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
Education are disbursed by riot police. We begin with breaking news story in the last hour there has been two bombs in the iraqi capital baghdad. We know that the blasts targeted hotels and 10 people at least 10 people are reported to have been killed. Our reporter imran kahn is on the phone and joins me live now from the iraqi capital. Imran, what do we know about the areas targeted . Reporter well, what we do know is that bombs went off in the certainty of town. I was actually in my office when i heard what was likely to be the first explosion percentage one of the loudest explosions i have heard. We are in the center of town. The explosion probably took place near a thole which is very popular with Foreign Tourists and foreign n. G. O. Workers rather and journalists. The second bomb went off near the sheraton which is another hotel popular with local people here. Its the beginning of the weekend here, so people is would have been outgoing to the hotels meeting friends and family, et
Sepp blatter promises to clean up after winning a third fourth time as fifas president. And the claims of preeminence in the South China Sea. A massive rescue operation in the be mediterranean in the past 24 hours. The total number of people rescued on friday is one of the highest in recent years. Coast guard said distress calls were made from 22 different boats on friday. Stefanie dekker is here in the studio shes recently returned from reporting from the sicilian town of catania. Over 4,000 people in one day what is this a record . It is not a record which goes to show how many people are attempting this crossing, just in the period of 24 hours we have had reports from these dinghies, seven wooden boats packed with people, they had many boats dealing with this operations just the italians hang on, some days you had over 4,000 people . I was there and the number was over 10,000 in just two days. The assess are calm, when the smugglers will set off the boats. The people when they come
A crackdown on corruption in soccer. Nine soccer officials and five Corporate Executives have been charged. They call it a 24yearlong conspiracy involving 150 million in kickbacks. In zurich switzerland, fifa is holding a News Conference. Earlier, swiss Police Arrested six officials. Fifa has been accused of corruption for years. Russia and qatar have been named top posts. This firs for fifa is good. It is, in terms of cleaning up and everything of what it is, in terms of the process, it is good. Vonnie we have more on this in a few minutes and all morning. Time is running short for greece. Greek officials are meeting in brussels. Greece must pay the imf 8 billion early next month. Bloomberg news reports little has been found in recent talks. Greece is balking at making reforms in labor laws and sales tax. Cyber crooks have used the irs website to steal information on more than 100,000 taxpayers. They used that data to file face to file fake tax returns and irs Officials Say they remov
Week. All of a sudden he was getting another term. Today this. What happened . Wolf we were speaking on friday and talking about potentially the most historic week in the history of the planets most popular sport and now i can safely say this is the most momentous day in the sport of soccer. Weve never seen anything like it. Im flabbergasted and a loss for words which isnt great for a correspondent but sepp blatter at fifa 40 years, this year his 40th anniversary, the third longest serving president in fifas history, the world governing body for soccer but his fifth term has lasted only four days. He was reelected at the age of 9 on friday, beating challenger prince ali bin al hussein in a week two investigations in switzerland and the United States saw dawn raids, arrests and indictments like a hollywood mafia movie and since blatters reelection on friday day after day has seen more lines, developments and scandals and seems blatter has bowed to pressure and getquit wolf. Only the oth