Just archaeological object but its part of the Cultural Heritage of the region or of these countries and at that point you realize youre talking about a political dimension or a cultural political dimension. As a director i cannot say i dont know when somebody asked me how did your collection actually come into being so my responsibility as director of this museum is to know everything about the objects. Well the key documents in this file the ones that tell us basically that it was ok to take up the objects and this we have to do for everything and im considering that we have roughly 500000 objects you know that this is. A huge task ahead for us something that has to be done over decades really 500000 objects all and so thats an ongoing process that will take until im retiring but the important thing is somebody is doing it every day because you have to have a was i was this is said to have made a new going to close the critics on the present is an extent bush said you know i said that is ideologue a big spikes on in just music lamisil never going off in a divorce exact a mode where yeah. The professor. And. All the friends you see here have been pretty good. And we would be acquiring stuff and the pergamon stopped acquiring in the 1930 s. 40 years before the signing of the Unesco Convention which isnt retroactive this is. So the museums collection is seemingly protected from demands for restitution but thats not the opinion in turkey especially in the city of god tep young these are guys and they should come. Forth so often i leave a minister. You know seeing. That we dont at all my. Name is that down on that was that i was the man i should when there was a to break into and there was. A man and a leg and then say and then i said him as many people and he said from this is made in that way that he did. This blacklist includes objects on show in the British Museum in london but also in the pentagon in berlin although they were all acquired before 970 turkey still wants them back. Its not a question of museums anymore because its a request of the state of turkey. They also are in the process of overcoming. Colonial attitudes towards Cultural Heritage and in this process they have started to realize that. Countries in the west have not always been upfront about their practices of acquiring collections begin to do yeah savation. There is. A palooka. Heres john dowd and they can i know. Given busy im. Busy im no gunson shante can play in kent and then. The visual ascent we didnt get in on money and then i made. Them to shoot it in this new they are abusing in. The pillagers happened over a century ago but turkey isnt ready to forget. Like china and italy turkey has made the restitution of its treasures a political priority. Within its Culture Ministry the turkish government has set up a special restitution unit. 40 or so lawsuits have already been won resulting in the return of over 4000 objects. One of the special units successes is the restitution of this music of orpheus stolen in the 950. 00 s. Then purchased by the Dallas Museum of art after several years of legal wrangling the museum was obliged to return it. While village nations like turkey have a Legal Framework to demand reparations this isnt the case in the private sector where only the market rules. In this antique shop window how many artifacts have a perfectly established origin in many cases its practically impossible to verify. Does the private antiquities market have its own rules immune to International Legislation you know asco had attempted to extend its 970 convention to better control private transactions a new convention adopted in 1905 the unit the convention on stolen or illegally exported cultural objects obliges sellers to prove the legal origin of an artifact it also obliges buyers to demand proof but although the original Unesco Convention is recognized by 113 nations only 37 party states have committed to the united wired convention. So the market is winning thriving with its own often shady rules chadian as embodied by the freeport system one of the main thoroughfares of the art market trafficking. The best known are here in geneva but the exist throughout the world free ports were originally special Economic Zones which stocked in transit merchandise to reduce or avoid customs duties our dealers are soon renting space in these huge warehouses to discreetly store artifacts by allowing people to store all kinds of objects without the slightest control free ports have long been considered as a hub of antiquities trafficking its estimated there are over a 1000000 works deposited here more than twice the number contained in the movie. This swiss establishment guarantees its clients 100 percent confidentiality its high security site is protected from theft but also from prying eyes artifacts can be stored safely here for years since before. Pulling on the. Left you. Know i mean he can join would you like to find a not understood it should one image with one on sauce fiske out. On a t. V. I would order to keep the tax. Mask set up. No taxation an appealing advantage for our dealers while the works remain inside a free port they can be sold and bought without being subjected to any kind of tax customs duties are only paid once when a work definitively leaves the freeport a perfectly legal tax haven right in the heart of your. These facilities explain why the gallery phoenix keeps most of its merchandise in free ports and these showcases only a small part of the collection is displayed the gallery belongs to tom one of the biggest antiquities dealers in the world. In 2010 customs discovered in alley are tons warehouse in the freeport of geneva this is 2nd century romance a copper guess since then it has been the center of a complex legal battle. It will be awful you know all to prevent thank our love and do i love on this on the on it off and off on dr to for thats off leak put on their own music. So to sally they dont. Know