>> moves by the u.s. senate means the country's spy agency will no longer be able to sweep up american records in bulk. pleading for more help to beat

isil. and south africa remembers hundreds who died when a portuguese ship sank more than 200 years ago. >> hello just days after he decide his critic to win re-election, sepp blatter has unexpectedly announced he's to stand down as head of world football governing body. he made no reference to the corruption scandal that blew open last week. he said he was re-elected last friday from fifa delegates he said he did not have a mandate from the entire world of football. congress will elect a new president likely to be held between december and march and.

>> a shock announcement from fifa's president. sepp blatter said that the organization needed profound reconstruction. >> although members of fifa have re-elected me as president this mandate does not seem to be supported by everyone in the world of football. supporters clubs players those who inspire life in football as much as we do in fifa. this is what i call an extraordinary congress and dispose of my functions. >> 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 especially in africa, but football has received growing investment. many have called for his resignation u including the head of european football blatter's

resignation comes less than a week after seven were arrested on charges of fraud and racketeering part of an u.s. prosecution against 14 people. >> swiss authorities have also launched a criminal investigation around the 2018 and 2022 world cup bids won by russia and qatar. sepp blatter 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 helm of fifa sepp blatter's resignation opens a new era of football. >> big questions about why he decided to announce that's stepping down. >> he was re-elected for a third term. certainly didn't expect him to

serve a full term until the age of 83 with all of the problems that fifa has had. of course, once we got to the letter addressed to him. once you get to that position where has sepp blatter got to turn? are we going to hear more from the united states? we know that they're setting sepp blatter. we're not sure what they have on him individually and specifically. but it's not only what they have on sepp blatter how can he not know about this scandal after so manglers either he's corrupt or he's incompetent.

>> he's still around. he's still looking to manage the situation, talking about sort of making sure that he's around for the election that will happen probably not for at least six months. he can't be carrying out his duties going to america for the world cup. he'll be booed in stadiums. it discredits fifa when they're log to clean it--looking to clean it up. >> how much do we know about the actual election process. we know its due to happen between december and march. from what i gather it can be quite a complicated affair about how the voting can go, etc. is that all going to be the same? or could changes be introduced? are they allowed to be introduced? >> if they can find a way for changes to be introduced, but you don't need radical reforms to the system of electing a new president really. i think it's the way that those

who did vote for him they will need to find someone to support. will they now back prince ali. you can see him being replaced by his ally. who stood by him in this election. they were talking about the process being at least four months to get the right candidates together. i think hopefully we have an opportunity in this. he was very careful when people want to be part of an election, and it would have to be about football. as sepp blatter would ironically say as they are gaining attention. >> thank you very much, indeed. the j.a. fuller told us earlier what he thought prompted blatter's resignation right now. >> there are three different

option. one is the purely about saving face. it was only about him wanting to--wanting to have his reputation as best as he could and win the election. the second piece is we saw this morning the statement from fifa declaring that fowlke had nothing to do with the $10 million payment made to jack warner in 2008. and they have a copy of the letter from south africa africa about the payment. i'm pleased that he's gone, but there is an enormous amount of work to be done.

they could leave this in the hands of the fifa family. let's not forget that 153 voted him in on the friday last. >> he was re-elected because he had plenty of support from within fifa. let's go live to al jazeera daniel explain why it was. >> well, i think its mostly because there is oceans, football oceans it's very well out of the way and things were set up. that's come to go light now. many of those arrested in zurich last friday were heads or former heads of the south american football associations. one of the names most commonly mentioned is that of the former fifa vice president julio

grandola. he decide last july but his name has been cropping up in many of these allegations most specifically the one we just heard about the $10 million that jerome balke was accused of sending to the united states. the head of the finance committee at that time was the very same grandola. they've been meeting right now discussing how to distance themselves from the allegations or how to reform. they're one of the few associations after years of sorting sepp blatter who voted last friday against him. that came something of a surprise. is that because they have much to hard or are they genuinely trying to reform themselves and move away from sepp blatter. >> of course they're going to have to put their weight behind a new candidate, and we don't know who that candidate is going

to be. >> no, i imagine one of the they're investigating the three argentines names last friday, three of them marketing in tv rights who after the arrests were announced seemingly disappeared and they have not been seen since last friday. they're being investigated as well. also talking about the copa america, which kicks off in chile, june 11th. great complications over that, and who will be representing the various football associations since they're either on the run or arrested. so big problems there. >> thank you. now, the u.s. national security agency has finally got some of its surveillance power back after two-day lapse.

