and it won't take long it is basically just a cave fix a saw as you do it them sitting on the sand you put the mosque on they get a feel for it they get an understanding. use a through water column so they understand that they have a communication they can talk to the diver who guides somalia and if there is any problem they can calm him down the governor of chiang mai province says that the trapped thirteen might not all come out at the same time they were value each one and bring them out only when they're ready the u.s. is one of at least six countries assisting the rescue will getting them out is the goal providing food and supplies is critical the assistance portion in the recent finding able to provide supplies to the shoulder and you know it's a very very relevant to the operations that are being conducted and how we're able to support our thai partners in anticipation of that moment everyone at the cave entrance is waiting for rehearsals are being held and when it's not a thai soldier playing a role it's a member of the teenagers move part football club is going to either al jazeera

chiang rai still to come on al-jazeera souls bring finds itself at the center of another poisoning scare into two people or found in a critical condition nearby malaysia's former prime minister pleads not guilty to corruption charges connected to the disappearance of state money. welcome back it's time to look at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia in the east the region we have got some heavy showers still across parts of stan and extending into specky stan but i think for tashkent and our marty weather conditions shouldn't be too bad it's fine around the caspian sea is very warm in baghdad forty seven degrees other parts of iraq pushing the fifty degree mark once again it seems to be most summers now temperatures getting towards that

fifty degree mark fine conditions around the eastern side of the mediterranean but we have got the risk of some showers across the caucuses during the course of friday afternoon here in the arabian pinchers all pretty static at the moment temperatures there in the mid forty's for medina on the other side pincher light winds are certainly some high humidity affecting doha some of forty three more creative change heading on through into friday sniff across into southern portions of africa will weather conditions for the most part are looking good we've got some cloud across the east coast up into mozambique with a chance of some showers but otherwise weather conditions looking dry and fine for the most part not a great deal of changes ahead on through into friday though johannesburg struggling temperature wise highs of just twelve degrees into central parts of africa some big showers across west africa could be a wet one in guinea bissau. a new series of rewind i can bring your people back to life i'm sorry and brand new

updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries the struggle continues book from back to. use distance rewind continues with the return of the lizard king steve shelf and one hundred upwards of two hundred species are going extinct every twenty four hours and a lot of that is attributed to wildlife trafficking rewind on al-jazeera. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera there are reports that russia has resumed their strikes in southern syria after talks broke down between syrian

rebels and russian officers hundreds of thousands of civilians have been forced from their homes by the russian syrian offensive around the iraq iran's revolutionary guard say they're ready to carry out president hassan rouhani threat to disrupt oil exports from the gulf rouhani said the measures could be taken if u.s. sanctions prevent iran from selling oil markets and a new video has been released showing a thai youth football team in good health despite being trapped in a cave for an eleven days experts are assessing how to get them out safely. u.k. police have declared a major incident after two people were found unconscious in a town near seoul's bre where russian russian double agent said gates and his daughter were attacked with a nerve agent in march a man and the woman are in hospital in a critical condition afterward discovered in the town of amesbury in the south west of england on saturday it's around thirteen kilometers from seoul's reword the

script of poisoning took place well al jazeera sunday yo is outside the hospital in salzburg where the two of people are being treated well the police are held a news conference not that long ago what did they have to say. well they did speak about the critical condition that both of the victims appear to be what they did also say was that they are still trying to ascertain exactly what the substance they were exposed to was initially they had thought that they had suffered a drug overdose. tests imply that there was still something that was really not quite right with that situation now book couple as a government source of told us that the couple in there are being tested but also samples are being taken to the military facility porton down just down the road from here very nearby where they have chemical experts who can test for other

agents if they have been exposed to anything which would contain any of that as well but they did also confirm that counterterrorism police are also involved and that it is not yet clear if this is a criminal investigation yet but they are open they are keeping an open mind to it as well on top of this is well on wednesday morning there was a meeting of the government's emergency committee as well no ministers actually attended that meeting but it is an indication that they are taking this very seriously barbara in the meantime of course this has really rankled the nerves of people living around here they've already had months weeks of of drama around salzburg following the poisoning of the script files and of course it's just jumped to the conclusion many people who live around here that this could be another incident like that obviously they're hoping not but it certainly made

