no matter why you call i'll just bring you the news and current affairs. ah, ah, me. you won't you over there with me so robin and reminder of our top stories. the taliban have taken another 3 provincial capitals in the country. that's 9 in under a week it's campus capture to find about an political marine both in the north and thought a city in the southwest that the group has also made gains in traditionally anti taliban provinces. and your official has told reuters news agency, the all group non control 65 percent of the country. sharla bellis has bought from cobble taliban taking 3 provinces. justin tuesday.

evening of s gonna sons 34. they just picked up. the provincial capital finds a bad that symbolic sean in the north east of f. kennesaw. it's actually the 1st time that the group has held bellhack, sean, in the history of the movement. they also picked up the provincial capital, political murray, which has been battling up to 2 days of heavy fighting. that is quite significant because it's the gateway to the north from cobble. so definitively managed to cut off most of the north from cobble. now they also picked up far a city the provincial capital, far in the south waste. this to night, picking up the 3 provincial capitals have now got 9. and to put that into context, the last time they held a provincial capital was in 2016, and they only held it briefly because us forces managed to push them out of condos, which they took at that time. so the pickup 9 over less than a week now incredibly significant and showing the amount of momentum they have

across the country in the north, the city of missouri sharif, which is the 4th biggest city in the country, is now essentially under siege. it is an island of government control, but they are also clash is going on beer and we understand the taliban a pushing very hard for that city. also. not clashes happening, not just in the north, but also we understand. on tuesday evening, there was heavy fighting in gaffney and godaddy and also ferrier, so another 3 provinces that the taliban are managing to tackle simultaneously. early today we meet with people who escape some of the fighting him come to cobble and they had her refill stories of what have been happening in these remote provinces with communication is often communication as well from week. and it is hard to, to find out exactly what is happening on the ground there. but some horrific stories about the casualties and the cost that civilians are paying as this flight and continues emergency going towards are and away in dough. the top you step for

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news. ready shock and outrage around your atlanta just play is hundreds. deming, the steeply project. manchester, united storm burns stadium, english pool funds rebel against the owners of the clubs they love. people should not for these be super ego unit, say that 1000000000 roman is treating english football, global cash cow. cars in clubs are from the community. the moment chelsea friends got what they wanted, but controversial. european super give collapse. just a few days off of announce football clubs in england, todd,

pass about history heritage community and so i thought they should be protected. yes, you need more along the way to run it up front football, football authorities claim they have rules that protect the integrity of the lease and prevent unsuitable owners from buying clubs. funding for representing the flow, not just greedy days, ship china, wherever you are. you show how the rules governing football ownership all being abused on the criminal funds from abroad can be wanted through the english game or the main room in the roughly the lightweight. i have many of the undercover reporters i see could be filming a middle man who fixes deals for wealthy foreigners to buy english clubs. i was

with the mail yesterday. he's appointed me to sell the reporter say they represent a chinese investor, convicted of bribery and money loans, who wants to buy a football club to clean his money, but 1909000000. the middleman, once all fictitious criminals to buy a club, this is twice been champions of england with melodies please. richard stadium itself. 33500 people capacity. we reveal how the middle and previous field took to the english clubs to the brink of financial collapse. defend felt they paid take him, provides the do, make his associate, include a form of scotland yard detected, who could monitor the football authorities, communication that way you could use just the policies to,

to help you get the information. you can help our criminal obtain an e u passport with a new name. i'm the green light to own english football club. really many who i was as if and then here is 2 or 3 to christopher samuelson is an offshore trust specialist and football deal maker. he works with accountants and lawyers to hide clients identities and wealth . he became involved in football. after setting up a sponsorship company that was

kept in west famous, famous figure because he wanted he said, chris, look, we can buy chelsea football. we agree to buy chelsea 480-0000 pounds, 100 pounds guaranteed issue to that's the problem was the access to the craft so we can do it. that's how can base this chest the chest. so that's how i started over a series of meetings in london. hotels are under cover reporters say they represent 3 chinese investors who want to purchase of football club with 2 investors own 20 percent each. the majority investor, who we call mister x, has criminal convictions. issues in china.

