according to sources one of the lizard kings biggest customers lives in indonesia bustling capital. we arrive just of the city is hosting a reptile exhibit. which. despite this being a government sanctioned event it doesn't take long for us to find illegal animals for sale. yet in the research including tortoises from madagascar. still undercover as a dealer we head for one of the biggest booths. but we sit down for a meeting you know with daniel and you would judge or you know answer how do you know it's a. long time. not only does daniel readily admit the to work together but we notice he's also wearing a shirt from madagascar and doesn't go on her so still to still doing our there

there then something that surprises even us daniel admits the two thousand and ten shipment of snakes which landed anson in prison was destined for his shock even her hero. you know yeah he's my. my friend. if you think i beat you if they go. pick your biggest or manny means like they were your snakes i read about that on. daniel also claims that after his last conviction wang's wife is increasingly taking over the operations he way he went for the. trials ok all right and it works out it's time to get a little closer. our first stop is once rural property in penang is back hills. we need to see whether he's returned to his life of crime as some say or leading a reform life. twenty ten when man first man officers busted into

displace he found two planes tigers so it's a crocodile question now it's sort of still cold here. an hour later after hiking through the hills we stumble on a number of cages. and then we spot an enclosure. there's a tortoise inside. evidence the wall is at least keeping animals. for the wrong we find a row of newer enclosures it's hard to make out what they are so we creep closer the animals have distinctive ears we show our photos later to experts who tell us these are servile cats from north africa. following his twenty ten conviction malaysia's government banned wong and his wife

. from holding business and wildlife trading permits. yet someone in government did knowingly sign off on new licenses are search of public records found that both anson and his wife have had several business permits renewed from the book it jumble reptile sanctuary. to errol flynn. to c.b.s. wildlife. posing as customers we visit the penang address listed for the company. where we find answers wife chair being she almost immediately she confirms she and her husband are still trading and. there. are documents search also in covers another company grown a wild ride. it was formed after one's twenty ten convictions listed owner is

a name we don't recognize. but trading permits show it exports the same animals as anson did to the same us customers he had before his arrest. i think the door might be open so. rose address is listed on the upper floor of a commercial strip in the name of somebody near for sure. from the street we can make out aquariums and cages leading us to believe animals are being kept there. and there. we find a worker or i have a horror now where. whatever that was more than happy to show off his current stars. there are many albino pythons some thirty feet long all of them require permits. and then we confirm the real person behind. your boss is mr. mr wall. and.

we show our findings to and surendra a lawyer and opposition member of parliament in malaysia the fact that is being done in open again indicates corruption for years surrendering has publicly raised the need to investigate the country's wildlife department. accusing them of aiding and abetting warn so he seems to be able to operate above the law and beyond the law in malaysia how is that possible it is impossible without the complicity of all the authorities throughout our year long investigation which involved lengthy stakeouts in several countries we never caught sight of the lizard king this despite frequent reports from sources that he was in the area. finally we tracked him down in the name mr wong steve child from the program went to any star you would love to ask you a question if we can know are you still involved in the trade.

to talk to you sir can you tell us what role no wildlife here is. and why why are there albino pythons rhona wildlife and according to the government you are not supposed to be trading in wildlife lawsuits women. are you admitting ask the government are you saying you're doing nothing wrong. and i have no comment . off of the jumble as well as your company. companies. several companies including rona wildlife do you call it. sir are you still involved in the trade directing an endangered species. that. you understood one of his workers along with his wife tries to stop us from filming there so you've served time in jail serve one grows increasingly aggressive love and agents while we're on public property search so we're out there because you're

behind you're on public property don't push us are there on public property. or we're on the property. just as quickly though we're only a bad song sir and can you tell us what this box is for. sir these are serious questions we understand that you have served time for a number of these crimes and the question is are you still involved in the trade of endangered species it's the most will get from here sir but not once did long denied he was back in the reptile trade. some questions left unanswered is whether his dealings would be possible without the help of authorities and wide. spite her obvious involvement his wife has never been brought up on charges so you are the official owner of the no run a wild life. you know. why is that man. what