a lot of people around here very nervous i bet it has something to go from outside of the hospice is there recently a thank you. there were violent clashes between protesters and police overnight in the french city of after an officer shot dead a twenty two year old driver who was trying to avoid a police checkpoint shops and buildings were set on fire and the protests which have been strongly condemned by the interior minister. the french authorities say prosecutors have opened a judicial investigation police are also launching an internal investigation into the officers actions. the former malaysian prime minister najib razak has been charged with a number of corruption offenses the allegations are in connection to the scandal plagued that state fund one and the b. which he set up while he was in office but the sixty four year old remains the find telling reporters the upcoming trial will be his chance to prove his innocence florence louis reports now from the capital or. not arrived at

the poor high court to answer charges of corruption at criminal to trust which carry a maximum twenty year prison sentence. outside his supporters mostly from the political party he wants light to read not just. the month and he's the former prime minister and party leader who's done a lot for malaysians now that he's facing such trying times i've come here to lend my support to him and his family malaysia's former prime minister pleaded not guilty and off to be released on bail set the case against him is a political vendetta. and they are expected this this is what the new government wants if this is a price i have to pay for my twenty four years of service to the nation and its people i'm willing to pay that price but i hope and pray that the court process will be fair and in accordance with the rule of law i believe in my innocence this

is the best chance i have to clear my name. the court set bail at two hundred fifty thousand dollars and audit not just to surrender his. possible he's accused of using his position as finance minister and prime minister to enrich himself with public funds and transferring ten million dollars into his bank account in two thousand and fourteen and two thousand and fifteen prosecutors say the money came from s.r.c. international a former subsidiary of the state investment fund one m d this case is part of a larger investigation involving one m. d. from which not jim and his associates are alleged to have a four and a half billion dollars let me state the obvious when we use the word want to be when everybody uses the word want to be. it's a it's a shorthand. statement to describe what happened before five years so we'll be able to discrete separate transactions. over four five year period which is the public to me the fraud scandal is also being investigated in

several countries including the us the initial investigation into this case started several years ago but stalled when one ship was prime minister allegations of a cover up have been made since the new government came into power in may it has made recovering money stolen from one and a top priority not tips trial will likely start next year he's the first person linked to the scandal to be prosecuted and is likely to be the last florence. the head of poland supreme court has turned up for work the finding a controversial new retirement law thousands of people rallied outside poland supreme court in warsaw on wednesday in support of chief justice i get itself and the twenty seven other judges also affected by the legislation that the new rules came into effect at midnight and they cut to the retirement age from justices from seventy to sixty five the issue is at the center of

a growing conflict between morsels ruling law and justice party and the european union which accuses poland of trying to gain political control of the judiciary. my presence here is not about politics to make it clear i'm here to protect the rule of law. the u.n. envoy to yemen has expressed optimism after meeting the top leader of the who the rebels in a bid to end the country's devastating civil war at a news conference before leaving sun i airport martin griffith said the rebels expressed a strong desire for peace the u.n. hopes to prevent a full scale coalition assault on the port city of what they do which is a vital lifeline for the country a saudi led coalition allied with president of the rubble months who had these internationally recognized government has been at war with the who these since two thousand and fifteen all marching griffiths says talks with a rebel leader aware positive. all parties of not only underscore

their strong desire for peace but the gauge with me on concrete ideas for achieving peace i will brief the security council on the outcomes of my discussions both here in sun up and last week in. my talks with the parties will continue in the coming days and i will hope to see very soon. president months of what the. so a lot of optimism but peace is still a long way away and some yemenis fleeing the war are starting new lives in ethiopia officially fifteen hundred have there but the number could be as high as four thousand mohamad though met some of them in the capital addis ababa. this restaurant on a box to talk about it is a popular meeting point for humanity yes. well some have been here from the onset of the war three years ago just arrived. eighteen year old abdul hamid

shirty arrived just six days ago he told me about the long and difficult is from the yemeni city. and then. he would see. 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 were respectful they've european government has an open door policy for your many 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 here. 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 performance 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 are 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 their prices about seventy dollars a month per person that'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. nine businessmen and government officials have been charged with manslaughter by kenya's top prosecutor for their. volved meant in

a down burst nearly fifty people were killed in the dam when the dam in so law in northern kenya failed kenya is that right to have public prosecution said in a statement that his office is preparing for the men to answer charges in court. a heatwave has killed six people in the canadian city of montreal the hot weather is also being felt in the u.s. were dry winds are fanning a wildfire that's been burning in northern california since saturday the fire has blackened more than twenty thousand hectares of grass bush and then scrub another wildfire near salt lake city in utah has forced to evacuate several hundred homes. as the north korean regime looks to improve its relationship with the u.s. an area of china that borders and north korea is experiencing a property boom investors are positioning themselves now in the hope that sanctions on pyongyang will be completely lifted and that could mean a big payday for china's than dong region from where bride now reports.

