:00:16. > :00:18.This is BBC World News Today with me Philippa Thomas.
:00:19. > :00:20.The headlines, the World Anti-Doping Agency calls
:00:21. > :00:22.for Russia to be suspended from all athletics competitions.
:00:23. > :00:24.That ban could include next year's Rio Olympics.
:00:25. > :00:27.Investigators say there was widespread doping that must have
:00:28. > :00:49.happened with the approval of the Russian authorities.
:00:50. > :01:02.Our sport has to be clean, has to be seen to be clean at all times. You
:01:03. > :01:03.do whatever you possibly can to do that.
:01:04. > :01:05.The head of the German Football Association resigns
:01:06. > :01:08.amid a widening scandal about the awarding of the 2006 World Cup.
:01:09. > :01:10.Aung San Suu Kyi is confident of victory in Myanmar's
:01:11. > :01:12.parliamentary elections after sweeping gains in early results.
:01:13. > :01:16.A warning the climate is moving into unchartered territory
:01:17. > :01:29.Hello and welcome. Our main news, the hard-hitting report from the
:01:30. > :01:31.world anti-doping agency which found widespread doping abuses by Russian
:01:32. > :01:37.athletes and inaction by the IAAF. The world anti-doping agency says
:01:38. > :01:39.Russia should be suspended from athletics competition,
:01:40. > :01:50.including next year's Olympics, It accuses the Russian government of
:01:51. > :01:57.complicity in a state supported doping programme. The former British
:01:58. > :02:01.athlete, Sebastian Kehl, who now leads the IAAF, says the process of
:02:02. > :02:04.considering sanctions against Russia has started and he has given was go
:02:05. > :02:07.until the end of the week to respond. Russian officials have
:02:08. > :02:11.rejected the claims as baseless. Here's our sports correspondent
:02:12. > :02:23.Richard Conway with more details. Investigators say that athletics is
:02:24. > :02:26.in a deep crisis. Russian athletes were the subject of widespread,
:02:27. > :02:31.state sponsored doping. It is worse than we thought. We found cover-ups,
:02:32. > :02:37.we find destruction of samples and the Bora Bora trees, we found
:02:38. > :02:43.payments of money to conceal doping tests. The panel say they found some
:02:44. > :02:46.nasty surprises during the course of their investigation and make some
:02:47. > :02:51.specific recommendations, such as calling for five athletes and five
:02:52. > :02:56.coaches to get lifetime doping bans. The report also identifies systemic
:02:57. > :03:01.failures that prevents an effective anti-doping programme. And it states
:03:02. > :03:06.the London 2012 Olympics were sabotaged by the widespread in
:03:07. > :03:11.action against Russian athletes. It is quite saddening to find out that
:03:12. > :03:17.that is the level of doping that was going on but let's not take away
:03:18. > :03:21.from the position that the IAAF and the accusation that people have been
:03:22. > :03:25.compliant in allowing it to go on and may or may not have allegedly
:03:26. > :03:32.taking bribes in order to turn a blind eye to what was going on. It's
:03:33. > :03:36.incredibly disappointing. In addition, the commissioners say
:03:37. > :03:39.Russian secret police infiltrated doping laboratories in Moscow and
:03:40. > :03:47.that the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014. Their report also details how
:03:48. > :03:51.over 1400 lab samples were destroyed in Moscow, just three days prior to
:03:52. > :03:55.an audit by the world anti-doping agency. Their recommendations they
:03:56. > :03:59.believe now must be augmented if Russia is to be rehabilitated. Our
:04:00. > :04:04.recommendation is that the Russian Federation be suspended. One of our
:04:05. > :04:08.hopes is that they will volunteer that so they can undertake the
:04:09. > :04:15.remedial work in time to make sure that Russian athletes can compete
:04:16. > :04:22.under a new framework, if you like. If they don't, then it has to to
:04:23. > :04:29.play itself out and the outcome may be that there are no Russian track
:04:30. > :04:32.and field athletes in Rio. Journalists who have investigated
:04:33. > :04:37.the country say medals may have been wrongly awarded. In August, we did
:04:38. > :04:43.write about those files and they did show widespread cheating in
:04:44. > :04:47.athletics, something like 55 gold medals were won at Olympics and
:04:48. > :04:51.World Championships by athletes who were cheating. A lot of them were
:04:52. > :04:55.Russian but there were all sorts of other nationalities as well. The
:04:56. > :04:59.IAAF, which is already wrestling with allegations of a high-level
:05:00. > :05:02.cover-up, will now consider what sanctions to take against Russia.
