:00:27. > :00:31.Britain celebrates its first ever winner of the Tour de France. We'll
:00:31. > :00:39.be looking at where it all started and ask how his victory compares
:00:39. > :00:44.with other great sporting achievements.
:00:44. > :00:51.Also tonight: Video emerges of the Colorado suspect filmed six years
:00:51. > :01:01.before the shooting spree which left 12 people dead.
:01:01. > :01:16.
:01:16. > :01:18.Ernie Els wins the Open and it was Good evening. Bradley Wiggins has
:01:18. > :01:23.made sporting history by becoming the first British cyclist to win
:01:23. > :01:26.the Tour de France. The result was confirmed in the final sprint race
:01:26. > :01:32.along the Champs-Elysees this afternoon, which was watched by
:01:32. > :01:39.thousands of spectators. Our sports correspondent Tim Franks reports
:01:39. > :01:45.from Paris, on an extraordinary day for British sport.
:01:45. > :01:49.The start of the world's longest victory lap. There was still 80
:01:49. > :01:53.miles for Bradley Wiggins to ride today on his freshly sprayed yellow
:01:53. > :01:59.bike but the tradition on the tour is for the leader on the final day
:01:59. > :02:04.to remain unchallenged. It's a day, this being France for bon amie and
:02:04. > :02:08.strange customs involving livestock. And while today's course may have
:02:08. > :02:12.been flat, the the sense of expectation was big new. After
:02:12. > :02:16.three weeks, 2000 miles, 22 mountain passes, the end was in
:02:16. > :02:22.sight and the prospect of a unique achievement for Britain.
:02:22. > :02:26.There are moments in sport, perhaps just a few each century, when a
:02:26. > :02:29.nation asks where were you when? This is one of them, certainly for
:02:29. > :02:35.these fans. Bradley Wiggins is doing what no Briton has done
:02:35. > :02:39.before. First, though, the sight of a Briton doing what's become
:02:39. > :02:44.astonishingly familiar. Mark Cavendish may be the best road
:02:44. > :02:47.sprinter the world has seen. With his team-mate leading the peloton
:02:47. > :02:52.he swung out for his fourth consecutive win of the most
:02:52. > :02:56.glamorous tour stage of them all. Britain, for so long not a road
:02:56. > :03:01.cycling nation, is flexing its leg muscles. This sort of thing happens
:03:01. > :03:05.to other people and you never imagine it happens to you. So, it's
:03:05. > :03:08.incredible. It's not the sort of thing you soak in at the time, what
:03:08. > :03:12.a wonderful occasion. I bet you look back in years and think that
:03:12. > :03:18.was special. And there's more. After waiting more than 100 years
:03:18. > :03:21.for a man on the podium, Britain now has two. Standing on the left,
:03:21. > :03:29.Bradley Wiggins team-mate, Chris Froome who came in second in the
:03:29. > :03:35.Tour. It's the start, and I think we have been working very hard, ten
:03:35. > :03:39.years now, and on a personal level I am as hungry and ambitious as
:03:39. > :03:42.ever and have a lot to give to the sport. Hopefully this is the start
:03:42. > :03:48.of a period where we can dominate. In a few days we turn to the hunt
:03:48. > :03:55.for Olympic golds, but this summer it may be yellow by gleams the
:03:55. > :03:58.brightest. As we've heard, the Tour de France
:03:58. > :04:01.is considered the world's greatest and most gruelling cycle race. Our
:04:01. > :04:10.sports editor David Bond looks at how today's victory compares with
:04:10. > :04:14.other major sporting achievements. It's one of the most demanding
:04:14. > :04:19.contests in modern sport. 4,000 gruelling kilometres over three
:04:19. > :04:23.weeks of racing. In more than a century, no British man has tasted
:04:23. > :04:28.the ecstasy of victory in the Tour de France. Until today. Until
:04:28. > :04:32.Bradley Wiggins. Bradley Wiggins has scaled one of the great heights
:04:32. > :04:38.of British sporting achievement. To be the first person in 109 years,
:04:38. > :04:42.to win the Tour de France is an immense feat of physical and mental
:04:42. > :04:46.ability and aptitude and the whole country wants to say well done.
:04:46. > :04:50.Brilliant. The perfect backdrop and start for the Olympics. Even as a
:04:50. > :04:54.young boy, growing up in north London, Wiggins dreamt of cycling
:04:54. > :04:59.glory. He watched the Tour as a teenager, and as a keen student of
:04:59. > :05:03.the sport he is well aware of what his triumph means.
