awful so the easily set against time saddam is facing so many problems including the economy where people are facing so many shelter just off most of the basic necessities. full fuel it. seems like these on our common site in most parts of the city multis say sometimes they spend the entire day waiting to fill up their vehicles. the fuel crisis shortages of bread and electricity outages are posing a major challenge for the country's transitional military council moderate men and his own father as everything is as before there is no difference between the old regime and the military council we still have shortages and queues for bread and fuel will go. back used to full money at banks and the few tele motions not still hold koch under the sea adding hit dozens of people wait patiently in line to get

money out what is the most out of interest of and it may take us up to a month sometimes to withdraw full salaries treat government imposed limits it's ramadan and people are fasting it's unfair to wait for this long to collect our own money our own right according to bungle fishbowls it's been taking an average of 6 hours for the few a.t.m.'s that are talked to be emptied. the financial ecosystem they say house quite simply seized up. yet since that immobile of a model bullshit from office the sudanese palm headley strengthened against the dollar on the black market sulfides it again almost a 3rd of its value but that is yet to fully come bought into law prices will basic commodities. while live on the oligarchical oil prices had begun coming down but have once again risen due to the mess of demand for commodities during ramadan we can only pray that things get better for us. a decision to cut. food and fuel

subsidies are last year increased discontent with all bullshitters government and 3 that mass protest in december that ultimately led to remove the from office the protests are still going the people of used to making do with the little very hard . thing of coming together to find new ways to make ends meet but the effect on me years of political and economic isolation they say is threatening to break that determination and push them over the edge. how thompson done. counting is complete in south africa's general election and as expected the ruling african national congress party has won the parliamentary vote . the latest for us from the national results center in pretoria. all of the ballots are being counted we're expecting the results to be announced in just a short while and displayed on these screens the a.n.c.

according to the numbers that have been published has just over 57 percent of the vote so still a safe majority but it's one with a lower margin than it ever has before now follows a series of corruption scandals over the last 10 years and under the rule of former president jacob zuma in 2nd place the democratic alliance have just over 20 percent of the vote a very slight decrease from the 23 percent that they had last time and the 3rd place the economic freedom fighters proposed radical economic reforms they've gone up from about 6 percent of the vote to just over 10 percent of the vote they used their seats in the last parliament to obstruct proceedings and attack and see if there is corruption scandals and now they've got considerably more seats. still ahead here on al jazeera one of the crisis in venezuela is being blamed for food rationing in cuba. and leading the charge we're on an island in south korea where to. cause of running out of road.

kill or get a welcome back to your international weather forecast for here across china we are looking at fairly dry conditions across much of eastern china along the coastal seaboard now things are going to be changing as we go through the rest of the week and into the beginning of the week but here on sunday temperatures into the high twenty's for taiwan we're talking about 30 degrees there for monday though shanghai your temperatures are coming down but the rain is also coming into play but for hong kong it is going to be more humid with a temperature of 30 degrees as i make a way over here towards india dry and hot across much of the subcontinent we are picking up some showers down here across carola those showers are going to continue as we begin the week as well so for bengaluru you will be right on the edge of the showers with 33 degrees there and then as we go towards monday heavy rain down here

along the coast up towards core kind of though it is going to be hot at $36.00 in katmandu we could expect to see some showers in your forecast for the temperature there of 28 degrees and then very quickly here across much of the gulf here on sunday here daryn we do expect to see some clouds pushing through that could even have a few showers or 2 as well temps are there on sunday at $37.00 degrees abu dhabi at $33.00 but as we go towards monday the temperature does come up to about $39.00 degrees over here towards mecca it is going to be about $41.00 and riyadh would suddenly forecast at $36.00 degrees. people have to weigh your record on this travel in fact a few years ago there was a place only for one state on the land of israel i do not believe in a 2 state solution the official story is that there are no i'm sure we all feel or you don't care about the official story if you were to go visit today you would say what has the media been telling you how the world is watching why there's lots of

graves if you join me mad the hot sun on our front as my guests from around the world take the hot seat and we debate the week's top stories and big issues here on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching and as a reminder of our top stories at least 3 governments have a time a luxury hotel in baluchistan province in pakistan security forces say that they've evacuated most of the people inside the hotel some people have been injured in the attack but there were no reports of any deaths. but if you rebels in yemen have begun redeploying forces from 3 perceived paul today said the fed must use our vitally important for food fuel and aid imports yemeni government leaders are

unhappy that the deployment of the un supervision is without their agreement. sudan's military council has offered further talks with the opposition within $72.00 hours on forming a transitional government protesters that want a civilian led body and say the military is proposals to match the demands of the people. now is sort of the day of political tension of venezuela supporters of opposition. gathering in the capital caracas to demonstrate against the government's crackdown on opposition politician. as a correspondent but it's one of the following events for the trees or what we expected to see today. while we're here in this where people are expected to gather today for this demonstration against the government of nikolai one why the one has asked people to gather in this point in this specific location in a way to denounce what they say was the illegitimate detention of ever got to

