many vaccine africa is carrying by far the heaviest burden of malaria and 95 percent a war of malaria cases. and it happened in sub saharan africa, 5 talk food and malaria countries in the world. 4 of them are in africa. so if we can make a difference in africa, we ready, we'll get on top of the malaria problem globally. so there's been some really exciting developments with malaria vaccines that have taken a long time to develop. and we already have the odd back seeing which is proving of value to high bird and malaria countries. not so much reducing the number of malaria cases, but at least reducing the number of children that need to be admitted to hospice with severe malaria. so that's one grades at bonham. and we all waiting eagerly for the results of the large studies on the r 21 back scene. which is designed

to reduce the number of malaria cases by about 70 percent. as the russian language and literature gains increasing popularity across china, we caught up with one of the asian countries talk experts on the issue for his take on these developments while on the sidelines of a cultural forum here in moscow. fiegel in here. what did our generation learn to understand soviet union through russian and soviet literature were at a lot during that time. that's why i advised to my students now to the younger generation, to read russian literature to understand russia better. i did my own contribution to that as now. one of the chinese university publishing office has recently released to book and 3 parts that incorporates the best examples of russian literature. i hope our younger generation will study. those outstanding works. think of it, we should understand that the peak of publishing of russian literature occurred between fifty's an eighty's right now. it is sadly not as popular as before. we shall live through the spirit and accepted. we hope that there will be renewal of

interest towards russian literature. i would also like to add that my generation older people still continue to read russian books is very deep and romantic image at all. you know, for the last 10 years and even more of the most studied language in china, was english to us. so due to various factors, economy, external economic activity and the state of affairs of the world market. and now we consider the situation has changed. the russian class is opening in many schools. we should understand that such change cannot to cure quickly. it will take time, but i believe that there will be bigger interest towards russian language. we combine center law, today's top stories from around the world on our website, r t dot com will be back with more in 30 minutes. oh, see event western countries like to say or like to believe that they are far more sophisticated than those countries that are still developing the west after all is supposed to be made up of countries that respect the rule of law. but we whistleblowers now that's just

not true. you're just as likely to be harassed. surveilled, arrested, and ruined financially and personally in the so called, developed countries as you are in the developing ones. and in banking, switzerland is one of the worst. i'm john kerry. aku welcome to the whistleblowers ah ah. 2 2 2 in a previous episode of the program, we told you about bradley burke and felt the courageous whistleblower who not only exposed financial wrongdoing, money laundering, and income tax evasion at the banking giant u. b. s. but he brought down international money laundering and income tax evasion, period. today we're going to tell you about another courageous whistleblower in banking, who has been harassed and molested by the swiss government and banking sector for more than a decade. trevor kitchen exposed a multi 1000000000 pounds sterling currency scandal. as a result,

his reputation was damaged. and just 2 years ago, he was charged with defaming the swiss banking sector. facing several years in prison, he was saved only when the portuguese courts elected to not extradite him. trevor, welcome to the show. we're glad to have you. well, thanks for inviting me, john. it's a pleasure to meet you on the, on your show. trevor in a funny way, your story is the reverse of so many other whistleblowers. your whistle blowing was clear cut. you blew the whistle on what was really an international banking conspiracy to manipulate foreign currency exchange. i'm going to ask you about that in a moment. what makes your story so different? is your, your whistle blown was obviously a public service and you were clearly reporting a crime. but your life went off the rails for more than a decade because of the very powerful governments and organizations that went after you. let's begin with your actual whistle blowing. tell us what you saw when that

was and how you reported it. okay, well, to give you a little bit of background 1st. i've been working as finance control for about 35 years. and i was quite familiar with multiple currencies, we're getting multiple currencies that the companies that i worked out, we traded in in those. and when i retired, i decided i wanted to supplement my pension. so in february, 2008, something happened that call my hi my attention. i noticed that for the 1st time in history that the dollar had sang low power fees. this is frame. that was august 2011. it hit rock bottom the door and one should be worth $2.00 to swiss francs 90 it now only bowl

