this is gold. this is gold? gold. oh, right.. 0k, 0k, 0k. 0k. 0k? 0k. i think it's beautiful in its own way. mm—hm. oh, wow! actually, that looks amazing, now he's cleaned it up. oh, that is beautiful! so technically this is a piece of wajima lacquerware. i don't think it's quite up to the standards that the artisans can make, but i'm pretty proud of it nonetheless. love it. i'm leaving wajima and heading to my final stop in osaka, completing this stretch of the new golden route. looking back on myjourney, i've seen how trains can be so much more thanjust a means of getting around. they can bring people together. opening up the big cities and the remote regions, instilling a sense of national pride and bringing hope for the future. what i've learned on this trip is that there is a place for both fast and slow travel — speeding out across the country and then venturing further on smaller local lines. it really is the best way to travel. for more on myjapanese train journey, go to www.bbc.com. hello. saturday was a very showery an

dynamics gold supply position. it is all the bullish factors for gold are in tact.ood year in 2025 for gold. >> let's talk about the other side of the equation, however, when you think about gold equities and performance is different from gold prices. just explain to us why it you think this is the case and any changes we could actually see -- any chance, i should say, we should see a change in 2025? >> right. that's been the biggest puzzle for me. you have the fabulous upward movement in gold and flat or downward performance in the gold equities. this is the bizarre disconnect. i've been in this game for a long time. i've been running public companies for almost 40 years in the gold space. 2024 was a very weird year where you had almost no interest in the gold equities and fantastic bullish market in gold prices. this is unusually. it is either the gold prices go up or down. i don't see any reason why the gold price will decline and that means in 2025 we will have a great bull market in gold equities like my company. this will be across the board and start with the

i gold for keely. gold for great britain. gold for being brilliant. this year's... so pretty.own, c'est fini. well, fini for the olympics, but not for paris. just over a fortnight later, the city threw open its doors once more for the paralympics. more success for britain's established stars like hannah cockroft and the extraordinary sarah storey. a 19th gold medal. you didn't doubt her, did you? her 18th and 19th golds at the age of 46. alfie hewett, along with gordon reid, finally got his gold. whilst the future too looks bright — five medals for teenager poppy maskill, and for alice tai. and a medal too for the youngest member of the team, 13—year—old iona winnifrith, with a silver in the pool. iona winnifrith! great britain's paralympians returning with 49 golds amongst their luggage across 18 sports. that's more sports than any other nation. for british athletes, summer in paris was truly remarkable. august also saw another british sporting hero emerge, jack draper making it all the way to the semifinals a 19th gold medal. you didn't doubt her, did you? her 18th and 19th

this area is part of the so called gold belt of friends, kiana. calling for the count on panama southern illegal gold miners have cut down trees. they bring chainsaws and use the word to build the caps on the buses. and we found that aside a week ago, you know, now we're checking to see if they, if expanded their activities they arrive at one of several, comes in the area, the legionnaires believe that we're up to 50 minus walking here until recently under the bus. this is the bus, do the legion can only keep them in check through regular patrols going away so they use this engine for that walk to lessen it together with his own dime. we found it now it's on usable a we destroyed all their equipment to prevent them from coming back, thinking of him, but the ground suddenly to in swampy. the legionnaires pointed out several times they destroyed doing a previous patrol. why did they use machines on a pool? i used them to drill holes on the ground and extract rock windows. they then cross even though they using match rate, they separate the gold from

they separate the gold from the rock. that's so it destroys the environment and creates onto official palms, especially because that pumping water out of the ground fault the dealer. then a surprise, the soldiers find equipment that wasn't bad in the loss control. it means the miners have returned recently, a homeowner that will destroy this with their own dom, the minus of left behind a plastic canister and several plastic products use in the gold extraction process . the legionnaires, the materials you say you purchase everything the apartment, but the burning plastic is harmful to the environment. so in this one i leave that materials here, there activities will hom, the environment even more. we have to destroy tool, they'll come back and we need to keep up regular patrols. pay see good showed us where you can always see this. it's like a game of cat and mouse. they trying to adapt to our methods and we try to track them down to fit senior, cool to match is one of the units medics on the return trip. he explains the d

