active began his investigation he discovered that the n.t. dealer staton or had made his claim for restitution in one nine hundred forty six but well before the liberation the painting had already been sold by the vichy 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 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 model jani 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 anally 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 toward 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 unnamed. 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 helina mob gallery in new york run by the daughter of the family patriarch we ran into at art basel. james palmer decided to write tour.

one else so it seemed wrong. but old paul just don't all. get to shape out these days become educated and in gains from an equal trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. but. palm oil is one of the most controversial products of odds on it's a solid vegetable fat that's very cheap. twenty seventeen production grew to sixty three million tons that rapid growth in international demand for cheap oil has led to the massive expansion of plantations which it means the destruction of rain

forest. get into the zero a lot more than ten million hiked as of unique rain forest has been destroyed and it's a process that just keeps going. by two things by his emotion that he is. in the long queue he places a very long lead he says so to speak a. long distance runner in politics and that's the way they underestimate. the lawyers for our client contacted. the hellyeah mag gallery and helen i'm 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 art center and nobody else not the head gallery nor david not maad 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 family kept the major part of its collection. this was 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 match family are estimated to have a vote 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 rule. 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 family swiss lawyer would tell us their version of the story. but then one. laugh i mean i'm a. they have an effect. international and tony is a on the economy going to. be that mad. to clear his clients even further blow or even raises doubts that the painting ever belonged to the jewish antiques dealer staton or. it don't seem to be. any perceived. of

unease. at all we are forty is extinct. what. the. in physically explicit. on the sea i stand and you see i meant by allah yes. 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 staten 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 are 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 or at least the art industry were made aware of what those paintings are so so that you know if the prosecutor's office was going 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. little's i'm not happy. so. our french customs investigator is of the same opinion even if he's on the other side of the fence. people following of them also region if. you combine all of that i don't feel says we. aren't a softer people fall so i. don't use aside the so. awful i can. reproduce. he said give us the whole supper related on the actual diskettes 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. to the viewers and. can we get started. on the floor where 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 your easily become more exact. more than michelle's it doesn't include us to this little blue book or a little bit over. a low profile you created see this guy who has

a single. says. all slew of also where that those days are not in so where that all. of us also. read up and it is this is us that restores. the fitzmaurice your move. a little bit more it is more as far as your us soldiers go the distance to us. 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. one point six says. it is a nice house from purview. you know all. he saw vans are when your memory called you. on it but you don't remember. she. says. you don't kill a formality. he fixed. make you with your

worship all the time which is. 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 city does the prison formula one committee on why couldn't it. that's a. good. strong comment for these two. men feel more. cautious if 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. comes. political a used to be the victim as i believe you started when a few fulfill some found and said i just don't mind. when i left that i sat next. to martin it's not. a law and i let me.

i will show the world the law leave we've got a book he's slow. and. take. the. country of the illegal up and he's going to let them sit on the bottom and have a difficult moment. and these years or maybe all part of it i don't. know how shame will. kill a gun it will be a admission from the. new global economic war is unfolding in the realm of education the right to education

is being supplanted by the right to access education loans higher education is becoming just another product that can be bullish and sold so there's not just about education anymore it's also about running a business where you could know most of the regime. this. kind of really good to me. is the place of students in this business model before college i was born now i'm i'm extremely more higher education the new global economic war.

and the stories that shaped the week i suppose that evidence pointing towards russia in the script poisoning case is seriously weakened off the several major claims that are refuted. i think it was a lot of drugs or six week of anti israel protests along the gaza border brings the palestinian death toll to nearly fifty people thousands more remain wounded. the israeli prime minister accuses iran of state probably trying to expand its nuclear program take a look with the donald trump isn't buying into the p.m.'s dramatic speech ahead of deadline day to drop the twenty fifth day new deal. and

a may day rallies leaflet clashes between police and demonstrators in several countries in the french capital more than two hundred people were arrested. in the middle class is now starting to the police ordered to let me look out but you'll see the chief justice coming up to us the police move again and let's be. just gets stuff going on i. have very good morning to you from all of our team here in moscow you're watching the weekly roundup of all the latest news on the big stories that have shaped the past week a top story today this week has seen some major developments in the ongoing investigation into the script powell poisoning case a nato ally admitted it had produced another chalk like substance as recently as last year and then the un's chemical watchdog back tracked on previous claims about

the nerve agent auntie's jacqueline very good now picks up the story criminal investigations usually work towards conclusions as new information and facts come to light but with this group all case it all seems a bit backwards it feels like those pesky details are being ignored take for example the embarrassing but significant slip up we heard this week from the chief of the international chemical weapons watchdog the research activities or protection you would need for instance five to ten grams or so but even in seoul is free it looks like they may have used more than that without knowing the exact quantity i'm told it may be fifty one hundred grams or so which goes beyond research activities for protection and the idea that such a large amount having been found suggests that it had been created as a weapon and not for research purposes is important from the get go the u.k. claim that never took soviet origins were clear evidence that russia was the guilty party at the same time moscow argued that other states have the ability to create another truck and have experimented with doing just that so the suggestion that