we name our undercover reporter billy the chinese money faces back in the local officials. they offer you a drink. well, i think we could do the drink. kangi is our 2nd undercover reporter. she's acting as billy's assistance before the program can alter the warrant to escape to actual fact, same thing. and then they made a conviction of him being the pending court because he's absent when the real well really tells thomason that mr. x is very rich, fled china with his illegally obtained wealth,

smuggled his farm out of china to him, a cow, casinos, and received a 70 year prison sentence, sent here for bribery and money laundering. if he wants help me to do that, then i can overnight or that should hold for him. bax playfully responding to post relationship. so we have a bomb, michelle, where the prospective owner has paid money to public officials or in any other terms, bribe public officials, which is obviously criminal offense around the world, both in china and the u. k. now, as a professional, was a company formation agency that should be the end of the conversation, brought the beginning of the conversation and should lead to that report him to the police stays under u. k. law. in the price of the crime,

i me samuelson has lived in countries including the u. k. island, switzerland in spain. until recently had a villa me yorker, which was so for just under a $1000000.00. he's managed billions of dollars for the world to race. yet few know his name has been described to the ultimate man in the shadows. he's someone who works with the group of people, lawyers, accountants, to help people hide their money. he's one of the most powerful, influential people in finance. you never even heard of. he was born to an affluent family installs in england. his parents appeared in society magazine, such as tattler samuelson was sent to a private forwarding school in england. i did further study in grenoble and munich, the in the late 960, he moved to wall street. he has what we think is

his 1st job in new york with some very, very well connected investment bank because thompson got into about emotional finance and trust in the 180. and he worked for a company called bound met, which he and others built into one of the biggest of shorter companies in the world . a trusted company is set up when someone gives money to a trusted 3rd party to look after it is often used to hide the identity of the ultimate owner of the wealth. a decade, he's known as the personal business of some of the world's wealthiest people. living findings off shore trust. some people going in addition, has been said that you can make an elephant disappeared. samuelson reassured billy that the identity of our fictitious criminal mr. x will remain hidden except to the football league city.

he has football. nobody has had to tell information semester game. the english football league is the body that governs the divisions below the premier lee. it has a set of rules called the owners and directors test to protect the image and integrity of the league and the wellbeing of its clubs. one of its key aimed is to prevent criminals owning clubs and using football to launder money. bands from owning a club, anybody with an unspent criminal conviction, anderson from somebody's 12 months in prison month. the late can also require proposed owner to provide evidence of the ultimate and sufficiency of funds to acquire control of or invest in

a club house such created by a history sake investments. and mostly if, if we have to send them all the samuelson says he can sort efforts by the football lee to find out about mr. x sometime. say please investigate to do that. somebody will know which was the main thing. if you have somebody in the christian hoax,

no phone is huge. christine hook is a partner. i'm gonna cook a london based law firm he hand in for the legal gregory that 5 plus actually the 2 items. and i know very well he's very efficient. this is really nice. another member of samuel sins team is andrew oper, lensky challenges attention to commercial background. he's the best chunk of it. it's pretty straight. yeah, i can, i can hear you come to the right person. ah, the deal would involve samuelson becoming a director of the club and receiving a large fee. we charge 3 percent of the value of

each member of his team would charge additional fees. in names, the clubs, he claims all for sale. if you want to buy a top 6 of those to you by today will sell, but he won't treat the total, which is to leave the channel to talk them very well. and joe, this is a of a major belief, says the chinese investors are prepared to spend up to a 150000000 pounds with a fair, the 100000000 for investment. they were looking for a sleeping giant once. great club with a big fan base. perhaps a team in the 2nd of english football county, which mel bell has, has invested. so for 160000000 pounds,

it has nothing on forest club 1 pm, which is for by the champion, the rage, the very top of football level. one is mill mill belongs to the bells. i know what he's american people off and he didn't get to see it later. suggested in an email that really is invested by a top flight spanish club. i would vice because it has all the desirable attributes . good profits that can be enhanced brand that can be promoted in china and market all over asia, the best scouting network in latin america and an outstanding academy. samson presented vinny with an acquisition plan drawn out by his firm sock fin,

the asking price for just under 90 percent of the bill with $217000000.00. but debbie had a key advantage for samuel. so talk to you about tommy. i was with mel yesterday. he was talking with mel confidential oh, really me. samuelson provides a step by step guide that would allow convicted criminal and money laundry. mr. x to buy a football club. first, create an offshore account using a trust company to use as well that he claims he, paul turns company ice.

