authorities. for the sum of sixteen thousand francs since then it disappeared. particularly because its description is so vague. the document only indicated that it was a painting signed by the do jani portrait of a man. the detective had no idea what the painting looked like. he had to find a photo of it at all costs. by consulting peepers kept in the paris archives james palmer came across a clue this telegram. it states that stetson or that sent the mood yani to the venice biennale of one nine hundred thirty. i travelled to venice personally and went into the archives there and to the venice be an alley archives i saw mr stettner spray painting. in a photograph. james palmer was delighted he'd found it. this

photo taken at the one nine hundred thirty venice biennale shows twelve paintings on the wall of the room dedicated to. ten portraits of women and two of men. the one on the right was already identified and well known. the painting in the middle however the one of a seated man is more mysterious. so now you've got reference to mr stener owning the painting you've got reference to portrait of a man. and you have a photograph that's the exact same painting that is now illustrated or described as the seated man. finally james palmer knew what the painting looked like. but where had it gone he searched everywhere activated his contacts toured the auction rooms archives and museums. and after a few weeks ago. he found

a trace of the painting here in london in the catalogue of an auction held at christie's in one thousand nine hundred six. the painting was entitled seated man with a cane. but who owned it. it was acquired by a shell company based in panama international arts center whose registration document is seen here. its rightful owner is a name. and yet palmer refused to give up and finally discovered another lead to finding the true owners. over the years the work appeared in a number of catalogs. and every time alongside the name of one of the most prestigious galleries in the world the helena maud gallery in new york run by the daughter of the family patriarch we ran into at art basel.

james palmer decided to write to our. price perceives news and so we have faith crisis you end up with a fake news sell here when you have manipulation of markets and there if you have if you have interest rates at zero and you can borrow money at zero percent and have an unlimited credit line and you can muscle prices around it well that creates fake prices and then if you have robots reporting on fake prices on the financial media as foreign stuff then the robots are going to report on the fake crisis driven by the fake news created by robots and you have a virtual or a not so virtual cycle of fake news and fake prizes and then that people interpret that as reality.

political lens used to be good i'm not so obvious that it will keep the truth from some fun event i just did mine. when i left that i sat next to. me. well so the world. lives because of the slow. and. the. country of the only mum game if you think because i'm a cynic and i'm a journalist i have a difficult moment. and these years i'm live apart from that i don't see how same or. similar it's gonna be if admission from the.

well the lawyers for our client contacted. the hell. out of new york. and they were ignored. which is not right it's not proper so i think after about a month or so they wrote him again and again they were ignored and eventually there was a response and the response was essentially you are suing the wrong people you should

be suing the international art center and we have nothing to do with that. james palmer was not taken in by her response. he filed a lawsuit against the health gallery in new york. but once again the lawyers denied the family were the owners of the painting. here is their statement to the court in new york. international arts center and nobody else not the head gallery nor david now that bought the painting at an auction held at christie's. things stopped dead there until two thousand and fifteen and the leaking of the panama papers extraordinary. a document published by the journalists revealed that behind the panamanian company international art center was the renowned art dealer david.

so he was a shareholder of the company that owns the painting despite his constant denials. the detective had scored a point. and now he just had to find out where he's seated man was in storage he had a bright idea maybe it was in the geneva freeport where the number of family kept the major part of its collection. the swiss judiciary issued a search warrant for the storerooms in april two thousand and sixteen and discovered the holy grail the much sought after painting. it's hard to say if it was hidden or not but it was kept very discreetly in the freeport where there are no mad family are estimated to have of both three to four billion dollars worth of art or about four and a half thousand works of art in their little room in

a freeport. painting claimed to have been looted was well and truly in the storeroom in the freeport a revelation that caused an uproar. the heirs of the antique dealer stettner have now filed a claim for the restitution of the painting we contacted the no months after several attempts they finally agreed to open up their store room at the geneva freeport and to show us the painting in an exhibition room. we would never meet the art dealers themselves but they did accord us an exclusive uing of the painting a very solemn moment. the work was handled with great precaution it is estimated at about twenty million dollars today. the families with similar would tell us their version of the story. is about their money.

make a set that blew up a laugh i mean i'm at peace and on a. fact. internationally and tony is a on the economy going to. me that mad. to clear his clients even further lawyer or even raise a. doubts that the painting ever belonged to the jewish antiques dealer staton or. it don't seem to be. fully is extinct. what. the. in physically explicit. i mean by.

