hello i'm maryam namazie and london just a quick look at the top stories now tanzania's president has ordered the arrest of a ferry operator involved in the latest disaster in lake victoria john magaw declared four days of mourning for the one hundred thirty one passengers who drowned two hundred fifty others are missing after the crowded capsized just a few metres from the shore malka web reports now from the ugandan side of the lake . lake victoria became a grave site on thursday afternoon after a ferry capsized and sank the ferry was overloaded with more than four hundred people on board when the ferry was coming to a stop people moved from one side to the other and the way to tip the ferry over nearby vessels were diverted to assist. the.

we're here to rescue people if there's anyone alive with god's help will rescue them as for those who have died we'll get them out too for now we're concentrating on the rescue operation as you can see specialists have arrived for him to ferry sank just a few meters from the dog in the u. korea we district officials don't know the exact number of people missing person dispensing the tickets drowned and the machine recording the data hasn't been retrieved some eyewitnesses say there were hundreds of people on board tanzania's president john mcafee declared four days of mourning. for him because it made the souls of those who've passed on rest nobody else in the hands of god and those who were injured maybe he'll quickly i've decided to have four days for mourning as a nation to remember those who have died. lake victoria lies within tanzania kenya

and uganda some of the deadliest accident have occurred in tanzania part and sometimes old and dilapidated overloaded ninety ninety six one hundred people died when a passenger and cargo ferry sank i mean twenty eleven almost two hundred people died when a ferry capsized in the isms of our. waterways are always busy because they're crucial to people's livelihood. there's always activity along the shores of lake victoria any time of day or night people depend on the lake for their survival fishermen for fishing others for water transport and trade the people on the boat that capsized many of them are on their way home from a market when the boat it over but now it's more than a day since the boat capsized hopes of finding any survivors now very slim a mile from where al-jazeera port uganda. u.s. president donald trump has cast doubt on the woman accusing his supremes court

nominee of sexual assault university professor christine blasi ford is in hiding after going public with the accusations against bright cavanagh which date back to when they were in school in one thousand nine hundred eighty two trump says that if the attack was as serious as she's saying she would have gone to the police straight away and gaza the health ministry says one protester has been killed and at least forty injured by israeli fire on the border up the demonstrations against the israeli blockade on the gaza strip have been going on for more than five months now. or hear the u.k. prime minister to resign may's accused of failing to treat her with respect after they on a quickly rejected her breaks it plan on thursday may said her counterparts had failed to explain why a check is planned wouldn't work. throughout this process i have treated the e.u. with nothing but respect. the u.k. expects the say

a good relationship at the end of this process depends on it at this late stage in the negotiations it is not acceptable to simply reject the other side's proposals without a detailed explanation and counter proposals and in syria protesters have been marching in the last province in rebel hands calling on the international community to stop president bashar assad from cementing his grip on power they are demanding he be removed from office before a new constitution is drafted those are the main headlines coming up next it's our trafficking.

antiquities trafficking is one of the most profitable illegal trades in the world estimated to be worth several billion dollars a year it ranks off to illegal arms and drugs precious objects plundered or discovered in clandestine excavations find their way onto the official market into museums and galleries be. the main victims the pillage nations are now demanding the return of their stolen treasures for a long time these demands for ignored. blood systematic ransacking of heritage sites meticulously staged by the islamic state of iraq and the levant isis has caused a global outcry and has reopened the debate with changing public opinion efforts to halt the trafficking have gained a new urgency but are nations prepared to act from berlin to beijing from

rome to the syrian border an investigation into trafficking that's at the heart of an economic cultural and diplomatic war. paris february two thousand and nine crowds flocked to the ground poly to admire the treasures contained in the private collection of eve sun the home and p.r. ballsy one of the most prestigious in the world a few days later these precious works were to be auctioned off by christie's. dozens of masterpieces will be changing hands including these two eighteenth century bronze heads a rat and

a rabbit which had once been housed in the imperial palace in beijing their sale sparked an uproar in china. they bought the la la la la la la la la la la la la la la. but the present owner doesn't agree. that she too has given you probably did she is or is there. she is on my shoulder shake a fellow when one is of your own book will be today cryptic on delhi it actually. except that these heads were stolen back in the nineteenth century it was an eight hundred sixty june the second opium war when french and british troops plundered the forbidden city and ransacked the summer palace.

