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 intitled 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 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. local was selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings the news to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battle. and you saw to try to tell you that because of the public by file for the most important news today. off the bat or tell me you are not old enough to buy their product. all the hawks that we along with all the walking. highlands was as part of course ties back to one he counts donington disdain said standing stock poor now. because of

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rejected. so when you want to express an interest or some people want to be preached. to go right to the press it's like the fourth treat all can't be good. i'm interested always in the why should. i should. the united states can instead of tools to use in its tax on other countries. economic sanctions or are often just the beginning another thing you like to do is place some military pressure on the country music you're talking about. and there must be an effort to demonize that country and the leader of that country

because. police have a responsibility for the hate. and so we need to make rules through most of. those without us there will be. truths seem wrong but old old just don't call. me old that is yet to shape out these days it comes to educate and it gains from it equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. well the lawyers for our client contacted. the hellyeah mag gallery and

helen him 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. nor david not maad that bought the painting at an auction

held at christie's. thing 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 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 model rooms 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 the nomad 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 smaller would tell us their version of the story. but they want. to. make a set that i laugh i mean i'm at the end on a. and e. act. internationally. tony is a on the economy going to action there for life i mean i'd say. the twenty's act. to clear his clients even further blow or even raises. doubts that the painting ever belonged to the jewish antiques dealer staton or.

they don't. and it was a bit. of unease. is extinct. what. the. sea let us down and. 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 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 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 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 restore you 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. i'm not happy that he's all. i mean. so. are 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 know him on the beyond on a softer you befall it so i. don't use aside the so. awful i can. reproduce it don't. give us the whole supper related for the actual southend diskette because of the

discussion. in geneva the middle 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. family have 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. she said it still is very low exact. a little.

more than michelle's eleven thirty to get to this little blue book or a little bit over the last love appropriately a to z. list the guy who doesn't even go. to yes is. also got all a slew of also where that those days are not as they were that all. of us also. read up opposite the dishes such as restore. the fish the moss your who. was a also what it is it's more as far as d.j.'s soldiers go the distance are to us. but what other secrets are really hidden in the report. 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. zero point six. it is a nice house from purview more talking all. of us from a. source just took is risky saw provençal in your memo called you. lonely but you don't remember. need mom was just saucy it on sick but don't let me complete toilet does trees leboeuf why.

they don't play for money to. make. in response to widespread criticism the recently appointed president of the geneva freeport a magistrate known for his integrity is supposedly fighting the good fight calling for much stricter regulations. for the. new schemes where you sit in does the prison form. at the on the icon and it's. about. these two. men. more. cautiously. 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. the new global economic war is unfolding in the realm of education the right to education being supplanted by the right to access education low it's high education is becoming just another product that can be bought and sold thundersnow just about education anymore it's also about running a business there where you could know mom also through jacque or look good is also kind of the fairly good image. i want is the place of students in this business

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here there'll. be a. couple of headlines for this hour or two international with a deadline for donald trump decision on the iran nuclear agreement looming for. foreign minister heads to washington to say. to. be killed hundreds of interpreters who worked with the british army in afghanistan face deportation from the u.k. even though they were promised. to speak to one of those affected. me being sworn in as the russian president on monday after winning the election in march in the run up to the inauguration he was granted a. lavish grand palace with

a ceremony is taking place. well it is monday may seventh here in moscow just after eight o'clock in the morning top world headlines for this hour on the international. the british foreign secretary is making last minute efforts to persuade donald trump to stick to the iranian nuclear deal. is currently on a two day visit to washington where he will meet with senior ministration officials . takes a closer look at europe's efforts to change his mind. terms of parent intention of dropping the iran nuclear deal later this week has sent the international community into overdrive there are now two competing influence campaigns playing out keep it and kill it seemingly testing out the theory third time's

a charm the british foreign secretary boris johnson is in washington and a last ditch effort to save the pact from trump's wrath that's after the leaders of france and germany had no luck whatsoever isn't that we believe it's better to have this agreement even if it's not perfect and have no agreement. the iran deal is not sufficient to see that iran's ambitions are curbed and contained it is most important to recognize that iran through its ballistic missile program is trying to exert geo political influence in syria and lebanon. the solid robust verifiable agreement that guarantees that iran is not a nuclear weapons to denounce it without proposing anything else would be a serious mistake not respecting it would be irresponsible france thank you. but we should acknowledge that the current agreement doesn't allow us to address

all of the issues among the things not covered by the iran nuclear deal is iran's activity in the region. this by going in with iron resolve both the chrono and merkel and it up looking like they were just trying to pander to the u.s. leader and although boris is set to meet with trump's vice president and his hawkish new national security adviser those two will likely try to browbeat johnson into accepting this is a bad job and doomed deal i don't see that there's any prospect of a real fix to this deal i think the deal is inherently flawed i think it's a strategic buckle for the united states the iran nuclear deal is a disaster in the united states of america will no longer certify this field can see. the only hope france germany and the u. . they seem to have is to push for a compromise with trump simply tweaking the existing agreement but perhaps we're not seeing the whole picture here maybe the problem for america actually goes deeper than this one pact we got

