form is that they don't want to invest anymore powers in it. if it's seen that it's a leaky serve, then they're going to say, this justifies diminishing it. power is not increasing them. so it is important how they got these records and public. i said they got away while they, let's say they didn't pay tax, or more or less didn't pay tax legally. how do you do that? if you're a millionaire it's, it's not really that new to be honest. these revelations aren't and nothing is, is illegal. they basically took advantage of the taxing system in the u. s. what's, what's a founding is the numbers here. i mean, the fact that their wealth overall grew by such tremendous bounds. but then they, they paid very little, their savvy businessmen. and one could say, you know, in the u. s. definition of income as essentially liquid cash. so capital assets such as shares and a company such as the home, which is the most typical capital asset for most americans or even on your wall, that's not considered income because you don't derive liquid cash from it until you sell it. so what happens is that for the very wealthy, they can use these capital stock that they have and they can borrow against that

used to fund their lifestyle. for example, they can use those collateral, that is against the bank. they give the money for that. so they can use that either from their lifestyles or what's often the case. they use it to leverage further investments and more capital stocks. what happens is you can build up capital stock over lifetime. your wealth goes up, but you're actually pulling money from it so much. so you only tax when that money turns into income, which means that your capital grows and even at the time of death, it's actually very hard to really tax these capital gains that can be transferred to a spouse to children without much taxation. so that is the nature of the us tax code . for most americans it looks very different. their income is derived not from capital, not from bank loads. it's derived from their labor sellers and see exactly if salaries go ahead. just electric, last question. i mean, you're american, what are the chances of their being, outrage, discussion in congress and a change in policy when it's already been a lot of outrage over sort of the rift between the extremely wealthy and normal americans? you know, we've seen that with so much money being poured into the taxi. for example,

you are seeing more people being paid in equity being paid and shares, and that's turning into big money. so on the whole though, it's hard to say if anything will change. ok, see if there's different of your business. thanks so much for that insight. a russian court is considering a request to declare organization is linked to jailed opposition. leader alex said no valley as extremist. the court cases the most far reaching attempt yet to dismantle nevada. these nationwide network of support prosecutors accused as anti corruption foundation of trying to destabilize russia. if the organization is classified as extremist members could face prison sentences and be prevented from running in september parliamentary elections. and joining us now for more on this is our moscow correspondent, emily. sure. when emily, what's at stake here from valentine, supporters and organization? well, essentially, this extremism label would make the work of nevada. these 3 organizations essentially impossible. it could mean that anyone involved with the organization,

as you said, could face jail sentences. and we've already seen the consequences even of the threat of the extremism label, because 37 offices across russia, a network of nevada, and these offices as already had to close ahead of this verdict. and the dangerous thing about this extremism label is we don't really know how it will be used. so it could mean that essentially anyone who even posted the symbols of nevada, these organizations on social media, for example, or re posted on one of his anti corruption investigations, could face a fine or up to 15 days in prison. and his allies have said that they have no illusions that this is the final attempt to dismantle their structure as across the country. okay, i'd like to talk about why the crack don't. it's happening now in a moment. but 1st, let's take a look at how about the and his organization have inspired

a new wave of activists in russia. february in moscow, were filming at the memorials to the murdered opposition leader board. and im sorry, 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 in the police. i resigned when the next interval and he was sentenced to prison. was the big go or understand it takes courage to resign for political reasons and especially to speak out in public. but sir gay is determined, school goes on, but you can't be scared the whole time by the name self is not afraid. and neither is it like seeing me. it depends on all of us on every one of us as a stake in the future of our country. at the 2028 year old sergey was a police officer for 5 years now he lives on his savings. plugging 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 him on the was the last straw. he was also dismayed by the brutal police crackdown on demonstrations. why the inspect that's in some peaches, 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 the system anymore because i'm ashamed of the violence even though i was just the family. so if you bring your mom in march shaggy travel to moscow, attending a seminar for local politicians organized by civil rights activists. among the speakers prominent opposition, figures looks, you know, did we didn't minutes?

police storm the room, the risk everyone present, including one speaker we were in the middle of interviewing the here which is dangerous opposing the government. but this has about russia as 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 violence unrest to quite the crackdown we've been seeing there. emily, can you tell us about the timing, why now? well, this seems to be a crackdown that's timed to coincide with the run up to the september parliamentary

elections here. political analysts and russia has been saying for a few months now, but it seems as if the kremlin doesn't even want opposition. candidates to be able to register for those elections. they don't want any trouble makers who could potentially mean that the ruling united russia party doesn't get a majority in the parliament. and we've seen that in various moves in the past few weeks and months. for example, there is a new law that means that anyone who has been associated with an extremist organization would be able to run in the elections. experts here been saying that that law is clearly aimed at nevada and these organizations, even in anticipation of that court verdict that we were just talking about and dis, crackdown doesn't just extend to the vine these allies. it also stands to other opposition. politicians, for example, just last week, 2 prominent opposition, politicians were arrested and the people of the former coordinator for open russia

