and it's a source of some embarrassment. >> sepp blatter: the 2022 fifa world cup is... qatar. >> kroft: the qataris were happy, but most people thought it an odd choice-- one that brought fifa unwanted attention and made it the butt of international jokes. >> john oliver: there are now executives took bribes to put the world cup in qatar, and i hope that's true. because otherwise it makes literally no sense. >> kroft: its not just that temperatures routinely top 120 degrees in the summer or that qatar has a dismal human rights record. the tiny country has no soccer tradition, and it would seem very few fans. games there are often played in empty stadiums. fifa also ignored its own internal security report which warned of a high risk for terrorism. maybe the executive committee was impressed with this dazzling, multi-media virtual world cup would look like in 2022. right now, this is all just a mirage. most people who follow international soccer aren't surprised by all this. the chicanery at fifa has been an open secret in europe largely jennings, a grizzled freelance re

prince ali is the man who ran against sepp blatter last year and pushed sepp blatter to a second-round runoff. prince ollie could decide to throw -- prince ali could decide to throw his weight behind one of the two candidates, or we could be in for a third round if one of the front runners does not make a simple majority cut in the second round. it really is the most open election for fifa's top job in decades. shona: thank you so much. our correspondent giving us the latest from zurich. irish voters are heading to the polls this friday. the incumbent center-right government has led the country back toward economic stability with the help of its left wing labour coalition partner. it is likely the government will include more parties, however, as experts predict a splintered vote. let's cross over now to dublin. i'm joined by our correspondent. like thise turnout friday? >> despite the winter weather, there has been a steady flow of voters. the primem was minister. kenny haspect that voted for himself because he is -- he has a proven track record. economy toed to the become again the c

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president and end sepp blatter's time. sepp blatter is currently suspended. on monday, two of the five host said gianni at the infamous ruben island prison. where he was healed as a political prisoner alongside nelson mandela. he is an outsider in the f.i.f.a. race. others have a real chance at winning the vote >>> he'll need african votes if he's to take charge of the global game. we have this report on who decides or takes a key role in deciding the f.i.f.a. president. >> reporter: africa is not just home to soccer fans, it's with f.i.f.a. presidential elections can be won or lost. almost a quarter of world football is over the continent. every countries get the vote. >> sepp blatter's predecessor came to power in 1974. he did so on the back of african votes. making sure they had more places and it was a greater f.i.f.a. investment. blatter went further. bringing the world cup to africa, and over saw the contribution of over a million dollars in cash of the member associations. >> that included funds to build this train center. now run, it runs access to sp

as opposed to everything flowing up to a sepp blatter type authority. and johnny baby wants to pick up ribbons on a tile, look it's soccer-baby, that's the kind of thing he does. i like the fact that they're at least accepting the logic that you need a separation of powers between overcast and the building of powers. i do think we're on the path to better more transparent less corrupt international soccer. >> infantino or johnny baby has already promised to restore the image of football. for the first time it lost hundreds of millions of dollars last year. can he lure sponsors back to the support? >> that's going to be one of his main powers, meeting with these sponsors. russia and qatar, a lot of them are concerned about sponsors in areas of human rights abuses, prejudices against lgbt people, there was no indications nor did anyone expect that those world cups would in any way be moved. it is going to take a lot to get fifa's business in order. >> dave s zyron, thank you sir. >> thank you antonio. >>> a vote that's been criticized by international obs

he landed a gig with the bbc launching kamikaze attacks on the likes of fifa president sepp blatter. >> jennings: do you know which football officials took bribes from the i.s.l. marketing company? >> blatter: i don't speak about that. >> kroft: and the aforementioned fifa vice president jack warner... >> jennings: this is a polite inquiry. >> warner: if i could have spit on you, i would have spat on u. >> jennings: if you could spit on me you would spit on me? received his vindication in 2009 when the fbi asked for his help and invited him to london to meet with their agents. >> jennings: so i shuttled down to london and went into the room. three immaculately dressed. perfect manners. and business cards that says they did organized crime. and at that point, we were in. >> kroft: jennings gave the fbi his file on chuck blazer, the only american on fifa's executive committee, who lived and worked out of trump tower. blazer too was a colorful character: 400 pounds of fun. he kept a pet parrot, traveled on private jets with world leaders; dined at the finest restaurants, and over a seven

