:00:12. > :00:17.Tonight at Ten: Plans to reform the House of Lords abandoned as Nick
:00:17. > :00:21.Clegg accuses the Conservatives of breaking the coalition contract.
:00:21. > :00:26.Electing peers was a key goal for the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg
:00:26. > :00:31.blames Tory rebels and says his party will hit back.
:00:31. > :00:34.Clearly I cannot permit a situation where the Conservative rebels can
:00:34. > :00:39.pick and choose the parts of the contract they like, while the
:00:39. > :00:43.Liberal Democrats MPs are bound to the entire agreement.
:00:43. > :00:47.We'll be asking how serious the latest rift is for the coalition.
:00:47. > :00:52.Also tonight: Syrian rebels plan another assault
:00:52. > :00:57.on Damascus. The moral boosted by today's deforeign exchange by the
:00:57. > :01:02.Prime Minister. Standard Charter becomes the latest
:01:02. > :01:06.British bank accused of money laundering. US officials say it
:01:06. > :01:11.schemed with Iran. COMMENTATOR: This could be the
:01:12. > :01:14.first gold for Britain... Gold for Team GB's equest reens. The first
:01:14. > :01:19.Olympic showjumping title for 60 years.
:01:19. > :01:23.COMMENTATOR: Kenny is ahead in the race. Kenny is the Olympic sprint
:01:23. > :01:25.champion. Another win in the Velodrome. This time the men's
:01:25. > :01:34.sprint continues the British domination of cycling.
:01:34. > :01:40.Ten years in the planning and a 100 million mile jurn journey, NASA's
:01:40. > :01:44.spacecraft lands on Mars. Space engineers celebrate a new era
:01:45. > :01:49.in planet exploration. On BBC clond: A year on from the
:01:49. > :01:53.riots, how the capital's been transformed by the Olympic feel-
:01:53. > :02:03.good factor. The owner of a dog that injured five policemen is
:02:03. > :02:13.
:02:13. > :02:14.found guilty of keeping a dangerous Good evening.
:02:14. > :02:20.We're The Liberal Democrats have
:02:21. > :02:28.abandoned their hopes of pushing through reform of the hordes. In
:02:28. > :02:33.common it said it exposed ill feeling within the coalition. Nick
:02:33. > :02:34.Clegg accusing the Tories of breaking the contract of the two
:02:34. > :02:41.parties. The Liberal Democrats saying that
:02:41. > :02:46.they could break plans. Those plan would favour the Conservative at
:02:46. > :02:49.the next election. Team GB may be outperforming expectations, but
:02:49. > :02:53.Team Coalition is in trouble. The Prime Minister and his deputy,
:02:54. > :02:57.watched the opening of the Olympics together, but today Nick Clegg
:02:58. > :03:00.announced that on planss for constitutional reform, the parties
:03:00. > :03:04.have split. The Conservative Party is not
:03:04. > :03:09.honouring the commitment to Lord reform. As a result, part of our
:03:09. > :03:14.contract has been broken. So, proposals for a historic reform
:03:14. > :03:19.of Parliament to stop members of the hordes being born or appointed
:03:19. > :03:22.and -- House of Lords being born or appointed and to make them elected
:03:23. > :03:26.have been dropped and the Lib Dem says that the Tories will pay a
:03:26. > :03:30.price. Clearly I cannot permit a situation
:03:30. > :03:33.where the Conservative rebels pick and choose the parts of the
:03:33. > :03:37.contract that they like while the Liberal Democrats MPs are bound to
:03:38. > :03:41.the entire agreement. This follows a massive Tory
:03:41. > :03:49.rebellion that forced ministers to abandon the timetable for reform.
:03:49. > :03:53.We have listened carefully to the debate so far... Nick Clegg looking
:03:53. > :03:58.glum, then, but insisted he would plough on. Today, though, he warned
:03:58. > :04:01.the Tories they will not get the parliamentary change that they want.
:04:01. > :04:06.A smaller House of Commons with fewer MPs, making it easier for
:04:06. > :04:09.them to win the next election. We have been unable to proceed on
:04:09. > :04:13.Lord's reform. There is opposition in Parliament and the opportunism
:04:13. > :04:18.of the Labour Party. It would not allow the time for the House of
:04:18. > :04:23.Lords Bill, but we have to use this moment to focus 110% on the economy.
