well jordan made the two thousand and sixteen document chief al jazeera you need to understand that over forty thirty five years in the maldives they only built about one hundred resorts and within the space of just a few years they approved almost the same number again and this data on this research by the o c c o p now offers us a breakdown of which islands were least for what prices what money went missing and who is now building which resorts on those and that will raise some very difficult questions not least for the president who appears to have intervened to make sure these were approved and what would run through the paths through which money could be embezzled rather than the official part of an open tender where various companies would bid to develop resorts instead this was all done one on one in a joint venture with the government which was a loophole allowed them to divert the main process well you can watch the

documentary stealing paradise by serious investigations unit on our website just go to al-jazeera dot com and click on the investigations tab. still ahead here on out there are thinking for some life as three days after type three month route we've covered in the philippines. and that intensifying trade war china says it will retaliate after the u.s. announced its biggest tariffs get on chinese imports. as the weather is quite quiet over the northern parts of asia at the moment we are seeing a bit of cloud just drift its way eastwards across north korea there and across parts of honshu but that's not really bringing us anything too heavy rain wise they'll still be a little bit of cloud there as we head through the day on wednesday but i think a cloud and more persistent rain developing towards the west that will be edging

its way eastwards as we head through thursday so for some of us in the eastern parts of china and just about across into south korea we're going to see some fairly hefty downpours as we head through the day on thursday to the north watch out for a drop in temperature here for some of us in mongolia we'll see some snow and a top temperature in about todd just five degrees a bit further towards the south of course we've had our huge storm here but that's a lot largely disintegrated now and for many of us it does look a good deal drier and calm as the clear up of operation continues there is that rain in the north those stretching up towards the south korea and the southern part still look dry as we head through the day on thursday of a further towards the south plenty of wet weather here stretching from vietnam in thailand all the way down through parts of borneo and into the northern parts of java it looks like jakarta will see one or two showers for bali those should stay largely fine and dry the philippines which the just occasional showers.

and there again you're watching out there has reminded of our top stories this hour

the russian defense ministry says fifteen military service when the being killed off of the plane was shot down by syrian anti-aircraft fire the defense minister says israel is fully to blame deliberately putting the plane into the path of syrian air defenses russian state media says moscow has summoned the israeli voice over the incident. south korea's president. for his summit with north korean leader kim jong un the two leaders were all smiles as hundreds of people lined the streets to catch a glimpse of the historic meeting in the capital holding talks focusing on north korea's nuclear disarmament. and anticorruption n.g.'s says it has evidence that at least fifty islands in the mold legally leased out for tourism by the government with millions of dollars embezzling reports builds on a two thousand and sixteen zero documentary it's implicates president mean in the scheme something he's always denies. there's a coalition says it has launched

a log scale operation targeting areas under her control in her data the alliance says it's captured two areas on the outskirts of the port city since the advance began on tuesday coalition says it's also a hoofy supply route connecting the data. when while the united nations envoy griffiths is left after a two day basis involving talks with his leaders griffiths meeting focused on there was a resuming consultations between the yemeni government and the rebels under simmons has been following developments in. there is still intense fighting going on all along the road outside of the data and also in the very day the city center itself this a battle it's unclear who is actually got the upper ground now the coalition is saying that the who things are taking big losses ruth is in which are saying that they're making some inroads and there is a question mark over. complete control of this road now it actually sort of

zigzags over a section and these references to keep sixteen that's a marker point the point that the coalition is definitely going for there's also a situation at the grain silos this is the red sea mills a major a complex for food that is needed by millions of people all over yemen there was an attack on that a few days ago both sides blame each other but now we've seeing pictures on the ground from there showing the fires still underway and that was less than twelve hours ago we understand this these grain silos a crucial but the situation is that the truth is insist that they're suspected of storing weapons there which they did not and that there is according to aid agencies and the u.n. itself the world food program that this is a target it would be a disaster if it was it china says it will retaliate against.

