in the online world it doesn't take long to find office the thing too good to refuse. what is what is what does that mean experience based program that stuff sounds good for these online universities a lack of basic academic qualifications simply doesn't matter potential custom is a toad life experience is enough ok but i wouldn't actually have to take any exams with a university. a whole range of degree and diploma courses offered at a bargain price. without having to do any actual studying or take

a single exam the lucky student is suing the proud recipient of an impressive looking stupid showing that he or she has been granted a degree from a world renowned university were. that he may twenty fifth date the new york times published its own investigation which for the first time identified exact as the world's biggest agreement. at first the expose i threatened to bring the roof down on the company. one of my own money. but the story of except in the five degrees was far from over. karate is a new tory sleeve violent season with frequent clashes between criminal gangs.

against this backdrop the exact controversy has stood concerns for the safety of some of those leaked to the case. after fifteen months on remand shoaib ahmed shaykh was released from prison on trial and the investigation same to grind to a halt. shaikh refused repeated requests for a need to be but we were able to speak to his lawyer. he has been deprived of not on leave from his liberty remain in jail for many months as well as lost on his business and after the knees. trying to establish his business again and because he can prevent. except claims its financial success makes plain why the company has been targeted for investigation. but the prosecutors who worked on the case have little doubt

about what had been going on. they could tell you did it all but if their bodies were more. little bit. more journey to get you gotta walk up to. a lawyer seller who didn't come to port it was part of the prosecution team building the case against shake and extract was call for twenty four seventy one for sixty it. was a he but i get shocked at a lot of the use of the prosecution against a egg a module to get out the world lead. well university module to me. as well is the wealth of documentary evidence of fight to graze being produced on an industrial scale by extract the prosecution. child statements and

since. the court will be cut i get a look at our peril of these get on we get to be mrs bean but then they got up confessional ban on all of these on the idea. got me it got a lot of that they didn't need to get even out there. at one stage the prosecution had seventy nine witnesses. being karate legal proceedings do not always go smoothly prosecution witnesses began to change their minds about testifying against except. me i have bills i doubt. is weak and that the it wasn't that would not allow you get. the protection coming before the guy you quote on the nine witnesses are demanding and on the bigness noticing that will make them come fall out of what again is the exit again

they had to get and you lose out on that accuse but if i did your duty but i shan't i. all i want is they use every guy you have to but you will but a lot of it will give zydeco i've got them on the hot but in the middle of. the local media have reported threats of violence and intimidation towards prosecution witnesses from police investigating except to even the prosecution lawyers themselves. again the poor and three of the lawyers withdrew from the prosecution. there is no evidence that shake or anyone connected with exact was involved with any threats over while it's after fifteen months of legal arguments and allies shake and the others say new manages were released on what the prosecution considered a technicality staged to do make up provision that. they will proceed to work at

the multi-day. excel to get each piece of the. goal all been. to he's defended his shake was freed because the case against him fell apart therefore it is a case of no evidence so far. the weakness is those who have been because. they had a straight marriage and only nine part of modern weaknesses out amending. to proceed. as fairly to establish its case since the very beginning. as the prosecution case began to crumble the embarrassed asked. one of the prosecution lawyers who had withdrawn earlier to resume the case. here is jamil talking about the exact case on pakistani

television in august twenty seventh. i'm going to talk. about the new party you've got a man who has a lot on this or who is on my not. seeing of media people or somebody federal records on the net many. prosecutors didn't have an owner in a basically home some combined opinion he has to have good evidence be the hotshot mother s. open and shut case evidence came along let me get out of this about that he has been and he doesn't know when he renewed his work on the accept case jamil received anonymous threats of violence then in september twenty sixth seed his home was attacked with a hand grenade operator de monte. and in the heat of. the i don't want to get into details about germany of office.

