permission and democracy just leave. her. elation turns to anxiety as it's revealed the young thai football is found deep inside a mountain maybe trapped for months. as i'm speaking this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up malaysia's former prime minister najib razak is arrested over the disappearance of billions of dollars from a state fund. on

a mission to save the nuclear deal iran's president tells europe he'll respect the agreement as long as they do. also germany's leader dodges a political bullet with the controversial migration deal but our problems aren't behind her yet. her rescuers had dubbed it mission impossible but they've defied the odds to find twelve boys and their football coach stuck inside a waterlogged cave in northern thailand but the hardest part may still a lie ahead how to get them out there trapped here sheltering on a rock deep within the pitch black belly of the mountain the passageways leading to them are extremely narrow flooding here is blocking them from returning this way towards where the team's shoes and banks were found. and down here is the entrance

to the cave complex about four kilometers from where the boys are it was caught of course now from chiang rai just outside the caves. that have. at first glance the crowded 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 for. that second half of the job will be very difficult getting them all out safely to family members are already thinking of what they'll do once they are out when up the road he won't seek joan heard the good news all she wanted to do was hug her

nephew but oh my god i hope all of them come out safely no tenney 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 terentia rain the divers are checking on their health and taking them food and water they're said to be in good health with only slight injuries but there may see if 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 it's 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 it's got harder al-jazeera chiang rai say in this part of the world where we have breaking news from malaysia the former prime minister najib razak has been arrested by anti corruption investigators they've been building a case against him over the disappearance of billions of dollars from the state from when he was in power david gopalan 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 razak 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 conception across so many countries it would seem to be like. a way to actually siphon no money from from government fund funding goes he saw if you could put it in a one what is more like scandal. 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 historic defeat to his ruling on no party in terms of political career why did his gun. even go in the rule of law and the spirit of justice one is innocent until proven guilty but in terms of the me that night it was carrying 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. kuala lumpur. alive now to kuala lumpur where another our correspondents florence louis has been following the story for us so far as this is had been expecting this had been expected for some time. trying to build this case against the former prime minister where things stand right now i am still here. that's right now they had called nigel benn for questioning for this case in may this is to do this has to do with them as mentioned in her report there with s.r.c. international a former subsidiary company of one and then placed under the finance ministry of

which not total control being the finance minister as well as prime minister of the country until the general election in two thousand in may just a couple of months ago so he's going to be charged we're not sure yet what the charges are going to be laid against him but i can think we can guess that it's going to be misappropriation of state funds it's alleged that the money from s.r.c. international as much as ten million dollars was deposited into personal bank account he's likely perhaps also to be charged with embezzlement misappropriation of public funds possibly also obstruction of justice we've heard from a anticorruption official about how he was stopped from doing from pursuing the initial investigation by his hire professionals who had received instructions from other people in government so these are likely the charges that he will be facing and we will know more tomorrow when he appears when he's brought to court in

kuala lumpur on wednesday morning all right we know you'll be following that force for them flawlessly live for us in kuala lumpur thanks very much now jordan's foreign minister is heading to moscow as a humanitarian crisis builds on the border with syria about two hundred seventy thousand syrians have been forced from their homes by the russian backed government offensive to recaptured that our province from rebels neither jordan or israel are letting the main activists in that are say government forces have sent reinforcements to the front lines around the town of toughness. linda tommy is a syria spokes person at the united nations office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs he joins us now from gaziantep in turkey via skype thanks very much for being with us so just give us a sense first of the challenges the your going to zation is dealing with right now in in trying to provide for the refugees from syria and their immediate needs.

right now we're hearing of the largest number of internally displaced people in the speeches since the start of the syrian conflict so we're seeing eighty two hundred seventy. and after made it to two hundred seventy of our comfort our kitchen is ongoing people who have been display it since it you and this is an incredible number of people who need assistance and who need protection. and there's been a there's been a increased influx of syrians coming from this area in southern syria to the border with jordan where what what can you tell us about that and how how desperate the need is among people there sure you know what we're seeing is we're estimating about sixty thousand people. crossing and people have gone there because they have been leaving are still it is every day we're hearing that. you know the ground

