want to start with love you zhang crashing over the first hurdles. >> whether it's been the face of the london 2012 games, the same thing happened there due to achilles concerns. it's happened again, and of course it's devastating for any athlete to peak in the world olympics and then have the technical failing which is what it was. >> now no technical failings with yoo cane bolt. performing, defending his 100-meter title. >> he talks about greatness winning the 200-meter. which is his favorite event. he can only achieve legendary status if he achieves the doubles again, so he has been going through qualifiers today. he is a favorite wherever he goes but especially with this crowd. he is very popular around all the gentleman make ens and everywhere. >> a couple nights ago, he tweeted a photograph of himself with the swedish hand ball team at 3:00 in the morning. >> who can blame him? but of course he had to rest because the 200-meter qualifiers were coming up. >> we talk about team g.b. and the americans and chinese and multiple golds. but the olympics is about nations big and small and

and up next on our interview with the legal counsel to the european council zhang claude a parade despite the economic gloom swamping of europe he says the difficulties are a natural and transitional step forward. today we're joined by a. legal counsel of the european council and he also spent more than two decades as head of the legal service of the e.u. council of ministers and yes participated in a lot of the important decisions taken over the past twenty years notably the adoption of the new treaties in the european union thanks very much mr pearce for joining us today i'd like to start by quoting something you had written in the van for two thousand and eleven and the financial times you had written it's time to admit that the large part of the you was too rapid europe's citizens no longer understand the purpose of the e.u. and for all its increased powers the european parliament the supposed repository of democratic legitimacy in europe is a relative failure like to ask is is there something fundamentally wrong with europe at this point you know this. adventure is something which is

question marks hanging over his fitness former one hundred ten metre hurdles world record holder new zhang pulled out of a dominant meet last month with a back injury pace coach says there are no concerns over a foot problem two thousand and four champion john missed the beijing games with a similar kind. of people our departure from germany you had an examination of his food by german doctor who told us the danger is not a big problem to put how well he can until it's no serious the point is i think we'll have some medical experts to have a check and used in the olympic village do you also will try to just the situation through training so the next couple of days sure that's a challenge to. the football russian premier league champions and have dealt an early blow to title rival saskin moscow the same petersburg squad not a three one win away in the russian capital and finished fifteen points ahead of sasco last season on have already put clear daylight between themselves on the army man and this campaign the match as good as over after just half an hour serious and not topping home alexa

several confirms it for us that he took a thirty million dollar check to the president of his era by zhang what i call the islamic republic of b.p. this just an example of how they operate and that was at the direction of lord brown he was it brought late that you're with him so he had a you know the old bag filled full of money another old bag full of gin to meet with the president at zero by john they they bribe them to get a hold of the resource of that nation is now one of the despite being just absent floating literally floating in oil that nation is one of the poorest nations on the planet the only thing that they have done of note is all the euro song contest where three hundred million dollars of the b.p.'s bribe money was used to bring in ingle bird humperdinck but the big problem there is that they've turned a castle in sea into a toxic toilet why do we care because because what happens in the caspian sea is entering the air on our planet here and what they do there they had back in the year two thousand and eight there was a blowout identical to the blowout of the b.p. deepwater

and a moment to forget for the hurrieder liu zhang. in an echo of what happened at the beijing olympics, he pulled up injured at the men's hurdles today. afterwards, his fellow competitors helped him off the track. his anguish softened in a moment of olympic brotherhood. >> that was mark barger reporting. if you missed something, don't worry. we're archiving it online. how every event is being kept at one place so it is at your finger tip. >> this summer everywhere you go, people are talking about the london olympics. since you cannot be in front of a tv all the time, we've got streaming coverage of the games online that we want you to know about. it starts by visiting our home page. at the top of nbcbayarea.com, we've got five spotlight features. the second from the left says olympics, week two. click it and enter our guide where a link to watch live action is near the top of the page. that takes us to the nbc live extra page, loaded with thousands have hours of streaming video, live and archived, ready to watch now. please note, you'