:05:03. > :05:09.But they say the suspension of one of the world's athletic superpowers
:05:10. > :05:17.could now be implemented. Let's bring you more with the president of
:05:18. > :05:22.the IAAF. We have to go through a process and there is a legal process
:05:23. > :05:26.as well. I sought the approval of my colleagues. I got that within
:05:27. > :05:31.minutes this afternoon. I have asked the Russian Federation to report
:05:32. > :05:34.within the next 24, 48 hours and by Friday, depending upon what they say
:05:35. > :05:39.and on the basis that my council come together, then we will review
:05:40. > :05:45.that. I think this is very swift. It's urgent. You told the BBC
:05:46. > :05:48.yesterday that your preferred option was engagement rather than isolation
:05:49. > :05:54.when it came to possible sanctions against countries. As your position
:05:55. > :05:57.therefore shifted? No, my instinct is always about engagement rather
:05:58. > :06:00.than isolation. I do genuinely believe you affect change by doing
:06:01. > :06:05.that but I also have to accept that the allegations that have been made
:06:06. > :06:10.today, the depth of those allegations and this is a 320 page
:06:11. > :06:15.report, we didn't get that report until you guys did, afterwards, so
:06:16. > :06:20.we are reviewing and absorbing that. If there are frailties within our
:06:21. > :06:24.anti-doping systems, I will fix them. If there are corporate
:06:25. > :06:26.governance is that should have been in place, particularly around
:06:27. > :06:32.criminal allegations made at the beginning of the week, we will fix
:06:33. > :06:39.those as well. What has been the reaction from
:06:40. > :06:50.Russia? The Russian head of athletics
:06:51. > :06:54.Association has already said that neither the International Olympic
:06:55. > :07:01.Committee nor another group can suspend Russia from the real index.
:07:02. > :07:05.Mostly, they say that they have not been wading for such massive
:07:06. > :07:10.allegations and as the general secretary of the Russian athletics
:07:11. > :07:16.Federation told us, it was quite a big surprise to hear such a massive
:07:17. > :07:23.allegation and they need time to analyse all of these accusations.
:07:24. > :07:30.Mostly, they say of course there could be blame upon some athletes.
:07:31. > :07:32.The former president of the Federation as well but not the whole
:07:33. > :07:36.team. They also saying the blame should be
:07:37. > :07:42.shared with other countries? Russia is not alone in this?
:07:43. > :07:48.Yes. Mostly, they say that it should be shared with the IAAF itself
:07:49. > :07:54.because of the bribery allegations. There has been the rest of the
:07:55. > :08:03.former president. Here also is from Federation, you know, there were
:08:04. > :08:11.some changes in... There is a new head of the Federation and they say
:08:12. > :08:15.there are changes and they are getting in a way of the anti-doping
:08:16. > :08:21.enquiries. They are also hoping to support investigations which we held
:08:22. > :08:27.after this report. The BBC's sports editor has been
:08:28. > :08:31.watching events unfold from Geneva. I asked him, in terms of sporting
:08:32. > :08:37.scandals, how big is this one? It is the worst doping scandal the
:08:38. > :08:42.sport has ever seen. I don't say that lightly. Sport is no stranger
:08:43. > :08:48.to controversy on scandal. If you think of Fever for example, the most
:08:49. > :08:54.obvious example in recent times. -- Fifa. It has been brought to its
:08:55. > :08:57.knees after years of corruption. Those allegations have been coming
:08:58. > :09:03.for years and intensifying in recent months. We have seen doping scandals
:09:04. > :09:07.in sport. High profile ones, systematic scandals like East
:09:08. > :09:12.Germany in the Cold War, when there seemed to be states Don Stud doping
:09:13. > :09:19.on a large scale. -- state-sponsored. Lance Armstrong as
:09:20. > :09:22.well, more recently, who eventually confessed to doping and received a
:09:23. > :09:29.life ban. That was another dreadful day for sport. The reason why this
:09:30. > :09:33.perhaps is more serious than any of those in the past was because it
:09:34. > :09:40.doesn't just involve cheating on a grand scale in Russia. The very
:09:41. > :09:44.people at the top of the sport, athletics's world governing body,
:09:45. > :09:48.the IAAF, stand accused of corruption and bribery. The
:09:49. > :09:53.suspicion is they blackmailed cheating athletes and agreed to
:09:54. > :09:57.cover up their doping in return for payment. I think it is that element
:09:58. > :10:01.of it, the fact they may have manipulated results on the track,
:10:02. > :10:05.they may have let down the very athletes, the clean competitors who
:10:06. > :10:10.they are meant to be protecting, that makes this such a shocking
:10:11. > :10:16.incident in sport and is surely the darkest day, that track and field,
:10:17. > :10:22.the signature sport of the Olympics, has ever seen.
