:00:09. > :00:12.Tonight at Ten - a blow to coalition unity as the Lib Dems
:00:12. > :00:15.decide not to back the Culture Secretary. Jeremy Hunt is facing a
:00:15. > :00:22.Parliamentary vote on calls for an official investigation into his
:00:22. > :00:24.dealings with News Corporation. Nick Clegg has told the Lib Dems to
:00:24. > :00:33.withold their support, contradicting the Prime Minister's
:00:33. > :00:40.view. Questions remain in the public's mind and therefore there
:00:40. > :00:43.needs to be a proper independent investigation. We'll be asking what
:00:43. > :00:46.this says about the state of the coalition. Also tonight - more
:00:46. > :00:53.violence in Syria as one UN official talks of civil war and the
:00:53. > :00:57.Americans accuse the Russians of making things worse. We are
:00:57. > :01:02.concerned about the latest information we have that there are
:01:02. > :01:08.attack helicopters on the way from Russia to Syria, which will
:01:08. > :01:11.escalate the conflict quite dramatically. The Government's
:01:11. > :01:14.plans to legalise gay marriage in England and Wales are under attack
:01:14. > :01:18.from the Church of England. Clashes on the streets of Warsaw as Russian
:01:19. > :01:28.and Polish football fans come face to face. And, the Olympic opening
:01:29. > :01:29.
:01:29. > :01:34.ceremony gives the world a glimpse of green and pleasant land. I'll be
:01:34. > :01:44.here with Euro 2012 Sportsday with all tonight's action and the latest
:01:44. > :01:56.
:01:56. > :02:00.news from the tournament. Good evening. The unity of the coalition
:02:00. > :02:03.has been dealt a blow tonight as Lib Dem MPs decided not to support
:02:03. > :02:06.the Culture Secretary in a Parliamentary vote tomorrow. Jeremy
:02:06. > :02:10.Hunt is facing calls for an official investigation into his
:02:10. > :02:13.dealings with News Corporation. But Nick Clegg has contradicted David
:02:13. > :02:22.Cameron's view and told his MPs not to vote with their coalition
:02:23. > :02:26.partners. Our political editor, Nick Robinson, has the latest. How
:02:26. > :02:31.David Cameron must wish he had kept his distance from Rupert Murdoch
:02:31. > :02:36.and never had to set up the Leveson Inquiry. Or what some close to the
:02:36. > :02:41.Prime Minister fear is turning into a nightmare for him. Tonight, the
:02:41. > :02:45.Liberal Democrats decided that in a crucial Commons' vote tomorrow they
:02:45. > :02:48.won't back Jeremy Hunt, nor the Prime Minister's decision to
:02:48. > :02:52.support him, without calling an investigation into whether he had
:02:52. > :02:56.broken the Ministerial Code. Nick Clegg was absolutely clear from the
:02:56. > :03:00.outset that if after Jeremy Hunt's appearance at Leveson, questions
:03:00. > :03:05.still remained, they need to be properly addressed. He wasn't
:03:05. > :03:10.consulted by the Prime Minister on his decision not to refer Jeremy
:03:10. > :03:13.Hunt to the independent adviser and therefore he cannot condone that
:03:13. > :03:17.decision. That's why we'll be abstaining tomorrow in the vote.
