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00:00:06It's still a world tour on France 24, a tour of international
00:00:10news with, first of all, this new exchange of strikes between Ukraine and
00:00:14Russia, drones launched on Russian refineries against
00:00:17attacks on several Ukrainian cities, who hopes to convince
00:00:20his Western allies to deliver anti-missile defenses to him.
00:00:24Israel, for its part, continues to strike Lebanon on the 3rd day of
00:00:27negotiations, yet underway in Rome with the Lebanese authorities, the
00:00:31clashes with Hezbollah have left two Israeli victims, soldiers
00:00:34killed by an explosive device.
00:00:37UEFA maintains its boycott of football competitions, including
00:00:40World Cups, despite yesterday's apologies from Janny Infantino,
00:00:44the European body that demands guarantees from FIFA on
00:00:47the abandonment of its president's project to bring private
00:00:51investors into the World
00:00:52Cup.
00:01:04Ukraine and Russia have been exchanging
00:01:08expensively its TV rights and marketing rights for surtaxes in the United States. This time, they are in the blows in recent hours, while Kyiv has again warned Russian
00:01:10territory in depth of refineries up to
00:01:14simply the control of the 1300 km beyond the front line, Russian strikes have
00:01:17killed seven people on the Ukrainian side in the regions of Kharkiv, Sumy
00:01:21and the Black Sea. Another illustration of the lack of interceptor
00:01:24missiles. Nicolas Chamantin.
00:01:28The guided bombs fell around 2 am in Sumy,
00:01:32in this city in northeastern Ukraine, a Russian attack damaged residential
00:01:36areas and shops and surprised residents. It was
00:01:40as if aliens had arrived, the explosion was so
00:01:43powerful that everything was ejected from the apartment, I barely had time to
00:01:47get out. Several people were injured in Sumy and
00:01:50several others killed in localities in
00:01:53business, a drift in FIFA's the region. The authorities also report victims in
00:01:56the Kharkiv Oblast, a little further east, Russian strikes which...
00:02:00are in addition to those of Wednesday on the Kyiv region as well as on
00:02:03Kramatorsk, 500 children and their families who were still
00:02:07living in this eastern city had to be
00:02:10about 2 years now, of continues to empty the coffers of evacuated in the face of the violence of the attacks. If the Ukrainian
00:02:12army manages to intercept most of the drones, it has great
00:02:16difficulty stopping the missiles, a weakening
00:02:19attributed by President Zelensky to delays in the
00:02:22deliveries of interceptors compared to
00:02:252025.
00:02:30have three times fewer anti-ballistic missiles to defend our state,
00:02:33this situation is mainly linked to the
00:02:35war,
00:02:38as it is now fair to say, to hostilities and wars in the
00:02:41Middle East.
00:02:45Last week, Volodymyr Zelensky had again traveled to
00:02:49Washington to convince
00:02:51profiteers who want to come and make Donald Trump to deliver Patriot systems to him, the only ones
00:02:54capable of intercepting the most powerful Russian missiles, a
00:02:57request refused by the president. because of
00:03:01the shortage of Patriots in its stocks since the beginning of the war in the
00:03:04Middle East. At the same time, Kyiv is continuing its attacks in
00:03:08Russian territory. On Thursday, a fire broke out in this
00:03:11important refinery in the Yaroslavl region, about
00:03:15250 km northeast of Moscow. According to the
00:03:18local governor, all drones launched by Kyiv were
00:03:21intercepted, but the shrapnel hit storage tanks and
00:03:25injured several people.
00:03:28Ah, Ukraine would really like to be able to count
00:03:31on American missile interceptors, yes, but it seems
00:03:34that on the American side, we are facing
00:03:38remains the European union, which remains the shortages, at least that's what
00:03:41a number of sources in the press report, notably the
00:03:45Washington Post and CNN , Renaud Gerard, hello, you are
00:03:48a senior reporter, international columnist for Le Figaro, thank
00:03:51you for being with us. Donald Trump has long denied it, and yet,
00:03:55several sources quoted by CNN claim
00:03:58that the... stock of available TAD missiles in the
00:04:04Brazilian president of United States today would represent barely 1/5th of what it was before the start of this
00:04:07war in Iran, do you believe it? Listen, there
00:04:11is a very serious laboratory, a think tank
00:04:14called the CSIS which
00:04:17calculated that before the war in
00:04:20Iran, the war called Epic Fury,
00:04:23uh there were 2300 Patriots
00:04:26in American stocks therefore.
