margetts. find out what's really happening to the global economy in this report on r.g.p. . five thirty pm here in the russian capital with auntie a reminder now of our top headlines president obama meets its british counterpart to reaffirm their common of foreign policy goals including their commitment to ousting libya's colonel qadhafi the concerns of growth of the two nations are the only ones benefiting from their joint military ventures. prances a finance minister backed by the e.u. and the us enters the race to become the next i.m.f. head of the so-called brics countries which include russia call for a selection process for the world's top ranked job to be based on merit for not

nationality. protesters in georgia push harder for president saakashvili is resignation or thousands taking to the streets of the capital for a fifth day they demanded the end of the rule of the government that they called undemocratic and a corrupt. our next hero nazi travels to somalia which has become the world's cheapest rubbish dump award winning journalist reopens the inquiry and so who is benefiting from the poisoning of the somali coastline and its residents to stay with us. this is one of the most dangerous places on earth fought over by armed as the most groups pirates and bandits somalia is a country with no law and order a no man's land where an armed escort is essential at all times.

this film of record a seven hundred kilometer journey across the somali desert in search of a rumor about di. mysterious containers filled with toxic liquids that suddenly began appearing on somalia's coast this anomaly in december two thousand and four destroyed everything here. it also washed ashore a strange object. there's poison inside of this. all sounds like the flu if it's left like that eventually it will break open and spread the lies that no one seed or sheep got through that. let me know but there are no coast guards in somalia to keep an eye on such things and anybody can come in just dump whatever they want.

on both sides of the barrel is a sturdy hook apparently used when being lifted by a crane and so more easily thrown overboard. we have negotiated a meeting with the council of village chiefs that the fish were killed by the barrels that were leaking that's what killed them. even the color of the water changed when anyone went into the sea here they see develop skin problems. rightly his remarks in the eighty's alaska so what do you do when your fish disappears from the sea what are your options were the core of the have to give all the up a little bit. before about three quarters of the people here lived off of fishing boats nowadays it's barely one in twenty some of terms of piracy others have

nothing. we asked the village elders whether we could talk with one of the pirates like many of the others he is a former fisherman now forced into piracy. i became a pirate because of all the foreign ships that have been destroying our fish and livelihoods that's what really made us become pirates. get financial backing from some people and then we go looking for ships to capture. and sequester played a role in this is not. the full of course for three hundred miles around here there's toxic waste still smoking all but. somehow the one who gets too close will lose consciousness. eight hundred kilometers away mogadishu is our next destination. we head for the hospital.

for several years the somali doctors have been struggling to deal with numerous genetic defamations of the genitals the bladder and the urine a come out. they are the typical result of exposure to dangerous chemicals. inside. because you have. something. to do you have any ideas just so used. to before. responding. to you. in this hospital and this is. by march one thousand nine hundred four the militias had become old powerful. taliban and u.s. forces were getting ready to leave. a young italian journalist albi was covering their withdrawal. drive and persistence led a larry i'll peek to uncover

a completely different story one about fishing boats. to promote the fishing trade in somalia the italian government give trawlers to a company called shift go however shift those boats did not seem to do a lot of fishing they made trips back and forth to europe in somalia they were under the control of an armed group ilario suspected that the boats were transporting something other than fish you know consumers for getting more. show on her last trip to mogadishu all alone met with a small e national who mentioned the trafficking toxic waste of our fish from go fish if. you decided to check the story in the town of both sold out here are both styles of values. and it was there but the journalist met with one of the leaders of an armed militia group and this was to be her last interview. there is about it can i see it tell it it why do you want to see it with the us buyers something ok just

use the information that's all lending for listen to us if i don't see a country pull it and radio you won't believe it until you see it uses satellite than. shortly after the interview larry i'll be under camera man were murdered in mogadishu. the car in which they were traveling was attacked by an armed gang that immediately fled. the death of a larry i'll be sparked dozens of inquiries in italy. legal authorities sifting through all the businesses operating in somalia and in doing so uncover the fraudulence toxic way. market. modern industry produces an increasing amount of potentially fatal waste from

chemicals to heavy metals and even radioactive products the more dangerous the material the more expensive it is to destroy. as a result certain individuals offer a cheaper alternative dump the waste in the third world a solution which is completely illegal. and the italian authorities have exposed one of these networks it is not the only one of its kind and it is certainly not the most significant. for people who are involved in this toxic ring the former owner a somali council. an expert in toxic waste got to l.a. . freights businessmen and the key contacts for the italian army in mogadishu chiang carlo.

