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Tonight at Ten: Plans to reform the House of Lords abandoned as Nick | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
Clegg accuses the Conservatives of breaking the coalition contract. | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
Electing peers was a key goal for the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
blames Tory rebels and says his party will hit back. | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
Clearly I cannot permit a situation where the Conservative rebels can | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
pick and choose the parts of the contract they like, while the | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
Liberal Democrats MPs are bound to the entire agreement. | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
We'll be asking how serious the latest rift is for the coalition. | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
Also tonight: Syrian rebels plan another assault | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
on Damascus. The moral boosted by today's deforeign exchange by the | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
Prime Minister. Standard Charter becomes the latest | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
British bank accused of money laundering. US officials say it | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
schemed with Iran. COMMENTATOR: This could be the | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
first gold for Britain... Gold for Team GB's equest reens. The first | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
Olympic showjumping title for 60 years. | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
COMMENTATOR: Kenny is ahead in the race. Kenny is the Olympic sprint | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
champion. Another win in the Velodrome. This time the men's | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
sprint continues the British domination of cycling. | :01:25. | :01:34. | |
Ten years in the planning and a 100 million mile jurn journey, NASA's | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
spacecraft lands on Mars. Space engineers celebrate a new era | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
in planet exploration. On BBC clond: A year on from the | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
riots, how the capital's been transformed by the Olympic feel- | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
good factor. The owner of a dog that injured five policemen is | :01:53. | :02:03. | |
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found guilty of keeping a dangerous Good evening. | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
We're The Liberal Democrats have | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
abandoned their hopes of pushing through reform of the hordes. In | :02:21. | :02:28. | |
common it said it exposed ill feeling within the coalition. Nick | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
Clegg accusing the Tories of breaking the contract of the two | :02:33. | :02:34. | |
parties. The Liberal Democrats saying that | :02:34. | :02:41. | |
they could break plans. Those plan would favour the Conservative at | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
the next election. Team GB may be outperforming expectations, but | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
Team Coalition is in trouble. The Prime Minister and his deputy, | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
watched the opening of the Olympics together, but today Nick Clegg | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
announced that on planss for constitutional reform, the parties | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
have split. The Conservative Party is not | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
honouring the commitment to Lord reform. As a result, part of our | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
contract has been broken. So, proposals for a historic reform | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
of Parliament to stop members of the hordes being born or appointed | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
and -- House of Lords being born or appointed and to make them elected | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
have been dropped and the Lib Dem says that the Tories will pay a | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
price. Clearly I cannot permit a situation | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
where the Conservative rebels pick and choose the parts of the | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
contract that they like while the Liberal Democrats MPs are bound to | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
the entire agreement. This follows a massive Tory | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
rebellion that forced ministers to abandon the timetable for reform. | :03:41. | :03:49. | |
We have listened carefully to the debate so far... Nick Clegg looking | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
glum, then, but insisted he would plough on. Today, though, he warned | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
the Tories they will not get the parliamentary change that they want. | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
A smaller House of Commons with fewer MPs, making it easier for | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
them to win the next election. We have been unable to proceed on | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
Lord's reform. There is opposition in Parliament and the opportunism | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
of the Labour Party. It would not allow the time for the House of | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
Lords Bill, but we have to use this moment to focus 110% on the economy. | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
Which is what the country wants. Only last month, David Cameron and | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
Nick Clegg appeared together to proclaim the coalition was still on | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
track. There is, though, now the prospect of Lib Dem ministers | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
voting against one of their own government's bills on changing | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
parliamentary boundaries. The Conservatives have shown that | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
they cannot deliver their side of the deal. Labour have not helped. | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
We have tried. The Conservatives have failed us. That is, so, I'm | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
afraid that we have to show that they can't get one of the things | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
that they want. Strong words, but the opposite of | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
what Nick Clegg would say when pressed on the issue by Tory MPs. | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
There is no link. The Grand Chamber echos with the | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
promises of parliamentary reform, which end up getting precisely know | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
where. Nick Robinson is in Downing Street | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
for us. This is not the first disagreement | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
between the two parties, is this one different? It is serious, | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
George. I have no doubt that people tonight are unlikely to be | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
distracted from the Olympic party that there will not be elections | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
for the House of Lords in 2015, or no change to the boundaries of | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
parliamentary constituencies as well, and yet what happened today | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
