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　　Hello, I'm Julie Candela with the BBC News. A keyminister in Brazil's new government is steppingaside, after he was caught on tape allegedlyconspiring to obstruct the country's biggest-evercorruption investigation. Romero Juca was a closeally of the interim President, Michel Temer, says hiscomments were taken out of contexts, and he supports for corruption probe. Julia reports. Ina conversation with a fellow politician, Romero Juca implied he would act to deter themassive corruption investigations, known as the Carwash scandal, a billion-dollar briberyscheme which allegedly involves dozens of politicians, including himself and other members ofthe PMDB, the now governing party in Brazil. In the leaked audio, Mr. Juca said theimpeachment of President Rousseff was necessary to staunch the bleeding, and that apolitical pact has to be reached to stop things where they were. The contents were disclosed bya Brazilian newspaper, and triggered outrage. European leaders have expressed relief at theoutcome of Austria's presidential election, in which the far-right Freedom Party candidateNorbert Hofer, was defeated by the narrowest margins. The German Foreign Minister Frank saidall in Europe was breathing more easily. The French Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, said it was arelief to see Austrians reject extremism. From Vienna, Bethany Belle reports.

　　The presidential campaign has exposed deep foot lines in Austrian politics, and the increasingweakness of the establishment parties of the centre-left and centre-right.The new presidentis another outsider, Alexander, who used to be head of the Green Party. He said it wasimportant to recognise the strength of feeling in Austria. Support for the far-right has risen inrecent years, because of concerns about the economy, and frustration with the coalitiongovernment. Football's world governing body, FIFA, has fired its Deputy Secretary-General,Cartner, the latest staff at the shock of the corruption scandal that's all the resignation ofits long-time President, Sepp Blatter. Here is Conway. Cartner was FIFA's Finance Director, buthas more recently served as its Acting Secretary-General. FIFA say an internal investigationuncovered breaches in connection with its employment contract. It's believed Mr. Cartnerreceived hidden bonus payment amounting to millions of dollars. The payments areunderstood to have remained hidden from FIFA's financial oversight committees and only cameto light in the past few days. His dismissal comes as the governing body is attempting toimplement a series of reforms, designed to restore its image and integrity. The Italianauthorities say at least 2,000 mainly African migrants were rescued from unseaworthy boats offthe coast of Libya in the past twenty-four hours. Coast Guard officials said their ships workedalongside those of the aid agency, MSF, and the Irish Navy. Another 600 migrants were rescuedin Maltese waters.BBC News. The Syrian government has accused Turkey, Qatar and SaudiArabia of being behind a wave of bombings in the cities of Tatous and Jableh. It said the attacksconstitute a serious escalation, and were aimed at derailing peace efforts. The self-styledIslamic State has said it carried out the bombings, which killed dozens of people in PresidentAssad's coastal heartland. The United Nations has called for the urgent provision of safecorridors to allow civilians to leave the besieged Iraqi city of Fallujah. Thousands of governmenttroops and militia have started a military offensive to rest Fallujah from more than two yearsof IS control. A U.N. official said an estimated 50,000 civilians were trapped and in dire danger.Chinese scientists say they've developed an experimental new treatment for blindness. Theyare transplanting parts of the eyes from pigs into humans. Our global science correspondent,Rebecca, reports. These are the pigs helping China's blind to see. Scientists are using theanimals' corneas, the thin films that cover the front of the eyes, and transplanting them intopatients. The new procedure could ease the country's organ and tissue shortages. Up to fivemillion people in China are estimated to have damaged corneas. But there are only 5,000transplants from human donors each year. Police in South Africa have declined to prosecutethe Cape Town leader of the governing African National Congress after he was suspended oversexual harassment allegations. The alleged victim's legal team said prosecutors had told themvia the What's Up App messaging service that there wasn't enough evidence to proceed. Mr.France had denied the allegations. A twenty-one-year-old employee, who said he'd forced tosleep in his bed during an ANC event in January, has waived her anonymity. Louis said she wasshocked, and would consider her options. BBC News.

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