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This programme contains some strong lauguage. On the day Team GB's gold | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
medalallies, past our haul in Beijing, David Cameron said it was | :00:18. | :00:27. | |
a Golden Summer. How do we keep it golden long after the summerment | :00:27. | :00:37. | |
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Today, Mathew Syed say many events are out of reach for those not born | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
with a silver spoon. It was meant to be the diversity Games, but has | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
it lived up to its promise. Promises were made to local | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
communities they would benefit in some way from the Olympics, whether | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
that's getting to see it, whether it is running a business, and | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
tkpwreting business from that, and that just hasn't happened. Former | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
Olympians N the chair of UK Sport, debate if the sports will remain | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
strong long after the days of summer have gone. Standard | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
Chartered comes out fighting. Do the shocked waves and e-mails from | :01:09. | :01:19. | |
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the scandal, reveal a serious rift The death of Robert Hughes the man | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
who delifd The Shock of the New. But was he wrong about contemporary | :01:29. | :01:39. | |
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art? We will be hearing from Simon Schama. Good evening. Sir Chris Hoy | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
has become the most Garlanded Olympian ever, with sixth gold | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
medal, on the day the blood, sweat and tears, paid off. In cycling, | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
dressage and the triathlon, where the Brownlee brothers won gold and | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
bronze, and Laura Trott won her second gold with a last gasp | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
surgeon. This is our most successful Games formore than a | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
century, but will they deliver the legry that has been promised. | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
Tonight we exam two of the key aims of the Olympic Games, that they | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
will help par tisation in sport and reach all groups, including ethic | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
minorities. We have guests, including two medal winners, | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
Baroness Campbell and James Cracknell. Elitism, are we making | :02:26. | :02:35. | |
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sports accessible to only the few. The first Games he will berated the | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
intrinsic virtue of sport. The Olympics, a leveler, ignoring, | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
class, colour or creed. Crucial then, the spirit of taking part of | :03:02. | :03:09. | |
participation. But are the Olympics, as merocratic as they seem in will | :03:09. | :03:18. | |
the sound and fury coming from athletics, it is hard to forget it | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
has sports in sailing, Roweing, and dressage, how many kids in the East | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
End of London, or on the streets of Delhi, andity choice of many sports | :03:29. | :03:39. | |
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the Olympics is as elitist as they come. The Frenchman, barren Pierre | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
may have created the modern Olympics, but many sports were not | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
accessible or popular, but they're dramatically overreacted with | :03:52. | :03:59. | |
medals. There's 14 medals in Roweing, but two in basketball. The | :03:59. | :04:07. | |
world, has moved on. This is a game played in south-east | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
Asia, it is easy to learn, and wildly popular, like its Indian | :04:12. | :04:19. | |
neighbour, it is completely ignored by the IOC. These Games may sound | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
jaring in our ears but played by millions. In global terms, sports | :04:24. | :04:32. | |
that are far more popular than say, dressage, hardly get a look in. And | :04:32. | :04:39. | |
in that sense the Olympics have advantage and entrench advantage | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
between nations. In too many cases it is too many children, thinking, | :04:44. | :04:53. | |
taking part in sport just isn't for them. We've got to change that. | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
Cameron's Eton, won more Gold Medals in Beijing than the withhold | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
of India, and the rest of Britain, so well, so far in London 201, with | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
private schools 7% have won 44% of Britain's medals. This is not to | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
decry private schools, but it is to question the idea, that anyone can | :05:11. | :05:19. | |
rise to the top, if they try hard enough. This isn't Eton. It is a | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
school in Tower Hamlets, which hasn't much of a pedigree in show | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
juching, but they still first to produce winners, and with far fewer | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
resources. The facilities are limited. We are | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
inner-city London, and we do not have football fields outside the | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
school. As a result rev a hall, which as you can see, is not too | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
extensive. We have in this particular case, eight tennis | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
tables. You can get a sport with a lot of people to play in a small | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
space. The greenhouse charity works across inner-city London. I | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
occasionally work with them and seen the impact their coaches have | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
in tearing down the obstacles that stand between poorer kids and | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
benefits of sport. They act as coaches, and mentors. | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
