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It's been seven years in the making, but tonight London's 2012 Olympic | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
games will officially get underway. Up to a billion people around the | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
globe are expected to watch as the stadium is brought to life for the | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
Opening Ceremony for what's promised to be a spectacular show. | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
So much of our history has led us to this moment and I think what I | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
hope we are able to say to the world is that when our time came we | :00:30. | :00:40. | |
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This morning Big Ben led the way as thousands of bells across the UK | :00:41. | :00:50. | |
rang out to mark the official start of the Games. But for the Culture | :00:50. | :01:00. | |
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Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, not everything went according to plan. | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
Carried along the Thames onboard the Gloriana, the Olympic flame has | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
reached Tower Bridge. Tonight it will end its 70-day journey at the | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
Olympic Stadium. Forces loyal to President Assad | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
have renewed their aerial bombardment of Syria's biggest city. | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
Troubled bank Barclays faces a new investigation as it announces a 13% | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
rise in half-year profits. Later on BBC London, the dawn of a | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
new Olympics - the waiting is over as this regenerated area of East | :01:27. | :01:37. | |
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London prepares to host the Good afternoon, and welcome to the | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
BBC news at 1.00pm from London's Olympic Park. In nine hours' time | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
the stadium behind me will explode into life as the Opening Ceremony | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
for London's 2012 Games gets underway. This morning the chimes | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
of Big Ben led the way as thousands of bells - big and small - rang out | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
across Britain to mark the start of the 2012 Olympics. After 70 days | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
travelling all over the UK, the Olympic flame made its way up the | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
River Thames from Hampton Court to Tower Bridge on its way to its | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
final destination, the cauldron inside the stadium. Lord Coe said | :02:18. | :02:27. | |
he was confident Britain would put on a great Games for the world. | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
Around four billion people are expected to tune in to watch the | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
Olympic and Paralympic Games. 11 million tickets have been made | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
available for people to fill the Olympic venues. | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
And those spectators will be watching almost 14,700 hundred | :02:37. | :02:46. | |
sportsmen and women taking part in the Games. Our Olympics | :02:46. | :02:54. | |
correspondent is inside the Park right now. I am excited - it's | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
building behind me. Music has been blaring out around the Park, but | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
there's not much they can change now. A countdown that was years, | :03:01. | :03:11. | |
then months, then days is now just a matter of hours. | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
Celebrations in Singapore for confirmation of a party that's been | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
seven years in the planning. Those who jumped in the air that day will | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
tonight begin to find out if their long wait has been worthwhile. How | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
the Olympic site has been transformed since the day the bid | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
was won in July 2005 - first, demolition, and then construction - | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
the largest project in Europe. The results are impressive. In just a | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
matter of hours, the eyes of the world will turn to this stadium. | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
They'll see a show which the director, Danny Boyle, promises | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
will be spectacular, from the short sequence of footage which is | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
released to the BBC, it's clear it's going to be a ceremony with a | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
very British feel. Looking forward to it, really, and whatever comes | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
our way comes our way because it's - it will be - it's live, and it's | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
a one-time only. So - I'll never do one again, but - it is | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
extraordinary to be involved in one. One man has led the way throughout | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
the past seven years and is best placed to put the importance of | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
tonight into context. I don't want to overstate it, and we do live in | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
a country that's probably shared some of the most extraordinary | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
historic moments with the world, but I do think that so much of our | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
history has led us to this moment, and I do think that really what - I | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
suppose what I hope we're able to say to the world is that, you know, | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
when our time came, we did it right. America's First Lady is in London | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
for the Opening Ceremony. Michelle Obama spent the morning with some | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
of her country's athletes. Every few years, these Games bring pride, | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
excitement and wonder to millions of people around the world, and | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
that must mean so much to all of you being part of giving so many | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
people that much hope. It's not giving too much away to tell you | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
there will be fireworks tonight. They're already in place on the | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
water. Security is, of course, tight, but everything seems to be | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
going according to plan. I would think that in terms of readiness, | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
these Games equal the readiness of Sydney and Beijing, definitely, to | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
speak about the most recent Games, but again, the proof of the pudding | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
is in the eating, so maybe ask me the same question at the press | :05:34. | :05:41. | |
