this is d.w. news live from berlin the china rolls out the red carpet for president truck the u.s. leader present to xi jinping a boast of a newfound bond but does this show of friendship must come lack of the progress of trade and north korea also on the program. the united nations warns of millions of yemen is a risk starvation after

a saudi matter alliance tightens its blockade around the war torn country we'll hear from the un humanitarian coordinator and yemen's capital. kenya is one of more than one hundred ninety countries represented here in germany for the u.n. climate summit as the east african nation picks up steam on the path to clean energy . plus facing down peer pressure to speak out against hate this german students is taking a stand against nazi inspired told the story reveals the persistence of anti-semitism in germany. i described in the race for next year's world cup in russia can underdogs northern ireland upsets switzerland for a place at the top of it to look ahead to tonight's a european playoff much. i'm . welcome to the program u.s.

president donald trump has called on china to increase economic pressure on north korea to end its nuclear weapons program is meeting his chinese counterpart jinping in beijing as part of his first tour of asia china's grand display of friendship appears to have softened mr trump's stance on the country's trade practices and other contentious issues rather than a problem president trump now appears to view china as one of the world's great problem solvers. the second day of u.s. president donald trump's visit in china began with pomp and ceremony. chinese president xi jinping once again pulled out all the stops. but behind closed doors the two leaders were faced with thorny issues among them the increasing threat from north korea a strong young closest ally beijing is seen as a best bet to rein in an increasingly defiant north korea i think it really helped

us a lot with the menace of north korea and. we've had two committees discussions and we have today and i think things will happen i believe things will happen. the positive tone taken by tramp marks a departure from his previous criticism of china. in september north korea launched its latest ballistic missile and president trump threatened to cut off ties with all countries that do business with north korea over ninety percent of pyongyang's trade is with beijing. but president xi made no new commitments saying his country would continue to improve u.s. china relations. sally forth and china is willing to work with the united states to enhance cooperation and properly manage differences in the spirit of mutual respect and mutual benefit. with. the visit has so

far been a friendly one between two of the world's most powerful leaders but it isn't clear if they'll make real progress on the most pressing issues. it's a close look with melissa chan she's a journalist and fellow at the robert to bush to six shift oh she's also worked in a china as a correspondent for al-jazeera welcome to day doubly so donald trump appears to have dialed down his anti china rhetoric why. well so you recall that he even on the campaign trail said that china was raping the united states this is a huge to change and shift in terms of his tone now one thing is that before he became president he probably didn't realize that he needed china so much on the north korea issue so that explains part of the dialing down the other thing is this is a president that really values his one on one relationships with other world leaders and he's clearly taken to president xi jinping so i think that might have something

to do with it so given that has there been any real progress on key issues. well you know they say that there is a big two hundred fifty billion dollar trade deal that. or rather a business deal with business leaders from the u.s. and the chinese that's been something that they've announced right but substantively a lot of these agreements that amount to two hundred fifty billion dollars they're non-binding so we actually have to see in a few years' time whether any of these things matter now we have the boeing contract that was signed as well on the north korea thing nothing that's really come out other than to say that they're both working on the issue again a change in terms of the tone from president trump is that he's talking about collective action he's talking about the need for china to pressure north korea these are things that are very different from his previous rhetoric where he really felt and expressed that the united states could go and out and do things alone in the world so as you say trade north korea were president from priority is

a present she has said the top one is the most important issue in relations between the two countries why this is really interesting that this is actually come to certain extent to the chinese have been observing u.s. foreign policy the fact of the matter is that the state department hasn't filled a lot of spots frankly rex tillerson the u.s. secretary of state had gone to china earlier this year and there was a view that he had conceded on some diplomatic points probably because he didn't do his homework so to a certain mind i wonder whether president xi is raising the taiwan issue to see if he could get the u.s. to change its long time position on the one china policy because it's important to remember as you say that lots of positions within the state department remain unfilled in this this this was apparently part of president trump strategy that we need a smaller government these are two very different men leading the world's biggest economies talk turns to day do you do we have any sense of how they they are