somebody who's the vice president of the opposition controlled national assembly let me tell you what's been going here what is happening here in the past few days what i know was detained on wednesday evening he was in the headquarters of his political party apparently he left and he was inside his vehicle when he was surrounded by a group of intelligence officers those intelligence officers asked him to step out of the car he didn't want to do that so they brought a tow truck in order to take him away for what we know some brand is currently being held in a military prison we've been talking to his daughter to his lawyers they're saying that. he's not going to have a fair trial the government is saying that he had an active participation in what the government calls the coup that happened here on april the 30th when we saw one why though appearing at a military base not far away from where we are surrounded with a group of soldiers on friday we saw him explaining a bit what's been happening in the country he spoke about a cool that in

a way the cia in the united states captured who was his intelligence chief christopher figured out he's currently in hiding and apparently and according to my google he was the man that actually in a way organized the whole 30 years that what happened here on april 30th what's interesting is it's not clear yet how many people are going to be gathering here today people in venezuela many of them are tired of they're struggling with an economic crisis with trying. to eat every day many are going to supermarkets among other things and it's difficult for them to be able to buy anything because of the enormous hyperinflation that exists in the country so the big challenge for why though today is how many people are going to come to this demonstration to protest against the. trees that will leave it trees of over in caracas like you. i saw late from venezuela sanctions are being blamed for the start of food rationing in cuba communist leaders say rationing will prevent shortages and stop

cubans hoarding goods to sell on the black market vittoria. the queue for fresh chicken stretches outside the supermarket in havana poultry and many other items are often in short supply and shoppers have just heard there's been a delivery. they'll have to wait several hours to be served not only that there's now a limit on how much they can buy. for you when we sell items such as chicken sometimes there's not much available so we've been told to limit the amount customers can buy . cuber imports up to 70 percent of its food and is struggling to pay the bills because the government's receiving less aid from venezuela which has its own crisis to deal with cuba's communist leaders are starting rationing meat eggs rice beans and other essential such as so. i thought i wanted to say that people i think rationing is the only way to stop hoarding food people need to buy less so that

everyone can get a little bit like the government says the main reason for the future is because of u.s. sanctions donald trump has reversed the thaw in relations when barack obama was president is. that we depend on imports that come from the united states and that has meant that we've had to look for alternatives to be able to secure the products in the market however our mission is to fracture all the measures the euro as government imposes. cuba has been under a u.s. economic and bargain for almost 60 years but with the economic and political crisis in socialist venezuela cubans are preparing for more tough times ahead victoria gates and be al jazeera. the u.s. and china have agreed to continue trade talks even after president trying threaten to impose tariffs on all chinese imports the latest round of negotiations and in washington with no breakthrough but china's top trade negotiator says their meeting

was constructive aytaroun brown has more beijing. well the question now of course is the proportionality of china's response china has warned of counter measures without specifying exactly what those measures would be but lou her who has been leading the chinese negotiating team has said the talks are going to continue he said there's been a twist but the talks are not over and they will resume in beijing in a few days time it seems but lou her there's also conceded that there were disagreements during the discussions china wants the united states to lift those tariffs if a deal is done he also admits that one of the other sticking points has been how much china has agreed to purchase from the united states but generally his language so far has been very measured by overdrawn. we have come here with sincerity on

behalf of the chinese government are 2 sides of conducted candid and constructive talks we both agree that the 2 sides need to maintain the good momentum of the consultations despite some temporary friction and obstruction we also agreed to meet again in beijing to continue their consultations in the future. president xi jinping is aware that in the united states president trump has the support of the democrats on this issue and of course this tariff war comes at a time when china's economy is continuing to slow and this is a key year in china as well the communist party is 100 years old and in october it will be 70 years since the founding of the people's republic a year that a chinese leader cannot afford to appear weak but to killie during trade disputes with the united states but on the issue of trade this is perhaps the one area where the u.s. and china can do a deal because china is much more concerned right now over taiwan and the support

that the trumpet ministration is giving to the independence leaning leader of the island republic. hostages freed by the french special forces a bikini faster on the way home president is waiting to welcome the 2 french citizens of the south korean 2 soldiers were killed during the rescue operation on thursday night a 4th american hostage is also on his way home. south korea's the place to be if you want to get a glimpse of the future of electric cars 0 emission technologies been on show as a major exhibition in jade's you rob a bride reports from the island aiming to become the 1st in the world to be carbon free by 2030. this show brings together everything you need for an electric future. yes the cars both the sensible ones and the fun ones and all the other every day vehicles to service in a world beyond fossil fuels all using the same advances in electric engine and

battery technology but in all shapes and sizes even one made using a 3 d. laser printer. i think we have passed the inflection point and evey's have become the norm the battery prices come down by more than a 3rd so vehicles cost less as well. for an expo promoting green transport j.j. who is the perfect stage. a large volcanic island off south korea's southern coast it's famous for its rugged good looks. a tourist destination that knows how valuable its beauty is and how vulnerable to climate change. because of that it's committed through renewable energy and electric vehicles to being completely carbon free by 2030 and the entire jeju island is a natural treasure we wondered how best to preserve it and when you came to transport we decided to go electric jeju seems perfectly placed for such an

