safety of a lot of people and there are many who are stranded facing the terror of impending inundation and waiting for rescue the life saving operation is now a race against the clock. nearly two million people have been ordered to evacuate their homes another two point three million asked to leave voluntarily the south and western regions have been particularly hard hit. encouraged hundreds of patients were risk you from this hospital elsewhere in the city more than a thousand people remain trapped some of use social media to plead for help others are taking the risk use upon themselves just a little from what i went to my father's family home but it was hopeless to study we were hoping to find to pay full but we found only one japan is used to natural disasters earthquakes volcanic eruptions and flooding a common but seldom on the scale more than fifty thousand rescue workers police and military personnel have been deployed this rainfall is hitting basically everywhere

at once so there's no it's difficult for the emergency services to prioritize where they should go first because there are so many things happening all at once and obviously if a road is washed out or bridges destroyed even if you have a nice fire engine or ambulance you can't get to some of the places that you need to go to in coachy prefix twenty six centimeters of rain fell in three hours the heaviest downpours since records began more than forty years ago and monday's forecast office little comfort and. heavy rain will continue in the area from western to eastern japan and it will be historic torrential rainfall which could be the heaviest rain ever recorded. in some places flood waters have receded leaving grim saw it's like dead fish and crushed cars the search for survivors could take days the cleanup possibly much longer next banya al-jazeera. is for you some

breaking news coming out of me and i was charged two reuters journalists with obtaining state secrets. were arrested in december while invest. gating the killing of wrecking go muslims in me and mars right kind state they pleaded not guilty to the charges and say police planted evidence on them this case will now go to a full trial of a slew has been following this case for us from kuala lumpur and reported extensively from me and mark how surprised are we at this adjudication. well this is a case that really could have gone either way but i think the i mean the judge had at mit it had said that he would at mit the evidence given by a police captain in april when the police captain had testified that a senior officer had ordered his subordinates to plant documents on wallow in one of the reports is to trap him so it really comes as quite a surprise that this case hasn't been thrown out but i think also going by how the

men have already been held for seven months that they were denied bail for an offense such as this despite the pressure really shouldn't be surprised that the judge has decided that this case ought to go to a full trial now there are certain things that are very troubling with this case not just because it seems that. as the defense lawyers have argued this was a case of and trotman that these men had been set up apart from the police captain's testimony we've also the the report says themselves had also told the relatives that they were arrested shortly after they were handed documents by policemen they had never met and it was the policeman who had arranged for them to meet the police and reporters to meet and then they were detained in september in december last year and they've been held since this is a troubling case in myanmar because many see this as a test for press freedom especially with the government that was elected a government led by all senses she that only came into power in two thousand and fifteen this was seen to be a government that would bring in a new freedom

a new period of press freedom and openness but we're seeing that this may not necessarily be the case and the second it reason why this case is so troubling is because some press freedom advocates and human rights activists have argued that this seems to be consistent with the myanmar government myanmar authorities and myanmar military denying and downplaying what's happening with the will hinge a crisis in recalling the state now more than seven hundred thousand people have already fled were kind. had to skate to safety in bangladesh since august last year fleeing a military crackdown and these men these two reporters have been arrested for trying to document and trying to expose a massacre that they say were carried out by the myanmar military during the military crackdown and they've now been arrested to press freedom advocates are saying that this really harks back to a time when the myanmar military were using the same tactics to lock up and

persecute people who were trying to expose the truth of course is a developing story we'll come back to continuously thanks very much for its leader in kuala lumpur. still ahead here are packed five to a soul the back of a car we report from behind bars in venezuela. oh you just told. me today the weather sponsored by qatar airways hello there we've not got a great deal of cloud across our middle east chart a tool over the next few days in fact the satellite picture is only picking up a little bit in the far northern parts of iowa and here that's working its way up into kazakstan for most of us is just drawing and a very very hot and that's what you'd expect at this time of year so cobol up a thirty six degrees and further west is even hotter looks like baghdad will be up

