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Almost grinding to a halt in 2012, the Bank of England slashes its | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
growth forecast for the UK economy. The Governor of the Bank of England | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
says the UK economy faces a challenge of Olympic proportions. | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
The black cloud of uncertainty is hanging over investment and the | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
weakening euro is a further obstacle to the adjustment we knead | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
to make in our net trade position. A man accused of being hired by a | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
British man to kill his bride on honeymoon in Cape Town has been | :00:37. | :00:46. | |
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sentenced to 25 years in prison Olympic champion Mo Farah qualifies | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
for his next final of 5,000 metres on Saturday but admits winning his | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
gold has taken its toll. Obviously that took more out of me | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
than I realised but it's all good. Great support from the crowd and | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
I'm happy where I am now, a couple of days to recover and I'll come | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
back for the final. Team GB's show jump es set out on their quest for | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
mow gold. It's 40 years since Great Britain won an individual medal in | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
the event. Police officers searching for | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
missing teenager Tia Sharp this morning visited the home of her | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
grandmother. More than 60% of the Philippines' | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
capital Manila is under water after days of relentless monsoon rains. | :01:32. | :01:41. | |
Hundreds of thousands of people have been affected. | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
Rereport on a gang being season tensed after being on the rampage | :01:44. | :01:54. | |
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in the riots last year. Tim Brabant Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
News at One from London's Olympic Park. | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
The Bank of England has cut back its forecast for the UK economy | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
this year, saying the economy will come to a virtual standstill with | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
broadly zero growth. In May, the bank predicted growth of 0.8%. The | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
Governor, Sir Mervyn King, said the future was unpredictable while | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
storm clouds from the eurozone continue to roll in. Our business | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
correspondent, John Moylan, reports. Britain's athletes may have | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
exceeded expectations, sadly the economy has not. | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
In 2012, it should have bounced back. Instead, it's juttering to a | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
halt. The underlying picture is that | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
output has been at best broadly flat over the past two years and | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
has continually disappointed expectations of a recovery. | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
It's not a huge surprise. Last month, official figures confirmed | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
that the double dip recession was deeper than had been thought, hit | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
by a major slump in the construction sector. The bank has | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
cut interest rates and launched programmes to stimulate the economy | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
but today it warned that there would be no quick fix. The recovery | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
and rebalancing of our economy will be a long, slow process. | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
So it is to our Olympic team that we should look for inspiration. | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
They have shown us the importance of total commitment when trying to | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
achieve a goal that may lie some years ahead. | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
There was some good news today from the bank for consumers. It now | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
believes that inflation, the rate at which prices hear on the high | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
street are rising, will ease in the coming months back towards its 2% | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
target. Now that will be welcome relief for household budgets which | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
have really been hit in recent years by soaring energy and food | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
prices. Unemployment has been falling too. | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
Some believe the economy may not be performing as badly as the figures | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
suggest. But in the City, there are concerns that there's little more | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
that the bank can do. The bank feels its options are fairly | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
limited now. Mervyn almost ruled out an interest rate cut next year | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
because he said a quarter of a point is neither here nor there and | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
might have an counterproductive effect. It's stuck in the middle | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
really. No gold medal force the economy... | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
There was a wry smile from the Chief Secretary to the Treasury | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
today, but he and the Chancellor know that pressure is mounting on | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
the Government to do more to get the economy back on track. Our | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
Economics Editor, Stephanie Flanders is in the City. Look to | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
our Olympic team, says Sir Mervyn King for inspiration, but it's got | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
a very long way to go before it reaches full fitness, the economy? | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
