:00:00. > :00:09.This is BBC World News Today with me, Karin Giannone.
:00:10. > :00:12.Countdown to the Rio Olympics - but how safe are the waters
:00:13. > :00:14.for the rowers, sailors and open swimmers?
:00:15. > :00:17.A new report highlights concern about raw human sewage.
:00:18. > :00:19.And visitors are warned about pollution on Rio's
:00:20. > :00:28.I'm Babita Sharma live in Rio - stay with us on World News Today
:00:29. > :00:40.We will be finding out, is this city ready to play host?
:00:41. > :00:43.The United States has carried out air strikes in Libya targeting
:00:44. > :00:45.the Islamic State group in the city of Sirte.
:00:46. > :00:48.A Russian military helicopter is shot down in Syria,
:00:49. > :00:56.Moscow says it was on a humanitarian mission.
:00:57. > :00:59.And ten more cases of Zika are identified in Florida.
:01:00. > :01:17.So, we're almost there - the Olympic Games open at the end
:01:18. > :01:28.A political crisis in Brazil, the Russian doping scandal,
:01:29. > :01:34.The Russians expect the final decision tomorrow,
:01:35. > :01:37.Meanwhile, a report commissioned by the Associated Press
:01:38. > :01:39.suggests Rio's waterways are as filthy as ever.
:01:40. > :01:46.Babita Sharma is live for us in Rio.
:01:47. > :01:53.Does this feel like more than the usual last-minute jitters? It
:01:54. > :01:59.depends who you are talking to. We were down at the beach last night,
:02:00. > :02:04.fielding error where thousands on the beach where super excited about
:02:05. > :02:07.the Olympics. -- filming of Eire, where thousands. It's the first time
:02:08. > :02:12.they have come to South America, let's celebrate it, we have no
:02:13. > :02:17.concerns. And then here, in a lot of critics are saying they have major
:02:18. > :02:21.concerns. The venues, the waterways are not fit for purpose. There is a
:02:22. > :02:26.report out in a few hours ago telling us that after a 16 month
:02:27. > :02:34.long investigation, they believe that Guanabara Bay and another
:02:35. > :02:40.error, two main areas hosting sailing and canoeing, that they have
:02:41. > :02:44.dangerously high contamination. Where the health of athletes can be
:02:45. > :02:48.at risk. That's not the news that officials want to be hearing just a
:02:49. > :02:52.few days before the Olympics begin. The opening ceremony takes place on
:02:53. > :02:55.Friday. What they want us to do is concentrate on what we can see
:02:56. > :03:00.behind us. This tells a completely different story as well. This is
:03:01. > :03:07.going to be our home for the next weeks. It is the Olympic Park.
:03:08. > :03:11.Pristine, brand-new, gleaming and ready for business. Just there in
:03:12. > :03:16.the centre of your screen, you can see the tennis centre. Behind that,
:03:17. > :03:23.the aquatic Centre. And then we have three buildings that will be held to
:03:24. > :03:29.the judo, boxing, wrestling, handball offence. Then the
:03:30. > :03:32.gymnastics area in the official Olympics stadium. Finally, the
:03:33. > :03:39.second of the Aquatics buildings here. That is the stadium home to
:03:40. > :03:47.diving, supplies dimming and water polo. -- diving Matt synchronised
:03:48. > :03:53.swimming. This picture tells a different story, that Rio is open
:03:54. > :03:57.full business and they are going to do it. Two things happened today
:03:58. > :04:01.that hadn't happened before in this city. Olympic lanes came into effect
:04:02. > :04:05.for the first time. Roads are painted green and what they are
:04:06. > :04:09.designed to do is ease the congestion, allowing all the
:04:10. > :04:13.authorised vehicles and athletes to proceed as normal. So far, it is
:04:14. > :04:18.only day one. What we can tell is that they seem to be working. The
:04:19. > :04:24.second thing is that a Metro system is now underway, connecting the
:04:25. > :04:29.south zone, the centre of Rio to the West zone of the Olympic Park.