at forty six now here the winds start to pick up and work their way down the gulf as we head through the next few days and so that means here in doha we'll lose the humidity that we've been seeing but it is going to get very hot so a strong wind then on monday forty five degrees at least will be our maximum and it will be a very blustery day there we will cloud a bit further south of that gradually begins to break up as we head through tuesday instead will just sit around the south coast of oman there and perhaps further west into eritrea where we'll see a few thunderstorms but the southern parts of africa largely fine and dry for many of us but not all of us in the eastern part of our map that is where we're seeing more in the way of showers the winds bringing in the cloud there to the eastern parts of madagascar one or two showers here and that's what we're seeing over parts of mozambique to some of the showers here could turn out to be a little bit heavy and they're pushing their way that a bit further towards the west we also see some showers over parts of boats one. the weather sponsored by qatar airways so. every weekly news cycle brings

a series of breaking stories with one of the truck didn't happen on the boy told through the eyes of the world's journalists the images matter a lot and. join the. post as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they report on the stories that matter the most the big third if someone from the country who guides you to lead you to the story of the byline tells us who wrote the listening post on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching officer imes the whole room with a reminder of our top stories rescuers are poised to resume the risky operation to extract a youth football team in

a flooded cave in northern thailand four boys were pulled out in the first phase on sunday but it was put on hold for divers to replenish their supplies also the government minister in charge of leading the united kingdom out of the european union has resigned david davis said he'd quit his brakes at minister because current policy would leave the u.k. in a week negotiating position. and to be able court has just charged two voters journalists with obtaining state secrets george so who and why alone were arrested in december while investigating the killing of ten bring the muslims and members rakhine state they pleaded not guilty to the charges and say police planted evidence. it's been decided that brazil's former president louise in arceo lula da silva will stay in prison for now earlier a judge granted an injunction for looters really sparking a series of contradictory judicial decisions over the politicians fate the confusion has finally been settled by an appeals court chief justice who said the

former president must remain in jail for the time being lula has been serving a sentence of twelve years and one month in prison for corruption. has more from one as ira's. there's been a day of high drama in brazil with different judges in different cities around the country disagreeing with one another on whether the former president of the suitable should be allowed out of prison he's serving a twelve year one month prison term in the city of quit chiba on corruption and money laundering challenges but one judge in the southern city of deliberate ruled on the writ of habeas corpus that the former president should be allowed out to finish off the appeal procedure should be free to be able to do that than the initial judge the judge who sent to prison in the first place back in april he said that judge did not have the authority to allow former president lula out of prison

it went to and fro with other judges stepping in and so the federal court judge was finally asked to make a ruling he said the president or president of the silver should at least spend the night in prison but the impasse is by no means over other judges are likely to step in the country is polarized the country it split on whether the former president should be allowed out on not he has expressed his innocence all along he says is the victim of a political vendetta and what many believe it is if he is allowed out and is allowed to stand the presidential elections in october he would in fact with his pauses believe this and opinion polls in it do indicate that would be the case so a very difficult situation now in which president. depending on the legal wranglings with the spending twelve years in prison or perhaps by the end of the year it could be president again or brazil. peter kim is a latin america political analyst he says the situation facing the lawyer could destabilize the october election. there's lots of questions how the issue will be

resolved whether or go to a higher court the supreme court or whether there will be some kind of broad. vote of all the justices of the appeals court so a very very let's say unpredictable and destabilizing in some ways of of the upcoming election. i think i basically think the judges are acting on the sort of the rule of law. basically the constitution of the law i think they interpret it in different ways i don't think they're politically engaged the judges some might be more or less. but they do have obviously political views and there are differences on the court conditions inside venezuela's jails on the tory asleep down to where they have

