about the whys and wherefores about voodoo. did it if it fix my back? that's still to say. but of all the things in heaven and earth, voodoo is not the scariest. fifa's leadership under fire. the organization's president facing an uncertain election while top executives face corporate charges. corruption charges. new details on how the u.s. military accidentally shipped live anthrax to multiple locations. and in a cnn exclusive, we take you inside china's secret space program. from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, i'm george howell. this is "cnn newsroom." welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. we start this show with the fifa

corruption scandal. the group in charge of world football grappling now with the biggest crisis in it history. and there's a credibility problem, too. but fifa's long time leader, sepp blatter, says he will not let the actions of a few destroy its reputation. and he's calling for those allegedly involved to be punished as fifa works to rebuild its reputation. all of this comes as members of the fifa congress vote in the coming hours on whether to elect blattory a fifth term as president. >> we -- or i cannot monitor everyone all of the time. if people want to do wrong, they will also try to hide it. but it must fall for me to be a -- for the reputation and well being of our organization and to find a way for --

>> blatter focused on fixings things and says he will not step down despite calls to do so from world leaders, critic and the head of european football. >> translator: like many of you and thanks to many of you, we have followed what has been going on in recent days. sincerely, for me who likes fifa, for me who has so many admiration of the history of fifa, for me who has followed this for several years, i feel insulted. i feel disgusted and i'm sick of it. enough is enough. >> enough is enough. >> a lot of people following this story, the crisis in fifa erupted when the united states charged top officials in that organization with bribery. on a massive scale this week. let's bring in cnn world sport anchor alex thomas for more on what's happened in zurich, switzerland. good day to you. with sepp blatter refusing to step down and aiming for

re-election, can this organization move forward if blatter were to maintain its helm? welcome to another crisp blue sky here in switzerland, george. the events have been so jaw dropping that it's prot probably not overstepping the case to say this could be the most important day in history of the world's most popular sport. sepp blatter, president of fifa since 1998, he's been there a lot longer than that stands for re-election for a fifth term in charge of the organization and the tot 209 national associations from across the world, the bosses that have all flown here from every corner of the earth. they've got more members than the united nations. will have to choose between blatter and the scandalous headlines we saw this week or his challenger, prince ali

binassain. but from his point of view, he feels he offers a completely different alternative going forward, george. >> and a lot of people are looking at this election to come and asking, you know, if blatter remains at the helm, what would happen with sponsors? >> there's lots of question marks over fifa and the future of football if sepp platter remains in charge. he himself admitted in a very clever speech at the opening share monies of the fifa congress in one of the buildings behind me yesterday that there will be more revelations to come. now, he said it from the point of view of it won't affect me. it's not my fault as the head of the organization if individuals decide to be corrupt. i can't keep my eye on everybody. and from the point of view of fifa being a huge global organization he's correct. but the point is this, his critics hold him responsibility in the same way a ceo of a major

company would take the fall, if there was massive corruption found to be in that organization or if a prime minister or head of an organization had to resign among scandal. he's hoping the members that do like him outside of europe, he's extremely popular, he's hoping he'll get their vote again. >> alex, thank you so much for the reporting there. a decision to award russia with the world cup in 2018 and qatar in 2022 are now under investigation. russia had the lead over a joint bid by spain and portugal in the first round of voting. england got just two votes and was then eliminated. russia then got 13 votes to win in the second round. swiss investigators say the russian sports minister is one of the officials they are questioning. russia has long denied any suggestion of impropriety. cnn's matthew chance has more on moscow's tough stance on the

fifa scandal. >> officially, everyone here and at fifa is holding the line that russia will continue to hold the world cup tournaments in 2018. but reading between the lines, that certainty appears to have been badly dented, even the russian president appeared on russian state television partly to assure anxious russian physical fans and partly to condemn the fifa investigations as politically motivated. take a listen to what he had to say. >> translator: we are not concerned, but, of course, i have an opinion on this issue. as we know on friday, the fifa presidential elections are to be held. and mr. blatter has all the chance toes be re-elected. we know that pressure has been exerted on him to ban the world cup in 2018 in russia. we know his position, which has nothing to do with some special relationship of fifa and russia. this is his general position of principal. sport and politics should be separate.

