interior minister is heading to vienna to try and get the support of the austrian chancellor dominic cain has more from berlin. of this week in parliament on wednesday anglo-american went on german television and in an interview she gave more detail about the sort of shape the plans for migration detention centers might take the crux of this is establishing a way in the the person concerned that the migrant the person being detained first claimed asylum feel forages here in germany would have forty eight hours to hold that person and if they can't establish which country to send that person's back to in that period of time the detainee will then be sent to a place where they can they're not going to be held against their will separately to that we received information that suggests that mr minister is a whore for from the christian social union he's talking about three centers that are already federal police headquarters or bases where these detainees might temporarily be held remember all of this will be contingent on getting support from

the social democrats who are the main partners to angela merkel's christian democrats in the grand coalition so the meeting on thursday where all this will be thrashed out will be pivotal in establishing whether this compromise solution between the two conservative parties in the coalition will actually then go on to be a settled policy of the grand coalition john tesh will break here in al-jazeera when we come back zimbabwe's army helped opposed robert mugabe now it's making a major promise ahead of the country's elections. of our exclusive interview with malaysia's prime minister marty mohamad on the stay with us. how the heat wave continues across west of your more hot sunshine humid conditions as well but we also got some rather lively showers in place you can see the still china storms just spilling out of the bay of biscay rolling across the far north as

pain just extending into southern areas of france. pushing across the alps northern parts of italy seen some very lively shall was recently state of the type which is the very warm rain then temps getting up to twenty seven celsius and passion just about because life will pass bush by the north looking good once again for the tennis twenty eight celsius in london thirty degrees in madrid coming to a deposit feel a lot of dry weather here but i have it's was the far east of europe average that west is out of russia we've got some wet weather in the full cost over the next couple days and temperatures here into the low twenty's more big and foundry downpours and by the time we come to friday was to extend back down towards more than pasta the balkans and still continuing that across a good part of switzerland could touch twenty nine degrees in london thirty and paris hotter still for madrid and you might push across the mediterranean hostile of course we're talking forty celsius in shoot is much of north africa looking very hot dry cheetahs cools off

a touch by friday with the top temperature than the thirty four degrees.

welcome back a recap of the top stories here on al-jazeera the syrian government and its ally russia are intensifying their bombing campaign in southern province according to opposition reports they say the number of air strikes increased over talks with rebels ended without an agreement. british police say two people critically ill in southern england have been exposed to the nerve agent is the same substance used to poison the russian double agent. and his daughter and saul's brain march latest incident happened in the neighboring village of amesbury. and rescuers in northern thailand are in a race against time to pump water from a flooded cave where youth football team has been trapped now for twelve days heavy rains forecast for the weekend could mean the twelve boys in the coach will have to dive into the water using scuba gear to make their way out. zimbabwe's military commanders are hoping to convince voters there remain neutral in elections planned for the end of the month the army was instrumental in unseating robert mugabe eight

months ago since then officers have taken up keep posts in the electoral commission has more from harare. joining robert mugabe's rule i mean come on the support is really a party and the military vowed not to allow the opposition to take over the army which forced to resign last november say this year things are going to be different defense forces is not directed in the upcoming election. our role in the elections is mainly to support the zimbabwe public release in their role of maintenance of roi in order in the country before during and after the elections previous elections jima got israel were often marred by violence voter intimidation and fraud opposition leaders often said security forces were involved allegations denied by the commanders without nelson chamisa who leads the

opposition m.d.c. alliance is concerned about for tricking and intimidation we are ready to prove as people alledge where we have problems with certain people who are problem us quote i ding is the army it could be that is not the army but they must be able to then move those people out so that they are not in the rural areas just yesterday in there they are people we must get out of the soldiers. human rights workers say they are also concerned about the army's policy at least fifteen percent of the electoral commission the secretariat. all former military officials. the military. by removing. shows from. some political analysts say the july polls will be a battle between the old guard of the one nine hundred seventy s. independence war and the younger generation these are the first elections will be on the ballot since eighty more than five million people have registered to vote if

