:00:14. > :00:20.Gearing up for London's Olympics as the first of thousands of athletes
:00:20. > :00:23.begin to arrive at Heathrow. Russia's Foreign Minister accuses
:00:23. > :00:28.Western powers of blackmailing Moscow over Syria.
:00:28. > :00:32.The head of North Korea's army is removed from his post.
:00:32. > :00:36.Raising questions about his leadership. Welcome to BBC World
:00:36. > :00:42.News. Also: The asylum sleekers risking their lives trying to reach
:00:42. > :00:52.Australia. We hear from a man who survived a petrifying boat journey.
:00:52. > :01:01.
:01:01. > :01:04.The spectacular light shows in the skies over North America.
:01:04. > :01:09.Thousands of athletes are beginning to arrive in London for the Olympic
:01:09. > :01:12.Games. Teams entering Britain are to include the USA, Russia and
:01:12. > :01:18.China. Heathrow Airport is expecting 10,000 more passengers
:01:18. > :01:23.than would normally land. With London 2012 opening ceremony 11
:01:23. > :01:27.days way, the preparations are intensifying.
:01:27. > :01:32.It has taken seven years to plan and it has cost hundreds of
:01:32. > :01:37.millions of pounds. Today at last, London 2012 is starting to take
:01:37. > :01:41.shape as an event. The athletes are arriving in the UK, among them this
:01:41. > :01:45.morning, the members of the USA sailing team. It is at Heathrow
:01:45. > :01:49.Airport that the effects will be felt. Thousands of passengers are
:01:49. > :01:53.touching down today, more than at any other time in the airport's
:01:53. > :01:56.history. The Home Office is to be home thraing the deployment of
:01:56. > :02:02.extra immigration staff will help to avoid a repeat of the delays
:02:02. > :02:05.that have plagued the airport. Final preparations are being
:02:05. > :02:10.overshadowed by the controversy over the security. The need for
:02:10. > :02:14.more than 3,000 extra troops to plug the gap led by the failure of
:02:14. > :02:18.the private contractor, G4S it supply enough staff is a major
:02:18. > :02:22.embarrassment. There has been an issue for many,
:02:22. > :02:26.many months about the exact numbers we were to need, but the key thing
:02:26. > :02:31.for me, is that if you talk now to the people who are returning it,
:02:31. > :02:35.who got their hands on the levers, who are making sure that the venues
:02:35. > :02:38.are safe, they are very, very impressed with what the Armed
:02:38. > :02:42.Services men are doing. With what the military personnel are doing
:02:42. > :02:47.and they are working well with G4S to make this is safe, very secure
:02:47. > :02:50.Olympics. Many of today's arrivals are being
:02:50. > :02:55.whisked to the Olympic Village by road. Special Games Lanes have
:02:55. > :03:02.started to open, today on the M had between Heathrow and Central London.
:03:02. > :03:04.By the middle of next week, the rest of the 30-mile network of
:03:04. > :03:09.dedicated lanes will be in operation.
:03:09. > :03:16.The ceremony is now just 11 days away. Reports in from Syria that
:03:16. > :03:22.troops, backed by armoured vehicles have entered the district of Midan
:03:22. > :03:28.in the centre of Damascus. There are rebel who is have gotten
:03:28. > :03:32.within foothold of big state installations. This is the biggest
:03:32. > :03:38.armoured deployment in Damascus. Infantry and fighting vehicles
:03:38. > :03:42.taking up the main thourg fares of the area, a big Sunni, Muslim
:03:42. > :03:48.neighbourhood. The rebels are withdrawing. That is coming in,
:03:48. > :03:51.more as we get it. Well, Kofi Annan is arriving in
:03:51. > :03:58.Moscow for talks with a Russian Foreign Minister. The international
:03:58. > :04:00.envoy is to try to persuade the Russians to put pressure on Syria,
:04:00. > :04:03.but Sergey Lavrov, the Foreign Minister, has held a press
:04:03. > :04:08.conference outlining Russia's position.
:04:08. > :04:12.TRANSLATION: I believe that the consensus should be sought by
:04:12. > :04:17.Syrians themselves. It should be south without methods of
:04:17. > :04:24.dictatorship or threats, rejecting the steps that may lead to paving
:04:24. > :04:29.the way for external inter vention. Started with the armed positions.
