lensky has urged his people to persevere in the face of russian attacks in his christmas address, lance, he said it quote, we will endure this winter because we know what we're fighting for. his remarks came after russia launched new deadly attacks on the city of her son. that you have to have his our stay tuned or dock home coming up next, presenting a closer look at the battle over introducing genetically modified crops in africa is more on our website to at and t w jump. i'm player richardson in berlin for me in the team. thank you so much for watching with 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 potomac, kind of great sarcophagus. if anything he was proud of, it was to be a steel worker who had the winners and losers. where do we stand?

starts january 5th on d, w. ah, ah, i 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 with 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. i think it's plays with so short a here it is. oh, so it's marked field testing site for genetically engineered plants. and next to have the restricted entry of caught up. wow. ah. with it oh you're good morning. i'm interested in american investment,

we're gonna so i just wondered if we could snap a monitor pictures of the best shoes here. is the best thing to do with that sheet. j. done archie noticing with finances. okay. with we'd made several requests for an official meeting. now things were getting uncomfortable with the i'm a good story called security guard. they're following up on the pedal show, the video there about to throw us out. so looking for us. yes.

mm hm. ah, we another one comes in out. video vision is nessie with lucy lives in las in 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 buffett talking about funding this g m. o cornfield in uganda. the morning. when are you? i remember when i sat down last here and i was trying to explain how this project

is gonna work. it, the only way you can say is we're going to bring rain and they look at you like, why are 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 a 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 set of countries as diverse as there are in africa. our foundation is a proud to be

a part of that. i with our $700000000.00 commitment formula. honda vito, the push philanthropic and humanitarian goals. i'm, you know, it's in reality all they're promoting somebody else in time. well, the i a finance mud, those unit a ship there funding high risk research is a leap into the unknown little incl new. this is actually agriculture 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 in 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 all these cheerleaders of g m,

o technology's work. we turned to one of their favorite media platforms, instagram, and we create an account and follow their pages. i. on instagram, there are g m, all advocates. and there are opponents. some are violent we also find african instagram or darlin cassim with her 24000 followers. she's using the platform to further her cause. i'm dialing casmer a year ago i started an environmental organization. the young activists from the ivory coast is an eco feminist. fighting for environmental protection and women's rights, yet actually the found, so those nature and women, a massively exploited by our society. at the same time,

they're deeply undervalued. we asked the activists to help us with our research both on the ground and on instagram to find out what's happening on her continent. noon. she said more clearly, 3 percent of african field, sacha? no areas just under $4000000.00 heck to her. i've had to 60 to 70000000 hectares in latin america as a result, this huge potential that and you frontier on google foot. mm. 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 maze, and cotton ups 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 are conquering the continent, tanzania, kenya, uganda, sudan, egypt, nigeria, burkina, faso and the ivory coast. mm. abidjan, the economic capital of ivory coast. here genetic engineering is on the rise, though few people know about it. mm hm. the activist devlin casem as our guide with it. 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, ma'am? no, i don't think so. then what is o g? emma? g m a n g m o. i don't know. i see people he don't know about gm. i'm like genetically modified fruits and vegetables. activists, on the other hand, are all too aware of the threat posed to traditional african agriculture. in the past, due to such an ugly future or is it all you gotta keep i disagree or agree culture is not very complex. the phone was mainly work with simple foods and you know, the most important question agriculture the feeds. people prefer to main agriculture. yeah. these as you know, whenever you know that, of course is now under threat.

ah, he left me the list that he did that he can from west africa still no 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 was to fight hunger. in return, they wanted the state to allow the research and marketing of genetically modified plants that the supreme thank god we can tugged upon. good luck, good you. what we found was, we're completely surprised when we heard that ivory coast was opening up to genetic engineering. for since the contents of this law was mostly kept quiet,

we do not know who will tools allowed. but apparently ask the longest the multinationals free rank failure. gina shanella, i as in libra, manon of activity every minute of coupons that work has been ruled, it really has actually agriculture geo politics. ah, the donors presented a strong argument thanks to them. drought and malnutrition would become a thing of the past. lou. 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 da, or is an asset?

