financial maneuvers, the billionaire views often involving tax havens often involving complex corporate structures which you, it comes down to a judgment call as to whether, you know, the tax 30 is going to accept. and you will often have these tax positions that they take with these complicated arrangements challenged by the tax 30. and very often you will get the tax for 30 saying no, you pay, you're paying the wrong amount of tax. one of the things that has 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 for the internal revenue service in the u. s. has come under a tax for years and years and years and it's been demoralized. they have been the funded, got fewer and fewer agents even as you get the proliferation of wealth and you subtract, paying them so that, that ability to assess the ability to order what which 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 a real problem and, and to say it's all legal is just, it's not true. ok. next 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 tax system is it touches everything in touch that you can expect. and so that huge amount of complex, lots of difficult things that need to be done. if i were to single out one thing, business, silver call it. but if i was to think like one thing it would be to stop is attack on revenue agencies around the world is 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 elected representatives that this stuff needs to stop and it is happening. it takes a long time. it's a very slow process, but we need to stop the attacks on the revenue agencies and start resulting and properly these people, you know, tax collectors pay for them. so 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 higher taxes in theory. but in practice they're working harder at avoiding the monday. 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 1000000000 ad 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, monopolist 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 he is an example. he's criticized low tax rate. he's famous, they said i pay tax than my secretary, but at the end of the day, he pays an almost amount less than the secretary and he's still doing it. nicholas shots that the tax justice network. thank you for a time. thank the diesel gate emissions. cheating scandal has called folks talking around 30000000000 euros in fines. legal fees and vehicle re fits. but now the german comics will be getting at least a little bit of that back from the executives. so allowed it to happen for former bosses' will pay a total of $288000000.00 euros. mostly comes from liability insurance. but pharmacy

o martin ventercore will pay 11000000 years out of pocket. and for my audi, bosco statler is on the hook for, for movie folks on claim that day and 2 other men failed to fully and swiftly clarify the circumstances behind the use of illegal software functions in some diesel engine sold on the north american market between 20092015 of more days. i'm not sure about financial correspondent, chelsea delaney in france. that chelsea 11000000 jurors is the amount that the w 4 must see. almost binnacle and has to pay personally, but still is just a slap on the wrist. well if you compare it to the the 32000000000 euros that volkswagen has paid out to to help settle these claims. it certainly looks like winter corn is getting off light. and actually initially, volkswagen was reportedly speaking about 1000000000 euros from winter corn and

other executives for for their excuse me role. and this scandal. that amount was basically what volkswagen figured they would have saved if winter corn and the other executives would have moved faster to address that. the cheating allegations instead. many of these executives waited. i didn't fully follow follow through on the allegations that they had heard. and so they were hit with much bigger regulatory fines. so to some extent it does look like he's just getting a little slap on the wrist here. so if the house folks are doing now almost 6 years after the scandal 1st broke, is diesel gate over for them. well the some extent volkswagen has been able to put the duplicates get scandal behind them. their business has been doing very well over the past several months, several years. their stock price is basically doubled in the past year and they've made a lot of inroads into electric vehicles. they've even been called potentially the next has left for all they're doing to build out and electric vehicle fleet. but

the diesel gate, kendall is not going away even just today. winter corn was also charged by berlin, prosecutors for lying to parliamentary committee. they. volkswagen was also charged in france today for diesel gate, for the diesel gate scandal, and they're still tens of thousands of outs standing lawsuits from customers from investors as well as a criminal case against winter foreign. that's expected to start in the fall. so even as they do try to put this demo behind them, it's going to remain with them for years. so the lady, the financial, corresponded in frankfort. thank you've chelsea. let's take a look now. some of the other stories making headlines today, al salvatore has become the 1st country in the world to make bitcoin legal, tender. congress in the central american country approved and laws who adopt the crypto currency. the president hopes bitcoin will make it cheaper for salvador and abroad to send money home. at least 17 people have died off for