experiment an island with relatively short driving distances well suited to electric vehicles and with a semi autonomous government able to pursue bold policies when it comes to embracing the electric vehicle jew is already way out in front of all the evey's in south korea right now a quarter of them are here on this one island but it's still got a long way to go to be 100 percent carbon free. the vast majority of vehicles still use fossil fuels but the government is quickly putting in place the resources needed to encourage people to go electric. visited by. the provincial government is providing enough support in terms of regulation and funding transport companies are also replacing their vehicles so i'm sure we can achieve the goal of the game as the quest continues others in asia and beyond watch with interest what

jade you can do maybe they can do also. rob mcbride al-jazeera j.j. to south korea. where more than $180.00 countries have reached a deal aimed at reducing the amount of plastic that gets washed into the world's oceans 11 days of talks in geneva it was revealed industrialized countries shipped much of their ways to less developed countries who then just. germany was identified as one of the worst offenders but it round behind the world's biggest exporter of plastic waste the united states. is a senior official with the united nations a veyron. program he says the deal has increased global awareness about plastic pollution. or there's been a grid here is actually quite the story in america at her own negotiations because when no we submit the proposal to our men the convent general set up a partnership or one on plastic waste and that was in september last year and i think with the with the amount of interest but from governments and also from civil

society and consumers to really deal with the problem of plastics which as you know was causing a lot of environmental issues around the world with birds ingesting plastics with animals in the recent research that we've seen that plastics is not found in our forwards and is entering into our bodies i think countries where really this week committed thought walter tool will give you know they did this season for them to all the address the issue of plastics not on me at the country level also at the global level because as you can see that issue or plastics is not only one country but but all the countries of the world. thank you what you have is that robs the whole world and these are all top news stories government have a talk to a luxury hotel in baluchistan province in southern pakistan and local reports say at least 3 attackers are inside the hotel in the port city of the mall hyder has the latest from islamabad. now in.

fact most of the people from that. helicopter have been. there are. still. firing. squad there are no reported dead there are. security forces that now completing what they call created operation the rebels in yemen have begun redeploying forces from 3 besieged paltz who data salif and other vitally important for food fuel and aid imports yemeni government leaders are unhappy about the deployment under u.n. supervision is without their agreement sudan's military council has offered further talks with the opposition within $72.00 hours of forming a transitional government protesters want a civilian led body and say the military's proposals don't match the demands of the people transit transitional military council has called on protesting just to

resume negotiations within $72.00 hours. a u.s. warship designed to learn the u.s. marines is on its way to reinforce naval forces in the calls iran is dismissing the deployment as psychological warfare aimed at intimidation the arlington is joining the abraham lincoln aircraft carrier strike group which sounds through the suez canal. commanders say the deployments are a response to possible operations by iran against u.s. forces in the region. south africa's electoral commission has announced the ruling african national congress party has provisionally won wednesday's general election with 57.51 percent of the vote it's the worst ever performance by the a.n.c. in 25 years since its ruled at the end of apartheid. the u.s. and china have agreed more talks to end their trade war despite donald trump giving the go ahead for more tariffs. trump says that he's no rush to reach a deal as negotiations in washington did without

a breakthrough those were the headlines more news in half an hour to stay with us up front is next. as u.s. sanctions and levied against iran we want them to like this one on iraq's relations with its key trading partner or not be part of a new alliance against another evidence in iraq's deputy prime minister and the oil minister. down to 0. with a billionaire for president and skyrocketing inequality can the united states still call itself a genuine representative democracy why has it become a plutocracy and what could be done if anything to cut the gap between the rich and the rest in this out from the special another doris and arthur laffer debate one of the biggest issues of our time.

inequality in the united states has been rising for decades and has now reached levels not seen since before the great depression in fact the us has a greater share of wealth than income going to the top one percent than any other country in the industrialized world so does the growing number of billionaires pose a threat to democracy and to the economy or is this just the politics of envy do the super rich actually play an important role as employers as taxpayers as philanthropists and what is the best way to address this growing inequality joining me to debate this arthur laffer creator of the famous laffer curve former economic advisor to president donald trump and co-author of the book trump a nomics inside the america 1st plan to revive our economy and our address editor at large for time magazine and author of the book winner takes all the elite charade of changing the world gentlemen thank you both for joining me out for thank you for having let me start with you you've heard the statistics you've seen them at the top 10 percent of americans now make more than a 9 times as much as the bottom 90 percent the 3 richest people in the u.s.

own as much wealth as the entire bottom half of the population how concerned are you by all of this i am very concerned about the bottom portion i am not concerned so much about the top portion of all i mean i would love to eliminate poverty in the u.s. i'd love to raise incomes of the lower income groups but i'm not one who wants to cut down the rich i mean i think income inequality is very clearly here and there's no question and growing and what it's. only in my mind because so much growth of government and that's really what's caused a lot of this inequality and the markets are much larger etc but i'm very worried about low income groups and making them better off that's why i wrote enterprise zones and all this to bring the low end of the run but i don't know what the gap is not the issue the gap in no is really the bottom i'm really concerned about the gap is not the issue it's the bottom. you know i think the eighty's called and want their ideas back we are now at a point a crisis point i believe on on inequality american life and i think where the new