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 in 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. if it's not a huge deal, the africans, i think we'll choose to let their people have, have enough the we have to decide what's important in the world. i

looked at energy, climate change, and disease around occasion. one crucial term does not appear in bill gates, official literature, philanthropy, capitalism. and it was an idea that you can essentially marry some of the ideas of corporate growth in corporate profit making with the goal of the philanthropy. this is problematic because it's leading people to think that tact 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. aah in

disease and this is the plat clinic in the city level. i thought he favours tree is strictly called it when no one knows what goes on that behind closed doors with you see he come, do you have any guidelines that would a forbid any g m a programs would be funded kimmy duncan, i'm surprised that he would be involved in project opportunities 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 with this research center i, because of the vague description of its work with other good morning everyone. phyllis, i shaniqua,

what are you extract in cassandra leif dna? what kind of sample is that? it is the this is the laboratory of wave west african virus epidemiology. amelia de la blackwood 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 d . c. similarly deliverance, this is to plant clinical to instill. here we produce an identical plant,

but without the disease trigger from a cell was in there. psalm pollution, 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 emo's here. however, i am in favor of transgenic plants of all the conditions are met and there is a need for them to read. why we're 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. got this is the genetic enhancement room i was telling you about. it will be operational in 6 months out of our bathroom. if just wasn't, does that mean you'll start genetic enhancements in 6 months? good. i mean, you also know of, no,

it's not like that. we're just learning the techniques is there's a difference. we familiarize ourselves with the latest technical procedures yet, like crisper and so on. go through to chris for to be as prepared as possible. students won't come up, but 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, this is today. there are 2 types of gene i'm editing this new type of genetic engineering. the 1st is genetic says is christopher. it cuts out the unwanted part of the gina. but unlike hair, this pot does not grow back. it's gone forever edition, it's good now please. and no one knows what last and

consequences this could have for the plant that is in the 2nd technique is gene silence. same with this. there is no cutting loss is about to get rid of the problematic part of you use something artificial to conceal it 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 menda, rectify sumpter? no, i didn't read that, knew it was in lay with it. yes. all she for i didn't, the new methods modify the genetic material of the plant without transplanting

genes. this was him. this group, therefore proponent say that they are not genetically modified organisms since no gene transfer takes place and we did not get that remembrance he, but for us it is the same principle. the court of justice of the european union sees it the same way. and 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 jewish slim. we visited the research center professor pita showed us a room. and i think he said something about e. you find what's new boldoff. no small renewal of build up. oh, 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 leblanc life. oh ok. let's search their projects. so closure wave funding and co financing 5000000 from the e u as a 5 year, i say 5000000 a year. 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, the you commissioner responsible for this funding in vain. now, did you have any news or her you dial feeling anyway? maybe if maybe her spoke to her so that we can interview her. i gather ok, i need to go back. you know,

later what we discovered is that in ivory ghosts when we went to film, they are planning to use new technique like like crisper, like, like, gin 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 were, we were calling actually. okay. okay. oh, to be honest with you right now, i will not want to say anything just because like i said, we're going to try and find out a bit. and then we will get 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 are not to be every single thing. i do not really. i really, i cannot. i've just heard this now i'm yes, you know,

course with even n 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 you are getting, i am surprised that the e would be involved in the project and i feel we 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 channels in africa. so this is very irritating, political, and 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, in many different companies. and it's done so through essentially what the gates, what the gate has 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 companies 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 linda, a government today is having a very hard time saying no to bill gates. it is plants in just to have it better by ability be stronger, may be, have a quicker development time. not all falsely, the sun 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 and 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 and there's an old joke and english that where does an $800.00 pound gorilla sir? and the answer is anywhere launched and, and bill as they entered town 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 a really dangerous side of the lancer 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, misty. i really want to thank bill gates and his foundational because he is also at this meeting, mal ito, who's been historically live and he's here with us now. hm . in. ah, my daughters will be invited to announce their commitment to the global fund for the next 3 years. 3 european union will contribute. 550000000 euros. look, $1400000000.00 pound pledge, $840000000.93 canadian dollar. i'm your little out american. see me on the do not american 6000000 us door last one. point $5000000.00 us dollars. $12000000.00 us dollars, emily,

