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feb 11th on t w. this is the news live from berlin growing opposition to cope with 19 restrictions the 1st curfew in the mouth of them since world war 2 is met with rioting governments in the governments insist talks are curbs are needed to find thing you know the british very. public anger is mounting these designs 1st death toll come painters blame the government for failing to bring infections under control and they say president has to go. and in the fullness figure out
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byron munich beats childhood to extend their need at the top also detectible older goals including this one from robert levinson off skiing. on public voting yes thanks for joining us the 1st nationwide curfew in the netherlands since world war 2 has sparked widespread writing trouble flared in the capital amsterdam and the southern city of eindhoven hundreds of demonstrators opposing tiger coronavirus restrictions were arrested thousands of rule breakers have also been fined. anger boils over against the night curfew the 1st in 75 years. on the streets of eindhoven
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protests to set a car on fire and then rampage through shops and the train station. this demonstration in amsterdam is illegal but residents of furious at the months long lockdown and now the new curfew. live free. things you can think freely. they say their freedom and future are being sacrificed in the fight against the virus. that is eating them in the light and i don't agree with the restrictions on freedom. it's certainly true that elderly people of all nobles but there are also so many young people involved and young people of the future. and it's all oh this is a voice that is saying no we are so afraid we're going in the wrong direction it
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may be understandable but it's still the wrong way that i cared about. the government says the curfew is a preventative measure the number of new positive tests have been fooling but prime minister mark rotor warned against a possible surge of infections from the british mutation of the virus. i was off to the curfew came into force this is all that's left of a covert testing center on the coast and in amsterdam riot police break up a mostly peaceful demonstration with water cannons the netherlands was one of the lofty e.u. countries to begin immunizing health because with production delays slowing vaccination programs across europe a return to freedom here and elsewhere still looks alone why oh. well journalist michel cousins has been following the story in the netherlands he we asked whether
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there's much support for the curfew well the demonstrations you see that's a marginal phenomenon although it has been the rounds ever since the beginning of the lockdown some of you seen riots and protests. since late spring early summer overall you know there's quite a bit of support from most lock down nationals it was 77 percent supported by the end of the year and situation now has it been more complicated because we have to get bigger government and the political debate is heating up and go into elections in march so more debates and morsels of this and people are disappointed things are taking very long that's grown has not gone away and the netherlands is 2 very badly that exceeds. journalist michel has us there in rotterdam well the german government is warning that foreign intelligence agencies and conspiracy theorists have attempted to sabotage the production of coronavirus
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vaccines according to newspaper reports the interior ministry says german manufacturers have been targeted on several occasions also germany is imposing tougher restrictions on travelers passengers arriving from areas with a particularly high infection right now need to show a neg. of corona virus test taken less than 48 hours before entry and germany is to become the 1st country in the european union to use an experimental covert 19 antibody treatment therapy was is credited with helping former u.s. president donald trump to recover. thousands of brazilians have joined nationwide protests calling for the removal of president bashar also noddle the national death toll from the corona virus stands at more than 200000 a 2nd highest in the world vaccine shortages are holding back in you know as ations and public anger over the lack of progress is growing. alice school mash is
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desperate her mother needs a ventilator but the ones in the hospital are all taken now doctors aren't giving her much hope nobody thought they were so all i want is for my mother to have a chance. relatives don't get much information the clinic is totally packed and overburdened intensive care beds are full oxygen has been in short supply for at least a week hundreds of people wait for hours to refill tanks so that their loved ones at home will be able to breathe. the 2nd wave of coronavirus has hit me now is hard and the virus has mutated as many as 200 victims are being buried every day that's 7 times more than before the pandemic doctors say government inaction is to blame. well. the collapse could have been averted. yes the more the virus can
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multiply on checked the more likely it is that there will be mutations. in rio de janeiro life continues rather carefree perhaps because the president downplays the virus and publicly doubts the safety of vaccines in the meantime people are getting inoculated political opponents exerted a lot of pressure and made their own deals with manufacturers people are protesting against both so narrow because of the erratic rollout of vaccinations they say he has to go. 14 presidents marcello to bed with the sosa as being reelected in a contest overshadowed by a devastating surge in covert $1000.00 cases exit polls showed one around 60 percent of the vote enough to avoid a runoff the presidential post is largely ceremonial but still influential portugal is battling the world's highest rate of new davey infections