>> of course, many russian officials refuse to believe that sport and politics are separate in this case. president putin giving voice to that suspicion, going on to accuse the united states of orchestrating the fifa investigations in order to medal in the affairs of other countries. matthew chance, cnn, moscow. the united states, a former speaker of the house of representatives has been indicted for lying to the fbi about more than $3 million he agreed to pay, allegedly, in hush money. dennis lastert is accused of trying to hide transactions that he allegedly paid to an unnamed individual to cover up past misconduct. the indictment does not explain the alleged misconduct, you about it details transactions he made over several years. hastert served as house speaker from 1999 until 2006. now on to iraq where two car

bombings have left at least nine people dead in baghdad. the simultaneous explosion targeted two hotels popular with the city's elite and foreigners, including journalists. let's turn to ian lee who is live in cairo with details on this. good day to you. what more can you tell us about these hotel bombings? >> good morning, george. this bombing happened right before midnight on a thursday. this is the beginning of the weekend where a lot of people like to go out, go to these hotels, including these elites and foreigners. as you mentioned, a prime target for these bombings. and this attack really does highlight the security situation in baghdad. and, remember, this comes just after iraq recently -- baghdad recently lifted a curfew that was a night curfew for the last 12 years in february opinion so the city is trying to get back

to some sort of normality while isis is advancing or is a very real threat, but it shows that even in the capital, there is there still can be these sources of attack. >> now turning to tikrit and these reports, ian, of mass graves that were found, can you tell us more about that? >> yeah. we're hearing it's just one person shy of 500 people, bodies that have been exhumed from that mass grave. we're hearing that they are cadets that were killed by isis about a year ago, last june. these people, their bodies were taken to the baghdad morgue where there are forensics experts looking at them, trying to identify the bodies, get them to their families for a proper burial, although they haven't been released yet. but we're hearing, also, that this is just one of many more mass graves to be discovered and uncovered in tikrit. >> and, ian, isis loves to

release videos, so they released a new video of the city of palmyra. what does this show? >> well, we're hearing or we're seeing, rather, the ancient artifact, the ancient monument statues that are from palmyra, it's haunting, really, this is something that a lot of people have been concerned about, what would happen to them once isis took over. but it's interesting, the "new york times" reporting that on a radio broadcast that the group of man identifying himself as the leader of isis there was saying that we won't damage the buildings, god willing. they will not be touched with our bulldozers as some tend to believe. i mean, that's encouraging and we haven't heard of, really, this wide scale looting that we've seen in other parts of iraq and syria. but still, we know isis does like to use these sorts of

things as propaganda tools and also digging up antiquities to finance their operations, as well, george. >> hard to understand the method to that madness. ian lee live in the egyptian capital. thank you so much for your reporting. a coalition of insurgent groups has taken over the last government-held cities in syria's idlib province. the group, called the conquest army, says it has captured ariha. the al qaeda branch is reportedly a major part of the coalition. the syrian army says there were heavy clashes with insurgents and the army eventually pulled back. representatives from 17 nations are meeting in bangkok to discuss the growing migrant crisis in southeast asia. and we're already seeing some signs of progress. thailand says it will allow the united states to fly surveillance planes to find boats carrying migrants in need of rescue. we'll get a live report from bangkok just a lot later in this hour. the group in charge of the world of football is grappling