$0.72 and between 201-2011, the swiss franc and strengthened 60 percent against the dollar. so the swiss franc was just going up and up and up, and the dollar was being systematically destroyed in the process. sterling, under euro, they were not doing too much better themselves. anyway, these monumental ships did not reflect natural economic forces of supply and demand. nor did they result in trade imbalances between the different countries, such a lot of pining country, you know, it's got small exports compared to the usa. so using my financial background on my forensic skills, i started to assemble data. i charted market movements calculated the

amount of money that would be needed to achieve these colossal movements that were going on. i also had inside banker, i want to make that perfectly clear for your readers, sorry for your years. but after extensive independent analysis, that was my own independent says that i am full that was informed by decades of experience. i was able to detect after painstaking imbalances that they were able to get away with this such a long time. because it was difficult to determine what was really happening. so based on the expertise i had developed over these decades training experience in training, i detected that these currency rates were being manipulated by major vines traders . at the same time, swiss law firms were springing up everywhere in zurich. i noticed the straight away,

they were called wealth managers. family. well, these law firms enabled massive wealth transfer for high net were individual investors on anglican dollars. lawyers worked with banks on how to do just investors include armors, can whole bank accounts anywhere in the world. we count individuals i've, i've, i travel a lot in my life and you just cannot open bank accounts very easily nowadays, but can dollars. and investors can, especially the elite investors. so my concern was that the valuation or the dollar would now start damaging the purchasing power of poor nations. you know, nations when we do re columns. so these banks were,

i came to the conclusion that these banks were massively short in the us dollars and stir and for that matter, for the benefit of their investors and compared to the rest of the world. this, this was a comment economy invest age remainder unscathed by the economic crisis. now, how i reported it, ah, i was living in a very secretive switching. and i knew i was put myself in my family a great risk. but after discovering warning signs of currency manipulation, in august 2011, i blew the whistle loudon tear to all the regulators in the usa, switzerland, and further afield and the u. k. i was all a passionate campaign to convince these regulars is that they should investigate who was responsible for manipulating these hardships. there was clear manipulation . so i sent all of my findings and detailed assessment along with substantial

correspondence to regulators and was that she f t c, the sci in the u. k. now the c s t c is the commodities future trading in the usa and i sent it to the swiss regulator, the commission and some other government departments. now for 2 years, i reached out to these, including the i am asked the case treasury fraud offices at all, even m p 's. i included in my data explanations, evidence to support my assessment. the banks and traders were manipulating the currency markets. and i shared these communications with regulators, an important media outlets, even russian television, r t. bloomberg. the guardian and the international is miss times i

described how bang seduce high leverage, high frequency algorithmic traded for the 1st time. nobody had heard of that word algorithmic train. anyway, where was i trading? i was trading at a small company in switzerland called a lambda if i can mention that here. and the, the owner of that company was a family member of the bank, julius there. and they worked with u. b. s. credits with j. p. morgan and zurich. se angel bank. later i emailed this owner some data asking him why he's partner was the head of the say, now the in the face racial futures authority in the usa. and he was on the head of their currency advisory committee. now the n f i n s k are empowered

buying the c s t c to monitor and report on currencies. the owner came straight back to me and accuse me of liable. and threatened to take criminal action. it turned out that you are real enemies. those who wished you actual harm were in switzerland 2 years ago at the age of 70. you were abruptly arrested in portugal, taken to solitary confinement in a maximum security prison, denied year medication, given ill fitting and filthy clothes, and denied access to an attorney and an interpreter for a period. one portuguese prison guard told you this treatment was not coming from them, but from the swiss government. what was that like? did you know what you'd be up against from this with? no, john, i had no idea i was on. i'd retired on mature island with my wife. it was cold and they took me to this,

so it was dirty. it was cold and i had to sleep on a slab of concrete to, to manage. there was no heating, i was on the lot of water water. it was scary because, you know, in europe there's no a bad they s court was rights. they don't exist in switzerland, nor europe. and, and it seemed to me like the people on madeira of these judiciary place were looking at me as or some sort of dangerous criminal. i wasn't even given miranda rights. there was no interpreter in the beginning. there was no attorney given to me and nothing. and the rest one was in portuguese. my wife was needing to see me or bring me should or more so after 48 hours on released in hank house. can you believe in ankle and the judge immediately apologize? apologized to me and said,

