ned the united states in committing financial sum to his this effort. now squeezing daesh across and its access to its financial resource is his one of the most effective mechanisms that we have to disrupt operations. and the management of the so-called caliphate. we are sharing information to block their access to the global financial system. we are uncovering their points of access in the region. and abroad. for financial support. in the recent raid on the compound in syria we collected substantial information on daesh financial operations and we are gaining a much clearer understanding of daesh's organizational construct and its business enterprise. still maintains financial resources and they are diverse. beyond its oil i want prize which we have shurnk through military activity. there are other aspects of its

portfolio which include massive criminal extortion of populations under it's control. loot kidnapping for ran some. human tracking. slave trade. potential profit from the sale of plundered antiquitys. daesh also operates in territory where there is extensive criminal call tower to support criminal activities much of it dating back to smuggling routes or effort by the saddam regime to subvert sanctions in the '90s the coalitions counter messaging line of certify also contesting daesh's narrative across the platforms and languages, it's important that this key this key aspect be supported by credible muslim voices and scholars and they have spoken out and they have rejected daesh's ideology. in the air be you be world it's important that the voice

discrediting daesh be a muslim voice and the face discrediting daesh be an arab face. to that extent the united arab emirates has established a joint center in abu dhabi to help coordinate the counter daesh messaging. not just in the region but helping us globally and we are also discussing with other partners around the globe the potential for the establishment of similar regional messaging centers. the final line of the effort that i will mentioned today in the area where i will devote the most attention involves almost all of our countries in this room and this is the countering of foreign fighters. this is an issue of prominent concern at every coalition gathering. including yesterday in paris and nearly all of the conversations i have in capital as cross the world. and rightly so. while turkey's 900-kilometer bored are with syria is the main point of entry in to the balance the space the burden -- battle space the burden of meeting the

foreign fighter threat and challenge can not rest with the turks alone in fact the turkish border is the last line of defense in this equation. comprehensive approaches to reduce the foreign tariffs fighter flow must function as a strategic defense in depth. starting at the point of radicalization. the point where someone chooses to be -- to fundamentally alter their life onto a path of radicalization. last year's united nations security council restless lining 2178 calls upon all nations to strengthen their borders share information, adjust their laws, to criminalize traveling for terrorism. within the coalition we have made important progress in that regard work to go share information and there are moppize our practices. more than 30 kiko lungs partners have now made legal and justice reforms intended to make it more

difficult to travel to the battle space. but we also face a new reality. potential foreign fighters need for longer leave their home countries, or even leave their homes to be radicalized or be recruitedrecruited and missioned and then to be committed. is a the so-called lone wolf attacks continues to grow is why we need nations work being together at each hlinka long this chain at every border between potential for earn -- between a potential foreign fighters and the battle space in their home communities and at the point of recruitment and radicalization which is often a percentage computer on are a cell phone. the journey to become a foreign fighter is a journey of transitions being transitioning to radicalization. transitioning across borders.

if you are just joining us on al jazerra you are were listen to general john allen. he is the special presidential envoy for the global coalition to counter isil. and he is attending a forum being held in doha qatar u.s. islamic forum, he was speaking specific low isil because general john allen was just in paris, you'll recall that is where the coalition was meeting 24 hours ago to put their -- forward that plan to his fight isil. going forward. so a few highlights from what general john allen was saying saying, -- or laying out a plan, telling people the discussion that his took place in paris saying the coalition will be working with the iraqi government on a stabilization and recovery plan, that includes funding in the aftermath of the

liberation of population and areas should that happen in iraq. he also said that the coalition is blocking daesh's access to the global funding system and getting a clearer understanding of how daesh financing work, which i say that, that is general john allen's way of referring to isil. and he also did point out that the coalition would be counter messaging isil's message and this initiative will be led by arab countries and he specifically pointed to the united arab emirates, so just a few highlights from general john allen was saying, bringing in ibrahim here in doha conflict resolution professor at george opportunity university here in qatar. you were listening what food out for you. and was there anything that general john allen didn't say that you wanted him to say? >> thank you doreen.