getting on personally well president try. appears to believe that he has a great relationship with president xi jinping i say appear because she has been a lifelong politician this is a guy whose father was you know involved in the revolution in china and he has been really in many ways training himself to fill this role his entire life this is a very very political savvy individual and we have president trump who has expressed a desire to be president of the united states since the eighty's but we really hasn't had that kind of training so i think in many ways you get these two in a room and it's a bit of an uneven playing field i think that you're seeing that president trump is really taken with the pomp and circumstance the chinese have rolled out to him and he he really is influenced by that easily a whether president xi feels the same way we really don't know what he personally thinks he is just playing his role as

a child from the rubble bush foundation. well let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world prosecutors in the german city of olden books a former nurse is now suspected of killing more than one hundred people far more than a previously thought neal's age she's serving a life sentence for murdering patients by injecting them with a deadly medication if he's found guilty of these further murders these further deaths it could make him one of the nation's most prolific serial killers. officials in the indian capital delhi have announced plans to reduce car use in the city as residents enjoyed a third day of hazardous pollution levels or thirty say they would block entry for commercial trucks and raise parking fees to encourage the use of public transport. police in colombia have seized twelve tons of cocaine president juan manuel santos announced the whole of wednesday describing it as the largest single drug seizure in the country's forty year long fight against drug trafficking. and syrian troops

and the allied forces are taking control of the town of abu kamau a so-called islamic states last a major stronghold in the country this footage released by the syrian military is said to show soldiers close to the town near the border with iraq syria's army says it's now fighting the last remaining pockets of virus fighters in the country's eastern desert. now the united nations says seven million yemenis could face starvation and death if aid is not allowed into the country the warning comes as the saudi led coalition backing the government tightened its air land and sea blockade around yemen the u.n. says that if the blockade is not lifted yemen will face the largest a farm in the world has seen for many decades. these images of malnourished children were taken several weeks ago but since then nothing has changed in yemen the united nations says more than one third of the population isn't sure where

their next meal will be coming from u.n. emergency relief coordinator mark lowcock appealed to the world community. it will not be like a famine which cost two hundred fifty thousand people their lives in somalia in twenty eleven. it will be the largest famine the world to see if i'm a need to check a. with millions of victims and there is almost no access to clean water cholera outbreaks have become commonplace a civil war has been raging in yemen since two thousand and fifteen a saudi led coalition has been trying to fight back who the rebels with aerial attacks on monday the coalition closed all entry points to the country allegedly to prevent weapons from being smuggled to the rebels however it's more likely that the border closures are retribution for this who the missile attack on saudi soil seen here on the many television. the un and fifteen aid organizations have called in the coalition to end the blockade and allow desperately needed emergency supplies

to be delivered well then from u.n. humanitarian coordinator jamie mcgoldrick who joins us from now yemen's capital sana welcome to day w. how bad is the situation there. well i mean we've had the internal situation for two years or the conflicts since kind of economic problems and he was very low on the wheel of the bill and it's a purchase many sellers are not going to war no that was a desperate situation and as you've seen that you mentioned there the fact and call there was almost one hundred million people which is a clear indication systems of health more sensational collapse of been destroyed people are pointing out saudi arabia not blockade as being responsible for this or displaying to us then what happens when u.n. aid supplies try to enter the country well at the moment because of the blockade we haven't had the chance to bring you news will last few days over the

next twenty four forty eight hours or see a shift in the the attitude of the certainly coalition which will be much more misses and low as the bring in the news we need to serve a population right know who are on the brink as that piece mentioned the starvation and fun of the seven million people who are serving food to a monthly basis and it's a lightning is brokering a lot then our ability to perceive that yes i was there just just to be clear that because this blockade is going on you no longer send the vest supplies it's not like the trucks or the ships get there and turn back you just stop sending them. at the moment no the ships are on the way and the trucks on the way as well right now the borders a lot lot the sea is blocked so bringing us more goods in two hours will be difficult enough as the biggest source of medical starts and so what we need to do is get those ports open up again we have city the out in force open was good but

that other course the country the bulk of the population were lined up on the west courses that we used was primarily and we need to keep those or so on to continue to feed the people in need. for color and others but the same time no one result that you will as well because we bring millions across the borders and anything that interrupts our supply to needy fragile population mixer or want to this latest warning then is of about seven million people there any yemen there seem to be so many conflicts and u.n. warnings of death and starvation in the world at the moment you look at nigeria syria south sudan somalia as well as a famine i wonder how do you get the world to pay attention to the latest disaster . it was very difficult because we are going to meet in an art which has many conflicts reject and again that number will be legion the millions of them and yet it will want to build this crisis and realty to try and raise the alarms in these the public awareness and governments that will soon as it was trying to get much