Instilling values that extend beyond the sports hall, starting | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
with basics like attendance. I was going like, once or twice a | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
week last year, and then, just went downhill. And then, when table | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
tennis came along, I was coming every day of the week, because I | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
play table tennis after school. What has that done for your school | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
work? Improved it, because I'm in school. There's nothing else to do, | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
and you're not playing table tennis, so you might as well learn. Are you | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
we missing a strick strick the logic is to inspire a new | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
generation of kids, to take up sports, with all the social benefit, | :06:52. | :07:01. | |
that brings. But how on earth are kids supposed to take on rowing or | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
sailing or equestrianism, if they wanted to. If the sport isn't the | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
level playing field we think it is, what does it say about other areas | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
of British life? In the sports we've doing so well in in the | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
Olympic Games, you need a huge amount of resource and coaching to | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
help you. That's the same in Britain, if you look at professions | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
and academia, it is a real issue in this country. We have a society N | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
the UK, where your family background, no the individual | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
talent determine largely where you end up. | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
# Some people think I'm bonkers # London 2012, talks of the diversity | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
of modern Britain, yet it is as difficult to break into sporting | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
eleets as it's ever been. Society that perpetuates entrenched | :07:57. | :08:07. | |
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advantage, is never going to be as successful that is meritocratic. | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
Fatima Whitbread, James Cracknell and Baroness Campbell is with us, | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
and chairs a schools sports trust. Fatima Whitbread you look how well | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
we're doing. If we spent money on sports that | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
were accessible to all, and these involve Olympic forts, would we do | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
better? I would like to say this, nobody in their wildest dreams | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
would have ever imagineed the amount of success we've had in 2012, | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
so congratulations to all those and the leeths. What worries me, one of | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
the most important things that comes out of this, is we're trying | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
to inspire the next generation of youth. Thereof, what concerns me is | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
this a sudden influx of young people coming into sports, clubs | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
and schools, will struggle. And the Government had long enough to think | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
about this, in terms of putting more funds in and into the | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
structure and infrastructure and help it develop partnerships with | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
the schools, and the clubs. There are a lot of specialised events | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
that the schools can't cope with, and hope for the partnership of the | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
clubs, which is a voluntary sector. You make the big funding decisions, | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
am I right they're based on excellence. If rowing, does | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
brilliantly, you will put more money into rowing. If sailing does | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
good, you will put more in. If you put money into the kind of stuff | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
that allows children to compete, and to grow, you're going to get | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
rewards from that, don't just go with what is delivering gold? | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
have to understand the structure. UK Sport isn't the only body that | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
funds sport. There's Sport England, Wales and Northern Ireland, that | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
participation. I call it the Formula One end of sport, it is to | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
take those people who are talented and ensure they have everything | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
around them to give them the best chance of world class success. What | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
you're seeing is ten years of very hard work to create a high | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
performance system in this country, using Lottery, and xeck ker money | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
that is resulting great results across a range of sports, not just | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
in a few selected sport. In sports the charge of elitism could be | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
directed at these sports, for example in rowing and sailing, | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
you're a big rower, you rowed, an independent school, do you think | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
you had a natural advantage? Natural advantage in terms I went | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
to a school that rowed, the same way, if I wanted to play rugby, I | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
guess it was disadvantage, because the school went rowing, because | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
someone got injured in rugby and they stopped it. I think it is | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
elitism is one thing. What it does give you is that I was lucky enough, | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
