this week the world has taken one tragic step closer to World War I this Eerie video led me to discover one of the darkest situations going on right now that hardly anyone seems to know about this woman was just found guilty of committing one of the greatest Bank frauds the world has ever seen so great in fact that she is now being given the death penalty for it and I have literally just got back from my first ever trip to Texas like literally just walked in the door right now I haven't even had a shower look look at this this is 20 hours of travel hair oh my God all so that I could get this video out to you guys no later than one day late so I'm going to tell you all about my trip and I've also got something very exciting to announce at the end of the video so Alex cue this week's intro and let's get cooking okay let's start this video with what we've probably all been hearing about over the last couple of days I'm very annoyed and uh disappointed to announce that the world is yes right again on the brink of another major war on Saturday Iran for the first time ever launched an unprecedented attack on Israel which honestly has sent shock waves around the globe Biden had to rush back to the White House massive lines started forming outside petrol stations World War III started trending online people in my comment started saying things like so should I study for exams or plant potatoes and I just want to live my life life like I like history but I don't want to be a part of History I feel you so I mean putting all of the hype to the side how worried should we actually be well I've got the latest updates as of recording so hopefully some of these can answer those questions as you may or may not know hundreds I'm talking hundreds of missiles and drones were fired on Saturday night not just from Iran though that's the thing it was from Iraq Yemen and Lebanon 2 but here's the important part because Israel claimed that 99% of the projectiles were intercepted but not just by by them because we've got American and British forces who said that they had fighter jets in the sky however there are reports of one direct strike on an air base and in terms of casualties a seven-year-old boy was seriously hurt by shrapnel so after these attacks you may be asking okay what happens now are we clear no we are not but it is important to know before I dive into that that these attacks from Iran were actually in retaliation to Israeli strikes that killed a number of their senior generals Iran say that the situation for them is now concluded so that that's good news right but they did warn of a much bigger attack if Israel decides to retaliate and added that American bases would be targeted too if America decides to help them retaliate so retaliation at this point seems like the thing we really need to focus on the latest is that Israel's military have said to have presented a range of options for potential strikes against Iran with the war cabinet now weighing them up in a meeting scheduled to have begun now but somewhat worryingly for the rest of the world an Israeli Source has been briefing the media saying that Israel cannot allow such a large attack to pass without some kind of response and also some Israeli politicians argue that a powerful message needs to be sent so that Iran doesn't repeat its actions you know it's just going to add okay I'm not even going to comment on that I'm not even going to comment on that but because of this warlike sentiment Joe Biden is privately expressed concern that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to drag the us into a broader conflict according to three people familiar with his comments so even the president is a little bit like okay uh let's let's calm the [ __ ] down now and a senior Administration official told the NBC news that Biden told Netanyahu on a call on Saturday night that the US will not participate in any offensive operations against Iran and that Israel should not respond by retaliating good I mean this is like one of the first times where I'm like America is actually let's trying to calm things down at least that's what it seems like and honestly I do hope this is true because the consequences of Iran and Israel getting into War drags a whole host of other countries into the mix that simply do not want this War I mean even Rishi sunak is saying right now just take take the the the win leave it alone Israel you've got what you want uh don't retaliate and I mean with the UK talking about having to draft people in if they go to war I'm not trying to be on the front lines before GTA 6 so from what we can gather how worried should we be I think honestly as of right now it genuinely could go either way but even if this situation does hopefully calm the hell down I think we all just need to take a second and pause and just think about and realize how many times we have got this close is this all just escalating beyond our control again and I mean I know that there is no simple solution it's just it's so surreal that even after everything the world has learned from the atrocities of World War II we're right back at it again tempting fate it doesn't seem possible and if there is a World War III that's it there's not going to be fourth not with the weapons that we have now but I mean this situation is developing very fast and by the time you're watching this video there could have been strikes already and things could have blown up in a major way so I will keep you updated go follow me on Instagram and Tik Tok that's where I'll do my my quick updates but let's move on and we're moving on to this scary ass video that started going viral on Twitter and I thought what the hell is that I mean the zombie apocalypse that we all are kind of expected by now starting to kick off eh now I could not watch something like that and just keep on scrolling without finding out what the hell is happening and I just want to emphasize the more that I looked into this video the crazier this whole situation has become and I genuinely cannot believe how many people don't know about this including myself so this footage is actually taken in the country of Myanmar which Alex is probably showing you uh on the map right here nice map Alex and the reason all of these people are swarming this mine has an incredibly dark backstory story you see the hills of catchin hold the finest Jade in the world which earns billions of dollars for the companies who mine them but it's not just the mining companies who are in search of these precious stones every year they leave behind huge heaps of waste that thousands of scavengers then pick through desperately hoping to find a rock that will change their lives forever but because they are there illegally their lives are under constant Threat by landslides falling from Heights and raids from soldiers trying to protect the sites in just the last 10 landslides which can happen every few months a staggering 600 people have died many of which are only found when mining operations Begin Again during the next season's digging process and because the conditions are so bad for these scavengers many turn to heroin to ease muscle pain but quickly become addicted drug use around these sites are widely accepted in needles or as common as soda cans on the floor locals say that you can see people in the early morning half asleep walking around with needles hanging out of their arms or eating noodles with a syringe in their ear just like you'd put a cigarette but even if you do get lucky enough to find a rock by law you can be arrested on the spot for just touching them and that's why locals believe this Jade has become a cursed treasure for them but