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welcome back to "cnn newsroom." i'm george howell. returning now to our top story, the head of fifa, sepp blatter, says he won't let the actions of a few destroy fifa's reputation. members will vote on whether to wlekt blatter to fifth term as president. fifa breaks down the numbers ahead of that vote. >> reporter: this is what the battles for fifa president looked like months ago. now it's down to these two men. 79-year-old sepp blatter and jordan's prince a will i bin al hussein. deciding who wins are 209 national football associations,

members of six confederations. together, there will be 209 votes. the winner needs two-thirds. that's 140 votes. you are looking at the different confederations. eufa is one of those federations. in there, they have three associations. that's 53 votes. the ahead of eufa speaking on thursday said they will back prince ali at least most of the members are expected to. so that could potentially be right there 53 votes for prince ali. zero at the moment for sepp blatter. now, the asian football confederation, the afc and the african confederation of football has both openly endorsed sepp blatter saying not once but on several occasions post the latest crisis. together, if you can see, if you do the math, they account for 100 votes. very important to note this here, that prince ali, who is from jordan, doesn't even sooep appear to have the support of

his own confederation. now, we won't know which way they will vote. they haven't spoken on this yet. turning your attention to south america, they haven't officially backed anyone. however, this is the interesting point, in previous years, this region has been a strong hold for sepp blatter. i'm not going to add these numbers in. but you can see lr, if conmebol goes the way it has traditionally gone, that's another 10 votes for sepp blatter. finally, concacaf, they may be somewhat in a pickle given their president who has been suspended, vice president jeffrey webb, he's being investigated on corruption charges. webb recently told the 35 associations we're looking at here, if 35 votes, to feel free to vote for the candidate of their choice. normally this is a confederation that votes in block and traditionally they vote sepp

blatter. if his backing holds amidst this crisis, sepp blatter could get at least a 00 secrets right there in the ballot box, making it likely he will rain for a fifth term. cnn, london. the story really breaks down the numbers. now let's get some context and perspective on this story with kir radnich. good day to you. so you saw or heard eva's report just a moment ago. what do you think about these numbers between sepp blatter and prince ali? >> well, i think her assessment with the numbers were pretty good. what i would say is that prince ali will not get all of the votes in europe. europe does have some very firm sepp blatter supporters. russia, spain and countries within their -- the unfortunate

thing for prince ali is that the asian federation, his own confederation is officially backing sepp blatter. that's a very serious problem for him. my reading of the situation, i am told the delegates last late night, was that if prince ali got enough votes to pull even a second round of voting, he would have done very well and would have given sepp blatter a bloo y nose at least. >> so in your general opinion, this corruption scandal, does it weigh heavily on sepp blatter going into this election? >> well, yes, of course it weighs on him because it's caused serious thinking, serious pressure. it's caused a lot of very, very negative publicity. for example, at least one federation flew out to zurich last night for fear of getting caught up in the police investigation. what blatter has said and said at the opening ceremony last

night is that this is a terrible crisis, you know? fifa will suffer pain and humiliation, but i'm the man to pull us through. mon most delegates in the crisis will stick with the man they know. >> and sticking with the plan they know, a man who refuse toes step down. he has the support of the russian president, for sure. if sepp blatter is at the helm of world soccer, what significance would that have moving forward, in your opinion? >> moving forward, if he's re-elected, it means for another four years, there will be no possibility of improving the reputation of fifa and it means people will in a sense be frozen in time. i think it's very important for fifa that it gets a breath of fresh air, new ideas, new look and streamlining and the reappraisal of itself right from the top down.

but i think looking at the numbers, that's very unlikely to come about today. >> kier radnadge, thank you so much for taking time to give us your insights on this story. an investigation is now under way into how the u.s. military accidentally shipped live samples of anthrax via fed ix. no one is reported to have gotten sick, but the potentially lethal mistake sent 22 workers for treatment for the bacteria. >> nearly two dozen people have been exposed to anthrax and, worse, for over a year, nobody flew it. the military now scrambling to explain how it could have happened. >> the great question is, that's exactly why we brought in the center for disease control and their investigators. >> the army contracted with fedex for the shipment.

