after 3 weeks of speculation came the announcement from vice president sami s.l.e. haasan on state television. we lost our leader president of the republic of tanzania the owner. jason lee he parted this life from heart complications in hospital in dar es salaam. rumors have been swirling that megaphone had sought treatment for covert 19 largely fed by opposition leader to lease to and kenyan media the government denied the reports and arrested at least 4 people who speculated about his health on social media the majority of you when you told his government no one wears a mask including me it proves that there is no corona virus and god loves this nation president maggie foully was more than a coronavirus skeptic his government stop sharing data with the world health organization last year and declared tanzania covert free divine intervention the official tally still stands at $500.00 in 9 cases and $21.00 deaths all these months later he displayed a disregard for health advice focusing on prayer and local remedies while also claiming the vaccines were dangerous this true condemnation from the w.h.o. and the roman catholic church. dial had turned into policy for a nation of 60000000 what we now have that the ministry has no plans to receive vaccines for 19 which are already in use in other countries the w.h.o. has repeatedly asked the government to adopt preventative measures such as wearing face masks to start reporting cases and to share data foreign embassies began warning of a significant increase in the number of kobe 1000 cases that could overwhelm tanzania's limited hospital capacity in late february maggie farley finally began to change his tone warming to the idea of wearing locally made face masks that was just days before a shocking press conference from his finance minister for the congo which was called to address rumors that he had died of corona virus. tanzania has refused to join the codex program which has delivered millions of doses to $22.00 african countries it will be up to some to decide whether it remains an outlier when it comes to protecting its population and that of neighboring countries. al-jazeera. now a bus carrying afghan government employees has been targeted in a bombing in the capital kabul at least 3 people have been killed and another 11 wounded and 9 members of afghanistan's security forces have separately died in a helicopter crash the chopper went down and best district in wardak province u.s. secretary of state as me blinken says all options are on the table in future relations with north korea he and the u.s. defense secretary have been nation south korean counterparts in seoul thanking reaffirmed his commitment to pressing north korea into new kids on them and we also discussed china we are clear eyed about beijing's consistent failure to uphold its commitments and we spoke about how vision is aggressive and authoritarian behavior are challenging the stability security prosperity in the pacific region. beijing's actions make forging a common approach among our allies on our port at a time when we're seeing a rollback of democracy and human rights around the world including in burma where the military is attempting to overturn the results of a democratic election i agree with you pressing peaceful protesters it is more important than ever that we we stand together for the values for the interests that unite us brazil has reported yet another day of record corona virus infections as the crisis that escalates more than 90000 cases were registered on wednesday alone brazilian media say on average more than 2000 people are now dying every day well those are the headlines i have another update for you here off to al-jazeera investigations. 'd he speaks of the former. president soon to order to take the cash. and the one who takes the cake. to use distance. most of their lives. in the sports do. you. still. tell months silly you know minute by minute. most believe you are useless. being what he used to live. al-jazeera is investigative unit has obtained secretly recorded confessions and a major data leak. i've attended bytes of documents photos and messages. they tell the story of the president of the maldives . ya mean abdul gayoom. it is a tale of corruption thuggery and international money laundering. what words would you use to describe. reclusive brutal corrupt authoritarian bicycle when he started politics. but now he's a banana he is the head he presents himself as he behaves like. the data drive leads to singapore and a plot to launder up to $1500000000.00 through the moldy central bank i just. beat you. we have tracked down the man behind the deal men who move billions of dollars in cash stock don't pilots have a presence here. so. seriously. my question is. a journalist who criticize the government disappeared. a television station torched. anyone and everyone expects a different opinion in some they have been punished. everybody. to the outside world the maldives is a picture of paradise but the local people don't live on luxury resorts. for them it's either the cramped capital or underdeveloped islands. of. their paradise. it's not just. what's happening in the moment it's it's. about. we didn't say well what $300000000.00 have gone missing. well. jordan i lived and worked in the maldives as a journalist a decade ago i returned to investigate the country's rule after obtaining an extraordinary day to draw. the information provides. for all sorts of criminal activities. but. we had. the leak is the contents of 3 mobile phones everything from secret documents. together they tell a story of corruption. the country's youngest vice president to just 33. in his phone messages president a deep portrays himself as more than just a politician. i am boss of all gangs in the motifs. they all operate as a fleet i took them over in the last election. for politics becoming tourism minister in 2013. because that's what brings in revenue for the government. it was quite amazing his transformation. was just so. and it was also in. the car as it was on. he referred to himself and his friends as bro and the system became known as the bro economy he was just flaunting his wealth and he always had a group of other bros around him and there were also in parliament so he made sure a lot of his former football player friends got elected to parliament in there were all the same. phone messages reveal how he and his boss president stole paradise. he. very loyal sure no question he took the money the money the money. the truman offered islands that knocked down prices to international hotel chains. he was selling our nation from. there were 5w3w. base building houses the maldives marketing and p.r. corp it was the cash machine and they illegally withdrew millions. was appointed director and regularly received texts from vice president to deep to arrange their deals. 