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Day one, two gold medals. Britain's Paralympians have already made | :00:11. | :00:17. | |
their mark on the medal table. Cyclists Sarah Storey get the team | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
going with its first gold medal. is unbelievable. I did not think I | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
could be so lucky as to win in front of a home crowd. It just | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
brought the house down. It was phenomenal. Jonathan Fox set for | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
new world record on his way to victory in the 100 metre backstroke. | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
We will have the latest from the Olympic Park on the sporting action | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
and those watching it. Also on the programme: A protest by | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
foreign students. 2000 face deportation after they university | :00:48. | :00:55. | |
falls foul of immigration rules. The Archbishop of Canterbury | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
condemns the failure to tackle child abuse in the Church of | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
England over two decades. The new man at Barclays. Antony | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
Jenkins has his work cut out as the bank faces a fraud investigation. | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
Stand up the real Mitt Romney. Why the Republican presidential | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
candidate still has a job to do with American voters. | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
Coming up in Sportsday on the BBC News Channel, Andy Carroll is a | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
West Ham player. The England striker joins on loan for a season | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
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Good evening. Day one of Paralympic action has already seen Great | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
Britain make its mark on the medal table. Cyclist Sarah Storey won the | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
first gold medal in the individual pursuit final and her victory set | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
the scene for more success in the Velodrome. In the pool Jonathan Fox | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
followed up a record-breaking heat with a gold medal in the 100 metre | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
backstroke. James Pearce report on Britain's cyclists and their | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
winning ways. A Paralympics being fully embraced | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
by the British public. They came in their tens of thousands. The London | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
2012 feel-good factor lives on. But his supporters are ready to salute | :02:26. | :02:34. | |
British medalists. -- British supporters. No wait for golds at | :02:34. | :02:42. | |
these Games. Sarah Storey was born without a functioning hand, but you | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
can cycle so fast that she only just missed out on the Olympic team. | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
-- she can cycle so fast. She managed her world record and got | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
royal approval. Astonishingly, this was her 72nd world record of her | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
career. The final, head-to-head against the Polish cyclist was | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
always going to be a formality. Race was meant to last for three | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
kilometres but they had only reached halfway when Sarah Storey | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
caught her rival and the contest was over. Another British gold | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
medal in this London Velodrome. All hail the Queen of Paralympic | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
cycling. If she looked surprised, nobody else was. She still has | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
three more events at these Games and three more chances for the gold. | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
Her tale is even more remarkable when you consider that for more | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
than a decade she was not a cyclist but the swimmer. She won five gold | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
medals across four Paralympics. Then came the switch. By Beijing | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
she was a cyclist, a sport in which she has now won three gold medals. | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
This evening she has been showing off the latest one to the crowds | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
who have been waiting for her outside the Velodrome. It is | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
unbelievable. I did not think I could be so lucky to win in front | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
of a home crowd. It just brought the house down. It was phenomenal | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
in there. There has been more British success in the Velodrome. | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
Mark Colbourne used to play volleyball for Wales and then | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
injured his back in a paragliding accident three years ago. He turned | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
to cycling and won the silver medal in the time-trial. Once again this | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
venue has brought out the best in British cyclists. The Paralympic | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
squad trained alongside Sir Chris Hoy and the other Olympians in | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
Manchester. They look set to end London 2012 with a similar haul of | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
gold. With another 10 days of sporting | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
action, British Paralympians are hoping to better their 102 medals | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
at Beijing. Jonathan Fox's victory it was one of three medals at the | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
Aquatics Centre for Paralympics GB. We report on that and the rest of | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
the action today. The decibel levels spoke volumes. | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
Jonathan Fox arrived to a huge cheer and even greater expectation. | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
He has cerebral palsy and had set a world record in the heats. Swimming | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
in the red cap, he led the 100 metres backstroke final from start | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
to finish. The first British gold and Aquatics Centre, and delight | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
