tv Art Trafficking Al Jazeera September 22, 2018 3:00pm-4:00pm +03
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india's rupee plus white ice cream sales are melting away in kabul. counting the cost on al-jazeera. preside over here in doha with your top stories from al-jazeera iran is blaming government backed by saudi arabia for attacking a military parade at least twenty four people were killed and more than sixty were injured during the annual event commemorating the start of the iran iraq war it happened in the southern city of switches about a hundred fifty kilometers from the border with iraq the area has seen arab separatists attacking oil pipelines in the past of ours is also one of several cities were being large antigovernment protests in recent months or such a body has more. chaos and panic in the city of at last in southern iran
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as an unprecedented scene unfolds during a military parade. unidentified gunmen opened fire your parade at the start of sacred defense week it commemorates iranians who died during the eight year war with iraq in the one nine hundred eighty s. . while the wounded were being treated people were warned to get down a revolutionary guard spokesman says four men dressed in khaki uniforms and riding motorbikes are connected to the al aziziya group which is supported by saudi arabia . all four suspects have been killed when they come to launch an attack like this the i.r.g.c. in southwest and iran in and out of a populated region in back me that there has been a bill and put out a plan in order to send a very strong message actually so there are your lay sions to leave now and there
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are reasons to believe now that. this is in a sack masterminded by the united states and the saudis especially because the attack hillary a solid terrorists of all that was the supported by this all these you know have been recognized to been in charge of this attack the rare attack took place includes islam province which borders iraq and has the largest ethnic arab community in iran the province was a major battleground during the iran iraq war the obvious attack happened as president hassan rouhani was delivering a speech at the main anniversary parade in tehran he was briefed on the attack and continues his speech which it orating iran's position on its defense capabilities ronnie said they will continue to increase day by day and in africa as the investigation continues into the major breach of security dosage of ari al jazeera . two days after a ferry capsized in tanzania rescuers have found
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a survivor he's one of only forty one people who survived at least one hundred ninety six others drowned in the tory on thursday tanzania's president is blaming overloading a negligence for the disaster he's ordered the police to arrest the boat's owner rescuers are still searching for survivors from the second big landside slide. it's light in the philippines in less than a week dozens of homes were buried on thursday in negativity on the island of cebu at least twenty nine people are confirmed dead while up to forty two people are still feared buried under the mud early reports said some of those trapped had been sending text messages to their families three states in northern mexico have declared emergencies after a tropical depression caused widespread flooding at least three people died in the floodwaters in sin a lower and three others may have been swept away thousands of people were forced to evacuate their homes a streets were transformed into rivers the military has been deployed to help rescue those who are still stranded. the opening of hong
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kong's first high speed rail link to the rest of china is course going to cry from pro-democracy groups they're angry that part of the new terminus isn't forcing mainland chinese laws on passengers during immigration checks protesters say it's the latest erosion of freedoms which beijing guaranteed when china regained control of the former british colony in one thousand and ninety seven. the newly reelected president of mali is about to be inaugurated on the eve of saturday's ceremony in bamako police fired tear gas to disperse crowds demonstrating against the election result. one by a landslide in august opposition groups allege widespread voter rigging. news whatever you wanted on the website al jazeera dot com is the address you need also via the on your smartphone to up next is art trafficking i'll have more news in thirty minutes about.
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antiquities trafficking is one of the most profitable illegal trades in the world estimated to be worth several billion dollars a year it ranks on after illegal arms and drugs precious objects plundered or discovered in clandestine excavations find their way onto the official market into museums and galleries. the main victims of the pillage nations are now demanding the return of their stolen treasures for a long time these demands were ignored. but systematic ransacking of heritage sites meticulously staged by the islamic state of iraq and the levant isis has caused
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a global outcry and has reopened the debate with changing public opinion efforts to halt the trafficking have gained a new urgency but our nation's prepared to act from berlin to beijing from rome to the syrian border and 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 grown polly to admire the treasures contained in the private collection of eve sun the home and pierre ballsy one of the most prestigious in the world a few days later these precious works were to be auctioned off by christie's.
