there is no name on the ship, but i can identify it from the serial number. it's called the rich harvest... ..and it made news headlines here in 2017. my name is ga dalomba. i'm a rapperfrom cape verde. ever since the ship arrived in my island, i've been captivated by the story. and ifound there is

so much more to it than i could ever imagine. the owner of the boat, the alleged mastermind of the drug—trafficking operation, is yet to face justice. his name is george saul... ..known by his nickname fox. now i'm going searching for him, following his trail across three continents... the car just arrived. ..to hopefully find out his side of the story. yeah, we can see him now. carnival dance music. my islands of cape verde, right in the middle of the atlantic, are a little paradise on earth with all—year—round sun and beautiful beaches. but the location of cape verde has always been

a blessing and a curse. its position between south america and europe makes cape verde a hub for drug traffickers. the traffickers�* route is known as highway 10, named after the 10th parallel north — a circle of latitude which passes by cape verde on the shortest route across the atlantic... ..with europe's $11 billion cocaine market often the traffickers�* final destination. according to the united nations office on drugs and crime, at least 50 tonnes of cocaine crosses west africa every year, with most arriving via highway 10. but around 30% of it is sold during transit and countries

like cape verde suffered the consequences. unfortunately, i know a lot about the cocaine trade... ..because even though this is me today — a celebrity on the red carpet, a lot of people don't know my story. i was a regular cocaine user. it's sad, the first time i used drugs. it's very sad. i was nine years old. it's messed up what happened. me and a friend of mine, my brother till today, with somebody that was a guard at his house, we were sitting in a garage in the afternoon like this.

he gave me what he had. that action was a monster action. why would you pass narcotics to a nine—year—old kid, man? why, bro? like... ..it�*s not acceptable. from there on, i fell in love with cocaine. i was a slave for drugs. i was a slave. and the sad part of it... ..it�*s how i made anything or anybody that loves me become a slave as well. when i was a user, it was simple to buy cocaine. but today, it's even easier. i even found this graffiti on one street

advertising drugs for sale. of course, the simplest way to prevent cocaine getting into cape verde is at the border. i met with the police officer who supervised the search of the rich harvest. he wants us to film him anonymously because he's scared of reprisals from organised crime groups. but he agrees to talk me through what happened that day. tell me about the search. how hard was it?

what did the crew tell you? this is the brazilian crew who sailed the rich harvest. each of them was sentenced to ten years in this cape verde prison. their convictions were later overturned and the case dismissed. it was these sailors who claimed that a british man, fox, was responsible. i want to speak to fox, but first i need to find out

exactly what happened from the crew who sailed the rich harvest. samba music. i'm teaming up with bbc braziljournalist cristine kist, who has been following an investigation by the brazilian authorities into the rich harvest and tracking down the brazilian crew. hi, ga. nice to meet you. how are you doing? i'm doing fine. welcome. thank you very much. so, this is daniel, one of the sailors. and these are daniel and rodrigo. two sailors. rodrigo dantas was only 2a when he joined the crew

of the rich harvest, having seen a job advert on facebook. like all the crew, he had no idea there were drugs onboard the boat. the position was unpaid, but rodrigo�*s videos show how excited he was for the opportunity of a lifetime... ..to sail across the atlantic and fulfil his goal of becoming a professional sailor. rodrigo agrees to meet to tell us his story. as a sailor, what were your dreams?

fox: you know when you talk to people, it's best to talk- to the person who's... and also in a language they understand.

fox appears happy and relaxed. the only one who brazilian police believe knows the boat's secret. 0ne tonne of cocaine is hidden under the crew's beds. fox, rodrigo and the rest of the crew departed the next day... ..unaware that the police were monitoring their every move.

fox sailed the rich harvest up the coast to natal. this would be their last port before their atlantic crossing began. we've come to meet daniel guerra, one of the other crew members, at the natal yacht club, where the rich harvest docked. i've got some pictures. maybe you recognise them. let's see. yeah. is this familiar to you? yes. these photos of fox were taken by undercover brazilian police here in natal. let's check this one out. this is the restaurant. yeah. — i remember the day. rodrigo, fox, they went in some store to buy some tubes. - i was waiting in the boat. when they arrived, i saw two guys there in the restaurant. j they took the picture - from the glass, you know?

