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Syria's Prime Minister flees to Jordan - less than two months after | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
he was appointed. Riad Hijab is the most high-profile | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
member of President Assad's regime to defect since the uprising began. | :00:17. | :00:25. | |
His spokesman says he's joining the revolution. Touchdown confirmed. | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
Received on Mars. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
Jubiliation as NASA's rover finally lands on Mars and instantly begins | :00:30. | :00:37. | |
sending back images. Curiosity, the most sophisticated Rover ever built, | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
is now on the surface of the Red Planet where it will seek to answer | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
age-old questions about whether life ever existed there on Mars. | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
At the Olympics Team GB is riding high in the medal table. Gymnast | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
Beth Tweddle leads today's hopes of adding to the tally. | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
Moving to America with her family - the Conservative MP Louise Mensch | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
announces she's leaving Parliament, sparking a by-election in her | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
marginal seat. Concern grows for a 12-year-old | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
girl who's been missing from south London for three days. | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
Later on BBC London: the owner of a dog that attacked three police | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
officers is found guilty of owning dangerous animal. A year after | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
rioting swept the capital, police continue to track down those | :01:20. | :01:30. | |
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Good afternoon, and welcome to the BBC news at 1.00pm. Syria's newly | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
appointed Prime Minister has fled to Jordan with his family in what's | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
a major blow for President Assad's regime. A spokesman for Riyad Hijab | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
said he had defected from what he called a terrorist regime and | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
joined the revolution. Syrian activist groups say that three | :01:51. | :02:01. | |
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other Ministers have also defected, although that's not been confirmed. | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
In a separate development, state television says a bomb has exploded | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
inside its headquarters in Damascus. Several people were injured. Jim | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
Muir sent this report from Beirut in neighbouring Lebanon. | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
The start of a dramatic day in Damascus as the crisis deepens - a | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
bomb explosion on the third floor of the state TV and radio building. | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
It caused a lot of superficial damage. Three people were slightly | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
injured, but the station stayed on the air. | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
TRANSLATION: We know who is behind these operations. We know who is | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
funding them. We know who is seeking to silence the people's | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
conscience and voice. We know who wants to destroy this country and | :02:40. | :02:47. | |
hide the truth from the people. Almost immediately, state TV found | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
itself announcing an even bigger bombshell - the Prime Minister, | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
Riyad Hijab, had, it said, been fired. He'd only been appointed | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
exactly two months ago, supposedly a safe fair of hands on the tiller. | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
It now seems clear that the Prime Minister had in fact defected. He's | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
believed to be in a safe place with his family, perhaps in Jordan. He's | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
by far the highest-ranking official so far to desert the Assad regime. | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
It's a deep embarrassment for President Assad. There are rumours | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
other Ministers may follow. TRANSLATION: Today I announce my | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
defection from the regime of killing and terrorism and join the | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
ranks of the revolution of freedom and dignity. From today I announce | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
I am a soldier serving this blessed revolution. Long live Syria free | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
and pure, and long live our Syrian people. Long live our heroic Free | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
Syrian Army. It's the clearest sign yet of the | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
stresses building up within the regime. The focus is currently on | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
Aleppo in the north, the country's biggest city, now being pounded by | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
Government forces as they prepare for an offensive to drive the rebel | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
forces out. Bashar al-Assad's forces will see the defection as | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
evidence the regime is finally starting to crumble from within. | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
I am joined by our diplomatic correspondent James Robbins. Could | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
this be a turning point in Syria? It could be. So many things have | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
been described perhaps as turning point, but I think it's clear | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
evidence that the regime is under even greater pressure than we would | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
have spoken of even yesterday for instance. Let's be clear - the | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
Prime Minister in Syria doesn't have the sort of power that a | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
British Prime Minister would have or a European Prime Minister. He's | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
something of a figurehead, something of a fig leaf, if you | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
like, at the head of a civilian administration where the real power, | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
of course, resides with president Assad, members of his immediate | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
family and the security and military chiefs around him, but the | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
Prime Minister is a very important figurehead, and he was brought in | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
of course to bring some respectability to the regime at a | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
time they were arguing they were pursuing a reform track. He's only | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
been in office for two months, but there are suggestions he was | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
planning his defection even before he took the role of Prime Minister | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
