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happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. we're watching more news coming your way in half an hour but for now let's have a look at the headlines egyptians. finally see hosni mubarak step down leaving the military in power but there are concerns of the country's future is now under the control of a force. a growing number of european leaders admit that multiculturalism has failed french president nicolas sarkozy has joined the chorus of those saying the longstanding policy has rifts between immigrant communities across europe. and crane
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is getting ready to follow the example of last summer's world cup they plan to introduce a twenty twelve year old slavic instrument that will have spectators fever pitch. national report reveal the true story behind the hunt for the most wanted man in the world colombian drug lord. to stay with us. the crew and a hotel for three days waiting for some response or acknowledgement to the request of. distrust runs deep. but on the fourth day there's a phone call. finally agrees to get together at. it's
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now learned that album arena had been asked about his coconspirator during the time he had been hunted or as she puts it persecuted they shared many secrets and to this day she still has the greatest admiration for her brother. almost nobody knows that i have kept all these souvenirs. these all belong to pablo at one time i picked them up from his various hiding places. so i had a brother. who was two years old a. video of him from this time is red but roberto escobar was a key member of the medina. he would also play an important role in his brother's flight from justice his speciality was accounting and his mom was roberto escobar claims to have been among the fifteen people who helped organize the finances of the cocaine empire. before taking a leave album marina had claimed her brother can be reached through a contact in the united states.
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and our would like to speak with roberto escobar out of interviewer ben roberto to talk about publicly we need to speak with i mean you'd also need to pay some money i don't know how much that. is just enough. eventually a deal is reached with a person we actually want to interview the woman agrees to provide this fine number . a low ceilinged on roberto a little if. he's going. to french journalist how do you. find yourself can we meet at your office or somewhere that's convenient. yeah nothe problem can you tell me where we can actually meet them or go to the last promise of a station i'll have someone meet you that evening that thank you very much don roberto . the meeting is due to take place in
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a residential district in central my beam the only condition is no cameras. we number less decide to film the meeting anyway. and it's not a. done roberto has no wish to dwell on the days when he was part of a cartel and dealt in cocaine although he has agreed to an exclusive deal with hollywood producers to sell his life story. the story of pablo's time on the run is something unfamiliar with. in fact i probably know more about it than most. know what is on the. beginning in one thousand eight hundred three i spent most of my time with pablo we were the best of friends two brothers that were inseparable and we did everything together including during the time when he was in
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hiding but. the remaining fifteen minutes of the interview proved to be less fruitful he does agree to tell us though that while the public was on the run he was always able to stay in touch. from his presence all roberto used a phone that he hidden his t.v. set to communicate with his brother. and made a phone in my t.v. set it up and turned it into a telephone. visitors would only see the t.v. . loudly to talk with my brother any time. i change my voice and ask him. oh brother how you doing what are you up to everyone will write them. june one thousand nine hundred three marked one year since i had escaped from the crowd to draw. a special unit has no idea where he is and he moves around the city under the very noses of the police. the
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government decides to tighten the screws. so you see the shia it triples the reward and ask about dead or alive is now worth five million dollars absolute. the authorities refine and perfect their electronic surveillance escobar is one of the first to own a cell phone but he knows he has to keep on the move and keep his conversation short to prevent the police from pinpointing his position and technical they're going to go on one day an american technician who was up in the airplane tells us he's got a precise position. he's located the exact climbing place he was sizing. their own day. it's in mountainous difficult terrain. we organized
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a helicopter operation in the up and of secrecy. just a short while later we hear someone warning him on the radio saying. they know where you also go they're on their way. by the time we arrived he'd gone. it's obvious there's a mole in the unit a traitor who keeps the head of a cartel informed the instant the police are about to swoop. the colonel quickly ferrets i'm out here to. inform i was a young police exhilarating it was known as a skilled wood carver. little figures of police move you know you have a cop has he said he'd hang around with us all the time at the police station and. the informant was in escobar is paid using the money to rent an apartment in this building just behind the barracks.
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soon as this policeman knew an operation was being organized he used to run home. using a radio code. left on a school and talk code and say things like tell some. as they used to. live there on their way making straight for you just so you know baker. so when we were heading up towards the target a little book and would sometimes see people's about getting past going the other way. that the traitor is eliminated and the manhunt can resume unimpeded. but the knowledge of how target is a guy called el chapo according to our information he's hiding in this area. or was
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the terrorists' hands on terrorists guy who plays ball the ball. kind of person i want to start going to couple of minutes here on this photo album with i have various operations and suspects. and i think this is the guy we want to catch tonight. as a complete change of tactics the idea is to isolate escobar by rounding up his key men one by one man your customer no alias and chapal is tonight's target. the operation against is a success and many others followed the senior members of the cartel are eliminated while not off to the other problem as a severely weakened so towards the end escobar was running without strong.
