19/08/2016 World News Today

Paralympic Games will be scaled back. Never before in the 56 year

history of the Paralympic games have we witnessed circumstances like

this. claimed he was robbed at gunpoint

issues an apology. Ryan Lochte says he should have been

more '"careful and candid'' in describing events after a night

of partying Standing up for the Soviet Union -

25 years after an attempted coup against Mikhail Gorbachev,

why do some Russians still dream We begin in Rio where attention is

turning to the Paralympic Games. There will be reductions due to a

budget shortfall. What more can you tell us about this decision? The IPC

making these and expense because time's organising committee has not

raised enough money to fund the Paralympics it is 19 days to go

until the start of the Paralympics. There are concerns about the budget

for the games. The Beijing and London Paralympics

were game-changers for disability sport, generating not only

unprecedented levels of interest, The hope was that Rio 2016

would continue the momentum, but a financial crisis has meant

major cuts have had to be made just weeks before

the action gets under way. Never before in the 56 year history

of the Paralympic Games have Clearly Brazil is in a far

different position now, to the one it was in October 2009,

when it won the right A raft of cuts were today announced,

including the closure of one park, the second largest of the four zones

used for the Olympics. There will also be a downsizing

of the workforce, the closure of some media centres and cuts

to transport services. Funds meant for the Paralympics have

had to be diverted to resolve issues affecting the ongoing Olympics,

repairs at the Athletes' Village, security and the treatment

of the green water Crucial travel grants almost three

weeks, overdue meaning as many as 50 countries may not be able to afford

to send athletes. It is clear that the Paralympic

budget has been cannibalised to backfill gaps in the budget

and that can only have a negative Desperate disappointment

for the athletes, desperate disappointment for the people of

Brazil. This is the second largest sporting

event on the planet. This is no way to go

about organising it. This is no way to go

about delivering it. Only 12% of tickets

for the Rio Paralympics have so far been sold,

and some who have travelled This is one time in the life,

and I think Brazil must be generous, Today, at Rio 2016's main ticket

office Paralympic tickets could only Olympics is much more popular

than the Paralympics, Brazilians are left to do

in the day before, yes. The Olympics took a big risk coming

here to South America For the second great

sporting event of the summer the stakes are higher still,

and the fear is lasting damage could be done

to the Paralympic movement. Other news overshadowing the game 's

entire Mac and that is the case involving US swimmer Ryan Lochte. He

has apologised for his behaviour. He says he should have been more

responsible and how he handled this case. This involves that alleged

robbery that took place. Arriving home today to offer

swimmers caught up in a saga that almost threatens to eclipse

America's domination of the Olympic games. The dispute centred on what

they, Ryan Lochte, and a fourth summer, got up to after they left in

Rio nightclub on Sunday morning. Ryan Lochte Green tea had been held

up at gunpoint at CCTV footage showed a different story. It showed

the men arriving at eight Rio petrol station and leaving after

vandalising a toilet. A gun was pulled on them not by a robber but

by a security guard demanding compensation for the damage. Ryan

Lochte with Brazil shortly after the men returned to the Olympic village,

leaving another man to carry the can. He has now agreed to pay

$11,000 in the hope of getting his passport back. TRANSLATION: During

the time they were at the gas station there was nothing that could

have led them to think they were victims of a robbery, no indication

of any sort of violence. Ryan Lochte has now apologised for his actions.

He said he should have been more careful and candid and had learned

valuable lessons. It was an apology that Olympic organisers and

Brazilian officials had been waiting for. We are glad of the apology. We

welcome it. It is appropriate. We hope we can carry on as we have

been, concentrating on the sport which has been marvellous. US

Olympic officials have also apologised for the incident. It will

be up to them to decide whether Ryan Lochte and his team-mate should be

punished for bringing about this unseemly saga.

Wet as focus on some sports. Some results. The USA have won against

Italy, 12-5, in the women's water polo final, getting big old fear.

Russia have won a bronze against Hungary women's football, Brazil

have been defeated by Canada. To -- the final will be between Sweden and

Germany. The women's hockey final, Team GB will take on the

Netherlands. 22 gold medals up for grabs including one tonight behind

me. Usain Bolt in the four by 100 relay final, he will dry to get his

third Olympic gold in Rio. We will be following that very closely.