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when tracking down gold, mine is legionaries for it. sometimes tracked for several days at a time to the jungle. it's the task for the faint hosses who are the farm legionnaires and what price them to doing such an extraordinary unit. the we're heading to one of the foreign legion outpost, 3 hours from cool in northern friends, kiana. it's just a long legal gold lines of which there are several in this french overseas department. senior corporal johnny has taken us alone. as the case with o legion members, we only permitted to use this 1st thing to postpone in our truck by prevents illegal goals. minors from getting here. captains young children illegal to gold mining cause a significantly more environmental damage then legal minds. and if i could, i can tell them a forest and use lots of chemicals to extract the gold, not carry in particular fuel. and also it's gotten into the soil, nothing grows there anymore, and it kills all the trees and ponds. legal gold mine is collect and recycle the materials they use. so they have a proper rec

dennis murphy (voiceover): gold said, go figure.ause of his son, christian. i basically didn't want to see the kid fatherless. and i figured it was the lesser of the evil. i figured it was just a tragic accident that happened, and why make it worse? dennis murphy (voiceover): first, gold said, they got rid of lynne's car. back at the house, the two picked up the bag with lynne's body. did you, as you tried to lift this bag, say anything to clifford about why did it weigh so much? i did. and what did he tell you? it's weighted. dennis murphy (voiceover): once on the boat, gold says clifford weighted it down even more. he disengaged the anchor from the anchor line and stuffed that in as well. dennis murphy (voiceover): customs agents who stopped them confirmed the boat anchor was missing. they also found cement blocks and rope. gold recalled the moment out at sea when he gave clifford a heads up that customs was following. he said we have to dump the bag. he jumped in the back, grabbed a hold the side of the bag, i grabbed the other,

of nature's grace adapt his living see to europe of 3 gold. jenny reset on d. w. the deep in the rain forest, a fringe kiana. the french foreign legion is on the hunt for illegal goals. minus the legendary leads unit has pulled on the front lines of many french floors displays of weakness are flipping in and doesn't cry in front of others. when tracking down gold, mine is legionaries, but it's sometimes tracked for several days at a time to the jungle. it's the task for the faint hosses who are the farm legionnaires and what price them to join such an extraordinary eunice the we are heading to $1.00 of the farm legions outpace. 3 hours from cool in northern friends kiana. it's just a long legal gold lines of which there are several in this french overseas department, senior corporal johnny has taken us alone. as the case with o legion members, we only permitted to use this 1st thing. people selling in our truck by prevents the legal goals miners from getting here. captains young tells us illegal to gold mining cause a significantly more environmental damage then l

here i got home p o, southern illegal gold miners have cut down trees. they bring chainsaws and use the word to build the caps on the buses and we found that signed a week ago. you know, now we're checking to see if they, if expanded their activities they arrive at one of several, comes in the area, then the generic believe that we're up to 50 mine is working here until recently, under the bus. this is the bus to the legion can only keep them in check through regular patrols only way. so they use this engine for that walk to less than that together with his own dime. we found it now . it's on usable. sorry. we destroyed all the equipment to prevent them from coming back. i think, you know, have in the ground suddenly to, in swampy, the legionnaires pointed out several times they destroyed doing a previous patrol. why did they use machines for a pool? i use them to drill holes on the ground and extract rock windows. they then cross even if using match rate, they separate the gold from the rock. that's so it destroys the environment and creates onto the vi

of gold.that one needs to be bullish of gold. i continue to be supportive of the gold market, wants to go from lower left to upper right over the next several years. cheryl: what do you think. >> dennis makes a good point. people flee to gold when there's inflation in the capital markets. gold is pushing up all time highs. we think it's reasonable to go underweight on gold, have some in the portfolio. if you look at the broader markets, look at the s&p, if it's averaged 25% over the last four years, half of that -- over half came from the mag seven over the last couple years. pull that out, the s&p is up 7 and-a-half percent. the broad markets is where we should be overweight as opposed to gold for the next 12 months. cheryl: let's look at crypto. we've seen a huge rebound. the digital chamber founder and ceo spoke with maria earlier this month on the price of bitcoin. listen to this. >> model says it's going to be at over 800,000 by the end of next year if donald trump is successful in puttin

all ladies in indian, they wear gold chains, gold, long earrings and bangles. it's that gold jewelry that has made them a prime target for thieves. we've had quite a few of the jewelry swap thefts. they're very alarming in that they're very targeted to people that are wearing gold jewelry primarily, and a certain cultur, and always the elderly population. distraction thefts are on the rise. san ramon police released surveillance video of one of the thefts. a suspect drives up to the victim, who was simply walking through a shopping center parking lot, engages in friendly conversation and even offers a prayer before hugging the victim while swapping out his gold necklace with a fake one. there's a lot of different scenarios that all involve this distractingng behavior, and this befriending of the victim before being able to touch them and take off their jewelry. we meet here and we are always in a group, so we are not alone. nowadays. we are scared. several of these women say they've been approached by the thieves who have attempted to take their necklaces and g