will have implications long beyond this week. Why? Because the Liberal | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
Democrats are having to face up to the fact that they may be backing | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
Government for the first time in decades, but they will not be able | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
to deliver any constitutional change of significance whatsoever. | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
Nick Clegg wants his party to know he is responding as he puts it, | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
tit-for-tat, in other words, we don't get what we want, the Tories | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
will not get what they want. That means that the Conservatives have | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
to face up to the fact that they will find it harder to win the next | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
election. Unless they do a deal with the smaller parties, the | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
nationalists or other parties in Northern Ireland, they will have to | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
live with the current parliamentary boundaries that mean it takes many | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
more thousands of voters to elect a Conservative MP than a Labour MP. | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
In other words it is harder for them to secure a parliamentary | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
majority all on their own. Despite all of that, and despite the feet- | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
stamping, the signs are that at the top of the coalition they get on | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
alright. Some compare this with a marriage, but the truth is, mum and | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
dad are still getting on, it is, though, the children and the in- | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
laws who are, frankly, growing sick of the sight of each other. | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
Nick, thank you very much. In Syria, Bashar al-Assad has | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
suffered a major political blow with the deforeign exchange of his | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
rime to the opposition. Riad Hijab denounced the government as a | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
terrorist regime. Today a bomb exploded at the headquarters of the | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
Syria state television in Damascus. Foreign journalists have been | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
restricted from reporting within the country, but our correspondent | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
pall Wood and cameraman Fred Scott have been with rebel forces on the | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
outskirts of the capital. They sent us this report. | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
We are in Bashar al-Assad's back yard. His palace in Damascus is | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
little more than three miles a. -- away. Yet here there are rebel | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
fighters, not the government troops. The rebel cannot be said to hold | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
this ground, they are here as long as the government forces are not, | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
but still, the rebels are adamant that they will try again to push | :07:46. | :07:53. | |
into the capital. For the time being, they wait. | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
Someone's home is now their barracks. | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
Fresh recruits arrive every day. So many that there is hardly room. | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
Ali, who is 18, was sent business his parents to Jordan for safety. | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
They think he is studying computer science. | :08:10. | :08:18. | |
He joins in a cheeky song, addressed to the President's mother. | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
He gave birth to a donkey, they chant. Such words would once have | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
been a death sentence. There was small taste of the | :08:27. | :08:34. | |
freedom that they are fighting for. But many don't know the first thing | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
about weapons. Soon they will be thrown into a battle with what you | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
see here. The last assault into Damascus ran | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
out of bullets. This morning, Ali caught his family | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
-- called his family to tell them he is back. His father did not take | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
it well when he said he was here to help to overthrow Bashar al-Assad. | :08:54. | :09:02. | |
I am ready to die for the cause. Did you tell your parents that? | :09:02. | :09:11. | |
About I'm ready to die? I wouldn't tell them because our generation is | :09:11. | :09:19. | |
more brave than my father's generation in the fighting the reel. | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
-- Regime. The commander said that they | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
learned lessons from the last chaotic assaults. | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
France trance -- TRANSLATION: We reached the beating | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
heart of Damascus. This time we will be better planned. We will | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
take more territory, all of Damascus will move together. | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
For so long, people have fled to Damascus for safety. | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
Now they are running from it. The opposition says 2 million | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
people have been displaced in this conflict. | :09:52. | :09:59. | |
TRANSLATION: We were hysterical with fear. | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
There was shelling and snipers. There were government militia | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
roaming everywhere. Each time the regime uses greater | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
violence, it strengthens the uprising. These are Sunni Muslims, | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
like 80% of Syria. If the war becomes Sunnis against the regime, | :10:19. | :10:28. | |
it will be over for Bashar al-Assad. Financial regulators in America | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
have accused the British bank Standard Charter of hiding | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
transactions worth �160 billion. A breach of sanctions against the | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
country. They describe the bank as a rogue institution. Standard | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
Charter is conducting a review into its operations. | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
Live now to Washington. Steve, these are detailed allegations, | :10:50. | :10:57. | |
what more can you tell us? George, they are detailed serious money- | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
laundering allegations, expressed in strongly worded terms. It | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
describes Standard Charter as a rogue institution, says it is | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
motivated by greed and scheming with the government of Iran, | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
showing contempt for the US banking regulations, specifically, the bank | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
is accused of what is known as wire-stripping. Falsifying or | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
