i think promised abi has been very astute to. understand how to engage in relations with mr trump he's moved away from a conflict or arrogant position he's tried to make japan part of that story of making america great and i think that they've actually done a pretty good job we've seen the japanese invest in japanese in the united states we've seen them step up in terms of the japan u.s. alliance in terms of burden sharing and we've seen the japanese really forged a position of leadership with the free and open in the pacific with in this region helping the united states push back against what some understand as a sort of china in the region well stephen are they reportedly nominated trump as well for the nobel peace prize for his work to open up a dialogue with north korea but now trying young is fabulous attacking members of trump's administration how is that all playing out for the u.s. japan relationship. well i think that you mentioned in in your your reporter

mentioned that some of the differences between japan and the united states in terms of dealing with north korea japan is on the front line of most of north korea's short range and mid range weapon systems. we should keep in mind that north korea's actually tested missiles in the sea of japan they've launched i think the m's all over the japanese territory so japan is very concerned about what are the potential of north korea's military capabilities and how they would impact japan and the united states on the other hand is mostly concerned about capabilities and the potential to hit the home went as well as weapons proliferation so there is a bit of difference of use on north korea but i think that's superficial and i think both japan and the united states at the institutional level has strengthened the cooperation in the efforts to denuclearize the north for at least contain its more belligerent and visions stephen you spoke about are they in transpersonal

relationship and i believe after their round of golf on sunday to a lunch of double cheeseburgers made with imported u.s. beef should we be that is symbolic with these ongoing trade talks. i think we should read it as prime minister all day definitely understanding that president trump does need take homes for his domestic audience. now this idea of eating a double cheeseburger made with the mayor could be if this happened when donald trump visited back in november as well as last year that prime minister i'll be is going out of his way to i think cultivate a relationship based on the understanding of president trumps i think. in personality and his personality as some of bombastic is somewhat mccurry but it is a problem american an american 1st and i think that by these little gestures suggest that the japanese are really trying to. incline japan and prime minister obvious leadership favorably to mr trump and quite frankly he's done

a very good job compared to most leaders globally stephen you're talking about small gesture how significant is the honor that trumps been given now as the fast foreign leader. so i think that. japan has been very very clever about creating a narrative of making america great that includes tapan. this is the 1st time a american president has been able to meet a 1st emperor in this capacity we've seen this mr trump later to morrow will have the opportunity to go on an aircraft carrier which has been refurbished to be to allow for aircraft to be launched from it and again these are president photo opportunities to demonstrate that to pan really hard places the united states in a position of importance but it's also very much interested in making america great and giving mr trump in america these opportunities to create history and making

sure that japan's part of that history does really in kochi some stability and a shared history in a shared narrative that donald trump can take home to his audience and really suggest that the japanese are really part of make or supporting this idea of making america great and i think that's going to continue as long as donald trump is president stephen from the japanese institute for international affairs and joining us live from take a thanks for your insights stephen thank you and we're waiting now for a joint press conference from the u.s. president donald trump and japanese prime minister shinzo they will be bringing that to you live when that happens and still ahead on al-jazeera all aboard a $1000000.00 qantas cases as part of a corruption scandal in argentina. and how the new leader of zimbabwe's main opposition plans to unite the party for the next election.

hello again welcome back we're here cross a run over the next few days we do expect to see off and on rain showers and also the temperature coming up particularly here towards the north so for tehran we do expect to see a high temperature there of about 33 degrees was in passing rain baghdad still very warm at 40 degrees there and then as we go towards monday and into tuesday you see the rain really hovering about the southern part of the caspian with plenty of clouds in tehran is going to come down a notch with the temps are there of about $31.00 degrees well here across the gulf we are looking at seasonal temperatures for us here in doha temperatures are going to have about 40 maybe a little bit warmer than average with some clouds pushing through there we did see some rain across the southern portions of saudi arabia now that cause of flash flooding not a lot left of that system and drying out for many locations so that is a good thing up towards riyadh though it is going to be