:04:30. > :04:34.Again, that seems to be working. Passengers numbers, we are expecting
:04:35. > :04:37.500,000 visitors to be coming here in the coming week. Whether or not
:04:38. > :04:42.the infrastructure will be able to cope remains to be seen. People are
:04:43. > :04:49.saying, who is going to benefit from these Olympics? It has cost a lot of
:04:50. > :04:52.money. There are reports that 65,000 local people from the poorer
:04:53. > :04:55.communities that had to be evicted to create what you can see behind
:04:56. > :04:58.me. We have been doing a bit of digging around, trying to find out
:04:59. > :05:06.who the winners and losers are going to be. Here is the report.
:05:07. > :05:08.Rio is a city transformed by the Olympic Games.
:05:09. > :05:10.Billions have been spent on investment in new sports venues,
:05:11. > :05:14.But critics say it's money that should have gone to other,
:05:15. > :05:17.If cities want to prioritise the needs of their citizens,
:05:18. > :05:20.basic education, safety, access to water, food,
:05:21. > :05:26.things that make a good life, the Olympics is clearly not part
:05:27. > :05:32.What the Olympics are about is winners and losers.
:05:33. > :05:37.Few have lost as much as local residents like Dona Maria da Penha.
:05:38. > :05:40.There's nothing left here now, she says, gazing through a fence
:05:41. > :05:43.to a corporate car park where the homes of almost
:05:44. > :05:51.She was bloodied in the battle to save the favela, next
:05:52. > :05:54.to the Olympic Park, but deemed an intolerable eyesore
:05:55. > :06:00.for this global mega-event and bulldozed to the ground.
:06:01. > :06:04.Putting on this showpiece has almost bankrupted the local government.
:06:05. > :06:08.The impact can be seen and smelled everywhere.
:06:09. > :06:11.Cleaning up its chronically polluted waters was another key promise Rio
:06:12. > :06:15.made when it was chosen to host the Games.
:06:16. > :06:18.But it's a pledge that simply hasn't been kept.
:06:19. > :06:20.Guanabara Bay is full of solid waste, sewage and
:06:21. > :06:27.A commitment to treat 80% of the sewage entering this bay
:06:28. > :06:30.has long since been abandoned, the very waters
:06:31. > :06:38.But officials say there will be a legacy, and spending is tight.
:06:39. > :06:44.The Games in Brazil and Rio represent a new model for the Games,
:06:45. > :06:50.a model of games that are more lean, with reduced costs, under control.
:06:51. > :06:59.We have spent less public money to do 20 venues than London spent
:07:00. > :07:06.These Games will be unique because Rio is a unique city,
:07:07. > :07:10.rich and poor living cheek by jowl, but not all reaping the same benefit
:07:11. > :07:28.Days away from the official start of the Olympic games. Aside from all
:07:29. > :07:33.the other issues, people want us to remember that the events, the
:07:34. > :07:38.competition is taking place. We have thousands of athletes descended upon
:07:39. > :07:43.this incredible city. They are already in training, we saw them
:07:44. > :07:47.yesterday in Guanabara Bay. Lots of athletes sightseeing at Christ the
:07:48. > :07:53.Redeemer, catching some time before they get their training underway. In
:07:54. > :07:56.their sites will be winning a medal. Joining me here in Rio is the man
:07:57. > :08:00.that is involved in managing the medal making process.
:08:01. > :08:03.Let's speak now to Victor Hugo Berbert.
:08:04. > :08:15.Alongside him, Beatrice from the press team. There is a method to my
:08:16. > :08:19.madness here. I need a glove, not necessarily to shake my hands, but
:08:20. > :08:23.you have done something wonderful. Bringing in some very special
:08:24. > :08:27.medals. I can't touch them, right? I have to have this instead. Yes.
