:00:00. > :00:08.This is BBC World News Today, broadcasting in the UK
:00:09. > :00:12.The headlines: Russian athletes are banned from competing
:00:13. > :00:19.at the Rio Paralympics following the country's doping scandal.
:00:20. > :00:26.Tragically, this situation is not about athletes cheating the system,
:00:27. > :00:32.but about a state-run system that is cheating the athletes.
:00:33. > :00:36.I'm Chris Mitchell live in Rio, where Russia has announced
:00:37. > :00:39.that's it's to appeal against the IPC decision.
:00:40. > :00:49.I'll bring you the latest on that and today's Olympics action.
:00:50. > :00:54.President Oden has addressed thousands of people at a mass rally
:00:55. > :00:58.in Istanbul in protest against last month's military coup.
:00:59. > :01:00.A state of emergency is declared in Macedonia after 20 people die
:01:01. > :01:03.And Oscar Pistorius is treated in hospital
:01:04. > :01:06.for injuries to his wrists - his brother denies speculation
:01:07. > :01:25.The International Paralympic Committee has banned the entire
:01:26. > :01:29.Russian team from competing in next month's Paralympic Games.
:01:30. > :01:33.It's because of what it called the country's state
:01:34. > :01:37.Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko offered full support
:01:38. > :01:43.to the Russian Paralympic Committee to appeal the decision.
:01:44. > :01:52.Let's get more reaction from our sports correspondent
:01:53. > :02:08.Is this a surprise given the IOC's decision not to introduce a blanket
:02:09. > :02:13.ban on athletes? This also prized many, many people in the sporting
:02:14. > :02:19.world because it is only days ago now that the International Olympic
:02:20. > :02:26.Committee chose another course, but the IPC and the IOC are working on
:02:27. > :02:30.the same information, from the same report, the McLaren report
:02:31. > :02:35.commissioned and suggested that Russians should be banned from the
:02:36. > :02:40.Olympic Games. Taking place right now behind me but there are Russians
:02:41. > :02:44.there competing. They will not be Russians competing at the Paralympic
:02:45. > :02:49.games taking place in just a few weeks' time. I would say various
:02:50. > :02:57.great surprise at this from onlookers looking in perhaps, people
:02:58. > :03:03.feeling different. They had a feeling the IPC, it is younger and
:03:04. > :03:10.has less pressure from outside sources on it, but it was
:03:11. > :03:13.interesting to see the head of the IPC be so with the ring in what he
:03:14. > :03:21.called the disgusting way that Russian athletes and athletics and
:03:22. > :03:28.state-sponsored doping has been allowed to happen. He did not mince
:03:29. > :03:32.his words. The facts do hard. They are an unprecedented attack on every
:03:33. > :03:39.clean athlete who competes in sport. The anti-doping system in Russia is
:03:40. > :03:46.broken, corrupted and entirely compromised. The Paralympic movement
:03:47. > :03:53.is one giant family and I had hoped that something like this would never
:03:54. > :03:58.rear its ugly head in our movement. Everything we have observed goes
:03:59. > :04:01.against the very spirit of sports and everything the Paralympic
:04:02. > :04:09.movement stands for. This is why we feel that we had no option but to
:04:10. > :04:15.take this action. Tragically this situation is not about athletes
:04:16. > :04:23.cheating the system. It is about a state-run system that is cheating
:04:24. > :04:27.the athlete. I believe the Russian government is catastrophically
:04:28. > :04:33.failed its power athletes. Their medals over morals mentality
:04:34. > :04:37.disgusts me. The complete corruption at the anti-doping system is
:04:38. > :04:42.contrary to the rules and strikes at the very heart of the spirit that
:04:43. > :04:46.Paralympics sport. It shows a blatant disregard for the health and
:04:47. > :04:53.well-being of athletes and quite simply has no place in Paralympic
:04:54. > :04:57.sports. Their thirst for glory at all costs has severely damage the
:04:58. > :05:00.integrity and image of all sports and has certainly resulted in a
:05:01. > :05:08.devastating outcome to the Russian Paralympic committee and para
:05:09. > :05:16.athletes. As I said, he did not mince his words at all. I am joined
:05:17. > :05:20.by Ed Harry, the BBC's Paralympic athletics commentator. Why have the
:05:21. > :05:26.international Paralympic committee taken a different route to the IOC?