they would pass the freedom act. the new bill reauthorizes surveillance with a more targeted system. let's go to al jazeera's kimberly halkett live in--live on capitol hill in washington, d.c. for us. how does this new act differ from the last one? >> well, felicity. it does make mild modifications but many advocacy say that a number that a person calls is going to be reported. now the only difference is that the government won't be collecting that information. it will be the private telephone companies. the government will no longer be able to access it.

now it will go to a foreign surveillance fisa court. these are the minor modifications to the nsa surveillance program. they're really modifications that the alu say it lcu say they have not been in touch. it comes after a shift of american attitudes. 14 years ago when the patriot act came in americans were fearful and willing to exchange some of their privacy in exchange for security. but we have a whole new generation of american voters.

14 years later we have younger voters who are less trusting of american institutions. stone that aims at the provision it expires and is. correct, that had were in the menu modifications. this is still a mayor view and legal pro and maintained the right to privacy and the. search and seizure by the government. >> thank you, kimberly halkett in washington, d.c. the gains between police and protesters in burundi. in yemen the country's deposed president said he's willing to meet mouth fighters.

roger mediciner said goodbye for anotherier. we have the lawsuitist the latest from the french open. president barack obama has criticized prime minister benjamin netanyahu on israel tv. we'll get reaction from patty culhane. she's in washington, d.c. for us right now. that's blunt criticism of him isn't it? >> pretty much the blunt is heard, and it should be recounting to the prime minister and he went on to explain why he thinks that benjamin netanyahu was revoted and he thinks that

it was because they needless security and that they think the worst if not the best of number was. >> subsequently his statements have suggested that this is the suspect. suspect but there are so many conditions that it's unrealisticrealistic tings

unrealistic. already, the international community does not thee think there is an it. >> what does he want to sea next? >> basically if there is had a isis reevaluation at the u.n. he said that before, but he's more specific now. he said that now is not the time for a new framework to emerge. he did not specifically say what he wants israel to do to built that confidence, i did out.

>> thank you. >> in iraq, the bullets and bombs continue. fighting so severe it looks nowhere near over. the hot desert landscape, a tangled web of militaries and militias all trying to stop the advance of isil. in paris a start juxtaposition. in this or nate setting diplomats desperate to find a solution against its battle against isil or how it's said in

arabic daesh. >> they have to support us to destroy daesh. >> iraqi's foreign minister had earlier called isil's recent and shocking gains a failure on the part of the world. by the end of the day however common ground can be found. >> the exchanges that we've had today have allowed us to reaffirm or unity and common determination to combat daesh terrorists. >> the hand shakes and hopefully meant to show how resolute this 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 bar action plan that promises to streamline the delivery of weapons to the province and vanquish isil for good. months at heavily discussed iraq on the agenda, syria they called yet again for a political

transition, it it would become a threat the likes of which they have never seen before. al jazeera. >> while that meeting was under way, 27 iraqi shoulders and fighters from killed in shelling by isil. the attack happened east of ramadi early on tuesday. there is also been attacks a thousand oil refineryies in which 28 militias have been killed. we're with sciencewe're joined by the--more support by the

iraqi government. nobody is paying attention to them and these are timed bombs and they could be easily used by isis if left by that, and creating a proper iraqi army. the army that the u.s. claimed

it was training for all that time. >> the u.s. has accused it of show nothing will to fight at the moment. why is it seen as being so poorly equipped and so poorly trained. >> well, the americans or the united states administration are the ones to be blamed for that. they have the old army. the very. very well trained they did not care about their social life, and they were pushed by by--to join extremist movements. this is the first thing the decision to establish a new army or the idea was before it was implemented to establish an army from different militia groups that belongs to the militia

parties who have assisted the americans occupying iraq. they were corrupt, not train. >> the u.s. right now will want to see would it not, a more inclusive army including some of the final fighters taking over when the iraqi army has fled. >> yes yes i understand, but they have--they have not done that before. because when they were there they concentrated on one of sector of the iraqi people and did not pay attention to the other sectors. they created something in the north. they created these sectarian troops and they have paid no action to other sections. all of them accusing of the old

regime and plotters again of the new american strategy in iraq. >> we do have to leave it there. thank you. >> thank you. >> egypt's former president mohamed morsi is waiting to hear if his court will overturn. he was given the death penalty last month after being convicted of plotting jail breaks. nine aid workers have been killed. gunmen came into the compound while they slept. no group has claimed responsibility for the attack. government leaders in burundi said that they would fully come comply for comply.