still today the destruction and fair ft are a deep scar for the chinese people. beyond their aesthetic value the bronze heads are considered as priceless items of chinese heritage. should p.r. bags in their former return. to see our producer who know the killer is only due to the film like i do it the sheen were fair is it the it it every day is it the. issue you are so it goes or as big. as your offer for it day is your affair which probably publicly. took on the issue. lipan you could do math tourism is a sled there he had to go on the boulevard to d.c. it.

was. really fun to share his room you. know. that was new and it was. the two heads finally went for a combined price of twenty eight million euros the conclusive bids came from a chinese businessman who asked to remain anonymous but five days after the sale the mysterious bio revealed his identity at a press conference in beijing and his announcement was more than unexpected. ways is that in a city that's already been well. to local and put him. in that

area. as the buyer refused to pay for the objects pillage from his country the big was cancelled and the two bronzes were returned to p.r. budget. in china people continue to demand the restitution a demand which took on political dimensions beijing viewed it as a way to exercise a national humiliation but also to confirm its newfound international clout the two bronzes in the sun the home begs a collection had become symbols of the plundering of their country by the west for christie's it was urgent to come things down with the chinese in twenty thirty the owner of christie's file swapping no himself sent emissaries to directly negotiate the purchase of the bronzes with. were to be agreed we could see of

their character for therapy know this it had to be up or here or there. she sees it for burial issuers. officially francois pineau returned the heads to beijing out of friendship for the people of china but that wasn't all a few weeks after the return of the bronzes in the presence of the french businessman the chinese government finally gave christie's permission to operate in the country and exchange as described it. the much publicized case of the summer palace bronzes is far from unique more and more pillaged countries are demanding the return of their cultural assets the trophies of the renowned museums of the western world. pillaged countries have a legal tool to negotiate for the return of their stolen treasures the nine hundred

seventy unesco convention signed in june the era of de colonization imposes on all nations to return objects obtained illegally. in recent years the pressure on renowned museums has a. intensified. the pergamon museum the most visited him by lynn is obliged to know the origins of its collections. you start to understand that what you have here is not just archaeological object but it's part of the cultural heritage of the region or of these countries and at that point you realize you're talking about a political dimension or a cultural political dimension as a director i cannot say i don't know when somebody asks me how did your collection actually come into being so my responsibility as director of this museum is

to know everything about the objects. well the key documents in this file the ones that tell us basically that it was ok to take up the objects and this we have to do for everything and i'm considering that we have roughly five hundred thousand objects you know that this is a huge task ahead for us something that has to be done over decades really five hundred thousand objects all in here so that's an ongoing process that it will take until i'm retiring but the important thing is somebody is doing it every day because you have to have a lot of i was at his work september made a new going to close the critics on the present is that extolled was said. example in jest knows that it. is the exact image would be a. all the friends you see

here have been pretty good. and we would be acquiring stuff and the pergamon stopped acquiring in the one nine hundred thirty s. forty years before the signing of the unesco convention which isn't retroactive this is. so the museum's collection is seemingly protected from demands for restitution but that's not the opinion in turkey is especially in the city of ghazi and tep younger guys and if they should leave me and can find committed or forced off their leader a minister. you know seeing me and namely say. that we don't at all my. name is that then on there was a coalition the money was a debated today and there was. a man and a leg and then saying and i said it was many people and if if this is made in that way that he did. this blacklist includes objects and so when the british museum in

london but also in the pentagon in berlin although they were all acquired before nine hundred seventy turkey still wants them back. it's not a question of museums anymore because it's a request of the state of turkey. they also are in the process of overcoming. colonial attitudes towards cultural heritage and in this process they have started to realize that. countries in the west have not always been upfront about their practices of acquiring collections begin to do yeah savation. there is. a palooka. when they can. do given busy i'm. busy i'm no gunson shante can play in kent and then. the ritual is set we've been