:04:23. > :04:27.Which is what the country wants. Only last month, David Cameron and
:04:27. > :04:32.Nick Clegg appeared together to proclaim the coalition was still on
:04:32. > :04:36.track. There is, though, now the prospect of Lib Dem ministers
:04:36. > :04:40.voting against one of their own government's bills on changing
:04:40. > :04:43.parliamentary boundaries. The Conservatives have shown that
:04:43. > :04:47.they cannot deliver their side of the deal. Labour have not helped.
:04:47. > :04:51.We have tried. The Conservatives have failed us. That is, so, I'm
:04:51. > :04:55.afraid that we have to show that they can't get one of the things
:04:55. > :05:00.that they want. Strong words, but the opposite of
:05:00. > :05:05.what Nick Clegg would say when pressed on the issue by Tory MPs.
:05:05. > :05:09.There is no link. The Grand Chamber echos with the
:05:09. > :05:13.promises of parliamentary reform, which end up getting precisely know
:05:13. > :05:17.where. Nick Robinson is in Downing Street
:05:17. > :05:20.for us. This is not the first disagreement
:05:20. > :05:26.between the two parties, is this one different? It is serious,
:05:26. > :05:30.George. I have no doubt that people tonight are unlikely to be
:05:30. > :05:34.distracted from the Olympic party that there will not be elections
:05:34. > :05:38.for the House of Lords in 2015, or no change to the boundaries of
:05:38. > :05:41.parliamentary constituencies as well, and yet what happened today
:05:41. > :05:45.will have implications long beyond this week. Why? Because the Liberal
:05:45. > :05:49.Democrats are having to face up to the fact that they may be backing
:05:49. > :05:54.Government for the first time in decades, but they will not be able
:05:54. > :05:58.to deliver any constitutional change of significance whatsoever.
:05:58. > :06:02.Nick Clegg wants his party to know he is responding as he puts it,
:06:02. > :06:05.tit-for-tat, in other words, we don't get what we want, the Tories
:06:05. > :06:10.will not get what they want. That means that the Conservatives have
:06:10. > :06:14.to face up to the fact that they will find it harder to win the next
:06:14. > :06:17.election. Unless they do a deal with the smaller parties, the
:06:17. > :06:21.nationalists or other parties in Northern Ireland, they will have to
:06:21. > :06:25.live with the current parliamentary boundaries that mean it takes many
:06:25. > :06:30.more thousands of voters to elect a Conservative MP than a Labour MP.
:06:30. > :06:35.In other words it is harder for them to secure a parliamentary
:06:35. > :06:39.majority all on their own. Despite all of that, and despite the feet-
:06:39. > :06:43.stamping, the signs are that at the top of the coalition they get on
:06:43. > :06:48.alright. Some compare this with a marriage, but the truth is, mum and
:06:48. > :06:52.dad are still getting on, it is, though, the children and the in-
:06:52. > :06:56.laws who are, frankly, growing sick of the sight of each other.
:06:56. > :06:59.Nick, thank you very much. In Syria, Bashar al-Assad has
:06:59. > :07:03.suffered a major political blow with the deforeign exchange of his
:07:03. > :07:07.rime to the opposition. Riad Hijab denounced the government as a
:07:07. > :07:11.terrorist regime. Today a bomb exploded at the headquarters of the
:07:11. > :07:15.Syria state television in Damascus. Foreign journalists have been
:07:15. > :07:21.restricted from reporting within the country, but our correspondent
:07:21. > :07:24.pall Wood and cameraman Fred Scott have been with rebel forces on the
:07:24. > :07:28.outskirts of the capital. They sent us this report.
:07:28. > :07:34.We are in Bashar al-Assad's back yard. His palace in Damascus is
:07:34. > :07:38.little more than three miles a. -- away. Yet here there are rebel
:07:38. > :07:42.fighters, not the government troops. The rebel cannot be said to hold
:07:42. > :07:46.this ground, they are here as long as the government forces are not,
:07:46. > :07:53.but still, the rebels are adamant that they will try again to push
:07:53. > :07:57.into the capital. For the time being, they wait.