carrying much of the trade that keeps north korea going the friendship bridge is a good barometer of the state of relations with china. and the bridge remains busy despite sanctions there is speculation china is now more relaxed about imposing them given the easing of tensions. and another indicator of business picking up north korean restaurants in dung dong which closed only a few months ago have reopened and i think people are optimistic that once the sanctions are dropped they want to be really well rooted in. michael spader is a business consultant who has just made dandong his base he's an intermediary helping people do business in north korea we've got a lot more interest from chambers of commerce from investment groups to look at the situation and introduce people there's also a lot of interest on the north korean side we're receiving faxes and mails the

north koreans are looking for new business partners here as well so the mood is very optimistic right now right across from his apartment is a new luxury development despite its prime location when we visited it last year property sales weren't booming now most of the apartments have apparently been sold for twice as much as the original asking price property prices have gone up and down as the korean peninsula has veered between the prospects of war and peace and right now prices are surging so much so the local government has imposed restrictions to try to cool the markets. commercial property sales are also booming eighty percent of units have already been sold in this new development that could be home to traders from both sides of the border if sanctions are lifted from . best position to become

a trade hub for north east. asia is being isolated. while there's been extensive development on the chinese side of the river the north korean side remains largely undeveloped but a recent visit by north korean leader kim jong un to potential development sites has led to speculation the top to so many false starts this whole border area north and south is about to take off but last robert broad al-jazeera. area wind of the top stories on al-jazeera there are reports that russia has resumed their strikes in southern syria after talks broke down between syrian rebels and russian officers hundreds of thousands of civilians have been forced from their homes by the government offensive there jordan's foreign minister has

warned of an impending humanitarian catastrophe iran is threatening to stop all oil exports from leaving the gulf the iranian president hassan rouhani said the measures could be taken if u.s. sanctions prevent iran from selling oil on global markets and the senior iranian revolutionary guards commander says that they're ready to implement the policy if needed. now as the americans have claims they want to completely stop iran's oil exports they don't understand the meaning of this statement because it has no meaning for a rainy an oil law to be exported while the region's oil is exported assuming that iran could become the only oil producer on able to export its oil is a wrong assumption that the united states will never be able to quote iran's oil revenues. you video has been released showing a tiny youth football team in good health despite being trapped in a cave for eleven days rescue teams are now giving them crash courses in swimming

and diving while experts assess conditions for getting them out safely the former malaysian prime minister najib razak has pled not guilty to a number of corruption offenses there in connection to billions of dollars missing from a state investment fund that he set up. the un envoy to yemen has expressed optimism after meeting the leader of the who's the rebels in an attempt to end the country's devastating civil war martin griffiths says all sides expressed a strong desire for peace talks in the capital the un hopes to prevent a full scale coalition assault on the port city of a day that the city is a vital aid lifeline for the country. u.k. police have declared a major incident after two people were found unconscious in a town near saul's bree where russian double agent was attacked with a nerve agent in march a man and a woman are in hospital in critical condition or those are the headlines and are

going to have one of those stories on the al-jazeera news hour that's coming up in just around half an hour from now stay with us though coming up next inside story thanks for watching. he first lost an election he was barred from leaving the country then he was arrested now the foreman lazy and prime minister has been charged with corruption and for us access the new government is seeking vengeance is politics involved in this trial this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm peter dobby not cheap ransack was malaysia's prime minister until two months ago today he is a political out cost trying to avoid being sent to prison for a long time in the jeep's the first person to appear in court in connection with the one m.t.b. scandal and the disappearance of four billion dollars of taxpayers' money he's pleading not guilty we'll get to our guests in just a moment but first florence louis sets up a discussion. i. arrived at the college of paul high court to want such charges of corruption at criminal to trust which carry a maximum twenty year prison sentence i. doubt side his supporters mostly from the political party who wants light to free not to run in the middle of the month and he's the former prime minister and party leader who's done a lot for malaysians now that he's facing such trying times i've come here to lend