this. we had only a few minutes to film the painting. but as the handlers turned the work around we happened to film something on the back that we only noticed later this label from the one nine hundred thirty venice biennale. the owner's name had been crudely erased. and it looks like that of stanton or. a clue to which the detective never had access and which could be crucial for the next stage of his investigation. the canadian detective is convinced the geneva freeport could be housing other works of dubious origin. well i think there's a high probability that many other paintings in the freeport were probably looted

and probably rest there today that have not seen the light of day for many decades and i believe they're there and i think that it would be very interesting if the public were made aware at least the art industry were made aware of what those paintings are so so that you know if the prosecutor's offices what's on it for example were to provide. us with information on all those paintings we could pretty quickly tell them which ones are store pretty quickly. for the swiss art dealers lawyer there's no point in dreaming no one will know for years what's really stored in the freeport. me little as i am not happy. says. they will save us you know that means. so. our french customs investigator is of the same opinion even if he

is on the other side of the fence. people following of them also legion if you could bob your company know that i don't feel says we should know him all to be a softer you the hall is so i. don't use aside the so. awful i can. reproduce your it don't. give us the whole supper related on the actual disk that because of the discussion . in geneva the mood yani case hit the headlines. the freeport authorities quickly became concerned about bad publicity. so in june two thousand and sixteen they called an emergency press conference. all representatives of the main swiss media as were invited.

in the little. cameo started. on the floor with the president of the geneva freeport and his general secretary. both men seemed self-conscious rejecting all responsibility regarding the supposed owner of the painting david no money. made he said if you're always doing more exact. a little. more than michelle's a large group of us to this little blue little little. love for you created incentives we got to this is illegal in the us is. also got all slew of also where that those days are not as they were that all. of us also. read up with it the dishes such as restore. the

fish the most your who. was a also the more it is you must always drill your soldiers go the distance or to the store. but what other secrets are really hidden in the freeport. in switzerland some official authorities have become extremely concerned we managed to obtain this report from the swiss federal audit office it unequivocally denounces the opaqueness of the geneva freeport. irregularities regarding inventories and absence of traceability of merchandise. errors in stock accountancy and recurrent problems which occur during controls. our french customs officer includes laxity on the part of the swiss administrators that oversee business conducted in the freeport. zone point.

is a nice house from purview of the order to muck in all. just took is risky saw the vans are in your memory called. lonely but you don't remember . or. need mom wash your skin saw she is on sick but don't let me complete politesse trees leboeuf why. this is just. a formality it's a bell mr success. make you with your worship all the time which you can afford. in response to widespread criticism the recently appointed president of the geneva freeport a magistrate known for his integrity supposedly fighting the good fight calling for

much stricter regulations. without the more popular. new schemes with the young sitting does the piss on formula one moment the old why couldn't it. no more. off. let's talk about good as an oppositional song. these two. men feel more. cautious like you are. this man is aware that there is still a long way to go. but having agreed to make concessions on its banking secrecy will switzerland also finally agree to open the doors of the world's biggest safe.

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of environmental terror. welcome to sophia shevardnadze spaces and list was the myriads of stars out there and chances are that we're not the only ones alive and it's a vast expanse but even if that's true should humans really be actively searching for extraterrestrial life. well a bit downfall of our civilization or the opening of a new writer we'll talk about that today with dr it douglas back to president of messy messaging extraterrestrial intelligence organization. surrounded by dust and radiation earth looks slowly hung up in the middle of the space with dozens of billions of earth like planets potentially out there humans

are determined to find extraterrestrial life how likely are we to garner a response to messages will be sent to space if you. get our signals who's to say they will be a danger to earth and good first contact the opening of a new era for the planet. dr douglas will come to the show great to have you own our program so your organization mattie's focused on sending out signals aimed specifically at aliens and you say that extra terrestrials need to know where ready to communicate but are we really ready to communicate i mean look at us we can hardly communicate with each other. it's true communication is one of the big challenges but it is also a defining feature of our species that we are the intelligent creatures who love to talk with one another so our work in many is

a natural extension of that desire to communicate but instead of talking with other human beings we're reaching out to life in the universe your colleague from they search for extraterrestrial intelligence is huge sas shostak predicts that we will find intelligent alien life within the next twenty years you said that it will happen by approximately twenty thirty five watts in this next twenty years exactly well one of the things that we see in our research is the need for computing power we gather tremendous amounts of data from space and we sift through all of that cosmic static looking for radio signals that stand out as distinctly artificial and that requires tremendous computing in the great advantage that we're having right now is increases of technology so as we look at the advances of computing power you know you can get a personal computer that's twice as powerful as the one you bought a year and

