and all tom's former chief strategists has addressed the far right national front party at its congress in the french city of little steve benen praised party leader marine le pen for what he called a vision that puts less than list against globalists. let them call you racist. let them call you xenophobes list it is it was a prison of let them call you nativist. wear it as a of honor china's commerce minister says any trade war sparked by white house tariffs on steel and alimony and would be disastrous for his country the us and the rest of the world speaking on the sidelines of the annual session of parliament the minister said china does not want a trade war and won't initiate one meanwhile the e.u. trade officials are calling for exemptions on u.s. import tariffs plan includes a twenty five percent tower on steel and ten percent on alimony and imports writes those are the headlines on al-jazeera produce stay with us people in power is

coming up next thank you for watching. facing realities growing up when did you realize that you were living in a special place a so-called secret city getting to the heart of the matter why is activists to live in jail just because she expressed herself hear their story on talk to al-jazeera at this time. provoking one of the largest corruption investigations in south american history the car wash scandal has left its mark on countries from brazil to her. business leaders multinational corporations and politicians have been caught up in allegations ranging from bribery and money laundering to distorting the democratic process how do the case unfold we sent reporter gustavo courage to find out.

the biggest corruption scandal in brazil and latin america began by accident at this petrol and car wash complex in the nation's capital. it was march seventeenth two thousand and fourteen and the federal police team had the location on the surveillance they believed it was the center of a money laundering operation run by a former convicted criminal i'll bet you're safe. to say only stassi the. latest date on the new leads a group of state prosecutors overseeing what is now known or the carwash

investigation discovered you may you intercept don't have to say. were made into a source but me that this is just. a little bit of walking into one of the ways you know sort of at the rice. that. they vector and put over us the national oil company turned out to be. the executive in charge of refining and supply if a school keep all about the cost of. the. ghost i was arrested after trying to destroy evidence and held without bail. in. this. formal. about the cost of this is me is the boy's video. of what. he. is both so is. for you a big debate. over was just one of many bribes he received contracts to

construction companies the money laundering yousef also negotiated a plea bargain with a law enforcement force that had been set up in the city of. confessed to police that they bribing scheme was much larger than anything they imagined he knew. this is. in the us and. all. those began a wide ranging investigation of corruption leading to the highest levels of brazilian financial and political power. still ongoing the car wash investigation has now spread to eleven countries more than one hundred fifty executives some politicians have already been arrested or convicted. the scandal is exposing an entrenched system in which multinational companies dispense personal and political party bribes to promote their interests in the fallout is ensnaring letting

american elites and shaking governments to their core. nuke is about as useful dog oops all just dull money is fault or. you know with his legitimacy and office of transparency international and n.g.o.s that combats corruption around the world he has been working closely with prosecutors on the carwash case. if you see is here the systemic just put us on the phone and. you're going to. move and systemize if you see a triple get amir's misses them are. very inspiring how could you explain the fact that you have a job to place here impressive how was it possible what was the significance of the case your problem on their own but as you were systemic or make a new year's more. or no more deals what i mean to contractors

that is norfolk i scholar was followed is we're normal g.p.s. so is the movie result but he is on this. you know. there. was. possibly also. going to federal police inspector philip has the financial crimes unit up the force of. your district to. tell us. up at us was he put as well as up while. well as this. but i. don't enjoy it. according to a secret agreement that existed for more than ten years the cartel would nominate

one of its members to be awarded each bit robust contract for refineries oil rigs and other multi-million dollar projects. the rules resulted in steep overpayments for the work done. executives were bribed to go along and they coast built into the contract. in fact. to building stadiums for the two thousand and fourteen world cup the two thousand and sixteen olympics and other major infrastructure projects throughout the country . traditionally.

yaz is made usual your will to see. in june two thousand and fifteen. against the construction companies in the cartel twelve top level executives were arrested. but. the most powerful. c.e.o. of the company that bears his name. is the largest construction company lot in america it's bribing operation. members and was the most extensive in the region. this. blog is a source. that he is please.

