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This is BBC World News Today with me Daniela Ritorto. | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
Rules on liquids, shoe searches and baggage scans will still apply. | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
But in airports across the globe, security is being beefed up. | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
The measures will be in force at airports with direct flights to the | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
US after a possible new terrorist threat was identified. We'll look at | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
how it could affect airline travel around the world A second day of | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
anger on the streets of East Jerusalem over the murder of | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Khdair. | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
Israeli authorities are yet to release his body for burial. | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
Also coming up... Life inside an extremist enclave. Harrowing stories | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
from Iraqis who've escaped areas seized by Isis militants. | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
Brazil gets ready to tackle Colombia is the quarter finals of the | :00:53. | :01:04. | |
football World Cup. Al be reporting from Rio, we're that is so much | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
pressure on the Brazilian side, they have been consulting as | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
psychologist. -- I will be reporting from Rio. | :01:14. | :01:23. | |
Hello and welcome. Airports around the world are on terror alert after | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
warnings of a credible threat. In Uganda, security forces say they've | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
received a specific threat of a planned attack on its main | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
international terminal. Tougher security measures are on their way | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
for passengers taking direct flights to the United States. Reports from | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
America suggest groups with links to al-Qaeda in Syria and Yemen are | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
working on a new type of bomb which may not be picked up during the | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
usual screening process. Our security correspondent, Frank | :01:48. | :01:48. | |
Gardner, has the details. Heathrow today. And no outward signs | :01:49. | :02:01. | |
of anything unusual. But in the last 24 hours, the government has | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
announced that new unspecified security measures are being put in | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
place for transatlantic flights to America. It is in direct response to | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
the belief that Al-Qaeda operatives in Syria are planning to smuggle | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
sophisticated bombs onto planes. We take these decisions looking at the | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
evidence in front of us and working with our partners. This is something | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
we have discussed with the Americans. And we have put in place | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
some extra precautions and extra checks. The safety of the travelling | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
public must come first. This is where the government believes the | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
threat originated. With Al-Qaeda in Yemen. A group which has developed a | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
unique expertise in hard to detect explosives. Today's heightened | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
airport security is because that lethal expertise is thought to have | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
proliferated across borders. So the skills, developed in Yemen, are | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
believed to have been passed on by Al-Qaeda to their affiliates in | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
other parts of the Middle East. Specifically Syria, where their | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
trainers are feared to have instructed a whole new generation of | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
bombers. These include European jihadists with European passports. | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
And this is almost the only known picture of their mentor. Ibrahim | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
al-Asiri, who is still at large. In 2009, he sent the so-called | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
underpants bomber on a plane to Detroit with a hidden device that he | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
tried and failed to ignite as it came into land. The next year, he | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
built bombs inside printer ink toner cartridges. They got all the way | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
from Yemen to Britain's East Midlands Airport before they were | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
found. Today, this explosives expert showed us the effect of even just a | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
small drop of liquid explosive. LOUD BANG. When you come to detect | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
explosives, one of the traditional ways of doing it is by sniffing. So | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
you use an electronic sniffer, or you could use a dog. A low vapour | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
explosive, or low vapour pressure explosive, is one that doesn't | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
really give off any vapours. So there is nothing to sniff. And that | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
is what makes them ideal for smuggling through security and makes | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
them hard to detect. With the fighting in Syria pulling in | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
thousands of jihadists from Europe, intelligence analysts worry that | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
some of them are being quietly trained to go back home and plan | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
attacks. Both US and British airports already have extensive | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
security measures, including explosives detectors and body | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
scanners. It is not clear what more precautions can be taken. But | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
passengers are being warned to expect occasional delays for the | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