jane alcopop level. Fesses said proposition the dont assume she miss you dont you think the jackdaw do see the idea dont know a dip book or perform a shop or add me read of get this used extraordinaire and just admit contat dont get those the large amid count down do. In their next young cities used to get examplar good news all morning dont say im a modest shock silliman of a more haste to find them out there learn the calculates your. New not as your phony palomar show set in success you on the course that the president dont love and. Relation many and depend on the year the. Mariana kids who are out there here yes just the most ridiculous who belong on get heated this is sack of elapsed hasta documentation please r. C. N. See levity the question more elect claire early in this. Heavy. Faced with doubts over the objects origin the sale was finally cancelled as this a coffee because it was probably looted in turkey swiss authorities decided to alert ankara let your for me do cool let your key sit there. But get up with said you. Will poison you i didnt go see aunt jackie man who thought they did agree. To set this expose does she want to sit for you call the steam press and yes youre reported for it does i confess keep as to the tumble bruce doc. Online via our own lot theyre full of the story of it were talking my live any longer than 2 they clearly allowed one or both own them. Except that after being restored in london this or coffee because didnt return to geneva until 2009 so the turkish lawyer heading the case believes it comes under the new swiss law which demands every approachable origins for all works of art imported after 2005 in september 2015 swiss justice finally ordered the repatriation of the 2nd office to turkey but tom continues to claim ownership based on a certificate delivered by the company art loss register or for years that if you get a positive early. Book of us by that suit the glare is that if it lasts nethers does all cope what is a really really classic may see both this late hour of. Getting. A sucky sucky sucky due to a for me. What is an art loss register certificate the precious open sesame of the art market a document which states that an object wasnt stolen. Founded in london 25 years ago as a private Information Service with over 400000 listed objects are lost register who owns the largest database of stolen artifacts in the world for a fee any buyer or seller can ask art loss register to verify that a piece is not listed on its database. These registrations these. Could also be registrations from a museum just in case items ever started on the register them on the database just in case they show up for sale somewhere else and myself is examples of the serfs from the National Museum of iraq. In 20032004. And what was amazing is they were very careful and you can tell it was well because they went into the basement once theyd stolen everything and they destroyed all the documentation for the objects so that people would know what had been stolen unfortunately the major objects have been recorded elsewhere. They can say actually a different words that weve entered just to help bring that up so here they were brought on they were put. Braided have a heart Something Like that and. In the case of the Baghdad Museum an inventor really existed so stolen objects could be captured on to the database but in war zones very few museums keep precise inventor his and theres no way that objects discovered during illegal digs will ever be listed obviously thats incredibly difficult when youre looking at lucido not logical material that has been looted out of the ground it was taken out of the ground and potentially the only people that even know of its existence of the people who dug it out. And yet this certificate is widely used on the antiquities market as is the case toms sarcophagus. I wish i had a clue powers. I would say. Its weve always been very clear about what our certificates are for and they state very clearly that an item is not in our database and its not been registered with us but that not every theft or loss or looting event is registered with us so its not complete. The art loss register certificate nonetheless remains the main document supplied by a seller to prove his or her good faith a precious certificate which can multiply the price of an object by 10 but why is this as provided by a private company and not by a public body at least on a european level changes in National Laws you go across an interesting nation states in the make it very difficult to resolve issues relating to stolen art in particular because suddenly limitation periods change principles of acquiring good title shaynes. Is something that people take advantage of to get around the system. You know no choice about renegotiating it we would have a deal and we would be now one of 3 times you put a deal and you disagree with that deal this is a terrible truth is that were still not it was black so thats what you want but its about maybe his son goes head to head with the chairman of the u. K. s practicality which ties the towns very loose tough im shocked theres not a loose about its often shop its pretty clear actually its clear as bricks it means but so yes it is and its just as clearly when you see. On down to see. One of the really special things about working for al jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else working for us as you know its very challenging the body but the killer because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are the people we live to tell the real story so ill just mandate is to deliver indepth enemies and we dont. Here in cuba good audience across the globe. On behalf of her majestys government i apologize reservedly sturrock apology for one of the darkest episodes in British Intelligence it was a really good grievances that the libyans could be quite useful to the west 8 years after the death of gadhafi aljazeera world