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This is BBC World News Today. Maracana this | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Throughout the day, the Olympic torch has been | :00:09. | :00:18. | |
making its way through the city to the Maracana stadium. | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
We'll be getting a taste of how the atmosphere is building at one | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
of the many fan zones in Rio where thousands are gathering | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
And here in London, I'm Tom Donkin, here are our other headlines: | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
Months of scandals take their toll on South Africa's governing ANC - | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
they've suffered their worst ever poll results. | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
And we speak to the survivor who became the face of the Brussels | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
As well as the excitement around what the Olympic | :00:50. | :01:10. | |
we are live at the art stadium. It is less than three hours to the | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
official start of the games. The Opening Ceremony is set to begin in | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
the stadium behind me and as you can see, a lot busier now than it was an | :01:23. | :01:31. | |
hour ago. Fans, spectators, ticket holders, they are waking -- making | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
their way through and flanked, of course, by heavy security. It is a | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
huge police operation here. There are browned about 85,000 police and | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
army that has been deployed on the streets. There are around about 80 | :01:47. | :01:56. | |
5000. All the bags of the checked, all the tickets are being checked. | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
It is only authorised access here at the stadium. You do get a sense of | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
the anticipation and the excitement building. The atmosphere is very | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
regulated, a little bit dampened down at the moment and I wonder | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
whether that will change as we approached the Opening Ceremony in | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
the hours to come. This Olympics has been marred in the build-up by an | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
number of issues. Zika virus, the pollution of the waterways, the | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
Russian athletes, you may render God we got the decision from the IOC | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
yesterday, clearing the way for at least 271 Russian athletes to take | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
part in these games. Added to that, the issues of security and | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
transportation and whether or not this city is ready to play host the | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
impact games -- to the Olympic Games. | :02:53. | :03:16. | |
The two books are expensive for us but the games have brought good | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
things for the city and for us to live here. His daughter Stephanie | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
who is an umpire in the track and field events can barely contain her | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
enthusiasm. I'm with excited. I can't wait for it to start and be | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
part of it. After a marathon journey around this vast culturally diverse | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
three, the Olympic Torch visited some of Rio's most famous landmarks. | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
There has probably never been a more stunning backdrop for an Olympic | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
Games. This is the first time the games have taken place in South | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
America. A proud moment for the continent and for many Brazilians. | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
Public support for the games has sometimes felt patchy with many | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
areas having little investment. The question is, who are these Olympics | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
for. There has been plenty of infuse yes, some protest and a lot of | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
security. 85,000 troops have been deployed in the streets and there | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
have been rumours of more demonstrations outside tonight's | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
ceremony. Health, health, shouts one protester. Amid real anger that the | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
billions have been spent staging the Olympics when Rio has arguably more | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
pressing priorities. This is a city undoubtedly transformed by the | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
games. Some new infrastructure and urban regeneration. There have been | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
missed opportunities in a city with high levels of inequality, the MPEG | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
-- the Olympic Games not providing so much impetus for change as had | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
been promised. Looking over my shoulder here, it is | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
all about security here and the checks that are being carried out | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
for the thousands of people. 80,000, we're expecting to be in total in | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
that stadium including athletes, officials, 45 heads of state and | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
spectators as well. Let's discuss the security issues in detail. We | :05:22. | :05:29. | |
have with us a security expert. Welcome. It is all about security. | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
We knew that would always be the case. Yes, this is the most games | :05:34. | :05:44. | |
with security in history. You've got thousands of municipal guards, | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
thousands of private security, it is really about protecting the pics | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
from a major terrorist attack or major crime. Brazilians have never | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
seen anything like this before. Nor have they seen terrorism, which is | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
of course what the global headlines have been about. They have seen big | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
events come and go and what they are concerned about is that when all of | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