and he was bullied into taking the role. Those accusation come from | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
the Free Syrian Army. Of course, they can't be verified. We can't be | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
clear when he took the decision to leave. But the fact he has done, so | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
the fact he's of the same generation of Bashar al-Assad, he's | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
not one of the old guard - he grew up with the idea that Assad might | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
be a reformer - I think that's significant. James robin, thank you | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
very much. It has taken nine months to travel | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
354 million miles, and this morning the most high-tech rover NASA has | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
ever designed successfully landed the surface of Mars. There were | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
jubiliant scenes at NASA when the rover, called Curiosity, started | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
transmitting pictures immediately. Now that it's safely there, | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
Curiosity's task is to find out whether Mars was ever capable of | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
supporting life. Our science editor David Shukman has the details. | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
The final approach to Mars at 13,000mph. This animation shows how | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
the landing took place - first, the parachute, then at just the right | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
moment, the rockets on a kind of airborne crane fired up and lowered | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
the Rover down towards the surface - $1 billion of machine dangling by | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
a thread. These computer graphics look like science fiction. In fact, | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
this is what really happened. At Mission Control in California, | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
the engineers had been dreading the tension of this moment until two | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
magic words: "Touchdown confirmed." The place erupted, the relief, | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
intense. Eight years of work had gone into this project. The | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
reputation of the American space agency was at stake. Time for a | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
grand statement. Today, right now, the wheels of Curiosity have begun | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
to blaze the trail for human footprints on Mars. Curiosity, the | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
most sophisticated Rover ever built is now on the surface of the Red | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
Planet where it will seek to answer questions about whether life ever | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
existed there on Mars. The Rover's shadow on the dust of Mars, the | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
first pictures prove the landing worked. Mars has been the graveyard | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
for many landing missions. This one succeeded. I want you to look | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
around tonight - all those folks with the blue shirts - think about | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
what we've achieved. I think it's fair to say NASA knows how to | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
explore. We have been exploring, and we're on Mars. The Rover itself | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
is named Curiosity Rover. Something about the Red Planet draws people. | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
At dawn this morning 200 were at the Natural History Museum in | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
London to watch the landing. It was scary, but really exciting at the | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
same time, but when it landed, it was amazing, yeah. It's going to be | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
fantastic science for the next two years. It's what NASA needed. It | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
will be a win for them. The big question about Mars is whether this | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
barren terrain could have ever hosted life. The Rover Curiosity | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
has the job of hunting for the chemical clues about that. It | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
should operate for at least two years - plenty of time to get some | :07:58. | :08:06. | |
answers. The astronomer Mark Thompson joins | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
me now. An absolutely extraordinary achievement. It's an incredibly | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
sophisticated Rover, isn't it, all kinds of things onboard It is. One | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
of the key things about it is it wants to be able to move around the | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
surface of Mars so it can study the rocks. The key to studying the | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
rocks of smars it will hopingly unlock the environmental conditions | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
over the history of Mars. There is spectroscopes. There is all sorts | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
of laser instruments that'll actually be able to look inside the | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
rocks and the soil of Mars to actually study the way the | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
atmosphere has evolved to hopefully the answer question whether life | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
was ever there. All the time those images being transmitted to earth | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
earth? When it touched down this morning it had to go via another | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
Rover orbiting Mars to get it to move. It will go to a different | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
spacecraft to relay back to earth. It will take about 50 minutes for | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
the images to get back, which will be incredible to see. How long do | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
you think it will be before man is able to step on Mars? If I had to | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
bet on it, I would say 50 to a hundred years. It will take an | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
international effort to do that but I think certainly within a hundred | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
years. Thank you very much. To the Olympics now, and there are | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
more medal chances today in athletics, cycling and gymnastics. | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
Great Britain is currently third in the medals table - with a total | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
haul of 37, including 16 gold. So will all this success be translated | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
into a legacy of sporting achievement for Britain's | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
youngsters? This morning the Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
admitted that school sports provision is patchy in some places | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
at the moment and said more investment at primary school level | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
was needed. Our sports correspondent Andy Swiss reports. | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