conference at the Closing Ceremony. By then, all these venues should | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
have had their own special Olympic moments. Heroes will have been | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
created. Favourites will have been beaten. It's called "the greatest | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
show on earth." It's in London, and it's about to begin. CHEERING AND | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
APPLAUSE One of the rehearsals for the Opening Ceremony on Monday | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
evening, so I have had a bit of a sneak preview. You might hear the | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
music again coming up behind me, but I thought then - you look up at | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
the sky and what a difference it's going to make to the ceremony if it | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
doesn't rain. I am told it's not going to rain, what fantastic news | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
for Danny Boyle. As far as tickets are concerned, there are still some | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
tickets left, but at the top bracket it's �2,012. They're down | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
to the last 50, so they're confident it will end up being a | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
sell-out this evening. Thank you very much. | :06:36. | :06:43. | |
This morning the Olympic Torch made its way along the the Royal row | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
barge the Gloriana to Tower Bridge. Tonight it will end its journey in | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
the Olympic Stadium. It has had a spectacular journey long the Thames, | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
setting off from Hampton Court at 7.30am this morning after being | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
carried onboard by the Olympic rowing champion Sir Matthew Pinsent. | :06:55. | :07:03. | |
Our correspondent Robert Hall has followed its progress. | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
Yes, Sophie, we've talked about finish lines a lot during this | :07:08. | :07:15. | |
journey during these 70 days. This is it. This is where Amber Charles, | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
the last torch bearer of the flame stood short while ago after that | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
16-mile journey down river. The Gloriana accompanied by all types | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
of traditional boats, gigs, rowing boats from around London and | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
finally the water cutting men who have plied these waters for | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
hundreds of years, arriving here at this late stage of a great journey. | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
One flame - a bush fire of excitement, which spread far | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
quicker than anyone had imagined. From the moment Ben Ainslie run a | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
number one jogged away from Lands End changes reaction had begun. The | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
comments of the crowds in those early hours hinting at the surprise | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
which was in store. I am really excited about the Olympics. It's a | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
once-in-a-lifetime experience, so it's wonderful for Great Britain. | :08:03. | :08:11. | |
In Plymouth that evening, 20,000 people packed the place, an event | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
brought to a global audience via the internet was suddenly a hot | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
topic. We were all drawn in by the personal stories at the relay's | :08:20. | :08:29. | |
heart, Garvey Evans, defying all the odds, having cancer, to finish | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
on his feet. This torch bearer, who has | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
Parkinson's, were willed on by those around him. | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
Most days brought images which held our attention. The relay zig-zagged | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
its way up Snowden, travelled by boat, cable car and mountain bike | :08:49. | :08:56. | |
in Scotland, similar billionised a growing stability and new | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
friendships north and south of the Irish border, and sprinkled among | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
those who had been given their moment to shine were the stars of | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
showbiz and of sport. Sir Cliff Richard brightening the | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
unseasonable weather. Venus Williams and Andy Murray performing | :09:12. | :09:19. | |
a torch kiss at Wimbledon. Team GB standardbearer Sir Chris How. This | :09:19. | :09:27. | |
week in London, a 101-year-old man was mobbed as he completed his run. | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
Yesterday evening as the shadowed lengthened, the flame received a | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
Royal welcome at Buckingham Palace before travelling the last half | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
mile into Hyde Park where 60,000 watched it ignite the caldron. The | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
road stage of its journey was over, but there was to be water-borne | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
finale. This morning the flame round its way around Hampton Court | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
taking in the maze and heading for the river. Olympic gold medallist | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
Matthew Pinsent taking it to the heart of the 90-strong flotilla | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
assembled by did man who helped plan the Jubilee pageant. For those | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
who crowded the banks and bridges this was one last glimpse of the | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
flame before it performs the task the world awaits. | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
Here we go. Well, I suppose it is, in a way, a production, this, if | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
you think back over the past weeks. You have seen fantastic locations, | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
a huge cast involving all sorts of people from all walks of life, and | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
this was the finale, a last chance for those thousands of people on | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
the bridges and the banks to glimpse the flame before it | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
performs the task that the world is waiting for. Sophie? | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
Thank you very much. This morning bells all over Britain | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
rang out for three minutes to mark the start of the games tonight. | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
They were led by Big Ben, which chimed about 40 times - the first | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
time it has rung outside its regular hours since the funeral of | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
King George VI in 1952. And it was joined by thousands of bells - big | :10:55. | :11:02. | |
and small - all over the UK. Our correspondent David Sillito reports. | :11:02. | :11:10. | |