00:04:30highly efficient interceptors and that today there would
00:04:33only be 800 and that
00:04:36therefore that is perhaps the reason why uh Donald
00:04:39Trump is hesitant to deliver them to Ukraine today
00:04:44is that it feels that the president's position because he does not know if hostilities will not
00:04:48resume in full with Iran, we know that there are
00:04:52more or less secret negotiations between the Americans and the Iranians at the moment
00:04:55, everything is about the Strait of Hormuz as...
00:05:00uh to allow the
00:05:03Iranians to police without allowing
00:05:07them to collect tolls, that's the whole
00:05:10question of the current negotiation. but since
00:05:13uh it will not necessarily succeed
00:05:17, as the power in Iran is very divided, well uh Donald
00:05:20Trump wants uh to keep his
00:05:23missiles in case there is a generalized
00:05:26confrontation uh in the
00:05:29Persian Gulf, he needs his Patriots to obviously protect the
00:05:33American bases that are uh in the Persian
00:05:36Gulf up to Jordan, yes and precisely
00:05:39that makes the United States more wary of
00:05:43possible deliveries to Ukraine but also more wary of the
00:05:47resumption of fighting with Iran, is that what explains, according to you, the
00:05:50procrastinations we are witnessing from Donald
00:05:53Trump? Yes, Donald Trump
00:05:56he acts on instinct so he tests, he
00:06:00well he feels out things a bit, he says to himself, well
00:06:04maybe we will have
00:06:06an agreement after all with the Iranians uh
00:06:10I have threatened them many times but at the last minute I
00:06:14withdraw my threats, maybe that makes the Iranians think,
00:06:18at least some Iranians, those who are pragmatic, those who
00:06:21are ready to have an agreement and to
00:06:25respect an agreement with the Americans and uh as far as
00:06:29uh Ukraine is concerned
00:06:32, they think that this war is not his doing, is not his
00:06:36responsibility, that he has nothing to do with it, he has said it many
00:06:40times and so... is not his uh
00:06:44priority today, he would obviously like to succeed in making
00:06:47a peace agreement, that is to say that the Russians accept the ceasefire he had
00:06:51proposed several months ago, which the Ukrainians had accepted but
00:06:55not the Russians, but that is not his military priority
00:06:58today, his military priority
00:07:01today is to preserve
00:07:05intact, to keep open the Strait of Hormuz because
00:07:08he promised all his Sunni allies in the Gulf.
00:07:12Persian Gulf, all the oil monarchies, and he promised it
00:07:15to the whole world, you have to see that
00:07:18it's a very old principle of thalassocracies like
00:07:22England and today the United States to have the
00:07:25freedom of the seas, the freedom of the straits, it's a
00:07:28philosopher uh Dutch
00:07:31Grotius who was part of the first thalassocracy, the
00:07:34Netherlands, who uh uh
00:07:38studied who uh found
00:07:41this idea of the... freedom of the straits and it was
00:07:44completely then enshrined by
00:07:47England and then by the United States of America who are obviously
00:07:51the first thalassocracy in the world today
00:07:55and it is in the law of the sea it is
00:07:58enshrined in international law of the sea and it is something that
00:08:02the Americans want to preserve the freedom
00:08:05of the straits and that is the stake of
00:08:09their confrontation more or more political today
00:08:12than military with Iran. To reveal today in
00:08:16broad daylight the American shortages in terms
00:08:19of missiles, which seemed unthinkable several months ago, makes the
00:08:23United States vulnerable because it is more
00:08:27predictable in the eyes of their adversaries.
