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but how would the world sit with the biggest composer of all time i conti can begin to imagine a world class horn player single willis on a musical journey of discovery. world without beethoven starts september 16th on t w. this is d w news and these are our top stories. officials on the u.s. west coast say cooler weather weather in the coming days may help them contain the wildfires that have devastated the region dry and windy conditions have been feeding the flames the blazes have killed at least 20 people so far dozens more are missing. police on the greek island of lesbos have fired
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tear gas at migrants demanding more permanent housing off the island. fire destroyed the overcrowded morea refugee camp earlier this week the greek army has begun building a replacement facility but most of the migrants say they just want to leave. iran has executed a young wrestling champion in defiance of a global campaign calling for his sentence to be revoked of car he was convicted of killing a security guard during anti-government demonstrations the 27 year old maintains he was tortured into confessing demonstrators gathered outside a rain embassies worldwide in protest. this is news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram at the news or visit our website that's w dot com. what
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if planes could fly without leaving a carbon footprint synthetic fuel could hold the key. adapting to summer heat waves how a different method of building in the city could help cool things down. and do the electric cars live up to the clean image of that and more coming up. well come to you tomorrow today for the science show on d w. during the mid 980 s. europe was split an impenetrable border divided east from west but one german entrepreneur refused to accept that could believe that science transcends board is he says a prize awarded to research projects where scientists from eastern and western europe work together. endowed with 1000000 euros the cover prize remains to this day one of the most prestigious and lucrative
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science awards in europe this year it went to one carrion nero scientists based in switzerland. basel is a city constantly on the move. full of colors and contrast. trades dimensions and perspectives. we perceive them with our eyes. but this window to the world closes for people who lose their insight. reopening that window is the foremost goal of the institute of molecular and clinical ophthalmology. medical so. and just a boat on tosca is working on ways of giving blind people back their eyesight. my main goal is to understand vision and to use this understanding to create new
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treatments for blind diseases while the eyes outer appearance may be fascinating the real miracle of vision happens on the inside. at the back of the eyeball is the retina a layer made up of millions of cells of 100 different cell types. because team has succeeded in making individual cells of blind retinas receptive to light again . the retina is a biological computer made of 100 different parts and it is very difficult to repair a computer so we don't prepare it for the receptor layer we have to repair a computer and we have to understand parts of these computer and come up with ways that really benefits the patients this is a so-called a retina or going to. work you know. think of it as a stand in for the actual retina that scientists are able to grow from the cells of
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a visually impaired or blind patient when placed upon a microchip the researchers can test the organ ords individual cells for light sensitivity that enables them to determine in the lab whether a specific type of gene therapy would improve the our side of a particular patient. better to study the disease in basic research or basic medical research because we can now look on the retinas of a given patients. this patient is almost completely blind. he suffers from richard noticed pigmentosa today incurable disease which incapacitates the written as visual receptor. the new gene therapy could help to reactivate the retina at least partially. my biggest of issues that are sterile piece start to work in patients. to achieve this and the institute in basel takes an
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interdisciplinary approach. moton of oscar who's head of molecular biology research in the laboratory. his colleague 100 choice leads a team of doctors in the clinic keeping in touch with the patients. together they work as a team. in the past the 2 fields were entirely separated medical doctors did their job they reported their disease and basic scientists varied in their own institute closed in in which they try to address a problem but these are not really a very of the real problem so very often in basic science via amazing technologies but they're not addressing the right problems. roscoe's team has taken a major step to remedy the situation they successfully equip blind retina cells with light sensitive protein channels grown from bacterial genes you know these cells react to once again. the researchers
