:00:13. > :00:23.They go to war, and come back seriously injured. Are we failing
:00:23. > :00:24.
:00:24. > :00:34.to look after our wounded soldiers? getting the help they need. And
:00:34. > :00:42.
:00:42. > :00:47.expensive buildings. Rather than see ever again. I won't see that
:00:47. > :00:51.responds. I refute this idea that some how there is something wrong
:00:51. > :01:01.with charities being involved in the work that we do with injured
:01:01. > :01:02.
:01:02. > :01:08.service people, and disabled the general staff, and the charity,
:01:08. > :01:12.Nicola Adams becomes the first-ever woman to win boxing gold at the
:01:12. > :01:17.Olympics. But in the men's boxing, Newsnight asks whether it is always
:01:17. > :01:23.a fair fight. We spoke to people at the very heart of Olympic boxing,
:01:23. > :01:33.who alleged medals could be bought and sold for the right price here
:01:33. > :01:34.
:01:34. > :01:42.takes charge in October is hopefully going to tell us.
:01:42. > :01:49.Those who put their lives on the country, deserve all the financial
:01:49. > :01:52.give them. That's what the Ministry of Defence said today, in response
:01:52. > :01:58.to criticism, uncovered in a report by Newsnight, and the Bureau of
:01:58. > :02:06.have heard a bit about it already, here is the full story. A word of
:02:06. > :02:13.warning, this report contains some graphic images.
:02:13. > :02:20.British troops under fire. Bearing the brunt of an early Taliban
:02:20. > :02:30.offensive. The wounded returning home, maimed, scarred for life.
:02:30. > :02:30.
:02:30. > :02:34.Your whole treatment, you are get fixed. There is no proper care
:02:34. > :02:42.have died than fund his rehabilitation and his care. We
:02:42. > :02:52.have had to fight constantly for every aspect of Ben's life. The MoD
:02:52. > :02:53.
:02:53. > :02:56.will not see them again, I won't have left. A year ago, the Military
:02:56. > :03:02.Covenant was enshrined in law, setting out the Government's legal
:03:02. > :03:11.responsibility to serving personnel and veterans. But how well do we
:03:11. > :03:16.And military charities, with more than a billion in the bank, why are
:03:16. > :03:23.our wounded still saying they are not getting the help they need.
:03:23. > :03:30.A reception fit for a hero. Lance Bombardier Ben Parkinson, still
:03:31. > :03:39.serving, is one of the worst injuries, losing both legs, with
:03:39. > :03:46.He now lives with his mother, and stepfather. You want to stay in
:03:46. > :03:52.your bed not in the car? You send away a 22-year-old,
:03:52. > :03:58.incredibly fit, paratrooper, and what comes back is the same person,
:03:58. > :04:08.but the life is changed forever, You would think that nothing could
:04:08. > :04:11.
:04:11. > :04:15.fight for the basics that he needs to make some kind of life. So far,
:04:15. > :04:18.fewer than 2,000 service personnel have been seriously wounded in
:04:18. > :04:25.Afghanistan and Iraq. Many with horrific blast injuries from mines
:04:25. > :04:35.and IEDs. I remember just sprinting and then just massive, massive bang.
:04:35. > :04:37.
:04:37. > :04:47.And then I woke up on the floor. It when I was getting dragged against
:04:47. > :04:47.
:04:47. > :04:57.the floor, my brain was bouncing on Sometimes I wish I had, I was in
:04:57. > :05:06.
:05:06. > :05:11.agony. I went to sleep with an arm, longer there. I was just like,
:05:11. > :05:17.flipping hell. What do you do? 20 years old what
:05:17. > :05:19.do I do? And his treatment by the MoD was less than sympathetic. He
:05:19. > :05:29.remembers being fitted with his first prosthetic limb. The first
:05:29. > :05:29.
:05:29. > :05:39.one I got was white, it was like a small white hand this big, in that
:05:39. > :05:39.
:05:39. > :05:49.shape. I was like, OK? That is. I felt better in myself going out
:05:49. > :05:54.
