this is news and these are our top stories u.s. president donald trump has dismissed a new york times report detailing years of a legit tax avoidance as quote fake news the article stated he paid no federal income tax in 10 of the past 15 years and only $750.00 each in 20162017 revelations come ahead of the 1st televised debate between trump and democratic challenger joe biden set for tuesday. dozens of people have

reportedly been killed or wounded in a 2nd day of fighting between armenia and azerbaijan over the disputed region of the going on. the clashes are some of the fiercest in more than a quarter of a century fighting broke out in an area that lies within azerbaijan but has been controlled by ethnic armenians since 1904. spain's supreme court has upheld a ruling to bar catalans regional president from public office for 18 months protesters gathered in barcelona to denounce the decision. was forced to step down with immediate effect he'd been refused to take down a pro independence banner from a public building ahead of last year's election. this is d.w. news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram a t w news visit our website w dot com. 4 years ago during their 1st presidential debate hillary clinton accused donald

trump of cheating the government by not paying any income tax trump's response was that's what makes me smarter trump then as now has refused to release any of his tax returns or tonight his secret is al the new york times reports that trump has paid no income tax for 10 of the last 15 years on the eve of another presidential debate to the taxing truth about the billionaire president will this make the voters smarter i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day. story or fake news save or maybe he doesn't want the american people all of you watching tonight to know that he's paid nothing in federal taxes i think hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes he didn't pay any federal income tax so that make

it before $80.00 that means 0 for troops if it's under there's been an. arrest is not a trick monroe they treat me like a temporary like they threw the secret is. also coming up it is a conflict over territory between our media and eyes or by john it has the potential to become an all white war dragging in russia turkey and even nato as you see i'm 66 years old and ready to fight for my father. to our viewers watching on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day with $750.00 u.s. dollars and that is the amount of federal income tax don't trump reportedly paid the year that he became u.s. president and we know that now because the present. finally released his tax returns know it took years of investigating by reporters at the new york times to

gain access to tax documents trump has refused to make public and the documents reveal a man who is deeply in debt $300000000.00 and a man who has reportedly used his massive business failures to get out of paying income taxes in 2017 trump paid only $750.00 in federal income tax that same year the average income tax paid by americans was more than $12000.00 reporters also discovered that the billionaire president paid no taxes 0 dollars 10 of the last 15 years his tax bill is 1st years in the white house as we said was only $750.00 made possible by questionable tax deductions we also know now that trump is personally responsible for more than $300000000.00 in loans the reports cite no new connections between trump and russia now the president has called this report fake news. or these latest revelations they may be

shocking but they should not be surprising the business journalist and tax haven expert nicholas shaxson warned the world 4 years ago in an exposé about trump's taxes in finances published in vanity fair in january 27th seen the week that trump was inaugurated shank's in joins me here in the studio to discuss what he had failed to take a listen. a lot of his wealth comes from in one way or another milking government you know not just he milked the tax system that's for sure you know he's got away with so much that i presume he can get away with not releasing i don't expect he's going to release his tax returns they could be all sorts of stuff on that which which would generate another load of questions but he's got this one no other presidential candidate in history would have caught a culture of as far as he did with these questions hanging over him. a ride for

more i'm pleased to welcome back to the day richard painter mr painter served as chief white house ethics lawyer under president george w. bush mr painter is a vol professor enjoys me tonight from minneapolis minnesota this japan it's good to see you again according to the new york times the u.s. president is responsible for more than $300000000.00 in loans which are coming due soon know a person with that kind of personal debt would not be able to receive security clearance and at the white house for example is the president because of what we know is the president compromised. yes substantial debt. is a very very worrisome situation and you're absolutely right it is security clearance would ordinarily get at odds with that kind of data unless they had the assets well in excess of the debt and the this is a situation where the present the united states the president decides who gets