:03:17. > :03:21.Nick Clegg returned home tonight, having told his MPs do not support
:03:21. > :03:25.the Tories on this one. REPORTER: Why are you asking party
:03:25. > :03:28.members to abstain? He told the party to stay away from the debate
:03:28. > :03:33.on the Prime Minister's judgment to back the minister. Tory MPs are not
:03:33. > :03:38.impressed. It's rather unreasonable of the Liberal Democrats to say
:03:38. > :03:42.they won't back a senior minister in the coalition partnership. After
:03:42. > :03:46.all, if Vince Cable hadn't acted so irresponsibly in the first place,
:03:46. > :03:49.Jeremy Hunt wouldn't be in this position. The tension caused by two
:03:49. > :03:55.men and their two parties' different approaches to Rupert
:03:55. > :03:58.Murdoch. Vince Cable wanted to go to war, Jeremy Hunt was his
:03:58. > :04:02.cheerleader. The Prime Minister will face cross-examination on
:04:02. > :04:06.Thursday at Leveson, a day after his own deputy and the Liberal
:04:06. > :04:09.Democrats will have failed to back him and his Culture Secretary on
:04:10. > :04:13.their handling of the Murdoch bid for BSkyB. If that weren't headache
:04:13. > :04:20.enough, he's now under mounting pressure to do what no recent Prime
:04:20. > :04:24.Minister has done, to regulate the press. He's Tory predecessor, Sir
:04:24. > :04:30.John Major, told Leveson today, that if politicians didn't act now
:04:30. > :04:36.they wouldn't. It's the politicians who are in the Last Clapbs Saloon.
:04:36. > :04:42.-- Clapbs Saloon. It is difficult to see how this matter could be
:04:42. > :04:50.returned to in any reasonable period of time. He le called the
:04:50. > :04:53.night which led to -- recalled the night which led to this, losing the
:04:53. > :04:58.Sun's backing. It's not very often someone says to a Prime Minister,
:04:58. > :05:03."I would like you to change your policy and if you don't change your
:05:03. > :05:07.policy, my organisation cannot support you." Ed Miliband told the
:05:07. > :05:15.inquiry he had concluded the Murdochs owned too many papers and
:05:15. > :05:21.had too much power. I don't believe that one person should continue to
:05:21. > :05:29.control 37% or now 34%, of the newspaper market. My strong
:05:29. > :05:34.insurance tint is that's too much. -- instinct is that's too much. He
:05:34. > :05:39.he -- said he would back the Prime Minister in a new law. I want to
:05:39. > :05:42.say that I will do everything I can to seek on to work on a cross-party
:05:42. > :05:45.basis to ensure that your recommendations provide a framework
:05:45. > :05:49.for us for the future. Sounds helpful, until you realise that
:05:49. > :05:53.David Cameron's being asked to do what all who have come before him
:05:53. > :06:00.have not, to take on not just Murdoch, but all in the press, who
:06:00. > :06:03.don't want to be regulated. Over now to Nick who is in Westminster
:06:03. > :06:08.for us. Nick, specifically about David Cameron here and what this
:06:08. > :06:12.could mean for him. He's already spent many weeks and many hours
:06:12. > :06:16.preparing for that a appearance. He already knew it would be difficult,
:06:16. > :06:20.but now he knows he has to appear without the full backing of Nick
:06:20. > :06:24.Clegg or the Lib Dems. Precisely what the Labour Party wanted to
:06:24. > :06:31.achieve when they ensured that there would be a debate tomorrow on
:06:31. > :06:34.the future of Jeremy Hunt. Now, the Prime Minister's advisers are
:06:34. > :06:38.insisting that he's intensely relaxed about all this, after all
:06:38. > :06:42.it's a party political motion and there will be such occasions when
:06:42. > :06:45.the Lib Dems want to go their own way. What will be less relaxing for
:06:45. > :06:51.him, though, is even when all this is over, even when the Leveson
:06:51. > :06:54.Inquiry is over, people will then expect him to come up with a law to
:06:54. > :07:00.regulate the press. What the Leveson Inquiry has heard this week
:07:00. > :07:04.is from not one, but two former Prime Ministers, John Major today,
:07:04. > :07:09.Gordon Brown, and the other week, Tony Blair, that the reason they
:07:09. > :07:13.failed to deal with what they all agree is a real problem is in part
:07:13. > :07:17.because of the grief the press can give Prime Ministers if they take
:07:17. > :07:22.them on and because it can soak up all the time and energy which Prime
:07:22. > :07:29.Ministers want to spend on other things, like the economy, health or
:07:29. > :07:32.education. The nightmare for David Cameron won't end after the Leveson
:07:32. > :07:38.Inquiry. If anything, it will merely grow. Nick, thank you very
:07:38. > :07:41.much. Syria is now in a state of civil war, according to the head of
:07:41. > :07:44.United Nations peacekeeping. He spoke as UN monitors were fired on
:07:44. > :07:48.and forced to turn back from the town of Haffa in northern Syria,
:07:48. > :07:51.where rebel positions are being bombarded by government forces.