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fear begins to creep in and the predator becomes the prey. and a new enemy begins to emerge the so-called group of the persecuted bull's eye knowing maybe as the. preface with criminals who had once been a limited cartel that left for one reason or another and they began to challenge and then fight as. their bosses a to form accomplices of escobar who'd had enough of his paranoia and cruelty. and like the police the peppers knew all the secrets and habits of the leader of the cartel. the bloodletting series starts as the paper has gone down anyone that's close to the godfather. saw this change the dynamics of this esquire now started worrying about his own
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family. the pep is used the same tactics used by escobar by targeting the families. case in point the apartment owned by his mother is blown up at the time ask about his wife and children had been inside nobody is hurt but the attack is on. one day they set off a bomb and it ruined a painting by dali which was estimated to be worth five million dollars as wife was devastated and she calls public look she says they've destroyed the dolly what are we going to do about it. gradually escobar begins to fear for the lives of his loved ones it will be the reason of his downfall. as long as a son and daughter are in colombia he cannot relax.
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he decides to some of them to germany in europe. on the twenty seventh of november maria victoria juan pablo and little manuel aboard a flight to frankfurt on the police escort and filmed by the t.v. crews. escobar breathes a sigh of relief but although he doesn't know it yet the countdown to his iron hand has already begun sure full size of his wife and kids if leave for a safe country will they go by but there's no country that wants the. plane goes backwards and forwards and eventually returns to colombia no one wanted anything more to do with pablo escobar. on the diplomatic pressure the german government sunday escobar family back home on the twenty nine fiasco back in colombia on the police protection they have no idea they have walked straight into the trap set by u.s. and colombian authorities. tell us
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a little they are asserting that once they'd been expelled from germany and what back in colombia they'd begin pressuring escobar in a big way. when they land the escobar family is whisked away to a police safe house in bogota. they have become prisoners. at the same time the peppa step up the pressure and attack the hotel with grenades over a game no one is injured. in his leg as hysterical with forgets even the most basic security. probably we're talking every day at six o'clock. on the same frequency and that's how we started intercepting his communications. with the special investigation unit it's the turning point in the battle every man is mobilized and every means
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deployed. in front for vocal reconnaissance vehicles they cruise the streets of midian in an effort to locate the godfather a soon as he opens his mouth. it will be quickly as we were listening in twenty four hours a day by that time in the search certain units were in full alert ready to intervene whenever a call was intercepted. on the thoughts of december police technicians identify five phone calls made by ask about from different locations in the city center plainly me and see him he was always on the move calling from a car that was constantly traveling. the police finally figure out one of ask about his tricks to avoid being tracked down the fugitive had for months been using a simple but effective ruse that of using one of the city's numerous caps that would drive around nonstop while he made brief cool's from his cell phone.
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after four days spent listening in we were very tired we thought we'd never be able to track him down. causing. most but then suddenly on day five we intercept his latest phone call and an amazing thing happens it's a signal from a fixed line so we know he's phoning from a house. where. the first police on site confirm the information and brief their superior officer at once. the one where he is here he thinks so he tells me that's it i am at the house i'm right in front of it i think i can see him inside it that he's near the window with a telephone in his hand. it's a confirmed sighting and the little advances led by major.
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close up of us has entered our most which we were cautious i made up to the house the first thing we saw was the taxi which he used to take in that the article many . school talent and then i had public talking on the phone and said he was up on the second floor. in place how most of us are so we went topless i had my rifle on the muslim front seat we were moving him slowly you see here absolute silence this boss your. back i see him. to stop us and he's right in front of me bill you're not there but
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i will have a clear shot we will not deploy i spat at you so i quit for that and then he turns around as he sees me and he says what's happening and he drops the phone pulls out his revolver and opens fire that is the other part of it i run upstairs clutching my pistol and i shoot him and say to mr shoulder and then assess the debate with the door unless by that. any policeman behind me takes his rifle and there's some files a wonderful scene but what good was it some here right in the temple the bullet goes in here and exits the. cylinders and he suddenly throws himself through the window. just south park. i jumped out too which was difficult because back then the windows were much higher. so i moved forward to take the gun away from him. and then i take the radio and call my boss as the shout. don't live columbia i want the. dead.