straight an airstrike continue on into really an area we hear about hospitals and medical facilities that have been hit and are rendered out of service that people are fleeing to these areas for safety and. in addition to that they also need humanitarian assistance and our support and this is the assistance is there enough of it there right now or is it much more needed at this point. well what u.n. and humanitarian partners are doing and this is in court a nation but the government of jordan is that we're providing assistance at that border crossing so we're providing assistance to the jordanian side and syrian n.g.o.s are picking up that assistance and bringing over to people in need the jordanian government is also doing the same thing and many governments are providing humanitarian assistance to people in need in this area however. people

people in that area need shelter they need they need a safe they need to be safe and they need to be able to return back to their homes so these are also issues that need to be a huge progress it's good to speak easier linda tom joining us there from gaziantep thanks very much for being with us. now iran's president is in switzerland aiming to save the nuclear deal which donald trump withdrew from has sent rouhani is maintaining that iran will respect the agreement with world powers as long as its interests are preserved after zurich he is expected in our austria on friday to meet foreign ministers from the world powers who remain signatories to the u.s. president accuses iran of going back on the deal and is really imposing sanctions he's also pressuring allies to stop iranian oil imports. as a towel for. after the g. c.p.o.

way we should very clearly that whatever promises we make we stand by living up to the promises that we make is the basis of confidence and trust among nations we are committed to the promises we made in terms of nonproliferation and we will continue our cooperation with international organizations including the i.a.e.a. iran is looking to have just legal peaceful and stable relations with the world all right we're going to take a quick break here on al-jazeera but when we come back promises of help for a range of refugees in desperate need after high powered visitors. the treatment of migrant children in u.s. detention goes to court. hello there let's have a check on our storm prepress room it's gradually working its way northward and you

can see the eye of the storm here as it makes its way very very close to key issue there so for both south korea and key issue we're seeing damaging winds very heavy downpours at the moment and that system will gradually navigate the korea strait and work its way across the sea of japan there as we head through the day on wednesday still bringing us to wrench really heavy downpours as it gradually pulls up towards the northern parts of japan as we head into thursday still dragging plenty of cloud of rain behind it as well so for many of us in honshu and still for key issue do expect some more very very sharp downpours even as we head through thursday into friday behind it and for the western policy it does look like it should be a bit dry for the korean peninsula and for beijing it'll be hot and dry thirty seven degrees maximum now for some of us in china it's been wet once more and you can see the worst of the showers are currently in the northern parts of our map and a few were all the life we want for the southeastern coast as well that's really what we're going to see as we head through thursday just the showers in the north just sinking a little bit further southwards so for some of us in chengdu expect from heavy

downpours jury in the day for the south plenty of wet weather particularly over the northern parts of borneo on wednesday. in an exclusive documentary series al-jazeera reveals the full story of a war that changed the face of the middle east this is not a war to defeat israel this is a war to open the way for the promise of the final episode of a three part series explores the impending threat of two global superpowers that uncovers why the out israeli conflict continues to this day the war in october the battle and beyond at this time on al-jazeera.

hello again you're watching obviously a reminder of our top stories this hour twelve boys and their football coach found alive in a thai cave could be trapped there for some time yet they'll be supplied with food as the army decides how to get them out through flooded passageways boys were found late on monday by british divers almost ten days after they went missing. malaysia's former prime minister najib razak has been arrested by anti corruption investigators they were looking into allegations he stole billions of dollars of state funds. jordan's foreign minister is heading to moscow in an effort to solve a humanitarian crisis building on the border with syria an estimated two hundred seventy thousand people have been displaced by a russian backed government campaign to retake syria's there are prophets most have

gathered on the borders with jordan and israel. germany's chancellor has managed to save her governing coalition after reaching a compromise on migration angela merkel held high stakes crisis talks overnight hoping to settle a dangerous standoff with her longtime rival interior minister horst see offer he is the head of merkel's traditional political allies and if their coalition fell apart it would have forced merkel to find new partners or call another election the german chancellor's called the deal a good compromise but it is a dramatic turnaround from her previous welcoming stance on migration the deal would see so-called transit camps set up along germany's border with austria refugees and migrants would be screened at the centers 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 e.u.

