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Global News Podcast

Rubiales resignation demanded by Spanish football leaders

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Spanish Football Federation regional leaders have called on their president Luis Rubiales to immediately resign after he kissed the player Jenni Hermoso at the Women's World Cup final in Australia. Also: Trump faces trial a day before the vital Republican vote on Super Tuesday, and what was discovered in a time capsule when it was opened at the US Military Academy at West Point?

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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

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I'm Garas Barlow and in the early hours of Tuesday the 29th of August, these are our main stories.

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The pressure on the head of Spanish football to resign for kissing a player after the Women's World Cup final has intensified,

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with football cheese from every Spanish region urging him to quit now.

0:39.0

Donald Trump has reacted angrily after a judge set the start date for one of his trials for March,

0:44.0

a day before the super-choose date presidential primaries.

0:48.0

And the Nigerian Air Force says it's carried out air strikes against illegal oil installations in the Niger Delta.

0:57.0

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0:59.0

The Niska people believe the memorial pool is alive with the spirit of their ancestors.

1:04.0

They say it was stolen from the Nass Valley in British Columbia almost a hundred years ago.

1:09.0

So now the 11-meter high totem pole is beginning its journey home to Canada from a Scottish museum.

1:18.0

More on that in a few minutes time, but first the Spanish Football Federation's regional presidents

1:24.0

have unanimously called for the immediate resignation of the Federation boss Louis Rubialis.

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In a statement they said his behavior had seriously damaged Spanish football when he kissed a player on the lips after the victory in the Women's World Cup.

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The pleb, Jenny Amoso, said it was not consensual.

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Hundreds of people demonstrated on Monday in the centre of Madrid calling on Mr. Rubialis to go.

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Speaking to the BBC, a senior member of Parliament from the governing Socialist Party in Spain,

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