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a david and national lockdown has been in force for 10 days. our correspondent john philip shelton is in lisbon and we asked him earlier why the infection rate in portugal is so high that it's probably has several really one of the most important reason that new variant of corona virus coming from the united kingdom is spreading very. well to probably some after effects from the relaxation of measures during christmastime but experts agree that it's mainly the new variants that it's much more contagious that is causing the problems at the moment and at the beginning the government was required relaxed with the measures didn't take measures fast enough but. the lockdown just started about a week ago and the new dates suggests it's already probably 30 to 40 percent of
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all new coronavirus cases. involve the new variant from the u.k. and what about you don't you are funny on sort of shelves reporting there in lisbon well let's take a look now at some more pandemic news from other parts of the world mexico's president under his manuel lopez obrador is the latest world leader to test positive for covert 19 he's been widely criticized over the pandemic mexico has begun a limited vaccination rollout of it i thought is to speak to russian leader vladimir putin about obtaining these sputnik vien vaccine. israel has announced a week long ban on most incoming and outgoing flights exceptions will be made for freight and humanitarian flights despite success in rolling i vaccines authorities are struggling to bring an i break of new variants of the krona virus under control . dystonia is to get its 1st woman prime minister after the 2
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biggest political parties agreed to form a new coalition 43 year old lawyer leads the center right reform party the 2 parties will share ministerial positions in a gender matched couples. so i clone at owings hit the coastal city of beirut in mozambique strong winds and heavy rains destroyed buildings in the city and flooded farm rahm's thousands of people were forced to leave their homes according to media reports a few people were killed during the storm. 11 trapped workers have been rescued from a gold mine in china they spent 2 weeks stuck 600 meters underground after an explosion hundreds of specialist rex rescuers battle to reach the miners one other died earlier a further 10 are still missing a breakthrough after 2 weeks of intense rescue efforts this man grateful to be
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alive his eyes shielded after he emerged from underground. he had the strength to walk but others like the 1st man to be freed were too weak to stand. bore holes with their lifelines vital supplies including food water and medicine were lowered to the miners and psychologists also provided support responders made headway on sunday after major blockages suddenly fell to the bottom of the shaft. the rescue operation happen faster than expected after free all the trapped miners we were able to locate we will now focus on searching for the other missing miners the explosion happened in an air ventilator shaft on january 10th on sunday rescuers were able to reach a man trapped alone 630 meters underground the others one of whom died were found
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at 540 meters 10 more people remain unaccounted for life detectors are being sent down to locate them managers at the mine have been detained for failing to report the blast for more than 24 hours it's a dangerous line of work in china nearly $600.00 mining related deaths were reported last year alone. a migrant rescue ship carrying more than 370 people including a one month old baby has been given permission to dock in the italian port of augusta on board the ocean viking are migrants from guinea sudan and sierra leone they were rescued at sea as they were trying to cross the mediterranean the ship part appealed to several governments to allow the migrants ashore it's now june in sicily early on monday. well moving to sports news and in the
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bundesliga league leaders byron munich have improved their title hopes with a win against shelter the 2 sides placed at opposite ends of the table faced off on sunday. it's lonely at the bottom of the table where shall kiss it stuck and out the top where by and have the chance to extend their lead after their 2 closest rivals both lost on saturday. shocker held the fort for 33 minutes went by and broke the deadlock. the 1st left us were commish and then thomas mother completely on mocked. after the break the defending did not improve and by and got their 2nd robert lewandowski bumbling in his 23rd goal of the season already one small commish was the provider this time with a long range pass to find the league's leading scorer. commish then made it a hat trick of assists teeing up thomas miller for his 2nd and byron's 3rd. the
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reigning champions now have a comfortable 7 point cushion in 1st place while shell could only have 7 points in total and look ever more likely to go down let's have a look now at the results from this weekend's games in the bundesliga and there is confirmation of byron's win against chelsea the 2nd place team didn't fare as well leipsic losing to meit's 3rd place leverkusen lost 2 votes for frankfurt beat head to berlin fell to braman and on friday beat dortmund in a 6 goals thriller and in sunday's like game hoffenheim beat cologne. back to table so let's take a look now at how it shaping up at the end of match day 18 byron have put more distance between themselves and 2nd place leipsic involved in a virtual dead heat with labor crews and boardman's continue their drop to 7th place on the other end of the table at the very bottom that's where you find
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shelter minds just about why you're up to date with all the latest news coming up next a new documentary looks at qatar assuming some scandal will take you through the next few hours before me and the rest of the team here in britain take care and see very soon. i tell you neal and i'm game you know those that 17 trillion landed on them or killed worldwide but it's not just the animals total suffering the sleep environment if you want to always look to the priest i'm the hunch was strange just as anything to listen to our podcast on the green.
