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21/12/2015 GMT

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Fifa has banned Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini from football for eight years.

Two of the most powerful men in world football - Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini - have been banned from the sport for eight years.

Two of the most powerful men in football -- Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini -- have been banned from the sport for eight years, with immediate effect. We cover the story as it unfolds in Zurich. Also on the programme: hundreds of rescue workers in Shenzhen are looking for survivors of a landslide; schools close in Tehran because of pollution and the #MisssUniverse2015 gaffe that's got you talking. 

(Photo: Suspended Fifa president Sepp Blatter at a press conference in Zurich. Credit: Michele Limina/AFP/Getty)

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