07/08/2016 World News Today

This is BBC World News Today, broadcasting in the UK

The headlines: Russian athletes are banned from competing

at the Rio Paralympics following the country's doping scandal.

Tragically, this situation is not about athletes cheating the system,

but about a state-run system that is cheating the athletes.

I'm Chris Mitchell live in Rio, where Russia has announced

that's it's to appeal against the IPC decision.

I'll bring you the latest on that and today's Olympics action.

President Oden has addressed thousands of people at a mass rally

in Istanbul in protest against last month's military coup.

A state of emergency is declared in Macedonia after 20 people die

And Oscar Pistorius is treated in hospital

for injuries to his wrists - his brother denies speculation

The International Paralympic Committee has banned the entire

Russian team from competing in next month's Paralympic Games.

It's because of what it called the country's state

Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko offered full support

to the Russian Paralympic Committee to appeal the decision.

Let's get more reaction from our sports correspondent

Is this a surprise given the IOC's decision not to introduce a blanket

ban on athletes? This also prized many, many people in the sporting

world because it is only days ago now that the International Olympic

Committee chose another course, but the IPC and the IOC are working on

the same information, from the same report, the McLaren report

commissioned and suggested that Russians should be banned from the

Olympic Games. Taking place right now behind me but there are Russians

there competing. They will not be Russians competing at the Paralympic

games taking place in just a few weeks' time. I would say various

great surprise at this from onlookers looking in perhaps, people

feeling different. They had a feeling the IPC, it is younger and

has less pressure from outside sources on it, but it was

interesting to see the head of the IPC be so with the ring in what he

called the disgusting way that Russian athletes and athletics and

state-sponsored doping has been allowed to happen. He did not mince

his words. The facts do hard. They are an unprecedented attack on every

clean athlete who competes in sport. The anti-doping system in Russia is

broken, corrupted and entirely compromised. The Paralympic movement

is one giant family and I had hoped that something like this would never

rear its ugly head in our movement. Everything we have observed goes

against the very spirit of sports and everything the Paralympic

movement stands for. This is why we feel that we had no option but to

take this action. Tragically this situation is not about athletes

cheating the system. It is about a state-run system that is cheating

the athlete. I believe the Russian government is catastrophically

failed its power athletes. Their medals over morals mentality

disgusts me. The complete corruption at the anti-doping system is

contrary to the rules and strikes at the very heart of the spirit that

Paralympics sport. It shows a blatant disregard for the health and

well-being of athletes and quite simply has no place in Paralympic

sports. Their thirst for glory at all costs has severely damage the

integrity and image of all sports and has certainly resulted in a

devastating outcome to the Russian Paralympic committee and para

athletes. As I said, he did not mince his words at all. I am joined

by Ed Harry, the BBC's Paralympic athletics commentator. Why have the

international Paralympic committee taken a different route to the IOC?

They have both read the same report, the McLaren report on the eve of

these Olympic Games. It says the IOC have not talked to me about the

report. Instead of taking it for what it cities which is evidence of

a broken system, the IOC has picked out individual names to ban. The IPC

have never stopped speaking to Richard McLaren. It has been a

constant back and forth between them and they agree with him, it is

evidence of a broken system and a system which involved in Russia para

athletes, athletes between 2012 - 15 whose positive samples were hushed

up and released as negatives and secondly at the Sochi Winter

Paralympic games, samples were tampered with and replaced with

clean ones. Enough evidence save the IPC to issue this band. Listening to

Sir Philip Craven, he did not mince his words. The president of the IOC

was far more diplomatic. You know Sir Philip Craven, why has he chosen

such strong words? The International Paralympic committee has never been

touched by a scandal like this and going back to the first report, the

IPC said time and again what it did not show up concerning Paralympic

sport. But their dialogue with Richard McLellan has revealed it

most certainly is. They are the governing body in so many cases for

their sports. It's a point I made in my preamble is that the

International Paralympic committee is younger and perhaps has less

pressure on it. Is there any truth to that? You can say less pressure

from some sponsors. Much has been said of any personal relationship

member says have with members of the Russian government but this is the

head of a governing body saying he is disgusted with how a government

has acted. There has been strong rebuttal of that. The sports

Minister of Russia has said they will fight for their Paralympic

place and the head of the Paralympic committee has said it is a huge

injustice but Sir Philip Craven says he feels sympathy for clean athletes

but they have broken the rules. They cannot be a member. They cannot be a

member of the Paralympic community at this time. I want to bring in

Kate Gray, a former Paralympics for Great Britain. Kate, briefly, what

were your thoughts when you had that Russia had been banned? When I heard

the news and I know other athletes felt the same, was shock and

surprise. We thought the Paralympics would follow the IOC. That has not

been the case. I think for many of the athletes, we were not expecting

it at all. We assumed it would continue on and Russia would compete

at the highest level, but that isn't happening. Speaking to fellow

athletes, they were surprised this has happened but I guess they

received enough information to believe Russia should not be allowed

to take part and that is the process they will follow. Kate, how will

this affect the Paralympics? Russia have a big team, will we noticed

that they are not there? That was my immediate thought because Russia

finished second on the medals table in London 2012. They are a dominant

force, one of the leading nations in Paralympic sport said there will be

a big gap when those athletes do not compete. I am a former swimmer,

Russia has always been one of the top nations in swimming and there

will be laid is empty because they are not competing and for those

athletes that are clean, is it fair for them to be not competing there?