this comes to an end, what will be left for the city and the state? | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
What is your assessment of what you think will be left? You have been | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
looking at this in detail. At the moment, you get a sense of | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
excitement. The locals are pretty excited about staging this event but | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
does that show perhaps don't worry run deeper? There has been a lot of | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
apprehension in the lead up and with event finally happening tonight, | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
most people are relieved that we got here. You've got the Rio that a lot | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
of the foreigners will be seeing and you've got the other Rio with the | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
poor and impoverished population live. For them, they are not X here | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
in thing this big surge in security the way that foreigners are. They | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
are getting less security than you might expect because all the police | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
have been moved to the big Olympic venues. The big concern when it | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
comes to an end is well innovative police practices continue? Will | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
people -- police continued to protect the poorer people? We are | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
looking at pictures of the heavy security here which has been | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
epitomised by the army that are in the street here. We are getting | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
reports that 85,000 police and army have been deployed. The largest | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
military operation in prison in history. Some may find that presence | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
reassuring, others may say intimidating, but it is a necessity, | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
do you think? There is an expression here in Brazil, for the English to | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
see. And a lot of the police presence is about calming the | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
international presence. For sure, there is a risk, it is read below. | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
The real concern now is organised crime, violet homicide, robbery, not | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
necessarily in the streets but outside in the low income areas. | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
After the Olympics, we have elections at the governor level, at | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
city level, and nobody really knows whether there will be sufficient | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
resources to maximise security into 2017. Thank you so much for joining | :08:25. | :08:34. | |
us. Enjoy the Opening Ceremony. Here, all about heavy security as | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
these ticket holders make their way through to the stadium. There was a | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
part of Rio which is already celebrating with a bit of Samba and | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
who better than to show us it than in one of the biggest fan zones in | :08:48. | :08:59. | |
downtown Rio is Peter Kochi. I'm in the old fort area of Rio. | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
Just before I described the place to you, I was here two years ago during | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
the World Cup and it is unrecognisable. There was a lot of | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
traffic flowing through here at that time but they have cut all that out, | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
it is for pedestrians to come and enjoy themselves and that is what | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
they are hoping to do here tonight. It is a huge square in the old port | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
area. A huge screen has been mounted here today. You can hear music from | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
thousands of fans milling here today, hoping to catch the Opening | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
Ceremony on one of the big screens here at Square. We have heard today | :09:38. | :09:45. | |
that the Opening Ceremony will probably not be the most expensive | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
in the history of Olympics but it will be the coolest one because who | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
puts up a better party than the Brazilians? And that cool vibe is | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
already resonating here at the square today. People playing | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
football, roller skaters, people running their bicycles, couples | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
trying to soak in the atmosphere just as we are. They are just hoping | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
that all the problems in the lead up to these games will just melt away | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
once the Opening Ceremony starts at his the kind of atmosphere that they | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
are trying to build here in Rio today. | :10:23. | :10:30. | |
Indeed. Peter, you get the best gigs, because you were at the World | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
Cup and now you are here again. Thank you very much. More from Peter | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
and the team in the fan zone as we build up to the Opening Ceremony | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
just a few hours away. 11,000 athletes, they will be taking centre | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
stage here. A lot of the spotlight will be on who is carrying the flag | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
is and what they are going to be wearing. | :10:56. | :11:22. | |
Let's take a look at some of the outfits causing a stir. | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
South Korea's outfits have gone down fairly well. | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
They have been infused with insect repellent designed | :11:28. | :11:29. | |
Here's Team China in a colour combination which critics have | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
The official Olympic outfit for Georgia prompted thousands | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
of Georgians to sign a petition calling for | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
But possibly the most controversial was the Iranian outfit. | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
