>> today we're issuing fifa a red card. >> seven top fifa officials arrested on u.s. bribery charges. the swiss separately investigate the world cup bidding process. >> hello this is al jazeera live from london. also coming up, the iraqi security forces close in on ramadi but isil suicide bombers have killed dozens of soldiers. the e.u. asked mep states to take in 40,000 syrian asylum

seekers. texas storm relateed deaths rise to 19. >> a warm welcome to the program. football's world governing body is being accused of rampant systemic and deep-rooted corruption. charges have been brought by the u.s. against a number of fifa executives although not against the president seth blatter. seven executives were arrested in their swiss hotel on wednesday. they including eugenio giueredo and jeffrey webb, now the suspects are suspected of paying or receiving bribes over $100 million dating back to the 1990s. separately switzerland has begun

it's own criminal investigation into mismanagement and money laundering specifically related to the world cup tournament tournaments awardment to russia and qatar in 2018 and 2022. >> corruption allegations have been swirling around fifa for years. >> they were expected to up hold the rules that keep soccer honest and to protect the integrity of the game. instead they corrupted the business of worldwide soccer to serve their interests and enrich themselves. >> the alleged crimes stretch back more than two decades. >> this really is the world cup of fraud and today we're issuing fifa a red card. >> the u.s. justice department has a wide range of powers which means it can investigate any criminal activity which touches the u.s. u u.s. banks or service

providers. the corruption links to commercial deals and tv deals stretching back to the 1990s. jack warner said that there is nothing new in the allegations. >> it does seem strange that the u.s. >> chief of brazilian football over saw world cup in brazil, in zurich fifa insist that the arrest also help to fight corruption. >> it confirms that we are on the right track. it hurts. it's not easy. but this is the only way to go. >> around the world these leaders arrests brought more

anger than shock. >> it's absurd. they have loads of money, loads of cash, indeed. in the meantime we have lots of brazilians struggling to survive. >> it's not a surprise. they got a lot of money for the world cup. they built up a the stadiums, and they left brazil and the country even worse. >> fbi agents raided concacaf headquarters. this is the start of a separate investigation into the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 world cups. for tournaments in russia and qatar are still planned to go ahead but global sponsors will be watching closely. it no action has been taken against fifa president seth blatter below is due to stand for re-election in the next few days. he's expected to win. >> al jazeera's andy richardson is in zurich with more on how

fifa is dealing with the arrests. >> it's interesting why fifa have tried to deal with--i want to say fifa, but those surrounding separating seth blatter and said that the investigation was something that they welcome and it was a consequence of information they had given to swiss authority and seth blatt er was not involved was not implicated. now how long you can carry on with the argument that the fifa president is divorced and dissociated with what is going on from almost every levels beneath him is an interesting one. but we do know that regardless of all that this is going on, he's still enormously popular. friday's election against hussein from jordan. he has support of and the

millions generate, and the way blatter has redistributed those millions to i am impoverished nations to develop football, he should win. >> at least 55 iraqi soldiers have been killed in a wave of suicide-bombings by the islamic state in iraq and the levant. the bombers attacked military convoy during a sandstorm near fallujah in anbar province. it's not clear how many bombers there were. the military said they were attacked from multiple sides. it happened the day after iraq announced the major offensive to try to retake anbar from isil. we have the latest now from baghdad. >> shia militias mount an

assault on isil fighters north of ramadi. there has been sporadic fighting as both sides prepare to battle for ramadi. security forces are trying to take control of roads into towns and villages held by isil. they're using shelling to target isil fighters and cut off their main supply lines. once the towns and villages are secured, then the push for ramadi will begin. >> our aim is to meet our forces from other fronts. operations have exclusively shelling and advancing towards isil fighters. >> however the iraqi army tactics are failing because they can't prevent suicide car bombings. >> the iraqi security forces lack the intelligence and the reconnaissance to prevent the attacks before they happen. and also the vehicles that isil use are heavily armored. the weapons the army use can sometimes be ineffective.

>> despite that the operation goes on. this is the major supply line to anbar province for iraqi security forces. it's used by both military and civilian contractors. military operations in anbar could come to a standstill if isil ever managed to close this highway. surrounding baghdad you see these. they call defense lines. now in many ways it's a very apt title because it's the last line of defense before the capital it is. after here you get the headquarters of the 4th brigades. they're in charge of reinforcements and logistics. keeping the road open between here and anbar province and keeping the military supply is crucial. >> but equally crucial is how to deal with the car bombs isil is increasingly using. adapting to new threats is a new part of warfare but it appears that's something that the iraqi security forces have yet to learn. al jazeera baghdad. >> isil fighters are reported to have killed 20 men in front of a