It will have an impact on the competition in Rio. You know Sir

Philip Craven as well, you have spoken to him many times and you

have heard what he has had to say today. Were you surprised that he

was so strong with his criticism of Russia and their system? I think he

was conscious of isolating the Paralympic committee from the IOC.

He wanted people to believe they had gone about their own investigations

to make this decision and they wanted to show they were not going

to have cheats. We might be a new and growing movement, but he was not

going to stand for any cheating, he wants it to be a fair, clean, equal

playing field and that's why he said what he said. He did not mince his

words, he almost seemed angry, frustrated and I guess that is the

case because I have been in sport for over ten years whether competing

or beyond that, and I have never come across doping, especially on

that level. He is properly shocked like everyone else is that it has

been taken to such a high level. Thank you very much. Appreciate you

joining us here. Pegs or so to Ed Harry. The games continue here in

Rio. We had a spectacular road race in the cycling. This time for the

women. It was just as thrilling. Anna van de Breggen got it. She is

now the gold medallist. Lizzie Armitstead, the British rider who

was here even though she missed three out of competition drug tests,

one was expunged so she was able to compete, she was a medal prospect

but she could only manage fifth place. Plenty of crashes in that

race but everybody is OK. That was perhaps the biggest story of the day

but they will be more here in Rio because we have the swimming finals

coming up later and it will be our first chance to get a closer look at

Michael Phelps. He has 18 gold medals, he retired after London, but

he thought he would come back here and get if you more. He will be in

the relay tonight before he begins his butterfly exploits tomorrow. We

will see you again here but back to you.

To Turkey where hundreds of thousands of people are attending

a mass rally in the country's largest city, Istanbul.

It's to protest against last month's attempted coup

President Erdogan has been addressing the crowds.

He said the coup attempt shows that the nation is not just

resilient against political, economic, and diplomatic attacks

A sea of red flags. Turkish people gathered in an unprecedented show of

support for their country and their president. After the coup attempt of

the 15th of July, he now appears stronger than ever. Similar rallies

were held across the country. The president said he would take action

against those behind the coup, possibly reintroducing the death

penalty. TRANSLATION:

They say there is no death penalty in the EU. Well the US has it, Japan

has it, China has it, most of the world has it said they are allowed

to have it. We used to have it until 1984. Sovereignty belongs to the

people so if the people make the decision, I'm sure political parties

will comply. For his supporters this was a moment of triumph after decade

us and fear of the night of the failed uprising. Turks are

determined to have democracy. God knows how many people are here and

they from different political views, different religions and all are here

to show that despite all our differences, we want to live in

solidarity, upholding democracy. But it was not just followers of the

president who joined in the valleys. The opposition took part also

although the Kurdish party was not invited.

TRANSLATION: The world is seeing the Turkish

people today. They are seeing how successful and determined we are,

how loyal they are to their country. Protesters demanding the death

penalty for the man accused of masterminding the coup. The US

-based Muslim cleric Fattullah Gulen. He denies the charges. Tens

of thousands of teachers, judges and military officers have been

dismissed or arrested since the uprising. President Erdogan has been

accused of taking the clamp-down too far. People are gathering here with

their friends, children in a massive display of solidarity. The coup

attempt deeply unsettled people here. There are some parts of

Turkish society which are concerned about the extent of Mr Burdekin's

purges but the people here are celebrating their victory over the

coup. -- President Erdogan. The scale of these demonstrations sends

a powerful message. In a time of uncertainty, many Turks are rallying

around their leader. An emergency has been declared

in the Macedonian capital Skopje. It's after fierce rain storms

and strong winds Several main roads in

the city have been flooded, Reports from Skopje said the water

level in the worst affected neighbourhoods left many houses

flooded and without electricity. Some buildings are reported

to have collapsed. Torrential rains flooded

many of the city's roads with some Parts of the city's ring road

was swept away, dragging cars into More than 20 people

were reported to have received Army and special police

units as well as trucks loaded with drinking water were seen

heading for the most affected areas. Three villages in the north-east of

the country were cut off because of Everything I have now

has been flooded, everything I have been

building has been destroyed. More rain is forecast

for Sunday evening. Still to come: We will take you back

to Rio to meet a man on a mission to help the children of the favelas get

in touch with the country's rhythms. Here in the UK, People living

in areas affected by any future extraction of shale gas could be

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in a consultation due Kim Hagen from the Campaign

