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Business Matters: Fifa Sponsors Round on Sepp Blatter

Fifa Sponsors Round on Sepp Blatter

03/10/2015 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Fifa Sponsors Round on Sepp Blatter

Beleagured Fifa president Sepp Blatter faces resignation calls from major sponsors.

The president of world soccer, Sepp Blatter, says he will not resign - despite calls from Fifa sponsors Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Visa and Budweiser for him to step down immediately. Professor Stefan Szymanski of the University of Michigan, author of the new book Money and Football, tells us why the big four have spoken up now. Plus, we hear from a former advisor to Fifa, Michael Hershman.

India has announced a long term plan to cut carbon pollution by a third within 15 years. Sanjay Vashist, a director of Climate Action Network South Asia, tells us whether the government has made a credible case for a greener future. Many might wonder if there any economic risks in these commitments. We get the view of Kilbinder Dosanjh, from the Eurasia Group.

At the end of a busy week for the BBC's Business News Team we review some of the developments that dominated the agenda, such as Royal Dutch Shell giving up drilling for oil in the Arctic, plus Google and Microsoft finally burying the hatchet on their long running series of legal battles over patent rights. We are joined by Cassell Bryan-Low, from the Wall Street Journal in London and Sujeet Indap, a US editor with the Financial Times.

Marketplace's Kai Ryssdal speaks to Robert Reich about his new book -  Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few.

And Fergus Nicoll is joined throughout the programme by Rohan Workman, Director of the Melbourne Accelerator Program at University of Melbourne.

(Photo: Fifa president Sepp Blatter. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

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