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Good afternoon. The chief executive of G4S says he | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
only learnt his company wouldn't be able to provide thousands of | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
security guards for the Olympics in the past nine days. Nick Buckles | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
apologised and said his company would now make a loss of up to �50 | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
million on the contract. Thousands of troops are having to be drafted | :00:39. | :00:47. | |
in to provide security for the Games. Richard Lister reports. It's | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
the biggest security operation in Britain since the Second World War. | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
From today, an air exclusion zone comes into force over London, but | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
the problem is not in the air, but on ground. With I announcement that | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
thousands more troops are to be needed to provide security at the | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
Games has cast doubt on how well organised this aspect of the | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
Olympics has been. G4S is to pay for redeploying the troops, as well | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
as a multi-million pound penalty. The chief executive said that they | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
underestimated the task. The security of the Olympics has | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
been delivered by a large number of individual elements. We were a part | :01:27. | :01:34. | |
of the mix. Clearly we cannot deliver on our side of that, we are | :01:34. | :01:41. | |
very sorry about it. The problem came to light when G4S | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
failed to provide its share of security personally for the | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
Aquatics Centre, raising questions about why it has taken so long to | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
find out about the situation. Last December organisers realised that | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
they underestimated the number of guards that they needed and more | :01:57. | :02:04. | |
than doubled the total to 23,700. G4S accepted a bigger contract it | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
supply 10,000, the military agreed to provide 7,500. Now that G4S has | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
admitted it cannot provide its share, the military's contribution | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
has gone up to 11,000. There are questions about the G4S recruitment | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
process. Applicants criticised it as chaotic, but with the deadline | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
less than a fortnight away, all involved say that the primary focus | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
is getting the right security in place. | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
Did G4S go into denial about their achievements, whether they could | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
deliver this? I hope that is subject to the rigorous | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
parliamentary scrutiny, but now we have to focus on with less than two | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
weeks to go to ensure that the Games are safe and secure. | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
parliamentary Committees are summoning G4S, the organisers and | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
two Government departments to account for what went wrong in the | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
security process. The Government is to announce plans | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
for the full elektri if Ication of the middleland mainline in | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
Sheffield it is part of a multi- billion pound programme of | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
investment to be set out next week. Let's go to Danny Savage. This is | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
likely to go down well with the people where you are? It will be | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
accepted well. We are 165 miles from the capital. The quickest | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
train time from here to there is two hours and seven minutes. On | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
Monday we are likely to here that the line will be elektriified. It | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
will mean quicker transport links and newer trains. The diesel trains | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
run the route now, the electric trains will take their place it | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
will bring Sheffield, nam, Leicester, more into line with the | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
towns and cities near them with the electricity run lines. | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
It is not an unexpected announcement. It has been on an | :04:13. | :04:20. | |
industry wish-list. It will cost about �500 mill. -- million. The | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
Government will pay some of the money and Network Rail will pay | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
some as well. There was concern that fare pairs will have to pay | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
some of this. Fares will go up to above inflation. That is a downside, | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
but overall this has been welcomed in Sheffield and in other towns and | :04:40. | :04:50. | |
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cities on this route down the spine of England. | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
UN observers are on their way to a Syrian village which antiGovernment | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
activists say was the scene of a massacre on Thursday. Some reports | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
claim that 200 people were killed when troops attacked the town of | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
Tremseh. It is said that the deaths were caused by armed terrorist | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
groups. You may find some of the images in this report disturbing. | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
Off to try to find out what happened at Tremseh. The UN | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
monitors did a reconassiance yesterday and established that the | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
weighs is calm. Now they are set to investigate the reports that a | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
massacre took place. So far, though, activists have not | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
produced the horrifying images of slaughtered children and women that | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
circulated after the Pula massacre two months ago. These pictures show | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
the bodies of about 15 dead young men of fighting age. Initial | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
reports spoke of over 200 people massacred, but they have not been | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
named or documented by video. Syrian state TV says that the | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
security forces killed many armed rebels in Tremseh and destroyed | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
their stronghold there is. Whatever happened in Tremseh, the | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
incident has put the Syrian regime under mounting pressure. The US | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, talked about deliberate murder. The | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
UN Special Envoy, Lisa Nandy, described the violence as an | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
outrageous violation of his peace plan and Ban Ki-Moon said it cast | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
serious doubts on Bashar al-Assad's commitment to peace. | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
The reports of a massacre at Tremseh have clearly further heated | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
the international debate, but distracted attention from the | :06:43. | :06:50. |