:00:05. > :00:15.The Olympic security fiasco - the boss of G4S faces tough questioning
:00:15. > :00:18.
:00:18. > :00:21.from MPs. Nick Buckles admits his company's reputation is in tatters.
:00:21. > :00:24.Kick it is a humiliating shambles for the company, yes or no?
:00:24. > :00:27.cannot disagree with you. And that's before the company's
:00:27. > :00:34.latest no-shows. More guards fail to turn up, and trainees speak of
:00:34. > :00:40.confusion. When do you start work? Are I have
:00:40. > :00:45.no idea. They have not told you? no. Have you asked? Yeah. I know
:00:45. > :00:47.response? Are I have to wait for an e-mail. We'll be asking if G4S can
:00:47. > :00:50.deliver on their other commitments? Also tonight:
:00:50. > :00:53.Buried alive in their car - police discover a couple who drove into a
:00:53. > :00:57.landslide last week. Inflation drops - all that rain had
:00:57. > :00:59.the high street slashing prices to get us into the shops.
:01:00. > :01:09.The "Blade Runner" makes history - we're with Oscar Pistorius, the
:01:10. > :01:11.
:01:11. > :01:15.first amputee to compete in the Olympic games. Neither and and on
:01:15. > :01:21.the BBC News Channel, we will be live at Toral are then sent answer
:01:21. > :01:31.as Tiger Woods faces another tough day in practice for the Open -- we
:01:31. > :01:38.
:01:38. > :01:41.Good evening. Welcome to the BBC News at Six. The man who runs G4S,
:01:41. > :01:46.the private contractor at the heart of the Olympic security crisis,
:01:46. > :01:50.says he regrets the company ever took on the job. Nick Buckles faced
:01:50. > :01:54.fierce questioning from MPs today. He admitted the company's
:01:54. > :01:58.performance had been a humiliating shambles. While he was speaking, it
:01:58. > :02:08.emerged that yet more of its staff had failed to turn up for duty at
:02:08. > :02:11.
:02:11. > :02:15.an Olympic venue, this time at Box A G4S and his chief executive had
:02:15. > :02:20.hoped to bring a little Olympic gold to the company's reputation,
:02:20. > :02:26.by signing up to protect the London Games. But instead, Nicholls took
:02:26. > :02:32.his seat in front of MPs today for a roasting. Mr Buckles, it is a
:02:32. > :02:36.humiliating shambles, isn't it? is not where we would want to be.
:02:36. > :02:42.It is a humiliating shambles for the company, yes or no? I cannot
:02:42. > :02:47.disagree. He also agreed that for a second day, Olympic venues are
:02:47. > :02:53.missing G4S security guards. 17 turned up at the road cycling
:02:54. > :02:57.course in Surrey. 30 it had been expected. G4S has 10,000 staff on
:02:57. > :03:01.its roster. It is training and equipping more every day at centres
:03:01. > :03:05.like this, but now the Olympic venues are being searched and
:03:05. > :03:11.locked down, G4S's staff are not turning up in the right numbers to
:03:11. > :03:16.guard them. The question is why. The answer, MPs were told today, is
:03:16. > :03:18.that in the gap between being trained, often months ago, and
:03:18. > :03:23.given their security duty, they have gone missing. Perhaps they
:03:23. > :03:29.have found other jobs, but between 30051000 staff are now not
:03:29. > :03:32.available to work for G4S. You have not actively managed to people
:03:32. > :03:39.between recruiting them and expecting them to turn up to a
:03:39. > :03:44.venue. Could be. Could be, or it is? Could be sounds very vague. We
:03:44. > :03:48.like specific answers. It is on some occasions, but I don't know
:03:48. > :03:52.how many. Is that indicative of a more general management problem
:03:52. > :03:55.within your organisation? database and getting hold of people
:03:55. > :03:59.and running them through the process has been a challenge.
:03:59. > :04:02.even now, the company is leading into the last minute to call in its
:04:02. > :04:08.recruits. When do you start work? I have no
:04:08. > :04:13.idea. They have not told you? No. Have you asked? Yeah. What was the
:04:13. > :04:16.response? I have to wait for an e- mail. G4S admitted today that it
:04:16. > :04:21.has no way of knowing if trained staff are still willing and
:04:21. > :04:26.available to work until they are sent at e-mail. We are delighted to
:04:26. > :04:28.have G4S on board. They have been securing the Olympic Fir Park.