:07:51. > :07:53.Earlier this evening the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton,
:07:53. > :07:55.accused Russia of escalating the conflict by providing attack
:07:55. > :08:01.helicopters to the Assad regime. Our diplomatic correspondent,
:08:01. > :08:11.Bridget Kendall, has the latest. This report does contain some
:08:11. > :08:15.distressing images. Relentless bombardment of Homs today, but now
:08:15. > :08:21.it's been documented by UN observers and journalists
:08:21. > :08:24.travelling with them. On the road north to the town of Talbiseh they
:08:24. > :08:29.witness more damage coming not just from Government tanks now, but
:08:29. > :08:33.helicopter gunships. Just one snapshot of destruction in a
:08:33. > :08:40.country that, according to the head of UN peacekeeping, could be now
:08:40. > :08:45.considered civil war. Other officials are more cautious, but
:08:45. > :08:51.all agree the situation is deteriorating. The point isn't what
:08:51. > :08:53.we call it, it's that we are incredibly concerned about the
:08:53. > :08:58.willing and deliberate escalation by the Government in the last four
:08:59. > :09:02.to five days, but also the increased level of the planning and
:09:02. > :09:07.co-ordination and military operations of the opposition.
:09:07. > :09:12.Because it's not just President asas's forces behind the increased
:09:12. > :09:16.-- Bashar Al-Assad's forces behind the increased violence. A Syrian
:09:16. > :09:26.army vehicle apparently blown up by rebels and Government tanks on fire,
:09:26. > :09:27.
:09:27. > :09:30.according to this amateur video. And massive opposition funerals in
:09:31. > :09:35.broad daylight, like here apparently in southern Deraa
:09:35. > :09:39.province, suggesting Government control of territory is patchy.
:09:39. > :09:45.With every day more talk is civil war. Where does that leave the UN
:09:45. > :09:47.peace plan? Is there no hope? Well, yes and no. On the one hand, the
:09:47. > :09:52.supposed ceasefire never really took hold and it's now being
:09:52. > :09:56.ignored by both sides. On the other hand, countries like the United
:09:56. > :10:00.States and Britain, and the UN, still hope they can persuade Russia
:10:00. > :10:06.to put pressure on President Bashar Al-Assad to pull back from an all-
:10:06. > :10:10.out conflict. But Russia is also part of the problem in Syria, as
:10:10. > :10:15.well as the hope for the solution. According to the US Secretary of
:10:15. > :10:18.State, that is tonight. We werned about the latest information we
:10:18. > :10:21.have -- werned about the latest information that we have that there
:10:21. > :10:25.are -- concerned about the latest information that we have that there
:10:25. > :10:28.are attack helicopters which will escalate the conflict dramatically.
:10:28. > :10:32.The desperate hope is that the worst the suffering in Syria, the
:10:32. > :10:38.greater the urgency for the world to come together to do something to
:10:38. > :10:41.stop it. But so far, there's little sign of it. There's growing
:10:41. > :10:44.conflict between the Church of England and the Government on plans
:10:44. > :10:46.to allow gay couples to marry in England and Wales. Ministers say
:10:46. > :10:49.they will bring in legislation before 2015, but the Church says
:10:49. > :10:51.this would alter the intrinsic nature of marriage and would
:10:51. > :11:01.undermine the status of the Established Church. Our religious
:11:01. > :11:06.affairs correspondent, Robert Pigott, has more details. There
:11:06. > :11:12.have been civil partnerships in England and Wales since 2005, and
:11:12. > :11:19.the church claims they give gay couples significant equality.