:08:28. > :08:41.August through what we're going to look at. This is the Bronze one. --
:08:42. > :08:47.talk us through. It has a 0.5 kilograms weight. This is the
:08:48. > :08:51.initial design with the goddess. On the back, the iconic emblem which we
:08:52. > :08:57.have seen all around the city, Rio 2016. I'm not just holding any other
:08:58. > :09:07.bronze medal, and I? If a particular one? It is 100 metres running. The
:09:08. > :09:11.100 metres men's running, possibly the most celebrated race in the
:09:12. > :09:15.world. I don't know if you can see that on the camera, but it is
:09:16. > :09:19.actually etched in right there, men's 100 metres. Beatrice, I'm
:09:20. > :09:23.pleased to say that you haven't just brought me the bronze. Let us take
:09:24. > :09:27.on the other ones as well. We have silver here, which is just coming
:09:28. > :09:33.out. As you take it out of the box, tell me a bit about how it came to
:09:34. > :09:38.fruition, this design and the process of getting this right here.
:09:39. > :09:49.The committee chose the design, then present it to the Brazilian team. We
:09:50. > :09:58.scoped that on clay. And then we started engraving it. I don't want
:09:59. > :10:04.to cling to it too much. They are a little bit heavy. This is the one
:10:05. > :10:11.that we love. Thank you for letting me hold it, I am so excited! This is
:10:12. > :10:17.gold. 100 metres men's gold. I'm holding it! See you later! Can I go?
:10:18. > :10:25.This is what it looks like. What happens if I walked off right now?
:10:26. > :10:32.Don't walk off, don't walk off! So, these are the ones that means so
:10:33. > :10:36.much to the winners. But they do have an economic value of sorts?
:10:37. > :10:43.It's good to calculate this, because it is a lot of work on it, a lot of
:10:44. > :10:48.material. But is a lot of art on it. It's a sculptor. -- it's difficult
:10:49. > :10:52.to calculate. We have a lot of artists that draw, design, scoped
:10:53. > :11:00.and transport into the metal matrix and only strike them. It's an object
:11:01. > :11:08.of art. It really is. It feels like such an honour to hold it. So, we
:11:09. > :11:17.thinking, Blake for Jamaica for the bronze? America for the silver? And
:11:18. > :11:24.you same bolt looking for their third win. I think I look pretty
:11:25. > :11:31.good in it! -- and Bolt looking. Beatrice turned up with these medals
:11:32. > :11:40.in very official manner. Can you show videos? She walked here, up the
:11:41. > :11:44.left, holding a plastic bag with no security. -- can you show the
:11:45. > :11:52.viewers. If you see pitches walking along, stand near to her! I feel so
:11:53. > :11:59.privileged. -- if you see pitches. The design is beautiful. I might
:12:00. > :12:08.keep a hold of this one. What do you think? Doesn't look fetching on me?
:12:09. > :12:15.Can you do the hundred metres just as fast as Bolt? Don't think I need
:12:16. > :12:21.to. I have my hands on it now. Just move away quietly, we will lead you
:12:22. > :12:24.to it! Thank you very much. Lots more from the rear of the next few
:12:25. > :12:31.weeks. -- lots more from Brazil. A Russian helicopter has
:12:32. > :12:33.been shot down in Syria, killing all five members
:12:34. > :12:35.of the military who were on board. The Defence Ministry said the crew
:12:36. > :12:38.were returning to their base after delivering humanitarian aid
:12:39. > :12:40.to the city of Aleppo. It is not clear which group brought
:12:41. > :12:43.the helicopter down. Our security correspondent
:12:44. > :12:48.Frank Gardner reports. Shot down over Syria's Idlib
:12:49. > :12:50.province, this rebel footage shows Moscow says all five of those
:12:51. > :12:56.on board were killed - after it said they were
:12:57. > :13:05.delivering aid to Aleppo. For those still trapped in that
:13:06. > :13:07.northern Syrian city, Pro-government forces have been
:13:08. > :13:12.pushing back a rebel advance The rebels are trying to break