:05:27. > :05:31.They have both read the same report, the McLaren report on the eve of
:05:32. > :05:36.these Olympic Games. It says the IOC have not talked to me about the
:05:37. > :05:42.report. Instead of taking it for what it cities which is evidence of
:05:43. > :05:47.a broken system, the IOC has picked out individual names to ban. The IPC
:05:48. > :05:50.have never stopped speaking to Richard McLaren. It has been a
:05:51. > :05:55.constant back and forth between them and they agree with him, it is
:05:56. > :06:02.evidence of a broken system and a system which involved in Russia para
:06:03. > :06:06.athletes, athletes between 2012 - 15 whose positive samples were hushed
:06:07. > :06:10.up and released as negatives and secondly at the Sochi Winter
:06:11. > :06:15.Paralympic games, samples were tampered with and replaced with
:06:16. > :06:20.clean ones. Enough evidence save the IPC to issue this band. Listening to
:06:21. > :06:27.Sir Philip Craven, he did not mince his words. The president of the IOC
:06:28. > :06:33.was far more diplomatic. You know Sir Philip Craven, why has he chosen
:06:34. > :06:37.such strong words? The International Paralympic committee has never been
:06:38. > :06:43.touched by a scandal like this and going back to the first report, the
:06:44. > :06:49.IPC said time and again what it did not show up concerning Paralympic
:06:50. > :06:52.sport. But their dialogue with Richard McLellan has revealed it
:06:53. > :07:00.most certainly is. They are the governing body in so many cases for
:07:01. > :07:05.their sports. It's a point I made in my preamble is that the
:07:06. > :07:09.International Paralympic committee is younger and perhaps has less
:07:10. > :07:15.pressure on it. Is there any truth to that? You can say less pressure
:07:16. > :07:19.from some sponsors. Much has been said of any personal relationship
:07:20. > :07:23.member says have with members of the Russian government but this is the
:07:24. > :07:28.head of a governing body saying he is disgusted with how a government
:07:29. > :07:31.has acted. There has been strong rebuttal of that. The sports
:07:32. > :07:36.Minister of Russia has said they will fight for their Paralympic
:07:37. > :07:40.place and the head of the Paralympic committee has said it is a huge
:07:41. > :07:46.injustice but Sir Philip Craven says he feels sympathy for clean athletes
:07:47. > :07:50.but they have broken the rules. They cannot be a member. They cannot be a
:07:51. > :07:57.member of the Paralympic community at this time. I want to bring in
:07:58. > :08:02.Kate Gray, a former Paralympics for Great Britain. Kate, briefly, what
:08:03. > :08:07.were your thoughts when you had that Russia had been banned? When I heard
:08:08. > :08:15.the news and I know other athletes felt the same, was shock and
:08:16. > :08:22.surprise. We thought the Paralympics would follow the IOC. That has not
:08:23. > :08:28.been the case. I think for many of the athletes, we were not expecting
:08:29. > :08:33.it at all. We assumed it would continue on and Russia would compete
:08:34. > :08:38.at the highest level, but that isn't happening. Speaking to fellow
:08:39. > :08:41.athletes, they were surprised this has happened but I guess they
:08:42. > :08:44.received enough information to believe Russia should not be allowed
:08:45. > :08:54.to take part and that is the process they will follow. Kate, how will
:08:55. > :08:59.this affect the Paralympics? Russia have a big team, will we noticed
:09:00. > :09:05.that they are not there? That was my immediate thought because Russia
:09:06. > :09:10.finished second on the medals table in London 2012. They are a dominant
:09:11. > :09:15.force, one of the leading nations in Paralympic sport said there will be
:09:16. > :09:19.a big gap when those athletes do not compete. I am a former swimmer,
:09:20. > :09:23.Russia has always been one of the top nations in swimming and there
:09:24. > :09:26.will be laid is empty because they are not competing and for those
:09:27. > :09:32.athletes that are clean, is it fair for them to be not competing there?
:09:33. > :09:38.It will have an impact on the competition in Rio. You know Sir
:09:39. > :09:42.Philip Craven as well, you have spoken to him many times and you
:09:43. > :09:48.have heard what he has had to say today. Were you surprised that he
:09:49. > :09:53.was so strong with his criticism of Russia and their system? I think he
:09:54. > :09:58.was conscious of isolating the Paralympic committee from the IOC.
