is as they're bringing the boys out there can be something that goes wrong in one of the dives and either one of the boys panics or has some type of medical emergency such as vomiting into the regulator mask which is it can be deadly and if they panic they can potentially also take the rescuer with them so from a team standpoint that's one of the biggest dangers they face from the boy's standpoint of course those are also the same dangers the other fact that they that we have to look at is that they had nine days of starvation so they're still fairly weak they it takes a long time to recover from the nine days of starvation they had and they have not simply had that time to recover the situation did not allow them enough time to become fully strong and and i'm hoping that they have drilled well enough that there are any problems but it is still a huge risk these boys had nine days living on adrenaline and high cortisol levels

their metabolic processes are. completely out of whack. the divers themselves have built a level of trust with the boys and that's part of the psychology of getting them out is having that level of trust and they having them there most of the places the diver can have they can touch and be right next to them there are those few spots where they cannot be side by side but again they can they can communicate with them by the fact that they're just right close their. still ahead on al-jazeera we meet four generations of one broke into a family who say they face and justice for decades.

hello there let's start off with a look at the storm that we have in the pacific it's here it's called maria and it's gradually tracking its way towards the west it is a huge storm you can tell from its very well defined eye the winds within this well they sustained at two hundred forty kilometers per hour so it's incredibly powerful and it's working its way towards the north coast of taiwan now it won't reach us for a good few days yet and by the time it does hopefully it should have weakened for the time being it's actually looking quite quiet for many of us here just a few showers to deal with in the southern parts of china and more in the north as well those ones in the north look more potent and i think for chengdu looks pretty wet oh monday and tuesday as well so plenty of rain across this region if we head across towards india well lots of rain here particularly across the central belt at the moment three to be very very wet over the last few days more wet weather still to come and it looks like the rains the some of us here will be intensified by this is larry of low pressure that's developing so plenty of showers in the western

parts of india through the central belt and up towards nepal and through bangladesh and me and for the northwest though it's a lot drier and brighter here so force in new delhi will get to thirty five degrees and forcing karate it should be dry at thirty two. where were you when this idea popped into it when they're on line it's undoubtedly chief cool. side today or if you join us on set criminal justice system is dysfunctional right now this is a dialogue what does it feel like bring you to go back for the first time everyone has a voice and allow refugees to be the speakers for a change join the global conversation announces iraq.

top stories on al-jazeera at least four of the boys trapped in caves in thailand have been brought to the hospital as a daring rescue operation seemingly happens much faster than first expected rescue workers say it will take about ten hours to prepare for the next stage of the operation there are still as many as six more employees and their football coach who need to be brought out. ethiopia's prime minister does a neighboring eritrea for a historic summit it's the first such visit by any ethiopian leader in more than twenty years was greeted by eritrean president isaias f. worki at the airport ahead of a summit between the two regional rivals and eritrea fought a costly war between one thousand nine hundred eight and two thousand over disputed

border but there have been signs of improving relations in recent months after prime minister abi agreed to accept the terms of a peace deal that ended that conflict. is the program director of africa he thinks the shared history of the two countries are more important than the differences. this isn't just between two countries to ordinary countries for two or three neighbors if you can your three you have video of each tree shared culture shared religion and shared to be more intro so if your peers in your theory is foreign policy and regional engagement has been significantly been shipped by this water and this film it does fodder for eighteen years and the two countries that you know the film at the north water know we know peace policy has significantly damaged their. economies the regional security and the political situation in the two

countries and the two countries have huge potential for you can all make cultural and political cooperation that will have a great impact for there seems to cutesy and integration of the horn of africa and the because it's there in africa. south sudan's warring parties have agreed to another power sharing deal under which rebel leader react my char will be reinstated as vice president the announcement was made by the foreign minister of neighboring sudan regional leaders have been met mediating peace talks in uganda to end south sudan's civil war a similar deal was signed in twenty fifteen but it fell apart a year later to kill tens of thousands of people it's displaced millions since twenty thirteen. it's agreed in principle. of. his actions he said but we will work. together with his brother the thirty which are up for the sake of peace and stability of south sudan it's agreed to really being. the vice