needed funds to those great know we're under fifty percent funded for a few months of this year and this is even before the call is even before this latest blow so what we are facing is a very difficult situation people this country numbers of which are growing weekly and monthly because the existence of collapsing people got by people making life and good choices about feeding their family or tending to a sick child which cost money so this is a desperate situation it's very hard to get was attention and that's why i'm doing media so this point i wish you well jamie mcgoldrick from the u.s. and yemen thank you. this is data but it is live from berlin still to come crunch time and the race for next year's world cup in brush can be underdogs northern ireland upset switzerland for a place of torment and look ahead to tonight so european playoff match. i'm taking a stand against hate this high school students online now housman reveals how

anti-semitism and racism had to take hold amongst the young germans. now back to our top story president trump is a natural and i mean that relations are not a major trade deals were struck again what alphas can tell us more yes thank you phil trump and his chinese counterpart gene ping announced bilateral deals worth two hundred fifty billion u.s. dollars and that despite trade relations between washington and beijing are rather fraught we all remember the donald trump has accused beijing of unfair trading practices and threatened china with tariffs not so long ago still at a signing ceremony in beijing the two presidents witnessed many u.s. companies sealing lucrative deals u.s. chip maker qualcomm for. signed agreements worth twelve billion dollars with three chinese smartphone makers and boeing plans to sell jets to the value of thirty seven billion dollars to a state run aviation holding. now while donald trump is known to criticize the u.s.

chinese trade imbalance he doesn't blame china for it here's what he said in a speech to business leaders in beijing both the united states and china will have a more prosperous future if we can achieve a level economic playing field right now unfortunately it is a very one sided and unfair one but but i don't blame china. after all. who can blame a country for being able to take advantage of another country for the benefit of its citizens i give china great credit. last year india withdrew billions worth of rupee banknotes from the economy almost overnight the plan was to fight tax avoidance and corruption but it had a devastating impact on payment systems all over the country one year on the

repercussions of that operation can still be felt but progress has been made. the wholesale market for auto parts in the north of delhi for twenty eight years and coach said he and his family have been selling everything a car could need here the government shock voiding of a major part of the country's cash began a nightmare for setting and not just because he was forced to queue for four whole days to obtain new issue banknotes to moses came to us regarding payments and. cash today's the bill. even have the card we didn't have the card machines to trade with so it was a problem almost everyone here faced the same problem many still complain of a forty percent drop in sales especially the more vulnerable like day laborers who have no bank account and can neither read nor write. nonetheless the measure doesn't seem to have diminished prime minister narendra modi's popularity despite the nationwide queues and shortages. the government power. that only

the people who have home much money so definitely it will usually look at doing that tax people but so are not paying income taxes the government of india you know me better people with illicit money have been exposed that's why the decision was good. whatever modi did is good. for suffered we were standing in the queue for hours the rich i had no problems they had good chartered accountants who turned black money why did you get it and any other. india central bank says ninety nine percent of the old invalidated cash has now been either paid into accounts or exchanged for new notes no one knows how much of it was illicit critics say that a huge amount of it was invested abroad anyway in tax havens real estate or gold. economists like of envy money warn against rushing to conclusions he says replacing

bank notes is only one of several measures needed to combat illicit money that these things will have a short bill effect but to teach it permanently you need system team you need institutional team you need to change policies but nothing is lost one can still do that but unless you do it things will eventually they were back to what it was before the third event coach said these customers now pay by card or payment for him that's progress but he didn't only lose business he also lost trust in politicians he says. a worldwide phenomenon even ministers have failed in the late is that to agree on a new five year license for the controversial with killer glasses said this comes just weeks before the current license expires last say it is vital to the industrial farming methods that everything from sugar to bread on the dining table and all supporters say is both cheap and easy to use critics say it's not one hundred percent proven that it does not pose a health wrists with to humans. this is how some view