washington. two hundred billion dollars. within hours of the u.s. announcing a second round of tariffs on chinese goods beijing responded. the chinese commerce ministry saying it had no choice but to retaliate and it hopes the u.s. changes its behavior one official saying the move is poisoning trade talks but no details yet of just how china will respond. and may founder regarding america's new round of tariffs china has no choice but to retaliate as for what kind of retaliation we were announced it at and proper time it was expected that the ongoing trade war could heat up this new round of tears from washington confirmed that it will be a lot of money coming into the coffers of the united states of america a lot of money coming in

a lot of money in the form of tariffs on an additional two hundred billion dollars of chinese imports the u.s. government will begin collecting a ten percent tariff on those goods starting on september the twenty fourth through the end of the year then on january first the tariffs will jump to twenty five percent and if china at any time retaliates the white house says an additional two hundred sixty seven billion dollars of chinese imports practically the remainder of all chinese products sold in the u.s. will also fall under the tariffs the increased tensions will likely scuttle the renewal of trade talks between beijing and washington. while about five thousand chinese products including household goods vacuum cleaners the bikes will be targeted many u.s. businesses are expected to suffer as well just before the pterosaur announced in washington the chinese commerce secretary said that u.s. protectionism will only impact the two nations involved in this trade war but it could hurt the global economy as well and some analysts here feel that u.s. companies might face

a chinese consumer backlash if the chinese people believe that they're being maligned all right they will boycott and that's that's not something you know you're going to you're already starting to see some anti american sentiments and wanaka by the american right and this is the one thing donald trump thinks that the only people who are nationalistic are. and as the world's two largest economies refuse to concede any ground in this trade war the impact will be felt around the world got harder al-jazeera beijing. rescue teams in the northern philippines are digging through mounds of mud looking for survivors of a landslide the mining town of is a gone and province many locals have been sheltering from typhoon manhood when the landslide happened manhood ripped through the philippines on saturday killing dozens of people to maryland ogun reports. to see this up close is to understand

the enormity of this operation the stench of human flesh is very present and we do feel that we are standing on precarious ground since we've been here this morning we've seen two bodies been pulled out of the rubble this is the main devastation site where hundreds of rescuers have been working double time. for. the typhoon hit early saturday here in bangor province and it's the landslide started at the top of that mountain the soil the ground collapsed pushing homes further several meters down and this is what's left of the bunk house where more than thirteen miners run for shelter we've spoken to family members of those looking for their loved ones who see they are here volunteering helping out with the manual digging doesn't matter how long it takes they see that it's better than just sitting down and waiting so they are here because of the rubble piece by piece

rock by rock several members of zimbabwe's opposition have walked out during the president's state of the nation address to parliament. and the cement bagwell was speaking in the capital harare he was outlining his government's policy after winning a disputed election in july. has called for unity to help rebuild zimbabwe's struggling economy and overcome a recent cholera outbreak. live in the capital harare now and her first of all what was saying in his speech was that what people wanted to hear. he touched on were the right time sometimes where people wanted to hey talked about economy he talked a bit about cholera but some members from the opposition parliamentarians walked out saying that he is illegitimate they feel he did not win july's election and they say his government is failing to deal with the cholera issue but we've got

a glimpse of each tribe again that is in government at the moment the president arrived very expensive rolls royce some key arriving very flashy cars the i would have been told that the board for the new m.p.'s as well as and asking all the money being spent for the ceremony pomp and fanfare why can you go to war with cholera the government if it needs more than fifty million dollars to repair water and sanitation infrastructure in and out a money if it doesn't have but the bobbin feeding the government making so much money millions of dollars on cars and government instead of dealing with issues like cholera has treated comes about and. inside palm and as well as the horrors of the opposition walking out still not accepting the results of the election how divided way. it is divided will bear in mind that. the ruling party has two thirds majority in

parliament so the few opposition parliamentarians walking out won't really change much in terms of things but on the ground when i got a one day election by and narrow narrow margin a lot of people did vote for the main opposition to the nelson chamisa it is a divided. that's why when i got preached for unity called for unity with the people we will listen that remains to be seen but the main problem not in a rotty especially is this cholera outbreak we're told at least thirty people have died will say it doesn't need to be getting any better the government is in needs money it needs help and international community people are coming in to try and help the government but the bodies are concerned about corruption one quick example some private companies have been giving money to the government one company gave ten million dollars the boss of the company told some politicians pocketing some of that money some politicians inflating prices for example a pair of gloves can cost about three dollars but they will they price and the given one to do the company is as high as thirty nine dollars and they pocket some

