business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together. this is. hello there and welcome to this news hour i'm nora. coming up in the next sixty minutes. elation. as it reveals a young thai football is found deep inside a mountain maybe trapped for months. malaysia's former prime minister najib arrested over the disappearance of billions of dollars from

a state fund. can crunch talks in moscow help alleviate a mounting humanitarian crisis in southern syria. also germany's leda dodges a political bullet with a controversial migration deal with problems and yes behind. i'm joined again go with the sports belgian pull off a stunning comeback win over japan to reach the walls of finals of the world how having the best the action coming up in the news hour. now rescuers had a mission and possible but they have defied the odds to find twelve boys and football coach stuck inside a waterlogged cave in northern thailand however the hardest part may still lie ahead how to get them out now take a look that trapped him. now sheltering on

a rock deep within the pitch black belly of the mountain and the passage ways leading to them are extremely narrow now flooding here is blocking them from returning this way towards where the team shoes and bags were found and down here is the entrance to the cave complex that's about four kilometers from where the boys. let's go live now to scott haidar he joins us from outside the cave complex in chiang rai so it's got such a huge boost for rescuers to have found the group but what's next for the rescue efforts. absolutely laure obviously that's the news that everybody here has been waiting for see and hear when they were actually found these voices for boys and their their football coach so very very very elated on monday evening but then you know tuesday morning it's really kind of getting back down to business because you know this is going to be a very very long and difficult process for these boys to come out so you know they

have the joy at last night i think today it's back down to business you know kind of the bus around here really looks similar to as what we seem when they were actually still in the searching process but again it's going to be a very tricky rescue operation. that i'm. at first glance the crowd in busy center for the rescue effort looks like it has for more than a week the good news that the boys were found by two british divers on monday night means only half of the job here is done. that second half of the job will be very difficult getting them all out safely but family members are already thinking of what they'll do once they are out when he

won't see joan heard the good news all she wanted to do was hug her nephew. oh my god i hope all of them come out safely no skinny my nephew everyone who's stuck in the cave divers and doctors are now going back and forth to the boys and the football coach who found refuge on a ledge when the cave flooded following torrential rain the divers are checking on their health and taking them food and water are said to be in good health with only slight injuries but they're amazed the group is four hundred metres further into the cave system than the so-called potty a beach section where rescuers originally thought they might be getting them out isn't expected to be easy reaching them requires a technically difficult and dangerous dive through narrow passages and low visibility and the trapped teenagers will have to be quickly trained to use scuba equipment so they can swim out a day after the boys and their coach were found all eyes are focused here and that's for two reasons this is where the dive teams are headquartered but also this is most likely where the thirteen will exit the cave and be loaded into ambulances

when they will see daylight for the first time is difficult to predict rescue teams are pumping water out of the cave and continue their search for another escape route because of the difficult conditions for rescuers both in and outside the cave like the search operation the rescue is expected to be slow going. and the pressure is on because you know part of the problem that caused this initial situation is that it's the monsoon season and there is heavy rain forecast over the next couple days officials here saying that they want to try to get the boys out in a couple of days obviously that's a different timetable than what they've been saying before because they put in supplies that they were preparing to put in supplies that would last for months so the pressure is on to try to drain that water down to a lower level before these rains are expected to come in over the next couple of days travel story scott thanks for bringing us the update that from china neil bennett trains diving instructors and is director of new zealand diving limited and

joins us live now from skype from the town of walk with me it really is an incredible story isn't it what's your assessment of the situation how can these boys be brought out along with the governor a very big challenge and concerns are so young and probably a lot of them canceling. each other but he took them in the water is immense normally up to three although you will still be her schools are going to be like you know he's thirty seven and you know so the curator of the message board deal is it a better option to do that though and to attempt to teach them to swim and scuba dive is that better than leaving them for months. because you are a lot of what the weather conditions are going to be who's the mountain will be like. you know every time we run into the ball through those those cases the and the danger is that the safety area will go one in the case that they're in an

emergency and you're going to get. so it's a route all of the rescuers that well or the actually trying to find him now with a little good and get him out that's a big challenge we were talking about these passageways being narrow and obviously completely pitch black how difficult is it diving in those conditions. well you made some comments from when the guy was in the cellar sort of really normally so those guys go and so you answer them it's really really tough so you'd be screaming through these passages lines to disability give easier it's not see you're going. to be very close with oakley because you want you to be very very hard for someone who's never been able or what are the dangers when someone is diving and they start to panic but only for those guys if there's no way to the surface so clearly it's not the regulators that they're probably going to drown. have you ever been in a similar situation like this where you've had to rescue people and help them swim