my support to him and his family malaysia's former prime minister pleaded not guilty and off to be released on bail set the case against him is a political vendetta so. i expected this this is what the new government wants if this is a price i have to pay for my twenty four years of service to the nation and its people i'm willing to pay that price but i hope and pray that the court process will be fair and in accordance with the rule of law i believe in my innocence this is the best chance i have to clear my name. the court set bail at two hundred fifty thousand dollars and audit not just to surrender his passport he's accused of using his position as finance minister and prime minister to enrich himself with public funds and transferring ten million dollars into his bank account in two thousand and fourteen and two thousand and fifty prosecutors say the money came from s.r.c. international a form a subsidiary of the state investment fund one and. this case is part of

a larger investigation involving one m. d. from which not jim and his associates are alleged to have a four and a half billion dollars let me state the obvious when we use the word want to believe anybody who says they would want him to be. it's a shame it's a shorthand. statement to describe what happened over four five years so there were discrete separate transactions. over a four five one four five year period. which is the public domain the fraud scandal is also being investigated in several countries including the us the initial investigation into this case started several years ago but stalled when not yet with prime minister allegations of a cover up have been made since the new government came into power in may it has made recovering money stolen from one end to be a top priority not chips trial will likely starting next year he's the first person

linked to the scandal to be prosecuted and is likely to be the last florence lee al-jazeera reporter. well as florence was mentioning there the scandals being talked about for years started the one m.t.b. fund in two thousand and nine to invest taxpayers' money and strength from the malays in economy four billion dollars disappeared from the fund six years later not cheap explained that almost seven hundred million transferred into his personal bank account was a donation from the saudi royal family which in the main returned u.s. investigators say no jeep and his family spent the government money on themselves including funding hollywood movies such as the wolf of wall street's the oscar winner about corporate greed at least six countries are investigating the one m.t.b. fund fraud ok let's bring in our guests joining us today from kuala lumpur is bridget welsh an associate professor of political sciences at the john cabot university and

the author of regime resilience in malaysia and singapore from london lee jones he's a reader of international politics at queen mary university of london and also from kuala lumpur on skype is ibra himself ian executive director of the deca center for opinion research welcome to you all bridget wells coming to you first is this about transparency or is it a witch hunt. i think it's definitely about transparency but it's more than that it's about moving malaysia in a different direction and reckoning with the past whatever the scandal the wanting to be scandal has been so significant in terms of the financial situation for the country its reputation this this new government wants to move beyond that and in order to do that it has to reckon with the former prime minister and what he is perceived to have done and his management of the finances of the country and lee jones in london what does this say about the track that democracy in malaysia has

taken say over the last political generation. well i think it very much depends on how far the net is cast because that somehow to himself presided over the creation of a highly corrupt political economy with very strong ties between the rooting politicians of and the mill a business elite and it's ironic that his own protege then turns into the the most corrupt kleptocrat it will remain to be seen whether this anti corruption purge will just stop with the g. and his close associates or will really go further and start to dismantle malaysia system of crony capitalism if it does go further and the system starts to be dismantled we can expect serious resistance and political conflict but that will enable genuine democracy to take root in malaysia in a way that simply dealing with jeep and his intimate circle will not. ever himself and also in kuala lumpur might see

a mohammad wants to completely and utterly eradicate corruption from both the financial sector in malaysia and also the political sector and the space that those two entities occupy if you will can it be done well i think today's events ensuring that that you'd rather be in charge for corruption things that than the going to be used as a stepping stone towards pushing for for the reforms indeed i think what has happened is immediately budget for the public to see a former prime minister be charged for corruption but i think what we shall see in the days to come is whether or not the integrity of the institutions that will be used in this process such as the courts anti-corruption agency and little on the police has really. sure and the changes that mahathir intends to embark on his country that i think what we have seen today is beginnings of

a first step but it is a large organization the rot that has happened in malaysia has happened for many decades it is going to treat their mendis effort to try and up through these things but i think there is an element of being hopeful because what that of the things that has come out from the new government appears to sure indication and willingness to embark on some of the serious reforms notwithstanding the fact that many of the activists themselves. indicate that or alleged to have governance or integrity issues themselves in the bus the a theory have amended and they have to fulfill this if they are to remain in power but it just impact this for us the next minute or so when when abraham is talking about serious reforms one of those reforms surely has to be the the system of patronage but it's very difficult. have nailed down and define who it's is when you go shifting political

