and you will get the tax for 30 saying no, you pay, you're paying the wrong amount of tax. one of the things that had happened in recent years in the united states, but in many other countries under kind of general anti tax sentiment to sort of the revenue agency, the internal revenue service in the us has come under attack for years and years and years and it's been demoralized and been the funded, got fewer and fewer agents even as you get the proliferation of wealth and use tax haven and so on. so that, that ability to assess the ability to order what rich people are doing is falling and falling. i mean, just in 2010 and new data just came out saying that back in 201098 percent of big corporations tax returns were being ordered this now that fall into less than 50 percent. so, and you're seeing a similar thing with, with rich people. so it's, it's a real problem and, and to say it's all legal is just, it's not true. ok. and i feel organization names for more tax justice in the u. s. and worldwide, you've mentioned a few things that go wrong. what needs to change fundamentally?

okay, well a tax, you know, a tax system is it touches everything in touch that we cannot, ex, extra, so that huge amount of complexity, lots of difficult things that need to be done. if i were to single out one thing, there's no silver call it, but if i was to single one thing, it would be to stop this attack on revenue agencies around the world. this reduction in staffing reduction in headcount. this demoralization that's been going on. and i think we are now it's at the point where we're seeing this change. we've seen some big changes in the last few weeks in international corporate taxation where companies previous countries previously been cutting their corporate tax rates in this race to the bottom. and now we're seeing a floor to that. so i think, you know, we need political momentum behind this. we need voters to come out and tell our elected representatives that this stuff needs to store and it is happening. it takes a long time. it's a very slow process, but we need to stop the tax on the revenue agencies and start resourcing them

properly. these people, you know, tax collectors pay for themselves many times over. we need to start seeing them resolved properly, and particularly focusing on the wealthiest individuals and large corporations. so many of the super rich with her recently say they support high taxes in theory. but in practice, they're working hard to boiling them all day. well, that's exactly right. yeah, i mean, obviously there's a lot of hypocrisy custom. nothing to say. they support high taxes. i think, you know, before, 1020 years ago was probably socially acceptable for bayonet. they will. i just, you know, and donald trump is much more recently, you know, that makes me smart avoiding taxes, but it's become more and more socially and acceptable as inequality has white. and if people who got increasingly angry, there's kind of, he's kind of unaccountable elite and you know, monopoly like jeff bees or running amazon. i'm using the ment, market power to extract well from the underlying economy and not and then not paying the taxes. you know at least taxes should be bought. and so you know these brilliant as it's, it's easy for them,

warren buffet and an example. he's criticized low tax, write the famous they said i pay tax than my secretary, but at the end of the day, he paid it almost amount less than his secretary and he's still doing it. nicholas shot for that. the tax justice network. thank you for a time. thanks. a court in russia is considering a request to declare organizations linked to the jail, the opposition leader in the valley as extremist. the court case is the toughest attempt. yes, to dismantle a volunteer nationwide network of support. prosecutors accuse his anti corruption foundation of trying to quote, these stabilize russia if the organization is classified as extremely members, good faith, prison sentences and be prevented from the running and september parliamentary elections. joining us now for more on this is almost corresponding to sherman, emily, what's at stake here, phone of all the supporters and for his organization. while the extremist

label will essentially could essentially make the work of these 3 organizations who are on trial today that are on trial today. impossible actually. now if i need a network of 37 offices across the country have already closed in anticipation of this verdict. and it could mean that anyone connected with these 3 organizations linked in by me could face jail time. and the law is vague enough that it could also mean that any supporters of nevada needs who perhaps posted, you know, symbolism linked to nevada. and these organizations, or who posted one of his anti corruption investigations in the past, could even face fines or up to 15 days in jail. and nobody needs allies have said that this is a clear attempt to to dismantle destructor. the opposition politicians, structures across the country. so we've seen and expanding fact down on rational