out to safety. but when you're trying them people often plainly can not the regulators the masters in going to the surface well in that situation that might have the option once the dogs thought you got to see through to the end that's really really deep down in the distance is that meant for some of the people. as putting us on the world's best experts that to help them so they were better or worse than the best of luck thanks very much for joining us from new zealand. now saying in this part of the world where i've got some breaking news from malaysia former prime minister najib razak has been arrested by anti-corruption investigators have been building a case against him over the disappearance of billions of dollars from the state fund when he was in power difficult holland reports from kuala lumpur. it's the culmination of weeks of investigation into malaysia's former prime minister and the malaysians watched in fascination as police conducted raids on properties linked to

najib reza falling out with they said with millions of dollars in cash boxes of luxury handbags high end watches and jewelry it is all mounting evidence of what could be one of the country's biggest corruption scandals because when you look at the structure all the complicated and complex transactions across so many countries it would seem to be like. a way to actually siphon no money from from government fund funding. if you could put it in a one way is more like a scam. the case focuses on how ten point six million dollars from estate investment entity s.r.c ended up in the jeeves personal account it's part of a wider investigation into the abuse and misuse of the one m.d.c. state fund that was started by najib soon after he became prime minister in two thousand and nine. and twenty fifteen the public learned that four billion dollars

had gone missing from the fund and nearly seven hundred million dollars allegedly transferred into the bank account they were outraged fearing that taxpayer money was being used to fund the lavish lifestyle of politicians businessmen around the world and even a hollywood movie. eventually the anger was taken out of the ballot boxes in early may denying the third term in office and handing a story of defeat to his ruling party in terms of political career i did was gone. even though in the rule of law and the speed of justice one is innocent until proven guilty but in terms of the me that. it's already gone people he will always being seen as the image of corruption the new government is made up of a coalition of opposition parties headed by the former prime minister mahathir mohamad the government says it's priority to find out what's happened to the millions of dollars that went missing it's discovered the taxpayer money has been

used to fund one m.t.b.f. debt obligations so far one point eight billion dollars of state money has been spent to bailout the fund and hundreds of millions more will have to be paid out by the end of the year in interest payments. the lavish lifestyle of najib and his luxury loving wife had been under the microscope for years but until recently there was little evidence to link them to the embezzled money analysts say now it's just a matter of time until the true extent of the scandal will be revealed and more former government officials will likely face charges. will of course we'll bring you more on this story later with another of our correspondents will be live with us from kuala lumpur now jordan's foreign minister is heading to moscow as a humanitarian crisis builds on the border with syria around two hundred seventy thousand syrians have been forced from their homes by the russian backed government offensive to recapture province from rebels of the jordan nor israel are letting

them activists in daraa say government forces have sent reinforcements to the front lines around the town of tough as. joins us now from beirut center got negotiations between some rebels and russia collapsing but all the rebels we're seeing laying down their arms what's the situation there are province. well like you mentioned the government reinforcing their positions around the town of tough assets in the western countryside of that's clearly a sign that the government's going to keep up the military pressure in order for the remaining rebel factions to surrender like you mentioned earlier a number of rebel factions have surrendered towns and villages are now under the government's control the government has regained control of territory either through military action or so-called reconciliation which really amounts to a surrender but some rebel factions are refusing to engage in negotiations with the russian military saying what they're asking for really is a surrender with nothing in return what we understand after talking to many

activists on the ground there is a lot of fear among members of the opposition and rebels that there are no security guarantees they do not trust any security guarantees given by the syrian government or the russian military they want a third party what we also understand from activists on the ground is that the russians are not putting an option on the table which will involve leaving being bussed to the northwestern province of idlib like what we saw in eastern and in aleppo that option is not on the table and some people are telling us how do you expect this to stay and reconcile with the state we're wanted for opposition activities we could be arrested we could be killed so difficult negotiations ahead and like you mentioned the jordanian foreign minister heading to moscow for talks with his russian counterpart tomorrow not really underscores russian's influence in this battle doesn't you know. well definitely the russian military they hold sway on the ground they are the ones who are negotiating with the rebel factions on

