:00:04. > :00:10.An apology from the company that's failed to recruit thousands of
:00:10. > :00:13.security staff for the Olympics. As more troops are drafted in tonight
:00:13. > :00:19.to fill the security gap, questions remain over why the problem wasn't
:00:19. > :00:21.identified earlier. UN observers in Syria say
:00:21. > :00:27.opposition activists and army defectors were targeted in a
:00:27. > :00:30.village where it's claimed a massacre took place.
:00:30. > :00:34.The London to Sheffield rail line is set for a half billion pound
:00:34. > :00:44.upgrade. And from Chelsea to China. Didier
:00:44. > :00:56.
:00:56. > :00:59.Drogba says its for the challenge Good evening. The chief executive
:00:59. > :01:01.of the security firm G4S has said he's sorry, disappointed and
:01:01. > :01:06.embarrassed that it's failed to recruit enough security guards for
:01:06. > :01:10.the Olympics. Nick Buckles said the company would meet the cost of
:01:10. > :01:13.deploying thousands of military personnel to replace them. He said
:01:13. > :01:16.that he only found out about the recruitment problems just eight or
:01:16. > :01:19.nine days ago. Tonight, more members of the armed forces have
:01:19. > :01:27.been drafted in to fill the security gap. Richard Lister
:01:27. > :01:30.reports. Arriving at London's excel Centre
:01:31. > :01:36.tonight, some of the thousands of troops brought in to fill the gap
:01:36. > :01:40.in Olympic security. Just days ago, G4S was apparently committed to
:01:40. > :01:43.delivering the civilian staff needed to guard the venues. Now the
:01:43. > :01:49.company is having to pay for military personnel to do the job
:01:49. > :01:53.and facing a loss of up to �50 million. Its chief executive says
:01:53. > :01:57.they underestimate the task. security of the Olympics has always
:01:57. > :02:01.been delivered by a large number of individual elements and we were
:02:01. > :02:04.part of that. Clearly, we can't deliver, and we are very
:02:04. > :02:10.disappointed about that, and embarrassed. And very sorry about
:02:10. > :02:15.it. This is a problem which has been years in the making. When work
:02:15. > :02:18.began under Labour on the Olympic Stadium, there were plans for just
:02:18. > :02:21.10,000 security staff but in 2010, the coalition government
:02:22. > :02:26.commissioned a review of that figure but it was not until last
:02:26. > :02:31.December that it decided to double the number of security staff and
:02:31. > :02:38.the military were asked to supply more than 13,000 personnel but the
:02:38. > :02:43.rest was provided by G4S. Now the company says it can't meet that
:02:43. > :02:47.target the MoD is making up the shortfall, increasing the number of
:02:47. > :02:53.servicemen and women to 17,000, more than are serving in
:02:53. > :02:55.Afghanistan. G4S is still time to provide as many security guards as
:02:56. > :03:00.it can. The Home Office said today the government had contingency
:03:00. > :03:05.plans in place and remains focused on delivering Olympic security. But
:03:05. > :03:10.one of those who signed off on the original Security Plan 8 years ago
:03:10. > :03:14.says there are important questions to be answered. Did G4S go into a
:03:14. > :03:19.kind of denial about their inability to deliver this? What was
:03:19. > :03:23.the oversight from the Home Office? Where did that fail? I hope the
:03:23. > :03:27.process will be subject to the most rigorous parliamentary scrutiny
:03:27. > :03:31.once the Olympic Games are over but now we have got to focus with less
:03:31. > :03:36.than two weeks to go, on making sure they are safe insecure.
:03:36. > :03:38.first of the Olympic athletes are due to ride within days but behind
:03:38. > :03:42.the scenes two parliamentary committees are now gearing up to
:03:42. > :03:46.find out what went wrong with the plan to deliver the biggest
:03:46. > :03:50.security operation in Britain since World War II.