presidential. nominee president of continual. he's excellent you don't really have much of the general first vice president of the syrian military and the rebel group in the southern province of each other a breaching a ceasefire deal that was only agreed forty eight hours ago opposition activists say at least four people have been killed in airstrikes targeting areas to the east of the city the russian brokered deal sol rebels agreed to hand over heavy weapons in exchange for security guarantees and safe passage to other areas government troops took control of a border crossing with jordan and promised to leave four villages burnet smith has more from. we understand that one rebel group is holding out in an area to the north of crossing a crossing is a very strategic crossing for the syrian regime it links jordan to syria and through to the ports of beirut in lebanon and the syrian regime wants to get this

crossing open again one group there to the north of the crossing says that the russians and the syrians are not holding to their part of the cease fire deal and the cease fire deal was essentially that the rebel groups opposition groups would hand over the heavy weapons they would be given safe passage to opposition groups held areas in the north of syria and that the russians would oversee security along the border areas that particular aspect very important because people. were concerned that syrian forces without russian supervision might take retaliatory steps against people living there but anyway what this great accusing the syrians and the russians of not regarding this is fire agreement it's not clear what part of the agreement they are not respecting or being accused of not respecting but that has prompted an outbreak of fighting as strikes we understand shelling on the ground more than seven hundred thousand revenge or have fled million more into neighboring bangladesh since a government crackdown began in august last year it's become one of the world's

fastest growing refugee emergencies mohammed jim jim met one family in a camp in cox is bizarre. she's the head of four generations of family and the bearer of forty years of suffering. a heart or a hinge a refugee in her ninety's has fled persecution in me and war three separate times in her life first in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight then one nine hundred ninety one and finally in two thousand and seventy five. she speaks softly and slowly telling me that while age may have left her unable to remember everything she'll never forget the constant horrors her family suffered at the hands of security forces in me and more over the years. war they beat as they kidnapped as they detained does google and her family span almost a century in age bonded through blood and displacement they now all live in

a single hut located in the world's largest refugee camp. her son only ahmed first fled rackrent state and came to bangladesh as a teenager he recounts just how awful the crackdown by security forces was in two thousand and seventeen i didn't know it that out of if we couldn't have made our way here we would have been killed like stray dogs muhammad are you his goals graham son in law he says he'll always be haunted by what he's seen back home in minus the horrible you know no one could even ask questions about locals disappearances even a brother didn't have the right to ask about his missing brother distant we had no clue who has disappeared into way we just had to remain silent about it here the signs of trauma are everywhere and fear is clearly etched on faces. in many ways what's happened to this particular extended family really mirrors

what's happened to so many other rohinton who face decades of repression and abuse their hinges aren't just the world's largest group of stateless people they're also among the world's most persecuted minorities. more than anything muhammad ah you've once his children to be able to experience peace and to get justice he says there's only one way that can happen atrocities that are being committed against a middle women should be heard by the international criminal court so that we get justice and if it's not be satisfied satisfaction is not a sentiment goal is familiar with for her pain has been a constant and time continues to be as cruel as life has been hard. at the critical long camp in cox's bazaar on the dish i spoke earlier to yang a leader who is the un special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in man maher she's calling for the road to be officially recognized as refugees. i did

complete my ten days it in bangladesh spent five days in cox's this this is my third time visiting constance cox is this what stood out to me the most is that the violence and the atrocities are still continuing on the myanmar side i spoken to several families that have just crossed over and they are telling me that things are not going to get better there is more pressure to accept the end of the cards and there's also the burning and killing and continuation of atrocities the other thing i stood out to me was i did it in no man's land where just last week a little boy of eleven years old was shot point blank almost point blank because there was only one shot fired by the b.g.p. from them a side and the boy was playing in the feels it was broad daylight and he was shot

in the grind and i visited him in the hospital too and he was able to locate the area where he was shot i think this is very serious that the that the situations are still continuing and now whilst they're discussing repatriation it is clear that the man must side condone the conditions are not adequate they're not even conducive or even anywhere near repatriation and these are the two points that really stuck out to me this visit why do you think that you are continued to be denied access to me and more. because i think i am getting very close because the narrative that the military is using is now taking over and being supported by this is really an government do and finally let me just ask you this you are calling for him to be officially

recognized as refugees and we know that some of the refugees themselves are demanding that they be represented in some of these calls and some of these agreements made by the u.n. with bangladesh as well as i mean mark how much say do they actually have in determining their fate at this point. i'm afraid the refugees have not had any can any part any participation in any discussions about relocation no repatriation . and also the current the recent turmoil you between you and d.p. among your n.d.p. . government i think it is important to recognise them as refugees because they are. and they need to be recognised as refugees here because they are not displaced persons and they're not recognized as citizens and me and my now and if you say they're from nationals of myanmar every