:09:59. > :10:01.He wanted people to believe they had gone about their own investigations
:10:02. > :10:06.to make this decision and they wanted to show they were not going
:10:07. > :10:10.to have cheats. We might be a new and growing movement, but he was not
:10:11. > :10:16.going to stand for any cheating, he wants it to be a fair, clean, equal
:10:17. > :10:22.playing field and that's why he said what he said. He did not mince his
:10:23. > :10:26.words, he almost seemed angry, frustrated and I guess that is the
:10:27. > :10:31.case because I have been in sport for over ten years whether competing
:10:32. > :10:36.or beyond that, and I have never come across doping, especially on
:10:37. > :10:42.that level. He is properly shocked like everyone else is that it has
:10:43. > :10:49.been taken to such a high level. Thank you very much. Appreciate you
:10:50. > :10:58.joining us here. Pegs or so to Ed Harry. The games continue here in
:10:59. > :11:04.Rio. We had a spectacular road race in the cycling. This time for the
:11:05. > :11:10.women. It was just as thrilling. Anna van de Breggen got it. She is
:11:11. > :11:15.now the gold medallist. Lizzie Armitstead, the British rider who
:11:16. > :11:21.was here even though she missed three out of competition drug tests,
:11:22. > :11:24.one was expunged so she was able to compete, she was a medal prospect
:11:25. > :11:32.but she could only manage fifth place. Plenty of crashes in that
:11:33. > :11:36.race but everybody is OK. That was perhaps the biggest story of the day
:11:37. > :11:40.but they will be more here in Rio because we have the swimming finals
:11:41. > :11:46.coming up later and it will be our first chance to get a closer look at
:11:47. > :11:51.Michael Phelps. He has 18 gold medals, he retired after London, but
:11:52. > :11:57.he thought he would come back here and get if you more. He will be in
:11:58. > :12:07.the relay tonight before he begins his butterfly exploits tomorrow. We
:12:08. > :12:13.will see you again here but back to you.
:12:14. > :12:15.To Turkey where hundreds of thousands of people are attending
:12:16. > :12:17.a mass rally in the country's largest city, Istanbul.
:12:18. > :12:20.It's to protest against last month's attempted coup
:12:21. > :12:25.President Erdogan has been addressing the crowds.
:12:26. > :12:28.He said the coup attempt shows that the nation is not just
:12:29. > :12:32.resilient against political, economic, and diplomatic attacks
:12:33. > :12:54.A sea of red flags. Turkish people gathered in an unprecedented show of
:12:55. > :12:59.support for their country and their president. After the coup attempt of
:13:00. > :13:05.the 15th of July, he now appears stronger than ever. Similar rallies
:13:06. > :13:10.were held across the country. The president said he would take action
:13:11. > :13:13.against those behind the coup, possibly reintroducing the death
:13:14. > :13:20.penalty. TRANSLATION:
:13:21. > :13:26.They say there is no death penalty in the EU. Well the US has it, Japan
:13:27. > :13:32.has it, China has it, most of the world has it said they are allowed
:13:33. > :13:36.to have it. We used to have it until 1984. Sovereignty belongs to the
:13:37. > :13:42.people so if the people make the decision, I'm sure political parties
:13:43. > :13:45.will comply. For his supporters this was a moment of triumph after decade
:13:46. > :13:52.us and fear of the night of the failed uprising. Turks are
:13:53. > :13:57.determined to have democracy. God knows how many people are here and
:13:58. > :14:01.they from different political views, different religions and all are here
:14:02. > :14:06.to show that despite all our differences, we want to live in
:14:07. > :14:11.solidarity, upholding democracy. But it was not just followers of the
:14:12. > :14:14.president who joined in the valleys. The opposition took part also
:14:15. > :14:19.although the Kurdish party was not invited.