thinking is the talk of the smartest people who are studying the problem now there's an understanding that you can't fight poverty without dealing with what those at the top have done to engineer that situation so let's talk about a couple things if you use your outsized political influence through donations and lobbying to push for tax cuts things like the trump tax cut as you know most of the benefits flow to the top tax cuts that you you know were involved in the reagan years in the eighty's and the one percent doubles its share of income and you start to see wages stagnate etc etc you start to see people you know who run a company like amazon own a company like amazon become the rich person the world while workers at amazon are peeing in a bottle because the company doesn't give them enough break time in the relentless drive for productivity i think you start to see that the people down below are not down below because they happen to be down below they down below because someone is actually standing on their back and i think the new thinking now is that we

actually have to get people off people's backs and to understand the mechanisms which we can talk about today about what are the ways in which people are are standing on people's backs but this old idea that you can lift people up without dealing with what those on the top are doing and without bringing them down. and i'll bring also back in just one quick question just to get a prince where we all stand on principle if it stick it on principle if everyone is getting richer but some are getting richer faster than the rest is that a problem for you that's not what's been happening but in principle terms i mean i would need to know the rate of of each you know if people the bottom are getting richer in a faster rate that would be even better but the reality is the average income in $179.00 in this country for the bottom half of americans is $16000.00 after 40 years pretty amazing things happen in the last 40 years the internet genomics revolution you know the store. 3 the average income for the bottom half is now $16000.20 it takes a tremendous amount of rigging to have as much new stuff has been invented in our

lifetime and have it not benefit we're going to talk about everything a little bit later in the show but i'm going to make your point that you cannot you are as you know that you cannot deal with poverty unless you deal with the gap you disagree i disagree with that toy because if you don't think rich people need to be made less powerful in order for justice to be done in america today no i don't know what by less powerful means less politically influential but start with let me put it this way the thing i think of most for helping the low income is the jack kennedy quote that the best form of welfare is still a good high paying job and job creation job growth and income growth i think is the best way i would really telling the poor how do you do you ok how do you do with music now i mean i'm an eighty's guy but i was born in 1981 both from cleveland we both know what it is how do you know i need to score some good will do it it's got 1st voice it is because it got the gap is what we all love the i disagree about it because it is good economic ideas are good just wonderful the gap has an impact on people's lives the richest one percent in the united states live up to 15 years

longer than the poorest one percent yes to get boxes. life expects the united states vary by one to 28 if you just say well you know where you live but let me just say you know that you're not good at it and you know matters a lot of the ghetto income buys buys life i mean it buys all this look out there is a lot of ways to get out the got lots of people don't like living in the. health it affects their spirits it affects their mental emotional you know the studies that are being done well i'm going to i've never known a society that doesn't have large income gaps i mean it's been with us for centuries and forever but the truth of the matter is it does get you better health care income does get you more job satisfaction that's very true that's why i want to see the poor get more income that's exactly the reason if they get more income they can get better health care they can feel more job satisfaction that's why i think the problem really is at the heart of it's a poor real results for example by kate pickett richard wilkinson in the spirit love and other studies suggest that even if you raise the income as long as there's

a massive gap society will have problems not believe drug addiction. is a very wealthy man's game to our viewers we're missing a very fundamental point so you were born in the year 940 is that correct who is that correct on your work i just heard 40 so people born in 1940 in this country yes at the top of the upper middle class or the. top of the lower middle class of the bottom the upper middle class 10 percent on 90th percentile shared a 90 percent chance of realizing the american dream with the top of the bottom 90 percent chance out earning your parents doing better yes people born in my decade the eighty's. because in many ways of policies that you were involved with in the reagan is this one we disagree with but this is where we disagree a little bit where the new people born in 1904 for example maturing into adulthood today. if you're at that top that upper middle class level your mobility has gone down from 90 percent to 70 still good of a better than average shot of out earning your parents people born at that 10

percent level at the lower middle class now have a 35 percent chance of out earning their parents. and i think it is a fantasy to suggest that that was not an engineered consequence of policy and then an engineered consequence of government cutbacks of austerity of tax cuts you do know what happened to homelessness in the reagan years you know the data well i do know the data and i lived in california but let me just say that you know still economic growth what you're talking about is economic growth has come way way down from the forty's when you know what i'm talking about but that is what the result i'm talking about captured by the no economic growth if you have no increase in real g.d.p. per adult if you don't you're not going to have a good thing we don't know your cross purposes my understanding of it i think that's what we're used to be and it is a it's not about how much growth you have it's about who's getting the growth so people know how to get it's about growth know what about also growth if everyone doesn't have access to what but know what he said was a performer your parents now that is not a relative thing your parents were there you're here it's

a time separated thing is what we're talking about now when you talk about time separation the real key here is economic growth and we have had very slow number of euro what i would be wrong line and so much of the ability to klein in real g.d.p. per adult the trend it is declining the enormously in the last 20 some your corporate profits have gone up in this that's true the income of affluent people has gone up and wages of stagnant productivity of the famous graph that you know productivity but it has gone up in the period we're talking about somehow the workers generating that productivity but they're not captured if you might of that i would put it put just to respond and we would create what i. mean there are these people had no income before and all of us and at the end of reagan they $20000000.00 more had income that they never had before all you look at that it was the reagan tax cuts of the ninety's margaret thatcher in the u.k. when we're going to states which created this explosion of inequality which you know i think it was their exposure to of growth income jobs for the poor the