day they are not even recognized there and how can you frame it and say that these are citizens of me or my nationals of me or my currently. in the future you can say that but currently i don't think it's. the right way of expressing who they are well the us is reassuring asian allies that progress is well on track to rid north korea of nuclear weapons the us secretary of state my pompei a has been in tokyo after another round of talks in pyongyang where he was accused of behaving like a gangster sarah clarke reports. the u.s. secretary of state was among friends when he arrived in tokyo met by japanese prime minister shinzo about a mike palm pilot briefed the u.s. ally playing down accusations he engaged gangsta like to months at the talks in pyongyang so if those requests were gangster like there the world is a gangster because there was

a unanimous decision at the un security council about what needs to be achieved instead he described the meeting as productive making good progress he said north korea agreed to destroy test sites and the next round of talks to sit down for later this month. north korea reaffirmed its commitment to complete denuclearization we had detailed and subs and discussions about the next steps towards a fully verified and complete denuclearization. but north korea painted a very different picture describing the talks as regrettable and relations were entering a dangerous phase in a statement released by the foreign ministry it said the fastest shortcut to denuclearization is to leave deep rooted distrust in the past and prioritize building trust via new solutions and phase by phase actions criticism aside north korea did declare we still cherish a good faith in president trump on the second leg of his asian tour mike compo

reassured the japanese and south korean foreign ministers the talks were still on track despite the best the u.s. allies presented a united front declaring once again the commitment to complete denuclearization in the korean peninsula we reaffirm that international community will continue to fully implement relevant un security council resolutions in order to materialize cv id despite describing these talks as making progress my palm pilot says progress a line is not enough to justify lifting the un sanctions on north korea that were made in place and to pyongyang abandons its nuclear program that sentiment is shared by the japanese and the south korean foreign minister as for a timeframe on how to achieve that neither side is set a date sarah clarke al-jazeera so let's go back to our top story the rescue off the

boys the football team in thailand we cannot speak to mike tips and he's a professor in the extreme environments laboratory at the university of portsmouth he's joining us via skype from gosport thanks very much for sticking around and speaking to us so the governor was giving an update just a short while ago and he said that the next phase of the operation will start in ten to twenty hours what do you expect that next phase to look like. well i suspect it will be reentering the cave to try and get some more of the boys out i mean as a my understanding is that four of of come out they've been described as in perfect condition which is great news but of course there's quite a large demand placed on the ninth us rescue personnel involved in this and they have to resupply oxygen and they have to get the system ready to go again so i am magine that's what's happening and then they will go back in and try and bring the

rest out do you think that after this next phase of the operation then we well perhaps the rest of the boys as well as their coach be rescued well i would hope so i mean it they don't think they've been going for about a day and managed to set up and get it out for boys so you know it may be a little bit optimistic to expect another eight or so to come out tomorrow but you know we can hope they always see the you know the first rescues are always the most difficult because you have to get a procedure and so hopefully things will go slightly quicker and we may see them all tomorrow but it may take a bit longer and do we expect them to do exactly what they did today considering that looking from the outside it seemed to have gone well they even were able to bring out the boys ahead of schedule time. yes my understanding from what i can

find out about that is that part of the reason it was quicker is because the water levels were not as high so they were able to move slightly faster through those parts of the cave that weren't completely submerged. so yet that is great news they've often got a system i've been very impressed with the way they've dealt with the whole incident in fact the international response in the local teams so they've got a system that works so it is a matter of just trying to turn the handle again of course the big variable is each of the individual boys and how they'll react to what is a pretty physically demanding thing to have to do and also despite the fact that had a bit of training you know if people have never put on a diving mask and put their head under fast flowing water you know that's a tough call and each one will have to react individually to that and there are reports that the boys could have dived more than a kilometer in fact today for the time being we'll leave it there we thank you very much mike for speaking to us from the u.k.

