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14 people are dead after a gunman opens fire at a cinema in America. | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
As many as 50 others are hurt, some critically injured with gunshot | :00:13. | :00:21. | |
wounds. Terrified eyewitnesses speak of a helmeted man walking | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
into the theatre and opening fire at random A man in his 20s is under | :00:25. | :00:33. | |
arrest. When she turned around, or she saw was the guy is slowly | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
making his way up the stairs and just firing. Just picking random | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
people. A man in his 20s is under arrest. Police are searching his | :00:43. | :00:51. | |
home for more weapons. The suspect, who is in custody, made statements | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
about possible explosives in possession in his residence. We'll | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
have all the latest on America's latest gun tragedy. Today's other | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
news. The head of the Syrian rebel army says he believes President | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
Assad will be gone within 30 days. Dairy farmers blockade depots | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
across England to protest at the price they're paid for their milk. | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
Olympic security. Ministers say there's been no compromise over | :01:18. | :01:27. | |
security. Good evening, the Prime Minister weighed in... And Sir | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
Alistair Burnett, the face of ITV's News at Ten for two decades, has | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
died at the age of 84. On BBC London. As a grab for the Olympic | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
torch is made, Londoners are warned about breaching the relay security. | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
And Scotland Yard says it'll be writing to Ian Tomlinson's family | :01:40. | :01:50. | |
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Good afternoon. At least 14 people have been shot dead in Denver, | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
Colorado, after a gunman opened fire at a midnight premiere of the | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
latest Batman film. The number of injured could be as high as 50. Eye | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
witnesses have spoken of a man wearing a mask, slowly making his | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
way up the stairs and then firing, picking at random people. Police | :02:24. | :02:31. | |
have arrested the suspected gunman, he was found in the car park nearby. | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
It was at 1230 that people began frantically calling the emergency | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
services. Witnesses reported seeing a gunman wearing a gas mask, a | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
helmet and body armour. One witness said he was firing as he made his | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
way up the stairs of the Cinema, picking people at random to shoot | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
at. Police say he then either made his way through an exit into the | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
theatre all appeared behind the screen that were showing the Batman | :02:54. | :03:03. | |
film. He then fired into the crowd. We were right there in the 5th of | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
role. People were scrambling left and right, my children got out | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
first near my wife. We got down on our hands and knees. The people in | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
the stadium's seats, they were sitting ducks. We have to get out | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
of there as quickly as possible. Somebody behind us, may be a | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
straggler, was hit. My wife had fallen to the ground, partially | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
trampled. I've got her up and out of there and we took off. This is | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
unverified mobile phone video, apparently taken inside the lobby | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
of the cinema shortly after the shooting began. Witnesses say they | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
heard explosions and a hissing sound, and a canister of gas was | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
released. We've seen three different patients in our | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
department with complaints of burning of their eyes and skin, | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
mouth and nose. Each of those patients were decontaminated and | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
released. Police have not named the suspect but American media are | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
reporting that he is 24 years old. Police caught up with him in the | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
car-park. They say he didn't resist arrest. They found a rival, handgun | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
and a third weapon inside the cinema. He told the police he had | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
explosives at his apartment, which was then searched by officers. | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
Police are also checking cars for explosives. At this time there is a | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
residence in North Aurora, it is an apartment building that we have the | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
evacuated. We are dealing with the potential that their explosives | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
inside. We are concerned about explosives in the parking lot, | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
hence the parking lot is sealed off. The numbers reported victim was | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
just six years old. Her condition is not known. President Obama has | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
released a statement saying that he and the first lady, Michelle Obama, | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
are shocked and saddened by the horrific and tragic shooting. The | :04:54. | :05:02. | |
people of Aurora, he said, are in their thoughts and prayers. You | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
heard the voice in that report of someone who was in the cinema when | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
the attack happened. You were there with your family, the children | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
included. Yes, I was. Talk us through, when did you first realise | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
that this wasn't some sort of a stand and that something terrible | :05:19. | :05:26. | |
was actually happening? Once the smoke grenade went off, that's when | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
I began to wonder. Then a shadowy figure emerged from the corner of | :05:32. | :05:39. | |