no one was injured in the attack and no evidence has been presented then or since to link it in any way to exact. since the grenade attack jamil announced he would play no for the pot in the prosecution he declined to comment further. but in a previous interview he described the high stakes involved in the exact prosecution . i thought would. be a dozen million dollars from. the fact that the u.s. department of justice says that x.x. has collected at least one hundred forty. u.s. dollars from customers worldwide tens of thousands of americans are thought to have bought degrees from universities linked to the company but no american has been willing to travel to pakistan to pursue you a grievance there. a former senior figure of pakistan's federal investigation

agency geoffrey has been following the case people go to. the door to have trust in the system in pakistan the school district in august has the money has a job. in order to go or have some you know then the system does nurse new honest people come into the cordon and give it does this. happen and they will back. people aren't that many come into this. without witnesses willing to appear in course and with prosecution lawyers too frightened to continue the case against exact collapsed. shake was granted bail by a judge proviso could he have a more to his since admission to a high of course the took a bribe a poor thing five thousand dollars to relay shop. the judge will grant have been

recently you agreed that he too money in the financial case is this happens was the people don't operate a national issue you know greatest number of their character the number but their money and their free money to give it to be sure america is made of a lot of money and this happened and everything. in these characters the mafia and the operate together. it's a matter of public record that universities link to access that have sold hundreds of thousands of degrees to online students around the world. and some of these degree holders have taken up positions where genuine qualifications are crucial. these lists was seized by the pakistani authorities when they raided x.x. premises there are thousands of names of individuals who've been able to take up

professional positions sometimes with safety is an issue even though these qualifications are bogus. in southeast asia alone we found thousands of fake degree holders in malaysia. singapore. and thailand some are working as doctors nurses teaches and engineers. thousands of people employed in safety critical jobs while holding bogus qualifications it alarms dr brahman formerly of pakistan's higher education commission it could be a huge disaster because medical degrees in your medical doctors who are practicing medicine without knowing medicine if they are their accountants they are proud of them they are in the field of accountancy without knowing anything about accounts and the supply the cross the field media feeds in twenty sixteen a member of the newly elected government of myanmar had to issue

a humiliating apology after one of these impressive standing qualifications turned out to have been purchased from x.x. degree mills it was revealed the politician you cure wins master's and doctorate degrees in finance came from the non-existing brooklyn park university despite this revelation you cure will continue to serve as minister for play. and finance. there is no way of knowing how many of x.x. hundreds of thousands of customers around the world witnessed it. and how many would knowingly buying a fake degree to get a job they would not qualify to hold. for years after the allegations against first made headlines fake universities still out there looking for their next easy. just

a couple of thousand dollars i could get on an american degree and it's become a full fledged chemist it sounds a little bit too good to be true. but i didn't really trust that because from what i've read your part of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of cities that are completely fake around online are all linked to a company called x. uk where are you right now. where you based. well i find that quite confusing because for most of what i read your actually an office in pakistan working tax act and collapse is that not true. but how do you look to others billion of us stevie nicks in new nasty faulty university or your websites that say. it's not because they're out. of the on one occasion there was this one guy were right i confronted him and said

look. you guys are clearly criminals operating out of the office somewhere in the world it away you up and you're terrible human security really scary people money and and time then he just laughed and he was this really sort of really cool down the food and that was when i really was like wow these guys are cult not nice people. you know. that these people are enjoying the hype that taking thousands of dollars thousands of pounds away from people. in twenty a chain the chief justice of park of sun said that the scandal has tarnished pakistan's name making our heads down with shame. and it makes me very sad that back saga being both portrayed in a negative light and it makes me sad that it has not been properly legally investigated and a decision taken reason for

a let the court justice take take its course but it needs to be done quickly not in a matter of years and that's where the failure of the justice system is. the subject of moon and hawk a dozen investigations around the clock billions of dollars stone from malaysia something one one zero one piece investigate how the nation's coffers were lost on al jazeera.