behalf of the syrian government of course those talks are being facilitated by the jordanians but at the end of the day the russian military they don't have enough men on the ground to actually patrol all these areas you ask anyone in the opposition and they'll tell you ok we prefer the russian military to take over our territory instead of the syrian government or instead of the iranian. we trust them more but we do not trust them you know blindly at the end of the day so yes they hold sway the jordanians are going to talk to them and like you mentioned the humanitarian crisis is only worsening now with the united nations calling on jordan and neighboring countries to give refugees access to safety in other words telling the jordanians and other countries open your borders to two hundred seventy thousand people ok so many thanks for bringing us the latest there from beirut. there's plenty more still ahead here on this news hour including high powered visitors trying to get the world's attention back on the plight of refugees in bangladesh. can england win their first world cup knockout game in twelve years old

will colombia reach the quarter finals i will have all the build up to their match in school. germany's chancellor has managed to save her governing coalition after compromise on migration and held high stakes crisis talks overnight hoping to settle a dangerous sound off with a long time rival interior minister horst they offer he's the head of merkel political allies and if the coalition fell apart it would have forced merkel to find new partners or call another election. another german chancellor has called the deal a good compromise but it's a dramatic turnaround from her previous welcoming stance on migration the agreement with the so-called transit camp set up along germany's border with austria refugees and migrants would be screened at the census to see if they've already applied for

asylum in a different e.u. country if this is found to be the case they'll be returned to the place where they first registered but that member state would have to agree to this and austria has already signaled its opposition. let's go live to dominic and he joins us now from berlin germany merkel may have agreed this deal with her bolivarian allies but can she persuade social democrat partners to agree. that's the fundamental question today laura she's as you say she's found an accommodation with her bavarian allies who are to the rights of her party generally trouble is now she's got to deal with the center left in parliament the social democrats the ones who just a few years ago were ruling out very categorically as it were any chance of transit centers near borders that sort of thing and yet that's effectively what the deal is that mrs merkel is desirable for have cooked up together so difficult talks ahead

and indeed there will be a meeting later on perhaps sixteen g.m.t. we understand where this social democrats thrash out what they're going to do we know already but the leader of the of that group in parliament and they're not us the said that there are many questions that need to be asked and on says given to their doubts about this deal that merkel and say i hope we came up with and i like the options are talking about strengthening their borders they want does that mean the e.u. is open border deal. for latin again is a truly fundamental question not just for the austrians not just for the germans but for the e.u. schengen deal open borders that freedom of movement which is so fundamental says angle americal to the whole ethos of the european union the point here is effectively you have almost the reverse of what took place in twenty fifteen twenty fifteen the wave of migrants coming across borders with the desire to get to

germany now given the fact the wave has basically dwindled to much more manageable numbers a trickle perhaps they say ninety five percent fewer people coming across the borders now compared to in the summer of twenty fifteen now you have it in reverse almost with countries say ok we're going to close our border and then it follows in a ripple effect doesn't work further down into central europe into other parts of southern europe that's what's. going on here question is what mr kurtz will do he's the chancellor of australia he's in government with the far right the far right freedom party of austria they have a very clear agenda they're anti immigrants they believe that immigration is a dangerous thing in their country and they want wherever possible to tighten border controls point here is one final thought to remember when we went to the austrian german border last week filming with the police as they performed border controls they told us that on average something between two hundred fifty and three

hundred people whose they called illegal immigrants were being stopped at their part of the austrian german border every month for the past six months now if you extrapolate from that to the three border control areas currently in existence between austria and germany i'd suggest around four and a half thousand people so that's what they know about we don't know necessarily whether those immigration centers these detention centers as it were would take in more numbers than the us don't like many thanks for bringing us the latest that from eleven. ok let's cross live now to burn in switzerland where got there ryan brown has some honey giving a press conference with the swiss media following meetings and talks west officials so let's take a listen and dialogue in with barriers to mange the economy finance human rights justice. and it will be a nuclear civil nuclear use and also migration and it's used.

