without but i'm vital, it's, you know, of the situation 11 and it's not that are stable, but we're here to give hope to the people and to tell them that we're staying in lebanon. we're not leaving to says johnny's 1st event of the u. s. sante, his aim is to help me to its children, to forget the troubles, and have fun during the festive season. oh, quite low johnny, that's all the news for now. coming up next i documentary africa. james was in western interest that's coming up after a short break. if you need more news before our next bulletin, even got a d w dot com from afni. how'd say soon? we've got to understand that globalization work, but he does not reach more than 30 percent of the world population in the mediterranean as become a kind of great sarcophagus. if anything he was proud of,

it was to be a steal worker who had the winners and losers. where do we stand? starts january 5th on d, w. ah, ah i willis, they were driving to a genetically modified g m. o corn plantation financed by warren buffett son multi billionaire bill gates and monsanto. the largest producer of pesticides and g m. o . c. overly called a busy days of gym. september

2018. i didn't know it then, but this morning and uganda would shape the next 3 years of my journalistic career . i think i've seen clubs of it of i think it's plays with social here it is. i said it's marked field testing site for genetically engineered plants. and next to have the restricted entry of caught up. wow. ah

oh, you're good morning. i'm interested in american investment and we were gonna. so i just wondered if we could snap a bunch of pictures of the best shoes here. is the best thing to do with that sheet. i don't know actually back. you know, i say that the phone services. okay. thank you. with we'd made several requests for an official meeting. now things were getting uncomfortable. the i'm a good today called security guard. they're following us on the pedal show, the yo yo, they're about to throw us out there looking for

a few ships with we. another one comes in with the intention is jesse with lucy lives in the same death threats. just because we wanted to film a field of genetically modified corn. why such hostility on social media, the tone is quite different. take this official video of howard buffet talking about funding this g m o cornfield in uganda. the morning when i remember when i sat down last here,

and i was trying to explain how this project is, can work it. the only way you can say is we're going to bring rain and they look at you like why you going to do that? i see it, but buffets miracles can only happen if farmers adopt new technologies and abandoned traditional farming. a rich white benefactor telling africans what to do, reminiscent of the colonial era. so the next few years, we hope that you can learn how to improve some of your planting. ah, why are we not allowed to film here? because in the world of genetically modified organisms or g m o's control is paramount every word and every image is carefully cultivated. for this social networks offer an ideal platform. imagine what it's like the live in extreme

poverty. you have to think about the basics, like your next meal, all the time on instagram. this kind of corn is portrayed as a blessing for africa because it fights hunger. it's not called genetically modified, but rather resistant or drought tolerant. in less than 10 years, social media has become a vital tool online. even billionaires present themselves as human, authentic and transparent, transparent. really, we took a hard look at the world of these rich philanthropists who dream of genetically modified africa. what we found in places their dream is already a reality. if you have enough money, you get to determine what the right path is for a set of countries as diverse as there are in africa. our foundation is proud to be

a part of that. i with our $700000000.00 commitment in the oven debreto, they pushed philanthropic and humanitarian goals. i mean, it's him reality. he's you all, they're promoting something else and time. well, the, i have seen us london unit a ship there funding high risk research is a leap into the unknown little incl new. this is actually hungry, cultural geo politics. in our research, we came across the wide spread idea that if you have a large personal fortune, you can save the world a phenomenon that people were calling philanthropy capitalism. and it was an idea that you can essentially marry some of the ideas of corporate growth and corporate profit making with the goal of the philanthropy. and this is problematic in reality, saving the world in the age of philanthropy. capitalism is

a profitable business to understand how these cheerleaders of g m, o technologies work, we turned to one of their favorite media platforms. instagram. we create an account and follow their pages in on instagram. there are g, m, o advocates. and there are opponents. some are violent we also find african instagram or darlin kasim. with her 24000 followers, she's using the platform to further her cause. i'm dialing castillo, you go, i started an environmental organization. the young activist from the ivory coast is an eco feminist. fighting for environmental protection and women's rights. yet actually, last i saw this nature and women are massively exploited by our society. at the

