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political uncertainty grips spain as no party emerges a clear winner after that crucial election. after an accounting scandal, toshiba is expected to report a 4.5 billion dollar large. they're likely to cut nearly seven thousand jobs. top stories so far today. f.i.f.a.'s ethics committee has banned blatter and platini. blatter arrived in zurich and is expected to hold a news conference shortly. we will keep those pictures in case. he was suspended in october. f.i.f.a. says his explanation of a payment made to the vice president, mr platini, in 2011 wasn't convincing. both had denied any wrongdoing.

let's talk to our correspondent as we monitor those pictures out of zurich. when they decided to say no, enough is enough, they didn't pull their punches on this one. >> reporter: no. frankly, we had been hearing the sort of details of this a few days in advance. the fact that both platini and blatter about a month ago had asked for this process to be suspended while platini runs for the f.i.f.a. presidency, that was thrown out. so clearly the evidence was sizeable against them. i mean, blatter was giving interviews in swiss media saying that he felt that he might be found not guilty of these charges. i don't know if he had anything to stand that up against or he was stlilt deluded, but i think what he will say at this press conference is that he doesn't recognise this decision.

he feels the only people that can remove him from the f.i.f.a. presidency are the 209 f.i.f.a. members, but legally i don't think he has much of a leg to stands on. that's despite him being a lawyer at the center of all this there's this two million swiss francs transferred from one bank account to another. it wasn't in the f.i.f.a. account. that was issue one. issue two, it was a verbal agreement but they say it was a contract. even if it was a verbal agreement that legally is a contract, the money shouldn't have changed hands for five years because that's the law of switzerland. there was nobody in f.i.f.a. who knew this. >> yes. there is issue number three, the fact that when the money did land in platini's account, it happened a few months before an f.i.f.a. presidential election which for a long time was mooted to be that he was a candidate and he pulled out the race and

threw his support behind blatter at the time. blatter was in quite a fight with another in the election campaign. he was for a while thought he might actually lose that campaign, but as it turned out the other was also found guilty of corruption charges so he had to pull out and so blatter was elected unopposed. the image it portrayed, yes, legally, nothing was actually - there was nothing was done wrong, as it were, but it's just the perception of this underhand dealing, the way that these agreements are made. at the very sort of high echelons of football administration high echelons of international football, what does this is a to f.i.f.a. and also uafa given platini's involvement with that group, a high footballer in his day.

do they have to not only seen to be clean house an awful lot but could it this be the end of f.i.f.a. as we recognise it because if there is so much murkiness going in there, do they have to be seen to be doing something and maybe change the way they do what they do? >> it will be wonderful to think that this could be the line in the sand, as it were, for f.i.f.a. and uafa can move on from this and have a french start, but in f.i.f.a.'s constitution it says that we have this upcoming presidential election on february 26. everyone in that election has to have been involved with f.i.f.a. for the past two years. that's part of the rules of actually being there. so that would suggest that you're not really going to get a club clean slate. the current interim president of f.i.f.a. who runs the african football fade registration is -

federation. i think mr blatter is about to speak now this will be a compelling news conference. the word before the news broke was that if mr blatter was to go, he wouldn't go quietly. so will he reveal some skeletons inside a closet here or there? maybe not. just to read to you completely for a bit until we hear from him, from the judgment handed down from the independent ethics committee, the proceedings against mr blatter primarily related to that payment transferred in february 2011 from mr blatter to mr platini. in his position as president of f.i.f.a. he authorized the payment which had no legal basis in the written agreement signed between both officials at the end of august 1999. neither in his written statement nor in his personal hearing was

mr blatter able to demonstrate another legal basis for this payment. his assertion of an oral agreement was determined as not convincing and was rejected by the chamber. a determined-looking mr blatter there, almost looking at the reporters as though he was enjoying thement moment >> to say that it is a good day for me or for f.i.f.a., this would be totally wrong. you are coming to this press conference with such a great audience. the last time we had a lot of

audience here in this room was at the presentation of t2010 wih one personality who was sitting here, mr mandella. he was speaking about humanity. and humanity is where we are in our world. in our world of football, in our world of political situation and humanity needs or has no other duty than to respect each other. human beings to be respected. i say that because to celebrate humanity in football was created by this great human, nelson

mandella. i say that today here because i just received a little bit (audio indistinct) this is not a question we're going to debate. sorry that i speak english, but that is the majority of the audience here, that they understand at least my english which is based on a specific (audio indistinct) my daughter can make a translation if

needed. he is the only man in this class that was supporting me. another supporter here is in the audience. coming back to what has happened. ladies and gentlemen, let us say that i'm really sorry. i am sorry that i am still somewhere a punching ball, but i'm sorry that i am the president of f.i.f.a., this punching ball, and i'm sorry for football. i'm sorry for the football association, i'm sorry for that.

