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Welcome to Reporting Scotland. Tonight: As the excitement builds | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
for the London Olympics, Andy Murray gets to carry the Torch on a | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
day of double distinction for Scotland. | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
Sir Chris Hoy will carry the flag for Team GB. | :00:31. | :00:41. | |
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To be able to lead your team out is a huge day. I have never been to an | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
Opening Ceremony before. Later in the programme: Back behind bars - | :00:48. | :00:58. | |
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the naked rambler appears in court. Our rotten weather means rotten | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
strawberries. I will be reporting from the | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
Chinese city where one of Scotland's greatest Olympians was | :01:09. | :01:17. | |
born. Sir Chris Hoy has been named as | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
Team GB's flag bearer at the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics. | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
Four years ago, he carried the Union Jack at the Closing Ceremony. | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
Our reporter is at the Olympic Stadium for us tonight. How was he | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
chosen? Well, welcome to London 2012. This is the first time you | :01:38. | :01:48. | |
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will be seeing us. Sir Chris Hoy was joined by his peers. All 542 | :01:51. | :02:01. | |
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team members of Team GB chose him. Scotland's greatest Olympian flying | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
the flag for sporting excellence. Four years ago it was the Beijing | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
Closing Ceremony. On Friday he has been chosen to lead the British | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
team into London's Olympic Stadium. It's a huge honour. I was delighted | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
when I heard yesterday and got the news. To billion able to lead your | :02:26. | :02:35. | |
team at any -- to be able to lead your team at any Olympics is a huge | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
deal. I have never been to an Olympic Opening Ceremony before. | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
This is quite a way to do it. Hoy is the Olympic gold medallist! | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
He's won three here and in three different races. Becoming the | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
Olympic flag bearer is extra special as he was voted for by | :02:59. | :03:07. | |
fellow athletes. The carry the flag is very emotional. It epitomises | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
what it is to be British. His is an extraordinary career. Chris Hoy has | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
competed in three Olympics from which he has brought home four | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
golds and Britain's new flag bearer has won 11 world titles. | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
fantastic choice. He helped us design the velodrome and hopefully | :03:31. | :03:39. | |
disappearing with a sack of medals from here! His honours aren't | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
confined to the cycling track. Knighted three years ago, it will | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
be Sir Chris Hoy at the head of the British team hoping to inspire and | :03:48. | :03:56. | |
lead by example. It wasn't just Chris Hoy who was | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
making the news today. Also Andy Murray and he is looking forward to | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
his second Olympic Games. Andy Murray was carrying the Olympic | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
Torch around Centre Court at Wimbledon with Venus Williams. | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
Murray is very much focused on taking part in his second Olympic | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
Games. This is not his first return to Centre Court since being beaten | :04:18. | :04:25. | |
in the Wimbledon final by Roger Federer. I went on a few days after | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
the final, I sat on the court for a little bit. It was nice coming back. | :04:29. | :04:38. | |
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There was a good crowd there. very exciting. BBC Reporting | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
Scotland will be there with you every step of the way. The whole | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
team is coming down this week. We are looking forward to seeing Sir | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
Chris Hoy on Friday night in front of 80,000 people carrying the flag | :04:51. | :04:58. | |
for Team GB and we will be reporting all of the build-up until | :04:58. | :05:07. | |
then. The man known as the naked rambler has appeared in court again. | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
Stephen Gough was arrested on Friday by Fife Police and appeared | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
in the dock today - naked - and pleaded not guilty to a breach of | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
the peace. He is known for baring all but there was barely a glimpse | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
of the naked rambler as he arrived at court draped in a blanket and | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
waving to the media. He is accused of breach of the peace in | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
Dunfermline on Friday. It's claimed police received three public | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
complaints. When they approached Mr Gough he refused to cover himself | :05:39. | :05:46. | |
or to move on. He walked into Court 1 naked today. He appeared before | :05:46. | :05:54. | |
the Acting Sheriff. Mr Gough represented himself and he made no | :05:54. | :06:04. | |
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plea for bail. Mr Gough was freed from Perth prison last week. Police | :06:05. | :06:15. | |
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opted not to re-arrest him. The authorities must now find a new | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
approach. You are watching Reporting Scotland. | :06:24. | :06:33. | |
Still to come: The smouldering recycling dump that's been burning | :06:33. | :06:40. | |
for weeks. Why our strawberry farmers say the | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
bad weather has cost them over �10 million. | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
It is another day at Ibrox. We hear from one of Scotland's | :06:48. | :06:58. | |
Olympic gold medal hopes. A political row has broken out over | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