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in doha jaring the holy month of ramadan the faithful flock to the mosques to break the false. it's a time of prayer and also giving in this wealthy conservative islamic country it's an obligation to pay the alms tax or the cops the 3rd of the $5.00 pillars of islam. the mall is a popular destination for many qatari families but not just for shopping it's also a place where people can go to fulfill their religious duty by stopping at a donation base run by qatar charity. what sort of projects are there. you know supporting orphans supplying drinking water distributing food to them and he areas. in the arab world or other parts of the world to all over the world to
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stand togo africa india nigeria kosovo sri lanka nepal senegal. qatar charity is the emirates largest humanitarian organization founded in 1902 it has a presence in more than 70 countries worldwide its goal is to help refugees and vulnerable people victims of wars and natural disasters. in 20 trials qatar charity set up a european subsidiary in london 2 years later the office was inaugurated in the affluent mayfair district. but how benevolent is the n.g.o.s mission really might there be another agenda altogether behind the taj charity and.
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in late 2016 an anonymous whistleblower sent us a u.s.b. flash drives that revealed a program with murky objectives. in the memory stick are thousands of confidential qatar charity documents bank transfers e-mail exchanges donor lists. the collection unveils the existence of a huge hit to unknown funding operation for an extensive network of islamic associations across europe. and out of 140 projects worth more than 216000000 euros qatar charity is the main contributor accounting for 120000000 euros. several countries are the focus of attention italy with $47.00 projects france $22.00 spain and the united kingdom 11 projects each and germany 10.
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apart from various unnamed contributors could tell charities list of generous donors features a number of extremely influential supporters including several members of the qatari ruling family and the day won the emmy as executive office all of these initiatives ny at the heart of a program that according to this presentation brochure promotes islamic culture throughout the world especially in the west. we spent 2 years investigating this campaign. and. charity has been under scrutiny for years for arab countries the united arab emirates saudi arabia egypt and bar. i accuse it of sponsoring islamist groups
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under the cover of humanitarian aid. all thing this points to the ruling tunney. the e.u. the world disc guitars and the air shake time in the bin how much tiny know about the activities of his country's largest and. during an official visit to doha by french president emanuel mccomb we took the opportunity to ask him. i know that there are some people here in qatar who are suspected of funding so i was going to say shadowy groups overseas but there are also suspicions about qatar charity which. at least some information about qatar in the media is not true. we're not we have taken a range of measures like a tard counter the financing of terrorism and yes that's true. but some of the
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information you mention may be exaggerated or falls. we continued our investigation in europe. in front so according to our dossier qatar charity has funded 22 projects tens of millions of euros invested in mosques islamic centers and schools all of them are supported by muslims of france an association called m d f formally known as the union of french islamic organizations or us i ask the flash drive contain substantial information on one initiative in particular qatar charities flagship project in europe is located in mill use in eastern fronts . computer generated images of the future and new a center show a prayer room built on 2 floors classrooms for a new school and a library. the presentation bears the qatar charity logo and
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is intended to attract donors. abreu should describes other services offered by the future community center designed in compliance with religious norms observed in qatar a swimming pool with separate hours for men and women restaurants and supermarkets and a health clinic. while waiting for the project to be completed worshipers pray in an old rundown mosque built in the seventy's. you have a rug could put it there and pray. nasa is president of the muslim association of aus last a local branch of muslims a from so it's an old garage there's a prayer room inside and another one on the ground floor but since there are so many people there is not enough room and they pray next door so we organize to
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prayer services not friday there is one at 1 o'clock and we allow for late comers that way we don't pray outside or next door so we don't bother anyone we have a 2nd prayer at 2 o'clock to avoid praying in the street exactly. is. true all. you can eat with you is really. the only thing because you know we can't go on worshipping in this place it isn't worthy of our religious faith or a community in the sense the state is secular it can give funds to any religious faith money is welcome wherever it comes from we accept all forms of assistance it can come from people who support the muslim brotherhood or support wahhabi ism or i don't know what as long as we're not subject to any pressure otherwise we refuse