the theatre with his night vision and armour and everything. He had | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
just broken fire. I've never seen anything like it in my life. It was | :05:45. | :05:55. | |
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very sad. With his military weapon, his military stuff. Very bad. I'm | :05:57. | :06:05. | |
up right now. It happened at 1215. I'm on 5:30am our time in Colorado. | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
I can imagine that you probably are still in shock. How are your | :06:10. | :06:17. | |
children dealing with what has been a terrifying ordeal for them? | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
children just went to sleep about 30 minutes ago. They've been | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
watching the news report. They don't want to go back to the movies. | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
My wife does not want to go back to the movies. She is shaken. She's | :06:33. | :06:40. | |
been crying off and on. To be separated from your children in | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
something like that is very devastating. And then to be | :06:44. | :06:51. | |
reunited with the children... We are all left with questions of why? | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
Why did this happen? What is so bad in this world? I know the world has | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
a bad economy globally, but to take this many lives at a movie theatre | :07:02. | :07:09. | |
- who does that? I don't know what to say. I'm sure that a lot of | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
people will be echoing those thoughts right now. Thank you for | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
joining us. We will lead to get back to your family and hopefully | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
get some support in the coming days. I have some breaking news now. The | :07:20. | :07:28. | |
police are releasing the name of the gunmen. They have named him as | :07:28. | :07:38. | |
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We can join our correspondent now. Reaction from the President to | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
these events, and that news coming in now, confirmation of his name. | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
Is there any more information you have been receiving? President | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
Obama was woken up at Dawn in Washington by one of his national | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
security advisers, John Brennan, who informed him about the shooting. | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
About three or four hours after it had happened, we heard in this | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
report from our colleague that President Obama has called for | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
unity at this time of tragedy. He has expressed his shock at what had | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
happened. But it's always good to know that this call for unity in | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
the United States, for the United States and all American people to | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
stand together as a family, at a time when the country is divided in | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
the midst of a very acrimonious political campaign ahead of the | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
presidential election. We also heard from Mitt Romney, President | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
Obama's Republican rival, who is also calling for everyone to come | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
together, calling for the gunman to be brought to justice as soon as | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
possible. Details are still emerging. They've released the name | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
of the gunmen. They also say that they believe he acted alone, but | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
they are still investigating. Crucially, they say they believe | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
this is not connected to militant terrorism, as we have sometimes | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
seen in the past. These shootings happened in the US. This is | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
possibly the worst one of sins the Virginia Tech shooting on the | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
university campus in 2007, when 32 people were killed. In today's | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
other news, fierce fighting between government forces and the rebels is | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
continuing in Damascus. Ahead of the Syrian rebel army says he | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
believes President Assad will be gone within 30 days. Thousands of | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
refugees are now trying to flee their country. Our correspondent is | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
on the turkey Syria border and will be joining us shortly. Now, his | :09:41. | :09:48. | |
report. In recent days the various rebel units that make up the Free | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
Syrian Army have become much more confident and daring. Launching | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
more attacks in several parts of Damascus and other major cities. | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
But it is not all going their way. Syrian state television has been | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
showing what it says is the clean- up of Midan, the streets of this | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
Damascus suburb now free of rebel fighters, or terrorists, as the | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
pro-asset TV channel caused them. Despite such setbacks and the still | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
overwhelming strength of government troops, increasingly vocal and | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
visible rebel leaders insist this is the endgame, and that the Assad | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
regime's days are numbered. TRANSLATION: In the name of God, | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
the compassionate and merciful, all the officers and members of the | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
Free Syrian Army congratulate the Syrian people on the onset of the | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
Blessed month of Ramadan. In the hope that this month will Asher in | :10:42. | :10:50. | |
certain victory, God winning. -- willing. The Free Syrian Army has | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
claimed to have captured several border crossings. In the self with | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
Iraq, and here in the north with Turkey, where rebels defaced a huge | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
poster of Bashar Al-Assad. Beyond this Turkish frontier is three | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
kilometres of No Man's Land and then the Syrian border itself. But | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
