this is r t live from moscow my name is kevin though in bringing you our top stories in the past seven days i'm first anti corporate marches in new york and chicago had a fierce response from police is the nationwide rally makes his biggest push yet. the occupy wall street movement gained support to across the world over the weekend with tens of thousands letting loose their anger against wealthy banks and bankers you know the top stories of the week from us ukraine's former prime minister feels the strong arm of the law for being sentenced to seven years of abuse of power for

some to cry a nation shot to democracy the noose is tightening still further as she faces even more charges. syria's president promises to meet protestors demands with a new constitution and multi-party elections as the number killed in the civil conflict rises now three pounds. thirty one am moscow time coming your way next a special report for you but the colombian drug lord public became even more famous in death. stop atomico bogota airport a family looks out of place these are no ordinary people it's a family of outlaws koba the colombian cocaine godfather and the most wanted criminals on us. they had hoped to seek refuge in frankfurt but the german authorities immediately turned the back. of the escobar family

comprises the sun on top and his arms as young system unaware. and bring up the rear maria victoria escobar as white. it's hired a bewildered and most of all they're scared escobar has been on the run for sixteen months and is no longer the old powerful drug lord who for years had terrorized columbia. the public enemy number one lives like a hunted animal from his hiding place somewhere in colombia the drug dealer is powerless to help his family but ask about always had an achilles' heel his family his daughter and a son meant everything to him. his achilles heel or something because i'm going to forages are planning to take full advantage of the moment they trek into a hotel the family is under constant surveillance they've become the bait.

it's just a matter of time before the godfather makes a mistake before going into the trap the police have said. it's the wisest of us slip through our fingers too many times it's unbelievable she was afraid to go. home escobar used to bomb schools soup. markets anyway what do you see. no get out i mean you knew all about the final years of the police you knew with them all those c.s.i. we had on the phone those with them and i mean problems like.

maybe and sixteen years later when he and his columbia's second city one of its busiest and richest and the country's bread bosman. sixteen years later in the city still has a bad reputation. the settling of scores continues but these days it's between small time drug dealers. and it's nowhere near like it was in escobar this time.

but i'll acknowledge it as the time of the humans a mad house bullets for breakfast lunch and bombs for below. ground level because that. is what i. love most about what people die every day every morning that the bodies near the mountains would call it public cemetery each day that the court says people would be murdered often just dumped on the open ground. there are few people left and many in the us go by well you have to their webs a look. of a toss is to find them. according to some kind of

eskimo's formal of time outs is still a lot of. little video from those years still exists. his name is john the gyre of ls ways alias. police wanted posters but then popeye was not far behind his boss esko bob when it came to the pecking order he was implicated in a number of murders sources claim that he's been serving time in prison for several years it seems subtle is that he was able to survive in bogota his notorious low modelo prison on homs. like for the old prison was a daily diet of insecurity and frequent violence where the prisoners rule the roost just about his former right hand man has since been spirited away to much safer surroundings. it takes a few more days to track down no one apparently knows where he is but the systems

finally pays off. there is a last some news. popeye's being held about one hundred kilometers from bogota in this model of the times and sometimes. it's a high security prison with murderous drug traffickers and hired killers among its inmates. no t.v. crews had ever been allowed inside before it was considered thought too dangerous but once again the system's pays off and got exceptional is made. for. a chance to talk one on one with pablo escobar as the most loyal left china. and he's the best person to give a first hand account of his former boss his life on the run. you know.

meeting of a time back and maybe there were fifteen hundred people looking for us as they are his policy israelis british americans the colombian secret service the cia the g.a.o. . everyone was off to. get it's not just the base it's not the wounded others you're going to. help i never refuse one of his bosses orders however ruthless they may have been he claims he was responsible for two hundred fifty of the estimated ten thousand but as ordered by a scope. once there was a very high profile woman that we were ordered to kill him because there's really not you know that and we shot it and the intercontinental hotel but getting out of the hotel was tricky and that's what police have time to helicopter they opened fire and i was hit here in the ah sorry i managed to get home and public escobar himself came over to see me that's when i realized he was a friend not just the boss i had a friend all of us. tell was an army of lions led by a liar i was