a bus collided with van kerry migrant workers on the highway in northern india works for heading to the city of med up boss to resume their factory. jobs after lockdown restrictions were listed cleanup efforts to remove a thick layer of the slime on the way and turkeys my mar coastline. the boom of the social fif not is caused by compounds released by marine organisms found to say caused by untreated waste combined with warm water temperatures. european union is place for legal showdown with germany. the uses nothing less is at stake than the supremacy of you. lot over national law. last year, germany's constitutional court ruled that a bond buying program by the european central bank was illegal on the german law. but the repeal commission says that ruling undermine you law, which takes precedence this could threaten the integrity of the union law. and

could open the way to europe. i look at your union isn't remains a community based on law. and the last word on the law is always spoken. in luxembourg, i'll correspond, jack, parrot is following the story in brussels, the lair. we asked him, what exactly germany is a choose of. back in 2015, the european central bank started buying government bonds, essentially soldiering. some of the national government debt. and the group of people in germany weren't very happy about that. they felt that germans, savers were essentially giving money just german savers were giving money to spending countries in southern european union member states. remember, back in 2015, the greek financial crisis that nearly pulled grease of the euro zone. now this led to a legal battle where the european central bank essentially decided that it was the european court of justice, decided that it was okay that it was under

a law to allow the european central bank to buy up those government bonds. however, that group in germany was happy about it, they felt it wasn't in line with the german national constitution. and every government bond by must be approved and justified. the european central bank they felt was obligated to do that in may 2020. the court in call for the constitutional court of germany said that that was the case. but that went in direct contradiction to the european court of justice, which is a higher court actually. and that for it cause this legal conflict which has led today to the european commission despite it now going away, the buddhist bank in germany managed to put it in, put it away and sort things out with the german parliament. but the european commission says it still has to launch these infringement procedures against germany because it really affected the primacy of the court systems. so this case is really all about which law is high. in this case, brussels insist agenda court has absolutely no business getting involved. how can,

contradictions like this be avoided? well, it's hard to say the calls record is going any judges or any legal system is going to want to go through this. again, it's important to say, as i said, the buddhist bank dealt with this with the german parliament, managed to get it to go away. they upheld that. it was legal for the bomb buying program to continue as it still does. but also what the european commission knows has to do. and part of the reason why they've launched these infringement procedures is because they launch infringement procedures against the rule of law issues in countries like hungry like poland, where courts make judgements that go against you law and you judgements already as well. so the commission knows that it needs to at least look like it's playing and even hand with all member stays. i'm not something that has happened today. this does happen quite frequently. these infringement procedures are not unheard of. they come out every month in 5. but what significant about this was because it was such a big court ruling on such a big issue regarding the european central bank to

w correspondent, jack power that in brussels. thank you, josh colton. russia is considering a request to declare organizations, links to jails, a position leader, alexander vonny, extremist. the court case is the top of the term yes. to dismantle the volume nationwide network of support cues, his anti corruption foundation of trying to quote, the stabilize russia. if the organization is classified as extra met, members would face prison sentences and be prevented from running in september's parliamentary elections. joining us now for more on this is almost correspondent sherman emily. what's at stake here? one of the supporters and for his organization. while the extreme s 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 by new 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 a vine 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 nevada and these allies have said that this is a clear attempts to, to dismantle destruct 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 memorials to the murdered opposition leader boris names off 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 upside down. yeah. i was in the police. i resigned when next interval and he was sentenced to prison. was pretty go what it takes courage to resign for political reasons and especially to speak out in public. but sir gay is determined score with them. but you can't be scared the whole time by the name itself is not afraid. and neither is it likes enough only. it depends on all of us on every one of us as a stake in the future of our country. at the spring 28 year old sir. he 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 not only was the last straw. he was also dismayed by the brutal police crackdown on demonstrations. the inspect. that's instant peters. close a police officer came 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 it was just astonished. we're going to bring him up in march. shaggy traveled to moscow, attending a seminar for local politicians organized by civil rights activists. among the speakers prominent opposition, figures looks, you know, we didn't minutes, police storm the room, the risk everyone present,