and the fourth man of the network is none other than the then president of somalia . in one thousand nine hundred five former president monti appoints a only honorary consul scully only makes full use of his devil magic status to set up the toxic waste scam ignores the fact that in one thousand nine hundred three international treaty for bids the export of dangerous waste materials from europe to the third world. scud leoni toured northern italian industrial complexes it went from door to door like a common salesman to any industry that needed to rid itself of toxic waste. its destruction is expensive and he offered to do the job on the cheap. among the industrialists guy clonie called on is this man

a scrap metal merchant from the tour and region who only agreed to be interviewed on the condition of anonymity. ok they were looking for people who had to waste a good bit of it's a. bit earlier yes the problem was they had to look for quite a few in order to fill the ship. and i never compared one piece and how many tons could be loaded onto the ship from over sure. this ship must have been at least ten thousand tons. at one hundred dollars a ton a full load could. earn a substantial profit of one million dollars let's go to any raise so much dust in his rounds of industry that he began to draw the attention of the authorities a judge in the northern italian town of asti led the inquiry the authorize the phone tapping over several months of suspected members of the network.

rule was to collect the waste that's what he himself told the industrialists he met . he also said what he was doing was entirely legal. when was that at the time somalia was a country that couldn't legally import such sort of we. never documentation he provided. these days schedule only is no longer a somali honorary consul is so shared with masonic and templar organizations and is the self-proclaimed head of the phantom state of nevada a tiny island off the coast of haiti. it effectively exists only on the internet he agreed to be interviewed only in his capacity of the prince of nuts on. sea were. so if your country is recognized and you become head of state.

then you would have diplomatic immunity agreement which. as with any head of state yes you have held diplomatic post haven't you. but that was a long time ago you were somali honorary consul wants to see people for years yes. there are some people who believe you use this diplomatic role to bring toxic waste into somalia is that true show me show me i have no idea what you're talking about . if you don't want to talk you don't know what i'm talking about i'm sticking to what i said at the store and they won't budge from that so you don't want to talk about it. as i said i can talk to you about snow but that is all. for free for i don't want to drive a plastic to release the only or present of

a quarter of us in the course. the prince of nevada revealed nothing further. his business partner at the time was jim carlo much you know a shipping agent. who controlled the port in the north of mogadishu marciano had been living in somalia for more than ten years he knew the warlords was an informer for the italian army and won several construction contracts and peddled favors and influence. it was martino who provided the access to ali mahdi the somali president . he claimed to get presidential authorization to import toxic waste. so was there a network put in place to export toxic waste to somalia he took sick also there's not much. they don't eat and there was no network talk yes here i'll do

this to sinbad factor a lot of that you believe me tell you what it was just to make money it was a fraud question we'll take the money upfront and then say sorry i couldn't do anything and keep the material couldn't be shipped or some such exceeds through free it's a sort of scam should be the way it works is i offer to do something for you you pay me to vance to do it but in the end it doesn't work out in the meantime i've made twenty or thirty thousand feet to fit you. that you dish will inquiry established that then somali president was also to receive his share from the toxic waste trade roughly thirty five percent of the profits. today ali mahdi is no longer president he lives in ny. the cultural capital of kenya and refuses to speak to journalists. he does however insist that the evidence implicating him is false.

and yet it was official also arise ation issued from the presidential office in one thousand nine hundred six that finally permitted the import of harmful toxic waste . was put in charge of the operation which seems to have been set in stone. going to l.a. is an adventure a half service half italian with an a ray of passports and identities his name appears on several documents involving the shipment of toxic waste to africa is also spent about a dozen years in prison. he was another who enjoyed the confidence of the somali president and witnessed the network's activities. go off and you visit somalia numbered ten times did you have any dealings with elie modi. a.

there's quite a few a fair far away so if anybody was even one who authorized the toxic waste to be sent to somalia shouldn't see girls who maybe. know of no i don't think it was him the authorizations were. still bought. and yes in his dealings with the tally and businessmen skivvy only claim to have the full backing of the somali president including for radioactive waste the most dangerous of all. it's a daughter's class and yet. people do it. by. yeah that. was it at that. time that.