:11:19. > :11:24.was a very good day. A summer's day. John and Jesus say only marriage
:11:24. > :11:30.would do justice to their 18-year relationship. John, a life-long
:11:30. > :11:33.Anglican says they entered a civil partnership four years ago. I would
:11:33. > :11:37.have preferred a full marriage ceremony in the church, simply
:11:37. > :11:43.because that's how I've been brought up. It would make me happy
:11:43. > :11:47.and John very happy indeed and that is the way forward.
:11:47. > :11:51.reconsidering my membership, sadly at my late stage in life, because
:11:51. > :11:56.we are simply not moving forward. We are staying in the past, in the
:11:56. > :12:00.far past. Everyone in England has the right to marry in their
:12:00. > :12:05.Anglican parish church, one of many ways in which church and state are
:12:05. > :12:08.intertwined. The law would not force the church to provide gay
:12:08. > :12:14.marriage, but the Church insists that the courts eventually would.
:12:14. > :12:19.That, said the Church, would force it eventually to stop providing
:12:19. > :12:24.marriages recognised by the state and remove a key part of its
:12:24. > :12:27.function as the official state church. Bishops say the country is
:12:27. > :12:34.sleeping walking into changes that would strip marriage of much of the
:12:34. > :12:38.meaning and significance. Marriage as part of the dock frin of the --
:12:38. > :12:43.doctrine of the Church is a relationship between one man and
:12:43. > :12:46.woman. There is one marriage, so this is really a fundament l change
:12:46. > :12:52.to marriage as everybody -- fundamental change to marriage as
:12:52. > :12:56.everybody understands it. Church insists marriage should be
:12:56. > :13:00.about procreation and it claims that changing such a fundamental
:13:00. > :13:10.element would produce a new hollow- out version of marriage, what it
:13:10. > :13:15.
:13:15. > :13:19.calls a content-free agreement. But We are clear that this upheaval
:13:19. > :13:23.being described us as big as the sacking of the monasteries is like
:13:24. > :13:28.something out of a Monty Python sketch. The Government repeated its
:13:28. > :13:31.intention of legislating by the end of the Parliament today. But gay
:13:31. > :13:34.marriage divides the Conservative Party and the Church of England and
:13:34. > :13:37.they will be looking for allies in the battle to prevent it.
:13:38. > :13:42.The Government of the Falklands has announced a referendum on the
:13:42. > :13:45.political status of the islands. It says it wants to send a firm
:13:45. > :13:49.message to Argentina that the islanders wish to remain British.
:13:49. > :13:53.The vote will be held next year. Diplomatic tensions have risen in
:13:53. > :13:57.recent months. The Argentine President will address the United
:13:57. > :14:00.Nations later this week as they celebrate the 30th anniversary
:14:00. > :14:04.offer the liberation of the island by British forces.
:14:04. > :14:11.The cost of borrowing by the Spanish Government has is into its
:14:11. > :14:19.highest rate since the euro was launched, despite the bile -- bail-
:14:19. > :14:26.out. There are calls for a banking union to strengthen the system.
:14:26. > :14:31.Let's talk first of all about the Spanish problem and the wider
:14:31. > :14:35.solutions being canvassed. Yes, this is history repeating itself in
:14:35. > :14:40.a eurozone crisis. Beds have been announced and they have been
:14:41. > :14:45.welcomed and then they unravel. -- bail-outs. This could have happened
:14:45. > :14:50.again with his rescue deal for the Spanish banks. Thumbs up yesterday,
:14:50. > :14:55.but then today, a key yardstick of finances in Spain, the ten-year
:14:55. > :14:59.borrowing cost has gone up to a record high since it joined the
:14:59. > :15:03.euro. It came back a little at the end of the day, but that shows the
:15:04. > :15:08.markets scepticism about Spanish finances. What can be done about
:15:08. > :15:13.it? There is talk about fiscal union and single budget policies
:15:13. > :15:18.being the answer. To that end, Jose Manuel Barroso today spelled out
:15:18. > :15:23.the need for banking union in his view, with a single regulator and
:15:23. > :15:27.deposit protection scheme up. The Germans are not so sure about that.
