and counting the cost will look at the price of rescuing one of china's biggest freshwater lakes from extreme pollution. the first of a billion dollar scam this was supposed to be malaysia's state investment company i'm talking about one mt be one of the world's biggest financial frauds a scandal that's taken down a former head of government this week in nigeria malaysia's former prime minister became the first person to appear in court in connection with the disappearance of four billion dollars of taxpayers' money he's pleading not guilty so what's this all about well it was set up in two thousand and nine one m.t.b. was the name of malaysia's state or sovereign wealth fund it was meant to transform malaysia's economy through strategic investments of taxpayers' money but the one m. d. be fun proved better a borrowing money and in early twenty fifteen it missed payments for some of the eleven billion dollars it owed to banks and bond holders and that raised global

alarm bells u.s. investigators allege billions were stolen and laundered via shell companies in a bizarre twist some of the missing money was even allegedly used to fund a hollywood movie the wolf of wall street at least six countries are currently investigating the one m. d. be fun fraud billions of dollars are still missing and this week u.s. authorities ordered one of the world's biggest mining and commodities trading companies to hand over documents relating to a money laundering probe the court order is over glenn cause business dealings in nigeria democratic republic of congo and venezuela the group produces or oil and coal in nigeria in congo it operates mines for copper and cobalt glencore said it is reviewing the subpoena. well as the u.k.'s national health service turns seventy this year serious questions are being asked about its future the n.h.s. established a universal health care system guaranteeing free access to treatment regardless of

income or status has for brennan. the n.h.s. is the world's fifth biggest employer with around one point five million staff offering more than two thousand three hundred different surgical procedures and treating a million patients every thirty six hours health care should be like this it should be free at the point of access i don't think patients should have to worry about how when they're poorly how they're going to fund things. and the scope and complexity of the treatment that it now offers the n.h.s. is almost unrecognisable from the service first founded seventy years ago but one thing remains the same the driving principle behind it all in the words of nih bevan the then health minister in one nine hundred forty eight no society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means the n.h.s. has helped u.k. average life expectancy rise from sixty eight years in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight to eighty one years now wonderful new drugs new technologies just look

at the huge revolution happening in digital how we embrace innovation because with innovation we can improve the quality and safety of care but that longevity means today's n.h.s. is facing unforeseen challenges from obesity dementia cancer and cardiovascular disease earlier this year a parliamentary committee warned that the n.h.s. finances were in a perilous state an extra twenty seven billion dollars was pledged last month but the government spending watchdog warm that even that was not enough to improve services hospital administrators are contemplating difficult choices based on clinical outcomes and affordability and if we see procedures if we see things that we're doing in the n.h.s. the only value for money then let's have that conversation public to say actually it would be better off spending the money doing something else or looking after a group of patients in a different way the n.h.s.

remains free at the point of access but there after there are no guarantees. social care of the elderly is in crisis it is a way people my age the older you get when i want. her to have call and we have got people that change they don't want to go because the know. they need for the rain and they don't know how they can occur. so it's find anything to emplace so that they have that reassurance and they know that they will still be cared for when they go home the problems have not gone unnoticed there are regular demonstrations against hospital closures and cutbacks this protest last weekend attracted thousands of marchers the public affection for the n.h.s. remains undimmed and there is much to celebrate about the past seventy years but the prognosis for the service remains uncertain a subscription video service netflix is now the most popular us platform for watching entertainment on t.v. according to a recent survey by wall street firm cowen and co it's now overtaken traditional

broadcast and cable television and with its own studio in hollywood netflix is now one of the world's biggest film and t.v. producers and part of that success is the eight billion dollars it's plowing into making a regional content this year but watch this space because apple and walt disney are about to offer competing over the top video services next year last month apple signed a multi-year deal with t.v. star oprah winfrey and amazon with its prime video service is also spending big on content and talent to gain audience share in what some are calling the post t.v. era. well joining me now from new york to talk more about this is daniel ives chief strategy officer and head of technology research at new york based g.b.h. insights thanks very much for being with us. so on on this news that. netflix the more people are watching netflix now than they are watching regular

