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a gold smuggling scheme. ah, i'm carry johnston. this is al jazeera alive from dough, also coming up. tough questions for take talk. the ceo of the chinese social media giant gets grilled before the us congress over data privacy. the world athletics council bands, transgender women athletes from elite competition and france sees one of its worst days of unrest since the start of protests against pension reform. ah, a senior diplomat from it's in bob way has agreed to launder more than a $1000000000.00 in cash. and what he believe to be a meeting with chinese gangsters, al jazeera investigative unit,

has found the diplomat was videotaped making the offer in a meeting with undercover reporters as part of an investigation by al jazeera, into networks in africa that use gold to launch the vast sums of money. but angel is a british, as in bob when businessman, than the presidential envoy, he claims to have made it to africa. forbes rich list in 2013. his net worth is around $60000000.00, and he calls himself the profit of success. alexander james has this exclusive report undercover reporters posing as chinese criminals, meet one of cimbawe boys, my senior diplomats mother. i'd like them up as an 8 of our campus, but on the special envoy, i'm a representative of the prison babies i can find conference. i can find to deal with the government without the prison getting in for women with the trip next. huberts angel is also an evangelical preacher. only ross who 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 any angel was personally appointed by president emerson, man and guy gua, to bring investment ins 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 can do it right. and we can make the call right now and it's done with the rest . they go from my mine as a decision, right? this minute, the president of zimbabwe minus federation is henrietta rush. wire the warning prison golden by gordon b. maybe send

a private big big up. go to for week. let me do it for $5000000.00 can be cleaned every week. we get go with 5 me. yes. 5 miller. the ambassador is not bothered that the cache is being laundered. it's money good. cannot be declared in the country warranted or intensity that we don't. ready the no, we don't want to, so he explains a plan to smuggle the dirty cash into is in bob way using his diplomatic status. pray know again with 1.2 video interested reading, diploma. he conducted under the vienna convention, states agree to exempt diplomatic luggage from airport searches. i do lindy's mom with and he'll give you

a little ambassador angel henrietta rash wire and president, man and gaga did not respond to our request for comment. alexander james al jazeera hopewell to know is, as in bob, we're an anti 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 they're not shocking to generalists. oh, investigative, i just like myself because when i was reported about 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 bob was natural resources, the smuggling of these resources and the laundering. money using state institutions is the same in the documentary film. 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 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. but the fact that the ambassador lives was appointed by the president of the public. and one is in vote, not only in the smuggling of bouldering 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 happening. and you can watch the 1st of the 4 part series in, i'll just hear investigation go mafia. the laundry service on friday at $1200.00,

g m t. so the bank of england has raised interest rates for the 11th time in 18 months. his height, the rate to 4.25 percent. u. s. federal reserve took similar measures to combat inflation on wednesday. the rate rise in the u. k. a comes just a day after the announcement that inflation went up last month hitting 10.4 percent . it was driven by high food and energy prices. poor 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

wednesday when many economists expected it to fall below 10 percent. second of all, various 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 borrowers is also significant. the average tracker mortgage compared to december 2021. now $394.00 pounds per month, more expensive for mortgage holders, them or borrowing pain for businesses and mortgage holders here. and you can 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 percent rises, that the bank has imposed on 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, or that means that there is the hint of something more positive in the month to come pull, brennan, i'll just 0 at the bank of england. earlier on thursday, this with a national bank increase its interest rate by half a point. switzerland key right now stands at 1.5 percent. the bank signals more hikes where possible move comes on the heels of turmoil in the swiss banking system . the states brokered a deal for banking giant u b. s to buy its troubles. rival credit suisse on sunday for testers, across france have confronted security forces in the latest show of anger, against the present, among them, a crohn's plan to raise the retirement age. it was some of the worst unrest in 3 months of demonstrations and strikes. dozens of people were arrested,