deleting names and other details that link a wire transaction | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
through New York with Iran or the Iranian government, the regulators | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
say that there were 60,000 transfers in a ten-year period, | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
totalling �160 billion. Money it says could be funded to help Iran's | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
nuclear programme. What is the bank saying? They have | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
said that they are conducting a review into the US sanctions | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
compliance. That they are discussing the matter with the US | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
regulators. There is to be a meeting later on this month. Cases | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
like this tend to end in a settlement with a hefty fine. The | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
worst case scenario is that its licence in New York would be | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
revoked. It would be shut down. Thank you very much. | :12:05. | :12:13. | |
Now, today's events at the Olympics, where Team GB added two more gold | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
medals bringing the tal you to 18. That is just one short from the | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
Beijing games. The first one came from the | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
showjumping competition. The final came down to the wire. | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
Britain's equestrian community had proved its worth in Greenwich Arena. | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
Team silver in eventing. Today was about one discipline, jumping. The | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
fences here have incorporated elements of British history, there | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
is Charles Darwin. Evolving after the eventing competition. Higher, | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
I'm 6ft tall, this is pretty close. Nick Skelton has seen all of the | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
courses. He resumed his career after breaking his neck. Now aged | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
54, he was trying to win the one thing that alluded him, the Olympic | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
medal. It is a combined total of three | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
riders that decide the team medals. Now for Ben Maher and Triple X. | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
Then there was a cropper. Four faults and Nick Skelton could only | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
watch. The Olympic debutante, Scott Brash, | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
if he held his nerve, the gold was in reach. | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
COMMENTATOR: And Britain are on the gold turn here, surely. | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
Now to the Dutch and a horse called London. One fence down and another | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
mistake and gold was Britain's. They made it. Both countries tied | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
for a jump-off. The course shortened. Out came Nick | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
Skelton again. A perfect round again. All of the countries' riders | :13:51. | :13:58. | |
were involved in the jump-off, but the ditch were making errors. Now | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
Britain's fourth team member, peter Charles who could seal it | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
COMMENTATOR: Britain have a vold gold. | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
It took me 54 years. It took Great Britain 60 years! | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
Unbelievable. What a place to do it. Never seen | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
people like this. Unbelievable. Britain's first team gold since the | :14:22. | :14:31. | |
50s, with two men in their 50s. At The second gold came in the | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
Velodrome as Jason Kenny proved why he'd been picked, ahead of Sir | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
Chris Hoy, to compete in the men's sprint. It was Kenny's second gold | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
of the Games and the fifth for Team GB's track cycling squad. And, as | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
our sports correspondent, Dan Roan, reports there is the prospect of | :14:45. | :14:52. | |
more tomorrow. He's cycled in the shadow of Sir Chris Hoy for years | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
but this was the day Jason Kenny made a name for himself. The | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
sprinter had been controversially preferred to his friend and mentor | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
but now the younger man would show precisely why. He faced the best of | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
three final against the intimidating figure of five-times | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
world champion Gregory Bauge. The Frenchman led in the first race but | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
on the final strait he was overwhelmed. | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
Kenny takes it! The British rider gaining the advantage while topping | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
an astonishing 70 kilometres an hour. That was the average speed of | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
Jason Kenny in that first race. He is one up, win the next race and he | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
wins gold. He had a point to prove. Last year he had become world | :15:36. | :15:43. | |
champion after Bauge was stripped of the title. After the almost | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
stationary game of cat and mouse that's a feature of the races came | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
the explosion of velocity and volume. This time it was the | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
British rider who took the initiative. Bauge desperately tried | :15:54. | :16:01. | |
reel him in but Kenny ensured there would be no need for a decider. | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
Kenny is the Olympic sprint champion! He wins gold. He had | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
rewarded the selectors' faith and proved after Hoy there is hope. | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
There's no way on earth earth Chris would ever give the last ride away, | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
so I felt I should get up there and put it to bed really. I am really | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
pleased we have come out the other side with a gold and done it | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
justice. Kenny dug deep here for a victory that makes him the first | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
member of Team GB to win two gold medals at these Games. With three | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
of his team-mates hoping to emmate him here tomorrow he is unlikely to | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
be the last. In the Gymnastics, Britain's Beth | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
Tweddle finally added an Olympic medal to her collection with a | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
bronze on the uneven bars. It was a fitting swansong for the three-time | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
World Champion who was appearing in what's expected to be her last | :16:51. | :16:58. | |
Olympics. Gold was won by Russia's Aliya Mustafina. | :16:58. | :17:06. | |
Let's look at the medals table. China lead, the USA is close behind. | :17:06. | :17:16. | |