of those profits so corruption is a big big problem in the country in government i'm going to douglas promise to deal with it as well ok thanks for bringing us the scene there from harare. is headed to saudi arabia for his first foreign visit since coming to power a month ago today a trip comes as pakistan's economy is in crisis as why speculation in local media that conwell saudi arabia for a loan a report from islamabad. august on the new prime minister emraan khan will be relating. to be a crucial radiate. the king. imran khan gradually came on a tree and their twenty eight thousand election then in white. this is going to be done. by the pakistani prime minister which will also signified the important. change to its relationship with saudi arabia while the buggiest on the prime

minister he will also be a addressing the issue. or languishing and. he will also be auditing this to increase the labor. for the pakistani laborers who contribute significantly by sending remittances. done it is also the likelihood that the. financial help in order to meet. economic challenges the country. needs an immediate bailout. hoping that the rigid will be. even closer relations between. imran khan really also be meeting the so d. crown prince mohammad been on and after rejecting the united arab emirates. they said indeed a very important date which will show their direction of the pakistani foreign

policy with the new government in. talks in germany member of the russian punk band pussy riot came to the country for treatment points and. was admitted to a clinic in moscow last week after falling ill following a court hearing this late. friday for treatment. argentina's former president cristina kushner has been charged with corruption kushner's accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes in exchange for public contracts the judge has asked for paula mentary immunity to be lifted so she can be detained and the pit is senior director for america's market intelligence he's given us more details on the corruption scandal. this is actually the logical step of a long investigation into scandal the started several months ago there's already been more than a dozen people investigated and actually indicted on these cases what happened is

that the former chauffeur of the minister of planning under the current administration had kept track of the series of the deliveries of cash to office is essentially the the presidency under the current administration as they were talking about eighty seven occurrence of casual livery and then this is potentially money that was provided from a large infrastructure company looking to gain some contracts in argentina and i was probably used for campaigning phones and person one by them and from the carter family out internet going through the travel time right now my korea actually cemented plan to be able to gather more support from the i.m.f. initial loan money including a series of different strong measures such as the reduction of subsidies to energy prices an increase of potential die of taxes on exports for argentine producers so a series of austerity measures to be able to gather support from the from the i.m.f. and i was supposed to be the basis on which our present kirsner was aiming to you

build a future political campaign for the upcoming elections of may twenty ninth seen the obviously these charging from the from the prosecutor in the you know argentina is arriving at a time where also my queries actually you're of limiting the potential support to the opposition although in argentina the opposition is not as united under kirton arrive they had been in the past there's a series of different additional political candidates that were already fighting a kirsner to be the opposition voice against my creed in seven months from now. without one of these on the top stories russian defense and she said fifteen minutes the service men have been killed after that plane was shot down by syrian. and. that it says israel is fully to blame for the incident russian plane went down off the syrian coast near the time here moscow says israeli jets hid behind the russian plane putting it in the path of syrian air defenses russia is calling it

a deliberate provocation israel is yet to respond to the report says jets were attacking syrian installations in the area. and we regard the provocative actions of israel as hostile as a result of the irresponsible actions of the israeli military fifteen russian servicemen died it is absolutely not in keeping with the spirit of russia israeli partnership we reserve the right to make an appropriate response. south korea's president. going for his third summit with north korean leader kim jong un the two leaders will all smiles as hundreds of people lined the streets to capture a glimpse of the historic meeting in the capital they were holding talks focusing on north korea's nuclear disarmament anticorruption and says it has evidence that these fifty islands in the old days were illegally leased out for tourism by the government with millions of dollars embezzled reported builds on a two thousand and sixteen zero documentary stealing paradise it implicates

president abdullah gul mean in the scheme something he's always denied it's not the coalition says it has launched a large scale operation targeting areas under the sea control in her data says it's captured two areas on the outskirts of the port city began on tuesday. carter who's the supply route connecting the data and the capital. several members of zimbabwe's opposition have walked out during the president's state of the nation address to parliament. speaking in the capital harare he was outlining his government's policy after winning a disputed election in july. china says it has no option but to retaliate after the u.s. impose tariffs on another two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods the duties will apply to nearly six thousand items including rice and textiles. sait with all the headlines from news continues here on al-jazeera of the inside story.

