sepp blatter to stand down just days after his re-election. >> hello, there. and this is al jazeera live from london. also coming up. iraq's prime minister pleads for nor help to beat isil. more than a dozen people are killed in the nigerian city, where a bomb exploded in a busy marketplace. and survivors are pulled from a river boat, but hundreds more are fears dead.

>> hello, just days after he defied his critics to win re-election, he has unexpectedly announced he is to stand down, as the head of world football governing body. he made no reference to the corruption scandal that blew open last week when the fbi indicted nine officials oen the've of the organization congress. he said although he was re-elected last friday, by delegates he did not feel he had a mandate from the entire world of football. he aunderstand nod an extraordinary congress to elect a new president. lee backer reports. >> four days after his re-election, as one of the most powerful men a shock announcement from the long serving president. he said that the organization needed profound reconstruction.

>> although members have re-elected me as president this mandate does not seem to be supported by everybody in the word of football. those who inspire life in football as much as we do, this is why i will call an extraordinary congress. >> the extraordinary congress to elect a new president expected to take place between december and march next year. the 79-year-old swiss national was only re-elected to the presidency last friday he spent years building a network of global support espearly in africa, where football has received growing investment. but the recent scandal surrounding fifas that prompted many to call for his resignation, including the let of european football. >> his resignation comesless than a week after swiss police arrested seven officials including two vice presidents on charges of

fraud, and racketeering. part of a u.s. prosecution against 14 people. >> swiss authorities have also launch add criminal investigation surrounding the 2018 and 2022 world cup bids. won by russia and qatar. >> he is not under investigation by swiss authorities, but under his watch, the organization now faces it's biggest challenge yet. after 17 years at the let. of fifa, his resignation paves the way for a new era in international football. >> lee wellings is with me now, an ebbs the record marry couple of days. why quit now is it the pressure or something more. >> there are still things that can emerge, but it really did look -- when fifa release add statement about an alleged bribe for the world cup and the number two, fifa effectively the secretary general was so

heavily involved, and they tried to dodge that he was involved be uh he clearly was, where did that leave him? where did he go then? how did he not know these things were happening once someone so close to him receive add letter about the situation was therefore in full knowledge of it, mr. blatter was right in it. we don't know if other things will come from of course the fbi investigation, they are suggesting they will, mr. blatter himself is meant to go to america for a gold cup tournament, these are trips we will still see but really his position got to the stage where there was nothing left, the rules oif cast that will he built up, there was nothing left, and yet still he has tried to stage manage it and trying to help football, still going to be around for a while this will be extraordinary. web remember, he has been an fifa for 40 years. let's take a look back. >> is football, is stronger

than anybody else. anybody and any other movement many the world. >> his career at the football gorges body spans 40 years. the last 17 of them as president, the last four years years the most turbulent. better known as seven he won't be fifa president when he reaches the aiming of 80 nest year. he was technical director and secretary before the retiring took him to the top job in 1998. under blatter fifa's finances flourished. building up a surplus of over $1 billion and finalling money for global humanitarian projects. >> but his own goals made him infamous. remarks about female footballers needing shorter shorts. if when it happened and if it is in the league, and they have to make this investigation, and then they

come to a solution. and what would they say? they bring the two and people and shake hands. >> his remarkable survival instincts and political maneuvering often involve add u-turn. after years of personally resisting it, but it is the corruption that meant around half of the committee were exposed and disgraced that has overshadows the presidency. >> the dream is now a reality. and the african population are not only the south african the whole continent they believe in this cup. >> he helped take the word cup to africa, but there has been and% allegations of wrongdoing. and particularly 2022 to qatar. >> qatar. >> they have been the subject of damaging and unresolved investigations he was re-elected for a fourth time in a one man race. when the presidential rival was found guilty of corruption. and his popularity among

administrators particularly africa has never been in doubt. but that popularity never appeared to extend to football fans. so will it be better off without him in charge? is finally we are about to find out. lee wellings al jazeera. >> and lee still with me here in the studio, we are talking about him resigning and leaving fifa, but he is going nowhere at the moment. because they won't have an election until march? >> it is typical of him to do it on his own terms. i am sorry i have done wrong it's been disastrous, no guilty no remorse no joys for what has happened that has been so damaging for football instead he is talking about staying on and helping, i am going to help football and the public of course doesn't buy that. more so than the wider public, the english football association, they are not the only ones greg the head of the british media and he is absolutely scathing as he has been for a while.

