that if the matter was not heard immediately, they would approach the courts as a position that is unfair because there has been a lot of the parole board and the ministry getting involved. thank you. well certainly if this parole board decides today that oscar pistorius can have now correctional supervision, we ll get reaction there from pretoria. and we ll certainly talk with ms. steenkamp s family, or hopefully get some comments from them as well. well, the top three officials at fifa are off the job. at least temporarily. this includes long-time president sepp blatter. the disciplinary arm of world football s governing body handed out provisional 90-day bans thursday amid the ongoing corruption probe. the head of european football michel platini and jerome were
accuse the disciplinary judges of not understanding their own rules. you know, they were personally quite almost intemperate statements in response. so they obviously feel very hard done by. i want to ask you, keir, if the suspensions hold, meantime, whose running fifa and how does fifa begin to repair or operate as the world body in the midst of all of this? would this give them some sort of breather to try to restore some integrity? well, at the moment, fifa is sort of flat lining. under the rules, the senior vice president is the head of the african confederation from cameroon has taken over as interim president. he insists he doesn t want the job full-time. fifa itself in terms of the day-to-day operations is just carrying on. i mean football all around the world is continuing. people are going out to play
immediately and could be exte extended. fifa presidential candidate also was banned for six years. the current fifa vice president now takes over. he s also the head of the confederation of african football. the long-time soccer administration has had its own problems. in 2011, the international olympic committee sanctioned him for taking cash from a sports marketing firm. the drama at fifa goes on. one of the football stars is facing trouble of his own. lionel messi stands trial on three counts of income tax fraud. the 28-year-old barcelona star could be sentenced up to four years in prison if found guilty. messi s father is facing the same charges. the embattled mayor is resigning his post after scandal over a credit card expenses. he made the announcement thursday after facing weeks of pressure for critics who blame him for the state of the italian capital. he denies claims that he used
the u.s. accuses russia of hitting the wrong country with missiles meant to hit syria. plus i think i shocked somebody. shocked indeed. the man expected to be the next u.s. house speaker dropped out of the race. now republicans face quite a mess. and later, fifa president sepp blatter was once considered untouchable. now he is under a 90-day ban. and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. cnn newsroom continues this hour live from atlanta. i m natalie allen. and thank you for joining us. our top story this hour, u.s.
ago the united states lost out in the bid for the 2022 world cup to qatar. that is what got people thinking about how rigged the process is how corrupt this organization is. and now we see the result of this investigation by the fbi and the irs. we have jeffrey webb who s the current fifa vice president among those that has been arrested and charged. the former vice president jack warner is also charged. and we have officials from venezuela, brazil uruguay, costa rica all now under arrest. and we expect more arrests happening around the world now. you have two interesting dynamics. one, the head guy isn t going down. but those around him are. and you have the fbi is involved which obviously raises the question of the u.s. connections here. they were up for the bid that they lost to qatar. what is the tie-in here? well that is very much what got this all started is that people saw the bidding process and knew it s widely believed that it was rigged.