:13:13. > :13:16.the government siege But Syrian troops, backed by Russian
:13:17. > :13:21.air strikes, appear determined For it's quarter of a million
:13:22. > :13:27.inhabitants, the humanitarian Can you consider displacing people
:13:28. > :13:33.from their homes is Of course, people could run away
:13:34. > :13:43.from Aleppo before, besieging it, but they decided to stay
:13:44. > :13:45.because this is their home, this is their land,
:13:46. > :13:51.they want to stay here. The Syrian government says it's
:13:52. > :13:54.opened corridors of free passage for civilians trying
:13:55. > :13:57.to flee the fighting and for any rebels
:13:58. > :14:00.prepared to surrender, but so far only a trickle of people
:14:01. > :14:03.have taken up the offer. And a British surgeon who has been
:14:04. > :14:06.working with local doctors accuses In 2012, the Assad regime
:14:07. > :14:14.actually passed a law to say that it was legitimate
:14:15. > :14:16.to target hospitals, to target doctors,
:14:17. > :14:19.to target civilians. In fact, to target anybody that
:14:20. > :14:21.wasn't involved positively So they made it legal
:14:22. > :14:30.to actually bomb hospitals. Amongst the latest victims
:14:31. > :14:35.of Syria's endless civil war, a 14-year-old child star of a local
:14:36. > :14:40.sitcom set in the ruins of Aleppo. He was killed by a missile
:14:41. > :14:43.as he tried to flee the city The Pentagon says the US has carried
:14:44. > :14:53.out air strikes in Libya against the stronghold
:14:54. > :14:54.of the so-called The airstrikes followed a request
:14:55. > :15:08.by the Libyan government. That is the GNA, the internationally
:15:09. > :15:12.recognised government. This specific targets
:15:13. > :15:14.will be precision targets. These are targets that the GNA has
:15:15. > :15:17.indicated, has already made
:15:18. > :15:18.progress on the ground, significant progress
:15:19. > :15:24.on the But the precision targets
:15:25. > :15:28.that they have asked for our assistance with in which they have
:15:29. > :15:30.had more trouble. These are targets for example I can
:15:31. > :15:34.detail today, was one of the targets It is that kind of
:15:35. > :15:40.precision location, precision target that we will be
:15:41. > :15:44.targeting that the GNA at this point felt like that would be a helpful
:15:45. > :15:49.support for their efforts. The BBC's Aleem Maqbool
:15:50. > :15:51.told us more about what They certainly say that they will
:15:52. > :15:56.continue to support the Libyan They are saying this is at
:15:57. > :16:01.the request of the government of It's also been
:16:02. > :16:06.confirmed by the Prime Minister there, who said there had
:16:07. > :16:12.been significant casualties in Sirte Which they requested
:16:13. > :16:15.to support the gains that the government forces have made
:16:16. > :16:19.around the city in recent weeks. But yes, the Pentagon
:16:20. > :16:26.is saying it is consistent with their
:16:27. > :16:27.policies of the past. Of course, they were heavily
:16:28. > :16:30.criticised in not doing enough sooner when it came to fighting
:16:31. > :16:33.Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. That's where they have been
:16:34. > :16:37.conducting air strikes until now. These are the first in Libya
:16:38. > :16:41.against Islamic State. And they do, Islamic State,
:16:42. > :16:45.have considerable presence in Sirte, but we are talking about
:16:46. > :16:50.around 1500 to 2000 militants there. But they have carried out
:16:51. > :16:57.atrocities, executions and so on. And this is a time
:16:58. > :16:59.when the Government of National Accord
:17:00. > :17:00.are And that's why I think
:17:01. > :17:05.the Pentagon chose to act now. Now a look at some of
:17:06. > :17:08.the day's other news. A compound housing foreign
:17:09. > :17:10.contractors in the Afghan capital, Kabul, has come under attack