a security clearance is not himself someone who taught like a security clearance because of this that we also don't know who which relate to a somebody acts are identified but the question is whether those benefits are the loaning the money and taking the responsibility for the loan oh or whether the risk really is of someone else a guaranteed the loan and it disagree with deutsche bank and i think know if i need to invent this and and let it be known to anyone else who is involved in the loans or their business relationships they have with donald trump because there are many many of these quotes from backs are the bankers not the ultimate risk writer or we don't know who it is mr thirst garrett or what what would you say then when you consider all of this does it mean that donald trump could be a threat to national security. well absolutely yes if the party that

guarantees a lot of this but stopping a lot is off the farm power whether it be russia or another country we simply don't know that's very dangerous for the in odd steps tab our president in debt to either foreign governments or all of the dark so closely allied with barca fans and the real problem here is we don't know because there's no disclosure about what's going on right now to these tax returns and they are in new york times the 1st time but now we would have to chase this down and talk to for example deutsche bank and all the other bad things about who really they are the risks associated with the loom is that the fact is that china is at russia saudi arabia we have no idea and that's very very scary for you in that audience that you sued the president for violating the constitution's emolument clause and that clause forbids an elected official from receiving payments from foreign governments are you more alarmed with

the uncovering of trump's tax history that we see now. well this confirms what i was concerned about all along and then 2016 i write this in an article in the new york times where as photo of the president is deeply deeply in debt and we don't know who we owe the money to so this confirms those fears that people were well aware of 2016 at least those of us who read the newspapers but it's more and more worrisome we see the magnitude of the debt other thought that this president has apparently so many business losses or says the estimate as his losses that he hasn't paid taxes at all will have what 10 at 15 years 8700 $50.00 in tax in 2017 this is a very worrisome situation and we also are concerned they may try to keep him so in office so people won't call those laws no current power no car oligarchy is going

to call a loan to the president of the united states of minute he's out they might do that and also the criminal authorities might move in on him so he just really is just for the job is pretty you know you were concerned about the president's taxes back in 27 tino that was when part of trump's 2005 tax returns was made public and you tweeted back in 2017 you asked yourself or on twitter did he leak it himself. now are you convinced that trump had nothing to do with this latest revelation. i very much because it's certainly not going to press the american voters that the president united states and says he that they get heard a successful businessman paid $750.00 in taxes to gotten 17 that's a very. troubling situation. and furthermore this additional

confirmation of the enormous amount of debt hanging over his head which is like that they call susie leaves office and if he faces an office another term wherever he goes the money to. can manipulate him and he's going to be beholden to whoever he votes the money to and you don't know who that person really is what you say mr pena that looks bad with which it does but i wonder will it make a difference to his supporters and is it going to make a difference come election day in november. i believe it will make a difference to the voters who are out to start we have a good 20 or 30 percent population will vote for donald trump no matter what for whatever reason that worked up over the abortion issue or over the fact that they're afraid someone is going to come and take away their automatic weapon or whatever their absurd is and so we do have some voters who will vote for trump no

matter what but that is not that the percent of america. and i believe that a lot of us have had it with donald trump's law is the way he's run this topic we have 200000 deaths from coke at 19 and compare that to the relatively few deaths in germany nothing per capita the way that's been managed our death for capital far in excess of germany and most other countries. i think americans realize that we have a very bad business manager with bankrupted many companies for bankrupting our country and putting us in banter and he's dishonest and he's had limb death it's very very scary situation misprinted you know you if you were a lifelong republican you served for a republican president in the white house but listening to you tonight i would say that you sound like a die hard democrat what what has happened to the g o p. i've been political independent i was

a republican for 30 years i left the republican party that the day of the republican party for decades was stronger in standing up to the russians and their aggression from other countries and the idea of other countries manipulating our elections and selecting our president and a president who might be indebted our countries and a president who behaves the way donald trump has should be anathema to anyone who is that in the republican party with a degree of serious so over the years including and also democrats and independents this is not a partisan issue and it's very unfortunate that you support us misplayed or how do you explain that my last question before we run out of time how do you explain then the fact that in the us senate you have so few republicans who are willing to even criticize the president you know much less take a stand and say that what he does is anathema to the the the ethics of the party.

