:00:00. > :00:00.This is BBC World News Today with Geeta Guru Murthy.
:00:07. > :00:10.The International Olympic Committee is taking legal advice
:00:11. > :00:16.on whether it can ban the entire Russia team from the Rio Games.
:00:17. > :00:21.Will the Russian flag be flying at the Games after a damning report
:00:22. > :00:24.into widespread state-sponsored doping by Moscow?
:00:25. > :00:26.Sounds familiar - claims that Donald Trump's wife
:00:27. > :00:27.Melania lifted passages from Michelle Obama's
:00:28. > :00:43.To know that your achievements with the Hyatt of your dreams and your
:00:44. > :00:47.willingness to work hard from them. Also coming up, the German
:00:48. > :00:49.train axe attack - the so-called Islamic State group
:00:50. > :00:51.releases a video showing the teenager who carried out an axe
:00:52. > :00:54.attack aboard a train in Germany. American actress and Ghostbusters
:00:55. > :00:57.star Leslie Jones leaves Twitter after being flooded with racist
:00:58. > :01:14.abuse. With just three weeks to go
:01:15. > :01:18.until the Olympics in Rio, the International Olympic Committee
:01:19. > :01:20.is seeking urgent legal advice on the possibility of banning
:01:21. > :01:26.all Russian athletes from the games. It follows an independent report
:01:27. > :01:28.detailing a comprehensive state-run doping programme at the Winter
:01:29. > :01:33.olympics in Russia back in 2014. The IOC has ruled that all Russian
:01:34. > :01:36.athletes who competed in Sochi must now have their samples
:01:37. > :01:43.re-tested for doping. Russia's track and field athletes
:01:44. > :01:45.are already barred Our Moscow correspondent
:01:46. > :01:51.Steve Rosenberg has more. With little more than two
:01:52. > :01:55.weeks to go until Rio, we still don't know if there will be
:01:56. > :02:00.a Russian team at the Olympic Games. The world anti-doping agency says
:02:01. > :02:03.Russia should be kept away for systematically cheating
:02:04. > :02:05.in world sport through Today, the International
:02:06. > :02:11.Olympic Committee met The IOC says it will now explore
:02:12. > :02:17.legal options for a possible ban Not everyone outside
:02:18. > :02:24.Russia supports the idea. I think what primarily has to happen
:02:25. > :02:28.is we ought to look at those individual athletes who have been
:02:29. > :02:30.caught, ban those athletes, redistribute the medals,
:02:31. > :02:34.reorganise the medals table, but an outright ban of Russia,
:02:35. > :02:37.I don't think is the most Here in Russia, people we spoke
:02:38. > :02:45.to suspect foul play by the West. TRANSLATION: This is
:02:46. > :02:50.a plot by the Americans. There are no facts in
:02:51. > :02:54.the report, Tatiana says. Just trying to put pressure
:02:55. > :02:58.on Russia. They are on their marks
:02:59. > :03:01.and all set for Rio. But will any of these Russian
:03:02. > :03:03.swimmers be allowed This event outside Moscow
:03:04. > :03:08.was supposed to be a final run But right now, Rio was feeling
:03:09. > :03:14.a long way off. We train hard and put in the effort
:03:15. > :03:20.that the decision on whether we go to the Olympics
:03:21. > :03:22.does not depend on us. It is interesting that
:03:23. > :03:30.all around the swimming pool It is interesting that all around
:03:31. > :03:33.the swimming pool are these This one says only you bear
:03:34. > :03:36.responsibility for doping getting into your body and here it says
:03:37. > :03:40.don't drink from unchecked sources, don't accept a glass of water,
:03:41. > :03:45.even from one of your team members, and down at the bottom,
:03:46. > :03:47.don't listen to all the advice, The decision to ban the entire
:03:48. > :03:54.Russian Olympic team would be a personal blow to President Putin
:03:55. > :03:59.who likes to be seen as the most sports-friendly leader
:04:00. > :04:03.Russia has ever had. The Kremlin leader has brought major
:04:04. > :04:06.international sporting events to Russia and achieving sporting
:04:07. > :04:10.success has been a priority. Russia has been called a cheat
:04:11. > :04:17.and risks being excluded from the biggest sporting
:04:18. > :04:26.event in the world. It should all have been about him -
:04:27. > :04:29.but it was Donald Trump's wife who took centre stage on the first
:04:30. > :04:32.day of the Republican Mr Trump says he's "very proud"
:04:33. > :04:39.of the speech given by his wife Melania,
:04:40. > :04:41.despite claims the aspiring First Lady plagiarised whole