allegiances the go so far back sixty years we're talking about. well patronage here in malaysia is very inventive as it is in many parts of southeast asia in the world globally and what makes it unique here is that the economy is so tied up with government contracts government spending and the business community is in gauged in winning these contracts so it's not just the politicians it's actually economic system and in order to bring about a shift in patronage it's going to be it's going to be more fundamental in the society and that it has to change practices the key steps however begin focusing on the political arena and in order to do that you have to actually bring in some new tougher laws and you have to implement those laws and in very significant ways and that means changing the actors that are involved and as as ben was just mentioning the issues of the courts the issues of the police and so forth and it also involves

restructuring the economy which is one of the things that the government is trying to do it as it's beginning a different transformation process and this is very difficult because it's not just the embedded practices that exist within the system it's also moving the economy into a much more competitive open more transparent system that involves tenders and reduces much of the graph that exist within the system so it is a huge task but it is a task i think that the they are aware of and they are making important steps in that direction today's charging era and yesterday's arrests are some of an indication that those at the very top will be held accountable and now it's set a new standard for malaysia in the sense that now any politician accountable so it puts a weight on the new burden on the new government we are expecting in the next few weeks when parliament starts in july sixteenth. that we're going to see new legislation introduced as

a result of the reform committee that has been ongoing and these are probably going to introduce some of the institutional measures that others are speaking about but the the steps in terms of changing the norms and changing the political economy are going to be really challenging and they're going to have to involve a much longer process there is a gang order in place as of about five or six hours ago so maybe we should all be a bit circumspect when it comes to discussing the nitty gritty of what went on in the court today but really what's your opinion on how widespread these allegations of corruption i mean how far does it go it crosses international boundaries and borders. of the system is rotten from the very top to the very bottom. the difficulties bridge outlines very well it's entrenched in the political economy and it's a political economy that as i said mattie himself had a key role in creating with a new economic policy of the nineteen eighties so it's not just about shuffling some personnel around introducing new laws it's about taking on vested interests

and extremely powerful gox the sad fact of the matter is that anywhere in southeast asia we've not seen serious reforms take place after significant regime change the the oligarchs that built up their wealth and power under previous administrations have always found ways to defend that wealth and power and influence after the transition so the idea that any politician is now liable to be charged with anti corruption measures i think is is fanciful. for example the former chief minister of sarawak who ruled sarawak for twenty three years and is thought to be potentially malaysia's richest man as a result of his corruption is a key ally of mahathir mohammed and there were many files open on him with the anti corruption commission but no action is being taken against him i don't expect this anti corruption purge to go the whole way because the whole system is rotten if you start picking up one thread we don't really know where that will end it will become

very difficult to rule malaysia cyc specter of divide and rule strategy that will not actually challenge the fundamentals of malaysian political economy even if the things do get substantially cleaned up and we get a bit better gov governance than the development scandal which was supposed to lead to four point five billion dollars being embezzled coming to you and again not talking about specifics to do with what's going on in the court yesterday and today but i mean is this the perfect coming together or is this the. perfect storm of international political corruption because it occurs to me you've got politics you've got race based politics you've got religion based politics and then you have a situation where and this was fact this is established everyone knows this the saudis gave him i think six hundred eighty one million for no obvious reason it goes into his personal bank account he returns most of it what did the saudis think

they were going to get from that i mean these are things that remain n.p.o. because for the longest period of time the story about how this six hundred eighty within us that appeared in his account change. from time to time and eventually settle on that it was a donation from the saudis i think as the investigations and charges expense what we saw today just charges involving about slightly over ten million dollars. from a subsidiary of the one m.t.b. but i thing in the weeks and months to come we agreed to see further charges laid against a prime minister and former prime minister and potentially other individuals i think it will shed light on. that particular transaction and render it was a saudi donation to begin with so i think there's a lot of skepticism over the former government's version of events and stories and

i think the court process i think will shed some light indention we hope that it doesn't end year i also i think acknowledge that there is a limit to how far. up individuals will be brought to justice in this so-called new malaysia because i think the government right now and needs and lies in order to pass bills in parliament and needs to maintain some kind of stability as it moves forward by the hope is that some of the reforms that leave in tears to put in place and there has been some positive news in the last few days that's within p.j. it is such as the anti-corruption it is he is no longer reporting to the prime minister but reporting to probably meant that all of this mosque depp's evented it doesn't it do better governance than before we're not expecting sea change but we are expecting substantive gradual improvements in the state or governance and rule of law in the country let's kick this forward

