in twenty ten proved uneventful sarah says it was her second trip to malaysia a few weeks later that things went wrong. soon after touching down customs officials singled her out. soft and before we could take away the luggage it was picked by suspection and they saw it was not simple luggage but less full of anyone else. among the cash authorities found three hundred radiated tortoises and a number of ploughshare. sarah was convicted of smuggling and was jailed for eight months. the same year the sarah was arrested the lizard king himself ran afoul of the law. in a separate incident one was caught with dozens of snakes on a plane for which he had no license for. a raid of his properties uncovered even more. a malaysian judge gave him a five year sentence but he served just seventeen months.

according to sources one of the mr king's biggest customers lives in indonesia's bustling capital. and. 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. 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 we judge or you know as a how do you know us and all. of you not only does daniel readily admit that to work together but we notice he's also wearing a shirt from magic. yeah scar and doesn't go on her so still to still doing out

there there then that's something that surprises even us daniel admits the two thousand and ten shipment of snakes which landed anson in prison was destined for his shot even hero. hero yeah he's my. my friend. if you think i hate you they go. pick your biggest or manny meaning like they were your snakes there are i read about that. daniel also claims that after his last conviction wang's wife is increasingly taking over the operations he way he went for the sales or trials area and it works out it's time to get a little closer. our first stop is once rural property in penang 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 law enforcement officers busted into this place he found two thousand tigers as well as the crocodile in question now it's his that sort of thing still going on 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 that 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 wang and his wife she had been she 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 bookit 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 being she almost immediately she confirms she and her husband are still trading informally rewritten or rather. there. are documents search also in covers another company grown a wild life it was formed after wong's twenty ten conviction 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 in there 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. what if 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 confirmed the real person behind. your boss is mr ball. mr wall. and.

we show our findings to and surendra a lawyer and opposition member of parliament. in malaysia the fact that is being open again indicates corruption for years surrendered has publicly raised the need to investigate the country's wildlife department. accusing them of aiding and abetting one 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 chow from the program when you are nice terry 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 wal-mart fears. and why why are there all by no i thought i'd run a wildlife and according to the government you're not supposed to be trading in wildlife lawsuits woman. are you admitting ask the government are you saying you're doing nothing wrong. and i have no comment. off of the jumble that's because jumbo is your company. company. and several companies including rona wildlife do you still call it. sir are you still involved in the trade directing an endangered species. concept. you understand one of his workers along with his wife and tries to stop us from filming out there so you've served time in jail serve one grows increasingly aggressive obligations

while we're on public property search 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 talking about a 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 we'll 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 of 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 so long as former wife so the film did have some impact but of course not the kind of impact

that's need and where do things stand in malaysia now stephen where does that figure and global wildlife trafficking malaysia still remains a key transit hub for evil 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 are legally taken from places that 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 scenes but for now thanks for joining us and see you again seven. i. rewind continues to care breyer people back to life i'm sorry with updates on the best of all diseases documentaries historical book from two known use destroyers revisiting the silver of friends we're going back to a poor south african neighborhood where music and tradition come together in an annual competition to close the only reward.

thing as i want to finally. see there's a. little cousin to punches a bitch up the bottom. in part one of this two part series al-jazeera explores the world of performance enhancing drugs. sports doping the endless chase on all disease. this was an illegal take down that. donald trump declares he's been proven innocent after the fall investigation said no collusion with russia the president's political rivals are far from convinced. president trump is wrong this

report does not amount to a so-called total exoneration. slowing down john this is. also coming up thailand's main opposition are neck and neck with the military back party as votes are counted up to sunday's election. and one of the million people desperate for food we visited the region kenya the center of a severe drought. summary of the report says the investigation saw no evidence that donald trump's campaign colluded with russia during the twenty sixteen election the us president has declared himself completely exonerated bought the somebody presented to congress by the attorney general william bond doesn't draw a conclusion on whether trump obstructed justice and democrats are demanding to see

the report in full article he reports from washington d.c. . it's the investigation u.s. president donald trump has long condemned as a witch hunt intil it was released and now the president is cheering the findings there was no collusion with the russians there was no ups truck. and none whatsoever. and it was a complete and total exoneration that's not completely true the attorney general says there is no evidence the trump campaign coordinated with russian officials but on obstruction of justice the special counsel robert mueller didn't decide if he should be charged the attorney general made that call and in his letter to congress he made clear this report doesn't find the president didn't possibly commit a crime right in the special counsel states that while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime it also does not exonerate him and that is democrats demanding answers

jerry nadler heads the committee in congress that will be investigating pretty general clark. who are different for his role we do not remember in the suggesting that he had structured investigation sometimes you know. and then a president and it was almost impossible for any president who committed rupturing of just the season ahead of the executive branch made a decision about that evidence in the new forty eight hours. this inclusions raise more questions than the answer given the fact that molar uncovered evidence that in his own words. that's not right he's promising to call officials to testify and vowing to get the tens of thousands of pages of evidence that have been collected the trim campaign was quick to try and use this to bolster his chances of free election really seen this video evidence it's pretty clear that there was collusion in the president's for claiming victory but as congress pushes to make all the evidence public and with several other investigations ongoing he may want his