and we also understand that the four boys that were rescued have now arrived the hospital in chiang rai the listening post is up next find out. on counting the cost car war the world's biggest exporters attempt to steer away from a damaging trade war with the u.s. process our online streaming services are taking on hollywood bollywood and beyond . counting the cost. on the twenty second of may a series of major news stories broke across west africa in a sign. publication now known as the west africa leaks journalists from eleven

countries had pored over gigabytes of data nearly thirty million leaked documents on tax havens and the secretive offshore companies of the rich and powerful like the panama papers investigations of two thousand and sixteen and the paradise paper's stories last year this collaboration was coordinated by the i.c.i. j. the international consortium of investigative journalists based in the us it worked alongside the norbert zongo cell for investigative journalism or sonos. we've reported on the i.c.i. j.s work before and we've been tracking these particular investigations since february when the journalists involved first met to lay the groundwork what sets the west africa leaks apart from other i c i j collaboration's is the media landscape the conditions in which the journalists work taking on powerful individuals institutions and a global financial system that secretive by design is difficult for any reporter in west africa that's just the beginning and one of this group of journalists greatest

challenges was getting their readers their governments and in some cases even the media outlets they work for to care for the listening posts make me your head now in the making and breaking of the west africa leaks. west africa is the largest collaboration of investigative reporters from across west africa division not there's any good reason seems to be back on their reporting. we have thirteen journalists exploring nearly thirty million offshore financial records.

why. is someone who has nothing no islamist no twenty in my name why is she. this is a mom who is championing the cause i'm sure makes the literates effort to deny. me tax from oil what i'm saying with global media collaboration's not only is that the more the merrier the more the country of. west africa also project the west africa leaks got its start in sending up we're going to find a much more interesting name for this project over the next two days and we're starting to measure. in a two day workshop organized by the i c i j and snow's journalists were given

access to a compilation of data from six major leaks held by the i.c. i just i'm just going to go through. and share with you some. just the purpose of the workshop was not only to introduce the journalists to the data but also to help them start reading between the lines you don't go offshore and write in a name now that you want to evade taxes lawyers and potential crooks are a lot more sophisticated than that and therefore understanding how to read the signs and how to interpret the red flags in offshore documents is crucial on was up he. said. then more in doing stories on this new. it's very important to take the right

terminology to use it's not for you the journalist to see somebody has. the duty of. the city. of boston. i mean also. it gets in the default but this will. be what you put in the village. to put the. simple. but. then you would put this is an address. it's not necessarily true address an accurate address where you live. walk yeah like you don't let walk . alone doesn't tell a story you need to investigate what presents to you to have

a problem well but fortunately i did find some documents and i started building hypothesis and the documents in the questions. were coming to the end of the first editorial meeting out here in dhaka the journalists behind me have been given access to six projects or relating to the murky world of offshore finance primed for the investigations time to head out and begin digging through the data and hopefully start connecting the dots the west african leaks is the. seventh major media collaboration investigating official finance they can of course spiegel legitimate reasons for an individual or a company to keep assets offshore over the past few years however the consortium has broken multiple stories documenting serious abuse of the system. there are good reasons why the ice has to focus on west africa. it's latest investigative

collaboration for the economics according to the u.n. more than sixteen billion dollars a year is moved offshore from west africa illegally which amounts to more than the g.d.p. of six of its purse countries combined second governance authorities either lack the ability or the will to stop money from being stashed offshore where can't be taxed and as the investigations reveal politicians are often the worst culprits. and then you have the media news organizations that are on state run not typically by those in power or those close to the second bridge all too often there's a way from holding the check count which is why didn't take long for these journalists to start finding some news with the story. of the second largest and the second poorest country in west africa aska editor of the eleven more newspaper is investigating a government funded project worth around thirteen million dollars in two thousand

and nine a contract to build a modern refrigerated stroll to house was awarded to an obscure australian company rich steadily with links to the news gerry and minister of livestock. in the day i found that money was paid to the australian firm but a large amount of it went missing the new facility was meant to meet him when he went to the site of the school to house many a decade on he found that it had not been built. well i'll expect that to do. a. lot. and not until. the next story is in tokyo a journalist however is not. a reporter for a lot of t.v. works in exile in his office that's not to reveal he said. he's on the government's

radar not only is a critical journalist but also as a member of a movement that has called for the removal of the president. has been in power since two thousand and five over the past year anti-government demonstrations and taker have been escalating and as the authorities began to crack down dominique chose to flee the country. to go. please just simply good. show. to move money trying to. get it to fit some people see. the piece on it as it is in this two month accumulation. do you not think that those political activities have compromised your standing as a journalist in the country you know. syria.

