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all protected from human activities and you can find more on that story and everything else that we have been covering here on al-jazeera on our website there it is the address al-jazeera dot com and of course our top story there the president and his 1st was effectively a campaign rally since he was diagnosed with couvade 19. and now a reminder of the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has held his 1st public event since testing positive for the coronavirus trump addressed $200.00 of his supporters from the white house balcony focusing on what he's described as law and order most of the people attending were part of a campaign urging black americans to leave the democratic party trumpet use this
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address to discredit covert 1000 lockdown policies and he thanked everyone who supported him while he was in hospital. and i went out to say hello to those people it took a leap forward but i do it again in the region you. know behalf of myself or the 1st lady are just really incredible outpouring and we're starting very very big with our rallies or with our everything because we cannot allow our country to become a socialist nation we cannot. armenia and azerbaijan are accusing each other of seriously violating a ceasefire into this futile nagorno-karabakh region both sides accuse the other of violating the pact just minutes after it came into effect on saturday morning as it by hand says it's carried out air strikes against armenian tanks while our media has accused its neighbor of killing a civilian near its southeast border town of kapan. kyrgyzstan's parliament has
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named the new prime minister 5 days after the disputed election the appointment of said the it is a part of a scene by the opposition as strengthening president sudo by you have been called his hold on power the former president back at them by ever has been detained by security forces. and north korea has this played what are believed to be previously unseen intercontinental bill. stick misao the weapons are in show during a parade marking the 75th anniversary of the voting workers' party the spite souring relations between north and south korea theater kim jong un said he still holds out hope of reconciliation. there's other news that rewind fool's gold is next at sun on the cover of report which exposes a gold scammers in guyana that's coming up next more news from doha in half an hour and i'll see you tomorrow thank you for watching by the e.u. who suggested that it is willing to go to extreme and i'm reasonable if it's simply
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to exert leverage against the u.k. you know negotiations for free trade agreement with a new deal on the cards is it game over to britain and the e.u. finally breaks it down to 0. and welcome to rewind i'm laura. in this series we're returning to some of the best documentaries said on al-jazeera english since we launched over a decade ago back in 2011 the africa investigates series dug deep into africa's 2nd
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largest gold producer for centuries it was called the gold coast's but today this west african country is known as gone and in recent years has been home to a multi-billion dollar industry that once gave it its name using heaven cameras investigative journalists and. went undercover and scratch beneath the surface of what appeared to be in the desolate gold traders boss as a last was about to discover all that glitters may not necessarily big gold from 2011 falls gold. my name is and i remain anonymous i am an undercover journalists here in van and with my team have spent years now infiltrating and fighting cramming corruption in my country my anonymity is my secret weapon and this time i am using it against a new enemy comes this for us this has become a major threats to companies and individuals looking to invest in a country's most valuable commodity. that's chemists and foreign investors and it's
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well below normal rates and with global gold prices now hitting record profits on. the system but that doesn't exists the investors are taking 4 millions while the 1st says get rich this time i am going to make this chemist big as i go undercover to lift the lid on distant luzhin report of. i'm on my way to meet a businessman. who was being scammed of over 1.5 dollars. from america was coming last year when finally a deal for $56.00 kilos of gold at the local refinery called a service i was storing the. vaults there. we tested it was good. to do that next shift. find. st. nick good for us thoughts or deal didn't end there of the going to deplete the
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people who stole his money that threaten him. follow me in a car and i threatened to kill me the biggest problem here is that a foreigner loses money they're going to try to do something and then come in it's like a mafia a threat they scared people and they just pack up they really weave their money behind this is millions and millions of dollars and people's money just being taken people for their whole lives for money and it's just been. handed down a drain and one day here in told story it's made me and that not only where this chemist stealing from individuals like to do with the reputation and development opportunities of my country i went to the police headquarters in atlanta the director referred me to the head of the department in charge of goldstein cases dennis and his chief of operations ralph some years back was coming to steal from
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us just today when i look at my unit to lose 2000 assembly we have. been doing this with you. this 2000 lives we have. to treat to discover just to consider. this. so what kind of figures are we talking about here so far from lost about $200000.00 some in millions of dollars across the country there have already been it's cases reported this year dennis and ralph took me to see some of the figure had a pain to fight against gould's chemists. so usually how did the victims be when you open up to sift through them. and they realize that there is no food and that evening from just foresters in this case you know that guy or the victim so real. and when this bus was booked to the police.
