24/07/2016 World News Today

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There's no blanket ban on Russia's athletes going to the Rio Games.

Russia welcomes the International Olympic Committee's decision

but the US anti-doping agency says it is a "blow to clean athletes."

As the people of Munich mourn the victims killed

in Friday's shooting, investigators say the teenage gunman

had been planning the attack for more than a year.

Funerals have been taking place in the Afghan capital, Kabul,

for more than eighty people killed in a suicide attack on Saturday

A parade into Paris for Chris Froome who's made history winning his third

The International Olympic Committee has decided not to ban all Russian

That's despite finding that Russia was involved in a state-sponsored

The IOC said it would be up to individual sports' governing

bodies to decide if Russian competitors are clean and should be

The US Anti-Doping agency condemned the ruling saying the IOC had

"refused to take decisive leadership" and had left

But the International Tennis Federation said it welcomed

the decision allowing clean athletes to go to Rio.

It said Russia's seven nominated tennis players would be competing.

Russian state organised doping, which has brought its much

success in recent years, has been exposed.

But with just 12 days until the start of the Rio Olympics

the IOC today resisted calls for a blanket ban on its team.

No Russian athlete can compete unless he or she meets some

The International sports federations will carry out an individual

analysis of each athlete's anti-doping record, taking

into account only reliable international tests.

Russia wanted to send a 386 strong team to Rio,

but that number has already been reduced by 68 following a failed

appeal against an existing ban on its track and field team.

Now 27 remaining sports federations must now decide which Russians can

go but they are facing a race against time.

Despite outward appearances, Russian ministers are tonight

We take the investigation very seriously and we are waiting to work

With the Olympics looming, given the weight of evidence

against Russia, many feel that this has damaged people's trust in Russia

I think they have affected the Olympic movement.

I worry about the future of clean sport.

I worry about the future of clean athletes the Olympic Games.

The IOC has also decided that the whistle-blower cannot go

Having failed what it calls ethical criteria.

In central London today before the IOC made its announcement

British athletes celebrated their Rio selection while insisting

Mo Farah may be preparing to leave for Brazil in his quest

But the row about Russia's participation is going to overshadow

You feel sorry for the clean athletes who are a part of it,

but at the same time it is the whole country.

We will let the right authority deal with it.

But at the same time concentrate on what we are doing

With days to go until the Olympics gets underway this should be a times

But the decision leaves many Russian competitors in limbo

BBC's Sarah Rainsford joined us from Moscow a short time ago

and I started by asking her how the IOC decision had

As far as Russia was concerned, it was a campaign they had to win. They

had to try to persuade the IOC not to make individual athletes who

argue that they are clean paid the price that those who have been

doping and they believe they have won that argument, the proof of it

being there will be no blanket ban. That would have been a humiliating

decision for Russia. This is a country that sees itself as a

sporting superpower and the idea that all Russian athletes will be

banned from the Olympics, that a Russian flag would not fly there is

something that Russia did not want to see happen. They have avoided the

worst possible outcome, but what we have now is the decision is left to

individual sporting federations. Decisions that will take place less

than two weeks before the games begin. 12 days to go, is that enough

time? We have heard from the International tennis Federation

which has said that as far as it is concerned, Russian players should be

cleared to compete. They are subjected to rigorous testing abroad

and therefore the suggestion they are cheating is not there. As far as

the Federation is concerned, they should be clear, but there are other

new procedures they will have to go through for those players to make it

to Rio. Each federation was at its own criteria. It is very complex, we

don't know how it will play out, and other athletes who are clean and

have not been doping, it is an extremely nervous wait. Russia's

federation has been damaged. What has been the reaction where you are

to state-sponsored doping? That is right and Russia continues to insist

there is no programme of state-sponsored doping. We have

heard that from the sports minister over the past few days. He has told

us there was no programme to cheat in sport. He has talked about

individuals being copper bowl and therefore argued that the whole

Russian team should not be penalised for that. -- been culpable. However,

there is a devastating picture of cheating in Russian sport.

On the line is the former British Olympic Swimmer

She won her olympic medal at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow,

and two gold medals at the 1978 Commonwealth Games.

Thank you very much for being with us. Firstly, what is your reaction

to this decision? Just disappointment really. This was a

prime opportunity for the IOC to make a stand for clean sport. The

ruling was made behind the IAAF. It may be legally viable for them to

make this roof chilly-macro move, but I am disappointed. The report is

damning. The fiasco two years ago makes a mockery of the Winter

Olympics. I find it extraordinary that this is what the IOC has done.

