found guilty of taking bribes meanwhile prosecutors in germany have filed a new request to extradite the deposed catalan leader colace pushed him on to spain he was detained in march on a european arrest warrant for his role in catalonia failed independence fifth last year. and italy's first populist government has been sworn in a little known law professor giuseppe contacted leads a coalition made up of politicians from the anti establishment five star movement on the far right in the party as are many ends three months of political deadlock since election in march you're up to date with your headline stay with us on our next stop it's rewind.

and welcome again to rewind i'm laura carro. in this series we're revisiting some of the best documentaries on al-jazeera english since we launched more than a decade ago back in twenty thirteen the people in power series traveled to west africa to expose the shocking story of how young gone and children were being murdered because of the mistaken belief they were possessed by evil spirits no one knows the exact numbers of these ritual deaths across gonna became

a fast so and parts of nigeria but some believe it could be in the thousands the killing of these so-called spirits children is the consequence of ancient customs shaped by ignorance and poverty in this compelling program award winning gone then investigative reporter and the amass used hidden cameras to bring some of those behind these killings to justice from two thousand and thirteen his spirit child some west african communities have branded children born deformed or with disabilities as evil spirits see him as a drain on limited resources and so medicine men often acts to perform rituals and prepare prisoners concoctions to kill them thousands of defenseless children have been made in this. my name is a mass area and mass i am an investigative reporter because of the work i do i

never show my face. i've come to non being done now to investigate disparate child phenomena food is scarce here even children must wait for the family to. mount a long grey season has come all families move into the big city looking for work or to sell the animals. living on the edge of survival the birth of a disabled child is greatly feared it's seen as a terrible burden on their family an extra month to feet their child won't be able to help in their field and neither will its mother who will have to devote the precious time to its care i don't. traditionally as gruen they believe that such a child is a spirit and evil presence that must be destroyed before it threatens the survival of the family it doesn't even need to be disabled him a child in a family where things are wrong can be branded as evil and when this happens all this in the community known as compulsion mean poured into place in the child.

and amongst our poor and. given. that hugely. emotional. election. it will not. know. how they will. abuse. i'm ok but. who are. you my lad for my man of my mid. i don know how to solve that i may dismiss you can. add by saying laziness it is done a u.t. . a war. and. i'm

heading for a place known locally as they will forests because the bodies of spiritual drain have been buried here for centuries. this is here at the only indication to show that's. where varied here the concoction men had their bodies and that distance to prevent us from digging them up this forests remains green and still standing because the local people are afraid they are scared that the forest would eat them up local and jews have often used dialogue to talk to community members to stop this practice advocacy has been successful to some extent but has not been able to eradicate this from the community. we are in a more democratic than now law enforcement must take over to stamp out this once and for all but we can't find any record of anyone ever been arrested for what can

only be described as a dreadful crime i've come to police headquarters in bogotá than that to meet their original commander and fame out why it is the very difficult thing to do it is a very difficult thing to do even if you good information one is new where it is happening who are behind and who in current events so you can mount machine and good and it's unfortunate we have no idea why this is happening who are behind or these and why or this why the of morgan obviously. it is being done on the quiet and you never know. if the police can find everything maybe i can my plan is to find some concoction men to invent as who called problem child and see if they will diagnose it as an evil spirit then i am to catch them in the act of trying to poison it a colleague has agreed to let us use coffee is eighteen month old son to play the part of my spirit when the concoction men come to do the deed but obviously i can't

risk his life so at the last moment we will be straight with the contents of this suit a similar looking them of a child made from silicon by a movie props company in london. shortly house making for. my first step is to integrate into the community i'm moving to see the historical heartland of this bridge you know me where i have rented this property. would separate buildings and two entrances it's perfect for my plant. in three weeks of investigation i've already met fourteen individuals spread over an area the size of libya from nodding their head to neighboring booking. person who admittedly did kill spiritual drain before him of this said they were willing to poison my stuff now it's time to do a deal with one of them a broker who has

a good deed i've told him that he's my son was born nothing has gone right i've lost money and my cats have broken down now we are meeting to make the final arrangements. to lend it up. here lend it to you. eleven emphatic and never let. me take you at that extent about two and more. than that i mean. do you really think you. must do it in a lot you. can do what. i'm told. morning. if you please excuse me. thank. god i wrote. but you know

you won't be gone for good or what d.c. happened was i think a little. part of. you know you could. you know beloved uncle know we're talking we know were gonna love you some moves i know this will open up putting us on notice you. in your beauty should i want to then you view the shit man that lab. because you're going to attack. it agree to a two hundred thirty two. solution for. well. you understand now your. family if you live. now has come. in from.