a lamb the boss was a line. by the mid one nine hundred seventy s. escobar was at the height of his powers. he was the leader of a group made up of his cousins and friends that ruled the drug trade along side with three hundred men an army of hired killers locally as the sea county us devoted body and soul to the cause these men created the now infamous maybe even cartel. a cartel specialized in cocaine. escobar revolutionized the way the drug was transported any means was good by road by air or by sea. hundreds of hours of the drug was soon reaching the united states and europe

escobar never seemed short on ideas to ensure deliveries to his best clients in the u.s. even had a submarine built in one nine hundred eighty escobar reached his senate becoming the undisputed godfather of the world's cocaine trade as ruthless as he was derek. barely ten years escobar had come a long way from a small time grave robber he had become the all powerful king of cocaine a godfather's net worth of the time was estimated at five billion dollars. and almost as if to prove he could do what he liked he pushed the envelope to the limit by having his photo taken with his son outside the white house. he uses his profits from drugs to buy a real estate in miami florida under the noses of the american authorities. escobar

becomes america's worst nightmare u.s. federal justice authorities demand his immediate extradition. he formed a group called the study. for their daughter is a better coffin in colombia than a prison cell in the united states would he be cleared war on colombia because of the years. tradition we never expected the sides of that war was. shot. escobar reveals his true personality a psychopath who orders the murders of everyone who might be involved in processing his extradition judges journalists politicians police anyone. during this period of terror an estimated ten thousand full victim to ask about his killing spree for some time we will go outside after obama. and see him body parts you're seeing

small children infants that being killed simply because their parents were placed into. such incidents but the colombian authorities to act and they decide to eliminate the godfather a price is put on his head and he becomes public enemy number one. outlaw escobar yes the doctor vanishes from sight. of. a french t.v. crew that had been working on another story comes across as a bar in the bush. the subsequent interview was a major scoop of the first time a european media has ever filmed the drug trafficker. on the camera escobar goes to some lengths to justify himself in. the fall. with of we have to realize that we're living through the cocaine period cocaine is

invading the worley illinois because it's a drug that's less strong or less damaging than the others there are drug addicts and because of a lack of education and discipline that's what we did he mean it's the same with alcohol was no difference between someone sleeping on the sidewalk because of drink or because of drugs legal or not because. the godfather goes on to pick up part of the american arguments against the cocaine trade and see like ok right now it's cocaine that's considered dangerous evil because the americans can't control it because it's the colombians a producer that's the real problem. and that same year the medina tell ships out three hundred kilograms a day of cocaine to the united states u.s. officials have had enough and again demand the extradition of the drug store. i'm told in his own country and wanted by u.s. justice there appears no way out for escobar undeterred he tries to bargain for his

freedom with the colombian government it's somehow unlikely bata. in june one thousand nine hundred ninety one and assorted convoy of vehicles is heading into the mountains near maybe to a place known as the catch and route inside the vehicles his government flank the godfather escobar has agreed to surrender and serve time but in a prison that he himself has built to his own specifications escobar is dictating the terms and his purpose built jail conspicuously has neither prison bars nor keys on the radio escobar explains that he has surrendered for the sake of a cover up to me. all that i thought he could inflict at this historic moment when our fighters are giving themselves up to bring calm to the country i cannot ignore

the polls for peace by the last majority of a colombian people. and we gotto june one thousand nine hundred one when you. got the drywall is a five star luxury prison with all the comforts of harm. and even better than most homes of the time as a specialty all kitchen music sent. telephones. outside does a huge telescope which allows the godfather to keep track of police as they come and go as well as keep watch over his family what remains of the family below. during the day and his associates have no time to get bored of cocaine empire continues to grow. to look at. the prison a cultural was crime central it was where they control the drug traffic and the government was fully aware of the facts. and what was going on leaks out it causes a huge scandal with the president of colombia himself forced to explain he was not

a joke what happened is such tough i.c.t. of intimidation that we end up that most of these soldiers were war. bride. the government insists he served time in a real prison sensing a trap he refuses. one night escobar his friend popeye and a dozen henchmen escape. i'm going ice skating for the friends there are no police so i want all we want we must have left at about eleven at night and it was very foggy outside when there was skaters discovered a state of alert as declared after a year in his private prison escobar has once again gone underground. the police realize they need to act quickly as the godfather is on familiar