how much renewable energy will end up costing consumers. UK Government | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
plans to promote renewables have been criticised by a committee of | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
MPs. They warn that long-term contracts aimed at reducing the | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
risk for investors in wind, wave and tidal power will mean costs may | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
be passed on to householders. This village was one of the first | :07:22. | :07:32. | |
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in the UK to run its own wind turbine to cut energy bills. | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
have put in a biomass heating system in the sports club. We have | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
provided free insulation for householders in the village. A | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
whole variety of different things to do with energy. On a day like | :07:50. | :08:00. | |
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today, I don't need to remind you that Scotland has an abundance of | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
renewables. For renewables to realise potential on a large scale | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
is going to require massive investment and persuading energy | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
companies to do this hasn't proven easy. The UK's Business Secretary | :08:14. | :08:22. | |
was on a tour of a renewable plant this morning. He is proposing a | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
system of subsidies to reduce risk for investors. There are more | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
turbines in the North Sea than in any other parts of the world | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
developing wind technology. This can happen on a big scale. With it, | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
thousands of highly-skilled jobs in Scotland and the rest of the UK. | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
But the House of Commons Energy Committee says proposals for a new | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
Energy Bill are in danger of botching these plans because, | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
without Treasury backing, companies are unlikely to commit to the | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
levels of investment needed. Consumers are the ones who will be | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
suffering the most because what we don't know is there is a partner in | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
this somewhere. We don't know who this partner is. It should be the | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
Government. The Treasury have been particularly backwards in telling | :09:09. | :09:19. | |
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us what they are doing. Most consumers face spiralling energy | :09:21. | :09:31. | |
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bills. The annual bill is around �1,310 compared to �1,105 in 2010. | :09:32. | :09:39. | |
This is an increase of �205 or 18.6% over the last two years. The | :09:39. | :09:46. | |
Energy Committee says the Energy Bill needs a major rethink. The | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
Scottish Government says its priority is to work with the UK | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
Government to ensure energy reforms continue to support Scotland's | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
climate change targets. Tributes have been paid to a | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
grandmother killed in a crash in Aberdeenshire. Muriel Duffy, 73, | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
died after the collision on the A90 near Blackdog yesterday. One man | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
has been treated for life- threatening injuries. | :10:13. | :10:20. | |
Now, nothing says summer quite like strawberries and cream. Hand in | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
hand with our rotten summer is rotten fruit! The bad weather has | :10:26. | :10:33. | |
cost farmers up to �10 million. Our reporter is in Perthshire for us. | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
Not quite the bumper crop the fruit growers would have been hoping for? | :10:36. | :10:45. | |
No, that's right. It's been another miserable day here. For the fruit | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
growers, the bad weather has serious consequences. You would | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
expect people to be out there picking strawberries. Instead, the | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
only work that's been going on here has been the dismantling of the | :10:57. | :11:07. | |
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poly-tunnels. The farmer has chosen to cut his losses for this field. | :11:07. | :11:15. | |
They are the taste of summer. Unfortunately, summer hasn't | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
arrived. Peter Thomson would expect these poly-tunnels to be full of | :11:19. | :11:29. | |
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strawberry pickers. It is very depressing. We have put all the | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
work in over three years to get to this stage and we are not able to | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
pick it now we have done the work. There will be some people deciding | :11:40. | :11:48. | |
it is not worth carrying on growing strawberries. It is estimated that | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
the bad weather has cost the industry in Scotland �10 million | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
and there's a straightforward explanation. On a day like this, | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
when it is pouring with rain, it is difficult to sell soft fruit. When | :12:02. | :12:11. | |
the sun is shining, it is easy. People want strawberries. They sell | :12:11. | :12:18. | |
themselves. It has been hard going this summer. On a day when the | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
dispute over milk prices was near the top of the political agenda, | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
there was sympathy from soft fruit growers but also some exasperation. | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
At the moment, we are getting 30% less for our strawberries than we | :12:31. | :12:41. | |
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were a year ago. I think that that figure has been in decline. | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
they can do is cut their costs for the lean times ahead and hope for | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
better weather. What can be done to improve the situation? People could | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
buy more strawberries. Perhaps understandably, the farmer I spoke | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
to today said that given the low price of strawberries they are | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