same time, they're deeply undervalued. ah, we asked the act of is to help us with our research, both on the ground and on instagram, to find out what's happening on her continent. i said more clearly 3 percent of african field, sacha know areas just under $4000000.00 heck to her. i've had to 60 to 70000000 hectares in not in america as a result. this huge potential that and you frontier on google flew it all began in 1997 when south africa became the 1st african country to pass legislation allowing g m o. 2 decades later,

the countries soy mays and cotton crops are almost 100 percent genetically modified . since then, the market has been expanding just like a technological advance, such as running water or internet access. g m o's, or conquering the continent, tanzania, kenya, uganda, sudan, egypt, nigeria, burkina, faso and the ivory coast. ah, abidjan, the economic capital of ivory coast here genetic engineering is on the rise, though few people know about it. mm. ah, the activist devlin kasim, as our guide

in marcus like these, there's no point in asking the sellers with their products to genetically modified these g m. i mean anything to you via email? no, i don't think they don't want it o g m a g m a n g m o. i don't know. i see people he don't know about g m. i was like genetically modified fruits and vegetables. activists, on the other hand, are all too aware of the threat posed to traditional african agriculture. i think you do such an ugly, good, sure. is it all. you gotta keep, but his equity, concrete culture is not very complex. the phone was mainly work with simple tools and you know, the most important. it's an agriculture the feeds people fair. she main agriculture . yeah. he's actually interviewed them. that of course is now under

threat. ah, he left with a party to party can from west africa. i still know very developed as an economic heresy. therefore they see the chance to occupy this model could be mm mm. g m o's were banned in ivory coast until 2016, when a group of multi nationals approached the government with a deal. they promised to invest a large sum of money in agriculture, particularly rise production, the goal they said to fight hunger in return. they wanted the state to allow the research and marketing of genetically modified plants that, that the supreme thank on we can turn upon for lack of you. what we found was, were completely surprised when we heard that ivory coast was opening up to genetic

engineering. since the contents of this law was mostly kept quiet, we do not know the water was allowed to pound. the log is the multinationals, free rank synergy? now shanella i is there, thin lieberman lord of activity simply minute come, falls at work has been ruled. it has actually agricultural geo politics. mm hm. the donors presented a strong argument. thanks to them. drought and malnutrition would become a thing of the past, hulu. among the super rich who promot genetically modified agriculture, one man stands out. bill gates, the co founder of microsoft could be seen as the christopher columbus of genetic engineering, his charity, the bill and melinda gates foundation is one of the richest in the world with

around $50000000000.00 and assets. ah, bill gates has more than 7000000 followers on instagram. he posts videos and photos for his fans, often alongside rich and famous friends. for some 20 years, and especially since the pandemic, he has been seemingly on the present when it comes to things like vaccination, health, and agriculture. he's also promoting his own solutions. and he's convinced that the cure for hunger in africa is genetically modified food. when do europeans have decided they don't want that most of them, which is fine, they're not facing malnutrition and starvation. if they wanna pay a premium for food of the kind it, it's not a huge deal. the africans, i think, will choose, ah,

to let their people haven't had enough to eat. you have to decide what's important in the world. i will look at energy, climate change, and disease the route occasion. one crucial term does not appear in bill gates, official literature lu, philanthropy, capitalism. and it was an idea that you can essentially marry some of the ideas of corporate growth and corporate profit making with the goal of philanthropy. and this is problematic because it's leading people to think that tac billionaires will somehow save us when actually they won't, they art and some of their practices actually compound the very problems of environmental degradation. bill gates has taken on an urgent problem to eradicate the diseases that affect the african cassava, which he calls the most interesting vegetable in the world. but how, like always,