a half ago for the same price when that accelerates over the course of year after year after year that gives us a huge advantage today as searches are over a trillion times more powerful than the first search conducted in one nine hundred sixty and we can continue to see that acceleration so within the next twenty years we will have looked at maybe a million stars that's a reasonable number to look at in order to actually find a signal if they're out there trying to make contact could be that we still haven't found any aliens up because technology holding us back but simply that other life forms don't want their presence to be known i mean we've been looking at the possibility of not being alone in the universe for a long time why have fun allianz in time i mean if they're out there we could have found them already know. you are raising the question that the tally and physicist in rico for me asked in one thousand nine hundred fifty when he said where are they

and so it's become known as the fermi paradox well one possibility as you say is that other civilizations are out there but they're not talking so maybe everyone is waiting for the other civilization to take the initiative and that's why mattie sends intentional messages just in case other worlds there are scientists searching for signals but they're waiting for someone else to say hello. you know they were a renowned. physicist stephen hawking has warned us about meeting ellie and comparing it to christopher columbus meeting the native americans which as we know didn't turn out so well why don't you believe him and why should we ignore professor hawking's views what we shouldn't ignore his views whenever anyone is brilliant as stephen hawking says watch out be careful you have to take it seriously but what he really has not taken into account is that the aliens that we're afraid of the ones that can travel between the stars could already pick up

our t.v. and radio signals that we have been sending out the past seventy or eighty years so there is no increased danger of an alien invasion by sending intentional signals to let the extra terrestrials know that we want to make contact now seti scientists who actually don't like you sending signals to ellen say that an initiating contact isn't science but rather diplomacy to using good doing it is what they majority of people actually want. well i think that in fact sending signals to other worlds and listening for response is a much more traditional type of science than simply observing astronomers are in an unusual position among scientists because they can do experiments usually you go to your laboratory you make some changes you see what happens but astronomers and seti scientists have to passively wait for signals to come in see if they detect them

we're actually doing what's called a true experiment where we send a signal and then wait for a response back now it's true that there are seventy scientists who have said this is a very long term project most said the scientists want to focus on a search that could pay off tonight but in addition to those seti strategies which our organization also does we also have observatories in panama in the united states that were looking for signals from extraterrestrial but in addition to this potentially short term payoff of detecting the signal we're also making a long term investment by sending the signal and then waiting for a reply that could come in many years from now presence nasa says voyager it with just recently fired up its thrusters for the first time in thirty seven years floating outside the solar system with a bunch of cultural messages it brought to extra terrestrials is what you were doing more dangerous than that. no it really isn't more dangerous but the voyager

recording is an excellent example of how we want to make contact with another civilization so this golden record has greetings in fifty five languages it has music from around the world and it has a scientific tutorial along with over one hundred pictures of life on earth so it's an attempt to give a snapshot of earth to another world there's one big problem though of the voyager recording that it travels so slowly so that it's going to be seventy thousand years before the spacecraft comes even close to another star but by sending radio signals the travel at the speed of light we can reach the nearest star in just over four years so there is a tremendous time advantage of sending in electromagnetic signals whether they be radio signals or laser pulses as opposed to trying to make contact by a spacecraft so how do you make sure that extra terrestrials will interpret our

signals as an invitation to communicate for other than a challenge. well the most important thing about sending the message out is simply being clear and any civilization that has been through this process know that there's going to be some ambiguity so we can expect a certain amount of reservation on the part of the extra terrestrials that they will see what patterns we're sending and try to make sense of them and so that's why we start our messages the first messages we've sent by a focus on simple mathematical and scientific principles to make it as unambiguous as possible that we're talking about what we and the extra terrestrials have in common an understanding of our physical universe all right so here you are saying that our radio interview signals are ready in space could there be like ellie is watching jerry springer reruns out there somewhere right now awake light years away i mean if they base their understanding of us on our t.v. man i mean we're in deep trouble exactly i couldn't agree with you more that in

fact we do expect if there is a civilization just a tiny bit more advanced than we are that they can already pick up jerry springer or any other sitcoms interview shows the nightly news they see what we're doing to our planet you know it isn't really a very pretty picture and so in addition to sending this chaotic messages that we use to communicate with one another we want to send a clear signal to the extraterrestrial that there's also some rationality on our world so flaky have sat. this beat with which to signal us are sent out is very slow as so the closest to about eight layer light years away so there's a reply it will come in what sixteen years so we're looking at decades if any aliens are out there so. is your whole work just sending me.