:04:29. > :04:36.We are not taking sides in the Syrian conflict. The only interest
:04:36. > :04:41.of ours is to avoid destabilising Syria. To avoid further
:04:41. > :04:47.destabilisation in the region. Sergey Lavrov.
:04:47. > :04:51.There has been more heavy fighting near Damascus as we said earlier.
:04:51. > :04:58.Activists are saying that tanks and artillery are being used against
:04:58. > :05:03.the rebel fighters in the outskirts of the city. I spoke to Sander van
:05:03. > :05:08.Hoorn who workforce NOS, he gave me the latest of reports on fighting
:05:08. > :05:12.near the city centre. Fighting started yesterday. It
:05:12. > :05:17.could be heard throughout the city. I was recording an interview near
:05:17. > :05:21.the old city. We could hear the explosions and the sounds of gun
:05:21. > :05:26.fighting. It continued until this morning. Now the area where there
:05:26. > :05:31.was fighting, I am standing on the highway next to it, it seems quiet
:05:31. > :05:36.now. There is no way to tell if that throughout the suburbs, you
:05:36. > :05:41.cannot see beyond the immediate line of sight, so it is difficult
:05:41. > :05:50.to accept what is exactly happening. There was heavy fighting in areas
:05:50. > :05:55.close to the city of Damascus. much as risk a normal civilians?
:05:55. > :05:59.Basically, we are talking about a Palestinian camp. We are talking
:05:59. > :06:05.about the surrounding villages. Poor villages on the edge of being
:06:05. > :06:13.rural. Damascus is a funny city, it is very stretched out. There are
:06:13. > :06:19.highways connecting to it. You are relatively vast in the suburbs.
:06:19. > :06:25.Duma which saw heavy fighting for months is located more than 10
:06:25. > :06:30.kilometres from the city centre and the areas I am talking about are
:06:30. > :06:33.five kilometres from downtown Damascus. If there is fighting
:06:33. > :06:37.there it still can be heard throughout the city. Yesterday
:06:37. > :06:43.after we heard it downtown we walked from the building where we
:06:43. > :06:48.were recording and people were looking anxious. I mean news is a
:06:48. > :06:53.very poor thing here. You cannot rely on the Syrian state TV. There
:06:53. > :06:56.is a lot of gossiping. It is hard to get to the truth. Even for the
:06:56. > :07:01.normal civilians. Sander van Hoorn speaking to me
:07:01. > :07:06.from Damascus. North Korea's army chief has been
:07:06. > :07:10.relieved from his post apparently due to illness. Ri Yong-Ho helped
:07:10. > :07:14.to support the country's new leader, Kim Jong Un after the death of his
:07:14. > :07:20.father. This was, until today, one of North
:07:20. > :07:23.Korea's most powerful men. As the chief of the country's million-
:07:23. > :07:29.strong army, Ri Yong-Ho was not only a senior military commander,
:07:29. > :07:35.but a key power broker and guardian of the country's recent succession
:07:35. > :07:40.from Kim Jong Un to -- from Kim Jong Il to Kim Jong Un.
:07:40. > :07:44.Support from him was seen as crucial. Days after the former
:07:44. > :07:48.leader's death, Ri Yong-Ho was pictured walking with Kim Jong Un.
:07:48. > :07:53.One of the fight circle of figures given the power to keep the
:07:53. > :07:58.structure in place. Now he's been removed from power, because of
:07:58. > :08:02.illness, but that explanation could hide a political rift, or an
:08:02. > :08:07.attempt by Kim Jong Un to consolidate his grip on the main
:08:07. > :08:12.uninstrument of control. The army has grown in power over the past
:08:12. > :08:17.few decades, Ri Yong-Ho was regularly pictured with Kim Jong Un
:08:17. > :08:21.on military visits. Being seen as the commander in
:08:21. > :08:25.chief was more important for Kim Jong Un, but Kim Jong Un has shown
:08:25. > :08:34.signs of doing things differently, a leadership style that is more
:08:34. > :08:40.relaxed morbgs -- more jovial than his father.
:08:40. > :08:44.He was dressed in Western clothes, recently, enough to start
:08:44. > :08:47.speculation over his personal life and now there are questions as to
:08:47. > :08:50.where North Korea is heading politically.
:08:50. > :08:55.Now on the football front. Fabio Capello, the former England coach
:08:55. > :09:02.has been confirmed as the new coach of Russia's national football team.