:17:11. > :17:12.from Taliban fighters. A truck bomb went off at the gate
:17:13. > :17:16.of the North Gate compound and then In the following gun battle,
:17:17. > :17:25.one police officer and both A leading air crash investigator
:17:26. > :17:28.says he's confident that flight MH370 was deliberately flown
:17:29. > :17:30.into the sea. Larry Vance told an Australian news
:17:31. > :17:32.programme that the erosion on recovered wing parts points
:17:33. > :17:37.to a controlled landing. The plane disappeared with 239
:17:38. > :17:43.people on board in March 2014. The mother-in-law of the Formula One
:17:44. > :17:47.boss, Bernie Ecclestone has been freed in a police operation
:17:48. > :17:49.following her abduction The kidnappers had demanded
:17:50. > :18:01.a $36 million ransom Two suspects were arrested
:18:02. > :18:05.and the victim was not injured. Turkey says it's captured 11
:18:06. > :18:08.soldiers suspected of trying to seize the country's President
:18:09. > :18:09.during the failed They are said to have been caught
:18:10. > :18:13.in a forested area near the resort of Marmaris
:18:14. > :18:16.after a two-week manhunt. Recep Tayyip Erdogan was on holiday
:18:17. > :18:19.in Marmaris on the night of the coup attempt but fled after a tip-off,
:18:20. > :18:22.just before his hotel was raided. More than two weeks after the coup,
:18:23. > :18:29.the last of the renegade soldiers These 11 men are accused
:18:30. > :18:34.of being part of the squad that was sent to seize
:18:35. > :18:38.or kill President Erdogan. Tipped off the last minute,
:18:39. > :18:40.he narrowly evaded Over the weekend, he has announced
:18:41. > :18:46.a sweeping overhaul of the Armed Forces, placing them under
:18:47. > :18:48.full civilian control for the first These measures will make our
:18:49. > :18:59.military much stronger, he promised. They will also, inevitably make
:19:00. > :19:01.the Turkish President even more The government still wants to uproot
:19:02. > :19:09.the influence of this man, preacher Fethullah Gulen who lives
:19:10. > :19:12.in the US and was once He is blamed for
:19:13. > :19:16.instigating the coup. Thousands of his followers have
:19:17. > :19:22.been arrested or sacked. The full ramifications
:19:23. > :19:28.of a botched coup that killed more than 200 people,
:19:29. > :19:30.many of them listed at this memorial, and stunned a country that
:19:31. > :19:32.believe such things were no longer possible,
:19:33. > :19:36.are still being felt here. No one knows how far president
:19:37. > :19:39.Erdogan will go to pursue The raw emotions that have been
:19:40. > :19:50.stirred up are badly straining Turkey's relations with its western
:19:51. > :20:05.partners, who President Erdogan believes should have
:20:06. > :20:07.given him more wholehearted The pro-government rally by Turks
:20:08. > :20:10.in Cologne over the weekend has now provoked
:20:11. > :20:12.a spat with Germany. The German authorities would not
:20:13. > :20:15.allow an address by Mr Erdogan to be broadcast
:20:16. > :20:16.to the crowd. Turkey has stubborn
:20:17. > :20:17.and summoned a senior German
:20:18. > :20:19.diplomat here to complain. There will be friction with the US,
:20:20. > :20:21.too, over requests to extradite
:20:22. > :20:22.Fethullah Gulen. The captured soldiers were jeered
:20:23. > :20:25.by government supporters as The mood in Turkey
:20:26. > :20:28.is angry and fearful. Previous coups have left deep
:20:29. > :20:30.scars on this country. It's been another tough day
:20:31. > :20:40.for the Republican Presidential candidate, Donald Trump,
:20:41. > :20:44.as leading party members distance themselves from his attacks
:20:45. > :20:46.on the family of a Muslim army In an exclusive interview,
:20:47. > :20:55.the captain's father told our North America Editor Jon
:20:56. > :20:58.Sopel he won't ask for an apology This is one fight that people
:20:59. > :21:14.are telling Donald Trump he can't win, but for the moment