:04:28. > :04:32.despite the high-profile endorsements, the company now
:04:32. > :04:35.regrets bidding for the Olympics, regrets agreeing to a contract
:04:36. > :04:41.requiring thousands of staff to be trained and then held in reserved
:04:41. > :04:46.for the big day. But G4S still wants to be paid. 57 million is
:04:46. > :04:51.your feet, and you still think you ought to claim it? Yes. Even after
:04:51. > :04:57.all that has happened? We are still expected to deliver a significant
:04:57. > :05:01.number of staff for the Olympics. find that astonishing. But G4S will
:05:01. > :05:05.pay penalties and a cost of bringing in soldiers and police to
:05:05. > :05:10.cover its failings. Tonight, those troops are making camp in east
:05:10. > :05:13.London. The Games start in ten days. And Tom's here now. Tom, in the
:05:13. > :05:22.light of Nick Buckles' evidence, can G4S be trusted with security at
:05:22. > :05:28.the games? G4S may have come clean last week, but this is not over yet.
:05:28. > :05:33.To go over those figures again, the promised 10,500 or so. They have
:05:33. > :05:37.about 5500. They believe they have not -- they believe they can get
:05:37. > :05:41.that up to 7000, but that still leaves the Olympics about a third
:05:41. > :05:46.short, which is where the army come in. We are hearing more tales from
:05:46. > :05:51.the Police Federation in the Midlands, for example. They say
:05:51. > :05:55.around 380 police officers will be needed to fill in behind G4S at the
:05:55. > :05:59.Olympic football venues. To get about 7000 figure, G4S not only
:05:59. > :06:03.need to get everybody trained up, which has by no means been a smooth
:06:03. > :06:07.process, we have heard about people making long round trips to pick up
:06:07. > :06:11.at a uniform, only to be told it is not available, but they also have
:06:11. > :06:13.to make sure they get in touch with those people and that people are
:06:14. > :06:18.there to answer the e-mails and phones and that they turn up. We
:06:18. > :06:22.are being told that once people are committed to coming, they do turn
:06:22. > :06:25.up on site. So any suggestion that this is a lazy work force that G4S
:06:25. > :06:28.has recruited is not borne out tonight.
:06:28. > :06:31.With just ten days to go before the start of the Olympics, the
:06:31. > :06:34.organisers are releasing another 400,000 tickets. And tens of
:06:34. > :06:38.thousands of football tickets are being withdrawn because of poor
:06:38. > :06:45.demand. Our sports correspondent James Pearce is at the Olympic Park.
:06:45. > :06:48.James, why are so many tickets still available for sale? That is
:06:48. > :06:52.the question that many of those people who applied unsuccessfully
:06:52. > :06:56.for tickets last year will be asking. We always knew there would
:06:56. > :07:00.be some tickets released at the last minute, but not this money.
:07:00. > :07:04.London 2012 organisers have spoken on so many occasions with pride
:07:04. > :07:11.about a sold-out Olympics, and there are now suddenly urging us to
:07:11. > :07:14.buy, buy, buy. The National Youth Theatre welcomes the first
:07:14. > :07:18.competitors to the athletes' village. Every nation will take
:07:18. > :07:21.part in a ceremony like this. This afternoon, it was the turn of the
:07:21. > :07:25.British Virgin Islands, but when the party had started in this
:07:26. > :07:29.corner of town, down the road the mood was far from festive. Lord Coe
:07:29. > :07:33.was on the defensive after revealing that 400,000 tickets have
:07:33. > :07:39.not even gone on sale yet. There are still tickets on the website.