:15:27. > :15:30.Downing Street does not want to be part of a European scheme like this,
:15:30. > :15:34.so there is a lot for the leaders to think about at their summit at
:15:34. > :15:39.the end of the month. Inevitably some people are saying that this is
:15:39. > :15:43.a make-or-break summit, again. Thank you.
:15:43. > :15:48.Coming up on the programme: The Olympic Opening Ceremony in
:15:48. > :15:52.miniature. Complete with cows, sheep and guaranteed rain. I don't
:15:52. > :15:59.think any show about Britain that does not try and capture our humour,
:15:59. > :16:02.people would say that is not right at all.
:16:03. > :16:06.There were violent clashes this evening between Russian and Polish
:16:07. > :16:10.football fans in Warsaw ahead of the match between the two teams in
:16:10. > :16:15.the European Championships. The authorities in Poland, which is co-
:16:15. > :16:20.hosting with Ukraine, said that this evening's again did pose the
:16:20. > :16:24.biggest ever peacetime security challenge. -- this evening's game.
:16:24. > :16:28.Let's get the latest in Warsaw. There was always a danger that this
:16:28. > :16:32.would prove more than simply a game of football. Tensions between
:16:32. > :16:36.Poland and Russia have been stoked by centuries of bad blood and
:16:36. > :16:39.suspicion between the two countries. Add to that the fact that both have
:16:39. > :16:42.pockets of fans with a history of violence, a dangerous combination
:16:42. > :16:52.in a tournament that has had its fair share of problems with racism
:16:52. > :16:56.and hooliganism. It was the moment that Euro 2012 turned sour. Polish
:16:56. > :17:00.and Russian hooligans clashing with each other and with police outside
:17:00. > :17:05.Warsaw's national stadium ahead of an initially charged match between
:17:05. > :17:09.the two countries tonight. The violence came after thousands of
:17:09. > :17:13.Russian fans marched to the stadium in a show of patriotism, seen as
:17:13. > :17:18.provocative too many Polish people. It had always been seen as a
:17:18. > :17:22.potential flashpoint, and so it proved. After sporadic outbreaks of
:17:22. > :17:27.violence, the police have now managed to separate the two sides
:17:27. > :17:30.and car has broken out now. These were the scenes that UEFA would
:17:30. > :17:38.Reading, and the build up had already been shadowed by
:17:38. > :17:42.controversy. -- UEFA were dreading. That has been intensified now.
:17:42. > :17:47.have to fight it off from Poland. Was it a mistake to allow the
:17:48. > :17:54.Russians to March? Yes. As it injured the image of tournament and
:17:54. > :17:57.Poland, this trouble? Big trouble. Earlier, the atmosphere had been
:17:57. > :18:04.relaxed with the match ball and on Russia day, which marks the end of
:18:04. > :18:07.the Soviet Union. -- the match falling on Russia day. The
:18:07. > :18:11.authorities have been confident that the march would pass off
:18:11. > :18:18.peacefully. Some think it should not have been allowed. The egg Shia,
:18:18. > :18:22.I would say this. Marches during a tournament like this, it is normal.
:18:23. > :18:28.There is nothing wrong with the Russians having their flags. On the
:18:28. > :18:36.pitch, big game was evenly matched, with Russia taking the lead through
:18:36. > :18:42.Al-Inshaat -- Alan Dzagoev, followed by Jakub Blaszczykowski.
:18:42. > :18:47.The tension will be on the violence that flared outside the stadium.