minorities the disenfranchised people who had heretofore never had jobs now have generally and so you're saying to rich people you can keep way more of your money. question. you but betty i want to live in the candy land of your mind depending on how you get a reality and you say somebody here i mean a lot of this is been brought about by government because of lobbying and all this stuff that they've gotten all the tax shelters who love it it's warren buffett he pays only $8000000.00 the taxes with $13000000000.00 income 6101 percent of his income in taxes because we don't have a low rate broad based tax like jerry brown proposed and i was jerry brown's economists who want to get rid of all federal taxes they have to flat rate taxes want to business net sales or one of personal adjusted gross income 13 percent on the subject of taxes on and what would you like to see happen to taxes to try and tackle this problem. i think what is very exciting about the democratic primary that's happening now which feels to me like a way more open conversation with a full spectrum of ideas and we represented some very interesting tax proposals with surprising degrees of popularity in this country so the war and wealth tax is

a fascinating idea you know $75000.00 families alone would be would be touched by that wealth because senator elizabeth warren is going to be a 2 percent 2 percent 2 percent on assets over $50000000.00 and only that which is above 53 percent above a 1000000000 only that that that's above 1000000000 touches only $75000.00 families and you know this this is a person who has very strong economists doing this work you can fund universal daycare on that you can fund a massive effort on free college around that and still have money left over that's interesting idea has a 70 percent marginal rate congressman alexander a close circle to thank you for forgetting the global right exactly you know i think that's an interesting idea i think we're going to have to sit and look at all of these and maybe not do all of them the same because that's what i think about it but i think these are the kinds of ideas directionally that we should that those those that think we have an honest reason one of the reason we're doing this show is because one of the discussion why can't we have an honest conversation about tax

rates and about what the rich pay without some people on the i love it getting hysterical so when alexander closer suggested 70 percent don't. to the news and we had 2 1 of your friends grover norquist. comparing it to slavery we had a prominent republican congressman suggesting that she was trying to take 70 percent of people's income she's not is she just to be here if you want to start a little bit of what i do she's only saying 70 percent on every dollar over $10000000.00 how can anyone be again let's look at how do you need more than $10000000.00 of income what can you spare 73 cents please about your friend or grover norquist or anyone else so they're wrong be it was you know the key they're wrong to compare 70 percent tax to slavery i do think that's wrong i do and we're all going with the idea and let's just get to the idea i don't think the 70 percent of what people pay i don't think it is what they pay what they do is where you have you don't have it when you have a tax rate of 70 percent you're going to spend 70 percent of your time trying to reduce your tax burden and 30 percent of your time trying to work because that's where you allocate the resources and don't let me finish when you do that you get

all sorts of people trying to use lobbyist gamesmanship you know all this. she can agree with government to do that. when you're famous for the laugh floor curve laughter i'm a laugh or i'm afraid you're turning into the laughter curve that's ok i got it as before because the reality is. we tried the idea of cutting taxes and unleashing growth we tried it we now know serious people agree on this that it allowed the one percent to double its share of the nation and then could i respond that allowed 1000000000 they are going to do so anyway you're completely wrong on the facts on the research i'm going to look at this nonetheless where you could allow you tell you there's to monopolize the american dream and it has i don't know how much time you spend out there actually talking to regular people in the country i've been in indiana iowa pennsylvania ohio nevada recently in the last few weeks talking to people i will tell you when you actually go into real situations and say what's what's your job what happened in job how was your job 30

years ago what happened now how much of your farm make what's going on what's the union situation i will tell. you that people are very clear whatever conversation wearing at this table americans on the left and right are very clear that something has gone badly wrong in this country that they that they can't see the horizon that the sun did not i was about but i don't know but even republican voters especially if you look at the academic because this is one of those i think just i mean the academic literature is very clear the tax rates have had an enormous effect on economic growth government spending does i mean you look at if you tax people who work and you pay people who don't work here you get a lot of people not working you have advised donald trump you know we have much more with were you part of the great you have advised donald trump you were in a book were using this thing you're told you've written a book praising donald trump economic policies going on with all this yes very much his tax cuts. 60 percent of the benefits of those tax cuts last year went to the top 20 percent and in the coming decade the top one percent are going to get 80 percent as a bonus but you're so wrong i'm not wrong that's the tax policy center which is

a nonpartisan i discover they hasn't been wrong since the fifty's let's read well the tax policy center says this can i say something if you look at the increase in jobs i'll put in a thought if you look at the poor what i know is the top dog percent citing research then you've not disputed it you get it completely or so now i'm sort of assumptions about the benefits they could be about you know the benefits of the tax cuts of the jobs they are how it works come on come on that's why we did the test i was i was so excited about this i liked lots and lots of money on the basis of tax cuts but down the line someone may get a job we benefit when someone's got a little and big other job you know lots of people have notified me oh it was a very specific you know i was unemployed for a total of one percent of the good or 80 percent of my business alone ok with those at the lowest rungs of the latter have had the lowest unemployment rates they've had water broke about unemployment but i'm telling people that are going to that you may want to talk about the distribution of taxation i like i mean do talks about who get jobs who gets the income increases that's what i'm after now you can be after the just even if they're probably paying jobs people in america job better