we saw this picture first time when we were in. the jail in cape verde. five days after these photos were taken, fox flew back to the uk, claiming he had to attend a friend's wedding. a few days later, the rich harvest set sail for europe. fox was already back in the uk, so a new captain was hired to skipper the boat. according to brazilian police, he was also completely unaware of the cocaine hidden onboard. at first, the journey went well. then, in the middle of the atlantic, the ship's engine broke down. the crew had no option. they had to stop in cape verde for repairs. and in a matter of hours, rodrigo and daniel's worlds came crashing down.

did you know how much trouble you were in? how did you feel when the judge gave you ten years? wow.

if you met fox right now, what would you tell him? do you know where he is?

we've managed to find fox's instagram account. it's a gold mine of information. if we can figure out where he's posted from in the past, we might be able to predict where he goes next. i can see that over the years he has travelled a lot. there are posts tagged in gibraltar, but also botswana, the virgin islands, spain, berlin and the netherlands. but most of the posts are from the united kingdom and we already know fox is a british citizen... good girl. ..so it's time for us to continue our search in the uk. cristine and i are teaming up

with a british journalist — a guy called colin freeman. hi, guys - thanks for coming. nice to see you. how are you doing, colin? nice to meet you. i how are you doing? colin has written about cape verde before and he's been searching for fox for the last five years. he says he has some new information. can i get you guys . some tea or coffee? anything to drink? tea~ _ tea as well. so, colin, it's been a couple of years, right? you're still working on the story. why is that? well, it fascinated me, the rich harvest story, j because it'sjust one of these sort of strange, intriguing - cases, really, where somebody, you know, has had the finger. pointed at them but never seems to have actually . faced any court over it. colin plays an audio recording by a man called robert delbos. delbos was convicted of marijuana trafficking in the 1980s. he sailed the rich

harvest down to brazil with fox back in 2016. delbos played no part in the cocaine trafficking and was acquitted by brazilian authorities in 2021. so he was expecting to make three million off of this? apparently, yeah. apparently, that was the going rate for a transatlantic, erm, l trafficking operation. it seems, from what delbos was saying there, that fox was... i he was accusing fox of cutting

corners, of essentially hiring l an innocent crew to do the job unwittingly, erm, rather- than hiring a professional team of smugglers, which he could l have done with some of the three million l that he was allegedly getting paid for the job. _ and, according to delbos, even in the world of drug i trafficking, there are some dos and don'ts. _ some ethics, as it were. you should not be using. innocent people as mules. that'sjust notl on in his world. we take our search for fox online again and try a public records database for business in the uk. when we enter the name george saul into this database, seven different uk addresses come up. all of these addresses are in a city called norwich, to the east of london...

..and we already know fox, or george saul, has connections to norwich from some of his instagram posts. but where exactly can we find him? a new search combining his name with his business addresses leads us to a profile page for fox on the website of a professional networking group. scrolling through the group's web page, we find that the members meet every thursday morning at 7am at a hotel on the outskirts of the city. and on their socials, we see that fox is a regular attendee. this is a great lead and that's where we go next. maybe just one of us should go, erm, not to scare him off, but also for safety reasons. like, if something happens,

it's easier ifjust one of us has to come back to the van. 0k, yeah. — look, do you want me to go? if he decides to try— and chase me away, then i can make a quick exit, hopefully. yeah, 0k. 0k. our plan is to wait until fox arrives. then, when he's walking to the reception, we will intercept him and ask him a few questions. we're still waiting here and there's no sign of saul yet. | it's about 6:45am in the morning. the business meeting| is due to start at 7am. i'm hoping that hei is going to turn up. there's plenty of comings . and goings, though, so let's just hope that fox turns up. jules, ourspotter, is positioned in a vehicle by the entrance to the car park, watching all the cars arriving. we are communicating with each other on an open phone line.

jules, are you there? yeah, yeah. - what time does - he normally get here? now. — yeah, he's two minutes late. 0k. — all right, yeah. it feels a bit nerve—racking. there's a lot riding on this. | with doorsteps, - the thing is, you only get one chance at them. stand by, stand by. car approaching. yes, yes, his car is here. 0k~ _ turning into the hotel now. go, go _ he's getting out of the car and so is the dog. dog barks. excuse me. -