engaged in an on line and then i made. a lead in then and was then to shoot it in this new they are musing in then call a she'll know. the pillagers happened over a century ago but turkey isn't ready to forget. like china and italy turkey has made the restitution of its treasures a political priority. within its culture ministry the turkish government has set up a special restitution unit. forty or so lawsuits have already been won resulting in the return of over four thousand objects. one of the special units successes is the restitution of this music of orpheus stolen in the nine hundred fifty s. then purchased by the dallas museum of art after several years of legal wrangling

the museum was obliged to return it. while believes nations like turkey have a legal framework to demand reparations this isn't the case in the private sector where only the market rules. in this antique shop window how many artifacts have a perfectly established origin in many cases it's practically impossible to verify . does the private antiquities market have its own rules immune to international legislation you know asco had attempted to extend its nine hundred seventy convention to better control private transactions a new convention adopted in one thousand nine hundred five the unit the wired convention on stolen or illegally exported cultural objects obliges sellers to prove the legal origin of an artifact it also obliges buyers to demand proof but

although the original unesco convention is recognized by one hundred thirteen nations only thirty seven party states have committed to the united wired convention. so the market is winning thriving with its own often shady rules chadian as embodied by the freeport system one of the main thoroughfares of art market trafficking. the best known are here in geneva but the exist throughout the world free ports were originally special economic zones which stocked in transit merchandise to reduce or avoid customs duties are dealers who

are soon renting space in these huge warehouses to discreetly store artifacts by allowing people to store all kinds of objects without the slightest control free ports have long been considered as a hub of antiquities trafficking it's estimated there are over a million works deposited here more than twice the number contained in the movie this swiss establishment guarantees its clients one hundred percent confidentiality its high security site is protected from theft but also from prying eyes artifacts can be stored safely here for years since before. pulling on the. left i know of. no i mean more joy and would you like to find a not understood it was in zones should one misread one on source fisk out when you're at the t.v. are would order to keep the tax.

no taxation an appealing advantage for our dealers while the works remain inside a free port they can be sold and bought without being subjected to any kind of tax customs duties are only paid once when a work definitively leaves the freeport a perfectly legal tax haven right in the heart of europe. these facilities explain why the gallery phoenix keeps most of its merchandise in free ports in the showcases only a small part of the collection is displayed the gallery belongs to tom one of the biggest antiquities dealers in the world. in twenty ten customs discovered in alley tons warehouse in the freeport of geneva this is second

century roman sarcophagus since then it has been the center of a complex legal battle. the stock of. tools will awful you know all the people and sank are up on love on do i live on this on the on it off and off on dots of all that's of hope you bleak put on your own music. thirty five a day and don't. know jane i'll come problem. fesses said proposition to deny soon she miss you don't you have a clue jake don't use it i just don't know a dip. phone shop will add me read of get this used extraordinaire in p.s. the medtronic at don't get those the large i made countdown do. in their next year on cities used to get exam play and good news all morning don't say i'm

a modest shock silliman a more best for them out there learn the guild colleagues your pretty near zero lead you cannot as your phony palomar shown sitting sixes you and of course that the president don't know haven't. really had many on the pond on the year the me do mariella kids who are out there you yes just the most ridiculous who belong on get heated this is soccer first elapses did look at what they simply gussy live it equivalence in more in the clear early goodness. heavy faced with doubts over the object origin the sale was finally cancelled as the so called because it was probably looted in turkey swiss authorities decided to allow it to ankara let your key idea for me do cool let your key sit there.