than no job if they don't well i'll have a job maybe for you in a nice suit sitting here it's better than no job but i will tell you i don't do you get out there and actually talk to people all the time and i've been doing it for a lot more years and you guys just you know i was in tears in utero look the reality is. a lot of these jobs you talk about. are increasingly contract jobs rather than jobs with any kind of security they're good jobs for young people all the indicators around homeownership down entrepreneurship down we think we live in the startup age no young people about half as likely to do a start up today as they were when you when you were architecting the policies that resulted in the situation and probably if you continue it doesn't matter of you do it personally but if we continue to cling to this idea that simply leaving business people alone in an era in which so many people have started to feel that the american economy doesn't work to your point you know that actually if you think

about how donald trump ran as opposed to what he did there was a 2 party consensus in the 26th election a milestone american history where both parties both contenders ran against the role of financial capitalism in screwing american community ok that is the new i don't sense about let me just we're going to move on you have to do i mean you've written a lot about philanthropy to a lot of rich people would say justifiably so but we do a lot of good work with our billions the bill gates the warren buffets of this world so we're helping fight malaria we are helping build hospitals there's a zuckerberg hospital. what do you say to them when they make that point we all know we're not just innovating as often some on the right would say in creating jobs we're also doing a lot of good deeds with this money and others on doing you know philanthropy is trickle down economics with a cherry on top all of these super mega billionaires many of whom i did this reporting with you know have foundations and give huge amounts but what is so remarkable about it is the as the philanthropy has gone in there do gooding has

grown the inequality has grown and so the question is what's the relationship between these things and i think the argument and conclusion of my book through reporting is that this extraordinary elite generosity that marks our time is actually how we maintain a system of extraordinary is a word surely. and i can he answer that i mean this is exactly correct what you're talking about is exactly what is real god is for 501 c 3 you get a deduction there which reduces your adjusted gross income by 30 percent of the amount you gave to taxable income and these guys have used in this all the time here's it to avoid taxes and you get no doubt please let me just give you one more effect please you know you have no capital gains taxes on unrealized capital gains if you give away a dollar stock that's now worth $100.00 you get the full benefit of the 100 you don't get any of the tax this is fraud of the 1st i mean because of the tax or because you know a lot of these people are telling me i'm going to eat when you see a lot of people saw what happened in front of me yes notre dame cathedral they

raised billionaires in from this raised a 1000000000 dollars i think in the space of 2 days to help restore that cathedral a lot of people again on the left on the right will say so in 2 days you could raise a $1000000000.00 when you want to for something you want to spend on but then you claim you can't afford to pay the taxes or it's going to hamper your business or it's going to totally evasion surely that undermines the idea that if you raise taxes on the rich they're going to all run away or talk about right you're totally right i think it is you can give away a $100.00 and really lose something like $9.07 because of all the tax benefits you get from that you shouldn't have that if you give away charity you should give it away and after tax dollars that's the way it should be done that's what i would jerry brown we have a low broad race based flat tax of 13 percent period no deductions no exemptions no exclusions and then warren buffett would have paid instead of paying $8000000.00 he would have paid $1600000000.00 but now we didn't do it by rates because frankly he doesn't but just to the point a little further if we did

a wealth tax if that money is in fact lying around to get around it to $1.00 of them if we did a wealth tax and let's say we found a way to enforce it do you truly think if we taxed fortune's north of $50000000.00 or a $1000000000.00 many people reported on many of them i will tell you do not think america would would would would be in trouble many of them. i don't want it to happen but many of them will tell you privately they think america be better off on the other side of it they're not going to they're not going to agitate for it do you really think america would be worse off if we taxed those fortunes versus and that's just as a stand alone or what do you do with the money or do you lower other taxes now we've got to do various things with the money you can do universal daycare that's the proposal on the table you could do free public college i think america would be a lot worse off with the 2 percent and let's admit the 2 percent well let's hear the sound although i know we're running out of time when you tell us describe or said one of the things it's going to be very difficult to do though right when bernie saunders a self declared socialist who's i think 2nd in the polls right now in the

democratic primaries when he says he wants to break the quote in this country number one is an accurate description number 2 can he do it is it possible to do that i think we do live in a functional oligarchy and i think that's something that americans need to understand because whether you're on the left or the right i actually don't think that's our self image i think our self image is a place where everybody ends up where they end up according to how hard they work and the reality is in the o.e.c.d. the rich countries america is basically last. at social mobility we are actually the place least likely in the rich world and so it is an oligarchy and you're also you're on the right of the spectrum i'm a kid i'm going to kind of a sell out on the right and i'm going to i'm going to join the rest of the spectrum but can you there from the way you'll sit and listen to radio city do you accept that america has become or is becoming an oligarchy as and says as buddies a life is good flute has been never been more prevalent than it is today and that's the real power of the rich and volatile part of a lot of groups and policy no the rich what about the rich as well but i'm talking