:07:57. > :08:01.Someone's home is now their barracks.
:08:01. > :08:07.Fresh recruits arrive every day. So many that there is hardly room.
:08:07. > :08:10.Ali, who is 18, was sent business his parents to Jordan for safety.
:08:10. > :08:18.They think he is studying computer science.
:08:18. > :08:23.He joins in a cheeky song, addressed to the President's mother.
:08:23. > :08:27.He gave birth to a donkey, they chant. Such words would once have
:08:27. > :08:34.been a death sentence. There was small taste of the
:08:34. > :08:37.freedom that they are fighting for. But many don't know the first thing
:08:37. > :08:40.about weapons. Soon they will be thrown into a battle with what you
:08:40. > :08:45.see here. The last assault into Damascus ran
:08:45. > :08:48.out of bullets. This morning, Ali caught his family
:08:48. > :08:54.-- called his family to tell them he is back. His father did not take
:08:54. > :09:02.it well when he said he was here to help to overthrow Bashar al-Assad.
:09:02. > :09:11.I am ready to die for the cause. Did you tell your parents that?
:09:11. > :09:19.About I'm ready to die? I wouldn't tell them because our generation is
:09:19. > :09:22.more brave than my father's generation in the fighting the reel.
:09:22. > :09:26.-- Regime. The commander said that they
:09:26. > :09:31.learned lessons from the last chaotic assaults.
:09:31. > :09:34.France trance -- TRANSLATION: We reached the beating
:09:35. > :09:38.heart of Damascus. This time we will be better planned. We will
:09:38. > :09:44.take more territory, all of Damascus will move together.
:09:44. > :09:49.For so long, people have fled to Damascus for safety.
:09:49. > :09:52.Now they are running from it. The opposition says 2 million
:09:52. > :09:59.people have been displaced in this conflict.
:09:59. > :10:05.TRANSLATION: We were hysterical with fear.
:10:05. > :10:09.There was shelling and snipers. There were government militia
:10:09. > :10:14.roaming everywhere. Each time the regime uses greater
:10:14. > :10:19.violence, it strengthens the uprising. These are Sunni Muslims,
:10:19. > :10:28.like 80% of Syria. If the war becomes Sunnis against the regime,
:10:28. > :10:33.it will be over for Bashar al-Assad. Financial regulators in America
:10:33. > :10:38.have accused the British bank Standard Charter of hiding
:10:38. > :10:42.transactions worth �160 billion. A breach of sanctions against the
:10:42. > :10:46.country. They describe the bank as a rogue institution. Standard
:10:46. > :10:50.Charter is conducting a review into its operations.
:10:50. > :10:57.Live now to Washington. Steve, these are detailed allegations,
:10:57. > :11:01.what more can you tell us? George, they are detailed serious money-
:11:01. > :11:05.laundering allegations, expressed in strongly worded terms. It
:11:05. > :11:08.describes Standard Charter as a rogue institution, says it is
:11:09. > :11:12.motivated by greed and scheming with the government of Iran,
:11:12. > :11:17.showing contempt for the US banking regulations, specifically, the bank
:11:17. > :11:21.is accused of what is known as wire-stripping. Falsifying or
:11:21. > :11:25.deleting names and other details that link a wire transaction
:11:25. > :11:32.through New York with Iran or the Iranian government, the regulators
:11:32. > :11:38.say that there were 60,000 transfers in a ten-year period,
:11:39. > :11:42.totalling �160 billion. Money it says could be funded to help Iran's
:11:42. > :11:46.nuclear programme. What is the bank saying? They have
:11:46. > :11:49.said that they are conducting a review into the US sanctions
:11:49. > :11:53.compliance. That they are discussing the matter with the US
:11:53. > :11:58.regulators. There is to be a meeting later on this month. Cases
:11:58. > :12:02.like this tend to end in a settlement with a hefty fine. The
:12:03. > :12:05.worst case scenario is that its licence in New York would be
:12:05. > :12:13.revoked. It would be shut down. Thank you very much.