a little bit of the next ten minutes or so bridget welch also in kuala lumpur how do they manage to do this because when he was in charge one of the allegations one of the historical allegations levelled at him was that he played fast and loose with the stock market so it went up in a very short term way if we fast forward from then to today you've got national debt running at fifty four percent of g.d.p. that's clearly unsustainable there is no there is not an obvious pots of money to plug that hole and the chinese who've signed up to a lot of promised investment shortly they're going to walk away at least in the short term. well i think that what you're looking at is a situation where this government is looking forward as opposed to looking back and i think lee is correct that many of the past grievances and many of the can skin cern's about corruption involving tibe involving namatjira locations and much here and even anwar and others in the system are things that are probably not going to

be investigated in the way that people many people would like. but i think that the focus is actually to concentrate on building checks and balances within current institutions and to to create a system where it becomes much more difficult to engage in the graft that has been so excessive or perceived to be so excessive under the previous administration and so i think these are the steps that people are focusing on and there and i and i think that they have been. well small from the perspective of individually collectively you know you're looking at less than two months and government and you've seen you know empowerment of local agencies you've seen moving forward in terms of. allegations and the one m. to be scandal is actually extraordinarily big and it's going to involve much

more i would say more charges and more assessments that are going to actually put continue to put this on the stage for many years to come i mean this is a process that's going to be extensive so i think that there are these these shifts that are taking place and what's really important to understand is that the driver of this is actually the public. there is this significant drive and call and call for a greater accountability and this has been in the system. since the ninety's almost every election has been about reform and now you have a situation where there's been a turnover and there's that expectation and this is going to put pressure on the new government to make some sort of substantive ships it's not going to be as as extensive from the perspective of the past but i think we're looking malaysians are

looking towards the future and looking towards the present and making it something that they can be prouder of and to stop some of the excesses that have happened so far the germans in london no place for dirty money that's a direct quote from doximity when he was in the run up to the election that he won two points very briefly because we're almost out of time why did he win the election so convincingly and on top of that he accused his opponent of institutionalizing corruption he was in the room at the time he was part of the same system so if they're getting rid of the old or so they replacing it with out was the old in with the old surely. well that is part of the problem i mean there are new people coming into the system it is a new coalition government it's not simply about mahathir he's the figurehead he's a very important person but there are new political parties that are reformist that do want to dismantle elements of the political economy system that he helped create and i think he understands that there were many negative by products two to that

and there are some departures i mean what you said a moment ago china wanting to walk away i don't think that's the case at all it's more the other way around here is much more cautious about chinese investment in the country so many of the mega projects that were signed and in the jeep as part of china's one belt one road or belt road initiative. extremely overpriced and there are many allegations of corruption swirling around those as well and he has ordered a review of these projects so the east coast main line railway system for example has been suspended pending a review in an attempt to suppress the costs so i think he will generally review those kinds of investments and try to cut the costs to malaysia renegotiate them with china and china will be quite keen to push ahead as long as it can it's state owned enterprises can still make money out of it so there will be some changes i think we were all agreed that they may not be as revolutionary in radical as people

might like and why did he wind well it's partly due to very long term changes in the mill a population in particular the government always relied on the support of the of the mill a majority in malaysia and that population is very much changed over time thanks to malaysia's cap of this development become much more urbanized much more educated and those people have started to break away from and even in the rural areas the people have started to realise in some cases that they don't really benefit very much from the rule the money's all being funneled to. a small tight knit group of oligarchy so essentially what the opposition is. able to do was prize away a significant part of the mill a vote and without that without the the vast bulk of molay vote no could simply not win anymore it's interesting to see that is now doubling down on the malays vote and malaysia racism and chauvinism essentially which may well consign it to electoral oblivion at least in the short to medium term so there are significant

changes ahead and the result was quite stunning it was unexpected by almost anybody i spoke to at the time. but i want to get a couple of final thoughts from abraham and from bridget as well ibra him in kuala lumpur i mean clearly this trial that we don't know how long the sentence is going to be we don't know what that will what form that will take. it is symbolic clearly but how long until malaysia is fiscally and politically clean well i think it's going to be a fairly long process because the new government is just barely started its initial steps i think this trial is symbolic in this says that it is an attempt to breed for the best and this is significant in a conservative and somewhat feudal society that has always looked up to leaders and absolves leaders of russia and bet practices on this is a clear device you know from the vice i think what remains now is to strengthen the