:05:03. > :05:07.But it was on the less exposed terrain of the Velodrome that the
:05:07. > :05:16.32-year-old made his name, winning two Olympic gold medals in Beijing
:05:16. > :05:21.in 2008, to add to his first in Athens four years earlier.
:05:21. > :05:24.Having dominated track cycling for the past two two Games, Wiggins and
:05:24. > :05:28.British cycling spent the last three trying to replicate that
:05:28. > :05:32.success in the professional world of road racing. It was a bold
:05:32. > :05:37.ambition. But one that has been delivered, well ahead of schedule.
:05:37. > :05:41.It's the biggest thing in the sport of cycling for Great Britain, ever.
:05:41. > :05:45.It's quite a big statement to make and even saying it now I am
:05:45. > :05:51.checking back and thinking no, that's truly true - ever. A great
:05:51. > :05:58.British ride Irwins the tour de-- rider wins the Tour de France and I
:05:58. > :06:04.never thought I would see the day. Is it the pinnacle of British sport,
:06:04. > :06:12.though? Steve Redgrave's five gold medals took sporting achievement to
:06:12. > :06:18.a new level. Away from the Games Ian both am's 981 Ashes heroics
:06:18. > :06:23.ensured his place in the greats. There are more contenders but it's
:06:23. > :06:28.the unique and history historic nature which has guaranteed
:06:28. > :06:33.Wiggins's right to be among And David is outside the Olympic
:06:33. > :06:38.Velodrome now. Them. What a fantastic boost and great mood for
:06:38. > :06:43.us all to go into the Olympics with in a few days' time, David. That's
:06:43. > :06:46.right. As David Cameron was saying in that report, it provides the
:06:46. > :06:50.perfect backdrop to the start of the Olympic week and for British
:06:50. > :06:55.cycling it's a huge lift. They'll be hoping to win many, many more
:06:55. > :07:01.gold medals in the Velodrome you can see over the next two weeks or
:07:01. > :07:04.so. Sir Chris Hoy, Victoria pentlen to, all certain to feature there,
:07:04. > :07:08.and also back in the road races with Bradley Wiggins going for gold
:07:08. > :07:12.in the time trial and Mark Cavendish possibly winning
:07:12. > :07:15.Britain's first gold to get the Games off to a flying start next
:07:15. > :07:20.Saturday. It's part of this extraordinary transformation of
:07:20. > :07:24.British cycling over the last decade or so. Wiggins' victory is
:07:24. > :07:29.also going to be a huge boost for organisers who have had to
:07:29. > :07:33.withstand a rocky ten days to two weeks with all the talk of problems
:07:33. > :07:40.with security and venues and the difficulties perhaps over the
:07:40. > :07:45.transport network in London and the rhetoric today from the chairman of
:07:45. > :07:49.LOCOG was very much look, stop this whingeing, let's embrace this
:07:49. > :07:53.extraordinary sporting spectacle which is about to unfold here. I
:07:53. > :07:57.think Wiggins has given them the fairytale storyline to really
:07:57. > :08:07.kickstart the Games and put some of those concerns to one side.
:08:07. > :08:09.
:08:09. > :08:12.Thank you. President Obama has arrived in Colorado to meet the
:08:12. > :08:20.families of people killed and injured when a gunman went on the
:08:20. > :08:24.rampage at a cinema on Friday. 12 people died and more than 50 were
:08:24. > :08:27.injured in the town of Aurora. The flat rented by the man believed to
:08:27. > :08:32.have carried out the attack has now been cleared of booby-traps.
:08:32. > :08:36.Alistair Leithead is in Aurora now. Well, President Obama will only be
:08:36. > :08:40.here for a couple of hours, but he will be visiting a local hospital
:08:40. > :08:44.to meet survivors, those injured by the shooting in the cinema behind
:08:44. > :08:48.me. He will also be meeting family members, community leaders ahead of
:08:48. > :08:53.a big vigil planned here for later this evening.
:08:53. > :08:58.We will rise from this... The dead and the injured were
:08:58. > :09:02.remembered at Sunday Church services across this city. Everyone
:09:02. > :09:09.has felt this tragedy, wondering what would drive a young man to
:09:09. > :09:15.take so many lives. This is the suspect. James Holmes.
:09:15. > :09:22.Video footage has emerged of him at a science camp six years ago.
:09:22. > :09:29.mentor, who works... He was 18, confidently addressing the audience.
:09:30. > :09:34.He said he wanted to make scientific recoveryy -- discoveries.