3 checks 13w1w1w bro gifts also in broke don't worry. he gave a free reign to a blows yet his accomplice at them p.r.c. to just islands and all these deals it was so clear that from day one been never intended for this money to actually be used for public good. the scam begins when unwitting tourism tycoons pay a fee for an island say $5000000.00 they would make out the check to the maldives marketing and p.r. corp but rewrote the rules to allow checks to be diverted it would put is sick. niche and stamp on the back and it would be paid into another account cashed out and embezzling. these 2 checks total over $5000000.00 u.s. dollars the checks were paid from the government corporation to companies controlled by a deep uncle. the day to show how vice president to deep lead the theft of nearly $80000000.00 of state funds. better make it cash or something because we don't want anyone to know any details of ideals but. ok. the government is even planning a special tax free zone for investors vice president to deep joked about the opportunities it would offer. we will make zone deals not only islands. the untouchables. being on touchable can be expensive. we have obtained secretly filmed confessions given by men who worked closely with the vice president and his boss. described how stolen money was used to buy influence. since it came to. this the judges. if you will this the whole system is fucked. the president's money men are on the run in the u.k. the maldives government has put them under international arrest warrants the men say the government wants them back because they know too much about president. i think that the president is scared they didn't know. all the information. each man describes how he rode around on a moped delivering prize. money stolen from the people and given to the maldives most influential. me some see it in those 'd. i just didn't get the 1st. issue of who is also. going to be. the plan was not just to use the money to buy politicians but judges as well . like ali hamid at the supreme court. the phone messages expose him in receipt of stolen money. last night you gave ali homemade $4000.00. yes. ok good thing to those and 12 there were audio clips and radios that were leaked that appeared to show a man that sounded and looked like on the hamid having sex with 3 different women in a colombo hotel. and also a conversation had had with a local businessman where he said i am a young man. the messages show that for a fee judge for me was a young. the truism fees for 2 of his children abroad and jobs for his brother and cousin loyalty. until the next election. we will remain soldiers till the mission is over in 28. we will never let them destroy our president and his team's achievement. after the sex tapes judge me came under investigation. 6 months later vice president of deep managed to close the inquiry. read the news i have saved up patriot alley hammy 6 months work. my dear brother and his excellency the president did more than enough for me and my family i will always be grateful so. now for the good your he was appointed tester chief of the nutritional service commission. don't you know. we're talking about a man who was caught on camera having sex with 3 different women in a country where women get regularly flogged for having sex outside of marriage. with the judges in that pocket a vice president a d. been president ya mean could act with impunity. several media organizations were attacked. rajai t.v. was torched in oct 23rd teen shown he is the head of the english department there with almost burned down everything all they could mention is in here it was all burnt down. but they started 10 hours later and then. undeterred the channel continued to broadcast a year later. the vice president also police to repeat the attack but the chief of police suggested intimidating the channel's investors instead. lost it again. no i guess better control sponsors. he ok give me the list. 'd journalist ahmed rwanda vanished over 2 years ago he was a reporter from old leaves independent. so you know rashid is the editor. on august 10th when he didn't show up for work we thought ok he's hibernating. monday he didn't turn up for work tuesdays when his family said we haven't been able to reach him and that's when we got worried. they began retracing his final journey. they found c.c.t.v. footage of him at the ferry terminal. and they believe he was being watched. he took the 1 o'clock ferry. one got off the ferry he didn't get on the bus but he walked home it's sometimes i wonder you know like why did he walk home. we've all received death threats if we'd just gone home earlier he would be here today he might be here today. this is a. cyst change so much so he lived in that apartment of the. on the top so. between $130.00 and $4.00 plus this saw him like a man being forced into a car at knife point. and the car driving off really fast the college of so fast the people in the car didn't have time to close the door. 2 weeks off the real one went missing police had few leads the case had become high profile but the president was not concerned. instructed the home affairs minister to take it easy on the investigation. no need to be overwhelmed by real one case. ok noted so. at the very least it implies a massive cover up by the government worst it implies that president otherwise president were involved in ordered his abduction. we lobbied every single government body or state body that we could think of i mean we knocked on every single door and none of these places responded. real ones family suspect he was investigating corrupt oil and deals. so corrupt a place. only the people who says yes without questioning will get the benefits of everything. but since me keep on questioning me. it wasn't just the abduction but it was also the fact that the entire state failed that i think that was the one heart of the realisation that when something happens to you the people who are entrusted with your safety don't care i think that was even harder. the government has sold islands cheaply over the maldives. today in the greater mali asshole there isn't a single lagoon left to develop. all to the i was informed more than 60 items for. i give them out on the audience to show your love . for them or this everything has been sold. one of the murkiest deals was for