28/07/2016 World News Today

This is BBC World News Today with me, Karin Gianonne.

No compromise on her stance on immigration.

Angela Merkel promises to do everything to protect Germany

from attackers acting in the name of the Islamic State group,

but insists stopping migrants entering the country

TRANSLATION: They want to spread hatred and fear between the

cultures, and they want to spread hatred between the religions. We

stand this I simply against this. -- decisively against this.

President Barack Obama delivers a stirring speech at the Democratic

convention as Hillary Clinton prepares to address supporters

and officially accept the party's nomination.

Scientists discover a new type of antibiotic,

literally under - or UP - their noses.

Also coming up: We meet a Syrian teenager who swam part of the way

to Greece and now wants to swim in the Olympics.

We start in Germany, where despite a string of recent

terror attacks linked to asylum-seekers, German Chancellor

Angela Merkel has insisted she won't abandon her policy

It follows Germany's promise last year to provide shelter to thousands

The country has now taken in more than a million people.

The Chancellor has come under increasing pressure since then,

after claims of sex attacks in Cologne at New Year,

and most recently, the fatal terror attacks linked to asylum-seekers.

But Angela Merkel is standing firm on her migrant policy.

Well, the BBC's Chris Buckler has been in the Bavarian town

TRANSLATION: The terrorists want us to lose the focus on the things that

are necessary. They want to undermine our solidarity and our

togetherness. They want to damage our way of life, our openness, and

yes, our readiness to take in people in distress. Our correspondent has

been in the Bavarian town of Landshut, which has seen a

significant influx of refugees. Bavaria prides itself

on being a welcoming place, but in Germany's largest state,

there is increasing unease about Angela Merkel's so-called

open-door policy towards those not coming for

a holiday, but to make a new life. The two English words

within Landshut's name might give There are people who want tighter

controls on who enters this land. TRANSLATION: I'm in favour

of an integration law that has more controls and gives people

opportunities for the future. That must be a requirement,

and that's why we as Bavarians differ somewhat from

the government in Berlin. Earlier this year, in protest

at the pressure on resources here, this region's mayor loaded up a bus

of refugees and send them to Chancellor Merkel's official

residence in Berlin. While the flow of people has eased,

there are still many in this town waiting to be given asylum status,

and therefore, still This man asks for his face not to be

shown, because he has relatives But the process of approving

asylum takes time. It's struggling to cope,

like some of the families Our fears, you are

in the same place. There's clear frustration,

and after recent attacks involving There are a lot of people that have

criminal records in their country before they come here,

so what do you expect of them? When they come here,

they become idle, they possess that There are many who feel

there should be more checks, particularly with so many headlines

about terror, and today, Chancellor Merkel did propose

measures to improve security. But to the frustration of right-wing

parties, she said her asylum TRANSLATION: The events of the last

week are a wake-up call to people. The warnings our party have

given our proven to be true. The warnings our party have given

have proven to be true. It's an incredibly small number

who threaten this society. The vast majority simply

want to be a part of it. But there's a growing distance

between Berlin and Bavaria about how to deal with the worries

over fear and finances, and that could leave

this country less open. It's the final day of

the Democratic National Convention and Hillary Clinton's big chance

to convince delegates and voters Barack Obama has already

given his seal of approval for Hillary Clinton as the best

person to replace him He told the convention

in Philadelphia that there has never been anyone more qualified

to serve as president. Let's head over to Philadelphia now

and talk to Carlos Watson who is the CEO of ozy.com,

a daily digital magazine. Carlos Watson, welcome. It is going

to be a tough act to follow, having Barack Obama make that speech last

night? I think indeed. In fact, I think it was President Obama's best

speech ever, which is saying a lark, given his skills as an orator. That

good? I think it was that good. You should have seen the crowd here. It

was quite impressive. He was both able to elevate Secretary Clinton,

and also, I think, really painted a picture of Donald Trump but I think

could end up being helpful to Clinton as she appeals to

independently macro and maybe even disaffected Republicans.

What exactly is she going to have to sell to night? What is she going to

focus on? What are her selling points?