:12:13. > :12:18.Now, today's events at the Olympics, where Team GB added two more gold
:12:18. > :12:23.medals bringing the tal you to 18. That is just one short from the
:12:23. > :12:28.Beijing games. The first one came from the
:12:28. > :12:33.showjumping competition. The final came down to the wire.
:12:33. > :12:39.Britain's equestrian community had proved its worth in Greenwich Arena.
:12:39. > :12:44.Team silver in eventing. Today was about one discipline, jumping. The
:12:44. > :12:50.fences here have incorporated elements of British history, there
:12:50. > :12:55.is Charles Darwin. Evolving after the eventing competition. Higher,
:12:55. > :13:00.I'm 6ft tall, this is pretty close. Nick Skelton has seen all of the
:13:00. > :13:05.courses. He resumed his career after breaking his neck. Now aged
:13:06. > :13:09.54, he was trying to win the one thing that alluded him, the Olympic
:13:09. > :13:15.medal. It is a combined total of three
:13:15. > :13:20.riders that decide the team medals. Now for Ben Maher and Triple X.
:13:20. > :13:24.Then there was a cropper. Four faults and Nick Skelton could only
:13:24. > :13:29.watch. The Olympic debutante, Scott Brash,
:13:29. > :13:32.if he held his nerve, the gold was in reach.
:13:32. > :13:38.COMMENTATOR: And Britain are on the gold turn here, surely.
:13:38. > :13:42.Now to the Dutch and a horse called London. One fence down and another
:13:42. > :13:47.mistake and gold was Britain's. They made it. Both countries tied
:13:47. > :13:51.for a jump-off. The course shortened. Out came Nick
:13:51. > :13:58.Skelton again. A perfect round again. All of the countries' riders
:13:58. > :14:03.were involved in the jump-off, but the ditch were making errors. Now
:14:03. > :14:07.Britain's fourth team member, peter Charles who could seal it
:14:07. > :14:13.COMMENTATOR: Britain have a vold gold.
:14:13. > :14:16.It took me 54 years. It took Great Britain 60 years!
:14:16. > :14:22.Unbelievable. What a place to do it. Never seen
:14:22. > :14:31.people like this. Unbelievable. Britain's first team gold since the
:14:31. > :14:34.50s, with two men in their 50s. At The second gold came in the
:14:34. > :14:37.Velodrome as Jason Kenny proved why he'd been picked, ahead of Sir
:14:37. > :14:42.Chris Hoy, to compete in the men's sprint. It was Kenny's second gold
:14:43. > :14:45.of the Games and the fifth for Team GB's track cycling squad. And, as
:14:45. > :14:52.our sports correspondent, Dan Roan, reports there is the prospect of
:14:52. > :14:55.more tomorrow. He's cycled in the shadow of Sir Chris Hoy for years
:14:55. > :15:01.but this was the day Jason Kenny made a name for himself. The
:15:01. > :15:06.sprinter had been controversially preferred to his friend and mentor
:15:06. > :15:10.but now the younger man would show precisely why. He faced the best of
:15:10. > :15:15.three final against the intimidating figure of five-times
:15:15. > :15:18.world champion Gregory Bauge. The Frenchman led in the first race but
:15:18. > :15:22.on the final strait he was overwhelmed.
:15:22. > :15:26.Kenny takes it! The British rider gaining the advantage while topping
:15:26. > :15:32.an astonishing 70 kilometres an hour. That was the average speed of
:15:32. > :15:36.Jason Kenny in that first race. He is one up, win the next race and he
:15:36. > :15:43.wins gold. He had a point to prove. Last year he had become world
:15:43. > :15:47.champion after Bauge was stripped of the title. After the almost
:15:47. > :15:49.stationary game of cat and mouse that's a feature of the races came
:15:50. > :15:54.the explosion of velocity and volume. This time it was the
:15:54. > :16:01.British rider who took the initiative. Bauge desperately tried
:16:01. > :16:06.reel him in but Kenny ensured there would be no need for a decider.
:16:06. > :16:10.Kenny is the Olympic sprint champion! He wins gold. He had
:16:10. > :16:15.rewarded the selectors' faith and proved after Hoy there is hope.