about specifically the rich well. the rich are more important to them in a good goldman sachs is more important than how would you how would you briefly cut down the power of the rich in the u.s. i would do it would lower a broad based flat tax the way jerry brown propose we went from don't want to make the rich less rich oh bucks less rich i thought you didn't want to make them less rich just so we opened the show you know you know i was a blessing in the sense they're paying more taxes that's your disability rich but i don't know what i was able to pick up the phone to senators and governors is still have the ability to fund certain politicians that's not going to change is it you know i still get upset a lot of republican and democratic voters and i don't know that in evidence of a near eccentric i don't know of in any society where you don't have the more powerful agreed but in america it's worse for the other sunday that the poisoned the well you know i don't think the amount of money in our in the hollywood say we're in one is if you looked at the o.e.c.d. studies of elizabeth warren's 2 percent wealth tax you've seen that there were 13 or 14 countries that tried it now there are only 4 and they've had with respect we moved on to last about the power of the restaurant and that's why you don't think i talk so what i'm asking is how you would reduce the power of the rich would you

where there's a lot of power of the rich by not having tax codes in their way and i would buy a low rate broad base but they would still be rich according to you but they wouldn't therefore they would still have control over the way to go since no but they wouldn't be able to influence the tax code which is where the rich really get their power you know the way the rich companies get their powers by lobbying government and having government as their biggest come you know with a look at the washington offices of all these firms and all these rich people that's where the problem lies so your solution. is cutting taxes for rich people is a no no my just to have a low rate broad based flat lower rate than their current rate is that fair but nobody does the bin you down you know you know there is a much higher on their income but it would be lower statutory rape but there would be no deductions exemptions or religion i want to add that i'm not a political question not a question about tax rates you've advised donald trump and i advise jerry brown and we went from going to but i think donald trump by the way no ok so you have to atone for what you feel you have anything to not as i point out the dangerous

president american history. before we start a whole new disk i. o. a job that we're running out of time just to bring about the suffering of the fact that donald trump as pointed out saying i will take on special interests i will drain the sport i will stop goldman sachs i will pick will stand against the banks i will stop the rigged economy i will speak for you and then he assembled the richest cabinet in history filled as ministration with goldman sachs personnel was that a betrayal of white working class voters and this was to be for you is what you just said and i think he is supposed to mean example pledges about gold you know you have a billionaire look at facts of his you don't think that's what he wants people in his cabinet i don't think so i don't think there are too few either i mean i think that's just the goldilocks perfect just right now no i didn't say it was that i don't think billionaires are the criteria you do is for their there are lots of billionaires i think would be awful in the cabinet i think this cabinet done a great job in creating a political economy of the representation of different economic strata don't that doesn't mean i don't think that's what he should have thought about about this campbell but that i think his cabinet is

a great cabinet and i think we've got it right out of one very brief question to both of you looking forward i know you love to do predictions what is going to happen to the american economy very briefly especially what we talked about today in terms of the power of the rich inequality in the next 51015 years and i don't look at the inequality in the power of the rich and i think if we keep these policies we're going to have nice solid economic growth and prosperity will hit the lowest income echelons and i'm very excited about moving forward in these areas are the last word i think we're living in a very. time where a 40 year era that you were involved in starting the reagan era is actually finding finally coming to an end each of capital defined by this marching government unshackling business created huge and growing inequality is what most americans to feel the society is a work for them anymore and actually both on the left and right there's a tremendous new consensus emerging that we need new economic thinking that everything you heard today belongs in a museum not in the future and and the reality is we're going to get there one way

or another we're out of time we'll have to leave it there. thank you both for joining me on the show. up front will be back next. but. i really want to get down to the nitty gritty the reality whether on line when you have a male chauvinist that is entranced with the entire global federation it is really hard to get a piece of that pilot or if you join us on say. we think up their mind this is a dialogue everyone has a voice and talk to us in our live you tube chat and you too can be

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stormed inside. reports from yemen so you feel rebels have begun redeploying forces from key ports around the city of who data. south africa's governing party wins the general election but gets its lowest ever share of the vote. i'm going to get your oscar but this sport for me no one's championship. competition for the spanish. ok let's get going with a developing story for you on the news hour 16 hours g.m.t. and 8 pm in pakistan that's where a gun battle has been going on for several hours between the security forces and gunman stormed a prominent 5 star hotel it happened in the southwestern port city of quanta in the province of blotches stone one person is reported to have been killed in the attack

on the pearl continental hotel. we'll have a lot about dates with our correspondent. right now for you. i'm hoping you can hear us communications a little bit of a problem just get us right up to speed what's going on there because this is still a live situation. yes indeed a.k.a. the according to the military spokesman and the attack. after is the attack of them we had or were able to do and enter the hotel they figured the force and then states or dan evacuating all the guests from that go daily including that stuff and also bringing them down there all that. we are toward that at the moment that situation is under control taggart have been

pinned down and the liberation army also claiming responsibility for this particular attack has there been a claim of responsibility and if there has been who is it from. the claim of responsibility has been claimed by the baluch liberation army they have been involved in attacks and so they're operating from across the border and of honest on israel and august on of course had to objected to iran also for not doing enough to contain deeds groups which are operating busy from bordering countries however the progress on the security forces are saying that that you agent it very much under control and that they are trying to neutralize the attackers who they say i've been pinned down inside. who tells of course used by foreigners and businessmen and women so in that regard was this a particularly soft target. where this situation