:05:54. > :06:02.in public with it on. So I just had enshrined the Military Covenant in
:06:02. > :06:08.although capped. There are plans for new centres to retrain the
:06:08. > :06:12.injured. The Murrison Reviews of the last two years resulted in
:06:12. > :06:16.extra money for amputee prosthetics, and those suffering from post-
:06:17. > :06:21.traumatic stress disorder. But still those we spoke to, say the
:06:21. > :06:24.system is failing. The problem comes when you leave. When you are
:06:24. > :06:31.discharged from the forces. Everybody is terrified of this
:06:31. > :06:40.discharge date. Because you know that once the discharge comes, then
:06:40. > :06:44.you are back on the mercy of the NHS. We know many who struggle with
:06:44. > :06:53.sockets, which is the bit that actually fits on to the stump. The
:06:53. > :07:03.NHS thinking it is that it's up to 11 layers of socks on the
:07:03. > :07:03.
:07:03. > :07:09.stump to actually make it fit. the prosthetic arm he has been
:07:09. > :07:15.offered is not up to scratch. know I have a false leg and false
:07:15. > :07:23.arm, it doesn't mean I don't want walking around like this and that.
:07:23. > :07:26.I want walk as normally as I K that is megaimportant. I still want --
:07:26. > :07:35.as I can. That is mega-important, I want a proper fake hand, I don't
:07:35. > :07:44.just want anything on it. wasn't as good as the one I went
:07:44. > :07:48.there with. I got my own one, I it? �7,000. The might was wounded
:07:48. > :07:58.support for charities trying to plug the gap. For the first time,
:07:58. > :07:58.
:07:58. > :08:06.assessed the worth of military raise nearly �700 million a year.
:08:06. > :08:10.charitable purposes. Just over a billion sits in the bank. With
:08:10. > :08:20.newer than 2,000 seriously injured from recent conflicts, it begs the
:08:20. > :08:27.question, why are they not getting prominent charity, by far, is Help
:08:27. > :08:34.for Heroes. Its rise to fame and founded by Bryn Parry, a former
:08:34. > :08:36.army officer and his wife. I think saw some amazing young men with
:08:36. > :08:40.terrible injuries, and we were just moved, so there wasn't, I don't
:08:40. > :08:46.think our motivation was ever criticising, our motivation was
:08:46. > :08:49.purely trying to do something to help. We felt really inadequate,
:08:49. > :08:55.going to hospitals was the most shocking thing I had had ever done.
:08:55. > :09:02.It was a simple desire to try to do something.
:09:02. > :09:07.So far, Help for Heroes has raised �141 million. This is the charity's
:09:07. > :09:17.flagship project, Tedworth House in Tidworth, Wiltshire. This is the
:09:17. > :09:17.
:09:17. > :09:24.Home, leased from the MoD, it is a grade II listed building. �20
:09:24. > :09:29.million of oppulent luxury, it is a cross between Grand Designs and an
:09:30. > :09:36.English Heritage advert. Marble statues, stained glass windows,
:09:36. > :09:45.ornate plaster work. Renovated to the highest standards, with charity
:09:45. > :09:54.best, and I have an image of a mother or a wife coming down that
:09:54. > :09:59.drive to the best house in Tidworth officers' mess, not full of
:09:59. > :10:07.privileged people, but full of the rank and file. I know that mother
:10:07. > :10:13.appreciated. The vast majority of Help for Heroes spending is on
:10:13. > :10:18.these personnel recovery centres, building and services five bespoke
:10:18. > :10:21.MoD facilities around the country. The overall planned spend is �153
:10:21. > :10:31.million. Primarily for serving service personnel. Veterans can
:10:31. > :10:32.
:10:32. > :10:42.only return on a priority, case-by- criticism. It is coming from close
:10:42. > :10:46.
:10:46. > :10:56.who work there are great, and they But, I think they have got so much
:10:56. > :11:02.
:11:02. > :11:12.let's do it, rather than �100 million being spent on limbs for
:11:12. > :11:13.
:11:13. > :11:21.every single guy who has been going to see ever again, because
:11:21. > :11:24.Parkinson has been given unique status. While other seriously
:11:24. > :11:31.wounded soldiers are being discharged, he is still serving.
:11:31. > :11:39.And Help for Heroes, not the MoD, is paying for his physiotherapy.
:11:39. > :11:43.His mother, duornduornduorn, also questions spending so much charity
:11:43. > :11:49.money on capital construction projects. We find it difficult to
:11:49. > :11:55.see these buildings, these edifices that are being paid for by charity.