sake of a safe flight. Frank Gardner, BBC News. | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
Now for an update at what is happening in some US airports. David | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
Willis is at Dulles International Airport in Washington. Any visible | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
changes at this stage? Pretty much business as usual at the moment. | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
This is one of the largest airports in the United States. The first | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
flight to arrive from London Heathrow actually got in 20 minutes | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
early, officials from the Department of Homeland Security Chief that is | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
because these new security measures will not come into place for a | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
couple of days. Then of course it is possible that passengers will face | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
increased searches and scrutiny. But not until then. And there is very | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
little likelihood of delays up until that point. Nonetheless, | :05:24. | :05:25. | |
intelligence officials here believe there is a credible threat from | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula devising some new form of bomb which | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
could a vague metal detectors. -- could evade. I expect the 4th of | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
July weekend tomorrow, busier time than most, what a passenger seeing? | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
Our passengers nervous? Some passengers are nervous. I got a -- I | :05:53. | :06:02. | |
spoke to some who came from Heathrow, who said they were nervous | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
given the current atmosphere. And when you start seeing armed guards | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
and so on, at international airports, it is bound to make you | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
uneasy. But we are a couple of days away from that. And it may well be | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
that that will not be part of this new landscape at all, that the | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
checks will be more subtle, officials here making the point that | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
a lot will go on behind the scenes, if you like, rather than involving | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
just straightforward searching. We will leave it for there. David, | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
thank you. We can go to our Washington studio. Professor Peter | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
Neumann is from the International Centre for the study of | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
radicalisation and political violence at Kings College. Thank you | :06:48. | :06:55. | |
for joining us. Thank you. I wondered if this there -- if there | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
is a sense of shock, jihadists is fighting themselves over the last | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
couple of years and the fact that Western targets do remain crying, | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
perhaps surprise for us? Yes, to some extent and outwardly, but at | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
the same time, it is precisely because they are fighting each other | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
that some of the groups that have been shown, or been known to be less | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
active over the past year or so, they are trying to prove themselves | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
by attacking a high-profile western targets, and in particular Al-Qaeda, | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
on the defensive for the past few months, because Isis has been so | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
successful, so they may well argue that only by attacking Western | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
targets that they can still claim leadership of the movement. Almost | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
like a competition between rival jihadists factions. A frightening | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
competition. In terms of what we're talking about, these new devices. | :08:00. | :08:07. | |
Are security authorities aware of what is being planned question might | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
we are hearing about a undetectable or non-traceable bombs perhaps. | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
Certainly true that Al-Qaeda in Yemen has been particularly | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
innovative, some of the devices mentioned over the past few years, | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
such as hidden in and aware, concealed inside the Bull's bodies, | :08:25. | :08:32. | |
-- hidden in underwear toner cartridges. I think they keep | :08:33. | :08:41. | |
working one bombs and explosives devices inside people's bodies, | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
which makes them almost impossible to detect, and that is the biggest | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
threat. Just on that point, I wondered if the focus should shift | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
not just to scanning technology, but making sure these people never get | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
anywhere near an airport in the first place, maybe directing Syrian | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
and Yemeni intelligence? That is what security forces have been | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
trying to do. There was a second bomb in underwear which was detected | :09:12. | :09:20. | |
because Western and Arab security forces had informers within the | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
organisation. And that is as important as security at the | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
airport. If you only detect the bomb at the airport, that is already too | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
late. Ideally, you want to detect and interrupted the plot long before | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
it even gets to the point where it gets to the airport. Thank you, | :09:38. | :09:45. | |
Professor. The funeral of the Palestinian | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
teenager, who was found dead just outside of Jerusalem on Wednesday, | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
has been delayed while an autopsy is carried out. It's thought Muhammad | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
Abu Khdair was killed in revenge for the murder of three Israeli | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
teenagers. At least ten Palestinians are reported to have been injured | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