. civil society organization was arrested on a plane. he was trying to leave the country and need a good course. another, a prominent opposition politician was also arrested and released and he's now left the country. and we've also seen, you know, a crackdown on critical media outlets and jose activists and even intimidation attempts. just for normal people who have been fired just for protesting, for example, in the last ways with protests and support. if alex say now by me, and speaking of, can you bring us up to date on his status? what's with alex? a about the what are his conditions right now? while he was in a prison hospital just this week, he was transferred to just a normal back to normal prison as it were. he was in hospital after carrying out a hunger strike. and apparently his health condition was not good at all when he

was put in that hospital, doctors or warning that he could be close to dying. he was protesting the fact that he apparently wasn't getting independence medical attention for what he says were side effects of the poisoning that he underwent with military grade nerve agent last year. now it seems that his health condition is much more stable. he seems to be in good spirits. we've been seeing on instagram and on social media kind of knows that he's been passed into his wife and 2 lawyers in order to communicate with his, with his followers and supporters. but you know, he remains in prison and that will be the case. it seems for the foreseeable future . okay, emily, sherwin in moscow, thanks so much for that. american vice president comma la harris has wrapped up her 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 warren, people from latin america to not 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 north. oh, they call it law based. yeah, the be afraid train of fear and hopeful migrants the freight 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 fall, but they don't have time to stop. they hurry to the hospital, only there they say from the mexican police every one who arrived yesterday got caught in a police thing. they said the office is either rob them or chase them too exhausted . and junior escaped, but injured his foot. guess i will need

a loan in the u. s. his pain, mexico to catch us? why isn't all the money being used to fight organized crime? don't you see would dine here. the people who fall off the train often dial lose the limbs. where is your conscience factor? so, so metals i was asked al, appropriate thing, i can see the lease from guatemala is worried. the police caught his wife in his 5 year old son. he has to continue alone, gain crime too destructive, hurricanes and that's and demi kept driven his family from the home. but life in mexico is no better. so she lives in the american dream. it's hard. mexico was a nightmare for us to border agents. the police, the drug cartels, the mexican police catch us, then they demand 30500 pesos. to let you go into skinny, into space will say use the put in the how do you the pressure has only increased

in recent days. luis doesn't believe that 8 money from the u. s. will change anything at all in mexico, or in guatemala. is what the musket then the u. s. can invest millions and millions, but ultimately it won't help regular people one bit. because the government itself is corrupt. they are all embed with criminal groups and they're not about the kinds of only, you mean those love s yes, rates in, 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. he a concrete post, if indirect, 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 in a few kilometers away. these 2 are ready to risk it all on levies. year they want

to get to the u. s. no matter the cost here in germany, any schools have finally returned to the regular schedules after a long period of closures and home schooling. during the pandemic, students must be regularly tested for covert 19 a process that usually involves and uncomfortable nasal swab. but in one region, children can instead use something called the lollipop method dw visited one classroom to see if it makes testing less distasteful data. but this is alicia. you already in 30 seconds go then it's been love you the 32nd, the children at this elementary school in cologne. second, which was the swabs and then go to

a lab where they are tested for cover. this new method aims to make testing easier for young children. and it's quite good. it's definitely better than i know. last test, a shouldn't in the past i find is quite handy because afterwards i feel safe about whether or not i have corona danny over the smoke a half, but the taste is disgusting. i always tried to think of lollipops, and afterwards, tases still doesn't leave my mouth from the cap, paste the cotton floods to the lab, logistical challenge. because another 500 schools, i'm bringing their tests here. in the lab, the swamps that tested using what's known as the pooling method. this means all cotton swabs from one class evaluated together in one test. this is because the lonely test is expensive to save,

pays around 50 euros per analysis of the month. if you take 20 swaps are presenting 20 students and divide them by 50 euro's then you get a good price. additionally, if you would have to add the cost for logistics and the materials use on. but i think what absolutely competitive with the rep. if the pool is positive, individual retesting is required. generally, the left doesn't deliver the results until the next morning. but that would still be early enough to break a potential chain of infection set and then click father. destiny from us. we are multiplying the genetic material of this virus by effect of 30 trillion. this means that you can recognize a virus activity and it is very low fee and not only when someone is highly infectious and already spreading that virus load among animals mentioned sometime

here at the elementary school, several infections have been detected and in the stage using the lolly test, although covet cases are currently declining in germany. the kids will continue using the test at least until the summer holidays. instead of taking place in freezing february this year's film festival in berlin will be an open air celebration. everything is set for a summer special that will feature outdoor public screenings of over a 100 films for the really nice selection films over shown in it. 16 open air cinemas spread out across the city. and really now the central location will be especially created open air cinema on berlin's museum island, where the festival red carpet has been all that. and let's go live now to d. w scott rock for a vendor and burly. now the reporter at scott burley. now al fresco, so to speak, i guess the, what does it look like?

