>> fifa bos has stepped down f after a tremendous election. >> he was elected for a fifth term only five days ago. >> he made the announcement today in zurich. >> although the members of fifa have given me the new mandate of reelected me president, this mandate does not scheme to be supporting

by everybody in the world of football. supporters clubs. >> and this is why i will call in extraordinary congress and put a disposal my function. it is going to be held as soon as possible. and a new president will be elected to follow me. as the new president i will continue to exercise my function as president of fifa until it will be head. >> quick joys it is probably not your t.v. set or whatever device, there's a sound problem with what we got from zurich. but nonetheless, we were able

to hear that was sepp blatter saying enough is enough, i am quitting. joining us via skype you tell me if it is important that you are many zurich. because that happens to be where fifa is. but my first question to you is a surprise or was it always inevitable? once you stood for a fifth term with all this going on, he would have to quit in. >> there was no question that was inevitable. a little bit surprising that it has come after four days but there was never any question of him seeing out his term, it would have been surprised if he saw out 12 months. >> why do you think he did it now? just five days after getting re-elect is it suggests to the wider world, i can do it, i will go when you say or was it because of something big was going to hit him? this three different options

friday was always about saving face. it is only about him wanting to have his reputation. as best he could the second piece we saw this morning the statement from fifa declaring that jeronne had nothing to do with the $10 million payment that was made to jack warner back in 2008, and within hours of that they published the letter directly to jerome around the $10 millions paint. so they were suring up to be lying and i think that could have been the conference and then finally -- >> i apologize i thought you finished. finish what you had to say will you. >> finally the third option is there's no question, sepp blatter will still be dragged into this, i would be very surprised if him stepping down lets him off the investigation.

i am pleased he is gone, but there's an enormous amount of work to do, and the last thing to do is leaf this in the hands of the fifa family. after everything we went through last week. >> there are 209 of those people none of them wishing to look like clowns the next time around. whoever it is, we will be talking about in more detail. what a priority for the new president. >> as far as i'm concerned the priority is the implementation of the reform, independent retomorrow commission. we need this organization to be restructured, we have the a cultural legacy we have decades of cultural corruption. and it needs to be completely revamped root and branch, that can only be done with an independent reform economies.

who plays a similar role in the i.o.c. when he restructured that. >> jamie football is a world game there will be people who will be sorry to see sepp blatter go. why would you be sorry. >> and don't get me wrong there was some first world countries still in the camp. but sepp blatter relied mostly on africa, huge chunks of south america and parts of asia for his support. and we are talking about countries that have enjoyed a system which enabled this emto take significant amounts of money from fifa.

>> jamie, thank you very much indeed, a man who had said he was despondent when sepp blatter was re-elected. let's get some other reaction the fact he says he will step down. that was the head of the english football association. has said something that has come out of the events that has caused him to resign, he is gone, and at long last we can sort out fifa, we can go back to luking at those two world cups. we will talk about which ones he was referring to. the amount of money that was said to have been paid and then suddenly we have blatter bowing to pressure, or simply saying wow, it is not for me.

>> very dark days about since months ago. where mr. garcia, the investigator into the awarding of the 2022 world cups the american lawyer said i can't do this, my report is not as it should be. i am going, there was a lot of pressure on sepp blatter and a lot of people calling for him to stand down like never before. he came through and reclaimed himself reenergized. it starts with a rate, and the fbi the external pressure we have always wonder willing ex-personally they would get to fifa, because internally, he had all that support. you talk about a situation where they were shown over this alleged bribe in enter 20/10/10. secretary general said i had nothing to do with it, and it was shown that a letter was

sent to him. how did he not know about that and that was closing in, remember he has been 40 years and controversial as it has been. >> everybody in any other -- >> joseph blatter's career at football governing body stands 40 years. the last 17 of them as president, the last four years the most turbulent in fifa's history. >> before the retiring helped him to the top in 1998. under blatter fifa's finances flourished, billing up a surplus of over $1 billion and finding money for global humanitarian projects. >> but his own goals made him infamous. remarks.

and urging players to settle racism with a hand shake in an al jazeera interview. >> then they have to make this investigation and then they come to a solution, what would they say they bring the two and people together and say shake hands. >> his remarkable survival instincts often involved a u-turn introducing goal and technology after years of personal resisting it. but it is the corruption that meant around half of the committee were exposed with this overshadows his presidency. the whole continent, they believe in this world cup. >> he helped stake the world cup to africa, but there have been persistent allegations of wrongdoing. >> qatar.