television i think a lot of people saw this coming but that perhaps many of us may have been surprised by how quickly it came you one of those. were and were strong believers really in the streaming the netflix model three years because look in our opinion even though it's happened quicker than expected who are cunning phenomenon is something that's going to continue it soured and it's really been a constant mean netflix been an eight billion dollars this year and content that's really created content arms war and you sure is seen across the board with the consolidation in the sector between eighteen t.v. time warner disney comcast maddow it all speaks that content is king in this quarter cutting more on it isn't just money that they offer as well as it is that with netflix it's also the ability to for filmmakers to essentially do whatever they want without any sort of restrictions on on creativity in the. creative

control been and ultimately if you look mean that's really been the key d.n.a. of netflix mean not just in terms of localized content especially international but even domestically in the u.s. it's given much more flexibility and for directors actors producers really the whole eco system what they can produce and i think a lot more i want to it's not really a big brother's watching type keel that sometimes they feel from other studios and i think that's really the key here is a netflix has given creative control. for it and they create a platform now that historically me be there was skeptical says and within hollywood but now and you've seen across the board it's really and has not the talent that many years ago thought that it can never get but it's also spur look at apple getting oprah and others sort of streaming initiatives you have right now about fifteen billion dollars cumulatively we being spent on continental net flix

driven phenomenon and it isn't just hollywood that they're going off there it's bollywood that are the big film industry. what it was one of the calculations going on there with netflix. i mean look i'm especially if you look at you know india and a lot of other international hot spots we will get there expended in two hundred plus countries and ultimately international buicks of scott regretting about sixty eight million we believe that's going one hundred million next two years international is going to be key but all to me the only way you drive international subscriber growth is international content i think nasty things you need to have bollywood or a lot more localized content you know whether it's you know middle east africa other parts of the world they're trying to penetrate and it's all tingly right now it's created really new age for content and netflix recognizes there as they expand

internationally content sticky and that's why from bollywood to other areas they're spending significant dollars going after some of those demographics than you are in new york to speak with you thanks so much for being with us thank you and finally lake eyre high is one of the most popular tourist spots in southwest china tracting up to forty million visitors a year but it's become a victim of its own success and businesses have been asked to shut up shop as china try to save the two hundred fifty square kilometer like from the asian city of dalí adrian brown reports. china is rich in tradition and this is a relatively new one posing for a wedding photos before the big day. and the high lake in united province is a popular backdrop it's one of china's biggest freshwater lakes and one of its most

beautiful. almost forty million people visited in two thousand and sixteen. now that rapid growth in tourism. is taking its toll on these once pristine waters last april the government told the owners of almost two thousand hotels and restaurants near the ancient town of darlie that they'd have to close for a year the order had followed a visit by president xi jinping who'd urged action to save the normally these narrow streets which are such a feature of the old village of dali would be teeming with visitors but since april two thousand and seventeen this place has been like a ghost town and the owners of these businesses simply have no idea when they'll be able to open again a sign of desperation rent contract expiring will sell for low price says this note

yearling owns two hotels and says that closure has cost around one million dollars in this incident that you doing i'm from and i know the reasons why people come here because they're looking for somewhere beautiful but the closure of the hotels and the restaurants that has resulted in big ten minutes to the local tourist industry. it is though the damage to the environment that is the bigger concern to the president there's been a proliferation of new hotels and restaurants discharging untreated sewage directly into the lake. workers have also been kept busy by an outbreak of exacerbating the pollution. but more than twelve months on some people like this local farmer complain that there's been little change in the water quality. garment close hotels around the lake so they can't discharge waste to water this has improved the

warning quality in a high lake but not by very much workers laying pipes for a new water treatment system inferi all hotels and restaurants will eventually be connected to these pipes only after that happens will they be allowed to open again and for many businesses that day can't come soon enough the lake is what draws so many people here but environmentalists warn that the measures taken so far to try to save it may have come too late. or i that is our show for this week remember you can get in touch with us by tweeting me at has i'm sick a day is there a j c t c when you do or drop us an e-mail counting the cost of al-jazeera dot net is our address has more for you online at al-jazeera dot com slash c.t.c. there to take you straight to our page which has individual reports links and entire episodes for you to catch up on. that's it for this edition of counting the