with a technological miracle. ah m u 6 and this is the plat clinic in the city level. i quite a bit of oratory is strictly called it when no one knows what goes on that behind closed doors with you soon you come, do you have any guidelines that would forbid any g m programs will be funded kimmy duncan, i'm surprised that he would be involved in the project object for $15000000.00. gates has had the most interesting vegetable in the world, analyzed down to its smallest molecule in a laboratory near abbey, john aye. this research center caught her eye because of the vague description of its working with

other good morning everyone. phyllis, i shall never, what are you extracting cassandra leif dna? what kind of sample is that? that is the, this is the laboratory of wave west african virus epidemiology. merge it to level out what opened in 2015 with funding on the bill and melinda gates foundation, i did find mm . the program called wave also, of course has an instagram presence bmw with pictures of the generous donor. and his scientists who are working in 10 african countries to find a cure to protect the cassava from pests drought and viruses. exhibit

i live ross. this is to plant clinic opted instead. we can produce an identical plant, but without the disease trigger from a cell was in there sample to hm. what miracle cure is bill gates researching here to save the cassava. are you preparing to introduce g m. o? cassava in west africa. miller vol. knocking about those gmc, no, there are no g m. i was here. however, i am in favor of transgenic plants. have all the conditions are met and there is a need for them to to my were not there yet, but we must be prepared. we must be prepared for everybody. i. we're the name of one of the labs here. says it all conference. awesome, awesome. now this is the genetic enhancement room i was telling you about. it will be operational in 6 months, also out. awesome. if suassa does that mean,

you'll start genetic enhancements in 6 months? good of yourself? no. well, no, it's not like that. we're just learning the techniques. there's a difference. we familiarize yourself with the latest technical procedures yelling like crisper and so on. gallagher. chris, for to be as prepared as possible. who's on campus? i am sure. the topic seems to make the professor uncomfortable. crisper is a new method of gene manipulation called genome editing. will oh, yes it is. today. there are 2 types of gene. i'm editing this new type of genetic engineering. the 1st is genetics. this is krista lab. it counts out the unwanted part of the gina. but unlike hair, this pot does not grow back. it's gone forever edition,

it's good. yeah. okay. and no one knows what last and consequences this could have for the plant that is in the 2nd technique is gene silencing. with this, there is no cutting garage about to get rid of the problematic part, whether you use something artificial to conceal at equal now, and it not only conceals gene silencing causes permanent changes in the genetic material of the plant by means of muted genesis. as an implant in classical genetic engineering, we speak of trans genesis here a gene foreign to the species is transplanted into the genome of a host organism like a plant or an animal. so that develops characteristics. but it did not originally have yep. mm mender dot by assumption, that then read the conversion, lay with it. yes, all she for, i didn't,

the new methods modify the genetic material of the plant without transplanting genes. does william this good, therefore, proponent say that they are not genetically modified organisms since no gene transfer takes place and we did not get that remembrance you. but for us, it is the same principle. the court of justice of the european union sees it the same way as per organisms created by controlled me to genesis on an equal footing with genetically modified organisms 1000000000. according to this decision of the court of justice of the european union, the you should theoretically reject the wave program. but as we discovered professor pita and his team did, in fact receive funding from the e u. a ya mall and just slim. we visited the research center professor peter showed us a room and i think he said something about he,

you found latino boldoff little small renewal of been a look at the tables and all the equipment have already been ordered. we have a co operation with the, you know, through which we financed the equipment of the laboratories level out life. oh ok. let's search their projects. so claire, way, wave funding and co financing and 5000000 from the e. u and the 5 g i 5000000 the e u is supporting a laboratory that wants to carry out research that the e u court of justice has ruled is dangerous. for weeks we've been trying to get an interview with you to or belinda and the e u commissioner, responsible for this funding in vain. now, did you have any news of her you dial plainly? maybe it's maybe her spoke to her so that we can interview her. i mean, i need to go back to

