Dubai Billionaires and Their Luxury Homes and Toys - Documentary

The Eccentric lives of The Ultra Rich in Dubai, Form Their Homes, Toys and Crazy Life style, watch to see what you are missing out on.

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he came to buy a few years ago you'd
have got this sand and loads of it
an amazing thing happened fantasy became
reality in the space of just 20 years to
buy turn from desert into a jaw-dropping
oasis of stone marble concrete glass and
roar excitement for the boulder and
wacky the idea the more likely it was to
be accepted
giant island the shape of Palms that can
be seen from space and soon the middle
world's tallest skyscraper a modern-day
Tower of Babel the slices for the clouds
are almost a kilometer above the ground
to buy has become the center of a
modern-day Gold Rush
but the big question for Dubai is one of
his great global credit crunch is gonna
bite here and whether that will
terminate you by dream into a nightmare
yeah
yeah
Dubai is one of the seven states that
make up the United Arab Emirates under
the rule of sheikh mohammed bin rashid
al maktoum its reputation as a tax-free
haven and land of opportunity that
attracted a hundred and twenty thousand
Brits all chasing the dubai dream you
have both completely lost your marbles I
mean you have paid 50 million dollars
for a lo de sac a dream of your position
in society can be elevated overnight
vast riches are there for the taking
it's not a journey it in a secretary or
an officer estate to this talking 17
million pounds of partners and dubai in
a country where Sharia bass lures dish .
on crop top wearing party goes
was it really like to live here the
missing with the locals I talked tactics
of the man that bald man city
there's the birds are arriving what
about the world's financial meltdown
are they feeling the heat it's a credit
crunch people think more world
there's no credit crunch in Dubai it's
not coming it's that it's here but
lurking in the background behind all of
this is the fact that in just ten years
time flies i will run out
the race is on
if you'd invested in property out here
over the past six years
I'll give your financial advisor a raise
you'll easily have trebled your money
but it wasn't for the faint-hearted four
miles out to sea is probably the
craziest property investment on the
planet for sale
three hundred islands seen from above
replicate the countries of the world
this is absolutely ridiculous
I've heard about this place I've seen
the pictures I know all the facts
do you actually come out here like this
and experience it for yourself
you have no idea of the sheer scale of
it 320 million cubic meters of
redistributed seabed later
the buyers not just put itself on the
map to put the map on itself
i'm heading for britain gentlemen
permission to come ashore
permission granted thank you very much
spoken to kick the door thank you very
much
let's head over to London eggs London is
Safi karashi and mustafa Noghri moved to
Dubai for years ago
between them they just bought England
dare I ask how much your favorite
topping over 250 million dollars
you have both completely lost your
marbles I mean you have paid 50 million
dollars for a lo de sac
yeah it's one of you tell me some of the
stuff we gonna do here
the idea very much as to have some
luxury accommodation way where you can
bring your boat pocket right outside
your villa
swimming pools of ours how many we
talking about you're talking in and
around a hundred mark wright hundred
bills over here
so you're living in your own private
villa surrounded by you know
absolutely amazing shorelines beaches I
mean you say this we are actually
surrounded by the French over there and
the Germans over there
I mean they are worryingly close are
they think they know they have got
closer but luckily there's still a bit
of sea between them
I'm imagining now these luxury villas
here
and even if they went just 45 million
dollars each I just works out you'll
make a profit of 450 million dollars
would be here for more than the cost of
conception which is still working on
that one
yeah we're still making what I think
they call in balance and nice little own
right
yeah i guess i guess you could say we
might be
I mean that's a great story absolutely
ballon boy by his Britain
yeah it's not bad is it safy is a
perfect example of a Dubai dream for
years ago he arrived his skin
having lost everything in a failed
internet firm now thanks to a series of
shrew property deals
he's the king of England are looking to
invade France but how did this
little-known desert outpost become such
a magnet for investors and those in
search of a better life in the Sun
device is not an incredibly good job and
marketing itself
largely through one of the outset here
to be utterly ludicrous projects
thank you buying you think glamour well
a rich analytics playground