I think she also has a very similar job, in some ways, which again, as

many of the speakers have done, she has got to go after Donald Trump

head on, and whether she calls him a demagogue or says he has no clue or

says he is not very conservative, I think she has got to do that. But I

think the other important piece is a vision, or as George HW Bush once

put it, "The vision thing". And I think laying out a compelling agenda

for what the years of the Clinton presidency, or 2-term presidency,

would mean, is going to be really critical, give people something to

hold onto. I think we will also get a bit more of her biography, though

she may allow their daughter, along with her husband a few nights ago,

to do the bulk of that. Interesting. And we saw bringing in the rest of

the family at the Republican convention as well. How the

effective you think that is only tactic?

I think it was certainly helpful and the polls are Donald Trump. I think

not only his daughter M, but even the love that his wife Melania made,

so I think for Secretary Clinton, it is important that the people who are

speaking, maybe the most important family member, someone who is no

longer with us, is her mother. I think a mother is so much of the

reason she has been involved in politics. It has been a guiding

light fire, and yet I don't think that people know enough about a

mother or her mother's story. I would not be surprised if Secretary

Clinton spend a lot of time on that family member in the course of

headline speech. That is interesting. You mentioned a

Republican bounce. How much is that worrying the Democratic party, and

how much will that feed into the negativity, trying to talk Trump

down, how much will they balance that with positivity about what they

should vote for in Hillary Clinton? I think there is no doubt, even the

Democrats won't say it out loud, they are worried. Many looked at the

convention last week in Cleveland and thought, as opposed to getting a

bounce, in fact, trump might receive a little bit, given the flock that

Melania had, given some of the other drama, including Ted Cruz. So I

think they were frankly caught off guard, even though most of them will

now say, that is what you would expect. So let's see what Secretary

Clinton walked away with from this convention. You will remember back

in 9080, one of the best convention bounces we have ever seen when to be

Democratic nominee, Michael Dukakis, who exited up 17 points. I don't

bite back, but I think it Secretary Clinton in some of the unusual swing

states, places like Georgia, where she is within five points right now,

North Carolina, where she is closer, and Missouri, where she is better

back then we would expect, if she can help results in some of those

places, they would be wildly excited.

Carlos Watson, thank you very much. We appreciate your time.

Might later, thank you. There is a lot more on the Democratic national

convention. It is all on our website, and there is the latest in

what has been going on, all the speeches and reactions of those

speeches. Two of Turkey's highest ranking

generals are reported to have resigned, following the coup attempt

earlier this month. It comes a day after more than 1,500

military personnel were sacked for their alleged roles

in the failed uprising. More than 130 media outlets

were ordered to be shut down on Wednesday as the Turkish

government continues its crackdown. Our correspondent Mark

Lowen is in Istanbul. Mark, how far reaching are we seeing

this latest crackdown is? It is staggeringly widespread,

really, when you look at most every sector of society that is being

affected. From media, as you say, 131 media outlets will be closed

down, to the military. Almost half the generals and admirals in the

country have been discharged. To the police, the judiciary, civil

society, NGOs, even Turkish Airlines, 250 cabin crew dismissed.

All of these people, tens of thousands now, either detained,

dismissed or suspended, suspected of either backing the coup or backing

the alleged mastermind, Fetullah Gulen, this cleric who has been

living in self-imposed exile in the US since 1999. He denied any

complicity or involvement at all in this clue, but it is clearly showing

that the government is trying to root out what it calls a virus, and

really, the Gulenist implements, the movement of him and his followers in

every part of society, is very well known here. It has spread its

tentacles throughout Turkish society. The evening says it is a

peaceful, interfaith movement, but critics and the government say it is

a dangerous sect. A dangerous cult that needs to be rooted out.

So many dismissals and detentions that you mentioned. One wonders how

much further might president to do and be prepared to go?

Bat President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Reports night that he wants to bring