>> they have been subject of damaging and unresolved investigations. he was re-elected for a fourth and time in a one and man race, when presidential rival was found guilty of corruption. and his popularity across the globe, has never been in doubt. but that popularity never appeared to extend to football fans. so will football be better off without sepp blatter in charge. finally, we are about to find out. people will think that football will be better, it probably will be, because the public wants him to go. i said you beat anyone in an election, because you have so much internal support, what you aren't realizing is the wider public, the wider public has no faith in him. so there's largely a cosmetic angle to this, that sepp blatter represented everything that fifa had done wrong, with him gone. >> the wider public, oever the commercial pressures in when we talk about something

like the making of investments such as visa, adidas coca-cola, etc. was it the fact that joe blog is going to football matches and saying i don't really like that blat ore. >> the publicked in no swing whatsoever, otherwise he would have gone many years ago. but you have to remember that sponsors main aim is to make money. they want to have millions of viewers around the world watching a world cup football, which they are sponsors and their names are in it, so we have to be careful about sponsors. really this is about the external pressure, and that's what is. >> you want to talk about 2018? >> well, we need to be careful. because they have been heavily involved in the turbulence the 2011 vote, which fifa admitted was a mistake.

it meant the process was open to corruption. at least ten or 11 of them who ever with under to so have been wrongdoing. was the organizing committee guilty of wrongdoing, and that's what people are trying to prove. as theynd that, it would involve south africa won't ten. >> lee just keep checking the tweets and find out what is being said, as we talk to tim describes it as a veteran, football journalist i know you are a football journalist based in rio where he joins us on the phone. what are we talking about year years of corruption, or a man who knew nothing about what everything else was doing. >> i think we are talking about politics. we are still talking about the fault line of 1974. it was the key date when the brazilians unseeded the englishman sitting around as

fifa president. they managed to put tot an 80 european coalition. the start was the business in europe. he very much profited from the fact that short sited european rule had aid len nateed everyone else, he said i will increase the world cup, so there is spaces for the developing world i will start world cups at under 17, but the developing world can stage, and i will sell a product called football. including, of course, the developing world his hand picks successor carries on that work, it has as you -- your correspondent says he has been a fall line between europe and the developing world. fifa as part of the global extension, works very very hard to bring the united states into the global fold

with the world cup which was conditional. they were looking at the opportunities and brought into the tank. the big question is what does europe do. europe last week hid behind the jordanian prince. it didn't put up it's own candidates. they won't only be topped off in europe. >> looking back at how they did, and the history and the fact that he was his hand picked sup seasure.

in the last 17, 80 teen years and this is a man who when handling the brazilian world cup it was said knew nothing about the allegations. knew knock about what the money that was passed between south africa. sadty is a man who chooses not to look or is aeneid vote that doesn't no ewhere to look. >> he has been ruling a system. >> not only in expansion in the developing world. i think one thing that comes clear in this, is as part of the substantial restructuring that even mr. blatter seems to think they need, there must be a limitation of terms.