all the dollar on every day and we don't do do not. i meet again. we're only a few steps away from bill gates and we have a 1000 questions. but and 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 are 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, they'll go, it is here. the tv used, the treated mosquito net is prescribed to protect against mosquito bites and malaria, hulu. ah, if that is, if you could have him. yeah, because my mom is related to that. huh. i know about malaria. really. i myself have an attack every 3 months. i hear in this isolated village all measures against the disease of 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 in 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 go heels global to show that they can only cut as a non profit, global research network. target malaria aims to help save millions of lives. we're breaking ground in the fight against this disease. i'll research isn't said g, b, exit mosquitoes. making them sterile 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, a law it to ship out of the thought of get malaria. laportia delicate level, 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 selma count on

you have cause i'm not a scientist to kind of know whether these genetically modified mosquitoes can cause the problem. shit, m. s. good and said we'll seek loud phosphorylation is if monday won't for clear book problem. did you know that there was a similar project in brazil? no ship. no, i don't know anything about it. 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 is wrong. that doesn't. he was worried by his findings. 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. have any that you and your team, you physically get turned a genetically modified. must you does to hear 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, the 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 interest to have a better buy ability be stronger, maybe have a quicker development time. these are all savings but,

but you can find when you make hybrids, 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, while the mosquitoes and burkina faso mutate as well. officials there had not considered this possibility until we showed the district mayor jeffrey powell study, wrap it and i'll call the people that talk it. mm. green smith. yes. oh, good afternoon. i see them on the line. target. malaria is head of p r. s good info, missouri. true. i've heard about brazil. there were releases in brazil. but how that turned out? i can't tell you. we should meet with. well, okay,

but i did get, he says he doesn't know how it turns out. if i find that worry because it is the same project and he as an expert, has no idea or increases all doubts even more than me. and if i am for a liberal, was on the said monitoring, this would have been the least. we could have done key since element not move, but i don't want people to be used as guinea pigs when they're sure i will not accept this year. if i were to kill up a plush under bananas, why they're called by. if it is indeed the same project of the asset to i find that scandalous, c, effective muslim improve structure, said he was on our camera roles as those in charge of the program. enter the mayor's office. we will miss you, little you hello, i'm a journalist. i worked for our table, you were here to talk about target malaria. i woulda, look,

well if 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 the said investors of keys, it will do other group of 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. generally the berkener, but government is finding it very difficult to say no to bill gates has plans.

you'll be good to be said to see a corporate perspective from the political economy perspective. the gates 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 a young hearing late i to miss hong i hurry course i fax. your foundation should nuts and try our container as chris if me sicily

awesome. 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 in this email. the leaders of the program, right that the u. n. did not advocate a ban on these procedures. black e d u and meeting ended on the 17th of december and the decision takes time. jane drive does not include a moratorium will ban. this is a positive result for us is born with no one, not even the supervisory authorities of the un can put the brakes to the american multi and airs. 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 over talking to the media? yeah, good. what i actually learned is that the beat amended the gets from dish and actually funded. these are lobbying firm to recruit some bundled members. i was just wondering if this decision was influence all notes by the scale of a recruitment of, of scientists. i mean, i mean that despite how the research, i can't comment on that article, i don't belong to salvage ok. malay,

i can't comment on that corporate. i just can't 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 oh, he is the youngest, among the greatest, the canadian pianist, john leesha, etzky. ah, you leads audiences into the unknown exploring its boundaries?

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