Down on the Thames, a special Olympic day dawned. And at 8.12am, | :11:10. | :11:20. | |
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Big Ben chimed and began a nationwide cacophony of bells. | :11:21. | :11:31. | |
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St David's in Wales, Edinburgh, Beverly in East Yorkshire. Ring our | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
merry bells. Up in Dorset. The instruction was to ring all the | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
bells as quickly and as loudly as possible for three minutes. It was | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
very tiring because they're quite heavy. Oh, it was so amazing. It's | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
so good to be a part of something this big. And the bells rang out | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
for the Queen's row barge Gloriana as it travelled down the Thames | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
bearing the Olympic Torch, and watching and ringing in the studio, | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
Martin Creed, the artist who had come up with the idea. | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
I didn't know what to expect. Because it was just an idea to try | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
to make a piece of music all over the whole country. Because no-one | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
can be in more than one place at once. A little noisier, but tuned | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
in the Games. The Olympic Minister was even there to tell us. When | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
there are things that don't go according to to plan, London will | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
cope in the way it always has. Oh! No-one hurt. Careful now. Health | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
and safety. Are you OK? All eyes are on the Opening | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
Ceremony tonight, but once that's over, it's the sport that takes | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
centre stage. How well will Britain's athletes do? Well, with | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
me is the chief executive of UK Athletics, Niels de Vos. Thank you | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
very much for joining us. Athletics in particular didn't do as well as | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
the swimmers, the rowers in Beijing. Do you think they will do better | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
this time? Yeah, I am very confident they will, but athletics | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
is a very, very, very competitive sport. Every nation who is here | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
competing at the Olympics is competing on the track and field. | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
It's a simple sport. Anyone can do it. Competition is fierce, I would | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
say one of the hardest medals to win in the Olympics, but we'll go | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
in as the best ever prepared team. I am confident we'll do well, | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
absolutely. One gold in Beijing - what are your hopes, though, nor | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
London 2012? I don't want to hang golds around anyone's neck - | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
everybody was talking about Usain Bolt. Three weeks ago he was | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
favourite. Now people are thinking maybe he won't win, but if our | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
athlete goes out and perform to the ability they can, we know we have | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
ten or 15 ranked the top ten in the world, we have a good chance. The | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
margins are tiny. The difference between being a hero and finishing | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
fourth could be a hundredth of a second, but that's on the day. I am | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
confident we'll do well, yes. stadium is fantastic. The | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
atmosphere inside it when there is a crowd in there is extraordinary. | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
Does that help the athletes? Will that help them drive them home? | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
Yeah, I'm sure it will what we don't know, of course is some will | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
use that to fuel them to even greater performances. Some may | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
buckle. We don't know. We hope it will be the rivals that'll buckle | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
and ours that'll surf the wave of patriotism and excitement, but | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
certainly every single athlete is absolutely energised by this. | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
They'll all be in Portugal tonight watching the Opening Ceremony on | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
the beach, then they'll come in in waves a couple of days before they | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
perform. Our job is to make sure they're 100% ready when they tow | :14:37. | :14:46. | |
the line. One man who was supposed to be there is Philip Sodoku. Will | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
he be there? I am confident he will. He's amazing. He's won Olympiced | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
meas. He's won world medals. If he's on the start, he can qualify. | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
Steve Hooker did that in the pole vault in Beijing. He took two jumps | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
and came away with the gold medal. If anyone can do that, Philips can. | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
Thank you. The time is 1.15pm. | :15:09. | :15:19. | |
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Our top story this lunch time: in Lords where some confused fans | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
are shut out. We have already had an extraordinary performance from a | :15:29. | :15:39. | |
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Later on BBC London, the 40-year- old Olympic rower hoping to get | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
cold again, 20 years on. Plus, the all-important weather, all to come | :15:45. | :15:52. | |
in ten minutes. Battles between President Assad's | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
forces and rebels are continuing in the Syrian city of Aleppo. | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
Activists say many people have died in shelling and helicopter gunship | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
attacks. The UN Commissioner for Human Rights has expressed fears | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
over the plight of civilians. Jim Muir sent this report from | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
neighbouring Lebanon, which does contain some flash photography and | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
contains some images you might find distressing. | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
Still defiant, despite the threatened government onslaught. | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
Hundreds still come out into the streets in rebel-held parts of | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
Aleppo to chant slogans calling for the regime to go. But already the | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