because of a good education, that I could take the gamble of saying, | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
I'll see if I can go to the Olympics, and then fall back... I | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
went to debt, but still thought there's education to fall back on, | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
which is different from saying, I have to go to work straightaway. | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
Who is going to get to row, kids in Hackney, are not going to be, able | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
to even get a foot in the boat? I accept the statement you're | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
making, but as it happens, rowing, are working exceptionally hard to | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
trying to provide a whole range to provide access of rowing. They're a | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
huge range of activities in schools, where they're using a rowing, | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
machines, they're doing come and try activities, and they would say, | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
clearly, the balance of people in rowing, is changing. | :11:56. | :12:04. | |
You got to be near a river, for a start. Or a canal. But, in terms of | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
rowing, clubs, which are better rather than skools schools, are | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
cheaper to join than a gym. Don't mean rowing, means anything else. | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
Let's take equestrianism, mill field school has a whole equest | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
treeian centre, we should support that, if that's one of the sports | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
in the Olympics, you want to do as well as you can? There are two | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
different issues, one is do we want to maximise the medals, Team GB | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
wins, and we've done that magnificently well. And sap sue has | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
been involved in that class. The disconnect comes when we look at | :12:43. | :12:51. | |
the rationale for public investment in the elite sport. The ration 58 | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
is it will have benefits, the Olympic programme have high entry | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
costs, which are incredibly expensive for people to get | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
involved with. Even if they wanted to get involved in dressage, | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
showjumping, they won't be able to do it. The UK Sport which has one | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
responsibility and without going through the quangos, sporting has | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
the other, there's a disconnect between the rationals. Do you | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
accept It depends whether you want to inspire a generation using sport | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
as a tool. We've done a programme called international inspiration, | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
which is the international legacy from London 2012, where where we | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
worked in 20 developing countries, to tackle the broader social issues | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
in the communities. So it isn't always that what you're doing is | :13:38. | :13:45. | |
inspiring them to take up cycling. Surely that's the way that children, | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
the way children understand excellence is to become better and | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
better and better, in a sport. can they get better, when you're | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
taking away the playing fields, and currently the 12 boroughs, | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
surrounding the stadium, are playing on carparks. Funds for | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
school sports as well. A lot of the unfortunately, it falls upon the | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
schools, as it always does, to provide that level of expertise. | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
Most of the specialised events can't be taught at schools. Usually | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
what happens in the curriculum, there's not enough sport on the | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
cuck limb, it only figures, or actually, concentrates on the | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
different seasons, and probably days, two weeks, before the actual | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
sport day, or cross-country, there's not enough, I don't think. | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
The volunteerism. The Olympics should be about, is | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
forming elite sport is one thing. In terms of the legacy to get | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
people more physically active. That's is the bomb that is waiting | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
to hit us. The physical active, to become, more active, the diabetes | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
time bomb that will whack us, can be avoided. So, if you take, | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
investing money into sport, if you think, the Beijing Olympics, no | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
European or caw caseian got a medal in track, from 100 metres up to the | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
Marathon. It is not amount of money, Mo Farah has changed that, but he | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
has a different background. It is about getting people into | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
physically active. And changing a social thing. You accept the way to | :15:23. | :15:31. | |
do that, is to make sport, a centre, key thing in the curriculum to give | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
facilities for children to enjoy sport. A lot of schools, don't have | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
facilities, and demand, depend so much on volunteers don't they? | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
Secondary schools have physical education teachers, but after | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
school sport, that's a challenge. There is a bigger, and I agree | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
entirely with you two, there's a bigger issue. Do you want | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