the company says it's working with the federal government. the anthrax was to be shipped as dead agent, supposedly a less dangerous form. >> that doesn' have much meaning to me. anthrax can exist for decades, centuries, underground, in a spore form. this hard crusted inanment form that eventually can change into an active poisonous type form. >> a history of anthrax fears. weeks after the 9/11 attacks letters laced with anthrax were sent, killing five americans in what the fbi calls the worst biological attack in u.s. history. this time no indication of a deliberate act and the pentagon says no one is sick. a growing investigation is spreading across nine states and overseas to osan air base in south korea where 22 people are searching precautionary antibiotics and vaccinations

after a potential exposure during a training exercise. they began medical care may 27th, five days after the pentagon first received word from a lab it go the got live anthrax from the shipments, not an agent for research. the pentagon says it's looking into why the late notification. the anthrax was in south korea for over a year. no one knowing it was live. it all began last year on march 18th, 2014, a proving ground army base in utah. a load of anthrax was ir radiated. the intent? to kill the live agent for shipment. it was shipped 22 times until last friday whether a maryland lab discovered it had live anthrax. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. >> you are watching "cnn newsroom." ahead, stranded at sea for weeks or even months.

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welcome back to our vurers in the united states and around the world. i'm george howell. the headlines this hour, the head of nifa says the corruption scandal encomping his organization have brought,

quote, shame and humiliation to football. but sepp blatter says he won't step down. members of the fifa congress vote today on whether to elect blatter to a fifth term as president. forensics teams in iraq have pulled nearly 500 boats from makeshift graves near tikrit. officials believe they are iraqi military cadets killed by isis last june. the graves were discovered when shia militia drove isis from tikrit in march. a former speakers of the u.s. house of representatives was indicted for alleged lid more than $3 million he agreed to pay in hush money. dennis hastert is accused of trying to cover up transactions he made to an individual to cover up past misconduct. the indictment does not alleged what his misconduct what the was. thailand is hosting an international summit to try and find a solution to the growing migrant crisis. it is a humanitarian disaster

that has captured the world's attention. representatives from 17 different countries are attending a meeting in bangkok and that is where we even sima mosin live at this hour. >> we've seen over if last two weeks of those bangladeshi migrants and rhohinga refugees. but they could no longer be ignored. 17 countries taking part that primarily have caused the morning involved countries have just been giving their opening remark remarks n this meeting. we saw a heated exchange. we didn't know myanmar would turn up in the first place and they spoke to unhcr, pointed out that the causes of people leaving their home countries needs to be addressed and myanmar has a responsibility to its citizens. this is how myanmar responded.

>> need to be more informed, need to be more informed. i'm saying that because you cannot single out my country. >> that is essentially the sticking points that we are seeing here already today that we will probably see continuing. whether this is going to be an issue about the impact point, the unhcr, unodc and iom are allowed inside. but a lot of activists and human rights groups or not. i'm joined by phil robertson based here in bang cook. what was human rights watch like to see take place and be

discussed in that meeting and come out of it? >> well, what we want tooz is a binding agreement between these governments here to look at a couple key things. first of all, to find all the boats that are stim out at sea and bring those people safely to shore. allow them to disembark. importantly, allow access to do refugee status determination, to sort out who was a victim of human trafficking and ensure the international community knows who we're talking about and find the appropriate solution for them. >> we just discussed the sticking points for what is being seen as perhaps accusations. myanmar not willing to even discuss the names or term rohinga and saying this is a problem with trafficking and not about the communities that are involved. >> well, myanmar is basically trying to deny responsibility for a rights abusing policy that has sent tens of thousands of people out into the region on boats in desperate situations. what we've seen is ethnic

cleansing and crimes against humanity committed against the rohinga people in myanmar and the government has held no one accountable for that. myanmar can contest this in the meeting, but the world community knows what's happening and it has to be addressed. >> now, you are obviously willing to use the term rohinga, but i've heard the term both people, people specifically in question. how important is it to perhaps tread that fine line of delicacy, or are they doing the right thing? are they not doing the right thing rather and they should use the term rohinga? >> well, i think unfortunately allowing burma to define the terms of the debate has not ended well for the people. i think whether the people should be allowed to call

themselves what they want to call themselves. they should be able to self-identify. that's something that the u.n. for burma has said. so this should be be a contested issue. the issue is what is going to happen to these people, not what you call them. >> thanks very much, indeed. another point that is being made here today is, of course, relating to the bangladeshi migrants that are boarding these boats, the international organization for migration pointing out that my gragsz is an inevitable part of the world we live in today. and the debate really needs to change from a very negative and toxic narrative to a positive one. these people come to countries to enrich them, not necessarily in a lessy way. >> i noticed there is a debate about what to call the rohingya,