confidence of the malaysian by the month that so much reform that the institutions that are now taking the charge for seeding with the judicial process and in any should do that cleaning up. government and public finances be done in a way that encourages this confidence to continue at this moment the malaysian government new government the new administration has sizable political good weave that it has won in relatively short period of time by the initiatives that they have embarked rigidly we're going to reassure him brigitte last point to you is this something here that the politicians are aware of please in about thirty seconds that the voters patients with their political masters it has an expiration date on it unless the they are seen to improve this they will want to go someplace else i think that the politicians are quite aware that they have a

a short period of time might hear yourself being a being now ninety one years old also has a short clock in terms of the fact that he's a man in a hurry but it's not just about reform it's also about improving the economy and making men addressing some of the social problems in the society i think they have a new government has a whole series of tasks on their plate and these are interrelated and i expect they're conscious of that and they are trying to very hard to work towards that out with considerable resistance given the fact that this is very that the challenges are very deeply embedded and we will have to draw our discussion to a close thanks to all our guests bridget welsh lee jones and ibrahim sophie and thank you to you too for watching you can see the show again any time by going to the website as your dot com and for further discussion do check out our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter handle a.j. inside story for me peter doherty and the entire team here in doha will see you

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a humanitarian catastrophe on syria's border with jordan and israel as talks to end the fighting in their raw break down. rescue teams start giving crash courses in swimming and diving to the twelve schoolboys trapped in a cave with their coach and finds itself at the center of another suspected poisoning after two people were found in a critical condition. and on plan a how much with all the schools including the latest from wimbledon for roger federer remains on calls for his ninth title as he puts his place in the third round at the old england club. we start the program with reports that russia has resumed the airstrikes in southern syria after talks broke down between rebels and russian officers that's the spy jordan's foreign minister calling for

a cease fire soonest possible to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe hundreds of thousands of civilians have been forced from their homes by the russian syrian offensive they're saying one hundred has more now from beirut in neighboring lebanon. these people move to the border areas to escape the fighting in a province but they also fear the syrian government who considers them terrorists for being involved in opposition activities among them army defectors activists and employees of rebel run administrations at least for now returning to their towns and villages that have fallen under state rule is not an option. people are. afraid there will be reprisals retaliation and even executioners this is why they are asking that any deal is guaranteed by a regional power like a jordan or another iraq cultural or international guarantees from there. the opposition has little cards to play they have lost ground and abandoned by their

allies but they hope to improve their bargaining position by continuing to resist the government attempts to recapture the remaining rebel areas in. jordan has been mediating its foreign minister ivanov suffered the went to moscow for talks with his russian counterpart sergei lavrov about how to implement a settlement in south syria after rebel surrender their areas and. look at the situation in the south of syria with strong concern to believe that the fundamental goal is to resolve this crisis through a political process so i would like to begin with a cease fire and then proceed to solving the question that would help to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe in this area but it's clear that it is absolutely unrealistic to iran to withdraw from syria and that it won't be possible to solve the problems of the region without the participation of key countries including iran saudi arabia jordan egypt and many others there is no trust between the

opposition and the government. we have seen this happen in the past regime and to design area either through talks or first they take revenge against the opposition particularly is the videos this happened in east and there were arbitrary arrests many men arrested we heard of mass executions rebel say they are ready to lay down their heavy weapons but president bashar assad's forces and their allies should not be allowed to enter rebel held town the opposition is also demanding government forces withdraw from recently captured towns it also wants state institutions and rebel held areas to be managed by the local poppy. lation which will create their own military force to secure the area these conditions are unlikely to be accepted by the syrian government which wants to regain sovereignty in the southern corner of the country there are also demands for jordanian or a wider arab military presence in the area that too is unlikely to be welcomed by

to mask this with so many players involved it's proving difficult to reach a deal to end the fighting. beirut where the fighting continues as we were hearing in both jordan and israel are refusing to open their borders to the many syrians trying to escape the offensive we have correspondents on both sides both orders in a moment we're going to hear from charles stratford in these really occupied golan heights first though this from bernard smith at the job they're crossing on the jordan syria border. sound of exploding tank shells and tank fire is being heard again coming from the syrian side of the border an indication that the talks have indeed broken down as it is an end to the cease fire the rebel group says because of an insistence by the russians the rebel groups hand over their heavy weapons however it was understood earlier on that one of the conditions the rebel groups lay down was that they were willing to give up their heavy weapons if the syrian regime forces left at areas they'd recently taken control of and allowed