a crowding and frequent violence but for some prisoners the lack of space means that they're being kept locked up for yaz and police stations which aren't meant to hold people for more than forty eight hours to hold. five men to a police station holding cell smaller than a car. with no excites you know beds they stuck in here twenty people seven snatching sleeping blankets slung up as makeshift time of the both who switched in the boats if you're in a to. but at least it's for a maximum of forty eight hours that's what venezuelan law says anyway reality some of actually been here for years one of the hoffa miss man's case he's desperate to get to a real jail. there are moments when there are lots of prisoners they bring them and bring them but there aren't transfers to anywhere else and that's really difficult because the holding cell sometimes i relive and you collapse. venezuela's jails are

completely overcrowded that means the prisoners across the country are stuck in police station lock ups while they wait for space to be freed up for many family visits are their only hope of food and your investigators claim that several detainees have died of hunger. venezuelan enzio window to freedom monitored almost two hundred temporary detention centers last year they found that nearly two thirds were cleaned so rubbish and human waste powered up and this is was rife more than sixty percent didn't have separate cells for women and that no cuts worth two hundred fifty percent of their maximum capacity the crush of people has led to many police forces resorting to a radical and illegal solution keeping prisoners simply struck some patrol calls when they run out of cells. meanwhile the wheels of the venezuelan justice system turn slowly to speed them up or at least make conditions will bearable you have to

pay. yes and that is swell and the hold beneath the mr big map here that produces a lot of money. taking you to the tribunal to continue judicial process getting the transport to get you anywhere. they can charge you to eat for the officer to take the food you drill it brings from the door of the locker. especially for those who don't have the cash this is their reality what can be years on end john home an ode to venezuela. the rioting and looting continue in haiti's capital even though the government to suspending a proposed hike in fuel prices. police warning shots up the crowd to strip supermarkets set on fire during two days of violent protest earlies three people have died since the demonstrations began on friday the government wanted to increase the cost of fuel by about forty percent to generate more tax revenue. now

one of the world's largest smartphone makers has debuted on the hong kong stock exchange sharmeen is expected to become the world's third biggest publicly traded mobile phone manufacturer estimates had value the company at one hundred billion u.s. dollars with hopes of drawing ten billion for million vestas but so far it's severely underperformed during its initial public offering to new zealand state media is reporting that nine members of the country's security forces have been killed in an ambush in jenin province close to the border with algeria scuse me the interior ministry says a police patrol was attacked with a grenade and then shot at it confirmed that the death toll will be the highest an attack in tunisia since twenty fifteen. protesters in morocco have handed sentences down last month to leaders of a social movement known as heroic in. the quarter in casablanca gave four of its

leaders sentences of up to twenty years in jail for conspiracy to undermine the security of the state the group organize several protests in morocco's rift region demanding more jobs and economic development and solidarity march for migrants has reached its final destination in london ten weeks after setting off from the italy france border hundreds of charity workers and volunteers retrace the steps of refugees and migrants through france they were welcomed with a special event at london's hyde park the day barber was there. well this gathering in london's hyde park is bringing together refugees people who've made britain their home and volunteers who worked with some of them in cali including in that notorious jungle camp which was destroyed about two years ago they've also been joined by a group of pro migrants activists who've walked right through france to highlight some of the issues facing refugees and migrants right now i'm joined with one of

the maya can foresee my it tell me exactly what messages you've been trying to put out during that moment we basically wanted to ask for a better dignified and open welcome of refugees and we wanted to do that in no happy joyful way and to show that. men in front many many people are open to the welcome of refugees open air how to them are very in gauging a cause for refugees this is what we wanted to show and we clearly show that we have thousands of people joining us i just very quickly the situation in cali is still not perfect by any means definitely not we have a lot less refugees and at the time of the bring big jungle we have about five or six hundred refugees however they are living in a horrific conditions mainly because the government is doing everything to discourage him from staying there so they constantly chorusing them in any way they

can and they actually also do the same towards us to see asians will help them well just today some of the group twenty three people in fights were refused permission to come here to travel to england because they didn't have a visa just another reminder of the different rights that different groups of people have and that's one of these issues that the activists are calling for they're calling for britain and france to meet their legal obligations to help these refugees but also for the. right to travel. you're watching over there over the whole robin these are all top news stories rescuers are set to resume the risky operation to extract a youth football team from a flooded cave in northern thailand four boys were pulled out in the first phase on sunday but it was put on hold for divers to replenish their supplies so vasant has