germany and austria agreed to boost the e.u. border force as divisions heighten over immigration is a sign of increasing all diminishing common ground what extent is the far right in the blocs migration policy this is inside story. hello and welcome to the show i am sam is a than well it's an issue that has divided europe for years on documented why

gratian almost two million people have risked their lives crossing the mediterranean sea since two thousand and fourteen this movement towards europe continues to take a devastating toll on human life thousands died during their desperate journey several policies on border control restrictions have seen a decrease in the number of refugees and migrants are members of the european union still can't agree on what to do with them laura bird manly looks at a polarizing subject within the e.u. common ground can be found. ten thousand more troops that's the number of border guards the european commission is calling on to tackle illegal immigration into europe and issues that divide it even members bringing tensions to boiling point looking like until she looks just because of tuition external borders must be protected more effectively so we're proposing that the number of border guards

financed by the european budget. in two thousand and twenty to reach ten thousand the u.n. high commissioner for refugees says refugee in migrant numbers are shot be down from that peak four years ago but the reasons why almost two million migrants of headed to europe since two thousand and fourteen remain to escape conflict persecution and economic hardship several far right leaders in europe have taken a hard stance on and immigration including border closure causing many verbal outbursts. on friday italian deputy prime minister matter exchanged a war of words with the foreign minister of luxembourg up to salvini referred to african migrants as slaves. i hear some of my colleagues saying that europe needs immigrants because its population is aging but i have a completely different perspective i think i am a government paid by our citizens to help our young people to start having those children again as they did

a few years ago and not attack the best of the african youth replaced europeans who are no longer having children for economic reasons these are two completely different worldviews maybe knocks and there is this need in italy we feel this need to help our children to have children not the need to have new slaves to replace the children we no longer have so we are willing to engage in dialogue with everyone. hey there hey there that's going too far. or no i calmly respond to your point of view that is not my own if you need new immigration in luxemburg in italy i prefer to help italians to start having children again. your loads of who are in luxembourg we had tens of thousands of italians they came as migrants they worked in luxembourg so that you in italy would have the money for your children. who was off on this route came after to find hungary in prime minister vowed to continue to challenge the rules of migration this off the european parliament voted overwhelmingly to trigger for the first time

a sanctions procedure against the member states hungry because of claims it breached e.u. rules on democracy and civil rights. lawyer or sidewalk let's speak clearly hungary is going to be condemned because the hungry and people have decided that this country is not going to be a country of migrants with jew respect but with utmost sincerity i reject the pro-immigration of forces of the european union to threaten them blackmail and smear hung. and the hungarian people based on force allegations. even members agree and urgent overhaul is needed but it divided on what steps need to be taken some countries are pushing for tougher external border controls others to ferry distribution of new arrivals a summit between leaders on sunday will prove of cooler heads can prevail and thought of the growing issue or will it continue to d.p. divide the e.u.

for inside story laura bowden family al-jazeera. well let's bring in our guest into the show we have joining us from burden thorsten banner the co-founder and director of the global public policy institute in paris shamsul of all namely policy advisor at the european parliament and in swindon in the united kingdom via skype mariana calico lacky a researcher on migration and coeditor of critical perspectives on migration in the twenty first century a warm welcome to everyone in the show if i could start with thorsten then so the leaders of austria and germany they what they want to focus on boosting frontex we're told is the border the european union border force a solution to the migration challenge. in that the centrist talk mrs merkel has adjusted her views and is very much in line now with the austrian check what the austrian chancellor is a bust and quote said and is that the whole well place that we need to secure our.