and. visits. to and. could do without a gun is a good situation. so i was informed. i said. companies investigation focuses on the financial dealings of patrice kind of katrina a businessman with close ties to target ruling family according to documents from h.s.b.c. private bank in switzerland in two thousand and five kind of caetera trying to bypass turkey's banking restrictions and while one point two million dollars out of the country and into a new set up account at the time he held director level positions at q state run companies and persia that were on the verge of bankruptcy companies challenge has been to corroborate the data in the documents with information back. in exile.

you create. a new someone down the minute in this yes i'm muslim i'm going. to go dig in the. seats. look. at the best song of the past when it did i was at. the rebel sons of local militia and give it my don't sort of prison that they defeat. when they deploy their defense should be monday feds. emmanuel dog davey is the managing editor of granite business news an online publication he is investigating a form

a guy named ambassador to the united states made by way to say on his foundation's website it's described as a philanthropist and humanitarian looking through documents leaked to the ice from the bermuda pay store from apple to doug davy discovered that would you say used the spider web before fuel pump and he's to hide from god named tax authorities his share of a three hundred five million dollars oil deal. precious worry everyone about the diploma should know better and conduct himself in the most difficulty with the register osho company so he would more or less maximize his profit and lessen his tax that is. contrary to the. vienna convention dies to contact all diplomats on duty he engaged in business activities and more seriously in our show business why who us to love us other that

is a clear conflict of interest and i use of office in this matter. i've been to the minister of foreign affairs. they haven't responded to my questions and that's very typical of gandhian politicians. the ignore you when you have a very serious and important questions to ask they would not respond if they respond they will respond after the facts. out of that but this simply didn't respond to the queries and only went to simple questions responses us to what the minister would do would normally under circumstances of that nature but didn't respond it seems to be a pattern of behavior here where government institutions or business leaders don't feel the need to respond to journalists why do you think that is i think it's simply impunity i definitely did everything emails phone calls from delivered lead

to. i give the order but you did the world would be over a month or two on the sort of quest so they're hoping. so we're stuffed alexis coming up next tuesday that's really spending a lot of time at the moment helping our partners get over the line. powerful people in that part of the well really don't like to respond to questions so. spending lots of time on the phone. i'm going to run to court ok. i've been helping west africa links partners make contact with and get responses from a number of subjects across the west african region i should say that this really is a two pronged approach that is the journalist in country will always try on their own

and to make contact with that person about whom they're writing the story but as we've found in a number of cases that local journalist is seen as the need for the standing of an important person or a politician in that country to respond to it so what i'm trying to do then is call from the u.s. number and it's surprisingly effective. yes good afternoon is this is this ms broad parka hello hello ms brought back a man as will fits in well according to the documents we have from penn in the papers you will listed as a shareholder of greater putu foundation ltd a company in the seychelles.

davis. works for the news news people he's been on the trail of kevin the fourth parker a curse for end of the film a lot better in threads that are in johnson city in the panama papers were recalled showing that. a pharmacist by trade was appointed director of a shell company called grey to preach in front patients limited through this camp in the dry parking lot beat the johnson city government on behalf of a foreign mining business to lend a lucrative and controversial deal for them despite a clear paper trail linking brought parker to grade to pre-fund ation limited birds she and johnson sitting for the night any knowledge of the company which should any editors interest but not necessarily bear it. in with a few hours to go to the politician of the story. after one thousand. thankful nation from any time that this story will be published in the news

newspaper. my editor. asked not. as plain to me why he can of publish this story but from my reading. is because of the people watching this story. the news like many newspapers in west africa is owned by a politician in this case wilson cato play the country's minister of commerce the paper is quietly seen as taking an editorial in soft approach to the current government and by the looks of things to the friends of former government says ron . we dropped the largess off at the news newspaper about five hours of an hour just waiting on his call to find out whether or not says it is going to publish the story he said it's a ghost of the story then great if not then there is a plan b. in the way. moments later david confirms that he said it's a hazard checked the story so we head across town to meet. rush hour traffic means