more from chiang rai still waiting for the commander to brief journalists on what the condition is of these four boys there hasn't been any word on serious condition is their health ok we only know that one of them has been airflow into a hospital which could indicate that he had been in a serious condition and three others were brought by ambulance so there's still a lot of news that we need to know from the hospital before we can also speculate on how did it's going to go but least one hundred people are being killed and dozens more are missing in japan after three straight days of trench rain evacuation orders are in place for nearly two million people and multiple landslide warnings have been issued a large scale rescue operation is underway the breaking news coming out of me and to reuters journalists have been charged with attending state secrets. low were arrested in december while investigating the killing of ten running of the slums

and myanmar's rakhine state where they pleaded not guilty to the charges and say police planted evidence of them the british government minister in charge of leading the united kingdom out of the european union has resigned david davis said he quit his brakes at minister because current policy will leave the u.k. in a weak negotiating position. police in the country have confirmed that a woman the forty four year old daughter sturges who was exposed to the nerve agent last week has died a male friend that she was with at the time in the english town of arms very remains critically ill. it's been decided that brazil's a former president to luis in us a little to silver will stay in prison for now earlier a judge granted an injunction filleul is release sparking a series of contradictory judicial decisions over the politicians fate the confusion has finally been settled by an appeals court chief justice who said the president must remain in jail when you said half an hour to stay with us here on al-jazeera. capturing

a moment in time. shots of other lives other stories. providing a glimpse into someone else's work. inspiring documentary from impassioned filmmakers everybody's going to. be stunned as the members. on al-jazeera. on the twenty second of may a series of major news stories broke across west africa in a simultaneous 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 though in brooklyn a facile 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 listening posts nick knew or had now in the making and breaking of the west africa leaks. the west africa leaks is the largest of our collaboration of investigative reporters from across west africa division that there is immediate. reason seems to be based on their report that. we have thirteen journalists are exploring nearly thirty million offshore financial records this is just ridiculous you. suppose she's.

why. is someone who has nothing no islamist no twenty in mining why is she the dad talk. this is a mom who is championing the cause i'm sure but makes that liberates effort to deny. me tax from oil same with global media collaboration's not only is that the more the merrier the more the country. west africa will project the west africa leeks got its start in senegal we're going to find a much more interesting name for this project over the next three days the list of the better i'm still in it to 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. 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 that. not on my contacts. more simple. than more in doing stories of this nature 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 that socrates. to go and so they. don't. it gets in the default but this will not least be what you put in even. to put the . simple don't want to. send. then you would put this is an address. it's not necessarily. true address an accurate address where you. walk yeah right you don't let walk. alone doesn't tell a story you need to investigate what the data presented to you to have

a part of the work but fortunately i did find some documents and i started building hypothesis and the documents and setting 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. as the west africa leaks i.c.i. jay's seventh major media collaboration investigating offshore finance there can of course be legal 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 for its latest investigative

collaboration. 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 poorest countries combined second governance authorities here 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 . 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 newsworthy stories. 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 fifteen 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 stood offshore with links to the new syrian 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 he had not been booked. while expected to do. a. and not until. the next story is in togo the journalist does not. need earth porter for a lot of. works in exile and his office 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 for yes and b. has been in power since two thousand and five over the past year anti-government demonstrations taker have been escalating and as the authorities began to crack down dominique chose to flee the country. to go. simply kid. show. it to move money trying to. get it to fit. in 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 t.v. . so i was informed there is don's. company's investigation focuses on the financial dealings of patrice ya kind of patricia 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 keter trying to bypass turkey's banking instructions and while one point two million dollars out of the country and in turn you set up an account at the time he held director level positions at q state run companies and both of them 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. minute in this yes you know whom i'm going. to go dig in the. seats. look. at the song of that bastard did i was that. the rebel sons of local militia and did it my the sort of president that they defeat. what they did feds. emanuel dog davey is the managing editor of gone a 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 a humanitarian looking through documents leaked to the i.c.r.c. from the bermuda based girlfriend applebee dog 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 that had a diploma should know better and conduct himself in the most difficulty with register osho companies so he would more or less maximize his profit and lessen his taxes 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 was to loan us other