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us politicians have promised that they won't allow a repeat of what happened after the earthquake in one thousand eight hundred five but the cost and complexity of housing hundreds of people living in camps is a major task and one that many people here think the government the fail. rescuers begin the operation to free a trapped football team from a flooded cave network in thailand. the whole rommany watching of zero life my headquarters here in doha also coming up the united states reconfirms a north korean commitment to complete denuclearization after pyongyang had poured scorn on washington's negotiations. north korea also reaffirmed its earlier

commitment to destroy its missile engine test site which will make the region and the world safer. haiti's prime minister gives in to pressure from protesters angry about plans to raise fuel prices. i also jubilation for croatia and heartbreak for russia as the world cup hosts balance after a dramatic penalty shootout. welcome to the program rescuers in thailand have begun the operation to free a trapped football team from a flooded cave the head of the missions the twelve boys and their coach all very ready for the operation they've been trapped underground for more than two weeks

and most of the crews have been worried about the weather conditions that are hampering the rescue operation let's go straight over to chang ryan scott heide lose our correspondent been following this scenario since it started nearly two weeks here scott the operation now has officially been confirmed as well started. absolutely so you know it started just about an hour ago according to the mission commander here in chiang rai now what it sounds like it's a team of eighteen divers rescuers thirteen of them are foreign experts the balance being navy seals now this operation started at ten am local time to start bringing the boys out now they're saying the officials here are saying it's going to take a levon hours so they expect the first batch of boys we don't know how much how many are in this first batch to come out at nine pm local the cave entrance is over my shoulder you can see that there's the rain is falling down there low is a heavy cloud cover so obviously that concern pushed the officials to say let yes

let's go these are the most perfect conditions we're going to get so they pulled the trigger to start the rescue operation that we've been talking about this the last several hours been hearing and seeing things that indicate a yes it was going to start it was imminent but now we know for sure it has started it's been underway for one hour and there are about ten more hours to go before we start to see boys come out of that cave entrance now when they do come out the process is going to be this they'll be loaded into each into their own ambulance and then they'll be escorted by police. motorcycles to help pad that's actually just a field where police helicopters will then ferry them to chiang rai city the provincial capital here to the hospital there it's about sixty to sixty kilometers away so this will go kind of in routine as soon as they're out to go through this process go there and they'll go to the hospital in chiang rai city so again we're hearing that you know the first batch should come out at about nine pm everything going smoothly and then we don't know if that's just the first batch and then the second bout to come after we don't know what this process is going to be like because

again as we've been discussing it's a very difficult convoluted way to come out very risky way to come out but that means you have to get divers in is well it's not really wide enough in certain spots to be a two way street if you will so how quickly will they be able to get the second team of divers in there to get the second batch of boys out we don't know just yet but obviously right now the focus is making sure that this current rescue operation is done to safely and as quickly as possible probably see the merits of that in about ten hours of bill so we'll come back to that when the situation develops school. been taking a look at what's proposed for that rescue the tow more in caves in northern thailand in the chiang rai province near the border with me and ma and laos it is one of the longest caves in the country stretching ten kilometers through the door mounts range the boys are stuck just past a heaven known as party of beach now looking inside the mountain one point five kilometers from the main entrance navy seal teams the sit up a base and

a cabin and no one is trying to three three kilometers in a semi in junction it forks off to an exit but that's flooded the cave widens to large cabins and narrows to passages so small that rescuers need to crew to get through the passageway climbs and drops which means when it rains water builds up in these steps for kilometers and is passing a big the boys are about four hundred metres after the spot and eight hundred to a thousand meters below the surface to get the boys out through the flooded patches rescuers have attached a guideline and daughters emergency oxygen tanks every twenty five to fifty metres the plan is that as they swim one navy diver will be beside them another one behind keep in mind some ways don't know how to swim there are strong currents and the water is dark and muddy they're being given wet suits boots how myths and a scuba mask but no tank the proposal being they'll get all from their dive buddy