position. we'll talk about that in just a moment. but 1st, let's have a quick look at how vonnie and his organization have inspired a new wave of activists february in moscow. were filming at the memorial to the murdered opposition leader boris name song. just before the 6th anniversary of his death. a young man who looks like a tourist tells us he's just turned his own life up. somebody down. yeah, i was just, i was in the police. i resigned when next interval and he was sentenced to prison was pretty go or alex? yeah. no, i know it takes courage to resign for political reasons and especially to speak out in public. but sir gay is determined. scott wasn't right. you can't be scared the whole time by the name servers, not afraid, and neither is alexi enough, only. it depends on all of us on every one of us as a stake in the future of our country. at the 328 year old sergey was

a police officer for 5 years now. he lives on his savings, logging on youtube and instagram. he posted his resignation online on the dane of only was convicted, sergey was still wearing the police uniform, the verdict against navarro, and he was the last straw. he was also dismayed by the brutal police crackdown on demonstrations. the inspect that's in st. petersburg, close to a police officer to women to the ground. there were no charges against him, and he wasn't even fired. i don't want to be part of this system anymore because i'm ashamed of the violence even though i wasn't the family. so we're going to bring him up in march, 2nd, traveled to moscow, attending a seminar for local politicians, organized by civil rights activists. among the speakers prominent opposition,

figures looks, you know, we can minutes, police storm the room. they risk every one present, including one speaker, we were in the middle of interviewing the here with dangerous opposing the government. but this has about russia. future searcy himself was arrested for the 1st time in his life. he was released and later find his former colleagues, he says, would not understand his actions, like most in russia. they are not interested in politics. just 3 cases have been reported of police officers resigning over the latest violent unrest. sherman, in moscow, the kremlin has been steadily cracking down the russian position. is this all about the elections and september?

well, it certainly seems to be political analysts here have been saying that the russian government seems keen on not letting any opposition candidates or potential troublemakers even get to the stage where they're registered as candidates. and then they can meaning that they could run and we've been seeing that in the past few weeks and months there is this new law that means that anyone associated with extremist organisations can run in the upcoming parliamentary elections. that law seems to be squarely aimed at now by the supporters even in anticipation of this verdict in the, in the court that we were just talking about today. and we've also seen a crackdown on opposition. politicians who aren't associated with alex in by me just last week and the people of the coordinator, a former coordinator of open russia, a civil society organization here was arrested on a plane to poland. he was taken out of the plain and also another opposition figure

. a prominent opposition politician to meet with cross was arrested, then released and he's now left the country and gone to ukraine. and along with that crack down and opposition politicians. we've also seen a tightening of the screws on a critical media outlets on activists and even on just normal people who took to the streets during protests in support of alex, they never knew are there this year of only be currently be the major figurehead that this whole opposition movement. what's the latest on him? well, i'd say no by name was transferred earlier this week from a prison hospital back to normal prison ward, which is notoriously strict. apparently he was in hospital after having been on hunger strike. he was calling for more medical care because he said he was having symptoms from being poisoned by using

a military nerve agent last year. now it seems that his health condition is much more stable. he's been moved back, as i said to, to prison. and it seems that he's in good spirits. we've been seeing on his social media accounts notes that he's been passing via his lawyers and his wife. he's even been joking about potentially growing a mustache in prison because he's so bored. so it seems that he's in good spirits, but of course he's still in one of the strictest prisons here. and it seems that it will likely stay that way for a while, emily sherman and moscow. thank you, emily. a circle of not some of the other stories making headlines around the world . at least 17 people have died after a bus collided with van carrying migrant workers on the highway in northern india. workers were heading to the city of met about to resume the factory. jobs off the lockdown sections were listed. mongolians have been

voting for a new president. the panoramic played a major role in the campaign. the debates cancelled in one candidate cash. and cobit 19 former prime minister, who has okay tip to make a political come back after being forced to resign in january. 10 years ago today, sean sagel and macklin out germany would be shopping down it's nuclear power plants was an unexpected reaction to the disaster. japan focus shima plant after phase out period. the last of germany's atomic reactors are scheduled to go offline and just over a year. meanwhile, germany has invested huge amounts of taxpayer money in renewable energy production and hopes to be carbon neutral by 2045. now that's been as leslie is one of germany's leading economists and an advisor to the german government on energy transition. how can a highly industrialized country like germany rely on renewable energy alone to