that is a clear conflict of interest and i use of office in this matter. i've been to the ministry 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. but simply didn't respond to the queries and only went to simple questions responses us to what the minister would do would normally on the 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 whole deal but you did the world would be over a month or two on the sort of quest to send it home. so we're stuffed alexis coming 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 the course ok i've got. 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 prong 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 a u.s. number and it's surprisingly effective. yes good afternoon is this is this ms broad parka hello hello ms broad program on arms will fix given all according to the documents we have from penn in the papers you were listed as a shareholder of greater putu foundation ltd a company in the seychelles. your

shoes davis. works for the news newspaper he's been on the trail of kevin the fourth parker a cursed friend of the film a lot better and throws it out in johnson city in the panama papers were recalled showing that dr parker the pharmacist by trade was appointed director of a shell company called great if we confront patient limited through this company dr paul can lobby the johnson city government on behalf of a foreign mining business to land a lucrative and controversial deal for them despite a clear paper trail linking brought parker to grade to prefund they should limit birds she and johnson city for the night any knowledge of the company would should any editor's interest but not necessary not to bear it. in with a few hours to go to the politician of the story. not wanting. thanks for mission former editor and historian who'll be publishing 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 by 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 soft approach to the current government and by the looks of things to the friends of former government says well . 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 time to meet. rush hour traffic means

that we reach our destination of the night for the offices of the daily observer. to ensure that he gets published 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 of the far less antagonistic story about calls for war tripe you know we asked the paper's editor in chief for an interview you grease to speak with us are a mere 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 with the supporters of the government presumably circulated on social media a fake front page of loud tentative calling 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 caravan the bright talker 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 bank in the news 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 implants so now i'm starting to feel a bit strange about this question because it's like you're 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 local by. case in point the king of journalist sandrine sara dagger of lacanian mr fastow reported on two leading businessmen and a possible case of tax evasion. on a prison last time does on the stand he couldn't get they didn't want to cause them

to plunder vonte a prisoner lector this is. what. you post the simplest engineer that day to all the press corps so mr last i see people in the world will. not wash intellectually give me the mission france and the regime also interest and. in this it's. been gone and nearly a month after emanuel dogberry 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 getting i just wanted to move clearly what the didn't. call the conduct of diplomacy duty for me is shows at the religion of duty which shows

a lack of understanding of the rule of journalist and running away from being held accountable. the ministry disagrees with in a statement said 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 government's 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 being 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 are 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 impact or the lack of every population and i remember one example from ivory coast where the day after the publication of a really strong west africa leak story into the underclass offshore company of a very senior coaches well 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 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 fraud that is historic is the first time you how this number of journalists within the subway do columbus and went into production of the project which itself to the value of the web. as being whole in the long. collaboration with there was this period she had for. african journalists a new course to do you know see in the suits in newsrooms would left. go on sunday morning the i'm sure this reform is what data logistic is your last. chord resume with us stuff you can only think that they ask me when we went to school meant to shop for mr and i think. he was three of them just don't want to see either to flee from the c.d.c. . i. don't. want men saluting me they sailed through and yet here put on a poise and leave this. on

a few good legal briefs you have visual menace you went and yes you and i could feel. 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 at the listening post. a new series of rewind can bring your people back alive i'm sorry and brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries the struggle continues but from the till now of these districts rewind continues with the return of the lizard king the

steep shall become one east upwards of two hundred species are going extinct every twenty four hours and a lot of that is attributed to wildlife trafficking rewind on al-jazeera. four of the trapped time football boys are rescued efforts to get the rest are expected to resume in the coming hours. alone so robin you're watching al-jazeera life my headquarters here in doha also coming up the government minister in charge of the u.k.'s breaks of negotiations resigns. warnings for extreme danger least one hundred people are killed