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tools are so-called vectors minute shuttles that transport genetic information into the target cells 1st in the organ runs and eventually directly inside the patient's retina. we just take these gene and then insert these gene into gene therapy vector the gene therapy back to respect each the entire protein shell and the inject this into the eye. it's a simple injection as would be other injection be than other medicine. the experiments on the organ or it may seem like primitive reactions in a petri dish right there an important milestone in the quest to restore eyesight by means of gene therapy. where it has been a great success in the lab must now pass the test of clinical treatment in patients . 5 people have already started gene therapy to treat their retinitis
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pigmentosa the results are pending but the researchers are optimistic that blindness may 1 day become reversible in many cases. we know how to restore vision we have the technologies but we are missing is details and we are missing virk force and investment from society. that justice cancer get a lot of investment to deal with the problem now blindness needs a lot of investment from private and public entities. rosko is a bringer of hope for many thanks to his conviction that science needs the cooperation of many talents for success much like in music. in art in music we have a composer who works out the details of
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a piece and artist is giving it to the audience in a keys or by a many scene the basic scientists they are preparing a new treatment the a coming up with a new treatment and it is the clinicians who then offer it to the public the patients. their work is not yet complete but that is team member achieved a great deal already. and they plan to continue their quest so we can expect to hear much more about the basel based scientists and their trailblazing more can the future. if outlet is right why ave latin if they. do you have a science question you've always wanted onset send it in and if we answer it on the show you'll get in didn't surprise as a thank you. i cannot just ask. for
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more stories from the world of science go to our website will find us on twitter. this week's viewer question comes from chris humphries. why does the earth have an atmosphere. and atmosphere is not all that unusual many bodies in our solar system have one like the giant planet jupiter and its moon europa. a planet develops an atmosphere when gas is a merge from within it and when it collects volatile substances from collisions with asteroids and comets. the earth's atmosphere is a complex multilayered system up to an altitude of 90 kilometers it consists mostly
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of nitrogen along with the oxygen produced by living organisms. our atmosphere extends far into space reaching to the moon and even beyond. earth has enough mass to hold on to its atmosphere through gravity in contrast to mars. the red planet's gravity is. only one 3rd astronomers hours causing it to lose a large part of its atmosphere it's as thin on the martian surface as the air is 30 kilometers above the earth's surface earth's atmosphere also has a magnetic field to protect it from the electrically charged particles of the solar wind. mars lost its planetary magnetic field 4000000000 years ago the solar wind can blow its atmosphere into space but the earth is also losing air into areas
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near the poles the particles of the solar wind penetrate deep into the atmosphere creating a rollo's and carrying away several 100 tons of oxygen every day. biological processes such as photosynthesis implants can largely compensate for this loss even so the mass of the earth's atmosphere is slowly decreasing. the earth has been able to hold on to its atmosphere for so long because it orbits close to the sun and because it rotates that keeps the atmosphere warm enough to prevent the gases from freezing on the surface. as carbon dioxide does on mars for example. of all transport modes flying pretties is the most greenhouse gases so how could it be made more sustainable. flying less isn't that likely to take hold. on the contrary 2019 says
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a new record 188901 flights recorded day. in and. force the flying is something we take for granted nowadays but gone is the romance of taking to the air replaced by worries about climate change and flight she. before the pandemic the skies were full every day we burned 11500 liters of kerosene worldwide per 2nd carbon that had been locked away in the earth's crust for millions of years in the form of crude oil enter the atmosphere as carbon dioxide where it accelerated climate change. but what if we could produce aviation fuel that doesn't put any new c o 2 into circulation made of nothing but water air and sunlight.