>> the police in burundi are ready. they know that opposition wants more protests. opposition forters will fight back but they can't get more people to join them because of the hidden security preference. >> the police came. they shot at the people who were protesting. i was in the house. when i came out i heard the. >> what was supposed to be a big protest on tuesday didn't happen. it's a cat and mouse game between the police and protesters. the police using for now looks like tear gas. people keep shouting.

they won't go off the streets. they continue business. the man could have dispersed many of them, but they're they arethey didn't. >> we can only play our part. we cannot play the part. they arethey say that the government will fully comply with the decisions of the

summit. >> that summit of mainly east african leaders in tanzania last week voted for the delay of six weeks because of the unrest. burundi's i want their president to go. >> still to come on the news hour pulls to the surface an overturned riverboat. three survivors temperature for suns missing in a chinese record. in the statute schools accused of genocide. >> pair his

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>> we're here to fully get into the nuances of everything that's going on not just in this country but around the world. getting the news from the people whare affected. >> people need to demand reform... >> ali velshi on target weeknights 10:30p et >> welcome back. a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera. the president of football's governing body fifa is to resign. sepp blatter said that he'll step down for for a successor.

the u.s. national security agency has some of its powers back after a two-day lapse. the new bill reauthorizes veins but with a targeted system. and iraq's prime minister has used a meeting of international allies in paris to appeal for more help fighting isil. hyder al abadi said that he needs the support of the world. let's go to sepp platter who steps down as president of fifa. >> joseph blatter's career in the football government lasts 40 years.

the last four years the most turbulent in fifa history. he was technical director and general secretary before the he was helped into the top job in 1998. under blatter fifa's finances flourished. but he was made infamous. the remarks of family footballers needing shorter shorts. >> if it happened and it's in the league, then they need to make this investigation. then they come to a solution. what would they say? they bring two people together and say shake hands. >> his remarkable survivor instinct often involves u-turns. but it's the corruption that

meant half of his executive committee were exposed and disgraced that has overshadowed his presidency. >> the dream is now reality and the african population and not only south africans but the whole continent. >> there has been persistent rumors of wrongdoing including the awarding of world cup to russia and can far. heqatar. he was elected to a fourth race term and his popularity in africa were never in doubt. so will football be better off south sepp blatter in charge? finally we're about to find out.

>> joining us from rio de janeiro we spoke when blatter was re-elected. did you actually think he would go this quickly? >> certainly not. anyone who predicted this before was woo have been a genius. i don't think anybody saw this coming with the speed with which it has happened. >> you say it's an opportunity but realistically how easy is it going to be to clean up fifa once sepp blatter is gone? it's going to depend on the next president, and that president will come from within the world of football, probably. >> blatter claims the executive

committee for a lot of what is happening, bosses of the region at generations over which he had limited control. i would imagine there would be a number of worried people in football administration at the moment thinking what's going to come out over the next few months. but i think the big issue here is which way does world football go? i think that what happened today bring the end of an era the end of an era where the law man has now arrived. it started perhaps in 1974, the key in this whole story. in 1947 a brazilian won control of fifa. on a pro-developing world ticket. he promised three things, i

would increase the world cup from 16 to 32 nations. i would stage the world cup that can be held in developing world and i will sell a product called football and distribute the proceeds around the various member associations. now that did he, and blatter his hand-picked successor has done since 1998. we've seen without doubt the global development of the game, but also in a model which has been based on certainly tolerant of crony capitalism. what happens now? do we have an end to crony capitalism but also the end of a global inclusive agenda for the development of the game. that i think is the most interesting question that world football faces and the people who can answer this i think are the candidates or the idea or the project that will hopefully emerge from europe in the next few days. does europe have a project? does it have a candidate?