with a completely corrupt american campaign finance system and that affects both of our political blocs that they head of the party that is the president did not state your party is in the white head of the particle trolls the fund raising operettas and who gets money to run for office and as senator there's criticized donald trump donald trump has made it very clear that he's going to support an opponent we had 2 republican senators leave the senate in the last elections he simply didn't want to deal with it so it's a very dangerous situation for our democracy when campaign money has so much and well it's and then the president trolls that and yes yeah and i think that there are a lot of people waiting to see what happens after the election if that there if there will be campaign finance reform in the u.s. richard painter joining us tonight from minneapolis mr painter as always it's good to see you we appreciate your insights tonight thank you thank you very much thank

you. it is an old conflict that is boiling over a new forces from armenia and azerbaijan have clashed over the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh both sides are using heavy artillery and they reported casualties each accuses the other of starting this fight and the area in question is internationally recognized as part of by john but it has been controlled by ethnic armenians since a war in the early 1990 s. a war which killed tens of thousands of people russia germany and the united states of all called for an immediate cease fire. young ones to go to war on sunday he signed up as a volunteer in the median capital. i'm 66 years old and ready to fight for my father. he like many has been left shocked by the weekend's clashes. in ministry of defense says bees that you sure as

a by johnny london vision of the nagorno-karabakh. 3 enemy tanks and 2 helicopters were destroyed. our media has declared a state of war. troops. laid out of the brink of a widespread war in the south caucuses that we can now see could have unpredictable consequences it could spread beyond the region and indeed to enter national security and stability that shut of it in line they're taking up arms in the regional capital. mostly on medians left here the media has controlled the region for decades but under international law it belongs to azerbaijan. azerbaijani officials have imposed martial law and curfews the government in baku blames its neighbor for the new escalation. it's no secret that the 1st shot was

also carried out. by the armenian minute tree in it many still not. talking has promised to back i don't buy john there were joint military exercises in july which had to now have. known each to touch one to destroy the armenians and on media that's clear. the media is hoping for russian support from moscow and the e.u. have called for an end to the fighting. well my next guess is. executive director at the armenian national committee of america he joins us tonight from our washington d.c. studios mr hardy it's good to have you on the program what are you hearing about this conflict how close 'd are we to a full scale war actually too close for comfort. a regional war amid a global pandemic they threaten to blow up armies nuclear power station this is not

just regional but also global implications the area that is being fought over nagorno-karabakh it is internationally recognized as belonging to her by john is that wrong then would you say is that a source of this ongoing conflict. the only claim that azerbaijan has to. which we call our saw is that joseph stalin stole it for them and the fact that the soviets you know gerrymander the caucasus is no basis for. time sovereignty over has. is an ancient armenian land it's been arming in this long as there has been in armenia my last trip before this pandemic was to nevada where i prayed at a monastery that was established in the 1st century. well if the times there are so deep why can we not then find peace as it sounds like what you're describing is

the area within should belong to our meanie. i think the area should belong to the people who live there and that's all from a nation should determine the status of the region azerbaijan doesn't want to accept that the un has drawn from 50 members to close to $200.00 because the arc of history bends towards self-determination democracy greater independence azerbaijan you know is resisting that and and it's clear that they're the aggressor here you can see that from the fact that they're the destructive force they want to change the status quo you can listen to the words of their own leaders they talk all the time about conquering armenia and arse off and finally they're the only side that's blocking the gunfire locators that the west he would like to deploy these come far locators will allow the international community to kind of like call balls and strikes on the border to see who started the aggression arming it embraces that but but has resisted it you have written to the u.s. diplomats and us media outlets speak of it right about our media in the eyes of by