for the 21 year-old and the thousands of fans. It capped a fine | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
day for British swimmers. Nyree Kindred chased Loo Don of China all | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
the way before settling for silver. There was also a silver medal for | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
16 year-old Hannah Russell, one of the Paralympians with global fame | :05:35. | :05:43. | |
Natalie Du Toit won gold in the butterfly. At the Paralympics, | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
British swimming is once again at swimming. Away from the pool there | :05:47. | :05:57. | |
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was also home success on day one. There was jubilation in the judo. | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
It is a Paralympic sport for visually impaired athletes. Ben | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
Quilter took bronze and the thrill was plain to see. There was some | :06:06. | :06:13. | |
excitement in the power lifting. The Bridge lifted twice her body | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
weight to claim another bronze, rounding off another glittering | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
date for Paralympics GB. The side of British athletes on podium is | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
becoming familiar again. Our correspondent is at the Olympic | :06:29. | :06:37. | |
Park. It seems as though the Paralympians have taken up where | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
Team GB broke off. They have done even better. Remember that | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
agonising five-day wait for gold? We did not even have to wait one | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
day this time. Just a few hours before we were off the mark and it | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
was cycling providing those golden moments again just like during the | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
Olympics. There are high hopes for the Paralympics cyclists here. One | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
of the reasons for that is that the two squads are integrated, sharing | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
the same back-up and support staff up in Manchester. That same | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
approach is being applied to a number of sports here during the | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
Paralympics. I was in the Velodrome 4 Sarah Storey's win and it was | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
every bit as loud and exciting as when Chris Hoy and others were | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
tearing round during the Olympics. Really underlining the public | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
appetite and enthusiasm which is being shown for the Paralympics | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
here. There was lots of talk about whether these Games could match up | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
to the Olympics. One day in, they have made a pretty good start. | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
Thank you. 2000 student could face deportation | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
after a London University was stripped of its licence to teach | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
and recruit students from outside the EU. The UK board agency said | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
that systemic failings had been identified in the wake that London | :07:54. | :08:04. | |
Metropolitan University issued visas. -- Border Agency. | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
Speechless with fury. International students sat outside Downing Street | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
today after being told their university has been stripped of a | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
licence to teach non- EU students. They will have to leave if they | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
cannot find another cause. This Nigerian had hoped to take his bar | :08:22. | :08:29. | |
exams next year. I have other options, Canada, America, Australia. | :08:29. | :08:37. | |
But I chose the UK. It is not right and it is against human rights. | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
Will you have to find another university? It will have to make | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
you complete your degree. university is not doing enough to | :08:48. | :08:55. | |
check that bogus students are not entering. The students have | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
therefore been told they can no longer study there. We have been | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
told by the border agency that they are valid students and they are | :09:03. | :09:11. | |
here for a legitimate purpose. It is horrifying that we could be | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
harbouring illegal immigrants under the guise of students. | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
university could face a bill of tens of millions in compensation | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
from students whose places have been terminated. The Government is | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
keen to show that it is taking action on an issue that they | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
believe is of deep public concern. The problems at London Metropolitan | :09:28. | :09:36. | |
was so serious that it could not be allowed to continue. The public | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
quite rightly demand proper immigration controls. Never mind | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
the rights and wrongs of what went on. Experts calculate that the | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
Government has promised to half net migration by 2015 and that can only | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
be achieved by reducing the number of foreign students in the UK. The | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
parliamentary committee has warned that this move could have | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
calamitous consequences for an industry worth �40 billion a year. | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
Net migration last year remained largely unchanged. But there has | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
been a fall of 77,000 and a number of student visas issued in the year | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
to June. Estimates suggest that on average an overseas student spends | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
just �12,000 a year in Britain. The squeeze on visas may see an annual | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
loss to the UK economy of �940 million. It is really critical that | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
we demonstrate to international students and their families that | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
this country is still a very good place to study at university and | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