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and we have sometimes refusal is the. construction of the new mosque begun in 2006 and is almost finished the our newest center is designed to address the community's new needs. this is the main entrance that's where the reception desk will be able to be who come to pray can go directly to the prayer rooms. here. like us did this article the room has a maximum capacity of $1500.00 and a total area of about a 1000 square metres the facade is glass so passers by. i can see inside we have nothing to hide so our organization believes in transparency. transparency even when it comes to funding the association received him in this appeal brown tender nations from the community but the project is costing more than
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$25000000.00 euros so it also sought financial support from wealthy it donors. used to go look at the knowledge is that more than half of the center's budget was funded by contributions from to go from countries q 8 and tom let's just go part is also the qatar made donations of almost 7000000 euros but we're not talking about qatar rather an organization we don't work with the state neither the qatari nor the koichi government the donors are private individuals they have to go through an official organization qatar charity. you have the same vision of islam i assume. this is a vacuum i don't know what their vision of islam is i know my vision of islam we are a member of the former you know their vision is our vision it's an islam of the middle ground as if we're going to target kuwait saudi arabia each country has its vision
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but they don't impose that vision on france but now you are a muslim brother. to them is almost always our muslim brothers in a way because you're my brother in humanity he's my brother in islam. what. do you could tell and he waits reidy donate money with no strings attached. in paris an agent from the french intelligence service has strong doubts he was willing to meet us but requested not to be filmed. we reconstructed the interview. so. the mosque was funded through different channels in early 201-798-4000 was paid on february 2nd 1000000 123001 february 2nd 1000000 139001 the 23rd and 20172017 but where did the donations come from from
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qatar charity easily $5000000.00 said to be $5000000.00 euros plus the $5000000.00 from 2016. he says that's just that's right. according to our source the annual a mosque in militias has ties to the muslim brotherhood movement the muslim brotherhood was founded in egypt in 1028 by his son al bana a teacher and see a login who sought to accomplish 2 objectives liberate the country from british diminish and and establish a see a classic regime based on sharia or islamic law. maintained that islam was the solution to the moral and identity crisis in joost by colonial rule he focused on use education so that future militants would be well prepared and he developed a network devoted to ideological and religious training the organization in gauged
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in charitable and social activities bats in 1948 king for oops prime minister was killed by a member of the brotherhood the government became alarmed by the police growing influence and decided to ban it. a year later. was assassinated. the muslim brotherhood continued to operate on the ground is adopted violent methods and set up a secret paramilitary wing in 1952 it supported the military coup d'etat that brought them out of gun nasa to power a few months later. to journalling ideologies now confronted one another nasa's socialist inspired pan arab isn't and the muslim brotherhoods pan islam ism centered on divine your. what will london and i mean. what element of fall of the. old head
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a leap year given the female to get the most. delicious sheriff and. yes then he'd been to lead the pub. left the house. and then put the infamous ended up in the lab that lay up in that spot. i remember that episode of you want the ballad. nasa decided to clamp down on his burdensome allies and the organization was dissolved the 2nd time in 1954 the brotherhood became the target of a serious crackdown in the sixty's some members of the group sought refuge in europe. expert in political islam house in the gay has studied the careers of alabama's ideological as in europe they founded such islamic organizations as you i
