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bringing you the latest in science technology from. the future. this is the weekly here in our team top story. music biz response and pleased with the protest rally makes its biggest push yet. you'll keep our wall street movement gained support across the world with tens of thousands letting loose their anger against wealthy banks and bankers. ukraine's former prime minister feels a small minority being sentenced to seven years for abuse of power. still further she faces even more charges. and syria's president promises to meet
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protestors demands with a new constitution and multi-party elections is the number killed in the civil conflict rises to three thousand. extent a report on one of the most infamous and most powerful criminal bosses in history. accrue. to herself for three days waiting for some response or acknowledgement to the request of me to not. distrust runs deep let me ask about climb. but on the fourth day as a phone call album marina finally agrees to get together at her house. it's no matter that album arena had been asked about his coconspirator during the
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time he had been hunted or as she puts it. they shared many secrets and to this day she still has the greatest separation. nobody knows that i have a souvenir of. the. one time i picked him up from his various hiding places. escobar also had a brother roberto was two years old a. video of him from this time is rare but roberto escobar was a key member of the maybe. he would also play an important role in his brother's flight from justice is the sham as he was accounting in his memoirs roberto escobar claims to have been among the fifteen people who helped organize the finances of the cocaine empire. before taking a leave album marina had claimed her brother can be reached for a contact from the united states.
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saying oh i would like to speak with roberto escobar out there interviewer don't roberto to talk about publicly you would need to speak with i mean you you know also need to pay some money i don't know how much that. was just a you know. eventual you know deal is reached for the person we actually want to interview a woman agrees to provide just fine number. you know low ceilinged on roberto. who's going on a french journalist how do you. find yourself can we meet at your office or somewhere that's convenient. yeah no problem can you tell me where we can actually meet that. go to the last comma service station i'll have someone to cuba thank you very much tom. the meeting is
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due to take place in a residential district in central maine the only condition is no cameras. were number less decide to film the meeting anyway. but. the roberto has no wish to be well on the days when he was part of a cartel and dealt in cocaine although he has agreed to an exclusive deal with hollywood producers to sell his life story. the story of pablo's time on the run is something i'm familiar with. in fact i probably know more about it than most. beginning in one hundred eighty three i spent most of my toyed with pablo we were the best of friends two brothers that were inseparable we did everything together including during the time when he was in hiding for. the
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remaining fifteen minutes of the interview proved to be less fruitful and doesn't really to tell us though that while pablo was on the run he was always able to stay in touch. from his presence are a better use a phone that he had missed t.v. set to communicate with his brother. who. had made a photo in my t.v. set i had with the cop and turned it into a telephone. visitors would only see on t.v. . my brother any time on the way i change my voice and ask him. oh brother how you doing what are you up to we will write them. june ninety ninety three marks one year since i had escaped from the cathedral a special unit has no idea where he is and he moves around the city under the very noses of the police. the government
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decides to tighten the screws. and triple the reward and escobar dead or alive is now worth five million dollars. but the authorities refine and perfect their electronic surveillance powers one of the first to own a cell phone but he knows he has to keep on the move and keep his conversation short to prevent the police from pinpointing has been and. they're going to go. one day an american technician who was up in the airplane tells us he's got a precise position. he's located the site hiding place. they don't they just now of course can do. it in mountainous difficult terrain. but i feel we organized
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a helicopter operationally up my secrecy cases and for the troops just a short while later we hear someone warning him on the radio saying hey i score they know where you also go they're on their way acorn is also by the time we arrived he got. it's obvious there's a mole in the unit a traitor keeps the head of a cartel informed the instance the police are about to sweep the colonel quickly ferreting out here you know trivia for you so you can judge and. inform i was a young police exhilarate i was known as a skilled wood carver. police locked up little figures of police move you know you helicopters he said he'd hang around with us all the time at the police station and the reality of. the informant was in escobar is paid using the money to rent an apartment in this building just behind the barracks for the cia and. the.
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only absolute as this policeman knew an operation was being organized he used to run home and using a radio covered call. left the notes that talk code and say things like tell some of the doctor as they used to. live there on their way making straight for you. so when we were heading up towards the target a good book and a separate sometimes see people's getting past. the other way. that the traitor is eliminated and the manhunt can resume unimpeded. this is a little you know a joke now target is a guy called el chapo according to our information he's hiding in this area. or was the terrorists' hands on terrorists who claim to talk.