the standards are high. The standards of satisfaction of very | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
high. We do still welcome international students. | :10:38. | :10:46. | |
Government has pledged to tackle immigration abuse, but it has been | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
seen as acting unfairly towards the law abiding and possibly damaging | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
the economy. The Archbishop of Canterbury has | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
condemned the diocese of Chichester for its record in handling | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
allegations of sexual abuse by clergy. The report found fresh and | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
disturbing evidence of the way claims were handled. | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
For a church already struggling to recruit children, today's report is | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
an acute embarrassment. This was the first such inquiry commissioned | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
by Lambeth Palace for more than 100 years, a sign of the potential | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
damage that the failures in Chichester could do. The inquiry | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
was prompted by criminal cases against two priests, including Roy | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
Cotton. He was convicted of abuse in 1954, but he was allowed to go | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
on functioning as a priest in the diocese, attacking boys from the | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
1970s to the 90s. Colin Pritchard was accused of sexual assault in | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
1997, but he was allowed to continue practising as a priest for | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
several years. He was jailed for abuse in 2008. The report, | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
commissioned by the Archbishop of Canterbury, speaks of an appalling | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
and dysfunctional record in handling allegations of sexual | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
abuse by priests. It adds that there was a profoundly unhelpful | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
and negative culture that exposed children to wicked and shameful | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
abuse. The whole process, the whole investigation process has been | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
purely driven by the victims and survivors of abuse. Without us, | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
continually campaigning for truth and justice, I do not believe they | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
would ever have looked at any of these issues. The report describes | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
mutual distrust between Chichester's bishops and a loss of | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
confidence in them by child protection staff. The crucial thing | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
is that there needs to be a shift of culture and the policy needs to | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
be sound and above all it needs to be put into practice. Among more | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
than 30 recommendations, the report says that all clergy must have up | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
to date CRB check. They found 138 clergy lacked them. Any cleric | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
accused of abuse should immediately be suspended and clergy found | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
guilty of sexual abuse should not be allowed to practise. The | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
Archbishop of Canterbury has taken the extraordinary step of | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
intervening directly in Chichester diocese to supervise the | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
appointment of clergy and the safeguarding of children. It is an | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
acknowledgement that the problems that are far from over. The report | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
also warns that there are lessons in Chichester for the wider church, | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
raising concerns that the lax and complacent attitude to child safety | :13:22. | :13:32. | |
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The Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has described | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
Iran as the greatest threat to world peace. His comments follow a | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
report by the UN nuclear watchdog which said Tehran has doubled the | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
capacity to enrich uranium. Speaking today, Iran's Supreme | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, insisted his country was not | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
developing nuclear weapons. As our Middle East editor reports that | :13:56. | :14:05. | |
will not stop speculation about a possible Israeli attack on Iran. | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
Air raid drills are routine in Israeli schools. Once again, this | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
country is full of speculation about war - this time against Iran. | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
Gas masks are being distributed. The latest UN report about Iran's | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
nuclear programme, which says it is speeding up and moving underground, | :14:24. | :14:31. | |
will deepen the belief of some Israelis that war is unavoidable. | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
REPORTER: If you heard that the nuclear facilities were attacked, | :14:35. | :14:42. | |
what would you think? I would think first, good. Second I would prepare | :14:42. | :14:50. | |
my safe room. My children next to me. The masks and prey to God. This | :14:50. | :14:57. | |
is the -- pray to God. This is the reality. Binyamin Netanyahu does | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
not believe their denies. The report says that they have twice as | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
many senttry fuedges which can be used for a bomb will only | :15:07. | :15:17. | |
strengthen his belief that Jews could face a second Holocaust. | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
feeds into what the right-wingers in Israel are saying, that | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
sanctions are not working, that the Iranian Government should be | :15:23. | :15:31. | |
threatened. Inside a former air raid shelter a | :15:31. | :15:41. | |
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radio station broadcasts to Jews who have come here. A caller from | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
Tehran says Iranians can struggling to pay for food. A sign perhaps | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
that sanctions are hitting the economy. The DJ thinks Israel has | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