there's real an tip think something that has come out the events of the last week that haws caused him to resign he has gone at lost, we can sort out. with we can go back to looking at the two world cups. i mean, the thing is that a lot of mud can be thrown, people still need to stick to their facts. but people are expecting more to come out and i think cosmetically, it is very important for people, but sepp blatter seems to be part of the past regime is finally going. >> past rejeep, but fifa everybody is interconnected all the football associations are interconnected they all know each other trying to find a candidate from within football itself, that is completely clean and seen as being completely clean will be quite difficult? >> yes. >> they have all known each other for so long. >> it is a good point, and of course blatter very close friends it was meant to be that he would take over when

he stood down at the end of 2011 in the 2011 elects, and there's been utter poison between them ever since. but he just can't step up as fifa president because he hid behind him in this election, i think a plausible thing is that we see prince alley make homicide way towards power in four years time finally getting the role. but jamie fuller, a realm capainer to try to change said earlier, 133 clowns from the national associations around the world, 209 in total, 133 voted for hip. so we are talking about the world being so pleased that he is going, well, the world is not. >> james fuller you mentioned the interview in the last hour let's hear more of what he had to say. >> there are three different options one that is that friday was purely about saving face, it was only about him wanting to have his

reputation as best he could and win the election. the second piece to 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 pub her add copy of the let fresh south africa directly to jerome around the $10 million payment. so they were suring up to be lying and i they that quite possibly could have been the nail in the coffin. finally the third option, of course, is there's no question sepp blatter is going, he is still going to be dragged into this, i would be would be very surprised if him stepping down letting him off the investigation. there a's no question there will be some. i am pleased he is gone, but there's an enormous amount of work and the last thing we can do is leave this in the hands oif fifa family, one three of those fans voted him

on in on friday after everything we went through. >> yeah, a lot of people asking is it possible to enchew it up as it stands. i guess we could look at the international committee with the salt lake city bribery case. the i.o.c. did manage -- >> yeah, the i.o.c. they did it relatively quickly not in the a matter of days. fifa has had quite a while to figure itself out. and that came after all the problems around the awarding of the 2018 world cups together and the corruption. but it was at that point that fifa said we will have an independent committee, it was casting itself as the victim, the change has started there has been some new faces but like one of the new faces jeffery web is in a jail cell and he is head of many important organizations. in and around fifa, and he is one of the people who is part of the u.s. indictment, so there is no huge problems that fifa whether he was

there or not. >> thank you indeed. >> of course, the decision to quit happened just days after the u.s. authorities arrested many of those. al jazeera is standing by now for us in washington, d.c. and where are we at with that investigation? just explain? >> woman, the justice department so far officially has only announced the indictments of 14 people, half of them are involved in the americas. both the south american football confederation and the concacaf which is based in miami which governs football in north and central america. and mexico. and this has already put a cloud on the future of those organizations. just today the head of the south american federation said that the oldest tournament many the word, by the way celebrating it's

100th anniversary next year, and is to be held in the united states. but now he says, we have put a giant question mark over the possibility of playing that one many the united states. the president in one of the confederations is under arrest the companies that own the rights have had their funds blocked nobody the seriously say that things in the future will be as forseen. as to have blatter himself, it must be emphasized the u.s. justice department made no mention of blatter himself as being accomplice sit but of course, all of these men owe their especially in concacaf, jack warner in particular, owe their positions and a lot of the dowry that you might say blatter has invested in their organizations they owe that to blatter. so the question is whether there will be further intomorrowing on blatter if that's the case, the

authorities obviously will be looking for more information and possibly more implication of criminal activity. but as for the future, well, the immediate future, the cloud is going to be forming over the women's world cup which is being held next week in canada, by the way a lot of people give credit to blatter for the fact that he has advanced women's football around the word, and particularly in north america. and next later in the summer, in july the concacaf gold cup also to be held in the united states blatter was supposed to attend boat of those now it is questionable whether he will, in fact, because that would only focus even more gloom over these -- over the proceedings in both of those events. >> there is plenty more to come on this story but for the most, thank you very much indeed. still ahead on this perhap, more migrants attempt the dangerous mediterranean crossing we have a special report from onboard at

italian coast guard boat. and finding of a major investigation, accuse it is government of culture genocide

>> "inside story" takes you beyond the headlines, beyond the quick cuts, beyond the sound bites. we're giving you a deeper dive into the stories that are making our world what it is. >> ray suarez hosts "inside story". only on al jazeera america. the president of football governing body is to resign. he was elected for a fifth term only five days ago amido a widening corruption scandal.

i am very monked links to fifa and the interests are very deep to me, and that's why i have taken to decision, i would like to thank everyone who supported me in a constructive loyal manner as president of fifa and have done so much for football which we like so much what counts most to me is the institution of football. has already said he will stand to be the next president. likely to be held between december and march. as he and his international allies met in paris to discuss how to defeat isil.

in iraq the bullets and bombs continue. fighting so severe it looks nowhere near over. the hot dessert landscape a tangled web of militaries and militias. all trying to stop the advance of isil. in this setting diplomates desperate to find a solution for iraq in it's battle against isil. or as the group is called in a, areabaic d a isc. >> iraq's foreign minister has called the recent and shocking gains a failure on the part of the world.