gold medal. you didn't doubt her, did you? her 18th and 19th golds at the age of 46.on reid finally got his gold. whilst the future too looks bright, five medals for teenager poppy maskell and for alice tai and a medal. two for the youngest member of the team, 13 year old iona winnifrith, with a silver in the pool. iona winifred! great britain's paralympians returning with 49 goals amongst their luggage across 18 sports. that's more sports than any other nation for british athletes. summer in paris was truly remarkable. august also saw another british sporting hero emerge, jack draper making it all the way to the semi—finals of the us open in what was his break—out year. a little further south, golf�*s solheim cup got under way. a dominant opening day from the americans left europe with too much to do. it's coming back to the united states for the first time in seven years. team usa, victorious in virginia. september also saw the world of football honour the life of former england manager sven—goran eriksson, who passed away at the age of 76. here, one of the big brit

the gold trade is humming.es in rich deposits across the nation, has surpassed prewar levels. that is just the official figure in a country rife with smuggling. in his article he follows the money or in this case gold that is fueling the civil war between what is left of the sudan military forces and the paramilitary group that supports itself with money from gold. gold that is smuggled out of sudan and is of great interest to foreign sponsors, including vladimir putin. joining us now from kenya is declan walsh, chief african correspondent for the new york times. thank you for joining us once again. i know this is not easy. i have to say, i, every once in a while, try to explain what is going on in sudan and i find if i get halfway through i am stuck and i can't quite do it. having read your most recent piece about the complexity that gold introduces to this, i find it even more difficult to explain. there are so many levels that work. what is the best way of putting it to people just coming to the subject now?

, but put it on and it feels like gold on my skin disclose costs. so cash across the board from materials through to design. this is alice, it's all copy. i designed it was cost money. and if you don't want to pay for that, you have to imitate the same. but if people recognize that they'll buy it and it looks like gold, but it's not, it costs $5.00 euro's, you'll earn more with lots of small items, then from one expensive piece, that's the business model stick. so this is services i think i'm business with in students a full time university. learn how to design and create their own jewelry. a painstaking job that involves filing, welding and mounting. and that takes time. i've already been working on this or use it for 2 weeks, a life. so it's not fashion jewels are yours for a production method. that's the purpose of it. to fast fashion, craftsmanship, design and materials. it will cost money. you have to cut corners if you want to do it on the cheap in terms of craftsmanship, but also in materials. so let a shot. there is no real goals here, silva

a gold rush is underway. the violence is interrupted operations many minds, but despite production cuts, the precious metals still accounts for 40 percent of saddam's export revenue. even before the conflict began, the rapids support forces control most of the gold sector. now you and investigators say department of treat group is using the proceeds from the gold mining to um its fight is a confidential report submitted to the un security council. in november, i found that gold with $860000000.00 that'd be extracted from power military control mines in the for this year. the how much of a role does gold play in this conflict? the fact that the smuggling of gold never stops has to be so. so starting the war is, is very telling, it is the main source of finance for the or assess and it's also a mean. it's a good source for their allies. we utilize, you know, the money from the gold smuggling is where is it bad? like you said, follow the money trail and, you know, and it's not just, it's not just the way this ca

the government quickly turned to its other great resource, gold.e corruption, massive official corruption. the war appeared to put a stop to it, but very quickly, it resumed. and it's now become clear that, in fact, the gold trade in sudan is not only back to the prewar levels but has exceeded it. and it's being exploited by both sides of the war. both as a way of financing the fight, paying for the drones and some of the weapons and other elements that are used to fight this war. and it's also providing a motivation, unfortunately, for some of those foreign powers that are taking part in the war and backing either side. those are countries like russia, the united arab emirates, and indeed a host of smaller actors in countries that surround sudan. >> and those foreign players in this situation, in your reporting, don't care at all about famine in sudan and the suffering in sudan? >> no. this is really the extraordinary thing about this gold rush, effectively, is that it's taking place against a backdrop of a spreading famine, of the world's largest

great britain take the olympic gold in the men's eight. what a moment in paris. gold.e done it. what just happened ? only andy could write this one. only andy. and just like that, i it's the end of andy murray's tennis career. you know, i gave as much as i could to the sport, being proud to be part of team gb over the last 20 years. and, um, yeah, definitely. we'll miss it. goodness me. what a picture. what a team. believable scenes here at le bourget. that is incredible. yes, yes. come on. oh, i'm so delighted. i'm not crying because i've come second. i'm crying because itjust took so much to get here. in my heart, i've already won. at the age of 37. he is olympic champion. he has won his fourth individual gold medal at. this olympic games. utterly extraordinary. the guy is guy's a superhero. alfred is storming away. alfred reigns supreme. katie ledecky of the usa becomes the only woman to win the same race in. four straight olympic. games. unbelievable. who has got this? great britain. silver medallist. they were coming. they were charging the line. wouldn't come for