such a large amount wouldn't be found in research situations just adds to that idea that there's no other plausible alternative but that russia is behind the attack there's just one tiny problem with all of that. the o.p.c. w. would not be able to estimate or determine the amount of the nerve agent that was used in souls bree on the fourth of march twenty eighth the quantity should probably be characterized in milligrams but that whiplash inducing you turn has no one's convictions that russia did it even when combined with an announcement coming from the czech president who know the choke was juiced and tested in the czech republic it was a small quantity though we know when and we know where it was done it would be hypocritical to pretend that such a thing never happened so there you have it and then mission from at least one country saying that yeah they have produced and experimented with no each of class agents delivering a blow to a key element of the u.k.'s case no more can it be claimed that the substance could've only come from russia right wrong that two didn't dent the narrative the

media gave almost no attention to the announcement and those who did cover it pointed out what they called siemens pro russia stance because let's face it in today's climate being pro russia means you're on reliable something else we saw this week was the u.k. national security advisor disclosing the fact that no suspects have been identified and the poisoning but given the fact that the case seems to be based on the assumption of guilty until proven innocent many outlets ran that statement alongside the line that police were urgently reviewing the security of other defective russian spies in the country once again implying moscow's guilt despite a lack of even one suspect after two months and while clearly none of these details are enough to prove russia's innocence at the same time nothing we've seen or heard up till now is enough to prove its guilt either. russia says the revelation by the czech president undermines london's case but in a statement to r.t. the british foreign office repeated its claims that only russia has the technical means operational experience and motive to target the script powells we've heard

from former u.k. intelligence officer charles schumer bridge really for quite some time we've had confirmation that actually the central plank of the u.k. government's claim to only russia could produce this was actually likely to be untrue and this of course admission from the czech president is further confirmation of that short on many of the or stylish when we first saw this interview appeared with the chief of the view one can look at that and say well ok it's very easy probably to make a mistake in the middle of an interview and say grams when in fact you meant milligrams but that is actually contradicted by what the i.p.c.c. selves have said make sure into what was the reasoning behind the chief actually saying something that appears to be not just a mistake but at least officially untrue certainly it was grassed upon by headlines in the west that said that this was further proof that such a huge substance assume huge amount could only come from a state of course to bolster their case that this might be russia. palestinians

have been continuing that anti occupation rallies along the gaza border over the course of the past week the area has been gulped in black smoke from burning tires the protest the great to march of return lasts for weeks and the number of faith tallaght sees have been mounting. lucky. the to do a good thing about it but it's just that he's getting that if it's followed by at this rate is likely enough. that i can't really keep i'm trying to explain. it let's kill a ticket. live

. it's a sniper is to get it up to let me take a look at the taste of nicholas life and mission the family think it stuck to the heart of it to the medical field point except to say that if you say prayers i take it think that it's an intro that serious. damage to the center and in this. the touch live. to could always during my football career i hope to be one of the best players in

cause after this injury my football career is over these really response with life far during the protest i was filming myself to post it later we sure have the right to do it while i was filming a sniper shot me and it was dislocated i was targeted without a warning if i was enough. to the soldiers you know. people are actually crossing a fence and it's really territory and her right to use non-lethal needs of all right if swords to carry out her arrest if there has been you know i'm not getting that crossing the border without authorization but using live ammunition right now using intentional legal force is. here i wonder sponsored enough try to buy from them and that's not what's happening here.

it's difficult to see how time burning the stone throwing. or even more for cocktails thrown from a significant distance of heavily protected security forces in defensive positions . can be seem to constitute such threat. in the context of an occupation such as gaza killings resulting from the un for full use of force may also constitute willful killings which are a grave breach of the fourth geneva convention. meanwhile the israeli prime minister appears to be intensifying efforts to convince donald trump to drop the wrong nuclear deal and a dramatic power point presentation this week benjamin netanyahu claimed to

a long night about its nuclear ambitions and his revelations came just days before the u.s. president will decide whether to scrap the agreement daniel hawkins has the details tonight i'm here to tell you one thing. iran lart the evidence well that lies in this filing cabinet allegedly thousands of documents and c.d.'s half a ton to be precise proven conclusively to iran misled the world about its nuclear plans both before and after the twenty fifteen agreement we've known for years that iran had a secret nuclear weapons program called project ahmad hailing this as a significant development and a great intelligence achievement that the all who was sure iran has one reason and one reason only to hide this information why would a terrorist regime. hide and meticulously catalog good secret nuclear files is not to use the middle literally.