Jessica Ennis is the Olympic champion. | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
It was the weekend when British sport discovered the Midas touch. | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
We have done it. We have done it, and we have done it in style. | :10:02. | :10:11. | |
days, eight gold medals and hopefully millions inspired. It's | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
gold! From athletics to rowing to sailing to cycling, all the fears | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
Team GB would buckle under the pressure proved gloriously | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
unfounded, a roll call of success beyond their wildest dreams. Oh, my | :10:25. | :10:32. | |
goodness! Just remarkable. Among them, Andy Murray, last month, he | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
lost in the Wimbledon final, but that frustration turned to elation, | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
from the fans to the stars - it seems everyone has been inspired by | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
these Games. I think it's just - I mean, being part of the Olympics to | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
the success of the other athletes and watching that and, you know, | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
being inspired by that and wanting to try and be part of the medal | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
tally and, you know, try and contribute to the team. | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
But can British sport now make the most of this golden opportunity, | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
neurturing young talents like teenager Adam, who reached the | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
semis, costs money. There are fierce school sport is being | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
squeezed. The head of the Olympic Association accused the government | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
of treading water, and they admit more needs to be dope. I think at | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
the moment school sport provision is patchy in some places, and we | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
need to do what we can to ensure that the very best examples are | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
spread throughout the whole country, and this is absolutely going to be | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
a focus over the next few months, and one of the things we really | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
want to take away from these games. But one thing everyone will take | :11:38. | :11:48. | |
away is this - the memory of Usain Bolt once again leading the world's | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
marathon. So can Britain's athletes scale | :11:51. | :11:58. | |
those dizzy heights today? This morning's heat saw some success. | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
Tiffany Porter qualified for the semifinals of the hurdles while a | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
delighted Lawrence Okoye is into the discus final. The question now | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
is can these stars of the present inspire the stars of the future? | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
Liz Nicholl is Chief Executive of UK Sport, the body that's | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
responsible for investing around �100 million of public funds every | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
year in high-performance sport - money that comes from both the | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
National Lottery and the Exchequer. Did you honestly think that a week | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
ago - did you think that we would be in the position we're in at the | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
moment? I think we got off to a slow start over the first couple of | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
days but our ambition was to do better than Beijing, so we had to | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
be ahead of the game. We're ahead of where we were in Beijing, and | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
we're looking at winning more medals across more sports. We're in | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
a very, very good place. Team GB has already delivered on so many | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
levels but it does make you wonder what more could be achieved if more | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
money was pumped into schools at an earlier level? The success of any | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
high-performance system depends on the right level of investment from | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
grassroots through the community to the League level. We can provide | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
those inspirational moments through the success of the athletes in | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
order to inspire the youngsters, but we do have to invest in schools, | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
in teachers, in coaches, in talent and to achieve that success. | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
how much more investment are we looking about at an earlier stage? | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
That's an area of response about that doesn't fall within our remit | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
at UK Sport, so that's matter for those who have it. It needs quite a | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
significant turnaround, doesn't it? The most important thing is to | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
provide great opportunities for youngsters when they see these | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
inspirational moments to be able to go down to their local gym to be | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
the next Beth Tweddle to get access easily to great support, great | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
coaches and teachers in primary school able to have the right | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
talent to be able to support that - those youngsters. That's the long | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
term. In the short term, let's hope we see a few more medals rolling in. | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
Let's speak to a prime example of Team GB's success - the cyclist | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
Joanna Rowsell who won gold in the team pursuit on Saturday. | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
Good afternoon, and congratulations. Has it actually sunk in yet? | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
thank you. Yeah, it feels absolutely amazing. It's just | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
starting to sink in now for me seeing the newspapers yesterday and | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
today - seeing all the photos that really helped it all sink in. Yeah, | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
it feels great. What is the atmosphere like in the Athletes' | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
Village at the moment with all of this success for Team GB? It's an | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
incredible atmosphere. Once all the golds start coming in, everyone | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
wants to be part of that. Hopefully that success will continue for the | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
next week. We have been talking about investment in sport and | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
helping a lot of young hopeful athletes achieve the sort of | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
