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Global News Podcast

Spain's women's team refuse to play until football boss is removed

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Luis Rubiales has refused to resign after kissing Jenni Hermoso at the women's World Cup final in Australia. Also: Maui officials release list of those still missing after recent wildfires, and the Trump mugshot sends social media into a frenzy with memes and jokes.

Transcript

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0:00.0

That 56 seconds it took me to swim that gold medal win I looked for that feeling for 30 years and I never found it.

0:12.0

A podcast about the people behind the medals on the podium from the BBC World Service. Find it wherever you get your BBC podcasts.

0:23.0

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

0:31.0

I'm Nigel Adely and in the early hours of Saturday the 26th of August, these are our main stories.

0:38.0

Spain's World Cup winning football team have said they won't play again while Lewis Rabiales remains head of the National Federation.

0:46.0

Jenny Humoso has dismissed his claim that the kiss he gave at the final was consensual.

0:52.0

Hawaii has published the names of almost 400 people who've been missing since Wildfire swept Maui Island.

0:59.0

And the director of the British Museum is stepping down after a series of thefts from its collection.

1:06.0

Also in this podcast the recently published Police Mug Shot of Donald Trump has been given a new life of its own by social media users around the world.

1:16.0

There's one of an orange and yellow boxing glove which very effectively stands in for Mr. Trump who was obviously in fighting mood.

1:24.0

But he's also been seen in green and red and there he's the Joker.

1:32.0

Spain's World Cup winning football team have said they won't play again while Lewis Rabiales remains head of the National Federation.

1:40.0

He's been resisting pressure to resign over the kiss on the lips he gave to the player Jenny Humoso at the final on Sunday.

1:49.0

She says his claim that it was consensual is categorically false and that she felt like a victim of aggression.

1:56.0

The Spanish government has begun a legal process against Mr. Rabiales to try and force him out.

2:02.0

Key sponsors including the airline Iberia have also called for action. Guy Hegeco reports from Madrid.

2:11.0

No, boy, I didn't mean it. No, boy, I didn't mean it.

2:15.0

Not the words, nor indeed the tone of a contract boss tendering his resignation.

2:20.0

It had been widely reported that Lewis Rabiales would step down as an extraordinary meeting of the Football Federation.

2:27.0

But no, when he grabbed Jenny Humoso and kissed her after the World Cup final said Mr. Rabiales it was with her consent.

2:36.0

He compared it to the kisses he gives his daughters.

2:39.0

Then he turned on his critics accusing them of false feminism.

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