the swiss won 2 extra me to switzerland to serve a 3 year prison sentence for committing crimes against personal, warmer and violation supremacy of them secrecy. and put under arrest. then of 5 months. house arrest. i have to stay on the island and put under house arrest. did i know that i was what i was up against the service? i'd rather say, did i know that swift prosecutors could be so indicative, brutal? you know, these prosecutors in some of these prosecutors are just rogues, i mean, they're rolling around europe grabbing people for things like speech. i mean, this is incredible. so they, they switch, prosecutors wheeled a normal hours and they, in switzerland, the prosecutor, jury, and judge and 95 percent of the cases. the criminal cases don't

like prosecutors alone. there's no judge. so this hire a prosecutor that had already interrogated and search my x one apart and insure it no one. my ex wife in jewelry has a pacemaker she 70 years of age. we've been divorced. 35 years. is prosecutor hotter interrogated, trying to find out where i was. then she renews. $40000.00 from my bank account. start hugging me across europe. she instruct foreign judiciary police how they should treat me on madeira. now look, i've, i've heard some horror stories about prosecutors and please using psychological torture on their captives, especially foreigners, 90 percent of the criminals in switzerland for 90 percent.

that's difficult for me to comprehend this type of the moral and national goal. i think it's insane. people who report corruption wrongdoing and not criminal. it's john. i'm not a criminal. the swish have weapon lies. the justice system. the junk jurisdictions to get, even with whistleblowers, who report corruption. we're speaking with international banking whistleblower, trevor kitchen. we have a lot more to ask him, especially about his work to remain out of the clutches of swiss authorities. so stay tuned. 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 ah no. when i went to the wrong one,

i'll just don't the rules. yes. to fill out the thing because after an engagement equals the trail went to many find themselves worlds apart. we choose to look for common ground, a question of them when you thought about you, i mean you clean up here and they're not blowing up with those rules. listen, look a, do you live muscles? do you look on the initial be? well, no club masika had you post on zillow while diaz can used to put value with who did origin. but he also still listed on the lewis offering

a similar to like want to put that on the building just was a what i see these teeny bosses know growth you motivation says decency or gumbo. sup. ah, welcome back to the whistleblowers. i'm john kerry. our group were speaking with international banking with the blower. trevor kitchen. trevor, thanks for staying with us. you won your case and portugal before a panel of 3 judges, but the portuguese prosecutor appealed that. so it remained hanging over your head . you were warned that you would be charged in switzerland with defamation and with violating privacy and bank secrecy laws. and you were facing 3 years in prison. the truth is, the swiss were embarrassed and perhaps humiliated that you had called about publicly. you would aired their dirty laundry. we know that this is

a swiss tactic against financial whistleblowers thing that you did, but you also won your appeal and you were permitted to leave portugal. what happened next? i had by now i had a u. k lawyer and he sent a complaint to the portuguese ministry of foreign affairs. and he followed up all night by sending 2 letters to the swiss general of germany describing switzerland behavior as an inhumane and degrading it was a breach of civil rights he wrote. and he said, is politically motivated because of my whistle blowing activities. he asked them to promptly withdraw their warrant and terminate all criminal proceedings against the swiss attorney general. she loved both of his letters. we've never got a reply. my portuguese lawyers in the court already at the supreme court

had characterized the swiss prosecutor's behavior, had political oppression, or refreshing rather, and persecution that salute the country to european law. it's an abuse of power or personal revenge. anyway, at that point, my wife and i still lived here island. we felt threatened we, we didn't feel secure in europe. so my wife and i decided to leave europe and had back to south africa where i used to live and all my family and well, stone in shot record. so i fell. i, you know, i wanted to go there and my last few years there. i'm 72 now homeless. anyway, my u. k. lawyer advised me to keep a copy of the supreme court decision just in case i stopped anywhere in europe. i did, and my wife for me a few times she said look,

if we're going to fly down to south africa, we'd better go direct because you're not wanted in portugal anymore. we better not go anywhere near the year. so my lawyer said, take the supreme court decision with you. i did and i was in the shock of my life because trans transit in schiphol airport. i'm instantly re arrested on the exact same sworn dot should ignore portugal for judge's decision. they confiscated my pulse was photographed fingerprinted me for a 2nd time, 16 months. they stripped me, make it or put me in solitary confinement. i wasn't allowed any medic, my own medication was forbidden. i asked why my people, my own medication. they said, well, you know, we have to worry about drugs or could i at least get a book to read from my suitcase?