Thank you. So let's see where things stand

in the medal table as we enter Day There has been some movement in the

last couple of hours. The United States is still leading

the pack, they've now hit the 100 medal mark -

that includes 35 golds. They're followed by Great Britain

in second place with 23 gold medals. China, Russia and Germany make up

the rest of the top five. Republican presidential nominee

Donald Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort has resigned just two

months after taking the job. His departure comes after documents

allegedly linked him to suspected corruption in Ukraine -

which he denies. Niall Stanage, Associate Editor with

US political newspaper, The Hill. You do not start messing about with

your campaign team at this point. And a previous member of the team

was pushed out. This adds to the chaos of the campaign. Paul Manafort

has worked with George Bush senior, Bob Dole, he is seen as a long-time

Republican operative and is credited with stealing the Donald Trump

campaign towards a more conventional style. Does his departure mean we

will see a return to the original way that Donald Trump started out,

with a brash and unconventional approach. That is conventional

wisdom in Washington. The man who has replaced Paul Manafort is an

executive with a very conservative, very hard charging news

organisation. The feeling here is that Donald Trump felt that Paul

Manafort was trying to constrain him too much. This is a return to the

idea of letting Donald Trump be Donald Trump. Whether it works or

not is another matter. Has anybody said anything about Paul Manafort's

exact reasons for leaving the team? Not really. There are a combination

of factors. There is that you clean issue which you mentioned. There is

also the fact that once the new people were brought on board it

seems like Paul Manafort was being sidelined. Initially he said that he

was going to continue in the campaign, he was going to offer some

long-term vision for the campaign. That that does not appear to be the

case. His responsibilities were essentially taken away from him. The

other surprising thing is how quickly he left. He only joined two

months ago. Yes, that is quite a short tenure. The schools to the

centre of Donald Trump and his campaign, apparently oscillating

between running a very free form improvisational outsiders campaign,

and trying to do something more conventional. Paul Manafort was

identified with the more conventional approach. Note Donald

Trump seems to have decided that was not working for him so he is

returning to his original stance. You mentioned the two new additions

to the team. What more do we know about them and their background?

Steve Bannon is an executive in Washington. He is independently

wealthy. He is connected with quite hardline conservative circles here.

He is also a film maker. He made a flattering documentary.

Kelly and Connolly is primarily a pollster, but now she will be

serving as Donald Trump's campaign manager. She has worked with other

fixtures of the Republican Party. She is perceived as specialising in

making the Republican message more appealing to women. Female voters

have been a lack of support for Donald Trump.

The north Eastern city, the Syrian regime says fighting broke out after

eight militia tried to take control of the city. The battle marks one of

the deadliest between the Syrian Government and a key US ally. Stay

with us. Still to come. We are back in Rio looking at the Art and

capturing that perfect photo on the athletics track.

Dexter Neal, who was three years old, died after being attacked by a

dog. A 29-year-old woman has been arrested. A reporter has been

following developments. The attack was yesterday. Emergency services

were cold. An air ambulance took the boy away but he died later in

hospital. Dexter Neal was from a street just around the corner. It

would seem that he was perhaps a neighbour but police are not

confirming any more details as to exactly who lived here, nor who the

woman was arrested here for allowing a dog to be dangerously out of

control. These are the latest headlines. Time

that's Paralympic games are to be scaled back because of low ticket

sales and a lack of sponsorship. US Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte has

apologised for false claims that he was robbed at gunpoint, saying he

should have been more careful and candid.

We've seen how banning burkinis on beaches in Cannes re-ignited

the debate across France about what is acceptable

On Friday Nice became the latest French resort to ban the full body

Now Germany's interior minister has suggested something similar

The proposal would prevent anyone from wearing a face covering

in schools, universities, nurseries, public offices or while driving.

Thank you for speaking to us. Why do you think this debate is happening

now? For the past year the atmosphere in Germany has become

tense in regard to Muslims. We have had debates around the burqa for

many years. As public intellectuals who stand for multicultural bar use,

-- this is about eight more general topic. The direct of Islamism, it is

being reduced to one topic and they come up with a populist way of

treating this topic which is making it impossible to tackle the reality

we live in, the complex reality we live in. Let me put to you what the

German interior minister says, he says it is about social cohesion, he

said showing the face in public was essential to that. He is talking

about a partial ban in places like schools and universities and public

offices. What do you say to his suggestion

that it is sit -- that it is essential to social cohesion to show

one's face? There are only a small number of women who where the face

feel. I do not defend the face veal but I am worried about why we're

having discussion now. -- the face veil. Why do we now have to discuss

this piece of fabric? It is about gaining votes from the far right.