this is an important question. there are some new items that he added to the conventionalist strategy that the u.s. used to run in the region. and here i have to explain that we have to differentiate between new items and the efficiency and effectiveness of these items and the strategy. meaning, one is that the counter messaging which is a new strategy that they are using that was missing in the previous force that they they had in the past so. they are, in other words having involving what we call the war of ideas. to fight daesh or isil as i said. if now the other thing is, which is a lesson i understand that they learned from that battle of tikrit, that after the -- taking over tikrit, the larger scale loot that go we say in tikrit. now they are trying to establish

a fund that deals with what john allen called the liberated population. >> right. [speaking at the same time] the. >> the stabilization and recovery he was talking about. >> exactly. in order to give assurances to the people that once daesh or isil is removed from their territories, that it will be efforts on the way to deal and to -- for the stabilization and recovery. he talked a lot about the technical aspects of this campaign of this coalition that they were waging against isil. i am not sure how appealing this is for the people in the region. now, what is missing, to go back to your question, is that a clear understanding or a clear message of underlying -- of addressing the underlying causes of tension in the ream unwhether it's iraq or serious or others, he called it a regional problem not only an iraqi problem.

to what extent the us will address what caused the problems in particular, the sectarianism the central government in iraq that wages over the past 12 years and the accommodation of the u.s. to the sectarianism strategy to what extend there is being addressed. he did not mention any that have. i question what extends how this will be effective once wearying knowinger the underlying causes and conditions, one major league league. one thing that's mission what does this mean for the people in. [ inaudible ] >> right. >> in anbar he mentioned romadi several times. i am not sure how much this means for these places --

>> he did say it's important for the coalition to learn from the lessons of rah made. i have to lead it there for now it, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> for your analysis on general john allen's speech. we'll move to other news and the outgoing head of football's governing body is reportedly under investigation by the u.s. property cuters and fbi following a corruption scandal that's rocked fifa. u.s. media reports say prosecutors are trying to get up dieted fifa officials to cooperate with them to build a case against sepp blatter. he resign odd tuesday just days after being reelect today a fifth term. neave barker reports. >> reporter: four days after his reelection as one of the most powerful men in football, a shaka nouns. from fifa's long-serving president. sepp blatter said that the organization needed profound reconstruction. >> translator: although members of fifa have reelectedded me as president, this mandate does not seem to be supported by everybody in the world of football. supporter, clubs players those

who inspire life in football as much as we do in fifa. this is why i will call an extraordinary congress and dispose of my function. >> reporter: the extraordinary congress to elect a new president is expected to take place between december and march next year. the 79-year-old swiss national was only reelected to the presidency last friday. he spent years building a network of global support especially in africa where football has received growing investment. the recent scandaled has fouled for him to resign, including the head of the english football felt vague who welcomed the news. >> it's a very good day for football. we needed change at fifa. and this is the change we wanted. so we are a bit smug and delighted. >> reporter: blatter's resignation comes less than a week after swiss police arrested seven fifa officials including two vice presidents on charges

of fraud and racketeering. part of a u.s. prosecution against 14 people. swiss authorities have also launched a criminal investigation surrounding the 2018 and 2022 world cup bids, won by russia and qatar. sepp blatter is not under investigation by swiss authorities. but under his watch the organization now faces its biggest challenge yet. after 17 years at the mel think of fifa, sepp blatter's resignation paves the way for a new era in the international football. neave barker, al jazerra. so who are likely contenders to replace bat blatter? there is prince hugh stain from jordan. blatter's long time friend turned fierce critic pettini. the former football from france's uefa. jerome a long time deputy could be in the running and from

africa the president of the confederation of africa football and fifa vice president. under former french -- a footballer david too has announced his intention to stand. robin adams or sports presenter is here with us here in doha to talk about all these possible contenders and what each could bring to the table and who the likely one is, robin. >> pretty ton strong candidates, jerome has been i al been a long-time respected man of blatter but there is the shadow of corruption handing over his head. precipitation ali had a good showing in friday's presidential elections he said, look, i will put my hat in the ring again and you have to think that he would have a better chance actually making it this time. of course a long time friend of blatter. he oversees the confederation of afterafrican football that has the

largest block of voters. 54 members he has always said you can count on our support. you have to look at the 2010 world cup where fifa has actually and sepp blatter delivered on africa's world cup so you have to think that he stands a good chance of succeeding sepp blatter when that special election is called. somewhere between december 2015 and march 2016. >> there have been some comments that have been made on camera, in fact, by the chairman of the english football league, let's just listen in to those comments robin. >> first of all we need financial accountability. which he has never had. someone to go in there and find out how much is coming and how much is going out and writs being spent in great del tail. once you have done that, you need to sort out the governance of the host which is all over the place and it's ridiculous, then you have a chance. >> in reference to the 2018 and