member state would have to agree to this and austria has already signaled opposition from a cane has more from berlin. the route over migration is the crisis that just won't go away frank america no sooner she agreed a deal with her very and conservative allies a compromise solution which will set up centers that migrants will be processed in and indeed detained in for some time before being deported if that's what their fate will be then she has to persuade the social democrats to the center left in parliament that this is a good idea tough task given that a few years ago the social democrats rule that idea or completely they say the social democrats say that there are many questions that need to be answered before we can agree to this compromise solution throw into the equation also the austrian government saying that it needs urgent clarification from the german government about what exactly this proposal a few agreed on will take and they say also that they're going to strengthen their borders to the south to the east specifically with the slovenians and with the

italians so what this means is that we have the dilemma of the german government trying to work out whether it can go ahead with this all the while the numbers we're talking about not that high nowhere near the sorts of numbers of some of twenty fifty yet still this issue will not go away. i mean while the libyan navy says sixty three refugees and migrants are missing feared drowned in the mediterranean sea after they inflatable boat sank the navy rescued another forty one and the libyan red crescent recovered other seventeen bodies on a beach in tripoli monday night they thought or been among the one hundred three refugees including three babies who drowned in a similar incident on friday. and the u.n. secretary general is trying to draw more world attention on another refugee crisis in bangladesh and tony has visited camps where more than a million muslims are sheltering after fleeing violence in neighboring myanmar the

world bank has announced a five hundred million dollar grant to help bangladesh provide the basics the conditions remain poor. the head of the u.n. refugee agency filippo grandi has also been touring the camps in cox's bazar our correspondent jim spoke to him earlier. i want to bring in our very special guest right now this of course is the united nations high commissioner for refugees ground 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 because it's not nearly enough considering all that's going on here and the immensity of this crisis right now it is a 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 climates to feed people to give them water. to reinforce the shelter in this monsoon season we have an appeal of about one hundred million dollars issued in january while sympathy for these refugees twenty five percent from that this has to change what impresses here what the two things that impress he was the width of the camp the huge population in this small area and the depth of the trauma i came here last time in september just after they had just the right this last group of seven hundred thousand and i found the camp in the heat of trauma people wouldn't speak children would nice 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 you know we can sleep have given them a bit more confidence that it is no less chilling that 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 this just drama with psychosocial interventions into that we suppress the root causes of the speaker and find solutions back in their holes that have to be. fundamental political people that. sudan's government has proposed a bill that would extend the presidential term by three more years if it's carried out the move could see president salva kiir stay in power until two thousand and twenty one has been condemned by the opposition who say it in dangerous peace efforts on sunday the latest ceasefire and rebel leader requests shahr was threatened hours after coming into force the u.n.

special envoy to yemen is back there for talks aimed at ending fighting in the port city of data martin griffiths will meet leaders from warring sides in the next three days the data port is the main entry for aid needed by millions of yemenis on sunday the u.a.e. said it halted its military campaign to give the un's diplomatic efforts a chance but who to rebel say the saudi erotic coalition has launched ten air strikes and ground attacks in the past twenty four hours north korea is continuing its global charm offensive as a senior economic official visits china after kim jong un's summit with u.s. president donald trump pyongyang wants an end to international trade sanctions rob mcbride reports from dandong on the china north korea border where many believe business might be about to pick up. this latest visit by a senior north korean official is seen as further evidence of north korea's

sincerity in wanting to move away from its nuclear program and concentrate instead on economic development using as china the model to follow all though on a much smaller basis there's also speculation though that this visit could be part of north korea's attempts to look for relief from sanctions and much of the trade that keeps north korea going passes through here dandong going in particular across the friendship bridge with constant rail and truck traffic carrying trade both ways the china still has those sanctions in place but you do get the feeling that with the goodwill of recent months china maybe isn't imposing those sanctions as strictly as it should and here in downtown you also see other evidence of economic activity resuming such as for example some of the north korean restaurants that were closed a few months ago have now reopened what you're also seeing here is

a real property boom as people see dandong potential should sanctions be lifted with some apartments here doubling in price in just a few months that we've had these summits take place this is all of course been all of the developments on the chinese side of the yalu river that is the border between china and north korea on the north korean side we've seen nothing like this development but there is a suggestion that even that might be changing in recent days at the north korean leader kim jong un has been visiting sites that have been earmarked for economic development leading many to believe about the potential of this whole border area that it could be on the verge of an economic boom if sanctions are lifted a boom that would benefit all. an australian archbishop has become the highest ranking roman catholic worldwide to be sentenced for covering up child sex abuse