after air strikes on the Gaza Strip. The violence has worsened over the | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
past couple of hours. Normally bustling neighbourhoods have been | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
brought to a standstill. One Palestinian man hurled stones at | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
security forces who responded with tear gas. Elsewhere, at least ten | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
Palestinians are reported to have been injured during air strikes on | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
the Gaza strip, and Israel says the strikes were in response to a wave | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
of rocket attacks from Gaza. Yolande Knell reports from Jerusalem. | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
The smouldering aftermath of overnight clashes. Palestinians in | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
East Jerusalem vented their anger over the death of a local boy. | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
Stones were their ammunition against Israeli police. The body of Mohammed | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
Abu Khdair, who was 17, was found in a forest yesterday. Just hours after | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
he was seen being bundled into a van. Israeli police say they are | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
still investigating. But his family believe he was abducted and killed | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
in revenge for the recent murder of three Israeli teenagers. The funeral | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
cannot take place until an autopsy is done. TRANSLATION: We sent an | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
Arab Muslim doctor to check on the body. That was our main priority. | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
That it is an Arab doctor who observes the autopsy. And now we are | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
waiting. But God willing, we will not have to wait until the middle of | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
the night to receive the body. TRANSLATION: Of course, I blame the | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
Israeli government. And this is an Israeli area. There is supposed to | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
be safety and security in this neighbourhood. This is not a | :11:40. | :11:41. | |
Palestinian area. Israel has the strongest and biggest security force | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
in the world. But only for the Jewish people. But when an Arab is | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
killed, there is no security. Now, mourners wait for the funeral | :11:51. | :11:58. | |
outside the family home. Everywhere you look here, you have | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
plenty of evidence of the overnight violence. But it reached much | :12:02. | :12:09. | |
further than East Jerusalem. There were also clashes in Palestinian | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
cities across the West Bank, where the Israeli army has been doing | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
raids. And in the Gaza Strip. Explosions lit up the night sky in | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
Gaza. This was Israel's response to the rockets fired by militants. In | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
southern Israel, homes were hit. No one here was injured. | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
TRANSLATION: It is impossible to start the day without fear. And the | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
children, even though I tell them not to be afraid, when it reaches | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
you, it changes everything. The whole situation. The cycle of | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
violence is a familiar pattern in this decades-old conflict. But the | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
latest developments are a worrying sign of a potential escalation. | :12:44. | :12:53. | |
Yolande Knell, BBC News, Jerusalem. In Iraq, the BBC has heard harrowing | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
testimony from residents of large scale killings in areas under | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
control of Isis forces. The Sunni Islamic extremists appear to be | :13:01. | :13:02. | |
strengthening their grip in many parts of the country. The areas | :13:03. | :13:11. | |
under Isis control shown here include Tikrit, Mosul and the town | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
of Tal Afar. That is on the border with Syria. Around 50,000 people | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
people have now fled those areas for neighbouring Sinjar. Many have | :13:19. | :13:20. | |
disturbing stories of their treatment at the hands of the | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
militants. Every corner of the town of Sinjar | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
is taken. Here even building sites have become home to Iraqis fleeing | :13:33. | :13:40. | |
Isis. In the city's schools, the only private moments are found | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
inside shelters made from desks and chairs. There are six families to a | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
classroom. These Shia walked 20 miles to escape Isis. This man told | :13:51. | :13:59. | |
me they are targeting Sunnis, Shias, even Kurds. They are targeting | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
everyone. They have no humanity. They had to abandon homes in Mosul | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
and Tal Afar. But even the children are trying to make the best of it. | :14:13. | :14:23. | |
But they live in fear. This woman said, I have five martyrs in my | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
family, all killed by Isis. My daughter is a widow. I have only two | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
children left. Near the border with Syria, aid agencies have struggled | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
to get here. Isis have planted roadside bombs. Just up from Sinjar, | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
the front line is on the Tyne's doorstep. -- the town's. Tens of | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
thousands of Shia Muslims, Christians, Kurds and others escaped | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
along this road from Tal Afar, with Isis to the east and the West, here | :14:51. | :15:02. | |
in Sinjar, the found sanctuary. And they say they need it, because Isis | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
is engaged in a campaign to systematically clear the towns and | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
villages left behind. This man, a Kurd, was kidnapped by Isis and held | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