the potential exists with fifa making so much money from the world cup and so many members smaller members of fifa it pained them on receiving that money. there is such potential there for the building up of an machine. so it would have thought an absolutely priority in the restructuring is a limitation with the presidential term to a maximum of two terms. >> good to hear from you there, they said there will be a limit. thank you. that's phil talking to us from rio. don't stray very far we are talking there about the strong support. daniel our man in bruins that airies. by and large, was he regarded well in the country's in south america which you have visited in connection with football? was there really not much thought about him as all? >> i think we are hearing a imis story here. he certainly has supporterred

among the south american football associations but less among the general public. so the closest alliance he had was the former head of the argentine football association. who ruled over the association for 35 years was a fifa vice president we have been hearing about the payment made in south africa, of the $10 million that jeronne was trying to distance himself from, the man who allegedly signed away $10 million who was then the head of the fifa finance. two things going on here, the argentine association, a et mooing now or just a few blocks from where i am standing some of those are changing. they want to start afresh, show a cleaner face to the football paying public. there are those that are trying to distance themselves from sepp blatter. implicated most of those

arrests in zurich last week were from the south american football association they want to distance themselves. he died last july, so there's been an increasing amount of accusations -- from a man -- >> daniel, sorry we have some problems. we are going to cut it short we will try to get a better line to you. a lot of this begs the question is this about blatter as a personality, and we can put that to one side, he clearly has a high opinion of himself he likes to be in control. the other question is does it really matter who is in charge, with enthere a sews many organizations worldwide. >> it matters hugely, because he was the figure head that supporting internalingly certainly majorly from outside of europe, in the

region that has seen as the concacaf region. he did have, a lot of support, but i keep coming back to the personality thing. people wanted to see him remove sod they could show trust in fifa. >> i am coming back to you and i know like our viewers will want to hear from greg, who is head of the football association, a man who didn't hide his animosity for sepp blatter. >> it is great news for football. now beneed to sort out how this organization -- you have to sort out the organization. it's not a good day for football if it carries on the way it has. >> still with me here. when we heard from the person

who spoke after, sepp blatter. >> he talked about the number of changes that need to be brought in, and fifa has even though we don't like to think about it, it has slightly remodeled itself. it has a real ireny near, they have new figures on the committee. and but we have had -- came in as well. so there was a big change for the fifa executive committee. but of course that change hasn't filtered down to the 209 voting associations. he called them clowns. so there are still huge problems there but in talking about changing the culture that culture had already started to change. they knew the massic mistakes

that came to a head with the election between sepp blatter and the man who was banned from that point on, they couldn't continue like that. the big change that people then wanted to see is was eventually going to get his and he has done that. >> let's bring in tom ackerman our man in washington d.c. of course, we are talking about a justice department, inquiry. an fbi inquiry last time i heard there were leaks from the justice department, in which somebody unnamed was saying you ant seen nothing yet. well that very well may be, we have not heard anything official or open from the u.s. soccer federation, or from the justice association. but what is really interesting here are the repercussions on the actual world football schedule. the u.s. is due to host the

100th anniversary next year. and as you can recall, the indictment said alleges that hundred million dollars in the bribes were payed to assure the selling of the broadcasting rights to for this year. that tournament, by the way begins in nine days as well as two others. and now the head of the south american football confederation, has said that he doesn't believe that that tournament to be held in the united states will actually go ahead. he just to quote him he says we have to be absolutely prepared for huge turbulent to carry out all the events on the calendar given that the rights owners are fundamentally under investigation by the law and absolutely unable to comply with their contractual commitments. ten that will have huge

implications immediately on the schedule, it also might be noted that blatter's schedule called for him to be in the ice twice this summer. to be at the 2015 women's world cup. i doubt we will be seeing him here. >> thank you tom ackerman, on certainly ugly aspects. thank you very much indeed, and we will be covering the sepp blatter developments if you have missed it, he says he is going to quit, more developments in the news hour later on, right now we are going to take a look at the other main stories bracking worldwide. >> iraq's prime minister has bleeded for more help, as he and his international allies in paris, spoke with how to defeat isil. they need the support of the world, but simply isn't

getting it. take a look here, the territory now going from syria, across the border into the northern and western iraq. it controls the city for more than a year, and has now extended down into anbar province. we will sort something out but away from the diplomatic language a bit of a span between two sides about helping each other in the way they would like. >> yeah, that's right. question have seen this tension mounting between the iraqis on one side, and then the u.s. as well as the french, over the past few weeks. it has played out in very public fashion.