the oil and of mago. the place. model itself it could easily fix $10000000.00 mistrusts if you put into the proper tendering process. only 2500000 was it just seemed to the government. the boy was new mood resorts led by italian gian andrea tulsi according to a report by the maldives ordered to gen the deal because there was no open bidding . forged documents also emerged surrounding the deal involved companies links to the vice presidents on coal we've shown our evidence to an anti corruption analyst . the money ended up in an account controlled by a company and was involved with a family member of the tories and then this again that's really classic case of corruption where you mix business family members politics and money goes missing they basically designed these transitions to look normal but in fact these classic designed to steer public funds. deeps phone messages show the deal involved a mole devean gangster known as t.c. dave weeks after the deal was done the details came out. a diva asked t.c. dave if he was behind the leak. broke tasse or your guys are giving this him 1st. no i don't think so if you know we made a deal but figures and transactions. the auditor general's report suspected corruption despite that workers are building 99 villas a resort is due to open in 2017 under the banner of italian hotel chain likely only . the government is selling these islands on behalf of the people of the moldings you need to really look at the basis of those deals and start questioning if it's a fair transaction have the people of the multi got the deal that they should have done. companies go to this island to work have the right to get this out in the 1st place. so the government of more is should. decide that it's. not the only hotels say they were not aware of any corruption in the island deal humid resorts in general torso you deny any involvement in the corruption and say they did not take any documents or transactions. you would it's a general report concluded that money was stolen from a total of at least $59.00 island deals. that i wanted money involved in this is which without realizing the corruption went right to the top the auditor general submitted his report to the president and then i personally informed who basically ignored everything. and they can just change that and then we're just you know was it a mood from sophie's it was me. follow up a new question of this record you know members of my family received death threats . they weren't idle threats corrupt police officers informed vice president a db of the audit and they conspired to silence another voice. you guys need to focus on this auditor general. now we're. maybe we need to light up his office this is continuously making trouble for us. we check that place lots of cameras everywhere. ok that you need to blast it it's any cost. sure let's do it. but we need to blast it at any cost all my heart. oh my god. things sky swan trying to blow off east with 200. crazy state sponsored terrorism against its own people and institutions. how could they do this. next to it coming from. i think the reason why this thing was going i was born and i'm going to report so they try to stop us from publishing this to point and there were no that was. just put is supposed to be protected sawhorse would be behind these things and. in part 2 president. grows the deals we confront men involved in using them old leaves to shift up to $1500000000.00 so do you help people on the money. how can you even see that. my feet can even see $1500000000.00 of physical cash. it's something from a james bond film. most clearly. after egypt's revolution their passion turned into something much bigger. 0 world. mixing the traditional with the mountain dew you knew what to expect ignoring cost of i was the only thing which generated their voice the music greek music played to the speakers wielding the power of music to turn up the volume on india's social injustices when i saw the performance or wall and shake things out we went on stage of something we brought us to just on to this witness causeless collective on al-jazeera. if you want to help save the world's. sneeze into your own. the in. the world. hello there i was on the hall with the headline for you here on al-jazeera tanzania's president john mica fairly has died aged 61 africa's most prominent coronavirus skeptic hadn't been seen in public since last month and there was speculation about his health the government says he died from heart failure while tanzania's constitution says the vice president must serve the rest of the 5 year term if the president conned that means samantha who has son is set to make history as tanzania's 1st female president a bus carrying afghan government employees has been targeted in a bombing in the capital kabul at least 3 people have been killed and another 11 were injured and separately 9 members of afghanistan's security forces have died in a helicopter crash the chopper went down and best suited to district in walk what doc province. u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken says all options are on the table in future relations with north korea he and the u.s. defense secretary have been meeting south korean counterparts and so they can reaffirmed his commitment to pressing north korea into new kid disarmament we also discussed china we are clear eyed about beijing's consistent failure to uphold its commitments and we spoke about how visions aggressive and authoritarian behavior are challenging the stability security prosperity in the pacific region. beijing's actions make forging a common approach among our allies all the more important at a time when we're seeing a rollback of democracy and human rights around the world including in burma where the military is attempting to overturn the results of a democratic election by drill you're pressing peaceful protesters it is more important than ever that we are we stand together for the values for the interests that unite us brazil has reported yet another day of record corona virus infections as the crisis that escalates more than 19000 cases were registered on wednesday alone brazilian media say on average more than 2000 people are now dying every day dutch prime minister margaret has claimed victory in parliament elections exit polls put his conservative party on calls to become the largest in the lower house and one of his coalition partners the center left the $66.00 is on track to come 2nd while the anti immigration freedom party is projected to finished. well those are the 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