a greater role for the russian military in policing areas that the rebel groups surrendered to regime control or russian military control however it seems that whatever was being discussed will however though follows talks progress they've now broken down the rebel groups say there are no plans for no date or no plans for any new talks or though jordan we can be assured will be trying to get those talks restarted as soon as possible because as a consequence of those talks breaking down will be yet more refugees heading to the jordan border heading to the border with jordan and evolving and deepening refugee crisis for the joe danial part is to try and deal with. well you can see there on the horizon is one of a number of makeshift camps that have appeared in this area in the last couple of weeks since the syrian government offensive started in their uncouth nature and up

there are is around ten kilometers in that direction certainly this morning we heard what certainly sounded like strikes coming from that area the israeli government here have said that they will not open these borders to refute g.'s but it is also said that it will continue she managed here in assistance where necessary prime minister netanyahu saying that israel will react to any threats to its sovereignty the israeli military has reinforced troops in this area in the last few days reinforcements for the two hundred tents division we understand of course this area is very sensitive it having been occupied by israel in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven the big concern for israel here is one of security of special concern is the presence of iranian forces so close to its border as we understood we know that in may israel struck using as strikes a number of iranian military installations inside syria so there are huge concerns

with respect to security here for israel as this crisis continues and as the fighting goes on in this area i think it's fairly safe to say that we could expect to see even more people coming to these camps along this border iran's revolutionary guard say they're ready to carry out president hassan rouhani says threat to disrupt oil exports from the gulf rouhani said the measures could be taking a few less sanctions preventing iran from selling oil on global markets the u.s. pulled out of the iran nuclear deal in may in a sense told countries they must stop all imports of iranian oil from the vendor or face financial penalties. as the americans have claims they want to completely stop iran's oil exports they don't understand the meaning of this statement because it has no meaning for a rainy and oil law to be exported while the region's oil is exported assuming that

iran could become the only oil producer on able to export its oil is a wrong assumption the united states will never be able to quote iran's oil revenues. well for more on this so we're joined by matt one of the charlotte jazeera senior political analyst in the studio with me marwan strong words there from president rouhani perhaps some of the strongest that we've seen since the u.s. pulled out of the deal he's meeting the europeans on friday so what do you make of the timing of this announcement was it directed at just that the u.s. or a lot of the other countries and companies that are feeling pressure from the u.s. well for the time being i think the iranian president is trying to deter. the american president from continuing to escalate the threats against iran when it began with pulling out of the nuclear deal than imposing sanctions on iran and then threatening secondary sanction against iran which draws in the europeans the japanese and others who have economic relations with iran of course the european

partners russia and china are upset with the american administration because they still believe the nuclear deal is a good deal and if anything extra that needs to be done then it will be done in addition to the nuclear that least that's what the french president if you remember that was his way of mediating if you will between the two to be honest with you barbara i don't think for the meeting is going to be key for breaking the deadlock if you will i think that we'll probably have to wait till july sixteenth when president trump meets with president putin because i think that relationship is much more. politically close between moscow and to her on of this point in time where i think the iranians are going to need those kinds of guarantees to deal with the americans i mean obviously when putin and president trump meet they will have an awful lot to talk about a lot of have to do with the region with the middle east them how important do you

think it is for for putin to put forward the ukrainian case if you will or at least try to put pressure that. on the us there's a there are a lot of of course issues to be discussed but i think the middle east will will figure out in a major way in a trump putin summit there are three scenarios to this barbara a favored american scenario is that russia joins the united states in slapping iran with sanctions squeezing iran and basically forcing regime change into iran that will be trumps favorite scenario there is an iranian favored scenario which is that russia towards america forget it you're not dependable any way we have close relations with iran with turkey in syria and hence we as russia we will continue to expand a war zone of influence and no thank you mr trump and then there is a russia favorite scenario which i really believe coming to believe that it is the more plausible one where russia plays its all cold war cards by saying look this is

my zone of interest as it is yours you have your clients so would you arabia israel's all so forth i have my own clients the iranian regime syria and others i can guarantee they will act accordingly if you can get your people israel and saudi arabia would also act accordingly i'm not sure to her i will go along but certainly if the escalation continues to her and will need russia this might involve certain compromises in syria this might involve certain compromises in iraq but certainly the way forward will involve it russia american deal whereby iran would feel more comfortable that russia can guarantee that the united states does not escalate any further selling or be a fascinating summit between putin and trump and this just another added element to it and i want to share a thank you new video has.