00:08:30So, uh more then it is
00:08:33obvious that the Americans
00:08:36have lost a large part of their deterrent
00:08:39power with this failed war against
00:08:42Iran since finally they waged a war, several
00:08:46wars even, there was the 12-day war in June
00:08:492025 against Iran without visibly
00:08:52weakening the Iranian regime, they
00:08:56thought that the Iranian regime of the Mullahs
00:08:59would fall like a ripe fruit, that's what the
00:09:03Israelis had told them, well that was not the case, it is
00:09:07even perhaps, we can say today, reinforced
00:09:10and the Iranians
00:09:13have realized that they have a new, I put in
00:09:17quotes, atomic weapon or weapon, I would say
00:09:20strategic, it is the control, it is the control of the
00:09:22Strait of Hormuz which, if it is closed, can
00:09:26indeed disrupt the entire global
00:09:29economy, that is the instrument of blackmail
00:09:33of the Iranians , and Trump cannot
00:09:36obviously not uh
00:09:39accept it, he will never accept either... an
00:09:42Iranian nuclear program, but that one is not for tomorrow because the
00:09:46Iranian facilities have still been
00:09:49considerably damaged by the
00:09:52different bombing campaigns of the Americans and Israelis
00:09:55in 2025, in
00:09:592026 and even before in 2025. Thank
00:10:02you Renaud Gerard for being with us live on France
00:10:0524, end of the negotiations in Rome between
00:10:09Israelis and Lebanese, they aim to allow a withdrawal.
00:10:12of the Israeli army from southern Lebanon in exchange for Hezbollah's disarmament,
00:10:16but the movement refuses to lay down arms and the Hebrew
00:10:20state continues to strike Lebanese territory, two Israeli
00:10:23soldiers have died.
00:10:28The sky of Lebanon, again crossed by Israeli flares,
00:10:31here in the south of the country, the army resumed its
00:10:34bombardments and the clashes with
00:10:37Hezbollah. In response to a blatant
00:10:41violation of the ceasefire by Hezbollah, the Israeli army began
00:10:44to conduct targeted strikes in southern Lebanon. At
00:10:48least one person has died on the Lebanese side. Two Israeli soldiers were
00:10:51killed in an explosion, a first in over a month. sporadic
00:10:55but recurrent clashes despite a security
00:10:58agreement that came into effect at the end of June. Israel occupies a
00:11:02so-called security zone in southern Lebanon about ten
00:11:05kilometers near the border, but residents of
00:11:08towns and villages north of this
00:11:12In fact, this resumption of clashes and evacuation
00:11:16orders complicates this process according to
00:11:18the UN. This new order comes as displaced families have
00:11:22returned home in southern Lebanon. In recent
00:11:25weeks, the situation remains fragile and residents
00:11:29remain uncertain, demolition operations,
00:11:32bombardments and other military activities damage homes, agricultural
00:11:36land and civilian infrastructure. These clashes
00:11:40are taking place during a period of negotiations held in Rome under the auspices
00:11:43of the United States. They concern the deployment of the Lebanese army in pilot
00:11:47zones evacuated by Israel, but they involve
00:11:50the disarmament of Hezbollah, refused for the moment by the Shiite group.
00:11:54Since the beginning. of the war between Israel and Hezbollah, at least
00:11:574,300 people in Lebanon and 38 Israeli soldiers have
00:12:01died according to the authorities.
00:12:04Negotiations which are, moreover, well advanced
00:12:08between Iran and the Sultanate of Oman, with a view to the
00:12:11reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, we'll talk about it with you, Lormannin,
00:12:15hello, but Tehran also attacks the United States
00:12:19by stating that Donald Trump is an obstacle. Absolutely, in any
00:12:22case, Iran and Oman have indeed announced
00:12:26a transit route through the Strait of Hormuz, but indeed no
00:12:30enthusiasm because Tehran explains that this
00:12:33joint declaration with Muscat will be
00:12:36finalized on condition, I quote, that third parties do
00:12:39not hinder the process, that is to say that Washington does not come to put its
00:12:43two cents in. Let's remember that the Strait of Hormuz is between
00:12:46Iran and Oman notably and that 1/5th of the world's gas and oil usually
00:12:50circulates there, that this strait has been blocked since the beginning of the
00:12:54bombardments. against Iran and that this has an impact
00:12:57on the entire global economy. Today, the Tehran
00:13:01regime does not want ships to pass as
00:13:05in the past in the middle of the strait but rather on its coasts.
00:13:08The idea is also perhaps to impose service fees, a
00:13:11kind of toll for passing ships which could bring in a huge
00:13:15amount of money to Iran, which is under the weight of international sanctions.