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dozens of masterpieces would 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. ah the law was. passed it was not. but the present owner doesn't agree to that issue has to be a new ballot it really is there is there. own marshall shake a fellow when one is of your own book will be tude cryptic on that lake 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
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british troops plundered the forbidden city and ransacked the summer palace. still today the destruction and faffed 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 future in a way to raise only by due to the filmmaker do it as she knew or surveys it be it it every day g.d. ok if you are right so you guys are expected i'd love. for that is your fate 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.
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it. was. 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.
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ways is that in a city that's already been well. received 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 continued to demand the restitution a demand which took on political dimensions beijing viewed it as a way to exercise and 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 calm things down with the chinese in twenty thirty the owner of christie's file swapping no himself sent emissaries to directly negotiate
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the purchase of the bronzes with. was to be agreed we could see over there. for therapy no this it had to be up or here or there. she sees it for issuers. officially from swapping no return 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 p.r. described it. the much publicized case of the summer palace bronzes is far from unique more and more pillage countries are demanding the return of their cultural assets the trophies of the renowned museums of the western world.
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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 i'm ballin 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
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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 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 it got extended the computer that is it explained. the example
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in just. the exact amount do it if ya. know. all the friends you see here have been pretty easy and we would be acquiring stuff and the program on 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 it specially in the city of ghazi and tep young guys and they should use 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
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a leg and then saying and i said and as many people in this is from this is now you know that i've had. this black list includes objects and so in 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. here's john dowd and they can. do given busy i'm. busy i'm no gunson shante
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can and can't and then. the vitriol is said we've been engaged in an on line and i'm a maid. and then to shit in this they are abusing him in there 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
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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 pillage 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
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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
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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 simple as our pot problem on the. left. is no i mean more joint on would you like to find
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a not understood it was in zones should one image with one on sauce fiske out or when your 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
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biggest antiquities dealers in the world. in twenty ten customs discovered in alley a town's 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. it tools will awful you know all over to prevent thank are up on love on do i live on this on the on and off and off on oxygen for that's not hope you bleak put on your own music. so to study this 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 depot or both home shop or 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
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next year on cities used to get exam play and good news all morning don't say i'm a modest shock silliman of a more haste to steal from them what their love the killed. near zero lead to cannot as your phony powder mash on set in success you and of course that the president don't know haven't. really hit me on the pond on a year d.p. do me do mariella kids who are out there you yes just the most ridiculous who belong on get heated this is sucker first elapses did look at what they simply. see levity dick we haven't seen more in the clair goodness. to jail he faced with doubts over the objects origin the sale was finally cancelled as the so called because it was probably looted in turkey swiss authorities decided to allow
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it to ankara let your key idea for me do cool let your key sit there. but of course if you. impose it do i did it go see aunt jackie man who told the degree. to said this exposed as short as that food called the steam percent last year to put it in food so it doesn't keep as to the tumble produce doc. online via our own lot that follow the story of it with a document live only the longer to declare a loved one or both own them. except that after being restored in london the so called figures 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
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five in september twenty fifteen swiss justice finally ordered the repatriation of a 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 last night is the all cope what 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 art
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loss 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 louisiana just in case items ever started and now register them on the database just in case they show off for sale somewhere else the most obvious examples of the thefts from the national museum of iraq. in two thousand and three and two thousand full. and what was amazing is they were very careful and you can tell it was well planned 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
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objects have been recorded elsewhere. they can say actually different words that we've entered just to help bring that up so here they were for all they were put. braided have 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 looted archaeological material that has been looted out of the ground it was taken out of the ground and potentially the only people that even know of its existence of the people who dug it out. and yet this certificate is widely used on the antiquities market as is the case for tom's suck office. i wish i had
