scott haidler has more. >> images of lee kuan yew overlook mourners at the hospital where he died. it's where people have been coming the last few days to deliver their "get well" messages. now they send their condolences. when a teacher heard that lee kuan yew died, he was in pain. he felt it was important to bring his two granddaughters here. >> what he has done,. >> flags of the small nation were lowered to half mast for the passing of who many thought was the father of singapore. born in 1923, the fourth generation chinese singaporean saw his homeland occupied first by the british and then by the japanese. after training as a lawyer in britain he became prime minister in 1959. a post he would hold for 31 years. under his leadership singapore was transformed from a tiny impoverished island with no natural resources into a hi-tech metropolis. lee kuan yew also had a darker side. opposition politicians often found themselves in court and often in bankruptcy. through it all he was unrepent tonight. >> if i were to rule like western democracy, we would have come to grief. >> while f

scott haidler reports that other drugs are making an impact, too. >> this has been the early morning routine for ten years. he readies his nets along the mekong river. fishing is not an easy living but it's more difficult here in the golden triangle. one of the most notorious regions for drug trafficking. >> trying to avoid any confrontation with drug traffickers especially at night they use pier, like this one to unload drugs. i never talk to them because i fear for my life. >> they launched a program aimed at curbing illegal trafficking in the golden triangle. they say since the operation started there has been an 50% increase in arrest and seizures. >> an arrest in one country could lead to another arrest in another country. perhaps to drug kingpins. >> an example that have coordination happened at the headquarters recently. thai officials show how tea packets have been used to smuggle methamphetamines. >> about 5,000 soldiers and police officers are directed by the mekong coordination center. in each country they work in several provinces either bordering or directly connected to

scott haidler al jazeera, bangkok. >> benjamin netanyahu has received a former request to formal request to form israel's next government. he'll have six weeks to put together his next coalition. his re-election was largely due to the right-wing rhetoric in the run up to the vote. >>> jordan will be the third arab state to pursue nuclear energy. it has just signed a deal with russia to build two nuclear reactors. we have these reports. >> reporter: it's taken years of research and negotiations to get to this point. jordan and russia have signed an agreement worth $10 billion setting the legal basis for building jordan's first nuclear power plant. russian state owned nuclear firm will build a two-unit power plant with 2,000 mega watt capacity, the first of which will be operational by 2022. over the last few years energy-poor jordan has sunk in-depth. turmoil in egypt has cut off its supply of cheap natural gas and the conflict in iraq has done the same with oil shipment from there. jordan spends billions of dollars generating electricity each year now the government believes nuclear is t