interventional rains and flooding in western japan. a new development in the case of two journalists accused of obtaining state secrets in me and. welcome to the program in thailand rescuers are poised to resume the operation to save a group of boys and their football coach from a flooded cave in the north of the country four of the twelve boys were pulled out of the cave on sunday the operation was then paused so that rescue divers could replenish their supplies and there has been rain overnight which could mean that rising water and wind oxygen levels inside the cave let's go. and to new and talk to step vasant who's in chiang rai and step obviously we're expecting an update on the mission from the commander in use in charge of the scenario but certainly sort of a change in tone and optimism since they got some of the boys out on sunday. yes

absolutely optimism of course because the plan that day so carefully prepared and had rehearsed so many times actually worked and they managed to take out four boys alive and well last night and they are now being taken care of in a hospital in chung and i but also patience is the key word here today because since that moment the boys came out it was around seven o'clock last night here in thailand until eight o'clock four boys came out one by one since that moment and now it's twelve o'clock noon now in thailand there hasn't been any official word on the condition of the boys but also on the continuation of this rescue operation last night the commander said it would take ten to twenty hours to replenish to get rest and make sure that this expert diving team is get back to work and can make this second attempt successful as well which could mean that this could happen

late this afternoon around four o'clock if twenty hours is exactly what they need but until now we still have to wait and see if this is actually going to happen the condition of the weather is now it's still very cloudy but it's not raining so if you would show them that the conditions inside the cave are still the same with yesterday there was a little rain overnight but you would assume it hasn't been flooded more than it was before so maybe the conditions are still goes to make a second attempt there's a lot of speculation that the divers might have gone in already but as i said nothing has been confirmed so we still have to wait and see if it a next hour some boys emerge or is going to take a little longer and of course the eyes of not just the world but all of thailand being told this location for nearly two weeks of a real life drama. being played out in real time.

absolutely day they're following every minute of this drama of course and there were hungry for news they're hungry for news about how are these kids doing how are the boys who are now in the hospital one had to be airlifted out of from when he emerged from the case to the hospital so maybe he's not in a very good condition to three out of went by ambulance this some word from the child that i or throw it is that all the four boys are fine and that they are now under medical treatment but no details have emerged we don't even know exactly who the boys are who have been taken out first are they the weaker ones or are they the stronger once there's a lot of speculation on that as well you would assume that the weaker ones of course would be extracted from the cave first because they need medical attention for us but what we also know is that the coach is in a bad condition as it's being told but he is definitely still inside so still a lot of questions and of course the whole nation is waiting ferry urgently to what the commander of this this operation is going to say next who should see what

happens in the coming hours in the come back to when the situation develops thank you. chris brown is a cave diver who's been involved in previous rescue operations so he says the training provided by rescue workers goes well beyond calming the boy's fears. well i think the people doing the training on the boys in the cave appear to done a very good job today they have got to teach these boys how to scuba dive which anonyma done before. when you go underwater with a mask on i believe they're using for face masks which is very sensible so they can breathe through their mouth and through their nose so it's more natural but when they first get under water the fear of the water on top of them they'll have a bit of trouble getting used to that and also more importantly if the water is any deeper than about three meters deep from the cave then they have to teach the boys how to equalize the because it is close as they go down the water pressure

increases thus the middle needs to have air force stuff into it by holding your nose and blowing if the boys don't learn to do this properly and it gets out of a three made his fate and maybe gets down to six meters that if i can't equalize the is they'll be in a lot of pain and there's a chance that rupture one of the drums from what i can seen and heard so far it sounds that the the people trying i'm in the cave have done a very very good job to teach them how to do the basic scuba diving and. the way they bring him out and be able to keep them calm i think is my great it's a great credit to the people doing the training that they achieved to get four people out with apparently no major mishaps well to your word the british government minister in charge of leading the united kingdom's bricks in negotiations has resigned david davies quit as bricks at minister just hours after