a level later what we discovered is that in ivory ghosts when we went to film, they are planning to use new technique like like crisp or like, like jane editing. like like all the stuff. and they are on the records, they actually said that they were developing those techniques of things to the european union supports. so that's why we, we were calling actually. okay. okay. oh, to be honest with you right now, i will not want to say anything just because i got a reply from our site. yeah. but do you have any guidelines that would a forbid in the gym programs to be funded? we are going to need to check this. i am not sure that the guidelines will not be every single thing. i do not really. i cannot. i've just heard this now. i'm

yes, you know, course with even in g o that scrutinize every cent of e u funding, we're not aware that the wave project is apparently also working on the genetic modification of the cassava. can be done sir. samples. erica, i am surprised that the e would be involved in the project and i probably know that it does not want to support the development of g. m. as in africa since 2014. we've happen law for development and international solidarity in which friends commit to not financing the research production and marketing of g m. i was in africa. so this is very irritating, prevalent. but finally, the commission reply by email that there was no laboratory in ivory coast working on transgenic plants or animals. and that the equipment purchased with e. u funds was unsuitable for modern genetic engineering techniques. so while

europe is hiding behind its modest contribution of $5000000.00 euros, it is studiously overlooking the $15000000.00 that bill gates has provided for the research program. enough to advance genetic engineering and africa. the gates foundations decisions are simply imposed on africans. and there is insufficient power to challenge the key to the gate system is its financial structure. how is the $50000000000.00 and endowment capital deployed? that money is then invested in, in the stock market, in essence, and many different companies. and it's done so through essentially what the gates, what the gates as see is something like a blind trust the money the gates foundation spends in africa, for example, comes from dividends. it receives, as a shareholder and numerous companies. yes,

and that's how most foundation endowments work. there dividends that come back into the it's not just dividend, how their portfolio is invested. you immediately, your capital is lend to those companies in essence, in order to own shares. so these endowments own portions of different company in the gates foundations list of fixed asset investments. and thus, profits one finds major corporations such as amazon, apple, coca cola, or b a, s f, the german chemical giant, and a leader and the sale of genetically modified seeds. the gates foundation holds b a as f shares worth over $7000000.00. a portion of amazon's profits also flows into the coffers of the gates foundation. the same applies to coca cola profits some of the money, the b s. f earns from the sale of genetic seeds also ends up at the foundation.

please join me in welcoming bill gates to the stage in whom a government today is having a very hard time saying no to bill gates has plans in just to have a better liability be stronger. i maybe have a quicker development time, not all falsely the sunny increases all doubts and in africa. the former microsoft boss has found another area in which he can promote genetic engineering. because bill gates doesn't like viruses or mosquitoes in a disease that kills a child. every other minute of every day, and that's why he has set his sights on eradicating malaria. as always,

with the help of enormous sums of money and scientific research in the fight against the disease. gates and his foundation, enjoy the power of a state. as we see here in the own, in october 2019 with heads of state from all over the world have come to announce their financial pledges in the fight against malaria. and the star of this fundraiser has a front row seat. mm. and i said, all joke and english, where does an $800.00 pound gorilla sip? and the answer is anywhere launched and, and bill as they entered, come carrillo who the g 20, it's going to invite into its meetings and give it a seat at the table. like he's a country. ah, you know, it's the really dangerous side of philanthropy. capitalism, right? that if you have enough money, you get to determine what the right path is for. ah,

a concept of countries as diverse as there are in africa. juvenile missed it. i really want to thank bill gates and his foundational because he is also at this meeting, mal ito, who's been here historically them on these here with us now. ah, when ah, my daughters will be invited to announce their commitment to the global fund for the next 3 years. the utopian union will contribute. 550000000 euros. look, $1400000000.00 pound pledge, $840000000.93 canadian dollar. i'm with your total out. i mean, you can see me on the do not america $6000000.00 you as the last $1500000.00

us dollars. $12000000.00 us dollars. emily on the do not 100 again. and we don't to do that. and neither can we are only a few steps away from bill gates and we have a 1000 questions. but in bill gates world, everything is planned out and we are not on his agenda. please join me in welcoming bill gates to the stage. who other than bill gates could overturn the use commitment? our foundation is a proud to be a part of that i with our $700000000.00 commitment, who else could get a standing ovation from african leaders?

