a luxury yacht that was that is said to have been bought from that money that was embezzled from this fund they sold it off for one hundred twenty six million u.s. dollars also after lost the election and the police raided some of his properties they recovered some three hundred million u.s. dollars in the form of luxury goods like jewelry and handbags that that were in the possession possession of his wife and also cash of course but that is all just a drop in the ocean because overall as you said some four point five billion u.s. dollars i m missing and the malaysian finance minister is the minister just said last year that if they re lucky they ll be able to recover some thirty percent of that money brian boston harbor joining us from bangkok thanks very much boston. while the west s largest and oldest military alliance nato is marking a milestone today his seventieth birthday nato was created to protect europe from the soviet union and its warsaw pact alliance following their colla
sent from paris and and to german cities. using looted property the nazi regime was able to compensate those who suffered from the first wave of british bombing. in late one nine hundred forty two party agents received three hundred seventy thousand claims for compensation for which the state immediately paid out one hundred twenty six million marks that was a relatively small sum for a regime that had billions at its disposal from europe s jews it would not be easy for bombers to bring an end to such a powerful empire. but the fierce battle had begun. in britain bomber command was now receiving a third of the defense budget factories began producing
and this system was extended to all the countries under german occupation. for instance twenty seven thousand train carriages full of household goods were sent from paris and antwerp to german cities. using looted property the nazi regime was able to compensate those who suffered from the first wave of british bombing. in late one nine hundred forty two party agents received three hundred seventy thousand claims for compensation for which the state immediately paid out one hundred twenty six million marks that was a relatively small sum for a regime that had billions at its disposal from europe s jews it would not be easy
to come on the day all eyes will be on this man tomorrow where will the former catalog president be on thursday spain wants him back home to appear before judges in madrid will. stay put in belgium the latest in the catalonia saga coming up later on the show. or the top lawyers representing the titans of tech facebook twitter and google are facing tough questions from u.s. senators this week they want to know how russia used social media platforms to interfere in last year s presidential election now the big takeaway from yesterday s senate hearing was the number one hundred twenty six million that s the number of americans facebook says came into contact with russian propaganda during the campaign last year now that contact was made possible by eighty thousand paid
influence last year s presidential poll. some of facebook s huge profits came from entities that wanted to influence the u.s. election the internet giant has now admitted that fake accounts created in so-called troll factories and russia had an impact with posts that were widely shared the question is how big of an impact. the messages were incendiary that were heavily partisan the content is really really striking and that s the kind of stuff that gets shared for free and you don t have to pay to get that to too many people one of facebook s legal advisers has admitted that the platform should have done more tech clamp down on fake accounts the most recent numbers indicate that in the space of the two years ahead of the last election one brush based group generated some eighty thousand posts that reached around one hundred twenty six million users that s roughly half of the people eligible to vote in the u.s. election facebook says it s now taking steps to address the problem c.e.o.