:04:42. > :04:43.passages from one by Michelle Obama. Our North American Editor Jon Sopel
:04:44. > :04:51.reports. The entrance of Donald Trump
:04:52. > :04:55.was like something out of a sci-fi movie but by the end of the evening,
:04:56. > :04:59.it had become a horror show. The next first lady
:05:00. > :05:04.of the United States. Mr John's only role
:05:05. > :05:06.was to introduced his Slovenian born But some of it, well,
:05:07. > :05:18.had a bit of a familiar ring to a speech Michelle Obama gave
:05:19. > :05:21.when she was hoping to be First Your word is your bond and you do
:05:22. > :05:26.what you say and keep your promise. That you will treat
:05:27. > :05:28.people with respect. That your word is your bond,
:05:29. > :05:32.that you do what you say you are going to do,
:05:33. > :05:34.that you treat people The only limit to your achievements
:05:35. > :05:42.is the strength of your dreams and your willingness
:05:43. > :05:47.to work for them. The only limit to the height
:05:48. > :05:50.of your achievements as they reach of your dreams and your willingness
:05:51. > :05:54.to work hard for them. Last night's convention
:05:55. > :05:56.hall triumph is today's public With Melania Trump the butt of
:05:57. > :06:05.Walsall 's of jokes on social media. You know the sort of thing,
:06:06. > :06:09.I'd like to thank my speech But this isn't about Melania Trump,
:06:10. > :06:13.it is about the perception of a Trump campaign
:06:14. > :06:15.that is chaotic and dysfunctional. And as a result, the
:06:16. > :06:19.recriminations are flying. A question I put to Dr Ben Carson,
:06:20. > :06:25.former presidential hopeful and now If they were verbatim,
:06:26. > :06:28.then the speech Not kicked but perhaps
:06:29. > :06:35.re-educated. First of all, you have
:06:36. > :06:41.to prove they were verbatim. But let's end with a bit more
:06:42. > :06:49.Melania Trump that definitely wasn't plagiarised, but now is seems
:06:50. > :06:53.strangely prophetic. It would not be a Trump contest
:06:54. > :06:59.without excitement and drama. But it was drama the Republican
:07:00. > :07:02.party was hoping to do Britain's new Foreign Secretary,
:07:03. > :07:13.Boris Johnson, has said it would take him too long to apologise
:07:14. > :07:15.individually to every person he insulted before he took
:07:16. > :07:22.up the post last week. At a joint press conference
:07:23. > :07:25.with his US counterpart, John Kerry, aimed to hold a joint
:07:26. > :07:29.face of diplomacy. Have you ever come across anybody
:07:30. > :07:39.quite like Boris Johnson? Our ambassador to the EU in Brussels
:07:40. > :07:42.who I just spent the evening with the other night had
:07:43. > :07:44.the privilege of going to Oxford And, in fact, Boris Johnson got him
:07:45. > :07:51.to come in to the Oxford union of which Boris was president
:07:52. > :07:53.and talk to me about that they had together
:07:54. > :07:57.there and he told me that this man That is the Boris Johnson I intend
:07:58. > :08:17.to work with and we intend to make But the questions about Mt Johnson's
:08:18. > :08:27.past undiplomatic comments on world leaders kept on coming,
:08:28. > :08:31.particularly from American journalists regarding his past
:08:32. > :08:46.comments on President Obama. You have accused the current US
:08:47. > :08:50.President of harbouring a part Kenyan's ancestral dislike for the
:08:51. > :08:54.British Empire. While claiming untruthfully at the time that he did
:08:55. > :09:03.not want a Churchill bust in the White House. He described a possible
:09:04. > :09:08.future US president Hillary Clinton, like a sadistic nurse in a mental
:09:09. > :09:14.hospital. You have also likened her to Lady Macbeth. Do you take these
:09:15. > :09:22.comments back? Thank you for giving me an opportunity to repeat a point
:09:23. > :09:25.I made earlier on. I am afraid that there is such a rich thesaurus of
:09:26. > :09:27.things I have said that have been one way or another through what
:09:28. > :09:31.alchemy I do not know... The journalist and author Quentin
:09:32. > :09:42.Letts is in Westminster now. It was extraordinary to watch. What
:09:43. > :09:45.was it like to be there? For those of us who have been to lots of Boris
:09:46. > :09:49.events, it was that extraordinary because that is the way he is. Epic
:09:50. > :09:57.the world will have some fun getting to know them. -- know him. In