now we were working on a new generation of nance. ah, and we have now to day the interceptor g to right here and these are new. ah. but even in the next year i'll be going out by the 1000000. the mosquito nets gates is so proud of are produced by b s f. one of the companies in which his foundation has a stake. our foundation is i've been working with b. s up in med accessing the gates foundation has the funds to send mosquito nets to fight malaria. and even the most remote villages in africa like this one in ivory coast locally, is here. the tv used the treated mosquito nets as prescribed to protect against mosquito bites and malaria move. ah, if that is you could have had the obstacles you lead to the trauma. i know about malaria, really. i myself have an attack every 3 months. i hear in this isolated village all

measures against the disease, a paid for with donations from the founder of microsoft made. it must also be said that bill gates has quietly funding some very strange projects to 5 mosquitoes. the gates foundation is putting a whopping $155000000.00 into one of these strange projects. the goal to modify mosquitoes so that they don't transmit malaria with the help of genetic engineering. of course, the project name, target malaria. oh, don't give yells bluebell to show that they can only cut as a non profit global research. netflix target malaria aims to help save millions of lives. we're breaking ground in the fight against this disease. i'll research, as i said, jean and the exit mosquitoes, making them stare on it on bill gates instagram account. you can't find this video. but the experiment has already taken place in

a field trial in west africa. lou marchina faso a country plagued by jihadist terrorist groups. nonetheless, we drive to bobo july, so the 2nd largest city in the country. here on july 1st 2019 the government granted target malaria permission to release the genetically altered mosquitoes. a 1st it seems on the african continent, unfortunately, without picture or sound target. malaria did not film the operation. government decree or not. we're going to talk to the mayor rule, but yeah. awesome. so overall it to ship out a, a from a lady, little brochure to look in level on we were approached by target malaria. as we

understand it was the female mosquitoes ought to be made in fertile because only they transmit malaria with the diesel, sidelong count on you. of course, i'm not a scientist to kind of know whether these genetically modified mosquitoes can cause all the problems m. s good, and so we'll see cloud phosphorylation is the monday one for clear build problem. did you know that there was a similar project in brazil? knows, you know, i don't know anything about the mayor doesn't know about the brazilian field trial, but we do in september 2019 the prestigious science journal nature published a report by independent researcher jeffrey powell. that doesn't, he was worried by his findings and he doesn't have a project going on brazil in brazil with people in rio de janeiro. and i heard about this program going on in jack abena where they're doing is releases of oxy

tech. so i think ok, if they're not doing it, maybe we should check to see if it's happening, haven't you, that you and your team, you physically capture genetically modified most of those to see what happened with them. right? right. we wanted to check, do any of the genes that were in the release strain now incorporated into the natural population or the target population, a gene modification experiment failed twice. first, the mosquitoes could not be eradicated. second, the genetically modified mosquitoes reproduced with the endemic population. and passed on their modified genes. jeffrey powell fears that all mosquitoes in the area may now be more robust. so my question is that they could have been more robust, your west. instead, just to have it better by ability, be stronger,

maybe have a quicker development time. these are all savings but, but you can find when you make hybrid, sometimes they can develop faster, they become larger, they live longer. they're more fertile. that's what i'm thinking. although there's no financial link to the brazilian experiment target. malaria is based on the same scientific principle. well, the mosquitoes and burkina faso mutate as well. officials there had not considered this possibility until we showed the district mayor jeffrey powell study rapid and i'll call the people that talk it. mm. when to submit a yes. oh, good afternoon. oh, no. cecilia on the line target. malaria has had of p r. that's going to inform us that true. i've heard about brazil, there were releases in brazil. but how that turned out?

