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global financial system. the world is turning. groovy to speak with one voice. go below the g eight summit on r t. what you guys are going to live from moscow these are the top stories today and dozens injured in a bloody and to georgia's day of rage as police fired tear gas and rubber bullets and so is calling for president saakashvili his resignation. the world's wealthiest nations marchin a wartime battleground to thrash out today's conflicts as the g eight summit gets ready to kick off in france. to us judges are convicted of dishing out dodgy
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discipline to making millions by throwing teenagers into private prisons for only very minor offenses. and next we travel to somalia which has become the world's cheapest rubbish dump in recent years and word winning journalist paul murray or investigates who's benefiting from poisoning somali waters and the disastrous impact on the health of all costs. 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 low on the order a no man's land where an armed escort is essential at all times. this film of record
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a seven hundred kilometer journey across the somali desert in search of a rumor that will die. a mysterious containers filled with toxic liquids but suddenly began appearing on somalia's coast this anomaly in december two thousand and four destroyed everything here. it also washed ashore a strange objects. there's poison inside the school. also things like the flu if it's left like that eventually it would break open and spread the lies no one seeder she got through that. window but there are no coast guards in somalia to keep an eye on such things anybody can come and 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
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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 soon developed skin problems. rangy ingenious and it has a lesson so what do you do when your fish disappears from the sea what are your options of course of the have to think you over the up until the actually true. before about three quarters of the people here lived off of fishing boats nowadays it's barely one in twenty that some of the 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
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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. of. toxic waste played a role in this this is not. the sort 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
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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 of ciggies. city for. responding. to you. in this hospital and this is. by march one thousand nine hundred four the militias have become all powerful. and u.s. forces were getting ready to leave. a young italian journalist albi was covering their withdrawal. drive and persistence led a lariat i'll pay to uncover a completely different story one of boyd fishing boats. to promote the fishing trade in somalia the italian government give trawlers to a company called shift cope however shift those boats did not seem to do
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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 yorkers sooners forward to. show on her last trip to mogadishu all alone met with a somali national who mentioned the traffic and talks of waste are from the from can go fish is. great she decided to check the story in the town of both saw sold out here both values. and it was there that the journalist met with one of the leaders of an armed militia group here and this was to be her last interview. where is the ballots can you see it's how did it why do you want to see it so badly you aspire something ok just use the information that's all but ending for us and of us if i don't see a country. radio you won't believe it until you see it uses satellite then.
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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. the legal authorities sifted through all the businesses operating in somalia and in doing so uncovered 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
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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 console. an expert in talks of waste got a really. great businessman and a key contact for the italian army in mogadishu jon karl. and the fourth man in the network is none other than the then president of somalia. in one thousand nine hundred five a former president monti appoints only honorary consul scully only makes full
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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. studly only 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 turin region who only agreed to be interviews on the condition of anonymity. ok she said they were looking for people who had to waste a good bit of it's. going to yes the problem was they had to look for quite
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a few in order to fill their ship. true and i never compared to one fee and how many tons could be loaded onto the ship from. this ship must have been at least ten thousand pounds. at one hundred dollars a ton a full load could. earn a substantial profit of one million dollars but sky clooney 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. to 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. said what he was doing was entirely legal. ever the point was that at the time
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somalia was a country that couldn't legally import such sort of we see. what ever documentation he provided. these days scally 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. to be interviewed only in his capacity of the prince of. senior. so if your country is recognized and you become head of state. then you would have diplomatic immunity. as would any head of state yes you have held diplomatic post haven't you. but that was
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a long time ago your somali honorary consul wants to sleep for four 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 about it or you don't know what i'm talking about i'm sticking to what i said at the store and won't budge from that so you don't want to talk about it. as i said i can talk to you about nova but that is all . for free for i don't want to drive a plastic to release only are present have a quote from the course. the prince of nevada revealed nothing further. his business partner at the time was jim carlo
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much you know a shipping agent. he controlled the port in the north of mogadishu in march you know had been living in somalia for more than ten years he knew the warlords was an informer for the italian army had 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. there so was there a network put in place to export toxic waste to somalia the dish it took sick also the oh my yes they can only eat it there was no network talk yes here i'll do this to send that factory a lot of that you let me tell you it was just to make money it was a fraud the pressure will take the money up front and then say sorry i couldn't do
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anything and he the material couldn't be shipped or some such a piece 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 an advance 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 in. the judicial inquiry established that then somali president ali was also to receive his share from the toxic waste trade roughly thirty five percent of the profits. today ali money 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 . only was put in charge of the operation which seem to have been set in stone.