stake? anomaly alive and means it's the bishop climate goals. without nuclear power, you know, that's of course, the key question is, you're right. you said germany is one of the only highly industrialized country with a court in energy intensive industry that wants to move out of nuclear. but the f one move out of code hallway the same time, and this is going to challenge, of course, a lot our policy, we will have to invest largely in renewables, much stronger that we have done in the past. and we need to look at for other options for this petra generation. we will need more flexibility on the demand side and we will have to increase strongly our storage capacities to cope with these challenges and reducing demand. the demand side is not going to be easy, industry needs, energy and storage capacity doesn't come out of thin air. how's germany going to do

that? i mean, we have at the moment, still a really very stable electricity system. and this is true for the next years to come. but as i said in the end of the decayed, we're going to have to see how in fact we can cope with reducing coal power. and coal is the much bigger problem than nuclear. if you think about the share of nuclear in the electricity generation, it's only about 10 percent know, so it's really about how we deal with the going off current of cold power. and this is captured by 2038. it might happened earlier because of the new plan, so the government, but there's still some time to cope with these developments. if you say call this, the much big problem is that chance that there will be a rethink of a return or propagation of nuclear energy production? no, i think this will not happen. we have seen that out of the 17 nuclear plants that

were operating at the time of the disaster age. but taking i would immediately 9, we're still operating out of these $96.00 are still online. so your large share of the nuclear decommissioning really in 2021 in 2022. but given the actual situation, as i said, we have a very secure and stable system. i don't foresee any problems in this respect and as well, there is a clear commitment of the germans to stick to the face of nuclear power. there is no incentive or no idea of investing in your generation of nuclear power in germany for more than to k. no, this will not be challenged. so even though people like a bill gates and other thing is say, think differently, i want to get your reaction to a quote from bill gates, who nowadays heavily invest in next generation nuclear reactors. gates,

a said nuclear power can be done in a way that none of those failures of the possible recurrence, since it may be necessary to avoid climate change. we should, i shouldn't give it up. is gates wrong? but there are these thinking, this thinking of course, not only in the u. s, but definitely in china and other places around germany as well in the u. k. for example, at the moment with a current technology, we see that nuclear power, it's very expensive. we have not solved the final storage situation. so for the time being for the next years, it's clearly not an option. we. we have seen that nuclear renewables prices have come down substantially. and i think for the next used to come, this is the way to go. of course that does not preclude thinking about other options and they are a lot of these options and thought about. but they are not something that that will

happen in the upcoming years. and this is where we actually solutions such as a german government on energy transition. thank you very much for your thoughts. thanks a lot us president joe biden will arrive in europe tomorrow for a series of summit meetings with western allies on the eve of the visit, the munich security conference as release the new report saying, the west must get ready for a period of quote, systemic competition. with author, with terry and powers, presenting the report in berlin this morning. benjamin german diplomat vote for issuing a said that western democracies needed to pull together in the face of an increasingly assertive china and russia. he hailed the vibe now ministration for re engaging with its allies and said the ball is now in europe court. niemen bar. mother, see there's a we can see that the biden administration has turned to europe with great speed

and energy. i know when the guides over returning to the paris climate agreement and the iran nuclear deal, reversing trump's plan tube withdrawals, the list goes on and on. you'll get on the list. so it's not entirely and just to ask, where is europe? we can speak to the w as chief and the national editor. it's a walk. and now richard. so where is europe? what does that mean? and what does the us expect now from the european yeah, get hard to meet in the office of this report indicating that there's a sense from the us. some sort of mamma is coming out of washington at this point that they feel that they've done their part. they've shown the europeans that the trump era is truly over that the americans and now really engaging in the transatlantic relationship and that they want the europeans to do their bit. now, what is the us, what the us once the europeans to come on board for