i can't tell you. we should meet buffy. well ok, but i did get. he says he doesn't know how it turns out. exactly. i find that worry because it is the same project, he said, and he as an expert, has no idea or increases all doubts even more. i mean, if i am from wilbur, well, some said monitoring this would have been the least we could have done. he said solomon no, but i don't want people to be used as guinea pig. sure. i will not accept this. you just bought a vehicle up with us under bon us. why they go by? if it is indeed the same project of it as i find that scandalous, c effective must remember with our camera rolls as those in charge of the program. enter the mayor's office. we will miss you. little to hello, i'm a journalist. i worked for our table, you were here to talk about target malaria. i would,

i this is not something i'm not authorized to talk to the press this a few months later target malaria informs us that the transfer of the genetically modified genetic material to wild mosquitoes is possible, but does not pose any risks. activists criticize a culture of secrecy methods, much like those of the gates foundation, which is funding the project. is this adrian with dishes of keys, it will do other global universal. we're here at the joseph keys. they're full university in a while. good to go. and this is the institute of population science which renewed it thanks. are given to the bill and melinda gates foundation, philip, which supported the development of the institute population science don't. there it is. victor. this foundation is pouring billions into all sorts of things in burkina faso. i believe that my country has been distressed by all this money, jewelry,

the berkener, but government is finding it very difficult to say no to bill gates has plans will be to give you a corporate perspective from a political economy perspective. the gate foundation is once again trying to help western producers and people find that problematic when you claim that your goal is improving global equity. this is why a lot of people have concerns with g m. o r in regents like africa. well, bill gates, who likes to ignore uncomfortable questions, answered the questions of an african activist, lou. dear mr. kate, my name is darlene cason. i am the own carrying late. i to miss hong i hurry course. i think your foundation should nuts and try our continents as chris in

sicily. johan, wow. ah, hello delynn. thank you for your inquiry. the bill and melinda gates foundation invests and innovative tools that have the potential to improve the lives of those and greatest needs. and we work to support safe, ethical, and transparent research that includes gene editing and other potentially transformative techniques. thanks again. media relations team, bill and melinda gates foundation. and these transformative techniques are protected by the financial power of the gates foundation. even the united nations seems powerless.

blue bill gates more powerful than the un. that's what hundreds of internal emails from the foundation and the target malaria program leaked by an american whistleblower suggest. there we discovered that the gates foundation paid $1600000.00 to a lobbying agency. their goal to convince a group of un scientists to endorse gene drive or the genetic engineering of mosquitoes. apparently, the lobbying agency was successful. and this email, the leaders of the program, right that the u. n. did not advocate a ban on these procedures. flat a, do you and meeting ended on the 17th of december and the decision takes on jane drive does not include a moratorium or ban. this is a positive result for us is form no one, not even the supervisory authorities of the un can put the brakes to the american

mo he billionaire's desire to experiment. ah, no one has the power to say what if you're wrong, mister gates? what if the mosquitoes mutate? what if the genetically modified cassava no longer tolerates wind or sun? what will become of the african continent? these are important questions. we put them to the u. n. why are you in charge of talking to me? yeah, yeah, good. what i actually learned is that the beat a minute to get from dish and actually funded these are lobbying firm to recruit some bundle members. i was just wondering if this decision was influenced or not by the scale of a recruitment of, of scientists. i mean,

i mean that despite all the research, i can't comment on that or can i go from long deal salvage? okay. malay, i young. can't comment on that group relation can help my company? yes. of course, months after our interview request, bill gates continues to post on instagram. however, he has yet to answer any of our questions. with what makes your initial take in good shape finds out not genes on controls on metabolism. if your everyday life is not in sync with you in

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