it didn't last week. can europe come up with a candidate that is global and inclusive and convince countries around the rest of the world that if you let european back in charge it will be top class football around the world. >> are there many who see that the fbi clearly intendsing to in-depth into investigation into those organizations? will they have a next generation moving forward? >> the powers to be will be extremely worried. it will be interesting to see how they can reform and how far the reform process takes place. and sepp blatter's efforts to reform have been blocked by the executive committee which seems to me where the new battleground

is. so some, especially in the developing world will be worried about future generations. others might be worried about future directions. we did a radio thing a couple of hours ago with an english campaigning juniorist an anti-corruption journalist who argues in his view one member one vote is ludicrous and he would like to see that changed. will there be changes in fifa democracy? i think there might be people who are worried about what will happen over the next few months. >> thank you for joining us from rio de janeiro. yemen's exiled president abd rabbuh mansur hadi will meet for peace talks. yemen is one of the world's most impoverished counties before fighting broke out there.

now after two months an attacks by houthis airstrikes by the coalition. the humanitarian situation is dire. >> water is expensive and people call it white gold. this is a chance to fill up their containers for free. >> these areas that don't have water wells, all the donations came from facebook. >> this is a way to appeal for the help they need, and it's not just a water shortage. >> we have nothing. nothing for us. we don't have wheat. we don't have flour. we don't have gasoline or wood. nothing is left. >> this is one of the estimated 1.8 million yemeni children who are not going to school because of the wars.

735,000 schools have been forced to shut there is not enough fuel to run the generators. many hospitals and clinics have been forced to close. they're appealing to the "world health organization" for help. the red cross said it has managed to get aid to thousands of people, but there are many who are missing glout the aid provided is not enough to provide for the needs of the people in the province and the displaced people arriving here. >> we fled here, and they have provided us accommodation. >> one of the world's most improve relinquished countries and thousand more civilians have been displaced from their homes and their surroundings, the situation continues to deteriorate. al jazeera. >> china's transport minister said that rescuers will not give

up the search for survivors on the boat the eastern star. hundreds of passengers, many of them elderly tourists. >> china's yangtze river has seen tragedy before. hundreds of tourists, mostly retired workers were taking a trip of a lifetime to the dam area. the captain who was rescued soon after the vessel went down said it was struck by a freak storm what he described as a tornado. most of the passengers were asleep in their cabins below deck and had little chance to escape as the vessel sank in just two minutes. as other vessels and rescue

teams rushed to the area, hopes were raised as sounds and shouts for help were found from inside the hull. >> the next step is to continue. efforts in the rescue operation. not a second will be wasted. we won't give up. >> one woman was pulled out from inside the vessel raising hopes that more passengers some how 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 on board will have been taking their first-ever vacation, and there is more and more people in china who have the time and money to spend on holidays so the increased risk are tragedies such as this one. rob mcbride al jazeera hong long. >> italian coast guard has been carrying out operations to rescue migrants stranded in the

mediterranean. >> we're about 16 hours south. a call for the italian military police. we were about 24 fraught call miles off the coast of which most of the migrants boats sail up front. where we carried out the first rescue operation 110 people all on board of a rubber dinghy. the bottom of it was plywood and by the time we reached that boat the wood was slowly turned into paper because of the water and it was seeping into the boat. then about eight nautical miles northeast that have another rubber dinghy. this one packed with somalis. many were women and pregnant, and there was also one child.

now we had to come back because there was also a very sick man. he has a broken leg and by the looks of it, one of the crew members said that he could have gangrene. our first stop is lampedusa. >> here pregnant women their relatives and sick people are being off loaded. the rest will have to stay on the boat for another few hours until we sail to another port where finally they'll touch land in italy. they're quite impatient. some of them say they're hungry, but the crew has been reluctant to give them food because the sea was quite rough and they didn't want everyone here to be sick. >> creditors have agreed to a deal to athens. this was submitted monday night an emergency talks with berlin. it's not clear if they'll accept

the proposal. it was drafted by the european commission european central bank and the international monetary fund. now more rescue loans greece could default on its debts and perhaps even drop out of the euro. a long-waited report into canada's removal of aboriginal children from their homes to go to school. 150,000 first nation were taken from their families and forced to attend as part of a government policy for aggressive assimilation. children were punished if they spoke their first language. and many suffered sexual and physical emotional abuse.