no single presidential candidate with an outright majority there will be a runoff in september the army says it will respect the constitution even if the opposition wins the man replacing president. promises these elections will be free and credible. a criminal investigation into the activities of a former prime minister in malaysia has gripped the nation now she is accused of corruption involved in the disappearance of billions of dollars of taxpayers' money he says he's not guilty and says the case is politically motivated. as been interviewing the current malaysian prime minister mahathir mohamad and joins me live from kuala lumpur. when i was the world's oldest head of state he's now back for a second term as prime minister how worried is he about the malaysian economy and endemic corruption in the country. well down remember my head here is the person who's been credited with transforming malaysia when he was prime minister the first

time around its entry making gets one of the asian tiger economies we saw a huge rise in the value of the currency massive projects the patrollers twin towers and the creation of or manufacturing of their own car is one of. several other developments in the industries obviously since he's left there has been a lot of corruption that has taken place in fact in his final years there was accusations as well he said that the reason why he's come back into politics is because that corruption has gone so far it's actually threaten the stability of the country and its future and we asked him about some of the accusations that have been leveled against him like interference in the judicial system and the separation of politics from the justice system here's some of what he had to say. the attorney general has good enough evidence to decide to go to the cause the law must see its costs and e.g. fines they shouldn't have it is. eggs to be sure. and

he takes the decision. so this is a complete separation here between your role in terms of politics and the drew destry in the way in which the legal process is taking place well when they came back one of or promises was that we will honor the preacher no power will be thinned. if exact defended you dish it so i cannot interfere. with what he wants to do aside from the corruption there is a more dangerous issue which is foreign interference in malaysian politics if we are to say that the money did come from a saudi royal who gave it to him for his election campaign then saudi arabia is funding your political parties which is something that i'm not sure malaysians would be happy about of a foreign country dictating who becomes prime minister and if he's not telling the truth then also saudi arabia is interfering because they're allowing him to use their name to cover up the trucks often puzzlement we disappoint in that. as

not denying that the money was given by saudi. at one time he claims one but person and then he is so deal and all that but he has no proof of these so we can accuse saudi arabia unless of course there is proof that as in fake try to interfere in politics. of course that last part there daryn was in reference to the defense that the former prime minister najib razak has been using which was claiming that those hundreds of millions of dollars that were found in his accounts were sourced back to a gift from the saudi royal family now prime minister mahathir also spoke about one of the more interesting topics as well that is his relationship with anwar ibrahim and were brought him to remind our viewers was the deputy prime minister when there

was first in power a couple or the first time round he actually imprisoned him after allegedly uncovered corruption within. the government this since being a reproach more on this new alliance between the one time and eyes then follows and now again allies and that's what paved the way for this new change of government here in malaysia and it's really significant because it is the first time since malaysian independence that this government is not being led by the dominants party that you. know the united nation national organization which been ruling malaysia since its independence part of that deal was that. would secure hard for and harbor him and within two years hand over power to him now my head serious ninety three celebrates his ninety third birthday next year week he says that he is committed to

handing over that power and this is something that it's been very interesting to see that journey in this elder statesman as life but also more importantly this journey in political transition which is taking place in malaysia. throughout the past couple of weeks and months all right jamal a child in kuala lumpur jamal thank you and you can watch the entire interview with martin mohamad on saturday at zero four thirty g.m.t. right here on talk to our jazeera. now kenya's top prosecutor has charged nine people with manslaughter of a dam collapse in may at least forty seven people died when the dam in a crude county failed to managers of the commercial farm where the dam was located had been charged as well as county leaders and officials from the water and environment management agencies police in saudi arabia arrested two men for ason after a woman's car was set on fire the owner says a car was deliberately set alight by men opposed to women drivers she says she faced abuse from the men in the neighborhood soon after receiving her license last