However, such was the public backlash that they've had | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
It's still unclear just what exactly they'll be wearing tonight. | :11:45. | :11:56. | |
Last but not least, the home team outfit. As you would expect, those | :11:57. | :12:05. | |
traditional Brazilian colours. We will be assessing who is wearing | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
what and if they are wearing it well. Look out for Team GB's outfit, | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
designed by Stella McCartney. We will take you to all the news in the | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
build-up to the Opening Ceremony. Two hours away. Back to you in the | :12:22. | :12:30. | |
studio. You can follow bad beta. And you can get all of the action of the | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
website. Let's take a look at what else | :12:36. | :12:37. | |
is making news around the world. The East African regional body | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
I-GAD says the government in South Sudan has agreed to allow | :12:42. | :12:43. | |
in an international protection force to try and salvage | :12:44. | :12:45. | |
the country's peace deal. There's no clear timeline yet | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
for the deployment of Lawyers for the US-based Turkish | :12:49. | :12:50. | |
cleric, Fethullah Gulen say they fear that there could be | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
an attempt on his life. The Turkish government has blamed | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
Mr Gulen for masterminding the recent failed coup there, | :12:58. | :12:59. | |
an accusation he denies. The government has submitted | :13:00. | :13:01. | |
evidence to the US in preparation At least 13 people have been killed | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
when suspected militants opened fire at a market place in the Indian | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
town of Kokrajhar. Police have blamed the attack | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
on an insurgent group called the National Democratic | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
Front of Bodoland. They say they have killed one | :13:20. | :13:21. | |
militant. The death toll from the Bastille Day | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
lorry attack in Nice has risen to 85, after a 56-year-old man | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
seriously injured in The death was confirmed on Twitter | :13:29. | :13:30. | |
by President of the French Riviera He offered condolences to the family | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
of the latest victim. In South Africa, the governing | :13:37. | :13:47. | |
African National Congress has just recorded its worst ever electoral | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
performance in local elections. The ANC has admitted defeat | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
in the key battleground of Nelson Mandela Bay which includes | :13:54. | :13:55. | |
the city of Port Elizabeth. Nomsa Maseko has this | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
report from Johannesburg. The governing ANC has been handed it | :13:59. | :14:17. | |
first major election setback since 1994. This is the first time the | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
party of Nelson Mandela won less than 60%, an embarrassment and a | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
major psychological blow, even though it still commands huge | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
support and rewired. Other issues have affected them but broadly, the | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
ANC has done well against all odds. But infighting, court cases and a | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
host of corruption scandals, some involving the president, are widely | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
seen as the reason for the ANC weakening support. What I would say | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
to the ANC is the need to learn from the opposition, they need to take | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
the citizens of South Africa very seriously. The municipal election | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
results show that the ANC power and influence is slowly declining. The | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
party is coming to the realisation that it can no longer take it for | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
granted that the country's black majority will follow it blindly. The | :15:13. | :15:20. | |
official opposition and ceded the ANC in Nelson Mandela Bay, an area | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
with rich history of anti-apartheid struggle. We are very happy with the | :15:25. | :15:32. | |
results so far. 95% counted and we are still waiting for results. But | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
indications are that it looks like we will do very well in both those | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
disabilities. But none of the parties have one and out my | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
honourable gentleman Jarecki in fiercely contested cities including | :15:46. | :15:59. | |
Johannesburg and Pretoria. Essentially, the people of South | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
Africa gave us keys to the classroom on an historic lesson in humility. | :16:05. | :16:12. | |
We will be opening it to put the ANC in it so they may learn once and for | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
all never again to think that they are indispensable. They must learn | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
to respect the people's power, to respect the people's mandate. These | :16:23. | :16:31. | |
municipal elections have proven that South Africa's political landscape | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
is maturing into a competitive multiparty democracy. | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
Still to come, this woman became the face of the Brussels track. She has | :16:43. | :16:53. | |
spoken to the BBC for the first time. | :16:54. | :18:02. | |
The latest headlines: The Olympic torch has arrived | :18:03. | :18:04. | |
The opening ceremony is now just hours away. | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
Months of scandals take their toll on South Africa's governing ANC. | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
They've suffered their worst ever poll results. | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
China has sentenced another human rights activist after a week | :18:21. | :18:32. | |
The woman who became the face of the attack on Brussels in March | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
has given a special interview to the BBC. | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
35 people died and more than 300 others were injured in blasts | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
at the city's airport and a metro station. | :18:41. | :18:41. | |