who is in control their changes day-to-day. What we know is that | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
the Syrian government is withdrawing its troops from the | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
periphery to deal with the crisis in Damascus. And in some cases, | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
that is allowing the rebels to take control. President Assad rarely | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
appears or speaks in public these days. A made speculation about his | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
future, reports from France said the Russian ambassador there had | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
said Assad was now prepared to quit in a civilised way. Reports that | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
were dispersed by the Information Ministry in Damascus. The regime | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
could still crumble from within, with the many new free Syrian army | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
units forming in Damascus could take or district. Either way, has | :11:51. | :11:59. | |
the battle for Syria now entered a critical phase? What is the | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
situation there at the moment? There is still heavy fighting going | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
on on the other side of the frontier. Perhaps less in daylight, | :12:08. | :12:15. | |
because now is the Muslim holy run -- month of fasting, Ramadan. But | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
the border is changing hands rapidly. This is also a | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
humanitarian crisis. The UN refugee Council body has said today that | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
more than 30,000 Syrian refugees crossed into Lebanon in the last | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
couple of days. There are 100,000 refugees here in Syria, with a | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
similar number in Jordan. All of the fighting going on, there seems | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
to be no end of it in Syria, no side seems to have the upper hand | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
yet, and still all these refugees fleeing the fighting. Lets pick-up | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
of our correspondent who has been watching events from neighbouring | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
Lebanon. There is that prediction that the President will be gone in | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
30 days. What is your assessment? Well, I wouldn't like to guess. | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
Certainly the impression is that things have leapt forward into a | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
new phase, a different level. For months and months there was a basic | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
deadlock between what seemed to be an irresistible force, certainly a | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
revolution that wouldn't go away, and an immovable object, a regime | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
that simply refused to budge. That seems to have changed. The | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
revolution or the uprising has taken on a new momentum. I'm | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
hearing that those clashes in the heart of the Masters, near the | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
central, just beside the police station in the centre of town, | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
explosions and shooting being heard from there. This is not going away. | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
From the point of view of the regime, it does seem to be entering | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
into a fatal struggle. If you watched Syrian TV, it has endless | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
pictures of the army leaping through burning hoops and that kind | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
of thing, posing as the champion of the protectors of the nation. | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
Whether it is against external enemies who they are claiming are | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
behind this campaign against them, or against domestic, what they | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
called terrorism, they are calling them mercenaries, but they have | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
been a -- they have been unable to root them out of their own capital. | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
Hundreds of dairy farmers have blockaded milk depots across | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
England overnight in protest at the prices they are paid. They are | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
outside several sites, including Leeds, Ashby-de-la-Zouch in | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
Leicestershire and Bridgwater in Somerset. There is a further | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
protest Dunnell plant. Farmers say they are receiving up to 5p a litre | :14:27. | :14:34. | |
less formal than it costs to produce. More than 200 farmers | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
blockaded a processing plant with tractors and trailers in Bridgwater | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
last night, in a protest about the price they receive for milk. | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
Farmers in other parts of the country, including here in Leeds, | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
also took to the streets, as they say being paid less will force many | :14:53. | :15:01. | |
out of business. One of those protesting was James Batman. His | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
family have farmed here on the outskirts of Wales for three | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
generations. Heavy rainfall means he is already having to pay more to | :15:08. | :15:15. | |
feed his herd indoors. He claims cuts to milk prices now means he | :15:15. | :15:23. | |
stands to lose up to �50,000 a year. I've got children, they are very | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
keen, they want to be involved in it. It would break my heart to see | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
that they didn't have a chance to be in this industry. We pay around | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
52p for a litre of milk at a supermarket. It costs farmers | :15:38. | :15:47. | |
around 30p to produce. Some dairies will soon only pay 25p. Processing | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
plants say paying less for milk is a last resort, and that they will | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
do anything they can to support farmers, including cutting their | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
own costs. The supermarkets claim the processors are to blame. But | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
the National Farmers' Union says some supermarkets, including | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
Morrisons, ASDA and the Co-op, are squeezing farmer's margins. | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