:03:50. > :03:53.Our Political Correspondent Robin Brant is at the Home Office. Robin,
:03:53. > :04:00.there's less than two weeks to the start of the Games. How confindent
:04:00. > :04:04.is the government that these security issues will be resolved?
:04:04. > :04:08.Its top of the pile here because the woman in charge, Theresa May,
:04:08. > :04:11.is the person who has responsibility for delivering
:04:11. > :04:14.security of the Olympic Games but what is clear tonight is there are
:04:14. > :04:18.serious questions about the oversight of this now disastrous
:04:18. > :04:23.contract. She found out a few days ago, Wednesday, about how bad
:04:23. > :04:27.things have gone. The man in charge of G4S said he knew it nine days
:04:27. > :04:32.ago saw there is a gap there. That in spite of the fact the BBC was
:04:32. > :04:35.told meetings were going on every day for the last three weeks to
:04:35. > :04:41.discuss security plans with people from the Home Office, Crowe company
:04:41. > :04:47.and the organising committee at these meetings -- G4S. There is an
:04:47. > :04:52.issue for them to address their. G4S say the officials here have had
:04:52. > :04:55.total visibility about what they had tried to do about being in a
:04:55. > :04:59.transparent process but the Home Office was as surprised as anyone
:04:59. > :05:03.when it was revealed how bad things have gone, so tonight the Labour
:05:03. > :05:09.Party are urging Labour -- Theresa May to go to parliament on Monday
:05:09. > :05:14.to update MPs. A party insider said to me if the officials here had
:05:14. > :05:18.been relying solely on G4S for their assurances, they have been
:05:18. > :05:21.behaving just like patsies. Thank you.
:05:21. > :05:23.In Syria, UN observers today entered the village where
:05:23. > :05:25.opposition activists claim 200 people were massacred in a
:05:25. > :05:28.government assault on Thursday. They have said it appears that
:05:28. > :05:31.opposition activists' and army defectors' houses were targeted in
:05:31. > :05:35.the attack on Tremseh. The Syrian government maintains that it
:05:35. > :05:38.carried out a military operation against what it calls terrorists.
:05:38. > :05:48.Jim Muir reports from Beirut. You may find some of the images in his
:05:48. > :05:52.report distressing. It took them 48 hours to get there
:05:52. > :05:56.but the UN's observers finally made it to Tremseh to try to answer the
:05:56. > :06:01.question, was that a massacre? Clearly, there was a government
:06:01. > :06:09.attack using heavy weapons. That much the Observer saw from afar at
:06:09. > :06:15.the time. The villagers are angry. Look, Kofi Annan, is this your work,
:06:15. > :06:19.this man asks? The people here say the attack was indiscriminate. They
:06:19. > :06:27.came from all directions with tanks and helicopters, bombarded our
:06:28. > :06:32.homes and more than 200 Martyrs were killed, he says. But Syrian
:06:32. > :06:37.state TV gave a totally different picture. Its English-language
:06:37. > :06:40.broadcast said heavily armed rebels and terrorists set up hideouts in
:06:40. > :06:45.the village. The army attack, killing many of them and capturing
:06:45. > :06:50.others who, it said, confessed what they had been up to.
:06:50. > :06:55.TRANSLATION: I'm a resident in Tremseh and my job was to fire
:06:55. > :06:58.brigade video clips and then send them to the internet. But activists
:06:58. > :07:02.have produced a surprisingly little bit here footage to back their
:07:02. > :07:06.claims of a massacre of civilians. They showed the bodies of about 15
:07:06. > :07:09.young men of fighting age. Very different from the massacre two
:07:09. > :07:15.months ago when there were harrowing pictures of dozens of
:07:15. > :07:19.dead children and women. The mass burial of bodies in shrouds
:07:19. > :07:23.apparently mainly adults also seemed to involve far fewer than
:07:24. > :07:27.the 200 who activists said died but the West has seized on their
:07:27. > :07:32.version to press for stronger measures against Syria at the
:07:32. > :07:36.Security Council. The observers will be trying to reconcile all
:07:36. > :07:46.these claims and to determine how many people were killed, who they
:07:46. > :07:51.were, and who was responsible. Massacre or no massacre, in places
:07:51. > :07:54.like this, and many others, where violence rages on day after day,
:07:54. > :08:04.thus lighter towards civil war is moving well ahead of diplomatic
:08:04. > :08:06.