:18:47. > :18:50.The authorities are braced for more trouble tonight.
:18:50. > :18:54.Given the tension between the two sets of fans, the authorities will
:18:54. > :18:59.be delighted that the match finished 1 all with no winner or
:18:59. > :19:02.loser. There have been many arrests, over 100. There have been 10
:19:02. > :19:08.injuries and in the last few minutes, it has emerged that police
:19:08. > :19:14.had to use rubber bullets and tear gas after fans threw missiles in
:19:14. > :19:19.the very centre of Warsaw. Put this into context. It is not the first
:19:19. > :19:23.time that the European finals have been she overshadowed by these
:19:23. > :19:27.scenes, but once again it will raise questions about the wisdom of
:19:27. > :19:30.bringing the tournament to this part of Europe.
:19:30. > :19:35.The persistent rain has caused serious flooding across large parts
:19:35. > :19:40.of southern England today. There are 40 flood warnings and alerts
:19:40. > :19:44.across England and Wales, with some places experiencing a month's worth
:19:44. > :19:52.of rain in just one day. Holidaymakers in West Sussex had to
:19:52. > :19:56.be evacuated from camps and caravan parks and some pupils have even had
:19:56. > :20:01.to miss their GCSE exams. The performance of the Indian
:20:01. > :20:07.economy is causing concern after years of rapid growth. Output rose
:20:07. > :20:11.by just 0.1% compared with last year. And Standard & Poor's has now
:20:11. > :20:15.warned that India is at risk of a downgrade, because of its ailing
:20:15. > :20:21.economy and what it called political obstacles to reform. Our
:20:21. > :20:25.South Asia correspondent has the story for us.
:20:25. > :20:30.After soaring high for years, India is suddenly looking at a hard
:20:30. > :20:34.landing. Hopes are that it can pull its own people out of poverty and
:20:34. > :20:39.give the world economy a boost, but they are stalling. It has come as a
:20:39. > :20:44.shock to a country that still has a cutting edge. Using the latest
:20:44. > :20:50.phenology at this factory to make vehicle parts for sale around the
:20:50. > :20:56.world, including Mercedes Benz. -- the latest technology. India is
:20:56. > :21:01.exposed to the global slowdown. But political paralysis is the real
:21:01. > :21:05.problem according to this man. could be storing up, creating jobs
:21:05. > :21:12.and prosperity and infrastructure. But that opportunity is being
:21:12. > :21:16.frittered away, simply because political decision-making, economic
:21:16. > :21:21.decision-making, is not being done in the manner in which it should be.
:21:21. > :21:26.Some businesses are still doing well, like British sports car maker
:21:26. > :21:30.Aston Martin. This has become one of their best markets. For some in
:21:30. > :21:34.India, money is still no object, and sales of this car are just one
:21:34. > :21:38.example of that. But India as a whole is suddenly slowing down,
:21:38. > :21:43.after years of supercharged growth. It has got many worried that it
:21:43. > :21:47.might be more than just a bump in the road. India is the world's 9th
:21:47. > :21:52.biggest economy and one of their BRICS group of emerging power
:21:52. > :21:57.houses, which includes Russia, Brazil and South Africa. But with
:21:57. > :22:02.India's growth plunging from over 9% two years ago to just over 5%
:22:02. > :22:05.now, its status as a global economic player is in doubt. Even
:22:05. > :22:09.India's call centres, the cornerstone of its economic rise,
:22:09. > :22:18.are struggling. This Mumbai Operation Surge UK companies that
:22:18. > :22:24.lost half of its business last year to competitors in the Philippines.