week the kingdom overturned the decades long ban on female drivers the chairman of korean air whose family has been at the center of a series of scandals in court in the capital so a ruling is expected on an arrest warrant for sixty nine year old cho young though he suspected of tax evasion and embezzlement a court last month rejected a request to arrest cho's wife on charges including assaulting workers. britain's prime minister has laid out a new post bragg's customs plan that would allow it to set at sound tower of some imports under the new deal the u.k. would use technology to see if goods were destined for britain or the e.u. before charges were applied but on friday the british government will try to resolve differences in a brags that during talks that are mainly focused on irish border issues reports. on the irish border it is currently impossible to tell where one country ends and another begins as the tarmac changes course this is the scenario the second drive

around here and you can see why people worry about a return to the past the british government's bland assurances that it'll all be ok off the brics states mean nothing to declan was when there was a hard border you couldn't drive these roads at all or most of these border roads were actually creator or closed off which makes better spikes that people couldn't get from. their owners a neighbor station there in their daughter say sure their farm such was life in crossing the glen whether for the peace process british soldiers dead no war really entered by helicopter do you think that the business community north i'm sorry is doing an off the face against back to these teenagers from colleges either side of the border know nothing of those days seoul south want to keep it that way are there leverage the ballots of free movement already of free communication they have taken full advantage of that to their credit and they are filled with ambition and

they're like pious they are international in their perspective america want to be constrained by always angry middle aged largely. plus an hour away you can see northern ireland from carlingford the border splits the day. told me who runs the water sports here really wants to know if the happy atmosphere will be punctured by customs posts and travel restrictions absolutely no answers and we're left in the dark looks at things there is govern themselves seem to be in the dark about how they're going to manage things and that in the south as worrying i can understand why they don't go and have another referendum to make sense but. that's england what all these people have in common is not only a concern about their future working arrangements but the potential blight to their

lives from a brick sets that may shut the border once again the british government says tide itself up in knots trying to figure out how to extricate itself from the european union without creating a new border with its the european union by contrast is much more interested in how communities either side of the border i'll go to continue exercising the same freedoms of movement that they already have and that apparent contradiction is now the subject of close examination by human rights lawyers it's a legal morass it's in it risks being a legal swamp generation lots of different legal actions be very very uncertain as to how it plays out no one knows whether people have a claim or they may have lots of claims no claims but the real the the i mean what is obvious is that it's going to result in deep legal uncertainty as of now the u.k. side has been unable to come up with a solution to the irish border issue that convinces anyone with human rights lore against them on top of everything else they are in very deep water largely

al-jazeera on the irish border. time is running out to save the great barrier reef that's the warning from australia's climate council its latest report says color bleaching could happen every two years by twenty thirty four due to rising sea temperatures the council says that rates of bleaching will continuously set back recovery of the reef i'm going to warming has led to more frequent and longer heat waves in the world's oceans ecologist say damage the wreath may be irreversible they've noticed a drop in the diversity of fish species and the number of young for settling on the reef well martin rice is acting chief executive of the climate council he says the bleaching is very worrying when we look back in one nine hundred eighty s. with siri turn of coral bleaching it twenty years because it changes i'm an intensification of climate change you warming surface temperatures we're seeing that return every six years now so we'll look at the great barrier reef. future

and leslie urgently and declare it you see greenhouse gas pollution levels and we could actually see here it turn up late every two years that's effectively going to sign. reset larch and you can catch up on all the news on our website there it is on your screen address al jazeera dot com that's al-jazeera dot com. let's get a quick check of the headlines here now jazeera now the syrian government and its ally russia are intensifying their bombing campaign in southern iraq province that's according to opposition reports they say the number of airstrikes increased after talks of the rebels ended without an agreement at least two hundred seventy thousand people are fed their homes since the offensive began more than two weeks ago. british police say two people critically ill in southern england been exposed