you have this now very famous quote, ray accusing the iraqis of not having the will. you have seen this blame game and today even before these talks. had come out and called the efforts to try to come bass isil a failure. the frenching foreign minister saying there would be no political solution no military solution without a political one. and today the discussions yielded some announcement as far as a plan for anbar now to try to vanquish isil, but they were complicated. here is our report about what happened today. i know you prepare add report for that, you were speaking at that moment, let me ask

you about practical steps is anything going to change after this meeting the iraqis were saying we need more intelligence? the other side is saying listen get your act tot and control your troops and your allies on the ground. >> yes, david. at the end of the day you can see as many hand shakes and hear as much hopefulness as they would like to try to present. as the public faces this, but this has been even today a very violent day. it is getting increasingly violent in iraq, it is just getting worse in syria as well, and i have been told by the control room that that report is ready so i will throw it to that now. in iraq, the bullets and. bos continue. fighting is so sever it looks in where near over. a tangled web of military and

militia, all trying to stop the advance. in paris a stark juxtaposition. diplomates desperate to find a solution in the battle against isil, or as the group is called in arabic. >> d akh. >> they have to support us. they have to support us to support diasc. >> they had earlier called the gain as failure on the part of the word. by the end of the day however, common ground has been found. the exchanges we have had have allowed us to reaffirm our unity to combat terrorists. the hand shakes meant to show how it remains. >> this will be a long campaign. but we will succeed if we remain united.

determined, and focused. and we are. >> on the table now an action plan that promised to streamline the delivery of weapons and get rid of isil for good. >> syria participant oz f this conference called again for a political transition in syria, and said if isil continues to take over there it will become more dangerous both for iraq and the region as a whole. >> a region confronted by a new kind of turmoil and a threat the likes of which they have never seen before. when the iraqis say say we are not getting intelligence, what do they mean by that? yeah you would think they would. it goes so show how difficult this fight is, and it underscores how much division there is. the u.s. would like to see

the french, as well, be more inclusive, the sunni community in iraq, to implement retomorrows they have long been seeking. in the meantime, his priority he says is more intelligence sharing. he says enbe it comes to the air raids that two iraqis aren't getting enough, what that means we don't know. he also says that what they need more than anything, in iraq is more support for the ground troops. he is not calling for ground troops from the u.s., or the u.k., but he says they need more support. how will that be implemented that's the key question. and even though you have these plans this anbar action plan, the plan to deliver a streamline the delivery of more weapons into the hands of the iraqi army, i mean the fact is most analysts say the iraqi army is in complete tatters and it doesn't look like lit get stronger so this battle really continuing iraq going down a dangerous pass.

and in iraq, and this dip lo it maic meeting today everybody sms to be saying that things will be all right, that territory has been retaken from isil over the last year that they are on course, but the situation on the ground seems to be quite different than what ewith saw in paris today. still to come, more migrants try to get across the mediterranean, a special report from onboard at italian coast guard. plus. for the first time in 30 years this party is threatening to losen the grip on power. >> and we continue our coverage of the top story in world football, the announcement of the fifa boss set said he is going to quit, more on that in a point.

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fifa is unexpectedly say he will resign. the fifa boss says he will step down after a fresh election to choose a successor. he was elected for a fifth term maybe four days ago. amido a it wooening corruption scandal. he made the announcement of the hasty convenessed news conference in zurich. iraq prime minister to appeal for more help in fighting isil. at least 17 people have been killed in a bomb explosion. it was at a mart the biggest city in born know state. while that meeting in paris was underway, there are reports that 17 iraqi soldiers and fighters from what is called the popular mobilization force have been killed in shelling by isil. this was near the air bass east of ramadi early on tuesday.