half of francis high speed train services were cancelled. and part of the capitals main international airport was blocked. natasha buffalo has more from paris. whatever, simon, beg, musicians, i, for that thousands of people, i know a lot plasty and federal powers to pay synonymous with the french revolution. and whose protest, a lot of people who are here. angry with the french government pension reform bill . they say it's, i'm just different for that. it is going to impact poor work is much more than others, but it's not any that good sport people out today for say the fact the person macros government of pushed through this pension reform bill by to creep, bypassing parliament. and people say that just jose the michael has no respect for people in the street, and he has no respect for false institutions. they say, let balkan local for the actual sunday were waiting for the union to bring the country to a standstill. that's the only thing that will stop macross. we've had enough mcroy . i want him to go,

he's not democratic with that. you see when i go to the demonstrators all for the public sector, teachers help work and gov, it's collective energy work. cuz of course, that's of course, a lot of disruption across the country and they've been demonstrations like this in cities and towns across from you. if you, there are some jobs where you can't keep working until 64. we fire fighters are fired and broken. so our much the government and the president is we are angry and he must hear us all these demonstrators, all garbage pregnancy, to workers here in paris, they have been on strike now coordinated to reach robin hiding up in the city. the protests had been made peaceful, the happy, some pockets of violence, but all the pressure on precedence a minute, michael, what he says, the pension reform is necessary to sustain future generation. acquaintance with it, but he feels he has

a duty to do it with the demonstrate to say without them to continue protesting until the government scot this record the head of the well, the fastest growing social media app faced 5 hours of questioning by u. s. house committee to talk see, oh shoot. the 2 was grilled about teenage safety and data security. 100 reports from washington, d. c. it was a rare moment of bipartisanship in a divided congress. welcome to most bipartisan committee and congress. we may not always agree on how to get there, but we care about our, our national security here at issue here of 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 eating each member of the committee, the charm offensive carried on tick tock itself. i'm super excited to announce that

more than 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 allowing the soviet union, the power to produce saturday morning cartoons during the cold war, but much more powerful and much more dangerous. and i'm pretty sure 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 to his suicide. 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 shoe 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, i was a few liberal members of the house of oppose the move 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 us 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 court and whatever emerges from these hearings. there's likely, at some stage to be a protracted legal argument based on 1st amendment from mike hannah. i'll just hear a washington. well, that let takes,

has decided to ban that transgender women from elite female competition. the governing bodies precedence. sebastian co said the decision was made in the interest of fairness and protecting the future of the female category. but he said, a working group would be set up to consult with transgender athletes and monitor scientific developments. the council has agreed to exclude male to female transgender athletes that have been through male puberty from female world ranking competitions. from march the 31st this year, the majority of those consulted, 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 and more evidence than any physical advantages have been ameliorated before they are willing to consider an option for

inclusion into the female category. sharon davis is a former olympic swimmer. she welcomed the banner saying it's wrong to put transgender women in the same category as other female athletes is just basically unfair. you know, a sport is all about fantasy. that's the whole principle of sport. we have lots of different classifications. we don't allow 15 year olds, for example, to identify and the under 12, we don't away allow heavy weight boxes to identify as bantam, wait some race in a fight, people much lighter than them. so this is all about categories that have been put across society to create level playing fields, to give the biggest opportunities for whole a society to be competitive in sports. and we were taking that away from half of the world which are biological females. and it's not that we're better or worse, it's just that we're different. we have different biology and it doesn't enable us to have male puberty to have the dynamic strengths. but that male biology brings. and so now in sport,

it was anything between 10 and 30 percent. and for example in for me like a punch, a male of equal weight and size to a female will punch a 160 percent harder. so in contact sports, it was incredibly dangerous. so to come on, al jazeera signs of strain in israel's government coalition. after reports, the defense chief wants to hold controversial judicial reform ah, around 3 quarters of sub saharan africa's cultural heritage is on display in western museums. that didn't happen overnight. we were rob color time. the 1st episode reveals how europeans colonization removed tens of thousands of artifacts and the appeal struggle to reclaim restitution africa stolen on episode one blunder. oh,