success that you have achieved. How much has the investment helped your | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
sport? It has been absolutely essential for me. I have received | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
Lottery funding since I left school after my A-Levels. That allowed me | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
to be a full-time athlete and commit a hundred percent of my | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
training. We have the best support staff in the world, the best | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
coaches and sports scientists. We wouldn't be Olympic champions | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
without all of that. What about the cycling team this week - today, | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
tomorrow - more medal hopes? Yes, we have Jason Kenny and Victoria | :15:18. | :15:26. | |
Pendleton in the women's sprint. They set records in equal fight, so | :15:26. | :15:36. | |
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that should be excellent. I am This afternoon the three-times | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
world champion Beth Tweddle makes her last big to win an elusive and | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
a bit muddled. Later, I will speak to her anxious parents, who are | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
waiting to watch her at the North Greenwich Arena. | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
Our top story this lunchtime: the Syrian Prime Minister Riad Hijab | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
has fled to Jordan with his family less than two months after he was | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
appointed. He is the most high- profile member of President Assad's | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
regime to defect since the uprising began. | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
Come On Up: how on earth did they do that? We will find out how some | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
of the best Olympic Games camera shops make it onto your TV screens. | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
Later on BBC London, Lawrence Okoye goes for gold with an impressive | :16:17. | :16:24. | |
for to qualify for the discus final. At helping athletes fulfil their | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
2012 dreams - the woman who finally found work building their beds in | :16:27. | :16:34. | |
the Olympic village. The Conservative MP, Louise Mensch, | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
is to leave Parliament after just two and a half years in the job. | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
She and her children are moving to America, where her husband lives. | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
She said she was devastated by the necessary decision she had had to | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
make. Her resignation has prompted a by-election in her marginal Corby | :16:47. | :16:55. | |
seat. Let's speak to our political correspondent. It is their decision | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
that has taken many by surprise? Yes, Louise Mensch made it clear | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
that she could no longer cope with the struggle of combining her role | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
as a mother of three young children and a high-profile MP, particularly | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
with her husband being based in New York. So that is where she will | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
move to keep her family together. Louise Mensch is someone who is a | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
very high-profile MP here at Westminster, but also one of the | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
few who is widely known and recognised beyond the Westminster | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
village. She has 100,000 followers on Twitter. She is a former author. | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
She is a glamourous and outspoken politician. And although not all of | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
her colleagues enjoyed having such a high profile colleague, | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
Westminster will be a less colourful place without her. The | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
Prime Minister clearly had her in mind for promotion. He made that | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
clear in his response to her resignation letter. He said he was | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
disappointed that she had had to leave, which sounded heartfelt, | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
because he now faces a difficult by-election later this autumn. | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
are expecting another announcement in Westminster this afternoon, this | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
time on Lords reform? Yes, yet another headache for the Prime | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
Minister, because he has had to tell his deputy Nick Clegg that his | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
conservative MPs will not support for the plans for reform of the | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
House of Lords, which would have a largely elected second chamber. | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
This is very much the darling of Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
Minister. In the next hour, he will have to accept that his plans for | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
overhauling the second chamber will be added to that rather dusty pile | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
of previous attempts to change the House of Lords. It was clear that | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
the plans were in trouble. 91 Tory MPs rebelled. An attempt to set a | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
timetable to get the legislation through Parliament had to be | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
scrapped. There will be a lot of anger among Lib Dems, who might | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
respond by trying to scupper the plans to change constituency | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
boundaries of MPs. That in turn will anger Conservative MPs. So a | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
lot of ill-feeling between the coalition partners. | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
Police in the American state of Wisconsin are describing the deaths | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
of six people at a Sikh temple as an act of "domestic terrorism". The | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
gunman was shot dead by police after the attack in Oak Creek, near | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
Milwaukee. President Obama has sent condolences to the victims' | :19:16. | :19:26. | |
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families. This is how Sunday morning prayers | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
ended at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee. The emergency services | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
called after a gunman started shooting at the congregation. | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
Inside the temple, women and children were hiding in cupboards. | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
Others took refuge in the bathroom, and send text messages to their | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
family members about what was happening. The situation is | :19:49. | :19:56. | |
terrible. The people who are contacting us, they are scared and | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
they are speaking very softly, like they cannot speak louder. | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