give me much. on march eighth two thousand and sixteen marcello the village was sentenced in one thousand years in prison for corruption. and criminal association. we headed to some of the reno things brazil to get the other bridge company's response to the scandal the business was founded here in one thousand nine hundred four by monticello the bridges grandfather and the city is still its headquarters. it's shoal your current business interests or are very historic and mostly. iraq and you . said a cure for gold is

a longtime member of the other bridgeboro played actors despite the conviction of its c.e.o. on the bridge the liberates in more than twenty countries around the world and had revenues of about twenty six billion dollars last year but there was. more gain join with those but it is as though their british space was so obsessed fate. was out that i was there about you've read g g. g g absolute the suspect. of the company was too slow to warm up to deny everything to deny deny and deny i know what this. more they seem to do to relive this is a good use of use you can do it on a human school my eyes let me. do going to deck a busy deck of this deck at the sea to walk in the wood as you keep see the. deer

they did you didn't git dodge at all being set of damage by gov walmart weasel why should we. expedite the process oversee and invent a corruption but it made war in a competitive way it was able to prove that it had also an amazing capability of organizing a very efficient corruption and pull the most a force gene but in the. with. c.b.s. or. signal or over. for good review according to authorities other bridges that ran an intricate off

the books accounting system and how did so on bank to bribe note only company executives by politicians that started to become clear when marcello there but it's begun talking in hopes of reducing his one thousand years sentence. if. you want. to see. members of all the major political parties in brazil receive kickbacks in exchange for appointing petrobras executives dozens of congressmen senators and ministers have been implicated in this country other branches testimony of a body blow to the workers' party a former president. and he successor the admiral said. after. the model said he was impeached you know was two thousand and sixteen two weeks

later i was formally charged with corruption in connection with the carwash scandal well but i see sleep was being held to account investigators were also making steady progress on the international front with the help of the us justice department. yes. the movement. is just so part of the scheme is that. to move up on the moment if you're saying well that was a. whole performance of those. the mall the buses. in december two thousand and sixteen the company pled guilty to american charges that it provided almost eight hundred million dollars in bribes for more than one hundred projects in twelve countries. all the british agreed to pay a three point five billion dollar fine and disclose details of its corrupt activities in latin america and africa. or the elementals of those those.

mills mechanism plug in play. whatever it is guilty plea set of investigations throughout latin america. key to those efforts this is suffering how the money flow from other bridge to corrupt officials through countries like panama that specialize in offshore banking. to. us but this. investigative unit off upon i mean a newspaper. he says police investigators here uncovered up on a main company tied to all the bridge. to international and sort. of the near of the. like to. buy me

a sequel more went up on. many of the shell companies used by members of the brazilian construction cartel to dispense bribes were set up by mossad fonseca the law firm of the center of the bottom up paper speak which exposed the financial dealings of some of the most powerful and wealthy people in the world most of. us yes. they have been. us. superman. this is he taught. us. as he get. to wrestle we call more. than their. pen and i was not only a conduit for corrupt payments it was

a good place for sweetheart deals. over there but it's. done. so are you doing at the moment all the ground on average or below. between two thousand and ten and two thousand and fourteen on the bridge paid tens of millions of dollars in bribes to secure public works contracts one of the most profitable was building the coast highway. but i didn't you know but i know which is you must. be a legislator with the country's governing body has been questioning the pricing of the project for years is a preexisting my your can we were going to give you. that immunity may may or. isat is in. iraqi. in which are.

in july two thousand and seventeen on the bridge reach an agreement with the panama to pay two hundred twenty million dollars in fines and provide information about public corruption to settle bribery charges in the country. by east board. that is. out of. kenya antonioni meeting me your only if. that means only watch you. all the way other brits conducted its business are growing through old latin america. the latest flashpoint is peru where the country's ruling establishment is on the seach from its connections to the company. better on paper legalistic for you to get beneath that out of. our journey was that i won some just

the public on which money paid off from two thousand to two thousand and five during the presidency of alejandro toledo now accused of receiving bribes from other bridge yeah most. of it just. sort of being the view we said again. while the british wanted the lion's share of a multi-billion dollar highway project connecting the peruvian coast to brazil and they got it to live though has been charged with accepting a twenty million dollar bribe to steal them the business according to the head of all the british in bed or who confessed in two thousand and sixteen the final deal was struck in brazil. to go to copacabana beach business. but it never who knows of it is actually hundred million my special interview program prosecutors are trying to extradite a letter from the u.s. to face bribery charges which he denies. so the british didn't just pay off individual politicians the company promoted its interest by gaining influence over