:09:02. > :09:08.That has been announced by the football union. Let's catch up now
:09:08. > :09:11.with the business. Aaron is here. LIBOR. It is obviously an ongoing
:09:11. > :09:15.saga. British politicians questioning the former banking
:09:15. > :09:19.chiefs. Are they going to get a handle on the former CEO of
:09:19. > :09:25.Barclays? That is what we are waiting to hear, but there is a
:09:25. > :09:30.long procession to confession in front of the members today. We are
:09:30. > :09:34.hearing the former Barclays cleef operating officer, Jerry del
:09:34. > :09:38.Missier. He is the man that resigned the same day that Bob
:09:38. > :09:42.Diamond did, but this is the man that has been accused, it is
:09:42. > :09:46.alleged, that he was the one that told the bank's traders to lie
:09:46. > :09:49.about the bank's borrowing costs. You mentioned LIBOR. It is
:09:49. > :09:55.important it is the interest rate that the banks pay to lend and
:09:55. > :10:00.borrow from each other, keeping the money circulating amongst the
:10:00. > :10:06.banking system. So big questions facing him and Lord Turner, the
:10:06. > :10:11.head of the Financial Services Authority. He akuezed Barclays of
:10:11. > :10:16.being too aggressive, but he is to face tough questions himself. This
:10:16. > :10:21.has been going on for four years, but let's listen to the experts I
:10:21. > :10:26.spoke to about the question facing Jerry del Missier. How did Jerry
:10:26. > :10:28.del Missier miss enter pret the conversation that he had with Bob
:10:28. > :10:33.Diamond, subsequent to his conversation with the deputy
:10:33. > :10:37.governor of the Bank of England? Did he go away and tell the traders
:10:37. > :10:41.to falsely lower the LIBOR submissions? That is to be one of
:10:41. > :10:46.the key take aways from the Treasury select committee.
:10:46. > :10:50.Let's talk about, I mean, this is, well, it is likely to turn out no
:10:50. > :10:56.just to be a Barclays story, but a global banking scandal. We are
:10:57. > :11:01.likely to hear that other big US, UK and Japanese banks could have
:11:01. > :11:05.been involved, do you think that? How big could this get? This is
:11:05. > :11:09.global. Barclays paid the price with respect to being depropd a
:11:09. > :11:15.nfpl rate-setting committees around the world -- dropped.
:11:15. > :11:19.Other banks will be drawn in. What I will say is that Barclays, by
:11:19. > :11:23.breaking cover, are probably Lansing the boil with respect to
:11:23. > :11:28.the bad publicity. They could find that the litigation is more limited
:11:28. > :11:32.or the fines more limited respective to new banks that are
:11:33. > :11:37.fined by the regulator. Talking of the Bank of England,
:11:37. > :11:41.Mervyn King, nengs year, I believe he steps down, there are questions
:11:41. > :11:45.about the Bank of England, its role will be bigger, it will be a
:11:45. > :11:50.superregulator, the reputation out of this will be tarnished? I think
:11:50. > :11:54.so it. It was borne out by Paul Tucker's conversation with the
:11:54. > :11:58.select committee last week. The fact that alarm bells didn't ring
:11:58. > :12:01.with respect to the LIBOR submissions and when he and Mervyn
:12:01. > :12:06.King testified to the financial policy Committee tomorrow, I have a
:12:06. > :12:11.feeling that LIBOR could be on the agenda for some of the topics that
:12:11. > :12:17.they are questionsed -- quizzed about.
:12:17. > :12:23.Well, inflation has gone up in India. The prices rose by 7.25%. It
:12:23. > :12:29.is lower than what most predicted and lower than the 7.50% rise in
:12:29. > :12:33.May, but still inflation is a bill worry for India's Central Bank it
:12:33. > :12:35.grapples with the measures that it uses to try to boost economic
:12:35. > :12:41.grofplt Our business correspondent in
:12:41. > :12:46.Mumbai, told me earlier that food price inflation is a major worry.
:12:46. > :12:51.Inflation for the month has eased. It has come in lower than expected
:12:51. > :12:56.at 7.25%. Many thought that would be the highest figure to be seen
:12:56. > :13:01.this year. Fuel increases too, but food inflation, that has gone up.
:13:01. > :13:07.Although it increases marginally, it is still in double bij dits as
:13:07. > :13:12.it has been. So inflation is a big Rory here in India.