to act: I think it is like when you have one neighbour and every | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
morning he says to you, "I will kill you." When you hear he's going | :16:02. | :16:10. | |
to buy a gun, you do everything that prevent that. The anty war | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
lobby goes beyond demonstrators to retired intelligence and military | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
chiefs. The UN report might be seen by the Government as a sign that | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
time is running out. That's why we're speaking in terms | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
of if not weeks, in terms of a few months. If we wait too long and | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
reach a point in which they do enrich uranium and can produce a | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
nuclear bomb, it means we are too late. Israelis are used to living | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
war talk. Their American friends urge restraint. The US is telling | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
Iran that the diplomatic window will not be open indefinitely. | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
Assessing this crisis is difficult because it has been brewing for | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
more than four years. This seems to be more than the usual late-summer | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
flurry about whether Israel will or won't attack Iran. In this country | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
there seems to be a conviction that the moment of decision is close. | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
And coming up on tonight's programme: | :17:10. | :17:20. | |
We join the thousands of spectators taking in day one of the Paralympic | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
sport. Everybody with a disability has a story to tell. They have | :17:23. | :17:33. | |
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Barclays has a new chief executive. The appointment of Antony Jenkins | :17:33. | :17:41. | |
follows the resignation of Bob Diamond in the wake of the LIBOR | :17:41. | :17:51. | |
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It is one of the toughest jobs in banking - a storm over the interest | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
rate fixing scandal saw Bob Diamond quit the Barclays' top job, now | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
there's a new-comer - it's Antony Jenkins, a Barclays' insider. Much | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
of his career has been at the bank. What do we know about the new boss? | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
Mr Jenkins, seen here meeting Barclays apprentices, has been | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
running retail banking. He was in charge of Barclaycard at a time | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
when banks were accused of mis- selling payment protection | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
insurance. I have a big meeting I need to get | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
pumped up for, I put on rock music. If I need to settle down and think | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
through a difficult problem I will put something on calming, maybe | :18:43. | :18:53. | |
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classical, jazz music. What about His salary is about the same as Mr | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
Diamond's, who Mr Jenkins accompanied at some sessions with | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
MPs. The new chef has major challenges to face. The inheritance | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
is far from straightforward. Barclays and other banks are being | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
investigated by the Serious Fraud Office over the interest rate | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
fixing saga. The FSO is looking at fees paid by Barclays when it | :19:19. | :19:28. | |
raised mon Friday from Middle Eastern investors in 2 -- 2008. | :19:28. | :19:35. | |
What of the future for the bank? The new boss is very much a retail | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
banker. His responsibilities have included running the branch network. | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
The question is - does his appointment signal a shift away | :19:43. | :19:50. | |
from investment banking, favoured by his predecessor? Some argue a | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
return to traditional banking is what Barclays should be doing. | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
is appropriate a retail banker has been appointed. That is what | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
Barclays does, what most people in Barclays are employed in doing and | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
what we all want Barclays to do for the benefit of the non-financial | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
economy. Mr Jenkins said serious mistakes had been made. There was a | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
unique opportunity to restore the bank's reputation, but the journey | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
would take time. State prosecutors in South Africa have charged 270 | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
miners with the murder of 34 of their colleagues. They were shot | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
dead by police. The deaths happened a fortnight ago after days of | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
violent protests by miners striking for more pay, during which two | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
policemen were killed. Let's talk to our African correspondent, who | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
is in Johannesburg. This will strike some people as shocking, | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
given the miners are being charged, but it was the police who did the | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
shooting. That is right. As you pointed out, it is perplexing, | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
because this does not relate to the days proceeding the demonstrations | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
- it relates to demonstrations two weeks ago today when 34 protestors | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
were shot dead by the police. It is an old apartheid law which is being | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
invoked. The idea of common purpose that they were part of a joint | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
enterprise. It will be hard to prove. Already the national | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
prosecuting authority is coming into criticism for pre-judging an | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
inquiry. Remember the President has called for a judicial review. What | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