i'm sorry for the 400 plus f.i.f.a. team members that are working in f.i.f.a. i'm sorry about that. i'm sorry. take it in this world (audio indistinct) i have organized what i ask to have the press conference for different reasons, specifically for when i knew that there will be a decision by the people of the ootidsics community on-- ethics community on this very day.

you can identify me as an optimist. together with swiss lawyer, we thought that we have convinced the panel of the tribunal with mr eckert in the chair about the situation, which was created about the payment by the f.i.f.a. and f.i.f.a. president, but by f.i.f.a., for an ongoing contract which was never terminated but was still there is something due, that we would be now in a situation that is clear, and the plain situation,

because we are in a so-called oral contract or video's agreement-- gentleman's agreement that was made in 1998 in france where mr platini approached me and i preached him because we were-- approached him and i said it was wonderful if you come to f.i.f.a. and he said, "i'm a very expensive man". i said ""that's okay. we can't pay you now, but we will pay you later". today it is a summary decision but still is that they deny the

existence of such an agreement. this agreement, both indirectly or directly, confirmed by two meetings of the ufa executive committee, the one in sweden and the other one here in zurich in december 98 or the year 98, and here in zurich it was an international executive meeting because the next day we had f.i.f.a. executive meeting, and people there spoke about "can you imagine the europeans, they like platini because he was supporting me. they don't like me because i took the presidency on 8 june,

and they said, "can you imagine if this is written down, that platini is going to work for f.i.f.a. for one million? " he will never. platini is nothing to be paid one million, but they have confirmed that this discussion was taken, it was held, and also one of the men from france, who is actually the chair of the organising committee for euro 2016, he could recollect this discussion. so, therefore, we have to prove that this was not only known by platini and me and, therefore, the -- therefore, this agreement existed.

this chamber has denied it has existed and therefore the two million swiss francs, which was then by letter from platini to me, or to the finance department of f.i.f.a., that we said this is due to platini and it was paid to platini. it went through the finance committee, it went through to the executive committee, to the f.i.f.a. control committee, two committees, and to congress. it was registered. it has been done in good terms. that as this contract or contract never existed, this is a donation, it is a gift. they have avoided the word of "corruption", because they took it out at the beginning of the meeting, but still that i have given this money to platini to buy ufa, to buy the votes for

the f.i.f.a. 2011. now here you journalists, most of them journalists, you have followed the history of f.i.f.a. and you cannot change the history of f.i.f.a. the election in 2011 was made against the opposition of uafa, and you will remember at the time when the elections took place, there was two members of the ufr associations, one from the british islands. they came out and said, "we want to change the agenda of the meeting, of the conference of f.i.f.a. there shall be no election at this time", and there was an election. by the way, there was only one against me at that time. this was who was ho-- he was

twice. it was withdrawn by his own country where he was proposed. secondly, it was two days before the election he was suspended by at that time ethic committee of f.i.f.a. so this is on these allegations that i have given gift for not saying to corruption, but i have been given a gift to platini because this arrangement and contract was so in the f.i.f.a. books. you can have written and oral contracts. it is for this reason i am now suspended eight years, suspended eight years, but i will fight.

i will fight for me and i will fight for f.i.f.a. suspended eight years for what? so, therefore, immediately, and i spoke with my lawyer this morning, who definitely was not surprised that the notification of the decision was first made to the media and later to those that should receive it, he is not surprised because communication in this ethics committee is an example how you shall not do it since the beginning of this matter. then i am suspended and i just heard as well, because it was not in my decision, as well mr platini, and can you imagine being in the books, the books of the accusation, that is because mr platini and myself, we were asked separately, we have never

had a contract in between, but the first day this happened, it was in a meeting here in july in zurich, and we were - it doesn't matter, but we were separated, we couldn't speak together and we have given the same answer about this agreement, the same answer, and in the books now it is written that it's not relevant what the two presidents have said separately. you know what that means? that we are liars. he is a liar and i'm a layer. and this is not correct. it is not relevant what the two have said. not relevant what the two have said. so, therefore, with my lawyer, lawrence edney, he is putting