Yes, and I think you are talking more in terms of Olympics four to | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
eight year cycles, rather than four to eight months or weeks. I think | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
what was most striking about the press conference from the Governor | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
of the Bank of England was just the tone of almost defeatism in the | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
face of the economic climate and the crisis in the eurozone. I think | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
most people in the City had been expecting that big fall in growth | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
forecast for this year. It would have been surprising given what we | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
have seen recently, the economic data coming out, if the Bank of | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
England hadn't had to slash its forecast for growth this year. But | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
there was no real indication in this report that the Bank of | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
England was expecting to make great efforts to turn the economy around | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
in the next couple of years, and there was a big message from the | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
Governor that they didn't know what was going to happen. Nobody could | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
predict what was happening in the eurozone and nobody could predict | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
what would happen in the economy over the next couple of years. We | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
have had a statement from the Treasury today saying that the | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
Governor had pointed the finger at the eurozone, that this is in many | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
ways the result of the eurozone crisis, that's what the Chancellor | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
likes to say, rather than what Labour says, which is that of | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
course some of this slow growth is policies. But clearly, it's a very | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
difficult time for the Government from the Governor that really his | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
hands are almost tied, there's not a lot he can do about it at least | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
in the next year or so. Thank you very much. | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
One of two men accused of being hired by a British man to kill his | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
bride on honeymoon in South Africa has been jailed for 25 years after | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
admitting to her murder. Anni Dewani's body was found in an | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
abandoned taxi in a township in Cape Town two years ago. | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
Prosecutors claim her husband Shrien Dewani paid two men to kill | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
her, accusations he denies. Daniela Relph reports. | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
It's now more than a year-and-a- half since Anni Dewani was murdered, | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
just days after her wedding to Shrien Dewani. Mystery still | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
surrounds her death - who killed her and what did her husband know? | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
Today, in a court in Johannesburg, Mziwamadoda Qwabe admitted | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
murdering Anni Dewani. He's also pleaded guilty to charges of | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
kidnapping, robbery and the illegal possession of a firearm. He's one | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
of two men who the prosecution believe were hired by Shrien Dewani | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
to kill his wife. Her body was found in an abandoned | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
taxi in Cape Town's township. She'd been shot dead. Prosecutors in | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
South Africa claim CCTV footage from hotel cameras show Shrien | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
Dewani meeting and paying off a taxi driver to murder his wife. | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
His defence team say he's innocent and had actually been arranging a | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
sight-seeing tour. The legal attempts to get Shrien | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
Dewani extradited to South Africa to answer questions about his | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
wife's death are currently on hold. A judge has ruled his current | :07:40. | :07:48. | |
mental health problems prevent his extradition. | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
An Anni Dewani's family say although happy with the sentence, | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
they'll not know the truth of what happened to her until her husband | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
travels to South Africa to face trial. | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
To the Olympics now, and Team GB hope to add to their Olympic tally | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
today. They currently have a total of 48 medals, including 2 golds | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
placing them third in the table, only eight behind the USA. This | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
morning, the Olympic champion, Mo Farah was back on the track as he | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
qualified for Saturday's 5,000 metre final and Team GB's show | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
jumpers are trying to win Great Britain's first individual medals | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
for 40 years. James Pearce is in the Olympic Park for us now. | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
Sophie, summer's returned to the Olympic Park today but such is a | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
buoyant mood amongst many British supporters that if you told them it | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
would rain for the next days, they really wouldn't care. It's been a | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
gold rush over the past week and in a day one of the gold medal winners | :08:44. | :08:54. | |
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began his quest for a second. PROBLEM WITH SOUND | :08:56. | :09:06. | |