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affected. Fracking has much wider implications and I think the first

point being it concerns the industrialisation of our

countryside, including areas adjacent to national parks such as

the Lake District National Park which is already under pressure of

development in the energy infrastructure sector. These areas

as a whole will be affected. Not just the individual households in

it. Think of increased traffic, noise pollution, light pollution and

it is something many of these households have expressed in their

concerns initially. This is BBC World News Today. The headlines:

Russia is to appeal after being banned from next month Paralympics

in Rio over allegations of doping. President Erdogan has addressed

hundreds of thousands of people at a mass rally in Istanbul in protest

against last month 's military coup. Oscar Pistorius has been treated

in hospital after suffering His brother Carl has denied reports

that he tried to commit suicide. The athlete is serving six years

in prison for the murder of his His brother says he slipped and fell

in his cell, and that reports in a local paper that his injuries

were intentional are untrue. With more here's our correspondent

Milton Nkosi from Johannesburg. What we know is that Oscar Pistorius

was released from prison on Saturday after telling authorities in prison

that he hurt his wrists after he fell from his bed but the city press

newspaper say they spoke to a prison inmate who knows the section where

Oscar Pistorius is locked up and he told them that Oscar Pistorius hurt

his wrists intentionally. The newspaper continues to say that when

they came here to this hospital west of Pretoria, two hospital guards

told them that when Mr Pistorius arrived here, he had bad cuts on his

wrists and doctors were rapping bandages around them. He was

discharged and taken back to prison. And then Mr Pistorius was brought

right here, the correctional services. His brother Carl Pistorius

took to social media to say reports are untrue, baseless and

sensational. The Women's Road race

at the Rio Olympics was marred by a crash in the closing stages

involving the Netherlands It was the gold medal won by her

team-mate Anne van de Breggen but the former British Olympic champion

Chris Boardman believes the Rio course was too dangerous. I

mentioned earlier that I am past commenting, I'm quite angry about it

because I went down there with you and we had a look at the course and

we saw those edges and we knew this was way past being a technical, this

was dangerous and people who designed the course and said, what

safety features has seen it as well and left it.

England have beaten Pakistan by 141 runs to take a 2-1 series lead

After setting the tourists 343 to win.

England took six wickets in the middle session of the day -

Chris Woakes and Steven Finn taking four of them for one run in 23

Pakistan's last-wicket pair of Sohail Khan and Rahat Ali delayed

defeat with a stand of 50 in 67 balls, but Sohail was caught

and bowled by Moeen Ali with 13.1 overs remaining.

The final test starts at the Oval in London on Thursday.

I spoke at lunchtime, on day one, it felt like, that one heavy roller at

the beginning took the pace out and we just, we had to hang in there for

a lot of that game. We really were fighting to stay in the game but

have the belief if we could take them, it was a great credit to every

of us who fought like that to win. Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored the winner

as Manchester United beat Leicester City

in the Community Shield In the traditional curtain raiser

to the Premier League season, FA Cup winners United went

ahead in the first half through Jesse Lingard,

but Jamie Vardy capitalised on an error from Marouane Fellaini

to equalise for the league champions Ibrahimovic's 82nd minute header

gave Jose Mounriho his first And there's more good

news for United fans - Paul Pogba has been granted

permission by Juventus to have a medical at the club, ahead

of a reported world record transfer. Hundreds of thousands of Rio's

poorest people live in the favelas - basic housing that rises up

into the mountains of the Olympic city and so does

a trumpet-playing Englishman. He was inspired by Brazilian music -

and now he's on a mission to help the children of the favelas get

in touch with their Forget Wembley or the Maracana

Stadium, I reckon that this is the best spot in the world

to be playing football. High up in the hills, with views

overlooking the city of Rio. Football is in the DNA of Brazilian

kids, but there is something even What is a man from Doncaster do

ending up here in the favelas? There is a link, because Doncaster

has a lot of music going on, I fell in love with Brazilian music,

and eventually came to Rio Rio is a really important

town for Latin music, so it is sad that there are problems

with music education here. Basically, four children don't

get the chance to learn or play instruments,

or get the chance to The system of music education

in schools is not there, so I really wanted to do

something about that They can't afford to buy their own

instruments, so how did they get hold of them? Is a cool instruments

are 2-3 times more expensive in the UK here. It reduces the chance of

children buying them so we got the instruments, most are donated in the

UK. Can I be part of the band? Absolutely.

My dream is that we have a music tradition here that mixes the

Brazilian traditions with New Orleans jazz tradition instruments

and recreate something new in live music.

The headlines coming up in a couple of minutes. You can get in touch

with me on Twitter. That's it from me and the team. Goodbye.