hardly surprising them back and Britain
cracked on the red tape trapped under
the dark grey skies so many down
shopping wanna be think this place is
utterly irresistible
although Dubai is twice the size of
London the main action takes place in a
frenzy 20 miles strip along the coast
the legendary do buy gold rush to be
traced back to 2001 when the law was
changed enable foreign nationals to own
property
coinciding with the launch of the most
famous have devised artificial island
projects the palm jumeirah which because
it's connected to the mainland murder
investors by the truckload of my first
impression is it's massively bigger and
it seems from the sky
only four thousand properties were sold
in the first 72 hours for the project
being announced for a brick of being
late
the weirdest thing about Palm Island is
a five years ago I'd have drowned by a
nap because this is all water
nothing quite prepared even the sheer
scale of their ideas
panja mirrors so huge
essential trunk supports 26 Lane
motorways at the tip three miles out
since two bys ladies five star hotel the
Atlantis complete with an underwater
lost city in a fish tank
the Beckham's are quite a place here but
actually told a michael owen follow suit
creating a Middle Eastern likes you man
it may look like brookside on the beach
for having a palm address is the
ultimate status symbol
living the dream on frond d is Neil
patch
Neil came out here 14 years ago and now
publishes to Dubai version of GQ
magazine
judging by his cars and frankly a
vintage Jaguar in a Ferrari
life is good
throw in a Russian model wife and her
glamorous friends and I'd say palm
living is very good
how much of the property's been going
out by a value well I about for villas
on either side of me
no one lives there people had them as an
investment and they're going up but such
a right that they don't actually need to
render wish i were in that personality
balls that one at the start for example
what would you pay that was probably
about seven hundred thousand hands 2.6
million dirhams in our current so what
would it be worth about 15 something
like that
so around six times what you paid for it
exactly so it's been an amazing
investment of people that makes you
question your own job when you're
learning a lot less than your house is
that there is nothing in there and is
there like in any develop a lot of this
is there a bit of you know keeping up
with the Jones
absolutely i mean i've had to upgrade my
barbecue several times
the buyer's lender very British lesson
we do like to be beside the seaside
waterfront property commands a premium a
building out into the sea
when at 300 miles to the coastline but
when we struggled to build something as
simple as a millennium bridge
how do you create an entire city in just
20 years i have some days when i see you
this is crazy what the new zealand on a
little and when you built it
how do you make sure the rich come
flocking this is ridiculous I mean how
many towels are there why would you need
a hundred hours and the world's only
seven-star hotel
I sample the dubai dream for myself
there are times when we build things so
astounding they become testament to
human ingenuity the pyramids of Egypt
the Great Wall of China and now
- bye
extravagance and Dubai go hand in hand
but this really does take the gold
plated biscuit
it's rumored this seven-star hotel costs
so much to build a run but it will never
make a profit but that's not the point
the birds will arrive is devised Eiffel
Tower partner ruler Sheikh Mohammed's
vision to put this place on the global
map
yeah
the best rooms a will set you back 12
grand a night and come complete with one
of the hotels 16 white Rolls Royces and
your own personal manservant
they boast that they cater for every
whim of the burj al arab and that's
certainly the case with me because I
spent my entire life waiting for a bed
and go to sleep
looking at myself
yeah
I'm here to meet builder Eddie Mitchell
for last measure the height of the UK
property boom in sandbanks faucet any
with creating futuristic properties
inspired by this hotel has been coming
here on business for five years and is
now a gold star guest affording him
extra special treatment
watching you coming in it was like
watching a visit by the Queen
you know it's like a cast of thousands
offer you tea and dates and yeah and
lotion is the same every time
how bout that I back to six years he
meets us every time we come in whatever
time of day is it all like coming home
so Eddie last time we met was in San
banks
yeah where the funny thing was there is
that you produced properties like this
which are you by any normal standard in
Britain completely barking mad
futuristic emporiums of glass and
concrete anything else out here
you're known as mr. boring because I
mean that is not even first base is it
not really no yes I mean you must love