Not for MoFarah, back on the track and ready for business. This time | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
it was a 5,000 metres, a qualifying round for Saturday's final. Such is | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
his talent, but realistically, he needed to stay out of trouble and | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
keep on his feet. He did just that, finishing in third place, alknow | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
not surprisingly, he was a little weary. | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
It was pretty difficult, a bit tired today. Obviously that took | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
more out of me than I realised, but it's all good, great support from | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
the crowd and I'm happy where I am now, a couple of days to recover | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
and I'll come back for the final. NHS to get through to the final. | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
-- nice to get through to the final. They say a bad workman blames his | :09:43. | :09:53. | |
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tools. COMMENTATOR: Oh, my God... This one was quite right to moan | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
this morning. - ouch. South Africa's Semenya made her Olympic | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
debut. She was banned from competitions for almost a year and | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
underwent gender tests following her victory in the 2009 | :10:05. | :10:12. | |
Championships. She's safely through to the 80 metres semi-finals. | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
Others can relax already, job done. Yesterday law wra Trott won her | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
second gold of the Games in the Khomeini yum. Today she was out and | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
about in the Olympic Park -- Laura Trott. You are surrounded by people | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
now, you are a celebrity. Is that something you can live with, you | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
are going to enjoy? Yes, I'll enjoy it for the time being! | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
You are going to get used to signing autographs? And standing | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
there like this, yes! Famously for this effort... Sarah Attar's Games | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
are also over, she's not leaving with a medal but has her place in | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
history, becoming the first woman from Saudi Arabia to complete in | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
athletics at an Olympics. Her time was actually 45 seconds | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
slower than the person who won that heat but that wasn't really the | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
point at all was it of her taking part in the Games today. As far as | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
the British Olympic Association are concerned, they've given more | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
details about victory parade. There will be a joint Olympic and | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
Paralympic victory parade on September 109, ending up in | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
Buckingham Palace. The BOA say they hope at least a million people will | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
line the streets to applaud the athletes. Thank you very much. I'm | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
joined by one man who I am sure will be on that victory parade, | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
Peter Wilson, Olympic medallist in the shooting trap. Congratulations. | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
Has it sunk in yet? Thank you very much. It's been just under a week | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
now and it's still still a complete surreal moment. I just can't really | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
remember what happened. The whole thing is a blur but it's beginning | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
to slowly, slowly sink in. There was that extraordinary moment just | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
before your victory with you actually missed two targets. | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
Everyone's been talking about the crowd and the support, but at that | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
point, did the pressure start getting to you? Yes, I suppose it's | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
natural when you start missing,, you begin to think about what could | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
be. I tried to focus my absolute best on the technique and something | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
I've been working on for the last six years. With my woch Ahmed for | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
the last four. I knew I could keep it together, I was very composed -- | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
coach. That was a blip, not wanting to do it again if I could help it. | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
There you were with your medal around your neck. But this was a | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
sport that you fell into? Yes, I dislocated my shoulder snowboarding, | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
meaning I couldn't carry on with normal school sports so took up | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
shooting one handed after I worked out I was totally useless at didly | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
winks and chess. Sitting was no option, I took it up, six months | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
one handed then six months rehabilitation with my left arm | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
holding the gun. The physios were really keen I carry on and when | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
back to full fitness and cricket and squash, I was more useless than | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
when I start sod it was natural to stick to shooting .. Thank goodness | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
you did. A lot has been made about the amount of money, the lottery | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
funding in particular that's been poured into British athletes and | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
helped towards this great success. Funding's not been that easy for | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
you has it? No, but I need the thank everyone for getting me where | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