00:13:19And all this could indeed be a
00:13:22source of additional dispute. with
00:13:25Donald Trump after having already been the object of a power struggle with
00:13:29Oman who had proposed an alternative passage closer to
00:13:32its coast a few weeks ago, it is therefore difficult
00:13:36to know today whether this agreement will succeed and to what extent, in any case what is
00:13:39certain is that the markets are taking this news with great caution, not
00:13:43normally, even with mistrust since oil has
00:13:47risen by about 2%, at the same time it should be known
00:13:51that on the southern coast of the...
00:13:55Arabian Peninsula is the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb under the control of the Houthi
00:13:58Yemeni rebels allied with Tehran who attack
00:14:02Saudi oil tankers, this possibility, this alternative route that
00:14:06had been put in place to export part of the oil
00:14:09from the Gulf is also threatened, hence this new rise
00:14:13in North Sea Brent, which is trading at a little over $81
00:14:16today and American WTI, the Texas benchmark, is at almost
00:14:19$77 and Donald Trump
00:14:23who watches oil prices with some concern because if the price
00:14:27of oil is too high, it has an indirect influence on the cost of living in
00:14:30the United States and therefore on his popularity, indeed, that is perhaps why Donald
00:14:34Trump is preaching a little less fire and combat these last
00:14:38days, in any case the memorandum of understanding that had
00:14:41been put in place between the United States did not survive July,
00:14:44the price of oil was affected again and it has an effect on the American
00:14:47population which depends enormously on the
00:14:51car and therefore on fuel for its daily commutes, but also.
00:14:55uh for all his life, if we look at prices in the
00:14:58United States, oil is usually extremely cheap, it
00:15:01has not stopped increasing since February and the first
00:15:04bombardments, the price of a gallon, it is usually around
00:15:08$3, it rose to an average of $4 with
00:15:11even a peak in California where it is generally a little higher at
00:15:15rather $5.60 a gallon,
00:15:18this upward trend is very clearly linked
00:15:22to the bombings in February, we see that everything is increasing at this... time, the
00:15:26price of gasoline therefore has an effect on travel, it also has an effect on the
00:15:29transport of goods, of all daily consumer goods
00:15:33, especially on food and necessarily
00:15:36that weighs. in the household budget , particularly the most
00:15:39modest, to these prices must be added even more
00:15:43inflation, which is increasing, necessarily a reflection of all these price
00:15:46increases, and of course the price of the war itself, the military
00:15:50cost, about $150 billion since February, is
00:15:54an estimate by the Moody's agency and according to its chief
00:15:57economic economist Marc Zandi, that
00:16:00represents an additional cost of $1,100 per American household,
00:16:03so it is considerable, households no longer have purchasing power,
00:16:07or at least see it decrease, so they draw a little more
00:16:10from their savings, their savings rate has also been increasing
00:16:14since February, in any case all this
00:16:18weighs on the cost of living, on the price of gasoline, but also in the long
00:16:22run on the popularity or rather the unpopularity of Donald Trump, who has
00:16:26never been so high, and at the same time Donald Trump also manages
00:16:29internal opposition, 25 states contest the
00:16:33latest customs duties he imposed several days ago to officially.
00:16:37fight against forced labor. Yes, these are new surtaxes, it's the
00:16:41third time he has imposed customs
00:16:44order of 10 to 12.5 %. This concerns about
00:16:48sixty states and the European Union who are accused either of
00:16:52resorting to forced labor, or of not implementing sufficient measures
00:16:56to combat this scourge, and so the
00:16:59United States imposed, well, Donald Trump imposed these new measures
00:17:02on July 24th, except that 25 American states, 23
00:17:06Democrats but two. Republicans are attacking this new measure,
00:17:09arguing that it is not really a question of legality and that
00:17:13otherwise, well, Washington would have put in place
00:17:15alternatives or proposed to these states certain
00:17:18measures, and then it should be known that this is not the first, the first
00:17:22snub on customs duties concerning Donald Trump since in February the
00:17:26Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump had overstepped his rights
00:17:29by imposing punitive customs tariffs on a great many
00:17:33trading partners and even ordered the reimbursement of a few hundred.