:09:58. > :10:02.Britain he is regarded as not necessarily the most sombre at all
:10:03. > :10:05.serious politician, he is a bit of a comedian and that is why it has been
:10:06. > :10:09.rather electrifying that he has been given the job of Foreign Secretary
:10:10. > :10:14.in charge of our diplomacy. A rude man in charge of diplomacy! Betting
:10:15. > :10:21.it will work and this is why. Today, standing alongside John Kerry, Boris
:10:22. > :10:26.Festival looked reasonably at home, but also be heeded the near
:10:27. > :10:31.impossible and he made Mr Kerry look farm. Mr Kerry came to life in
:10:32. > :10:37.Boris's company. He is not normally a man to be very exciting. Yet the
:10:38. > :10:41.two of them had a certain chemistry and this is the answer with Boris,
:10:42. > :10:46.he does at the certain of human outreach all of his own making. As a
:10:47. > :10:51.result the press conference was quite interesting in a way you don't
:10:52. > :10:56.often get in high diplomacy. He was also accused of telling lies. Do we
:10:57. > :11:00.really want a Foreign Office minister very high office of State
:11:01. > :11:06.at a time of mass global crisis who is seen as a joke? Don't be so
:11:07. > :11:11.pompous. A politician who tells lies? This is no do happen! It is
:11:12. > :11:16.not necessarily the first time a politician may have told a few
:11:17. > :11:20.porkies, let's be honest. Boris is able to brush off these things in a
:11:21. > :11:24.way perhaps other politicians cannot. That was true possibly when
:11:25. > :11:29.he was mayor, when he frag did not have much power. But Foreign
:11:30. > :11:34.Secretary at a time when we have Iraq, Syria, the Middle East, China
:11:35. > :11:38.and Russia as potential rising powers, went other countries be
:11:39. > :11:43.utterly baffled when they look at this and think what kind of message
:11:44. > :11:46.is Theresa May is sending to the rest of the world? That she'd just
:11:47. > :11:52.not take Britain's foreign policy positions seriously? I think you can
:11:53. > :11:56.approach this with a surfeit of seriousness. These are jolly serious
:11:57. > :12:01.issues but as Boris Johnson was able to stay when he was asked about
:12:02. > :12:05.these things by reporters, he was able to say, look, I've said a few
:12:06. > :12:12.things in the past but there are more serious things to talk about.
:12:13. > :12:16.Syria, Yemen, and tonight he is having meetings with ministers from
:12:17. > :12:23.the UEA and Saudi Arabia. He was able to play that more serious thing
:12:24. > :12:27.you are trying to do, but do not discount the importance in diplomacy
:12:28. > :12:31.and politics of the public in whatever country it is actually
:12:32. > :12:39.plugging in an being interested by the person who is talking. Boris has
:12:40. > :12:43.got away with a lot in the past because he is able to use is very
:12:44. > :12:50.particular brand of humour. But we are at such a difficult time now. He
:12:51. > :12:58.went straight into his job with the turkey Q and the Nice attacks. He
:12:59. > :13:05.has to be able to carry very senior diplomats, carry messages that
:13:06. > :13:09.governments will trust and we're doing deals. Is he really the man
:13:10. > :13:13.for the job? Is Theresa May giving him enough rope and hoping he will
:13:14. > :13:19.hang? And think that is a rather trite misreading of it. If you look
:13:20. > :13:27.at how he responded to that terrible attack in Nice. I thought he respond
:13:28. > :13:32.with dignity. The words he used words sufficiently interesting to
:13:33. > :13:35.make his comments sound genuine. There is a danger with politicians
:13:36. > :13:39.that they trot out the old cliches and people switch off and say, yeah,
:13:40. > :13:43.we've heard it all before. But Boris is able to use words in an
:13:44. > :13:49.interesting way and he does it with sufficient novelty that people look
:13:50. > :13:52.at it and may connect their bit. This is rather radical, this is a
:13:53. > :13:58.new approach to international diplomacy. Which other foreign
:13:59. > :14:02.leaders may be interesting to see him alongside in the coming months
:14:03. > :14:14.and what are your thoughts about tomorrow's meeting after Reza may
:14:15. > :14:20.and Angela Merkel? Theresa May. Both very serious women. I was thinking
:14:21. > :14:24.what would happen when Boris goes to the Vatican to meet the Pope. That
:14:25. > :14:30.will be a whole new scenario and will be joyous to behold!
