Botswana president reveals world's second largest diamond

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Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi shows reporters a massive 2,492-carat diamond -- the second largest ever found in the world -- that was discovered in the north east of the country by a Canadian mining company

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00:00And put your hands out. Both. Both. You have to have both.

00:09What?

00:16So this is the 2,492 carat stone.

00:21Yes, so, Your Excellency, you can see.

00:25Yeah, I can see the little things like, there are some that are glued together.

00:29P.S. and Deputy P.S., come. You mind this resource.

00:33I mean, this is history in the making.

00:35This is 2,492 carats worth of diamonds that have been produced in Mother Earth.

00:40Botswana benefits from these stones.

00:42None of us here can say we haven't benefited from the Botswana diamonds.

00:45So for me, when I talk about 2,492 carats,

00:49I'm thinking of empowering Botswana, provenance,

00:52making sure that people understand what our diamonds actually do for Botswana.

00:58Yeah, true, yeah. In hospitals and everything else.

01:01Yeah. Kids going to school.

01:04Absolutely.

01:06No, you must show your teeth. So it doesn't look...

01:09The bigger one is, it's got a diamond.

01:13Yeah.

01:23Yeah.

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