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a $1000000000.00 in cash. ah, money parker, this is al jazeera life from london. also coming up, britain and switzerland central banks raise interest rates to combat inflation. despite recent term oil in the banking sector. they, i met forms crisis, hit lebanon face is a dangerous moment, often little progress on much needed reforms. and the head of tech talk in the hot seat, fighting for the very survival of the popular video sharing app in the united states . ah, a senior diplomat from zimbabwe has agreed to law do more than a $1000000000.00 in cash. shame what he believed to be a meeting with chinese gangsters out his ears. investigative eunice is found. the diplomat was videotaped making the offer in a meeting with other of

a reporters as part of an investigation by al jazeera, into networks in africa that use gold to launder vast sums of money. who but angel is a british and barbarian businessman and the presidential envoy, he claims to have made it on to the africa. forbes rich list in 2013 is that worth is around $60000000.00, and he calls himself the profit of success. alexander james has this exclusive report to see him under cover reporters posing as chinese criminals. meet one of them. bob ways may senior diplomats that i'd like them. um, is it a bit of a compass? but on the special envoy, i'm a representative of the prison. that means i can find conference i can find to deal with the government without the prison getting for women with the trip. no rebates angel is also in evangelical preacher. that only goes, he says he has the gift of prophecy with powers to heal the sick. it takes the power of god, but it takes somebody to believe it was something to happen. like this angel was

personally appointed by president emerson, man and guy, glad to bring investment into as in bob way use my assist ambassador, it lodge assigned to promote zimbabwe brand. zimbabwe economy has been devastated by corruption and more than 2 decades of sanctions imposed by the united states and europe. the local currency has no international value. the country's biggest owner of us dollars is gold. you want to gold, gold, we're going to do it right. and we can make the call right now is done with the president of um, my, my houses and right this minute the president of zimbabwe minus federation is henrietta rash. wire. the warning president, golden by gordon, maybe send a private, big, big up goal every week. i do it for $5000000.00 can be cleaned every week. we get go with 5000000 in me with that

green bigler. the ambassador is not bothered that the cache is being laundered. it's money that cannot be declared in the country warren, who do i just did that with that with? no, we don't want to. so he explains a plan to smuggle the dirty cash in t, as in bob way using his diplomatic status. right now again, to do i get with 1.2, media info, directed, written differently. he conducted under the vienna convention states agree to exempt diplomatic luggage from apple searches with elizabeth with good. mm hm. okay. and did you politically ambassador angel henrietta rash way and president, man and gaga did not respond to our request for comment. alex on to james al

jazeera and hope to know is i using bobby, an antique corruption activist and documentary maker. he says the revelations will not surprise people in his home country. the findings are shocking to the outside world, but that they're not shocking to generalists. oh, investigative, i just like myself because when i was reported of all these things, but what i'll do is done, which we were not able to do, is to put the evidence and to have the people speaking themselves about how they are involved in the looting of public funds, the plan of about was natural resources, the smuggling of these resources and the laundry or money using state institutions is the same in the documentary field. most generally in this country that have come across this information, afraid to report about it because they will be thrown into prison while the

government is not just wanted officially. but the ruling party is used to one of the 3 that handles to dismiss the film on the basis that it does not involve a government minister or it does not involve a civil 7 about the fact that the ambassador lodge was appointed by the president of the republic and that one is involved not only in the smuggling of golder money, but also charging people to have access to the president is screaming now. so we're not waiting to see whether the government is going to prosecute these people. but we are not hopeful based on what is up in the past. and you can watch the 1st of the 4 part series in the hours of their investigation, gold mafia, the laundry service. a 1200 g m t on friday. it's essential viewing. ah,

the bank of england is raise interest rates for the 11th time in 18 months. the move follows similar measures by other central banks, including the u. s. federal reserve and swiss national bank. a quarter of percentage point rise takes the rate to 4.25 percent. the central bank, se curbing inflation remains a priority. despite market concerns about turmoil, the banking sector, a wednesday of wheels that inflation unexpectedly rose in february hitting 10.4 percent. it was driven by high food and energy prices. po brennan has more from london u. k. interest rates were already at a 14 year high before today's monetary policy committee meeting. and this 11th consecutive monthly rise puts more pressure on beleaguered businesses. and you came mortgage holders, but the policy makers here at the bank of england really had their hands forced by recent economic data. firstly, there was an unexpected increase in inflation up to 10.4 percent announced on

weapons day when many economists expected it to fall below 10 percent. second of all, there is food inflation and that's running even higher than headline inflation. the latest increase, 18 percent in the price of fresh food and non alcoholic drinks. and the cost to bore was, is also significant. the average tracker mortgage compared to december 2021. now $394.00 pounds per month. more expensive for mortgage holders. some or borrowing pain for businesses and mortgage holders here in the u. k. at least in the short term. but there are some signs for optimism from what the bank has had to say. first of all, the monetary policy committee was not unanimous in deciding to increase the rate 7 voted in favor to were in favor of keeping the rates where it is done. the thing was that it was a quarter percent rise, as opposed to the recent monthly half per cent rises that the bank has imposed. and finally,