is clear is that lizard king and his associates continue to operate just as we have for decades. trading in selling off the world's most endangered creatures at will. well that was return of the lizard king from one in one east back in two thousand and thirteen little is known today of ants and was whereabouts but he seems to have lost his standing as the kingpin of wildlife trafficking joining us now from kuala lumpur is steve child followed one for a year and steve you went undercover over the course of the year following wall why was it so important for you to make this film and take the risks that you took well elizabeth we were hearing from a lot of environmental groups around the world about how serious the wildlife trafficking situation was becoming many people were linking the wildlife trafficking trade to other major crimes like the trafficking of arms and the trafficking of drugs and saying that it was on the same level and that organized

crime syndicates were getting involved that was sort of the impetus for us to start looking at this and then when we're trying to sort of target or pinpoint people who are involved in the trade and since we're and someone's name kept coming up so we decided to try to infiltrate his network and find out what was going on whether he is still involved in wildlife trafficking we simply do not know what we do know is that after we ran our film malaysian authorities did charge the director of a company that hanssen long was affiliated or linked to as well as they did also charge his former wife for possession of endangered animals after several years of delays in the courts that malaysian. director of that company pled guilty to possession and willingly agreed to pay a fine of ten thousand u.s. dollars plus of the prosecution however dropped the charges against and ones former wife so the film did have some impact but of course not the kind of impact that's

needed and where do things stand and malaysia now stephen where does that figure and global wildlife trafficking malaysia still remains a key transit hub for even legal wildlife being trafficked the way it works we understand is that poachers there are poaching wildlife from africa or other parts of asia are shipping it through malaysia as well as other countries in southeast asia on to destination points in terms of places where buyers are are acquiring this so malaysia still remains a problem country there has been a lot of work done by the un and others to train customs officers here and to create more of a diligence if you will to keep tabs on customs officers so that they aren't on the take however that is a challenge we understand throughout much of the world especially in southeast asia so what we're seeing is that a lot of the cultures there there trafficking their goods through these places and once authorities seize some of the shipments then that is switched to another countries some of the key countries are seeing you know the continually popping up

are malaysia thailand laos vietnam and these are just some of them that are key problem cities countries if you will and steve who is driving the market. well that's a very good question it is extremely varied depending on the wildlife and the type of wildlife we're talking about if we're talking about wildlife use for the descent all purposes such as pangolin scales or rhino horns that are rubbed down into medicine the key markets are vietnam and china predominately as well as other parts of asia if we're talking about the trafficking of pets you know pets illegally taken from places that then that becomes much more global so we're talking about you know interest out of collectors in the middle east collectors in europe the u.s. and also in parts of asia as well in terms of how much this illicit trade is worth annually we are dealing with a tsunami the numbers are staggering we're talking about upwards of two hundred

species of flora and fauna that are going extinct every twenty four hours that's about one thousand times the natural progression if you will of any extinction that we've seen on the planet and a lot of that is attributed to wildlife trafficking we know what more can be done about it you know the key people say is corruption corruption corruption is the main problem if you know customs officials if the government officials in various countries you know stop you know taking in the bribes if they actually you know stop the shipments then perhaps we can put an end to this but at this moment it's not happening richard lewis you know we spent some time with him in madagascar for this film and when we were out in the jungles with him you know we we looked at the ploughshare tortoise one of these very wanted you know animals and at the time of filming there were about four hundred ploughshare tortoises left in the wild only four hundred but as of now we understand that number is down to fifty and that

species is on the brink of extinction and that's the heartbreaking part thank you very much steve and that's it from us but do join us again next week and check out the rewind page at al-jazeera dot com for more films from the scene for now thanks for joining us and see you again seven. i. a new series of rewind a care bring your people back to life i'm sorry and brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries the struggle continues from. these distance rewind continues with the silver friends we're going back to a poor south african neighborhood where music and tradition come together in an annual competition looking forward. we want on al-jazeera. july on al-jazeera. in