investigates western collusion with the Libyan Security services. Gadhafi rendition and the west. On aljazeera. Charlie rangel in london with the top stories on aljazeera turkey has pounded cutters positions in northeastern syria with asterix for a 2nd day sending residents fleeing turkish troops and their allies have encircled the Kurdish Border towns of russell and until of yeah while tuckers kurdish shelling has killed at least 6 civilians including a child in tuckers towns president recip has defended the turkish insult saying it will allow Syrian Refugees to return home he dismissed the growing criticism and threaten to send millions of refugees into europe if leaders that label the offensive as an occupation the u. N. Security council held an emergency meeting earlier to discuss the situation afterwards the Us Ambassador to the un told turkey to protect syrias citizens or face the consequences turkey is now responsible for ensuring that all isis fighters in detention in prison remain in prison and that isis does not reconstitute itself in any way shape or form. Failure to play by the rules to protect vulnerable populations. Failure to guarantee that isis cannot exploit these actions to reconstitute will have consequences u. S. Congressional democrats have issued subpoenas for 2 business men charged with Campaign Finance violations ukrainian love parnassum better Russian Eagle freeman or associates of president Donald Trumps personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani they were involved in giulianis efforts to get ukraine to investigate one of the leading democratic president ial hopefuls joe biden according to the indictment both men funneled foreign money to political candidates in the u. S. Trump is currently facing an impeachment inquiry into whether he withheld military aid to ukraine for personal political gain ecuadorian Human Rights Organization defense sorted del pueblo has confirmed 5 people have died in the protests against president men in marinas austerity measures at least one indigenous protester was among those killed in the unrest in ecuadors capital quito volunteers from the Catholic University say at least 2 children and 2 elderly people died. Those are the top stories you can find much more on our website up next our trafficking. With the absence of common legislation and with skyrocketing prices trafficking has taken on industrial proportions. That it will be in the majority but the evolution is very good but there is a mental note that this bill is evil i didnt meet them look it up but dont believe its really just come and join us and repeat this story to us a lot that the semester the 2nd just that not a 2nd at the argument and indeed a sound a bus if you know your generality and if you dont know is that the teacher there that us both out there is played as a catalyst to go play. Like. Today looters have direct access to the market all they need to do is post their object online where it can be sold anonymously in recent years the number of websites selling archaeological artifacts has increased or 100 fold on one of them we found this clay nail probably from a rock officially this type of object has been banned from sale since 2004 but on these platforms no one cares about origin export licenses or legal documents its the final stage of what has become global trafficking. Believed to be the 3rd highest illegal trade in the world antiquities trafficking was rarely in the public eye and. Yes it has gone unnoticed for years but footage of destruction by the Islamic State of iraq and the levant isis has caused a Major International commotion. On only i being here oh me my. Scenery let me. Ask you who. Music to tweet music. The music. On your hike you. See. Me and. The. Tweet. Song battle of the. I dont going to come i said petition that cmon theyre demented he said you have. The stage destruction by eisel hides another reality much harder to measure mass looting. Since its founding has been suspected of part financing its activities through antiquities trafficking. See pool could it be a least 6 now and again my guess would not stay. In pretty then the 2 security that no 3 said maddon it took until it is like you think that. This was a key subject at a press conference to present the new red list published by i called the International Council of museums for 15 years i come has been publishing lists of rare objects from various countries which threatened to turn up on the International Art market this time it concerned antiquities from iraq and syria suspected of financing eisel operations as proof that the subject is being taken seriously several International Figures attended the meeting including Richard Stengel representing the Us Government who would launch the offensive might we just go and essentially has this the department. Also why. Are you going to. Good evening im delighted to be here. What weve seen over the last year is i saw as weaponization of information and the cultural destruction that theyre practicing is the weapon ization culture so this is a destruction of history and destruction of culture and the destruction of human beings thousands of human beings at the risk of being too graphic i would say that bearing or selling an artifact is worth finances that beheadings of muslims in the middle east. Dont sell dont tax one quick solution. You know by now selling is a very good slogan its obviously impossible to completely police it and to be certain about it. One of the things that weve seen is that isolates using existing criminal markets that have existed over 102030 years in the region or using those people as middlemen to finance their operations. But how do we know what exactly is going on in the field absa the association for the protection of syrian archaeology has been recording cases of plundering in syria the association based in strasbourg and founded in 2011 at the outbreak of the countrys civil war is headed by syrian archa