:07:39. > :07:45.If you do want tickets, get on to our website. Don't run away with
:07:45. > :07:48.the idea that we will have a great gaping gaps in our venues, we will
:07:48. > :07:53.not. But there will be gaps at the Olympic football matches. Tickets
:07:53. > :07:56.have sold so slowly in Cardiff that half the Millennium Stadium will be
:07:56. > :08:01.closed off for the opening match, when Team GB's women to play next
:08:01. > :08:06.Wednesday. It is a similar story around the UK. Half a million
:08:06. > :08:12.football tickets have been withdrawn. A further 150,000 have
:08:12. > :08:16.been given away for free. That leaves 450,000 football tickets
:08:16. > :08:20.still to sell. Double gold medallist Dame Kelly Holmes carried
:08:20. > :08:27.the torch today. She knows all about the importance of filling
:08:27. > :08:32.venues. Having full stadiums is something that a lot of sports
:08:32. > :08:35.people don't ever normally get to feel, so having that will bring a
:08:35. > :08:39.new height and energy and excitement, and it will raise
:08:39. > :08:43.performances. The news that more tickets are still to go on sale is
:08:43. > :08:47.frustrating for people like will Stephenson, who applied last year,
:08:47. > :08:51.and having missed out, had formed the impression that most events
:08:51. > :08:55.were sold out. You get an e-mail saying no tickets are available, so
:08:55. > :08:58.you click on a link, see something you would like to buy, request it
:08:59. > :09:04.and until we get to the checkout stage, you do not know it is
:09:04. > :09:09.available. You might be looking at category D tickets, then you find
:09:09. > :09:12.there are only category A left, which are more expensive. It is not
:09:12. > :09:16.clear what is available when you get to the website. There were
:09:16. > :09:20.further problems today for the organisers, when a protest by taxi
:09:20. > :09:24.drivers brought the central London to a standstill. But it is not all
:09:24. > :09:32.doom and gloom. The water on the Olympic Park has at last been
:09:32. > :09:35.coming from a hose, rather than a sky. If you do want to buy tickets,
:09:35. > :09:41.log on to the London 2012 website. You can buy tickets for the opening
:09:41. > :09:44.ceremony, but if you want those, you will need a spare �2,012 in
:09:44. > :09:47.your bank account. A missing couple from Somerset have
:09:47. > :09:49.been found dead inside their car, more than a week after it was
:09:49. > :09:53.buried by a landslide. The vehicle was discovered yesterday evening
:09:53. > :10:03.under tonnes of earth and mud at the mouth of the Beaminster tunnel
:10:03. > :10:04.
:10:04. > :10:08.in Dorset. Robert Hall is there. In the past hour, the contractors
:10:08. > :10:14.have moved in and begun clearing away this mud and rock and foliage
:10:14. > :10:17.that has come down the hillside, taking with it part of the tunnel
:10:17. > :10:22.entrance and claiming two lives. One of those who died has been
:10:22. > :10:27.named locally as Rosemary Snell. She and her companion died in what
:10:27. > :10:35.police described to me as a chance in a million.
:10:35. > :10:39.It has been a vital route for two sentries. Now the tunnel is silent
:10:39. > :10:42.as police try to establish the events which led up to the deaths
:10:42. > :10:46.of two weekend visitors. These pictures were filmed by a BBC
:10:46. > :10:50.camera crew shortly after torrential rain brought mud, trees
:10:50. > :10:54.and brickwork down from the tunnel's northern portal. Unknown
:10:54. > :10:59.to everyone, a car had been passing beneath at that moment and was
:10:59. > :11:03.hidden under the mudslide. A Dorset Fire and rescue used heat-seeking
:11:03. > :11:07.equipment to see if there were signs of life, and that proved
:11:07. > :11:12.negative. In hindsight, the vehicle was so badly crushed her that it
:11:12. > :11:16.was lying low, and the rubble and mud gave the appearance of there
:11:16. > :11:21.being nothing trapped underneath. After the storms, a couple from
:11:21. > :11:25.Crewkerne were reported missing and police traced them to a minister
:11:25. > :11:30.using phone records and credit card transactions. Emergency services
:11:30. > :11:36.returned to the tunnel. And the car was found within 40 minutes. The
:11:36. > :11:40.bodies of its occupants were still inside. It was probably a mixture
:11:40. > :11:44.of literally shock and amazement, shock because any of us could have
:11:44. > :11:47.been going through the tunnel at the time, and amazement,
:11:47. > :11:50.particularly in the week that you read about an avalanche on Mont
:11:50. > :11:54.Blanc, where rescue workers within an hour, and bizarrely here, just
:11:55. > :12:00.200 metres above sea level, it has taken a week and a bit before any
:12:00. > :12:04.of this was suspected. So even as the car was removed for forensic
:12:04. > :12:08.examination, the questions had already begun - had the checks on
:12:08. > :12:11.the mudslide been fair enough? Could rapid intervention have save
:12:11. > :12:16.two lives? The agencies involved have begun an investigation and
:12:16. > :12:20.will report to the coroner. The tunnel, which was due for
:12:20. > :12:24.renovation, will be closed for the foreseeable future. There are
:12:24. > :12:29.concerns amongst the communities which use this road and amongst
:12:29. > :12:33.those who knew it the couple who died. The police are stressing that
:12:33. > :12:38.this was one of 150 flood related incidents during that very busy
:12:38. > :12:43.weekend, but they are confident that the initial checks here were
:12:43. > :12:46.thorough. Every fact will be gone in to buy all of those agencies and
:12:46. > :12:49.will appear in the eventual report. Police are investigating allegedly
:12:49. > :12:51.racist comments made against Chelsea footballer Ashley Cole on
:12:51. > :12:54.the social networking site Twitter. The comment posted by the
:12:54. > :12:58.individual, who's believed to be from Derby, was then re-posted by
:12:58. > :13:03.Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand. A police spokesman said
:13:03. > :13:05.Mr Ferdinand was not under investigation.