:13:12. > :13:17.So -- it is a big worry here in India. The question asked is there
:13:17. > :13:23.room now for the Central Bank to announce a lending rate cut when it
:13:23. > :13:26.reviews the monetary policy at the end of the month? But here is the
:13:26. > :13:32.predicament for India's Central Bank, with economic growth in India
:13:32. > :13:35.slowed to a nine-year low, here is the juggle act, high inflation, you
:13:35. > :13:39.raise interest rates to bring it down, but if you raise interest
:13:39. > :13:45.rates with a weakening economy, that can make it worse? Exactly.
:13:45. > :13:51.What is the big worry for the economy now, it is the agriculture
:13:51. > :13:56.output. Give than the monsoon has gotten off to a weak start. We have
:13:56. > :14:02.seen rainfall almost across the country. In India the crop harvest
:14:02. > :14:05.depends on the rainfall. We could see problems for the agriculture
:14:05. > :14:11.output. Even though there were some encouraging signs with the
:14:11. > :14:18.industrial output going up, it will be a tight walk for the Central
:14:18. > :14:25.Bank of India. Now, the United Arab Emirates has
:14:25. > :14:32.opened to begin to operate a key overland oil pipe line that by
:14:33. > :14:37.passes the Strait of Hormuz. With initial handling capacity of
:14:37. > :14:42.1.5 billion barrels of crude it gives them direct access to the
:14:42. > :14:48.Indian Ocean. The fact that it by-passes the
:14:48. > :14:52.sensitive part of the water is very significant. 20% of the world's
:14:52. > :14:59.traded oil goes through the Strait of Hormuz. So now the fact it can
:14:59. > :15:04.be taken from the oilfields in the UAE, in Abu Dhabi in the west and
:15:04. > :15:10.taken overland, this is significant. Sunday saw half a million barrels
:15:10. > :15:15.put on to a tanker destined for Pakistan. It is hoped that that
:15:15. > :15:22.will be increaseded to transport two thirds of the 2 .4 million
:15:22. > :15:27.barrels of oil a day. Other business stories: The credit
:15:27. > :15:30.card companies visa and MasterCard are to pay over $7 billion in the
:15:30. > :15:34.settlement thought to be the largest of its kind in American
:15:34. > :15:38.history. The case, going on for seven years, is over the firms
:15:39. > :15:44.colluding to fix the fees that the retailers pay to process, credit
:15:44. > :15:47.and debt card payments. Details of a $14 billion investment
:15:47. > :15:51.in the railways in England and Wales are to be announced later.
:15:51. > :15:55.The schemes are set to include improvements of the Midland
:15:55. > :16:05.Mainline in Manchester area, South Wales, the east coast, but building
:16:05. > :16:06.
:16:06. > :16:10.work will not start until at least Guess who is paying for that
:16:10. > :16:15.operate? We are! Though one does not to use
:16:15. > :16:20.the car for one day a week next week in London, no motorists. --
:16:20. > :16:24.they want us not to use the car. That is because of the Olympics.
:16:24. > :16:27.Still to come: We are with the Grenada Olympic team in Sussex as
:16:27. > :16:37.we enter the final week of the Olympic torch relay before it
:16:37. > :16:42.
:16:42. > :16:47.Police in Nepal say that nine people have died after a bus
:16:47. > :16:52.swerved off the road and into the river. Rescue workers are still
:16:52. > :16:58.searching for survivors. Just how did this bus come to rest in this
:16:58. > :17:01.canal? It was carrying dozens of Hindus to the Nepalese pilgrimage
:17:01. > :17:05.site. Police were quickly on the scene. Two dozen people are known
:17:05. > :17:10.to have survived, but there are reports that the vehicle was
:17:10. > :17:17.desperately overcrowded, with more than 100 passengers, some even
:17:17. > :17:24.clinging to the roof. The bus was travelling from but opera - in
:17:24. > :17:28.India, but it came off the road and landed in a canal. The passengers
:17:28. > :17:32.were due at a religious festival in Nepal. Some survivors have been
:17:32. > :17:35.taken to hospital and they have given conflicting accounts of how
:17:35. > :17:40.their accidents were caused. Investigators will probe claims
:17:40. > :17:43.that the driver was drunk. He fled the scene. He may have encountered
:17:43. > :17:53.difficult driving conditions. The mountain roads are often poorly
:17:53. > :17:56.maintained in Nepal. One dam has been drained and they are tried to
:17:57. > :18:01.account for all of those on board the bus. Special teams have been
:18:01. > :18:05.dispatched from Kathmandu to help the rescue efforts. But it is
:18:05. > :18:08.increasingly unlikely that they will find any more survivors.