:16:15. > :16:19.There's no way on earth earth Chris would ever give the last ride away,
:16:19. > :16:22.so I felt I should get up there and put it to bed really. I am really
:16:22. > :16:27.pleased we have come out the other side with a gold and done it
:16:27. > :16:31.justice. Kenny dug deep here for a victory that makes him the first
:16:31. > :16:35.member of Team GB to win two gold medals at these Games. With three
:16:35. > :16:41.of his team-mates hoping to emmate him here tomorrow he is unlikely to
:16:41. > :16:43.be the last. In the Gymnastics, Britain's Beth
:16:43. > :16:47.Tweddle finally added an Olympic medal to her collection with a
:16:48. > :16:50.bronze on the uneven bars. It was a fitting swansong for the three-time
:16:51. > :16:58.World Champion who was appearing in what's expected to be her last
:16:58. > :17:06.Olympics. Gold was won by Russia's Aliya Mustafina.
:17:06. > :17:16.Let's look at the medals table. China lead, the USA is close behind.
:17:16. > :17:18.
:17:18. > :17:24.Great Britain are in third place. And we will have more on London
:17:24. > :17:34.2012 later in the programme, including the world's fastest man,
:17:34. > :17:37.Usain Bolt, picks up his gold for last night's 100 metres victory.
:17:37. > :17:40.It has taken nine months to travel more than 100 million miles and
:17:40. > :17:43.today, after that epic journey, the most high-tech robotic space craft
:17:43. > :17:47.NASA has ever designed, landed safely on Mars. NASA engineers say
:17:47. > :17:50.it's the start of a new era in planetary exploration. Our science
:17:50. > :18:00.editor, David Shukman, reports on a two-year mission to find out if
:18:00. > :18:01.
:18:01. > :18:05.Mars was once capable of supporting life. The approach to Mars at
:18:05. > :18:10.13,000mph. This animation shows how the lappeding took place -- landing
:18:10. > :18:14.took place. At the right moment the spacecraft fired up rockets, and
:18:14. > :18:24.then lowered the Rover down towards the surface, something never tried
:18:24. > :18:26.
:18:26. > :18:28.before a billion dollars of machine dangling bay thread.
:18:28. > :18:30.The computer graphics look like science fiction. In fact, this
:18:30. > :18:32.really happened. At. At mission control in
:18:32. > :18:37.California the engineers had been dreading the tension of this moment.
:18:37. > :18:41.Until two magic words - touchdown confirmed. Touchdown confirmed.
:18:41. > :18:44.The place erupted. The relief intense, eight years of work had
:18:44. > :18:50.gone into this project. The reputation of the American space
:18:50. > :18:55.agency was at stake. Time for a grand statement. Today, right now,
:18:55. > :18:58.the wheels of Curiousity have begun to blaze the trail for human
:18:58. > :19:00.footprints on Mars. The most sophisticated Rover ever built is
:19:01. > :19:05.now on the surface of the Red Planet.
:19:05. > :19:08.It's a spectacular view... In the first pictures to reach earth the
:19:08. > :19:14.Rover cast a shadow on the martian dust. Mars has been the graveyard
:19:14. > :19:19.for many spacecraft. Today, one made it. This mission is to hunt
:19:19. > :19:24.for evidence about whether life was ever possible on Mars. Gale crater
:19:24. > :19:30.was picked for the landing zone because the mountain has layers of
:19:30. > :19:34.rock providing a long record of geological history. At the bottom
:19:34. > :19:37.are sediments, a possible location for past life. Next up, clays, you
:19:37. > :19:42.only get them after long immersion in water.
:19:42. > :19:46.Then, at the top, salts, usually found when rock dries out. Any of
:19:46. > :19:52.these layers could hold the chemical building blocks needed for
:19:52. > :19:55.anything that might have lived here. The Rover will sample the rocks and
:19:55. > :19:59.analyse what's inside them and the results are eagerly awaited by
:19:59. > :20:03.scientists around the world. really need to be able to touch the
:20:03. > :20:06.rocks, in a sense the Rover is touching those rocks for us,
:20:06. > :20:11.sending back high imagery, higher than you can obtain from satellites
:20:11. > :20:15.that we can look at individual sand grains. Last year I watched the
:20:15. > :20:20.Rover being built in a room in California. Pain-staking work
:20:20. > :20:29.that's paid off. And now the most intriguing question about Mars can
:20:29. > :20:32.be tackled - was this landscape always this barren?