china and. now we have the oracles blessin the broker agrees to contact them and to prepare a poisonous concoction and administer it to my son a child's life has now been sold for forty us don't last the files i'm deeply shocked at this been for a while then does have become a necessity to a plot to madam i tell. of the cylinder deal with the book and moving on to the neighboring province and meet with another who said the willing to kill myself this time i'm dealing directly with the medicine man and from what i had more than read they don't let anyone in. the lab.

have a go when. i wanted to. buy . one of the. yellow. one allowable it about an. attachment that will hand it to you like a dog thought it one of being there do you know who got back to him and then never did you see somebody here that was letting the animal. i don't want to. you know i doubt. as well and. when.

i don't being that i think you. actually want to. i think i'm going to a little bit on you to be. going to. go back. to. connecticut i've know you've added two groups of men to come to my rented property . and admin is that that. their medicine man's group is shuttled full face then in the morning. after what they don't know is that look up police offices will be

hidden away in one of the buildings watching on t.v. money but fess i need to prepared to house to receive them as dawn breaks down this morning the police arrive and pack is save distance from the house. offices will be monitoring every moment of the complex in men's i think. police in uniform waits by the vehicle ready to take anyone i rested in to test that. man we believe a story we move over to the house in twos and threes to avoid arousing suspicion. our current scheme is now assembled one undercover reporter six plainclothes police officers and the baby is time to bring in our dummy child and place it on a makeshift bed in the secrets camera room. is now ready to take office police at the last minute. three officers take up was asians while the area crime officer and

his two remaining colleagues sit in the money to move. from here you keep patient vigil and be ready to move in the moments the concoction men to clay intends to kill. suddenly we had a medicine man and he's accomplished a push. remember to solar go. to. earth. it's the. next i think they made some money and his accomplice inside the house showed them their real child.

certainly would demand simenon leaning over to feel i'm never about he sifts they clearly have no qualms about killing him. and it gets worse when the demand of. bringing him outside for them to inspect is sickening but i need them to believe i am ready to follow through if my plan is going to work out and i do. there is no way i'm leaving to feed there with them for a second is them to get him to safety i

first him through the window and into the secure of the weeds in police office. there met some men build a fire and well some boots they dug up this morning to create a deadly brew. and . finally ready to admin is that the concoction we make into their bedroom where the demand i hand over the child is still don't know it's a replica. thank. you

. john the rest young not to like to see anything unless you're still there so i thought that i would see if you can down and begin you know the defense to no fault of law against. the person for supposedly because the city. is this also bought off yes there's no you got it this is the pad one and then this is where they prepared to put if we.

can get people to keep what they've even today even in handcuffs one of the men is still hanging on to a dummy as forensics offices begin to take samples of the materials used to make the concoction you know but i don't know for sure that they will have another with it waiting for. somebody to go at their own place and also wind already one example into the business and the liquid there man had already prepared to admin is that people feel. like. having that is sufficient evidence to the police and now confident that the men both intended and not tempted to made that h out. if police vehicle is ready and waiting to take them into custody.

i. think. the father. and the police station. and told to give up all the opposition include india loads before being put into this else. it. it will now with under lock and key on so accord decides the fate.