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to. the kind of person i want to start going to go but i'm going to you know this is a photo album with iris operations and suspects. this is the guy we want to catch tonight and. there's a complete change of tactics the idea is to isolate escobar by rounding up his key men one by one mario cast down on alias and just tonight's target. the operational against them is a success and many others follow the senior members of the cartel are eliminated one not after the other puppet escobar is severely weakened so towards the end if the war was running without strong.
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fear begins to creep in and the predator becomes the prey. and a new enemy begins to emerge the so-called group of the persecuted will so never get to be as the bad day. as were criminals who had once been a limited income town that left for one reason or another and they began to challenge and then fight escobar. their bosses or to form accomplices of escobar we'd had enough of his paranoia and cruelty. like the police the peppers knew all the secret some habits of the leader of the cartel. the bloodletting soon starts as a pace coming down anyone that's close to the godfather of soul this changed the dynamics of this esquire now started worrying about his own family.
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has used the same tactics used by escobar by targeting the family's. case and points as the apartment owned by his mother is bloody not at the time ask about his wife and children had been signed nobody has heard of the attack is on. monday they set off a bomb and ruined a painting by dali which was estimated to be worth five million dollars as wife was devastated. look she says i destroyed the dolly what are we going to do about it. gradually ask about against the fear for the lives of his loved ones it will be the reason i was down for. as long as a son and daughter in colombia a chemical relax. he decides to summon to germany in europe. on the twenty seventh of november
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maria victoria on pablo and little manuel aboard a flight to frankfurt under police escort and filmed by the t.v. crews. escobar breathes a sigh of relief but although he doesn't know it yet the countdown to his iron hand has already begun should also be slow seahorse his wife and kid with you leave for a safe country it will. be home but there's no country that once the. plane goes backwards and forwards and eventually you return to colombia no one wanted anything more to do with pablo escobar. on the diplomatic pressure the german governments and the escobar family back home of the twenty nine fiasco bossa back in colombia on the police protection they have no idea they have walked straight into the trap set by u.s. and colombian authorities. tell us
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a little they are asserting that once they'd been expelled from germany and were back in colombia they'd begin pressuring escobar in a big way. when they land the escobar family is whisked away to a police safe house in bogota. they have become prisoners. at the same time the packers step up the pressure and attack the hotel with grenades or game no one is injured. in his leg but escobar hysterical with worry forgets even the most basic security. we're talking every day at six for progress. on that same frequency that's how we started intercepting his communications. with the special investigations unit that's the turning point in the battle every man is mobilized and every means
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deployed. in front for vocal reconnaissance vehicles they cruise the streets of methane in an effort to locate the godfather as soon as he opens his mouth. ok the end will likely be quickly as we were listening in twenty four hours a day by the time the search served our units were on full alert ready to intervene whenever a call was intercepted. on the first of december police technicians identify five phone calls made by ask about from different locations in the city center plainly and simply was always on the move in the morning from a car that was constantly traveling. the police finally figure out want to ask about his tricks to avoid being tracked down the fugitive had for months been using a simple but effective ruse that of using one of the city's numerous halves drive around nonstop while he made brief calls from his cell phone.
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after four days spent listening in we were very tired we thought we'd never be able to track him down. mostly then suddenly on day five we intercept his latest phone call and an amazing thing happens it's a signal from a fixed line so we know he's floating from a house. the first police on site confirm the information and brief the superior officer of months. no one really is here in the game so he tells me that's it i am at the house and right in front of it i think i can see him inside his back and he's near the window with a telephone and. it's a confirmed sighting from the unit that francis led by major.
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close up to us just into which we were cautious dr house the first thing we saw was the taxi which he used to take in that he had a company. yes call talent going to help public talking on the phone so he was up on the second floor. so we were as hard as i had my rifle in the muslim front to see if we were moving slowly and i'm an absolute silence this was your. family i see him. just us and he's right in front of me bill you're not there but i don't have a clear shot not of for us but thank you i can't for them and then he turns around
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and sees me and he says what's happening and he drops the phone pulls out his revolver and opens fire. i run upstairs clutching my pistol and i shoot him and him in his shoulder and then i just the clip play with the door and. any policeman behind me takes his rifle and there's some files a wonderful scene a shot of you know they want the troops in here right at the time the bullet goes in here in this at you and exits the. cylinders and he suddenly throws himself through the window. i jumped out too which was difficult because back then the windows were much higher. so i'm going. to take the gun away from him. when i take the radio call my boss is the shout you'll be long live columbia i went to school ablow is dead.