now the explosion with 12 hour curfews now in effect in the north of the country that bomb blast at the market, 17 people at least and we think the number may rise have lost their lives. let's hear from our correspondent, who is in the nigerian capitol. >> well, eyewitnesses say this attack happens when hundreds of people before at this busy market trading. we know having spoke ton a reliable source on the scene that many have now been moved those who survived the attack to the state hospital. and that security services and emergency services are on the scene trying to secure the area. and make sure that there are no further attacks as much as they can do. now all of this comes just after another attack over the weekend in the same area, in which at least 30 people were killed. obviously suspicion has fallen given the fact they have been behind all of the attacks.

virtually, in this insurgency the question being asked is what will the new president of the country sworn in on friday do, how will he restrategized. on tuesday he met with military chiefs here in the capitol to discuss the way forward. we also know that he intends to travel to marley and the public to meet the leaders of those countries to discuss how to better security the border. he will be tested because one of the major problems was defeating the group and securing the area. ten many people are now egg tore see exactly how he will respond, many the face of this fresh violence. >> that was evonn reporting there from nigeria. now to events at least off the coast of their country the navy there says it is escorting a boat carrying more than 700 migrants to a safe location. it is a overlettedded fishing get. myanmar had initially said it would be taken to bangladesh,

but now says it will decide what to do with the 727 migrants once they have been identified. let's hear from florence, she is in the biggest city. >> the government hasn't reveal add lot of information about what it plans to do with the 727 people found onboard a boat in it's waters on friday. now the minser said they would be taking to an undisclosed location, but refused to clarify whether they would still be on a boat or allowed to disembark. they will be held there until all the identitied have been verified. suggesting that the verification exercise has already been completed. so there is a lot of confusion surrounding this entire matter, and there's also a lack of transparency many the way the government is handling this matter. now we do know that reports tried to reach the boat and speak to the people there and see what sort of conditions

they were in, were turned back. they were questioned, cameraman and photographers had to delete whatever they had on their memory cards. now this also comes just days after there was a regional meeting in bangkok where one of the purposes was to tackle the root cause of the migrant and refugee crisis in southeast asia. it is seen as one of the problems because of the way it treats the ethnic minorities that the government doesn't recognize. the state less, they are marrallized and that's why so many of them are getting on boats to leave the country. it is refusing to recognize that it is part of the problem driving people to leave the country. >> just the late nest a massive number of people trying to make the crossing from north africa to europe,

and often times rickety crowded boats. the coast garden intoed to it. well that's off the coast of libya, rather than myanmar joying for that. who is on that italian coast guard ship. >> we have been sailing for about 16 hours and we are about 24 nautical miles off the coast. the area where most of the migrant boats leave from, now along that road we have seen, for example a shin of the british royal navy we have seen helicopters those are part of the mission that european mission that is now in charge of search and rescue of these migrants that crossed into the sea. this vessel and this crew is not officially part of it but what happens is that for

example, we just received the crew has just received a call from headquarters telling them that in the area they spot add ship, a boat, full of migrants so we just u-turned and we are heading back from east to west, towards that boat, we should be there very shortly. this is what happening here all the time, they kepa el toking and whoever is closer, to one of these migrant boats has the duty to head there as quick as possible. she is just off the coast of libya, what about migrants who make it to europe? in this case east african migrants. they are the unones you will see living in tents in paris for some time. they have been moved on from the french police.

a lot of local people resented this. terrible story out of china. but the country's transport minister says all hope has not been glymph up. the river boat the even star it capsized on monday, hundreds of passengers many of them elderly still missing and rescuers say they have heard people crying for help from inside the vessel. 458 people were onboard. here is rob mcbride in hong kong. hundreds of tourists mostly retired workers were taking the trip of a lifetime to the popular three gorges dam area. >> the captain who was

rescued soon after said it was struck by a freak storm what he described as a tornado. most of the passengers were asleep below deck, and had little chance to escape, as the vessel sank in two minutes. >> as overs and rescue teams rushed to the area, hopes were raised as sounds and shouted for help were heard coming from inside the hole. the next step is to continue efforting. as long as there's a little bit of hope we will try our best we won't give up. >> one woman was pulled out raising hopes that more somehow found air pockets to stay alive. >> the scale of this tragedy is likely to raise fears about safety on china's rivers.

