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decker has more from couple. there seems to be some kind of a security sleep carried out by the taliban across different areas of the capital. here. cobble one taliban stores confirming to us that 3 ice, okay. fighters had been killed when they detonated suicide best when they were besieged in a home. and we've seen video of certain areas of heavy exchanges of gunfire. now having said that, they're still hasn't been any official claim of responsibility when it comes to that attack outside the mos. but certain, i think this seems to indicate that the taliban is pretty sure, at least who was behind that explosion. a huge leak of financial documents is exposed, the secret dealings of some of the world's richest people, known as the pandora papers. the document reveal that among thing other things king abdul, the 2nd of jordan as built up a property empire worth more than a $100000000.00. including properties in malibu, washington, d. c. london, and ask it in the u. k. f as lawyer say. all properties were bought with personal

wealth. well, if it's given as a senior reporter for the group behind the release of the documents, one of the names that jumped out to us all immediately. the reporters looking through the state was the king of jordan abdullah. the 2nd that's on one hand, because we found his passport, literally in these documents, but also the sheer number of shell companies and secret property purchases that we were able to establish these. her properties worth over more than $100000000.00 that show companies connected to the king have purchased over the years, including many multi $1000000.00 properties in a very fancy neighborhood in california that were purchased stop during or after the arab spring revelations. there's no indication or suggestion in our reporting, but this is indeed a legal. but i think we have certainly asked the king, why were these purchases made through show companies? why has none of this been disclosed publicly? and what if any connection do these purchases have to the state of jordan?

i am an experts we speak to say that it will be terribly embarrassing for a king who prides himself on a reputation as a modernist and an ally of the west. or i would say other names that jumped out at me were obviously the president of our kenya, who literally appears as a 2nd beneficiary of a secretive foundation in panama. again, this is a precedent to, for many years. and even a few years ago, sat down with her herb bbc interviewer and said, if any one has something to tell us that we haven't been transparent about, let them tell us. and i suppose today with the pandora papers were doing just that . maybe as coast guard has intercepted a boat carrying about $500.00 refugees and migrants to europe and has returned them to libyan shores. another vessel rescued, 65 people traveling from libya on a wooden boat on saturday in recent days, libby insecurity courses of detain thousands of migrants during raids. the un says one person was killed in at least 15 others injured in the crackdown. dozens of

supporters of chin is in present. k say it have rallied in the capital tunis and across the country. demonstrators say they back sides promises to change the political system. on sunday, police arrested an m p and a t. v presenter, hooping prominent critics of president tropical cycling shaheen has hit the gulf state of oman. it's already killed. 3 people, one of them, a child, swept away by flood water. thousands of people have been urged to leave coastal areas and had to emergency shelters. all flights to and from the capital muskets have been postponed or canceled as the storm brings high winds and heavy rain and rushes daily. corona vars. deaf toll here to record 890 on sunday is the 5th time. in the past week, the deaths reached a new high country has europe's worst far as death toll. at 210000 people, official say they have no plans to deduce a lockdown. witnesses up next examining the global housing crisis to stay with us.

if you can, ah ah ah and my job is to go around the world and investigate different housing issues and

to the see how are people faring with respect to the right to housing. but maybe you could tell me a bit about how you came to meeting to have around strike for me personally, i have a most problem. i have the top roach problem. i've got things that need to be repaired in the building. they withhold services. they run you around in circles, they frustrate you, you get that up. you just want to leave. but we're, we're going to go that run situation all over toronto's the same way. there is, it is a fiction by another name. and have you had any response from that cap yet? i guess it's rather harassing the bill. birkhead aside on her, she had a side on her balcony about the red stripe and they threatened to victor. i'm giving you this notice because i want to end your tendency. i want you to move out of your rental unit by such and such date reason. i believe that you or someone living with you has committed an illegal act as zigzag series critic, ality. yeah. on micro horror, legal action, guns and drugs is oh my god,

a she massacre with arden arm category there. yeah. so this was based on the banner. yeah. you know, we're not that melting room or anything just as may 1st rent strike. yeah. they own 19 bill in the area and that's their plan for all the buildings just to give people like us. so neighborhoods getting gentrified up, you know, familiar with liberty village. it's moving. it's come right up to king and duffer and this is, it's only one direction into our neighbor, and we're in the way. ah ah

ah, ah, i only come if you're so nice that or go 11. so that church did you go directly to the chart in the greater toronto area, for example, in the last 30 years, housing prices have increased by 425 percent. whereas in a similar 30 year period, average family income has only grown by a 133 percent. so something else is in play and clearly it's not the economic fundamentals as you can see from the above graph. so are you going to send this or out, or what i mean? i would need to check the numbers 1st, but it's pretty. i mean that it's pretty gram.