Government to do more at primary schools? That's where we capture | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
kids' imagination, inspiration, where we give them a chance, to be | :16:04. | :16:11. | |
really activity. And Fatima to do that, we have specialist teachers, | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
we we don't have that in our primary schools. Our kids, deserve | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
the right to be as physically literate as they are in school. | :16:21. | :16:28. | |
What does the Government say when you ask for more money? I don't do | :16:28. | :16:35. | |
that for UK Sport. Is there beyond the UK. Olympics presents itself as | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
global and inclusive mercratic institution, James picks out | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
athletics, where medals are distributed around the world and | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
low cost. But where is the Asian sports, they're wonderful, highly | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
popular. We're having rugby sevens, and golf in Rio. I'm afraid I'm | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
going to stop you there. We have to move on and continue this | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
conversation, Jessica Ennis, Mo Farah, Louis Smith, diverse ethic | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
backgrounds of the Olympians, have hailed some Team GB has embadment | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
of the multi-kurlttuerl nation. Back when the bid was launched, the | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
ethic diversity was one of the documents key selling points. How | :17:16. | :17:23. | |
many of the pledges made in the bid to encourage diversity has been | :17:23. | :17:33. | |
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# I can feel my soul ascending # Thanks to the city's diversity, | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
there will be supporters from every Olympic nation, every athlete will | :17:51. | :18:01. | |
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If, like me, you fancy shooting hoops on the court in that video, | :18:09. | :18:16. | |
forget about it. It is not there any more. What of the proud claims | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
we heard about diversity and inclusiveness, way back when the UK | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
won the bid for the Games. According to official documents, | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
London 01 was committed to ensuring the business opportunities provided | :18:30. | :18:36. | |
by the Games, as spread as widely and fairly as possible. And, to | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
getting more black, Asian, and minority ethic people involved in | :18:41. | :18:51. | |
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All right, come on, work the back. This gym in it west London has | :19:00. | :19:10. | |
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produced many title-winning boxers, including former British middle | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
weight champ. Now it is under threat for closure for lack of | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
money. Another prospect is 14-year- old, Vladimir Ndeda. His mum's | :19:20. | :19:30. | |
Ukrainian, his dad's Kenyan, and he's all Londoner. Vladimir has | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
been watching the boxing in the Games, and hope to go to Rio. | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
you see people from your area, or new generation, you think that | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
could be me one day, so you try to get to that position. Boxing is an | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
art. I think it takes - if you got guts in boxing, you can do anything | :19:52. | :20:02. | |
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Mr Akay has been running this gym for almost 40 years, but he's | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
struggling to keep it open, through fund raising appeals and the modest | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
subs he charges his young contenders. Are you getting any | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
backing from the Olympics people? No we haven't. That's one thing, | :20:16. | :20:24. | |
which I find it very difficult to understand. I think, the Olympics, | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
you concentrate from the grass roots, where people like these boys | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
come from, and the clubs, and institutions like ours, I help them | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
to encourage us to keep these boys ready for the Olympics, or whatever. | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
So far, we haven't got any, they didn't even have a look at what is | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
going on. Have you tried contacting them, and saying, we're here, we | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
could do with some money? amount of boxers, we have this year, | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
I don't want to beg for anything. They should be coming to us, to say | :20:58. | :21:06. | |
for what you're doing, you deserve this, and help us to keep on going | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
Ladies, would you like to try one of our new sandwiches. | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
What about that pledge to give ethic minority businesses, a taste | :21:17. | :21:24. | |
of those sweet Olympic contracts? This firm from London's gar nayian | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
community, applied for VIP meals and feed some athletes. When the | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
Olympics came along, we thought grab the opportunity, present | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
ourselves in a positive light, where, we're a well respected | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
business, we have big corporate clients, let's do this. We actually | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
felt we could get even one little contract. Nothing came through. | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
Part of me feels, perhaps, it was never intended for small business | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
to get contracts. It was almost like, let do something to look like | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
we're doing something about it, a situation to ensure people feel | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
involved, or, they have the chance, a small chance, that's kind of the | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