as a fan by more unique and actually you know he does seem to belong to go hard as i mean if i'm up that i would have to study the. you know find me by machine mahajan that. talks both yesterday and today on a whole range of issues concerning iran and switzerland and of course obviously we began with the u.k. resurgent we are all aware of the. moment and the whole question of trying to put a brake or not to question the agreement that. has . drawn. from the point of view of. this has been unprecedented success for

international diplomacy this is an agreement which i switzerland as you probably know also played the role of the closer we gave to the negotiation and also provided for just except what they said agreement which was very largely negotiate jane both in. and in geneva and which was concluded in vienna in twenty fifteen. i'm going to. i think. on. that. it's a little respect and implementing fully this agreement but for its part one which

has been signed by all the parties. and this in line with the un s year twenty one thirty one we agreed entirely with president rouhani days yours to accentuate the. framework of this multi national international agreement. and. i'm going to battle. over the present situation after the three of us. draw is one which creates a certain degree of insecurity and instability but today said talks have made it

possible to have more dialogue on security and finance are particularly after the good results this year and also in terms of research and where we. hope very much to be able to host a new iranian delegation in switzerland to after their visit to iran very shortly. this. time if. was able to confirm to president rouhani switzerland's commitment not only bilaterally but also internationally in terms of international law and also to the

role which we play in supporting this dialogue the road which we have already played in the negotiations which ended up in the concluding cremata in twenty fifteen and we are prepared to go ahead on that basis. they were listening to the iranian leaders in that burned in switzerland giving a press conference the program. senior lecturer of middle east politics university of bradford joins us now from london service will ronnie in switzerland looking for real reassurance as one of the points of his agenda for this nuclear deal to think is going to guess at here. yes you are absolutely right mr rouhani is in absolutely

a desperate position at the moment to seek any assurance possible from anybody in europe but i'm afraid this exercise is not really going to have any meaningful impact. on the situation because the european partners already made it very clear they are still committed to to the deal but there is a limit to how far the european governments can go to pressurize their companies and firms to stay in the iranian market over the last six or seven weeks a number of very important european firms who just started to reinvest in various iranian economy is off to two thousand and fifteen to leave the country and these kind of major european players can't stop them because ultimately these companies and firms all accountable to their shareholders or rather then their governments

and that's very interesting isn't it because then that puts them at risk of u.s. sanctions as well if they continue to operate in iran. yes absolutely i think that the fate of. reigning in caen of deal this iran deal i'm afraid is not going to be steeled in europe body is going to be sealed in washington it seems that the united states is determined perhaps more than ever to kind of make life extremely difficult for the government of mr rouhani within the next few weeks from the beginning of august we're going to see a new regime of sanctions primarily targeting iranian automotive sector. and by november basically we're going to see a new regime of say sanctions which will target the iranian energy sector and

petroleum and this is. all to emit nightmare probably i wouldn't exaggerate true of claim that at the moment rouhani is facing kind of war smallmouth in his political career he's facing with a number of folks at home i'm not only talking about the economy crisis and the crunch the currency crisis there are some fundamental environmental issues facing the country there are some fundamental water security issues facing the country over the last few weeks there has been a number of protests in various cities and towns in iran and now actually even doubts about the future of mr rouhani his government are some people who believe that he may not be able even to last by by the end of the year and all of that is happening at the time when the united states is determined to increase. its

sanctions on iran and actually the international community and in particular the european firms or extreme afraid about the consequences maybe the iranian can of investing in iranian economy maybe they look pretty for certain european firms but is not going to be look pretty enough to determine to a standoff through american sanctions some of fate i'm not expecting a con of a major carried through in this recent ok great stuff let's just listen back in now to burn because the first one to started talking that's what he's got to say switzerland. responds to. neither am i was. in twenty sixteen to teheran. sense of. praise you don't do

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the. burn for the moment we've got the iranian president hassan rouhani speaking alongside us president say let's return now to. stand by for us in london also listening and. we were talking before about the crises that president rouhani is facing at home is under enormous amount of pressure in switzerland partly to try and salvage the nuclear deal that of course the u.s. pulled out of at the end of last year but how close is that deal to collapsing because we know that iran is already looking at ways says it can increase the capacity of its uranium enrichment again. the thing is. iranians at the moment don't seem to have a lot of incentives to count of. stay. in the i mean even over the last year or so before the united states left the deal iranians

claim time and time again that because of the threat all the different order issues over the future of the deal they have been they haven't been able to conduct attract a lot of international investors so in other words they claim that they have not been able to benefit from from the deal so over the last six or seven weeks this situation has got even worse there are now even more pressure on international investors to go to iran and invest and even those firms and companies that kind of entered various iranian economy except there's off to two thousand and fifteen as i mentioned early on there are beginning to leave so at the moment actually there isn't much value and much significance for iran to a state in the deal but they are actually between the devil and the deep blue sea