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that's exactly what's being researched here at zurich's technically university especially developed solar furnace on the roof of the swiss university produces fuel from the ambient air with the help of concentrated solar radiation it's the life's work of. he and his students have been researching and working on the furnace for more than a decade. of yet having what we have here is a complete mini refinery for solar fuels that i fill. with their furnace the swiss were able to show that their theory that fuel can be produced from sun air and water also works in practice. in the 1st step areas drawn in and the water and carbon dioxide it contains are collected using the mirror dish the sun's rays are concentrated on to one of the 2 reactors heating it up to
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$1500.00 degrees celsius at the heart of these reactors a catalyst takes care of the 1st conversion. the sponge like catalyst is coated with the rare earth metal syria moch side. the components of water and carbon dioxide are split apart and. reassembled to create what's known as sin gas. this mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide can then be converted into liquid fuels such as kerosene it's rather like a chemical construction kit when the fumes produced in this way is burned it only releases c o 2 into the atmosphere that had previously been removed from it so does this solve the problem unfortunately not completely only damage to the production volume of this system is still very low it's less than $100.00 milliliters per day so the
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production costs are still very high. by comparison a transatlantic airliner burns on average almost one leader per 2nd or around 3000 liters per hour in the university of zurich has meanwhile inaugurated a larger test facility in spain but even the quantities produced here are just a proverbial drop in the ocean but it shows that this sun to liquid method can also work on a larger scale. so why don't we build huge plants in the desert right away and the main problem is the price of kerosene from petroleum is still unbeatable cheap and fuel costs make up a 3rd of the price of a typical airline tickets in fact kerosene can already be produced synthetically and mostly sustainably in many ways such as in large algae farms airlines began
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pursuing this option a long time ago but the results so far have been disappointing the production is still complicated and too expensive. in the end the decisive factor will be who can manufacture synthetic kerosene in industrial quantities at the lowest cost. as the c.e.o. there's still no real end. anomic rationale behind these projects they're all part of this whole discussion about the carbon is asian and germany's transition to green energy and. you can vanish is head of the haida refinery in northern germany this is where the fuel for hamburg airport is distilled. the refinery wants to become part of the shift to renewable energy in aviation. has a plan to produce sustainable kerosene here instead of using the sun like the swiss
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project he's looking to harness surplus wind power. and there's lots of electricity that's not even generated in the 1st place the systems are switched off because there's simply too much electricity in the power grid and that's where we come in our plan is to convert this unused electricity into hydrogen and then turn the hydrogen into synthetic fuel into especially kerosene and he was in small. what's particularly attractive about this power to liquid process is that the carbon dioxide needed to produce the fuel is drawn out from nearby factories rather than letting this climate damaging gas escape into the atmosphere it's then processed into fuel using water and electricity. when this synthetic kerosene is burned no new carbon dioxide enters circulation but instead old carbon dioxide is recycled so could heavy industry actually be part of the
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solution to the climate issue at least an aviation researchers at the university of braman in germany think it can it's one of the partners in this project. you have an oven refineries have the expertise to handle and process hydrocarbons from fuels they also have the infrastructure in place today for their operations but we will also need that if we want to operate a power to liquid plant. and in nepal. well it would have a lot of the time when. within 5 years the plant should be producing synthetic kerosene for lufthansa. our 1st goal is to cover 5 percent of the requirements of hamburg airport. sustainable kerosene will have to come from many sources in the future the decisive factor will be who can produce the alternative fuel at the lowest cost but if aviation hopes to slash its c o $2.00 emissions by half before 2050 it must rely on projects like those of the university of zurich and the haida refinery. electric
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cars in the. quiet and green electric cars have a secret their batteries contain problematic substances like cobalt and lithium extracting this mineral requires a lot of water and most lithium resists are in some of the driest places. because really the future of. the mobility is about more than just getting from a to fork out for investors at least. right it's like you're floating it's so nice. from 0 to 100 kilometers per hour in 4 seconds flat green dark christiane's and also like having a good conscience. if i'm driving through town with queues of cars coming towards me i can say at least my car doesn't stink. except it's not completely clean either
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. electric cars do produce particulates matter even if they don't spew exhaust emissions. and once the debate over combustion engine started i was glad to have nothing to do with them anymore. although not quite nothing better reproduction consumes electricity which is generated for. sources. most battery manufacturers are based in countries that still have coal based power plants. a bigger battery therefore means emitting more c o 2 during its production. automakers like to stress that big is beautiful on the battery front too. except that it isn't. the more powerful an electric car the more electricity is required to charge its battery and as that