it means is that the protestors - the 270 men, that have appeared in | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
court, are unlikely to get bail. It effectively takes them off the | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
street during sensitive negotiations, wage negotiations, | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
which are hoped to start soon. It buys time for the ANC Government. | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
After all, this has been embarrassing. It has been in the | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
headlines around the world. Thank you. Mitt Romney t Republican | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
candidate for President, is preparing to give his keynote | :21:59. | :22:06. | |
speech at his party's convention in Florida. Last night it was his vice | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
for vice Prime Minister who promised a turn around for the | :22:08. | :22:15. | |
economy if he and Romney win the race for the White House. | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
A confident stroll to centre stage for a man who is not yet a | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
household name in America. Yet, some are hailing him as the new | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
Ronald Reagan - the youthful leader of the next generation of | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
rerveluegs. It starts with attacking the Obama -- revolution. | :22:32. | :22:39. | |
It starts with attacking the Obama economy. They should not look up at | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
fading Obama posters and wonder when they can move out and get | :22:42. | :22:51. | |
going with life. He choked up as he talked about his widowed mum. The | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
audience love his plans to shrink the state and slash spending. | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
give this everything we have. Let's see it all the way through. Let's | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
get this done. Thank you. picking a man with such strong | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
beliefs, not only on the economy, but on family values, abortion and | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
gay marriage, Mitt Romney defies himself. Delegates posing between a | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
picture of the two of them are reassured that the man who would be | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
President still needs to sell himself. When Mitt Romney comes to | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
this convention centre to make his speech, he must hope to shift the | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
opinion polls which have him neck and neck with President Obama. More | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
people trust him with the economy, but like Obama far more. | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
A lot of Americans they don't know him yet. This will be his | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
opportunity to be in every living room across the country and | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
hopefully to get in touch with those voters and let him know who | :23:50. | :23:57. | |
he is. Governor Romney will deliver a message which will hit home to | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
that steelworker in Pennsylvania and say we have a better option | :24:01. | :24:11. | |
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that what we have now. Watch the TV rather than the cameras. Some say a | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
soft cell is not what is required. He has to make sure the American | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
people know he is serious, this is not about happy talk, this is not | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
trying to be popular and this is not about avoiding issues because | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
they are politically dangerous. Romney has told the audyapbsz her | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
husband is a man who has -- audience her husband is a man who | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
will not fail. Back to the Paralympics now. Just | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
hours after the end of last night's spectacular opening ceremony, the | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
first spectators for the sports events began to stream into the | :24:50. | :25:00. | |
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Olympic Park. Robert Hall spent the A cause for celebration. Despite | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
the grey clouds and the drizzle, there was something magic in the | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
air, as the pace of life in this huge sporting community slowly | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
gained momentum. Through gates and bridges and terraces, the first of | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
the 2.5 million ticket holders gazed around them. Rob's daughter | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
surprised him with tickets to the basketball. It is on inspiration, | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
it really is. What these guys can do and what they have gofr come to | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
get here is amaze -- overcome to get here is amazing. Everybody has | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
a story to come. They have overcome their story and they are writing | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
another story now. Today's visitors have arrived in a venue whose | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
landmarks are familiar around the world and yet in the 17 days since | :25:53. | :26:00. | |
the Olympic flame died, the Olympic Park has acquired a new identity. | :26:00. | :26:08. | |
On every flag, on every sign, the Olympic Rings have been replace -- | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
replaced. The sporting heart is beating within a new skin. What we | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
have done, inside the venues themselvess there have been | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
changing. From Olympic sport to Paralympic sport. Changing out the | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
flags and nations and different competing athletes here. Around us | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
old hands were ensuring guests reached their seats safely and on | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
time. 12-year-old Luke won his ticket in a competition. Well, I | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
feel really privileged. It is like being the Queen coming here. To see | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
the Olympics is amazing. To get people in wheelchairs involved, who | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
have had problems, or things which have made them unhappy, you can | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
join in with the sport and they can forget their worries and have a go | :26:53. | :26:58. |