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Great Britain are in third place. And we will have more on London | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
2012 later in the programme, including the world's fastest man, | :17:24. | :17:34. | |
Usain Bolt, picks up his gold for last night's 100 metres victory. | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
It has taken nine months to travel more than 100 million miles and | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
today, after that epic journey, the most high-tech robotic space craft | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
NASA has ever designed, landed safely on Mars. NASA engineers say | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
it's the start of a new era in planetary exploration. Our science | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
editor, David Shukman, reports on a two-year mission to find out if | :17:50. | :18:00. | |
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Mars was once capable of supporting life. The approach to Mars at | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
13,000mph. This animation shows how the lappeding took place -- landing | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
took place. At the right moment the spacecraft fired up rockets, and | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
then lowered the Rover down towards the surface, something never tried | :18:14. | :18:24. | |
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before a billion dollars of machine dangling bay thread. | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
The computer graphics look like science fiction. In fact, this | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
really happened. At. At mission control in | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
California the engineers had been dreading the tension of this moment. | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
Until two magic words - touchdown confirmed. Touchdown confirmed. | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
The place erupted. The relief intense, eight years of work had | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
gone into this project. The reputation of the American space | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
agency was at stake. Time for a grand statement. Today, right now, | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
the wheels of Curiousity have begun to blaze the trail for human | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
footprints on Mars. The most sophisticated Rover ever built is | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
now on the surface of the Red Planet. | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
It's a spectacular view... In the first pictures to reach earth the | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
Rover cast a shadow on the martian dust. Mars has been the graveyard | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
for many spacecraft. Today, one made it. This mission is to hunt | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
for evidence about whether life was ever possible on Mars. Gale crater | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
was picked for the landing zone because the mountain has layers of | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
rock providing a long record of geological history. At the bottom | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
are sediments, a possible location for past life. Next up, clays, you | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
only get them after long immersion in water. | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
Then, at the top, salts, usually found when rock dries out. Any of | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
these layers could hold the chemical building blocks needed for | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
anything that might have lived here. The Rover will sample the rocks and | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
analyse what's inside them and the results are eagerly awaited by | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
scientists around the world. really need to be able to touch the | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
rocks, in a sense the Rover is touching those rocks for us, | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
sending back high imagery, higher than you can obtain from satellites | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
that we can look at individual sand grains. Last year I watched the | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
Rover being built in a room in California. Pain-staking work | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
that's paid off. And now the most intriguing question about Mars can | :20:20. | :20:29. | |
be tackled - was this landscape always this barren? | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
The Pentagon has revealed that the man suspected of opening fire at a | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
Sikh temple in Wisconsin, killing six people, was a former US soldier. | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
Wade Michael Page, who was shot dead by police in the incident, had | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
been a specialist in psychological operations. Sources said he'd been | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
dismissed from the army more than a decade ago. His motive isn't yet | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
clear but police have described the attack as an act of domestic | :20:48. | :20:57. | |
terrorism. Senior Chinese leaders are reported to be gathering in a | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
seaside resort east of Beijing - the traditional venue for closed- | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
door political summits. It's expected they will decide the | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
direction the country will take when a new group of leaders takes | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
over later this year. Our Correspondent, John Sudworth, joins | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
us from Beijing. This country does have quite a few challenges ahead | :21:12. | :21:19. | |
in the next few years. It does. On the surface, at least, the politics | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
of China look as certain and staidfast as they have done but | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
despite booming along for a decade or more this economy is starting to | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
flag, only slightly, but enough to worry a leadership trying to keep a | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
lid on social unrest and dealing with its biggest political crisis | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
in a generation, with the family of one of its most high profile and | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
senior politicians brought down over a murder scandal. Now the | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
political transition that's due to take place later this year is a | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
difficult process. It's a once in a decade handover of power. This | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
meeting at this resort has over the years gained this reputation for | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
behind closed doors deal-making. It doesn't happen every year but the | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
fact it's happening now is almost certainly connected to the | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
political transition. This is a country of more than a billion | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
people, there are around 80 million Communist Party members, and yet | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
the few elderly leaders meeting will have the task of deciding who | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
is going to govern China for the next five years and beyond. | :22:23. | :22:33. | |
