flights from a number of airlines to | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
Israel's main international airport remained suspended - and within | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
the last hour the American authorities have extended their | :17:00. | :17:01. | |
restrictions for another 24 hours. Our Middle East correspondent | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
Quentin Sommerville sent this A cloud of smoke means another | :17:06. | :17:24. | |
Israeli air strike in Gaza city. Here the ambulances never stop and | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
stretcher follows stretcher. At least two people were killed and | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
many injured including children when a shell landed near a mosque just | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
after noon. TRANSLATION: God protect us, we are dying at nobody is | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
checking on us. The world, please protect us, please stop this | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
aggression. In Israel another soldier's funeral, this four Max | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
Steinberg, who was killed in an assault against Hamas. As the losses | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
mount the crowds of mourners grow here. Israel is united in its | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
support for the war. Tens of thousands came to pay their | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
respects. And Page Steinberg came to remember her brother. As your little | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
sister I've always thought the world of you but I never thought I would | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
be standing with this many people who understood how incredibly strong | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
you are. Words cannot express how proud I am of the man he became. And | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
Israel is counting the costs in other ways. At the country's main | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
airport there was a lot of waiting and plenty of worry. Dozens of | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
flights were cancelled here after a rocket attack by Hamas. The Hamas | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
rocket landed about one mile away and did not actually hit the airport | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
but the militants have scored a huge victory. Israel says the world is | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
submitting to terrorism and it should be Hamas rockets that are | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
grounded and not passenger aircraft. John Kerry's plane was one that | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
managed to land in Israel, pushing for a cease-fire he is trying to | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
unite the Arab world and reach an agreement with Israel. In the | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
occupied West Bank he met the Palestinian President. So we will | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
continue to push for this cease-fire. We will continue to work | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
with President Abbas and others in the region in order to achieve it. | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
And I can tell you that we have, in the last 24 hours, made some | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
progress in moving towards that goal. But it seems progress to a | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
truce isn't moving fast. While the offensive in Gaza continues with | :19:32. | :19:32. | |
terrifying force. Now, the opening ceremony for the | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
Commonwealth Games gets underway in Welcome to Celtic Park where later | :19:39. | :19:49. | |
this evening the Queen will officially declare the Commonwealth | :19:50. | :20:01. | |
Games open. will parade through here during an | :20:02. | :20:03. | |
opening ceremony that we're promised will surprise, delight and be | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
uniquely Glaswegian and Scottish. In fact it's such a closely guarded | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
secret that I'm not allowed to show you any of the stage behind me. But | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
more than a billion people are expected to tune in. Lorna Gordon | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
reports on what we can expect from It contains a message to the | :20:17. | :20:26. | |
Commonwealth from the Queen. This pattern has travelled the globe for | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
almost a year but its journey is almost over. Alaska's cap next macro | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
games are costing nearly ?500 million but politicians have united | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
behind them because of the positive effect they think the event will | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
bring. The atmosphere in Glasgow is extraordinary. People are going | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
around with smiles on their face and you can actually touch the positive | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
atmosphere. It's not a day to talk about the referendum or politics, it | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
is a time to celebrate that for seven days Glasgow will be in the | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
world spotlight. Competitors from 71 Commonwealth countries and | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
territories will be participating in a city transformed. The Duke and | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
Duchess of Rothesay were touring the venues today and enjoying a flavour | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
of the action to come. More than 1 million tickets for the Games have | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
been sold and there has been a last-minute dash for those remaining | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
or uncollected. The opening ceremony and 100 meter finals. They must be | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
considered Golding tickets. I don't know, I hope my daughter appreciates | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
it! Organisers say they are not worried about empty seats. Most of | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
the sports, for example netball, you cannot get tickets for love nor | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
money. We have a mechanism in place to make sure the few seats that may | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
be empty field by members of the public at the time. Some events will | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
be open to all. The cyclists from Swaziland finding their rhythm ahead | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
of the road race. We are somewhere over here coming up to St Vincent | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
Street. This is down, what is the street called? Buchanan Street. Are | :21:59. | :22:06. | |
you trying to work out the route? We are a little bit lost. Glasgow is | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
celebrating. There are parties aplenty this evening. This is the | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
city's moment to shine. These can next macro games come at an | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
important time for Scotland, in less than two months Scotland will vote | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
on a referendum for independence. For the next few days though the | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
focus will be on the sport and putting on a good show rather than | :22:28. | :22:28. | |
politics. All the sporting action gets | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
underway tomorrow with key events in 4,500 athletes and para-athletes | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
from 71 nations and territories will 17 sports over the next 11 days. | :22:39. | :22:51. | |
Among them will be familiar faces from the London Olympics as well as | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
some new stars of the future. Natalie Pirks has been talking to | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
some of the athletes tipped for The events are familiar, the face is | :22:59. | :23:06. | |
well-known, but this is no Olympics Mark two. For so long considered the | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