prime minister to recently announced she was going to take a cab and its plan for leaving the european union to brussels it is resignation letter to the prime minister davis claims the current policy will leave the u.k. in a weak negotiating position may her struggle to unite factions within her ruling conservative party over how the u.k. will proceed with bricks it well tom brooks is a professor of law and government at durham university he says the resignation is hugely damaging for the prime minister. she was a very key minute secretary of state in her cabinet the lead negotiator for bracks it she's only just brought together her katter full cabinet for the one and only time to agree what their backs it will be and during the next few days was going to release their their white paper explaining what exactly the government's backs its final breaths if you was to be for brussels for him to leave right now quite

literally that the crunch time is is calamitous for the britons brecht's at negotiations i think it's very bad for her leadership and will really cause for some problems the next hours and days to come on the one hand the the kind of the part of her support that's very firmly for what's called kind of a heart rex at the full break from the european union there they're a minority i mean they're not the biggest group and the tory party they're not the biggest group in parliament but they're a sizable group they are you know very full of conviction for their view and they've held the prime minister's trying to this kind of uneasy alliance of folks in our party who've been both for a very strong breakfast and those who who are against bracks in the campaign she was going to be uneasy alliance which she's been trying to kind of piece together but this resignation from the moz the biggest high profile short of boris johnson

for breaks in her cabinet the chief negotiator is going to i think there's been signals in the past of of letters calling for a leadership challenge i would not be very surprised i'm not predicting anything right now but i would not be surprised if david davis was possibly going to be challenging her personally or if he is in his resignation in the morning going to throw his weight behind someone else to challenge or it could be jacob reese mog it could be boris johnson it could be someone like this but there's going to be a challenge i think almost certainly in the next hours or days. while staying in the country police in the u.k. have confirmed that a woman exposed to the nerve agent of a truck last week has died just fell ill after apparently handling an item contaminated with the substance now health authorities are trying to calm residents in the community that seen several military grade poisonings in

a matter of months john a silver has been. for over a week doctors at salzburg a district hospital battle to save the life of dan sturges to no avail they've now confirmed the death of the forty four year old mother of three who had fallen critically ill after being exposed to what british authorities believe is the same deadly nerve agent known as know the chalk used to target a former russian spy and his daughter in march i want to express my condolences and those of everyone here at sells bridges st hospital to john's family our staff are talented dedicated and professional and i know that they will be hurting too they did everything that they could we continue to treat one other individual who remains in a critical condition the circumstances under which sturgis and the forty five year old man charlie rowley came into contact with the military grade substance are still being determined but he tweet from the british prime minister following the

news of sturgiss death leaves no doubt as to the nature of the investigation theresa may said i am appalled and shocked by the death of dawn sturgis and my thoughts and condolences go to her family and loved ones police and security officials are working urgently to establish the facts of this incident which is now being investigated as a murderer. but the investigation led by britain's counter-terrorism unit has yet to confirm whether or not the same batch of novi chalky is behind the two incidents sturgis and her friend came into contact with the parties in the town of amesbury just eleven kilometers away from source bree where the scriptures were attacked britain's public health authority has tried to calm locals fears of contamination the risk. is very small and it is very small because there's not a lot of it is a very large area and you have to come in contact with it with your bare skin because. well if you do we know this is after the march attack

on the script falls british politicians were quick to point the finger at moscow sparking the biggest western expulsion of russian diplomats since the cold war but mystery still surrounds how a deadly nerve agent ended up on the streets of the usually quiet corner of southern england she won the silver zero. situation where me and mark orders charged to reuters journalists for the tailing state secrets. and why lone were arrested in december while investigating the killing of ten ring of muslims in mia miles rakhine state that they pleaded not guilty to the charges and say police planted evidence on them florence louie has this update from kuala lumpur this is a case that really could have gone either way but i think that i mean the judge had at met head had said that he would at mit the evidence given by a police captain in.