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we don't get early is an adventure a half serve a 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 witness the network's activities. how often did you visit somalia you know about ten times did you have any dealings with the early maybe. a. quite a few a fair far away say anyway was he the one who authorized the talks of ways to be sent to somalia to shoot the secret also made you. know of no i don't think it was him the authorizations were. still bought.
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and yes in his dealings with the taliban businessmen only claim to have the full backing of the somali president including for radioactive waste the most dangerous of all. your back than. three hundred. what is it that. matters are. faced with the damning evidence of the recordings the honorary consul decides to spill the beans and betray his former associates.
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he says marciano plan to hide the radioactive waste in huge container 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. where they full of radioactive material a skivvy only claims. today the port is out of bounds it is in the hands of al qaeda islamised malicious. blogger who initiates yet to console lives he had some serious problems i'm not sure maybe someone told him if you can first of this we can help you if you look after all the shit that arrives fully laden which will be slightly off the coast of somalia it wasn't going to do of enter a port in offloading barrels the barrels would just be dumped at sea and that's it
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was the problem will be general outlook. on a day that the journalist hilarious lp was killed with a cameraman in the streets of 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 core had been a machine gun and nine bullets i said to myself they should never have been in this place and then what i said and how they got to be here well my conscience is clear when working with soft well known go below progressivity are questions about the l.t. murder the interview to an end. voice convince
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enough why are you asking these questions you know no one has ever been charged with the murder of the lottery and i'll be here my never for trafficking waste. it will be to fuel 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 skag loonies 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 to the field to check the facts. in a village not far from lives someone who has changed his mind about toxic waste trade. someone who exposed
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a team that was preparing such an operation in africa. severing has since retired from all activity and lives on a street where nobody asks questions. but for many years several involved dumping poison into the poorest countries. does the traffic and waste benefit from a war situation. the beyond the ideally yes it makes things easier because you can cynical thing to say but it's true. oh we were already filled healthily imagine an old map of the world with little flags italy is full of naples is simply not missing. and we're in africa laughter wherever there are serious problems or poverty about you know so haiti in somalia places where political problems are particularly bad it's just
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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 program is telling i was in charge of unloading the ship and i was stuck in the port 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 yesterday one on top of the other accor controlling them out one after another they're powering up everywhere but i don't care what made it two weeks later i saw the results destroyed it was awful it was radioactive waste you see all of it in the end separate decided to inform the powers that be what he was involved in. this having a lot of after in the area lp was killed i decided i had to tell the authorities from all the process really out. allied himself with the anti mafia division
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in milan and allow the police to infiltrate his network. the network was connected to several celebrities of the international crime scene the police discovered the present within the organization was a certain moans are al custer. months or al cazar is a flamboyant syrian who works for all sites is sold weapons to extreme right wing latin 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 alka sar has
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also sold weapons to the various armed militia in somalia. the weapons were shipped in boats belonging to the infamous shift go company in which he had expressed such an interest just before being killed. ten years later u.n. officials confirmed the young journalist suspicions. the votes weren't just used for fishing but for arms trafficking and probably toxic waste as well. that one year 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 only. 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 the moment though at a certain point the judicial authorities had to put him into
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a little the dangerous nature of members of the network we decided it was better to prioritize the safety of our men on the inside. they look at according to police yes oprah. in two thousand and nine the u.s. arrested arms dealer al costs are being 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 stated aim was to protect their season shoreline from toxic waste and illegal fishing. but today they are just pirates. and yet the fisherman who live alongside them every day defend their actions they have a different notion of what represents piracy.
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anyone can understand that thank you so much if we poor poison where you live and there's no government to protect you do a lot. the foreigners attack you move even you defend yourself into so well. along the somali coast a fleet of western war vessels hunt down the pirates several dozen of them of already being 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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more news today violence is once again flared up. again these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada after. sheinkopf orations to rule the day.
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