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This is BBC World News Today, broadcasting in the UK | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
The headlines: Russian athletes are banned from competing | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
at the Rio Paralympics following the country's doping scandal. | :00:13. | :00:19. | |
Tragically, this situation is not about athletes cheating the system, | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
but about a state-run system that is cheating the athletes. | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
I'm Chris Mitchell live in Rio, where Russia has announced | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
that's it's to appeal against the IPC decision. | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
I'll bring you the latest on that and today's Olympics action. | :00:40. | :00:49. | |
President Oden has addressed thousands of people at a mass rally | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
in Istanbul in protest against last month's military coup. | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
A state of emergency is declared in Macedonia after 20 people die | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
And Oscar Pistorius is treated in hospital | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
for injuries to his wrists - his brother denies speculation | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
The International Paralympic Committee has banned the entire | :01:07. | :01:25. | |
Russian team from competing in next month's Paralympic Games. | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
It's because of what it called the country's state | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko offered full support | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
to the Russian Paralympic Committee to appeal the decision. | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
Let's get more reaction from our sports correspondent | :01:44. | :01:52. | |
Is this a surprise given the IOC's decision not to introduce a blanket | :01:53. | :02:08. | |
ban on athletes? This also prized many, many people in the sporting | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
world because it is only days ago now that the International Olympic | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
Committee chose another course, but the IPC and the IOC are working on | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
the same information, from the same report, the McLaren report | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
commissioned and suggested that Russians should be banned from the | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
Olympic Games. Taking place right now behind me but there are Russians | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
there competing. They will not be Russians competing at the Paralympic | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
games taking place in just a few weeks' time. I would say various | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
great surprise at this from onlookers looking in perhaps, people | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
feeling different. They had a feeling the IPC, it is younger and | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
has less pressure from outside sources on it, but it was | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
interesting to see the head of the IPC be so with the ring in what he | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
called the disgusting way that Russian athletes and athletics and | :03:14. | :03:21. | |
state-sponsored doping has been allowed to happen. He did not mince | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
his words. The facts do hard. They are an unprecedented attack on every | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
clean athlete who competes in sport. The anti-doping system in Russia is | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
broken, corrupted and entirely compromised. The Paralympic movement | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
is one giant family and I had hoped that something like this would never | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
rear its ugly head in our movement. Everything we have observed goes | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
against the very spirit of sports and everything the Paralympic | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
movement stands for. This is why we feel that we had no option but to | :04:02. | :04:09. | |
take this action. Tragically this situation is not about athletes | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
cheating the system. It is about a state-run system that is cheating | :04:16. | :04:23. | |
the athlete. I believe the Russian government is catastrophically | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
failed its power athletes. Their medals over morals mentality | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
disgusts me. The complete corruption at the anti-doping system is | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
contrary to the rules and strikes at the very heart of the spirit that | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
Paralympics sport. It shows a blatant disregard for the health and | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
well-being of athletes and quite simply has no place in Paralympic | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
sports. Their thirst for glory at all costs has severely damage the | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
integrity and image of all sports and has certainly resulted in a | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
devastating outcome to the Russian Paralympic committee and para | :05:01. | :05:08. | |
athletes. As I said, he did not mince his words at all. I am joined | :05:09. | :05:16. | |
by Ed Harry, the BBC's Paralympic athletics commentator. Why have the | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
international Paralympic committee taken a different route to the IOC? | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
They have both read the same report, the McLaren report on the eve of | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
these Olympic Games. It says the IOC have not talked to me about the | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
report. Instead of taking it for what it cities which is evidence of | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
a broken system, the IOC has picked out individual names to ban. The IPC | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
have never stopped speaking to Richard McLaren. It has been a | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
constant back and forth between them and they agree with him, it is | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
evidence of a broken system and a system which involved in Russia para | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
athletes, athletes between 2012 - 15 whose positive samples were hushed | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
up and released as negatives and secondly at the Sochi Winter | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
Paralympic games, samples were tampered with and replaced with | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
clean ones. Enough evidence save the IPC to issue this band. Listening to | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
Sir Philip Craven, he did not mince his words. The president of the IOC | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
was far more diplomatic. You know Sir Philip Craven, why has he chosen | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
such strong words? The International Paralympic committee has never been | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