no. in case you got drugs on the pages, i thought what the heck is going on here anyway, that was something. so i'm, these are denied my medicine and i was therefore, in solitary confinement to 23 hours a day in this dutch prison, it schiphol airport near skippable airport. and i, i had a phone call in the room there and i was allowed to speak with my wife by phone, and she visited me twice, i think. anyway, it eventually she managed to find the 22 square meter hotel. the dutch let me out after 14 days, the judges they, they were shot. they were actually shocked to see me in front of them. writing email complains to, you know, alerting corruption. they couldn't believe it. so they said, well, the dutch prosecutor wants your passport. so i have to leave that with the dutch

prosecutor, and i have to report to the police station once a week. and they gave me a dutch earlier on. the dutch lawyer told me that the courts was so busy with serious trying cases that it could take years before this. extradition is coming true and i have to sit there for years. but then she quickly told me something she said, you know it's, it's not a crime. if you would escape. this actually is not a criminal offense. when i thought about that, because we couldn't afford this $3000.00 euro rent each month. so we escape holland by road. when i got back to my destination, i found my lawyer and he said, you are free here. you're free. unimportant. so i have those. the dutch lawyer sends me an email. she warned me about if i ever enter any dutch and play anywhere

in the world, i'll be re arrested. dutch prosecutor refuses return my pals for another u. k. of refuse to give me a new passport. so the last 9 months. so i have no passport. so horror, sure. the f b i whistleblower jane turner who also works with the national whistleblower center here in the united states has called you one of the bravest and most important whistleblowers ever to come out of the banking sector. what would you say to others in international banking, who are considering blowing the whistle on waste, fraud, abuse, or illegality? you know, how high the price can be. what would you tell them? well, i would tell them to forget about trying to get exposure through the or, or to reveal any of this through the media because the media just don't help the mainstream media don't help people with truth nowadays. and i would also warm that

if they want to speak truth to power in switzerland, a country that now seems to regard itself as master of the world. they need to remember that says lawyers and prosecutors are good at twisting truth. they are naturally, in my opinion, naturally borne liars, because that's what they did. i'd ask people here, any whistleblower, go and read. john grisham books. don't trust any law enforcers or the leaders who give these people privilege hours to attend public speech. i'd say they need to remember that there's no a bias corpus lights anywhere in europe, especially switzerland. and it seems to me that the european benchmark justice is now become double standards and hypocrisy. i tell people not to bother wasting time, blowing the whistle with incorrigible officials because nothing,

nothing will ever change until these people who are running our laws and politics are replaced with honest leaders. they need to be where, when traveling in the shank and to this is where i am now because a lot of people don't realize this. but in the u. s. i and the u. k. you don't need an id to go traveling from state to state or going into hotels, but in europe, in the shouldn't get one or every policeman. and every hotel receptions is a border control. and no one is safe from this use abusive arrest long. what's next for you? trevor? many whistleblowers speak, teach lecture and write about their experiences. many try to be something of a sentinel of the public trust. what have you been doing since leaving portugal? well, i've been read and listening to

a lot of wishing blowers in switzerland. i've spoken to them. i've read their stories about corruption in the prosecution shield. this is about the type of switch brutality that goes on in the source police force. there are many people there, they have the highest detention center of the tensions of and they happens, sorry, overall, rephrase or switzerland has the highest percentage in the world of detainees that have not been put on trial. there is no trial. and so what i'd like to do for the future is i'd like to try to help those poor people in switzerland on other places that have no voice to reveal the truth about what really goes on in these. in some of these places like switzerland, especially switzerland. what is she?

and i'd like to finish by quoting something from professor roger. scuse him. if i my he says the common law tells us that the ordinary person is in charge of the law. not the people who are there pretending to impose it on him or her. that's all the time we have for you today. i'd like to thank our guest, trevor kitchen, and i would like to thank our viewers for joining us. mahatma gandhi once said that truth never damages a cause. that is just, he was right. speaking the truth take strength and courage. it's not always easy to do. and sometimes we don't even understand where that strength comes from. but without whistleblowers, like trevor kitchen, the world would be a far different place. i'm john kerry, aka. when you've been watching the whistleblowers, we'll see you next time. ah. 2 2

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