:00:25. > :00:28.Good afternoon gang. Ricky and Joe here bringing you all today's
:00:28. > :00:33.biggest news from around the world. Coming your way today... The
:00:33. > :00:36.amazing tale of the little boy trapped in a sewer. And the team GB
:00:37. > :00:41.stars are getting ready to take on some of the biggest athletes in the
:00:41. > :00:44.world. But first to Syria where, after 16 months of fighting,
:00:44. > :00:47.experts say the country's reached a major turning point. Last night
:00:47. > :00:53.three of the President's top security chiefs were killed when a
:00:53. > :00:56.rebel bomb went off in a government building. It's the first big blow
:00:56. > :00:59.the government's suffered and has led to intensified street battles
:00:59. > :01:06.between rebels who want President Al-Assad to step down and those who
:01:06. > :01:14.support him. Last night's attack sent shockwaves across Syria.
:01:14. > :01:17.The attacks sent shock waves across Syria. Three of the president's top
:01:17. > :01:19.men, killed. They were some of President Bashar Al-Assad's closest
:01:19. > :01:22.advisors. One of them was his brother-in-law. The rebel
:01:22. > :01:29.supporters celebrated on the streets. The government condemned
:01:29. > :01:32.the suicide bomber they say was responsible. It's not entirely
:01:32. > :01:36.clear what happened but what is clear is that the rebels think this
:01:36. > :01:44.attack shows that, for the first time in a long and violent conflict,
:01:44. > :01:48.the tide is turning in their favour. It's sent a message to the regime
:01:48. > :01:51.that the hand of the Syrian people and the Free Syrian army can reach
:01:51. > :01:54.anyone inside Damascus and even Bashar Al-Assad itself is not safe
:01:54. > :01:57.anymore. Experts say they might be right. The President has not been
:01:57. > :02:02.seen since the attack. Unconfirmed reports say he's fled to a town on
:02:02. > :02:06.Syria's coast. All this has fuelled more fighting across the country.
:02:06. > :02:13.Both sides say large numbers of people died yesterday in one of the
:02:14. > :02:18.deadliest days of fighting. President Assad retaliated by
:02:18. > :02:24.sending tanks, artillery and helicopters to crush rebel picas
:02:24. > :02:26.and parks -- fighters in part of the capital. It's a blow for United
:02:26. > :02:30.Nation's peace keepers. They condemned the bomb attack, saying
:02:30. > :02:34.it was wrong. But as the scale of the conflict increases so does the
:02:34. > :02:37.pressure on world leaders to find a solution and bring an end to the
:02:37. > :02:41.violence. Well, in the last two hours world leaders have failed to
:02:41. > :02:43.agree on a plan to stop the Syrian government carrying out any
:02:43. > :02:47.retaliation attacks. Britain, France and America all want to put
:02:47. > :02:50.pressure on president Assad to step down but Russia and China are still
:02:50. > :02:58.backing him. So while the leaders talk, what's it like to be living
:02:58. > :03:07.in Damascus? There were a lot of clashes yesterday, we heard a lot
:03:07. > :03:14.of sounds. The blasts were stronger in the day than at night. We heard
:03:14. > :03:24.the only sounds are of clashes and all the shops and markets are
:03:24. > :03:28.closed. Everybody is afraid. Moving on... Ricky you've run a marathon
:03:28. > :03:32.and I bet when you did you used sports drinks to get that little
:03:32. > :03:35.bit or umpf? Yes of course! Well new research by the British medical
:03:35. > :03:40.journal and the BBC programme Panorama, has suggested they don't
:03:41. > :03:44.make much difference for normal people. Research has said there is
:03:44. > :03:48.some benefit to sportsman but kids are better sticking to the simple
:03:48. > :03:52.stuff. A There is no evidence of benefit whatsoever. You should
:03:52. > :03:55.think of these products as not performance enhancing. They don't
:03:55. > :04:05.make you better at football running, you should actually stick to water
:04:05. > :04:07.
:04:07. > :04:10.and products like bananas, milk. One group of athletes that
:04:10. > :04:13.definitely don't need any help are the USA basketball dream team.