processes are left losing money. The only place they can turn, they | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
think, is to farmers. I'm saying, no, you've got to look to the | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
retailers to step up to the plate and find more money. You can't | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
squeeze blood out of a stone, and that is what they are trying to do | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
with the industry. Dairy farmers are determined to keep up the | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
pressure. They say that this campaign is far from over. It is | :16:32. | :16:40. | |
expected there will be more Our top story this lunchtime: Of 14 | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
people have been shot dead after a gunman opened fire at a cinema in | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
Denver, Colorado. As many as 50 others are injured. Coming up, | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
bidding to become the first Briton to win the Tour de France, Bradley | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
Wiggins has the end in sight. Later on BBC London, police | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
continue their search for a missing man after a boat capsized in Surrey. | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
And the Surrey pensioner who carried the Olympic flame in 1948 | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
gets to do it all again for 2012. We will also have the weather | :17:07. | :17:17. | |
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Hundreds of the most serious sex offenders in England and Wales will | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
have to take a lie-detector tests in future as part of a programme to | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
monitor their behaviour. Ministers say they are extending a pilot | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
scheme carried out in the Midlands which has helped probation staff | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
reduce the risk posed by sex offenders in the community. Matt | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
Prodger reports. Have you gone anywhere to access | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
any person under the age of 16? convicted paedophile undergoes a | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
polygraph, or lie-detector test. This was a pilot study, but it will | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
soon be mandatory for 750 of the most serious offenders once they | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
have served their prison sentences. When sex offenders are released | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
from prison, they continue to be assessed for risk, and getting | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
honest answers from then is crucial to working out whether they are in | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
fact need to be back behind bars. Many of these inmates at a | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
dedicated sex offender prisoner will be released under certain | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
conditions, to stay away from children, for example. Failing a | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
polygraph test alone will not be enough to put them back inside, but | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
the man who pioneered the tests says offenders are more likely to | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
tell the truth. Two aspects, it encourages them to disclose more | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
information and to work more closely with the probation officers, | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
but also whether the passing or failing the test gives important | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
information about how well they are sticking to their conditions. | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
the pilot study, nearly a third of offenders failed the polygraph | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
tests. Half of them did not, and the rest of the tests were | :18:52. | :19:00. | |
If parliament approves, then the tests will be introduced next year | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
for the most serious offenders to be released from prison in England | :19:04. | :19:11. | |
and Wales. London 2012 chairman Lord Coe has | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
promised a safe and secure games, despite the security guards fiasco. | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
An extra 3,500 troops were drafted in last week after G4S admitted a | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
shortage of staff, and a further 1,200 troops are now on standby. | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
Military personnel have started to be deployed on site, as final | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
preparations for the games get under way. The latest now from | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
Daniel Boettcher. A first look inside the | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
accommodation being set up for extra military personnel brought in | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
because private firm G4S has been unable to provide enough security | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
guards for the Olympics. Tobacco Dock is an exhibition and | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
conference venue. Inside, row upon row of beds are being prepared. And | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
outside, under canvas, catering facilities are being set up. The | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
Defence Secretary, Philip Hammond, was shown around the facility as | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
the man in charge of co-ordinating the armed forces' involvement in | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
the Olympics said that those brought in would get back any leave | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
they have had to cancel. What we will do is make sure that they | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
could leave as soon as they have finished. It will not be the lead | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
they wanted in the summer with their children and families, but | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
they will get leave, and they will get recognition by being looked | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
after properly and being told what a fantastic job they have done. | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
More soldiers will be arriving today. The centre will house 2,500 | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
military personnel of the 3,500 been brought in. A further 1,200 | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
are now on standby. The London 2012 chairman, Lord Coe, says people | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
involved in the games are overwhelmingly positive about what | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
they are doing. This morning, he visited the Olympic Park security | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
