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Fifa bans Blatter and Platini
Two of the most powerful men in world football - Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini - have been banned from the sport for eight years.
Two of the most powerful men in football -- Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini -- have been banned from the sport for eight years, with immediate effect. We cover the story as it unfolds in Zurich. Also on the programme: hundreds of rescue workers in Shenzhen are looking for survivors of a landslide; schools close in Tehran because of pollution and the #MisssUniverse2015 gaffe that's got you talking.
(Photo: Suspended Fifa president Sepp Blatter at a press conference in Zurich. Credit: Michele Limina/AFP/Getty)
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Mon 21 Dec 201511:06GMT
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