the e.u.'s relationship with like to see it they're furious that some member states aren't ready to do away with beside those in favor of it cite studies suggesting the chemical is not carcinogenic studies funded however by manufacturer monsanto but the research comes to different conclusions and says life as it probably does cause cancer in conventional farming life or sage is the most widely used herbicide in the world british farmers are among those who swear by it. we cannot run a system like this where we're growing public crops. to keep the fields green or oil for the winter we cannot do that with our life say we can come in here straight off to harvest a part of it and then it will say burn the winter and suck all the life out of the soil. finance is another argument frequently made in favor of life is it in britain . so in the event of a bad there will be

a large shift in terms of the composition due case fields and a shift away from we just potential twenty percent decline and fifty percent decline in arable crops for all what we see then is that farmers incomes will fall but you know before cost one hundred forty million pounds. there are alternatives to life as it is size with fewer health risks for farmers could simply cultivate their fields the way they did before the glaive visit era. it's a you know each unique day in german history today so it is hard to thank you yes. today is a unique in as much as it marks several key events in history so november the nine nine hundred eighty nine the berlin wall fell eventually leading to the reunification of east and west germany nearly century ago after suffering defeat in

world war one political leaders declared the country a republic was on this day in one thousand nine hundred eighteen years that followed were scarred by economic hardship and street battles between the far left and far right hitler came to power and democracy was abolished on the ninth of november one thousand nine hundred thirty eight the nazi regime conducted the slaughter of germans jewish population a synagogues businesses and people were attacked police stood by and did nothing. on the evening of nov ninth one thousand thirty eight synagogues in europe were set aflame they burned in germany austria and in czechoslovakia organized gangs of nazi and brownshirt thugs abused imprisoned or murdered thousands of jews amid the cheers of countless garters seven thousand jewish owned shops were destroyed in the mob then looted the shops that night was the start of the biggest genocide in

human history. despite efforts to confront its nice if past anti semitic and racist attitudes still persist in germany the gains made by the far right in september's elections have made many germans worried that the nationalist and anti immigrant rhetoric could become normalized again by high school student has chosen to take a stand such as being the online threats and harassment i am better we're only using our first name. fifteen year old amelia is visiting the memorial to the murder jews of europe in central berlin with her mother. at school she has seen how hate speech and anti-semitism are on the rise again she says it started slowly. this. when people would come into the classroom others would raise their right arm in a deliberate nazi salute sometimes their shouted heil hitler you are cool if you

did that. at first she didn't speak up then she saw an online chat group with upsetting images. there was one picture of a cloud of smoke and the caption said jewish family portrait and that wasn't the only one in the class charge group so i wrote that this guy should stop behaving like he's a nazi and he wrote back saying i should emigrate to poland if i don't like it he asked if i hadn't held too many dead jews and million reported her classmate for incitement to hatred which is a crime in germany she had to contend with a lot of other classmates giving her strange looks but now the civil courage she demonstrated has been recognized with this award from the friends of the holocaust memorial and berlin's jewish community. and lee says she didn't get much support from her teachers and classmates but she did have backing from her friends and

family and she says in the future she'll act much sooner against racism and anti-semitism. spall then will start with football the last nine spots at next year's world cup in russia will be decided in a frantic seven days of action starting on thursday and york there are still four places up for grabs northern ireland face switzerland to croatia take on greece denmark beat ireland and sweden face italy in africa eight countries are still and with a chance to miss it they are congo morocco ivory coast so they go south africa in a fast and verde and the last two spots will be determined by a long by two long distance play offs pitting new zealand against peruke and one jurist against australia don't kicks off with northern ireland entertaining switzerland incredibly the swiss failed to qualify automatically despite a run of nine straight wins in the group stages. it's not that belfast isn't

a nice place to land but this is not where the swiss want to be after a strong qualifying round their points total most years would easily qualify for the finals not this year former byron munich winger gerrard on shit here e finds it almost comical. it's a strange feeling to have twenty seven points from our ten games and find ourselves in the playoffs of course we were disappointed but that's football. meanwhile northern ireland are relishing this match up if you are giving them a chance against the swiss but this group of overachievers has a shot at getting northern ireland to their first world cup finals in thirty two years you know over the years we always sort of have been underdogs when it's coming into the big moments and. so it suits us but you know it's a position that we're comfortable with but there's also been situations you know within the group or with other which is from how many underdogs the underdogs