into question all the - what is right and what is wrong and the justice. i will use the justice to go forward. we go immediately, once again, to the appeal committee, we go to the tribunal, we go also to the swiss, rights of switzerland. i am a swiss citizen. you know, if in the swiss law you would be suspended for eight years, you must have committed something very, very important, very important. therefore, the only thing that they could and they would have done, this ootidsics committee--

ethics committee, is say, yes, if these arrangement have existed and it existed, it's still existing, you should have put it somewhere in your books. i agreed to that. i agreed to that, but this is administrative and financial, let's say, proceedings, and this has nothing to do with ethics. so it is just in defiance or administrative duties there was-- in finance or administrative duties there was an error, but this is nothing to do with the ethics regulations. that's all i wanted to say here concerning this decision which has touched me, but, yes, i come back. i just want to say that already

the first decision to suspend the f.i.f.a. president, suspend the f.i.f.a. president, we sought the hearing of the chamber. we were only heard by the investigatory chamber and that human rights and in all countries, the human rights existed or exists that a tribunal and even it is in f.i.f.a.'s court of disciplinary, it is also in the olympic charter. it is also in the charter of the united nations to be sanctioned, you have to be heard. this first position has already put a new economy inside f.i.f.a. people couldn't understand why the president of f.i.f.a. had to

be suspended. secondly, it has created a lot of issues outside of f.i.f.a. in the families, my family, according here and his daughter they were mocked about that, friends were mobbed, the village was in a crisis because they said what do you have as representative there, and this is to be condoned before justice is made. do you remember that the accusation chamber has already said that platini and i, we would be suspended for a lifetime. now they come a little bit back. they chose that something is wrong in this system, something is wrong, and that's why i have to fight to put again the rights on the place, and i repeat, i

regret that i'm dysfunctional there, i regret for my organization that i have served with heart and conscience during 41 years, but specifically i regret and i'm, therefore, all the members, the team members working in f.i.f.a., but saying that, f.i.f.a. was working well, it's still working well and i congratulate the football club of barcelone for winning for the third time the competition. so if you want to proceed some questions, i will try to answer the questions, but i don't answer twice the same question. >> please introduce yourself first and just one question per journalist.

>> reporter: mr blatter, you say you are sorry. are you not saying (audio inaudible). >> no. i am ashamed about that. committees exist and they don't go through the evidences they are presented. i tell you this committee has no right to go against a president, the president of f.i.f.a. can only be revealed from his activities by the congress, and in the next congress we chase schedule of 27 february before going to the election of the new president, the former president, still the president, even suspended, i am the president. the president must be relieved of his duties otherwise you cannot elect another president. i am not ashamed. i regret, but i'm not ashamed.

i am ashamed if you go in that what has been presented and how all these has been done with the support of you. you were there also at the very beginning, saying he is in corruption, he is the conscience, he should know that haul the people, they have been arrested, it is his mistake, he has done everything wrong". i am not the conscience of the people that i cannot elect or that i cannot nominate personally. i repeat that. i will always repeat that. i will always repeat that. i am a man of principles and these principles still go on, that never take money you have not earned. secondly, pay your debts, but now they are telling me that i tried to buy through mr platini

votes for the 2011 elections. now, this lady. >> reporter: (audio inaudible) >> thank you. i remember that. you know that in china now, china has realized that football is a big game as well, but i'm still of the opinion that football is the biggest and the most important game in the world. football is the game that brings

in this disturbed vote, that brings eau motion and hope, and i am-- emotion and hope. i am very much touched that for the first time football was attacked by so-called political or parapolitical entities when it came to this famous day in paris where something should happen in a stadium. so long football has never been attacked and football itself never been attacked. coming back to china, china now is the future, the future of what, but now with the new president that i had the pleasure to meet, i had the pleasure to meet, and now the football is doing a great job there and the better job that i have done in the olympics 2008

because the football only had one medal and all different sports had many medals. now they are there, working well, working a big contract with f.i.f.a. and i'm shofar that chinese football will play a big part. already your club team was playing for the third place in the competition. >> reporter: do you feel betrayed by the people you have (audio inaudible). >> yes. i think "betrayed" can be the right thing. speaking of norway, you're from norway, in norway you know we have started something and i will tell you, i have already said that, but from time to time