:14:31. > :14:32.The so-called Islamic State group has released a video that shows
:14:33. > :14:35.the teenager who carried out an axe attack in Germany yesterday.
:14:36. > :14:38.The 17 year old Afghan immigrant who carried it out was shot dead
:14:39. > :14:41.Four people were injured, three seriously.
:14:42. > :14:48.This is where the 17-year-old decided to strike, there were around
:14:49. > :14:51.30 passengers on board the train when he pulled out
:14:52. > :14:56.The scene was so gruesome that one passenger likened the inside of
:14:57. > :15:04.Among the injured, four members of the same family from Hong Kong.
:15:05. > :15:10.The emergency services spent hours at the scene, many passengers
:15:11. > :15:14.The attacker ran from the train when it stopped.
:15:15. > :15:20.He was still using his weapons when the police shot him.
:15:21. > :15:23.TRANSLATION: We were lucky that by chance we had some special police
:15:24. > :15:26.forces in the area who then chased the perpetrator.
:15:27. > :15:28.He was stopped and then he attacked a policeman.
:15:29. > :15:30.There was no other option but to shoot.
:15:31. > :15:34.After recovering his body, officials described him as an Afghan
:15:35. > :15:36.asylum seeker who came to Germany two years ago.
:15:37. > :15:42.He was living with a foster family nearby.
:15:43. > :15:45.Police say they found a hand-painted of flag of the so-called
:15:46. > :15:49.TRANSLATION: Naturally, given the background
:15:50. > :15:53.of what the attacker said yesterday on the train and when getting off
:15:54. > :15:56.the carriage, calling 'Allahu Akbar', this is the first
:15:57. > :16:02.suggestion that it could be a politically motivated deed.
:16:03. > :16:04.The prosecutor said the attack could have been prompted
:16:05. > :16:10.TRANSLATION: On Saturday before the attack, he received the news
:16:11. > :16:18.that a friend of his had been killed in Afghanistan.
:16:19. > :16:22.IS has released a video in which it names the man as Mohammed Riyadh.
:16:23. > :16:25.Brandishing a knife, he describes himself
:16:26. > :16:31.as an IS soldier preparing for a suicide mission.
:16:32. > :16:33.Last year, Germany welcomed more than 1 million migrants,
:16:34. > :16:37.The fact the attack in Bavaria was carried out by a young
:16:38. > :16:38.unaccompanied refugee has triggered further
:16:39. > :16:41.debate on how best to deal with the migrant crisis.
:16:42. > :16:44.As his home is searched, the police are trying to find out
:16:45. > :16:46.more information that would help explain what shaped
:16:47. > :16:54.How to keep people safe is the big challenge because it is hard to stop
:16:55. > :16:59.one person who is hell bent on causing bloodshed.
:17:00. > :17:02.Now a look at some of the days other news.
:17:03. > :17:05.Here in the UK, Angela Eagle has pulled out of the Labour
:17:06. > :17:09.She has stepped aside in favour of the only other candidate standing
:17:10. > :17:12.against the current leader Jeremy Corbyn.