poor relation organisers are adamant this smorgasbord of sport will | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
showcase some of the world's best athletes. England's team was | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
officially welcomed to the Athletes' Village, and amongst them the | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
megawatt smile of history maker. Nicola Adams's fast fists catapulted | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
her to stardom in 2012. She has just made history X Mac with women's | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
boxing finally on the menu here she told me she now wants to repeat the | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
trick. It would mean the world to me. Just the thought of being able | :23:40. | :23:47. | |
to be the first female to make history in the Commonwealth Games, | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
I've already done it in the Olympics and it is just a really nice | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
feeling, especially because I'm so passionate about boxing and sport. | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
Passion won't be lacking tomorrow either when Poster boy Michael | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
Jamieson looks to win one of the Scotland's first medals in the pool. | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
The Olympic silver medallist is racing in his hometown. It is going | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
to be brilliant. We don't often get the chance to represent our home | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
nation. The Scots are a small but very proud nation. This is a huge | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
event for the city and for Scotland as a country. The country's home of | :24:22. | :24:30. | |
football is ready too, transformed and known for the world-renowned | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
atmosphere. Come Sunday over a thousand athletes will experience | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
the famous Hampden Park raw, Mo Farah, Usain Bolt, although in a | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
blink and you'll miss it relay role. For some, the Commonwealth Games | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
medal is the last missing piece of the jigsaw. His blistering turn of | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
pace left the rest but dust. How quick will it be? David Rhodesia's | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
800 meter win was one of the best of all time. That's the world record! | :24:57. | :25:05. | |
It will be a highlight. The only Championships medal I'm missing is | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
the Commonwealth Games. It is going to be exciting and I'm looking | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
forward to a good race. The city is basking in the heat of late summer. | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
Glasgow now believes the athletes will deliver a Games as golden. | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
So Glasgow is just hours away from hosting what's being called | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
"Scotland's biggest ever sporting party". | :25:32. | :25:32. | |
ready for this moment for years now and people are arriving from right | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
across the Commonwealth to enjoy the party. | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
I've been out hearing from SMX biting -- some excited spectators. | :25:42. | :25:49. | |
It's all about the Big G - Glasgow, the Games, and it looks | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
like plenty of people want to be part of it. They are pouring into | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
to soak up the atmosphere and even the weather is playing ball. | :25:57. | :26:05. | |
fabulous and the weather and everybody is smiling and happy. | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
Everybody seems buzzing because of the Games so it is good to see | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
things coming together just because it has been so long. | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
been seven years since Glasgow secured | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
Those in tourism say it has drawn in hundreds of thousands of people and | :26:23. | :26:33. | |
see the whole city has dissolved into a festival of fun and | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
going forward in terms of tourism it is the people that are on show. | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
Many have come from all corners of the Commonwealth, rugby fields have | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
been turned into pop-up campsites to accommodate them. | :26:48. | :26:49. | |
about 34 hours flying to get here, so excited to be here and to | :26:50. | :26:57. | |
some kind of famous faces. I'm sure we'll be able to pick | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
them out in the parade at the Opening Ceremony. Definitely, it is | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
bringing everyone together, so it is good fun. | :27:09. | :27:10. | |
atmosphere. You cannot get better than a field full of volunteers and | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
eventually there will be spectators here as well. It will be a big | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
as they are called, will be the friendly faces of these games, | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
making sure that spectators and athletes alike enjoy Glasgow's big | :27:24. | :27:25. | |
It has been so hot in Glasgow, is it going to last? | :27:26. | :27:36. | |
Perfect for the opening ceremony. It has been 26 to Greece in Glasgow and | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
still warm this evening. It looks like it will be dry and they will be | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
lots of sunshine. It has been hot elsewhere in Scotland, the hottest | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
day of the year so far and in Northern Ireland. Similar | :27:50. | :27:51. | |
temperatures across southern England which has sparked one or two | :27:52. | :27:54. | |
thundery showers travelling west moving into the West Country and | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
into South Wales and lingering overnight in Devon and Cornwall. One | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
or two thundery ones consuming here, although it will be bright | :28:03. | :28:05. | |
elsewhere and it will be a warm night and we will see low cloud and | :28:06. | :28:08. | |
misty weather coming back into the central belt coming onto the | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
Pennines. Not so much through the Midlands and the low cloud will be | :28:13. | :28:15. | |
burned back towards some of the North Sea coasts. Lots of sunshine | :28:16. | :28:18. | |
elsewhere but the cloud will look rather menacing in the south-west. | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
Again, here we could pop off one or two thundery downpours, particularly | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
in the afternoon. Mainly Devon and Cornwall but cannot rule one out as | :28:28. | :28:30. | |
far across as Hampshire and Sussex but lots of places will be dry | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
across the South, 27-29? again, almost as warm as that further north | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
and another one day for Northern Ireland. The odd shower fought | :28:41. | :28:43. | |
manner and Tyrone. Should be driver Scotland, the mid-20s for the first | :28:44. | :28:47. | |
day of competition will stock cooler around the North Sea coasts, mind | :28:48. | :28:51. | |
you. Similar picture on Friday, bit of a great start and some low clouds | :28:52. | :28:55. | |
near the North Sea coasts and the north-east. Very warm and sunny and | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
one or two showers in Scotland but later in the day across southern | :29:00. | :29:02. | |
England as well. Things will change in the weekend. In between the high | :29:03. | :29:06. | |
pressure we get a weather front pushing south-eastwards across the | :29:07. | :29:09. | |
whole of the country with high pressure building behind leaving us | :29:10. | :29:12. | |
with a northerly breeze. That means they will be some sunshine in | :29:13. | :29:20. | |
between a band of heavy and thundery showers and it will be notably | :29:21. | :29:22. | |
fresher with temperatures not as high as today. | :29:23. | :29:23. |