started the hotel is concerned it is situated in a highly secured area. of iraq that overlooks blog. has a military installations close by so they did a secure as far to the location is concerned there were no foreign guests inside the hotel or the baluch liberation army claiming that the 2 dog ate the chinese who are in large number didn't go out of there because they have invested tens of billions of dollars who are gathered the key link and a matter of time sailed through china pocket on economic order to all under one bed one road initiate dave be done there hasn't been complete stability in this province for a long time now to be think what song how what's happening right now is part of that. absolutely in fact bogus son has been trying

to send the board over it of well it is don de pakistani saying that there are groups operating from ottawa and sometimes union sorry the pakistani prime minister gordon. long ago i need to add that both countries need to do more to try to stop that cross border and free trade day agreeing that they would be joined by gets 90000000 draws on that front so i thought as progress on is concerned are dead no shortage on that it does not want to become a part of the. concern that neighboring countries are providing sanctuary. groups who have been active for a number of years trying to or tag that security forces as well and the chinese who are enriching have really. come out stay close. if you've got any more information in the meantime thank you very much. who the rebels in yemen started redeploying

faces from 3 major ports and it's expected to continue over the next few days under the supervision of the united nations now they include data an important gateway for food and humanitarian aid the millions of yemenis rely on but the government in aden says the who see pullout is nothing but a ploy sort of carrots as the latest. the battle for the port of data has been at the heart of the humanitarian crisis in yemen aid agencies have pleaded with the warring factions to withdraw from the strategic port a gateway for desperately needed food and medicine. millions are facing famine after more than 4 years of fighting between the forties and the coalition led by sad eurabia and the united arab emirates. according to united nations healthy rebels will redeploy from her data and the ports of salif used for grain and there are safe and entry point for oil we have

a huge problem terms of the lack of trust between the saudi led coalition ready on one side who has the rebels on the other worse very good but develops a little bit of trust that could potentially pave the way to eventually solving this conflict is going to really require some actions. there many governments backed by the coalition have expressed skepticism over the agreement on friday the minister of information mohamed el any any tweeted any you know actual deployment that does not allow for the principle of joints monitoring and verification of the terms of the sweden agreement is elusive and on acceptable. the amany government did not state with a vest side would make a reciprocal move. out of the agreement stipulates that both sides withdraw at the same time we complied with the agreement and we expect the saudi led coalition to do the same if they don't we've made our point plans were brokered by our live

committee under the stockroom agreement pakistan between the rival competence last year. but soon after a cease fire was agreed on the 18th of december fighting resumed in the port city of hadera and since then repeated attempts to enforce the trees have failed the u.n. says it is monitoring the redeployment of fighters from the ports yet it's still unclear how far forces will go and who will eventually control the 3 ports so to hire. and there are several sticking points as well there's still no clarity about who will take control of the ports and who data as who seems redeploy those forces then there is the critical question of the sun our international airport which has been closed to commercial traffic since 2016 the opening of the airport is urgently required for yemenis trapped in who see controlled areas and to bring in much required medical and food supplies the payment of salaries to public sector employees yemen's main workforce in rebel held areas have stopped getting their

salaries for months from the yemeni government that's based in aden there's talk now to helen like no helen is an associate research for the london middle east institute she's also the author of yemen in crisis the road to watch she joins us live from oxford helen welcome back to the news will this the thing that we're talking about the embryonic peace process this pulling back from where we are today will this actually happened. i think the 1st thing we need to remember is that this move by the who is a reliever very important move as you mentioned earlier in the report does rayment was made 5 months ago agreement to trim the ambiguous and it's open to any number of interpretations and therefore there that's been one of the reasons there's been such a long delay and during this delay they've been many occasions when both sides have claimed that they were a go it willing to reach withdraw and to fall into respective agreement but in

practice it's very clear that both sides have failed to do so and i think it's particularly into important that the who seems to have now decided to use the lever to really withdraw we have to my knowledge is no evidence that the forces of the internationally recognized government and the coalition have been doing any withdrawing at all and all of this is extremely important in anticipation of the next un security council meeting on the 15th of this month because there have been increasing threat from the west from the americans to support the saudis further and from the saudis and the emir. and there's been a lot of talk of the possibility or even the likelihood of the offensive on her dado which was interrupted last november in anticipation of the meeting that took place in december. of that offensive being renewed and i think it's been something

that many people and certainly millions of yemenis have been very concerned and fearing because although the there's been so little progress there has been remarkably almost and a fairly effective cease fire on her day there which is certainly not the case for other parts of the country just really going to hell or does that when they sightseeing has just been put. 2 of the areas because you're talking about who due to the votes in the main generally quite calm and yet on the pinning what's going on in these other areas we have leaders on both sides it would appear from what you're saying saying one thing but doing the direct opposite of that. yes i think what you've just said is absolutely correct both sides have been saying that they respect the agreement but they haven't they're both accusing each other of you know mel tipple breaches of the ceasefire and her day there and you know i

understand from live from a show that's come my way that there have been more breaches by the internationally recognized government allied forces because it's difficult to call them their own forces. then there have been by those who think for the transfer to to other plants or to other. 2 other parts of the. of the country i mean i'm not sure where you could say to transfer fighting there's certainly been very serious renewed fighting particularly in the area around and this is partly connected with the who feed them who fear to give it but it also there's also a lot of internal debate and problems then possibly serious issues going on within coalition forces that are around dallas so the complicate the situation there is very complicated and may be best left out of this conversation.