facing allegations of corruption malaysia's former prime minister najib razak denies charges of a money that went missing from a state farm. hello i'm adrian finighan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a new video shows thai boys trapped in a flooded cave are in good health but there's no clarity on how they'll be rescued . the un suman writes office accuses the u.a.e. of the torture and sexual abuse of yemeni prisoners. and it spotlight for england they win their first ever world cup penalty shoot out to reach the quarter finals.

malaysia's former prime minister has denied corruption charges over the disappearance of billions of dollars from the state's fund while he was in office now is facing three counts of criminal breach of trust and of using his position for games he was arrested by anti corruption investigators on tuesday a course in kuala lumpur has granted him bail but says the legal action against him is politically motivated as it was florence louis reports now from kuala lumpur. former prime minister najib razak has been charged with corruption and three counts of criminal breach of trust involving in total ten million dollars alleged to have been deposited into his personal bank account between december two thousand and fourteen and february two thousand and fifteen and these moneys allegedly came from a company known as s r c international a former subsidiary of one m d b a state investment fund that with. set up by not

yet after he became prime minister in two thousand and nine and the sum of about ten million dollars is a small amount compared to the four and a half billion dollars that knowledge of and his associates alleged to have and from one end this is an investigation that has been several years in the making not just with first questioned by anti corruption officials several years ago when he was still prime minister and finance minister of this country but that investigation was locked and corruption officials threatened and told to stop the investigation and the then attorney general had said he had found no evidence of wrongdoing but since a new government came into power following the general election in may his new government has made it its top priority to prosecute people involved in the white collar crimes involving one and as well as recovering bestow than funds so far police have questioned other politicians as well as not tips wife. and his stepson since. new videos been released showing

a thai football team in good health despite the eleven day ordeal below ground food and medical supplies of reach the twelve boys and coach phone lines are being set up so they can talk to the parents it's not yet known how the group will be brought out and heavy rain is expected to hamper the cave rescue let's go live now to officer ascott hyde who's in northern thailand for the latest on the rescue operation in chiang rai this is quite the conundrum isn't it what are the options open to the rescue. adrian and we're learning just now that you know one of the options that has been floated and we were reporting on the last couple of hours are these full face diving masks that officials thought might be easier for the children to use if they have to go underwater if they have to dive out we're hearing that that might not be an option that they weren't working we were hearing over the last couple of hours that they've been training on it on the their ledge where they're kind of holed up in the cave we're hearing now that

it might not be a feasible option we're not sure exactly why but that was one they're exploring that doesn't mean that their net nets are not going to be scuba diving they're not going to float the idea keep the idea going that they'll have to use scuba equipment to get out but again it's very very risky and it's a very technical and difficult dive with narrow passageways murky water currents and the divers cave divers who are experienced cave divers have said it's a very technical and difficult dive for them as you can imagine what it's going to be like for some of these boys who maybe not don't even know how to swim so that there are a lot of factors to that we're hearing that there are complications with the mast at this stage but obviously that has to be one of the considerations because the clock is ticking that is because it's monsoon season and the reason they're in there stuck in there in the beginning for the for the first reason was because it flooded and they're expecting more rains later this week the governor coming out in the last couple of hours saying that so far the weather this week looks pretty good that's where they're really stepping up all this these operations here pumping is

still going on the trying to get that water level down so the clock is ticking but right now they're figuring out how to get them out there they're exploring all options but no definitive one no one option has really risen to the top like yes that's what will go with just yet we can see them in some level blankets being given basic medical treatment. what else is being done to make them comfortable. yeah they've gotten some food too we know you know as soon as they were found as soon as they could get more divers into their location they brought in gel that's high caloric in high and high energy high caloric and protein to get them back because they had been eating for days and days to get their bodies back into shape and that's always going to take a couple of couple of days before they can really come back and be in physical condition to make this very difficult journey to come back out of the cave we know that now that the seals have a doctor in there with him a nurse and other personnel in there with them all the time so they're not alone

anymore which is something that's very important and the reassurance to to the families who are still here they were hoping that there would be a communication line strong all the way to where the boys are that was the plan overnight but it didn't work all the way they're still working on that so at least the family members and the ground here the people here at the central command if you will for the rescue operation can communicate directly with them that is still ongoing now when you look at this video it's obviously it's refreshing for all of us who've been following this story very very closely over the last ten days eleven days but it's also very refreshing and joyful moment for the family members when they get to see these videos now there's been a couple that have circulated one that came out from the time navy seals has them in the blankets the silver blankets they're getting treated with four wounds on their feet minor wounds looks like i done being rubbed on it but it's also interesting because they're a little bit of a comical moment in a tuesday showing that their spirits are elevated they go around in one of the videos they go around in introduce themselves and give

