tv Rewind Fools Gold Al Jazeera October 11, 2020 12:30pm-1:01pm +03
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fans of the world's biggest k. pop boy band of watch their online concert. p.t.'s fans waved their signature light sticks and chatted online instead of going to a live show which was canceled because of the coronavirus in june the band and the guinness world record for most viewers for a live streamed performance through its 1st paid online concert drew around 750000 people. and stick you through some of the headlines here and i'm just hearing now at least 8 people have been killed in the latest fighting over the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh the officials say the city of ganja was struck by missiles overnight as that of a giant in armenia are accusing each other of violating a cease fire deal the u.s. presence doctor says donald trump has been cleared to return to work won't confirm if he's tested negative for corona virus it comes after trump addressed
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a crowd of hundreds at the white house democratic presidential candidate joe biden has accused the trumpet ministration of neglect over its handling of the pandemic biden's been campaigning in pennsylvania and laying out his plans for the economy he says he'll create millions of jobs and fund the recovery through new taxes on the rich more than 7000000 people in india are now confirmed to have caught the coronavirus the health ministry says or than 74000 people have tested positive in the past 24 hours doctors are warning recent gains in containing the virus have been undermined by social distancing fatigue. production is restarting at the share our oil field in libya libya's national oil corporation says it's lifted an order that prevented the fields from operating almost all libyan oil exports was stopped in january by wald after us forces based in the east shot are is the area's
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largest oil field and has been closed for most of the year polls have opened in tajikistan sprezzatura election with the incumbent expected to extend this 28 year rule in mali ramón is among the 5 candidates running for office he's been on in charge since independence is allowed to seek now as many terms as he wants. but a russian president alexander lukashenko has held an unexpected meeting with opposition activists in prison they were jailed for challenging his reelection which triggered weeks of mass protests protesters one looking to quit and reverse constitutional changes that increased his powers it's really why now stay with us the e.u. suggested that it is willing to go to extreme and. it's simply to exert leverage
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against the u.k. you know negotiations for a free trade agreement with a new deal on the cards is it game over 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 largest gold producer for centuries it was called the gold coast's but today
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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 bought 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 ghana 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 and old scam these 1st as have become a major threats to companies and individuals looking to invest in my country's most valuable commodity. that's chemists and foreign investors and it's well below normal rates and with global gold prices now hitting report their profits on. the
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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 recalled a service i was storing. there. we tested it was good. to do that next shift. find the. street. put us towards ordeal didn't end there after going to the police the 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
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a foreigner loses money they're going to try to do something and they come in it's like a mafia a threat they scared people and they just pack up they really weave their money behind this 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 angry 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 the old scam cases dennis and his chief of operations ralph some years fire was coming to steal from us just when i look at my unit to lose 2000 assembly we have
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a hard. time doing this with you. this 2000 lives we have. to treat to discover just so you can see did show us. 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 they have already been it's cases reported to see dennis and ralph took me to see some of the figures had a pain to fight against gould's chemists. who usually how did the victims be when you open up to sift through them. and they realize that there is no board and that evening from just for instance in this case you know that guy or the victim so real. and when this bus was booked the police. we look at it in just recess. and people. we found this newsgroup's
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son. who is shocked because initially to stop what he saw. actually. have been speaking 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 so how many people are involved in this scum in this world. really myself people. aren't induced mysterious try to ward off connection with drugs or go in there. come back. and good for sure who missed me do. good work he explained to me that 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
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endemic in the west african region and gama is now a global hotspots on lines cops. people are good do good are. a problem for do we need friends who are willing. to sue for life. high unemployment and poverty levels are clearly a major factor in the rise of these cranks but distrust as a destroying people's lives as an undercover journalist my motto east named jim angel it's time to give these compass the pissed off my meds i've been tipped off about the book was good. business abreu 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 the path of the one of the investor i'll be posing classes trent a professional footballer who has played so cabrera i can take the mining company.
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i tell them you'll be arriving from the middle east in a few days' time and that he's keen to buy some goop within hours i get an interest yes the response from a man called patrick black sheep company even office to collect my friend from the airport and taking to his with the game is on a salaam aleikum be allowed this is the plan when you are right the scum ice will be the meat i would also be there i'll be waiting for you. i'll cover story that we are friends and that we enjoy the way i play football they will prove to pick us once we had the hotel. steps quickly prepped so that will be the very fast pace of the investigation before we move in to meet them to take us to show as they go and yeah that makes all right.
