Education are disbursed by riot police. In sport with those fifa president ial elections less than 24 hours way we examine the credentials of the only man left in the race to stop sepp blatter claiming a fifth term. Fifa boss sepp blatter is refuse to go resign despite the deepening crisis at footballs world governing body. Hes told the opening of Fifas Congress that he cannot be held responsible for the Corruption Scandal which saw sefo visuals arrested in zurich on wednesday. The head of uefa which represents european football situations says he asked blat tore step down air. Vote on friday will now decide if blatters gets a fifth term at fifas president. A majority of uefa members are expected to back his only rival. Jordans prince hussein. But the russian president has defended blatter criticizing the u. S. For medaling in fifa affairs. Lawrence lee reports now from the headquarters of fifa, zurich. Reporter if you have been on the moon since tuesday night you would be forgiven for
Nigeria during a suicide bombing and rocket attacks. Plus. I have no concerns about that and i have especially no concerns about my person. Sepp blatter defiant as the Corruption Scandal engulfing f. I. F. A. Rumbles on. And i have all the sport, including well find out from africa why f. I. F. A. s president is so popular across the continent. Details later in the programme. Hello, there a warm welcome to this hour of news. A massive rescue operation has taken place in italy during one of the busiest periods for migrant traffic this year. More than 4,200 people have been saved in the mediterranean in just the last 24 hours. They were pulled from a number of boats from rescue teams from italy, ireland and germany, the latest development in a growing crisis. Since january, 1,800 people have died or gone missing, making the perilous journey. Reporter in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, this was a scramble to stay afloat. A desperate scene repeated many times over. A german frigate wa
Are plorkses and politicians andpoliticians and military figures. Fighters from Islamic State of iraq and the levant have launched a string of attacks on Iraqi Military targets in anbar problems of. Eight car bombs killed at least 20 soldiers. In a separate assault another 13 soldiers died if a rocket attack. The city has seen the heaviest fighting in the last weeks. Imran khan has the story. I. S. I. L. Once again using car bombs to devastating effect. Now the Iraqi Security force ves ashave a problem. Dont have the kind of reconnaissance and intelligence to stop these suicide bombs in advance. Some of the weapons they are using are ineffective against reinforced car bombs. This is something i. S. I. L. Is becoming very good at. Splitting iraqi forces in half and able to attack military bases as well as civilian and military targets. Lisa stark what were seeing is the shelling of habane average air base, where the majority of force he are based. Thats not to say the Iraqi Security for
East holds. You cranian ukranian authorities dispute this. Im phil lavelle at the Venice Film Festival. We are about to find out who has won the big prize, the golden lion, join us shortly as we go through the contenders. He only took over the presidency in june. Egypts president has been forced to explain himself on television. They suffered a massive blackout on thursday morning in cairo, and protests quickly followed. Here is some of what abdul fatah alsisi had to say. Translation we should be aware that part of the crisis cant be remedied overnight. Let me remind you of my contract. I said we, egyptians have insurmountable obstacles to overcome, and we cant do it without your support. Lets get a point of view from a journalist who suffered. I think you got your power back. Tell us a little about the scale of the problem. The scale of the problem is that food is going bad in restaurants, and people go to eat, and the stuff people are suffering in hospital because of the lack of elec
Latest poll shows 53 will vote no. The u. S. Secretary of state john kerry is in baghdad where he met iraqs Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi. President barack obama is expected to announce a new strategy against the Islamic State fighters in iraq. King a abdullah is holding a coalition that includes nine mostly European Countries as well as the u. S. John kerry has announced 48 million in additional u. S. Aid to help iraqis forced from their homes by the fighting. Hes praised the creation of iraqs new government and said more must be done to give stability back to the country. Obviously the hard work is very far from over. We all know that. In many ways its just beginning. Establishing a government doesnt mean a lot if it is not able to governor effectively or doesnt governor inclusively. And it particularly needs to governor inclusively in order to represent the interests of all the iraqi people. We talk with john hedron who joins us from erbil. What do iraqi politicians want from this