as we embrace new technologies rarely do we stop to ask what is the price of this progress what happened was people started getting sick but there was a small group of people that began to think that maybe this was related to become a disclosure on the job and investigation reveals how even the smallest devices have deadly environmental and health costs we think ok we'll send our you waste to china but we have to remember that air pollution travels around the globe death by design on al-jazeera. palestinian families bury their dead as the number killed in israeli strikes on gaza rises to eleven three israelis have been killed by palestinian rockets. and israel's prime minister all there's no letup in the military offensive on gaza

. hello i'm down jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a cleanup operations underway after the biggest cycling hit india in twenty years. we have a. key it will not accept white. south africa's racial divisions are out in the open in the run up to wednesday's general election . israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is ordering the israeli military to continue what he calls massive strikes on gaza israeli forces say they've carried out more than two hundred twenty eight strikes since saturday as palestinian rockets have been fired into southern israel at least sixteen palestinians in gaza have been killed and some of the funerals are already being held that israeli

military say they killed a senior hamas commander. authorities in israel say at least three people have been killed from the rocket strikes fired from gaza that's caused live now to natasha going to name she joins us. and we will go to her in a second but first this report from our aforesaid. if fishel death toll on the gaza side stands at eleven but local media in gaza reporting that there have been a further three palestinian fighters killed. in northern gaza gaza strip close to where we are there bodies have yet to reach the hospitals and have yet to be added to the official confirmed death toll on the israeli side we know that at least three israeli civilians have been killed the fifty eight year old man overnight and a woman who was in a vehicle which was struck by fire coming from gaza and there was a factory that was hit in ashkelon a direct strike on that factory as well and at least one person killed in that

strike so this is the most serious i think we can say that now of the recent escalations in recent months each of those escalations has been deescalated again thanks to two things really u.n. and egyptian mediation and a sense on both sides israeli and in and by hamas that neither really was in the mood to afford a full dissent towards war but with the kind of things that we've been seeing the mounting death tolls on both sides that gives both sides a reason to carry on fighting as well as it does a reason to try to step back. well joining me now is marwan he's from the arab center for research and policy studies here in doha i want to we're clearly seeing a dangerous escalation of attacks from both sides in this conflict let's just for a second why has this happened and so quickly i think. once there is an ease to abide by the latest cease fire agreement you know in late march there

was the fighting another round of fighting in fact between hamas and a dark time binyamin netanyahu before days or early election was actually trying to convince hamas to scale down rocket firing of rockets inside is that is so he in fact agreed to ease the blockade on gaza. he agreed to expand for example the fishing zone off the course of also increase the flow electricity to. the. majors but after the elections actually there is that is the just ignored all that so that they were last seen as are trying in fact now to put some brush on there is that at least in order to force them to abide by the cease fire agreement really prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he will keep up the airstrikes on the hamas and the armed groups in gaza how important is it to his domestic audience

when that he appears to be tough on security even as he's forming a new coalition government it's very important because. i mean so far there are three is that it is that by. launching of rockets from gaza. and for that something foreign binyamin netanyahu he needs to address that because he has all always problem is that there is a lot. able actually to. to neutralize i mean. the missiles that that that that. hamas is firing again as they're against it so he will be doing his best actually to present himself as a strong man who's defending israeli interest he's defending israeli lives let's just go back to hamas and the armed groups like islamic jihad i mean as you as you just said they see this as an opportunity to keep up the pressure on israel to commit to pass agreements they agreed to in that ceasefire which was brokered by

egypt in the u.n. but the question of course is now that you've had this conflict escalated is israel going to play ball and the answer is probably no well i mean i think there is that is the i mean both sides in fact they don't have interest in actually escalating i think they are i mean they are trying actually to keep it to certain limits and i think. there is likely is that right now we are trying to in fact use. against the palestinian authority if they want to put pressure on the palestinian authorities by actually in fact boosting their position of hamas in gaza so right now they don't want actually this land of fighting to escalate or feel. confrontational with with hamas and the palestinian. factions inside gaza that is that it was against the very interest of and right now there is that is their want in fact peace more down before why because they're having this your