ah, i think we are at an incredibly urgent moment. the extent to which where c urban ization collide with stagnant wages and a lack of affordability is unprecedented. so you have like poor people really struggling now like like never before. but then you also have the middle class is unable to afford to live in cities and provide the services that are necessary for a city. i don't wanna over use the word crisis, but it suggests a crisis. so then we start asking, wait a 2nd, who's going to live in cities? who are cities for? ah,

it's not rocket science enough. what do we think people need to have a dignified life? and it's clear that decent housing affordable housing is one of those things. and it's supported by international long. mm hm. kennedy heights. family is just hours away from learning whether or not they can stay in their home or be forced out on the strings. problem. housing is gobbling up more shrinking paychecks. people and 59 out of 102 countries worldwide would need to see their yearly income for at least 10 years in order to buy a house in their country. there are 2 histories we might say that intersect today in that space that we called the city

and one of them is familiar aisha, which is so what we have for which we have used the term gentrification. when i hear people today saying it's gentrification, one reaction and ironic reaction is if only it's much deeper, it's in fact it's much more foundational. cool with even though so then either way i see of actual i then you the now i don't i, we're in the home have an older woman breaker. a is being pressured to abandon her home because it's in the midst of the big new development here. there was a hospital, it's been demolished and it was demolished to make way for condominiums,

luxury condominiums, and they don't even own this land. i've heard that there are many units standing vacant already, luxury condos, and last because no one about body so can afford to buy and purchase any of these units. so these developments are clearly not for the people about 8th them. mm hm. oh, you know what you did in the for me so it was you don't know what's going on a daily that only will the amendment feed, well, i know you're not a photo hardwood or not. i can, i don't know. i don't know, but it well this is what i'm seeing happening around the world by and help of land,

the displacement of the poorest people and the putting up of luxury in it or not actually for the people who live in the community. i own a person on the. 2 contact for no being to conduct their stuff. i, you hayden, on the 10th or the demo. you know, get a silly motion to my nightmare. we've had no heat all through april, no hot water through april. there's water leaking underneath the new owners and taken over. we haven't met some, we haven't seen them. we don't know anything. it could be frosty the snowman. for all i know. they're trying everything to be sent off. i mean that you, what, i'm,

what you as i mean actually been ganging this is where i grew up now and i know i'll be hell bent and bound if i'm going to be study. here we go. all right. i have fun. mm. thank you very much. yeah. it was way out and maybe not. you know, when you go somewhere, i want you to call notting hill because i've heard about the field with like about this areas, is the community, you know, you'll frame solve them all face. all call is is one

with the family because even if we don't know each other, we know to her by faith. i was born just 5 minutes from here and in the seventy's and eighty's and seen oh, area change of some pop stars and people moving into the area because they they light the vibe to my was really cool. the people seen the will. the film that come out from all around the world, they want to see where the blue doors they want to see this. that the bookshop, it became very, very trendy places to live. and then the new school day and laser center that's going to attract the wealthy people to come down to the area. and then they stop by and up properties that lead to live there.

but you know, because they saw fantastic investment for them bed and put in the bank 2 or 4 stops on the highlight tour of london to talk to see properties. these 2 properties are worth perhaps 20000000 pounds each. i believe mister paid something in the region of 40 or 50000000 pounds for it. if you could get a whole one of these, it would be 30 or 40000000 pounds and nobody lives here and nothing is happening to this thing. so it's become a dead spot in london. there was, ah news agents, there were pubs, there were a couple of restaurants. but the community itself has evaporated to leave the parcel flight, 94. if i so my fly, i could not live in kids and shall say, i'll be forced out the area and i'll have to actually 40 move out of london.

i can stand in the middle of the street with empty car parking spaces all around me and no traffic coming. the space is now a bit of a dead. so we have very little indication of who the owners are and a lot of them are completely empty. so you can't go up and ask them who they are, they're actually just empty all the time. ah, one way of putting it is, this is not at all housing ah, the buildings they function as, as you want those houses to be empty and unused. because and you can play with them, i mean these dark empty buildings and they are

making money. so when people think of poor investor, something went wrong. hell know? oh, my 1st reaction to learning about this phenomenon, a vacant dwellings. i was pretty outreach. i remain outraged. in human rights framework and through the u. n. system, it's very clear who was accountable states states are responsible, they have international human rights obligations. they sign treaties and they make commitments to the international community that they will uphold international human rights, which include the right. adequate housing. wow, i know that's

a real block. i was to leave banked hall to my door. and then i open the front door as as a blanket oh, black smoke. i'll just close the book. very calmly, thinking of as a fire. ah, i'm with you right now is the beginning of the file. we've still we need a 2 and a half hours. that's the beginning that's ah, when i heard about it, i was in canada and watching it unfold, 3, twitter and then i started getting these details. social housing