you forget it. when we came in this famous 2 december 2010 we had a dream, a dream. i have to say a dream. it was a fact at the time and it was not a written contract, but it was said that we will open the world cup to two terms. it was in 2010. we had to broke up and we said we go to 14. it's okay, so we go 18 and 22. why? because we had the idea that in 2018 the world cup should go to a country which has never had the world cup in europe because an eastern part of europe never the world cup was there. it has been in england, the world cup has been in sweden,

the world cup has been in spain, twice in france, twice in germany, twice in italy, everywhere but never there. okay. so this was a possibility, but was still open in the world. the second one, we should-- if you're just joining us now, just to fill you in on what you're watching, that is blatter holding a press conference in zurich. he has gone off on a slight tangent. just to get you right up to speed, he has been, in effect, suspended for eight years. his career at f.i.f.a. most people are saying is over. mr blatter would disagree with that. in the past half hour or so, he started talking about humanity. he was telling the world about how one of the last times he was in that auditorium that you are watching, he was flambéinged by nelson ma-- flanked by nelson

mandella. the sound bite and the headlines that you will see and hear over the coming 24 hours, the point that mr blatter said, "i'm really sorry". that wasn't an apology because he went on to say he was sorry for football. he said he had asked for this press conference. he said he wanted a clean sheet situation. he then gave us his version of what happened between him and mr platini. he said it was a gentleman's agreement made after the world cup in 1998 in france. he said, however, the ethics committee of f.i.f.a. denied the existence of such an agreement. that, we suspect, is a point that mr blatter will have to address in the coming weeks and months because i'm sure the ethics committee will say he is actually flipping that around. the ethics committee has never denied the existence of an

agreement. but what they're saying there should have been a paper agreement because mr platini said to mr blatter, "i want to come and work for you at f.i.f.a. but you have to pay me". so they came up with this scheme to delay the payment. let's listen into that news conference again. >> made the decision for south africa. at that time the apparent of the kingdom of saudi arabia, the prince abdullah who later became king and passed away this year, he told me one day an arab country should also have the cup, but we're surprised that it was the smallest country that were in the contending. >> lady in red, please. >> reporter: (audio inaudible).

>> translation: translation not provided he is a resident of switzerland. he will of course be speaking german. he is saying he will fight. he said it has got nothing to do with ethics and he is going to appeal. his critics will say if it has nothing to do with ethics, why have we, in effect, found you guilty of corruption. he then started talking about the constitution or the paperwork that puts together and holds together, binds together,

organizations like the united nations. he was saying every place you go you have the right to be heard inside f.i.f.a. he said people could not understand why he had been suspended. he has been condemned, he said, before justice has been served. "i have to fight". he also went on then to congratulate barcelona. he said ache is a man of principles. he went off on detour and talking about the attacks in paris, the plusses, good things that football can bring people, bring people together. >> the job as f.i.f.a. president. >> the>> reporter:-- the gentleman in the back row.

>> translation: it can't carry on like this. it's not possible. it's not possible after 40 years to do things like that and especially not when one questions, and i repeat what i said in english, when one says one of mr platini and mr blatter said, is not what is important. it means that we are liars, we're shown to be liars. do what reason do we neither believe mr platini and myself, and that is a question of lack of respect towards the legal system. you can't condemn someone without giving founded reasons and now i'm condemned or

suspended and platini as well. it means it's not finished, which means that there is still the fact. i hope we shall do the same thing. i'm a fighter. i don't give up, either myself or f.i.f.a. i as president, i wanted to have a new presidency, and i've been cut off. i'm fighting to restore the rights and i think in february we will have to try. i believe in god, but i believe in myself and i believe also this sports authorities with the ceo, which is tas, and on the

27th i will be able to share the congress of f.i.f.a. >> reporter: you wish the same thing for mr platini? >> yes, of course. we're in the same boat. >> reporter: (audio inaudible) >> translation: madam, your question is one million dollars or one million swiss francs for a football star should not be

questioned. how could i question the price of someone? f.i.f.a. cannot pay one million swiss francs? it is his problem, not mine, but the debt existed. second secondly, the last time i saw mr platini when we left the f.i.f.a. committee, it were the underpinnings, we were in a room and we thought we were immediately separated. why did they do that? we didn't know why. we questioned the payment of the two million. >> reporter: (audio inaudible).