to the same agent used to poison a russian spy and his daughter the man and woman were found unconscious on saturday in the town of amesbury that's near salzburg scruple poisoned in march. on monday the second of july due to concerns over the symptoms but if the man and the woman were displaying samples from both patients we said to paul three for analysis. following the details analysis of those samples we can confirm that the man and woman have been exposed to the nerve agent. which has been identified as the same agent that contaminated and so the case. rescuers in northern thailand are in a race against time to pump water from a flooded cave where group of teenagers and their football coach have been trapped for twelve days heavy rains forecast for the weekend could mean the twelve boys and their coach will have to dive into the water using scuba gear and make their way

out but they'll need basic training as none of them can swim the german chancellor angela merkel is set to meet hungary's prime minister as she tries to sell her migration plan to e.u. member countries it to signalled his willingness to strike a deal with merkel that would limit the number of asylum seekers arriving into europe well on monday merkel reached a compromise agreement with her conservative coalition partners to set up migrant transit centers on germany's border with austria. police in saudi arabia have arrested two men for us and after a woman's car was set on fire the owner says a car was deliberately set alight by men opposed to women drivers she says she faced abuse from men in her neighborhood soon after receiving her license last week the kingdom overturned the decades long ban on female drivers but those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story that's the

watching battle. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter when you call home al-jazeera international bringing the news and current for that matter to you. al-jazeera. you first lost an election he was barred from leaving the country then he was arrested now the form of a lazy in prime minister has been charged with corruption 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 zebras act was malaysia's

prime minister until two months ago today he is a political outcast 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 privet open to trust which carry a maximum twenty year prison sentence i. outside his supporters mostly from the political party who wants light chanted three notches. in the book a 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 it's

a political vendetta so it doesn't. really look 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 ordered 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 former subsidiary of the state investment fund one and. this case is part of a larger investigation involving one 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 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. all fight over for five year period. which is the public to me the fraud scandal is also being investigated in several countries including the u.s. the initial investigation into this case started several years ago but stalled right now 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 jobs 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 pool.

well as florence was mentioning there the scandals been talked about for years now 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 ibrahim sophie an 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 it will really go further and start to dismantle militias 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 cheap and his intimate circle will not. ever himself ian also in kuala lumpur might hear mohamed 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 event is showing 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 from 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 the 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. implicate that or alleged to have governance or integrity issues themselves in the bus the dearly have amended and they have to fulfill this if they are to remain in power but it just impact the sorest the next minute or so when when abraham is talking about serious reforms one of those reforms surely has to be that the system of patronage but it's very difficult. nailed down and define who it 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 is 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 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 psych specter a 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 then 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 this is this is the perfect coming together 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 a stablish and 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 the six hundred eighty

within us that appeared in his account she. 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 is just charges involving about slightly over ten million dollars . from a subsidiary of the one m.t.b. but i think in their weeks and months to come we're going 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 here 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 the billet the as it moves forward where the hope is that some of the reforms that leave in tears to put the place and there has been some positive news in the last few days that's within it it is such as the anti-corruption it is he is no longer reporting to the prime minister but reporting to parliament that all of this mosque depp's will event and 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 for the next ten minutes or so bridget welsh 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 pot 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 litigations against 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 a bit of 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 dr mahathir 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 the how to ease the figurehead is 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. but 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 the fight you know from the past i think what remains now is to strengthen the confidence of the malaysian mind that so much reform that the institutions that are now digging 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 fridge you are going through to him or him brigitte last point to you is there 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 of self being it 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 welch 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 to 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 at a.j. inside story for me peter doherty and the entire team here in doha we'll see you very soon.