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asked in france you see italy and in germany. i would be more inclined to call them neo muslim brotherhood a neo muslim brother is someone who clearly identifies with the egyptian muslim brotherhood and ideological terms but it wasn't connected to the brotherhood materially or organically the muslim brotherhood is more an ideology a vague entity there's no cards there's no special status particularly. are ruled european projects currently funded by qatar charity links to these neo muslims. for the past 15 years and italian academic has been conducting research on muslim brotherhood networks in the west he meets with them members collects their stories and analyzes that time in 2015 there ends of a dino was hired by george washington university in washington d.c. to hide its program on extremism. we also came to take
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a look at the documents stored on the flash drive. business paper business plan to seeing the end of the photos. back in london. just. getting. money for. transfer money sent in will get noticed. it confirms what i think there's a concerted effort to buy. in to fund the brotherhood networks in europe and to fund it substantially we're talking about very big amounts here. it adds a level of detail it's a confirmation see evidence of that i think what surprises me is how
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sophisticated this is how consistent it is it's basically almost exclusively brotherhood entities what is important though and makes it more important is the fact that it comes to particular time where other funders have pulled out other countries debate used to fund the brotherhood networks if we're talking about the seventy's the eighty's it used to be saudi arabia because i didn't create this network has been bear for a long long time so that if we show him a document signed by catullus most prominent cleric used to kind of diary recommending support for a mosque project in milan the effect of a get a letter of support from the recognized your ritual leader of the muslim brotherhood the pope if you will of the muslim brotherhood the use of all of that week it's a huge piece of evidence that shows that the brotherhood is backing this project. egyptian born. is the leading proponent of albinos ideology.
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born in 1926 like many militants he was imprisoned by nothing in the fifty's. in 1961 he fled to khatam. and servant of muslims listen to him not necessarily muslim brothers mind you he's an advocate of total islam what is total islam it's the idea that islam should govern both private and public life individual affairs and government affairs and the little. town appointed kyra dari dean of the university there where he founded the faculty of islamic studies he became a close friend of the ruling family often appearing in public with the out-i mees. also gave him a building to serve as the headquarters for the international union for muslim scholars over which he presided. in addition to these religious
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platforms the government offered him a global media puppet in 1906 a talk show on al-jazeera called sharia under life for over 15 years our kyra die dispensed weekly advice to an audience of 60000000 viewers issuing fatwahs sometimes shocked the west. out of more than $6000.00 verses of the koran there is one verse that deals with a condescending and disobedient wife it is said that one of the methods of treatment is and b. that. should a homosexual or a lesbian be punished. so some say they should be thrown from a high place as god did with the people of sodom some say we should burn them 1st and the last a lot are a day throughout history allah has imposed people upon the jews who would punish
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them for their corruption the last punishment was carried out by hitler. factoring all the things he did to them even though they exaggerated this issue he managed to put them in their place for the media this. some friends have quoted that says islam will conquer wrong. stuff. it's all yeah does this mean that we will bank wish the europeans once again. i believe the next conquest will be conducted through door walk but of course the muslims must start acting and order to conquer this world. although this passage from the prophet isn't specifically referred to in the flesh dr documents it's silly is clearly the n.g.'s main target the country is home to
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the largest number of projects 47 in all funded to the tune of 25000000 euros by qatar charity. most of them bad the stamp of the union of islamic communities and organizations of its silly or you see. which is ideologically close to the muslim brotherhoods. an analysis of the does ca points to one area in particular sicily. one of the documents is a bridge devoted entirely to the region with 11 projects that are funded by katon charity. on page 3 the organization highlights the fact that the island was once under a muslim rule as if to justify its support. is naam came to the island in $8827.00 and lasted for about 472 years
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a period during which the region enjoyed stability and progress. the ngo cites the same historical reference some pages 12 and 13 to rationalize its decision to acquire a building in messina. it was built in 1910 the owners the rest arab descent its architectural design is inspired by its original islamic features. this is the building in question. tied to abdullah feed who was born in algeria is president of the islamic community of sicily and in am a kid tania. he negotiated its purchase. lawyer. we received all this aid from doha. and the islamic community of sicily was the 1st association to be recognized by qatar charities. the army she would eat
