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london rolled out a very british welcome as more athletes race towards the games. british prosecutors bring criminal charges against the prime minister's former advisor and an ex-tabloid newspaper editor. over the phone hacking scandal. multiple threats for the eurozone. warning signs for greece, spain, and even power house germany. new hope for the thank you ter buck low sis patient. a new treatment program could save millions of lives. welcome to the program. there's now just three days to go before the games begin officially. below me in the massive olympic park and remember, it's the size of more than 350 football

pitches. it's a case of making a few final tweaks. organizers are leaving nothing to chance. 1,200 troops were put on standby last week will now be deployed as extra security for the games after private company failed to provide the number of personnel that were required. this is how the announcement was made by the u.k. culture secretary. >> we have today decided we will call up the 1,200 troops that we put on standby last week. that's not because the g-4 performance has deteriorated. the opposite. yesterday, they delivered 1,100 additional guard and we're very confident of that performance will continue to improve. but with three days left to the opening ceremony with an incredibly busy weekend, we don't want to leave anything to chance and we decided this was the right measure to take because for the public, the most important thing is a safe and secure game. >> in fact, as we all know, this

is about the sports and athletes have been screening into the country. new arrivals are getting a very special welcome. david, what sort of welcome are they getting there? [applause] >> a group of the leading coaches, the trainers from france in particular. we've had the leading figures of technical directors of judo, and so many more to come. and one thing that's quite interesting. it's not just from france and belgium that people are coming in this way as they strike up what a -- ♪ i don't know which one this is. but there are athletes coming in from brazil, from saudi arabia,

japan. they all have their different training camp. it's quite a significant number and some quite significant players in our midst. so welcome so far has been as you would expect, sunny, very british. guards on parade. and the mood is fantastic. >> all right, david, thank you very much. thank you. let's catch up with all the sporting and news. emile ya is in our -- amelia is in our other side of the park. >> sharing the same view, thank you very much indeed. the british olympic associations confirmed the triple jumper ask for clarification about the hip injury which cast down his chances on competing for the london games. the 33-year-old britain won silver at the beijing olympics but the injury forced him to

pull out of last month before the event was due to start. >> the situation is he hasn't gone to the preparation camp in portugal with the rest of the athletics team so we have written to phillips to ask him to provide some details about what the injury is and a treatment he's receiving. and then once we receive that information, we can make a judgment about what steps we should take. >> a number of united states track and field athletes have been training at alexander stadium in birmingham. "oscar & felix" -- allyson felix says things are better for her compared to preparations to previous olympics. >> i just feel more comfortable now, you know, kind of -- just in a good place. confident with my training and just happy i'm progressing. just excited to get things

started. >> felix talking there. back to you, george, just three days to go. i can barely wait. >> thank you very much. now, the phone hacking scandal which has swept across wide part of the british media has resulted in criminal charges being brought against eight people including two who are close friends of the prime minister david cameron. the senior position with rupert murdoch news corporation. our political correspondent has been following this story. she joins me now. just for tpwheff of our viewers around the world, give us a backdrop to these charges. >> yes. well, the phone hacking scandal burst on to the fumble -- public consciousness last year when it was discovered that the news of the world has hacked into the voicemail of a murdered

schoolgirl and that's meant that the police had to reopen their initial inquiries into the phone hacking scandal and now these are the first charges that we're getting. eight people in all would face charges including the prominent names of rebecca brooks and andy collison. they are going to face specific charges of being involved in the phone hacking of that murdered schoolgirl's phone. and as i was saying, that was a very emotive episode when it was discovered that did happen and both rebecca brooks and andy collison has always denied with being involved with that incident. >> these are people, they are not just ordinary journalists like you and me. these are people who are very, very, power. >> that's absolutely right. and this will be a tricky moment

for downing street because david cameron took the deficient to hire andy colson as his director of communications and at the time, many people questioned whether that was acceptable. he also stuck up this very close relationship with brooks and many people questioned whether that was a sensible thing to do. i've been given a statement about rebecca brooks. she says she's distressed about these charges and she denies it in any way and she says it's upsetting that they charged her with interintercepting voicemail with the murder of that schoolgirl. >> a small word can have a big meaning especially if you're the finance minister of germany, luxemburg or the netherlands. and that word is negative. that's the verdict from one of

the world's biggest credit rating, moody's which have downgraded those eurozone countries. it has been built as stable. why has this happened and what does it mean? let's join our correspondent steve evans who is in berlin. what is the reaction to this downgrading, if i can call it that, in germany? >> some countries whose finances might fail use getting pick up debt in the end. are we pouring a money into a barrel without a bottom? and moody's looked to the sums and reckoned as the dangers of the default in spain and greece, so does the vulnerability of the german taxpayer and that's what

happened. i've been out on the streets talking to people this morning and they say they are worried but not surprised. if you then say do you think then that no more money should flow from german taxpayers towards the mediterranean country even if it meant the end of the euro? they start to equivocate. there is a nuance to german opinion but you can't doubt that they are worried about the consequences of where this thing might end. >> and germany is the powerhouse, one sort of got used to the idea that somehow germany would always jump in and fill in the gaps there, if i can put it that way. now, you've got greece, you've got spain. the problems are piling up. they're not getting any smaller. >> no. the three people who have lent money to greece are back there today because they feel that greece is not doing things as fast as was promised for the bailout. you've got the obvious situation in spain.