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. ah, you're watching, i'll just hear a reminder of our top stories this out. i'll de zera's investigative unit has found a senior diplomat from zimbabwe, agreeing to launder more than a $1000000000.00 in cash. but angel was filmed at meeting out is here a journalist posing as chinese gangsters. the bank of england has raised interest rates for the 11th time, in 18 months, in a bid to curb inflation. the quarter of a percentage point to rise, that takes the rates of 4.25 percent. it follows similar measures by other central banks and take talk seo. sho z. chew has testified at a tense u. s. congress hearing, chew faced questions about the social media platforms,

alleged relationship with the chinese communist party and it's use of data. israel's defense minister has cancelled and addressed to the nation after being called into a meeting with prime minister benjamin netanyahu. you have got aunt was expected to call for an end to a controversial overhauled of the judiciary. earlier israel's parliament passed the 1st of several doors to limit to the power of the supreme court. the judicial reform proposals have prompted months of protests. from the future, we are determined to responsibly promote the democratic reform that will restore the proper balance between the authorities and yourself. corn. i will do everything everything to calm the situation and unite the rift in the nation. because we are, all brothers are not also on thursday, israel's parliament passed to law that limits the grounds for removing a prime minister from office. he can only be for health, for mental reasons, and only the prime minister or government can make the decision. critics say the

lord specifically designed to protect netanyahu is facing corruption charges. let's bring in stevens in it's now he's middle east analysts and professor of political science at the university of san francisco. he joins us from there now. thanks for being with us. so why is it benjamin netanyahu pushing ahead with all this, despite these very visible protests? well, it seems that he has the votes in the canal search, or in a connection. yahoo may be a crock and with autocratic tendencies and a racist, and repressive and always things, which is a very scary what scuffle politician. and he's been able to muster the kind of a coalition necessary to push through the so called reforms that will protect him from criminal or prosecution and move as your own. a more authoritarian direction. but in the medium to long term, di predicts this coalition will manage to hold together. seems me holding

gather so far, but it's, it's basically what natalie are who's been able to do is to give the various factions what they want. he's, for example, the ultra conservative religious parties. he's an able to push legislate and push through legislation that that lives up to their, their rigid theocratic ideals is let these very overtly anti air races. so parties a run, a mock who's seen what happened in the, in the, and it bus been happening in the west bank in terms of the attacks and programs and, and our son and other, other atrocities by these rampaging settlers. i mean, he is a, he seems to have a seems to, it seems to recognize that israel as a country has moved well to the right over the years. i mean, you know, as general demographics, i mean the more liberal, secular jews to have small families, the more right wing, ultra religious and nationalistic juiced and had big families and doesn't take long

before. that becomes a, it has an impact on the electoral process. these protests that we've been seeing is any part of it's a tool sympathetic to the plight of palestinians when it comes to illegal is ready sacraments for example. or is it purely about these judicial reform? i mean, there's certainly people within the crowd that are, are, have been active in support for palestinian rights and for opposing the expansion settlements in the light. but that hasn't been the focus of the demonstrations. i mean, israel, despite all the terrible things it's done to the palestinians over the years to its credit has been a democracy for its jewish citizens. and what, what's upsetting many israelis is that or that is in question now. and so they are primarily fighting for their rights as, as, as really jews to maintain this israeli jewish democracy. and unfortunately had, had not been able to,

they have not been willing to really address the very the core issue of the palestinians. but there's a, there's a link and that's the thing is that is no question. that is the 3rd that the, that decades of occupation has basically a hardened the israeli attitudes to help bring about this authoritarian shift and, and in their and their politics. united states has expressed concerns about these reforms, but no sign of any pressure does that embolden netanyahu are definitely as in very disciplinary thing. the way that i, while they are and finding ministration has done little finger wagging, you know, and saying, oh, yeah, we, we, we, you should, should respect civil liberties of the rights of minorities and not bill more settlements and whatever. there's been nothing absolutely nothing to back it up. the by administration is very clear that they will continue to send the $3800000000.00 the military 8 annually unconditionally they'll continue to block