a sunny day we do expect to see 41 as your high so for cape town we're going to be seeing some rain in some clouds as well look at the system pushing through there it could be quite heavy at times now the system is going to stay to the south but is going to be making its way towards the east bringing plenty of rain along the coast so for port elizabeth you will see the rain as well but up here towards your hand spring you'll stay out of the rain will be a little bit cooler at 19 but durban rain for you the tempter of $23.00 degrees. and millions of dollars are being stolen in a scam that stocks in the philippines and stretches across the globe one on one asian games exclusive access to this comes on the world through a criminal turned whistleblower on al-jazeera.

hello again i'm. reminded of the news the salang pro europe's centrists have suffered significant losses and one of the most contentious elections in the e.u. is history the center right european peoples party on the socialist and democrats together have the most seats but not enough for a combined majority and the right is gaining ground in the elections. led by matteo salvini has become the biggest party in that country and in france marine le pen one symbolic jewel with president. president trump has

praised the relationship between the u.s. and japan as he sat down with prime minister shinzo all day he says they're working together to address the trade imbalance between the 2 countries. and at that news conference in tokyo trump also spoke about the growing tensions between the united states under wrong washington sent extra troops to the region but has downplayed fears of conflict i do believe that iran would like to talk and if they'd like to talk we'd like to talk also we'll see what happens but i don't know for a fact that the. prime minister is very close with the leadership of iran and we'll see what up and show it would be fine. nobody wants to see terrible things happen especially me. and on sunday iraq spoke out against the united states over its treatment of iran but the iraqi foreign minister told his iranian counterpart that iraq is willing to mediators. well let's get more now on our top story the european

elections greece is headed for a snap poll after the ruling party suffered major losses in the european parliament votes prime minister alexis tsipras says he will call the elections after june 2nd his leftist syriza party which stormed into the greek political scene 6 years ago on an anti austerity platform lost out to the conservative new democracy party. right the 2nd round of local government election on june 2nd i would request new declination of national elections from the president to the public so adam and the greek people who do want to be defined. and catalan separatists are vowing to continue their push for independence after 3 of them won seats in the european parliament this includes former regional president charles. oreos and querulous but they'll face legal hurdles pushed more lives in self-imposed exile in belgium and

can take up his new role without returning to spain where he faces jail and is already behind bars on rebellion charges over an independence referendum in 2017 which madrid declared illegal. well accusations of corruption were rampant in argentina when christina cutts now was in power since then judicial authorities have launched a campaign to detain and seize assets of those involved in corruption scandals has more from one of harry's. ceiling through a river aboard a confiscated $1000000.00 luxury yacht that's been used by argentine security forces. the ship belonged to regard the former transport secretary during the administration of cristina fernandez. he's currently in prison accused of corruption or whatever prefect. says all saudis are using the yacht because the government cannot sell it. was recovered in

a corruption operation it is now used by the students of the institute so they can learn how to navigate we have to pay for maintenance everything is very costly but i would rather buy speedboats for students but in the meantime it is what we have. a labor union representing construction workers being accused of corruption and extortion the estimated value of this car is about $350000.00. but it's not just for a reason there are at least 3 garages like this one filled with luxury cars the government has to pay for the maintenance and insurance of the vehicles at cost that people like says needs to stop. ideally if the vehicles were normal we could use them in operations the problem is that in this case the cars are too expensive for us to use we have to keep them and it requires

a big investment to keep them i. accusations of corruptions were rampant during the previous administration. came to power in 2015 with a promise to fight it but. he was also investigated because his name appeared in the panorama papers 0 machree is the son of a once powerful businessman who also had dealings with the argentine state. never mind the political port there are within the political establishment links to transcend the party and mix business and political classes and many of them want all the corruption investigations to be closed because many many are in court. precedent mackley basta decrease so the government can sell the confiscated corruption items but for now it has not been implemented. the degree needs to be controlled by congress and congress rejected it the decree is unconstitutional i