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a clue powers. i would say. it's we've always been very clear about what our certificates are for and they state very clearly that an item is not database and it's not being registered with us but that not every theft or loss or looting event is registered with us so 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 boundaries between nation
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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. and. the russian orthodox church is deep pockets and the rapid expansion may bear its crucial role in putin's grip on power with some elevating the former k.g.b. officer to sainthood president putin is our leader that the. people in power investigates how often it's attempted elimination by the soviet union religion has
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returned to the hall to the russian state the orthodox connection. a year ago president threatened to destroy north korea what will happen this year when he and other world leaders visit new york. this time as a dimension trump is expected to chair the u.s. most important body the security council. and he has iran in his sights. extensive coverage. from city hospitals to community health and to change is happening across china. and for one six year old boy there is now home. on the border just so it's from the countryside he came to a big hospital and experienced doctors performed the operation for him. how to care
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for one point four billion people china's unique challenge on the people's health on al-jazeera. we should all be in doha with the top stories on al-jazeera iran's president hassan rouhani has ordered security forces to use all of their powers to identify gunmen who attacked the military parade in the southern city of ours. tiran is blaming fighters backed by saudi arabia for the attack at least twenty four people were killed and more than sixty were injured during the annual event commemorating the start of the iran iraq war a survivor has been found in the wreckage of the tanzania ferry two days after it capsized the man is one of only forty one people who made it out alive at least one
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hundred ninety six others drowned in league victoria on thursday malcolm webb has more now from the ugandan side of lake victoria. and divers from the tandem in navy heard sounds coming from the inside of the upturned ferry did some waterline in there they searched all they could find initially was again more bodies of those who drowned until eventually they did find one man who still alive and he's been taken down to the forty first survivor of the car that rescuers are still searching for survivors from the second big landslide in the philippines in less than a week dozens of homes were buried on thursday in one city on the island of cebu at least twenty nine people are confirmed dead while up to forty two people are still feared buried under the mud reports earlier said some of those trapped had been sending text messages to their families three states in northern mexico have declared emergencies after a tropical depression caused widespread flooding at least three people died in the
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flood waters in sin a lower and three others may have been swept away the military has been deployed to help rescue those who are still stranded. at the opening of hong kong's first high speed rail link to the rest of china is causing an outcry from pro-democracy groups they're angry that part of the new terminus is in forcing mainland chinese laws on passengers during their immigration checks the newly released elected president of mali is about to be inaugurated on the eve of saturday's ceremony in bamako police fired tear gas to disperse crowds demonstrating against the election result it. won by a landslide in august more whenever you wanted on the website to see your dot com or the top stories there for you twenty four hours a day up next we'll take you back to our trafficking i'll have the news our top of the hour c.n.n. . with
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the absence of common legislation and with skyrocketing prices trafficking has taken on in dust to the proportions. the man that put it will be in the majority but they have been to some very good but there is an indictment that this bill is even i do not meet that look it up but it will motivate them at it you'll come and join us and defeat this really thought of a lot of the same as the second just that not a ticket out the monument in the face of the bus if you know if your genetics unit you don't know is out there to check that out us both out these brothers and i got us to go but i think that. today is have direct access to the markets all they need to do is post their object online where you can be sold anonymously in recent use the number of websites selling archaeology. no artifacts has increased a hundred fold on one of them we found this clay nail probably from
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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 and i. guess it has gone unnoticed for years but footage of destruction by the islamic state of iraq and the levant has caused a major international commotion. being here oh me me me me. the.
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music they treat the music. live music. the discussion on the hike you. see. a simple thought about i gather. on street by me a classic a sit on me hi can you talk of. the age of the tweet. through song battle of the city limits. and i'm going to cover i said petition that can one demented. the stage 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.
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see poor could it. again my guess would not stay said that they did and that to secure it that in the three said maddon executed it is like you think of 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 threatened 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 been the department.
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also why. are you going to. good 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 administration culture so this is a destruction of history the 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 sell don't act one quick solution you.
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know by now 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. 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 to really military.
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act here in moscow military talks here youngster. or you dno. more active. an example. feel young again is the. setlist but. this is the most complex here like you see on the dodge. city in many of the many p.s.u. . sick. bjarne around 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 most makes regular visits to turkey. to meet other members of his association.