:08:06. > :08:10.efforts to halt the carnage. The main rail line from London to
:08:10. > :08:12.Sheffield is to be upgraded as part of a �9 billion programme of
:08:12. > :08:14.government investment. Business leaders have welcomed the plan to
:08:14. > :08:20.electrify the Midland Mainline route, which they say will protect
:08:20. > :08:24.hundreds of jobs. From Sheffield, Danny Savage reports.
:08:24. > :08:30.Monday's announcement on upgrading the railways is thought to be the
:08:30. > :08:37.biggest investment in train travel for generations. Overall, it could
:08:37. > :08:42.be worth �9 billion. Here in Sheffield, the faster service to
:08:42. > :08:45.the capital takes two hours, seven minutes at the moment. A lot longer
:08:45. > :08:51.than the links to some other northern towns and cities. But in a
:08:51. > :08:54.few years' time, these diesels will be replaced with electric trains,
:08:54. > :08:58.more environmentally friendly rolling stock, bring in faster
:08:58. > :09:04.services. The electrification of this, the Midlands Main Line, has
:09:04. > :09:08.been called for by businesses and politicians for years. What we are
:09:08. > :09:11.going to do is attract investors to come up north, see what we have got
:09:11. > :09:17.to offer, and make the necessary investments to make the economy
:09:17. > :09:21.grow. The cost is said to be about �500 million. Some of the money
:09:21. > :09:26.will come from the taxpayer and some of it will come from Network
:09:26. > :09:30.rail borrowing the cash. But there is also concern from some
:09:30. > :09:35.politicians and rail users that train fares will have to rise, too,
:09:35. > :09:39.which would be well above the rate of inflation. But Monday's
:09:39. > :09:45.announcement is not just about the Midland Main Line. It's about other
:09:45. > :09:50.routes, too. And could create jobs in places such as the bombarded a
:09:50. > :09:53.plant in Derby. Speed limits on many rural roads in
:09:53. > :09:58.England could be cut from 60 miles- per-hour to 40 under government
:09:58. > :10:02.proposals aimed at improving road safety. Figures from the Department
:10:02. > :10:05.of Transport show that in 2010 more than two thirds of road deaths in
:10:05. > :10:08.the UK were on rural roads. Under the proposals, local authorities in
:10:08. > :10:18.England would also have greater freedom to introduce 20 mile-per-
:10:18. > :10:19.
:10:19. > :10:22.hour limits in urban areas. The latest bad weather has caused
:10:22. > :10:25.more flooding and disruption across parts of England. In Shropshire,
:10:25. > :10:28.emergency workers had to rescue an 81-year-old who had became trapped
:10:28. > :10:30.in her home overnight by rising floodwaters. And in Caxton in
:10:30. > :10:35.Cambridgeshire, drivers abandoned their cars after roads there became
:10:35. > :10:38.impassable. Prolific Hollywood producer Richard
:10:38. > :10:41.Zanuck has died of a heart attack. The 77-year-old was best known for
:10:41. > :10:44.his work on films such as the blockbuster thriller Jaws, the
:10:44. > :10:54.Oscar-winning Driving Miss Daisy and a string of Tim Burton
:10:54. > :10:55.
:10:55. > :11:05.fantasies. Peter Bowes has his # The hills are alive with the
:11:05. > :11:08.He made some of the most memorable films. Richard Zanuck was not a
:11:08. > :11:14.household name but his reputation was second to none as a producer.