the bank of england is now forecasting that britain will avoid recession in 2023. the bank now forecasting that there will be a slight increase in the u. k. economy. all that means that there is the hint of something more positive in the month to come pull brennan al jazeera at the bank of england. the swiss national bank has also increased its interest rates by half a percentage point. switzerland ski rate now stands, the one half percent the bank signalled war hike so possible. the move comes on the heels of turmoil and the swiss banking system. the state broken a deal for banking j u b. s to buy its troubled rival credit suisse on sunday. the international monetary fund, this warning, lebanon urgently needs reforms to prevent hyperinflation. a conditional agreement was reached last year on a $3000000000.00 loan to save its economy. but the stipulated changes have not been made for testers. try to storm government headquarters in beirut on wednesday,

at least 5 t guests to break up the crowds. many of those a retired soldiers demanding a living pension, and i left education is currently in bay route for talks. we live on only. so the euro's moment is that the cross roads we are in a situation where it is that the school, the continuation of police in action, we're seeing, is going to leave live, i know in the never ending traces. i mean, alarm is lebanon's economy and trade minister, he says, there needs to be political will for recovery from the crisis to be possible. we have witness that, you know what lebanon is going through. now is it in a transition period from an old system to a new system, we are working towards a complete change. we want to start with a clean slate because we know that the old system, the old way of doing things with them, that of any government, whatever. if it's a monetary, fiscal or economic policy,

it has proven failures. and we're trying to really start on a new with a new framework with i m f. that's why we are emphasizing the importance of dia, mass, because it's putting a new framework that over 3 decades, none of that have been used governments, past liberties, government have managed to put together to build through economy to build through financial system, to build a resilient economy with a vision, this is what we're trying to do. the fight between the system and the new system is really does the store many points that we are all now fighting over israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he's determined to proceed with the country's controversial judicial overhaul. hundreds of demonstrators have been blocking roads and protests on thursday. israel's parliament passed the 1st of

several laws that make up the overhauled as despite nationwide protest against the changes which limit the powers of the supreme court critic say it threatens democracy. world athletics will ban trends that gender women from elite female competition and international events. the bodies president, sebastian co said that no transgender athlete who had gone through male puberty would be permitted to compete. co said the decision was based, was made based on the overarching need to protect the female category. and a working group would be established to find ways of trans inclusion. you will say, noted that there are currently no transgender athletes competing internationally in the sport. the ruling takes effect on the 31st of march. the council has agreed to exclude male to female transgender athletes, being through male puberty from female world ranking competitions from march 31st, this year, the majority of those consults. it stated that transgender athletes should not be

competing in the female category. many believe there is insufficient evidence that trans women do not retain advantage over biological women and more more evidence than any physical advantages have been ameliorated before they are willing to consider an option for inclusion into the female category. sales the come on out, just a day of protests, turns into a nice avoidance and go over pension changes pools over again in for more deaths from the mobile virus spreading into brakes thousands of kilometers upon ah, with how i we are expecting severe storms to continue across the southeast of australia you can see the fund i had since you've

been rumbling away there across the eastern side of new south wells. east in areas of victoria that will grass she just east out across the tasman, bringing some rain into new zealand as we go through the weekend. some heavy rain for the western side of the south, out of it. follow that rain back more heavy down post there in and around the sydney area, which was the range is not a little further north, which as we go on through west sat stay some heavier rank continuing. so a few shares i to the side of it to are but further west, it should be largely dry. let's look out west and this is where we have got some right at long last making its way across much of western australia that slide through the by eventually pushing some right into adeline 24 else is here on sunday at western weather, just nothing over towards port for a bright skies. coming back into that east side of victoria, brice guys for a time being now pushing back in across sir japan after a little bit of a wet spell. 25 celsius there in tokyo. friday afternoon. fine and dry behind were

looking at some decent sunshine across the korean peninsula where to weather, clearing the skies across beijing, but turning cooler with hiv. 8 degrees for saturday. ah. in north korea, supreme leader kim jones sister is emerging as a likely successor one. 0, one east investigate north korea's most powerful woman on elgin's. iraq ah, al jazeera, with blue

ah, remind of the top story, say one i, which is 0. now, j 0 is investigative units, is found a senior diplomat from zimbabwe, agreeing to loan to more than a $1000000000.00 in cash. even angel was filmed, meeting with what he believed were chinese gangsters. the bank of england has raised interest rates for the 11th of time and 18 months and a bid to curve inflation. the quarter of a percentage point rise takes the rates of 4.25 percent follow civil le ledger is by all the central banks. and the special monetary fund is warning, lebanon urgently needs reforms to prevent hyper inflation. the conditional agreement was reached last to you on a $3000000000.00 loan to save the economy. but the stipulated changes haven't been made. protests have been continuing across france against the government's plans to raise the retirement age. protests was fought with police in paris with security