The local elections have shown as that the AfD has risen and there are

a large and of people who have become quite in the views and who

are afraid of Muslims and they are trying to gain these voters. The

voice we need at this moment in Germany would be a strong voice to

see society is complex but we will be able to tackle this complexity.

There are no easy answers to the problems we face and today's world

but we will be able to deliver complex answers. Whoever gives easy

answers to complex problems is being applauded. But this is not how

society works and this is not how we will be able to live in a

multicultural society in peace with tolerance. It is not a sustainable

way. Some of the day 's other news now.

Now a look at some of the day's other news.

The governor of the US state of Florida has confirmed

that there is a new area of Zika virus transmission.

Governor Rick Scott said five cases of local Zika transmission had been

found in the Miami Beach area, popular with tourists.

One person is a resident of New York, one person as a resident of

Texas. Three of these people travelled to me a mere. The

Department of Health B active transmissions of this virus are only

coming in the areas of meandering beach between eight and Twenty St,

an area just under 1.5 miles. Police in Mexico have been accused

of executing 22 people during a raid on a drug

cartel last year. The government's human rights body

has been investigating the clash, which happened on a ranch

in the Western state A total of 42 suspected members

of a drug cartel died, 25 years ago communist hardliners

attempted a coup against the Soviet Within three days the coup had

collapsed - and a few months later, Nowadays there seems to be growing

nostalgia for the USSR. Our Moscow correspondent

Steve Rosenberg reports from the Town of Yegoryevsk

80 kilometres from There are many streets

in Russia like this one - named after a country

that no longer exists. In Yegoryevsk, Soviet

Street has a church. Communism had tried

to destroy Russians' faith. But here is the paradox -

25 years after the failed coup that sparked the end

of communism, many Russians see "The USSR was a huge country

with many different peoples", Father Raman tells me,

"it pains us that first the Tsars and then our great grandfathers

worked hard to make this one nation Outside church, pensioners sell

fruits and vegetables from their gardens

to make ends meet. Lucia told me that she wants

to go back to the USSR. "I don't know what democracy

is," Lucia says. "What I do know is that today,

food prices keep rising and so do my gas,

electricity and water bills. Maybe that's what they

mean by democracy". Oleg, an engineer, was 11

when communist hard-liners tried to But it's Gorbachev he blames

for losing an empire. "I'm for a strong power", Oleg says,

"the kind of country The failed coup of 1991

was a watershed moment for Russia. It led directly to the fall

of the USSR, to the collapse Today, surveys show that Russians

are increasingly confused by what happened in August 1991,

by who was against who, by what it all meant, and many here,

even those who don't remember the Soviet Union, would

like to turn back the clock. At the Soviet Street amusement

park, the Soviet Union "It is a shame the USSR

collapsed," Yelena says, "in the Soviet Union,

children could go to summer camp It is a rose-tinted view of history

which today's Russian leaders do For a resurgent Russia craves not

only a glorious future Let us take you back to Rio.

Back at the Olympic Stadium, people are starting to come here, where we

send both could make this study going for his third gold medal. --

where Usian Bolt could make history. It was one of those feelings of, I

cannot believe that happened. I plan to use a small shutter speed, the

next thing was he looked directly at me, it made a special image. I was

shooting at a small shutter, I chose the 70 metre mark, I did not plan

for the reaction that some ten up in a split second, portrayed him as the

show man, the entertainer,. Did you think this would be one of the

symbols of this games? I am not sure about that but when I saw the big

grin and all the elements that when to make the picture what it is I

knew it would be one of those memorable ones that does not happen

often but when it does it is amazing. It is my favourite image I

have taken. I am proud I was able to share it with the world. It is a

good feeling. It may not ever happen again so I am enjoying it. Where are

you lucky? Definitely an element of luck. You create your own luck. A

lot of preparation and into track and field and coming back event.

Even though I think I know what he does, expect the unexpected with the

world's fastest man. Seeing him enjoying what he does, that is why

he resonates with the masses. He is a popular athlete. You have told me

that you also enjoyed the photo of the watcher Paul, the photo that was

taken during a competition. That was captured by a photographer

using a robotic camera underwater. It is almost like an artwork. It is

giving a different perspective. Thank you. You can find the latest

viewers -- you can find the latest news on the website. Thank you.

Goodbye. It's me feel more like autumn over

the next few days. This area of