a traditional thai greeting and you can hear in the background one boy says you forgot me you forgot me there's also been a couple of back and forth with the time navy seals that are light moments obviously they're trying to keep their spirits up but it seems like now for now the boys are getting ready hopefully in physical shape so they can make that journey out just how they'll make that journey though adrian we don't know. scott many thanks to don sisko hyla reporting live from china ryan all the time. jordan and israel are refusing to open their borders to thousands of refugees who fled a government offensive in southern syria the u.n. says that as many as three hundred thirty thousand people have been forced from their homes by the government offensive to recapture the dead of province jordan is sending food and aid supplies but despite a plea from the u.n. it says that its border will remain closed so how to reports now from beirut in neighboring lebanon. jordan israel won't let them in and their towns are battlegrounds these people are trapped in the syrian government offensive and that

our province now into its third week has displaced more than a quarter of a million people according to the united nations some are living in makeshift tents many others out in the open they have little food water or medicine or protection from the heat there is a humanitarian crisis and the united nations is calling on jordan and neighboring countries to open their borders to allow refugees in we recognize that jordan lebanon and turkey have long hosted a large number of refugees particularly from syria since the beginning of the syrian conflict it's been heartening to see many people in these countries doing what they can to call on their governments to keep the border open and to gather food and water for syrian refugees. we call on the jordanian government keep its borders open for other countries in the region to step up and receive the fleeing civilians jordan's leaders say they can't cope with more refugees instead they say

aid is being delivered to them across the border in syria and they say it's up to the u.n. to obtain approval from government leaders in time ask us to allow in supplies to reach our province jordan's foreign minister says the focus should be on preventing more devastation i'll be meeting with the russian foreign minister lover up there for a discussion on how we can work towards a cease fire and create conditions of the ground under which people would feel safe and also discuss the facilitation of the provision of supplies to syria and their country on their land indeed our syrian government troops are advancing with the help of russian airstrikes troops have seized towns and villages under rebel control and through so-called reconciliation deals that involve a return of president bashar assad's rule sixty percent of daraa is now under government control and the offensive is continuing to pressure the remaining rebel held areas to surrender russia has been negotiating on behalf of the syrian

government with rebel factions the opposition says russia is only offering one option they're describing it as a humiliating demand to surrender it involves rebels handing over their weapons and accepting state control opposition activists have told us russia is not offering them the possibility to move to the rebel controlled province of idlib. several rebel commanders fighters in opposition leaders are refusing to reconcile with this state to live under the rule of law they also refused to stay without international security guarantees rebels are hoping for a deal that would make jordan a guarantee of the safety of the civilians negotiations are difficult there into beirut the son of isolated i will back out but daddy has reportedly been killed in the syrian city of homs a statement by the armed groups says that who'd have al buggery was killed in an operation against russian backed syrian government forces mexico's president elect

has met the man whose job he's taking and wreak a venue to to discuss his transition to office in december and as manuel lopez obrador won a landslide victory in sunday's election he says he'll hold a referendum in three years halfway through his presidency to let voters decide if he should stay in power the president of the european commission has asked lawyers to examine a migration deal that germany's chancellor angela merkel has struck with the very end coalition partners the agreement would set up so-called transit camps along germany's border with austria this is where refugees will be screened to see if they've already applied for asylum elsewhere in the e.u. if they have they'll be deported back to the e.u. country they first registered in but that member state would have to agree that austria has already signaled its opposition so far this year around eighteen thousand refugees and migrants that already claimed asylum in another country. well

locals been meeting a sense left coalition of the social democrats to see if they'll accept the migration deal the s.p.d. rejected the idea of transit camps in twenty fifteen and a voiced skepticism about the new agreement. we're going to weather update thanks to you on al-jazeera ben slim pickings how yemenis finding refuge in ethiopia finding very little else. ah. in poland protests controversial new laws could dramatically change the makeup of the country's supreme court. hello there it is drawn and it is pretty hot now across many parts of the middle east in fact in the western parts of the temperatures for some of us soaring nearly

