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pulls out of the fifa presidential elections. iran s president says there is a high voter turn out in the country s first elections since the lifting of international sanctions. people are voting in two polls one for parliament and one for the body of experts. a large number of hopefuls have been banned from running, around 12,000 people wanted to stand for the 290-seat parliament, but only 5,000 were given the go ahead. reporter: all sides appealed for a high turnout, and it looks like the voters have listened, throughout iran polling was brisk. the supreme leader cast one of the first ballots. translator: reports indicate a massive turn out. reporter: rouhani, standing for reelection in the assembly of experts is hoping for a turn out similar to the 72% that made him president 2.5 years ago. turnout like this should favor the reformists. they are hoping to make a big dent, enabling rouhani to encourage more investment in this economy. translator: we want ....
iran s high-stakes elections. and donald trump gets the backing of former rival, chris christie as a u.s. presidential candidate. football s world governing body has elected infantino as its new president. infantino came out on top with 115 votes after the second round of voting ahead of bay rain s sheikh salman who got 88 votes. he now faces the job of restoring fifa s badly tarnished image. as lee wellings reports. [ cheers ] reporter: chosen by fifa as the man to lead them into a cleaner future. the swiss was only standing for president because his boss in europe, michelle platini was banned for corruption. the favorite was sheikh salman, but he won with a major 115 votes to salman s 88, in the first vote to go to a second round in over 40 years. we will restore the image and respect of fifa, and everyone in the world will applaud us and will applaud all of you for what we ll do in fifa in the future. we have to be proud of fifa, and everyone has to be prou ....
people are present in the political situation in iran. moderate tests of the president hassan rouhani, and major endorsement. i m proud to be here to endorse donald trump for president of the united states. chris christie endorses donald trump. and the new president of soccer s international governing body promises to restore trust in the scandal-plagued fifa. good evening, i m antonio mora, this is al jazeera america s international news hour. we begin in syria where it appears the guns have mostly fallen silent for the first time in nearly five years. a monitor being group and the united nations are reporting only scattered fighting since a truce took effect five hours ago. the syrian government and nearly a hundred rebel groups agreed to abide by the ceasefir ceasefiree heavy fighting rained up until deadline. i.s.i.l. and the al qaed qaeda-affiliate el new nusra frt is not included. our diplomatic editor james bays has the story. boarambassadors said this wa ....
strongest endorsement yet plus, the new man heading fifa, gianni infantino. a is hiation of hostilities in syria has come into effect. the united nations security council voted unanimously to back it and most of the warring sides have agreed to lay down arms or the two weeks. now the u.n. envoy on syria says that if the deal holds, talks to end the war will resume on march 7th. the main syrian opposition says that almost 100 rebel factions have agreed to respect the suspension of hogs tilts but that doesn t include one of the most powerful groups in the country, the al qaeda linked el nusra front or i.s.i.l. calling to intensify attacks on government forces. hours before the deal came into force the fighting hadn t stopped. the syrian observatory for human rights says at least 40 were killed in air viek strikes in te damascus territory. our diplomatic editor james bays reports. ambassadorsed were addressed by the u.n. special envoy for syria who said this was a cruc ....
our main story this monday morning here in asia, china has stepped up its efforts to restore stability in the economy, saying there is no basis for a creationist for appreciation. where did you go, joe? that was the question. i have been asking this repeatedly. since august, there was not a lot of comment. he had his deputy give a press conference at two days after that in august, or is in as in 2005, the architect of the yuan liberalization was on state media within 48 hours of that big the pegging from the dollar in 2005, this time, he was kind of silence. he had maybe a few comments of the g-20 meeting, he was not a davos. double joe resurfaced in a time magazine article where he basically went down a long list of concerns. , there is no basis fall, theing yuan pboc has been sending it since that august evaluation. he says balance of payments are good, he says outflows are normal. exchange rate is stable, even though it is down 1.25% again. there is outbou ....