Russia argues that a blanket ban would punish clean athletes. What is

your view on that? Who are these clean athletes? Are they athletes

that have not been caught? Thousands of samples were thrown down the

toilet. Who are these clean athletes? Sadly, they will go to Rio

and people will not cheer when they walk into the Olympic Stadium or

when they win a medal because they will think they have won them

because they are doping. There will be instances over the next months,

maybe years, where we find out that they have been doping and medals

will be taken away from them and given to the people that deserve

them. It is not fair. What is your experience of this? We have been

through this once before and it is difficult to deal with. I strongly

believe there are two sections of society that the IOC should be

protecting. First and foremost, the clean athletes because that is the

job, but they should we protecting the young co-worst Russians who are

being given these drugs that could have long-term effects on the

health. I did a documentary for Channel five and one of the athletes

I met is seriously ill because of the drugs she was given. It is

important that these two sections of society are looked after by the IOC

and they are shirking their responsibilities by passing this

over to the sporting federations. Thank you very much for your

thoughts. Meanwhile, questions have been

raised about the state refused to move its athletes

into the the accommodation, Athletes are staying in nearby

hotels while cleaners and maintenance staff try to fix

issues including blocked toilets, exposed wiring, leaking pipes

and unlit stairwells. Some apartments have water running

down the walls and a strong The head of the Australian

delegation Kitty Chiller says while other areas in the village

are among the best she's seen, athletes won't move

in until the accommodation We will reassess at the end

of the day and again tomorrow, but at this stage, seeing

the progress that has been made this morning already, I am

reasonably confident that we will be able to enter the

village on Wednesday. I certainly hope that

that is the case so we can all get on and enjoy a positive

and successful Olympic sporting experience which is what

we are all here for. To Germany where thousands of people

have gathered outside the Munich Olympia Shopping Mall

where nine people were Police say they are building

a clearer picture of what drove Our correspondent Chris Buckler

is in Munich. The fear and even shock

is starting to fade in Munich, but the grief is obvious

in the street where people For some it is also

an understandable sense of relief. TRANSLATION: I heard the shooting,

I heard the sirens, I knew my sister In the beginning I didn't know

what was going on with her. She wanted to take the subway to get

there and I had no idea The images of the attack show a

teenager targeting other teenagers. It is clear that David Sonboly had

some mental health problems and detectives are believed to have

found information about mass shootings when they searched

the flat where he lived Neighbours say he was quiet, alone,

but they never imagined How he got this gun,

that is the main problem. There have been calls

here in Germany for tighter controls on the sale of weapons,

but this country already has relatively strict gun laws and that

legislation has been tightened in the last ten or 15 years

as a result of two school shootings. Much of the investigation will focus

on how an 18-year-old living There has been some speculation

that he may have bought it off TRANSLATION: There is a chat log

on the dark net which indicates he got the weapon from the dark net,

but we are only at the beginning The police believe this attack had

been planned for a year, but the families of the victims can

in no way have been prepared Also in Germany, a man armed

with a machete has killed one woman and wounded two others in the city

of Reutlingen in the Police say the man is a Syrian

asylum-seeker, and has The motive for the attack is not

clear, but police say there is no indication

it is linked to terrorism. Let's take a look at

some other stories now. Four Chinese officials have been

suspended following devastating floods that left more than 200

dead or missing. Torrential rains hit

the north of the country, forcing more than 300,000 people

from their homes and leaving many Thousands of people have protested

about the lack of warning Thousands of homes remain under

threat in the US state of California with two massive wildfires continue

to raze the dry hills. The fires have been

burning since Friday. Local police are investigating

the discovery of a body inside a burned car in one

of the fire damaged areas. A big rally has been taking place

in Istanbul's Taksim Square, to celebrate the failure of the coup

against the government on July 15th. In a rare show of unity,

supporters of the opposition Republican People's Party have come

together with those from the wake

of the government's crackdown The BBC's Nick Thorpe reports

from the rally in Taksim Square. We have seen the rally after rally

in Turkey in the past week celebrating the survival of

democracy. The difference here is that the two main parties are

celebrating as well. Speak up after speaker has been talking about the

value of unity in Turkey at the moment. Top officials from the

governing party were also invited here. It is not just an opposition

event. The speakers have also been emphasising human rights and the

freedom of press. Not just the survival of democracy, but

inequality as well. Stay with us on BBC World News,

still to come: The US Democratic party gathers in Philadelphia

to officially nominate We'll be live at the convention

centre with the latest. A decade later, Yugoslavia has been

able to open the bridge that was damaged. Thousands of households are

quite this lunchtime as children bury their noses in the final

instalment of Harry Potter. there will be no anklet bland for

Russian athletes. Individual sporting federations will have to

make the decision instead. in Friday's shooting,

investigators say the teenage gunman had been planning the attack