it is a permanent building site
yes but probably the biggest film site
in the world and after 30 years of
building i'll just love it
you're like a pig in a style your hair
for those who bought at the start in the
palm or the world or the burj dubai
how much money are people making sure
people are making many millions when I
heard of one Chelsea Football who had a
place on the palm that he's never
actually lived in ipe 400,000 pounds for
it and he's just sold over three and a
half million
yeah that's where he would have paid six
years ago and he would now make three
and a half million definitely without
setting foot in the place
yeah have I missed out on this again
which became is six years ago Toby you
always need to pop up these places at
the right time
I want to sound makes it right at the
peak I've come to Dubai writer p
what I need to do with you any stick
with you in the down times
well you come on site and be available
if you want
great thing about dubai there's always a
stunning new location to practice
you wouldn't have thought you can
practice your skiing as well
this is ski dubai it's 45 degrees
centigrade out there and in here
- for a fact absolutely bloody freezing
I think about Dubai is at the crazy the
idea the more like it is to be accepted
there are many extraordinary feats of
construction underway and divide the
moment a few more remarkable when this
is going to be the biggest theme park in
the world
it's gonna be a hundred and seven square
miles or to give you some idea of
perspective bigger than Birmingham but
even more extraordinary is the fact that
they boasted with a catchy name / land
will be finished in 27 years achieve
that in the current economic climate
I leave my sunglasses this is a model of
what the theme park will look like
and quite frankly it's one of the most
breathtaking things I've seen in my
entire life
they're going to be life-size replicas
of the Taj Mahal the Eiffel Tower the
Egyptian pyramids even Big Ben and the
houses of part of it as a las
vegas-style strip on his four times as
big as vegas only one word for this
bonkers
but in dubai biggest is best this
humongous fish tank is built inside the
world's biggest shopping center next to
yes you're way ahead of me the world's
biggest building
I've been to lots of tulle places in my
life the Empire State Building Eiffel
Tower about the canary wharf for 10
years but I've never ever seen anything
quite like this
the birds / is already 720 meters tall
making it the highest building in the
world but the really scary thing is
still growing be the most unnecessary
sign of all time
please don't lean on with him
the sheer bravado the structure beggars
belief or even adding a new story every
three days
it's another part of Sheikh Mohammed
plan to make sure you buy stands out the
final height is still top secret
the ambition is to be almost double the
height of the next tall is building on
earth
spanish that'll be fine in my life
anyway
mr. Ali alabbar the fifth most powerful
man in Dubai is chairman of email
government-backed construction company
building the town
so we're right in the middle here on
floor 164 611 meters up there still as i
can see
I mean there are 20 30 flaws more
already under construction at disney
wobble this
I mean does it move around well this is
what - you know how far I think that
moves maximum probably more this much
who's gonna be here and who will be on
these for the Indies our office floors
people have thought private apartments
here right
what was the most expensive one you know
a whole frog would probably cost you
about 45 million dollars and it's not
our bargain is a bargain compared to
London for a class you know Sheikh
Mohammed better than many people
how would you describe him I've been
within 15 years and there are times when
his energy is so unbelievable
this building here the first time we've
designed it was 90 story and the meeting
was one minute and His Highness it
no i said ok so i did they think about
hundred and twenty i said no so let's
put the chart of all the tall buildings
in the world and i put in this baby is
that ok
how how much taller than the tallest I
said well we have a 40-percent all good
you go
yeah
40 years ago to buy was nothing more
than a dusty fishing village but then
ruler Sheikh Rashid had a vision to
transform it into a hub for the world as
a port as a tax-free business center
it was an extraordinary a bold move the
philosophy was simple build it and they
will come and come may have
now under the rule of his son Sheikh
Mohammed the vision continues to buy
often feels more like a corporation that
a state that's because just three things
matter here
business finance and success unlike in
Britain where huge developments can get
bogged down four years in red tape and
bureaucracy over here then go up in
months and the reason is quite simple
Sheikh Mohammed whatever the shape once