the political system itself in the early game i believe it. or not but i can say it all would have. been there. if you know your political scene almost in the fall it will be and then you know you know personally i am never. admitted to giving millions of dollars to the nationalist party to finance to complain about young. president from two thousand and eleven to two thousand and sixteen. if you only guess on the little muscle of the british illegal . days. when you. were a good doing. begin occasion she called you please you can three million dollars and complain but at the city's company supported the left not only to promote other branches centrist in peru but to curry favor with loyalist workers party in brazil

you know what i'd wish she were imperiously key to the miracles. presidential ski foresee. that ms million people each is million. here present allegedly. she a lot of us was correct if there. was a being who was it people political move for up there on the you electricity and that's the the. one that's sort of the that the hero police the. u.n. at the end. zone with. the u.s. it's only here though it was going to see a lot of people. both on his wife and i mean area there was general secretary of the nationalist party are now in prison awaiting trial. conservative opposition leader. and her popular force party are also being investigated for taking money

from other bridge to fund her two thousand and eleven presidential bid she says the accusation is false but most said all the bridge has testified that his company helped finance her campaign. on the in february but other confirmed giving more than a million dollars to support for in the presidential race why put them in developing a political say a bad apples but at the heels of his if he named after him in tippy toeing but he was forced to kneel for. economy e.-l. door. that's december the car was kununurra right at the doorstep of purpose current president. yes it's your genes eat your list congress launching beachfront proceedings against cashion ski alleging his companies received almost eight hundred thousand dollars from other bridge while he was serving as a public official who she's getting nice all wrongdoing unutterably aborted impeachment but prosecutors continue to investigate his company's dealings with

other bridge that i sit at the nickel filling in that it of atlantis when it is. it is it all of you know sort of until one of the. bubbler son just attorney general is overseeing the prosecution and investigation of perverts president and other high level officials for dealings with other bridge why do you think he led by jack oks went so far in peru or how does corruption in peru now compare with the historical corruption a standoff here in the most of the middle east. is the debate most of it but i'll bet over the cases that another list. the business of it but i wouldn't deny the previous owner the leads us. that way second film you're most likely to little's the list out of the politicos and debase. the manikin the most on his own almost as well he said lupul would look at that little it's less if you're having a tough one isn't there when a continuous. in

a little discipline over there will mean. a week seems to bring new developments around the world in connection with the car wash scandal governments from a quarter to one gold are dealing with the repercussions of the case. back in brazil the supreme court is considering former president lula subpoena all of a twelve year sentence he received for corruption his plans to run for president i mean danger of being to rail. i love my job well i just stop they don't know that political because india. is seen stopped by their support but there is no need for their discourteous in the system when they look at my said i'm a lot month is that if you need to know as opposed to know alison i was selling milk on the c. approaches in the fall says there were democrats for forces there were g. starr the g.g. did one sin stop but you sushi had a deal so scarce as hoops on my silk airport this year i would add

a warm into this aside it would doubtless have bought into going to die i just thought it could cope so before that. i was one of the bridge the company hopes the agreements he does sign with eight countries will allow it to continue operating us one of the largest construction companies in the world. well there was once to continue working and you'll give me a compelling reason why after all that we know after all the lies we were told. i should now trust all the british the waste for whom if you need to. process. my feeding. it worship is so over the key. that i will be at my aunt will be going to my. body that you might want to last december the car which taskforce reimbursed bit of gas more than two hundred million dollars that the company overpaid for contracts as a result of corruption by executive son the construction company could tell. you so

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most of the people he's showing. this is just one of several museums taking part in the project. and as well as bringing people together one of its aims is to emphasize the contribution of. the person to western culture. because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things. to me the great thing is it's not just. to fly. the flag.

as poverty and desperation sweep across ruhi just settlements women and girls are being bought sold and given away in refugee camps when used investigates yet another dark side of the crisis at this time on al jazeera. and all of the prominent in the headlines on al-jazeera syrian government forces have made a significant blow out of their battle to take the last remaining rebel stronghold near the capital damascus ground forces have advanced into areas between the main towns of the and had author alan fisher has more.