:13:05. > :13:07.Counter-terrorism officers have flown to Libya to investigate the
:13:07. > :13:12.murder of policewoman Yvonne Fletcher, who was killed in London
:13:12. > :13:17.while on duty in 1984. The officers are working with Libyan officials
:13:17. > :13:20.to identify who was responsible for her murder. Yvonne Fletcher was
:13:20. > :13:25.policing a demonstration when she was shot by a bullet fired from the
:13:25. > :13:28.Libyan embassy. MPs have been questioning the
:13:28. > :13:31.Governor of the Bank of England in the wake of the rate-rigging
:13:31. > :13:35.scandal at Barclays. Sir Mervyn King told MPs today that the board
:13:35. > :13:38.of Barclays had been in a "state of denial", despite warnings from the
:13:38. > :13:40.City watchdog. MPs have also seen emails which appear to show a close
:13:40. > :13:50.relationship between the former Barclays boss and the Deputy
:13:50. > :13:54.
:13:54. > :13:58.governor of the Bank of England. Barclays, a bank frantically trying
:13:58. > :14:02.to replace its top three people, in part because the Bank of England
:14:02. > :14:07.decided this giant bank needed new leadership in the wake of the LIBOR
:14:07. > :14:11.scandal. The Governor of the Bank of England told MPs the message he
:14:11. > :14:14.delivered to backless chairman Marcus aegis that led to the
:14:15. > :14:19.resignation of Bob Diamond as Barclays' chief executive. I would
:14:19. > :14:23.like you to make clear to the board that the regulators have expressed
:14:23. > :14:29.these concerns and the board needs to know they are very concerned and
:14:29. > :14:33.have lost confidence. The chairman of the FSA had also tried to force
:14:33. > :14:37.out Mr Diamond, but Barclays' chairman did not take the hint and
:14:37. > :14:43.announced that he himself would be quitting. That was an honourable
:14:43. > :14:48.thing to do. I think he thought it was the right thing to do. It was
:14:48. > :14:53.not what I was expecting him to do, and I have to be blunt, I did not
:14:53. > :14:57.think it was the most sensible decision in the circumstances.
:14:57. > :15:05.Mervyn want to know why Marcus Agius had resigned. A first he
:15:05. > :15:09.wanted to find out whether the Chancellor had been involved in the
:15:09. > :15:13.discussions that led up to that, and I learnt from the BBC website
:15:13. > :15:16.of the resignation of the chairman, which I found it odd. It has been
:15:16. > :15:21.at least 15 years since the Governor of the Bank of England has
:15:21. > :15:24.asked at a bank boss in a way that Sir Mervyn King forced Bob Diamond
:15:24. > :15:30.out of Barclays. Sir Mervyn King felt it was appropriate to behave
:15:30. > :15:34.in this way because of government reforms, which would force the Bank
:15:34. > :15:38.of England to work more closely with the Financial Services
:15:38. > :15:44.Authority. But there are some who believe the Bank of England and its
:15:44. > :15:49.governor have become too powerful. At the end of 2008, relations
:15:49. > :15:59.between Bob Diamond and Mervyn King's deputy seemed chummy. Mr
:15:59. > :16:08.
:16:08. > :16:12.Diamond e-mailed Paul Tucker, Mr Tucker was today forced to
:16:12. > :16:18.explain why he did not realise LIBOR was being fiddled after he
:16:18. > :16:25.saw a memo from his US counterpart. His deliberate misreporting
:16:25. > :16:29.dishonest? It turns out, with hindsight, yes, it was. But that is
:16:29. > :16:32.not... It did not set alarm bells ringing at the time, I am afraid.