by the end of the day common ground has been found the exchanges have allowed us to combat terrorists. the hand shakes and hopefulness meant to show how resolute this remains. we will succeed if we remain united and focused. >> on the table now an action plan that promises to streamline the delivery of weapons and bangish isil for good. participanted calls for -- it will become more dangerous both the or raying 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. >> yemen lost already one of the most impoverishished countries. >> the humanitarian situation is dire. ericawood has more details. >> water here has become very expensive to buy. so much so that people now call it white gold. this is a rare chance to fill up their containers for free. >> we buy water and distribute it many the poor districts particularly those districts that don't have water wells. all the money and support came to us from donemores and facebook. >> and it is not just a water shortage. >> we have nothing. nothing is left for us, we don't have wheat we don't have flour, and we don't have

oil, nothing the left. >> unicef says 3 1/2 thousand schools have been forced to shut there's not electricity or fuel to run the generators. many hospitals and lynn is have also been forced to close, meteddics described the city ooze a disaster zone because they are so low on supplies. the international committee said it had managed to get aid to 72,000 people, but there are still many missing out. we have seen safety here. and they are provided us with accommodation.

thousands more are displaced from their homes and familiar surroundings the situation continues to deteriorate. a 12 hour curfew is now in effect after a bomb blast at a marketplace, at least 17 people were killed. well, eyewitnesses say this attack happened when hundreds of people were at this market trading this cattle. we know having spoke ton a reliable source that many have now been moved. those that survived the attack to the state hospital for treatment. and that security services and emergency services are on the scene trying to security the area. and make sure that there are no further attacks as much as they can do now this comes just after another attack over the weekend in the similar area, in which 30 people were killed obviously suspicious has fallen on boko haram, given the fact they have been behind all the

attacks in the six year long insurgency and the question that is now being asked is what will the new president of the country who was sworn in on friday, do. how will he restrategize. on tuesday he met with military chiefs in the capitol to discuss the way forward, we also know that he intends to travel to mali and the republic to meet the leaders of those countries to discuss how to better security the border. he will be toasted because one of the major promises of his campaign was defeating the group and securing the area, for many people are now egg tore see exactly how he will respond in the face of this fresh violence. >> rescuers will not give up the search for the survivors which capsized on monday. hundreds of passengers are still missing. rescuers had heard cries from help from inside the ship, which was carrying 458 people

when it overturned. more from hong kong. china's river has seen tragedied before, what is uncommon in this case, is the expected loss of life. >> hundreds of tourists mostly retired workers were taking the trip of a lifetime. to the popular three gorges dam area. the captain said it was struck by a freak storm. most of the passengers were asleep below deck, and have little chance to escape. as the veal sell sank in two minutes. >> as other vessels and teams rushed to the area, hopes were raised as sounds and shouts for help were heard coming from inside the hull. the the next step is to continue strengthening

efforts not a second will be waisted 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 many passengers 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 will have been taking their first ever vacation, and more and more people in china have the time and money to spend on holidays so the increased risk of tragedies such as this one. al jazeera, hong kong. >> the italian coast guard is being carried out an operation to rescue migrants stranded off the coast of libya. they are the late nest a wave of people trying to make the crossing to europe in often overcrowded boats. the italian coast guard has responded to the growing numbers by expanding it's area of operation. close to the coast.

we have been sailing for 16 hours and we are 24 nautical miles off the coast. the area where most of the migrant boats leave from. now, along that we have seen for example a ship of the british royal navy, we have seen also helicopters in the sky, those are part of the mission that european mission, that is now in charge of search and rescue, of these migrants. who cross the mediterranean sea. this vessel and this crew is not officially part of it. the crew has received a call from headquarters telling emthis that in the area where we are they have spotted a ship boat full of migrants. so we are heading back from east to west towards that boat. we should be there very

shortly, this is what happens here all the time, they kepa trolling back and forth along the coast, and whoever is closer to one of these may grant boats has the duty to head there. to be put to at thens well, this is in response to a proposal submitted on monday night. after last minute talks in berlin not yet clear whether the government will accept the proposal which was dolphin bed i the european commission. the central bank and the international monetary fund. without more rescue loans greece could default on it's debt this month and eventually even drop out of the euro. a long awaited report into the former policy of removing abringal children from their families. the policy began in the late 19th century, the schools were funded by the government, but largely run by the church, the last

canadian indian residential school only closed in 1996. 150,000 first nations in u.s. were taken to their families and forced to attend. as part of the government policy the aggressive assimilation. students were punished if they spoke their first language or practiced their own traditions. they lived in squalor conditioned that spread disease. canada justice minister and head of the commission, says 6,000 aboriginal 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. [applause] it was nothing less than a system t maic attempt to extinguish the spirit of

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