:14:20. > :14:26.TRANSLATION: The world is seeing the Turkish
:14:27. > :14:30.people today. They are seeing how successful and determined we are,
:14:31. > :14:34.how loyal they are to their country. Protesters demanding the death
:14:35. > :14:38.penalty for the man accused of masterminding the coup. The US
:14:39. > :14:45.-based Muslim cleric Fattullah Gulen. He denies the charges. Tens
:14:46. > :14:49.of thousands of teachers, judges and military officers have been
:14:50. > :14:54.dismissed or arrested since the uprising. President Erdogan has been
:14:55. > :14:59.accused of taking the clamp-down too far. People are gathering here with
:15:00. > :15:03.their friends, children in a massive display of solidarity. The coup
:15:04. > :15:07.attempt deeply unsettled people here. There are some parts of
:15:08. > :15:13.Turkish society which are concerned about the extent of Mr Burdekin's
:15:14. > :15:18.purges but the people here are celebrating their victory over the
:15:19. > :15:23.coup. -- President Erdogan. The scale of these demonstrations sends
:15:24. > :15:24.a powerful message. In a time of uncertainty, many Turks are rallying
:15:25. > :15:30.around their leader. An emergency has been declared
:15:31. > :15:32.in the Macedonian capital Skopje. It's after fierce rain storms
:15:33. > :15:34.and strong winds Several main roads in
:15:35. > :15:41.the city have been flooded, Reports from Skopje said the water
:15:42. > :15:46.level in the worst affected neighbourhoods left many houses
:15:47. > :15:53.flooded and without electricity. Some buildings are reported
:15:54. > :15:57.to have collapsed. Torrential rains flooded
:15:58. > :16:01.many of the city's roads with some Parts of the city's ring road
:16:02. > :16:07.was swept away, dragging cars into More than 20 people
:16:08. > :16:13.were reported to have received Army and special police
:16:14. > :16:18.units as well as trucks loaded with drinking water were seen
:16:19. > :16:23.heading for the most affected areas. Three villages in the north-east of
:16:24. > :16:26.the country were cut off because of Everything I have now
:16:27. > :16:35.has been flooded, everything I have been
:16:36. > :16:39.building has been destroyed. More rain is forecast
:16:40. > :17:00.for Sunday evening. Still to come: We will take you back
:17:01. > :17:03.to Rio to meet a man on a mission to help the children of the favelas get
:17:04. > :17:08.in touch with the country's rhythms. Here in the UK, People living
:17:09. > :17:10.in areas affected by any future extraction of shale gas could be
:17:11. > :17:13.paid thousands of pounds It's one of the options
:17:14. > :17:16.in a consultation due Kim Hagen from the Campaign
:17:17. > :17:20.to Protect Rural England said the impact of fracking went
:17:21. > :17:33.beyond individual households. It is not just individual households
:17:34. > :17:41.affected. Fracking has much wider implications and I think the first
:17:42. > :17:43.point being it concerns the industrialisation of our
:17:44. > :17:47.countryside, including areas adjacent to national parks such as
:17:48. > :17:50.the Lake District National Park which is already under pressure of
:17:51. > :17:56.development in the energy infrastructure sector. These areas
:17:57. > :18:01.as a whole will be affected. Not just the individual households in
:18:02. > :18:05.it. Think of increased traffic, noise pollution, light pollution and
:18:06. > :18:16.it is something many of these households have expressed in their
:18:17. > :18:20.concerns initially. This is BBC World News Today. The headlines:
:18:21. > :18:25.Russia is to appeal after being banned from next month Paralympics
:18:26. > :18:28.in Rio over allegations of doping. President Erdogan has addressed
:18:29. > :18:30.hundreds of thousands of people at a mass rally in Istanbul in protest
:18:31. > :18:35.against last month 's military coup. Oscar Pistorius has been treated
:18:36. > :18:37.in hospital after suffering His brother Carl has denied reports
:18:38. > :18:42.that he tried to commit suicide. The athlete is serving six years
:18:43. > :18:45.in prison for the murder of his His brother says he slipped and fell
:18:46. > :18:52.in his cell, and that reports in a local paper that his injuries
:18:53. > :18:58.were intentional are untrue. With more here's our correspondent
:18:59. > :19:12.Milton Nkosi from Johannesburg. What we know is that Oscar Pistorius
:19:13. > :19:16.was released from prison on Saturday after telling authorities in prison
:19:17. > :19:22.that he hurt his wrists after he fell from his bed but the city press
:19:23. > :19:28.newspaper say they spoke to a prison inmate who knows the section where
:19:29. > :19:34.Oscar Pistorius is locked up and he told them that Oscar Pistorius hurt
:19:35. > :19:41.his wrists intentionally. The newspaper continues to say that when
:19:42. > :19:45.they came here to this hospital west of Pretoria, two hospital guards
:19:46. > :19:51.told them that when Mr Pistorius arrived here, he had bad cuts on his
:19:52. > :19:55.wrists and doctors were rapping bandages around them. He was
:19:56. > :20:00.discharged and taken back to prison. And then Mr Pistorius was brought
:20:01. > :20:08.right here, the correctional services. His brother Carl Pistorius
:20:09. > :20:08.took to social media to say reports are untrue, baseless and
:20:09. > :20:13.sensational. The Women's Road race
:20:14. > :20:18.at the Rio Olympics was marred by a crash in the closing stages
:20:19. > :20:32.involving the Netherlands It was the gold medal won by her
:20:33. > :20:35.team-mate Anne van de Breggen but the former British Olympic champion
:20:36. > :20:41.Chris Boardman believes the Rio course was too dangerous. I
:20:42. > :20:46.mentioned earlier that I am past commenting, I'm quite angry about it
:20:47. > :20:50.because I went down there with you and we had a look at the course and
:20:51. > :20:54.we saw those edges and we knew this was way past being a technical, this
:20:55. > :21:00.was dangerous and people who designed the course and said, what
:21:01. > :21:02.safety features has seen it as well and left it.