back at the house night has fallen by the brook and his collaborate this group invited to visit coffee filter the police the said our evidence is sufficient to i raise them in a way as soon as he's taken into custody it will agrees to get us to the homes of his accomplices first is this who declared my fictitious child was evil. then to prevent anyone from warning him to please keep we creep up on the house of the man who has been commissioned by the broker to prepare an administrative concoction . for the church. his payment for poison in this life is also discovered and they can ask everything. as they are loaded into the police while good in taking to the cells the industry see where very different is precious to deface the. illusion relate the only now

understand that take in a child's life the second when i. had. the . spirits child from twenty eight thirteen a moving and powerful film and what day says on this story we're joined now by investment journalist and us is also is not to show his identity great to have you in the studio with us. today first of all explain to viewers who may not of course it from the film why you've got the face covering while i have always been in this traditional mask in my career and that so ensure security and that's to help so people don't see that phase that does that feel how dangerous. i guess this is not to point to me but most african journey. there's food to

investigations have series of. dangerous points in our last so it's you just have to be you have to think that how do i survive through then this story and i have come i will beat that i wear i'm sure my adequately some in nigeria we have a dust house of protecting themselves. what sort of harassment have you faced when you were doing your work generally you would have before would definitely want to point guns at you some would try to kidnap you and we've had most of these happen and i mean getting threats of that is it's normal you know legal. and there's no synonymous to me alone but most of my colleagues on the continent or for that you know muncher is to name and shame and jail. over the naming and shaming but why do you feel it's so important to take it to that level where you want to see the people that you're reporting on pay for us to face justice there's nothing more

frustrating than doing a story on someone and walking on the same streets on that with that person if that's even more dangerous and that can easily and the life of any journalist saw the days when we sit down and then say we have this problem we don't do story for people to just read and smile in the bedrooms we do stories that have impacts on society for me that a good story is the story that named shane and jill did the bad guy i mind can be unconventional i testify in the court of law to make sure that the bad guys are put behind bass and that has helped so many people have gone to jail as a result of my work and i'm proud of it if we look at the film that we've just seen spirit child i mean it's a heart breaking investigation and what happened to those concoction men did they go to jail yes they started their leader process but do you realize that they knew were true so by the time the process could finish some of them just couldn't even

make it to their saudi they had some sympathy but the key if in that happy. we are breaking now into the shuttle program going to take you straight to the u.n. security council where they are debating and the chainbearer resolution brought by the kuwaiti ambassador and speaking best say the russian ambassador who is the current u.n. s. the president. well the council's business last month. would have voted for the provisional agenda for this meeting is full of the situation in the middle east including the palestinian question where you know the agenda is adopted. in accordance with rule thirty seven

of the council's provisional rules of procedure i invite the representative of israel to participate in this meeting. it is so decided. in accordance with the rules of procedure and the previous practice in this regard i propose that the council invited the permanent observer of the observer state of palestine will to the united nations to participate in this meeting. there being no objection it is so decided. the security council will now begin its consideration of item two of the agenda. of members of the council have before them documents slashed twenty eight t. and slash five sixteen slash twenty eighty five twenty one of

which contain the texts of the two draft resolutions respectively. the council is ready to proceed to the vote on the draft resolution contained in document s. slash twenty eighteen slash five sixteen submitted by kuwait. just you know i now get the force of those members of the council who wish to make statements immutable before the vote but it was done i give the floor to the representative of kuwait. thank you mr president at the outset allow me to congratulate you on assuming the presidency of the security council for this month we wish you success in your endeavor from obama i would vote along me also to join you and express our thanks so to her excellent see you're one out of the. embassador you're one are the investor there of poland on her expertise

and experience presiding over the security council last month which was a very busy in our work so you go use mr president but we're more in the past so we do the things we have held to the negotiation rounds at the experts level with the participation of all the member states in addition to. the meetings with all member states all of these meetings. have been highly transparent and comprehensive inclusive we have listened to all amendments and proposals and we have dealt with them. very well let to take into account all issues one of the we would like to thank all members of the security council for their positive spirit and their constructive participation during the preparation of the draft resolution that we submit to a vote today look up what we all we called all members today to vote for this

resolution because it is an agreed upon. draft resolution that includes wording from other draft resolutions and it calls upon all parties do respect international human he managed syrian law and international human is a human rights law including the protection of civilians and read with them and resources they need to take the necessary measures to save and protect. civilians and hold accountable on violators it also calls for the need to respect the human the mandatory an international law it also calls upon the security council to take and to do submit reports as soon as possible and really examine the present situation as soon as possible. especially proposals.