. >> narrator: "the luanda leaks" begins ght now. ♪ ar >> narrator:, september 2019.ium of investigative journalists has gathered together reporters from almost 40 organizations, including "frontline," toab coate on a new investigation. >> so our first two guests are the peopleho actually brought us the documents. >> narrator: they've been given a cache of leaked documents by a group called the platform to protect whistleblowers in africa. thhe700,000 files-- known as luanda leaks-- are all related b to theiness interests of angolan billionairisabel dos santos-- contracts, loanen agre, bank transfers, invoices, emails; documents mapping the complex struure of her business empire. "new york times" investigative reporter michael forsythe is part of the collaborion... >> the story of isabel dos santos has been out there foa few years. there have been these ports about potential corr, this accumulating wealth from angola. but these documents, i think, really kind of connect the dots and document a lot of that. >> narrator: isabel dos ntos is one of the world's richest wom

and they are not the only people who have lost their homes in luanda.re isabel dos santos lived when she was a child, in the presidential compound, surrounded by party loyalists, her dad in charge of the country. then she grew up and came up with a plan to redevelop this area and make herself a lot of money. we have discovered her company bought a square kilometre of that prime, beachfront land from the government. it was made possible after a presidential decree from her dad. the land was valued at almost $96 million. but our documents show her company only paid 5% of that in return for investing the rest in the project. i think that she got the opportunity to become rich and take the opportunity that her father, by decree, would transfer state monies to her. the architects named this area millionaires‘ alley. all of these plots were to be luxury villas and the people who lived here were all cleared away. we have tracked down some of the people who were moved out to make way for isabel dos santos‘ development. they have been shifted to an isolated hous

. >> amanda berry, when she first went missing, her mother, luanda miller was on the tv pleading for return. >> my daughter should not be talked about like this. she is not dead yet. it is so frustrating living daily. >> we had thousands of leads. >> there's still hope for the family. >> i would see them on tv, and i'm like, that kept me going. and i said i'm going to make it home to you. as long as you fight, i'm going to fight. >> 14 year old gina dejesus grew up on the rough and tumble west side of cleveland. >> i told her to be aware of her surroundings at all times. >> tell us about that day you were with his daughter. >> yes. irene castro. we were talking about what we wanted to do, because it was friday. and then i was like, you can come over. >> and geena lent her bus money to make the telephone call. >> and she asked her mom. and her mom says no. >> the last thing she said to me is you owe me 50 cents. >> right after that, ariel castro pulls up and offers gina a ride. >> he asks me if you seen my daughter. >> and this lure was the trick of ariel castro. using his own childre

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independent transparent investigation catherine stansell al jazeera well still ahead all al-jazeera luanda leaks the documents prepared to show how the daughter of my goal is former president signs and hundreds of millions of dollars of state money into offshore accounts and files in central americans are trying to make their way north to claim asylum but few have names that when they get to the u.s. their plans to send the right by their stories after the 1st. had some pretty nice sunshine across southern sections of the arabian peninsula tom it is being steadily climbing of the last few days and also to the old plaintive weather streaming in a loss of cloud bringing some widespread some snow flurries into that cold air 3 celsius on monday we could see one or 2 snow flurries there and then the eastern end of the mediterranean still quite a bit of rain around and some pretty strong winds as well really continue to sit here the next couple of days but it does begin to make a bit of headway pushing across into iraq meanwhile those showers working their way towards afghanistan and on into pak

luanda leaks the document trove 14 to show how the daughter of angola's former president siphoned millions of state money into offshore accounts. making the same flip. the deliberate made a mistake that is one giant leap for space. so that libya's warring sides and world leaders have agreed to help secure a fragile truce in the hope it will develop into a full ceasefire at a summit in germany they also committed to reinforce you know weapons and. has more now from. it was the most important gathering to an libya's conflict in many years but from the start german chancellor. was struggling to narrow differences between libya's rivals prime minister of the tripoli based government of national accord phases with used to sit down with warlords highly for have leaving merkel shuttling back and forth to convince spaceship powers to help secure a permanent cease fire and stop the flow of arms into the war torn country. here in berlin there. everyone with an agreement including the regional organizations the arab league to a u.n. of course the african union that we need a political solution it's b