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electricity comes from the grid in countries like germany that means a fair proportion of coal generated power this together with battery production emissions means that some larger electric cars are responsible for more c o 2 than a mid-sized diesel fuel car. so we missions free driving is still not a reality one solution could look like this smaller and lighter cars with a shorter range and lower driving speed and therefore a lower carbon footprint. the train has wants to fuel her car with her own solar powered generator. my big goal for the future is to be able to produce electricity for the car myself. but for now she also has to resort to regular power from the grid on days when the sun isn't. our cities are heating up
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the so-called urban heat island effect means areas in the city don't cool down this fast as the surrounding countryside. that can be hazardous for human health densely populated areas are especially at risk so urban planning is need solutions we had a look at some of the ideas out there. researches in switzerland are working to create the perfect city asphalt. engineer and the blue man has been commissioned by the government to conduct experiments under traffic conditions on this test track. our goal is to bring the temperatures down during the summer heat waves having cooler nights as the main back at. last found can reach temperatures of 70 degrees celsius the black surfaces get hot during the day and
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release heat at night meaning the city can't cool down. if you look at a city from above that you see about 40 percent buildings and 20 percent growth the buildings all belong to someone but with the robots you have a bit more scope and also. eric is leading the experiment it's to be a fungus job to develop the perfect asphalt here on the test site they select the asphalt mixtures that will be in the running for the heat and stress test. roads are made up of several layers the superstructure has a basic course layer and on top of that there's a binder layer and a surface layer. asphalt roads are usually around 95 percent rock and 5 percent. it's this finding agents that makes the asphalt black spot
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layer is lighter in color it will absorb less. one option is to lighten the ass found by covering the top layer with chippings light colored stone that's pressed into the normal rolled asphalt. to be it's just testing various options with different colors and quantities of chippings the more you add the lighter the road . the lightest one can be seen here on the far left but it's a balancing act. that. seems that too many chippings mike the road unstable. there's not enough. chippings or pre-code for that also changes the color of the we don't know yet what exact difference that makes to the temperature. you can see that some of it is more yellow and that would alter the light absorption. of for be uniform the
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from the. another possible killing technique is to use a highly poorest. because can absorb and release water known it's passive cooling. and it has great potential. to heavy traffic there would still be obstacles. challenges that the pores get clogged over time but these types of coating have already been used to reduce noise so if that's possible then it's conceivable that we could use them for cooling surfaces to. one thing they know for certain the lighter the road the cooler ha's. put on a lighter colored road would you be able to see white paint markings like parking spots and traffic lanes and if these were painted in a different color would it be confusing to the driver that's part of the many tests
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and of them. the most important test is making sure the road can support the traffic but also that the cooling effect lasts and doesn't just wear off as the road gets older and it will not be seen as one motorist on the. paving the way to the perfect afghans. that's all for now for morning grossing stories about science and technology visit our website. will be back next week with a fresh edition of tomorrow today until then but i.
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can see a walk with more i mean quite high and then crashed. on french media which once feel rich and regarded as a model businessman bankers and politicians contributed to his success. the scheme would never have worked in the banks haven't played along. there's no way. big money big fraud the story of a german car. next on t w. morning these shoes are not for beginners. never creations of edgardo osorio.
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playful yet glamorous but they're sought after by women the world over. the columbian designer finds inspiration in florence for his stunning footwear. the romance. in 60 minutes doubled our. life on earth moon is a coming and. a joy to get a coincidence. that santa ana previously was the earth was just a mess the chemistry lab not told me. where the improbable but. the too soon also was the creation of our solar system with our planet is
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a bit like winning the lottery effort up there is a little going to. what is earth where you need to start september 18th on g.w. . this is the story of a man who was very good at selling things that didn't exist. month which was at the center of the biggest financial fraud case in post-war german history. he said so. x. years in prison for his crimes. at the height of his tower big money had his own jess has an airfield and several luxury homes. politicians gathered around him. banks lend him huge amounts of money nothing was too good for him.