think fighting criminal organizations require us to address the new methods but it has to go through congress and all political forces should be the same side. but it's an election year in argentina and for now many in the opposition say the law will have to wait. at least 30 people are dead and 200 others are missing after a boat sank. in western democratic republic of congo officials estimate several 100 people were on board when bad weather hits they were mainly teaches travelling to collect their salaries by boat because roads in the region are in poor condition. zimbabwe's main opposition party has elected nelson chamisa as its leader and congress held by the movement for democratic change since the death of its founder morgan tsvangirai last year. has more from.

after months of infighting over who will be leader of the opposition party nelson chamisa is the elected president of the movement for democratic change he ran unopposed after some who wanted the top job left the party or dropped out of the race and we have shown the way out we have shown zimbabwe with on africa that it is possible to be democratic it is possible to renew it is possible to have a nonviolent peaceful contest internally and that is what we have shown the world look at the number of people we have come all on their own accord. zimbabweans are watching him closely to see how he plans to put pressure on president innocent of a rising inflation and unemployment along with fuel and casualties nelson chamisa narry lost last year's presidential election to president innocent women that were the result showed he has significant support but whether he can appeal to a broader audience remains unclear. his m.d.c.

party also has to show its different from the ruling zanu p.f. i think there's a lot of common ground between the ruling party and opposition and i don't like to call frameworks and propositions. both pro free market business and therefore they don't just fall. out they may differ in terms of whether leaders whatever ages and so on but fundamentally i do much for that. when it comes to his party geneva has been is the 1st congress since morgan signed that i died from cancer last year . soon after the death of the m.d.c. is found the party split over who should replace him. the next election is in 4 years jimmy so will need everyone to work with him if he to depose the only party . where. now ambulances in the afghan capital of kabul are known for their quick response to

attacks but most people needing to get to hospital for other injuries or illnesses take a taxi sometimes having their chances of survival shot at best finds out why. income an explosion or gunfire is followed by. police military and ambulances racing towards the attack nurses and drivers without protection bury the dead and wounded to hospitalize despite the danger and. it is natural to be worried everyone is scared of places where there are attacks but it's our job and we have to get to the place and do our duty there is always a nurse in a drivers seat to a cool despite responding to more than 50 attacks since the ambulance services created in 2002 they haven't had any staff members killed or injured. this is what the ambulance service is known for what it is not known for its transporting other patients to hospital those not victims of attacks.

there's a lack of awareness about ambulances and how to use them it's a free service for everyone and they don't understand there's a nurse and driver and we can take them free. on the lack of awareness there's also a capacity issue. the carboy ambulance service has just $29.00 a gallon says for $5000000.00 people it says its response time is usually less than 20 minutes but it can be up to an hour and a half. ambulances a facing further delays after the taliban day tonight had one packed with explosives in central kabul last january well the 100 people were killed ambulances another search to check points. it means most afghans choose to use a taxi rather than call for an ambulance everyone in this intensive care unit was brought to hospital by a txi baby who was admitted unconscious with renal failure. i

was feeling pain in my body and i was in trouble when i was travelling here by taxi i was not able to sit up properly i was in a lot of pain. most of the patients were brought here by taxi or in a serious condition coming in a taxi the patient loses 50 percent of the chance to recover because they come from a long distance without oxygen. and it's not a problem limited to the capital kabul ambulance service has 50 vehicles in 3 provinces you define a stone has 34 provinces and more than 30000000 people the ministry of health admits he doesn't know exactly how many ambulances exist. cobol. color i'm a star with the headlines on al-jazeera for europe centrists have suffered significant losses in one of the most contentious elections in the history the center right