gets done and fast
of course being able to use millions of
cheap workers from southern Asia has
made it impossible in 2007 accusations
are made a slave labor conditions
Sheikh Mohammed set up a confidential
free hotline the construction workers
report any abuse as a result conditions
are certainly improved but each year you
a workers sent home and estimates four
billion pounds of wages so recession in
dubai would have serious global
implications are trying to get anyone to
actually talk about the possibility of
economic downturn here in Dubai was like
trying to get blood out of a stone
I turned Michelle canoe billionaire
businessman from the night witches Arab
family in the world are you totally sold
into this vision or are there going to
be problems keeping well now there's
going to be a lot of economic upheaval
globally and is supposed to come and
affect us - no one mentions that it
I know it's a credit crunch people think
what will there's no credit crunch in
dubai in the agriculture to say
something if you say it out loud
there's a perception that it will happen
so we don't even call cancer cancer we
call it that the disease that can be
mentioned
it's the same mentality is there a
credit crunch coming in divine
it's not coming it's here it's already
exists now for people to come and say
you know this is the end in death of
this area it's not going to be the death
of this area
it's going to be a natural time out if
you want allow things to come back to
its normal position to move forward
the by i think is a good place to be if
you're looking at 15 20 years down the
road because if you're looking at two
years down the road God knows what's
going to happen the next two years in
terms of global finance during the boom
times two x was the hottest property
market in the world
the carrot that expats scarring here
faster than a bleach blonde to a
football talent a term is typical of
those that came chasing the dubai dream
she landed here four years ago announced
by luxury homes
one of the most successful estate agents
in town today she showed me a flat and
very much of the not so poor amazing
views vast amount of room
they have big as this is thirteen
thousand four hundred square feet
the master suite takes at least a
certain the apartment it's all about the
bedrooms are areas are exactly and what
would it cost if you wanted to buy this
70 million pounds
who would buy a place like this and
who's living in this block
yeah
yeah i mean discretion is the word but I
mean we've got sporting personalities we
got presidents of countries 15 times the
size of the average house in the UK who
said size doesn't matter
I mean it's just humongous is not even a
little apartment is too loose forward or
they may be this code there is
unbelievable that we look at it in a
kitchen is it's a restaurant that's the
children of course it is silly of me
here's the bathroom happy this is the
place is ridiculous I mean how many
towns are there
there must be a hundred towels and hit
why would you need a hundred taels
I mean it is just opulence on an almost
regal scale isn't it
it's just staggering apartment perfect
your average multi-millionaire great
amazing here but maybe not so good for a
billionaire
which is why the next phase I was going
to help or on the roof that is going to
be just going for a high level together
that's going to billionaires rather than
just the millionaires and it's going to
have its own helipad and that you know
they're working on their own immigration
so that you can just get in and
malicious intent as a some Russian
oligarchs this lands on the roof and
outcome immigration officials
yeah brother what's a nice girl like you
doing talking 17 million pound
apartments in Dubai
I don't know it just happened four years
ago I set up my own real estate company
and done
what were you doing back in bro i watch
some of the country estate
you know if you're doing what doing what
and as the state secretary your
secretary of state that the state
secretaries are on our diminish your
role by me
it's quite a journey from any secretary
on an officer estate to this and you're
not i think glimmering in diamonds and
Rolexes man life's biggest fear I have
it has
and that's not the half of it Helen eyes
are on polo team with eight Argentinian
ponies and a full-time professional
trainer certainly beats typing fridays
polo day here at arabian ranches it's a
bit of a fix to the expat community a
chance to revel in the good life was
catching a chucker and slithering up the
social ladder
Becky from Bingley west yorkshire and
here you are at polo
yeah i'm at the Polo
Bingley girls are not really used to
doing this sort of thing I let's be
honest now
I came over here and I launched a
magazine for another company and I'm
just launched this magazine and I'm 28
years old I would not get like okay I'm