for more than a year. The Democratic National Convention

begins on Monday in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,

a couple of days after hopeful US presidential nominee Hillary Clinton

revealed her running mate to be Rajini Vaidyanathan

is in Philadelphia now, on the eve Tell us what we can expect from this

convention. We are going into the convention with a scandal at the top

of the Democratic party because it emerged at the weekend that e-mails

have been linked to the WikiLeaks organisation which suggested that

the Democratic National committee had favoured Hillary Clinton during

those presidential primaries over Bernie Sanders and as you may

remember, it was a bruising campaign between the two candidates. There

were e-mails which suggested that the Democratic party had tried to

smear Bernie Sanders as well. We have just heard a lot of the now

that the chair of the Democratic National committee is going to step

down at the end of this week, but it is an embarrassment for the party

because this week was all about presenting a show of unity, not

division. Bernie Sanders will be appearing at the convention. This

could get uncomfortable, couldn't it? Yes, he's going to address the

convention stage behind me on Monday night. Aides close to him say he

will attack Donald Trump and broaden his message for a political

revolution. We can expect a lot of anger from the Bernie Sanders

supporters who will be here this week in light of those e-mails. Of

course this all leads up to Thursday night when Hillary Clinton will

formally accept the Democratic party's nomination as presidential

candidate. The first woman in the United States to ever do so. An

interesting week ahead. Thank you. In Afghanistan, the first funerals

are being held after 80 people were killed in a suicide attack

in Kabul on Saturday. The bombing, one of the worst

in many years, targeted crowds The so-called Islamic State has

claimed responsibility, marking the first time the group

have carried out an attack The Afghan government assigned

a team to investigate this incident, yet there is not much more

information and officials say the It is expected that the Health

Minister will release the final figures at a press conference

later this evening, but so far it is confirmed more than 80 people

were killed and more than 230 Until this afternoon some

people were searching One person told a BBC reporter that

still there are three family members missing that they did not find

in hospital and they did not find the remains

at the scene of the attack. Sport now and a full round-up

from the BBC Sports Centre. Chris Froome has won the Tour de

France for the third time becoming the first Briton successfully

to defend the title. Froome crossed the finishing line

on the Champs Elysees in Paris arm The Kenyan born British rider

finished safely at the back He had held a lead of over four

minutes going into the largely ceremonial race climax

through the streets It feels amazing. It really could be

the first one over again. It is special. The combination of months

and months of hard work, my team-mates, such support. Standing

here is monumental. Russia will not receive a blanket

ban from the Rio Olympics following The International Olympic Committee

will leave it up to individual sports' governing bodies to decide

if competitors are clean and should President Thomas Bach has defended

the decision in an interview Every human being is entitled to

individual justice. There we have set the bar to the absolute limit

for how Russian athletes can achieve to compete in Rio. All of them have

to meet individually these number of very strict criteria we have

established today. Adam Pengilly is an IOC

member from Great Britain, He's told us he's disappointed

by the decision taken today. I think my initial reaction is one

of disappointment and of embarrassment in some ways, to be

honest. I would've hoped that the leadership at the IOC, the

organisation I am a member of, would have taken a principled stance that

helped the long-term cleanliness of sport to rid us of the scourge of

doping. I am not sure I believe there would be a blanket ban. That

is the position though I thought was the correct one, that the Russian

team should be excluded. I said it is not an easy decision because in

that situation there would be in this and athletes who would miss

out, but there are innocent athletes who have missed out in the past and

there will be in the future. I think if this situation is not tackled

really hard, and I am not sure we have taken the right decision here.

Britain's Lewis Hamilton leads the Formula One championship

for the first time this season after victory at the

The reigning world champion didn't start on pole position,

but soon got the better of his Mercedes team mate

Nico Rosberg - with his record fifth race win at the Hungaroring.

So Hamilton is now six points clear of teammate Rosberg at the top

The Mercedes pair are comfortably ahead of Daniel Ricciardo,

who is third in his Red Bull, as well as the Ferrari duo

of Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel

and Max Verstappen, who is in sixth.

Venus Williams is aiming to win her 50th WTA title in a little less

She faces Britain's Johanna Konta in the Bank of the West

Classic in California - Konta is aiming for her

Williams - who turned 36 last month - beat Alison Riske

She sailed through the first set but struggled with her

Despite missing match points at 5-4 she eventually went on to win

To get to the final Konta beat the second-seeded Slovakian Dominika

Unlike Venus Konta dropped just six points on her serve.

The British number one is rising through the world rankings having

reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open in January.

Now, if you are uncomfortable with height you might want to look away

because the world cliff diving Championships have been taking race

in France. The winning jump came from Britain's Gary Hunt who jumped

off of a platform made this tower. Pretty good. The technical

description for that is a back three somersaults. If you missed it the

first time, here it is in slow motion. That is it from me. Goodbye

for now.