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market finance come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to name two cars a report on our cheap. it without taking care of hair the headlights the presence of abkhazia one of the republics not for for independence from georgia the right subtree rouch mostly only on sunday in moscow a sixty two week after undergoing lung surgery. and other news as we round up there with the g eight leaders unite to call for colder garvey to go as russian moves to mediate a cease fire libya stands now in talks with coffee the lists and double officials.
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the u.s. expands its military presence and plan and probably get ahead of its own missile defense shield which russia says could spark a new owners rights action to misplacing thoughts objects intended to have sent some new songs on the ground by tweeting the team. and georgian opposition figures and international observers quantum you see to investigate to independence day crime drug testing which left two people dead thousands of demonstrators have since surrounded and protested against false. hundreds of somalians falling ill barrels of nuclear waste food on their country shores off the record some news dumping of these profiting from the.
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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 guy. 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 objects. there's poison inside of this.
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both sides of the food if it's left like that eventually it will break open and spread the lies that no one seed or sheep got through that. window but there are no coast guards in somalia to keep an eye on such to 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 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 in to see here they see develop skin problems. and you can at least in a sort of i said so what do you do when your fish disappears from the sea what are
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your options of course on the have to begin all over the lot a lot actually. look i'm sure about three quarters of the people here lived off of fishing boats nowadays it's barely one in twenty some of turned to power a city 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. 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. we get financial backing from some people and then we go looking for ships to capture. played a role in this this is not. the full of course for three hundred miles around here
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there's toxic waste still smoking all but. somehow the one who gets too close will lose consciousness. eight hundred kilometers away no with the shoe is our next destination. we head for the hospital down the mountain. for several years the somali doctors have been struggling to deal with numerous genetic defamations of the genitals the bladder and the urine a canal they are the typical result of exposure to dangerous chemicals. inside. because you have. something. to do you have any ideas as to who's. three foot. trees holding trees. in this hospital and this is just by march one thousand nine hundred four the
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militias have become all powerful. and u.s. forces were getting ready to leave. a young italian journalist i'll be was covering their withdrawal. her drive and persistence led a 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 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 pursuers forgetting where you were going to show on their last trip to mogadishu all alone met with a somali national who mentioned the traffic in toxic waste. from the fish the goal is to decided to check the story in the town of bull sauce sold out here
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both sides of. the day 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. there is about it's going to see it tell it it why do you want to see it with the u.s. buyers something ok just use the information that's all but ending for the sound of us if i don't see a hunter college radio you won't believe it until you see it uses satellite then. shortly after the interview ilario lp and her 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
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legal authorities sifted through all the businesses operating in somalia and in doing so uncovered the fraudulent 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 all for 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 leoni. an expert in toxic waste.
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freight businessmen and a key contact for the italian army in mogadishu jan carlo march you know. and the fourth man on the network is none other than the then president of somalia . in one thousand nine hundred five a former president marty appoints leoni honorary consul scully only makes full use of his devil magic status to set up the toxic waste scam to ignore 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. scotty only toured northern italian industrial complexes it went from door to door
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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 industrialist sky baloney called on is this man a scrap metal merchant from the turin region who only agreed to be interviewed on the condition of anonymity. the chef said they were looking for people who had ways to get rid of its. earlier yes the problem was they had to look for quite a few in order to fill their ship. and i never compared to one thing and how many tons can be loaded on to the ship from. 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 but scheduling only raise so much just
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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 also rise the phone tapping over several months of suspected members of the network. the 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. ever the point was that at that time somalia was a country that couldn't legally import such sort of with. whatever documentation he provided. these days skag leoni 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
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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. then you would have diplomatic immunity agreement which. i look at as would 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 power for years yes. there are some people who believe you use the 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
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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 you don't want to drive a plastic to release only or present. the course. the prince of nevada revealed nothing further. his business partner at the time was john carlo much you know a shipping agent. he controlled the port in the north of mogadishu 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
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waste. so was there a network put in place to export toxic waste to somalia the issue took sick also that no matter how you did it in only there was no network talk yes i'll do this to send that a lot of that you will let me tell you it was just to make money it was a fraud measure to take the money upfront and then say sorry i couldn't do anything and he the material couldn't be shipped or some such excuse through free it's a sort of scam would 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. but you dishful inquiry established that ben somali president ali was also to receive his share from the toxic waste trait roughly thirty five percent of the profits. today ali money is no
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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 seem to have been set in stone. is an adventure a half serb hospitality 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
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president and witnessed the network's activities. go off and did you visit somalia in the last ten times did you have any dealings with elie modi. a. there's quite a few of have four or six anyway was he one who also rise to toxic waste to be sent to somalia should have secret also maybe. no i don't know i don't think it was him the authorizations were. killed. and yet in his dealings with the kalyan businessmen only claim to have the full backing of a somali president including for radioactive waste the most dangerous of all. your backyard and yet. they're.
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pretty. good at it. i did it and that and. back in our. face to the damning evidence of the recordings the honorary consul decides to spill the beans and for trey his former associates. 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 schedule only claims. today the port is out of bounds it is in the hands of al
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qaeda islamised malicious. dog who is going to mean it's here to console lies he had some serious problems i'm not sure maybe someone told him if you confess to this we can help you but if you look after all the ship that arrives fully laden with waste off the coast of somalia 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 ugly get in 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.
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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 of the machine gun to nine bullet any good i said to myself this 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 we're in but don't go below progressivity our questions about the lp murder brought the entropy to an end cause. that's enough why are you asking these questions you know no one has ever been charged with the murder of a lottery and i'll be here my never nor for trafficking waste. of breath 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
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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 italian magistrates have never sent a team up to the fields to check the facts. in a village not far from milan live someone who has changed his mind to toxic waste trade. 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 involved dumping poison into the poorest countries. description. as the traffic and waste benefit from a war situation. beyond me ideally yes it makes things easier it richard
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it's a cynical thing to say but it's true. for british war for words. our already filled half of italy imagine an old map of the world with little flags italy's full naples is. missing. and we're. laughing wherever there are serious problems of 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 some particularly dangerous waste several witness to seeing what changed him forever. i was in charge of unloading the ship i was stuck in the court and it was costing a two million lira a day a lot of money at the border the faster i can offload the boat the better. cream
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and honey i unloaded the containers usually cream but one on top of the other a cork on throwing them out one after another there powering up everywhere but i don't care as we're going to leave two weeks later i saw the results 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 brushes really about. 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 the present within the organization was a certain months are al cazar. months
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are all qatar is a flamboyant syrian who works for all sides has 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 alka 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 he had expressed such an interest just before being killed. ten years later u.n. officials confirm the young journalist suspicions. the boats were just used for fishing but for arms trafficking and probably toxic waste as well.
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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 if you would because we were the young sister if you will it's well. 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 just the romane at a certain point the judicial authorities had to put it into i did or did as you know the dangers the 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 authority. 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
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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 thank you so much. if we poor poison where you live and there's no government to protect you do a lot. when foreigners attack you leave you then you defend yourself they did it all so where they. along the somali coast
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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. more than a month. in one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is antarctica
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