vision competition they want actually to. present themselves to the wall that they are an ordinary currently that they are living in peace and and also those that it is or should be celebrating the seventy fifth anniversary of the establishment of this theater physically so i think they want very much this fighting not to go beyond certain limits let's just touch on this on these reports that israel carried out a targeted attack on a man that they say was financing hamas from iran does this represent a change of tactics by israel because israel hasn't carried out targeted strikes for a long. time as they through i think this is an important development because that is about the boss actually a couple of years they justify being actually from that the so-called. assassination or talks of assassination against sitting in the scene of any does of a must because that would automatically leads to the escalation between the two

sides but by actually killing this senior and a figure of hamas i think they are changing the tactics and they are trying to put more pressure maximum pressure on hamas and in order to accept a by the terms a new terms of the cease fire with those ideas or right moment about and thank you very much for that well that's a good name come join us now says she's in the israeli city of ashkelon the tunnel so we're seeing a very dangerous escalation in the attacks on both sides just bring us up to die quickly with what's happening on the ground the taj. well if you're wondering where we went a little bit ago we had to take cover it looks like it's shaping up to be another one of those kinds of nights here of rocket fire of sirens of one loudspeakers residents being warned to take cover we've watched a steady stream of rockets coming up from gaza and then being intercepted into israel in the last hour or so as far as we know one building in ashdod

has been hit one man critically injured as the guest has mentioned previously this is a tense time yes we've been here before the last between hamas and israel was in april prior to the elections however this time is different and that is because of the sheer number of casualties right now it's nineteen on both sides that's the largest number of people killed since the gaza war in two thousand and fourteen and. a five hour long security cabinet meeting has just ended the cabinet has. instructed the israeli army to continue its attacks and its efforts to defend the state and its residents that's the top priority and this does come at what you might say not that there's ever a good time for such a thing to happen but this does come at not a great time for several reasons one ramadan the holy month in islam muslims around

the world will begin fasting tomorrow from sunrise to sunset in addition this week israelis will celebrate their independence and also there are tourists from all over the world who will be coming to tell of the in the next week for euro vision it's a massive long time i'm sure you're familiar with that european music. competition so this isn't exactly an operator ok moment for the two sides to be at odds with one another and that what might be why it is that gets mentioned to you there's really very little appetite for escalation there were negotiations underway hamas and islamic jihad had officials in egypt where egypt has for quite some time been playing a mediator between israel and hamas we have yet to hear of any word of a cease fire but you can be rest assured that one is hoping to be hammered out in the coming days if egypt has anything to say about it all right to national name and ask them sasha thank you now ratcheting up the trade war with china the u.s.

says it will increase tariffs on chinese exports president trump has announced the time some two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods will rise to twenty five percent on friday while john hendren is live for us from washington d.c. john said trump seems to be goading the chinese hand what's behind all this john. that's exactly what he's doing there and this is two hundred billion dollars worth of goods that will will have tariffs increased on them he was initially going to raise those terrorists from ten to twenty five percent back in march but as a goodwill gesture during negotiations with china he postponed doing that but in his tweet the president says that china is now trying to renegotiate it so he's clearly trying to close the door on those negotiations this is really coming to a head right now in the next week the chinese top trade negotiator will be negotiating in washington with the president's team and eventually they hope to

sign an agreement between the two countries but right now they clearly aren't there president trump says he's raising these tariffs because he's disappointed with the pace of those talks so we will see how the chinese will respond but they have in the past raised retaliatory tariffs and they've targeted country farmers in the midwest of the united states and that has hurt the u.s. farming industry so john i suppose the big question is what's the likelihood then that both sides would agree to a trade deal that might put the towers behind them with this president there and you really never know what's going to happen but the white house spokeswoman sarah sanders says she believes that an agreement is likely that after this week of negotiations perhaps longer if if there are some tie ups that eventually paying of china and president trump would sign an agreement together that would be good for the globe.