european peoples party and the socialists and democrats together have the most seats but not enough for a majority and the riot is gaining ground in the elections italy's league party led by matteo salvini has become the biggest party in that country and in france marine le pen claimed what she calls a victory for the people after projections put her national rally ahead of president of the party and in the u.k. in niger for hours as new party is in the lead as voters express frustration over the deadlock on how to leave the european union for says his party's success is a massive message for the conservative and labor party is that have long dominated british politics. president has praised the relationship between the u.s. and japan as he sat down with prime minister shinzo of a their talks are focusing on trade and regional security he became the fast foreign leader to meet the new empress nor he said it's our relationship i think i

can speak from the standpoint of the united states has never been better than it is right now with japan i feel that we understand each other very well we're very committed to each other as nations so we have a situation where we have the best relationship that we've ever had with japan and we're going to keep it that way we are work you know in the imbalance of trade there's been a tremendous imbalance and we're working on that and i'm sure that that will work out over a period of time and during that briefing trump also said he'd be open to dialogue with iran if they wanted to talk send extra troops to the region amid escalating tensions but has downplayed fears of conflict on sunday iraq spoke out against the u.s. over its treatment of iran but the iraqi foreign minister told his iranian counterpart that iraq is willing to mediate while those are the headlines next stuff is what i

want to swindle kings of manila. a policy imposed decades ago pregnant woman part that she put selectively goods and have only boards changing demographics across asia with far reaching consequences for creating a pool of socially disadvantaged young men so you have the system where people at every level are bigot being given money money to agree distro zation our money to get other people to agree to sterilization al-jazeera examines the politics of population control. it's a scam that stocks in the philippines and stretches across the globe to. invest is a promise the opportunity of a lifetime they all ideas they get your uncle. but instead a lift with shattered dreams and by natural ruin. the wide eyed wide like

a sick of saud. a one on one ace we reveal how open eyes crime is making millions in the philippines. it's the business hub of the philippines where multinational corporations turn over millions in annual profits but then the country district of manila has a dark underbelly play some news and making a fortune in duty cash by trading fake shares. just a lot of. in secrecy destroy them private investigators in cyber crime expert can gamble is in the final days of an operation to blow open an organized crime ring run by ex petrie it's in the city. we want to document all the

people that they're talking to whoever they have contact. take photos of them we need to figure out who all the. members of the syndicate lives. the fraudsters have gypped investors around the world race by selling them shoes the don't exist then stealing their money so who obvious goddess what are their nationalities. they're americans i come from. from new york area new jersey. for almost 2 years can gamble has been watching them he has the only mails the bank account details and recordings of their voices he knows everything about them. to have any idea that you're on to them. no idea at this town that stays like that for a walk. oblivious to this towboat attention the gang operates business as usual the scammers pretend to be from investment houses in america in real life they called

manila. some have filipino wives and children into the 20 years. well a very clever at at what they do at the securities fraud but they're not very clever covering their tracks. the crime ring is about to be exposed because one of their own his taking a courageous calls informant x. will call him is about to turn on his associates except they don't know it i meet him in a discreet location on the edge of manila. a. good 1st. informant x. is a man with friends an influence on both sides of the law. on the do it all guy i'm a freak sort of that's what i do for these guys there are some problems that come to a try and accommodate a force of thought i remember both of those which now informant takes is planning

to help engineer the downfall of the organized crime gang he works fall and along the why he'll reveal to me the in a workings of an international fraud syndicate it begins with him secretly recording gang members discussing their cut of profits from the scam. then his decision to inform on the gang takes an extraordinary new dimension. of his suit. what's in a. document the most damning evidence is here x.'s uncovered a trove of hundreds of documents belonging to one of the fraudsters it exposes

every aspect of the criminal operation evidence of transactions even. logs or whatever money comes even though the documents name the victims investors from the netherlands south africa hong kong singapore papua new guinea new zealand and australia. but one stood out the most where he got scammed for a whole lot of them out almost 4 and also say what is now we. are. far from the bustle of manila the provincial center of rockhampton in the australian state of queensland. it's here i find wine brown a hard working coal mine electrician who should be enjoying financial rewards. right about home or going in that hole every die is hard work i don't see any