:10:23. > :10:28.There have been a lot of reaction from high-profile athletes. Jenny
:10:29. > :10:31.Meadows says, always suspected it but finally, confirmation that the
:10:32. > :10:37.Russian athletics Federation have denied me of my finest moments of my
:10:38. > :10:42.career. Dixon, a marathon runner, has said, hate liars. Hate cheats.
:10:43. > :10:47.Hate dopers. Hate that my beautiful sport is being dragged through the
:10:48. > :10:51.mud. And New Zealand middle-distance runner, Nick Willis, said this,
:10:52. > :10:55.Russian athletes are not the sole perpetrators. Let's hope they
:10:56. > :10:58.investigate all the major complaint is non-complicit in doping control.
:10:59. > :11:00.Athletics isn't the only sport to be engulfed in scandal.
:11:01. > :11:01.Accusations of corruption have enveloped world
:11:02. > :11:07.The latest head to roll is that of the president German football
:11:08. > :11:13.Although he insists he's done nothing wrong, Mr Niersbach says
:11:14. > :11:17.he's taking what he called political responsibility for a $7 million
:11:18. > :11:19.payment to Fifa, allegedly used to pay bribes for supporting Germany's
:11:20. > :11:32.Damian McGuinness is in Berlin and has explained the background to
:11:33. > :11:37.this. When this scandal first broke in
:11:38. > :11:40.October, officials at the German football Association denied flat out
:11:41. > :11:44.that there was any wrongdoing. They said there had been no illegal
:11:45. > :11:50.payments, there was no slush fund. What then happened, over the last
:11:51. > :11:53.week, we have seen new allegations emerging. It has now become clear
:11:54. > :12:00.there have been payments which cannot be clarified. It is not clear
:12:01. > :12:10.why so much money has been paid Fifa. To this was then said it was a
:12:11. > :12:14.loan. Today, this man has now resigned, which effectively is an
:12:15. > :12:20.admission that something was not right. He said he had no knowledge
:12:21. > :12:23.of wrongdoing. He didn't know of any illegal payments. But that is not
:12:24. > :12:27.the same thing as no illegal payments happen. The reason he set
:12:28. > :12:32.down, he said, was because he wanted to make sure this is clarified. He
:12:33. > :12:35.doesn't want the German football Association damaged. He says that he
:12:36. > :12:38.is still not clear what exactly happened. There are a lot of
:12:39. > :12:42.questions that have to be answered. The allegations have not been
:12:43. > :12:47.confessed to. They haven't been proven. But there is certainly
:12:48. > :12:51.something going on which we don't know about. This is why the
:12:52. > :12:55.president has now resigned and an investigation will carry on. There
:12:56. > :13:00.is an allegation that Germany bought votes in order to be able to host
:13:01. > :13:04.the 2006 World Cup. It's a big allegation and a major one that they
:13:05. > :13:05.need to get to the bottom of, if it is not going to damage the German
:13:06. > :13:21.football industry. She was kept for 15 years under
:13:22. > :13:25.house arrest, has won the Nobel Peace Prize and now Aung San Suu Kyi
:13:26. > :13:28.may be about to make history. In Myanmar's first openly contested
:13:29. > :13:30.national election for a quarter of a century, her party says it
:13:31. > :13:33.expects to win by a landslide. It would be a remarkable feat
:13:34. > :13:37.for a woman who became one of the world's most prominent political
:13:38. > :13:39.prisoners, barred for so long from But even if, as is looking likely,