not badly for a girl from Bingley of it
happy but it's easy to get Jordan to the
good life in Dubai as the building that
are going up somehow i hear your
expectations are
well just hire but to live up to those
expectations
you can have to have deep pockets the
first to be fancy a personalised number
plate
I have the 93 how much is that too many
other two million dollars
and I'll find out what it is like to
live where hedonistic Western playground
exist in a country cover my strict
Muslim values and what happens when you
cross the line
you live in permanent fear that the
wrong word could see you on the next
plane back to Britain deported
I wanted to get in our perspective on
dubai
fortunately the man that bought
mentioned the city of Jerusalem and I'll
fame as a house here in a fortune in
property and as the Alan Sugar of arabia
with his own a printed style TV show and
even his own catchphrase impressed me
when he studies show me around the city
I didn't realize you meant in his own
private jet he impressed me is
incredible to think of only 30 years ago
most of that would have been doesn't
write 20 years that load this pot the
violence
there's the birds arrive just become the
symbol of dubai and how much of this is
ego and are you all quite you know
competitive people
is it like you build the biggest tower
i'm going to go to build a bigger one
it's not about the Eagles about to show
that capability we want to show a real
family that we can do it and what
they're looking for is to build
something unique something extraordinary
and with this kind of weird right
foreigners I mean how much money is
there down there now
would you guess
the last number and i was recently was
around 300 billion dollar 300 billion US
dollars just swimming around the lowest
i was told your very first major project
here
you made a hundred and fifty million
u.s. dollars on that deal is that right
yeah that's right and you cleaned up and
then you made a hundred and fifty
million bucks
the good thing was they came with iron
out to smile when i say that figure by
the way I'm going to you it's not much
money to me I mean this is like
unbelievable
what's it like being a billionaire you
don't like you have another fun you're
smiling
usually in do with that for us we don't
even do with the money and casually
doing with family is that what more
cultural and friendship between the
family relationship and the Middle East
now that's a family i'd like to get into
what we have these single female
relatives
so we see the city from the air and I
was too understated ground level
the world's only the saatchi lamborghini
murcielago dr. Solomon paid six hundred
thousand dollars more than the standard
car with his designer model to ensure it
cancer - on dubai's highways
the big thing in devised about number of
places that number plates very important
you're one is 737 another valuable one
but the two digits more important I have
the 93 93
I both because that's the year of
graduation of my wife how much was
rocked today it's 12 million the two
million dollars and ninety three
somebody who pay you 2 million dollars
on amazing
thank goodness his wife didn't graduate
in 83
even he might have struggled to pay for
that one with such mind-boggling
spending power on tap will come as no
surprise that all pockets are created
for shopping here one of device Super
Bowls is a bit like being back home to
be honest
Harvey next behind me and the cost over
there starbucks zara any difference here
is always going to look out for that
unexpected visit our the billionaire
arab sheikh
so about a mobile phone
the cost will be 100 do on empower
thousand and ten thousand i say and this
one is just 100,000
ok so that's a bit more bargain do you
actually sold these parts
wats pictures for Tina from the ground
shake a master shop and bought four of
these for half a million pounds
yes limey one earth to do when you want
to upgrade
it's also easy to get sucked into the
affluent lifestyle in Dubai
please just drip success most expats
here enjoy quality of life the only have
dreamt about back in Britain fast
billers spalling staircases giant
swimming pools and personal maze
I spend their days enjoyment laser at
five star hotels like this and their
nights at parties covered by society
pages of hello magazine
small wonder there are so many start to
feel well a little bit grant
after all back in Britain they were
minnows here in Dubai
everyone's a whale tonight's the hot 100
party in annual event with a local
version of Hello magazine cause of a
chart of all the movers and shakers in
town in the main the likes of spar
managers and boutique owners and make it
was taken very seriously if you're in
the rain
and if you're out you may as well being
goodbye magazine you've made it
you have when I hear me out just been
speaking to the editor is this whole
sort of strong design that you get into
