for the full story we've got it from. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. from our studios here in central moscow this is our team with the top stories this hour one of the world's most wanted war criminals recommend outages arrested in serbia the fugitive bosnian serb general was first accused of genocide by the hague tribunal over fifteen years ago. russian the us agree upon the need for a missile defense system that meets both country's security demands which dimitri medvedev who held talks with iraq a partner at the g eight summit in france said it could happen by twenty twenty.

and russia calls for an international investigation into georgia's all the crackdown on protesters demanding president second release resignation dozens were hospitalized after police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds ahead of the independence day military or great. i forget you can always follow us on twitter and facebook and i'll be back with a look at our main news stories and developments in less than half an hour from now in the meantime we travel to somalia which has become the world's cheapest rubbish dump in recent years award winning journalist paul laura now investigates who's benefiting from poisoning somali waters and the disastrous impact on the health of the locals there that's next on r.t. . 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 of up will die. a mysterious containers filled with toxic liquids but suddenly began appearing on somalia's coast this anomaly in december of two thousand and four destroyed everything here. it also washed ashore a strange object. there's poison inside. like blood the fluid if it's left like that eventually it will break open and spread the lies and no one seed or she got through that.

window 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 seem to develop skin problems. and you didn't leave a sort of so what do you do when your fish disappears from the sea what are your options for the core of the have to get over the lot a lot actually. look i'm sure about three quarters of the people here lived off the

fishing boats now a days it's barely one in twenty scattered some of turned to piracy others have nothing but. 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. you know if 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. and get financial backing from some people and then we go looking for ships to capture a. couple of. syquest played a role in this this is not. the full of course for three hundred miles around here there's toxic waste still smoking all but. somehow anyone who gets too close will lose consciousness. eight hundred kilometers away

mogadishu is our next destination. we head for the hospital. and. for several years the somali doctors have been struggling to deal with numerous defamations of the genitals the bladder and the urine a come out. they are the typical result of exposure to dangerous chemicals. in winds. because you have. something of the last twenty years we have any ideas as severe. as it is for. three swollen feet for us. 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 to larry i'll pay to uncover a completely different story one of blood 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 a lot of fishing they made trips back and forth to europe and somalia they were under the control of an armed group ilario suspected that the boats were transporting something other than fish you know consumers ford. show on her last trip to mogadishu all alone met with a somali national who mentioned the traffic and toxic waste of our future from the fish he had the goal she decided to trick the story in the town of buzz saw sold out or both. 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. larry said

it's going to see it tell it why do you want to see it through but you aspire something just use the information that's all but inference and about if i don't see a country. radio you won't believe it until you see if it uses satellite been. shortly after the interview ilario lp and her cameraman 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 fraudulent toxic ways. 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. 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 leoni. an expert in toxic waste. freight businessmen and

a key contact for the italian army in mogadishu jon karl marx you know. 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 appoints scraggly 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. sky gly 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.

among the industrial lists i can only called on is this man a scrap metal merchant from the turin region who only agreed to be interviewed on the condition of anonymity. moshe said they were looking for people who had ways to get rid of its. value yes and the problem was they had to look for quite a few in order to fill the ship. channel nine out of combat one day and how many tons can be loaded on to the ship from. this should 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 but scheduling only raise so much just 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 he authorized the

phone tapping over several months of suspected members of the network. so the. rule was to collect the waste that's what he himself told the industrialists he met and. he also said what he was doing was entirely legal. however the point was that at times somalia was a country that couldn't legally imports of sort of waste. whatever documentation he provided people if you're going to see one of. these days scarily 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. and effectively exists only on the internet. great to be interviewed only in his capacity of the prince of never.

seen. so if your country is recognized and you become head of state t.v. as then you would have diplomatic immunity. as would any head of state yes. you have held diplomatic post haven't you. because there was a long time ago you were somali honorary consul wants to see proof 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 . and you don't want to talk about it or you don't know what i'm talking about and 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. but that is all.

for free for don't want to drive go faster to release only are present have a photo of course. the prince of nevada revealed nothing further. his business partner at the time was jim carlo much you know a shipping agent. he 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 had won several construction contracts and peddled favors and influence. it was marciano who provided the access to ali mahdi the somali president. he claims to get presidential authorization to import toxic waste. so was there a network put in place to export toxic waste to somalia the took sick also that no

matter the way of a good money there was no network top yes i'll do this to send that for a lot of that if you will let me tell you it was just to make money it was a fraud the measures will take the money up front and then say sorry i couldn't do anything and he can material couldn't be shipped or some such excuse 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 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. the judicial inquiry established up then somali president ali monti 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 committed the import of harmful toxic waste. was put in charge of the operation which seem to have been set in stone. we don't generally is in aventura half serve 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 often did you visit somalia and the mountain times did you have any dealings with

a movie. there's quite a few affair. anyway was he the one who authorized the toxic waste to be sent to some other issues of secret also maybe. no no i don't think it was him the authorizations were. killed. and yet 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. they. pakistan. they're. going to rid of. those rid. yeah.

but it is not that. ragged and. faced with a damning evidence of the recordings the honorary consul decides to spill the beans and a tray his former associates merit cina. he says merit 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. where they 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. thought. you were

going to it's here to install lies 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 a ship that arrives fully laden with way east of the coast of somalia if what's it going to do of enter a port in offload the barrels the barrels would just be gone could see and that's it was the problem will be general up with very early. 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 core had been 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 well my conscience is clear he will know him but you'll be able progressivity our questions about the l.t. murder brought the interview to an end because. that's 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 i never know for trafficking ways. you're going to feel the. italian authorities did eventually find the 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 leonis 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 fields to check the facts. in a village not far from someone who has changed his mind to talk that way straight. someone who exposed a team that was preparing such an operation in africa. severing has since retired from all activity and lives on the street where nobody asks questions. but for many years several job involves dumping poison into the poorest countries. as krishnamurti goodish aid as the traffic and waste benefit from a war situation. the really ideally yes it makes things easier it's a cynical thing to say but it's true. for words. our audience already filled half of italy imagine an old map of the world with little flags

italy's full naples is. missing now for and we're about an africa laughing wherever there are serious problems or poverty about so haiti and 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 some particularly dangerous waste several witnessed a scene that would change him forever. i was in charge of unloading the ship i was stuck in the port and it was costing a two million lira day a lot of money the faster i can offload the boat the better. pretty hilly i unloaded the containers usually creen or study one on top of the other of course on frozen them out one after another going there powering up everywhere but i don't

care as we're going to leave two weeks later i saw the results destroyed it was awful it was radioactive waste you see what. 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 all the russias interview that he. said allied himself with the and few 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 months are al cazar. months or al cazar is a flamboyant syrian who works for all sites to sold weapons to extreme right wing latin american groups on behalf of the americans. as armed

iraq and the palestinians. according to a un security council inquiry made public in two thousand and three. was 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 he had expressed such an interest just before being killed. ten years later u.n. officials confirmed 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 because they buy their young as well if you will. 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 own just the more main door at a certain point the judicial authorities had to put in enough judges who told us you know the dangerous nature of members of the network we decided it was better to prioritize the safety of our men on the inside and. they look at not only the police. 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 and 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. anyone can understand that. if we poor poison where you live and there's no government to protect you there were a lot. when foreigners attack you movie then you defend yourself and you saw where they. 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

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