a number of people onboard are taking their first ever vacation and as they have more and time and money so the increased risk of tragedies such as this one. al jazeera, hong kong. >> joining us a research fellow in asia studies. you have been following this story, since the vessel first overturned what is the latest you have heard. >> well, i mean, it's been about 24 hours since the new first broke and already we are seeing some varying accounts on the internet, on the chirr these internet about how the situation actually arose. according to some people you have a boat that capsized in a heavy storm. according to others it was just rain. now that distinction matters. if it is the former than you have questioning arising about why the crews went ahead, given the weather forecast if it is the latter, then you have perhaps some questions about the

diligence, and the competence of port authorities and the crew in shaking sure that the boat was water worthy. >> how strict are they on making sure these vessels are ready. >> i would imagine the official safety checks the regulations are quite robust. of course, this incidence has happened against a back drop, a history of official malfeasance in china corner cutting so we can't rule out that there has been some elements of neglect. and undoubtedly that will be coming out when the official investigation goes ahead. >> we tuns pictures here, and then surfaced with some divers we are et being these from state t. v. would you expect that in.

>> yes these sorts of situations these disaster situations can be politically quite explosive in china. given that -- given that there is a strong element of disinstruction with the government among a lot of people. >> and years ago you wouldn't have seen this, it would have been hushed up. >> yes so there is a stronger element of transparency and the chinese media has grown more competent in coffering these. we are seeing the coverage being better, of course the key for the government is producing a consistent clear message, the public knows what is going on to the families know what is going on so we don't have rumor mongering, we don't have protests on the streets which is something that the government wants to avoided. >> thank you very much indeed, from the royal united services institute appreciate your time, thank you. >> now report a long awaited many people say the canada former policy of forcibly

removing children from their families and shipping them off to schools branded the actions cultural again side. it began many the last 19th century the school was funded by the government, run largely by the church, the last one was a canadian indian school, here are some facts about it all 150,000 first nations were taken to their families and forced to attend all part of a government policy what was known as aggressive assimilation. students were punished if they spoke their first language, or practiced their own traditions and they suffered sexual, physical, and emotional abuse. the justice minister and let of the true reconciliation commission says 6,000 such children died while in the residential school system. today i stand before you and acknowledge that what took

place in residential schools amounts to nothing short of cultural genocide it was a concerted attempt to distinguish the spirit of aboriginal people. they have survived. >> now from canada, to turkey. national elections will take place there on sunday, and for the first time maybe kurdish opposition party on the election campaign. one way is by having women make up 50% of the parties candidates. another tactic is to reach

out to poorer working class voters. >> their main concern is to get a fair wage for their labor, rather than just being exploited. those with kids are particularly concerned about being able to provide for their children. leaders is taking a huge gamble with this election. his party must win at least 10% of the vote to get any representation, in previous elections their overall share of the vote was never more than 7%. but if the h.d.p. wants to advance a stalled peace process, it needs more influence in the parliament. >> with this decision to run as a party in this elections, the hdp forced many to realize that the kurdish issue and their own lives are intimately connected. so now they will have to pay

more attention to this issue and decide how to cast the votes. >> for more than 30 years the turkish state fought armed separatists, 40,000 people were killed, so many ethnic turks still regard kurdish political leaders with suspicion. >> now if the h.d.p. gets more than 10% of the vote, they will deprive the ruling of it's parliamentary majority. and that could effect the ambitions of president to change the constitution in favor of a more executive presidency. now those who got together at the u.n. climate change in germany are working they hope toward as global deal, which could be signed later on this year. rising sea levels that we have heard many times threatening coastal communities including the one, in the united states. andy gal kerr is in the east