forces firing, tia gas ha, for francis, high speed train services. we counseled and rubbish is still in the streets of the capitol because of stoppages by garbage collectors. a defined president my chrome saddled when say that the pension reforms, when necessary. the tasha bella has more from paris, whatever fine and bad decisions over that thousands of people and the last in central powers of pe synonymous with the french revolution. and his protest, a lot of people who are here angry with the french government pension reform bill, they say it's on just different for that. it is going to impact for workers much more than others. but it's not any that good sport people out today who say the fact the person micros government of pushed through this pension reform belt by decree, bypassing parliament. and people say that just shows the macro, who has no respect for people in the streets. and he has no respect for frances

institutions. they say, let's talk a little for the actual said, you were waiting for the union to bring the country to a standstill. that's the only thing that will stop mac, ron. we've had enough. i want him to go, he's not democratic with that. you see when i go to the demonstrators all for the public safety data teaches helpful because it's collective energy workers. so cool saturday schools, a lot of disruption across the country. and they've been demonstrations like this in cities and towns across from your dbi me through. there are some jobs where you can't keep working until 64. we fired fighters are fired under broken. so our much the government and the president is we are angry and you must hear us all these demonstrators, all call the tech doesn't seem to work as here in paris. they have been on strike now. oh, maybe 2 weeks. robbins has been hiding out in the city. the protests have been maybe peaceful the happy. some focus of thought is put all of this pressure on

president a manual. michael, what he says, the pension reform is necessary to sustain future generations and systems. i government in other news, several 7 people anal confirmed dead in the outbreak of marburg virus and equitorial guinea out of a total of 9 cases since the outbreak there began in february. and other 20 cases are suspected that in addition to 5 deaths in a separate outbreak, thousands of 1000 kilometers away east. in tanza, near, there are no vaccines or anti virus treatments approved to treat the severe viral fever or concerns. the brakes could spread to cameroon, and kenya the virus is in the same family as a bowler and has similar symptoms including fever, fatigue, and vomiting. it spreads between humans directly through bodily fluids. marburg has

an average fatality rate of 50 percent, but it varies by strain and can be as high as 88 percent in the worst. that breaking down go live in 2005 it killed more than 300 people. dr. mann's she d. so my, etc, is the world health organizations, regional director for africa. she explains what steps need to be taken. first and foremost, do we need to intensify the epidemiological surveillance so quickly confirming contacts of cases, cases themselves. and the most important thing to do, of course, is to stop the transmission of the virus. the virus is transmitted in body fluid, so blood weight live, other body fluid. so what is very important is, 1st of all, for health care workers was some of the 1st contacts and we have had a couple of health co workers die in a pictorial guinea to make sure that they are aware of all the precautions,

even as they do their clinical care of people and investigations of the disease, they have the knowledge that they need and they have the equipment that they need. so personal protection, equipment, gloves, masks, and so forth to stop them being infected. and then very importantly, at the same time as we are, understanding further confirming the cases, isolating the cases to make sure that the minimize contact with other people. we have to progressively build up the systems so that we're not starting from scratch each time. and one of them, most important aspects of this is really the population's understanding community is understanding and the role that they can play. because at the end of the day are health systems don't penetrate the community to the degree that we can do without their own triggers. of suspicion and recall of this is what we were told we needed to be careful about. that needs to be reinforced. of course, we need community health contact with the population,

so people are reminded and enabled. so minimize the transmission the head of one of the world's biggest companies as appeared before a u. s. house committee, the ceo of tick tock shoes. he choo was cool by the house energy on come and commerce committee to answer questions about the app. as fears, grow over national security to talk is owned by a chinese company, as detractors insisted feeds dated to the chinese government and are demanding the out be shut down or sold to an american business. in september 2021, tick tock sadie and a 1000000000 monthly active uses globally. facebook, a comparison has 2 point. 9000000000 instagram, 1400000000 and twitter 300000000. tick tock sat on monday and now has 150000000 monthly active uses in the us alone. that's up from a 100000000 in 2020 take talk is available in a 154 countries and 75 different languages. it's us. revenue is expected to hit