they have leach a very disparate position they may not they may no longer be a kind of interested to kind of enjoy the food benefit of the deal what the primarily concerned about is the future of rain in or your exports as we have heard over the last few days the united states is absolutely determined to target dozens if expected because they know this is the sector which is going to put all time of pressure on the iranian state to come to a new terms with the united states and the state department on the a few days ago made it very clear basically they want pressurized iran to the point that they could come to the negotiating. able to negotiate a bit of a bit of deal or do you clear. activities but there's a ration continues to be extremely difficult for for the wrong it certainly does show he thanks so much indeed for joining us from london talking about the iranian

president hassan rouhani his visit to switzerland where there is talk of the swiss president trying to salvage what he can of the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal made with european countries and the u.s. after the u.s. pulled out of it now the libyan navy says sixty three refugees and migrants are missing fades drowned in the mediterranean after their inflatable boat sank navy rescued another forty one and libyan red crescent recovered another seventeen bodies on a beach in tripoli on monday night believed to be among the one hundred three refugees including three babies who drowned in a similar incident on friday. would joins us live now from tripoli why are so many refugees drowning. well laura just because they're poor or simply they're being exploited by people

smugglers and libya now those migrants they can't afford to get a visa and they can't afford to to get on the plane simply and then and therefore they get exploited by people smugglers and when they reach the libyan soil they face a lot of extortion and torture at the hands of people smugglers the bring them to the beach and then they put them on rubber boats or are inflatable boats which are usually in a very bad condition and that these boats are usually overloaded with migrants and that is why because usually there is a lot of migrants on board of so they usually sink in the middle now libya's coast guard says that and go aboard leave that is east of the of the libyan capital tripoli that has been the main departure point for the last for the last few months

and now libya's coast guard patrol say that in numbers around around one hundred seventy my grass died from friday since saturday including one hundred migrants on on friday now in numbers despite the fact that libya's coast guard patrols have been supported by by air italy and have been funded by the european union but the numbers of migrants have been crossing the mediterranean have been recently increasing just because during these. summer months usually the migrants boats increase in the mediterranean because the sea is usually calm during these during these months and now libya's coast guard patrols say that the number of risk you would migrants during this month of june is more than is more than three thousand my breast and the number of migrants dramatically. decreased reaching it's and i'm

speaking about the number of migrants i think it's of the or europe has decreased dramatically during this year compared to last year thanks to the european union fund and the italian support to be as close to god laura. thanks so much for joining us live from tripoli. well united nations actually generous trying to shine some world attention on another refugee crisis this one in bangladesh and that is the terraces that says it can't swim more than one million range of muslims sheltering off the thing from violence in neighboring manama the world bank has announced a five hundred million dollar grant to help bangladesh provide the basics like conditions remain very poor and the head of the un refugee agency philippa grandy has also been touring the camps and cox's bazaar our correspondent mohammed jam do . i want to bring in our very special guest right now this of course is the united nations high commissioner for refugees grandy thank you so much for being with us

sir i want to ask you first about the fact that the world bank of course has announced that they are going to contribute close to a billion dollars half a billion dollars to the or hinder refugee to the government of bangladesh to help with the remains a refugee population that it's not nearly enough considering all that's going on here and the immensity of this crisis right there very important package because it will allow all of us to go beyond this emergency phase and look at education big need for the people here look at hand look at the infrastructure also for the local community they are tremendously impacted one million people in a small difficult land but meanwhile because this is going to take some time we desperately need humanitarian funds to feed people to give them water to or to reinforce the shelter in this monsoon season we have an appeal of about one hundred million dollars issued in jan. very world sympathy for these refugees twenty five

percent from that this has to change what impresses here what in the two things that impress used to the width of the camp the huge population in the small area and the depth of the trauma i came here last time in september just after they had just the right the last group of seven hundred thousand and i found the camp in the trauma people wouldn't speak children would miss my women with recount the most horrifying stories of rape and violence i must say that people are more confident now nine ten months of relative stability people are telling us at least here we can sleep have given them a bit more confidence that it is no less chilling. the stories that now we hear even more details are still very very frightening stories of abuse which means two things one is that we really need to. address it's just drama with psychosocial interventions into that we need to address the root causes of these big crew and