john having period he would you say they don't have that you see it's wrong to even write about that why is that. so basically what happens is every time there's an attack they trash community says well we don't know who initiated it so they issue a generic call on both parties to refrain from violence when that effectively does is it takes the perpetrator and rewards them it emboldens them to be more 'd violent because they're not going to be called out and it puts the victims at greater risk so instead of having this artificial neutrality or false parity the international community should deploy those gunfire locators and the next time there's an attack neutral monitors can tell everybody including the parties you know who initiated the gresham and they can be held to account there is this complaint disengagement by the u.s. in the region and i guess a cynic might say that i'm sure by john has launched

a military offensive one of the reasons that it may have done is because the u.s. is disengaged at the moment do you agree with that. i think i do and i think that if not safer more forceful in challenging azerbaijan's aggression in cutting off for example the military the more than $100000000.00 in u.s. military that's gone to baku if we put that on the line if we put that assistance on the table i think we'll see azerbaijan step back from the brink of disaster. the executive director of the armenian national committee of america mr perry we appreciate your time and your valuable insights tonight thank you. thank you. what do a teenage boy convicted of blasphemy in nigeria and the head of poland's auschwitz memorial what do they have in common suddenly a lot more than either would have ever imagined peter simmons is the head of

poland's auschwitz memorial now he has written to nigeria's president offering to serve part of a prison sentence that was handed to omar furtak a 13 year old boy for blasphemy he's also requested a pardon for the boy a shari'a court in nigeria's northern kanu state sentenced the boy to 10 years in prison for making blasphemous statements during an argument if a pardon is not possible since he says that he and $119.00 other volunteers would each sit one month in prison to spare the boy from any time behind bars now here's part of the letter that's been written regardless of what he said he cannot be treated as fully aware and responsible given his age he should not be subjected to the loss of the entirety of his youth be deprived of opportunities and stigmatized physically emotionally and educationally for the rest of his life

one please now to welcome to the day mr peter vinci himself mr it's been good to have you with us. what moved you to write this letter and to organize this response in defense of this teenage boy. i didn't get the president who harry was 2 years ago in 2018. to be up to know and i were thinking when i learned this history that maybe is his visit and motions a certain effect on the us very cruel place. may make him that saying. give me the chance to this is young boy 13 years old omar thought ok. many times you know we are looking on media and internet on social media receives many different tragic histories this

time. because it was the president who visited us really well not so long ago i was thinking that maybe we can we can do something and have you heard from the nigerian president since he wrote this letter. and he doesn't receive any answer and you know. we send this letter friday to the. nigerian embassy in poland and he posted of course to the media and to the to the twitter. it was a weekend as it was it must take sometimes for. some discussions between the federal level and the regional level since it is a bit complicated in nigeria but i hope that there is or would be would be profitable for everybody because it's completely impossible to send. its entire

allies that it's destructive to something like this but you know as well as we do that blasphemy is a crime under sharia law and this this young boy his story it is a it is a tragic story but it certainly is not the only one. what about the other people to face very harsh punishments under sharia law that do not get the attention of someone like yourself. it's certainly a lot of the problem a bit of this story and maybe just discussions up to the east now a very open and very worldwide discussion maybe we'll have also see all the different different very painful situations like this. i don't know i hope that however however we have to remember about sharia it's fairly ok but nigeria has signed in many different documents. international documents about more

than respect to those in charge who would have voted with different legal approaches and in general the international law is over national and regional. but i think in the hands of the president is really a decision of. what means there just isn't one means or international obligations of nigeria mistress or the i've got about a minute left let me ask you have you been able to communicate with this this young teenager omar photo for you know of course you know it was impossible. i don't have any contact with him i hope that in the future if you do pursue below i would like to go even in niger to me if you can promise was a president already to do to finance education of this young boy if he's released from the prison ok. since the director of the auschwitz memorial in poland mr

schmitz we appreciate your time tonight and please keep us informed if and when you do hear something please let us know thank you. thank you. well the day is almost done the conversation it continues online you'll find us on twitter or in the news or you can follow me at brant golf t.v. and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see you then of course to.

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