for 16 days. He was let go, but others were not. The jihadists, he | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
told me, were selective in their punishment. Be treated Sunnis better | :15:18. | :15:28. | |
than others. They released them straightaway. Even paid their taxi | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
fare home. But for Shia, if they cannot be exchanged for prisoners, | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
they will simply cut off their heads. We have been told that, where | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
Isis take control, they have been methodical in hunting down | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
non-Sunnis and those opposed to them. TRANSLATION: Isis is | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
collecting information about people and compiling a database in order to | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
identify those who work for the government or security forces. If | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
they do not repent and pledge their allegiance to the caliphate, they | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
will be killed. A lot of these people have disappeared in Mosul. | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
Isis have already altered Iraq's borders. Through fear and force, | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
they are transforming the ethnic and religious landscape around Sinjar. | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
Leaving many here wondering if they will ever be able to return home. | :16:14. | :16:23. | |
Let's have a look at some other stories making the news. | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
The leaders of South Korea and China have agreed to oppose North Korea's | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
President Park Guhn Hay and visiting Chinese President Xi | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
They say there should be no nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula. | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
They also agreed to strengthen commercial and diplomatic ties | :16:39. | :16:40. | |
Aid agencies in South Sudan are warning that four | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
million people are likely to face critical food shortages next month. | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
Ethnic violence has forced many people from their homes | :16:50. | :16:51. | |
since December, preventing them from planting or harvesting crops. | :16:52. | :16:53. | |
Thousands of people have died in the fighting, which began | :16:54. | :16:55. | |
when the president accused his deputy of attempting a coup. | :16:56. | :17:05. | |
Two people have been killed and 14 others injured during a second night | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
of sectarian violence in Myanmar's second largest city, Mandalay. | :17:09. | :17:10. | |
Police were out in force after the deaths of two men, one Muslim, the | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
other Buddhist. The violence began after rumours that a Buddhist woman | :17:15. | :17:22. | |
A Dutch court has ruled that a traditional figure, | :17:23. | :17:31. | |
known as Black Pete, is a negative stereotype of black people. | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
Zvarte Piet, as he's known in the Netherlands, | :17:35. | :17:36. | |
is the sidekick to the Dutch equivalent of Father Christmas. | :17:37. | :17:38. | |
But the figure has attracted growing controversy in recent years. | :17:39. | :17:40. | |
He's usually portrayed in a winter festival by white people in black | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
Now an Amsterdam court has ruled that the city council must | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
re-examine its decision to grant a permit to the festival. | :17:48. | :18:03. | |
Now to Brazil, where the World Cup hosts are gearing up for | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
their quarter-final play-off against the Colombians tomorrow night. | :18:07. | :18:08. | |
I don't know about you but I have an having withdrawal symptoms. It is | :18:09. | :18:27. | |
not long to go. The build-up here is huge and the tension is mounting. | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
There is a lot of focus on the Brazilian side. Are they cracking | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
under the pressure? We have seen tears on the pitch and a lot of her | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
supporters are worried that their team cannot cope with the strain. | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
People are saying that their midfield is not strong enough. | :18:47. | :18:54. | |
Neymar seems to be the most relaxed player in the side and he says he is | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
treating the match against Colombia like a kick around in his backyard. | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
They have brought in a sports psychologist. Colombia do not feel | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
the pressure in the same weight because they are the outsiders and | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
they are looking forward to another World Cup performance. They have one | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
for on the trot and they are looking forward to another victory. Let's | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
take stock because we have had a couple of rest days. Resilience are | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
worried about the informants of 13. -- Brazilians are worried about the | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
performance of the team. There have been some great goals. Rodriguez has | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
had the standard goal of the season. We have seen protests. We have seen | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
anger and resentment at the cost of the championship. That does not sit | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
berry well with some of the huge social poverty issues that you see | :19:57. | :20:04. | |
here. -- sit very well. It is almost as if the people of the sale are | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
putting their anger to one side. They are watching and loving the | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
book. Maybe there will be more protests later on but for now, it is | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
all about the sport. -- loving but that well. There is another match | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
happening tomorrow. What has happened with the German team? | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
Reports from the German camp that some of their players have been ill | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
with flu-like symptoms. We do not know exactly what is how men. I do | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
not think it is anything that serious. It will be another | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