the archbishop of adelaide phillip wilson will serve a twelve month sentence but not in jail he may have home detention the magistrate said wilson had shown no remorse for failing to report the repeated abuse of two altar boys by a priest in the one nine hundred seventy s. in the united states a three year old refugee go has died from her injuries after being stabbed at her own birthday party along with five other children three adults were injured on saturday while trying to protect the toddlers police in boise in the state of idaho have charged to me with murder and battery he'd recently been evicted from the housing complex where refugee families from syria iraq and ethiopia live some of the injured remain critically ill or victims of some of the newest members of our community there are victims from their past homes who fled violence from syria iraq and the opium are suspect is

a man with an extensive criminal record spanning multiple states who have spent time in prison and his past remove while asians do include violence against others . well anger over two thousand migrant children separated from their parents has led to mass protests in the united states but the u.s. still holds another twelve thousand of them in custody across the border without their parents concern about their treatment has been an issue for rights groups for years and now a court is about to hear their cases she have written see reports. several recordings of migrant children separated from their parents have emerged over the last few weeks. and the response has been massive and at a court hearing on tuesday and then the abuse of migrant children by u.s. authorities has been going on for years they handcuffed me and put a white bag of some kind over my head they took off all my clothes and put me into

her straight chair where they touch my hands and feet to the chair they also put a strap across my chest they left me naked attached to the chair for two and a half days including at night. that is one of many accounts of life at the sherman de-valued juvenile center in virginia sworn testimony recounts routine verbal and physical assault by staff and days of nudes solitary confinement in freezing concrete cells these children when convicted of any crimes they say they were fleeing violence in their home countries their lawyers say they were subjected to malicious and sadistic applications of force both physical and psychological the center denies the charges. since the obama administration latin american boys and girls twelve and up accused of being a gang member await a hearing in facilities like these we don't know if any children separated from their parents in recent weeks have been sent here but a manager says many children are falsely accused the youth were being screened as

being involved individuals and then when they came into our care. and they were assessed by our clinical in case management staff they weren't necessarily identified as being involved individuals in fact aid groups say these are simply children traumatized by violence in their home countries the reason they sought asylum in the us and that once they are traumatized further. lawyers say that information children give to social workers and medical staff is used to determine whether to send them to facilities like shenandoah for example a child expressing fear of gang violence may be classed as a gang member it is very troubling that whatever they tell their social worker their caseworker is not staying within that confidentiality and the child is trusting that caseworker and it is very troubling when that information is being shared outside of the scope of why that caseworker and social worker is is helping the child only a fraction of the some twelve thousand migrant children in the care of the u.s.

government end up at facilities like this but it's hoped concern for children separated from parents will lead to a wider review of the treatment of children held by u.s. authorities. the show. and you can find much more on our web site as always the address is edges in a dot com. this is just you know it's going to round up now of our top stories twelve boys and their football coach found alive in a thai cave could be trapped there for months they'll be supplied with food as the army decides how to get them out through flooded passageways the boys may have to be taught how to scuba dive to get out they were found late on monday almost ten days after they went missing malaysia's former prime minister najib razak has been arrested by anti corruption investigators they've been building a case against him over the disappearance of billions of dollars from

a state fund when he was in power. jordan's foreign minister is heading to moscow in an effort to solve a humanitarian crisis building on the border with syria an estimated two hundred seventy thousand people have been displaced by a russian backed government campaign to retake syria's that our province most have gathered on the borders with jordan and israel iran's president is in switzerland hoping to save the nuclear deal which u.s. president donald trump withdrew from a center is maintaining that iran will respect the agreement with world powers as long as its interests are preserved after zurich is expected in austria on friday to meet foreign ministers from the world powers who remain signatories trump accuses iran of going back on the deal and is re imposing sanctions. as. after the juicy we should very clearly that whatever promises we make we stand by

living up to the promises that we make is the basis of confidence and trust among nations we are committed to the promises we made in terms of nonproliferation and we will continue work cooperation with international organizations including the i.a.e.a. iran is looking to have just legal peaceful and stable relations with the world. and germany's chancellor has managed to save her governing coalition after reaching a compromise on migration anglo-american held high stakes crisis talks overnight hoping to settle a dangerous standoff with a longtime rival interior minister horst see a half or he's the head of merkel's traditional political political allies and if their coalition fell apart it would have forced merkel to find new partners or call another election those are the headlines we're back with more after inside story.

this quest to quanah yvonne the u.s. president accuses. oil prices and allies to boost production as he's re-imposing sanctions on iran he's also question country still doing business with the iranians this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program on a miserable purana oil production process and politics require a delicate balance donald trump as oil producing countries excess.