aren't short of confidence northern ireland have lost only once in the last ten competitive home matches that world champions germany. in formula one lewis hamilton has been caught up in the massive document leak known as the paradise papers the newly crowned world champion has been accused of tax avoidance is in sao paolo for this weekend's brazilian grand prix for the paradise papers have stayed focused on his private jet which was imported to the tax haven the isle of man in twenty thirty eight the move gave him a three point four million euro tax break his lawyers claim everything was above board and himself says he's concentrating on racing with me i've just come from this great period of time in my my family friends that i have this huge wave of positive energy. and nothing can really dent that so. i'm just carrying that and so the focus on trying to win this race this is if we can we still have two

races to go i don't really have anything to add to the whole scenario that's happening that doesn't distract me from my core values and also wanted to do. this is day w. still to come i can you know it goes underground in the search for the plane power look at efforts to top the energy source and raw meat. well how about that story of war they swell the news on the sports and culture and just. how vulnerable is germany to a hacker attack. a rigorous standards applied to energy supply as hospitals telecommunication companies.

completely networked completely vulnerable i can germany. d.w. . into this is what i think it's really important to give a bit of time and love back to the families who make so much effort. to be our fighters want to start families to become farmers or engineers every one of them has a plan for you. the children who have already been the lawyer and those that will follow are part of a new process. they could be the future of collaboration.

granting opportunities global news that matters d. w. made for mines. they make a commitment they find solutions. they inspire. africa. stories about people making a difference shaping their nation. and their continent. w.'s new multimedia series for africa. dot com africa on the move. this is the w. news live from about and i'm phil gallo our top story this hour u.s. president donald trump has urged his chinese counterpart to xi jinping to work hard to contain north korea's nuclear threat mr trump also criticized chinese trade practices but said he doesn't blame china for taking advantage of the u.s. he said as part of his first tour of asia. and the u.s.

media reporting that hollywood star kevin spacey is to be removed from a finish but as yet underneath fell all the money in the world is due for release in late december. away i can't walk away. it features a speccy in the role of us oil tycoon john paul getty. the way his conduct allegations against him the film's director and producers have decided to write spacey a from the movie they'll reshoot tastings with veteran actor christopher plummer instead. so their sexual harassment allegations coming out of hollywood have inspired the victims around the world to go public using the hash tag me two women have been speaking out about their experiences on social media but some are taking a different approach one of. yes has published a list on facebook accusing more than seventy into an academic's of sexually harassing the students let's get more from elizabeth show from d.w.

such a social media tesco welcome list so tell us more than about this facebook list you know filled the list was posted by. she is last student in the us but she has previously cited in india so she published this list on her personal facebook account that has more than seventy academics from india and what is that controversial about this list is that it only names the people it doesn't say who is accusing them and watch they are being accused of that car herself she says that she collected personal testimonies from the victims and that she has for example chats and screenshots to back up those claims and what's been the response. well mixed reactions are from india it has raised a great discussion about the ethics of implicating someone without really having

anything to substantiate to those claims and one group of feminists in india they have come out strongly against this method of naming and shaming people so in one of their statements this is what they say they posted this online as well they say we're dismayed by the initiative on facebook in which men are being listed and named as sexual harassers with no context or explanation this manner of naming can be legitimize the long struggle against sexual harassment and make our task as ten minutes more difficult and now one indian filmmaker she has a different view on that this in fact on one long facebook post this is watch she says she writes if a facebook post can do the job then why should i go through further harassment and humiliation of filing formal complaints and dealing with a massage in this and the morally bankrupt system in fact this filmmaker had also

submitted one name to that list she says the director that she had named had to grope her at a party and now writes a car herself she is giving reasons why she posted this list she says it was not to shame anyone but to make students who are the most vulnerable wary of legit a sexual predator has in their universities and some university students have actually thanked her for that they say they are often quiet when such rassmann happens because i mean these are professor as they elect her as they are people who can decide what grades they get that people who write them letters of recommendation so they would rather just name them anonymously and not in public but to live show thank you. international climate talks are under way here in germany to discuss ways of implementing the landmark paris agreement on not reducing c o two emissions one country setting an example is kenya it already so says thirty percent of our energy needs from geothermal energy which doesn't