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government as the man in charge if it's negotiations quits more than one hundred people killed in floods and landslides that have devastated large parts of japan and two journalists who reported on the roof refugee crisis are ordered to stand trial in million mark. hello the dangerous mission to rescue the remaining eight boys and their football coach from a flooded cave in thailand has resumed divers brought out the first four on sunday they are set to be in good health but are being kept from their parents for now as they're monitored for infection. shortly will be speaking to stuff awesome who is monitoring the latest rescue efforts. but first scott heiler tells us how the first boys were brought to the surface. after more than two weeks trapped deep underground one by one the boys emerged and were taken away by ambulance their

ordeal finally came to an end when rescuers launched a daring effort to bring them out guiding them through a four kilometer labyrinth of treacherous tunnels cave the head of the rescue mission described it as d. day and called the boys by the nickname of their football team when he confirmed the first extraction had been a success. i would like to inform everyone at home and all those who have been giving. support all along that after sixteen days today's the day we've been waiting for we are seeing the wild boar football team in the flesh now and i thought. the rescue mission took days of preparing and planning after the group was found alive by divers on monday crews have been pumping water out of the cave system resupplying the boys with food and oxygen and drilling to help open up their escape route with. sunday's mission was described as better than expected and went

quicker than planned as rescuers take the next ten to twenty hours to prepare for monday's mission heavy rain has started to fall and that's something that could complicate the next rescue eight boys in their twenty five year old football coach remain inside the cave experts say divers already face a dangerous mission to get them out for the team themselves of course there's the risk 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 before rescued boys are now recovering in a local hospital for the nine others still trapped agonizing wait goes on gotta al-jazeera chiang rai let's not cross over to china ryan speak to stop us and she's

joining us from there until we know when we should expect to see the boys come out of the cave us this day to begins. well hopefully this agonizing wait as scott described as it's coming to an end for a couple of boys again today we just heard it's just confirmed that at eleven o'clock this morning five hours ago a group of rescue divers went into the cave again it's the same group of divers basically as did the rescue operation yesterday because it is out of course and they have all the experience know the cave very well and hopefully if everything goes well and it goes as it happened yesterday they should come out between seven and nine o'clock does evening happen actually faster yesterday so it might even be earlier because now of course the experience is there and they have done it before so everyone of course is waiting for the good news again to come from the cave and once the boys or a couple of them are out stuff what happens then what are the of the next steps.

well they're now being kept in isolation in the hospital in chiang rai even their own parents haven't been able to visit them so you can imagine how difficult this must have been for the parents because they haven't seen their voice for more than two weeks then finally they were found alive and then finally now they're out of the cave and still they can't see them but the government said maybe later tonight they at least can see them by the economy any hugging or kissing because they're worried for contagious diseases for example is the disease called leptospirosis and it's a disease that you can get from a rat that could be in the cave and it could be contagious to other humans so of course the authorities especially the hospital want to rule that out before they actually get them into touch with their families and this story stuff as we've been covering it here on al-jazeera our viewers certainly gripped by it and everyone right around the world. absolutely every minute is being

followed here in thailand and around the world as you say of this unbelievably unfolding story is of course the agony of it can they actually come out alive and then yesterday finally the good news that all they were planning and rehearsing to try to distract this boy from this unbelievably difficult route of four kilometers through some very narrow hopefully down the boys could stay calm and they would be confident that their rescuers could take them out and finally then the good news that they actually did this i'm sure this boys can be so proud of themselves that they were brave enough to do this and now of course everyone is hoping that the rest of the nine will come out the same way and ask how and find as the first group . stop us and giving us the update from china right thank you the british government minister in charge of negotiations to leave the e.u. has resigned david davis quit as secretary in a letter to prime minister to resign may in which he wrote that he couldn't abide