bombardments have begun, casualties are mounting. They are taken to | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
makeshift field clinics where medical staff are working around | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
the clock to try to save the wounded, many of them civilians and | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
two children. The head of the UN's Human Rights Commission has said | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
she is deeply concerned about the plight of civilians in Syria. She | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
said what is happening may amount to war crimes or crimes against | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
humanity. She described what happens to Bigley when an area | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
comes under government attack. First of all it is surrounded and | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
cut off. Water, electricity and food supplies are also cut. Then | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
there is heavy bombardment from tanks, artillery and aircraft. Then, | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
the tanks and troops moving, going from door to door and reportedly | :17:10. | :17:18. | |
often summarily executing suspected rebels. If the people of Aleppo | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
want to know what to expect they just need to see what is happening | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
in the capital, Damascus. State television is still showing troops | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
attacking areas just on the south side of the city to root out rebel | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
resistance. The prospect of similar scenes hanging over Aleppo has | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
given one of its newly elected members of parliament to cross the | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
border to Turkey and defect. The first MP to do so. Also in Turkey | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
seeing the Foreign Minister was the prominent general, who defected two | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
weeks ago. He is working hard to try to pull the divided Syrian | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
opposition together and form a bridge of what he calls honourable | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
elements in the current regime. Asked what government newspapers | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
are calling the mother of all battles looms over Aleppo the US | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
State Department said it feared a massacre. It said the same about | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
Benghazi in Libya and NATO intervened. But there is no cavalry | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
on the horizon for Aleppo. Kiaran Stapleton, the man who | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
murdered the Indian student Anuj Bidve has been jailed for a minimum | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
of 30 years. Stapleton shot the 23- year-old in the head at point-blank | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
range on Boxing Day last year. He was convicted of murder yesterday. | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
Barclays has made a half-year profit of more than �4 billion. The | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
news comes after the Bank was fined a record amount for attempting to | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
manipulate the lending rate between banks and it has emerged it is | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
under a new investigation by the Financial Services Authority. Our | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
chief economics correspondent Hugh Pym reports. | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
It is exactly a month since Barclays was hit with a record fine | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
for manipulating interest rates. Since then, a storm has raged | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
around the bank with three top directors heading for the exit. The | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
chief executive Bob Diamond quit and was then grilled by MPs about | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
revelations of rage rigging by his staff. When I read the emails from | :19:11. | :19:18. | |
those traders, I got physically ill. It is reprehensible behaviour. | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
chairman, Mark has ages, seen here in happier times with the London | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
Mayor, said he would go when a new chief executive was appointed. | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
Another director quit as well. Today, the bank apologised again | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
for the interest rates gamble but announced some better news. There | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
was a 13% increase in profits to a total of �4.2 billion in the first | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
six months of this year. We know that Barclays has been a robust | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
performer over a number of years. They did not take government money. | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
These figures are reasonably good. You can still have good figures and | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
not be popular and have things that need sorting out. Barclays is | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
sorting out compensation to firms like this butcher's shop, victims | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
of mis-selling of complex financial products. The bill could come to | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
�450 million. Other banks are also having to pay up. Barclays also | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
revealed it is being investigated by the Financial Services Authority | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
over disclosure of information to shareholders in 2008. There are | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
major challenges ahead for Barclays. The bank needs to find a new chief | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
executive and a new chairman. People are prepared to come in and | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
run the bank under the intense public scrutiny that goes with | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
those jobs. Barclays is not the only one having to rebuild its | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
reputation. Several major banks were caught up in the interest | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
rates gamble and are now awaiting the results of investigations. -- | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
interest rates scandal. A man who joked on Twitter about | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
blowing up Doncaster airport because of disruption to his travel | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
plans has had his conviction overturned at the High Court. Paul | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
Chambers was found guilty of sending a menacing message in | :20:53. | :21:01. | |
January 2010. Matt Prodger is at the High Court now. | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
Nine different judges and magistrates and a celebrity | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
campaign backed by the but broadcaster Stephen Fry and the | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