but of course if you. impose it you i didn't go see aunt jackie man who told they did agree. to set this exposed as short the city called the steam percent last year to put it in for it so it does i confess keep as to the tumble blues don't. all of a on a lot that follow the story of it with a document live only the longer to declare they are allowed one or both own them. except that after being restored in london the surkov occurs didn't return to geneva until two thousand and nine so the turkish lawyer heading the case believes it comes under the new swiss law which demands every approachable origins for all works of art imported after two thousand and five in september twenty fifteen swiss justice finally ordered the repatriation of the second office to turkey but tom

continues to claim ownership based on a certificate delivered by the company art loss register for years that if you get positive early. book of us by that suit the glare is that if it our last night is the or go board is a really really classic may see. our. good it. is sucky sucky. due to our for me. what is an art loss register certificate the precious open sesame of the art market a document which states that an object wasn't stolen. founded in london twenty five years ago as a private information service with over four hundred thousand listed objects are lost register who owns the largest database of stolen artifacts in the world for

a fee any buyer or seller can ask art loss register to verify that a piece is not listed on its database. these registrations these. could also be registrations from a museum just in case items ever started on the register them on the database just in case they show off for sale somewhere else and i saw this examples of the thefts from the national museum of iraq in two thousand and three in two thousand and four . and what was amazing is they were very careful and you can tell it was well because they went into the basement once they'd stolen everything and they destroyed all the documentation for the objects so that people would know what had been stolen unfortunately the major objects have been recorded elsewhere. they can say actually a different words that we've entered just to help bring that up so here they were

brought on they were put. braided have a heart something like that and in the case of the baghdad museum an inventor really existed so stolen objects could be captured on to the database but in war zones very few museums keep precise inventor his and there's no way that objects discovered during illegal digs will ever be listed obviously that's incredibly difficult when you're looking at loot you don't logical material that has been looted out of the ground if it's taken out of the ground then potentially the only people that even know of its existence of the people dug it out. and yet this certificate is widely used on the antiquities market as is the case tom's sarcophagus. i wish i had a clue powers. i would say. eight's we've always been very clear

about what asa to focus off for and they state very clearly that an item is not in our database and it's not being registered with us but that not every theft or loss or looting event is registered with us say it's not complete the art loss register certificate nonetheless remains the main document supplied by a seller to prove his or her good faith a precious certificate which can multiply the price of an object by ten but why is this service provided by a private company and not by a public body at least on a european level changes in national laws you go across an interesting nation states in the make it very difficult to resolve issues relating to stolen art in particular because suddenly limitation periods change principles of acquiring good

title change is something that people take advantage of to get around the system. twenty five years after the signing of al-jazeera world told the two part story of norway's role in the oslo accords but a salute to the government of more words or its remarkable role in order to minister to. the secret negotiations and why its promise of peace has remained unfulfilled a strong decided tone of the negotiations norway could do to show strength or go home the price of all is low on al-jazeera. discover

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health on al-jazeera. i know i maryanne demasi in london a quick look at the top stories now u.s. president all drunk as cast doubt on the woman accusing his supreme court nominee of sexual assault in a vast professor christine blasi forward is in hiding. after going public with the accusations against brett cavanagh which date back to when they were in school together in one nine hundred eighty two trunk says that if the attack was a serious issue saying she would have gone to the police straight away. in all the top stories tanzania's declared four days of mourning after a ferry capsized metres from the shore in lake tory killing at least one hundred thirty one people hundreds more a fear of missing from the overloaded boat and hopes are fading for those missing.

the ferry was overloaded with more than four hundred people on board when the three with coming to a stop people moved from one side to the other and the weight of the theory over in gaza the health ministry is saying one protester was killed and at least forty injured by israeli fire on the border demonstrations against the israeli blockade on the gaza strip of been going on for more than five months many are demanding their right to return to their homes and land their families were expelled from seventy years ago. here the u.k. prime minister to resign may's accuse the e.u. leaders of failing to treat her with respect after they are quickly rejected out plan on thursday may said her e.u. counterparts had failed to explain why a check is planned wouldn't work throughout this process i have treated the e.u. with nothing but respect the u.k. expects the same a good relationship at the end of this process depends on it at this late stage in

the negotiations it is not acceptable to simply reject the other side's proposals without a detailed explanation and counter proposals. and in syria protesters have been marching in the last syrian province in rebel hands calling on the international community to stop president bashar assad from cementing his grip on power they are the mine demanding he be removed from office before a new constitution is drafted russia and turkey have agreed to create a demilitarized zone separating rebels and it live from the government held areas the news hour is coming up in twenty five minutes time i'll see then our trafficking continues now. and. with the absence of common legislation and with skyrocketing