:11:14. > :11:19.He was the son of Hoyle would -- Hollywood royalty, his father who
:11:19. > :11:23.put it in charge of twentieth- century Fox. At 28 he was the end
:11:23. > :11:29.his studio chief in history. But for much of his career, Richard
:11:29. > :11:34.Zanuck was an independent film- maker. He made Jaws with Steven
:11:34. > :11:38.Spielberg. In a statement, Steven Spielberg said his long-time friend
:11:38. > :11:46.was a cornerstone of the film industry and taught him everything
:11:46. > :11:49.he knew about producing. You're going to need a bigger boat!
:11:49. > :11:58.Driving Miss Daisy one of Hollywood's ultimate accolade. Best
:11:58. > :12:02.picture at the Oscars. What are you doing? I'm driving you to the store.
:12:02. > :12:08.And his work with Tim Burton produced hit after hit. It's very
:12:08. > :12:11.exciting, I must say, I've made the last four pictures with Tim Burton
:12:11. > :12:15.and it probably the reason I'm still making pictures after all
:12:15. > :12:20.these years, because he hits such an invigorating experience working
:12:20. > :12:25.with Tim. He is such a individualist, and it's always
:12:25. > :12:31.exciting. His sudden death deprives Hollywood of one of its most
:12:31. > :12:34.revered film makers. Richard Zanuck who died aged 77.
:12:34. > :12:39.Sport now, and Amelia Harris- Lindsay is at the BBC Sport Centre
:12:39. > :12:43.with a round up of all the day's action. Amelia.
:12:43. > :12:45.Thanks. London 2012 is less than two weeks away, so atheletes are
:12:45. > :12:47.fine-tuning their preparations at the Diamond League meeting in
:12:47. > :12:57.Crystal Palace where there were mixed fortunes for our Olympic
:12:57. > :12:58.
:12:58. > :13:04.medal contenders. Here's Alex South. They came expecting to see
:13:04. > :13:07.Britain's brightest medal hopes. But one was no where to be seen.
:13:07. > :13:11.Whilst Americas Christian Taylor was easing to victory on a triple
:13:11. > :13:16.jumps, Phillips the dough was treating an apology for pulling out
:13:16. > :13:21.of the event citing muscle tightness. Fortunately, the
:13:21. > :13:25.reigning Olympic 400 metre champion put on a show. Gold in Beijing. She
:13:25. > :13:35.has struggled for form R but there's nothing like a home game to
:13:35. > :13:36.
:13:36. > :13:40.Earlier, Goldie Sayers, who is 30 on Monday, gave herself the perfect
:13:40. > :13:47.presents, a new British record and beating the current Olympic
:13:47. > :13:50.champion in the process. Roderick Abbott was unable to continue the
:13:50. > :13:55.form which has seen him rise to third in the world rankings. He
:13:55. > :14:00.finished second but at least avoiding injury unlike Tiffany
:14:00. > :14:04.porter who was inconsolable after pulling up in the hurdles, but says
:14:04. > :14:09.she will be OK for the Olympic Games. Fingers are crossed for her
:14:09. > :14:12.and for the weather to improve. The open top bus parade seemed ill-
:14:12. > :14:16.conceived but the sentiment rang true.
:14:16. > :14:19.Bradley Wiggins set a new record tomorrow. He'll be the first
:14:19. > :14:22.British man in the Tour de France to wear the overall leader's yellow
:14:22. > :14:24.jersey for seven consecutive days breaking the record set by Chris
:14:25. > :14:29.Boardman. In today's 13th stage, victory on Bastille Day was
:14:29. > :14:31.reserved for Germany's Andre Greipel. He clinched it in a
:14:31. > :14:36.dramatic sprint finish. Wiggins finished safely in the bunch,
:14:36. > :14:39.retaining his position as race leader.