find solutions back in their homes that have to be pretty fundamental for these people to go back. are telling us how breaking news from malaysia where the former prime minister najib razak has been arrested by anti corruption and vested gates's is linked the disappearance of billions of dollars of state funds joins us now live from kuala lumpur so far as his arrest has been hanging even a day for a while now police clearly feel they have enough evidence for a solid case. that's right now on the malaysian anti corruption investigators they were questioning in may regarding this case now this has to do with the appearance the disappearance of money from a company known as s r c international which is a which was formerly a subsidiary of one m. d.b. and it was later then put under the control of the finance ministry when he was prime minister of malaysia was also the finance minister of malaysia so he had you

could say he had ultimate control of this company. and it's alleged that ten million dollars from this company ended up in egypt's personal bank account so this is the particular investigation which anticorruption officials were questioning over and it is we presume that it is for this particular case that he has now been taken into custody they've got a reminder that they served it to him they arrested him at about two thirty local time from his home on tuesday afternoon and he's expected to be charged in court on wednesday morning you know billions of dollars alleged to be misappropriate from this one m d the scandal is there much hope that that money is ever going to be recovered from malaysia. well that is certainly what the government of malaysia is trying to do now and when i was still in charge there were there were there were investigations going on in other countries in as many as six jurisdictions into

this the disappearance of the government fund the american department of justice that even started a civil lawsuit to recover some of these stolen funds but they never got any cooperation from malaysian authorities because malaysian authorities of course never admitted that these monies are these funds were missing but now that there is a new government in charge there and they've put this as their top priority bringing those who stole the money who misappropriated the money and recovering those stolen funds as the top priority they are giving their cooperation to these foreign investigators and it is something that the government of the day the current government is hoping to do absolutely ok florence thanks very much for the update there from kuala lumpur. now it's been five years since egypt's first democratically elected president mohamed morsi was overthrown in a military coup the muslim brotherhood leader had been in office just one year when army chief general abdel fattah el-sisi seized power just rather takes a look at what's happened since abdul fertel sisi was minister of defense and

commander in chief of egypt's armed forces when he led the military coup in july this two thousand and thirteen. that overthrew egypt's first democratically elected government. after months of protests demanding the newly elected president mohamed morsi step down sisi said the coup was necessary to prevent slipping into a dark tunnel of civil unrest sisi dissolved the two thousand and twelve egyptian constitution set up an interim government and called for new elections. human rights groups say the coup represented the end of democracy in the important middle east alloy for the u.s. and other countries. the subsequent crackdown on morsi party the muslim brotherhood and its supporters was widespread and brutal security forces raided camps set up by morsy supporters in the capital with the fourteenth two thousand and thirteen. at

least eight hundred people were killed in cairo and around four thousand injured cc's opponents. thousands of muslim brotherhood members and supporters were arrested the government offensive on opposition groups and the media has widened in the years since that they are the more they are the law they are. she she was first elected president in two thousand and fourteen democracy international one of the main international observer groups monitoring voting said egypt's repressive political environment had made a genuine democratic presidential election it possible sisi inherited a troubled economy apparently needing aggressive reforms i list say things have improved since but egyptians have suffered the withdrawal of certain price subsidies and the devaluation of the egyptian pound against the us dollar workers also began on several major construction projects including dredging

a new channel of to sue is canal and the building of several new desert cities including a forty five billion dollar administrative capital east of cairo the battle against eisel in the sinai peninsula is a major security challenge sisi ordered a large scale military campaign in february after a mosque attack killed more than three hundred people human rights watch says up to four hundred twenty thousand people in four cities in the north of the sinai need urgent humanitarian aid because the military has heavily restricted access c.c. was reelected president for another four year term in march. he has support from the u.s. president donald trump and european allies she's main challenger was arrested and his campaign manager beaten up in the run up to the poll all other presidential hopefuls withdrew their candidacies alleging intimidation and harassment.