generate any carbon emissions kenyans are also adjusting their farming practices and response to climate change. and list distances stretch out before us in the great rift valley in kenya and here in lies the hope for the country's energy supply will take a right to a geothermal power plant in all caria two hours by car north west of the capital nairobi. steam rises through the over four hundred drill holes in pipes it's an ideal location for geothermal energy here the engineers tell us they only have to drill about two thousand meters to reach the crucial steam just to compare in germany drill holes can reach ten thousand meters. in kenya is up to ten thousand men or what but so far we've been able to. to do. more than six hundred. expensive or we need to be observing that

we we are still learning we we don't want to well use it almost thirty percent of the energy used in kenya is produced by geothermal plants and his number is said to rise without dangerous emissions. there is even a public swimming pool featuring sulfurous water plumbed from the depths but geothermal energy is expensive and not every attempt at drilling is successful that's why germany has decided to invest over one hundred million euros in kenya's geothermal energy. fields have to be developed drilling is risky though and someone will have to take on at least part of that risk. can you can't do this on its own. we drive back to nairobi to visit the ministry of the environment while outside a traffic jam stretches across the city. inside pacifica gola tells us that her country is counting on renewable energy sources such as geothermal power and their

hopes are high for the bond climate conference. we are the ones who are experiencing major impact on climate change when it comes to issues like drought and floods so we expect the while to actually make the bold move that steps and we expect to maintain the political momentum to make sure that we are able to retain the momentum and to be able to deliver bankable projects with a low carbon intensity of beyond twenty fifty. at the foot of mount kenya for example climate change is becoming more and more apparent the farmers here have been taking part in an irrigation project for the past four years growing bananas they used to be able to count on rainwater but that is a thing of the past. we know anything because the. being and the. and it was leaving has nothing but it is.

giving us money. despite the lack of rain there's still enough water here numerous rivers flow down mount kenya dams catch the water and channel to the fields the german development bank w has invested about five million euros in this project. is it invest kenya here in west kenya we are actually in a very fertile region the problem is that our rainfall is becoming more regular and the farmers can't count on it anymore but now because of this project the farmers have water twenty four hours a day they can plan throughout the year and are no longer dependent on the effects the climate has on rainfall. climate change requires adjustment like the farmers planting bananas or the use of environmentally friendly power using geothermal energy kenya is bracing for the future of the paradise papers are sparking action from me you can wish to appear moscovici says member states can

and will do much more to fight. top priority is the creation of a blacklist to name and shame jurisdictions that cater to wealthy firms and individuals at the e.u. has been working for two years on several measures with limited success consensus remains a challenge especially amongst members with low tax rates of. the w.c. daddio winter asked moscovici what counts as a tax hike. attacks even is a country which fulfills three criteria first a country which does not respect the global standards of governance of the set in what we call beds procedure from the us you second a country would not have automatic exchange of information on readings or was simply on the personal accounts and third country which as zero tax rate as far as corporate taxation is concerned lazier tax rate is

a very high bog though and some would look to you member at least for the moment so as being don't know now you know member state is a tax even if you look at those criteria that you've got to examine that as. an objective because it was a british crown dependency with a zero percent you're talking about something different i'm talking about you if you talk about the u.k. country you know well the u.k. is not a tax even and the country on the contrary is very prominent. fighting for the tax evasion but there are some crown dependencies all over the territories which are to see to do the crown or to the u.k. which are screen that will take another example the drooly which is the isle of man i have designed. for year old so for jazz the way it is taxed in the isle of man and i expect responses and if the responses are

not satisfactory then we will have an estrangement procedure and this is also created taking the easy route between good because really because the u.k. sounds like a fudge it is sounds like an excuse in order to not be tough with mistakes like britain imo although no one point five percent tax returns i don't really love don't be upset with u.k. island is a country with a low tax rate but the wrist. sovereignty on tax rates but it's not zero it's twelve point five and when it's not respected which was the case with upul then we consider that it is a state aid that's what my colleague margaret this decided so coming back to the blacklist if we've got those quite serious and there are severe enough much more severe than the o.e.c.d. quote syria. i have three messages first it must be delivered fast we must have this block list before the end of two thousand and seventeen it will be the first time ever that we have a european bank got his second we need to have a credible blacklist of critical blacklist as more obviously than one territory or