no i think it's a reasonable compromise but we shouldn't have any illusions because the far right or the or author of terra national and starting with mr oregon mr salvini the people we've heard about just now they have no interest whatsoever to solve the issue of migration the issue of migration for them is an important rallying cry to fuel their author a tarion nationalist revolution or counter revolution that they're staging in europe against the values of nine hundred sixty eight meaning a more open diverse europe and a values of nine hundred eighty nine an author a terran revolved against liberal democracy which became the currency for the continent told him that let me jump in if i may and when she probably the counter-argument that they would make is that since the european union can't come up with any sort of common policy to deal with this issue why should countries on

the proof free shoulder the burden alone so to speak the that the narrative from italy exactly that was a lot. yes in the complaints about the from italy for that have been well founded we left them alone there was a lot of hypocrisy on the part of germany leaving italy to deal with the arrivals that's all fair and fine and now that we've come around and said like we want to boost external border protection that should be a consensus thing mr oregon said oh i don't like the idea of having frontex with all this mandate and people and manpower i i want my own border guards to have sovereignty and so on so he he makes the sovereigntists counter argument against a coherent european approach to border protection just because he wants to safeguard his own little interests and he wants to keep this divisive issue alive because this divisive issue is important for him because he wins elections on his

illiberal seen a phobic and so i'm muslim platform and the worst thing that could happen to mr robin would be that we have. in quotation marks dealt with the migration issue or the refugee issue and it's no longer the dominant issue of the day he has a he has a vested interest in keeping like that and that's why he doesn't support a sensible approach all right you think you've put your finger in a very important point and that is the divisions within the euro want to come to that in the moment but before we get into that i want to ask shams the other sort of major policy push was supposed to be not only on supporting frontex but opening up new processing centers cooperating with north african countries in trying to stop people coming to europe do you think that sort of approach can help. i mean hello everyone i totally agree with what has been just said and. your

question on the new. member states are trying to at least create in theory. stumbled upon a main obstacle which is that on the soudan tip of the mediterranean we have libya libya doesn't have a political solution yet and as as long as libya's own structured answer to sions do not exist we cannot rely on any partnership and so you know many people may believe that the e.u. is concretely actually thinking of having. been in libya but in practice there are no search centers funded by the e.u. let me tell you it is in a good leader interrupt working at the u.n. let me really sounds though you the counter narrative to that is well amongst the particularly the right in the in europe right now is that why should europe be responsible for the political structures of other countries is that enough to open

up processing centers as long as standards and tamed there and there in line with the european values you know europe can be responsible for the entire political structures in the rest of the world. well you know it was a political analysts in the middle east and the amounts of refugees hosted by the lebanese the turks the jordanians the iraqis from syria is absolutely incompatible with their one million representing only zero point four percent of the u.s. population that the e.u. has welcomed so i think that we shouldn't actually bandit's to the rhetoric and smear mongering made by the far right basically we should actually stand by our reason stand by the statistics that show that refugees and that many migrants on that many there are actually an economic benefit to us as long as we invest in them and most importantly they are not a security threat this is the most important message that europeans need to understand two hundred fifty days before european elections more and more europeans

and actually believe the far rights idea is that there is an actual link between being a foreigner being a syrian refugee or muslim and being a threat to public order and that has been proven wrong not by myself but by the intelligence services of germany by the french police we can definitely see statistically that a refugee is as dangerous as a standard european you can be good you can be bad that is not the issue and as long as what about about the argument then comes the policy of just allowing in large groups of people may not need the economic in to meet the inconel make interests of countries like germany. while these economies do need people to make up gaps in their workforce they should be choosing the more skilled labor and the types of people that are really needed rather than just allowing everybody in so-to

speak. well interestingly the european parliament has already suggested to answer your question a very strong e.u. position welcoming migrants on specific conditions which or that there's they should go to places that actually have jobs that goes without saying and this is the current can exchange system in. germany whereby a refugee is going to be sent to a land a region in germany that actually has economic prosperity not to zack's and where you have new nazi protests at moment because we know that saxon is struggling at the moment economically so we actually have the solutions that you can parliament has a ready position itself for family reunification and automatic redistribution of asylum seekers across the e.u. however our own member states are blocked why because of the minority of governments which as our previous speaker just said or basically i can't look at or any answer talking for talk about previous speak i do want to bring mariano but i can see thorsten is she.