I am today and without the lottery funding I wouldn't be here, so | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
thank you to everyone who plays National Lottery and the Government. | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
The road has been rocky and not easy. I would say to everyone if it | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
wasn't easy I wouldn't do it. Came off funding in 200 and that allow | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
med to spend some time with my new coach Ahmed and he built me up to | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
get back on funding a year later and I've been there ever since. | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
Here you are with the result. Thank you very much for coming in. Thanks | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
a lot. Hopes are high for more Team GB success in the equestrian events. | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
Three of Great Britain's show jumping medallists are back in | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
action for the individual show jumping finals, Joe Wilson is there. | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
Stop me if you have heard this one before, here we are in Greenwich | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
with real equestrian medal hopes. The individual show jumping final | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
under way already. We don't want to disturb the horses, that's why we | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
are here. Scott Brash is already clear, medals decided by 4 o'clock, | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
Nick Skelton goes for Great Britain also. 54 years of age, been | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
competing at top level since the late 07s, but in Big Star he has | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
perhaps the most outstanding horse of the whole competition. Earlier, | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
I was speaking to Will Connell, the GB equestrian team leader and, | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
after all the success the team have already had here, he has the air of | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
a man who can't quite believe his luck. A team gold in dressage and | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
jumping and a team silver in eventing is for sure, I've laid in | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
bed at night after a large whisky and thought, oh, maybe, but to get | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
two golds and a silver in team events which in equestrian are the | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
blue rib ands of the team events is very special and I think the | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
support from lottery and our owners and the quality of our riders are | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
the three factors that have brought that together. One quick question | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
looking ahead to today. As you say, the team is very much the dynamic | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
here. Yes. Nick Skelton is an extraordinary story isn't he? | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
If you take into account the physical challenges he's had over | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
the years, breaking his neck and he's had most of his body replaced, | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
you know, takes him an hour to go through mag and bag every morning. | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
Has to set the alarm, does he? I think what equestrian athletes | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
have to do is adapt to if they are carrying a slight injury they can | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
adapt slightly how they ride but yes it's a fantastic thing about | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
sport that you can enjoy equestrian when you are five-year-olds or when | :15:40. | :15:50. | |
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One issue on Will Connell's smind that of legacy. There is a hope the | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
success here will lead of something of an explosion in interest in | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
equine sport. But if you are going to succeed in equestrian you need | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
wealthy, certainly generous owners and no coincidence to seat Saudi | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
Arabian Prince himself with the realistic chance of a medal. The | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
final round is just about 3.00pm. We hope the medal is decided before | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
4.00pm. Team GB boxer Nicola Adams continues her history-making | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
progress that afternoon much she's almost guaranteed Britain's first | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
women's Olympic boxing medal. She takes on Mary Kom from India. Andy | :16:30. | :16:38. | |
Swiss is at the ExCel Centre. What after afternoon ahead. Yes, the at | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
mgs fear here is already building. As you say potentially -- the | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
atmosphere is building. Potentially a historic moment for Nicola Adams. | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
If she win this is afternoon, she would be through to the first ever | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
women's boxing final in Olympic history. Nicola Adams is one of | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
Britain's most experienced fighters. She is 29 years' old. She's already | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
a European champion. She took up boxing when she was just 12, | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
inspired by watching Mohammad Ali on television. European champion | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
last year. The bad news for her is she is up against one of the true | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
legends of women's boxing, Mary Kom of India, a five times World | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
Champion. So it is a tough ask, although she did beat Mary Kom in | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
the World Championships. If she does it today she will be | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
guaranteed gold or silver. This is the first time women's boxing is | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
allowed in the Olympics. Up until now boxing was the only sport that | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
didn't allow women to compete. It has been accepted by the fans, we | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