:22:24. > :22:28.-- this operation serve the UK companies. We lost business to the
:22:28. > :22:33.Philippines because of the clients. But even Mumbai alone has a huge
:22:33. > :22:37.potential market, in a country of over 1 billion people. The
:22:37. > :22:41.Government's message is to be patient. When pessimism build up,
:22:41. > :22:45.there is over pessimism. I think right now, we are going through a
:22:45. > :22:49.phase with over pessimism and looking back one year from now we
:22:49. > :22:52.will say that we were guilty the other way around. We were over-
:22:52. > :22:58.pessimistic just because of the six months or nine months the economy
:22:58. > :23:05.did not perform too well. The mood is still buoyant at this fish
:23:05. > :23:09.market but the outside world is not so sure about India's rise.
:23:09. > :23:13.32 years after her baby girl vanished in the Australian outback,
:23:13. > :23:18.the coroner has ruled that a dingo, a wild dog, was responsible for her
:23:18. > :23:21.death. The body of nine-week-old Azaria Chamberlain was never found,
:23:22. > :23:24.but her mother was convicted of her murder and she was released on
:23:25. > :23:31.compassionate grounds four years later when new evidence came to
:23:31. > :23:35.light. Three decades later, she has finally been cleared.
:23:35. > :23:40.The Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games on July 27th will feature
:23:40. > :23:43.sheep and chickens and some guaranteed rain, along with 10,000
:23:43. > :23:47.volunteers. Danny Boyle, the Oscar- winning director who has devised
:23:47. > :23:51.the show, has been explaining how Britain's green and pleasant land
:23:51. > :23:58.will be celebrated in a ceremony expected to draw a worldwide
:23:58. > :24:03.television audience of 1 billion people.
:24:03. > :24:09.This is a model of what around 1 billion people will see at 9
:24:10. > :24:13.o'clock on 27th July. It is the opening scene of the Opening
:24:13. > :24:21.Ceremony, of the 2012 Olympic Games. The show's director also unveiled
:24:21. > :24:25.his vision. What were we? Why do we come from, the heritage? Where are
:24:25. > :24:33.we now and where are we going? is written as a green and pleasant
:24:33. > :24:37.land, and iconic scene of warmth and harmony. There is a critic --
:24:37. > :24:41.cricket match taking place, and some clouds to provide fake rain if
:24:41. > :24:45.Mother Nature decides to give it the rest. There will be maples with
:24:45. > :24:49.flowers representing the four countries of the United Kingdom. --
:24:49. > :24:53.maples. And there will be a Glastonbury theme at one end with a
:24:53. > :24:57.mosh pit. At the other end, something more akin to a posh pit,
:24:57. > :25:00.which Danny Boyle said would have a more civilised approach. Above it,
:25:00. > :25:05.the largest harmonised bell in the world will open and close the event.
:25:05. > :25:09.And be prepared for a bit of laughter. I don't think any show
:25:09. > :25:14.about Britain that doesn't try and capture our humour... People would
:25:14. > :25:18.say no, that is not right. Very difficult in a stadium show, but we
:25:18. > :25:21.are trying. You never know with humour. You can never say that
:25:21. > :25:26.there will be humour because it is very elusive and it can dissipate
:25:26. > :25:32.very quickly. We have got a couple of bits that we are trying to use
:25:32. > :25:38.to show the best of our sense of humour. Very much so. Like it or
:25:38. > :25:44.not, this is what he will be judged against, the remarkable Opening
:25:44. > :25:47.Ceremony, at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Danny Boyle said that his
:25:47. > :25:52.show was as much for the people in the stadium as it was for the
:25:52. > :25:56.World's television viewers. The spectacular event is promised, with
:25:56. > :26:05.people flying in on wires and 20 other non-rural scenes. But he was
:26:05. > :26:08.not giving any further details. How many sets? About an hour before the
:26:08. > :26:13.athletes walk in! We are not keeping any secrets from anybody
:26:13. > :26:17.but we are likening it to a puzzle, really. A puzzle that will unravel
:26:17. > :26:21.over three hours, ending in a firework display. It is a huge
:26:21. > :26:24.undertaking. Danny Boyle said that he was bound to fail. Those in