sepp blatter and michel platini entered appeals last week.special suspended because allegations sepp blatter made payments to michel platini. >>> many want jobs in space. there are 14 slots. that gives applicants a .08 chance, making it easier to get into harvard. nasa will announce their selection in 2017. >>> it was a dream come true for a woman who lived through both world wars. >> that will put a smile on your face for the next few days. president obama invited 106 virginia to the white house for black history month. she talks, laughs, dances, she launched the campaign on youtube for the invitation. she sai is just a doll. stay tune for news next from london. >> this is al jazeera. >> and it is good to have your company, for the al jazeera newshour. i'm david foster in london. an agreement between the u.s. and russia, calling for hostilities to stop in russia, the warring sides agree. >>> uganda needs help. promising to protest after disputed elections. 21 die as a cyclone with winds

gianni infantino will take the chair vacated by the scandal that plagued sepp blatter. his task will be to restore professional soccer. one zealous sportswriter described him as these substitute who came off the bench to score the winning goal in a cup final. >> a deep draft for p5's new president. -- for fifa's the president. gianni infantino is the most powerful man in world football. gianni infantino: i want to work with all of you together, with all of you, in order to restore and rebuild a new era in fifa, a new era in football, with the ball in the center of the stage. reporter: the clock is ticking. the congress has passed a package of reforms that he has 60 days to implement. it strips power from the president and limits terms to 12 years. there will be new women members of the fee for counsel. he won the first round of voting , and the second round produced a comfortable majority. >> it was a great sign of democracy and fifa, -- in fifa, and i want to be the president of all of you, of all 209 associations. reporter: tonight, he can celebrate his new post. and

something sepp blatter was always aware of. >> when blatter's predecessor came to power in 1974, did he so on african votes. it was greater fifa investment here. blatter went even further. he brought the world cup to africa and oversaw the contribution of hundreds of millions of dollars of fifa cash in fif fifa's organizations. >> free access to sports and education. for the kids who have been hopeless, now with the center, they know that tomorrow is the future. in africa where we have centers like this, it's the gift from fifa. >> rawpped'rwanda's national teo trained at a facility funded by fifa. no wonder this country is not looking for radical change from fifa organization. >> the level we have is not the same level we had, so long time few years ago, we hope that the new one will follow the same relationship between africa and fifa. >> blatter's long term ally and presidential candidate sheik salman al cha chalifa, his arris fontino, hugely critical of blatter, whit comes to trying to win votes in africa now, infantino is far more diplomatic. >> first i have to recognize and ver

and the men vying to replace sepp blatter have the men cornered in zurich. we will take you there ahead of the vote. good to have you with us. a french judge has ruled a migrant camp in the northern port city of calais can be partly demolished. officials have ordered people living in the so-called jungle camp to leave and to do it this week. the ruling states common spaces including schools, however, cannot be bulldozed. the jungle is home to more than a thousand people trying to get to britain across the english channel. here is more. reporter: the decision is final -- the make ship -- the makeshift shelters will be leveled to the ground. the french interior minister welcomes the court ruling, pointing out that france intends to offer the refugees shelter, and if need the, asylum. >> now that this important decision has been made, i would like to remind you of the strategic actions the french government has undertaken. we wish to give shelter to the most vulnerable, to those who need protection. reporter: the so-called jungle, known for its miserable living

members of the international football federation are set to vote on sepp blatter's successor

he infinished runner up to sepp blatter last year.side candidates include this frenchman, and the south african who has pulled out of the race just ahead of the vote. lee wellings our correspondent in zurich is live now for us. lee the voting has been going on for a little time now. what do you know about what is happening? >> reporter: well, the first round of voting is taking place. it has been going on for around 90 minutes. they will start counting the votes shortly. we have been given a time of 27 minutes. if one of the candidates, and obviously most likely salmon, were to get two thirds, they would be the new president. in that is unlikely. it will most likely go to another round, and we'll see if he can hold off that challenge and become the new president, replacing sepp blatter who was here for so long. >>> lee choosing new president is just the start of fifa trying to restore its credibility, isn't it? what else do they need to do? >> reporter: the president is not as big of part of this as some might be lead to believe. some

he is a former vice president of fifa and finished runner up to sepp blatter in last year's presidentiallection. and with 7 votes was jerome champagne. a straight majority is now needed. let's go to lee wellings who is following the events in zurich. hi, lee, so that was a bit of a surprise. why kr did he creep ahead? >> reporter: it was a surprise, and you would have to say the intense work he has put in over the last few weeks, trying to get as many votes as he could, remember he is standing in for his banned boss, but it must have made a difference. but what must have happened is there must have been decent from individual nations. rather than voting as a block as they were asked to do by the heads of their confederation, said no, we'll do what we want. it's a secret ballot, but it is really surprising. it is really surprising that sheikh salman doesn't seem to have gotten the support from africa, for the 54 votes that he was asking. and if he did, he didn't get as many as he expected from asia. >> whoever gets the job, it had to be said that reform is going to be the big task ahead.

