you're watching the weekly from r.t. of moscow a round of the top stories of the past seven days in the g eight leaders showed a united front by declaring to gadhafi rule if you're timid and demanding to go russia's sending its envoy to libya to mediate a ceasefire in the country civil war. other top stories in the wake of the u.s. is carrying on with the missile defense shield in europe clinching a deal that points fighter jets there from moscow warns the project risks

unleashing a new arms race. a live event feel now happening as size speaks thousands hitting the streets of belgrade to protest against the arrest of general run cold blooded shoes accused of ordering the killing of thousands of muslims in the bosnian war is a tension caused anger among some serbs who say the government is using its people as bargaining chips with. georgia's independence basal brutal crackdown of thousands of anti-government protesters thursday's rallies market climax of street demonstrations calling for president saakashvili to step down. hundreds of somalians are falling ill as barrels of nuclear waste washed up on their country shores next hour to report on who's dumping them and who's profiting from death.

this is one of the most dangerous places on earth fought over by armed is 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 that both die. mysterious containers filled with toxic liquid 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 the school both like the flu 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 anybody can come and just don't put a really one. 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 let's go 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. and you couldn't replace them with a social life so what do you do when your fish disappears from the sea what are your options were the core of the have to get all of the up

a lot of the chicken. well look i'm sure three quarters of the people here lived off of fishing boats nowadays it's barely one in twenty and some of turned to power a city 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. all of the. toxic waste 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 the one who gets too close will

lose consciousness he thought. 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 check defamations of the genitals the bladder and the urine a canal they are the typical result of exposure to dangerous chemicals. in. the system. to be of any ideas seduced. me for a. three fold increase. in this hospital and this is because by march one thousand nine hundred four the militias have 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 cope 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 no prisoner is forging work out show on our last trip to mogadishu a larry i met with a small e national who mentioned the traffic and talks of waste our future and go fish he had. decided to check the story in the town of both that are both out that you saw

. and it was there that the journalist met with one of the leaders of an armed militia group here. this was to be her last interview. where is the ballots can i see it tell it it why do you want to see it before you aspire something ok just use the information that's all but ending for the sound of us if i don't see that country. radio you won't believe it until you see it uses satellite then. shortly after the interview a larry i'll be under camera man were murdered in mogadishu. a 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 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 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 a former owner a somali console leoni. an expert in toxic waste.

freights 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 as the 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. scully only toured northern italian industrial complexes he 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 geiger loney called on is this man a scrap metal merchant from the turin region who only agreed to be interviewed on the condition of anonymity. said they were looking for people who had ways to get rid of it. yes but the problem was they had to look for quite a few in order to fill the ship. and i never compared to what and how many tons could be loaded on to the ship from. this ship must have been at least one thousand tons. at one hundred dollars a ton a full load could earn a substantial proffers 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 he also rise 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 . he also said what he was doing was entirely legal. ever the point was that at the time somalia was a country that couldn't legally import such sort of. whatever documentation he provided. these days scarily only is no longer a somali honorary consul is so she had 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.

degree 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 the privilege. as would any head of state yes you have held diplomatic post haven't you. but there was a long time ago you were somali honorary consul wants to see him 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. 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 start 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 i don't want to drive past it 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. you control 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 in the 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 the issue took sick also later much. good money there was no network talk yes i'll do this to send that letter a lot of that you believe 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 keep the material couldn't be shipped or some such exceeds proof it is 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. that you dish will 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 . was put in charge of the operation which seem to have been set in stone. going to early is an adventure a half serb 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. and you

visit somalia a number ten times did you have any dealings with the early movie. there's quite a few have seen any magazine the one who also writes the toxic waste to be sent to some other issues of secret also maybe. north i don't think it was him the authorizations were. killed. and yet in his dealings with the tally in businessmen only claim to have the full backing of a somali president including for radioactive waste the most dangerous of all. a daughter's back and. waited.

for the good. by. yeah. there it at that. ragged. faced with the damning evidence of the recordings the honorary consul decides to spill the beans and the tray his former associates marching. he says march you know plan to hide the radioactive waste in huge containers such as this one. these containers were to be breed in the jetty of a ports 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. who with him it's here to insult it he had some serious problems i'm not sure maybe someone told him if you confess to this we can help you to look after all the shit that arrives fully laden with waste of the coast of somalia if it wasn't going to do and to report an awful lot of girls the barrels would just be dumped at sea units it was the problematical in general up with. on a day that the journalist he was killed with a camera man 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 they said and how they got to be here well my conscience is clear being when we're in with no one go below progressivity our questions about the l.t. murder interview to an end. boy 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 i never for trafficking waste. of breath you are 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 a result. any evidence from the phone tapping or scared loonies network has been

thrown out as invalid. none of the three men will be trouble as a tally in magistrates have never sent a team to the field to check the facts. in a village not far from someone who has changed his mind about the toxic waste trade . someone who exposed a team that was preparing such an operation in africa. several has since retired from all activity and lives on a street where nobody asks questions. but for many years several job involved dumping poison into the poorest countries. as crucial. as the traffic and way spend a third from a war situation. beyond the ideally yes it makes things easier if you richard it's a cynical thing to say but it's true. to score for words. our people

already feel powerful. imagine an old map of the world with little flags italy is full of needles a simple enough missing. and we're about an africa laughing 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 here jumps 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. brylin hilly i unloaded the containers usually cream the one on top of the other

a cork i'm throwing them out one after another going there powering up everywhere but i don't care where i live two weeks later i saw the results destroyed it was awful it was radioactive waste you see. in the end separate decided to inform the powers that be what he was involved in. this will get a lot of after in the area lp was killed i decided i had to tell the authorities from all the question of you know to. separate himself with the anti mafia division 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 that present within the organization was a certain moans are al custer. months or al qa sar is a flamboyant syrian who works for all sides is 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 all costs are has 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 confirm the young journalist suspicions. the goats 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 got their young so sweet 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 at the moment though at a certain point the judicial authorities had to put an end to the to the dangerous nature of members of the network and we decided it was better to prioritize the safety of our men on the inside and. they look at authority 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 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. close a lot of anyone can understand that i think. if we poor poison where you live and there's no government to protect you do a lot. when foreigners attack you move even you defend yourself into seoul where they. 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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