supporters to believe it's over it isn't. washington. john fredericks is trump's campaign chairman in the state of the genea he agrees with the president saying the report proves he didn't do anything wrong. i mean we got to understand that what this report has said and why attorney general barr came out with his summaries so quickly is even robert mueller said there is no evidence of any russian coersion in the campaign whatsoever that was the reason this investigation and the robert mueller special counsel office that was the reason for his existence to start with they prout absolutely nothing we all said in the campaign from the beginning the president exonerated on that as war is obstruction of justice all these witnesses all these prosecutors all this evidence that they were uncovered and they couldn't even come to what conclusion what they basically

said is yeah there's some evidence that it may have been there there's a lot of evidence that said he did not strong therefore we can't could quote basically he didn't do anything. because in mozambique to reaching more survivors of cycling off the roads ruined by the storm when reopened to anybody reports from the make it. food supplies are getting to be the problem is getting them to the people who really need them. this is what happens when it is distributed to the needy. people are desperate for every piece they can grab food is scarce and supermarket supplies are expensive a delivered by air and water is not enough the in six road is the bane road artery from biro to the remote parts of mozambique it was severed in the psych lone you can get a real idea of the power and severity of this psycho namie flooding that followed by this area this entire area as far as you can see was covered in water it

destroyed everything around here the power here even pushed off this car off the road and miraculously the driver escaped he swam to safety but it destroyed about one hundred meters a road that had been newly built by the chinese the road was cut for a week on sunday it reopened after chinese contractors and local workers worked day and night to build a new stretch and restore a vital lifeline that serves malawi zambia and zimbabwe does the road being damage it. can see we have a situation better see it is well for us to get there poor relief help is getting difficult but like a state for was there and there was so often that the country neighboring countries eroded six really important. food is needed everywhere and mina and her sister regime there live next to the road their home was destroyed in the surge that swept the road away they said the water was up to their necks and they had to climb trees

to survive but there aren't and cousin drowned and been there already you know so she told me that she thought she was going to die that day but since then they have received no help or food or shelter she says she prefers to stay here with family in hardship rather than go to beer with nothing that. is the same story for hundreds perhaps thousands of people who prefer to live in makeshift shelters close to where their homes once stood. mozambique is relying on the outside world for help but local people are rallying around to help their fellow countrymen at this church in bira they were collecting money and food for the victims. just up it will be and that is that it's going to take time to recover our houses were basic but they were not built in one day or a week you will need more time five years ten years it will depend on what people will have to build with us now we need stronger material but our spirit is strong

mozambique will need support for some time to come and for many their lives will never be the same again tony berkeley al-jazeera may go central mozambique with most of the votes counted from thailand's election as a tight race between the pro-military party and its main opposition rival led by the current prime minister has seven point six million votes about five hundred thousand more than the per thai party is the first time people have been able to vote since the military coup five years ago france and he joins us live now from chiang mai france so is it clear who is in the lead at this stage. well in terms of popular vote it's the pro-military party that's in the lead. by about five hundred votes and in second place it's the pro-democracy party per tie that's also the main party for tots in china want that's the deposed prime minister of thailand who has been living in self imposed exile since two thousand and eight

he still has very strong political support in thailand now but that's not the full picture in terms of number of seats it is the reverse so her tie is in the lead by about ten seats now this is with regards to three hundred and fifty seats who are the members of the lower house who are directly elected by voters but that's not the entire makeup of the lower house there's still about one hundred fifty seats and these seats are located based on the number of votes received this is allocated through a very complicated system but it's actually there's also a cap on the number of seats that a party can receive and we don't have those numbers yet but the election commission is expected to hold a press conference in a couple of hours time where we expect a clearer picture should emerge and thrones you're in chiang mai which is the hometown of the former prime minister times and what's been happening up the lawns . well the north and northeast parts of thailand have traditionally been considered strongholds for poet type and its allies parties

linked to talks in china what they're also the main rival to the pro military faction now in people here have been voting for him for years he and his allies have not lost a single election since two thousand and one so understandably his supporters say they are surprised and they are in shock really at the results especially as opinion polls have put the type party ahead in the lead now per thai party executives their initial comments suggest that they may not be so ready to accept the election results as they stand even if it's about ninety four percent of the votes have been counted but the secretary general of the party said that while they want to wait for the official results to be announced he said that there were irregularities in voting now and he said that the party will want to i want to inspect the disqualified and spoiled ballots according to the election commission there are about five point five percent of votes that are disqualified and that's

not a small number so party officials supporters of per thai party in shock and disbelief and perhaps not so ready to accept the results as they stand thrones thank you. kenya's government has won more than a million and the risk of starvation is a severe drought groups the northern part of the country crops of dried up lot of flash flooding only last year conference or reports from kenya as to common county . it's weltering in the more i village just from this dry desolate land here to receive food aid from the humanitarian agency wild vision there's a drought in kenya and the government says up to a million people in thirteen of the country's forty seven counties need argent help hiders in the northwest region of two cana a some of the worst affected here they receive saugor rice bins and cooking oil to last them at least a few weeks a lot about i'm going to go i'm very happy to see this food and make sure it lasts

that long for my four children before you go away from community centers the more desperate the situation gets etsy can loria bond sees how fourteen year old son long narrow died last month from manu tradition. we did not have food so you just used to have food you grew week by the day until he died that's when sam when we first met us were the only volunteer health worker in the village shows as well long hours buried the government denies others have also died of hunger thing and then i'll go with you was just bones he had never come to the health center for any treatment of any other ailment he had just been eating wild fruits and nothing else wild food which grows near reavers is what you can as return to when they can't find other food at the cannes has found is doing his best to feed his remaining family until more help comes.