injured were taken to hospital with bullet wounds to the abdomen, face | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
and neck. A police officer is amongst those being treated. | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
officers responded to the scene. They found a victim. We are dealing | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
with that individual. When our officer, a 20-year-old ambushed -- | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
veteran, was ambushed and shot. He is currently undergoing surgery. We | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
expect him to recover. The police have not revealed the identity of | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
the gunmen or a motor for the attack. There have been no reports | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
of threats made against the temple. It is very sad when these things | :20:38. | :20:46. | |
happen. It is unexpected. We never think this will happen to our | :20:46. | :20:53. | |
temple, because the people go there to pray for everybody. But | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
unfortunately, this happened and it is sad. President Obama said he was | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
deeply saddened by what had happened. He said America had been | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
enriched by the Sikh community. This is the second time in recent | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
weeks that the president has had to console the country after a | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
shooting. Just over two weeks ago, a man opened fire on a cinema in | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
Colorado, killing 12 people. The final member of staff caught on | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
camera abusing patients at a care home near Bristol has pleaded | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
guilty. Michael Ezenagu, seen here wearing a hat, admitted two charges | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
of ill-treating a resident at Winterbourne View, a private | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
hospital which housed people with learning difficulties and autism. | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
11 staff have now pleaded guilty to offences against patients. | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
Police are increasingly concerned about the welfare of a 12-year-old | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
girl who has not been seen since Friday. Tia Sharp has made no | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
contact with her friends or family since leaving her grandmother's | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
home in south London to go shopping in Croydon. Our correspondent is | :21:51. | :22:01. | |
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near her grandmother's home in New Addington now. | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
Tia left her grandmother's home on this road in south London around | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
lunchtime on Friday and has not been seen or heard from since. She | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
did not take her mobile phone or any kind of travelcard with her, | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
and had just a small amount of cash with her. She told her grandmother | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
she was offered to buy shoes at a shopping centre in Croydon, but no | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
one has seen her since then. Her family say this is not like her. | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
She had never gone missing before. In terms of the police | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
investigation, there are focusing on three areas. They are talking to | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
neighbours here to see if they saw anything over the weekend. They are | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
continuing to examine CCTV footage to see if there are any sightings | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
of Tia there, and they are examining her use of social media | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
to see if that throws up any clues as to her whereabouts. | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
More on the Olympics now. Britain's most successful gymnast, the three- | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
times world champion Beth Tweddle, makes her last bid to win an | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
elusive Olympic medal. Beth's going for gold in the uneven bars at 2.50 | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
this afternoon. She is looking to improve on her fourth place in | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
Beijing. We can now talk to Beth's parents, Jerry and Ann, who are at | :23:08. | :23:16. | |
the North Greenwich Arena. I always wonder how difficult it must be as | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
a parent to watch your child go through something like this. Jerry, | :23:20. | :23:27. | |
how nervous are you? Not as nervous as normal. There has been such a | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
groundswell of support. Lots of people here. And of course, the | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
gymnastics has been going well. The lads have done brilliantly, and the | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
girls also had the highest team placing. And the Beth, this is her | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
last chance to get an Olympic medal. She came fourth in Beijing. How is | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
she dealing with it? Is she taking it in her stride? Were don't have | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
much contact with her during competition time, but I spoke to | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
her briefly yesterday and she is very cool and calm. She is prepared. | :23:59. | :24:06. | |
She is reading and listening to music. She is fine. She stands a | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
very good chance of a medal, if not gold. She qualified first. We don't | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
mind which medal it is. She doesn't mind. If she goes through the | :24:17. | :24:25. | |
routine, yes, she does it stand a chance. And Jerry, the British | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
gymnasts at this Olympics have done amazingly well. They have a. And | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
that is a result of all the support, the lottery funding and the | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
coaching development. It has been brilliant. The medical support has | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
really helped Beth recently when she needed it. It was fantastic. It | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
has given her a chance. I will let you both take your seats. Let's | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
hope she comes away with a medal this afternoon. | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
At Greenwich Park, the equestrian competition resumes, with Saudi | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
Arabia leading the standings in the team showjumping. There are four | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
countries in joint second position, including Team GB. Our sports | :25:00. | :25:08. | |
correspondent is there. You may recall that Great Britain | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
have already won one medal in equestrian, in team eventing, which | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
is like a triathlon, a combination of three disciplines. Today is all | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
about one of those disciplines, showjumping. It is a team event. | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