8750000000 dollars this year. my kind of reports from washington d. c. it was a rare moment of bipartisanship in a divided congress. welcome to the most bipartisan committee in congress. we may not always agree on how to get there, but we care about our so our national security here at issue here are free speech rights. federal control, social media and national security issues in recent days shows the 2 and his team had been lobbying in washington, including meeting were each member of the committee, the charm offensive carried on tick tock itself. i'm super excited to announce that more than a 150000000 americans on take time. that's almost half of the us. but congressional critics, we're not deterred, chick talk, is a grave threat of foreign influence in american life. it's been said, it's like, wow, in the soviet union,

the power to produce saturday morning cartoons during the cold war, but much more powerful and much more dangerous than i'm a christian and shown to the committee disturbing, tick tock, content that was found on the feed of a 16 year old who killed himself by jumping in front of the train. it's alleged the content contributed just to a side. we must save our children from big tech companies like yours, number one. we will keep safety, particularly for teenagers as a top priority for us. true, insisted tick tock didn't share information with the chinese government, saying the company would take steps to ensure independent monitoring of data use. all protected us data will be under the protection of us law. and under the control of the u. s. that security team, a few liberal members of the house of oppose the moved to shut down, tick tock. the primary fear that this would be against the 1st amendment, the freedom of speech clause in the constitution. but it appeared the majority

support either shutting the app down or forcing the sale to a u. s. company. the f b i director has told congress that tick tock represents a national security threat. the federal government has ordered that it be removed from all federal devices. the previous administration attempted to shut tick tock down, but the move was stopped by the courts and whatever emerges from these hearings. there's likely, at some stage to be a protracted legal argument was based on 1st amendment around us. mike hannah al jazeera washington european union leaders are gathered in brussels for 2 days of talks with ukraine, top of the agenda, united nations secretary general antonio terrace is also attending the meetings will focus on the support for ukraine, as well as the single market economy and migration, all $27.00

e leaders are expected to be there. former russian president to meet you med vienna, has warned the west against acting on an arrest warrant issued for vladimir putin by the international criminal court. the warrant was issued for the alleged deportation of children from ukraine to russia. but very, i have said if any country moved to arrest putin is a declaration of war. but as those who have been out there, let us imagine, obviously it's a situation which is never going to happen. but nevertheless, let's imagine the situation came true. an incumbent leader of a nuclear state had arrived, for instance, in germany and was arrested. what is this a declaration of war on the russian federation? i most schools in afghanistan have reopened after the winter break for the nation's taliban leaders is still bowing teenage girls from attending. since the 10 events take over in 2021, only girls age 12 and under have been allowed to go to school. the taliban government has also banned women from higher education. the united nations calls it

gender based a party or an 800000 people have been forced from their homes in east and democratic republic of congo in the past year. as the m 23 armed group has taken territory from government forces, community leaders say there are thousands of people in displacement. camps who have disabilities are in need of help. al jazeera markham web visited delingo camp, salome boucher, she'd a says, her leg was sprayed with bullets 15 years ago. it was during a conflict between the rwandan backed armed group and government forces here in democratic republic of congo. he struggled to walk ever since then last month, the n 23 armed group attacked village. i never saw that. the only thing i can remember is many soldiers running away. i shoot and so everybody started, ryan, i was in my house and there was nothing i could do by luckily a young man came on,

carried me away on his back. everything including my wheelchair was left behind. one, follow me. one is dozens of people with disabilities in this camp. he wanted to speak to us. some of them lost mobility at birth. later in life from untreated illness. most of those we met said they were injured in past conflicts, and they told us, struggling to remote more than a 100000 people. he's been forced from their homes in the last year as and 23 widely understood to be backed by neighboring. rwanda has taken sways of tara chief and government forces in the east relented denies backing the quid. the ground here is made up of these sharp broken volcanic rocks, not a great place to make a camp, but there's nowhere else to go. most people sleeping without even mattresses on the floor and it makes extremely difficult for people in wheelchairs room crutches to get around. there a few wheelchairs here since most were abandoned when people fled. one like this

made the bicycle parts welded together costs about $75.00, about who does it up to? people don't even have enough seed. i don't think i was of q a card. and then another day spent queuing assist food distribution for some lentils and rice. with this man con, carry back to his tent without help. he said, and your name is trying to find all the people with disabilities in this camp register will help me. he's had to leave his leg 15 years. charities estimate about one in 7 people in congo have some kind of disability. that means the really a 1000000 people with disabilities has been displaced. and then this is why people with physical disabilities need to be protected. just like any other person, because the human medical services here are an adequate they might be able to treat

somebody with malaria, but they can't do anything in this come to help people like me who need specially treatment or surgery with decades of conflict and lacking health services have already made life hard, and now yet more conflict has made it even harder. malcolm web al jazeera, learn guys, democratic republic of the world. so 1st 3 d printed rocket has fallen short of reaching all been us despite a successful launch. for us relativity space say they're happy with the test even though the 2nd stage failed. 85 percent of turn was this manufactured using 3 d printing including its engine making it cheaper than conventional rockets to build and operate to previous launch attempts were aborted to to engine failure and a faulty valve. ah

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