:20:32. > :20:35.The Pentagon has revealed that the man suspected of opening fire at a
:20:35. > :20:39.Sikh temple in Wisconsin, killing six people, was a former US soldier.
:20:39. > :20:41.Wade Michael Page, who was shot dead by police in the incident, had
:20:41. > :20:45.been a specialist in psychological operations. Sources said he'd been
:20:45. > :20:48.dismissed from the army more than a decade ago. His motive isn't yet
:20:48. > :20:57.clear but police have described the attack as an act of domestic
:20:57. > :20:59.terrorism. Senior Chinese leaders are reported to be gathering in a
:20:59. > :21:02.seaside resort east of Beijing - the traditional venue for closed-
:21:02. > :21:05.door political summits. It's expected they will decide the
:21:05. > :21:07.direction the country will take when a new group of leaders takes
:21:07. > :21:12.over later this year. Our Correspondent, John Sudworth, joins
:21:12. > :21:19.us from Beijing. This country does have quite a few challenges ahead
:21:19. > :21:23.in the next few years. It does. On the surface, at least, the politics
:21:23. > :21:27.of China look as certain and staidfast as they have done but
:21:27. > :21:30.despite booming along for a decade or more this economy is starting to
:21:31. > :21:34.flag, only slightly, but enough to worry a leadership trying to keep a
:21:34. > :21:39.lid on social unrest and dealing with its biggest political crisis
:21:39. > :21:44.in a generation, with the family of one of its most high profile and
:21:44. > :21:48.senior politicians brought down over a murder scandal. Now the
:21:48. > :21:53.political transition that's due to take place later this year is a
:21:53. > :21:58.difficult process. It's a once in a decade handover of power. This
:21:58. > :22:02.meeting at this resort has over the years gained this reputation for
:22:02. > :22:05.behind closed doors deal-making. It doesn't happen every year but the
:22:06. > :22:09.fact it's happening now is almost certainly connected to the
:22:09. > :22:15.political transition. This is a country of more than a billion
:22:15. > :22:19.people, there are around 80 million Communist Party members, and yet
:22:19. > :22:23.the few elderly leaders meeting will have the task of deciding who
:22:23. > :22:33.is going to govern China for the next five years and beyond.
:22:33. > :22:34.
:22:34. > :22:38.Thank you. A man has been charged with a
:22:38. > :22:40.public order offence after a bottle was thrown onto the track at the
:22:40. > :22:43.start of the men's Olympic 100 metres final last night. Ashley
:22:43. > :22:45.Gill-Webb, from Leeds, was arrested at the Olympic Stadium and appeared
:22:45. > :22:49.at Stratford Magistrates' Court this afternoon. He denied the
:22:49. > :22:52.charge. More now on the Olympic action and,
:22:52. > :22:55.as we've heard, Team GB have won 18 gold medals so far, almost matching
:22:55. > :22:58.their total for the Beijing Games, and there are six days of
:22:58. > :23:01.competition left. So, can the gold rush continue? Or should they start
:23:01. > :23:10.looking over their shoulders at rivals further down the medal table.
:23:10. > :23:19.Our sports editor, David Bond, has this assessment. For British sport
:23:19. > :23:24.it was a weekend which will live long in the memory. Gold after gold.
:23:24. > :23:31.Suddenly all that talk of Team GB finishing 4th in the table looks
:23:31. > :23:36.cautious. Oh, my goodness, remarkable! This man did his bit
:23:36. > :23:40.for the medal haul on Sunday winning his 4th Olympic title. He
:23:40. > :23:44.says third place is within reach. There's still a long way to go and
:23:44. > :23:47.we have had amazing performances, whether we can stay there for the
:23:47. > :23:51.final week I certainly hope so, and you know, it's a huge credit to
:23:51. > :23:55.everybody involved that we have done so well this far and let's
:23:55. > :24:03.hope we can keep that going. Team GB have plenty of gold medal
:24:03. > :24:07.chances left, including Jonathan and Allister Brownlee tomorrow and
:24:07. > :24:12.Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton and Mo Farah going for a second
:24:12. > :24:17.gold in the 5,000 metres. But the head of the British Olympic
:24:17. > :24:22.Association says the country shouldn't get carried away too soon.