but at the same time, the bigger question is what to do. returning now to our top story, fifa's long time president, sepp blatter, the vowing to ride out dual corruption scandals. he says it's his responsibility to fix fifa members from within. members will vote for their next president in the coming hours and as cnn explains, blatter is ignoring all signs, all calls to step aside. >> chaos as fifa's shaming takes on epic proportions. we and the other media fighting for sound bites. >> you can be sure that mr. blatter will be reelectsed and we want to try to avoid that. >> i'm in the middle of this. feels like a revolution in the making. leading the charge for change,

eufa. >> i'm disappointed. i'm disgusted and fed up. enough is enough. >> he's a flend has a problem and he's not good for the race. he's my it is my duty to say that. >> reality is when the members here on friday vote for the new president, it's going to take a lot more than putini and eufa to get blatter and fifa to shift d slugging off the allegations of corruption. >> we have to be convinced, 100%, na blatter himself is corrupt. if he's indicted, they're not going to africa -- not going to

give vote. >> you will still be voting for sepp blatter? >> nigeria will vote for sepp blatter. >> at the opening ceremony, blatter not sounding like he's beaten yet. >> i cannot monitor everyone all of the time. if people want to do wrong, they will try to hide it. but it must fall for me to build the responsibility, the reputation and well being of our organization and to find a way for what takes place. >> federal reserve ifa congress now under way. meanwhile, fifa's woes are piling up. nick robertson, cnn, zurich,

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welcome back to "cnn newsroom." i'm george howell. this is a place few eyes have seen. inside china's top space program. cnn obtained exclusive access to what's called space city. it was there that our david mackenzy talked with three of china's most celebrated astronauts and he joins us live from beijing. good day to you. tell us more about their plans and what you saw. >> well, george, what we saw was quite fascinating and was powerful back in deep pockets

china's space program could be the next space super power. we're heading to the far nefrt of beijing to try and get a story we've been working on for more than a year because we've been dealing ultimately with the people's liberation army. going inside space city where foreign journalists will almost never let in. it's the heart of china's most expensive and am a bishus project yet, the manned space program. three of china's best known astronauts, it's their first ever interview with a foreign reporter. >> this is very difficult to dock the two spacecrafts together. >> translator: it is very difficult to dock the two spacecraft together. that is why we had to do the simulation many, many times. >> and how many hours did you

have to practice? >> we trained for the docking for two years. >> two years? >> two years. >> cnn has obtain this exclusive foot aenl of their training, thousands of hours of simulations and technique so it's perfect in space. physical, psychological and team testing always on the go. >> and it seems like you have to be a certain height, you have to be -- have a degree. you need to parcel these physical, psychological tests. do you have to be super human to be an astronaut? >> translator: though the training process of astronauts is very difficult, we are just ordinary people. but certain characteristics make us more suitable to fly space missions. >> so this is a model and, in fact, a simulator of what the chinese astronauts do in space.

this over here is the space lab that went into orbit some years ago and over here is the spaceship that attaches to it. now, the shinzoh was originally modelled on the soil russian or soviet union spacecraft. >> china borrowed heavily from the russians when it launched its space program in the early '90s. since then, it's steadily checked off the milestones. first man in space, first mul s walk. first multi day in space. >> the united states and russia started their space programs early. they are the pioneers. >> presumably, you want to be the best. >> of course. i hope our space program will be better and better. >> the chinese space program cooperates with the european union and others, but the entire

program is locked out of nasa by u.s. congress. and it's banned from the international space station where 50 nations operate. >> every time it ever gets mentioned at all, anywhere near congress, it gets shut down. there's tremendous skepticism about china. it's viewed as a foe, it's viewed as a government that seeks to take our intellectual property, our national secrets and treasure. >> disappointing that you cannot directly cooperate with nasa or do joint exercises with international space station. sgls. >> translator: as an astronaut, i have a strong desire to fly space missions with astronauts from other countries. >> for now, their manned space program goes it alone. china plans to put its own space station in orbit within a decade. but their ultimate aim is perhaps the moon. or even mars.