:16:33. > :16:42.The LIBOR scandal, poisoning everything it touches. From the
:16:43. > :16:44.
:16:45. > :16:50.Our top story: The boss of G4S, Nick Buckles, faces tough
:16:50. > :16:55.questioning from MPs, admitting his company's reputation is in tatters.
:16:55. > :17:01.Coming up: He is nicknamed the Blade Runner. We talked to Oscar
:17:01. > :17:05.Pistorius about his final preparations ahead of London 2012.
:17:05. > :17:08.In business news, UK inflation falls as retailers slash the price
:17:08. > :17:18.of goods and the cost of petrol goes down. And scandal hits another
:17:18. > :17:22.
:17:22. > :17:26.major bank. HSBC is accused of The rate of inflation has fallen to
:17:26. > :17:31.its lowest level in more than two and-a-half years. The consumer
:17:31. > :17:35.prices index, which excludes mortgage costs, dropped by just
:17:35. > :17:42.over 0.5% in June. It seems all that rain persuaded high-street
:17:42. > :17:46.retailers to start sales early. So, will prices continue to fall?
:17:46. > :17:49.We have had a lot of inflation surprises in the past few years.
:17:49. > :17:55.Today it was a pleasant one. Consumer price inflation has fallen
:17:55. > :18:01.to 2.4%. That is half what it was last September and the lowest rate
:18:01. > :18:05.since the end of 2009. One big part of the explanation is the fall in
:18:05. > :18:09.the world price of oil and the first part of the year. Jenny
:18:09. > :18:13.Coomber's House runs on heating oil. Last summer she could not afford to
:18:13. > :18:17.fill up the tank. They have to think about every drop they used.
:18:17. > :18:20.Now the price is back to where it was two years ago. It's a massive
:18:20. > :18:25.relief that the prices have dropped to a sensible level. It means we
:18:25. > :18:27.can fill the tank up, going into the winter. We don't have to be as
:18:27. > :18:31.conservative with de heating. We can put it on without having to
:18:31. > :18:36.worry if there will not be any left and we will not be able to fill it
:18:36. > :18:43.up again. We are also seeing the effect of falling oil prices at the
:18:43. > :18:48.pump. In April we were paying �1.42. Now it is 10 pence cheaper, a 7%
:18:48. > :18:52.fall in two months. Our miserable summer also seems to have played a
:18:53. > :18:57.part. The price of clothes and shoes fell because retailers
:18:57. > :19:01.started their summer sales early to coax it out into the rain. Meat
:19:01. > :19:04.prices were also cut, perhaps thanks to all of those cancelled
:19:04. > :19:08.barbecues. Farmers here are worried about the damage the rain might
:19:08. > :19:13.have done to crops. But in America they have had the opposite problem,
:19:13. > :19:17.a severe drought. That could put up the price of our food in the second
:19:17. > :19:22.half of this year. America's harvest is so crucial to world
:19:22. > :19:27.grain supplies that fears over the crop hath sent prices soaring.
:19:27. > :19:31.Corner is up by more than 40% in the past month. The cost of a
:19:31. > :19:36.barrel of oil on world markets has also been rising. City economists
:19:36. > :19:39.say it could prevent inflation falling quite so quickly in future
:19:39. > :19:43.months. But at least the average pay packet finally has a chance of
:19:43. > :19:47.keeping up. The good news is that incomes are not being squeezed
:19:47. > :19:50.anything like they were last year. That should help boost consumer
:19:50. > :19:55.spending. The bad news is that prices are falling in many
:19:55. > :19:58.instances because demand is so weak. That is a sign that the economy is
:19:58. > :20:02.in ill health at the moment. Falling inflation means the long
:20:02. > :20:07.squeeze on real household incomes is finally starting to ease. That
:20:07. > :20:15.is good news for most families. Even if it is partly due to a
:20:15. > :20:18.dismal British summer and an Ruth Fuller, the mother of the
:20:18. > :20:22.three children apparently killed by their father before he took his own
:20:22. > :20:27.life, has released a statement describing her devastation. The
:20:27. > :20:32.bodies of the children, aged 12, 8 and 7, were found at a beauty spot
:20:32. > :20:36.near Shrewsbury yesterday. The police are calling the deaths a
:20:36. > :20:40.tragic family situation. 12-year-old Sam Fuller and his
:20:41. > :20:48.young sister, Charlotte, aged seven. They, and eight-year-old Rebecca,
:20:48. > :20:53.the three children murdered by their own father at a disused
:20:53. > :21:03.quarry in Shropshire. Their mother says she does not have the words to
:21:03. > :21:11.