impression I get. They didn't really mean it? And there was no | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
follow through or intention almost. Fewer than 7% of contracts have | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
gone to businesss about owned by gone to businesss about owned by | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
ethic minorities. Those communities, made up 15% of the workforce, who | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
built the Olympic Park, as for the athletes of tomorrow, the Greater | :22:31. | :22:38. | |
London Authority says it is spending �22.5 million on so-called, | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
"Legacy sports projects". Black business leaders, say they're | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
very poorly represented at the Games, even though they're held in | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
boroughs, with large ethic minorities. | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
The Olympics was won on the back of diversity and promises were made to | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
local communities they would benefit in some way, whre weather | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
that's going to see it, running businesses and getting business | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
businesses and getting business from that, and that just hasn't | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
happened. We invited represents from the Olympic Delivery Authority, | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
and the Greater London Authority to discuss the issues raised in the | :23:11. | :23:19. | |
film, but they told us no-one was available. ODA says it played an | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
active role and engage in black, Asian and ethic minorities. Locog, | :23:25. | :23:32. | |
said it exceeded the targets it set itself. I'm joined by Diane Abbott, | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
whose constituency borders the Olympic Park. Does it look like | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
that way to you? The Olympics are fantastic, the athletes, Opening | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
Ceremony, all the wonderful volunteers, reflect the diversity | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
of the area. Unfortunately, when it comes to jobs, and contracts, the | :23:51. | :23:58. | |
people of the East End were let down. Locog, say they met targets, | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
they were derisory. All this was said under the Labour Government. | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
Do you think they didn't try hard, saying we want to enforce this | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
point was the targets were set under a different mayor. A mayor | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
who had a key role to play in this. What is striking, it is not just | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
the lack of people getting jobs and contracts, it is the real issues is | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
the low number of local people getting jobs and contracts. That's | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
what underlice it. Did you try and do anything about this? I met with | :24:30. | :24:37. | |
Ken, months after 2005, I met with the ODA, Ken was very committed, to | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
putting pressure on the ODA and Locog, when you had a change of | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
mayor, diversity is not his issue. If it delivered, not only the Games, | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
but buildings, and facilities, on time, on budget, and to a high | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
quality, will that in itself, not bring industry and business? I was | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
reading the document for Locog, they had a picture of the last big | :25:05. | :25:12. | |
team of apprentices, around 77 of them. I counted, I think, five, | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
black apprentices. Whatever they say, the failure to get local kids, | :25:17. | :25:26. | |
apprenticeships was scandalous. know it is not just territory, but | :25:26. | :25:33. | |
you must have concerns over black and Asian and ethic minority | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
business owners. I'm not in a position to comment. Obviously, I | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
know that there has been a commitment on everybody's part to | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
try and do that. But I'm no expert on that. You're saying clearly, you | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
don't think Locog, made that commitment. The figures speak for | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
themselves. Less than 20% of employees, on the Olympic Park, | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
came from the five surrounding boroughs. Locog paid lip service. | :26:00. | :26:08. | |
Looking now at both the question of for example the lucky star Jim, the | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
- gym, now we have women's boxing in the Olympics, that fundamental | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
support has not been there. You heard him say, 40 years and they're | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
struggling to carry on. With the upsurgeon of boxing that needs to | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
be addressed? There are hidden barriers, for economically | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
disvainged to get into sport and he can sell, decent equipment and | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
coaching, bordering the prospective a little. What about the | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
professions, if the state needs to get involved, to ensure access, to | :26:42. | :26:48. | |
elite sport, how much more for elite proprofessions. You are | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
talking not the idea of sport for all, but competition for all. We | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
need to get that engendered for all. This is a sense of belonging for | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
your young children. We have a lot to be grateful for, the voluntary | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
sector and what they do. We shouldn't have to rely on them, but | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
we do. A lot of the children could be on the streets, involved in | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
crime, drugs, and there could be a whole lot more issues going on. | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
First and foremost, it is important we have the facilities, and | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