family for 4 days at a 7. in early 25th wang started sending his hard earned cash to what he believed was a new york based investment broker he thought he was buying shares. for a future. what i do at the bar i don't want to keep doing with. my dish. so there are others on. if you get. in wang's money pocketed the so-called broken went by the name of john bolton. didn't know it at the time but was not a license try to even he's name was an alias in real life he was an american criminal living in manila. this is the frauds to talking recorded on wind brown's voicemail. by the way to charge us for the various here because i.

just heard or told me to discard it there are shit i know how to do it. so that's john polson john polson bring up there's no on the old or thought i was wrong because. but our e-mail it on us overwrought no reason to think it was a scam. the man who calls himself john polson is sticking to a script scammers like emus well proven psychological techniques to entrap the victim's investigator can gamble has seen it all before they're required to get the investor on the hook so the very 1st calls that i'm like a design to get that potential investor to to make a small investment. there's the fear script to reassure nervous investors and one code you need to know who i am on going to make you very very rich you need to know

who i am because on the man that's going to change your life and that of course you know are coming with someone who's very well spoken with an american accent that sounds like he's calling it a wall straight and then you know the the average person is going to believe that. this when the john polson is stealing not only money but an identity there is a real john polson he's a successful multi billionaire investor and philanthropist from new york. but the imposter to those who know him is a thief and a thug he's a heavy drug use and. when you see him in you think. i better get out of discourse face or else because it's one of those intimidating guys who say one role something bad will happen to you. 2 over the next few months sitting at his computer in manila the fight john polson works on his victim whine brown the

astrologist persuaded to buy more bogus shares to the value of $700000.00 u.s. dollars his portfolio apiece to do well. their health or is legit the gentleman who. that old knowledge of the share market any given you put forward to me was a good case in the case of why he. he was led to believe that these shares were valuable and that the day they went up in value and then that leads into another deal which is even more lucrative and so on and so on a lot of these guys have worked as brokers they have worked for my defense some of the biggest firms in the world and that come out of those firms and they've gone to the dark side. to bolster his image is a corporate heavyweight the pertains john polson makes up another company name with a grand time to at least seem global partners its headquarters supposedly on wall street it's another lie concealed behind

a fake website. so this is the police he rips on. leave him go out of office oh i thought it was legitimate there was no reason for a way to do that they used this 9 because alyse him is the same name with a number of other organizations as well so again when you google the 9 you actually come up with all these legitimate companies. then this scamming of australian wine brown steps up a notch after john polson hooks him into the scam and now the gang member takes over he's job to keep wine spending money polson was just the start of the the scam is that contacted me. john paul's disappeared probably 12 to 18 months after i 1st started talking to him and then again. you know according he came on the scene and. there is now

a new broker in the picture going by the alias of daniel johnson that he too is an american criminal living in manila not the us. what. johnson calls constantly to pry more money from one brown. that will never be bought stop interest. shall we. might be able to get there. so tell me about this man. scrub off your boyd's whistle for he still probably a member of it also into us is there a certain arrogance about him you know does he think he's a big shot in the philippines. only a certain urgency he thinks who rules the philippines it's like a month or 2. well he's american he lives here with his wife and has children to

her he's been in the philippines for years and he's probably one of the mind characters who. lived probably one of the logic parts in this for. the crime syndicates victims from around the world were instructed to make payments to bank accounts in hong kong. the money is sent to the philippines and within a very short period talk on the money is usually taken out in cash here in the philippines by. like a bank account holders who have control of the accounts on behalf of the fraud gangs for the syndicates and the money is then loan it is ultimately into cash. by now wine brown believes his portfolio is valued at $5000000.00 and he wants to cash it in.