estate, marginalized community community sat to in a very rich, affluent burrow. allegations of poor housing conditions from before the fire. ah, can i see an arm here come through this month? i can grab my wife and then another. and that was my come to, to kind of grant myself said, how about my dog, my dog, the officer said no, i'm sorry, we're gonna have to go. so just look to my dog and i is this an amazing dogs? my lot, my child is a to you o b, who could loise hamilton the 2nd, but he chose his own name given the options need like louis so saw his

and then we will off into the darkness and then on going down and then on treading on things free. oh, there must have the water pipes already in the stairwell, but then the realization, know i figured people off on treading on own i'm bodies on treading on something. something this is that is in my way, i was actually quite happy when they put clyde in to make it pretty make it look nicest for the surrounding area. and somebody knew that, that day on the cheek.

there were these elements that seemed to be a bit of a global phenomenon where you have a kind of vulnerable community, most of the people in rental working, but they're working poor literally living side by side with incredibly wealthy people. and i credible amount of wealth the tension between the 2 and then watching this fire, it was like a physical representation of the displacement of a community. for me, that's the narrative of the world right now. one of the i heard one of the counselors while the counselor said, if you can't live in no inhaled asia neutral beam, louisville was all about to say several other did you get we'll go from. so he's not, he would have lived there all their lives. i just mean like tree like that me and this will limit make me sick. you want to why priest estimate well just disregard

them like their rubbish. like they've that file. they just put them as like, as like, you know, this is the richest town in the borrow them. how can i help them? oh, you have human rights obligations easy and you can't let these investors and the financial system run amok on its own. i see why human rights, every single person has a bunch of rights. and then i have a question for you. and that is a, you are legal scholar on human rights. you just, okay, yes. all right. you have the instrumentality that is the law. exactly. because when i see is those with power board, can they deploy the law in ways that work for their stuff is happening? lou prices go up in the neighborhood that is fixed. that's when the everybody understands that part. and then they should understand that at that point,

another actor might come into the picture, a monster that nobody can see that nobody really understands whose language is incomprehensible. who is this? what is happening here? ah, i don't believe that capitalism itself is hugely problematic. is unbridled capitalism in an area that is a human right? problematic. yes. and i think that's what differentiates housing as a commodity from gold as the commodity gold is not a human right. housing is ah,

so common sense somebody has. wow, 17. well, the previous landlords, i think was c a c d. i think they did put information up. let a, let us know that the bill did the conflict is going to be sold. but this is before phil, phil office, who came it, you know, who is fairfield? i don't know who they are from. what i'm told to pay a bill is a subsidiary of um, is a black stone. right. private equity firm? yes, exactly. they want to raise each each carmine the rent up to like $900.00 each. that is by $900.00 by model. and are you going to be able to pay that? i don't know. i mean, i can definitely say niche. it is is no way. and we have one ago, i don't have a clue. i don't know. and to mind me asking, are you employed design? yeah. and so what percentage of your income would this be 2590 percent? $190.00 assay gallery. yes. 9090 percent. and do you consider that

affordable for you? let me i think human rights law hasn't caught up and it worries me that i haven't quite yet found the language. how do we describe it in a way that will make sense? resonate and really get at that issue. i'm still looking. i'm looking for that. i feel a little bit desperate about that. so maybe i need to keep talking to the people in the financial field. because titles find out, i noticed when i came here was lisa already lived admitted the opening hours they show with our tenants that they are willing to to me from under. this is 3 hours or week them on tuesdays. so every time an appointment is vacant, they thought they renovation, whereby they can increase the rents. wheeler of free,

50 percent. but these are increased rents have no connection at all to the actual costs. why this is very, very profitable for them. ah finance. surely dish from the back. we only banks, that's fine. you know, it's sell something. we pay money for finance is totally different. i always say finer. so something it does not and that means that finance is basically an extract extract finance. it's like mining once it has extracted what it needs. it doesn't care what happens with the rest, hulu, the value of all real estate. that functions as an asset

is $217.00 trillion dollars. that's more than global g, d, p. of all the countries in the world of all the economies in the world. ah, they're highly kennel flashed extractions because they come in the shape of extraordinarily complex instruments. but nobody who's not in that business can understand it so complex that we delegate to the experts. who are the experts, is the financial sector itself. twana will be part of the greatest global gathering in history, the expo 2020 dubai woods. wanda will be there to showcase her investment opportunities, her unique culture and heritage,

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deca has more from cobble. there seems to be some kind of a security seed carried out by the taliban across different areas of the capital.