crowd in an ancient roman theater in the city of palmyra. the men accused of fighting for the syrian regime were shot dead. it's nearly a week since isil seized pal maya, which is an unesco world heritage site. saudi led coalition began airstrikes against houthi rebels. at least 45 people were killed in sanaa. almost 300 people were injured. elsewhere yemeni forces say that forces almost completely destroyed naval base. well sanaa has been experiencing the bombings and the capital has become a terrifying place to live. >> yesterday it was relatively calm. there was nothing going on until

about 10:00 in the morning, and since 10:00 it was continuous explosions for about five hours. three airstrikes hit the central security force and the heart of the city around 10:30 and hit a weapons depot. for six hours it was explosions one after the hour, and shook the entire house the entire neighborhood and then schools people who people were killed during the airstrike. people are afraid. it's an awful way to be right now. it's become a target, the entire city has become a target for airstrikes. >> burundi's president is campaigning in the countryside

despite protests against him running for a third term. this after he requested that burundis help pay for his third term election. >> this woman cannot believe her brother was shot and killed by police. he was protesting against burundi's president running for a third term in the june presidential election. >> my baby brother is dead. how can he be so cruel. >> this broken family has to find ways to cope. elsewhere another family is concerned about the situation in burundi. the president is determined to run in the elections which violates the constitution. he has asked burundians in an tv effort to pay for the polls. >> people have no money. we have not been working because

of the protests. maybe they can but we can't. >> is this has angered protesters even more. they seem determined to force the president out. >> they say they're willing to do what it takes. but others say that dialogue the right force. but both sides gray they need to find a solution. until a solution is found street protest seems to be the only option, with you but they accuse the police of using unreasonable force to disperse them. >> it's not true. sometimes the police shoot in the air to disrupt the demonstrators. the demonstrators who are trying

to kill someone in this case the police can shoot in the air to disperse the demonstrators. >> several people have died in weeks of protests. there could be more if this crisis is not resolved soon. al jazeera. >> still ahead find out why caused the german city to carry out its biggest evacuation in post-war history. and a wasp named after a harry potter character and a frog with a spikey back. some of the 139 knew 139 new species unveiled to the world.

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>> welcome back. a reminder now of the top stories here on al jazeera. football's world governing body fifa has been accused of systemic corruption following the arrest of seven executives accused of accepting bribes. besides the u.s. fifa is also being investigated by switzerland with regarding the awards of the world cup in russia and qatar. a convoy was hit by multiple suicide-bombings by isil. and the deadliest day of the saudi-led coalition so far. 45 people were killed when a military base in sanaa were hit by two consecutive airstrikes. european union has asked its member states to take in 40,000 asylum seekers over the next two years. it would be nationals from syria

and eiretrea. >> the italian navy brings nearly 300 migrants into port, but one man did not survive the journey. rescuers believe he suffocated under the deck. just one of the nearly 2,000 desperate people who have died in the mediterranean since the beginning of the year. now the e.u. commissioner for migration has a simple but controversial proposal, the individual member states agree to give refuge to tens of thousands of asylum seekers. >> there is a proposal to bring migrants across the european union. we do not proposal the fixing of quarters. it's a word we don't like and we have never used. all this is about insuring but

it is up to each member state to decide on how many persons they will grant refugee status. >> asof the 40,000 my grants needin need, they ask germany to take in 8763. france 6752. spain, to accept 4288. senior officials here are appealing to european governments to show compassion and listen up live up to their international responsibilities, but they say the figures the e.u. are talking about are tiny compared to the millions of people fleeing conflict in the middle east and africa. these migrants were rescued after making the dangerous journey to libya, a place identified as a key point on the

route for the people smugglers. destroying the smuggleer boats would require the agreement of the e.u. governments. >> destroying the boats would end up depriving very limited means of those people. >> the plan to offer thousands of these people a permanent home in europe is a voluntary scheme, and the united kingdom is one country that has opted out. >> there should be much more interest in dealing with the source of these difficulties. actually finding the criminals who are actually involved in the trafficking of these poor people, and actually holding them to account. and actually putting more resources into the countries where they arrive in europe. >> they are taking their first tentative steps on european

soil. despite the dangers of the journey, many will follow them, and there is little they can do to deter them. al jazeera brussels. >> britain's queen elizabeth ii has unveiled conservative's government political program for the next four years. amongst the measures unveiled, a referendum on whether the u.k. should leave the e.u. we have more. >> the queen's speech no austerity here but pomp and ceremony but the bucket load. the queen will outline what her government will accomplish in the new parliamentary term. and given the collapse of the traditional opposition labor the prime minister now has a gift of an opportunity to reframe the u.k. in its relation

with europe is at the heart. >> the e.u. has changed since 1975 and it's time that the british people once again had their say. we have a strategy, a very clear strategy of renegotiation reform and referendum. the bill in the queen's speech said that the referendum should take the place by the end of the the 2017. >> many workers find their life in the u.k. less than reassured. if they cannot find a job quickly they may not be able to stay at all. >> the idea is to make life less comfortable for people who are here and sending messages back. they will be their own grapevines and networks. they'll be calling for their friends and relatives saying you'll have a tough time when you come to the u.k. and you have to think if you are even going to bother.