getting a particularly good deal. There is no doubt that the weather | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
plays a crucial part. This is the third or fourth bad summer the | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
fruit growers have had to face. Hopefully, there will be better | :13:13. | :13:23. | |
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news for them when we get the forecast later. | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
The The eight regional forces have being merged to cut costs. The new | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
Chief Constable will take charge of what will be the second largest | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
force in the UK with more than 17,000 officers when it gets up and | :13:41. | :13:49. | |
running next April. ScotRail will launch a half-hourly | :13:49. | :13:59. | |
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Sunday service on the Edinburgh- Glasgow route from September. | :14:04. | :14:12. | |
A distillery has been bought by a French drinks giant. It was re- | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
opened 12 years ago by a group of private investors. | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
The transport group Stagecoach has completed the purchase of parts of | :14:23. | :14:33. | |
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the bus firm Coach America. A famous carved stone has been | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
returned to its traditional home in a graveyard on Mull. Historic | :14:43. | :14:53. | |
Scotland had removed the 500-year- old from the parish church due to | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
erosion. A new genetic test is being | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
developed which could help save the Scottish wildcat from extinction. | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
The blood test will allow the number of pure-bred wildcats to be | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
counted and inthro deuced into the breeding programme -- introduced | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
into the breeding programme. The opening day for Scotland's | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
newest entertainment venue has been announced. The Hydro will open for | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
business on September 2nd next year. It will be used for concerts and | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
other live shows and will seat 12,000 people. | :15:30. | :15:40. | |
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There are more stories from your area on BBC Scotland's website. | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
Police investigating the theft of up to 50 laptop computers from | :15:45. | :15:55. | |
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Glasgow City Council, some of which were used by elected members. Of | :16:01. | :16:08. | |
the 50 machines taken, 26 were used by councillors with all but three | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
encrypted. A fire at an Aberdeenshire | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
recycling plant is causing a headache for locals. It is still | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
smouldering more than four weeks on. Some locals say they are worried | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
about their health and one family is wearing protective face masks | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
when the smoke blows in their direction. | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
Hardly an inferno, but this fire involving around 500 tonnes of | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
woodchipings at a recycling plant has been burning for 29 days now. | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
The smell of smoke in the air is pun gent all around, but tests say | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
it is not dangerous. This man lives nearby. The smoke has been so bad | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
at times that he and his wife and daughter have donned face masks. | :16:55. | :17:02. | |
When it is blowing over here and we are surrounded by smoke, when it | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
turns wet, it turns into a thick smog. I felt it would be better to | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
make myself and my family put these masks on. These pictures were taken | :17:14. | :17:21. | |
several weeks ago. The owner of the plant tried to tackle the fire but | :17:21. | :17:28. | |
it was estimated one million gallons of water would be needed. | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
We regret any inconvenience to the neighbours. We are sorry there is a | :17:33. | :17:42. | |
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smell of burning of woody material. It is under control. I think to let | :17:45. | :17:55. | |
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it burn out has been a sound decision. The Environment Agency is | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
happy to let this smouldering pile of woodchips burn itself out. The | :18:09. | :18:18. | |
only problem is no-one knows how long that will take. | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
The Scottish Olympic hero Eric Liddell, who inspired Chariots of | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
Fire, is to be honoured in China. The city of Weifang is planning a | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
new museum featuring his story. Liddell, who won gold at the Paris | :18:33. | :18:41. | |
Games, spent most of his life in China. | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
In the city where Eric Liddell was born, his influence can still be | :18:47. | :18:57. | |
traced. This former pupil, now 86, has paid tribute by writing the | :18:57. | :19:05. | |
first biography of Liddell in Chinese. He was a nice teacher. He | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
was very kind to the people. He was very, very good teacher for me. He | :19:11. | :19:21. | |
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was very, very - nobody can compare my former teacher. Liddell found | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
time for the sport that made him famous. Eric Liddell helped design | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
this athletics stadium and won one of his last gold medals on this | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
track. They are taking this place apart piece by piece to make way | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
for a commercial development in fast-changing China. When the | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
stadium's gone, Liddell will not be forgotten. The children of another | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
city, Weifang, are taught about Liddell in the school built on the | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
site of the camp where he was held prisoner in World War Two. He was a | :20:02. | :20:12. | |