regardless of the consequences up to 400,000 people in Myanmar are set to rely on the dangerous job of illegal Scavenging and the most tragic part is that this is all while the mining companies are literally turning entire mountains completely flat and turning them into valleys locals say that at least five mountains that they grew up watching and looking at have now completely disappeared and this has been happening for decades and I only found out about all of this like this week which I mean is so wild so the question is did you know about this or uh is it just me moving on okay now this story is mindblowing troll my land a 67-year-old Vietnamese property developer was sentenced to death on Thursday for stealing from one of the country's largest banks over a period of 11 years now I mean you can imagine getting away with some stealing some small unnoticeable amount of money for that period of time and it be like okay that's plausible but you want to know how much she stole uh 44 billion US she apparently managed to do this by gaining illegal control of the bank during a merger and then used it as her freaking Cash Cow she would use thousands of ghost companies in Vietnam and abroad to give loans to herself and her allies and then whenever she needed to she would then use her almost infinite amount of money to bribe government officials and just to give you the scope of how massive this case was they said 2,700 people were summoned to testify there was 10 State prosecutors and over 200 lawyers involved and there were 104 boxes of evidence weighing a total of six tons the verdict now requires her to return $27 billion but uh as you'd imagine prosecutors are doubtful that that money will ever be recovered it's now gone down as the largest fraud case in the country's history let alone potentially the world and she's become one of the very few women in Vietnam to be sentenced to death for a white colar crime insane moving on and on to the final story because I just got back from my first ever trip to Texas so here are my thoughts and what I got up to now for starters from the moment I left my house to the moment I got to my hotel it's about 21 hours of travel and that's what I've just got back from so reminder but yes after all of that traveling we got to the hotel hotel and all I wanted to do was just order some Chick-fil-A and go to bed and I quickly learned that if you order a burger and chips you will get a burger and a packet of potato chips so for everyone going to America remember it's fries order fries the next morning I woke up and headed to the event which I was actually invited to Texas 4 the United Nations agency UNESCO wanted to gather together some of the world's top journalists and news content creators to create a round table Yeah Yeah Round Table to see what we could all learn from each other and not just that but for anyone who wants to do this as a career what they could learn from all of the huge wide- ranging topics that we discussed on that day and so once we wrapped the first day I decided to treat myself by going to what has been claimed by people not just to be the best barbecue in Texas but potentially the world and it's called Terry black Terry black in town has only been open since 2014 I believe and it it feels like a place has been around 100 years I mean they got it dialed in vegans Look Away now now this was the place and uh despite us going on a week night when when it shouldn't have been busy it was still absolutely ramped the the line went into the freaking parking lot so I see I saw that and I was like damn this shit's going to be good and honestly there has never been a wait more worth it because the 10hour slow smoked beef brisket and beef Rib was immediately it immediately became the best meat I have ever tasted and I don't know if you can see what I'm talking about but I'm my mouth is drooling I want to go back to Texas just for that God damn the next day I decided to wake up I went to the gym recorded some videos because the news never sleeps and then I headed off to the International Symposium for journalism yes immediately when I stepped into that room I became an adult because with a name like that you have to grow up pretty fast I then recorded a podcast and did some videos for UNESCO and then I decided to sneakily sneak away to watch Civil War and woo the cinema and the movie bangers you basically had your own menu and you just write down your order on a piece of paper the weder comes over takes it away and then comes back 5 minutes later and brings you your food I had a freaking Burger loaded fries Maddie had a pizza and the movie Civil War it was genuinely solid like I highly highly recommend you checking it out especially while it's still in cinema very good movie kind of uh topical for the world right now but uh we won't get stuck on that and then for my third and final full day in Austin we of course decided to go to an IHOP but then after that I had to really experience Texas by shooting my first ever graaa now I'm not going to lie maybe it's just the British person in me but I expected like a a full 10-minute safety talk them for them to really emphasize safety not really they ran us through how to shoot the gun one time uh in a separate room then said all right we'll see you on Lane 9 uh we turn up to Lane 9 with all of our bullets in hand and um they're like there's no one there that you just shoot it's like it's like a driving range for golf that's what it's like now shooting the pistol made me realize how freaking fake all movies are that people shoot pistols in because the kickback is insane shooting with one hand shooting with two hands is impossibly unaccurate shooting with one hand good luck and then it was time for the rifle and oh my Lord I mean you can't really experience it from the video actually maybe I'll cut it and Alex will play a little couple minutes of just this so you can hear the sound yeah it was more powerful than you can imagine and I was shook I wanted to shoot and fully automatic but you had to book those so I thought yeah maybe next time eh we got to hold the gun in John Wick called the SC Stato I think it's something like that and then while we were perusing just looking at the 40% off guns we met just some random guy just a regular customer and we started talking about guns and then he pulled out this massive Uzi I don't know if it was Uzi but it looked like an Uzi and he had a massive silencer and he put it on and he started like waving it around in the shop I mean he was a nice guy he didn't seem dodgy at all um but I thought this is a little bit intimidating and he just said that yeah he was a gun enthusiast and he has about $100,000 worth and that was pretty much it we had Cheesecake Factory in the evening and we left the next day after doing some work in the morning with a very big smile on my face honestly I give Austin a solid 9 out of 10 it was insane food insane amounts of things to do and really good people so I highly highly recommend checking it out and I will definitely be going back myself and then for the major announcement is expect a second video this week on Thursday I mean I've been wanting to try and make two videos per week for a while now but I mean we'll see how much I can manage and how much you guys want to watch so if you have been wanting a second midweek catchup please let me know in the comments cuz I need need you to Spur me on and so we can get this done but I will be getting you one on Thursday so I guess I'll see you then love you bye I'm tired I am going to bed and I will be resting easy I've been lightheaded this video because it's been so my God bye I'll see you on Thursday