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we are on our way to meet. the law. and to meet this comments for the 1st. this time so usually uncertain times because dealing with the. times predict what do the most important event i took him to. stay focused being. an overall contest whilst. on our way to the sea he had arrived and had already been met by someone as he came of that plane. i was worried as i wanted to be with him when this comment i write. i had read insight to find him keep. them on who had might be in a loose shit if that day the cool soon be arriving to collect us and take us to do will tell outside. way keeping and look up.
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both. of. us who were waiting for their vehicle i decided to go ahead to the hotel and make sure everything with their room was set at about 10 minutes later this come as i arrived to collect just what do you see what's happening. yeah them everything on p.t. looking. you know this issues for. a while. to give you. a real. to do. the investigation.
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the next step was to check the authenticity of the documents provided to us by patrick. is the manager of monitoring and evaluation at the minerals commission the government body responsible for regulating them an insect that. also really look at us. i mean sword in name here. i mean reminding company limited reactionary service documentation from all sides trying to check on the background of this company merely testify that it's a firm and company because you don't often it in again as for consent is concerned it's gonna 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 well to $1000.00 so they've gotten some who are selling to them for $35000.00 i tell you who are you for it is. in the consumer driven world of
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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 but $1.00 says wait 7 said tammy reminded that investors need to be sensible and take necessary precautions. we. wanted to see. me. as usual. would be behind. i had.
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approaching the 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 la. and as a president with a stick into the national bank when we're told the rest of the food we took was safe keeping insight and man claiming to be the bank manager assured as of the security. at the banks head office revealed that often who said facility to see post. the alleged bank manager was honest come. they geological so
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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 real. they came to see and really to see us on how to exports to do it it's not clear whether he knew he was helping to prepare to hit the front but what is certain is that the whole day had been a carefully orchestrated cherry to sec us deeper into debt trap. and on to semi finals it's over we have gotten to the finals tomorrow with collected all the evidence to morrow morning i'm going to present it to the putting . the raid will take place home make a final feeling. of a critical things about the rate is that if it cooled must be that. well might be able to get evidence of intent to sell because.
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it was time to. some journalists me question my tendency to. look for me in this country seems to me and getting the job done. makes investigation has gone through well and so to be payment is going to be the choice indication in. the control. room which will be formed and i will which will be for a bailout and myself. it seems. to be she. will be a briefing. by men they will move to the decision. to the position and with whatever it's ok thank you good luck. everyone was.
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this. ensuing investigation came to a successful conclusion to police tests on the 75 kilos of confirmed that it was indeed the only one bag which must have been for the good purity test of the geological what's real. all do spare rest appearing in court over the next month to stand trial for the action. to be this for us this have been beaten idea. but on most other digs companies or individuals have been scammed up and down the country destroying lives and demi image and investment prospects. their result of this one investigation may not change anything but this was a small. fascinating film about dollars 1000000000 dollar gold trade and to update us on the story we're joined now by
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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 disguise 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 down soon as we realize that we had done proper way before taking the action but
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there were a few of them coming on not coming that was the phases of all our lives 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 fear file lives i think was a bit more minimal in that story what happened to the scam and 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 the 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 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
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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 there had core evidence is there and when you attempt to know what the house will it to get done. do you see the situation improving i mean context of this film is so foreign investors so be wary about think business in ghana well i think that if you have a nation that sits on it. 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 police say this while if you take the evidence for them to want to take 2 steps so yes it's horrible we have comments all around bad what is claimed is full is that there
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are people who are 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 as you only way the systems can't work you've been doing this this job for on 20 years now was the. 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. it's also a big story to them come past 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 stitching you're going to slee absolutely and as it's been great to speak to him 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 rewind series you'll find them on everyone pays at the website but for now until next time.
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rewind return. the updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries. back to their. renditions inside libya's prison when the rebels came to tripoli their eyes had all sorts of feelings associated with gadhafi is losing it was in the office of spy chief that found a stash of documents which revealed the collaboration between british and libyan intelligence services on al jazeera when the news breaks and the racism protests continue in a number of cities across the united states when people need to be heard in the health area 1000500 points were destroyed and about 80 percent of this land al-jazeera has teams on the ground people are just talking about wind and solar as if that's going to solve the problem if want to bring moon documentaries and life
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moves on air and online. stories of struggle stories of achievement. from opposite ends of europe contrasting past and stories of arab refugees seeking a new life abroad. al-jazeera world travels to austria and sweden meeting refugees and those who welcomed them. a place of refuge. and nichols told on al-jazeera. cyprus a european island opening offering citizenship to those who can afford it in august of 0 made global headlines with the cyprus papers confidential documents that reveal a murky passport by investment scheme thomas before. the senate. now al-jazeera is investigative unit goes undercover to expose further revelations that
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