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a team on syria. where every. the bombing campaign in syria intensifies as the refugees continue to flee the fighting by the tens of thousands. hello i'm daryn jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up two people remain in a critical condition in the u.k. after being exposed to the same nerve agent used to poison a former russian spy and his daughter. the today just trapped in

a cave may need to learn how to swim and scuba dive before they can reach safety. and german leaders to hold meetings with their counterparts hungry in australia as a political uncertainty continues now to deal with asylum seekers. the syrian government and its ally russia are intensifying their bombing campaign in southern province that's according to opposition reports they say the number of air strikes has increased the talks with rebels ended without an agreement on a cease fire at least two hundred seventy thousand people have fled their homes since the offensive began more than two weeks ago so you know how to has more from beirut in neighboring lebanon. the relative lull in the fighting has now been shattered following the collapse of the peace talks with the syrian government russian planes and they have been targeting a number of rebel held town in the province dozens of air strikes reported by

activists mainly targeting the towns of toughest in the western countryside of daraa and in the eastern countryside as government troops try to make their way towards the border to recapture the border crossing with jordan little advances on the ground but like we mentioned the airstrikes said this military offensive resuming and putting trying to put more pressure on the rebels to accept the terms that are being presented by the russian military on behalf of the syrian government to end the fighting opposition to go shader saying that we can't accept those terms they are humiliating what they're asking for is us to surrender without any guarantees they're asking us to lay down their arms allow this to government troops to enter our towns and villages and we don't have any guarantees that there will be reprisal attacks retribution we're calling for a third party. to monitor the cease fire on the ground and what the opposition is also asking for is for syrian government forces not to enter these rebel held town

and for them in one way or another to govern themselves now this is unlikely to be accepted by damascus which wants to regain sovereignty in the southern corner of syria and the opposition are also telling us that we want safe passage for example for those who do not want to live under president bashar assad's rule we want to be given the choice to leave to rebel controlled areas in the north of the country like what happened in eastern and eastern aleppo but that option apparently is not on the table so the opposition saying they have no other choice right now they've made a call to arms general mobilization saying that they need to fight until death. well the fighting has forced refugees to flee to syria's borders with jordan and israel. is in the israeli occupied golan heights and joins us live now to just talk us through what the israelis are doing bad. plus we know daryn the israelis have repeatedly said they will not be opening their borders to syrian refugees but that's not to say that they're very much aware of this unfolding crisis and there

are efforts being made. certainly the i.d.f. the israeli defense forces the israeli military last week delivered in a special a special mission delivered what we understand was around three hundred tents thirteen tons of food and fifteen tons of equipment to needs for children thirty tons of clothing as well the prime minister prime minister netanyahu said that those aid efforts will continue there's also a local appeal here in the occupied golan heights being led by the golan heights council that has appealed to israelis to donate food and clothing and shelter they tell us that they will be delivering those that equipment that aid to the i.d.f. for it to be delivered possibly early next week elise the special missions of course israel doesn't have diplomatic relations with syria this area is highly

sensitive and so it's very difficult for israel to become so israel says any more involved than that but certainly the u.n. says that with this ongoing fighting an interesting lead in the last half hour or so we've heard what certainly sounds like either artillery or air strikes in or around the area which is to my right as this fighting goes on we can expect to see more refugees coming here in the coming hours in the coming days until early given all the refugees coming to this border when israel has never opened his boat has before. well that's right i mean it's important to put obviously historical context on this this area was occupied by israel in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven. in one thousand nine hundred eighty four degree when it was was made between the syrians and need israelis full the so-called disengagement plan now that step plan still holds this area is multitude by the u.n.