:09:34. > :09:38.At his flat today, the police were continuing to collect evidence of
:09:38. > :09:42.the weapons and ammunition he bought and the chemicals he used to
:09:43. > :09:48.make a booby-trap bomb in his apartment T took police two days to
:09:48. > :09:55.get into his flat. The home-made explosives were
:09:55. > :09:59.removed safely and taken out into the desert to be destroyed.
:09:59. > :10:06.The 12 people who were killed have now all been named by the coroner.
:10:06. > :10:11.The eldest was 51, the youngest just six years old. She had gone to
:10:11. > :10:15.the cinema with her mum, who is still critically ill. Her great-
:10:15. > :10:19.aunt is devastated. She just wanted to have to have fun. She was what
:10:19. > :10:25.you would want your six-year-old to be. Those who survivored are still
:10:25. > :10:31.haunted by what happened in cinema 9. I beat you, I made it. You
:10:31. > :10:38.didn't take my life. You didn't take my friend's life either. But I
:10:38. > :10:41.pray and I feel so sorry for the other families.
:10:41. > :10:45.A makeshift has appeared over the road from the cinema, a a cross for
:10:46. > :10:50.each of the dead, for people to write messages, leave flowers and
:10:50. > :10:55.pay their last respects. In the last hour we have heard
:10:55. > :10:59.James homes was refused membership of a local gun range because of his
:10:59. > :11:03.behaviour and the bizarre message he left on an answermachine. He
:11:03. > :11:12.will be appearing in court for The First time on Monday morning
:11:12. > :11:15.charged with multiple counts of first degree murder.
:11:15. > :11:18.A seven-year-old boy has died from head injuries following an accident
:11:18. > :11:21.at an open air museum in County Durham. Police say there was an
:11:21. > :11:23.incident at the Beamish Museum involving a steam-powered traction
:11:23. > :11:28.engine and trailer. The engine's driver is being
:11:28. > :11:32.treated for shock. The Chinese capital Beijing has
:11:32. > :11:34.been hit by its heaviest rains for more than 60 years. At least 35
:11:34. > :11:37.people have been killed and thousands have been moved out of
:11:37. > :11:45.their homes. The torrential downpour flooded roads, and brought
:11:45. > :11:48.down trees and power lines. Syrian government troops have
:11:48. > :11:51.launched a major offensive to regain control of parts of the
:11:51. > :11:54.capital, Damascus. Activists say three areas of the city are being
:11:54. > :11:58.attacked by tanks and heavy weapons. In the second city, Aleppo, rebel
:11:58. > :12:04.fighters are reported to have gained control of several areas.
:12:04. > :12:08.Jim Muir has been monitoring the situation from Beirut.
:12:08. > :12:12.The Damascus skyline, wreathed in smoke from heavy bombardments. This
:12:12. > :12:17.district in the west of the city is one of several where regime forces
:12:17. > :12:21.are battling to drive the rebels out.
:12:21. > :12:26.They succeeded in the north-east of the capital at the cost of huge
:12:26. > :12:29.destruction. These troops are believed to be from the much feared
:12:29. > :12:34.Fourth Giggs, -- Division, commanded by the President's
:12:34. > :12:38.brother. Mr Assad was receiving his army Chief of Staff and giving him
:12:38. > :12:43.his orders. Presumably they were to restore control in the capital, and
:12:43. > :12:46.the second City, Aleppo, at all costs.
:12:46. > :12:48.Like Damascus, Aleppo, newspaper the north, had been relatively
:12:48. > :12:53.untouched by trouble until last week.
:12:53. > :12:57.Now Government forces are battling to dislodge rebels from several
:12:57. > :13:00.quarters they've taken over. In a straight fight, the lightly armed
:13:00. > :13:04.opposition fighters are little match for the regime's massive
:13:04. > :13:11.firepower, but they believe they're on the path of victory.
:13:11. > :13:16.TRANSLATION: The free Syrian Army has succeeded
:13:16. > :13:19.in liberating most of the areas of the suburbs and the way is open to
:13:19. > :13:26.liberate the city of Aleppo and from there to liberate the rest of
:13:26. > :13:32.Syrian soil with God's will. Certainly the regime is not having
:13:32. > :13:36.it all its own way as fighting rages in many parts of the country.
:13:36. > :13:40.Refugees are spilling over the nearby border into Turkey, joining
:13:40. > :13:49.thousands already there. None of them knows when it will be safe to
:13:49. > :13:53.go home and who will be in charge when they do.
:13:53. > :13:56.The Olympic torch has been making its way across London on day 65 of
:13:56. > :13:59.the relay. The flame reached new heights as it was held aloft on the
:13:59. > :14:08.London Eye by Amelia Hempleman- Adams, who last year became the
:14:08. > :14:11.youngest person to ski to the South Pole.