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good guy? He was a good guy. He is remembered for making internment | :20:13. | :20:21. | |
bearable for many. Liddell taught the children to live with spirit, | :20:21. | :20:31. | |
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live with passion. There is an exhibition telling Liddell's story | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
and the building where he died is to become a larger museum including | :20:37. | :20:44. | |
a reconstruction of his prison room. It's Weifang's way of honouring the | :20:44. | :20:52. | |
Scottish Olympian who dedicated his life to helping others in China. | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
You can see more in Eric Liddell: A Champion's Life on BBC Two Scotland | :20:58. | :21:08. | |
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at 10.00pm tonight. Alasdair has the latest sport now. | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
Brian Kennedy released a statement this morning. In that statement he | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
said he has made a bid of �5.6 million for a controlling stake at | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
Rangers, a bid that he said was rejected back in June and he said | :21:35. | :21:43. | |
he has been in negotiations with people at Ibrox. Charles Green | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
released a statement a few hours ago saying he has never received | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
any offer from Brian Kennedy and he's not interested in selling a | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
controlling stake. Kennedy was last seen when his bid was rejected back | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
when Charles Green's bid was favoured by the administrators Duff | :22:04. | :22:11. | |
& Phelps. Rangers were still in negotiations with the SFA for | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
membership and the Stan-off between them and the SPL continues. SPL are | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
looking for Rangers' media rights and Rangers are looking for the SPL | :22:23. | :22:32. | |
to drop their investigation into dual contracts. | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
The only Scottish boxer heading to London 2012 says gold would make up | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
for the disappointment of winning silver at the Commonwealth Games. | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
Josh Taylor was reduced to tears after missing out on the top prize | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
in deli two years ago. Last time it was silver, it wasn't | :22:52. | :23:02. | |
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good enough. This time it has to be gold. Josh Taylor is on a mission. | :23:07. | :23:17. | |
I want to win. He is one of British boxing's brightest prospects and he | :23:17. | :23:24. | |
hates losing. If I got beat as a kid, I would throw the board. | :23:24. | :23:34. | |
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Taylor won silver in deli two years ago. -- Delhi two years ago. | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
don't want to feel that disappointment again. I don't want | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
to feel like a loser again. I want to be a winner. It is more than 50 | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
years since a Scottish boxer medalled at the Olympics. Josh | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
Taylor is pulling out all the stops to change that. I have a taste for | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
it. Josh Taylor, World Champion, Josh Taylor, European Champion, on | :24:00. | :24:09. | |
a bit of paper. Josh Taylor Olympic Champion... We will find out soon | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
enough whether Josh's notes are accurate. | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
The London Olympics dominate the sporting horizon. But it is two | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
years until Glasgow hosts the 2014 Commonwealth Games. To mark the | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
occasion, competitors past and present got a first glimpse of the | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
developing athletes' village in the city's East End and a former | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
Olympic hockey star is certain Glasgow will host a Games to | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
remember. As soon as the Closing Ceremony finishes, the athletes' | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
attention will turn towards Glasgow. It is a massive event for the | :24:45. | :24:54. | |
athletes. To have it on the home turf will be a big experience. | :24:54. | :25:04. | |
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is all the sport tonight. Here, it couldn't get any worse, | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
could it? Today has probably been could it? Today has probably been | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
the wettest day of the week! Good evening. That July sunshine was | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
pretty hard to come by north of the border today. We have had a band of | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
rain draped across the country. The picture for this evening is that | :25:24. | :25:32. | |
rain will sink southwards. That does mean a decent end to the day. | :25:32. | :25:42. | |
For central and southern Scotland, it stays cloudy and damp. | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
Temperature-wise, we stay on the mild side. Winds will ease down, | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
too. Tomorrow, it is a decent start to the day for the northern half of | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
the country. From the central belt southwards, it is a different story | :25:58. | :26:08. | |
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- cloudy with outbreaks of rain once again. | :26:10. | :26:19. | |
Once again, the best of the drier and brighter conditions will be | :26:20. | :26:29. | |
over the Northern And west rn Isles. Light -- and Western Isles. Light | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
winds tomorrow. Through the rest of the afternoon, that rain sinks | :26:35. | :26:43. | |
southwards once again. So that rain retreats and on Wednesday high | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
pressure builds in across the country. It is looking like the | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
Pick of the Week in terms of drier and brighter weather. On the whole, | :26:52. | :27:02. | |
it is looking fine and dry. For Thursday, rain returns to | :27:02. | :27:09. | |
southern Scotland. For the bulk of southern Scotland. For the bulk of | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
the country, it is looking decent. Thank you. Now, a summary of the | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
top stories: Jacques Rogge, the President of the International | :27:19. | :27:27. | |
Olympic Committee, said he had a simple message - he is confident | :27:27. | :27:33. |