voluntary services to help them. As I said, earlier, the schools, and | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
the clubs coming together in partnership is important. But the | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
ideology is really what's missing within the schools. What's wrong | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
with being competitive, and what's wrong with winning, at the end of | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
the day, this is what it is all about. Life is competitive. This | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
idea that Hackney kids, and Hackney schools don't encourage competitive | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
sports, is foolish. Before they started building, you would | :27:45. | :27:50. | |
literally, hundreds of Hackney and East End children, being massively | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
competitive on football. We have rowing, clubs, the issue isn't that | :27:55. | :28:02. | |
Hackney kids don't want to compete. The problem is access to fassifplts | :28:02. | :28:12. | |
Left-leaning, LEAs: I'm interested in a charity that funds, community | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
sports clubs, the problem is the schools shut the gates and there is | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
no place for the kids to go. So there are enough community sports | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
clubs, which like the boxing gym, will give them discipline, a | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
purpose, and social crime in the area around them reduces. You need | :28:28. | :28:38. | |
to have a place. I have to saifplt The biggest | :28:38. | :28:41. | |
punishment is... Thank you very much. I'm sure we'll return to this. | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
Tomorrow, we'll be looking at another Olympic pledge that the | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
Games will help grow the economy. In the next few days, we will look | :28:49. | :28:55. | |
for the plans for the site, and regeneration of the local area. The | :28:55. | :29:00. | |
American authorities, have called out Standard Chartered Bank, the | :29:00. | :29:05. | |
second biggest, on allegedly trying to hide billions of dollars, tide | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
to Iran, thus breaking rules, allegations the rather stayed | :29:09. | :29:14. | |
institution deny as they watch the share price fall. The accusation | :29:14. | :29:20. | |
follows quickly over the his his scandalsings reduced by the | :29:21. | :29:24. | |
Americans. Given London is the global centre of banking, is it | :29:24. | :29:29. | |
inevitable we have to take the heat or is the US guning for us in | :29:29. | :29:35. | |
particularly. The report contains strong language. Connect with the | :29:35. | :29:43. | |
bank that's connecting Asia, Africa, and Middle East for 150 years. | :29:43. | :29:46. | |
Standard Chartered bank. Unfortunately forStandard Chartered | :29:46. | :29:51. | |
Americans believe some connections with Middle East was illegal and | :29:51. | :29:56. | |
hammering the share price 25% after a little known wing of a US | :29:56. | :30:01. | |
Government, known as the New York State Department of Financial | :30:01. | :30:07. | |
Service, accused the bank of ignoring the embargo on activities. | :30:07. | :30:12. | |
The ADFS allegiance 60,000 transactions, are at issue and the | :30:13. | :30:17. | |
bank was a rogue institution, motivated by greed, without any | :30:17. | :30:22. | |
regard for the legal reputational and national security consequences | :30:22. | :30:26. | |
of its flagrantly deceptive actions. It got its hands on internal e- | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
mails, in one, an American working at the bank warned they might be | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
breaching US rules, to which a breaching US rules, to which a | :30:35. | :30:45. | |
:30:45. | :30:48. | ||
That type of industrial language, and alleged unethical behaviour is | :30:48. | :30:52. | |
a far cry from the public sper exception of Standard Chartered as | :30:52. | :31:02. | |
:31:02. | :31:02. | ||
one of the few ethical banks left. The institution said it is only UK | :31:02. | :31:10. | |
institution most ethical worldwide. The bank refuteed the allegations | :31:10. | :31:17. | |
says 99.9% of its transactions were above bored and legal. It is maybe | :31:17. | :31:27. | |
known as these transactions were known as U-turns, they were allowed | :31:27. | :31:31. | |
to 2008, provided they weren't originateing from and ending up in | :31:31. | :31:37. | |
Iran. It is said Standard Chartered falsified details relating to these | :31:38. | :31:43. | |
transactions. Not everyone has lost faith. Standard & Poors, said it | :31:43. | :31:48. | |
wouldn't affect the credit rating and brokers in vest tech, told the | :31:48. | :31:55. | |
shares were still a buy. Standard Chartered has too strong a record | :31:55. | :32:01. | |
to be dismissed on basis of allegations that we cannot verify. | :32:01. | :32:05. | |
There are regulators involved in this, and there seems to be one | :32:05. | :32:08. | |
this, and there seems to be one that which took this drastic view. | :32:08. | :32:13. | |
We believe that the management is right, in defending its record, and | :32:13. | :32:16. | |
we hope that clarity will be achieved very soon. | :32:17. | :32:21. | |
Only last week, the Standard Chartered boss, Peter Sands, | :32:21. | :32:25. | |
boasted how his bank was boring and predictable, he is a favourite to | :32:25. | :32:30. | |
take over from the Bank of England. Finding a singiling banker or | :32:30. | :32:34. | |
regulator with no smudges is proving impossible. Why is it once | :32:34. | :32:39. | |
again the Americans are coming down hardest on British banks. A month | :32:39. | :32:48. | |
ago was Barclays, and his his, having gamble money. They've had | :32:48. | :32:53. | |
gambleism for hundreds of years, only we in 20 years have seen the | :32:53. | :32:58. | |
banking sector go off the rails. And, so I think they've developed a | :32:58. | :33:02. | |
rel effective set of regulators, that do the job properly, in the | :33:02. | :33:07. | |
way ours don't. It is interesting the Americans rather than the local | :33:07. | :33:11. | |
regulator, which appears to be exposing British banks, wrongdoing. | :33:11. | :33:14. | |
The Americans are exasperated that the British watchdog was snoozeing | :33:14. | :33:18. | |
rather than barking or biting. But the Americans are also, guilty of | :33:18. | :33:22. | |
appearing to push their foreign policy on foreign countries, and | :33:22. | :33:29. | |
companies. The US dollar is the delobl reserve currency, but should | :33:29. | :33:33. | |
every transaction be related from New York or Washington. Fifplt | :33:33. | :33:37. | |