by the government's current departure plan it's another big blow to may who struggled to unite rival factions within her governing conservative party live to lawrence lee joining us from london how we heard anything further from david davis and self. well he gave an interview on the radio this morning in which she said that he couldn't deliver what the reason may. have now offered in this vision this third way is being called that she's pushing forward which is a sort of half in the half out kind of arrangement with the european union and it was sort of inevitable really because you know for months or months or months now it's resume a has refused to take one side of the other issue on the side with the people who want to leave the european union completely or is going to side with those people who say we have to maintain some sort of economic relationship in the u.k. with the european union because otherwise it'll be disastrous for business and all the big multinational companies like miss sandal air bus and these sort of

companies will shut down and move out and thousands of people lose their jobs and so eventually she's tried to square that circle but it's obviously been done in the way which is is completely unsatisfactorily to those hardliners who wants to leave the european union entirely now this guy david davis says he doesn't want to see it's reasonably go but it does create an absolutely massive problem for her because her proposal is supposed to form the basis of what's called a white paper and that's going to be published on thursday and that then gets taken over to brussels for the european union side to decide if they like it or don't like it and so him him resigning at the start of the week before that is is is pretty catastrophic for the reason maybe because she doesn't actually have a negotiator on her side going to appoint somebody else this morning but it makes the u.k. so decide look very very weak in the eyes of the european union and yeah one wonders how brussels is looking into this and the e.u. in fact lawrence but can we expect more political casualties. well you know there's

every chance to love about fifty or sixty. who are real hardliners who are basically now out for blood and i think in the fullness of time they will launch a leadership challenge against a reason many if not immediately what i think could easily happen is that the reason may takes this new proposal to brussels brussels says sorry this it's no good because you want to call it cherry picking you know having your cake and eating it you want to stay in with us for the movements of goods across borders but you don't want the movements of people we in the european union say there indivisibility go and do it if they say that then to resume a i think will have to step down and in that instance then they would have to believe that your challenge anyway and that would be the point when the hardliners would put forward their man or woman to say this is it we're going to leave

completely that might happen in maybe two or three weeks in the process the village challenge could take a month or more but it's gradually playing out very very bad and you can see the whole sort of idea of finding a brick says acceptable to everybody and reveling in front of your own ok lawrence lee thank you. well british police have confirmed that a woman who was exposed to the nerve agent last week has died forty four year old dawn sturgis fell ill after apparently handling an item contaminated with this substance in the town of amesbury a male friend she was with at the time is also critically ill police suspect it was the same batch of navi chalk used on a russian double agent and his daughter in march the japanese prime minister has canceled a planned overseas trip after torrential rains killed at least one hundred people evacuation orders are in place for nearly two million people and multiple landslide warnings have been issued

a large scale rescue operation is underway they were scheduled to visit belgium france saudi arabia and egypt. is in tokyo with the latest. indeed the experience we have been. very few was actually the i've been in there and the problem with very secure for us is that most of the years there in the countryside we've maybe not always three. months in and it's going to get. bored. of defense forces who are dispatched there more than forty thousand troops have been dispatched to go to those areas it means that it's difficult for them to do those locations to help that's done to people and also even with the with the using chemicals there is it would be difficult to learn in such places and taking into consideration that most of the areas that i think. we all believe that i feel so. even the least the people that many of the force not depending on the local

people themselves neighbors that you know that they are standard or they are they know they are missing out to know that well it's about ninety eight people and it's good for a good thing that it's more within the coming hours or days and there are more than fifty eight people still missing until now still ahead on al jazeera a common bond german and chinese leaders meet to discuss their opposition to donald trump's bank trade tariffs and so we'll look at what's in store for eritrea and ethiopia as they try to put a better past behind them. how i would still have plenty a shot was across southeast asia and famine the wet weather still sliding its way across the philippines towards southern parts of india china pushing up to two

wards and the peninsula but a little farther north bank culp will see some showers from time to time and i shall see if anything.