a more coordinated approach towards the rising authoritarian powers, particularly china, but also russia. and it also wants you to pull more of its own weight in terms of security and the picture on, on, on these questions is fairly make so far. so on the one hand, on the question of china, the europeans did join with the americans in some coordinated sanctions on china over the human rights abuses being seen in san jang against the muslim league and minority that. but on russia, for example, the germans have refused to pull the plug them very controversial nord stream pipeline, connecting russia with germany delivering russian gas to europe. so that is still a bone of contention. so i think by will be coming here hoping not just to bring his message of america is back, but it also says to see some movement from the european side because there's a warning of a period of competition. i'm talking about

a new cold war here. that's why they talk about systemic competition. but this report also talks about the importance of cooperation. so framing. this is a new era, not so much like the cold war, where the western russia, particularly the united states and russia, had very limited economic ties for instance. now the picture is very different. the west and china in particular have a huge economic relationship. and also the very pricing global issues to deal with what we've been living for the last year. a pandemic global pandemic that really demands international cooperation. and of course, the major challenge of climate change, if the us in china can cooperate, to some extent on that, then tackling climate change is going to be much harder. but the also, as the report do point out that it's going to be very difficult to communicate to members of the public in north america, but also in europe about why it's important on the one hand to cooperate with china . and on the other hand,

to be super tough and impose sanctions on on issues where they don't see why this is going to be a new era that requires the public also to kind of raise awareness of these geopolitical questions. which was the w as chief international and it's a thank you it's and here are some of the other stories we are following for you. canada's prime minister just intruder has joined a vigil to remember the full members of a muslim family killed in an attack in london. ontario. as 20 year old man drove his truck into the family as they were taking a walk and 9 year old boy is the only survivor. rival lawmakers have come to blows on the floor. bolivia is parliament. politicians from the right way, not position roles of the governing socialist tensions were high as the temper discuss the political crisis and as embroiled the country for 2 years now. of the business uses the government of electro fraud and the socialists accused them of

staging. a qu, salvador has become the 1st country in the world to make bitcoin legal tender congress in the central american country approved and ought to adopt the president hopes. bitcoin will make it cheaper for salvadorans abroad to send money. home sports news, doubts are growing over the hosting of this year's copa america. america football tournament that's after brazil, supreme court said it would consider blocking the event. brazil stepped in as a late replacement for the event which starts on sunday was originally due to be hosted by columbia. and as in tina before, those 2 countries were dropped. with corona virus cases, surgeon many have questioned the wisdom of brazil staging and matches. brazil said they were against it though, if denied planning a full on boy called but not improving, access to sides for people with disabilities is something that just about everyone

agrees is a good idea. but in greece, that's been an outcry from some critics about the visual changes that have been made to one of the wells best known heritage sites. the acropolis, greece is most iconic land. it was built in athens some 2500 years ago. during europe's 1st experiment with democracy, what is a steep climb up? and in the spirit of 21st century inclusiveness, the current government has decided to make the monument more accessible to visitors . a new cement walkway enables wheelchair access and authorities. no plan to add railed also make us happy, easy at that house demands but not everyone is happy. some politicians and academics said the new additions are ruining the classical stomachs. it an ammonia over alkalis. this site was never paid when it was always just the rock and throughout history. if there had been a ramp,

it would have been paved with marble or stone, but that never existed. i lost both in fix it, but there are some foreign tourists say they aren't bothered by the modifications. this is one of the most recognizable sites on the entire planet. and with the technology we have not to make it accessible to people who have mobility issues is just kind of brutal. actually. the culture ministry says the improvements have been designed and installed with care. and that their criticism is politically motivated . watching the w a news before we go, here's a quick reminder of our top story. some of the world's richest men have paid a little or no income tax in recent years, as according to informed by the pro public based on the secret us tax. it was affiliated as jeff basis and math in details how the super wealthy use legal tricks to cut that tax bills to almost for me on the news team stating business magazine

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