:21:03. > :21:05.England have beaten Pakistan by 141 runs to take a 2-1 series lead
:21:06. > :21:09.After setting the tourists 343 to win.
:21:10. > :21:13.England took six wickets in the middle session of the day -
:21:14. > :21:18.Chris Woakes and Steven Finn taking four of them for one run in 23
:21:19. > :21:23.Pakistan's last-wicket pair of Sohail Khan and Rahat Ali delayed
:21:24. > :21:26.defeat with a stand of 50 in 67 balls, but Sohail was caught
:21:27. > :21:28.and bowled by Moeen Ali with 13.1 overs remaining.
:21:29. > :21:40.The final test starts at the Oval in London on Thursday.
:21:41. > :21:53.I spoke at lunchtime, on day one, it felt like, that one heavy roller at
:21:54. > :22:00.the beginning took the pace out and we just, we had to hang in there for
:22:01. > :22:06.a lot of that game. We really were fighting to stay in the game but
:22:07. > :22:11.have the belief if we could take them, it was a great credit to every
:22:12. > :22:13.of us who fought like that to win. Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored the winner
:22:14. > :22:15.as Manchester United beat Leicester City
:22:16. > :22:17.in the Community Shield In the traditional curtain raiser
:22:18. > :22:22.to the Premier League season, FA Cup winners United went
:22:23. > :22:25.ahead in the first half through Jesse Lingard,
:22:26. > :22:29.but Jamie Vardy capitalised on an error from Marouane Fellaini
:22:30. > :22:32.to equalise for the league champions Ibrahimovic's 82nd minute header
:22:33. > :22:38.gave Jose Mounriho his first And there's more good
:22:39. > :22:46.news for United fans - Paul Pogba has been granted
:22:47. > :22:48.permission by Juventus to have a medical at the club, ahead
:22:49. > :22:59.of a reported world record transfer. Hundreds of thousands of Rio's
:23:00. > :23:03.poorest people live in the favelas - basic housing that rises up
:23:04. > :23:07.into the mountains of the Olympic city and so does
:23:08. > :23:09.a trumpet-playing Englishman. He was inspired by Brazilian music -
:23:10. > :23:13.and now he's on a mission to help the children of the favelas get
:23:14. > :23:15.in touch with their Forget Wembley or the Maracana
:23:16. > :23:21.Stadium, I reckon that this is the best spot in the world
:23:22. > :23:25.to be playing football. High up in the hills, with views
:23:26. > :23:29.overlooking the city of Rio. Football is in the DNA of Brazilian
:23:30. > :23:35.kids, but there is something even What is a man from Doncaster do
:23:36. > :24:10.ending up here in the favelas? There is a link, because Doncaster
:24:11. > :24:14.has a lot of music going on, I fell in love with Brazilian music,
:24:15. > :24:23.and eventually came to Rio Rio is a really important
:24:24. > :24:29.town for Latin music, so it is sad that there are problems
:24:30. > :24:33.with music education here. Basically, four children don't
:24:34. > :24:35.get the chance to learn or play instruments,
:24:36. > :24:38.or get the chance to The system of music education
:24:39. > :24:45.in schools is not there, so I really wanted to do
:24:46. > :25:01.something about that They can't afford to buy their own
:25:02. > :25:11.instruments, so how did they get hold of them? Is a cool instruments
:25:12. > :25:17.are 2-3 times more expensive in the UK here. It reduces the chance of
:25:18. > :25:22.children buying them so we got the instruments, most are donated in the
:25:23. > :25:29.UK. Can I be part of the band? Absolutely.
:25:30. > :25:35.My dream is that we have a music tradition here that mixes the
:25:36. > :25:42.Brazilian traditions with New Orleans jazz tradition instruments
:25:43. > :25:49.and recreate something new in live music.
:25:50. > :25:57.The headlines coming up in a couple of minutes. You can get in touch
:25:58. > :26:02.with me on Twitter. That's it from me and the team. Goodbye.