:13:40. > :13:43.her party wins, Aung San Suuu Kyi will be prevented
:13:44. > :13:49.from becoming president Only a small number of seats have
:13:50. > :13:51.been declared but this is the headquarters of the political party,
:13:52. > :13:55.the National League for democracy. People have been coming here to
:13:56. > :13:59.celebrate. They think that they have won a decisive victory in this
:14:00. > :14:02.election and everything that we have been able to find out in terms of
:14:03. > :14:06.speaking to people at polling stations and the few declared
:14:07. > :14:16.results that are coming through, do appear to suggest that it has won
:14:17. > :14:21.decisively. Large numbers of people coming here throughout the day, to
:14:22. > :14:27.dance and sing. Aung San Suu Kyi was also hear herself. It's pretty clear
:14:28. > :14:30.that the NLD are going to win the largest number of seats. The big
:14:31. > :14:34.question is whether they are going to get over the two thirds threshold
:14:35. > :14:38.because with the Army holding a quarter of the seats in parliament,
:14:39. > :14:40.they are going to need two thirds of all the contested seats
:14:41. > :14:45.they are going to need two thirds of have control of the destiny of the
:14:46. > :14:52.presidency. Certainly, then feeling amongst the people here is that they
:14:53. > :14:59.will manage to do it. NLD! Do you think you are going to win a
:15:00. > :15:06.majority? Yes. Totally. We are so happy. Not many results here but
:15:07. > :15:10.still pretty confident here. It does certainly, from this biased
:15:11. > :15:13.standpoint, that the NLD have done well. They have to wait a couple of
:15:14. > :15:20.days to find out just how well that is.
:15:21. > :15:24.The US has congratulated the people of my MR but George Ernest says more
:15:25. > :15:28.work is needed to bring about effective democracy there. He said
:15:29. > :15:32.it is too early to say whether US policy towards the country would
:15:33. > :15:42.change. It's already clear that and sang Suji has had a powerful voice
:15:43. > :15:48.in bringing about some much-needed reform and change to the political
:15:49. > :15:50.system inside Burma. Ultimately, what set of official
:15:51. > :15:53.responsibilities she will have will be the responsibility of the
:15:54. > :15:56.Pyrenees people and the Burmese government to determine.
:15:57. > :15:58.I'm joined now by Anna Roberts, Executive Director of
:15:59. > :16:00.Burma Campaign UK, which works for human rights, democracy
:16:01. > :16:11.How obviously, this is a day that you are celebrating but we should be
:16:12. > :16:17.clear that this doesn't mean a clean sweeping away of the military in
:16:18. > :16:23.power. They still hold a lot of influence. Of course it is a day to
:16:24. > :16:26.celebrate what is an anticipated landslide victory for the NLD and
:16:27. > :16:33.that is reason to celebrate but we do need to bear in mind and keep in
:16:34. > :16:36.context, what this election is happening. There is a military draft
:16:37. > :16:41.a constitution which means that the military will ultimately be more
:16:42. > :16:46.powerful than any future NLD government. An NLT government will
:16:47. > :16:50.be limited in what it is able to achieve. Very high expectations for
:16:51. > :16:54.change but the reality is, the opportunities for change will be
:16:55. > :17:00.limited for the future. That is if they are able to form a government.