in fact behind me i think just out of vision there is in fact a u.n. base there and some of the camps at least three of the camps have congregated close to that base i think it's fair to say that the syrian refugees have come here because they feel safe many of them of course their homes were closer than the jewel damian border but there is a feeling or an understanding that the refugees coming here feel as if they will be safer here because of this u.n. monitored area now the israeli government have said that it will respond to any threats to itself and see here we know that the israelis are very concerned about the raid in full says being close by for to supposed to oversee with this syrian allies in this offensive but we also know that the i.d.f. the israeli defense forces have deployed reinforcements in this area in the coming days so despite you know despite the kind of security situation here is arguably being safe for the refugees with these ongoing it strikes and this

offensive continuing you can only imagine the level of fear indeed terror amongst the refugees that are arriving here one can presume all the time. now british police say two people critically ill in southern england have been exposed to the nerve agent it's the same substance that was used to poison the russian agent. and his daughter yulia in souls when the latest incident happened in the neighboring village of amesbury reports. it seems almost unthinkable that the same nerve agent could strike twice in the same place and yet it did leaving two people critically ill and a town swirling in shock these two patients are in critical condition following exposure to the nerve agent overture following events in march we have a well established response to this type of incident and clear process and to follow our priorities at this time on to care for the patients the couple in

question dawn sturgis and charlie rally both in their forty's both british nationals collapsed at a house on saturday initially suspected of having had an overdose of contaminated illegal drugs but those tests proved inconclusive were they for first those drugs but now they know it's not the drugs that is something new to the nerve agents were training for. the places they had visited have since been cordoned off as a precaution and police people who have visited those areas to wash their clothes and it's not just sites in amesbury that have been cordoned off but also by geographical coincidence in salzburg as well here at the queen elizabeth gardens not too far away from where the script pals were found when they were poisoned earlier this year. souls free came under intense scrutiny when the screw piles fell

victim to poisoning by the nerve agent nabil chalk the british government pointed the finger to russia and a diplomatic rift ensued samples from the victims were taken to the nearby defense research facility at porton down where scientists were able to pinpoint exactly what caused the couple to fall so ill the u.k.'s national health body has said that there is no risk to the public but counterterrorism police have now taken over the investigation as once again this quiet corner of england is plunged into the center of one of the most serious cases of poisoning in recent times sonia agel al-jazeera . rescuers in northern thailand are in a race against time to pump water from a flooded cave where a group of teenagers and their football coach have been trapped for twelve days but these are live pictures from the mouth of the cave in chiang rai heavy rains forecast for the weekend could mean the toll boys and their coach will have to dive into the water using scuba gear and make their way out but they'll need basic

training as none of them can swim the recovery specialist from around the world are being used to help with that rescue operation al-jazeera is not in baba met cavers in the english county of darvish a plastic connected to the mission. entering a world most people never get to see these caves in northern england a part of an elite and their skills mean they're called upon to take part in rescues usually it's one of the caves are in trouble but sometimes it's the general public and they don't know about the challenges facing the rescue team thailand's you're in a very remote very wilderness location so transporting a quick route to and from the sites can take a great deal of time and effort manpower and when you throw in the flooded sections some is well into the. slows you down even more it reduces the pool of people you have who can manage equipment in those conditions so it's generally a case of time scale it can be overcome but it takes longer these are some of the

easiest conditions you can find in tavi but these british papers and their colleagues have got lots of experience of operating in and saving people from extremely difficult situations. to break. to good since we first made contact with the tiny boys in their coach were affiliated with a local group here like all cave rescuers they've gone through extensive training like this exercise in hoisting an injured person on a stretcher. and last week it was this sense that the got the call for specialist communication equipment for the time rescue efforts when sorted out for something as high fines. for then contacted gnostic get into heathrow i came up collected them from blue lights in the light of heathrow to get the nine o'clock airplane and they caught it with the divers. in thailand the following morning

but despite immense efforts to pump water out of a thai cave and local teams teaching the boys to swim and scuba dive the experts say it's definitely not going to be easy for the only way out seems to be out and out the the one known cave entrance postell the naturally the floods the problem then his house to do it. there's been talk of teaching they teaching the boys how to dive and years diving equipment and then letting them dive out that seems for all with all sorts of perils because cave diving is a not like ordinary mortar dining these cave is used their passion to save lives they say they're driven by a sense of camaraderie right now they can't help thinking about the ongoing rescue efforts in thailand's al-jazeera does.