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Football associations unite against Fifa’s World Cup plans

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North and Central America football associations join Uefa in rejecting Fifa’s proposal to sell stakes in its competitions to private investors. We explore the finance of football and hear reaction from a former chairman of England’s Football Association, David Bernstein.

Also in the programme: The United Nations begins its search for the organisation’s next secretary-general. And with heat-related deaths on the rise in England, what’s being done to protect homeless people from heatwaves?
30 Jul 6PM English United Kingdom TV & Film

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