:17:01. > :17:04.Given that, what will be their priority? There has been so much
:17:05. > :17:10.focus on and sang Cici get into power, having her voice. What
:17:11. > :17:13.difference would it make? The top priority for the National League for
:17:14. > :17:18.democracy has been to reform this constitution. This was brought in
:17:19. > :17:21.and drafted by the military dictatorship. They were in a
:17:22. > :17:25.situation where they wanted to have sanctions dropped, international
:17:26. > :17:30.pressure dropped. They wanted to move from their pariah status and
:17:31. > :17:34.they wanted to allow a hybrid form, with limited space for government
:17:35. > :17:39.but where it still retains ultimate power. That is what we are seeing
:17:40. > :17:45.today. Although the NLD government will want to amend the constitution,
:17:46. > :17:48.within that constitution is a guaranteed veto for the military if
:17:49. > :17:51.they don't want further change. It has been very clear so far that
:17:52. > :17:54.these are the military if they don't want further change. It has been
:17:55. > :17:57.very clear so far that these other red lines. The military does not
:17:58. > :18:01.want further democratic reform so they are preferred to see an NLD
:18:02. > :18:05.government with limited powers but the military will retain key powers.
:18:06. > :18:10.It will directly control the police, the army, the judiciary. So, in
:18:11. > :18:16.terms of human rights abuses, a future NLD government could find
:18:17. > :18:21.themselves powerless to prevent some of the worst human rights abuses. We
:18:22. > :18:24.could continue to see prisoners, attacks against ethnic people
:18:25. > :18:28.because these are beyond the control of the civilian government. These
:18:29. > :18:31.are issues where and sang Suji has been criticised, for example, not
:18:32. > :18:37.prioritising the plight of the Muslims which has pushed so many of
:18:38. > :18:41.them to take to water and to become refugees. She has come in for a lot
:18:42. > :18:47.of criticism in terms of her silence with the plight of the red hinge,
:18:48. > :18:51.who are an ethnic Muslim minority, suffering some of the worst human
:18:52. > :18:54.rights abuses of any group in the world. They have been
:18:55. > :18:57.disenfranchised from the selection. You have to remember there are
:18:58. > :19:00.millions of people in Burma who are not celebrating because they were
:19:01. > :19:07.not able to take part in the election this weekend. That includes
:19:08. > :19:12.these Muslims but also ethnic minorities as well. It is important
:19:13. > :19:17.to remember the group -- the root causes of who is causing these
:19:18. > :19:19.abuses and that is the military. Any future government will be
:19:20. > :19:25.constrained in terms of what they can do, if they have the will and
:19:26. > :19:31.the history of and sang Suji has not been altogether positive.
:19:32. > :19:36.We have to leave it there. Global average temperatures are set
:19:37. > :19:38.to cross a significant threshold this year,
:19:39. > :19:40.rising by one degree Centigrade since the Industrial Revolution
:19:41. > :19:43.according to the Met office. It says the Earth's climate is now
:19:44. > :19:56.moving into uncharted territory. Icebergs in the waters off
:19:57. > :20:01.Greenland. The Arctic is one of the fastest warming regions on the
:20:02. > :20:06.planet. The first sign, according to scientists, of the sort of changes
:20:07. > :20:12.climate change could bring. Today, news of another milestone. A news
:20:13. > :20:15.conference in London confirmed that the global average temperature has
:20:16. > :20:22.risen one Celsius over the past century. This is really forcing the
:20:23. > :20:25.scientific conclusion that as we increase carbon dioxide
:20:26. > :20:28.concentrations in the atmosphere, climate is going to warm. This is
:20:29. > :20:34.another piece of evidence that is right now. These latest figures show
:20:35. > :20:38.how much temperatures have risen since Victorian times and the heyday
:20:39. > :20:43.of the industrial revolution. This graph from the Met office tracks the
:20:44. > :20:48.global average from the period 1850 to 1900, sometimes at depths. More
:20:49. > :20:53.recently, it has been rising and it is now on the point of reaching a
:20:54. > :20:57.decrease of one Celsius. That is significant because it is halfway to
:20:58. > :21:03.the first 2 degrees threshold of warming which is widely accepted as
:21:04. > :21:07.safe. Even that will bring all kinds of impacts. More flooding is one
:21:08. > :21:13.possible effect and researchers say even what sounds like mild warming
:21:14. > :21:18.could prove very serious. A 2 degrees world would mean more
:21:19. > :21:22.floods, more heat waves, less land available for crops, more water
:21:23. > :21:26.stress and drying of areas we currently use for growing food. Even
:21:27. > :21:32.2 degrees will impact hundreds of millions of people. Violent skies
:21:33. > :21:37.earlier this year. Warm air can hold more moisture so rainstorms may well
:21:38. > :21:40.become more intense in future. There are, of course, a lot of
:21:41. > :21:46.uncertainties about how the climate may change. It feels like a long
:21:47. > :21:51.time ago now, but last summer in Britain saw the hottest July day
:21:52. > :21:58.ever. That doesn't prove anything on its own. Scientists say there is a
:21:59. > :22:05.pattern of rising temperatures. Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu
:22:06. > :22:09.say they have not given up on finding peace in the Middle East.