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early in the war his correspondence could easily cross the turkish syrian border but turkey recently closed entry into its territory. the same your stock of. the c.e.o. but they are. not the sessions on the piece they did that you. push it up to cover you can't. always see you. come together kitty don't choose it on the case for to increase pivotal year you know because last post depressing able to come up it will only define. little easy but little more to mitt romney jobless going into a semi no suitable good advice let me ask you. my
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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 . nobody who was here. should have been meant for levied in his tone on those you prove also why he looks one way emmett not to respond it's there you. can eat any contact. via sky it's sort of a soul in more young. people. not
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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. and. doesn't have is full of antiquities stores in one window check most spots what he thinks ossified smuggled in from syria. before. that it in stride.
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then stuck to the pollution unless the initials. are stable you see seriously. you know this will fix. things and there is a particular sound with respect to the unit chemistry happens to say that there is doing so if he were to sit through the normal mostly diffuse young missive i'd be sitting there. syria then the south this. shouldn't. this year a lot of the yellow new york going a little better or worse another the one in the muslim american ramadan i'm in there mate had someone not on the. list. that she had thought about an ability to not realize that she's gone that is ron marz image elec they get that someone almost. to me it was above and all of it but it gives no more important.
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moment to some group. called one of these objective as you sample if not who you know is all if not whole video could exert a cue vashti sokolich to know because we don't want a rope she pulled piece was sure because it wouldn't be pretty full essentially media availability limited off level of news from an organ a bit harder to. react to treat you want your blood to the. lip but there is but there is definite dish announcement utilities. kitty i think in another name i see said the need some part of me a very dizzy. or blanket child they tell me a good deal of egg soup. and a community. obs to secure him keep on
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a lot then buy it if you can match him but not us if you cannot be. any male input i guess not. stand there but that the sun don't. shine cos accounts on that battle lead the damage some high bad. day. yet the cossack of their heritage i cannot sit at the back it was do says she passed say. it's normal good 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. is
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the. reporters who. were going on when you said is that one also don't know what having your walk on water is perceivably mussel these are pretty carefully pleasures if you are going to gather the sources say forty killing anybody who says he did this legal. ok reason 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 pos room sumanda ph it was less interested in what i thought that 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 close enough to the floor and somebody to be
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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. that. since civil war is offered. for. liverpool all. across when ya. divorce and in a new repressed moment when the alladin with your. more difficult through or me a gal or the lord of the coroner's office 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 the collector will be questioned further the customs offices is facing three years in jail.
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she took it as. if you were. the able to call in the order if you had lost it but. suppose you. get 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 yet guaranteed. that he's now
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getting a very good. state of as i spun a sale a day. these are moderates you want to preach the whole event don't want the taliban for the samsung the puppet who will sell tons of so you may appreciate one of these example debris cavities owned by some of the inventors and the needy leaky belong to. me no hole think i'm the one that bust like usual police hold on the media all meals and so me to demean and oh. yes he's still in you better mention my ass right barry had a better way it coming up afternoon on a jet sheen that's it i know jake you don't got boy serious though about a young she. says so much that way in eighty don't mean you saw her softer august second feel it it did. such
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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 walked on i don't. want to push to be there it did but that silly pop we had there accept they didn't know shit defense of any of so so i began. 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.
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you know hundreds. of feet down toward and. and shut down an obama levy when 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. trying food court records see the. so much. pressure you didn't feed how shitty means you end up this is your father said don't leak could see him truly that john if it how you shout that evil will. go miss regularly visits mrs barnes home at headquarters to collect the funds necessary for buying back
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plundered chinese works that are sold in europe i am a foreigner working in china since long time i understood that when there is a question of cultural 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. did. better what you're there to hear don't hit the bush would you do it or. bears are coming out there tony the only just a total washout and. the sound and the bad are told are slim at its own soul credo jail though jenna found sure she should go. to their fate ha
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ha. and then the washing. machine that soldier she is out of. the message got across in the west to 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 well. one of the most so come again yearly plissken 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
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lawsuit was filed but not pursued eighty years on did he receive a phone call from the french culture ministry is old you. see news or you'll shoot please of g.d.p. new no. don't sit if they don't also also send you prove i knew later don't as you need for this and that you'll be doing it. but only real name law accomplices usually most six internets you know she's 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 from swapping no would return his plates in person to the chinese ambassador in paris a month before the official visit to beijing by french foreign minister la all five use a model for cultural diplomacy. is us at emperor hakan an e.q.
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