:11:55. > :12:00.It's our belief that the MoD, if there is building work, if there is
:12:00. > :12:08.the need for a location, that should be the MoD's responsibility.
:12:08. > :12:18.to support these guys, to support their families. We asked Bryn Parry
:12:18. > :12:28.whether spending millions on MoD use of charity funds, or should it
:12:28. > :12:28.
:12:28. > :12:38.it be wonderful, that is utopia. It wasn't going to happen, unless we
:12:38. > :12:47.
:12:47. > :12:57.public truly understands that the bulk of your money has gone on
:12:57. > :12:58.
:12:58. > :13:03.capital construction projects? That is exactly what we have been
:13:03. > :13:13.started. Corporal Harris Tatakis, tau some of the fiercest fighting
:13:13. > :13:14.
:13:14. > :13:24.the last day of his tour when he was deployed on one last offensive,
:13:24. > :13:25.
:13:25. > :13:29.burning flesh, it does smell of all black, the diesel fuel, the
:13:29. > :13:35.blast came up my lefthand side, it was all black and burned, I
:13:35. > :13:45.couldn't see any skin on it. I remember the pain from the leg.
:13:45. > :13:47.
:13:47. > :13:55.back together, with injuries to his was discharged just over a year ago.
:13:55. > :14:00.I left, and nothing. Not even a was doing and coping. I was having
:14:00. > :14:10.no treatment, my treatment had stopped, cold turkey.
:14:10. > :14:24.
:14:24. > :14:32.into his recovery centre in will solve the problem, that they
:14:32. > :14:37.are there for our injured and any more. They are right, the
:14:38. > :14:44.priority has to be the guys who are newly injured. But, just because
:14:44. > :14:51.you are discharged, doesn't mean five recovery centres, only two,
:14:51. > :14:54.outside the wire, or accessible to those no longer serving. And they
:14:54. > :15:00.are all primarily for serving service personnel. Veterans can
:15:00. > :15:10.only return on a priority case-by- case basis. General Lord Dannatt
:15:10. > :15:12.
:15:12. > :15:14.-- Lord Dannatt is the former head the recovery centres. He
:15:14. > :15:21.acknowledges there is a problem, and says a more co-ordinated,
:15:21. > :15:30.independent approach is needed. idea of a veterans' Tsar was mooted
:15:30. > :15:33.doesn't seem to much like it either. The Prime Minister would say he's
:15:33. > :15:35.chairing a cabinet committee in the best interests of the veterans and
:15:35. > :15:44.soldiers. I think someone who stands independent of Government,
:15:44. > :15:48.keeping Government up to the mark, mark and keep the charities in line,
:15:48. > :15:56.there is a case for that. fringe certificate pointed squarely
:15:56. > :16:02.spurred the likes of Help for Heroes to step up to the plate. But
:16:02. > :16:12.the charity has to work within perameters set by the MoD. And
:16:12. > :16:12.
:16:12. > :16:19.according to our worst wounded, charity money, they are still not
:16:19. > :16:25.getting what they need. It makes me absolutely everything for Ben. I
:16:25. > :16:35.it bearable at the time was the thought that we are doing this so
:16:35. > :16:37.
:16:37. > :16:43.nobody else will have to. I wish I to talk to the Secretary of State,
:16:43. > :16:51.Philip Hammond. Would you like to take this opportunity to apologise
:16:51. > :16:58.to those injured soldiers who feel let down by your ministry? Well,
:16:58. > :17:08.centres, I think, is one in which we can be very pleased with the
:17:08. > :17:16.result that is we are achieving. always be some people who are
:17:16. > :17:19.their particular, personal cases, and every case is different. Every
:17:19. > :17:24.plan is tailored, everybody is looked at as an individual. I can't
:17:24. > :17:28.say nothing has gone wrong for anybody, but the personnel recovery
:17:28. > :17:38.centres created have been a fantastic advance in the way we
:17:38. > :17:40.