yeah, well you can see behind me there just setting things up for the opening ceremony tonight. for the 1st open air version of the belly, nala, i'm to say i quite enjoy. i mean, i'm used to really freezing my butt off in the red carpet in the winter here in berlin. i'm a bailey not right in the middle of summer. it's fantastic. we'll see how it goes. this is supposed to be really a bell in our, for the audience. this is the 1st sort of really public film festival that we had since the start of corona. and i'm really excited to see how it pans out and how many films are being shown. and how are these selected? what we mentioned are quite a few films they're going to be shown here. we're going to see all 15 of the competition films, they all had its official competition online only in march this year. so those films are going to be shown for an audience for the 1st time, a live audience for the 1st time. and then we have sort of the winners of all the other sections of the valley knowledge. so to sort of a best ob,

that have been picked to be shown for the berlin audience because that's really what this summer specials about. it's about the actual audience, the actual ordinary movie fans here in berlin that have been starved of the real movie experience for so long for over a year. now. ok, this is if memory serves the 71st, barely, not only has there ever been anything like this, it's history. well, no, not really. i mean berlin initially did start as a summer festival. well, even before my time in the fifty's and sixty's before it was then moved to the winter months. so since then in the last decades, we've never had anything like this. and he thought of a summer celebration of cinema here in berlin. and of course, we've never had an open air festival, which is this, this one is going to be because of cobit restrictions. so it would be really interesting to see how the berlin audience embraces dispensable and all the interest to see if we could really pull it off, because this is

a 1st time event. and there are, of course, a lot of security and safety issues concerns around cope. it's still so we'll have to see if berlin can manage to pull it off. well, if berlin does pull it off and the public embraces, could we see something similar in the future? we'll see the festival said this is a one off event and they're not planning to do this again. but i really actually hope that we do see something like this in the future because one thing i've always missed during the bally knowledge is the great summer weather. the great experience of summer in berlin, that you miss of course, in february when you have a film festival here. so let's hope that this really works and that the public really embraces that. and then maybe we'll see some version of this in the coming years. alright, d w scott rock spray from the open air and much warmer 71st burly nally. improving access to sites for people with disabilities is something that just about everybody agrees with a good idea,

an increase. there's been an outcry source from some critics about the visual changes that have been made to one of the world's best known heritage size. 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 ad, rails and braille signs for the visually impaired with the pro bush max. 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 with scanning the rest house demands. but not everyone is happy. some politicians and academics and say the new additions are ruining the classical statics. even among over the course,

this site was never pay, except 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 that 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 the criticism is politically motivated. japan's prime minister has insisted the upcoming tokyo olympics will be a safe and secure event. but in a sign of the uncertainty surrounding the games, there should be 2 guy said they wouldn't go ahead if the lies of japanese people couldn't be protected. japan is battling

a 4th corona virus wave just weeks before the start of the lympics, notably in support, which is hosting the marathon. public opposition remains high and even some local organizers have their doubts. this is how i didn't pick. officials hope the mattress and the test events like this 11 thing, what will happen in reality? quite another with less than 2 months to go before the marathon starts here in support. local, organize this still have many announce it questions. like how many athletes will be coming here, and where they'll go with they get infected with the current a virus. take a look. ok. but it came up, they need to decide the overall structure of the games, or else the venues won't know what to do when it comes to corona virus measures. it's already affecting our preparations, but it's for you to know what a horse in tomor spectators were told to keep that distance during may's test.

event support was chosen for the marathon because of its cooler temperatures in tokyo. but the northern city has the 2nd highest infection rate in all of japan, little and there are no hospital beds left in support. the medical system has claps . we have other patients besides those with corona virus. for example, when there's a cancer patients who need an operation, we can't do it because the intensive care unit is not available if you're trying to organize is pushing on these games must be starting to feel like a medicine. they continue to insist the olympics can be how safely the focus now just getting them over the finish line. and before we go, here's a quick reminder of our top stories. some of the world's richest people have paid a little or no income tax in recent years, as, according to a report by pro public, based on the american tax records of billionaires, including jeff bezos and illinois musk details,

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