>> newspapers say they have more rights than their own citizens. rightly or wrongly many voteers believe that it will be easier to accomplish if the u.k. leaves the e.u. it will be the dominant topic of conversation for the next two years. >> by and large business wants to stay in europe and campaigners will stand up for a fight against the hard right wing. >> we wouldn't be able to get rid of all of the rules. as an example norway, that is outside of the e.u. but traders in the market, they have to comply with 75% of the e.u. rules. even if we left we wouldn't be able to stop crying with lots of the rules. >> in the labor party does not have a leader yet. so the loudest voice of britain

staying in the. e.u. is the scottish national party. england's love-hate relationship with europe will be decided in this parliament. >> many thousands to leave their homes in cologne in the biggest evacuation in post-war history. there was an discovery of a massive world war ii bomb in the construction site in the suburbs. disposal experts were called in to clear the area. >> the special thing about this find is that the bomb is very large with the weight of 1,000 kilograms. of that about 60% that have weight is explosives. if it were to explode a massive area would be effected. >> columbia's farc rebels warn president santos that peace

talks can't progress with bloodshed. it follows the death of one of their peace negotiators in government airstrikes last week. he was visiting the troops to discuss peace talks. now the death toll from flooding in the u.s. state of texas and oklahoma has now risen to 19. thousands of homes are damaged and more rain has been falling threatening to complicate the cleanup especially in houston where two more storm-related deaths have been reported. rescuers are still looking for a dozen people in texas who have gone missing during those powerful storms. well gabriel elizondo is live for us in wimberley, texas. how are people coping knowing that there is more severe weather on the way? >> yes, there has been really bad weather here. we're in wimberley but we just

moved and to the city of houston. they saw record flooding here overnight. we're underneath an underpass that is still completely shutdown as they're trying to continue clean up with heavy machinery. i'll pan out to my left shoulder and give a sense of how bad it was. the water levels came all the way up to the top of that wall just a few hours ago and overnight. it shows how bad it was here. fortunately, the water has now receded, and it's simply a clean up effort. 500 ward rescues. 2,500 abandoned vehicles, and 4,000 homes flooded, 46 counties here in the state of texas have been declared a disaster zone by the governor of the state or the state of emergency. this is all emblematic of what we saw in houston. it's emblematic of what we've

seen in oklahoma. and in the town of wimberley where we were, there are still ten people who are missing. the new numbers, 19 people have died in these latest storms, and as one official said, in his words, it's a miracle that more people didn't die. here in houston we saw major thoroughfares turned into rivers. in other parts of the state we saddams that were breaking or near the point of breaking, and it really has been historic flooding here. here in texas they have not seen flooding like this for over a decade. and the rio grande it has reached levels higher than seen in 1926. there has been a lot of destruction of property all over this part of the state but also life lie hoods that livelihoods that have been destroyed. a smallthis is a state and really a region that's really

coping with unprecedented storms and the worse might not be over yet. forecasters are saying there could be more rain and more flooding in the coming hours or days. >> gabriel elizondo joining me live from houston texas. thank you. now in india severe heatwave has killed more than a thousand people. most of the deaths have been in the surgeon states. states--southern states. a red alert has been issued in those states. in some areas temperatures have climbed to 50 degrees celsius every day. but there is relief in sight as monsoon rains should hit i can't india in the next few days. new treatment for patients with aggressive skin cancer will see a worldwide trial usings the herpes virus. it will be used on patients with

melanoma. patients using the treatment survived twice as long. we'll go to the professor of oncology at the university of leads. >> this is a new approach to cancer. this virus has been genetically modified to make it less dangerous to normal tissues, and also to specifically attack and replicate in cancer cells. the other thing that the virus can do in this instance is stimulate your own immune system to attack the cancer, which would otherwise ignore. so there is a two-pronged attack here. and the virus is directly killing the cancer but also stimulating your own immune system to attack as well. >> world wildlife fund has

released a list of 139 new species in the mekong region of south asia. it includes bizarre finds with equally unusual names. >> first up we have the so-called dementor wasp named after a character in the harry potter series. it injects venom into cockroaches, you it keeps its prey alive in a zombie-like state and then drags it's prey home for dinner. the thorny frog it has spikes like stand sand paper. although in vietnam the long-fanged bat. it's extra long chompers allows it to prey on larger animals and then there is the stealthy wood snake from cambodia. it lives in trees and only comes out at night. not to worry it's not venomous,

and only one has been found ever. many of these new species are already under threat due to the destruction of habitat or poaching. the world wildlife fund said that a real commitment is needed by those in the greater mekong area to protect them. >> you can find much more on our website. the address is www.aljazeera.com. the slaughter is being fueled by demand from asia... ...where rhino horn is a s