:17:40. > :17:46.or back to worthwhile activity in civilian society. I want to ask you
:17:46. > :17:52.about some of the problems the case of a serving soldier,
:17:52. > :18:00.Lance Bombardier Ben Parkinson, he injuries, and some brain-damage. He
:18:00. > :18:04.is still a serving soldier, as you being paid for by charitable
:18:04. > :18:07.donations. Do you think that's acceptable? I don't know the
:18:07. > :18:16.circumstances around that particular issue. But I do know
:18:16. > :18:22.that we work very closely, not just the best possible treatment
:18:22. > :18:27.in a dedicated military facility, sometimes it will be in an NHS
:18:27. > :18:37.facility. Sometimes it will be in a third-party facility. Should it be
:18:37. > :18:38.
:18:38. > :18:40.there is something wrong with work that we do with injured
:18:40. > :18:48.service people and disabled veterans. Do you share the concerns
:18:48. > :18:58.of some vet ens, that -- veteran, that Help for Heroes money is being
:18:58. > :18:59.
:18:59. > :19:03.they think the better way would be understand the concern expressed,
:19:03. > :19:10.but I believe the personnel recovery centres have been a major
:19:10. > :19:14.and important innovation. They home they can go to for
:19:14. > :19:19.recuperation or rehabilitation, themselves. They need somewhere
:19:19. > :19:26.where their care can be co- ordinated. Although, in the case of
:19:26. > :19:32.Ted worth house in Wiltshire, Help doing it up, this is place with
:19:32. > :19:38.windows, yet as we heard in the report, some veterans are
:19:38. > :19:45.bit of a contradiction there? a listed building, and bringing it
:19:45. > :19:53.back into use has meant complying around listed buildings, including
:19:53. > :20:01.restoration. What Help for Heroes building, as a centre fitting for
:20:01. > :20:07.the heros they are going to look appropriate? MoD, which owns the
:20:07. > :20:12.building, is leaseing it for �1. Help for Heroes, really expect it
:20:12. > :20:18.to be spent on marble statues? have, of course, chosen to build a
:20:18. > :20:27.modern building for �20 million on a Greenfield site, that looked very
:20:27. > :20:36.much like any other NHS site or take a lease of �1 a year, of this
:20:36. > :20:44.to service. That is a judgment, it has to be for them to make that
:20:44. > :20:54.report a serving soldier, who is having a charity pay for his
:20:54. > :20:55.
:20:55. > :21:00.tell us they haven't been able to Are you going to take up the
:21:00. > :21:10.suggestion of Lord Dannatt, and appoint a veterans' Tsar to sort
:21:10. > :21:14.
:21:14. > :21:19.going on in the past, and has been resolved, thanks to Murrison murs's
:21:19. > :21:27.report, and the admission -- Murrison murs's report, anded
:21:27. > :21:37.to the NHS. You have put it to me that veterans can't get access to
:21:37. > :21:38.
:21:38. > :21:48.issues that need to be worked on. We have established a cross
:21:48. > :21:52.
:21:52. > :21:57.Government cabinet committee, led and we are only in early August. It
:21:57. > :22:01.notish just issues around veterans, but serving personnel and families.
:22:01. > :22:09.We have enshrined in law the Military Covenant, and we are
:22:09. > :22:15.making it work. It isn't going to Finally, I must ask you about the
:22:15. > :22:18.news about the body parts, and tissue from 30 soldiers killed in
:22:18. > :22:22.Afghanistan, were kept without permission from their families. How
:22:22. > :22:28.did that happen? We're investigating exactly how it did
:22:28. > :22:33.happen, and the army has issued an of those people involved. It
:22:33. > :22:38.shouldn't have happened. The taking of samples is routine, in some
:22:38. > :22:44.cases the retention of them is But it should always be done with
:22:44. > :22:51.permission of the next of kin. And reasons that we are not absolutely
:22:51. > :22:59.clear about at the moment, we are the army will want to make a
:22:59. > :23:01.happened, and how we can be confident that it won't happen
:23:01. > :23:07.again. Let's discuss all this further with
:23:07. > :23:13.some of the people we saw in that report, former Royal Marine, Ben
:23:13. > :23:19.McBean, injured in service in Afghanistan. General Lord Dannatt,
:23:19. > :23:23.2009, and the chief executive of Help for Heroes, Bryn Parry. What
:23:23. > :23:28.did you think of what the minister said? It didn't seem like he
:23:28. > :23:32.about. There is a lot of things going on, which he didn't seem to
:23:32. > :23:37.know about, or want to really comment on. I mean, don't get me
:23:37. > :23:43.wrong, the public aren't upset and I haven't heard anyone moan, I'm
:23:43. > :23:48.to do with it, that is irrelevant. You were complaining about the
:23:48. > :23:58.buildings? The buildings itself, what it is, I'm sat here now as an
:23:58. > :23:59.