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within thirty minutes or one thousand men of the special unit have arrived on the scene. a whole city appears to congregate at the house and at the news of death some up lord others are in tears. his face hidden the american agent steven murphy makes his way through the crowds of soldiers he wasn't about to let the culmination of sixteen months work go by i'm recognized everybody's very happy everybody's very exhausted. you just can't imagine the pressure that we felt had been lifted off our shoulders. much less how the colombian national police must follow. one thirty pm on the second of december one thousand nine hundred three marks the end of the largest manhunt in history.
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was the pub or escobar is buried the next morning just outside maybe ten thousand people show up for the funeral for many escobar had been an idol. come. off to one corner of the female members of the family already most crushed as the crowd tries to touch the coffin one last time.
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sixteen years off of the death of the most wanted man in the planet's one mystery remains unresolved what happened to the godfather's fost fortune where did he hide the five billion dollars that legend has it he was worth. a year see i think his family has most of the money because a lot of money was ever found and columbia that if he really had all those millions and even if he probably didn't know how much exactly even if it was just well hof wound up was he and his wife and children would have to be multi-millionaires today tina. we want to just check general mazas comments. one is arias the capital of argentina. after his death escobar his widow maria victoria and her two children subtle here and some
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comfort they changed identities and blended into the background maria victoria changed the name to maria is about juan pablo is better known today as sebastian marroquin. it took us more than a week to track them down the escobar family now dabbles in real estate and maria victoria has set up an interior decorating company along with a song in the heart of palermo a trendy part of the city. where outside and decide to make some phone calls. to the studio good morning could i speak with the best american please he's not in you know when he might be back and when is he in town i think is on a trip i don't know where exactly is going to board. ok well thanks very much. forced to wait it seems a good time to find out more about the activities of the family in argentina we
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spoke to a journalist who has been reporting on the families since they first arrived. here . if you're going to. when i first came here they started hanging out with the locals in particular an accountant at the beginning maria victoria and he were just friends you know yeah but then they became lovers families they bought an apartment and it became a bad love nest. the apartment becomes the center of maria victoria and her love as money laundering operations. in the media the accountant begins to travel back and forth to colombia carrying trunks full of banknotes you know this. your luggage has a full possibly and contain as much as four hundred thousand dollars between ninety five and one thousand nine and with barely over four years it's been proved they smuggled in at least two million dollars there are some estimates that it could
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have been more than ten million. but maria victoria's love as soon betrayed the accountant is really only interested in the money he becomes greedy and effectively blackmails mrs s. for no less than five years. in one thousand nine hundred nine there's a dramatic development as the entire family has arrested maria victoria. as well as the blackmailer. they're released almost immediately the judges were never able to prove their wealth came from the drugs trade. since then the accountant has mysteriously disappeared and maria victoria has never been seen in public. the next move is to head towards office building. the days tick by without news.
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by day four we're now caught acting on a tip from one power broker who's just arrived back in more desirous and would like to meet up. there's no mistaking his father was they look so similar in profile the godfather samas wipe the past from his slate these days he's a successful designer in argentina. we had two hour meeting with the son of the godfather equipped with a hidden camera. the man who's trying to rebuild his life is notoriously shy of the media so our meeting is significant. should i call you sebastian owen pablo. said. one problem to me is ancient
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history that was my life before. now your father built up a considerable fortune what happened to his money where you able to use any of it. the answer is simple. the war cost a huge deal of money. my father was immensely wealthy but he stopped dealing in drugs and invested all of his money into that war. and weapons and the manpower cost enormous amounts of money. and be on the cost of the weapons and explosives and a considerable amount of money was used to corrupt people. so he bought the whole country off. yeah the whole country all of it. i remember very well being in my father's office once i saw an endless stream of important. people for example he was inside meeting with an official and outside the policeman
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scolding him a keeping guard after the boss had finished they went in to be paid and that's the way it always was one day a policeman and i with a politicians one day i even saw a former president of the republic he would pay off everybody that would say is a check thanks very much. argentine justice eventually threw up the case but as the only son of public escobar there are many who have doubts of where his money came from. you know we've been accused of laundering maybe what was the figure about a million dollars over a period of five years. i can say is if it's true then we must be the worst money launderers in history since if you try and loan the money that comes from a cocaine trade. one million dollars is nothing just pocket money for a cup of coffee. so what
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did happen to ask about those billions of a number of accounts all buried underground some way. or are they just a legend. nobody knows about maybe from this woman maria victoria the medina godfathers widow. she refused to talk with us and the only images we have of these few seconds in the streets and one is areas. she has the key to some of the secrets. but he died of not many you know rooftop in one thousand nine hundred three a blow escobar the greatest drug trafficker of all time took some of his secrets to his grave.
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