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but it's the 1st to have received funds and they're all legal. they still are you a muslim brother. no i'm not a muslim brother because i'm a muslim. only just this we're all brothers. we hear that all the time. we're all brothers. civil to one activist in northern france has decided to oppose the brotherhood's double speak an engineer born in morocco in 1980 mohammed to easy joined the muslim brotherhood when he was a teenager at the end of the ninety's he went to lille to attend college and joined the u.s.o. i-f. its leaders took him under their wing and assigned him the local g.t. . for 15 years from 1901 to 2006 i was a member of the brotherhood and in october 2006 i decided to leave the organization after realizing that the brothers teaching were meant to turn us young people in
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the ninety's into ideological instrument. so i decided to speak out to start a blog write articles and to dig deeper so people could understand it so other young people didn't get ensnared by this ideology if you wish. he carries out most of his research on the internet on social media that's how he discovered the desk mosque which he attended for many years and which is run by us yes received a visit of a could tolerate allegation in 26 staying. in this photo in the background there's the villain of the ask mosque here you see the rector of the mosque mohammad current. next to him is our last far the current president of muslims of france the former us. and that man is shy come out of ben nasser of the chairman of the board of directors of qatar charity in doha oh sure it's
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a big boss. shake hands i've been. more than the highest ranking person in the organization a former minister of the interior he is a leading member of the ruling family and a cousin of the media to mean that we see is more interested in someone else should you know that one shack ahmed mohamed ali. let's say he's the one who distributes the funds for qatar charity in europe according to my sources he holds a qatari diplomatic passport he travels pretty much everywhere in europe and he's the one who meets with members of the muslim brotherhood in each city. a collection of documents includes proof that katon charity wired funds to the villeneuve desk center a bank receipt for more than 250000 reales or approximately 60000 euros.
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appears in a number of photos like this one taken at the new us site in most news sometimes in western clothes sometimes in traditional dress. there's even a picture of him preaching at the old mill use garish mosque. he also attended the inauguration of the tanya mosque in sicily louise eels they found him in a series of $28.00 programs filmed in europe in 2015 for a qatari channel propaganda broadcasts promoting political islam. in the 21. he was filmed in spain italy france germany england. here we see mohammad ahmed how mahdi visiting. you are you if one of the you i have
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leaders more is overseeing a project to build a mosque there that commemorates the battle of 732. the time of shah. told that he shall not what on the 30 confirmed this is an important date in french history since it was the only victory by christians over muslims at the time one by a shot of the king of the franks if one of them it's noted that the conquest was won by the sword because we're not sure that today we want our center in 48 to be a new stage of those not conquest but in a different way we hope to make this place a center of dialogue with the. people protest when muslims in a working class neighborhood want to build a place of worship they don't have this idea in their heads of conquering through mosques but in the mind of the muslim brotherhood the construction of a mosque means making the muslim presence not to say the islamist presence more
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visible in france and europe. i think in show the whole i was with an arab broadcasters so the discussion was in arabic and the audience was exclusively arab . and muslim history muslims believe that the army of the time war martyrs so party is called the city of martyrs lane. it must be put in an historical context. the grand mosque doesn't have a name. it's called the grand mosque up watty a period i do know it was good 24. 100 more claims he didn't receive any foreign funding however the memory stick contains receipts of 2 bank transfers in 2012 to the muslim association of plus for the martyrs lane mosque one for $1000000.00 riaz the other 575000 trails equivalent to
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a total of nearly 400000 euros of watching to over you. i see that it was sent to port here 1000000. if and there. this is it looks to me like it was transferred to our account probably. do what year was that 2012 right so probably it took place honestly i don't remember at all but you to hear it says muslim association in arabic it can't be this account number of bank book is a u.i. after 28 account for the construction of the party a mosque. we also noticed that qatar charity provided funds to associations that were 99 percent linked to the muslim brotherhood without necessarily being affiliated with. yes but it's quite legitimate for you to help association. legal whose understanding in reading of his lawn you approve of the. i think that's