:14:39. > :14:41.Leeds Rhinos will play either Warrington or Huddersfield in next
:14:41. > :14:48.month's Challenge Cup final after victory over favourites Wigan in a
:14:48. > :14:50.thrilling semi final at the Galpharm Stadium. Three tries in 11
:14:50. > :14:56.minutes, including this one from Ben Jones-Bishop, put Leeds 16-0
:14:56. > :15:00.ahead. But the Super League leaders kept fighting back. In a first half
:15:00. > :15:04.that produced a total of nine tries, Ben Flower helped Wigan reduce the
:15:04. > :15:07.deficit. A controversial try from Zak Hardaker put Leeds 16 points
:15:07. > :15:13.ahead. Although TV replays subsequently showed a knock on in
:15:13. > :15:17.the build up. Leeds went on to win 39-28 and book their place in the
:15:17. > :15:22.final. British boxing is taking centre
:15:22. > :15:28.stage both in London and in Las Vegas tonight. A heavyweight bout a
:15:28. > :15:31.Upton Park between David Haye and Derick Chisora. Later, Amir Khan
:15:31. > :15:36.steps into the ring in the early hours in America for the light
:15:36. > :15:41.welterweight unification bout with Danny Garcia. So fighting for both
:15:41. > :15:44.the WBC and WBA belts. A tough encounter for confident Khan
:15:44. > :15:54.against the undefeated Garcia, whose last victory earned him that
:15:54. > :15:56.WBC belt. Hundreds of football fans turned
:15:56. > :15:59.out at Shanghai airport to welcome Didier Drogba. The former Chelsea
:15:59. > :16:02.striker's deal with struggling Shanghai Shenhua makes him one of
:16:02. > :16:09.the highest paid footballers in the world. John Sudworth was there and
:16:09. > :16:14.a warning of some flash photography in his report.
:16:14. > :16:17.It's a long way from Chelsea to China, not least in terms of the
:16:17. > :16:24.standard of football. But Didier Drogba's arrival this morning
:16:24. > :16:27.proves one thing. Ambition and money are not in short supply here.
:16:27. > :16:34.For a strike at the very top of his game it may seem like an
:16:34. > :16:38.extraordinary move. His new club would struggle to beat a lower
:16:38. > :16:42.division side on-and-off day, let alone Chelsea, for whom he won this
:16:42. > :16:49.year's Champions' League Trophy with a final kick of the day. And
:16:49. > :16:55.yet, Shanghai have reportedly doubled his salary. Just between
:16:55. > :17:01.you, me and the BBC, are you really being paid at �200,000 a week?
:17:01. > :17:06.Between me and you and the BBC, really I did not come here with the
:17:06. > :17:11.idea of making a lot of money. I came here because it's a completely
:17:11. > :17:15.different challenge than what I've seen in Europe before. His old
:17:15. > :17:20.team-mate Nicolas Anelka is already playing for Shanghai and is not the
:17:20. > :17:24.only club that forking out on foreign talent to gain publicity
:17:24. > :17:27.for the businesses but there may be wider benefits, too. Chinese
:17:27. > :17:32.footballers notoriously corrupt but it's trying to clean up its act
:17:32. > :17:38.with dozens of officials, referees and players convicted of match-
:17:39. > :17:47.fixing in the past few months. The hope is that the arrival of big-
:17:47. > :17:50.name players marks a new era and will help to raise standards.
:17:50. > :17:53.Shanghai has high hopes for Didier Drogba. Its football team is
:17:53. > :17:57.languishing close to the bottom of the league but some fans will fear
:17:57. > :18:02.that all the money in China, and there is a lot of that at the
:18:02. > :18:10.moment, won't be enough to fix the rot at the heart of the game.
:18:10. > :18:18.That's the sport. Back to you, Kate. Thank you very much. The main news
:18:18. > :18:24.tonight: G4S, who has failed to recruit staff of four Olympics has