supply now don't take at least five hours to get each boy out so i know it may take a couple of days to complete the risk you well know about it is a diving expert. in new zealand diving he joins me now from walk in new zealand via skype good to have you with us live on al-jazeera neil in your living memory have you ever heard of a scenario like this before. not that it's true that with the being. in the water situation not. the liver or the quantity of people who want to go in the scenario that we've just heard from charlotte our reporter describing to us about the very complicated network of caves in the system you know. some have. it's a very complicated scenario for the rescue teams from your experience what do they have to consider as they progress to try and bring these young boys out into the

open. or the biggest problems is. they're going to be facing a situation of probably you know that have zero visibility they won't really know what's going on. with young people or anyone who's in the current situation they want to try to flee to the surface and that opportunity is not going to be there for them so the receivers are going to try and control their supply them with air and. make them sick and squeezing through that you can make sure that remain in contact and posting from. one of the most difficult scenarios or one of the most difficult issues that divers have to consider at the moment considering one of their team has already died in the rescue operation. rescuers it's actually the children panicking and trying to fight like them to get to the surface with the there is no surface for them to get in the tube section i

understand there's a shark there in the negotiating various obstacles so they won't see this coming and they'll be thinking no this isn't part of the search and you know why they're going to try and guide them around keeping your supply in their mountain in the close together so that we try to pass the children from one to another trying to get them. that is the main problem is controlling the pain element speaking to some of the analysts over the last few days about this situation they say when we go in to rescue people that are stuck in caves the people that are stuck are normally professionals they are cave divers cave explorers in this particular case we have twelve juveniles the to twenty five year old coach how do you reassure them as a cave diver that all is well and that you can look after them because your main priority is try to try to find a way to get them out of danger rob the be

a counselor you know who have the training the other planet up to this point that we really focus on of them joined in can it's one of them that we're going to be in for because of that it's finding the have to keep the supply in them out it's really about being with the situation facing rather than trying to instill a perfect life skills that's never going to happen in the city right so you're right in saying in your situation you have experienced professionals not much need rescuing it sounds so stunt not someone who's simply not this is the lead in the water people alone who can't swim one of the group factory three noted please carry on. the refractor is trying to keep that element out of the y. because that's where we're going to see that someone panics and all sorts of problems come for the rescuers as the public diver and actually danger to the rescuers much is themselves one of the big issues that has come to the forefront is the issue of air availability how empowered much of an issue is that when it comes

to trying to get these young lads out. and the rescuers themselves in the operation has had to great difficulty in trying to pump enough into the besieged area where they are deep in that catherine. although of the actually. have a number of rescue divers in areas where they can actually see it's the two main guys who perform and guiding that. out of the place there are sort of those around in the event that they're running down they can actually grab those and assist the other people so that have preplanned for this and put out stage bottles in various locations. but that is to give. you the rescuers have to carry more tanks with them so they can actually supply or directly to the students as well so don't have all seen it difficult to get there specially people are going to get trapped on the one you will have difficulty in. goetia certain obstacles so

they're pretty empty really which is why so much time has been taken to court time to put in the cases so that i've no doubt that we have to think in that really for them to fall back on the urgency and neil just very briefly in terms of a learning experience internationally for cave dive rescuers how important is this rescue mission in terms of information for people like yourselves and your colleagues globally to learn how to rescue people in this sort of situation. well the the training is the shoes are really really sure on their feet on this into motion and so it's that sense of the order of going on and it comes out of for him and the database but passed on knowledge so that knowledge from previous of the. experience it's already there and know he was a reading on there as well as the experience and coming back to the. well it's been a fascinating talking to you neal bennett thanks so much for your time and joining

us from new zealand thank you. now the united states has reconfirmed that north korea has committed to complete denuclearization in a news conference following talks with japan and south korea the secretary of state mike pompei indicated that pyongyang had promised to work towards a verifiable denuclearization but warned that the road ahead would be difficult following talks in pyongyang north korea had accused the americans of making what it called gangster like demands compeer visited pyongyang to pin down some of the details of when and how north korea would give up its nuclear weapons the road ahead will be difficult and challenging and we know critics will try to minimize the work that we've achieved but our allies like the republic of korea and japan.