allegations are proveen true, this is devastating. When you say | :33:37. | :33:42. | |
devastating, could this destroy the bank as we know it? Credibility of | :33:42. | :33:46. | |
the bank will be destroyed. The only way the bank in this operation, | :33:46. | :33:52. | |
can survive is to root out, strip out all the problems, rebuild from | :33:52. | :33:56. | |
ground zero and operate aid cording to strict controls. Standard | :33:56. | :34:00. | |
Chartered could face formal charges this month. If found guilty could | :34:00. | :34:04. | |
lose its banking licence in New York. But the real damage, would be | :34:04. | :34:08. | |
on its global reputation, which may never recover. | :34:08. | :34:14. | |
Here to discuss this latest blow to the City of London's reputation, | :34:14. | :34:22. | |
are Mark verks erman who runs a advising bankers, and the editor of | :34:22. | :34:26. | |
City AM, a question, do you think there's a sense which the Americans | :34:26. | :34:31. | |
are out to get us? There is a sense amongst some in the City is that is | :34:31. | :34:41. | |
:34:41. | :34:42. | ||
the case. UK banks have made mistakes, but eurozone have too. | :34:42. | :34:49. | |
Bad to think none of the problems originated there. In fact, the sub- | :34:49. | :34:52. | |
prime crisis was American, Fannie Mae and many of the problems were | :34:52. | :34:57. | |
from the US. Everybody is to blame for the crisis. This narrative that | :34:57. | :35:00. | |
is projected by Americans, that all of the problems are from London is | :35:00. | :35:07. | |
wrong. But, Mark, look at whose made the accusation, the New York | :35:07. | :35:10. | |
State Department of finance, a little known organisation, and | :35:10. | :35:14. | |
although different financial authorities, this one, has suddenly | :35:14. | :35:19. | |
come up with the accusation, which of course, Standard Chartered, | :35:19. | :35:25. | |
refute all but bar .1% of it? I find shocking is a organisation | :35:25. | :35:30. | |
like this, New York state, enterity has brought a major case. 30,000 | :35:30. | :35:35. | |
document they've looked at, years to do the examination, and the | :35:35. | :35:39. | |
investigation, these are extremely serious charges, they would never | :35:39. | :35:42. | |
have laid the charges without a strong, underlying evidence of | :35:42. | :35:48. | |
truth. What I find absolutely shocking, here, is the fact that | :35:48. | :35:55. | |
three, extremely large British banks in a row, Barclays, his his, | :35:55. | :36:01. | |
and now Standard Chartered, have demonstrated, lack of superprigs. | :36:01. | :36:05. | |
You think it is justifiable as it were hunt? It is not a hunt, the | :36:05. | :36:14. | |
evidence speaks for itself. Look at this language, from The New York | :36:14. | :36:15. | |
State Department of Financial Service. | :36:15. | :36:22. | |
Saying there's a result of this, a vulnerability to terrorists, drug | :36:22. | :36:27. | |
King pins, corrupt regimes, this is a ramping up of language is it | :36:27. | :36:33. | |
helpful? If you look language on page 20, where it says the CEO | :36:33. | :36:37. | |
assured the deputy the bank was compliant in all matters, and they | :36:37. | :36:44. | |
believed he lied to the examiners, here is a CEO... You had it coming, | :36:44. | :36:48. | |
three failures, is what Mark is saying? This is a claim from | :36:48. | :36:51. | |
effectively a prosecutor. The language is too over the stop and | :36:51. | :36:55. | |
extreme. It sounds like a lirks, trying to make a point. I have no | :36:55. | :37:00. | |
idea, the right and wrongs of this case F Standard Chartered did do | :37:00. | :37:05. | |
wrong, they need to be penalised. It is not UK banks, but it involves | :37:05. | :37:11. | |
up to 20 banks. But in terms of what is Standard Chartered, the | :37:11. | :37:19. | |
immediate impact is the share price st? It collapsed by 25%, regulator | :37:19. | :37:23. | |
accuses an institution of having done something, and immediately, | :37:23. | :37:27. | |
the institution is penalised regardless of whether the full | :37:27. | :37:33. | |
scale of what is claimed is true. disagree and it is missing the | :37:33. | :37:38. | |
point. The point is two-and-a-half to three years investigation, | :37:39. | :37:42. | |
30,000 documents, damning e-mails. Standard Chartered knew it was | :37:42. | :37:50. | |
comeing Yes and the instructions came from London. All of the | :37:50. | :37:55. | |
frauds: I am not defending chartered.. I'm not putting the | :37:55. | :37:59. | |
case to the prosecution, I'm saying the sefdz so damning, it is | :37:59. | :38:03. | |
difficult to say, how if at all, Standard Chartered could do | :38:03. | :38:09. | |
anything whore other than attempt to soften the blow. The bigger | :38:09. | :38:15. | |
story here is with HSBC, and now this, is that the damage it is | :38:15. | :38:21. | |
doing to the probety as the world's major centre? It shows massive | :38:21. | :38:26. | |
failures in British institutions, and regulatery failures, in the UK. | :38:26. | :38:30. | |
My point is it is not and just UK that have failed, there's | :38:30. | :38:34. | |
corruption all over the place in other countries and banks. Is this | :38:34. | :38:38. | |
damaging London in particular? is damaging London, because what's | :38:38. | :38:43. | |
happening is this type of tone at the top, this failure to supervise, | :38:43. | :38:48. | |
and this type of behaviour, has been not looked at in Britain, but | :38:48. | :38:52. | |
it is looked at elsewhere. And it is time for the UK regulators to | :38:52. | :38:59. | |
wake up and get justice, top as the HSBC and these organisations, not | :38:59. | :39:04. | |
only in British banks but every bank which break the law. Sthool | :39:04. | :39:12. | |
we're out of time. Robert Hughes Australian art critic, died today, | :39:12. | :39:17. | |
had a formidable capacity of criticism for architectture in the | :39:17. | :39:27. | |
:39:27. | :39:29. | ||
20th century. Of the American artist, he said slimy assurance his | :39:29. | :39:34. | |
gift was to view modern art of the priex of seismic shifts of the | :39:34. | :39:41. | |
century, as evidenceed in his TV series, shock of the new. He had a | :39:41. | :39:46. | |
vision of New York as a possible, though floued uetopa. New Yorkers | :39:46. | :39:52. | |
didn't take that seriously, then, today they still don't. Not taking | :39:52. | :39:59. | |
artists at their own lofty estimatation, this was his message | :39:59. | :40:04. | |
too, and nothing, not even dirty great reflections on window screens, | :40:04. | :40:09. | |
was going to stop him saying it Planners have tried done vert, | :40:09. | :40:14. | |
living towns into uetopa, they've destroyed them. It seems that like | :40:14. | :40:22. | |
plants, we do need the sit of others for nutrients. A malgam of | :40:22. | :40:28. | |
van knack later and scholarly, that's how one described the screen | :40:28. | :40:35. | |
persona and writing of Robert Hughes. He changed the way | :40:35. | :40:42. | |