comedian Al Murray to get his conviction overturned. When he left | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
court this morning, Paul Chambers said he was relieved and vindicated | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
by the decision and said he also felt dejected and unemployable by | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
his experience of the past two-and- a-half years. It began in 2010, we | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
descend to tweet and I paraphrase because of the colourful language, | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
essentially saying, and less Doncaster airport got its act | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
together within a week, he would blow it sky high. Because the | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
intended to visit his girlfriend. The judges here finally agreed what | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
he had said all along, but it was a joke, there was no money is | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
intended to and one could be interpreted by any reasonable | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
person. The CPS, the Crown Prosecution Service, opposed the | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
appeal but today, it said it accepted the decision and that the | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
judges for giving clarity on the issue. | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
The Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has met international | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
creditors in Athens this morning to try to persuade them that Breese | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
deserves its final instalment of bail-out money. Without the funds, | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
Greece could face bankruptcy and might have to leave the euro. Mark | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
Lowen is in Athens. Crucial talks then? Very crucial for Greece but | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
also for the eurozone as a whole, because based on this bid -- visit | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
by the debt inspectors Greece will find out whether it gets its next | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
instalment, 30 billion euros, of its international loan. If it gets | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
the money it could stay afloat. It does not it will teeter towards | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
bankruptcy and a possible exit from the euro and that could shake the | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
single currency. The Prime Minister is thought to have laid out to the | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
debt inspectors where another 11.5 billion euros worth of saving will | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
be found, principally through pension cuts and health care cuts. | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
But the big question is this. Even with that money, the bail-out money, | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
will that be enough to save Greece? Will it be enough to pull this | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
country out of the quagmire in which it finds itself? The finance | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
minister, the Prime Minister,, has said Greece's in the Great | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
Depression, its economy will shrink by 7%, higher than expected this | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
year. Maybe this will be Mission impossible. | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
Let's go back to the Olympics and even before tonight's opening | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
ceremony, sporting events are under way. This morning, there was | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
archery at Lord's cricket ground to determine seedings for the | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
individual and team events but there was confusion when -- when | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
spectators turned up expecting to watch the event. Joe Wilson has at | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
Lord's now. Yes, the women have their turn this | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
afternoon. Just to be clear, this stage of the archery was never | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
meant to be open to the public. The problem was, as the level of | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
intensity and concentration has been very good, outside there has | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
been a large degree of confusion and disappointment because there | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
were a number of people around the world who were under the impression | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
that today's action was open to the public. | :23:56. | :24:02. | |
The home of cricket for the first Test between bow and arrow and | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
indeed the first Test of an Olympic sport in London. Today's action is | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
preliminary. Archers are seeded for the weekend matches according to | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
this course today. But there were hundreds hoping to watch, left | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
outside. This event was advertised as unticketed. This family came | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
from the USA thinking that was an invitation. It is my interpretation | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
of unticketed, it is free to the public, we will do a free date for | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
people to come in, get an idea of what it is like. It sounded like a | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
generous gesture. How do you feel, to be out here, not being able to | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
get in? Well, what sort of words are my allowed to use on the BBC? I | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
am not very happy about it, my family is not very happy. He was | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
not alone. LOCOG said that tickets were never offered for today's | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
archery but I met family and friends of one of the Dutch Archers, | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
feeling helpless and confused. would like to see him participate | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
but we're not allowed access because we were told it was a free | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
event but there is no, they are saying we are not allowed in. | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
men's ranking round progressed with South Korea typically in control, | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
setting a new record score. Larry Godfrey, 4th in the Olympics eight | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
years ago, led the British effort. Their team of three are ranked | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
eightth after the morning competition. It would have been | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
nice to have been higher but you get what you get. Today was | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
shooting the best we possibly could and the other guys shot the best | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
and week ranked in eight. Everything happens for reason. | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
Godfry is going well but Britain face a quarter-final against South | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