i'm from the bbc. i was wondering if i could ask. you a few questions about your yacht, the rich harvest? erm, no. can you explain why more than a tonne of cocaine i was found onboard it... what? ..back in 2017? go away. seriously. brazilian police say thatj you are an international drug trafficker. well, i'm not, so... and that you masterminded this operation to put a tonne - of cocaine on the i rich harvest boat. and... listen, i'm not doing this, so... i'm not here to talk to you. there were four sailors, i innocent sailors, who went to prison as a result . of the drugs that were found on that boat. guys, this is such a strange... do you accept that i that was your fault? this is such a strange... you're walking away. is that what you do - if trouble takes place? have you got any remorse over what happened? - would you consider. going back to brazil? there's a case to answer

there, isn't there? - sorry... — yeah, sorry, carry on. we're here to listen. i'm not here to talk, i'm afraid. if you want, - there's probably... you've probably got your own version of events. . if you want to give usl your side of the story, you're welcome to, yeah. right, he's driving off. 0k. — didn't want to talk. i think we all should have both sides of the story, but, unfortunately, we couldn't get his. we wrote to george saul to ask if he had anything else to say about the allegations contained in this film. however, we received no reply.

we asked the national crime agency in the uk if they are aware of george saul and the crime the brazilian police suspect him of. the nca said if brazil chooses to pursue extradition from the uk, they would need to send a full extradition request to the home office as the central authority. there is currently no warrant in place to arrest george saul and we are not aware of any offences he may have committed in the uk. back in cape verde, i know the war against drugs has no end. my country will never be free from the scourge of cocaine until people like fox are fully investigated. justice must be done. and if he's found to be

guilty, then he must take responsibility for his actions. hello there. apart from the fireworks, it was a quiet end to october and it's been a quiet start to november. and essentially we've got more of the same this weekend. more cloudy skies and more mild air as well. now there was some sunshine to the east

of the pennines on friday. north yorkshire the place to be with about six hours of sunshine. but the breaks in the cloud that we've had here have been filling in and underneath that area of high pressure we do have cloudy skies that weather front steering a little rain up towards shetland. now with that blanket of cloud around these are the temperatures first thing on saturday and a mild ten degrees typically. and the temperatures will have lifted in the north east of scotland by the morning. but it's going to be quite a grey and gloomy start, some mist and some hill fog that may tend to lift any drizzle in scotland, and some parts of england should tend to ease away. a lot of places will be dry, but stay cloudy could be a bit of sunshine in north east scotland, perhaps later in the far south east of england. it is going to be a mild day again, temperatures not rising very much, but up to 13, 1a, maybe 15 degrees and a bit milder than it was on friday in northern scotland. those weather fronts are being kept at bay, so the rain is being kept at bay even though the high

pressure centre is drifting away and it's allowing a gentle southeasterly breeze to come in for the second half of the weekend, that could introduce some slightly drier air. so if the cloud does break in scotland and eastern parts of england, it'll be a chilly start to sunday. many places, though on sunday will again be cloudy. there could still be some mist and fog around in the morning, but we may see a bit more sunshine in scotland, perhaps developing in northern england, north wales even maybe into the midlands towards east anglia as well eventually. but it is going to be a mild day wherever you are. temperatures typically 13 or 1a degrees. now as we head into the beginning of next week and mist and fog is going to be more widespread across england and wales on monday morning, and tuesday morning could extend its way into scotland as well. and that mist and fog is going to be very slow to lift. many places will still be cloudy and under the mist and fog it is going to feel quite chilly as well. but later on in the week we'll have less of that stronger southerly breeze, probably lifting the temperatures a bit, and these areas of low pressure will keep

the rain at bay. so again, it's still looking dry.

live from washington, this is bbc news. the us presidential candidates hold dueling rallies in the key battleground state of wisconsisn — with four days to go until the election. the us orders additional fighterjets and navy warships to the middle east, in a warning to iran. and in spain, more than 200 people have died in devastating floods — the death toll is expected to rise as the search and rescue operations continue. hello. i'm azadeh moshiri.

just four days to election day. the focus on friday is on swing states in the midwest — ones that candidate could win. kamala harris and donald trump are both visiting wisconsin. in 2020, joe biden took the state by a narrow margin. and once again, the polls are tight. in the last few hours, the pair held duelling rallies in milkwaukee county. the economy appeared to be a key focus for both candidates. here's what we heard from the vice president. all right, we have work do, milwaukee. four days left. four days left. in the most consequential election of our lifetime. and we still have work to do. but here's the thing about all of us. we like hard work. thing about all of us. we like hard work-— thing about all of us. we like hard work. that was the third and final event _

hard work. that was the third and final event for _ hard work. that was the third and final event for kamala i and final event for kamala harris in wisconsin.