a fifty degrees forty seven or forty eight baghdad further east you see the winds feeding down from the north there pick up a little bit of dust and haze made the sunshine a little bit milky at times and then you can see the showers that we've got as you head up towards kazakstan and a couple of those could turn out to be rather heavy they've been with us for a while and they'll stick around for at least another few days before the towards the south and here in doha we'll see temperatures of around forty one or forty two degrees and that's because it's a little bit humid here at times so it's feeling a bit sticky there's a barrel cloud around over parts of saudi arabia and just stretching down towards oman i don't think it really will give us any rain at all but it will just make the clouds just hidden a little bit and that stretches down into parts of yemen as well as we head through into thursday and friday as we head down towards the southern parts of africa we've been seeing some rather lively weather here lots of cloud just grazing the far south coast and that's been giving us a few problems in cape town well cape town itself hasn't seen a great deal of snow only on table mountain but elsewhere the snow is really being

quite deep these pictures are from cherry farm inches sarah is where clearly the snow has been very very deep indeed it looks like all of that is now over there. how reliable is an eyewitness when you have an eyewitness to say i was there i saw him do it that is the best evidence about thirty percent of the time witness is a real case who pick someone and say yes that's the person determining the plot are wrong these are being falsely accused in costa rica it was something he did not exploring the dark side of american justice the system with job on al-jazeera.

alone again the top stories this hour on al-jazeera malaysia's former prime minister has denied corruption charges over the disappearance of billions of dollars from a state fund while he was in office. was arrested on tuesday and has been granted bail by a court in kuala lumpur he says the legal action is politically motivated. and give videos been shown been released showing a thai football team in good health despite the eleven day ordeal below ground food and medical supplies reach the twelve boys coach but it's not yet known how the group will be brought out. at least eleven people have been killed in an airstrike on a wedding in yemen's northern province the saudi embassy coalition bombed the town of gaza the casualties were mostly women and children the un has verified that two thousand two hundred children have been killed more than three thousand injured

since the conflict began more than three years ago. though the rebels have released a video showing the launch of a surveillance aircraft to monitor saudi emraan backed forces the armed group says it's used this technology to carry out ten operations during the battle for data the coalition stepped up its attacks on the strategic port city last month and the u.n. says a number of yemeni prisoners have been tortured and sexually abused by soldiers at prisons run by the united arab emirates it comes after witnesses provided the associated press with drawings smuggled out of prisons last month the pictures describe a system of sexual torture and abuse the u.n. says it's requested access to the prisons but has not yet been allowed in ibrahim khattab is a yemen analyst based in new york he says there's plenty of evidence around of torture being systematically used in emma rotty run prisons in yemen. the torture by the us united arab emirates forces in yemen and their kidnapping of detainees

and sexual abuse is being well documented by a number of international human rights organizations as well as the associated press so this there will there is strong evidence and clear evidence that the u.a.e. has been committed crimes against yemenis run in secret detention kidnapping people and people who you know oppose their policies in yemen and bringing them to secret detention torture and them sexually abusing them committing all kind of violence against yemenis and so this is this is the time to end that kind of program not only that i think there is an obligation right now toward the yemeni government there is a moral legal and ethical obligation application that the yemeni government should and the bresson's of the united arab emirates and yemen given the these kind of crime a lot of violations are committed by these forces in yemen so it is time to end

their bread and yemen some yemenis fleeing the war saucing new lives in ethiopia officially fifteen hundred have moved but the number could be as high as four thousand one hundred has met some of them in the capital addis ababa. this is the sort of box to talk about discipline is a popular meeting point for human need of jesus. while some have been here from the also took three years ago others have just arrived. eighteen year old abdul hamid arrived just six days ago he told me about the long and difficult from the yemeni city. that there are. i first came to aid in the travel by boat to djibouti before boarding a vehicle for the ethiopian border officials at the border who are respectful they feel government has an open door policy for yemeni refugees like refugees of other

nationalities here they've been allowed to the. us but access to jobs remains a challenge for them as this country of one hundred million people has a huge unemployment problem. but is chairman of the yemeni refugee community and if you. and. we thank the ethiopian people in government for the way they welcomed us we live here like it's our own country this is because of the huge bomb dating back thousands of years between ethiopia and yemen once they cross the border into ethiopia yemeni refugees pass through security and nationality screening procedures before they're just without that they can't get assistance from the un refugee agency. delays over settlement programs to a third country to their hardship plan and then better prices about seventy dollars a month per person it's not enough to live on that rent and the cost of living high