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we wanted to find out how he managed to scam billions in a complex pyramid scheme. to date month me their lives and my yokel when he retired after he got out of prison. smita wants to keep his family out of the street pools his ex-wife and 2 children live in switzerland. shmita grew up in tuscaloosa where his father was a businessman he discovered at an early age that he had a talent for making money. oh we met him at one of his favorite restaurants near panama. volatility why you can't see ship of course i was always
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ambitious i wanted to have a job i was for cold when i was in college i sold cars and the 1st to be w.'s and then mercedes you have me say 34 that when i was 16 i sold life insurance after school for the 5th year i worked for a company that was owned by the father of one of my friends who live in filthy old fi always wanted to have something to do it but at some point when i took a wrong turn you can and i either didn't notice at the time or realized it too late . old be it the mag. prosecutors say that sinead has company flow techs cheated banks and leasing companies. out of more than 4000000000 marks. toughman was one of the prosecutors in snead us case documents used as evidence at his trial are stored in this basement room at the prosecutor's office in mannheim. hoffman carried out
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extensive interviews with smita we asked him what drove me there to commit these crimes. at 1st he didn't have a lot of friends at school. but at the age of 16 in the mid 1960 s. he got a moped got 50 yards from me did and none of the other kids had one more peter sagal and he used that moped to make friends. sure he wanted to be popular dot com and i think that was a basic component of his character and respond play constantly sought the approval of others 50 einstein named. manfred sneed i founded sloan tex in 1904 and became enormously successful over the next several years. valsin 1st and 1st and joe you could be pretty intimidating he was always very well dressed with tailor made suits and
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a rolex on his wrist. very impressive and as it was on the other muslim he takes everything he does to extremes. and when he goes after something that's for the chase is it like a terrier until he gets out and tell. the boy who started out with a moped had made it to the top and now owned a fleet of luxury cars. in 1909. 58th birthday with a gun a event at his estate a 2 i'm back on the outskirts of cozumel. downtown and i'm going right about 300 people politicians business executives sports stars anybody who is anybody by the lord is into it then i'm a lot of people were dying to get an invitation. it was the event of the year in the state of baton rouge when barack and it went about building work. meter lived
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a life of luxury a private jet with gold faucets. villas all over the world anything florida europe and some of the things. he owned 3 yachts the largest was 55 meters long. from the sultan of brunei. now it's not purely his extravagance was excessive. on the one hand that sort of lifestyle makes some people envious. of their i know on the other hand in the years the highest form of recognition night to form the us media used his position to win approval from people who'd. become not the. he had all the toys that anyone could want a huge collection of beautiful cars yachts jet aircraft. and even had his own airport who else has that. we took man fish
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meat out she visit the airfield that he used to it's now the counselor bought him bought an international airport. for this report shmita agreed to visit some of the places that played an important role in his life as he made his way to the tunnel. he used to come here often at one time he had 2 private planes and a helicopter parked here. he built his business empire on a technology concept that he discovered in the late 1980 s. . a u.s. company called flow mile developed a horizontal drilling system so that utility lines could be laid without causing a lot of environmental damage. munford shmita adept at this idea and convinced
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banks and leasing companies to invest in it. no blunder. we were convinced that this was a great system and the banks thought so as well. they gave us 20000000 to develop the equipment we needn't. on the some of the narcan market. promoted his concept with expensive adverts that were broadcast on prime time german t.v. . starts making a gas line and i'm on the nose we're doing it underground yet underground without digging out you know because it's a new system. but the commercials we're deceptive in fact the drilling machines didn't. but. rocks and existing lines got in the way. so she does this never really got off the ground but he managed to convince investors that his company was turning a profit. we actually started out piecemeal this it's not
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like my partner and i actually planned to rip people off. and we believed in this concept of. a full and we wanted it to be a success so we manufactured statistics that appeared to make it a success we were counting on future sales and that's how we came up with this system. and the banks were delighted to help finance this project. because. at the height of the scandal smita had convinced investors that his company had more than 3000 drilling machines but in reality they were just under 300. to keep and keeping the scheme going wish me to is still on as a salesman. and he can be very
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charming. if you've known him a long time like i have that's they're less impressed by him. but most people were taken in by a charm and to put it bluntly. so. sweet it hasn't flown over his former company headquarters in the 2 decades. today we're taking the same routes that he did back then. we were right over it. it would have been a short trip like. me to prefer to take the chopper. but it's faster and. no traffic jams either. at the show. he often took investors along the helicopter was on call 24 hours a day for the ride over it. has to go but we're going to learn.