prices trafficking has taken on industrial proportions. demand that it will be in the majority but the evolution is very good but there is a mental note that this bill is evil i didn't eat there look it up but don't believe it to read it you'll come and join us and repeat this story to us a lot don't be surprised at the second joke that out of second out on your mouth and in the race at the bus that if you know your genetic tell it you don't know is that the teacher there that us thought that these players are callous to complain. that it is today new to have direct access to the market all they need to do is post their object online where it can be sold anonymously in recent years the number of websites selling archaeological artifacts has increased or hundred fold on one of them we found this clay nail probably from a rock officially this type of object has been banned from sale since two thousand and four but on these platforms no one cares about origin export licenses or

legal documents it's the final stage of what has become global trafficking. believed to be the third highest illegal trade in the world antiquities trafficking was rarely in the public eye. yes it has gone unnoticed for years but footage of destruction by the islamic state of iraq and the levant isis has caused a major international commotion. on any i being here oh me me me me me me nettie. you who. music in. music. live music.

on your high i.q. . i gather. me and. i can talk. on the. tweet. i'll produce song battle of the. i don't going to come i said petition that c'mon they're demented. the state's destruction by eisel hides another reality much harder to measure mass looting. since its founding has been suspected of part financing its activities through antiquities trafficking. see poor good it says now and again my gas would not stay said that they

did and that to securely tied in through said meldon executed it is like you think that. this was a key subject at a press conference to present the new red list published by i called the international council of museums for fifteen years i com has been publishing lists of rare objects from various countries which threaten to turn up on the international art market this time it concerned antiquities from iraq and syria suspected of financing eisel operations as proof that the subject is being taken seriously several international figures attended the meeting including richard stengel representing the us government who would launch the offensive or you might mr ridge and then go and essentially has to. be department. also why. are you going to.

evening i'm delighted to be here what we've seen over the last year is i saw as weaponization of information and the cultural destruction that they're practicing is the seven ization culture so this is a destruction of history and destruction of culture and the destruction of human beings thousands of human beings at the risk of being too graphic. i would say that the buying or selling i mean artifact is where finances the beheadings of muslims in the middle east. don't sound that's one quick solution thank you. know buying selling is a very good slogan it's obviously impossible to completely police it and to be

certain about it. one of the things that we've seen is that isolates using existing criminal markets that have existed over ten twenty thirty years in the region or using those people as middlemen to finance their operations. but how do we know what exactly is going on in the field absa the association for the protection of syrian archaeology has been recording cases of plundering in syria the association based in strasbourg and founded in twenty eleven at the outbreak of the country's civil war is headed by syrian archaeologist checked most r.t. . according to information gathered by absa eisel isn't the only armed group plundering sites in syria all the actors in the conflict are to blame tool lee would a military. will act here in moscow military talks here youngster million pound could ash or seize owing money. or you dno. more active.

an example. in young feel young again is the. secular police because. this is supposed to sound like your standard. city in many of the many p.s.u. . associates. of his top six are kumasi yana on asiri. what's the extent of this trafficking and how do the local networks that supply it operate to find the answers you need to go into the field to check most makes regular visits to turkey to meet other members of his association. early in the war as correspondents could easily cross the turkish syrian border but turkey recently closed entry into its territory. because you seem your

stock of. the c.e.o. but they are. not the sessions on the piece they did tell you there live pushing it up to the cover. we see you. come together katie don't actually use it on the whole case for the increased day but we're you know because last post the best able to come up to politely to fuck you only a little easy but look at what images on the job listed in taste let me know sudoku did it taste let me ask you.

my limited starting a chip on all my most new vanishing point here is to keep it down to people being only. did not know me. see it can't have it in this world i don't why did you speak . with you. should have been meant for levied in it's own on those you prove also why the close one way am it not to respond it's the. point you need to contact. via skype it can go to others or more young. people. not so long ago it was still possible to cross the border and large quantities of merchandise alive here in gaza and ten sixty kilometers from the syrian border.