00:17:3729 billion dollars collected in this way, 100 billion have
00:17:41already been reimbursed, that represents a significant sum, especially it
00:17:46the American state, that does not increase neither his
00:17:49popularity nor the money that Donald Trump had promised to
00:17:53the population. Thank you, so that's what we could say about
00:17:56these discussions about a possible reopening of the Strait of Hormuz to
00:18:00maritime traffic. The apologies of Janny Infantino
00:18:03are clearly insufficient for UEFA, the European
00:18:07football confederation intends to maintain its boycott of international
00:18:11competitions including the World Cups after the project, since withdrawn
00:18:14, to open the latter to international investors by the head of
00:18:18FIFA. Jenny Infantino who apologized received the
00:18:22support of the organization yesterday, it was during an emergency meeting in
00:18:26Rabat. Hello Xavier Barret, independent journalist, specialized
00:18:29in football, thank you for being with us. So the latest
00:18:33is Conmebol, which represents South America, which
00:18:36expresses. its turn its concern about what it calls
00:18:40repeated unilateral action by FIFA, will
00:18:43Jenny Infantino be able to remain in office despite this?
00:18:46Good evening, good evening everyone, yes we are
00:18:48now facing, concerning
00:18:52Jenny Infantino's situation, a real uprising from almost all
00:18:56continental representatives and that's what's new. For a long time, FIFA
00:18:59uh relied on its stronghold, which was
00:19:03South America, uh also Africa and part
00:19:07of Asia, particularly the Middle East, to govern world
00:19:10football and to be able to face UEFA, which
00:19:16the strong point of world football, the center
00:19:19of world football. And there, not only UEFA, so
00:19:23which rose against Jenny Infantino's way of governing
00:19:27for several days, several weeks already now, but it is
00:19:31joined by a number of other continents and that is a really
00:19:34new element, it must be remembered that notably South America. it was
00:19:38during Joan Avolange's time, the
00:19:41the international federation from
00:19:44196 10 to
00:19:471998 it was really the stronghold
00:19:51of FIFA and Sepp Blatter when he succeeded Joao Havelange
00:19:55as FIFA president, he also relied, of course, on this South American
00:19:59stronghold but also on uh the
00:20:02African federations and those from the Middle East to
00:20:06face and beat. the European candidate, Lennart
00:20:09Johansson who was the candidate, the president of UEFA, so
00:20:13there is always this rivalry between the two, and what
00:20:16uh explains UEFA's perseverance
00:20:22for the first time in over 40 years
00:20:25is truly fragile, not only vis-à-vis Europeans but
00:20:29vis-à-vis most federations worldwide , yes so FIFA
00:20:33despite Gianni Infantino's apologies has nevertheless declared that it will
00:20:36no longer tolerate any attack on its integrity,
00:20:40its good governance and the regularity of its procedures,
00:20:44silence in the ranks then, but we have just seen, these
00:20:47confederations do not really seem determined to fall in line, who will have the
00:20:52last in the coming months, who will win
00:20:56this new war of chiefs between UEFA who wants
00:20:59to ally with the other confederations to
00:21:02co-govern the world of football and FIFA who relies
00:21:06directly on the presidents of federations worldwide, there are
00:21:09213 to try
00:21:12to consolidate its power. The stake is not just political
00:21:16power at the head of world football, it's primarily an
00:21:20economic stake, you have to know that UEFA generates
00:21:23a lot of money thanks to the Champions League, its many
00:21:27sponsors and TV rights that are broadcast worldwide,
00:21:30while FIFA for its part
00:21:33plays its economic existence with the sale
00:21:37of TV rights and marketing for the World Cup every
00:21:414 years, so on one side there is an organization, FIFA,
00:21:45which sells its TV rights very expensively but
00:21:48only every 4 years. under the will of Jenny
00:21:51Infantino to try to make it happen every 2 years and on the other
00:21:54side, UEFA which also sells very
00:21:58the Champions League which takes place every year, so the stakes are
00:22:04economy of world football and for that, well
00:22:07it's politics, all blows are allowed, is it just a matter
00:22:11of big money Xavier Barret or is there behind it all anyway
00:22:13moral or ethical considerations when we see
00:22:17that among the private investors envisaged... for this
00:22:20opening of about 20% of the commercial rights
00:22:24related to the World Cups, well there is notably the brother of Donald
00:22:27Trump's son-in-law Joshua Kuschner with
00:22:31all the risks of conflict of interest that this implies there is
00:22:34truly from these confederations
00:22:36today UEFA Conmebol an outcry
00:22:40against
00:22:43practices or finally are they all in the
00:22:46same boat today and do they all practice the same type
00:22:50today of... collusion.