6,000age ridgal 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. [ cheering ] >> it was nothing less than a systemic concerted attempt to disdistinguish the spirit of of an ridgal people. but as survivors have shown us, they have survived. >> we've been following this story from at a where the report was released. let me explain where we got today. children were taken away from their parents over the course of 100 years and placed in residential schools. the idea was to civilize the indians. that was the intent behind this program. and in those schools people were

sexually emotionally and physically abused. now in the court action as part of the settlement, a reconciliation commission was set up. over the last five years that commission has traveled across canada hearing evidence and talking to witnesses. delivering its findings here in ottawa just a few hours ago and it's said what happened was essentially cultural genocide. there was an attempt to wipe out the heritage of a race of people and given 94 recommendations to the government. that's why this building behind me becomes important. this is the canadian parliament. among one of the things suggested is an annual report on how this treatment of indigenous people is improving in canada. the commission chairman said that that puts pressure on politicians. finally after all this time their pain, their anguish their

discomfort was being recognized. but they hope that it is not the end of the commission but just the start and the nightmare of those residential schools will be acknowledged, recognized and never repeated. >> still to come we'll have all the sport including the latest on the football staff thrown out in the malaysian games.

>> welcome back. a memorial service has been held

in south africa for hundreds of slaves who died on board of a portuguese ship that sank in 1794. it was carrying more than 500 slaves from mozambique island to brazil when it ran aground and broke up in bad weather at cape town. items fell from the recognize will go to the museum. well with the smithsonian museum, thank you for your time. te significant the discovery of this wreck is? >> well, most people assume that the africans who were brought to the americas, at least 12 million between 1500 and 1850 were from west africa. this is from east africa around

cape hope being brought to the americas. many were brought from mozambique around the coast of cape town. >> i gather it's a difficult area to access. >> yes it went down in rough seas and it's difficult to dive. they can only dive it a few weeks a year. the ship is broken up, so they have found ballasts, i was learning earlier that slave ships needed ballasts to weight down the ship because people do not weigh as much as cargo. so ballasts were brought there have been pieces of found of the

18th century ship. >> what have you been able to learn about the ship and the slaves on board. do we know much about them? >> well, we're very fortunate that this is one of six ships that left mozambique. and on the mozambiqueen side we know the ethnicities of the people. we know where they came from within the region of mozambique. and on the other end on the ships that made it in 1794 we know what plantations they went to due to the research from the brazilian historians. we're able to extrapolate a lot about who was on the ship. we know that a number of people survived the shipwreck and then

resold into slavery in the cape town area. so from our historians both in mozambique and in brazil we're able to learn about people of that era. >> how is it were you able to persuade south africa that these objects should go to your museum? >> well, we work--part of the mission of our museum the national museum of african-american culture. we've been working for years with european museums in france and britain and brazil and portugal in cuba, in africa. we were approached in 2008 by a team from george washington university, who were working on slave wrecks in southern africa, and by the national association

of black scuba diver who is have a segment called "diving with a purpose." they had been involved with the diving of other slave shipwrecks notably the henrietta marie. and objects from the henrietta marie have been on tour throughout the united states where the the black national association of blackpool black scuba divers have worked. now we've been able to train divers to make sure that this has been passed on.

>> this is very interesting. >> this is quite new. >> thank you for joining us. john w. franklin. thank you. here is lee. >> thank you very much. well, a reminder if you need it, a story that has dominated the world sports news the resignation of sepp blatter as fifa president. now the world's governing body will be looking for a new leader. it happened in a surprise press conference called in short order. >> while i have the mandate from the membership of fifa, i don't feel that i have the mandate from the entire world of football, the families, the players, the clubs the people who live, breathe and love football as much as we all do at fifa. therefore i've decided to lay down my mandate as an extraordinary elect of congress. i'll continue to exercise my duties as fifa president until that then.

>> roger federer is out at the quarterfinal stage. he had been well placed in the upper half of the draw. the first time in 13 years federer false to wawrinka. >> he made it tough. when you lose there are a bunch of things. the opponent, the conditions of the court whatever it is, you know, it was the same for both guys and in tennis one guy is going to win one guy is going to lose. >> well, tsonga will be wawrinka

opponent. he would win in front of an emotional french crowd. amongst the spectators three people suffering minor injuries. serena will play her quarterfinal on sunday. playing 13th seed in the semifinals. she had knock knocked out her

opponent and will to the semifinals. a 20-year-old player was sent off the pitch for spitting. he said he didn't mean it. quite a day. >> thanks so much for that. >> that's about it from me, from lee, and the news hour team. stay with us. we'll be back with a couple of minutes with much more of today's news including the

crisis at fifa. see you then.

>> sepp blatter announces he'll stand down as fifa president just days after his re-election as head of world football. >> sepp blatter announces he'll stand down as fifa president just days after his re-election as head of world football.