centre with Theresa May, the Home Secretary insisting security had | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
not been compromised. Obviously, we are constantly monitoring, | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
constantly looking at how we are ensuring that safety and security, | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
but people will be ever to come to these Olympic Games, enjoy them for | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
the great sporting event that they are, at be able to feel safe and | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
secured. As final preparations for the games continue, a new concern, | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
thousands of Home Office staff belonging to the PCS Union are due | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
to go on strike the day before the Games open, including staff from | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
the UK Border Agency. Anyone with a connection, this way, please! | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
is Heathrow Airport during a strike last November it has contingency | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
plans. The union says it will meet ministers any time in the next week | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
to avert the strike. Today at Heathrow, more athletes arrived, is | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
the team from South Africa. There is now just one week to go before | :21:50. | :21:57. | |
the Games begin. OK, let's hear now from Jane Hill, | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
who was at the Tower of London, lots of things going to be | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
happening there later this afternoon, talk us through it. | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
Yes, in just a few hours' time, Kate, the Olympic flame will arrive | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
here at the Tower of London, and so many milestones in his Olympic | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
journey, but this is another one, because it marks its arrival in the | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
host city. Later this evening, a Royal Navy helicopter will fly up | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
the Thames, over Tower Bridge, over the Olympic rings, and then it will | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
be brought down from the helicopter by a marine who has been chosen for | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
that task because he was injured on active service in Afghanistan. The | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
formal ceremony, all the dignitaries here tonight, Lord Coe, | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
as you would expect, the chairman of LOCOG, Boris Johnson, the flame | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
will be handed over to them, and then it is taking him to the Jewel | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
House, where it could not be any safer, could it? Home to the Crown | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
Jewels, Kev saved there for so many hundreds of he is, the flame will | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
remain here tonight in the Tower of London, in this ancient fortress, | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
before early tomorrow morning it begins its journey through London, | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
through all 33 London boroughs. It all starts here at the Tower of | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
London this evening, a little bit before 8 o'clock, and we will have | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
full coverage of that dramatic arrival and the ceremony all | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
evening on BBC News. Yes, the BBC News Channel and the | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
main national bulletins, banks, Jane. Veteran journalist and | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
broadcaster Sir Alastair Burnet has died at the age of 84. He was best | :23:31. | :23:38. | |
known as the presenter of ITV's News at Ten. He switched to | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
television full-time after he had a career in print journalism. Rebecca | :23:42. | :23:52. | |
He was a trusted face on television for years. Sir Alastair Burnet | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
helped launch ITV's News at Ten in 1967, the country's first half hour | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
television news programme. And he presented ITV's coverage of | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
historic live events, including the Apollo 11 moon landing. There it is, | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
the Old Moon, the one that the cow jumped over. He also worked at the | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
BBC, anchoring two general election programmes in 1974. Former | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
colleagues have been remembering Sir Alastair Burnet today. He gave | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
me a job, and he was my inspiration and my mental. I think he was the | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
greatest news broadcaster this country has ever produced, and he | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
set the standard. He has never been equalled, he spoke in beautifully | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
modulated tones. What he had, uniquely, was a grasp of every | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
conceivable detail you might want in the world of politics and | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
economics, but a total passion for things that plain folk, as he | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
called them, cared about, football. Sir Alastair Burnet became such a | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
familiar face that even featured on ITV's own satirical puppet show, | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
Spitting Image. And finally, news to shake the Kremlin... He will be | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
remembered best as one of the great figures of British broadcasting. | :25:05. | :25:15. | |
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That is the News tonight, good Sir Alastair Burnet, who has died | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
aged 84. Now, England's batsmen have | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
struggled on the second morning of the first Test begins at Africa at | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
the Oval. At lunch, they were up 326-seven. Patrick T-Ray has the | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
details. Alastair Cook knows a good | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
centurion does not leave his post unless forced, so it would take | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
something special to end his innings. Dale Steyn produced it. He | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
added just one to his overnight score of 114, Ravi Bopara by | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
contrast offering something of a surrender. Bewildered by the pace, | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
