Botswana president reveals world's second largest diamond
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.