:21:15. > :21:15.he isn't listening, media that he had been
:21:16. > :21:19.the subject of a vicious attack Their speech at the Democratic
:21:20. > :21:27.Convention about the death captain posthumously awarded
:21:28. > :21:30.the Bronze Staff for heroism. I asked them if they had committed
:21:31. > :21:35.an attack on Mr Trump. He can insult, he can disrespect
:21:36. > :21:39.women, judges, even the members of his own party, yet
:21:40. > :21:45.when an ordinary citizen of this country, a patriotic
:21:46. > :21:47.American Muslim of this country, says anything about him,
:21:48. > :21:49.he says he has been Ghazala Khan was derided by Mr Trump
:21:50. > :22:00.for not having spoken Without saying a word,
:22:01. > :22:14.I was sitting in their heart. So I was surprised that he
:22:15. > :22:18.doesn't feel the pain. What type of person doesn't
:22:19. > :22:20.feel the pain? You are attacking Mr Trump
:22:21. > :22:25.over his behaviour, very openly. Isn't there a danger that you will
:22:26. > :22:30.get attacked openly as well? In every person's life,
:22:31. > :22:36.there comes a time when you choose to either say what is the call
:22:37. > :22:41.of the time or shy away. I felt my family supported my stand,
:22:42. > :22:46.they said, you should do that, and the burden,
:22:47. > :22:51.we would equally bear. The normal law of politics is that
:22:52. > :22:54.if you are in a hole, you stop digging, but that is not
:22:55. > :22:57.Donald Trump's style. Not only over the Khan family,
:22:58. > :23:00.this weekend he has got in a right tangle over policy towards Ukraine,
:23:01. > :23:04.and having previously said he had a close relationship
:23:05. > :23:06.with Vladimir Putin, he has now clarified
:23:07. > :23:11.he has never met him. It has not been a great few days
:23:12. > :23:14.for the Republican candidate. Jon Sopel, BBC News,
:23:15. > :23:32.Washington. Health authorities in Florida have
:23:33. > :23:42.advised pregnant women not to go to an area where ten more people have
:23:43. > :23:45.been diagnosed with the Zika virus. Our reporter reports from Miami.
:23:46. > :23:47.The tourism industry here in Florida is obviously
:23:48. > :23:49.massive to this part of
:23:50. > :23:51.the world, about 106 million visitors a year come here.
:23:52. > :23:53.And of those, about 1.5 million are British.
:23:54. > :23:54.At any one time, there are
:23:55. > :24:04.A lot of them come to the southern part of Florida around
:24:05. > :24:07.Of course, what we know is that Zika is particularly
:24:08. > :24:10.dangerous for pregnant women and four women thinking of becoming
:24:11. > :24:16.And that's why the Foreign Office has suggested that people
:24:17. > :24:20.consider postponing any nonessential travel if they are pregnant.
:24:21. > :24:25.That's not the advice incidentally that the
:24:26. > :24:31.authorities, the medical authorities, the people that look
:24:32. > :24:34.It's not the advice they are giving Americans.
:24:35. > :24:50.Bystanders forming a human chain to rescue a woman whose car was stepped
:24:51. > :24:58.away in floods. -- swept away. This happened in the state of Maryland.
:24:59. > :25:04.As well as sweeping away cars, storm damaged businesses and homes. Two
:25:05. > :25:09.people died during Saturday night's storms. Thankfully, this particular
:25:10. > :25:15.episode ended happily. Just to remind you of our main news story.
:25:16. > :25:18.A new report highlights 'alarmingly high' air and water pollution
:25:19. > :25:26.in Rio, with just days to go until the start
:25:27. > :25:33.And the United States has carried out air strikes in Libya targeting
:25:34. > :25:41.the Islamic State group in the city of Sirte.
:25:42. > :25:44.Requested by Libya's to recognised government.
:25:45. > :25:47.If you want to get in touch with us here at BBC World News,
:25:48. > :26:00.But for now from me and the rest of the team, goodbye.