when you get into the hot 100 I mean
it's quite home to be considered like
hot
apparently none hotter than yours truly
think I better at the afternoon hot 100
party is mr. Piers Morgan welcome fellow
expat life here revolves around the 50
or so five star hotels
that's because once inside you never
need know you're in a country where
alcohol is frowned on
it's illegal to kiss in public or be gay
or share a flat with your girlfriend you
buy knows it needs Westerners to succeed
and soda Liberty turns a blind eye to
the goings-on provided they go on on the
private property of the hotels the kind
of expat bottle where life is good and
intoxicated
the brass t-bars a regular x-pac horn
it's not far from where a couple of
bricks for recently arrested for having
sex on the beach but i believe that
might be illegal
back home as well enjoying yourself in a
slightly more legal way is 46 year old
mother of two from firming him
Karren Brady just two kills and I
catalase always this your might lead to
siddar generally generally gets less is
more or less is more or less is
definitely more that stacked almost like
a look at my life in every single night
you can party without fail tomorrow
party party it's like non-stop
you get drunk and frequently you making
loads of money
absolutely loathes millions we're going
to have any money and the parties
absolutely yeah they're all it well
that's money then the party
and what's the most of the man seemed
like you I'm not looking for the man i'm
just here enjoying myself be married all
my life and I'm not doing that anymore
but you go on dates serious are
sometimes ya do ya I like to have dinner
with intellectual men but i generally
dont plan see them right
what you got dinner
yeah
in the last year 230 Brits have ended up
in dubai's prisons for range of offenses
from the normal life driving to the
abnormal like bouncing a check if you
are going to come out here make sure you
learn the law for example sex outside of
marriage can get to a year in jail
possession of over-the-counter drugs and
contain coding for years even Harry
Potter books were recently banned from
schools because witchcraft is strictly
illegal in Dubai
it's a difficult society to get your
head around on the one hand a
traditional autocratic leader you too
strict Sharia based law to rule with a
rod of iron on the other hand and the
five-star hotels
you can forget you're even in the middle
east for the two cultures exist side by
side in parallel universes and except
for the shopping moles rarely mix
consequently the expats living in fear
of making a silly mistake or
inadvertently breaking a law that could
with a swipe of the pen see them
deported
I drove into the desert with bloggers
and X journalist Alexander mcnatt we've
been living out here for almost 20 years
and has first-hand experience of what
happens when the two cultures clash
it is something on the moon isn't it
amazing
when I first moved here that was in the
early nineties I came out here running a
magazine which we shut down because I
criticize the wrong guy's computer
it was a computer review mag and the
computer didn't work
and so we said the computer doesn't work
which in retrospect was probably naive
of me
what the hell the truth to tell the
truth uh but it's offended the man who
happen to be related to a man and i'm
doing a position to do something about
it in my office was sealed by the
ministry of information
the great thing about to buy today is
that actually probably can't happen is
it relaxing the censorship is it getting
easier
yes it is if you can stand up a good
story where a government department has
behaved appallingly I think you've got a
chance of buying that story when I first
came out here you wouldn't have done so
you're now seeing allegations being made
against some quite big figures in
government corruption investigations
going on that were unthinkable here
it's a process of change if you're in
the media here as you r do you live in
permanent fear that the wrong word could
see you on the next plane back to
Britain deported
are you worried about what you're
telling me for example
no i don't think i haven't fear I might
be horribly wrong
I don't think either feel I don't live
in fear then live in fear say what I
think
don't worry about it seen to court by
for a couple of government officials
something over that gene it's you
they're after they've been listening
over there
part of the problem lies in the fact
that the shake and change laws virtually
overnight
while we were filming in an attempt to
stop overcrowding amongst unskilled
workers
it was declared illegal to share
property with anyone except close family
if you're thinking of coming out here
make sure you do your homework
so I'm off to meet an old friend patty
parket she moved out here with a son
Harry after separating from her wayward
husband Rick guitarist a status quo .