:21:11. > :21:13.express how she feels. Mr Fuller's At the scene, police are continuing
:21:13. > :21:18.their investigation. A knife found near the bodies of the three
:21:18. > :21:21.children has been taken away for forensic testing. Numerous police
:21:21. > :21:25.search officers are combing the area, some with climbing equipment.
:21:25. > :21:30.The area they are searching is a disused quarry around 100 metres in.
:21:30. > :21:35.It is heavily overgrown and full of dangerously steep slopes and expose
:21:35. > :21:39.rock faces. Mr Fuller's body is understood to have been discovered
:21:39. > :21:43.at the bottom of a cliff wall, a short distance from the children.
:21:43. > :21:47.Post-mortem examinations are likely to take until tomorrow. They are
:21:47. > :21:52.expected to reveal how the children and their father died. The officer
:21:52. > :21:56.says he also wants to find out why. I have a team of detectives
:21:56. > :22:00.currently working with Gloucester police to establish exactly the
:22:00. > :22:05.background to the family and exactly the circumstances around
:22:05. > :22:13.this tragic event. Police are also urging anyone who saw the Brett
:22:13. > :22:15.Land Rover Freelander car used by Ceri Fuller to come forward. Police
:22:15. > :22:19.say that the secluded spot is not somewhere that could have been
:22:19. > :22:23.found by chance. He must have known about this place. It is not some
:22:23. > :22:26.way you find by accident. You come because you know it is there.
:22:26. > :22:30.Somewhere, there is a connection with the village, we think will
:22:30. > :22:40.stop such clues may be uncovered by the police as they continue to try
:22:40. > :22:40.
:22:40. > :22:46.to answer the question at the heart It is yet another scandal involving
:22:46. > :22:49.one of Britain's biggest banks. US authorities say that HSBC failed to
:22:49. > :22:53.stop drug lords and terrorists laundering money through the bank's
:22:53. > :22:57.operation in America. Today, a senior executive announced he was
:22:57. > :23:00.stepping down during an appearance before a US Senate committee.
:23:00. > :23:05.Despite the best efforts and intentions of many dedicated
:23:05. > :23:09.professionals, HSBC has fallen short of our own expectations and
:23:09. > :23:12.the expectations of our regulators. This is something that a bank
:23:12. > :23:16.seeking to conduct business in the United States and globally must
:23:16. > :23:22.acknowledge, learn from and, most importantly, take steps to avoid in
:23:22. > :23:26.future. Ian Pannell is outside the Senate, where the hearing is taking
:23:26. > :23:31.place. This went on for, what, seven or eight years? How can that
:23:31. > :23:35.possibly be? Yes, there are some accusations that it went on even
:23:35. > :23:39.longer than that. A dark day for the banking industry, in the words
:23:39. > :23:44.of one senior member of this Senate committee. They either did not
:23:44. > :23:47.understand the risks or failed to recognise reality. This is not a
:23:47. > :23:51.question of illegality, but it is a question of poor judgement and
:23:51. > :23:54.mistakes in a company that advertises itself as the world's
:23:54. > :23:57.local bank. There is some suggestion that it is almost too
:23:58. > :24:03.large. Some of the problems were that in Mexico billions of pounds
:24:03. > :24:07.of drug money was essentially cleaned by being passed through the
:24:07. > :24:11.HSBC bank in the United States. In the Cayman Islands, there was one
:24:11. > :24:16.branch of HSBC that had 50,000 customers. Yet, there was no branch,
:24:16. > :24:21.no office, no employees. Investigators were concerned it was
:24:21. > :24:27.being used for drug money. Fines are likely, perhaps even as high as
:24:27. > :24:29.$1 billion. Now, he is known as the Blade
:24:29. > :24:34.runner. This African athlete Oscar Pistorius is about to make history
:24:34. > :24:38.in London, where he will become the first double amputee to run at the
:24:38. > :24:48.Olympic Games. He has been training for the 400 metres at his base in
:24:48. > :24:49.