a president is told the president doesn't listen to. the people who are naysayers and a president that is as true to regime change as we are. meanwhile pushing the white house to abandon the agreement is the israeli prime minister whose country isn't a signatory netanyahu just last week gave a pretty dramatic powerpoint presentation on iran's secret nuclear program which turned out to be both not secret and non-existent still b.b. is flying to moscow in the coming days to try and get his message across to president putin the kremlin has been clear on its stance however so with both sides battling it out everything for now is still up in the air this deal took years of exhaustive negotiations to reach and surely none of that included worrying about what the next guy in the white house thought but if one naysayer is all it takes to bring them down maybe it sends the message that all landmark international agreements should be structured to only last for one presidential cycle it shows

that the united states foreign policy is not based on responsibility but it's the use force the un has no place other world powers are not even enough room to play a major actors in the us foreign policy and this shows major failure for diplomacy in resolving global issues like nuclear problem that's the main message of the kind of policy that has been adopted by donald trump. hundreds of interpreters who worked with the british army in afghanistan facing the threat of deportation from the u.k. that is despite a promise from britain that they would be allowed to stay and we spoke to one of those affected who says the only thing that awaits him back in afghanistan is death . if they deport me back there is only one tries for me to be killed he doesn't know when but the u.k. home office has informed abdul bari that he's going to be deported to kabul within

the next three months abdul says he can't go back to afghanistan because he worked as a frontline interpreter for british forces from two thousand and eight to two thousand and ten my life was in danger my family life was in danger threatening me they told me that you know that you joined the infidels. you've been talking about there was only one chance for me and i must leave the country cost so can target but the main target was for paying me so if they did catch me if i had they would definitely just leave the country the british defense secretary gavin williamson has made headlines in recent days by telling the home office that afghan interpreter should be allowed to stay in the u.k. but that reassurance only refers to around four hundred forma interpreters who had been given five year you tavi says they expire soon and all the all sorts of down in reality as say that they'll waive the costly renewal fees so those celebrator

you headlines don't apply to the six hundred or so former afghan interpreter is still in kabul who have had their asylum claims rejected nor do they applied to the handful of complicated cases relating to former interpreters who were forced to flee and entered the u.k. illegally like abbeville all of us are delighted that those who for all the criteria and their families are here and will stay here and that nobody paid any money there are still people who are being looked at and we need to be careful that we don't fall through the debts we have a debt of honor to these people and what we mustn't do is leave someone who actually worked for us looked after. has helped us we mustn't leave someone like that in a position where they and their families will be at risk and we've got to be very clear make sure we don't do that abdul says he didn't have time to apply for a visa through the official interpreter scheme while he was still in kabul that

required months of waiting and his life was increasingly at risk now abdul's lawyer is appealing the home office's moves to deport him many interpreters got these fish directly from afghanistan through the ministry defense relocation visa is very strict criteria that requires you to be. working in helmand province and to be made redundant on or after the nineteenth of december twenty twelve a lot of people like mr barry weren't working in two thousand and twelve because they were threatened and targeted by the taliban hard to quit their jobs and flee it's not really fair but he's had to make this journey to do you care to escape these threats to be told actually go home they're saying it's it's safe for him to read up here we have evidence from former employees not just from the british army but they also he was working with him be in kabul but he really cared to the originator scope but evidence suggests he was threatened in kabul. and if he goes

back to the same will happen again he will be targeted when it comes to its own citizens the u.k. government clearly warns against travel to almost all of afghanistan even districts in the heavily guarded capital kabul it adds that terrorists are very likely to carry out attacks and methods are evolving and increasing in sophistication but that's apparently safe enough for abdul barry to return as far as the u.k. government is concerned i don't play with a couple of safe cos i think i'm always the most dangerous place in the world at the moment because. bomb is exploding people are dying and i don't. the home office is saying the couple has so i first met abbeville a couple of months ago since then his already fragile mental state has worsened because so vibing thirty five. and the both time accommodations i'm are allowed to

. so it can do nothing but talk so i have a very bad depression so i bring to the g.p. many times and some medicine from them but doesn't work. i'm still struggling i ask him about what he wants to do if and after all this he wants to work he'd read economics at university and kaberle he wouldn't mind resurrecting his professional boxing career either but his talk is tentative working and living here sounds like a dream one that any day now could come crashing down with the arrival of a final deportation letter. so when just a few hours lot of a putin will be sworn in as russian president he won the election back in march and ahead of the you know.