some are arguing within government circles and economic circles in germany, measuring the scale of the dent, if you like, in german finances were there to be defaults by bigger countries. and some of those sums go up to 30% of german output in one year in the worst case scenarios. so clearly, germany is a strong economy bit -- but no economy can take that kind of hit and this is at the markets are recognizing as they look at germany and what the german people already knew. >> all right, steve, we'll leave you there for the moment. thank you very much. now, hundreds of fire firefighters in spain and france are fighting to contain a wildfire which destroyed thousands of land on both sides of the border. four people have been killed and another 23 have been injured. >> the flames that are consuming

everything in their path. forests swallowed up in the wildfire spreading through the border area between france and spain. hundreds of fire firefighters are battling to get this place under control. but strong winds have been making their jobs even more perilous combined with the dry conditions, this fire has easily spread. it's already changed the lives of four people, including two members of the same family. their holiday ended in tragedy and the family of five jumped from a cliff to escape the fire. the father and his 15-year-old daughter were killed in the fall. two other children survived with minor injuries. but their mother was critically injured. thousands more have had to stay the night in shelters to escape the flames that is threatening to destroy their homes. the main road between spain and france had to be closed for a

while. that has now reopened. as the fire rages on, 4,000 people are without electricity and many more facing anxious wait as the winds pushes the flames towards more towns and villages. >> now as the uprising in syria has intensified in the last few months, both sides are desperate to assert control over the main cities. it seems the rebel offense inside damascus may have thought the battle of syria's second city, aleppo, shows no signs of slowing down. could you just bring us up to date? it's very difficult to follow what's going on inside syria but as best as you know, jim. >> well, as you suggest, i think government troops captured most of the capital shown on tv of troops moving in on the southern

side of town after the past few days, take on a number of districts leaving a trail of devastation. but people are now starting to move back in or going to collect their things and many of them are finding their homes are being smashed out there. so damascus seems to be more or less back under government control. but aleppo seems to be a different story. rebels have launched an attack on the old city in the heart of the second city, second capital. it's actually bigger than damascus, by the way. having yesterday, monday, taken over some areas, captured a number of government -- smashed ompletse the government is having a harder time there. they are focusing on the moment on securing the capital. and perhaps eventually, they will get around to more outlying areas if they can.

>> and briefly, let's catch up on whether diplomacy, the iran league are sending people to see the russians and the chinese. to the turkish prime minister has been speaking? >> many people speaking, but there's no real sense of initiative at the moment. the iran league has offered -- clearly, he has no intention of doing that. the syrian national council said it would favor a acceptable solution. but one of his vice-president or something a la yemen might lead a transitional period. that's also obviously rejected. it was banned in january and rejected then. there's no real sense of initiative. no one talked-a-kofi annan's plan. >> thank you very much for that update, jim. scientists think they could be on the verge of a medical breakthrough with the discovery

of a first new treatment to tackle tuberculosis in almost 40 years. researchers say the three-drug combination has produced highly promising early results. tv kills more than one and a half million people worldwide every year with some nine million people nearly infected. someone with a multi-run it type of t.b. would currently have to take 12,600 pills to eliminate the need for injections. but scientists hope this new treatment could reduce that to just 360. for more on this, i am intrigue the director of the world he would organization. he joins me from geneva. welcome and thank you. how much in your word, is this, as a breakthrough? >> well, i think it is a major advance, a major progress that we have been waiting for a good couple of decades because as

people working in the field of tuberculosis know very well, we have been using drugs. the last one of which was actually put in the market in the 1970's. so here, we are facing for the first time, something that potentially has the capacity to revolutionize the way we are dealing with t.b. care and control today. >> one of the problems in the past with treatment for tuberculosis is that it requires quite a lot of discipline from the patients. they have to take the tablets and they have to do it regularly. this is not going to change that problem, is it? >> not really because the treatment of tuberculosis still require a fairly long period of administration of drugs, contrary to most other infectious diseases. what we see what is going to happen in the next phase of this clinical trial is to shorten the