:04:13. > :04:17.They're made up of the some of biggest names and highest paid
:04:17. > :04:21.sports men in the world and they've just arrived in the UK to take on
:04:21. > :04:24.Team GB in an Olympic warm up game - a pretty daunting task. You might
:04:24. > :04:29.not recognise many of these but in their home country they are
:04:29. > :04:33.absolute superstars. Teen USA are 13 time Olympic champions and they
:04:34. > :04:40.all play in the MBA, the biggest and best basketball league in the
:04:40. > :04:44.world. Auberon James has just won the championships and was voted the
:04:44. > :04:51.league's most valuable player but he says the Olympics is something
:04:51. > :04:55.different. It is great to represent my country, a great honour. I am
:04:55. > :05:01.happy to be here. So getting the gold might be a tall order but Team
:05:01. > :05:06.GB had some stars of their own. This man is a huge player for the
:05:06. > :05:11.Chicago Bulls and will be heavily relied on for the Olympics. We have
:05:11. > :05:15.come a long way, we are competing with the best in the world. We have
:05:15. > :05:19.players playing at high-level basketball. Despite all the medals
:05:19. > :05:25.the US have collected over the years Team GB say they are not
:05:25. > :05:28.scared of them. It is not scary, it is more of a challenge. I think
:05:29. > :05:32.people will take it more as a personal challenge to see what they
:05:33. > :05:37.can do against the world's best. Tonight the giants of the US take
:05:37. > :05:40.on a relatively unknown British team, nobody is giving Team GB a
:05:40. > :05:43.chance and it will be one of the biggest upset in the history of
:05:43. > :05:50.basketball if they were to win. With almost 20,000 fans cheering
:05:50. > :05:56.them on you just never know. quite tall enough to be a
:05:56. > :05:59.basketball player, and I? So of those guys are 6 ft 11! Next to
:05:59. > :06:02.news of an amazing rescue. It happened in Columbia in South
:06:02. > :06:05.America after a big search for a three-year-old boy who'd gone
:06:05. > :06:08.missing. He'd been playing with his brothers on a building site and was
:06:08. > :06:12.eventually found trapped in an underground sewer. We have not got
:06:12. > :06:17.the pictures unfortunately. He was pulled out by rescue teams and is
:06:17. > :06:20.now safe and well. Maybe a bit smelly! To Greenland next which is
:06:20. > :06:23.now a smaller country than it was this time yesterday. Confused? Well
:06:23. > :06:26.it's all because of this. A huge iceberg broke off the Petermann
:06:26. > :06:29.Glacier in Greenland overnight. It was 46 square miles big, about
:06:29. > :06:33.twice the size of Manhattan in New York. Experts say the iceberg could
:06:33. > :06:36.now drift over to Canada which might cause big problems for ships
:06:36. > :06:40.that come across it. Back to sport and one of the world's biggest golf
:06:40. > :06:43.tournaments got underway today. The Open is the longest running
:06:43. > :06:48.competition in the history of golf and the only major tournament
:06:48. > :06:51.outside of America. This year it's being held here in Lancashire.
:06:51. > :06:55.There's plenty of British players in with a chance of winning but as
:06:55. > :06:58.I've been finding out there's lots of obstacles that could get in the
:06:58. > :07:03.way. The Open - 156 golfers battling it out on one of Britain's
:07:03. > :07:13.finest and toughest golf courses. And this year there's only one word
:07:13. > :07:21.
:07:21. > :07:31.If players find themselves in this stuff they could spend precious
:07:31. > :07:32.
:07:32. > :07:36.shots trying to get their ball out. It is not very nice, I have just
:07:36. > :07:40.been in it, it goes up to your knees. Last year's winner Darren
:07:40. > :07:43.Clarke says the rough here at Royal Lytham & St Annes is "absolutely
:07:43. > :07:47.brutal" and Tiger Woods says it's the hardest he's ever faced. And
:07:47. > :07:53.he's not alone... The broth this week is very thick, it will be a
:07:53. > :07:56.huge penalty. -- rough. We will see some decent scores but hard scores.
:07:56. > :08:03.But organisers have other ways to cause trouble for the world's best.
:08:03. > :08:07.There's also a few bunkers to deal with as well... 205 in fact! This
:08:07. > :08:12.is renowned for being one of the toughest courses. Some people find
:08:12. > :08:17.it to their liking and win, so have a good attitude and things will
:08:17. > :08:24.happen. Speaking of attitude, some players didn't even try and hit the
:08:24. > :08:34.ball out during practise. To be honest though I don't know what all
:08:34. > :08:37.
:08:37. > :08:40.If you would like to hear more from the experts about how they became
:08:40. > :08:44.professional check out our interviews on our website. Finally,
:08:44. > :08:47.if you've ever got in trouble for bad spelling at school it's nothing