now, to put it into perspective, when china puts its own space station into orbit, it's around the same time where the international space station could be running out of funding. so it could place china as the only nation on the planet with a permanent presence in space. george. >> great insight there. david mackenzy, thank you for the reporting. and we will be a airing a special featuring david's exclusive reporting, international viewers can catch inside space city airing saturday at 7:30 in hong kong, that's 12:30 london here on cnn. the blistering heat in india shows no signs of cooling off. ahead here on "cnn newsroom," you will see how people are coping with the heat as they battle dangerous diseases. shopping online... ...is as easy as it gets.

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welcome back to "cnn newsroom." i'm george howell. a very tough time in india as temperatures continue to climb with no relief in sight. more than 1400 people have died in this scorching heat. but staying inside is a luxury that few can

alex kapur report on patients would come to new delhi seeking treatments but instead end up on the streets. >> this is home now, the streets of new delhi. these patients have come from different corners of india to get medical treatment for various ailments. problem is, the government-run hospital behind them is full. so they're camping outside in the blistering heat. temperatures in the capital topped 45 degrees celsius, 1 14 fahrenheit in the past few days. worst affected? the poorest of the poor. no matter how hard it is, we have to live here, day or night, this man says. we're lucky if we get to sleep a little bit. we have no choice. what they have is resilience. used to living through hot

summers every year, but these people this heat wave is a secondary problem. many in this group are cancer patients, some so sick they don't even have the energy to fan themselves. they can barely afford to buy water. somehow, they cope. finding respite in a shaded spot, covering their eyes with their hands. this baby makes the most of a piece of cardboard. they don't have much, but they do have hope. survival, this lady asked, what can i say? it's all in the hands of god. cnn, mumbai. >> terrible situation. and that's for the sick there that we saw. but now, you know, there are so many other people who are just in a position where water -- there's a water shortages. where do you go just to cool off?

>> yeah. there's people seeking any kind of relief they can. and, unfortunately, they don't all have access to the luxuries that you and i often have access to, that being air-conditioning, for instance. remember, there's about 1.3 billion people in india and only two-thirds of that population have reliable energy or access to it. so that leaves 400 million people without any kind of cooling mechanism. so they have to become very creative, george, and i think this man has got it right. i lot of it. i've been to india before. i've seen scenes like this play out as they wait for that pre -- or for the monsoon to come in and help cool things off. they get very industrius and make due with what they have. that is helping out the communities with water and ice just like that particular man was. but when you factor in the humidity levels, that is when temperatures become extremely dangerous. again, we are approaching upwards of 1500 fatalities. many of them occurring along the east coast near the bay of

bengal. temperatures are going to stay very, very hot. factoring in the humidity, especially along the coast, we're going to feel that heat index creeping all the way into the upper 40s once again. there was some relief, but only a small bit. the shell pumped up on friday morning, only about 0.7 millimeters of rainfall. they are looking for more. it's still about two to three weeks before the monsoon is officially going to settle in. in fact, i just now edged over the southern portions of sri lanka, that pop-up shower that happened on the east coast of india was very short lived. it still has another couple of weeks before that monsoon eventually starts to cool things off and brings in the much needed rainfall. i want to talk about something different because we have spectacular footage of a volcano that erupted in southwestern

japan. this is in the volcanic islands in the southwest portion of japan. look at this. this is the actual moment when the volcano erupted. there was what is called a pyro clostic flow. i want you to see what that does. when it reaches the ocean, it cools off and this basically, george, is us witnessing an island expanding because of this pyroclostic flow reacting with the cooler ocean waters. that's the hot gas in the rock that the volcano erupts into the atmosphere. this thing is really amazing to see. >> amazing pictures. >> watching geography unfold in front of us. >> derrick, thank you. for the second straight year, we have cochampions in the biggest spelling bee in the united states and here they are. 13-year-old evana shivashankar. and we also have 14-year-old

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