:18:09. > :18:12.Three Kenyans who say they were tortured by the British colonial
:18:12. > :18:16.authorities are taking their long- running legal battle to the High
:18:16. > :18:20.Court in London. The trio were arrested during the Mau Mau
:18:20. > :18:24.uprising which sought to end British rule 50 years ago. It is
:18:24. > :18:27.the later stage in their fight for compensation.
:18:27. > :18:30.Islamists are set to march to Pakistan's border with Afghanistan
:18:30. > :18:35.as they continue their protest against the reopening of the native
:18:35. > :18:40.supply route. Supporters of the Jamiat-e Islami party demonstrated
:18:41. > :18:45.at the port of Karachi on Sunday. Just to let you know, some news
:18:46. > :18:48.coming in to us from Libya, it has been reported that the head of the
:18:48. > :18:51.Olympics committee there was taken from his offices last night. There
:18:51. > :18:55.is some confusion about what exactly has happened. A spokesman
:18:55. > :18:59.said he was putting his laptop in the back of a car when a group
:18:59. > :19:04.claiming to be the National Army talking. They have found out that
:19:04. > :19:07.was not the army, but they do not want to say any more than it is an
:19:07. > :19:17.unofficial the tension at this point. Some clarity is needed on
:19:17. > :19:19.
:19:19. > :19:22.the fate of the head of the Libyan in -- Olympic Committee.
:19:22. > :19:26.This is BBC World News. The headlines: Thousands of athletes
:19:26. > :19:29.and officials are starting to arrive in London for the Olympic
:19:29. > :19:36.Games. And Russia's foreign minister has
:19:36. > :19:39.accused Western powers of trying to blackmail Moscow over Syria.
:19:39. > :19:43.Clean-up efforts are under way in Japan's southern island of Kyushu
:19:44. > :19:50.after a whole year's worth of rain fell over the weekend. Landslide
:19:50. > :19:54.and flooding have left 30 people dead and many missing. Clean-up
:19:54. > :20:01.efforts are under way in Japan's southern island of Kyushu. After a
:20:01. > :20:06.whole year's worth of rain fell on some of the cities at the weekend,
:20:06. > :20:10.with parts of the island seeing it 10 centimetres, four inches of rain,
:20:10. > :20:16.per hour. It has caused landslides and flooding, leaving more than 30
:20:16. > :20:20.people dead or missing. Many of the victims were in their 70s or 80s
:20:20. > :20:24.and were not able to flee when their homes were hit by mudslides.
:20:24. > :20:29.Some farmers also died when they went to check their paddy fields
:20:30. > :20:36.during a temporary lull in the torrential rain. Many others also
:20:36. > :20:39.remain isolated as the areas have been cut off by the flooding.
:20:39. > :20:46.Japanese troops have been airlifting food, water and medical
:20:46. > :20:50.supplies to them. Rescue teams have been searching for those missing.
:20:50. > :20:57.The weather agency says that the worst is over, but it warns that
:20:57. > :21:01.even a small amount of rainfall could trigger further landslides.
:21:01. > :21:03.Canadian police say the body of one of four people missing after a
:21:04. > :21:08.massive landslide in British Columbia last Thursday has been
:21:08. > :21:13.found. They are still looking for the three remaining bodies. The
:21:13. > :21:16.second landslide in a rural region has been put on camera. You can see
:21:16. > :21:21.that the conditions are still very unstable. Geological experts are
:21:21. > :21:24.trying to keep a close eye on the weather, as people continue to
:21:24. > :21:28.search for the missing from the incident last week.
:21:28. > :21:31.The Australian Government has set up a special committee to look at
:21:31. > :21:35.the issue of asylum seekers entering the country by boat.
:21:35. > :21:42.Political parties of a bid to divided on the question of what to
:21:42. > :21:50.do and a panel of experts has been appointed. -- political parties are
:21:51. > :21:53.completely divided. It was a terrible experience, very difficult.