formeformer fifa president sepp blatter and michel platini has had their fifa ban from eigh changed from eight years to six. blatter had paid michel platini $2 million for work done an earlier. >>> prince ali was confident that they had requested to have the vote delayed unless transparent voting booths are used 37 but he has been denied prince ali is one of the five candidates to replace sepp blatter as president. >>> on friday fifa's 209 nations vote for a new president with reputation backed by the corruption crisis but the football governing body has a glorious past, too, which it is trying to demonstrate by opening it's first museum. lee we willinglee wellings had a chance to visit. >> a glorious past. 112 years of it. fifa has spent $13 million over these past turbulent 18 months building a museum. the public can come and see it from sunday. the team jerseys of fifa's 209 nations are the centerpiece of one of the three floors of the museum. over all there are 3,000 square meters of heritage here. >> it really is a journey done memory lane. it is a beautiful experience and it will b

as does jordanian royal prince ali, who lost the election to sepp blatter. who resigned. ali complained bitterly at the process, having had an idea for transparent voting booths rejected. they remain a distracting sideshow, banned for corruption, discredited but claiming he didn't resign and has rights. popularity in africa was important to blatter's hold on power. this time support for a candidate was a factor, and they held further internal talks in zurich. the african president, the interim leader pledged his association, official support for the sheikh a month ago. there is a secret ballot. >> it's important to remember that f.i.f.a. is voting on a reform process on the big day. it tries to convince the world it can be a cleaner face. the probing continues, largely on the 2018 and 2022 world cup, and specifically the individuals involved. so the first few months of the new president's reign are not going to be easy. >> tomorrow night we'll have the results of f.i.f.a.'s election and what they mean for the future of soccer. >> italy is on its way to grant some right to

amid allegations of corruption and arrest of official and the banning of the current president sepp blatterve more from zurich. >> we know as expected fifa has approved reforms it needed to approve the reforms they were in a really tight spot and have to show the u.s. and swiss authorities and watching world they are trying to change a new, cleaner fifa but then of course the crucial issue of who is going to be the front man, the man man and even that the president will technically have less powers after hours of voting later today is that man going to be seen as the right man and shake who is the favorite and issues and allegations around human rights and his involvement in bahrain and he is definitely the man most likely to win so that is something that they are watching well and will be considered. as for the 207 voting nations they just want the person who is going to look best after the finances of fifa and talk about what happened before because they were not that unhappy with how things were under sepp blatter but the public was unhappy so we should see who that vote in the favorite

he wanted, but how confident were people that sepp blatter was the change for fifa. there is an opportunity for change, whether or not infantino is the man to do it, we'll have to wait and see. >> you talk about the opportunity for change, did the reforms approved by the congress prove to be more important in the long run for fifa rather than the election of a new president? under these new rules the new president does not have as much power as his predecessor accept blatter. >> that's correct. there are a lot of sweeping reforms in this package that they voted on this merge. to bring more women into the governance of fifa. they'll take on racism in a way they hadn't seriously before. it expands the executive committee. there are a lot of things that could be positive. there are things that could be questionable. it gives more power to the confederations. as we know with con can calf, those are the roots of a lot of the corruption within fifa. so there are concerns that maybe we're handing power just to different places where corruption has taken hold of fifa. you kn

something sepp blatter was always very aware of. when blatter's predecessor came to power he did so on the back of african votes. there was greater fifa investment here. blatter went even further. he brought the world cup to african and oversaw the contribution of hundreds of millions of dollars of fifa cash in africa's member association he. in rwanda that included opportunities to build this community center in kagale. offers free access to sports and education. >> for kids who have been hopeless now with the center they know that tomorrow is the future. in africa where we have centers like this, it's the gift from fifa. >> rwanda's national team also train at a facility funded by fifa. no surprise that this country's football association isn't looking for radical change from the new president. >> mr. blatter did a lot for africa and especially for rwanda, and the level we have it's not the same level we had, a long time, few years ago. we hope that the new one will follow the same relationship between africa and fifa. >> reporter