the 2022 football cups. >> the english f.a. have always been vocal about their opposition to qatar 2022 and russia 2018, no stranger on the controversy as well. as far as fifa zips's stance is concerned those world cups will go ahead as scheduled in the country that his won the rights. russia will have the 2018 world cup and qatar 2022 will have their world cup as well despite the comments of greg the english football association. but the president of the qatar football association has been reacting those statements from kike sayingsaying i think he should be focused on developing a team to reach and play in the 2022 world cup rather than concerning him certainly with organizing the tournaments. those comments from the president of the qatar football association. according to qatar 2022. the organizing committee. qatar's football association and fifa this world cup qatar 2022

will be going ahead in qatar. >> a lot of reaction to what's going on and to blatter's resignation. robin, for the time being, thank you very much, but speaking of reactions fifa sponsors have welcomed blatter decision. adidas which has provided the match ball for every world cup since 1970 said: mcdonald's says we are hopeful the changes being implemented will be a you big first step in positively reforming the organization. coca cola saying, blatter's announce isn't a positive step for the good the sport football and its fans. visa which had threaten today pull out as a sponsor earlier says it expects five to take steps to rebuild a culture with strong ethical practices. so you are with al jazerra. still to come.

south could korea steps up to on the mers outbreak. details coming up. officially part of it but what happens is that, for example, we have just received, the crew has just received a call from triton headquarters telling them in the area where we are they spotted a re we are they spotted a

♪ ♪ the top stories on al jazerra, the outgoing head of football's governing body is reportedly under investigation by u.s. prosecutors and the fbi following the corruption scandal that has rocked fifa. sepp blatter resigned on tuesday just four days after being reelect today a fifth term. u.s. media reports say prosecutors are trying to get up dieted fifa official to his

cooperate. u.s. envoy to the anti-isil coalition says it's critical that all the forces battleing in eight rack cool under the government authority. john allen says it's a regional problem with goble are global implications. rescuers in kind are a search be for 400 people still missing after their cruise ship capsizeed in the yangtze river. most elderly tourist, 14 confirmed dead, 13 rescued so far, adrian brown sent this update. >> reporter: this is where some of the weary rescuers come to rest. we are talking not just about soldiers but police, fire crews and hundreds of divers working in shifts around the clock in what are very treacherous waters because the currents in the yangtze river and this particular part of the yangtze river are very strong indeed. now, rescue officials have been discussing two options of trying to reach those they still

believe could be alive. they are thinking of drilling three large holes in to the up turned hull of the eastern star. the other plan under consideration is to try to lift the vessel. and we saw today two large barges beside the eastern star with cranes on either one. so that is an operation that could be underway perhaps in the coming hours. relatives of those still missing have been arriving in the town. it's from there that the rescue and relief operation is being coordinated. and, of course, their emotions ranging from anger to grief. they want to know why it is that the eastern star sank so quickly on monday night. and why is it that the captain and the chief engineer survived? these are just some of the questions that these people want answered. and, of course, we are on course for this sadly to becoming possibly the most serious maritime accidents in china in recent times.

myanmar's navy is escorting hundreds of migrants drift off the coast in a crowded boat in a town in rakhine state. rah kuipe is where most of the persecuted rohingya mine tar on live. it's not clear if the migrants on this boat are rohingya. navel officers says they will not take further action until they have identified the 727 team on board. they were found stranded in a concerted fishing boat five days ago. florence lou looi has more. >> reporter: over the last few days we have heard from various state level official that his the booed crammed with 727 people will be moved to rakhine state. now, on wednesday morning we got confirmation from the rakhine state spokesman that this boat will be moved to northern rakhine state very close to the border with bangladesh. it's also where the government is keeping another group of boat people found in myanmar waters. on the 22nd of may about 10

days ago. the government says most of them are from bangladesh in the smaller group but we don't know the identities of the 727 people on friday. when we spoke to the government spokesman a tuesday he says they will be moved before they are repatriated back to bangladesh, suggest that go a verification exercise of their identities have been completed but he later corrected the statement to say that the fair take exercise will be conducted and is still ongoing. now, this whole attitude that -- the way the entire incidents has been handled being however reflects the government's attitude towards this refugees migrant crisis. and also is in line with the government's eagerness to portray boat people as being mostly economic migrants from bangladesh. the government refuses to acknowledge many of these people getting on boats to leave are the row hundred gas an ethnic minority in myanmar subject to