Korea, that is tougher than getting into it -- and unticketed archery | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
event. Part of South Korea's extraordinary | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
team performance today included a new individual world record. His | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
eyesight is so poor in one eye he is actually registered as blind but | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
he can see the target and he does it all with muscle memory. | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
Back at the Olympic Park, huge Athletes' Village which is behind | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
me is now a home-from-home for the competitors. It has apartments for | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
more than 14,000 athletes along with shops, restaurants and leisure | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
to fill it is. Sally Nugent was given a special tour. | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
Away from the funfair and put us, the competitors home for the | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
duration of the Olympics built just moments away from the Olympic Park | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
and most of the time completely private. Well, this really is a | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
special access. This is a place you are not done -- you were not going | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
to the very much off over the next couple of weeks. It is the | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
Athletes' Village. This is where they sleep and relax. You can see | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
the different countries have their different blocks. We have Korea, | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
Switzerland have the top of that blog, Denmark on that blog, this is | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
where they relax and rest after competition. Most of the time. And | :26:52. | :26:59. | |
there is where they go to have some fun. This village has been built | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
and designed with specific requests from the athletes themselves. They | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
said it was important to them to get away from the pressure of | :27:06. | :27:13. | |
competing. Here inside the bar you can play Paul, table, play a | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
computer game, catch up with friends, get a much-needed drink. I | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
will have a bottle of your finest, please. Thanks. Soft drinks only, | :27:22. | :27:29. | |
of course. Some of these athletes have serious appetite. This places | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
open 24 hours a day for that very reason. It is basically a big tent, | :27:33. | :27:39. | |
serving every type of food you can imagine, lots of it. When you say | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
to people it is 17,000 square metres of temporary space for a | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
dining hall, it is huge, it has quite a bit of character and | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
personality about it. Just the moment for the Mayor of the | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
Athletes' Village to reflect on how it has been received. The key here | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
is having the athletes Commission, Jonathan Edwards, Tanni Grey- | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
Thompson, literally advised at every step of the way. What did | :28:03. | :28:08. | |
they suggest? Simple things like make sure you have long beds for | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
tall people. So, a tailor-made home as the competitors prepare for one | :28:13. | :28:20. | |
of the most important moments in their lives. | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
Now to the all-important weather. We have had a bit of rain this | :28:24. | :28:32. | |
morning. Is it going to hold off But is it for rain now, I think. | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
For most of us for the rest of this afternoon we are looking at decent | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
spells of sunshine. A lot of dry weather around. If we look at the | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
satellite image from earlier we can see the areas with cloud, mainly | :28:43. | :28:47. | |
the south-east of England and the north-west of the UK. These other | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
two areas we are seeing further showers through the afternoon. Some | :28:51. | :28:55. | |
in the south-east could be heavy. In between the two areas of shower, | :28:55. | :28:59. | |
there will be decent spells of sunshine. We are looking at dry | :28:59. | :29:04. | |
conditions, fresher than recent days with the breeze. Hazy sunshine | :29:04. | :29:09. | |
is some fella the cloud this Upper Crust isle of man and the Northern | :29:09. | :29:13. | |
Ireland there is a chance of a few heavy showers on a brisk breeze. | :29:13. | :29:17. | |
Have become a frequent showers for western parts of Scotland. Over | :29:17. | :29:20. | |
eastern and southern Scotland, faring better with decent spells of | :29:20. | :29:25. | |
sunshine. One or two light showers possible for a northern England but | :29:25. | :29:28. | |
for much of northern England it is dry and bright and lovely spells of | :29:29. | :29:32. | |
hazy sunshine continue this afternoon into the Midlands as well. | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
As we pushed further south and east the cloud thickened. It is fairly | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
cloudy behind me. We will have 4-2 show has persisted into the | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
afternoon. A small chance of a rumble of thunder in the south-east | :29:44. | :29:48. | |
but they are clearing away. Clearer conditions spreading in behind, | :29:48. | :29:52. | |
good news for the opening ceremony of the Olympics here at the Olympic | :29:52. | :29:56. | |
Park this evening. It should remain drier with clear spells. 20 Celsius, | :29:56. | :30:01. | |
a gentle breeze, all in all a lovely evening to come. The Shanaz | :30:01. | :30:05. | |
will clear away from the south-east. One of two lingering. We will see | :30:05. | :30:09. | |
further showers overnight pouring into the West -- the north-west of | :30:09. | :30:13. | |
the UK but in between clearer, drier conditions. Not as muddy as | :30:13. | :30:19. | |
recent nights with temperatures 11- 16 Celsius. Saturday, a typical | :30:19. | :30:25. | |
July day. Decent spells of sunshine. One or two showers but most towards | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
the north-west, Scotland, northern England and the south-west. For | :30:29. | :30:32. | |
Central and South East and parts of England, we keep with the dry and | :30:32. | :30:36. | |
bright spells, much pressure then recent days. Ten degrees cooler | :30:36. | :30:40. | |
than yesterday. For the full day of the have at -- Olympic action, some | :30:41. | :30:44. | |
venues remaining fine and dry. For the rowing at Eton Dorney, | :30:44. | :30:48. | |
generally bright, tried and for the men's road race, cycling that sets | :30:48. | :30:55. | |
off at about ten o'clock, returning to the mile at 4pm, trial date. | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
Further showers for Sunday and into Monday as well. That is how what is | :30:59. | :31:03. | |
looking, dry tonight. That is all from the News at One | :31:03. | :31:07. | |
this lunchtime. I will be back with the BBC News Special inside the | :31:07. | :31:10. |