regimen that is today, six months, to something that might be three to four months, which is already some major gain. but the other important part here is that this regimen being composed by a completely new agent and a couple of other agents used in a sin jestic way might actually be shortening the treatment of multi-drug run it to tuberculosis, the one that requires two years of medications to something that is much less than that. it would be possibly safer and at the same time, guarantee a high chances of success. >> are you worried the problem of resistance? that's another issue, especially when you're dealing with something as highly infectious as tuberculosis? >> yeah, always, we are concerned about the possibility that the patient that has tuberculosis that we see for the first time on day one after making the diagnosis is affected by a form of multi-drug resistance to tufpblet now these

regimens will actually act with -- or against drugs of the normal t.b. as well as some of the forms of multi-drug resistant t.b. we could administer that and have it sort of guarantee that we are treating both the normal case of t.b. as well as some of the forms of multi-drug run it t.b., the simplest one. it's a major advantage from that perspective aren't thank you very much for being with us on "bbc world news." thank you. now whatever the london olympics holds, it will be hard-pressed to match the 1924 games in paris. well, for just showbiz potential. the film that made a star of the man who would become the most famous tarzan forever put on a loin cloth. kristin frazier sent us this postcard where gold medal came second to the silver screen. >> the track and field event,

the paris 1924 olympics was staged here, at the kollum stadium and i'll give you one clue why these games are being immortalized in sports history. ♪ in the charities can of fire olympics without christian eric little, refused to run in the 100 meters because the finals was being stage on a sunday. he trained for the 400 meter which is he won setting a new world record. his friends went on to win that 100 meters, beating all the odds in a time of 10.6 seconds. this is the only venue that was specifically built for paris, 1924. the -- it is still used today

and that year, it was one man who dominated, the american who went on to win three gold medals . the only one man who can swim like that. -- there's on one man who can swim like that. that's right. johnny was the ape man. he went on to star in 12 hollywood movies and yes, that was his tarzan roar used in subsequent films irrespective of the actor. when he competed here, he didn't swim in his loin cloth. >> kristin frazier there. and johnny, the man who played tarzan, only won three golds but went on to win another two at amsterdam in 1928. we'll be looking at all the past olympic games if our postcard series here on "bbc world news." londoners have long complained their city is the hard toast get

around with in the western world with public transport bursting a the seams during rourke. -- roush. the olympic lanes are unlikely to help and extra tourists will place more strains on the buses, tubes, and trains. will the city grind to a hat over the next few weeks? i'm joined by mark who is in charge of the olympics transportation and that's for the organization transport for london. >> good afternoon. >> what about this? is london going to grind to a hat? >> it's not going to grind to a hat but it will be much, michigan busier than normal. we're expecting an additional one million people on some of the busiest days undertaking three million trips. public transport is going to be very busy in certain locations and in certain times and the roads are going to be very busy. we need to put in place the olympic route network to make sure the game's family to and from their venues on time.

>> i love you say game's family, you get the sense of people wondering out to watch the sports. in fact, thee v.i.p.'s being whisked from five-star hotels and venues here. >> the biggest group is media. and then you've got athletes and they've got a job to do as well. obviously, when you host a game, you make commitments and one of our commitments is to make sure that we get everyone to where they need to be on time. >> what do you have to do that's extra over what you normally would have to do in london just to put these games on? >> we've been working for seven years. we've invested 6.5 billion pounds to make sure we have additional transport capacity. we will be running trains later into the evening, more trains when people finish out of their events, they can get back to central london and connect to a

national rail service. on the roads, we've had do a lot of work to prepare to make sure that we can get those game family vehicles around the city rely -- reliability. >> this is the olympic road network? >> that's right. and the roads are relatively small. only 1% but it links those key venues and that's why we've been saying that we will -- avoid central london. avoid driving around the venues if you're a motorist in london. >> yesterday, i was at the dress rehearsal for the opening ceremony. it finished at 10:15, nice civilized time. an hour and a half, i was still stuck because the central lines were down. and i think the over ground were down as well. >> we apologize to anyone that was delayed. >> these kinds of things are

going to happen. >> things will happen on a transport network as big and as complicated as we've got here in london but one of the great things about the park is it is served by three different rail stations and 10 different rail lines. so there's always different ways to get around london. we've got people back from the event last night into central london but people are used to that. you go to football match at wembley oar live concert or other venues, it takes a little bit of time to get back home and that's going to be like during the games. but we're confident that we're going to have services running across the cities to get not just the spectators to where they need to go but to make sure london keeps moving as well. >> what's your biggest worry? >> the biggest worry is that people chance it on that first day of the games, that regular commuters think i'll just try what i normally do and if i need to i'll do something different the following day. and i can reassure people that it will be very different. london has now become an olympic city, a massive event across the

city. people need to plan ahead. they need to get ahead of the game website. motorists, they need to stop avoid driving around the venues because it's been really busy. people will have to travel differently. >> we'll leave it there. thank you, mark. you've been watching london live from the bbc. just a qui