have had sell-out fans. We will expect Nicola Adams' fight to get | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
under way in the next half hour or Our top story this lunch time: | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
almost grinding to a halt in 2012 - the Bank of England slashes its | :17:54. | :18:04. | |
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growth forecast for the UK economy. I'm in the Olympic Park where | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
Britain's Shanaze Reade today tries to continue GB's domination on two | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
wheels. On BBC London, we hear from the | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
woman who's job it is to make the canals and waterways in east London | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
safe. And with another busy afternoon of sport ahead across | :18:22. | :18:32. | |
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Olympic venues a full travel and Around 60% of Manila, the capital | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
of the Philippines, is under water after days of relentless monsoon | :18:36. | :18:44. | |
been forced from their homes by the flood waters, which in places are | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
neck-deep. Manila has been brought to a near standstill with schools, | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
government offices and financial markets all forced to close. Kate | :18:49. | :18:55. | |
McGeowan reports from Manila. A water world, that's how the head of | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
the Phillipine Disaster Agency described man I will la. It's been | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
raining almost constantly here since the weekend. -- described | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
Manila. Many people find they have no choice but to leave their homes | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
and everything they own, for higher and drier ground. More than 800,000 | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
people have now been displaced by the floods and more are still | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
stranded. Police and volunteers are combing the roads that have become | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
rivers to find them and take them to the evacuation centres, where | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
aid workers are waiting to help. There is a relief operation with | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
the government but it is an extensive population affected. The | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
latest figures we have is that it is 1.2 million people affected. We | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
estimate 60% are children. Officials have turned schools, | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
churches and even basketball courts into temporary evacuation centres, | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
where people can get food, clothing and shelter. But it's only a | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
temporary solution. These people look lost and frightened. | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
We were hoping to go home because it is difficult here. The sleeping | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
conditions are not comfortable and it is not easy to get food. | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
people in these evacuation centres are desperate to go home. Many of | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
them are worried that their possessions are being looted in | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
their absence and others are concerned there will be nothing | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
salvagable by the time they get back. But the rain is still pouring | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
down here so, it could be a while before they do go home. | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
Egypt has carried out military strikes on suspected Islamic | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
militants in Sinai, killing more than 20 people. The operation | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
followed continued attacks on Egypt's security checkpoints in the | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
peninsula. On Sunday, 16 border guards were shot dead by suspected | :20:37. | :20:47. | |
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militants trying to force their way into Israel. Peter Biles reports. | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
Egypt's military response to the killing of border guards on Sunday | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
has been decisive. It's included the use of heavy | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
armour and helicopter gunships. The first type Egypt has fired missiles | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
in the Sinai peninsula since the 19373 war with Israel. | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
-- 1973. Sinai has been an increasingly lawless place since | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
the revolution in Egypt last year. And there's been anger in the main | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
city of al-Arish after the initial attack, that Egypt has blamed on | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
Islamist militants. Local people gathered outside the hospital where | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
some of the wound ready being treated. | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
In Cairo, they have been absorbing the news that the security forces | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
have taken retal triaction. Egyptian security, along with the | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
lives of Egyptians, are a red line, said this man, there should be a | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
harsh reaction to those who consider assaulting our soldiers or | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
our land, he said. The funerals of the Egyptian | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
soldiers who were buried on Tuesday were also marked by calls for | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
vengence. Egypt's leaders have promised to reimpose full control | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
of Sinai. It'll be an important test of credibility for the | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
government. Our correspondent Yolande Knell is | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
until al-Arish in the Sinai peninsula with the latest. | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
Well it's relatively calm here right now in the coastal town of | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