are here on a holiday thought you'd
probably the ideal place to change the
status quo and mend a broken heart
a year on however the dubai dream is
turning sour good things we talked about
me to see also using a status quo tour
bus
I don't talk about welcome to my hair
so this is your lovely piece of Dubai
paradise is this is a littler and all
that
hacienda so this is the lounge yeah
this four-bedroom house is typical of
the expat family lifestyle out here
inside landscape gated communities and
miles from anywhere
so this is the kitchen
thankfully for the neighbors it's
detached
yeah
- Patti you're in a very nice place here
but it's a half an hour in the land
what would you pay here for your reading
what are you oh you're gonna die 32,000
pounds for the year and you have to pay
out front in Dubai so that you have to
write a check for 32,000 pounds for
years reading about
ya see that strikes me as pretty
expensive it is I mean it's ridiculous
during your rental is up for a new what
are you going to be
I'm taking it for six months and then I
just stay here i go there
one of the other charge you for that a
27,000 pounds
what in one year they nearly doubled it
yeah it's so be warned if your employer
is not subsidizing your rent
you'll be in for a nasty shock it's
terribly expensive in to buy it was
under this is wonderful tax for you
haver yeah everything is dirt cheap
there's not really like that No and so
you know I don't want to spoil anybody's
whole day or dream to move to dubai but
you really gotta look at it because it's
not all it's cracked up to be
people are watching it's going to be
thinking I quite fancy coming to dubai
and yet you seem to form a slightly out
of love with the dream
yes i have have a mile God where do I go
now and i do miss my friends I do miss
my family and it is difficult to meet
people over here because everybody's
basically its family and when i go out i
am a threat but you are
oh no you 57 I mean that is amazing
yeah recently divorced floor up long
bombshell used to be with the wrong
start
you are public enemy number one of these
women tested as rock n roll
so what does the future hold for dubai
i'll be looking at the changing face of
society here and then over this doors
wider the Western values and their
secret defense against the credit crunch
come down to a few familiar faces
try some of these aspects and just how
much they prepared to spend to make sure
divided does become the greatest city in
the world
highly will be getting millions
ultimate multi-millions in the UK we've
taken thousands of years to develop our
laws and customs
where's Tobias had just a couple of
decades try and find common ground to
the 205 nationalities can happily
coexist
consider this just 1.3 million people
live here
all those 200,000 of Western expats
900,000 or Asians mainly workers and
that leaves just 200,000 local Emiratis
to put that in perspective imagine
living in Britain where five out of six
people were foreigners
when you think of it like that you kind
of begin to work out that devised
actually quite a tolerant place
it's a sign of devised willingness to
welcome foreigners into its midst to
keep moving forward as someone taking
full advantage of acceptance during car
it's amazing
Derek of former fashion stylist to pop
stars like salt and pepper and Snoop
Dogg is today better known as next jewel
thief
what happened i am very stupidly I pawn
the jewels and of course morning you
don't pawn what is not yours and I dug
myself into a nightmarish all I would
have to go take one piece of you will go
to another company and light basically
to get another piece and which I pawned
it became a city and a night only a call
and i will exchange your it isn't
yes I did he served two years in New
York jail for his crimes was kicked out
of the US are settled here in dubai you
reinventing himself as get this a
jewelry designer
there you are a convicted felon home for
want of a better phrase you kicked out
of america and then Dubai where you
would imagine they're quite strict about
that kind of thing
they welcome you in here I was accepted
into the by because i think i was very
straight filed with what I had done
I was very straightforward and who I am
and and the kind of saw what they can do
also fairly you need to when there
aren't many Derek's in dubai that I've
met a look at the whole thing you know
well you'd be surprised by is just that
you know that get a hold of you either
I kind of hope not but it in
give me that will be exactly that's what
i hear everywhere is if you do this
you're out if you do that you'll be
deported as a what I haven't found is
any real evidence they actually do this
I mean do people get chucked out of
Dubai
of course they do I'm not people have
been deported well no I don't want to .