florida. >> for the first three decades chip butler has been diligently tending his ocean garden, it is a pass time that has allowed him to observe the changes here, and like many along the east coast, he has witnessed the effects of storms and rising waters. >> the arguement earlier, i think is way back when, is when it isn't really global warming it is just a natural change of events, but been here a long time, and i have been around a long time, and my wife and i are convinced that it is global warming. >> just down the road they have also seen their fair share of change. the streets are filled with saltwater as much as ten times a year, something that even a new sea wall can't hold back. civil engineer says the city gets little help from the state, and without tut future can be bleak. >> i know i wouldn't feel very good knowing that my property one day is not going to be worth much, and the place i call home is going to

be a memory instead of a place to live and work. >> the problem is one of skepticism oversea level projections and climate change. florida governor like many in the party doesn't believe climate change is caused by human activity, but other republicans say it is time to move past that. >> i think it is a bad poll six because it makes government look fool unresolved investigations, denying what is obvious in failing to use the leadership that they have to address what is going to be a major issue in our state. >> what do you think this kind of severe beach erosion or even physical dam is down to man made climate change or not, it is pretty irrelevant to people living in this community, florida remains on the front lines of rising sea levels and many just want to see a plan of action.

a beautiful day for beach soccer, football as we know it. lee wellings is with us now i suppose this time last week we were leading pretty heavily. he is deelected himself. >> we were, but what a huge development, finally leaving fifa he hasn't quite gone yet, because he is talking about a position where he will see in the new regime, not be part of a new election, that is he calling let's listen to what he has to say. >> i am very much linked to fifa and the interests are very dear to me, and this is why i have taken this decision. i would like to thank everyone who supported me in a constructive and loyal manner, and have done so much for football. which we like so much, and i repeat what counts most to

me is the institution of fifa and football around the world, thank you very much for your kind attention. he is going but he is not. >> it is very sepp blatter under the most pressure, so much pressure. >> of allegations of corruption. >> for in years yet he has found a way to take ownership of this by sort of effectively looking as though he is still helping i still want to smooth through a new person, what is he going to do? the next few months. >> we are talking desks the earlier elections will be held. >> yes. sensibly. with is it sensibly, there would be an interim president, there would be be time and breathing space for proper elections. and that sepp blatter will step away and then football fans can see what his time is

over but he is still trying to take control will there be a fresh wave of corruption allegations or at least building what we have seen. >> give us other news surrounding this. >> well, this is absolutely dominating everything in sport. the sepp blatter situation. we have had many many years of this, we have had this with sepp blatter we have also been in a position where he has been at fifa for 40 years and it is completely overshadowed everything else in sport. ironically, we had a big match between the swiss french open, and roger federer. which apparently won i clearly wasn't watching. >> in other sports news. >> this has overshadowed so

much. the women's world cup is about to start he couldn't go to that. the executive director in the u. k. from where he joins us on skype. what is your reaction to this in. >> well in one sense a surprise but on the other hand -- >> there is this sense that he is lingering on, and i think it is cleaner and bet efor the organization if he should go sooner, and the arrangements for his replacement should be made as soon as possible. >> really quickly, do you sense that fifa had started to change? this is partly a cosmetic thing. >> there's no evidence that fifa has started to change, and this has to behe start of a really huge change. when the elections happened we need to see a slate of candidates who are really committed to reform, and know what precisely they will do

if they get elected. >> and just last thing surprising in was this for you because he was re-elected the other day. >> i think the pressure was mounting everything is always a surprise with fifa, but this was the right thing to do. >> yes the right thing to do, of course, mir shell patina the uefa president saying the offense the right thing. >> you know what, we haven't heard from anybody who said it is a shame he is gone yet but i am sure they will come. those who may be worried about their revenue. >> i love the way you said that gone re-elected rather briefly. okay time for me just to wrap it all up. a man who is re-elected saying he has done nothing wrong, now says i still have not done nothing wrong but i am going, i am going too felizsy will be with you in a couple of minutes. see you next time.

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