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all right there where those containers are. worked in a look seriously appointed office he's come a long way from selling used cars for a living. this is where he built the business empire that turned out to be little more than a house of cards. and it came crashing down on february 4th 2000. police arrested months which meta at his office. for most of his employees this development came as a complete surprise. it was on a friday afternoon when most of the workers were getting ready to go home to. start farming criminal polling so it was the police and some tax investigators i could hardly believe it i'm against on those and i was shocked it's it's when. that's
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that they wouldn't be here if they didn't have a good reason to. police and officials from the prosecutor's office carried out boxes full of evidence this was shaping up to be the biggest case of financial fraud in post-war german history. 2 decades later this is all that remains of the flow tech sign on top of this building. the company that had been the darling of bankers and politicians went out of business in late 1999. but. this is the 1st time that shmita has been back here since flow techs collapsed. the frantic call but it's a very strange feeling to be here after 18 years and 2 weeks ago here to comment. on how the swine kopf i could still see the place in my mind but now that i'm
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actually here it's difficult for me to look back at everything that happened with a list of my over a group of fields and left. all the stress that was the hardest day of my life and. he hasn't been back here since the day he was arrested. for the so this was mrs lobs office my secretary. it's almost hard to believe that this is the place wish me to i made all of his deals. this is really difficult. most of us are desk. over here right there.
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alone i feel like i'm in a movie right now and. before this i'm glad that i came back here though so that i can somehow is close this chapter of my life. but it's not easy and so. i'd like to leave now. the flow tax system worked for 5 years smita kept selling machines even though most of them existed only on paper. he created an elaborate business for a song to fool his investors. we took a creative approach when the bank auditors wanted to see some drilling machines and we'd switch the identification plates. and show them as much equipment as they wanted. in the holocaust and. on tonight.
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they kept some of the machines in this warehouse officials from the banks and leasing companies had a look around and was satisfied. zynga common how much they came in and broke down the id numbers of and check them against the list they had at the office just me and they all matched up. and so they also looked at the id plates with c. and they checked out as well. and i'm to duplicate now and before that is basically how we did it. everything seemed fine. to mention at the end of the day he was probably pleased to see how easy it was to deceive people that made our life to have. it all seemed so easy almost a sure thing smita kept playing his shell game with the drilling equipment and the
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banks kept lending him money after all he had to make the monthly lease payments even if the machines existed only on paper. frank loesser says. it was a classic pyramid scheme and it worked at 1st because he used the new loans to pay off old creditors. but then things got out of hand and it became more and more difficult to control it should be to harden or indeed and we got to the point where he had to come up with 60000000 marks a month just to make the leasing payments. no more not begins again. that's me to manage to convince the banks to keep giving him money on. the banks made big profits with these flow text deals and guns and all my warm yet i'm a good foodie and they came for i need bang for ya'll again be roaches were competing with each other to get his business to water it's normal go to school all
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the scheme would never have worked in the banks had played along absolutely not guns being there's no way. list. was. deliberately kept his meetings with bank executives source he preferred to spend his time flying them around in his helicopter and treating them to sumptuous meals . out to the airfield near serling and then celebrate with a big lunch. called the liquid lunches for me doc is nice that everyone drank a lot of alcohol and. maybe he was trying to get his guests to be a little less cautious hardly. seemed. sometimes they'd fly to the nearby all science region to sample the excellent local wines or he'd invite bankers and business partners to his yacht or one of his
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business. and i created a situation where i could demonstrate my success to the outside world that was very important for me a few months but i didn't write people out to the yacht through them take them to dinner and these displays of success became part of the business model. week so i had to do it there to get the scheme going. the cup would get into. a $996.00 smita himself an airfield at full the canadian military facility. the powerful state politician helped him to arrange the deal the honorary chairman of the bond didn't that free democratic party you have any more luck. recommended where the german government should sell the airfield and at a reasonable price to about $38000000.00 marks. the.