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we look at it in the stresses and you know people. we found didn't look at their son. just shocked because initially did stop what he saw. actually. having spoken to the police it's clear this is a growing and serious issue but i want to get a view from inside to find out what is really going on one of my connections monies to put me in contact with the goods coming yes i agreed to talk on the condition his identity is concealed. how many people are involved in this scum in this world . really myself people. are induced mysterious try to ward off connection to this regard and they're here to come by. and a good deal for sure would be instantly good. to do which he explained to me that
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goods comes where just the tip of the iceberg part of a much wider network of for us this all working together these crimes are becoming endemic in the west african region and gama is now a global hotspots on lines comps. people are you good do group good to. be a premier for do you need to find those who are willing. to support the life. high unemployment and poverty levels are clearly a major factor in the rise of these cranks but these for us this a destroying people's lives as an undercover journalist my motto east name. is time to give these compass a taste of my meds i've been tipped off about the book was good. business debris mining company an informant has told me that it is a front for a well established group of scum yes but to prove it i need to get inside the prison and run a sting so f.n. listed an associate to act the part of the world the best the pros in passes trent
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a professional footballer who has played so. i can take the mining company because i told them you'll be arriving from the middle east in a few days' time and that he's keen to buy some within hours i get an interest yes the response from a man called patrick to watch their company even office to collect my friend from the airport and taking to the game is on a salaam aleikum be allowed this is the plan when you are. the scum ice meet i would also be there i'll be waiting for you in the line our cover story is that we are friends and that we enjoy the way i play football will provide a card that will pick us once we have the hotel and we can go upstairs quickly for a preparatory so that will be the very 1st phase of the investigation before we start moving to meet them to take us to show as they are that things. are right.
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we are on our way to meet the law. and to meet this thomas for the 1st. this time so usually on certain times because dealing with. congress predicts what are the most important and that i took into consideration. to stay focused on being iraq. and overall to smile. when i went to the call to say he had arrived and had already been met by someone as he came off the plane i was worried as i wanted to be with him when this comment i write. i had read insight to find him. on. them and who had might be in
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a loose shit as that day the cool arriving to collect us and take us to do will tell outside desk wake you feel and look up. both. of. us who are waiting for the vehicle i decided to go ahead to the hotel and may show everything with the room was set up about 10 minutes later i arrived to collect just what are you what's happening. yes them everything on p.t. looking. now this issue's. going. to give you. a real.
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to be wary and to be careful that you're not scalloped passes what he was trying to say the next step was to check the authenticity of the documents provided to us by patrick. is the money of monitoring and evaluation at the minerals commission the government body responsible for regulating them and insect but. also really look out. i mean so the name here. i mean really mining company limited reactionary service documentation from all sides trying to check on the background of these companies merely testify that is a firm and company because you don't have anything again as for consent is concerned it's going to export promotion council it was consenting to think how many at the investors out there now communicating with these fraudulent companies i must say that i also blame the scum you don't by good luck too much to see in the markets something that is went to $100000.00 so they've gotten some who are selling
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to them for $35000.00 i tell you who are you for it is there in the consumer driven world of today it is obvious that scum is would be the only people who feel that easy money whether or not most come victims trying to make a fuss about $1.00 says wait 7 as a 10 year remand that investors need to be sensible and take necessary precautions . we. would be behind.