that we reach our destination of the night for the offices of the day observer. to ensure that he gets coverage david has a not for the first time he says taken history to the competition. a last minute editorial meeting this cold in the story gets the green light it moves through layout and into print within twelve hours a four month investigation built for one use paper winds up in the front page of and. the news feeds at the far less and take a mystic story about calls for war top you know we asked the paper's editor in chief for an interview you grease to speak with us when we arrived at the newsroom has left the building and won't take our calls. choose that may twenty second and across west africa the investigation. have started to go. maksim domini story about the dealings of businessman patrice. is on the front page

of loud tentative it gets picked up by radio however supporters of the government presumably circulated on social media a fake front page of loud tentative quoting the paper's editor in chief of the. media. in the. investigation into what he calls the phantom slaughterhouse makes national news in liberia the daily observant leads with david story into cliff and a bright however literacy rates in the country radio is where most liberians get their news and for this story to hit it will need to transition from print to broadcast in the days after publication this investigation it seems has failed to do that. it is the bank that helps clients break the law. now h.s.b.c. secrets around. the political impact of pasta media collaboration's coordinated by

the i.c.r.c. was almost immune to the banks in money from the public and often simply from tax authorities including its engine the panama papers investigation of two thousand and sixteen made headlines across the globe mr prime minister what can you tell me about a company called employees so now i'm starting to feel a bit strange about this question because it's like you want accusing me of something in iceland the prime minister was confronted on about his feelings he resigned a few days later the founders of the law firm. vested amongst others money has been became and there was a healthy dose of public outrage in many countries this forest of documents basically has been dubbed the paradise and it cost us paradise papers had less impact. few headlines there sadri but even by those standards the reaction to the

west african leaks has seen mutant wise. it could be the geographical focus of the stories the stubborn silence of many of those investigated or even the lack of evident public and. my question after west africa lakes is where is all that outrage where are those public demonstrations what we do know is that it's not because the communities in the countries in the citizens don't care about these stories all the have to do is speak to the reporters go on facebook to say that every single story from west africa legs was followed very closely and really great work by. case in point bikini a fashion where journalist sandrine sara dagger of lacanian mr fastow reported on two leading businessmen and a possible case of tax evasion. on a prison most doctors on the stand he couldn't get they didn't want to fall down to

the plunder vonte a prisoner like. this is. what. your point specific bristol university to all the press corps to mr last i see people in the world will . not wash intellectual capacity in issues one hundred regime also interest and. see in this it's. being gone nearly a month after emanuel published his story the ministry of foreign affairs finally got back to him about his questions with questions of it sir. be rude to ask me to tell them specific cases i was investigated there was no need to tell them what i was just getting i just wanted to move clearly what they didn't. for me at the religion of duty this shows

a lack of understanding of the rule of journalist and running away from being held accountable. the ministry disagrees with in a statement that you to his quote failure to disclose vital information it was unable to put the matter into context and therefore could not provide any additional information. that governments have been slow to respond to the revelations in the west african leaks or of ignore them completely has come as no surprise what's been more concerning has been the lack of response from other news outlets in the region one would expect stories of high level corruption and financial irregularities to top the news agenda are the subjects of these investigations of the very people who in large part control what gets reported in west africa and what does not. clearly there's some political pressures there's generally that are our press not to publish. their thing kind of things

and we can understand that we're working in that environment so we can we can never tell. all the variables have more effect. on the in bank or the lack of every population i remember one example from ivory coast where the day after the publication of a really strong west africa leak story into the underclass company of a very senior politician. a newspaper associated with the political party of that politician the next day carried a headline that said. something along the lines of troublemaking journalists just out to settle a score so to my mind for a fact that we haven't seen a global or even regional outcry from west africa legs is not indicative in and of itself of the quality but rather of significant work that remains in terms of free press and in terms of investigative journalism what no one can take away from the

west africa leagues is the fact that these historic is the first time you how this number of journalists within the subway didn't come up with them and went into production of a project which itself to the value of the weapon. and behold in the long. collaboration with severus his parishioners for. african journalists a new course to do you know sit in the seats and knew very well he would left. go on sunday morning the i'm sure this reform if you want but really just to get your laugh. to put no particular chord resume with west african you think that they ask me i recently went to school and went to shul for mr and i think. he was just democracy. you know c.d.c. . go through one. thing me in this pulling yet here put on the poison at least. on this you tube legal briefs you i believe the