faced with the damning evidence of the recordings the honorary consul decides to spill the beans and betray his former associates mirchi know. he says march you know plan to hide the radioactive waste in huge containers such as this one. these containers were to be buried in the jetty of a porch he was building in north mogadishu. italian authorities used amateur photos showing such metal containers being buried in the concrete as evidence. with a full of radioactive material a schedule only claims. today the port is out of bounds it is in the hands of al qaeda is islamist militias. who are going to it's yet to install eyes he had some serious problems i'm not sure maybe

someone told him if you can first of this we can help you like it too much and after all the shit that arrives fully laden with waste of the coast of somalia if it wasn't going to do enter a port in offload the barrels the barrels would just be dumped at sea and that's it was the problem will be general i'm going to be. on a day that the journalist hilarious lp was killed with a camera man in the streets mogadishu a white italian man was the first on the scene. he seems to know more about it than the others is none other than john carlos marciano. sad because i arrived right afterwards and there was a lot of confusion i was upset. i thought it was a planned ambush because the car had been a machine gun and nine bullets i said to myself they should never have been in this place and then what they said and how they got to be here with all my conscience is

clear being when we're in with no one go below progressivity our questions about the lp murder brought the interview to an end. close enough for you asking these questions no one has ever been charged with the murder of a lottery of opium i have never nor for trafficking ways. you're going to feel the . italian authorities did eventually find a somali citizen guilty for the killing of the journalist is always proclaimed his innocence and many believe the case is still unresolved. any evidence from the phone tapping of skyblue news network has been thrown out as invalid. none of the three men will be troubled as a tally in magistrates have never sent

a team out into the fields to check the facts. in a village not far from a list someone who has changed his mind about the toxic waste trade. someone who exposed a team that was preparing such an operation in africa. severi has since retired from all activity and lives on the street where nobody asks questions. but for many years involved dumping poison into the poorest countries. does the traffic and waste benefit from a war situation. beyond the ideally yes it makes things easier if you're considered cynical thing to say but it's true. for words. our people really feel powerful italy imagine an old map of the world with little flags italy is full of naples is simply not going to be what's missing for you and we're

about an africa laugh or wherever there are serious problems or poverty so haiti in somalia places where political problems are particularly bad it's just business human life has no relevance whatsoever. one day in haiti where he had dumped some particularly dangerous waste several witnessed a scene that would change him forever. your problem is telling i was in charge of unloading the ship that i was stuck in the poor and it was costing two million lira a day a lot of money the faster i can offload the boat the better. brylin hilly i unloaded the containers usually crean none on top of the other of course on throwing them out one after another going there coming up everywhere but i don't care as i made it two weeks later i saw the results destroyed it was awful it was radioactive waste you see order. in the end separate decided to inform the powers that be what

he was involved in. this would be a lot of after in the area lp was killed i decided i had to tell the authorities from a russian a good idea. every allied himself with the anti mafia division in milan and allowed the police to infiltrate his network. the network was connected to several celebrities of the international crime scene the police discovered that present within the organization was a certain moans are al custer. months or sar is a flamboyant syrian who works for all sides has sold weapons to extreme right wing left and american groups on behalf of the americans. he has armed iraq and the palestinians.

according to a un security council inquiry made public in two thousand and three. has also sold weapons to the various armed militia and somalia. the weapons were shipped in boats belonging to the infamous shift go company in which allow reality had expressed such an interest just before being killed. ten years later un officials confirm the young journalist suspicions. the boats were just used for fishing but for arms trafficking and probably toxic waste as well. the way they paid off these militias who were very poor was to offer them weapons in exchange for dumping the toxic waste it was a win win situation for them and it was about a young sister if you will it's. after three years of investigation the anti mafia

division of milan decided to terminate the infiltration operation as it was considered too dangerous to proceed on terror at the moment though at a certain point the judicial authorities had to put in a judgment call did you know the dangers nature of members of the network we decided it was better to prioritize the safety of our men on the inside. they got it i thought he did. in two thousand and nine the u.s. arrested arms dealer alka sar been set up and thought he was selling arms to colombian guerrillas who turned out to be federal agents he was sentenced to thirty years in prison. before venturing into piracy the somali gangs have proclaimed themselves the nation's coast guards. their standard and was to protect their season shoreline

from toxic waste and illegal fishing. but today they are just pirates. yet the fisherman who live alongside them every day defend their actions they have a different notion of what represents piracy. fullfil out of there anyone can understand thank you so much. if we poor poison where you live and there's no government to protect you do a lot. foreigners attack you move even you defend yourself that you do so well that . along the somali coast a fleet of western war vessels hunt down the pirates several dozen of them have already been arrested to this day no action has been taken against any of the industries suspected of disposing talks of waste off the coast of east africa.

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