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Thank you. A man has been charged with a | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
public order offence after a bottle was thrown onto the track at the | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
start of the men's Olympic 100 metres final last night. Ashley | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
Gill-Webb, from Leeds, was arrested at the Olympic Stadium and appeared | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
at Stratford Magistrates' Court this afternoon. He denied the | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
charge. More now on the Olympic action and, | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
as we've heard, Team GB have won 18 gold medals so far, almost matching | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
their total for the Beijing Games, and there are six days of | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
competition left. So, can the gold rush continue? Or should they start | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
looking over their shoulders at rivals further down the medal table. | :23:01. | :23:10. | |
Our sports editor, David Bond, has this assessment. For British sport | :23:10. | :23:19. | |
it was a weekend which will live long in the memory. Gold after gold. | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
Suddenly all that talk of Team GB finishing 4th in the table looks | :23:24. | :23:31. | |
cautious. Oh, my goodness, remarkable! This man did his bit | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
for the medal haul on Sunday winning his 4th Olympic title. He | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
says third place is within reach. There's still a long way to go and | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
we have had amazing performances, whether we can stay there for the | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
final week I certainly hope so, and you know, it's a huge credit to | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
everybody involved that we have done so well this far and let's | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
hope we can keep that going. Team GB have plenty of gold medal | :23:55. | :24:03. | |
chances left, including Jonathan and Allister Brownlee tomorrow and | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton and Mo Farah going for a second | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
gold in the 5,000 metres. But the head of the British Olympic | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
Association says the country shouldn't get carried away too soon. | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
We are absolutely delivering a great performance from the athletes. | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
Can we get - maintain 4th, get to third? It's too early actually. | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
It's too Earl throeu make that call. -- Earl throeu make that call. | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
has been a magical week for British sport and these fans will be hoping | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
the gold rush can continue. But with six days of full competition | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
still to go, Team GB have a lot of work to do if they're to exceed | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
expectations and finish third in the medal table. Most of Britain's | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
main rivals for 4th place have had a mixed Games. France have had a | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
good start, with eight golds. Russia had five, but always finish | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
strongly. Germany have just five gold medals. | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
Australia were also expected to be strong contenders, but as with | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
Shane Perkins tonight in the cycling, they now seem to be | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
relieved to take bronze. He says home advantage has been key. | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
Statistically a home country brings home more medals when they've a | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
home Olympics, so obviously that's helping them. But you can't look | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
past the fact that the work that GB have done for the sport which is | :25:26. | :25:33. | |
fantastic. It's setting a level, a benchmark for everyone to chase. | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
Whether it's the fans or the money, something's going very right for | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
Britain's athletes here. Keep it up, and they'll achieve their highest | :25:41. | :25:51. | |
finish in almost a century. There were high hopes for more | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
British success in the stadium this evening when Dai Greene lined up | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
for the final of the 400 metre hurdles. But it was to end in | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
disappointment when the World Champion, and captain of Team GB, | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
narrowly missed out on a medal. Our Olympics correspondent James Pearce | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
reports. Dai Green, Captain of a athletics | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
squad, European champion, Commonwealth champion, world | :26:11. | :26:20. | |
champion. One race away from becoming Olympic champion. | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
Green gets a good start. The crowd are... He only scraped into the | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
final after finishing 4th in the semifinal. He needed to find some | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
extra pace, but with a home crowd as vocal as ever, that was always | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
possible. Increasingly unlikely though as he approached the closing | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
stages. The leaders had got away. He had come here for gold, but | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
found himself facing a contest for the minor places. | :26:49. | :26:57. | |
Sanchez takes the gold! We have seen many British | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
celebrations over the past ten days, here was the other side of the coin, | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
the moments when it begins to sink in that it's all gone wrong. It's | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
gone gone quiet inside the stadium now, Dai Green sits there as a man | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
who came with high expectations but has to leave without a medal. | :27:15. | :27:22. | |
gave it everything I had tonight. But just a bit too tired at the end | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
there. And narrowly missed out really. If he had felt like crying, | :27:27. | :27:33. | |
the winner did. Uncontrolably. Sanchez from the Dominican Republic | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
had won this title eight years ago. Here he was ago, 34 years old, back | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
on top of the rostrum. You wouldn't have expected tears from Usain Bolt | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
during his medal ceremony and you didn't get any. As laidback as ever | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
as he collected gold from last night's 100 metres. It's been quite | :27:49. | :27:57. | |
a night for the Caribbean. Imagine the celebrations in Grenada this | :27:57. | :28:02. | |
evening. Population 110,000, had never had an Olympic medallist of | :28:02. | :28:09. | |
any colour. James is going to take gold! His nation's first ever gold. | :28:09. | :28:15. | |
Thanks to this teenager they now have a golden one. | :28:15. | :28:18. |