including once because we were in the middle of interviewing the here with the dangerous opposing the government. but this has about russia. future therapy 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 criminal has been steadily cracking down the russian position. is this all about the elections in 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 trouble

makers 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 extreme this organizations can run in the upcoming parliamentary elections. that laws seems to be squarely aimed at now by these 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. and now by me, just last week on the people of the coordinator, a former coordinator of open russia, a civil society organization here was arrested on the plane to poland. he was taken out of the plane 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 cracked 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 and supportive alex, they never knew are they are this year of only be currently be the major figure head that this whole a position movement. what's the latest on him? well, i'd say no binding was transferred earlier this week from a prison hospital back to a 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. i'm going to show him in moscow. thank you. emily. us vice president, canada harris has wrapped up a 1st foreign trip since taking office in mexico city. she met with president andras manuel lopez over a door to discuss how to reduce illegal border crossings from mexico in guatemala harris warned people from latin america not to attempt to enter the united states. but with desperation, driving migration, it will take more than promises to convince latin america's poor not to make the dangerous journey's north. oh, they call it love is the beast,

the fried train of fear and hope for migrants. the fried train there will take them from the south of mexico to the north. right now the train is approaching a hostile for migrants demand jump off, risking their lives in the process. a couple of them foam, but they don't have time to stop. they hurry to the hospital, only there they say from the mexican police. what i what i everyone who arrived here yesterday got caught in a police thing. they say the offices either rob them or chase them to exhaustion. few near escaped but injured his foot. only in the u. s. his pain, mexico to catch us. why isn't all that money being used to fight organized crime? don't you see we're dying here? the people who fall off the train often dial lose the limbs,

whereas you're conscious, but then so, so me, ambrose. i was a proper area. i concierge m. lease from guatemala is worried to the police, caught his wife in his 5 year old son. he has to continue alone gang crime too destructive, hurricanes in the pen, demik if driven his family from the home. but light in mexico is no better. so in the american dream, his heart, mexico was a nightmare for us. border agents, the police, the drug cartels, the mexican police catch us, then they demand 30500 pesos to let you go into getting into space will say use to put in the how do you the pressure has only increased in recent days. luis doesn't believe that a money from the u. s. will change anything at all in mexico or in guatemala for the musket. the u. s. can invest millions and millions,

but ultimately it won't help regulate people one bit because the government itself is corrupt. they are all in bed with criminal groups and then what are the kinds of only you mean those? oh, my best yes. raising in from the south doesn't have any money for bribes and feels like he doesn't have a future back home. but jumping on the train is impossible. here, concrete post has been erected to prevent that. you have to be able to grab the train and run alongside it. it's very fast. you can't get up from a standing stop. every train brings new migrants to the hospital where they hide from the police on the railway security standing at each crossing, hiding behind bushes, then a few kilometers away. these 2 are ready to risk it all on last year. they want to get to the u. s. no matter the cost, the improving access to sites for people with disabilities is something

that's 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 world's best known heritage sites. the acropolis, greece is most iconic, landmark. it was built in athens some 2500 years ago. during europe's 1st experiment with democracy, but it's 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 now plan to add rails and braille signs for the visually impaired. what's the answer to bush, ma'am? i've seen people in wheelchairs who came up for the 1st time and felt happy. i think this is something that should also make us happy, hasn't gone yet that the man of but not everyone is happy. some politicians and academics in the state, the new additions are ruining the classical stomachs. it an ammonia over the course

. this site was never paid when fix it, but 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 last bit except, 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 ministries, as the improvements have been designed and installed with care. and that the criticism is politically motivated. you're watching t w. a news coming up next in use asia. how cold it 19 has made access to treatment harder for the patient around the world. and

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