:23:59. > :24:07.in Plymouth, I know there is a lot of people not happy with Help for
:24:07. > :24:16.something, and it is my job to. What it is, for example, people who
:24:16. > :24:22.they assume it goes to guys like way, shape or form, as a civilian
:24:22. > :24:29.they are seeing, and what they think is happening is it is being
:24:29. > :24:33.spent on bricks and mortar. That is bringing it up. Are you sure you
:24:33. > :24:37.speak for thousands of people? Definitely, I have e-mails, people
:24:37. > :24:43.have sent me letters since my injury, people have written to me
:24:43. > :24:53.and said things. I have had letters saying why are you a Help for
:24:53. > :24:54.
:24:54. > :24:59.Heroes, why don't they help the minister took the view, that there
:24:59. > :25:04.are thousands much -- of skefrs personnel veryfied with the
:25:04. > :25:14.treatment they receive, and no system is perfect, and we are
:25:14. > :25:15.
:25:15. > :25:22.helped hundreds, if not thousands have had since your article
:25:22. > :25:29.appeared in the news today. I sneed to point out Ben is a brill -- I
:25:29. > :25:37.need to point out Ben is a brilliant guy, and has Donmarthons
:25:37. > :25:44.and climbed Everest, we have to are here for you now. The people
:25:45. > :25:49.not the young Royal Marines who move on, we want to make sure they
:25:49. > :25:59.are ready before they move on. Once they do, and if they get out in
:25:59. > :26:03.
:26:03. > :26:10.veterans are still being seen on a priority case-by-case basis. In
:26:10. > :26:17.Tedworth it is still a majority of serving personnel? It is, we have
:26:17. > :26:22.had 44 through since we opened the temporary acomcation, out of 250
:26:23. > :26:28.servicemen. We have veterans working there on job creation
:26:28. > :26:35.schemes. We have had the former general coming in last week with a
:26:35. > :26:40.view to use the aqua jogger and tread mill. We are there for life.
:26:40. > :26:45.We do individual support, I have been looking at the figures, over
:26:45. > :26:51.2,000 individual cases of year-and-a-half. Amounting to over
:26:51. > :26:57.want to take up is Help for Heroes, and none of the serving charities,
:26:57. > :27:07.do prosthetics, that has to be the Government work. When we first
:27:07. > :27:08.
:27:08. > :27:14.started, we went in to try to help. Review, we were perhaps not
:27:14. > :27:17.providing a comprehensive support December 2010, please let me finish,
:27:17. > :27:21.we were enabled to get the Murrison Review to start, that support is
:27:21. > :27:27.now there. Thank you very much for that. I want to bring Lord Dannatt
:27:27. > :27:32.on the point of access to all of five of them, and the veterans
:27:32. > :27:39.them, because they are behind the wire, they are in garrisons. You
:27:39. > :27:49.have raised concerns about that in the past, are you happier now?
:27:49. > :27:51.
:27:51. > :28:01.while strategy on which the is Headly Court, and then what?
:28:01. > :28:09.
:28:09. > :28:16.Ministry of Defence saw the problem slow. If Help for Heroes and other
:28:16. > :28:23.charities had not put significant have happened. What is really
:28:23. > :28:33.serving wounded today, are the point of making the buildings
:28:33. > :28:35.
:28:35. > :28:43.young cohort, wounded in Iraq and those centres will be available for
:28:43. > :28:51.them. The big trick is to get the Ministry of Defence understand it?
:28:51. > :28:57.put rather more forcefully to Philip Hammond. We are clear,
:28:57. > :29:01.that they are for veterans. That is why, in the early days of Help for
:29:01. > :29:08.Heroes, it was thought it might only exist as a fund-raising
:29:08. > :29:12.charity for a few years. Then it Iraq and Afghanistan, and for the
:29:12. > :29:22.rest of their lives. Ben here, a wonderful chap, with the rest of
:29:22. > :29:29.
