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    UK troops, police added to security forces

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Story -- this morning the London Olympic organizers facing some scrutiny.

Over security.

Reports that would they were not enough security guards have been hired for this huge event that's about to start breakout pass live in -- the way.

Obviously have a lot of concerns about these issues in London what what are the risks that they believe have surfaced here.

Well there there are risk for sure war we're ten days out to the start of the Olympic Games -- -- Because Olympic Games -- widely seen as a prime terror targets and there are concerns about safety.

At the private security company called G4S was supposed to provide over 101000 and -- for the game a few days ago but they turned around and told the government -- -- barely make 5000 and there are questions remaining about the training and even the few thousand that they are providing needless to say.

The head of that company got a -- -- grilling before parliament today is the this -- humiliating shambles that.

It's not where we want to be that is such and it's humiliating shambles of the company.

-- -- -- Cannot disagree with the -- Understatement there Martha and said the UK military getting involved here -- even more so than it had already planned.

At least 171000.

Troops -- called up to guard the games along with all they're all their equipment.

-- -- idea of the scale of that that is 15.

Of the -- -- UK military.

It's a more than double.

What they've deployed in Afghanistan.

Right now my wow that is quite a story syndicate there could be more out on the way as a security company saying that they're gonna come up with the people they need it.

If there is more help on the way first locally Martha from the police here there already going to be 121000 police involved now we're expecting hundreds maybe thousands more police filling the gap.

And help from the states as well the department of transport here confirms to me that.

She asked -- airport special agents will be at Heathrow and other UK airports.

But they say it had been planned already -- the acting in a liaison capacity -- transport is causing a few other fears here some hiccups.

-- special -- designated just for Olympic visitors and that's causing some problems here which graphical already and the the US Olympic team took a long time to get to their village yesterday if it should have maybe taken about an hour and a half.

It took four hours we heard some some very angry -- from the US but not to worry that -- Olympics says everything will be fine and by the way Martha for the first time in.

I'd say about two months.

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- at last I was there I'll -- that -- thank you very.

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