i mean i don't know if it will be
important but you know the fish is to be
collective fear of being deported use
any evidence we want every we'll listen
the collective fear works because guess
what I can open my car and have
especially from New York City I could
never do leave my computer in the car
I do it all the time i leave my doors
unlocked at home
you think that the the rules are a small
price to pay ready for a month at a very
small price to pay if it gives you that
sense of security and I couldn't be
happier here
right beautiful beautiful
lovely if the buyer is going to succeed
now more than ever it needs people it
has to be seen as the in place
someone you can't afford not to be so
when do I can't build it
- bye byes it spending millions of
celebrity names and crucially brands
Gary rose the latest big name load into
town will be in good company
Gordon Ramsay and Marco Pierre White are
already here and raking it Eric
very good thing not you you too you came
just at the right time
try some of these that is a little
salmon fish cake with a lemon
hollandaise called lasting forever
laughs I'm just actually delicious back
just to say we have a major life
transition
tell me go you flown all the way to
Dubai yeah and you flown all the food
out here as well
oh yes what are you standing there oh
yes what is six degrees outside it's
snowing in the UK where would you choose
you know it's I just thought no you know
I want to spread the word about British
cookies are very honest caring would you
be out here if there wasn't a whacking
great big Arabic check it when I know
it's just right
I'm not you all like your money angle
with that contractor - okay
no it's it's not a question of that is
it's only that's always in it because I
mean I know a lot of brand names like
you're such a high commodities out here
but they will pay whatever it takes to
get well i think you know if if I start
cooking for money rather than cooking
for I really believe in
I'd rather give it up so there you have
it the definitive answer with
hollandaise source
can we get help appears every year and
up on the 44th floor
another bought in brand name mark fuller
will be opening a version of London
embassy Club here next year
no offense to you Bob but you and gary
rhodes and not exactly you know the
beckons
and yet you're getting a lot of money
thrown at you to come here what's in it
for them to get you someone was saying
to me today that it's all very well
opening a hotel but you've got to entice
people into it's like all over the world
the difference is they're buying a name
brands because it's a new country
I'm really rude of me to push you on
just how many millions they pay you to
calculate had no I went I went to that
it wasn't it wasn't millions but it was
quite an acceptable figure what about
tiger woods and people like that I would
see there are you Tiger words you know
christina aguilera's those sort of
people Kylie's will be getting million
multi-million multi-millions is that
because the people who do by the rules
he realized celebrities of that power
our APR magnet figure i think without a
doubt in the end this was a piece of
desert
this was a piece of sound they built a
city out of nothing
how do you attract everybody that they
want to be number one that I want to be
number two number three number four they
want to be Miami they want to beat Miami
they want to be New York they want to
beat your you know
so the only answer is bring it in Carly
Carl's Beyonce comes I mean even
and maintenance plated it is almost
surreal here it's the land of maple leaf
it certainly is more of the land of
unbelievable because of the world and
rocked to the core by the credit crunch
to buy rock to the sound and Kylie of
the world's most expensive party
the advantages hotel was born with a
massive seven million pound extravaganza
it's like an awful lot of that went up
in smoke
that's facing the only Brent's living
here is always you toe the line
that's pretty good for the investor
though even ultra rifle and Dubai is
fragile
it doesn't manufacture anything of value
oil now accounts for just six percent of
its income and even though over wealthy
neighbor abu dhabi up nine billion
pounds into its economy back in October
to buy remains exposed three big
government back construction companies
are already laying off hundreds of
employees to buy relies on foreign
investors to make it work without them
devise dream of becoming the greatest
city on earth may have to wait
I came to dubai to find out if it really
is all it's cracked up to be
and the answer if you like sun and fun
glitz and glamour is resounding yes
as for the credit crunch everyone I've
met here says the same thing to buy one
just survive it will thrive and that's
because it bursting with ambition and
drive all led by one man's extraordinary
vision and an utter determination to
turn this place into the biggest and
most successful city in the world
that's for my part they got borrow the
favorite phrase of the British builder
it'll be all right when it's finished
yeah