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when does he also arranged for us to get a government subsidy provided that we've gotten final approval and started light operations. on that was a great deal for us so we went ahead with it. deliberately made a point of according to all the titians who could help him grow his business people who could open doors for him. towards or and i'm all over likud you're going more like it into a respected politician who knew everyone on the counter. moves. through more like he met a lot of important people and so it was a smart move for him to make some dhamaal. talk. shmita also started building a new flow text headquarters complex at the airfield leading politicians attended
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the groundbreaking ceremony including the state premier at the time having to fly for. the guests were impressed with his model of the proposed new facility. smita made a promotional video. from here all from here will tackle the projects of the 3rd millennium. change that this new facility would bring prosperity to the region. state premier teufel took the controls of an excavator at a ceremony to mark the start of construction. but for this report none of the politicians who worked with smita wanted to talk to us about him. after all it's a very old story. medium it the media enjoyed being
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around politicians and they enjoyed being around him who it was and it was like they acknowledged each other's importance can. be shown least. nido built as a former bon vivant back interior minister who later chaired a state parliament committee that investigated the flow text scandal. at this point questions were already being raised about the company's finances but prosecutors and the tax authorities didn't. investigators perhaps because of all the powerful politicians who were linked to shmita. he knew a lot of people in the state government including the premier mr blitzer he must be an important guy if he wasn't. that had nothing to do with him and that is not really that influence the decisions made by your thora this is not like they said
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are not going anywhere near that case but they did see that they had to be careful because of shmita status of ice move means committee for city center. in july 999 mido through a huge party to celebrate his 50th birthday here's a picture of the official invitation and the guest list. $300.00 people were invited it was an event that no one wanted to miss. among the guests was former barton there some back state premier. who gave the opening speech. the festivities took place as does 2 on that estate. he and his family lived there until his arrest in february 2000 and. microsoft
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my biggest mistake was that i used my financial resources to create an image of success for me to provide not only for the outside world but also for me personally i wanted people to envy me. and when people are jealous of you and you crash and burn they all cheer for him to. we are now wait a month let's meet as former estates at 2 and back near. the prophecy kavis 60000 square meters. back then he believed that he deserved to live in a place like this that. when i look back at those times i can't believe that i didn't realize how serious things have become. the whole thing kept getting bigger and bigger and i just went along with it. was the. smita says that he was cool as happened in spiral of events that he could not escape with. you only have
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one goal and you'll do whatever it takes to achieve it you lose your sense of right and wrong and you do some things that are wrong and are called not merely questionable. if you do things that are illegal but you don't care anymore if you live this far from. behind these walls monthly me to entertain his guests and impress them with his wealth but many of his friends from back then are long gone. they came to my parties and had a lot of fun for me but when the whole thing collapsed they disappeared on the. m go when he lost everything including the yachts those people didn't want to have anything to do with him. we amazed i wouldn't call them friends of one
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of those one so long argument walked out on xen hot when your region powerful people like to be around you. but if you get into trouble no one wants to know you . it's a tool. to drop down a little that would be great. it's hard to believe that man for me to manage to get away with this scheme for so long but the bigger it costs the more people believed him. not to really define what it was all based on power and influence and money and. such it was like he was too big to fail maybe some people thought he was but no one seemed to doubt that the company was profitable thing to stick and it's most money of all most money he said to himself as i have to show my family in the state of
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but in britain back that i can be successful. and that's just what he tried to do in order for him to turn. for a time month such media was able to convince people that he was a model entrepreneur. he attracted politicians who thought that he could be useful to them and bankers who thought that he'd make them a lot of money. today he regrets what he did to. the shady big bank can give you is the primary victims were the banks not any private individuals bank and just the banks of the. skivvies i do have a guilty conscience just wish this was what we did was wrong and see who the floor i mean quite high and then crashed and it's all my fault with my wish i can't blame anyone else really given. but most of all of the course and i'm sorry about how this affected my family because i made them feel. miserable adults of interest is.
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