according to several sources this turkish city is a hub for the trafficking of objects plundered by isis. push. each. doesn't have is full of antiquities stores in one window check most spots what he thinks ossified smuggled in from syria. before. that meeting to start. that you can then stop the pollution i'm ashley initials as you're seriously seriously. you know a little bit. sensitive and you know those below sound with respect to

the unit chemistry happen. very soon so if you want to sit through the normal most if you still miss if it be super that. syria then the sun you. shouldn't. the yellow new york. there was another the one on the muslim american ramadan i'm in the summer not in the. reactor but under believe it or not but again we all love the gondolas ron marz image i like to get that someone almost. over me. it gives them with a paltry. amount a small group. called one of these objective as you sample if not who you know is

all if what. killed rushdie. because we didn't want create hope she called police well sure because it wouldn't be on speed equalisation media availability limits go live. in or a. city react to treat you don't want your blood to the. dish announced minute they always. did i think in another minute i see sit and eat some part of me a very dizzy. or blanket child they tell me i'm a good deal i make. the dandy community. obs to secure him keep on a lot then buy it if you can actually him but not us if you cannot be.

any. records not. stand the thought that the sun don't. shine korsakoff's on that battle lead the damage some high bad. day. yeah the cossack of their heritage like you not supposed to back it was do says she passed say. it's no longer possible to publicly sell all purchase an archaeological object without legal documented proof of origin. the pressure on private collectors has increased. any of their acquisitions can be examined at a time. when the server. is the. reporters who are.

going to win users that one also don't know what having your walk on water is perceivably muscle is a pretty good thing if you are going to gather up the sources say forty killing anybody who says he did this legal or. illegal question the clues each year and a commitment to case like you are a place group is cool going to see if i move. into the piazza and sumanda piazza if we are situated in what i think that evokes him nor. there. some don't say i want except that if i'm just a little. old to ski the. awful excuse of a solution should get you fired up cause. i'm somebody to be able to stop so i suppose so i'm sure i'll survive it because when you call me waiting on then. the

funding talk all but it was our. laws to do. for them since civil court you know or is offered. flynn says. we never pulled all the rules. across when ya. get divorced yet in a new regressed moment when the alladin with your. mortgage full fuel or me a gallon of the vehicle i know of to work. after an eight hour search the customs officers seized one hundred and twenty three pieces archaeologists have estimated the value of the collection at ninety five thousand euros a collector will be questioned further the customs offices is facing three years in jail. she took it as.

if you were. they able to call in your order if in the last. suppose he. got in the shop. as european dealers and collectors are subjected to a growing number of controls they now represent only a small part of the international antiquities market far behind the chinese a new category of collector has appeared every year in europe they flock to specialized options ready to spend fortunes to buy back their national heritage. a spending spree that has seen prices skyrocket and years guaranteed. that he's now getting. very good. on. the state of as i spun a sale a day. these are moderates you want to preach if the whole event don't want the

taliban for the same song the puppet who will sell tons of shit so you may appreciate one of these examples of it it is owned by some of the inventors and the needy. don't. mean a whole think indonesia is the best like usual police hold on the media all meals and so me to demean the. guess is still in your better mention of my. ass right very out of a better way it coming up afternoon on a jet ching. that's it i know is it you don't got voice even though about a young she. laughed so much in eighty don't mean you saw her softer aug second feel it it did. such a good to do or not but i could put that question right on about i am

a citizen of the present lot don't tell and this only present booked on. don't. want to pursue b.d. they did but that slip up with their except they didn't know i was a defense of any of so so happy again. the reason bernard gomez is sure he'll find the nato is prepared to buy this chinese steel is because wealthy chinese buyers are willing to invest fortunes in highly symbolic assets. these assets include a good number of plundered national treasures objects with a high financial and ideological value. purchases are driven by a strong patrie arctic feeling and encouraged by the state. with. your hundreds. of feet down toward and that. and sit down