minister when i just feel like it's just. there's a misconception about journalism one that many reporters still hold that once you expose corruption or wrongdoing the problem then comes to an end but that's not always the case journalism is just one step on the road to accountability and unless civil society gets behind the story the political will to take action will not be there journalists in short cannot do it alone you've been watching a special edition of our program on the west africa leeks we'll see you next time you're listening post seen but rarely heard india's two million street children live the desperate existence when east meets the child reporters from the slumdog press are giving a voice to india's invisible children on al-jazeera. it's

like the wild west they can do anything and the really hard for them to get the powerful internet is both a tool for democracy and a threat somebody who controls ten thousand bombs that control in a hundred thousand voices and they distort the debate in the echo chamber world of fake news in cyberspace the rules of the game have changed there are no precedents people and out investigate disinclination and democracy part two on al-jazeera. zero. and nine from studio fourteen here at al-jazeera headquarters in doha forty back to bowl welcome to the news grid the world holds its breath as at least three boys are rescued from a deep cave in northern thailand after being trapped for two weeks nine remain

underground and international team of divers and experts a lot of the dangerous rescue operation will have extensive coverage of this developing story with a live report and reaction also on the bridge with laughter and hugs the leaders of long time rivals ethiopia and eritrea meet for an unprecedented summit is the latest sign of improving relations between the two nations who fought a costly war eighty years ago so could this mean the end of one of africa's longest running on. a banner chapelle we've been speaking to eritreans about historic visit to us more and we'll have their reaction for you coming up you can connect with us using the hashtag injured newsgroup and routine the european union china's premier league chang is in germany seeking support in his trade war with the u.s. but some european officials are sounding the alarm on china's ambitions in their countries have a live report from. you

with a news great live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com thank you for joining us their plight has transfixed the world twelve young boys and their football coach trapped in a deep cave in northern thailand for two weeks while within just the last few hours workers have rescued at least four of the boys by helping them swim crawl and dive in extremely difficult conditions the operation continues to save the remaining nine of us but bad weather threatens yo ready complicated rescue mission we'll go live to ascot hyder shortly who's been covering this story for us from thailand but first here's what the governor of chiang rai province had to say about the rescue operation. paul. i would like to inform everyone at home and all those who have been giving us support all along but after sixteen days today's the day we've been reading for you're seeing the wild boar football team in the flesh now all right

live not to scott hi there who is near the site of that rescue. scott it would seem that this rescue mission is initial phase is going pretty quickly much quicker than they were anticipating just bring us up to speed with the latest first it is several hours quicker than expected fully the and this leak we heard ten am this morning the official announcement from the head of the rescue mission that we just heard that that sound from there he said it's probably going to take at least ten to twelve hours he estimated that nine pm local time is when we would have seen the first voice come out it was about nearly two hours before that more than two hours before that that we saw the first boy come out so quicker than expected he said it went better than expected and we don't know the details of exactly that why it was faster than they thought was a because the conditions conditions were better maybe the boys were in better shape that they thought they swam better than they thought were not quite certain but

what we do know is the recovery time if you will to turn the teams to turn the supplies in the cave you know they pre-positioned a lot of oxygen tanks and air tanks medical personnel that they have to replenish to get the next. shift if you will of congress to go in and get the next group of boys and bring them back out so that's going to take some time they say that at least between ten to twenty hours so so just to be clear the operation has been suspended for now and they're waiting ten to twelve hours to get the second a batch i mean that the remaining nine boys who are still on the ground. yes there well initially they said you know at the beginning of the day here on sunday they said it's going to take this whole operation to get everybody out is going to take three to four days and of day one where we are now so two to three more days so that means that what we saw it takes hours hours and hours because you have the team of divers that need to go in all the way in to where the the nearly

five kilometers where the boys are had sought refuge on this ledge this dry lead deep in the cave takes them five hours about to get there then it takes another five hours plus to get the boys out well i should say mine is because they got out quicker than that today so it is kind of a process that they can only do so much and then all the oxygen tanks all the the material that they prepositioned for this operation has to be replenished and again that takes another diving team so many hours to go in and take the oxygen tanks and place them where they need them refresh the staff out imagine the medical staff and chamber three which is kind of like an internal cave operations center need to replenish everything there so that's what's going to take ten to twenty hours ahead of the rescue missions before they're comfortable enough to get back in right possible complication as you might be able to see behind me now the rain has started we saw a little bit of rain earlier today but now it has started it's quite heavy tonight right now and the weather has been a big concern obviously is caught in