:24:22. > :24:26.We are absolutely delivering a great performance from the athletes.
:24:27. > :24:30.Can we get - maintain 4th, get to third? It's too early actually.
:24:30. > :24:34.It's too Earl throeu make that call. -- Earl throeu make that call.
:24:34. > :24:37.has been a magical week for British sport and these fans will be hoping
:24:37. > :24:43.the gold rush can continue. But with six days of full competition
:24:43. > :24:48.still to go, Team GB have a lot of work to do if they're to exceed
:24:48. > :24:52.expectations and finish third in the medal table. Most of Britain's
:24:52. > :24:56.main rivals for 4th place have had a mixed Games. France have had a
:24:56. > :25:01.good start, with eight golds. Russia had five, but always finish
:25:01. > :25:06.strongly. Germany have just five gold medals.
:25:06. > :25:09.Australia were also expected to be strong contenders, but as with
:25:09. > :25:15.Shane Perkins tonight in the cycling, they now seem to be
:25:15. > :25:18.relieved to take bronze. He says home advantage has been key.
:25:18. > :25:21.Statistically a home country brings home more medals when they've a
:25:21. > :25:26.home Olympics, so obviously that's helping them. But you can't look
:25:26. > :25:33.past the fact that the work that GB have done for the sport which is
:25:33. > :25:38.fantastic. It's setting a level, a benchmark for everyone to chase.
:25:38. > :25:41.Whether it's the fans or the money, something's going very right for
:25:41. > :25:51.Britain's athletes here. Keep it up, and they'll achieve their highest
:25:51. > :25:54.finish in almost a century. There were high hopes for more
:25:54. > :25:58.British success in the stadium this evening when Dai Greene lined up
:25:58. > :26:00.for the final of the 400 metre hurdles. But it was to end in
:26:00. > :26:03.disappointment when the World Champion, and captain of Team GB,
:26:03. > :26:09.narrowly missed out on a medal. Our Olympics correspondent James Pearce
:26:09. > :26:11.reports. Dai Green, Captain of a athletics
:26:11. > :26:20.squad, European champion, Commonwealth champion, world
:26:20. > :26:25.champion. One race away from becoming Olympic champion.
:26:25. > :26:29.Green gets a good start. The crowd are... He only scraped into the
:26:29. > :26:34.final after finishing 4th in the semifinal. He needed to find some
:26:34. > :26:40.extra pace, but with a home crowd as vocal as ever, that was always
:26:40. > :26:44.possible. Increasingly unlikely though as he approached the closing
:26:44. > :26:49.stages. The leaders had got away. He had come here for gold, but
:26:49. > :26:57.found himself facing a contest for the minor places.
:26:57. > :27:02.Sanchez takes the gold! We have seen many British
:27:02. > :27:07.celebrations over the past ten days, here was the other side of the coin,
:27:07. > :27:12.the moments when it begins to sink in that it's all gone wrong. It's
:27:12. > :27:15.gone gone quiet inside the stadium now, Dai Green sits there as a man
:27:15. > :27:22.who came with high expectations but has to leave without a medal.
:27:22. > :27:27.gave it everything I had tonight. But just a bit too tired at the end
:27:27. > :27:33.there. And narrowly missed out really. If he had felt like crying,
:27:33. > :27:38.the winner did. Uncontrolably. Sanchez from the Dominican Republic
:27:38. > :27:42.had won this title eight years ago. Here he was ago, 34 years old, back
:27:42. > :27:45.on top of the rostrum. You wouldn't have expected tears from Usain Bolt
:27:45. > :27:49.during his medal ceremony and you didn't get any. As laidback as ever
:27:49. > :27:57.as he collected gold from last night's 100 metres. It's been quite
:27:57. > :28:02.a night for the Caribbean. Imagine the celebrations in Grenada this
:28:02. > :28:09.evening. Population 110,000, had never had an Olympic medallist of
:28:09. > :28:15.any colour. James is going to take gold! His nation's first ever gold.
:28:15. > :28:18.Thanks to this teenager they now have a golden one.