and obama will be one of the hot. hot to go. home being shared thirty years. harleigh. this is believes that those who wish to become cultured should invest in safeguarding national heritage she has even founded an association which aims to repatriate historical masterpieces through any means. food court records he the. so much he that's oil pressure you don't feed how shitty that means you end up this is your fantasy and the don't leak could see him truly that john if it how you show that evil. gomez regularly visits mrs barnes home and headquarters to collect the funds necessary for buying back plundered chinese works that are sold in europe i am

a foreigner working in china since long time i understood that when there isn't a question of relief when. there is no beyond of china's but only one voice it's a national really it belongs to our national and everybody sings the same things you know is very different than our country's. taken when german soldiers. are terribly. but hear what you're there to hear don't hit the bush do it or the bush. basher coming out the tranny the only just to wash out and up at home. toward the sound and the band are told at its own soul credo jail though jennifer usher she should go. to their fate ha ha. and then a washing. machine that soldier she is out that you know. the

message got across in the west two plundered artifacts must be returned to china otherwise sooner or later you will be held accountable former president of the french union of antique dealers christiane did he personally paid the price in the late one nine hundred ninety s. he bought a collection of chinese gold plates the for selling part of it to french businessman is wrong swapping no for one million euros later the two men donated the plates to the queen mainly in paris when. one of the most welcome again yearly pleas from me a few years after their donation the chinese announced that the plates had been looted and beijing demanded the repatriation in two thousand and seven the first lawsuit was filed but not pursued eighty years on did he receive a phone call from the french culture ministry is all due as c news or you'll shoot

. new no. don't sit if they don't also also send you plural i knew later don't as you need for this and that you'll be doing it. but only real non-lawyer called this is usually more six internets you know she is she ok. so christian did cancelled his donation to the green a museum and flew to china to return the plates to the authorities the other generous patron of the arts for swapping know would return his plates in person to the chinese ambassador in paris a month before the official visit to beijing by french foreign minister fab use a model for cultural diplomacy.

needs to play the dong. dani babb. way. of a. civil. lawsuit but. the debt is evil in film it is yours as if we were selling a little less all fed little dignity bears the i pray you had to deal guess your loss. bargaining that has taken on a new dimension. and. heritage is now being used for political leverage as a bargaining chip between states. the status of antiquities has changed once thought of as part of the heritage of all mankind cultural assets are

now being held hostage by armed groups and used by states for a narrow nationalist political and economic agenda that's. an is needed by imposing tougher rules recognized by all through international organizations a cultural heritage may regain its true place in our societies. hello

again it's good to have you back well here across australia we are looking at one system here that pushed through alice springs this brought some rain rain that they haven't seen in over one hundred sixty days actually broke a record so the rain is pushing through just one day of it not a lot to us in terms of accumulation but that area of clouds is going to start to make its way over here towards the east on saturday the coast is not looking too bad anywhere from brisbane down towards melbourne but as we go towards sunday then we're going to start to pick up some clouds and some rain maybe for sydney time to though about twenty five degrees but down towards melbourne winds out of the southwest we do expect to see about twelve degrees there well as you make your way over towards new zealand we are looking at a lot of clouds here on the satellite image so not too much as it comes back here across the tasman sea so that's good news take it with your forecast map as we go towards saturday the north island still sees those clouds and rain showers probably

some windy conditions as well down towards the south island we are looking christchurch partly cloudy fourteen degrees for you but we do expect to see more clouds coming into play as we go towards sunday and then very quickly appear towards northern part of asia we are seeing quite a bit of rain over the next few days particular developing across much of japan now that is only going to last one day but is going to be quite heavy at times and as we go towards sunday that moves out things get better and we are looking at tokyo with a temperature of about twenty seven. october on al-jazeera. in a new season al-jazeera correspondent returns with more personal stories from our journalists from around the world. brazilians are getting ready for elections but the main presidential contender is barred from the polls as he serves time in jail for corruption. from the u.s. and beyond the fault lines investigates the story beyond the headlines after

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