discrimination and persecution who have to live forcibly segregated with very few rights and considered stateless and friendsless in myanmar the pee an mar government refuses to acknowledge that it's its policy contributing to this the crisis and said this is just a problem of human tracking and many of the people are in fact, economic migrants from bangladesh. south korean health workers have begun setting up temporary quarantine zones within hospital to his prevent the spread of the mers virus doctors have diagnosed five new cases in the country bringing the total to 30, more than a thousand people have been isolated to limit the spread of the disease. it is a serious viral respiratory disease that that first merged in saudi arabia in 200012. mers causes flu-like symptoms including fever covering and shortness of breath. it can lead to severe complications such as pneumonia as well as kid any failure.

three for four people out of every 10 who contract mers die from the vie lugs, harry fawcett the latest from seoul. >> reporter: the number of new up if he cans is five. bringing the total to 30, including one ma traveled to south korea against medical advice to china and is now in warn fine in china. one of those infections is a tertiary infection mean that go person was not infected directly by the man that came back from the middle east with this virus but was infected by one of the other people he infected. there are three such confirmed cases and that's something that the authorities here are very concerned about. making sure that if they can that they restrict the sort of infections to the largest he can tents possible. because if they transition between several generations if you like, of infection then that makes it far more difficult to control. so far, more than 1300 people in quarantine either at home or in hospital just over 100 of those people are in hospital, the government isn't saying which

hospitals are being used in this way because they don't want to spread concern however it is fertile ground for resume he should lots of rumors flying around social networks naming hospitals saying don't go to this hospital. one hospital even launching legal action against such rumors and parents becoming concerned about that telling principals of schools near hospitals which have been named in this way to close their schools down. 209 schools closed down in this fashion in most of those in the province that surround the capital seoul. the egyptian president has arrived in germany and is expected to firm up a number of energy deals. sisi's 2-day visit has divided german politicians while supporters turned up to greet him. several protest ears posed his arrival. he will be hopes chance with the chancellor and president the head of parliament is refuse to go meet him saying a lack of

democratic process and the green party is opposing his visit. u.s. press barack president barack obama has signed new legislation early the senate passed the freedom act which overhauls u.s. surveillance laws. and greece's prime minister is due in brussels for crunch talks with european creditors he's hoping strike a deal to save his country falling in to a financial abyss but the e.u. has its own plan as john reports from amount ends. >> reporter: given what we know at the moment, there appear to be three major differences between the poe proposal that the greeks submitted to their correct tours on monday night and that committed by their creditors 24 hours later the biggest is that the greeks think oppose that go they spent no more than one and a half billion dollars from homegrown tax revenue on repaying debt. this year.

and that would rise, that would double next year and rise there after but for now the greeks want a previous. they want to limit house -- reprieve they want to limb immaterial how many of the economy she spend on foreign debt. however the creditors are saying the greeks need to spends six and a half billion dollars this year, if he this will be a deal breaker. if there was one reason this government was elected it was to reschedule the debt to repay over a longer pert of years and lower the amount spent each year so that some of the primary surplus as it's called can be spent on being reinvested in the economy to create growth and jobs the second main difference is because there are now two documents on the table the greeks want to see theirs adopted as the basis for talks in today's and wednesday as euro group -- working group meeting but also in the meetings taking place hopefully this week among

finance ministers of the euro zone. the third difference a perceived revenue gap. they think that tell have a revenue shortfall of taxes of about a billion dollars the creditors think it will be tries that they have to arrive on an agreement of thousand plug that gap. we are get something breaking news taillight here at al jazerra and, this is according to i want poll itself. it is saying that it has issued red notices for form a fifa officials and executives wanted by u.s. authorities. this, of course, is in relation to the fifa scandal that's been going on so interpol has issued red notices or international wanted persons alerts for two former fifa officials as well at four corporate executives and i'll tell you some of these names, jack warner on that list. there is nicholas leos as well think who as paraguan national. alejandro, hugo, as well as mariano, they are nationals from

argentina. and jose margules is also on that list. so red notices being issued by interpol itself for these for -- for these former fifa officials and the executives who are wanted by u.s. authorities. much more on that. >> this week on talk to al jazeera, the actor. wendell pierce >> the first line of my obituary will be, wendell pierce who's known for playing bunk moreland, the detective on the wire, dies today at 110. >> he's best known perhaps for his role in the hbo crime drama the wire