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within thirty minutes or one thousand a man of the special units have arrived on the scene the whole city appears to congregate of the house got the news of staff some up lord others are in tears. his face had the american agent steven murphy makes his way through the crowds of soldiers he wasn't about to let the culmination of sixteen months work go by on recognised everybody's very happy everybody's very exhausted. you just can't imagine the pressure that we felt had been lifted off our shoulders. much less how the common national police must for. one thirty pm on the second of december one thousand nine hundred three bucks the end of the largest manhunt in history.
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sixteen years after the death of the most wanted man on the planet one mystery remains unresolved what happens in the middle godfathers fost for sure where did he hide the five billion dollars that legend has it he was worth. a year see based on the film i think his family has most of the money because not apollo esteban's money was ever found the whole idea that if he really had all those millions the identity even if he probably didn't know how much exactly even if it was just well how awfully well he and his wife and children would have to be multi-millionaires today an argentina in the. we wanted to check general mazas comments. one is our ace the capital of argentina. after a stethoscope was widow and area victoria and her two children subtle here and some comfort they changed identity as
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a blended into the background maria victoria changed her name to maria is about. how i was better known today as sebastian met oking. it took us more than a week to try to come down to ask about five brain now dabbles in real estate and maria victoria has set up an interior decorating company along with a sob in the heart a political a trendy part of the city. where outside and decide to make some phone calls. to the studio good morning can i speak with the best american please he's not in you know when he might be back and when is he in town i think is on a trip i don't know where exactly is going abroad. ok well thanks very much. forced to wait it seems a good time to find out more about the activities of the family in argentina we
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spoke to a journalist who has been reporting on the family since they first arrived. if you're going to basing it. on the first day here they started hanging out with the locals in particular on account of the beginning maria victoria and he were just friends you know yeah but then they became nervous nellies they bought an apartment signed it make a bad mother asked me to. the apartment because the center of maria victoria her love was money laundering operations. in the media because of the accounts and begins to travel back and forth to colombia carrying the trunks full of banknotes this. you know increasingly your luggage has a full possibly can contain as much as four hundred thousand dollars between ninety five and ninety nine in which barely over four years it's been proved they smuggled in at least two million dollars so there are some estimates that it could have been more than ten million. but maria victoria's love as soon betrayed the accountant
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is really only interested in the money and because greedy and effectively blackmails mrs escobar for no less than five years. in one thousand nine hundred ninety as a dramatic development as the entire escobar family has arrested maria victoria a song. as well as the blackmailer. they're released almost immediately the judges were never able to prove their wealth came from the drugs trade. since family accountant has mysteriously disappeared and maria victoria has never been seen in public. the next move is to head towards esteban's office building. the days tick by without years. by day four we're in our car acting on
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a tip from one part book is just to write back and what desirous i would like to meet up. but. there's no mistaking who his father was they look so similar in profile the godfather samas wipe the past from his slate. these days he's a successful designer in argentina. we had two hour meeting with the son of a godfather equipped with a hidden camera. the man who's trying to rebuild his life is notoriously shy of the media so our meeting is significant. should i call you sebastian owen pablo. said. to me is ancient
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history that was my life before. now your father built up a considerable fortune what happened to his money were you able to use any of it. the answer is simple. the war cost a huge deal of money. father was immensely wealthy but he stopped dealing in drugs and invested all of his money into about war. weapons and the manpower cost enormous amounts of money. beyond the cost of the weapons of explosives a considerable amount of money was used to corrupt people. so he bought the whole country off. the whole country all of it. i remember very well being in my father's office once i saw an endless stream of important people for example he was inside meeting with an official outside the policeman scolding him or keeping down after their boss had finished they went in to be paid and
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that's the way it always was one day policeman another day politicians one day i even saw a former president of the republic he would pay off everybody that would say here's a check thanks very much. arjun time justice eventual throughout the case but as the only son of escobar there are many who have doubts over where his money came from. you know we've been accused of laundering maybe what was the figure about a million dollars over a period of five years. or well i can say is if it's true then we must be the west money old recent history since if you try and load the money that comes from a cocaine trade. one million dollars is nothing just pocket money for a cup of coffee. so what did happen to ask about his billions of
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a number of accounts or buried underground somewhere already just illegible. nobody knows about maybe from this woman maria victoria but many others without. she refused to talk with us or any images we have of these few seconds in the streets and what has areas. she has the key to some of the secrets. but he died on not many you know rooftop in one nine hundred ninety three approach escobar the greatest drug trafficker of all time took some of his secrets to his grave.
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