:14:11. > :14:18.Sport now, and for a full round-up of all the day's action, here's
:14:18. > :14:21.Katherine Downes at the BBC Sport Centre.
:14:21. > :14:29.Good evening. There was late drama at golf's Open Championship at
:14:29. > :14:32.Royal Lytham. Ernie Els won by just one shot. Australia's Adam Scott
:14:32. > :14:36.seemed to be cruising to victory but bogeyed the last four holes, so
:14:36. > :14:39.it was Els who lifted the Claret Jug, for the second time in his
:14:39. > :14:44.career. Andy Swiss reports. Even by sports outlandish standards, it was
:14:44. > :14:48.a day which almost defied belief. A tale of one man's victory, and
:14:48. > :14:58.another man's meltdown. Adam Scott had begun the day four shots clear
:14:58. > :15:02.
:15:02. > :15:09.and in tricky conditions seemed to Graeme McDowell's into the
:15:09. > :15:13.undergrowth. While Els was going nicely it seemed little more than a
:15:13. > :15:20.sideshow. Scott still led by four. The open as gooth good as his, then
:15:20. > :15:25.one of golf's most spectacular implosions. Bogey followed bogey,
:15:25. > :15:31.while ahead of him ems cranked up the pressure. Could it really
:15:31. > :15:34.happen? It could. After three consecutive bogies Scott began his
:15:34. > :15:42.final hole tied and his composure gone to pot. He scrambled gamely,
:15:42. > :15:46.but he was left with this, to force a play-off. And so in 40 minutes of
:15:46. > :15:54.madness, Scott had lost the seemingly unlosable and from Els,
:15:54. > :15:58.even in his moment of triumph there a great play e a great friend of
:15:58. > :16:05.mine. We have had great battles in the past. I feel very fortunate and
:16:05. > :16:09.you are going to win many of these. You have too much talent. Rarely
:16:09. > :16:15.has the Open delivered a more dramatic climax, for the fans here,
:16:15. > :16:18.but above all for Ernie Els, what a day to remember. England will face
:16:18. > :16:21.a difficult day at the crease tomorrow, as they look to avoid
:16:21. > :16:27.defeat on the final day of the first test against South Africa.
:16:27. > :16:33.They failed to take a single wicket today, as the the tourist amassed
:16:33. > :16:39.637 runs, helped by a record breaking innings from Hashim Amla.
:16:39. > :16:42.The batsmen were trailing by 150 runs at the close of play. Who
:16:43. > :16:47.wouldn't want to be outside on a Sunday morning like this? England's
:16:47. > :16:51.cricketers for a start. They had spent more than a day in the field
:16:51. > :16:55.chasing after South Africans. Hashim Amla was creating most of
:16:55. > :16:59.the work. Every milestone he passed another millstone round England's
:16:59. > :17:05.neck. He moved beyond 200, alongside Jacques Kallis who was
:17:05. > :17:10.also seen scoring in three figures. Amla became the first man to go to
:17:10. > :17:14.300 for South Africa, his innings at types art as well as history.
:17:14. > :17:19.And appreciated by all at the Oval. The tourists tired of record
:17:19. > :17:23.breaking and turned their attention to winning the match. More than
:17:23. > :17:29.2250 ahead they put England in, by then a wicket hadn't fallen in a
:17:29. > :17:34.day. Alastair Cook lasted little more than a over. Jonathan Trott
:17:34. > :17:39.wasn't far behind. Nor was Kevin Pietersen. And Andrew Strauss's
:17:39. > :17:44.dismissal summed it up. Perhaps those long hours in the field have
:17:44. > :17:50.sapped England's fight. There was a third victory of the season for
:17:50. > :17:54.Ferrari's Fernando Alonso at the German Grand Prix, the Spaniard who
:17:54. > :17:57.tops the drive's Championship led from pole position to the checkers
:17:57. > :18:01.flag -- chequered flag. Jensen Button was moved up to second after
:18:01. > :18:06.Sebastian Vettel was demoted for leaving the track to overtake him.
:18:06. > :18:13.Lewis Hamilton retired nine laps from the finish. That is all the
:18:13. > :18:17.sport for now. What a weekend. Back to you Jane. And finally tonight,
:18:17. > :18:22.the stage and screen actor Simon Ward has died, following a long
:18:22. > :18:27.illness. He was 70. His agent said his wife and three daughters were
:18:27. > :18:31.at his side. He became an international star in 1972 after