i know— gold. we will keep an eye on that. i know you _ gold. we will keep an eye on that.will keep an eye on that. i know you will be - that. i know you will be keeping an eye on this. give us an eye on what we can expect from the report tomorrow. it will be interesting. we have data survey showing that over thanksgiving week at the highest claims of the headline is going to be the payrolls in november. this is after the dismal 0ctober report that added 12,000 jobs. the economy is expecting 17 times that felt november, 215,000 jobs were to be added. that is a big rebound after 0ctober�*s numbers were impacted by two hurricanes and a major labour strike. the narrative at the moment is that there are noises but even with there are noises but even with the occasional bend is the labour market is robust. thank ou. we labour market is robust. thank yom we will — labour market is robust. thank you. we will talk _ labour market is robust. thank you. we will talk about - labour market is robust. thank you. we will talk about that i you. we will talk about that another time. to the

when tracking down gold, mine is legionaries for it. sometimes tracked for several days at a time to the jungle. it's the task for the faint hosses who are the farm legionnaires and what price them to during such an extraordinary unit, the we are heading to $1.00 of the farm legions outpace 3 hours from cool in northern friends kiana. it's just a long legal gold mines of which there are several in this french overseas department. senior corporal johnny has taken us alone. as the case with o legion members, we only permitted to use this 1st thing to postpone in our truck by prevents illegal goals. miners from getting here. captains young children illegal to gold mining cause a significantly more environmental damage then legal minds. and if i could, i can tell them as far as the news, lots of chemicals to extract the gold mercury in particular fuel. and also it's gotten into the soil, nothing grows there anymore and it kills all the trees and ponds. legal gold mine is collect and re.

the fact that the smuggling of gold never stops has to be so. so starting the war is, is very telling. it is the main source of finance for the or assess and it's also a mean, it's a good source for their allies. we utilize, you know, the money from the gold smuggling is where is it bad? like you said, follow the money trail and you know, and it's not just, it's not just the way this case is also the case of russia. russia has also benefit from the goals smart read that from to that. and as long as there's no sanctions on those who, i mean this is a goal has never been brought up as an issue that needs to be section that needs to be, you know, investigated, but is the main source of income for the rest of us. it's a, it's the, our stuff is a very rich, very well entrenched, a entity in sit down in regards to the economy. that's how you know, and the gold is one of their main sources. but you know, it's always has to, it always finds a way to get out of those finds a way for it to be smuggled out. and this is, and nothing has been done about it.

i think it was just beautiful walking in and seeing the gold. the names of fallen servicemembers are written on the gold star ownerments on the accompanying christmas trees. and they have laid down our lives to our country. those who are missing in action and the families who carry on their legacies. may god bless our troops. [cheers and applause] in the library vintage ceramic tree shines with the color of the holidays. and walking in, i was taken back to my childhood because when that tree first came out and you know it's an antique we knew christmas had begun. across the hall, we enjoyed bows and vibrant silk flowers. and we can almost smell warm aroma filling the air with memories. i opened the diplomatic room and first time to be on the tour. so i hope you saw those of you who were here other years. i tried to make the tour come alive. it was important to me as an educator. this holiday season, guests will be able to enjoy that space and features the white house historical society honoring president carter, god bless him. [cheers and applau

an alternative to gold?at a viable argument? >> it is certainly an argument and we've seen some anecdotal data that would suggest maybe some individual investors certainly have shifted their interest from gold to other digital currency and bitcoin, the biggest beneficiary of that. in some cases, i think the use of bitcoin in particular, we see a lot of people concerned about potentials of -- and so on. i think for a certain part of the market they will always consider gold as the gold standard for value preservation. the individual consumers on the other hand, the investors on the other hand, i think that trend will continue to change and benefit. we do have a positive view of bitcoin as well in the forecast. that is really very much driven by in particular u.s. portfolios. romaine: we've got to leave it there. bitcoin camped out right around that 9400 level. managing partner over at dws talking about the 27 percent rally that we seen in gold futures, slightly higher here. on the final trading day of the yea

natalia was paid in gold as a sex worker.as since quit the mines. translation: i have met some girls who, after the gold mines i were able to buy a house, were able to pay for plastic surgery. and today they have a good life. they have their own business. that's not the case for diana. but the dream of gold keeps pulling her back. give it one last try. try to work for two more months. perhaps i can make some profit. stop working at gold mines and have my own business. to find out more about the other inspiring and influential women on this year's list go to bbc.co.uk/100women. you can follow bbc 100 women on facebook and instagram. scientists in britain say they may be able to explain how some of the universe's biggest galaxies were formed more than 12 billion years ago. vast bulging elliptical galaxies, which differ from the flat shape of our own milky way, have puzzled astronomers for decades. new research, published in the journal nature, suggests they could have formed from violent collisions between two disc galaxies — a

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