00:22:52Well, you know, he doesn't need to go that far, you just need to see what's happening in France
00:22:56with the creation, it's been
00:23:00LFP Media, the marketing subsidiary of the
00:23:03LFP, which was in charge of marketing the rights of French
00:23:07professional football, and in the end, what happens is, there are no more TV rights for
00:23:11Ligue 1, and in France, so we have witnessed
00:23:14a pauperization of French football, even though there was a CVC
00:23:18investment fund that had come to take significant shares in this
00:23:21newly created company, so investment funds, when they
00:23:25come into sport, it's to, at one point or another, make money
00:23:29again, and when they no longer make money, it naturally doesn't interest
00:23:33them. So far, most of the
00:23:36international institutions have more or less resisted these
00:23:41money in the organization of sport. FIFA,
00:23:45Dianin Fantino, we know, we saw it with the last World Cup, which still
00:23:49generated 16 billion dollars in
00:23:52revenue for FIFA, so FIFA is open to everything, as President
00:23:56Infantino says, to all opportunities, but
00:24:00obviously, this one goes too far, because if you grant
00:24:03even 20% to private investors, they will
00:24:07come into football, not for the beauty of football, but to get their
00:24:10money back, to make money, so somewhere you are no longer in control
00:24:14of your organization, and that's what the various presidents of
00:24:18federations and above all, the presidents of the confederations,
00:24:21UEFA, as you reminded us, Raphael, but also Conmebol and
00:24:25perhaps others tomorrow, absolutely do not want. They want
00:24:29to remain the bosses of world football and
00:24:32organize it in one way or another, but without the
00:24:35pressure of investors who would already be
00:24:39in the organization. Thank you, Xavier Barret, for being with us to
00:24:43decrypt what is happening
00:24:59unique event in the world, the terrible military service lottery. Young
00:25:02men who draw a red card are
00:25:06automatically conscripted for 2
00:25:08years.
00:25:14Between disappointment and relief, this ritual masks a real social
00:25:17injustice. France 24,
00:26:09another point of view,
00:26:13liberty, equality,
00:26:14news.
00:26:20October 2007, the "Ark of Zoé" scandal
00:26:22breaks. The people who entrusted their children to you, did they know they were going to France? Yes or
00:26:26no? No. A humanitarian couple claimed to offer
00:26:30a second chance to orphans from
00:26:33children who, for the most part, resided in Chad with their
00:26:36families. They say: you have your children, but who sells their
00:26:40child? It's because we were promised an education that we
00:26:43accepted.
00:26:46It was a child theft, a real
00:26:48kidnapping.
00:26:51We heard a lot of stories, that we would be taken advantage of.
00:26:54Maybe to make us work in the factory.
00:26:58We were small, we didn't understand anything. 18
00:27:01years later. Meeting these fake orphans, they
00:27:05told us that each child would receive €60,000 in damages and
00:27:08interest, but for now, they haven't received
00:27:10anything.
00:27:13If the person recognizes their mistakes and asks for
00:27:16forgiveness, then you know they have
00:27:18evolved. But if that same person refuses
00:27:22to admit their wrongs, then you
00:27:25cannot forgive. Return ticket, the Ark of Zoé scandal,
00:27:28to be seen on France 4.
00:28:46With Judith, personalities look back on their destiny, the moment
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00:30:06with first this new exchange of strikes between Ukraine and
00:30:10Russia, drones dropped on Russian refineries against attacks
00:30:13on several Ukrainian cities, Kyiv hopes to convince
00:30:16its Western allies to deliver anti-missile defenses.
00:30:20Israel, for its part, continues to strike Lebanon on the 3rd day of
00:30:23ongoing negotiations in Rome with the Lebanese authorities. The
00:30:27clashes with Hezbollah have left two Israeli victims, soldiers
00:30:31killed by an explosive device.
00:30:33UEFA maintains its boycott of football competitions, including the
00:30:37World Cups, despite yesterday's apologies from Gianni Infantino,
00:30:40the European body which is demanding guarantees from FIFA on
00:30:43the abandonment of its president's project to bring private investors
00:30:47into the World
00:30:48Cups.