in less than half an hour, the game had changed and so had England's | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
mood. Runs were scarce, and they ought to have lost another wicket | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
trying to make one. Pietersen went direct, but he could have taken his | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
time. Jacques Kallis would be more accurate with ball in hand. In his | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
first over, he bowled Ian Bell. England were being toppled | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
precisely. Tension was running through the England line-up. Matt | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
Prior's response to nerves is to try to blast them out of his system, | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
but in good bowling conditions he would need luck to survive. This | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
drop gave England some much-needed assistance, but they were not | :26:42. | :26:48. | |
helping themselves. After a dominant first day, this has been a | :26:48. | :26:55. | |
morning to remind England how competitive this series will be. | :26:55. | :27:02. | |
Now, day two of the 141st Open Championship got under way today at | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
Royal Lytham with some of the sport's biggest names in contention. | :27:04. | :27:10. | |
Rory McIlroy Bolland at his hitting of if and I very nearly hitting a | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
fellow competitor after slicing an approach shot. -- followed up. | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
Bradley Wiggins is closing in on victory in a Tour de France after | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
retaining victory in the yellow jersey on stage 17. He has kept his | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
lead over team-mate Chris Froome, so Wiggins, with just three stages | :27:26. | :27:33. | |
to go, is almost there. Joe Wilson The punishing slopes of the | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
Pyrenees are now just misty memories. Bradley Wiggins, wrapped | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
in the comfort of his team-mates, flattened the last mountain stage | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
yesterday, hunting down this man, Vincenzo Nibali, the one remaining | :27:44. | :27:52. | |
For France, this race stretches far beyond mere sport. It has its own | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
culture and history, and a British team dominating is unprecedented. | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
They have perfected the tactics. The man in blue, Chris Froome, is | :28:01. | :28:08. | |
Wiggins' Shepherd, cajoling and encouraging, easing his progress, a | :28:08. | :28:10. | |
faithful To pity that some observers think is desperate to | :28:10. | :28:15. | |
slip the leash. -- deputy. He is second overall. The team will tell | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
him to keep it that way until Wiggins believes the race is | :28:18. | :28:23. | |
already is. Once we went over the summit, I knew Vincenzo Nibali was | :28:23. | :28:28. | |
in trouble, and a few of the guys had a chat with Chris Froome on the | :28:28. | :28:32. | |
descent, it was game over. Wiggins is the leader because he is | :28:32. | :28:35. | |
outstandingly consistent. The terrain to come is mainly flat, the | :28:35. | :28:41. | |
morale of his opponents even flatter. | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
All right, we will keep an eye on that, obviously, and we will keep | :28:45. | :28:52. | |
an eye on the weather with Peter Some decent weather around this | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
weekend at long last, but not for all of us all the time, I hasten to | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
add. Southern areas to invest with warm sunshine throughout the | :28:59. | :29:04. | |
weekend, but head further north, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and | :29:04. | :29:07. | |
during Sunday you will see some wind and rain spreading in for the | :29:07. | :29:12. | |
second half of the weekend. Rain today has been heavy across | :29:12. | :29:15. | |
Nottinghamshire over recent hours, nearly an inch of rain falling in a | :29:15. | :29:18. | |
short space of time, but those showers will extend further | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
southwards and eastwards as we go through this afternoon, some | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
torrential downpours on the cards. Head further north and west, though, | :29:26. | :29:30. | |
you are into drier, brighter weather, much of the south-west | :29:30. | :29:34. | |
enjoying a dry afternoon, just a few showers here and there. Even | :29:34. | :29:38. | |
with the sunshine, struggling with those temperatures, the high teens | :29:38. | :29:43. | |
at best. Much of Wales enjoying the sunshine, 0 will say little | :29:43. | :29:50. | |
cloudier. Lovely day so far in Northern Ireland, a similar story | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
across Scotland. Some Sunny spells coming through, one or two light | :29:54. | :29:57. | |
showers, but temperatures still on the low side, particularly down the | :29:57. | :30:01. | |
east coast. North-east England sharing in some of the drier, | :30:01. | :30:04. | |
brighter weather, but heading down to the Midlands into the London | :30:04. | :30:08. | |
area, these really heavy showers are going to get going through the | :30:08. | :30:11. | |
afternoon, passing down through Cambridgeshire into Essex as well. | :30:11. | :30:15. | |
They could be enough to create some problems on the roads in the | :30:15. | :30:18. | |
evening rush-hour. It is well into the night before those showers | :30:18. | :30:22. | |
finally begin to move away. Elsewhere, clear spells developing. | :30:22. | :30:26. | |
Where it stays clear for long spells, we could get down to seven | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
degrees, so a cool start to Saturday. But Saturday looks like | :30:30. | :30:33. | |
the better day of the weekend for pretty much the whole of the UK, | :30:34. | :30:37. | |
certainly northern areas. Patchy cloud hiding the sunshine now and | :30:37. | :30:42. | |
again, dry virtually everywhere, like winds, so when you get the | :30:42. | :30:45. | |
sunshine, it is down to start feel more like July, even if the | :30:45. | :30:49. | |
temperature is just getting up to the July average in places. The | :30:49. | :30:54. | |
winds will be like for the Open, but more testing conditions on | :30:54. | :30:58. | |
Sunday, the final day, the wind really starting to pick up. | :30:58. | :31:01. | |
Stronger still across Scotland and Northern Ireland, bringing in some | :31:01. | :31:05. | |
rain through the start of the day on Sunday, heavy rain for North | :31:05. | :31:09. | |
West Scotland, which is badly needed, but it is not going to feel | :31:09. | :31:13. | |
pleasant. For much of England and Wales, a dry day, the best of the | :31:13. | :31:20. | |
sunshine across southern areas, getting up to 24 degrees. Yes, some | :31:20. | :31:28. | |
good news, but still a little bit Let's remind you of our top story | :31:28. | :31:32. | |
today. This is the scene live now in Denver, with police searching | :31:32. | :31:35. |