non-corporeal jurisdictions all countries which are. following those criteria is considered a tax even must be listed and food you cannot have a credible list if you don't have credible sanctions appropriate sanctions and that's what we're working on yesterday that was the council in brussels we made good progress i think that with the parties paper scandal the ministers the governments few of that they need to deliver the commission is there push them to deliver the public opinion is there to push them to deliver the media here to what was a deliberate of them coming out of the mystic commission president john claude younger has been remarkably quiet over the last few days and i put it to you that the commission has zero credibility to handle this issue of tax avoidance because after all he the commission president is accused of encouraging tax avoidance when there

was a prime minister of medicine that absolutely force this commission has done more on fighting back through the tax evasion than all the commissions in the previous twenty years you know if you employ you don't think it had wait a minute it's not due to the fact that this or that person ids here due to the fact that we are in the new when the new area new period which is a period of transparency i have proposed that i am the tax commissioner and i've got full trust of drunken younger i act in these names i have proposed eleven proposals directives among them six have been adopted which is not that easy if you consider what is the rule of unanimity inside the e.u. we have the best three thing ever for a commission chose to commissioners my colleague not going to myself who are really i think a team which is dedicated to the text of massive tax avoidance you know you can all

say that in two thousand and three he encouraged the amazon to put its tax base in luxembourg i'm talking about the president of the commission. and joker you are president of the commission and this commission we are i can say that quietly but very confidently the champions of fighting tax fraud and tax evasion we talked about this is a commission proposal i will mention two other proposals the one is the first one is that i think that the activity of those intermediaries legal advisors. fiscal advisors banks it must be made transparent to the next administration and the third one is that we have already established a country by country reporting this is one of the six directives i mentioned but between tax administrations i would like it to become public i think there is no a position between the investment which we want to protect the value water and r.

and c. yes because transparency if you want to see is the only way to tackle with those phenomena is if we can reach our goal but when you are addressing it when you're looking for how will this affect the average person in europe who is watching this right now if you do manage to get what you want and close these tax loopholes and blacklist these tax havens i think that what we are attending now with those parties papers which is a scandal but probably those practices are mostly legal but they are not moral this cannot be possible why because it exists only because it is even and suddenly it is revealed if it is transparent if it is public it is not possible anymore you know all those people all those structures all those companies all those states which today named and shamed after the products paper if their activity would be immediately made public then they would be much much more for that's why

transparency is the massive destruction weapon against tax evasion against tax aggressive tax planning. and that's why this commission is so so strong on for the you could commission right and you mention the threat to the potential threat of sanctions what are we talking about here are we talking about fines directly for you who try and squirrel away their money in tax havens of a role it's ok because unless there's a significant legal threat they're going to continue to see tax avoidance as a misdemeanor we're not talking about firms we're talking about states when you have a blacklist of folks even you're talking about the states or territories we've mentioned some of them getting to the ground but there are all those states will be which will be used to denote that we will have a very strong list strong by pleased the sanctions must be linked to our own capacity to their own linkage with the unions i would mention for example a well create deals or multilateral or bilateral agreements

that we have got with them that can be suspended but the best thing should the strongest action is the name and shame ok relieve me nobody nobody will like to be there was daniel winter speaking with the european commission's the tax commissioner moscovici. mr muscovy has given member states until the end of the year so draw that black list of tax havens. this week we have a featured a series of reports taking a look at revolutionary events with one hundred years ago when russia's communists seized power and berlin also played a role in that story in the spring of one nine hundred seventy in the bolshevik or revolutionary of lot a mere lenin was living in exile in zurich switzerland was given permission to travel by train across german territory on his way home via scandinavia in st petersburg he was welcomed by jubilant crowds on route he passed through the german

capital it's just one of the many ways berlin has been touched by the russian revolution as a reporter found out. one hundred years ago the magnificent quote from the train station stood on the spot a carriage with you know laying on board stopped here in the spring of one thousand seventeen they wanted to return to russia we wanted to rid of. it was the imperial authorities who allowed lenin stranded through germany during world war one. the original documents that put this fateful alliance of convenience in the fact on display in the instrument historical museum a german diplomat sent a telegram to the in that red line you know not safe in russia he's doing just what you want. oct it says here ten million german marks for political propaganda in russia and someone corrected it to say fifteen million found a lot of documents. there were huge sums involved. he appears as