Nidhi Chaphekar, was featured in one of the most shared images | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
and she told the BBC in Mumbai that her children saw their mother's | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
The first time that I saw the picture, my eyes were struck by my | :18:48. | :19:02. | |
face. It showed how helpless I was at that particular time, how | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
frightened I looked, the agony, the pain. I spoke to Mike kids because I | :19:08. | :19:15. | |
was worried, I have a son who was 14 years old. Seeing his mum who was | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
half covered in clothes, my daughter, she is ten, my mother is | :19:22. | :19:29. | |
being exposed to the world. I said, are you ashamed? They said, we were | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
looking at your strength. Even in this condition, you are still | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
wanting to be alive. It was a blast like a ball of fire | :19:39. | :19:56. | |
it hit a sound. On form -- full volume. Next, I found myself way | :19:57. | :20:04. | |
away as if someone had kicked me from that place and I was on the | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
ground. Those cries of grief of people, those who were asking, where | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
is my child? I'm calling for my child. I'm asking for help. People | :20:15. | :20:25. | |
were crying because of pain. We have to live, we have to go on, life has | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
to move. If you can do something better for someone, I think you have | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
gained something. Everybody has to think that is it. | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
That was the story of Nidhi Chaphekar, whose image | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
in the aftermath of the terror attack on Brussels last | :20:49. | :20:50. | |
year was shared and seen around the world. | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
China has sentenced another human rights activist after a week | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
of trials that have caused a great deal of concern around the world. | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
Go Hong Gwor, who was given a three-year suspended sentence, | :21:02. | :21:03. | |
was one of those caught up in a large-scale crackdown last | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
Our correspondent John Sudworth has been in Tianjin this week. | :21:07. | :21:24. | |
The authorities have been at pains to insist the trials are open and | :21:25. | :21:33. | |
transparent. And, yet, I'm some distance away from the court because | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
any attempt to film in the vicinity is very quickly squashed with both | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
family members of those involved and journalists being kept well at bay. | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
Foreign media is told instead it must cover these court cases from | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
this media reception centre, complete with the big screen showing | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
photographs from inside the court and a transcript of the proceedings | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
though there is no way of verifying the accuracy of any of it. The | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
ultimate irony is that having been stopped from filming outside the | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
courts, being put on a bus and brought here, the government has | :22:11. | :22:18. | |
been publishing photographs of inside this media reception centre. | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
The message, the foreign media art being given every assistance and | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
welcome. Being involved in human rights in China has never been an | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
easy path to tread. What is different this time isn't just the | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
scale, with 300 people detained last year, nor within the fact that | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
amongst the 20 remained in custody ever since, there are some prominent | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
lawyers. What is interesting about what is happening here and for many | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
people deeply troubling is that the prosecutions are being linked to an | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
increasingly fervent national narrative, neatly summed up by this | :23:00. | :23:08. | |
video. It has been posted on the website of china's National | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
prosecution service. Chinese human rights lawyers are at the centre of | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
an international conspiracy, the video argues, that aims, through the | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
motion of democracy and freedom, to bring the kind of chaos and | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
instability in China that we can see elsewhere in the world. Now that the | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
trials for this week have finished, the security is gone and we are once | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
again free to film outside the court, the purpose to all this seems | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
very clear, to send a very chilling message to anyone who dares to | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
challenge the authority of the Communist Party, even if it's -- | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
even in its own party run courts. Let's return to the greater show on | :23:51. | :24:02. | |
earth. For the first time, athletes from Kosovo will compete under the | :24:03. | :24:10. | |
MPEG flag. He was a judo athlete who will be competing at the games. -- | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
under the Olympic flag. My name is Marina. I do judo in the | :24:14. | :24:35. | |
under 52 kilograms. It is going to be very scarce -- very special... | :24:36. | :25:28. | |
One judo player story. I want to bring you some live pictures from | :25:29. | :25:38. | |
Rio de Janeiro. These are some protesters who are attempting to | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
block the journey of the flames as it wakes six way to the stadium. | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
These Olympic Games haven't been without controversy. A lot of people | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
argue that the money spent on these games should have been spent on | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
infrastructure and to lessen the massive poverty gap within Rio and | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
around the country. Good night. | :26:01. | :26:04. |