:29:29. > :29:34.have done lots of work for Help for speaking on behalf of loads of
:29:34. > :29:38.people, it is me with the balls to sit here and say it. People aren't
:29:38. > :29:44.moaning about prosthetic limbs, what it is about is people are
:29:44. > :29:51.unhappy, I know this, they are unhappy because, for example, the
:29:51. > :29:53.Government, who should be spending Tedworth House, it is their duty it
:29:53. > :30:01.is their problem, Help for Heroes should be saving their �20 million
:30:01. > :30:08.on other things. What would I spend it on? Limbs for example, so the
:30:08. > :30:15.guys don't ring me up today and say like that. Do you feel that
:30:15. > :30:21.the Ministry of Defence should be wonderful world if the Ministry of
:30:21. > :30:31.Defence and Government could do what is right or wrong or somebody
:30:31. > :30:32.
:30:33. > :30:36.British Legion, massive partner, we are working with all the service
:30:36. > :30:40.charities to create something in British history something as
:30:40. > :30:50.good as this has happened. It is a great shame that some people are
:30:50. > :30:50.
:30:50. > :30:59.into it. The support will be there for these guys' lives, that is
:30:59. > :31:05.important. It is not about knocking, and make it obsolete, that is not
:31:05. > :31:10.opinion, and people are saying they are not happy with Help for Heroes,
:31:10. > :31:17.you obviously can't take that, I'm not knocking it, or saying negative
:31:17. > :31:27.people who are happy with Help for Heroes. I gathered that. You have
:31:27. > :31:31.
:31:31. > :31:36.to crater for those who aren't are like me in the same boat.
:31:36. > :31:39.Thank you. The quest for gold at the London Olympics has excited the
:31:39. > :31:42.world. All that drama as athletes at the height of their powers
:31:42. > :31:52.compete to be the best of the best. Including Nicola Adams in the
:31:52. > :31:52.
:31:52. > :31:57.women's boxing today. But is relation, uncovered evidence of
:31:57. > :32:01.secret payments of millions of dollars from Azerbaijan, and there
:32:02. > :32:09.was claims that they could guarantee gold medals in boxing at
:32:09. > :32:15.the Olympics for Azerbaijan. As the closing bell sounds, Nicola
:32:15. > :32:22.to underline the superiority she showed. This is exactly what fans
:32:22. > :32:29.have come to see at Olympic boxing? Nicola Adams of Great Britain, has
:32:29. > :32:34.just made sporting history. She is the first Olympic boxing champion.
:32:34. > :32:39.tournament. But some of the men's results haven't been quite so clear
:32:39. > :32:49.cut. Eyebrows were first raised last Wednesday night, as Azerbaijan
:32:49. > :32:49.
:32:49. > :32:56.the boxer from ass zer by January in blue, went down, not once, not
:32:56. > :33:02.down, not once, not twice. But six times. And the referee still
:33:02. > :33:11.declared him the winner. The result, another blow for the integrity of
:33:11. > :33:17.Olympic boxing. (crowd boos) You can understand why
:33:17. > :33:27.the Japanese fighter is disgusted. He will go over and shake his
:33:27. > :33:27.
:33:27. > :33:36.opponent's hand, but an empty one. After an appeal by Japan, the
:33:36. > :33:41.decision was overturned, the boxer the referee was on the next plane
:33:41. > :33:45.home to Turkmenistan. But then, four days later, another boxer from
:33:45. > :33:55.Azerbaijan wins, astounding the audience. I don't believe it,
:33:55. > :33:56.
:33:56. > :33:59.whatsoever. How did they give that to the man from Azerbaijan.
:33:59. > :34:03.didn't agree with that decision at all. There is a lot of speculation
:34:03. > :34:08.flying around about the relationship between Azerbaijan and
:34:08. > :34:18.the World Series of boxing, and all sorts of things, and there were
:34:18. > :34:21.