touched by a scandal like this and going back to the first report, the | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
IPC said time and again what it did not show up concerning Paralympic | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
sport. But their dialogue with Richard McLellan has revealed it | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
most certainly is. They are the governing body in so many cases for | :06:53. | :07:00. | |
their sports. It's a point I made in my preamble is that the | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
International Paralympic committee is younger and perhaps has less | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
pressure on it. Is there any truth to that? You can say less pressure | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
from some sponsors. Much has been said of any personal relationship | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
member says have with members of the Russian government but this is the | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
head of a governing body saying he is disgusted with how a government | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
has acted. There has been strong rebuttal of that. The sports | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
Minister of Russia has said they will fight for their Paralympic | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
place and the head of the Paralympic committee has said it is a huge | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
injustice but Sir Philip Craven says he feels sympathy for clean athletes | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
but they have broken the rules. They cannot be a member. They cannot be a | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
member of the Paralympic community at this time. I want to bring in | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
Kate Gray, a former Paralympics for Great Britain. Kate, briefly, what | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
were your thoughts when you had that Russia had been banned? When I heard | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
the news and I know other athletes felt the same, was shock and | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
surprise. We thought the Paralympics would follow the IOC. That has not | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
been the case. I think for many of the athletes, we were not expecting | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
it at all. We assumed it would continue on and Russia would compete | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
at the highest level, but that isn't happening. Speaking to fellow | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
athletes, they were surprised this has happened but I guess they | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
received enough information to believe Russia should not be allowed | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
to take part and that is the process they will follow. Kate, how will | :08:45. | :08:54. | |
this affect the Paralympics? Russia have a big team, will we noticed | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
that they are not there? That was my immediate thought because Russia | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
finished second on the medals table in London 2012. They are a dominant | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
force, one of the leading nations in Paralympic sport said there will be | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
a big gap when those athletes do not compete. I am a former swimmer, | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
Russia has always been one of the top nations in swimming and there | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
will be laid is empty because they are not competing and for those | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
athletes that are clean, is it fair for them to be not competing there? | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
It will have an impact on the competition in Rio. You know Sir | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
Philip Craven as well, you have spoken to him many times and you | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
have heard what he has had to say today. Were you surprised that he | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
was so strong with his criticism of Russia and their system? I think he | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
was conscious of isolating the Paralympic committee from the IOC. | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
He wanted people to believe they had gone about their own investigations | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
to make this decision and they wanted to show they were not going | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
to have cheats. We might be a new and growing movement, but he was not | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
going to stand for any cheating, he wants it to be a fair, clean, equal | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
playing field and that's why he said what he said. He did not mince his | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
words, he almost seemed angry, frustrated and I guess that is the | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
case because I have been in sport for over ten years whether competing | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
or beyond that, and I have never come across doping, especially on | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
that level. He is properly shocked like everyone else is that it has | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
been taken to such a high level. Thank you very much. Appreciate you | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
joining us here. Pegs or so to Ed Harry. The games continue here in | :10:50. | :10:58. | |
Rio. We had a spectacular road race in the cycling. This time for the | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
women. It was just as thrilling. Anna van de Breggen got it. She is | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
now the gold medallist. Lizzie Armitstead, the British rider who | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
was here even though she missed three out of competition drug tests, | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
one was expunged so she was able to compete, she was a medal prospect | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
but she could only manage fifth place. Plenty of crashes in that | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
race but everybody is OK. That was perhaps the biggest story of the day | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
but they will be more here in Rio because we have the swimming finals | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
coming up later and it will be our first chance to get a closer look at | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
Michael Phelps. He has 18 gold medals, he retired after London, but | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
he thought he would come back here and get if you more. He will be in | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
the relay tonight before he begins his butterfly exploits tomorrow. We | :11:58. | :12:07. | |
will see you again here but back to you. | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
To Turkey where hundreds of thousands of people are attending | :12:14. | :12:15. | |
a mass rally in the country's largest city, Istanbul. | :12:16. | :12:17. | |
It's to protest against last month's attempted coup | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
President Erdogan has been addressing the crowds. | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
He said the coup attempt shows that the nation is not just | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