:22:10. > :22:12.The Israeli prime ministers arrived at the White House today, with
:22:13. > :22:18.protesters gathered outside. Both leaders were speaking for the first
:22:19. > :22:28.time since relations between the two countries deteriorated.
:22:29. > :22:33.Sierra Leone has been declared free of a bowler. Tying them for our
:22:34. > :22:36.global health correspondence to look at the impact of the outbreak,
:22:37. > :22:42.particularly on tourism which was just picking up after the Civil War
:22:43. > :22:45.when Ebola struck. The first Sunday of Arne Bowler free
:22:46. > :22:52.Sierra Leone. What better place to celebrate? This place is home to the
:22:53. > :23:01.country's only surf school but it has fallen on hard times. We used to
:23:02. > :23:05.get expat and international surfers but because of the Ebola, we don't
:23:06. > :23:14.have anything, no customers. Its three difficult because we need
:23:15. > :23:19.tourism and without tourism, there is no possibility for us to survive
:23:20. > :23:24.and everything will shut down. But for the first time since the
:23:25. > :23:29.outbreak started, the bus-load of intrepid travellers touring West
:23:30. > :23:33.Africa by road rolls onto the beach. Our members are not as good as in
:23:34. > :23:38.the past and I am sure the fear of a bowler is scaring a lot of people
:23:39. > :23:42.off. Tourism of Africa has been affected, even in countries miles
:23:43. > :23:46.from the outbreak. People really need tourists coming back because it
:23:47. > :23:50.is being held for them. What would you say to people who are really
:23:51. > :23:56.worried about coming here? They are still scared about a bowler. I would
:23:57. > :24:02.say, honestly, it's such a beautiful place and the people are so
:24:03. > :24:09.friendly. Hopefully it has passed for other now. From what I've seen,
:24:10. > :24:14.said DiMaggio. Don't be scared. It's well worth a visit. The traders are
:24:15. > :24:20.delighted to see tourists today but they know it will probably be a
:24:21. > :24:24.while before they seem more. Every business here was hit hard by the
:24:25. > :24:28.outbreak. These stalls have only just started opening again in the
:24:29. > :24:33.last few months but it is mainly international aid workers who are
:24:34. > :24:38.coming here. Soon, these people will leave and these market traders will
:24:39. > :24:41.lose their livelihoods. And their livelihoods support this village.
:24:42. > :24:49.Many here relied on money generated from tourism. This is the health
:24:50. > :24:53.centre you are building. Yes, this is the health centre. Martha Normand
:24:54. > :24:59.showed me what some of the cash had been being used for. I have not been
:25:00. > :25:05.able to finish it because we have no many as yet. We don't have money to
:25:06. > :25:11.complete it. No tourism. When people come to the beach, we will get some
:25:12. > :25:13.money. Sierra Leone wants to be known for this, its dazzling
:25:14. > :25:20.beaches, not a deadly disease. The Spanish Prime Minister has said
:25:21. > :25:23.he is ready to use all powers at his disposal to stop Catalonia breaking
:25:24. > :25:26.away from the rest of Spain. Speaking after Catalonia's regional
:25:27. > :25:28.parliament in Barcelona approved a resolution declaring
:25:29. > :25:30.independence, Mariano Rajoy said he would go to the Constitutional Court
:25:31. > :25:48.to challenge the move. Infrared scans point to a possible
:25:49. > :25:52.secret chamber behind the wall of Tutankhamen's team. The analysis
:25:53. > :25:58.shows an area of the North Wall which is warmer than the rest and
:25:59. > :26:00.that could suggest an open space. That is all. Thanks very much for
:26:01. > :26:03.being with us.