the military and intelligence under his direct control, moving from the

Prime Minister to the presidency. That would certainly enhance his

control and command on the country, and it has long been his aim to

create a sort of executive presidency here, a much more

powerful presidency, but that would require constitutional amendments,

so he would need to go to Parliament and at the opposition supporters

well. The government insists that the operation is only against those

who have proven connections to the coup attempt to weeks ago, but the

critics say that actually, this is an attempt by the government to

round up all opponents, all enemies, and group them together and detain

or dismiss them. So the criticism from Western governments continues,

but the government here says, look, this is as going after those who

tried to murder their way into power, and it is really the

repercussions of the most traumatic two weeks in Turkey's modern

history. Nearly two weeks in deed. What

difference has is made to daily life in Turkey? Howlers does it feel

different? Well, on the surface, cities like

Istanbul continue as normal. This is a bustling, vibrant, cosmopolitan

city where people go around and drink their espressos in the

morning, go shopping in the afternoon, and might go to one of

the five times that they pray as well. But of course, this is

absolutely rooted every element of society here. So many arrests at,

detentions and dismissals, and also a fear among those who feel they are

targeted, that they could be next. That said, Turks have united against

the coup, so even though they are still divided over their president,

they largely feel that a president who has his faults, in the eyes of

some critics, is better, certainly, than a military takeover of Turkey

in 2016. Thank you, Mark. Now a look at some of

the day's other news. French investigators have used DNA

to formally identify the second of the two young men who killed

an elderly priest on Tuesday. Police had received a tip-off

from a foreign agency warning that 19-year-old Abdelmalik Petitjean

was preparing an attack. At least 75 people have been killed

and several others are still missing after heavy monsoon rains triggered

floods and landslides in Nepal. Thousands of people have been

displaced with many houses swept There has also been severe

flooding in parts of India, Health officials in Florida

are investigating four new cases of Zika infection that do not appear

to be linked to travel This has raised the possibility

that the virus is being spread The virus can cause severe

brain defects in newborns. The UK's Lloyds Banking Group has

announced it's going to cut 3,000 Pope Francis has suffered a minor

fall as he celebrated mass before huge crowds at Poland's holiest

Catholic site, the The Pontiff was helped quickly

to his feet and didn't appear hurt. Later, about half a million people

attended an open air ceremony The UK's Lloyds Banking Group has

announced it's going to cut 3,000 jobs and shut 200 branches

by the end of 2017. The bank has justified the move,

saying it now expects interest rates Lloyds, which is part state-owned,

also warned that uncertainty after the UK's vote to leave

the European Union could affect In Syria, one of the country's most

powerful rebel groups, the al-Nusra Front, has announced it is breaking

its linked with Al-Qaeda and changing its name. In a recorded

message, the group's leader said it would now be known as "The front for

the conquest of Syria". It is understood the group hopes to form

closer alliances with other Islamist organisations fighting within Syria.

Analysts say they decided to rebrand themselves after Russia and the US

decided to step up their military efforts against them.

Scientists have discovered a new type of antibiotic,

It's found INSIDE the human nose, potentially useful

against harmful bacteria - including the superbug MRSA.

New antibiotics are urgently needed to battle drug resistant infections,

and scientists say the human body could be an untapped

Our Science Editor David Shukman has the story.

Over billions of years, bacteria have kept evolving,

and recently, some have adapted to resist antibiotics.

They have become virtually unstoppable, and the infection

The life-saving drug that has revolutionised medical science.

Penicillin was the first antibiotic, an invention that save millions

of lives, but since then, researchers struggled

to come up with new weapons against the most dangerous bacteria.

It is very significant, because when we have been looking

for antibiotics in the past, we have either been trained to make

these in the laboratory using chemistry, all we've gone out

these in the laboratory using chemistry, or we've gone out

into the environment, particularly to look

So this is really the first report, or one of the early reports,

of finding antibiotics actually in our bodies.

Superbugs that can be defeated by antibiotics

are a growing threat, so this discovery could in future

It starts, rather bizarrely, inside the nose.

Now, this isn't a pleasant thought, but lots of different bacteria exist

One of them can cause MRSA, but it turns out another kind

That's the key finding from the scientists in Germany.

They also found that one gene in that microbe produces a substance

that they have called lugdunin, and when they gave that in mice,

they swore that it actually helps to resist infections.

So this really does create what could become

Developing new drugs is never a rapid process.

It may be at least a decade before this discovery

is actually turned into a real medicine.

Whee! Well done!

But for Emily Morris, top can't come soon enough.

She's well now, but keeps getting serious infections that

put her in hospital, and options are running out.

There will be a time, and I am expecting the time

when they say that they can't treat this one, and it's what happens

then, really, so that's why me and my family are really worried.

But yeah, hopefully, the new technologies

and things like that will look at more positive things.

The real surprise is where this new antibiotic has been found.

Until now, no one thought the human nose would be harbouring

useful bacteria that could defeat the dangerous ones.