the winner will replace former leader sepp blatter.ellings reports. >>> an extraordinary congress in zurich to select a new f.i.f.a. president. after the dissent through corruption and chaos at the football world governing body. who will be the man 207 national federation select to create a new improved f.i.f.a.? >> sheikh salman, hello. are you confident you have the votes you need? >> i think so. >> reporter: the favourite is sheikh salman, head of the asian football federation. his role in the crackdown of protesting bahraini athletes tortured in 2011 makes his candidacy controversial. his main challenge comes from the secretary-general at u.e.f.a. in europe who stepped in for his banned boss michel platini. now he has enough pledges of support to look like a serious threat to salman. michel platini's hopes of presidency were ended after a $2 million payment from ex-president was exposed and judged corrupt. the pair lost their businessman. two businessmen lacked the level of backed needed. as does jordanian prince ali, losing it sep

>> hershman: well, there was a lot of push back from the president, sepp blatter, and the executive committee e mbers, many of om were dinosaurs and didn't want to see the system change. >> kroft: he says there was a culture of corruption at fifa, and its top officials weren't interested in advice from outsiders. they saw themselves as diplomats, entitled to financial gratuities and expensive giftsts >> kroft: theyeyanted tribute? >> hershman: they wanted tribute. they were treated like kings, if you will. >> kroft: did you get any sense of that there was any fear or concern about somebody prosecuting them? >> hershman: none, whatsoever. >> kroft: and with good reason. it's no accident that the world's most powerful sports organization is headquartered it's the banking c cital of switzerland, a country whose economy is based on the principles of corporate privacy, and banking secrecy. and no one took more advantage of that than fifa. roland buchel, a member of the swiss national legislature, says until very recently, fifa received about as much government scrutiny as a yodeng club. the corrup

a corruption scandal ended the career of former fifa president and gastrointestinal disorder, sepp blatter. (laughter) sounds like an unusual name until you find out that "sepp" with two ps is actually short for seppp with three ps. (laughter) and sepp blatter will be a tough name to lose, but, fortunately, two of the candidates to replace him are named jerome champagne and tokyo sexwale. (laughter) both real human names and things you can buy out of vending machines in japan. (laughter) personally, it takes me a couple jerome champagnes before i'm ready for the tokyo sexwale. (laughter) (applause) fewer than ten! (laughter) so these are the guys to beat, but i've got my eye on some other promising fifa candidates: okinawa humpdolphin, fluppp bowelsore, johnny t. chandelier, barchibald timecop, sheikh gogurt montoya, kruss snackwagon, admiral flintstone jetson, the cincinnatti hangman. shamwow chia-pet, montgomery no-scruples, swipe bribetaker and the amazing corrupto. (cheers and applause) ( wheel clicking ) yay! commercial break! (cheers and applause) we'll be right back with tim daly. s

there was the candidate, prince ali, who came second to sepp blatter six months ago. seen as a front runner now for political horse trading reasons i won't go into. i think he was the ideal candidate of the reformers, but he's expected, if things go as planned, to perhaps fall out in the first round of voting. antino will come through in the second round. prince ali was seen as the reformers favorite, but doesn't seem to be in the running to emerge victorious. francine: thanks so much, hugo miller standing by to bring us any breaking news throughout the day. coming up later, we will get eurozone data including economic confidence and consumer confidence. later in the u.s., a reading on fourth-quarter gdp. we will watch as world leaders meet in shanghai for g-20. they could agree to controls for monetary easing and stimulus. let's look at where the markets are. we've seen quite a lot of volatility. european stocks gaining some 1.9%, on track for their second straight weekly gain. we've had up and downs throughout the session. crude gaining some 1.6%. .n the week, it wa

five nominees are trying succeed sepp blatter, who led fifa from 1998 until he was banned for financial wrongdoing. he is accused of making a 2-million dollar payment to the head of european soccer. the fifa governing body will also vote on reforms designed to root out bribery and corruption. researchers in boston say they discovered a key abnormality affecting the brains of people with down syndrome. doctors found genetic changes in white matter that altered brain development. they hope the findings may help target new treatments. right now, firefighters are keeping an eye on what's left of a female firefighter critically injured. the 22-year-old was part of an inmate crew. a big rock fell on her from a ledge about a hundred feet up. so far the fire has burned ten acres. it's mostly contained, but there are still a few hot spots. surfers and swimmers in california are being warned to be extra careful today out on the water. big waves are pounding the beaches. this is video from seal beach...which is located about 20 minutes from long beach. four people were swept from the ocean not too