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perfectly normal to feel worse because this is what we all know is that qatar embarked on a huge very well funded image campaign. it invested in the paris sasha mom football club and wanted to help entrepreneurs and poor suburbs and they did. it wanted to rebuild its image to distance itself from saudi arabia to say we represent another approach another way of looking at islam. he did this to promote a modern islam they can text to allies as long. as you. put statements confirm that qatar has a strategy of supporting the muslim brotherhood network. and those who are close to it. the sudden surge in spending caught the attention of intelligence
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services. in germany at the state office for the protection of the constitution in north rhine-westphalia in. direct to book written he shared his thoughts with us. we have observed that salafism is out to divide society but also the muslim brothers ostensibly they uphold democracy but we've observed that within the organization there's a push for an islamic state based on the koran and sharia law a fun cool sharia. law in germany we've noticed for some time now that the muslim brotherhood has become more active and. we assume that the muslim brotherhood is funded both by private donations and by arab countries some also and also an audition shot in finance you're interested is indeed we raise awareness of the dangers posed by the muslim brotherhood among the public and also politicians and specifically of the ways it undermines democracy at its roots as root the
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democratic. mind and feel is to i recommend banning donations from abroad because that allows foreign governments to influence religious elements that are active here and and the movement afoot. charity exert influence over the and. if so how. the museum of the civilizations of islam in the swiss city of foam in the can tone of new show was financed by qatar charity it opened its doors in 2016 its director is not come. for this museum came about 17 years ago driven by a desire to create something enjoyable and at the same time a place where people can go to seek answers. at the time of its inauguration coming made a list of donors public they were primarily from the gulf she didn't hide the fact
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that some of the funds were funneled through qatar charity. these people can't send money directly but can give it to a local organization that qatar charity once transferred a small sum we didn't have any choice it was either that or we didn't get our money we don't know that ship. and her husband mohammed come moved here on the right operator doesn't associations cultural centers and religious centers in french speaking switzerland and in the canton of to chino they are influential islamic figures in their country the flash drive documents show that nadia come outta downplays her ties to qatar charity in 2014 she signed a contract with its direct. to renovate the building that houses the museum in
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total 14 bank receipts not only for payments to the cultural institute that hosts the museum but also to another cultural center in and to an association in lugano into chino. these 2 establishment run by her husband between 20112013 qatar charity wired nearly 3000000 swiss francs or more than 2 and a half 1000000 euro. for initiatives headed by the husband and wife team going this is book you are you familiar with this document it's an application an application for fun signed by. by me. and i don't deny it. like me it's a large amount. well yes it's an interesting country. that i still know but you told me it was a small. yes yes it's for the new project besides they didn't agree to finance it they want us to start and then they'll decide here's
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a bunch of wire transfers that's your institute week and they are very large something they give you quite a lot of money. as i told you they're not the ones who financed us it was individuals for these people wrote checks made donations and it was up to qatar charity to transfer them to us and they did that sometimes with difficulty i'm i doubt it was the london office that decided it they said yes 1st we need a contract we didn't want to sign because there were conditions shinhwa lose they signed a contract with them and they have to fulfill all the conditions yeah and how the conditions are displaying the qatar flag cetera inviting 3 or 4 of their people to every meeting and so on and they also need to approve certain expansion projects for example and said as i want to small in other words they want to control the