:21:53. > :21:59.He was 16 when he made the treacherous boat journey to
:21:59. > :22:02.Australia. He had escaped the war in Afghanistan, raised to $6,000 to
:22:02. > :22:11.pay the people smuggler, and found himself in a small boat crammed
:22:11. > :22:14.with 30 other people. Sometimes the waves were two or three times
:22:14. > :22:20.bigger than the boat. I really should have died in the ocean. I do
:22:20. > :22:27.not know how I survived. I am very lucky. There was no food, little
:22:27. > :22:34.water, just days of open, unforgiving ocean. Everybody goes
:22:34. > :22:38.crazy. They talk to themselves. They are yelling sometimes.
:22:38. > :22:46.Sometimes they sleep the whole week with nothing to it. There is a lot
:22:46. > :22:53.of swell from the petrol, the engine. -- smell. I could only
:22:53. > :22:58.think by a have put myself on that boat. -- why I had put myself on
:22:58. > :23:06.that boat. Eventually he made it to shore, but 500 other asylum-seekers
:23:06. > :23:10.had drowned trying to make the same crossing in overcrowded vessels. It
:23:10. > :23:13.is those repeated deaths that have haunted Australia's politicians.
:23:13. > :23:21.They have grappled with their collective conscience over what to
:23:21. > :23:24.do. These are the lives of the people we are playing with. Some
:23:24. > :23:29.want asylum-seekers processed in Australia, some want them dealt
:23:29. > :23:33.within other Pacific countries. In this man's case, the boat crossing
:23:33. > :23:36.was not the end of the ordeal because he spent the next 13 months
:23:36. > :23:43.in a detention centre of. I asked him why he had gone through all of
:23:43. > :23:47.this and he put it this way. If you are in a house that is burning in a
:23:47. > :23:52.fire, you just try to get out of the house to survive. You don't
:23:52. > :24:00.care. You'll get out of a window, the door, anything. That is the
:24:00. > :24:05.situation for my people and myself. To survive? To survive. This is not
:24:05. > :24:13.to come to a good country. This is not to become rich. It is only to
:24:13. > :24:18.survive. Australia, compared to us Kamistan, is like heaven for me. --
:24:18. > :24:22.compared to Afghanistan. A police investigation is under way
:24:22. > :24:26.after dozens of cyclists taking part in the 14th stage of the Tour
:24:26. > :24:30.de France fell victim to saboteurs, who had thrown small nails on to
:24:30. > :24:34.the course. Several leading riders including Cadel Evans, the
:24:34. > :24:38.defending champion, and Bradley Wiggins, the race leader, were
:24:38. > :24:41.among those suffering punctures. At the Olympic torch is in the
:24:41. > :24:44.final stages of its journey, passing through the southern
:24:44. > :24:51.English county of Sussex, that is where athletes from the small
:24:51. > :24:55.Caribbean nation of Grenada are in trading.
:24:55. > :24:59.In a leafy corner of an English park, a brass band provides some
:24:59. > :25:03.Sunday afternoon entertainment. But for another group here, a bigger
:25:03. > :25:09.event looms. The Grenada Olympic team are here to meet their hosts
:25:09. > :25:14.for the next 10 days as they prepare for the Games. This is the
:25:14. > :25:18.big dance, as everyone calls it. The history behind it, the Games,
:25:18. > :25:25.it is magnificent is finally take part in it. The Wellcome has been
:25:25. > :25:28.warm but the weather has taken some getting used to. The first time, I
:25:28. > :25:32.had some trouble breathing and my muscles were not as warm so I had
:25:33. > :25:36.to do a lot more to get warmed up. I am glad I came over early enough
:25:36. > :25:42.to get acclimatised. There was meant to be a big event in the park
:25:42. > :25:48.to welcome the team to the area but it has been cancelled? Why? The
:25:49. > :25:52.weather. The ground is sodden. There is some blue sky, so we have
:25:52. > :26:02.to make the best of it. Keep a stiff upper lip, and enjoy our
:26:02. > :26:09.muddy shoes. It is raining. Yes, it is annoying. It just rains all the
:26:09. > :26:14.time. Very wet. The match may be fun for some, but the unprecedented
:26:14. > :26:21.level of rain is a concern at some other big events. The Grenada team
:26:21. > :26:25.are keen to show their opposition a clean pair of heels!
:26:25. > :26:31.Looking at the skies, somewhere where it is not raining, I am glad
:26:31. > :26:33.to say. It is the aurora borealis, the northern lights show. These
:26:33. > :26:39.pictures coming in to us from the northern US states and southern
:26:39. > :26:43.Canada. They are the result of a blast of charged particles from a
:26:43. > :26:48.massive solar flare on Thursday that finally reached Earth. This