many as two million russians fled their homeland after the nine hundred seventeen revolution they escaped in a few of civil war taro and starvation it was mainly the intellectual elite who were squandered by the bush weeks doctors and to print write us offices and our restock rats their lives in exile were shaped by fear of an unknown future. mighty of an article was born to a russian noble family her father at the asking was a cadet in the marin the cademy of st petersburg he fled to russia a few months after the revolution at the age of sixteen. if you ask me with my home is i or i have no home. i have no because i feel at home nearly everywhere i mean i've been to many places and. i can adjust. after many detours through serbia slovenia and germany from north because

family settled in the us as did many other russians who fled after the revolution you had. the highest the record or stock received who was working and in factories and doing work which brought in pay and the pay was here could live on something else and it was very very difficult. for many exiled russian sperling was the first stop here they couldn't buy a new car from the carol spec home and getting visas to enter germany was a relatively simple process of the border many russian refugees were granted political asylum charlottenburg a district where most of the three hundred thousand russian settled was nicknamed child not right. when i was in my best to the russian that intensity the reasons

might song from your very best all around and the best sense and different. deployed underbelly praise berlin's easygoing atmosphere with passages such as night cocaine that's believed it was here that led him in a book a fraud he's most famous novelist and russian and the celebrated author boyce pasternak lived in the same area. it was a city within a city in a killer gives guided tours about the russian exiles in berlin in the twenty's. and thirty's feel free to i had people who came here enjoyed a lot of freedom. there were eighty seven russian language publishing houses. there were plenty of russian restaurant. russian orthodox churches and workers and. so for the people who fled hungary there was plenty to eat it wasn't just about waiting to see what would happen in russia people have a good life here. but many russian state only

a short time here before heading to paris. most of the exiled russians like money from life because father never saw their homelands again he left his diary and a lot for his native language and russian culture. the word brutalist. stands for something a lot of people love to hate brutalist it was the start of awkward texture massive buildings with huge stretches of roll call great became interested in europe in the one nine hundred fifty s. and quickly spread around the world but over the decades it fell by today as a movement to save these giants architecture museum is i think it's for us to do that with maybe even if it's from the culture desk is here to guide us through the brutality. why does it have such

a i'm guessing that this is not like the best example of it but why does it have such a bad name. the name itself i mean it sounds mean doesn't it sound like someone's going to come along and basher in the head with a huge concrete building actually the word brutal ism comes from the french term. which means raw concrete that's material but this was our defect to cope it was using back in the fifty's and these are buildings that have really been largely popped plopped into landscapes and through other architecture where they don't exactly fit in and so this is what's been happening through a lot of these pieces of architecture over the last few years this tower was part of a university campus in frankfurt. and a lot of people were pretty happy to see it get so he's got to be said i lots of them really quite ugly. lots of them. all of them what's what makes them worth saving well a lot of people actually do like them there are some more beautiful examples than

others i personally am a fan of some of the more beautiful examples let's say but it also really represents a very artistic moment in architecture also a very democratic moment it's about creating the maximum amount of space for the minimum amount of money and that's one reason that the german architecture museum in frankfurt is calling for these works to be saved the exhibition is called s.o.s. brutal ism save the concrete monsters we've got a closer look. unloved rock concrete giants built around the world from the mid one nine hundred fifty s. into the eighty's often brutal placed in the middle of cities and landscapes now the german architecture museum is paying tribute to them and its campaigning to save the remaining examples of brutal as i'm so is it a plea in favor of ugliness. the fuss and. the fascinating thing is that it's a kind of heroic modernism after world war two there was a totally new global architecture one that was much more sculptural than everything

that came before it these are individual architectural sculptures which moved architects out of the realm of the technical and established them again as artists can slog through. the buildings were generally made of exposed rock concrete the construction techniques were meant to be visible in some places brittle as some took on an ideological character construction workers were meant to always be able to recognize the results of their efforts with no decorative facade covering up their handiwork. buildings like sculptures major architects like got flea boom created an entirely new aesthetic demonstrated for instance by his pilgrimage church a never guess or his st ignatius church in the center of frankfurt each feature is magnificent spaces in which the visitors gaze is directed to the essentials. so perhaps it's time to take a new look at concrete structures like this morning hall at

a frankfort cemetery here mortality is made palpable in an impressively beautiful manner in the interplay between the concrete and the surrounding nature rob riggle is a may be dead but it's worthwhile to preserve and admire its like a city. and if you are found i'm guessing more of the web sites absolutely dot com slash culture search your. iraq will have to talk about.

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