al-Arish but overnight there was heavy gunfire as armed men attacked | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
several checkpoints close to the city. We understand then that the | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
action moved closer to Egypt's bored we are Israel and in a | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
village where these militants are said to be holed up, the Army moved | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
in, these air strikes were carried out and ground troops went in and | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
that's where we understand 20 militants were killed, three armed | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
vehicles destroyed. The Egyptian military said it is going to | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
continue its operation in the Sinai. It's determined to confront thesis | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
lambic militants who gained a foothold here in the security | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
vacuum that opened up in the past year since Egypt's are up-rising. | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
Here police dogs have joined in the search for a 12-year-old girl who | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
went mising in south London last week. Tia Sharp was last seen | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
living her grandmother's home a New Addington at lunch time on Friday | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
to go shopping. Daniel Boettcher is fl. This morning we saw teams | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
searching in the woodlands across the valley about a quarter of a | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
mile away. Dauling handlers and their dogs going through that area | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
block by block. More recently we saw one of the teams moving up the | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
alley behind me to the property, towards the end of that row, the | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
home of Tia's grandmother. It is from that house that she went | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
missing from, last Friday afternoon. That dog team was in there for | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
about 25 minutes, half an hour, they then left. We also saw during | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
the course of the morning, the man in charge of the inquiry, DCI Nick | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
skoler going into that house with another detective. -- Scholer. As | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
he left he spoke briefly to reporters saying he had been up | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
dating the family on developments but he said he didn't want to go | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
into any details. He said there would be press updates later today. | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
We would expect to find out then whether the inquiry has moved on. | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
More on the Olympics and the cycling may be over in the | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
velodrome but Britain's success on two wheels could continue. Today is | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
the first day of the BMX competition. Team GB's Shanaze | :24:31. | :24:38. | |
Reade is going for gold. Dan Roan is at the BMX track. Shanaze Reade | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
is GB's big hope in this competition. Her time trial, which | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
will determine which order the finalists go in when they race | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
together later this week, takes place just after 3.00pm. Let's show | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
you quickly this spectacular course, the BMX track here at the Olympic | :24:55. | :25:02. | |
Park. That is the terrifying ramp that the riders have to hurtle down | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
at speeds of around 40 miles per hour to start their circuit. They | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
then go over the lumps and bumps down to that stand and towards the | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
first bend. You can see how steep that. Beyond that is the velodrome | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
where GB have dominated in, in the last few days. They then come back | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
this way. There is the tunnel through which the women cyclists | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
pass threw this bend, towards the final bend in the disit is a and | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
then back towards the finishing land in front of the main stand. | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
Shanaze Reade, let's show you some of the action for four years ago in | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
Beijing. She was a favourite. She was just 19. She had a guaranteed | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
silver, she went for broke, went to gold and it ended disastrously with | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
this unpleasant crash which resulted in a pretty nasty wrist | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
injury and as a result she could only manage eighth. She desperately | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
wants it make up that disappointment but as you can see, | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
by that footage, this is one of the most dangerous, high-octane, | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
adrenaline-filled of the many sports here at the Olympics. The | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
riders require huge bravery to get around this Sir UK it makes some of | :26:10. | :26:17. | |
the keirins on the strak -- track look tame by comparison -- around | :26:17. | :26:24. | |
this circuit. It makes some of the keirins took tame. | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
London's 2012 chairman, Lord Coe has this morning called the armed | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
forces and their involvement in London 2012 one of the defining | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
features of the Olympics. There are more than 14,000 soldiers, sailors | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
and RAF personnel providing security at the venues in and | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
outside London and as we have been finding out, the troops have also | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
been receiving warm support from members of the public. What are you | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