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75. approaching my business and off i investigate. and i would say. pay me. fest to a private residence where do what. they wanted us. to detest in law. and as a president with a stick into the national bank when we're told the rest of the code we did was for safekeeping in sight and man claiming to be the bank manager assured as of the good security. at the banks head office revealed that off a new set facility to see post. the alleged bank manager was honest come.
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geological so they'd be padding is a government run but private testing facility their results from their test indicated that it was it's a 5 percent. it was surreal. to see and really to see on how to exports it it's not clear whether he knew he was helping to prepare to hit the front but what is certain is that there would be had been a carefully orchestrated terry to sec us deeper into debt trap. and on the semifinals it's over we have gotten to the finals tomorrow with collected all the evidence floor wanting to present it to the putting. the raid will take place home make a final feeling. on the critical things our body rate is that if it cooled
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must be that. to get evidence of intent to sell because. it was time. to the police some journalists me question my tendency. with those. but for me in this country seems to me and getting the job done. with investigation has gone through hell and so to be. going to the. location in. one room before me and i'm not out which will be for a bailout and myself. it seems. to be she. will be a briefing. there will move to the decision. to
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look at. the. why the. ensuing investigation came to a successful conclusion to police tests in the city 5. confirmed that it was indeed the only one bag which must have been for the good purity test of the geological was real. all do spare wrist appearing in court over the next month to stand trial for the action. to be this for us this have been beaten at the own game but on most other deeds companies or individuals didn't come up and down the country destroying lives and damaging their image and investment prospects. their results of this one investigation may not change anything but this was a small. fascinating
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film about dollars 1000000000 dollar gold trade and to update us on the story we're joined now by a basket of janice and that's our mail and whose identity we're not showing great to speak to you just remind viewers who may not have seen as interviewing you before why the to skies well i put on this these guys because of security reasons. in africa the real threat to the journalists when you and i come our way console in order to keep that face to be able to work on then a story i always wear this disguise and it's made of beats with african beats fool's gold i mean it makes for grepping viewing wake up both sides fearful of being exposed did you fare for your life when you were filming. well normally should be sold but when you do proper recchi then you know that tends to fall. short so yes there were fears initially but all got to do indulge
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down soon as we realize that we had done proper way before taking the action but there were a few of them coming on not coming that was leaving in the faces of all eyes when we're working on this story whether they would be able to smoke us out or not those fears are real and it happens in many of our stories but theophile lives i think was a bit more minimal in that story what happened to the scammers eventually they got busted we went to courts we took them the judicial process is still ongoing and then they are likely to be jailed likely to be dealt with yes the system is still ruling do you feel a sense of frustration with the system does it move too slowly for you. i have done several of us dollar is that we said jim when he's in jail for 15 years of the regicide general story that i did. talk of the ad i won i did on the coco smuggling
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story they are in jail for 16 years so put together so yes i do know that something the system grinds slowly but aca i have seen results and i don't have to get frustrated by that i think it should in silly me a sense of wanting to push the front yes faith and then i think that people are beginning to see the realities they had core evidence is there and when you have tens and all at the house will it guest on. do you see the situation improving them in context of this film foreign investors still be wary about think business in ghana well i think that if you have a nation that sits on it. and sits down and does nothing about it thus when you should be worried this would come as would always be there but the bigger question is how prepared is your nation to fight the. most african countries we have willing to police a vis where if you take the evidence for them do you want to take 2 steps so yes
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it's horrible we have come this all around bad what is claimed is full is that there are people who are also willing to take down this compass and also i think foreign investment also developed and they have that if you smoke in it and you see anything going wrong you should be able to report it isn't the way the systems can't work you've been doing this this job for 20 years now was the one that you'll most proud of well i would see my next work that is coming i am proud of the justice which i did for this saying 0 it's also a big story and then composite all the most corrupt judges and is that replica of it on the african continent is what makes me happy and then i think that another one is coming just states and you're going to slee absolutely and also it's been great to speak to you and good luck with your future work thank you very much and that's it for this week's rewind if you want to catch any of the other films in the
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