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entities they find it is not that they impose but they influence. a little yes they try to exert influence thanks to the kamu says qatar charities influence is spread beyond the borders of switzerland into from. this is what journalist on 20 own discovered in a memo written by the french domestic intelligence agency. said to note. the memo describes how french customs carried out an inspection on a high speed train from zurich to paris on april 30th 2007 that mr mohammad camos was questioned and that he was found to be carrying 50000 euros in cash. should go mr kamu said the 50000 euros were given to him in geneva by a man named ahmed are needy. and his benefactor acts as a liaison for the prestigious egyptian shake use of. the sum was intended for the
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european institute of human sciences. which trains in mom's. mr camos also said he considered the money transfer to be a normal almost routine procedure is the cost of the show lastly the memo indicates that he belongs to the muslim brotherhood. and that he is even believed to be a member of the and not dominant in tunisia mobile and you know in the dark a sentence at the bottom of the memo states that his spouse not fully supports her husband's objectives. and. the european institute of human sciences is based in chateau she know in burgundy frumps inaugurated in 1902 and founded by the us i have the center trains future in moms by offering them residential programs in arabic qur'an and theology studies.
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it's a unique facility and from. zoo hi i'm a mood around the institute for 30 years until 2018 i do think challenge of receiving payments from kids hot charity. the number of financial entanglements between katon charity and its benefactors increased between 201420178 period when neighbors were ramping up pressure on the country. tar is at the epicenter of a diplomatic earthquake saudi arabia egypt the united arab emirates and bahrain have sever diplomatic ties with the small country they accuse it of supporting terrorism getting tomorrow airline companies in the region will suspend the flights to and from qatar the objective is to financially strangle the emirate the political and economic blockade of qatar began on june the 5th 2017
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a move justified by catullus alleged support of missed groups but the state was also paying for its unchecked growth strategy is to proceed in order to achieve independence from saudi arabia. katon charity closed down its mayfair office in london in 2018 and its local officials left the country. but in fact qatar charity u.k. didn't really disappear it changed its name to necktie trust a few months ago and it no longer has a london office as if to raise old time with the parent company. the boy. the pressure on doha since 2017 has been intense saudi arabia the united arab emirates bahrain and egypt all cited catullus support
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of the muslim brotherhood as one of the reasons for the blockade. the. the low we decided to visit the organizations headquarters also equipped with a hidden camera since our requests to the qatari authorities had fallen on deaf ears . are you are. on his assistant. your french journalist do you want to film here. do you have a permit do you have the document can i take this is he busy he's in a meeting i can't disturb them invest in a lot of most can europe and look for look at that because you will go. and it's got too much. pressure. and like good so the. stuff should be got out of the a lot in the old world and all the big push it. over to motion of
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theirs. but you keep. muscle was the big. program after this meeting charity stopped responding to our requests in response to international pressure the emirates has now toned down its efforts to expand its influence including in the area of religion i checked a few informations and it seems that qatar finance muslim brotherhood branches in europe it's not what i say my answer is no. guitar does not support the muslim brotherhood in europe you are talking under the assumption that the muslim brotherhood is one entity what is the muslim brotherhood in tunisia you have a number you have i mean you officially the different european countries have official ties with tunisia they have problems dealing with another part i don't think so going back to your question any involvement of guitar in europe and terms
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of any contributions this is totally illegal and i'm pretty sure it's under the side of the respective governments so it exist i'm not sure i mean it depends case by case secret arctic be i mean through some of the legal entities could be contributing to some cultural censors and so on and so forth but then the way you phrase it sounds very suspicious while it's very legal and in the light. of what this means is that the west should face up to its own responsibilities to be sure qatar charities funding channels for complex and a paid bops if qatar like other arab states before it became involved in funding is now more on european soil it was merely filling a void. if european countries hope to counter this strategy of religious influence they must provide their citizens of muslim faith with the means
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