:24:49. > :24:57.Getting set for Olympic history. In the rain-lashed Italian mountains,
:24:57. > :25:02.Oscar Pistorius prepares for the latest chapter in one of Sport's
:25:02. > :25:09.most remarkable stories. His lower legs had to be amputated when he
:25:09. > :25:14.was one-year-old. Using prosthetic legs he enjoyed an active childhood,
:25:14. > :25:20.boss and into a sportsman and, at 17, sprinted into glory. Oscar
:25:20. > :25:22.Pistorius is flying away from all of them! My goodness! A gold medal
:25:22. > :25:28.in Athens was followed by three more at the Beijing Paralympics.
:25:28. > :25:33.Soon, he was chasing something even more extraordinary. He upped his
:25:33. > :25:39.training, lost two Stone and his reward is a place at the Olympics,
:25:39. > :25:44.the game's' first amputee Resnais. Proof, he told me, that right from
:25:44. > :25:48.his childhood, barriers have simply never existed. It was not open for
:25:48. > :25:53.debate in my family. You have prosthetic legs, that is very nice,
:25:53. > :25:58.your brother puts on his shoes, you put on your legs and there we go.
:25:58. > :26:02.That is the mentality I grow up with. So many years, a lot of
:26:02. > :26:07.people's time and effort invested in tinny. A lot of my own
:26:07. > :26:10.sacrifices and hard work. I think I will not fully believe it until I
:26:11. > :26:15.unburied London, on the starting blocks. Initially he was banned
:26:15. > :26:19.from the Olympics after authorities claimed that his carbon-fibre
:26:19. > :26:24.running blades gave him an unfair advantage. With scientific backing,
:26:24. > :26:28.he overturned the ban. It has not stopped rivals and observers asking
:26:28. > :26:32.fresh questions. There will always be people with their opinions. You
:26:32. > :26:36.always get the guy that wants to argue that what is dry, blue is
:26:36. > :26:41.green. That is their job, that is the energy they are going to waste.
:26:41. > :26:44.But mine is on the track. I am blessed. I have been given a
:26:44. > :26:47.phenomenal talent and I worked extremely hard to get where I am.
:26:47. > :26:52.It has been a long and sometimes difficult journey. He says his
:26:52. > :26:59.target is to reach the semi-finals. He may not win the Olympics, but
:26:59. > :27:05.its significance there will be Time for the weather now. I gather
:27:05. > :27:11.we are in for a change. It is down to this, what is it, jet stream?
:27:11. > :27:15.I will explain, our weather is going to change dramatically. It is
:27:15. > :27:18.probably worth looking at what we have had this month. There has been
:27:18. > :27:22.no prolonged dry weather. It has been particularly wet in the south
:27:22. > :27:27.of England. There has not be much sunshine, except in the north-west
:27:27. > :27:30.of the UK. The reason for this weather pattern is the jet stream,
:27:30. > :27:34.the fast-moving ribbon of air that has been much further south. It has
:27:34. > :27:38.brought the rain much further south as well. Really, later on this
:27:38. > :27:42.month, it is going to move. It moves to where Richard before this
:27:42. > :27:46.time of year. The result is that it will change the rain area. It means
:27:46. > :27:51.we will get the rain where we need it most. Where we don't, many parts
:27:51. > :27:55.of the UK will not only be drier, but much warmer. We are not there
:27:55. > :27:58.yet. That is from next week. Before then we have a transition period
:27:59. > :28:08.where we have more rain. The rain is settling in now across Northern
:28:09. > :28:09.
:28:09. > :28:13.Ireland. It is going to turn wet. Quite a muggy night. Dry for
:28:13. > :28:16.northern Scotland, but cooler and fresh air. The name rain should
:28:16. > :28:19.have cleared away from Northern Ireland but it will stay wet in
:28:19. > :28:22.central and southern Scotland. The rain in western and southern
:28:22. > :28:26.England will be replaced with showers. They could be heavy and
:28:26. > :28:29.possibly thundery, driven by brisk wind. Once again, the north-west of
:28:29. > :28:34.Scotland is going to be dry. Central and southern Scotland will
:28:34. > :28:38.be wet, a lot of rain and the rest of local flooding. We will seek
:28:38. > :28:43.sunshine and showers in Northern Ireland before the rain pushes back
:28:43. > :28:48.in. Across England and Wales by the afternoon we are left with sunshine,
:28:48. > :28:52.showers, some heavy and thundery. Maybe not to the south of London,
:28:52. > :28:55.but the temperatures will be tempered somewhat by the strong and
:28:55. > :28:58.gusty south-westerly wind. That win will be lighter by Thursday. The
:28:58. > :29:03.rain from overnight should have cleared. We will have some showers,