yet many here have little hope it will quickly turn. it into the conflict is a long way of our country is the setting of a proxy war between regional and international powers. but few places in yemen are these safe and so for the refugees this is home for now. a days of up a theory of here in kenya thousands of people are still living in camps two months after heavy rain destroyed their homes the floods killed nearly two hundred people and left more than half a million others homeless. catherine sawyer reports now from the town a river on the kenyan coast. it's hard to imagine now but a few months ago this place was full of holmes farms and villages swept away by the west seen for years in kenya areas along the kenyan coast are most affected. is one of more than sixty thousand people in this region love lost their home since

april he shows us what is left of the house he shared with his wife and eight children who would like to return and rebuild but fears that the nearby river may break its banks again during maureen's due at the end of the year. it's a big drain now but even if a rebuilt a new trains will be flooded again and the river has no barrier so he stays in this camp for displaced people one of a hundred inmates shelters across the region but there's not enough help for everyone but the other challenges the areas accessibility to these some of these areas and we want to leave it in a kenyan suffered because of floods saw one hundred grave and then use a boat and then walk number of kilometers or even used at some point. many villages that are hard to reach remain so marched communities are already struggling to recover from a drought last year this is a dollar village one of the most affected areas in canada revived now by what i

actually needed at the height of the flood we're told it was up to here some people are beginning to come back to their homes to try and rough without but it's also fear of what about. her dad agreed to has just returned from a comp for the displaced she's staying with a neighbor on the edge of her submerged village i just thought one of the camp is congested and so far from here in the bushland at least here i can fend for myself aid workers a doing their best to help did not only dealing with the floods emergency but also trying to prevent an outbreak of waterborne diseases such as cholera and malaria and at the same time preparing for another potential disaster when the rain falls again catherine sorry our dizzier tannery on the kenyan coast doesn't dozens of senior judges have been forced out of their posts in the supreme court in poland after a new law came into effect reducing their retirement age the european union is taking

legal action against the polish government accusing it of undermining the independence of the judiciary they were chasing reports from warsaw. thousands of demonstrators converged on the steps of the supreme court where forty percent of the judges are losing their jobs it was described by the chief justice as a political perch. but the ruling lauren justice party described them as part of a self-serving elite out of touch with ordinary people but testers across the country accuse the government of undermining the constitution with a power grab in the highest sanctum of the law aiming to fill its benches with judges who will bend to their will the spokesman for the supreme court said tragically history was repeating itself in poland turning. back towards the one party state of the communist era. indeed we are seeing a breaking of the principle of the partition of power and then mutual balancing of

the different kinds of power in favor of a uniform state power seeing the entire state from a single center the protest is how one powerful ally on their side though the european commission in brussels they've started legal proceedings which could end with poland being in the dock in the european court of justice but other members of their legal establishment dismissed that move as politically motivated say the fundamental reforms needed after the fall of communism are long overdue then put off that process is this moment of many people not just politicians and judges but most importantly citizens as not been completed. as the protests continued into the night outside the supreme court time and again the protesters chanted the word constitution what is striking about this demonstration on the steps of the thief court is well the majority of voters from the all the generation of hola they're the ones who remember the stifling of human rights and freedoms and democracy under

the congress regime. the government hoped to ride this storm of protests but the opposition say this is the fight they must win for the sake of future generations david chaytor al jazeera warsaw. the international red cross has warned that humanitarian help alone will not solve the ranger refugee crisis it says the political solutions a needed to help the hundreds of thousands of people who fled from myanmar to bangladesh al-jazeera and the jump jim reports now from cox's bazaar where senior u.n. officials have been meeting refugees. the un has been trying to highlight just how vulnerable the population of or hinder refugees here in cox's this are bangladesh remains and where we are here in critical long can this really just highlights it highlights just how dangerous things are for the refugees it's monsoon season cyclons have not begun but look all around us this is what accumulated rainwater

does these steep hills behind the steep muddy hills that most of them lacking vegetation well these huts are built on them when rain waters come means that this landscape is prone for natural disasters for landslides for flooding it's one of the reasons why people are so concerned and i spoke about that concern earlier with united nations high commissioner for refugees the legal grounding he talked about specifically the kind of trauma that they're hit the refugee population has already encountered 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 deep 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. 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 trauma with psychosocial interventions into that we need to address the root causes of these big through and find solutions back in their homes that have to be thinking fundamental for these people to go back to the world bank has announced that they are going to get around five hundred million dollars to the government of bangladesh to assist through him to refugees but the aid workers that i've been speaking with well they say that that's really just a drop in the bucket that this crisis is going to to continue. well that it is severely underfunded and that there are hinder population is going to need a lot more help will the so. we'll.

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