resilient against political, economic, and diplomatic attacks | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
A sea of red flags. Turkish people gathered in an unprecedented show of | :12:33. | :12:54. | |
support for their country and their president. After the coup attempt of | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
the 15th of July, he now appears stronger than ever. Similar rallies | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
were held across the country. The president said he would take action | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
against those behind the coup, possibly reintroducing the death | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
penalty. TRANSLATION: | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
They say there is no death penalty in the EU. Well the US has it, Japan | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
has it, China has it, most of the world has it said they are allowed | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
to have it. We used to have it until 1984. Sovereignty belongs to the | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
people so if the people make the decision, I'm sure political parties | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
will comply. For his supporters this was a moment of triumph after decade | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
us and fear of the night of the failed uprising. Turks are | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
determined to have democracy. God knows how many people are here and | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
they from different political views, different religions and all are here | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
to show that despite all our differences, we want to live in | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
solidarity, upholding democracy. But it was not just followers of the | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
president who joined in the valleys. The opposition took part also | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
although the Kurdish party was not invited. | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
TRANSLATION: The world is seeing the Turkish | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
people today. They are seeing how successful and determined we are, | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
how loyal they are to their country. Protesters demanding the death | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
penalty for the man accused of masterminding the coup. The US | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
-based Muslim cleric Fattullah Gulen. He denies the charges. Tens | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
of thousands of teachers, judges and military officers have been | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
dismissed or arrested since the uprising. President Erdogan has been | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
accused of taking the clamp-down too far. People are gathering here with | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
their friends, children in a massive display of solidarity. The coup | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
attempt deeply unsettled people here. There are some parts of | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
Turkish society which are concerned about the extent of Mr Burdekin's | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
purges but the people here are celebrating their victory over the | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
coup. -- President Erdogan. The scale of these demonstrations sends | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
a powerful message. In a time of uncertainty, many Turks are rallying | :15:24. | :15:24. | |
around their leader. An emergency has been declared | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
in the Macedonian capital Skopje. It's after fierce rain storms | :15:31. | :15:32. | |
and strong winds Several main roads in | :15:33. | :15:34. | |
the city have been flooded, Reports from Skopje said the water | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
level in the worst affected neighbourhoods left many houses | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
flooded and without electricity. Some buildings are reported | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
to have collapsed. Torrential rains flooded | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
many of the city's roads with some Parts of the city's ring road | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
was swept away, dragging cars into More than 20 people | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
were reported to have received Army and special police | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
units as well as trucks loaded with drinking water were seen | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
heading for the most affected areas. Three villages in the north-east of | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
the country were cut off because of Everything I have now | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
has been flooded, everything I have been | :16:27. | :16:35. | |
building has been destroyed. More rain is forecast | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
for Sunday evening. Still to come: We will take you back | :16:40. | :17:00. | |
to Rio to meet a man on a mission to help the children of the favelas get | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
in touch with the country's rhythms. Here in the UK, People living | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
in areas affected by any future extraction of shale gas could be | :17:09. | :17:10. | |
paid thousands of pounds It's one of the options | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
in a consultation due Kim Hagen from the Campaign | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
to Protect Rural England said the impact of fracking went | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
beyond individual households. It is not just individual households | :17:21. | :17:33. | |
affected. Fracking has much wider implications and I think the first | :17:34. | :17:41. | |
point being it concerns the industrialisation of our | :17:42. | :17:43. | |
countryside, including areas adjacent to national parks such as | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
the Lake District National Park which is already under pressure of | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
development in the energy infrastructure sector. These areas | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
as a whole will be affected. Not just the individual households in | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
it. Think of increased traffic, noise pollution, light pollution and | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
it is something many of these households have expressed in their | :18:06. | :18:16. | |
concerns initially. This is BBC World News Today. The headlines: | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
Russia is to appeal after being banned from next month Paralympics | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
in Rio over allegations of doping. President Erdogan has addressed | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
hundreds of thousands of people at a mass rally in Istanbul in protest | :18:29. | :18:30. | |
against last month 's military coup. Oscar Pistorius has been treated | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
in hospital after suffering His brother Carl has denied reports | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
that he tried to commit suicide. The athlete is serving six years | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