There are four British riders and the scores of the top three will go | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
towards the final tally. It is all about avoiding penalty points and | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
getting over the fences as quickly and cleanly as possible. Great | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
Britain are in joint second place. That is in no small part down to | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
Nick Skelton, 54 years old. He has done everything in his career apart | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
from winning an Olympic medal. He has been on sparkling form so far. | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
Maybe he has finally got the best horse of his career. You may be | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
surprised to see the name of Saudi Arabia up in top gold medal | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
position as we go into today's final round. King Abdullah has | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
thrown millions into it since 2009. And the team includes his son. | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
Equestrian money is clearly important. If you can buy the best | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
horses, you have a strong chance, but there is no substitute for | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
experience. The Canadian team today includes Ian Millar in a record- | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
breaking tenth Olympics. He is going strong at the age of 65. | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
If you have been watching the Olympics on TV, and record numbers | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
here and around the world have been doing just that, there is every | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
chance that at some point, you have wondered "how on earth did they get | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
that shot?". Well, Clive Myrie has been given exclusive behind-the- | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
scenes access to discover how some of the most stunning images of | :26:36. | :26:43. | |
sport ever captured have made it on to your screen. | :26:43. | :26:50. | |
Remember this? Camera angles that took the public right inside the | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
world of Tom Daley and Pete Waterfield. The London Olympics | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
have provided viewers with some memorable images. We were given | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
exclusive access to the men and machines behind the pictures of the | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
Games. Deep in the bowels of the Aquatics Centre is a whole other | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
underwater world cameras, Polly's and remote controls. These cameras | :27:12. | :27:18. | |
catch everything, a fish-eye view of the action. Scott Stevens lowers | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
into position one of them, ready to record the battle for gold medals | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
from a different perspective. brings the viewer closer to the | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
athletes than they have been before. From underneath, you get a better | :27:33. | :27:39. | |
idea of some of the techniques, some of the breathing, the turns, | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
or that sort of stuff. Just a handful of people get the | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
opportunist to watch all the action from down here. Up Close and | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
Personal, with the swimmers and divers. But thanks to all the | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
camera technology in the pool, millions of others can get up close | :27:54. | :28:01. | |
and personal, too. And above the waves, 7.5 metres, to be exact, I | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
have shown an aluminium glass tube containing a camera at the end of a | :28:05. | :28:12. | |
rope. And I got the chance to use it. It's incredible. It is just a | :28:12. | :28:17. | |
camera on the end of a rope, but it gives an incredible view of the | :28:17. | :28:23. | |
action. It is not just the Aquatics Centre, where ever more ingenious | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
ways have been found to record the games. In the Olympic Stadium, | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
cameras are mounted on wires. They track the runners from the side, | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
step-by-step. One floats in a balloon. The aim is to take the | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
viewer where the athlete is, from the top of the diving board to the | :28:41. | :28:50. | |
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Now the weather. Hour by hour this morning, we have been watching the | :28:53. | :28:56. | |
clouds continue to fill the sky in London. It is looking threatening | :28:56. | :29:00. | |
at the moment, and we will see big showers not just at the Olympic | :29:00. | :29:06. | |
Park, but widely across the British Isles. We can pick up where those | :29:06. | :29:09. | |
showers have been on the radar picture, with nasty clumps across | :29:09. | :29:14. | |
northern England, the South of Scotland, Wales and the south-west | :29:14. | :29:18. | |
of England. Those showers track eastwards during today. We could | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
see a shower at the sailing. But the worst of the showers may stay | :29:22. | :29:27. | |
just inland in Dorset. You will see big clouds on the footage, but it | :29:27. | :29:31. | |
might stay dry for the sailors. At the equestrian events in Greenwich, | :29:31. | :29:36. | |
there's the risk of an odd shower. Those showers may turn heavy at | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
Greenwich and at the Olympic Park, with the big showers turning up | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
after three this afternoon. The showers could be beefy and nature. | :29:44. | :29:48. | |
Thunderstorms are likely to grow up later, but the worst showers will | :29:48. | :29:53. | |
pass through the across England and Wales, and then the weather should | :29:53. | :29:57. | |
become dry. It has been a cloudy morning in Northern Ireland. We | :29:57. | :30:01. | |
have limited bright spells here, but for most places, it stays dry. | :30:01. | :30:07. | |
Some dry weather for the south and west of Scotland, but it looks | :30:07. | :30:12. | |
unsettled in the east. There are torrential downpours here, which | :30:12. | :30:16. | |
also affect the East of England. Showers are in the forecast for the | :30:16. | :30:20. | |
Olympic Park and also at the Riverbank Arena, where we are | :30:20. | :30:24. | |
likely to see downpours developing through the course of the day as | :30:24. | :30:28. | |
Team GB's women take on the champions, the Netherlands. Showers | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
are forecast at the Olympic Park, so anyone heading to this evening's | :30:32. | :30:37. | |
session, it is worth bringing wet weather gear with you. Tonight, the | :30:37. | :30:41. | |
showers will gradually fade away. Most places will become dry through | :30:41. | :30:45. | |
the night and it will stay relatively mild. By the end of the | :30:45. | :30:49. | |
night, the cloud will thicken across south-west England and | :30:49. | :30:54. | |
outbreaks of rain are forecast to end the night. The rain band will | :30:54. | :30:59. | |
spread along the south coast of England, threatening outbreaks of | :30:59. | :31:04. | |
rain towards the late afternoon and evening tomorrow. There will be a | :31:04. | :31:08. | |
few showers across eastern areas of England and Scotland, with the | :31:08. | :31:11. | |
driest weather generally across north-western parts of the country. | :31:11. | :31:16. |