>> you know me. i pass now more than 40 years. i would say the adult age of a person, 40 years he should not do more than 40 years, definitely. i have said what was wrong with me is that at the end of the world cup in brazil i should have said and i should have listened to this here and said, now, stop it. i haven't done it because at that time mr platini has decided to become a president and the confederations have said you stay our president, stay as our

president because you have seen what it came in. but this would have been the right thing. i cannot express qualities or non-qualities to my successor. there will be one. we have still four in the pipeline and i don't know how the congress will react. now i have to fight that i have to be at that congress and as i am forbidden even to go to f.i.f.a., i have no access to whatever. by the way, to suspend the president of f.i.f.a. and to forbid him to go to a stadium, is 26 february not 27, thank you, but the - this is wrong because in the disciplinary

courts it applies to not go to stadium, they are still suspended, they can till practice with their-- still practice with their teams. to suspend the high-level functionaries, to say they cannot go to a football much, this is absolute wrong. it does not apply. it does not apply to these person persons. >> gentleman with the tie? >> reporter: how do you think they found out? >> how they found out? this is not a secret. because swiss banks are obliged

to notify to swiss authorities since years, since there are all these financial control to swiss organizations, which is called finma, they are obliged, if they feel that a payment is something hide in a personal account, they have to, and so in 2011 mr platini received on his personal account by f.i.f.a., not by me, by f.i.f.a., this two million swiss francs and then they have given this information to the authorities. later on the authorities have looked at that. that is all, because all was done in good regulations of swiss law. >> on the left side. >> reporter: if you had known this would have happened if the

united states (audio inaudible) >> the ethics committee at this time was composed by australian, by one of papua new guinea and one from uruguay and i had the good impression on the panel, and i think my lawyer was clever enough to deny any gift given and this is what touched me, really, is that i have never cheated with money and now i should have given two million just to buy votes, votes from whom. from europe? finally i goat votes from

europe. i always got votes from europe in all the matters, and if you go backwards through the history that you know that already in december and november 98 the european executive committee came together by saying how can we get rid of this jsc. they never mentioned president blatter in their documents. we have the documents. how can we get rid of gsb. it was five months after my election. how can we get rid of. they tried in 2002 to get rid of me. i don't believe that. the ethics committee of f.i.f.a., i cannot believe that they are not good in communication, we have seen that, but i would not say that there is some pressure by somebody here. it is inside f.i.f.a. and i

hadn't not exactly identify if they wanted to avoid that platini shall be the f.i.f.a., or if they just wanted to give a flick to this non-accepted f.i.f.a. president. i don't know. two questions you're watching live coverage with this compelling and quite astonishing press conference in some circumstances. he is going to appeal the decision. he has been fined $50,000 and mr platini has been fined about 75 or $80,000. both were in a situation of conflict of interest. blatter and platini were found to be in a situation of offering and accepting gifts. that's a direct quote from the verdict that was handed down by the ethics committee. they were also in violation of

the fiduciary duty to f.i.f.a., just to get you across what that means, it is a fancy legal term basically saying we can co defy the relationship between trustee and any beneficiary when the beneficiary is defined by the trustee. the trustee here being the man, mr blatter, the beneficiary being mr platini. we looked at the explanation as to what happened and when, so they tracked the time line. they said they were not convinced, the ethics committee, and adding the evidence was not sufficient to secure charges of corruption. there had been a lot of speculation in the run-up to the events of the last couple of hours saying if they thought they couldn't get a did you know deal on charges of corruption, they weren't going to go for that. both men protesting their innocence as they said the payment was made following a verbal agreement when platini worked for blatter between 1998, just after the world cup in

france, october/november time 1998. both of them have been fined and they cannot run for the presidency in february. it all comes down to what happened to that payment of 1.35 million pounds, two million swiss francs. a little earlier in this that new conference mr blatter had this to say. >> translation: suspended eight years, but i will fight, i will fight for me and f.i.f.a. suspended eight years for what? so, therefore, immediately, immediately, and i spoke with my lawyer this morning who definitely was not surprised that the notification of the decision was first made to the media and later to those that should receive it. he is not surprised because

communication in this ethics committee is an example how you shall not do it watching that news conference with us from the sports desk. >> watching now saying that he never cheated with money. i give you two million swiss francs, in effect, and i say i can't give you a gig now but i can in a year, so have a little bit of it and then don't send me an invoice and on i won't send you a bill because you can have the rest of it down the line. by the way, we won't run it past the accountants, we won't write a document putting it on paper. if that's not cheating with money, i'm not quite sure what it is. >> yeah. it's all about what his definition of cheating with money and what the rest of our definition is, but i think the thing that really people find hard to deal with is the fact that this money fell into platini's account just four months before the 2011 f.i.f.a. election. this is what people have the most problem with and the fact