thrilling encounter. We will wait and see. They have World Cup | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
pedigree. They have great tournament experience and it will be a great | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
game in Rio de Janeiro. I am looking forward to it. You are a lucky man. | :20:56. | :20:57. | |
Thank you. Don't forget you can keep | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
across all the world cup action on our website including what to | :21:03. | :21:04. | |
expect from the quarter-finals and as well as analysis on what's | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
next for US football after their You can also tweet us here at the | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
BBC with your World Cup thoughts. Here's one from BBC Sport asking | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
if Brazil lack the flair Join the conversation using | :21:17. | :21:18. | |
the #bbc world cup. A sports doctor has told the trial | :21:19. | :21:46. | |
of Oscar Pistorius that he is traumatised by the death of his | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
girlfriend. The prosecution argues that Oscar Pistorius killed Reeva | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
Steenkamp deliberately. We can get an update from the courthouse in | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
Pretoria. This was staged 36 of the Oscar Pistorius murder trial. The | :22:03. | :22:09. | |
court heard from Barry Roux who is the senior defence counsel for Oscar | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
Pistorius. He read from a psychologist report which said that | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
Oscar Pistorius suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. It | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
said he needs clinical treat them because if he does not get that, he | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
has an increased risk of suicide. He also said Oscar Pistorius, quoting | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
from the report, is still mourning the loss of his girlfriend. We heard | :22:35. | :22:44. | |
from another defence witness. He is a sports doctor and has been working | :22:45. | :22:53. | |
with Oscar Pistorius. He was quoting from many studies making the point | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
that disabled people suffer from more attacks and criminal activity | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
than able-bodied people. He quoted a study that after the Paralympic | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
Games in London in 20, there was an increase in attacks on disabled | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
people than on able-bodied people and the judge in this trial | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
dismissed one of the evidence pieces that was brought in by the defence, | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
and e-mail that courted a lady who said that the Seybold people feel | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
more honourable than able-bodied people. -- that disabled people feel | :23:36. | :23:44. | |
more vulnerable. The objection was sustained. The judge said that court | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
will continue tomorrow and when it resumes, perhaps we will hear from | :23:52. | :24:02. | |
Gerrie Nel 20 begins his cross-examination. | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
The roads have been resurfaced, the bunting is out and the nearly 200 | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
cyclists competing in this year's Tour de France are getting ready to | :24:12. | :24:13. | |
jump on their bikes for Saturday's start, not in France but in England, | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
David Bond reports. They are preparing for a taste of France. | :24:18. | :24:29. | |
People are lining the roads in Yorkshire. It is a big moment for | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
Yorkshire. It is another high point for British Cycling. It is still | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
quite hard to believe that Team Sky will this year goal for the bird | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
wing in a row. While the architect of the sport is not resting on his | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
laurels, he knows how far Britain has come. We have dominated the | :24:54. | :25:01. | |
Olympic Games, we have won the Tour de France twice and we have some | :25:02. | :25:11. | |
fantastic female riders. I think by anyone's assessment, if you took the | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
last six years, we are the number one cycling nation in the world. All | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
of this is the result of millions of pounds of investment which has | :25:24. | :25:25. | |
helped take Team Sky to the pinnacle of the sport. But having won the | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
Tour de France two years in a row, the challenge is how to stay on | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
top. Here is the man tasked with that job. It is Chris Froome. He | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
hopes the support of the Yorkshire crowd will push into another | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
victory. Every little town and village along the route has embraced | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
this competition and juicy bicycles everywhere. -- and you see. It is | :25:50. | :26:00. | |
great to have this reception. But the decision to leave out Sir | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
Bradley Wiggins has caused tensions. The head of Team Sky admits it was | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
one of the hardest calls he has ever had to make. It was difficult, I am | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
not going to live. From a performance and professional point | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
of view, it was straightforward, but from a personal point of view, it | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
kept me awake at night, that is for sure. Cycling in this country has | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
never been more popular or successful. For the sake of the | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
sport's hard earned reputation, everyone will be hoping that the end | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
of this year's Tour de France is as British as its beginning. | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
That's all from the programme but the weather is next. | :26:44. | :26:45. | |
Thanks for joining us and from me and the rest of the team, goodbye. | :26:46. | :26:59. | |
Good evening. Across the south-east we had temperatures around 28 | :27:00. | :27:08. | |
degrees. Tomorrow will be another white -- one day but for many of us, | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
rain | :27:12. | :27:13. |