television looked at art, and more importantly how viewers looked at | :40:42. | :40:46. | |
art, with his series The Shock of the New. | :40:46. | :40:52. | |
In so far a different wall is to accommodate a human bottom, that's | :40:52. | :40:59. | |
one of the Platonic solds, in ideal form but never made flesh. The fact | :40:59. | :41:04. | |
about it is august as they are, they are not really furniture, | :41:04. | :41:10. | |
they're sculpture. That was the thing, Hughes, compared human to | :41:10. | :41:14. | |
sculpture. Before him, they were grand men of the class who never | :41:14. | :41:19. | |
bought their own furniture. until then, ambitious, TV series or | :41:19. | :41:25. | |
not, had been dominate by Kenneth Clark, he was actually very posh. | :41:25. | :41:33. | |
And if you compare him for a moment with Bob Hughes, coming in from | :41:33. | :41:40. | |
another world, with the Australian directness, none of this posh | :41:40. | :41:50. | |
:41:50. | :42:01. | ||
genteel, behaviour, that was quite # You're just too good to be true # | :42:01. | :42:10. | |
Hughes brought the great outdoors. A great outdoors man, he could have | :42:10. | :42:17. | |
forgive Hughes the shark, It has a ghostly presence, it is no more | :42:17. | :42:23. | |
than a halibut on the fish shop. is not that Hughes hated modern art, | :42:23. | :42:30. | |
he loved it, a lot of it, but the concept actual art of the YBAs, | :42:30. | :42:35. | |
like hours, and Tracy emen. compares her erotic experiences to | :42:35. | :42:44. | |
those with Jesus on the cross, this would be news to Mel Gibson. | :42:44. | :42:50. | |
I worked harvesting, 50 years ago from school. You're the little boy | :42:50. | :42:56. | |
in Constable. He tried and fail to be a painter, which may have given | :42:56. | :43:02. | |
him an insight into the art like David Hoc any. I have a big project | :43:02. | :43:08. | |
coming up and I'm looking forward to it. You always have a project, | :43:08. | :43:18. | |
:43:18. | :43:23. | ||
it is called the world, mate. first of all, it seems, one of the | :43:23. | :43:29. | |
gifts was engaging people in the idea of discussion about art? | :43:29. | :43:36. | |
but he was he revelled in the juice of language. He had written poetry | :43:36. | :43:41. | |
in his day, actually. And in some way, he actually turned this | :43:41. | :43:48. | |
incredible, appetite for language, into a detackive instrument, into | :43:48. | :43:55. | |
communication. What he hated, among the many things, Bob was a great | :43:55. | :44:03. | |
hateer of the mertrirks and vain and nar cystic, and sank moan news, | :44:03. | :44:08. | |
and theatrical. He hated theory loaded discussions about art, and | :44:08. | :44:14. | |
hate the nose wringling finely dressed exquitityness of the art | :44:14. | :44:24. | |
:44:24. | :44:24. | ||
world. What he loved was the rough craft of art. He went along with | :44:24. | :44:28. | |
mike Michaelanglio, and Rembrandt that you got dirty with the meat of | :44:28. | :44:34. | |
art bf you could actually earn, could get a yield of true greatness. | :44:34. | :44:38. | |
Did he, where he did The Shock of the New, did he have a blind spot | :44:38. | :44:44. | |
for concept actual art. For example, we can talk about the other artists, | :44:44. | :44:53. | |
but also, what he decision liked, Joyce self Boys, he had no point of | :44:53. | :45:00. | |
concept actual art? He wasn't terrificly keen on it, if it was | :45:00. | :45:08. | |
providing a concept weren't banal. The concept she tried to deliver | :45:08. | :45:16. | |
was a sampleier, embroidery logan or hallmark card. What Bob minded | :45:16. | :45:21. | |
was the notion, that those did not headline themselves as concept | :45:21. | :45:26. | |
actual artists were devoid of intellect. He thought a great | :45:27. | :45:33. | |
artists were in their own way intellectual giept. The notion that | :45:33. | :45:38. | |
by calling yourself a concept actual art, means the concept was | :45:38. | :45:43. | |
interesting, he would cackle with laugh ter at. I just want to talk | :45:43. | :45:49. | |
about the fatal shore, when he looked at the history of Australia, | :45:49. | :45:55. | |
and thought there was nothing written about it, it became a | :45:55. | :46:00. | |
famous book? Deservedly so. Read the art criticism, but do not miss, | :46:00. | :46:07. | |
before you die, don't care how old you are, don't miss reading the | :46:07. | :46:17. | |
:46:17. | :46:17. | ||
Fatal Shore. It will change your when told about Hughes, it was told | :46:17. | :46:23. | |
with a musclar, physical sense of being in the shoes of desperate | :46:23. | :46:27. | |
people. You are with their desperation. And the thing about | :46:27. | :46:32. | |
Bob, for whom I grieve and mourn, he was irreplaceable union of head | :46:32. | :46:39. | |
and heart. He had a mind like a razor blade. But he felt it all in | :46:39. | :46:43. | |
that big, old communicating body of his. And the like of that, doesn't | :46:43. | :46:49. | |
often come along. Thank you very much. Well today be the death of | :46:49. | :46:53. | |
the composeer, Marvin Hamlish was announced he died at 68 after a | :46:53. | :46:57. | |
brief illness. He was best known for his work on films, and we leave | :46:57. | :47:02. | |
you tonight with him in 1977 singing the song that won him an | :47:02. | :47:07. | |
Oscar. # We were Neath innocent nor wise | :47:07. | :47:17. | |
:47:17. | :47:19. | ||
# As we are now # Now we hope to make the memories | :47:19. | :47:24. | |
last # But times been known to change | :47:24. | :47:31. | |
the past # Pressed within some yesterday | :47:31. | :47:41. | |
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# We'll stay Good evening, so far this summer, | :47:51. | :47:58. | |
we've had low pressure, weather over the next few days, we'll see | :47:58. | :48:04. | |
pressure rising. Starting to see signs of that in the north still | :48:04. | :48:09. | |
system to the south. This is 4.00 in the afternoon, sunshine across | :48:09. | :48:13. | |
northern England, with temperatures around 21 degrees. Maybe up to 22 | :48:13. | :48:19. | |
in London. Risk of one or two light showers along the south coast, but | :48:19. | :48:23. | |
for most, Wednesday afternoon shall be dry and bright and warmer than | :48:23. | :48:29. | |
it has over recent days. Increasing amounts of sunshine in Wales, and | :48:29. | :48:32. | |
light winds. Northern Ireland, well broken cloud giving sunny spells. | :48:32. | :48:38. | |
18 degrees in Belfast, but a few degrees higher than that, out | :48:38. | :48:43. | |
towards the west. West Scotland good spells of sunshine. A little | :48:43. | :48:49. | |
bit more kwhroued here and maybe one or two light showers. Inverness, | :48:49. | :48:52. | |
overcast, but Thursday, temperatures up to 18 degrees. | :48:52. | :48:55. | |
Edinburgh, some sunny spells in the forecast here. | :48:55. | :48:59. | |
Now although we may see cloud at times in London, temperatures will | :48:59. | :49:04. |