:17:13. > :17:15.Owen Smith is Labour's former work and pensions secretary and now hopes
:17:16. > :17:22.A Brazilian judge has ordered wireless phone carriers to block
:17:23. > :17:24.access to WhatsApp indefinitely, starting on Tuesday.
:17:25. > :17:28.It's the third such incident against the popular phone messaging
:17:29. > :17:34.The reason for the order was is not known due to legal secrecy
:17:35. > :17:39.The International Monetary Fund says the British referendum vote to leave
:17:40. > :17:42.the European Union has depressed the world economic outlook.
:17:43. > :17:45.In a new report, the IMF has downgraded its forecast for global
:17:46. > :17:55.growth to three point one per cent this year and three
:17:56. > :17:58.point four in 2017 - a slight reduction -
:17:59. > :18:07.but admits it's still early to be certain.
:18:08. > :18:09.Well the repercussions of Brexit are being felt in other areas.
:18:10. > :18:12.It appears the vote to leave is already having a negative
:18:13. > :18:15.Scientists have told the BBC they are now being excluded
:18:16. > :18:19.from research projects paid for by the EU and are having to cut
:18:20. > :18:22.Our Science Correspondent Pallab Ghosh takes a closer look.
:18:23. > :18:27.British science was one of the biggest winners from member
:18:28. > :18:30.ownership of the European Union - receiving ?850 million a year.
:18:31. > :18:34.Now within weeks of the referendum, there is evidence that the money
:18:35. > :18:41.Nick Wright had planned to work alongside other European scientists
:18:42. > :18:55.on a number of projects to discover how stars form.
:18:56. > :19:02.Now, they don't want to include him because they think
:19:03. > :19:04.they won't get European funding if a British academic is involved.
:19:05. > :19:07.We are going to start to be frozen out of big projects,
:19:08. > :19:11.We will find that our collaborative in Europe are looking elsewhere
:19:12. > :19:13.for people to collaborate with them that might mean we're not
:19:14. > :19:15.at the table when big discoveries are made.
:19:16. > :19:17.This small engineering company depends on European Union money.
:19:18. > :19:20.Their latest project is to improve rocket thrusters for
:19:21. > :19:23.The firm has received grants from the European Union
:19:24. > :19:25.scientific research fund, called Horizon 2020, for decades.
:19:26. > :19:28.But following the referendum, they will have to cut two jobs.
:19:29. > :19:32.There is no more money in the pipeline.
:19:33. > :19:40.Interest from partners, European partners, for involving us
:19:41. > :19:49.Well, scientific research creates hundreds of thousands of jobs,
:19:50. > :19:52.but what is more important is that highly skilled workforce attracts
:19:53. > :19:54.some of the biggest and best companies in the world
:19:55. > :20:05.and they employ millions of people all across the country.
:20:06. > :20:07.The European Research Council which funds projects throughout
:20:08. > :20:18.And that until then European law still applied, meaning British
:20:19. > :20:25.The message today from all seven of the UK's national scientific,
:20:26. > :20:28.engineering and medical academies is that Brexit is already
:20:29. > :20:38.I think there is a danger that the scientific enterprise here
:20:39. > :20:41.will suffer and if that does happen, then it will affect our future
:20:42. > :20:54.The government says it will do all it can to ensure that grant
:20:55. > :20:56.applications are considered fairly, but until there is a clear post
:20:57. > :21:05.Brexit plan, British scientists are likely to lose out.
:21:06. > :21:09.The crackdown against supposed opponents of the Turkish president
:21:10. > :21:27.has now engulfed the education establishment in Turkey.
:21:28. > :21:29.Thousands of soldiers, police and judiciary have
:21:30. > :21:31.Today the purge moved to the education sector,
:21:32. > :21:34.with 21 thousand teachers suspended and 15 hundred university
:21:35. > :21:37.TV and radio stations reported to have connections
:21:38. > :21:38.with the movement founded by the US-based preacher,
:21:39. > :21:40.Fethullah Gulen have also had their licenses revoked.