territory and every hour lost gives him the opportunity to disappear for good nothing is left to chance each house had by the human and its suburbs a search starting with those belonging to his left found. by the morning of the twenty second of july of ninety ninety two the authorities admit that lost him escobar as a county vanished into thin air. in bogota the government as it saw spiration every twenty four hours often gets escape it sets up the block pail that was scared up and elite unit whose sole tosk is to

track down and about its headquarters are in the city center but one thousand strong unit is made up of highly trained and handpicked policemen and soldiers. to come on does make sure that none of them at all from reading about all of them have a squawk so subtle with a stop off choosing those who have lost at least one member of their families to the games does hit man. the head of the unit is colonel hugo martinez as methodical as he is in corruptible. as number two is major hugo i do yeah his role is to gather intelligence he's a staff as nails and farley to tom an. american sent two of their best drug offices to work alongside the columbia on the ground.

there was the best of the best in going after and we had all the resources we wanted our resources on talking about the equipment. being teligent da at this time had created a. hate t.k.o. problem which is that we were we were targeting this war all over the world. maybe even becomes a city on the sea which the special unit is everywhere with top notch to do as it pleases sweeping everywhere i'm searching everyone. looking. to pick. i'm with the dr next turns up little more than weapons telephones explosives common enough in many units and the usual suspects most of the petty

criminals. what investigators are hoping for is the one clue one informant who might lead them to ask about. all. those means it is going to get patients. the rewards of a televised appeals for information make little headway however as whoever might be tempted to inform on the godfather or his cronies knows fully well it would mean the death sentence and. as a result months go by and escobar remains as elusive as ever. despite the grind and the danger of the such units has to follow up every lead. off a new unit some tonnages take some to envy god the suburb where escobar grew up. people work hard and you know remember published what was right with the people and many of the help a lot of you know a lot of the poor he built churches. gave

a lot of money to to people who watched you know they were guarded they were hiding . here in this house the police were hoping to round up a few members of the cots now. listen. to . them as. unfortunately for the police they arrive too late and it wouldn't be the last time . elite forces well paid informants yet there was still no breakthrough to catch escobar there's a change of tactics with priority now being given to telecommunications. the americans provide an awacs surveillance aircraft and

a twin engine plane to track focal frequencies it's the first time such methods are used to hunt down one man. it means that colonel martinez and his men can eavesdrop on hundreds of telephone radio conversations day and night twenty four seventh's. then in march one thousand nine hundred three. we suddenly realize we have asked about talking to his son on his cell phone but the problem was that he was comes to elude the other twin engine plane that is constantly in the air over maybe even manages to locate the frequency used in the phone call. a plane was able to identify where the call to be made from on the ground so i need to trace the location on a map of the city to find the exact spot. where people. become elations show that it came from a house in one of many human smarter suburbs escobar has to be there and it's just a matter of robbing him not. he would as our to move in a door and

a house the store really searched. inside there's a vulgar display of wealth and a few stuff but a half asleep. at the beginning is a guy who does this house belong to a dreamer n.-o. moreno is a name escobar often uses. the bed is on mate the bed clothes still warm escobar it seems was to talk just in time. story the only people of the stuff that's like that in all of his houses. escobar has now been on the run from his comfortable imprisonment for eight months . he's starting his nose at the special units. we missed them at the beginning. may i venture say we're mr know good good twenty times you know we would

pick them up on the radio we'd have the surge blocks around the area and we're always you know we'd always miss and. as time goes by popularity seems to increase. the baiting the authorities by luck or design makes him into a hero. in the rundown neighborhoods the poor are all on his side. with. all this i know you have got to follow a hair he wouldn't even need to us i doubt it is welcome here anytime you know her he's welcome with open arms he will always be welcome. escobar also finds easy refuge with his cronies from the cartel and other traffickers on whose

loyalty he can rely on now more than a decade and a half later most i'm no longer alive. all that's left are some members of the escobar family who alone know how the godfather managed to remain at liberty for so long. maybe they might finally talk. according to some reports their son from possible and his widow maria victoria have sought refuge in argentina. his brother roberto. stan his younger sister marina hostility and.

the escobar family had been untouchable for so long the proper insisted used to go out quite openly these days they choose to keep a much lower profile a local journalist helps out by providing the address of escobar sister. is this where mrs escobar lives. yes she is. no sorry she's just going to. ok we'll leave a message for her. culture is that so much we're going to make him a lot of people here are you going to bring discontent all across the globe people are protesting against the political economic and financial status quo is this because i'm glued.

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