here to see? They have become a feature of the London Olympics. | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
Their uniform standing out among the t-shirts and flip flops of the | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
public moving around them. For many their presence has been reassuring, | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
providing backbone to the biggest security operation since World War | :27:06. | :27:14. | |
Two. Corporal Amy Lee Dawson has man--checked points before in | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
Afghanistan. The chance to work at the Olympics was an gond send, she | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
said. It has been brilliant. A once in a livetime opportunity. Meeting | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
the public a warm welcome for them. Getting to watch the Games. I got | :27:26. | :27:32. | |
to watch the athletics, which was amazing. Captain Harry McCloud has | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
been on Olympic Park duty for the last month. We have had nearly | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
300,000 people coming through a day. Being able it talk to them, help | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
them and assist them throughout their day has been a great | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
experience. The head of London organising | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
committee, Lord Coe today visited the temporary home in Essex at | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
troops working at the Olympics. It was a chance for him to acknowledge | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
the contribution of the military to the success of the Games so far. | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
They've brought, of course, supreme organisational skills. They've | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
brought their professionalism. They have brought their humour and they | :28:07. | :28:13. | |
have done it with grace and they charmed a large proportion of the | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
Olympic family. I think it's been quite humbling for me as head of | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
the armed forces to see the way they have responded but it is a | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
two-way thing. Most of them have thoroughly enjoyed it and they have | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
loved the interaction with the public. For years, troops rarely | :28:30. | :28:32. | |
wore their uniforms in public because of the conflict in Northern | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
Ireland. Times have changed and the public are getting to see a | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
different side of the armed forces. The work the military have had to | :28:39. | :28:44. | |
do at the Olympics is has provided a unique opportunity. The | :28:44. | :28:48. | |
servicemen and women have been able to reacquaint themselves with the | :28:49. | :28:53. | |
public they serve and the people have had their chance to show their | :28:53. | :28:56. | |
appreciation. It is a fantastic. They are doing a great job. They | :28:56. | :29:01. | |
are really happy and helpful. Already I have said, "Thank you | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
mate" to a couple passing by, it is great to see them. These troops | :29:04. | :29:07. | |
were called up in an hour of need but their presence not only solved | :29:07. | :29:11. | |
the crisis for the Olympics but has seemingly improved the military's | :29:11. | :29:17. | |
image with us all. Let's look at the latest weather | :29:17. | :29:20. | |
now. Darren is here and has brought now. Darren is here and has brought | :29:20. | :29:23. | |
the sunshine. It is lovely out here. The weather is continuing to | :29:23. | :29:26. | |
improve. For many parts of the country today it is going to be a | :29:26. | :29:30. | |
pretty good day. Bright, some sunshine and probably a bit warmer | :29:30. | :29:34. | |
than it was yesterday. We still have an area of cloud, left over | :29:34. | :29:37. | |
from yesterday really. It's affected parts of southern England | :29:37. | :29:41. | |
and south Wales but it is thinning and breaking. We are getting | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
sunshine as we head through the rest of the afternoon. A little | :29:44. | :29:47. | |
sunshine for the south-west of England and south Wales but maybe | :29:47. | :29:51. | |
one or two showers. Northwards towards Wales more sunshine it. | :29:51. | :29:54. | |
Should be lovely through the afternoon and for Northern Ireland | :29:54. | :29:59. | |
as. With look at that, blue skies for the most part with bags of | :29:59. | :30:02. | |
sunshine. Patchy cloud, hardly a breath of wind. North-eastern parts | :30:02. | :30:07. | |
of Scotland could be cloudy with a few showers. The rest of Scotland | :30:07. | :30:11. | |
enjoying sunshine and warmth. Sunshine for northern England, | :30:11. | :30:15. | |
maybe a few showers but no thunderstorms. Midlands should be | :30:15. | :30:18. | |
fine and East Anglia enjoying sung Shine. The showers in southern | :30:18. | :30:22. | |
England probably to the south of London so, it'll probably stay dry | :30:22. | :30:25. | |
here. We have sunshine for the evening events. GB's women in the | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
hockey semi-finals it, should be fine this evening and a lovely | :30:29. | :30:32. | |
evening for the athletics and the beach volleyball. | :30:32. | :30:36. | |
Let's look overnight. As you can see any showers we do have will | :30:36. | :30:39. | |
soon fade away. It should be dry overnight with clear spells. Patchy | :30:39. | :30:43. | |
mist and fog maybe and quite a warm night, particularly in the south. | :30:43. | :30:49. | |
It will be quite humid. So a warm day to comfort swimming tomorrow in | :30:49. | :30:53. | |
the Serpentine. Water will not be very warm. We haven't had a lot of | :30:53. | :30:57. | |
sun to warm it up but for the spectators a super day, warmer than | :30:57. | :31:01. | |
today. The mist and fog will soon clear. We will see cloud for a | :31:01. | :31:04. | |
while across Northern Ireland. Sunny spells else where. Really | :31:04. | :31:07. | |
warming up in the sunshine except the north-east of Scotland where | :31:07. | :31:11. | |
there will still be a lot of cloud. Temperatures will struggle. | :31:11. | :31:14. | |
Elsewhere as you can see that warmth building and 26 for the | :31:14. | :31:18. | |
athletics tomorrow afternoon. That's the warmest it has been. The | :31:18. | :31:26. | |
heat is building. The high pressure, as we head towards the weekend | :31:26. | :31:30. | |
slips away. The winds pick up on Saturday and into Sunday we may see | :31:30. | :31:33. | |
showers from the south-west as well but for most of us, Friday and | :31:33. | :31:37. | |
Saturday will be dry and warm when the sunshine comes out. More cloud | :31:37. | :31:40. |