of the matter is blatter still refuses to say there was anything wrong with that. he is still arguing over points of legality within this decision by the ethics committee. he still thinks he has a future within f.i.f.a. i don't think many people agree with him though let's find the feeling is at f.i.f.a. paul reece is outside that building where the news conference is taking place. palm, there has to be a distinct sense that he is completely done, he is finished. -- paul. >> reporter: just before he was let into the press conference which overlooks the mountains here in zurich, the door opened and there was pay tolling of church bells outside which sounded a little bit portentious. he came in looking very you'veial as he does, with the plaster over his right shim cheek - joveial. he had the f.i.f.a. badge on his

lapel and seemed relaxed. his tone changed a lot. he said he feels betrayed. he said that he doesn't have any supporters, really, apart from his daughter who was next to him. he blamed the media as well for pointing the finger at him, essentially blaming him for what he says are the actions of others in f.i.f.a. that he has no control about. as you said, he kept reiterating that he doesn't cheat, he is a man of principle and he repeated "i am still the president", which the f.i.f.a. ethics committee would seem to take issue with paul, rahool, thank you both very much. going back to that live shot in zurich. he says he fights on to win. he also says when we are shown to be liars, it can't carry on like this, and he wasn't saying that statement during one of his many statements that you could interpret both ways.

that was not meant as an admission on his part, that he had lied. what he was basically saying was, we have been shown to be liars although we weren't liars. he even went as far saying he wanted to have a new presidency. he wanted to be involved with that. everyone connected in f.i.f.a. or the world of football knows for a fact that mr blatter wanted to stay on as long as he possibly could. he also said right at the end of when we were listening to what he was saying, he said that five months after he got the job, he had seen the documents. the book when he writes it will be very interesting. he had seen the documents where people were saying get rid of jsb just five months in because that back referenced to a thing that he said at the top of the hour when he was saying how the europeans didn't like him when he got the job. all of that news conference was to put across his innocence in his mind, although one did get

the distinct sense that you were watching an elderly man who, perhaps, hasn't quite processed what is happening to him as of yet. more on that story throughout the coming hours, of course, and, of course, on the website as well, al jazeera.com, and you can talk to us vi atwitter as well -- via twitter. moving on. taliban fighters have taken control in afghanistan in the sangen districts of helmand province. the governor asked for help to stop the areaing falling to the group. it produces most of the world's opium and it is an important base for the taliban. nigeria's rivers provide a living to local fishermen. the rivers are drying up fast.

in the third series of our report. >> reporter: this man has been a fisherman all his life. the skills have been passed down from one generation in the family to another. he considers the river his life and home. >> translation: fishing has been very important and part of our life for a long time and very important because that's the way we feed and live. actually, we're fishermen. >> reporter: but the accumulation of salt and overfishing are threatening their livelihood. >> reporter: this is the meeting of the two rivers. for generations this used to be a very busy place for shipping, fishing and farming activities, but in recent years people earning a living from the rivers

have seen their rivers dry up. the appearance of small islands in the rivers have added to the fishermen's woes. the feeding grounds are disappearing as the waters become shallow. as a result many had to switch jobs to feed their families. >> translation: we are raised as fishermen, but the supply here is depleted. we just cannot sustain ourselves with fishing today. that's why we were looking for alternatives. >> reporter: boats don't go through the waterways as much as they used to. a government attempt to dredge the rivers have made the situation worse. >> the government has attempted to drudge the rivers. most people have been dredging, means that all the debris is cleared and the flow has improved but we haven't seen that. only certain channels have been

dredged from the ocean to this part but that has not come to the level that is impacting critically on the economy of this area. >> reporter: for now, fishermen can only watch and hope that some day soon the fish will return and restore their livelihoods in part 4 of our rivers life we looked at how the officials put waste into the waterways. you can keep up-to-date with our website, the news website and the sports website. the top story, blatter and platini have been fined and banned for eight years. plenty when we come back in about three minutes.

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>> kicked out in disgrace. f.i.f.a. bans sepp blatter and michel platini for eight years on corruption charges. >> suspended eight years. but i will fight. i will fight for me and i will fight for f.i.f.a. sepp blatter says he will appeal against that ban from football hello, welcome, we are watching al jazeera, coming to you live from doha. also still to come in the next 30 minutes. the taliban gain controls of