in prison for the murder of his His brother says he slipped and fell | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
in his cell, and that reports in a local paper that his injuries | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
were intentional are untrue. With more here's our correspondent | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
Milton Nkosi from Johannesburg. What we know is that Oscar Pistorius | :18:59. | :19:12. | |
was released from prison on Saturday after telling authorities in prison | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
that he hurt his wrists after he fell from his bed but the city press | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
newspaper say they spoke to a prison inmate who knows the section where | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
Oscar Pistorius is locked up and he told them that Oscar Pistorius hurt | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
his wrists intentionally. The newspaper continues to say that when | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
they came here to this hospital west of Pretoria, two hospital guards | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
told them that when Mr Pistorius arrived here, he had bad cuts on his | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
wrists and doctors were rapping bandages around them. He was | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
discharged and taken back to prison. And then Mr Pistorius was brought | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
right here, the correctional services. His brother Carl Pistorius | :20:01. | :20:08. | |
took to social media to say reports are untrue, baseless and | :20:09. | :20:08. | |
sensational. The Women's Road race | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
at the Rio Olympics was marred by a crash in the closing stages | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
involving the Netherlands It was the gold medal won by her | :20:19. | :20:32. | |
team-mate Anne van de Breggen but the former British Olympic champion | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
Chris Boardman believes the Rio course was too dangerous. I | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
mentioned earlier that I am past commenting, I'm quite angry about it | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
because I went down there with you and we had a look at the course and | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
we saw those edges and we knew this was way past being a technical, this | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
was dangerous and people who designed the course and said, what | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
safety features has seen it as well and left it. | :21:01. | :21:02. | |
England have beaten Pakistan by 141 runs to take a 2-1 series lead | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
After setting the tourists 343 to win. | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
England took six wickets in the middle session of the day - | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
Chris Woakes and Steven Finn taking four of them for one run in 23 | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
Pakistan's last-wicket pair of Sohail Khan and Rahat Ali delayed | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
defeat with a stand of 50 in 67 balls, but Sohail was caught | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
and bowled by Moeen Ali with 13.1 overs remaining. | :21:27. | :21:28. | |
The final test starts at the Oval in London on Thursday. | :21:29. | :21:40. | |
I spoke at lunchtime, on day one, it felt like, that one heavy roller at | :21:41. | :21:53. | |
the beginning took the pace out and we just, we had to hang in there for | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
a lot of that game. We really were fighting to stay in the game but | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
have the belief if we could take them, it was a great credit to every | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
of us who fought like that to win. Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored the winner | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
as Manchester United beat Leicester City | :22:14. | :22:15. | |
in the Community Shield In the traditional curtain raiser | :22:16. | :22:17. | |
to the Premier League season, FA Cup winners United went | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
ahead in the first half through Jesse Lingard, | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
but Jamie Vardy capitalised on an error from Marouane Fellaini | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
to equalise for the league champions Ibrahimovic's 82nd minute header | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
gave Jose Mounriho his first And there's more good | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
news for United fans - Paul Pogba has been granted | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
permission by Juventus to have a medical at the club, ahead | :22:47. | :22:48. | |
of a reported world record transfer. Hundreds of thousands of Rio's | :22:49. | :22:59. | |
poorest people live in the favelas - basic housing that rises up | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
into the mountains of the Olympic city and so does | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
a trumpet-playing Englishman. He was inspired by Brazilian music - | :23:08. | :23:09. | |
and now he's on a mission to help the children of the favelas get | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
in touch with their Forget Wembley or the Maracana | :23:14. | :23:15. | |
Stadium, I reckon that this is the best spot in the world | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
to be playing football. High up in the hills, with views | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
overlooking the city of Rio. Football is in the DNA of Brazilian | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
kids, but there is something even What is a man from Doncaster do | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
ending up here in the favelas? There is a link, because Doncaster | :23:36. | :24:10. | |
has a lot of music going on, I fell in love with Brazilian music, | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
and eventually came to Rio Rio is a really important | :24:15. | :24:23. | |
town for Latin music, so it is sad that there are problems | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
with music education here. Basically, four children don't | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
get the chance to learn or play instruments, | :24:34. | :24:35. | |
or get the chance to The system of music education | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
in schools is not there, so I really wanted to do | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
something about that They can't afford to buy their own | :24:46. | :25:01. | |
instruments, so how did they get hold of them? Is a cool instruments | :25:02. | :25:11. | |
are 2-3 times more expensive in the UK here. It reduces the chance of | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
children buying them so we got the instruments, most are donated in the | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
UK. Can I be part of the band? Absolutely. | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
My dream is that we have a music tradition here that mixes the | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
Brazilian traditions with New Orleans jazz tradition instruments | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
and recreate something new in live music. | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
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with me on Twitter. That's it from me and the team. Goodbye. | :25:58. | :26:02. |