the thing is, trust company with the company is before it was just a 100 pounds just to make the minimum the issue to ships appreciate having to ship them up in the puppy. because hell quote number, nina, shareholders can legally appoint nominees to hold shares for their benefit if they don't want the shares registered in their name. the nominees names are made public . the names of the real shareholders remain a secret. basically nobody share they share ration across the face of the real chat in total document copies that you have the original copy interval. since i'm using

creates an offshore company for mister x. he sends an itemized invoice from friends re trust. the bill includes charges for providing corporate directors and nobody shareholders total $9400.00. and we're just going to say, who are the chinese that's all we'll say i was thinking specialists. what i did troll and reading the quote process. i'm just reading it. i voted for russian family because they got rich

pretty high. but i certainly had concerns. we do nothing about the the company behind the funding. we knew that temp support investment as it was cold, was going to be set up in a registered in gibraltar. why would that need to be registered in both? tim, what are they trying to hide? the reading that he just started manually, the bars thing garbage is, the russian owner of a huge pulp and paper company without the garbage senior powers had a massive fortune from paper pope. but we were also told that he wasn't involved in that. so that was the obvious question of well, where is the money coming from? so i got the money. i didn't play

a part. i said that they didn't know me, but m tones in garbage didn't have the funds to sustain the club bible, which express writing down to just like judges gross defends that they just felt they been taking provides. suddenly we turned into just another subbing crisis. the russian owner sold the club, he left reading, holding a big bill that he ran up with no money left to pay. it all was done us and then discuss is another strategy that will give mister x, the green light to buy an english football

game recipient. last time you could help mister x, obtain a european union passport and change his name. i haven't had it since he's been running his teachers. for many years. he was finding out the kinds of things like tac toe sense. so samuelson sends the friend a text message in the security, and so he looks after a number of chance who have similar issues, a space pages for ration. keith hunter is

a former scotland yard detective who left the police in 1997. he formed risk management, the private investigation company, and no rooms animus. it services include due diligence, personal profiling integrity, testing, domestic investigations and surveillance. hunters claims that included the oligarchy. doris brzezinski and james, boring, a nigerian politician, jailed fraud. alexander, bon jenco, the former russian spy with polonium in london restaurant had worked for hunter as a source of information hunter has received samuel some message and calls back. i asked the investors chinese he was paid in china,

tech and chinese doesn't seem like rush. and he need another possible could you can get a site to slow, but billy meets hunter to find out more about the services he provide. billy's assistant, this time is another undercover reporter we called her alleys. and so this is my previous hunter explains what he does to help his clients if he's talking to the really aggressive with we officer with whatever i'm initially just find out the connector. thanks jose go live,

so they go, mistress. so anything that we could understand, reputation with them won't get kind competitors telephone called in a month cause we could potentially get hunters business activities resulted in a police inquiry in 2006 involving a corruption case in london's metropolitan police. he was not charged in 2012 hunter, was arrested on suspicion of seeking to corrupt the police officer in the james for a fraud case. again, he was not charged. sometimes it's impossible. sometimes. sometimes you can't do the fact that there will be times where you could use just the policies to,

to help you get the information to the managers to do. but it would be something the good people, if they would do it. other people do those things and i'm very happy to organize an introduction. how can you trust them? because you don't trust my people will have relationships with people that can do things that we do in house hunter is offering a range of services which fall in the spectrum of legality. so from one end, you have following people which is distasteful. one could verge on harassment through 2 things which are legal, breach, state privacy laws, like accessing bank statements, accessing e mails and accessing telephone records. well,

sounds talks about 3rd parties and distances. and so from this activity, the way in which he talks implies that he has done this before. and his 3rd party have done this before as well. impulse to run recover reporters are off for the chance to buy a football club that was twice champions of england. my name needs whether i can truly call it home in groups, bringing onto me to ones you know, you'll enjoy paid money when i do a 1000000000 and is just for us to rise in managerial yet where we know my nigerian, on august the th and august 12 found the go to the polls and what approving the hotly contested

electrons as the country grappled and you can run the trouble and the impact of code the 19th day without is there for the latest updates. an in depth analysis and what the teach him at home for the country. ah. ah. you want y'all just bear with me sir robin in doha, reminder of our top stories. the taliban has taken another 3 provincial capitals that have gone. it's done that's 9 and under a week it's captured 5 by the napoleon comedy, both in the north and fata city in the southwest. the group has also made gains and traditionally anti taliban, the provinces, and the u. official told reuters news agency, the group now controlled 65 percent of the country sharla balance has more from the capital cobble this tonight we're picking up these 3.