strafford. omar sure as associate professor of security studies middle east politics at the doha institute in our joins from our studio in london a different prime minister just in the last few moments announced that egypt's g.d.p. grew by five point four percent in the last financial year and improving egypt's economy was a key pledge was not by sisi when he came to power but it's come at what cost. that to begin with the question will be always difficult in egypt regardless of what kind of regime is ruling but this particular situation the approach taken by the current regime was more on the liberalizing the economy withdrawing the subsidies limiting the spendings and more or less affecting over one hundred million egyptian citizens. living on very limited resources but doing

so while there is rampant corruption no accountability no transparency very dim to transparency egypt is one of the think it's under the first one hundred countries in the transparency international corruption index when you have that and when you have also a military institution that is above the constitution cannot can confiscate land without being the general treasury. does not pay taxes on its civilian investments and having bit basically a major cut a major black hole in the economy to reform while having these realities is very very difficult and therefore you will end up in the current situation inflation high d.d.p. and basically you are macro level reforms will have very very limited impact on the micro level. and of course we're seeing him getting full international support despite the shortcomings that we see within the country it seems that foreign governments choosing stability with

a strong man that they know over instability turning a blind eye in the process to human rights. it's not a question of stability or instability it's a question of basically two approaches for reforming this country and moving forward was the generally twenty eleven approach which was basically a democratic transition process where the slogans were very clear social justice freedoms and the economic prosperity via alternation of power and by a process of accountability and peaceful to a nation of power so that that approach you know was doomed in july twenty third twenty two didn't was it crashed down mainly under. the leadership of the military institutional one and supported by a segment of the society a segment of the political landscape and then the other approaches was a strongman approach which mubarak has tried for for thirty years which is basically crack down on most of the opposition and allow

a very limited margin of freedom with it where people can breath. and then there is the third approach which we have now which is the approach which even in that very limited margin of opposition you need to bombarded by heavy artillery so you have the fifteen thousand over fifteen thousand civilians in military tribunals over sixty selves and. thousand detainees so far and then you have like the major violations of human rights acts to show killings inconsistent trade and so on so very very limited fees and even within the their jeems own factions you know when you have someone like general sami and then who is the former head of the chief of staff of the egyptian army getting arrested for running in the presidential elections even within that there that infections there is a heavy crackdown so you have that approach where is this approach going to take egypt i think there's a big question mark on that because that was basically could defeat in bashar

lessen our coach and we will have to look at that question with a bull in another interview m.r. sean hannity's we have to kind of that thanks very much for joining us. ninety percent of the wild special dogs are being fish to. limit its growing demand an industrial fishing techniques are pushing some populations of cod and china to

the brink of collapse while millions of tons of other less marketable species are being used as a fish food simply discard it i'm so very rightly in london u.k. where marine scientists are working together with local fisherman to get consumers hooked on sustainable seafood. based in east london a tiny startup by the name of sol shah is hoping to change london his relationship with fish. for the first. order. and coming from well it's a bit like a budget but let's say. we work with a couple of fishermen. and then handed out to us it's a really good way of just getting home for the maze of fish trying things that maybe you haven't tried before and also supporting the got a call from. one of the three and

a half thousand small scale fishermen working in english waters but unlike many families have been in the business but generations. he and used to come to the trade a decade to get the oyster my fish and the skill of our boys out a little more than a toy before the dark future of the school civil you know for the stunt for a living take that lot on three trucks down to that one side and then on the street they stay right. here on the continent is nothing they have a market for you know it's a tie on the river. and they start she's the bigger fish. yeah nice old site big fish but someone that's a little small fish israel which launched on the only. thing that by the way. the son told you could avoid every. unlike industrial bottom two minutes which tried to along the sea floor and can kill

a wide array of three night. stay still in the world and the notch holes means he's not undermining feature fish stocks by catching up some juveniles. those he doesn't extend the net come in and i. say that's legal solace for he's a low life and i work for backyards but. how much would you get say for. a place if you send it three don't rub it in just sort of also jack because it's a flat right for the cage on. the house side of the market may go to market to offer a crate for for the son plights says quite a bit different that is yeah so share members help keep mostyn in business by giving him a good price and buying a set wait each week of whatever he brings in he also going to fish longer while i seldom i still get a break simon called from provence and sure you know they're beautiful friends of

ours so more than anything else and they're also some of the nicest kind of. fish exactly. everyone at someone's office all which. is go all day because i've had to accept whatever turns off of a god or different spaces and that spanking first big look at a child. who got into congress is going to quote really invested royale made significant this meant that for we end up in boy. the business is not as missing from a lot of the way that we know we eat today you know it is such a big disconnect between what's going on play if the numbers come from. i sample want to if i didn't that there's something about it we're not so sure i started in twenty thirteen and now has eighty members in london who buy from martin under a few up a small scale fishing. from a boat to ice books in a matter of minutes the race is now on to get today's fresh catch straight up to

social members in london so it's about finding people that care about where the fish come from and linking them with the called the fishermen the cat how because if. every.

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