:21:41. > :21:43.The BBC's Selin Girit says the scale of the crackdown has raised
:21:44. > :21:46.One, whether the coup attempt had actually
:21:47. > :21:49.bureaucracy, within the police force, the army, than initially
:21:50. > :21:52.Secondly, if these people are all supporting Gulenist
:21:53. > :21:56.movement, as the government suggests, how in the first place
:21:57. > :21:59.they were able to infiltrate in such numbers into such significant
:22:00. > :22:06.positions within the state bureaucracy and police force, and
:22:07. > :22:13.the army, and thirdly, the question is whether Mr Erdogan and the
:22:14. > :22:16.government is using this oppression of the coup attempt as an
:22:17. > :22:24.opportunity to further enhance their powers.
:22:25. > :22:27.American actress Leslie Jones, says she is leaving Twitter
:22:28. > :22:29.with 'tears and a sad heart' after being flooded
:22:30. > :22:35.The star of the new Ghostbusters film has shared some of the abusive
:22:36. > :22:38.tweets she's been sent, following the release of the film.
:22:39. > :22:49.She's accused Twitter of not doing enough to deal with online trolls.
:22:50. > :22:51.With me now is our entertainment reporter Steve Holden
:22:52. > :23:01.What is this a film? She is in a remake of Ghostbusters that was made
:23:02. > :23:05.in the 80s. The difference is that it is an all female cast. In the
:23:06. > :23:09.run-up to the film being released there was already some hate towards
:23:10. > :23:14.the film because the rules have been filled by women. She has outlined
:23:15. > :23:17.the scale of racist and misogynistic abuse she has received since
:23:18. > :23:23.appearing in the film. What tweets has she received? She has been
:23:24. > :23:27.compared to a gorilla, abusive tweets left right and centre and she
:23:28. > :23:30.is very personally explained how she is feeling talking about her
:23:31. > :23:34.personal hell, how she has tears in her eyes, how Twitter is not doing
:23:35. > :23:38.enough to report and block these people that are sending her the
:23:39. > :23:42.abuse. I'm astonished this is happening now in this day and age.
:23:43. > :23:48.It is absolutely incredible. The scale of it is amazing. It really
:23:49. > :23:52.is. Abuse on Twitter has been going on for years but she seems to have
:23:53. > :23:58.taken it to another level and so much so that the CEO of twitter sent
:23:59. > :24:03.her a message personally saying can you direct message me? And Twitter
:24:04. > :24:08.put out a statement saying they have taken down some of the accounts that
:24:09. > :24:13.had abused Leslie Jones, but ultimately, Twitter is a service
:24:14. > :24:17.that relies on a community. They urged people to report accounts that
:24:18. > :24:22.put forward this abuse because they can't monitor however many million
:24:23. > :24:27.accounts every day. There is a call, and urgency, for Twitter to do more.
:24:28. > :24:31.It says it is investing in more to prevent abuse from happening in the
:24:32. > :24:35.first place. Leslie Jones has really kicked the starting gun to escalate
:24:36. > :24:39.this and make twitter sit up and take notice and do something very
:24:40. > :24:45.soon. Have other actors and actresses face similar problems? She
:24:46. > :24:49.has come off twitter, she says. Yes, gay actors, female actors, black
:24:50. > :24:52.actors, any kind of famous person gets abuse on twitter because the
:24:53. > :24:58.person who is abusing does not have to reveal their name or face and it
:24:59. > :25:07.is all very secretive. Lena Dunn, the star of a TV show called Girls
:25:08. > :25:11.has highlighted the abuse she received in the past. With Leslie
:25:12. > :25:20.Jones, it has been taken up a notch because it is horrific. Anyone who
:25:21. > :25:23.has any kind of abusive message, it can be very upsetting, but can the
:25:24. > :25:27.social media agencies do more? Because it seems like so many of our
:25:28. > :25:32.countries are becoming ungovernable, never mind all this abuse simply
:25:33. > :25:38.because of social media. I know it is a massive question! I think that
:25:39. > :25:42.is the million dollar question. You can text off twitter but then they
:25:43. > :25:48.get a new e-mail address and set up a new account and the abuse
:25:49. > :25:49.continues. Is very difficult. Anti-social media, as my
:25:50. > :26:09.ten-year-old Dub said. I am on twitter, but send me
:26:10. > :26:10.Today has easily been the hottest day of