But given the emerging threat of superbugs,

all that matters is that we find something that does beat them.

A year ago, the Dominican Republic passed a controversial law over

the deportation of undocumented Haitians and their families.

More than 100,000 people have either been forcibly removed or returned

voluntarily from the country, including many who were born

in the DR itself, and have spent months living in refugee camps along

the border in harrowing conditions. Will Grant visited one of the camps.

Weekly mass at Park Kado is a simple affair.

A handful of migrants make of the congregation, celebrating

A handful of migrants make up the congregation, celebrating

But when you look around a refugee camp, it seems they have

This is one of the poorest places in Latin America.

At the height of the crisis a year ago, Park Kado was home to thousands

of Haitian refugees who'd returned from the Dominican Republic

Today, hundreds of families still remain here, trapped

This man and his family lived in the Dominican Republic the 22

Two of his children were left behind when he was deported last year,

and now, even the youngest must pitch in for their

The only way to survive is by cutting down trees

on the other side of the border to make charcoal, he says.

He then sells the fuel to traders for a couple

This is the world's forgotten migrant crisis.

Many of the Haitians who were forced back here under the new policy say

they or their children were actually born on the other side

of the border, and they say the NGOs who turned out in their droves

after the 2010 earthquake today are nowhere to be seen.

The one local figure taking a lead in helping the returnees

Father Luke has distributed food provided by the International

Organisation for Migration, and helped re-house

TRANSLATION: This is a racist policy promoted by powerful

man in Santo Domingo, and rarely do powerful men work

In the capital, Port-au-Prince, the political situation

Fresh elections are due in October, but in the meantime,

the interim leadership have no solutions to the refugee crisis.

TRANSLATION: Haitians leave Haiti because the country can't offer them

opportunities, access to work, or decent living conditions.

Over the last 30 years, we have been living

through political crisis, and after each election,

He takes me to the border between Haiti and the DR,

He explains how they cross at night to avoid detection,

in order to gather the firewood needed for charcoal.

The name Park Kado means "gift ranch" in Creole,

a reference to the once fertile land.

But today, the conditions awaiting the returnees to Haiti

All this week on the BBC, we've been following refugees

who are aiming to compete at the Rio Olympics as members

18-year-old Yusra Mardini fled Syria for Turkey, and as she was trying

to reach Europe, the small dinghy she was in started to sink,

so she and her sister had to swim part of the way to Greece.

After several months in Germany, she's now hoping to

When you are in the water, you don't think about anything. You just throw

all your problems or anything that is happening over the water. It is a

completely different world, to me. Sometimes, the water was cold. We

didn't have anything to warm it up, or there was pumping or something

like that, or the streets are dangerous, so sometimes, you could

not train. The boat was... I think it was not

good. The motor stopped. Then they said someone would have to go into

the water. My sister jumped in. She did not let me go to the water, but

after that, I jumped from the other side. Of course, we were scared, but

we had to try. It is the same, maybe I am going to die on the way, but I

am almost dead in my country. My life was just passing through my

eyes. Yes, it was cold. We said that it would be a shame

that we would die in the water, and we are swimmers.

In the camp, there was a really nice man who was the translator. He was

from Egypt, actually. I told him that I am a swimmer. I did that, I

went there, and he was like, really? You will be a good swimmer. And I

said, yes, I swim, just find me a club. He found me a club, they saw

our technique, and it was good, so they accepted us.

Yes, first they came here, the language was hard, and I didn't know

anyone. After that, I learned people, slowly, slowly.

You look much more nice than the! For the short time she is learning

German, she is smart! Sometimes, it is hard for her to pronounce some

words, like a famous shopping street. It is called Schlossstrasse.

I have friends, my school, I am going out, I have my family tambien.

They will never be like my home country, but it is amazing as well.

I want to be an inspiration for everyone, and I want to help

refugees. Life will move on, life will not stop for you because you

have pain. You have to move on and worked on everything.

18-year-old Yusra Mardini, from Syria, now living in Germany.

Now, just some pictures to finish with.

A rocket carrying a US spy satellite has blasted off from Florida.

The Atlas FIVE rocket lifted off in perfect weather conditions

from Cape Canaveral and headed into space without incident.

The satellite is owned by the National Reconnaissance Office,

which is a US government agency in charge of supporting

the intelligence community and Department of Defence.

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