:34:21. > :34:30.I really believe in my heart of hearts. Jim Neily, commentating on
:34:30. > :34:35.suprised a lot of people. He has had two iffy decisions, in his
:34:35. > :34:38.favour n my opinion. Belarus also appealed, this time it wasn't
:34:38. > :34:46.fighters in the finals, that means they are guaranteed two bronze
:34:46. > :34:52.they win the next bout, they will be fighting for gold. That won't
:34:52. > :34:57.we got hold of a confidential investment agreement between
:34:57. > :35:03.someone from Azerbaijan, and World Series Boxing, run by the same
:35:03. > :35:12.people in charge of Olympic boxing. The investor from Azerbaijan, paid
:35:12. > :35:15.$9 million to fund an almost quid pro quo, they said the deal
:35:15. > :35:22.was for two gold medals at the Olympics. So long as they got the
:35:23. > :35:32.medals, WSB would have the cash. What do they mean by that? Well,
:35:33. > :35:33.
:35:33. > :35:41.London Olympics, those medals. It care ass better by January. That
:35:41. > :35:51.Ivan is the head of World Series Boxing? We put it to them. We have
:35:51. > :35:57.
:35:57. > :36:06.very transparent organisation. We have done everything in our power
:36:06. > :36:16.ruled in a bad manner. We have witnesses who said you promised
:36:16. > :36:18.
:36:18. > :36:23.Azerbaijan two gold medals in that to us? I don't know who are
:36:23. > :36:33.the witnesses? The President of the International boxing association,
:36:33. > :36:35.
:36:35. > :36:43.allegations were untrue and transparent way, with a "zero
:36:43. > :36:47.Boxing has had its fair share of scandals and accusations of match-
:36:47. > :36:54.fixing, the most memorable at the Seoul Olympics, when Roy Jones
:36:54. > :37:00.fighter. Three judges were suspended. The word was booking
:37:00. > :37:05.authorities had been bribed $2 million by South Korea in return
:37:05. > :37:14.for two medals. Boxing has to be seen to be squeaky clean in London.
:37:14. > :37:21.Jones scandal, the whiff of that the IOC would have to look
:37:21. > :37:30.seriously at boxing. If the British heavyweight, Anthony Joshua, and
:37:30. > :37:35.the Azieri come through to fight, it won't be the first time. They
:37:35. > :37:41.met in Azerbaijan when Joshua lost. for the Olympic Games. But this
:37:41. > :37:51.time, their match will come under more scrutiny than ever before.
:37:51. > :37:52.
:37:52. > :37:57.Tonight we have received a Azerbaijan, in exchange for two
:37:57. > :38:02.gold medals at the Olympic Games in London is untrue. He said he has
:38:02. > :38:08.worked extremely hard over the last six years to clean up amateur
:38:08. > :38:18.There is only one way to win a gold at the Olympic Games, that is to
:38:18. > :38:20.
:38:20. > :38:30.happens after all the athletes park like no other. What is
:38:30. > :38:33.
:38:33. > :38:43.happening to those builders we have for the masses. Continuing our look
:38:43. > :39:10.
:39:10. > :39:15.we look at what's going to happen �6 billion spent on glistening new
:39:15. > :39:23.venues for this summer's games. What happens when those long
:39:23. > :39:31.memories of the golds fade away. established itself, and why not the
:39:31. > :39:39.Olympics again! Come on, does made an unanswerable case for
:39:39. > :39:47.next 20 years. Another Olympic bid front of the world's media, Boris
:39:47. > :39:52.Johnson set out his future plans for the Olympic site today. We can
:39:52. > :40:02.secure a transport, housing infrastructure, sporting cultural
:40:02. > :40:09.London for these games. And turn come. When it comes to the Olympic
:40:09. > :40:16.Park theself, all the flat-packed dismandled. Eight permanent
:40:16. > :40:21.structures will remain. The stadium athletics, and maybe for football
:40:21. > :40:30.as well. The velodrome and BMX track will also stay, along with
:40:30. > :40:34.London's East End, wasn't just about stadia and infrastructure, it
:40:34. > :40:38.was about creating decent, affordable housing, in one of the
:40:38. > :40:43.capital. Now the end is in sight, real questions are being asked
:40:43. > :40:49.about London's ability to deliver on that promise. On July 27th, 2013,
:40:49. > :40:53.exactly a year after the Opening Ceremony, London should get a brand
:40:53. > :40:58.new open space. Another �300 million is being spent developing
:40:58. > :41:04.what will be called the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Thousands
:41:04. > :41:12.of new homes will eventually be built on the site. The first set of
:41:12. > :41:17.properties converted from flats in sold at the going rate, the other
:41:17. > :41:22.half will be called "affordable homes", a mix of council housing,
:41:23. > :41:27.shared ownership, and artificially controlled rents. But, that
:41:27. > :41:33.definition of "affordable", depending on how much you earn.
