Tuesday 7th July 2026. FIFA Trump corruption. Peru acceptance. Sri Lanka prison riot. Turkiye NATO. China floods. UK children stay home...

0:00 Good morning. This is Send seven World News in seven minutes. I'm Stephen Devin chen Zi. Today is Tuesday, the seventh of July twenty twenty sixth, starting in the America's today. FIFA, the international football governing body, has been accused of corruption after an intervention by United States President Donald Trump appears to have affected a decision. Trump made phone calls to the president of FIFA, Johnny Infantino, encouraging him to push for the US footballer Following Baalogan to be allowed to play in the next USA match, despite receiving a red card in the last match. It is a rule that when a player receives a red card, they are not allowed to play in the next match. On Sunday night,

1:03 FIFA said that the red card given to Baalogan was being suspended and that he would be allowed to play against Belgium, a match which is being played at the time of recording this podcast. Speaking to journalists yesterday, Trump said that he did call Infantino asking him to allow Baalogan to play because he didn't think it was a foul.

1:27 I asked for a review because I didn't think it was a foul. And you know again, I'm good at this stuff. I didn't think it was a foul. I thought it was two great athletes a question into each other and got entangled. That was not a That was not a guy punching somebody in the face or anything that you know would be different, and I think it's I think it's a terrible If they wouldn't allow, you know, a top player, maybe the best, maybe among the best players on the team to play, I think it would have had a big stain. And I related just that I didn't tell him what to do. I can't tell him what to do. But and I don't believe he made the decision. I think it was a committee that made the decision, and they made the right decision because

2:09 number one, it wasn't a foul. If you would have taken him out, I think it would have really stained this incredible jump. We got to have our best players, and they've got Belgium's got a great team by the way. We have our best players and they have to have their best.

2:24 Some football analysts have said that occasionally decisions about red cards are changed after a game ends if it is agreed that a referee made a mistake. However, in this case, the referee has not been found to have made a mistake, and in fact the decision to give a red card was made using virtual assistant referees. Also, there have been times when a player who received a red card in the World Cup qualifying matches was allowed to participate in the first World Cup finals match. However, this is the first time since nineteen sixty two that a player has had the punishment overturned during the World Cup itself. Belgium's football association has said that it is astonished by the decision.

3:14 Belgium football coach Rudy Garcia said that the decision sounded like an April fool's joke. The European Footballing Body YUEFA said quote, when the certainty of rules is no longer guaranteed by its guardians, the integrity of the game is at stake. We express our disbelief at such an unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision. In Peru, left wing presidential candidate Roberto Sanchez has conceded defeat a few days after right wing Keiko Fujimori was declared the winner of the election.

3:53 It is now a month since the second round of the election was held. However, the results had not been clear until recently because the margin of victory was so small. Asia. In Sri Lanka, fighting between rival groups at a prison has left at least twenty five people dead and about one hundred injured, officials have said. Reports from authorities say that two prisoners died in a fight on Sunday, but then yesterday morning there was worse violence which left seventeen prisoners and six prison staff dead. In Iran, the funeral of Supreme Leader Ayotola Ali Komani continued yesterday. There were reports of hundreds of thousands of people joining processions in central Tehran. Turkia's capital city, Ankara, is hosting a NATO

4:49 summit today and tomorrow. Leaders from all thirty two member countries are expected to attend, as well as Ukrainian President of Voladimir Zelenski and South Korean President Li Jai Mung, and foreign ministers from Arab Gulf countries. On the weekend, over one hundred people were arrested during anti NATO protests organized by the Turkish Communist Party. In China, typhoon Maisaki has caused flooding in the south. Two people are known to have died and tens of thousands of people have been evacuated Europe. In Ukraine, at least twenty one people have been killed in the capital Kiev after Russian missiles and drones hit residential areas. The death toll from Russian attacks on Ukraine last Friday has risen to over thirty.

5:43 The United Nations says that Ukrainian civilian casualties from Russian attacks have risen by forty percent over the last six months. In the United Kingdom, around three hundred and thirty thousand fewer children went to school on Monday than on the previous Monday, suggesting that they were allowed off school by their parents. After the England football team played against Mexico in a match that started at two o'clock in the morning England time. Africa, Zimbabwe experienced a nationwide power cut yesterday, with the state energy company saying that this was caused by a technical fault. Morocco has said that it has foiled a set of planned terrorist attacks across the country by a group loyal to DIESH, the Islamic state. The

6:39 Central Bureau for Judicial Investigations said that ten people were arrested in seven different cities and in cape ver Day, thousands of people greeted and celebrated the football team upon their return from the World Cup in North America. Cape Verde has just half a million people, making it the second smallest country at the World Cup after Curasao, which also qualified for the first time. However, cape Verde surpassed expectations by finishing second in their group and even scoring two goals against world champions Argentina before finally losing three to two in extra time. A big thank you to Carlos in Spain and Bridgetes in Austria for becoming our newest supporters. Our amazing supporters have access to all of

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