a knot of questions my view is on this story as you know this is a story that's gripped the entire world everyone wants to know what happens to these boys i mean for the the families of these trapped boys this is a day of course they have been waiting for but it's also one that fills them with dread i imagine because of the complicated rescue mission tell us about the reactions there on the news that four of the boys had been rescued. everyone is amazingly happy you know this is something it's you know over the last a week once the boys are found it's really transfixed the world because of the story because of the the arc of what's happening in the drama i mean we've been here we arrived just three days after the boys went missing so we've been here nearly two weeks we've seen the drama build and the families we've met with several family members and see the stress that they've gone through and then of course just because of how personal things have gotten the last couple of days is very enduring

with an exchange of notes between the parents and the kids and the kids in the parents very endearing so it's it's a story that has really captivated everyone and yes the you know the reaction the initial reaction this is fantastic four boys are out obviously those parents we've been speaking to some parents who've been up at the the cave site throughout this whole process you know can you and you can only imagine you know you've got this group of parents boys coming out bundled up taken to a medical facility given a good once over taken to the hospital the parents of they want to know if that's their son they want to know if that's their boy right we know that obviously they'll be treated much differently than than everyone else and absolutely they're put in a separate area so what will be interesting is when word starts to come out that they find out who they are and you know what the next not bats might be but again you know stunk up more days but first states good news good lord leads out yet not of optimism just two questions before we leave you scott from viewers who are watching us one from poena who's watching us from the u.k. on facebook and she asks how did these kids get down there in the first space in

another one that you can answer the same time one from i mean also on facebook who says how did they manage to feed themselves in the cave for two weeks. well the reason they they made their way in and again we're it's close to five kilometers in this community actually it's variance and where the helicopters some of the helicopters left that took some of the boys to a nearby hospital sixty kilometers away provincial capital hospital most biscuit in the area that is the football pitch that they were practicing on saturday june twenty third and as this team is from this community in this cave is very famous in thailand and specifically in this community they've gone there several times with this football coach for training for team building so it's something they've done before and it was actually some of these birthday one of the boys was his birthday it was his birthday so they went there to celebrate his birthday they were in inside we don't know for how long floodwaters came in you know it's the monsoon

season they rushed in and blocked them in what we do know right next to the football pitch we spoke to a woman possibly one of the last people to see them before they went in the cave she said she saw them a bunch of snacks and some water so clearly they knew they're going to go on a hike for quite some time so that to answer the second question that's all the food they had they were in there for ten plus days just with chips snacks and a little bit of water and that's why you know everyone is very concerned about the health of these boys the physical abilities of these boys because coming out is a very draining and physically challenging situation so they wanted to get their strength up and after being in there young boys high metabolism you know a bag of chips and two bottles of water could barely last an afternoon let alone ten plus days an incredible story of survival for those four boys that he said have been rescued thank you so much for speaking to us. in thailand as you heard scott mention their very complicated rescue operation his shot at belize not looking more

closely at the normas challenges of getting the boys out of the cave. the tome one cave is 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 mountain range the boys are stuck just past a kevan known as putting a beach now looking inside the mountain one point five kilometers from the main entrance navy seal team to set up a base in 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 rescue is need to crew to get through the passageway climbs and drops which means when it rains water builds up and these tips for kilometers then is passing a bitch the boys are about four hundred meters 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 meters 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 wit certs boots helmets and a scuba mask but no tank the proposal being they'll get from they 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. one less discuss this rescue operation for the now with that and mar mirsada who is the coordinator for the u.s. national cave rescue commission he joins us on skype from williams in indiana thank you so much for being with us on al-jazeera you're welcome there's been no shortages of warnings of course in recent days about just how risky this rescue

attempt is they were expecting the operation to go on for three four days but it would seem things are moving pretty quickly for this first phase anyway what do you think has made that possible well when we do contingency planning in rescue we always try to think of it in the longer run simply because that we make the plan based on the more the worst case scenario and that way we have adequate materials supplies personnel and timing to know that we can take care of the problem and usually it it works out that we actually have cedar expectations and in this case it sounds like they dramatically exceeded their expectations which is a very good thing under a number of levels one of course the boys get out quickly but it's also they've proven that their plan works and so that that actually decreases the risk for the

remaining boys of there's still a risk but it decreases that risk so so decreases the risk you say we're hearing that they're suspending the operation for ten.