:41:33. > :41:39.homes can be rented out at up to 80% of the market rate. In this
:41:39. > :41:49.part of London, that could mean �750 a month for a two-bedroom flat,
:41:49. > :41:52.
:41:52. > :41:59.little more than a dream. The years. Affordability does not mean
:41:59. > :42:09.what it used to mean. You are salaries of �50,000 plus to get
:42:09. > :42:10.
:42:10. > :42:15.have got 35,000 people on the housing waiting list. Over 3,000 in
:42:16. > :42:21.entry ticket to the race? They just don't have it. Locals worry that
:42:21. > :42:31.any new flats blil built in the park may be affordable -- built in
:42:31. > :42:34.
:42:34. > :42:44.is responsible for developing the He says building larger states of
:42:44. > :42:46.
:42:46. > :42:55.don't want to return to council isn't the right way to go. Having
:42:56. > :43:00.moment. It is the sale of private housing that will enable the London
:43:00. > :43:05.Legacy Development Corporation to fund the construction of the
:43:05. > :43:13.affordable housing. It is basic The creation of the Olympic Park
:43:14. > :43:19.City and the West End, of meant to end up in deprived inner city areas.
:43:19. > :43:29.The trick will be to do that without pricing local people out of
:43:29. > :43:32.
:43:32. > :43:37.London's new golden quarter. the London Borough of Kensington
:43:37. > :43:47.people itching for the gaiplts to be over and out of the way?
:43:47. > :43:50.way? I would love them to go on. back to what a tip that area was
:43:50. > :43:59.five or six years ago, the transformation has been remarkable.
:43:59. > :44:09.our job to carry on another stage of transformation, and prepare it
:44:09. > :44:09.
:44:09. > :44:18.have jobs and work. What about affordable housing, what does
:44:18. > :44:25."affordable" mean, you heard the current environment. We do have a
:44:25. > :44:30.target across the whole park, of 35% affordable housing, the
:44:30. > :44:35.under different types of different definition, some social rented,
:44:35. > :44:44.just like council housing, but run by housing associations. You saw
:44:44. > :44:52.housing association. Some will be markets. We do want a mixed and
:44:52. > :44:58.of money would people need to get People going into social rented
:44:58. > :45:06.housing don't necessarily need any social rented housing are normally
:45:06. > :45:13.appeal to a different mix of private housing on the park. No-one
:45:13. > :45:21.difficulty in this area, in this if you are a shopkeeper. If you
:45:21. > :45:28.succeed in this area, and you want to stay and buy a house and have
:45:28. > :45:32.area. We want to make sure the people who are successful in Newham,
:45:33. > :45:42.the shopkeepers, the businessmen, choices and opportunities to stay
:45:43. > :45:48.
:45:48. > :45:58.You raise a general question, of course, under Government policies,
:45:58. > :45:58.
:45:58. > :46:05.what are the criteria of affordable, to answer -- in a position to --
:46:05. > :46:09.ambition targets for different types of affordable housing and we
:46:09. > :46:11.Do you think you will make a dent in the social housing list in
:46:11. > :46:16.Newham of 35,000 people? I think we will, and maybe a bit more of a
:46:16. > :46:20.dent. This is a London-wide problem, the main reason that housing is so,
:46:20. > :46:23.pensive in London, is there is an awful lot of demand, and not
:46:23. > :46:28.sufficient supply. We actually need tens and tens of thousands,
:46:28. > :46:31.hundreds of thousands of new homes in the capital, over a lengthy
:46:31. > :46:35.period, in order to accommodate people affordably, that is the
:46:35. > :46:40.reason the prices are so high, if you are in the private sector. We
:46:40. > :46:44.are, nonetheless, doing what we can, there are going to be over 10,000
:46:44. > :46:47.homes on the Olympic Park, if you include the athletes' village in
:46:47. > :46:51.that, there will be jobs available for people as well. Many of those