the united nations from taking action that olga tends to oppose the media campaign . a basically that there oppose any kind of leverage that, that, that they, or the un or the global civil society could, could press on israel. so as a result i, i don't, i don't think there's much gonna deny administration is going to do much why it has changed, however, is that it really is having an impact on us public opinion. a poll that came out just last week shows that for the 1st time, the majority of democrats in the united states have more sympathy for the palestinians than they do for the israelis. so i think we're seeing a shift and political public opinion, though it may take a while to percolate up to actually change us policy stevens in as we very much appreciate your time. thank you. my put the international monetary fund has told lebanon it's urgently needs to implement reforms,

to unlock her vital $3000000000.00 load agreed on last year. the country's economy has been in free fall since 2019 pushing most of the population into poverty. well, that's appeal to public anger which spilled over again on wednesday as protests, as it tries to storm government headquarters. and i'm if delegation visiting the capital says action must be taken to avoid hyperinflation. a moment across rows, we are in a situation where the status quo, the continuation of police in action we're seeing is going to leave the live on the never ending crisis. another 8 cases of marburg virus have been confirmed by the world health organization and equitorial guinea that brings the total number to 9 and probable cases to 20 says an outbreak was 1st declared in february. at least 5 people have died to all the disease in tons and near the no

vaccines or antiviral treatments approved to treat the severe viral fever. while this is fueling fears, it could spread further in the region. the ethiopian government has appointed a senior official to grier people's liberation front as head of a new intimate to dry regional government. got to choose readers. appointment comes just a day off the t p. a left was removed from a list of terrorist organizations establishing a temporary government was a crucial part of the peace deal last year. and ended the fighting between to grind rebels and the government troops. both schools in afghanistan have reopened after the winter break, but taliban authorities are still barring a teenage girls from attending. since the tyler bands takeover in 2021 only girls age 12 and under have been allowed to go to school. taliban government has also

banned women from higher education. united nations calls it gender based apartheid into an opposition politician ra who gandy has been sentenced to 2 years in jail for defamation. in the 2900 speech, gandhi made references to prime minister and dr. modi and to fugitive engine business or sharing the modem and call them the dandy will appeal against his sentence, has been suspended for a month. a study as a prime minister has reveal details of a proposed referendum that will give that constitution recognition to the nations indigenous people at the albany. z spoke gotten emotionally, is conference on thursday. this continues, how large is there after inside story? ah

hello. we've got some wetter and windy weather, hopefully clearing the air in beijing over the next couple of days. we've had some really poor rec quality. recently rathermore cloud started to slide its way through the thick lattice further south. we got this weather system here just winding its way away, pushing over towards search japan. that will sweep through 25 celsius in tokyo, some warm sunshine of the warm spring sunshine for friday afternoon. that wet to weather that's making his way across southern most past may go little bit of cloud and some right. absent when she flurries for a time just pushing across bating over the next couple of days. temps is here falling back to rat 8 celsius. the saturday afternoon, the re clearing away from that is the side of japan by that stays the rain setting in across southern parts of china. by that stage. not too much rain to the south of that across indo china. northern part of the philippines to lassie, dry central, the southern areas into malaysia. we'll see some heavy right and big down pause there wants to get across a good part of indonesia,

particularly into java. now we got some big down, pause gathering across pakistan that spilling out of afghanistan. nasty little system. this one we have orange warnings in force for the time big. that'll make his way further eastwards into the himalayas. ah. in a post colonial world, the scars of european imperialism run deep nowhere more so than in the democratic republic of congo, where her history still shapes the presence of visceral, yet intimate insight through the eyes of a whistleblower and the patriotic military commander witnessed presents. this is congo, honor, jesse, you know israel has scrapped parts of a law of barring texas and some areas of the occupied west bank tension has been