not an option. peace i'm on and rather they are stuck in the spanish border area alongside other young people there waiting for a chance that will probably never come. shattered dreams starts june 18th on d, w. i the this is the w needs, and these are our top stories. us president joe biden has arrived in the u. k for the summit of g 7 nations being held this weekend is the president's 1st international trip. and he took off in january and his speech shortly after he landed 5 and declared the u. s. is back. he will also attend the nato summit and to meet of russia's president. putin in geneva, or russian cause has outlawed the political organization linked to opposition

leader alexis of only the judge ruled that the need non violent anti corruption foundation is extremis. and that is intended to destabilize russia, the bel, me has been in jail in february, off the surviving. another agent poisoning me berlin's international film festival. the bill of knowledge is back with a summer special, more than $100.00 films will be screened as open as to the mess across the city. the main venue created for the event will be on museum island in central burning. this is d. w. news from berlin, you can find much more on our web site, d, w dot com. the oh. rich men pay no taxes. that's the claim from pro public about some of america's

richest men. the independent non profit news website claims to fate and the tax returns of jeff based off the musk and warren buffett. and they say the amazon chairman paid no tax in 2007 to 2011. the tesla 0 must pay nothing in 2018. so even if it's perfectly legal, is it right? i'm fill galen berlin and this is the day the new likes to pay taxes. i know with my dad, you say it's a small price to live in this country. we know that there is more to be done to ensure that corporation, individuals who are at the highest income are paying more of their fair share. so rich and powerful seem to break the rules and pay no price, millionaires and billionaires and escape taxes by cheating. he didn't pay any

federal income tax. so that makes it getting tax incentives. they're getting tax breaks, and that was enough, no matter what they did, the richer and more powerful both on the bay, canada, united states, regain its competitive edge and future technologies. the u. s. sellers has passed to new legislation to spend billions to count the threat from china. we spend less than half as much as the chinese communist party on basic research. the world is more competitive now than in any time since the end of the 2nd world war. if we do nothing, our days is the dominant superpower may be ending. the welcome to the day we begin with the revelation of some of america's richest men, paid no income tax. in recent, yes,

investigative journalism unit pro public says it has same tax returns showing the 1000000000 as well. legally able to avoid taxation. a potentially explosive issue in the time of rising inequality. us tax or therapy says, is investigating how confidential touch records were leaked. there the world's richest men, jeff phasers, ilan musk, and they pay less taxes than most people. while living mind blowing, lifestyles pro public revealed that pays those paid no taxes in 20072011, while must paid on in 2018. the billionaires don't seem to have done anything illegal. they just use tax avoidance strategies beyond the reach of ordinary americans. super billionaires get their well from the growing value of their assets . they're only taxed if they sell those holdings. president joe biden has said he wants to raise taxes on the wealthy. good afternoon. no one likes to pay taxes. i know with my dad, you say it's

a small price to live in this country. i firmly believe we firmly believe the need to make our tax system work for the middle class. that's why i think we should ask corporations in the top one percent to start paying there for a share and why we should crack down a millionaires and billionaires will escape taxes by cheating. meanwhile, the internal revenue service has been hit by years of budget cuts and low morale, leaving it less able to enforce the laws that are already on the books. after pro public, his report came out, the white house focused more on condemning the leak than on the issue of tax and equality itself with us against any unauthorized disclosure of confidential government information by a person with access is illegal. and we take this very seriously, the biden administration has said that many of its priorities will be paid for by higher taxes on the wealthy. what collecting that money, it seems,

or you will be quite a challenge. we've been working, jeff and 1000 is one of the 3 journalists who broke this story. he's a senior data reporter at pro public and welcome to d w. so how are they doing this? thanks for having me. so our story is relatively simple point about how the tax system works. so the average american yearns are wage or salary and they pay taxes on it mediately, right? it comes out of their paycheck every month for the ultra wealthy, it's completely different picture. most of what matters to them and how much they're at that scope and value. and that said outside of the tax system until they make a decision to sell a stock which you know, then triggered the taxable event. so, huge fortunes are able to grow outside of the system completely. and what we found is that over a 5 year period are wealthy in the country, the top $25.00 riches people. that's all there for to grow by $400000000000.00 and

paid less than 3.4 percent and that in taxes. so mostly it's a matter of sort of keeping income down as the system recognizes the taxes and recognize. but as far as we can tell, you could tell, did you discover any evidence of illegality? our story is not about the illegal any illegal mechanisms for, for evading taxes of what we observed is perfectly legal. you know, the system merely doesn't, doesn't recognize wealth growth as, as, as taxable. so, know we were focused on the things that people were doing that routinely and legally. right? so what, what, what change is it that, that you, that you, what did you hope to achieve with this story? what are you trying to bring about?

well, clearly there's a discussion of taxation and spending priorities taking place in the united states currently. and that conversations and taking place without all grow the facts. we think it's clearly in the public interest for the public to understand what the wealthiest country paying taxes and how that compares to the typical american. and we've had bread president by saying that he wants to increase taxes for the richest americans to raise money for massive infrastructure a program. do you see that as being a step in the right direction? well, you know, i think the, the proposal by the administration, one thing to keep in mind is that they largely focus on increasing rates, which is what the conversation has been dominated by for decades in the united states. what our report found is that increasing rates, i mean, it will certainly affect the wealthiest more than other americans if you're talking

about raising capital gains rate. but what we observe is still outside of that system. so it's not going to really capture, right? so the most of the largest chunk of what's going on tax in terms of the ultra wealthy fortunes. and now the internal revenue service, i may be, i launching investigations not into the 1000000000 as tax affairs, but into where this leak came from. you worried of course we're taking this all very seriously and we're following those developments. you know that we're we're paying attention worse. ok, it's always good to pay the pay stubs when the bank that looks in to you. and why do you think this person or these people elite this information to you? i can't really comment on the motivation the any, any,

any 3rd nor do i know your data. john les, this is a relatively recent job title, and then i'm increasing number of data journalists in this increasingly digital age . i'm kind of more about what your job entails. it basically entails a lot of, you know, when there's a story where you might need code or you might need somebody who is really good working with numbers. that's a lot of times what we'll all the data journals. are there more revelations to come in the story? absolutely. i we intend to continue writing stories based on this information in the coming month. ok, i'm so what can we expect next? i can come out of the stories that we're working on, but we rest assured we are working on that. ok that's. that's fair

enough. especially given that b b i is probably watching a jeff and house and prep public and thank you. thank you for having me. oh, every point along the way, we're going to make it clear that united states is back and democracies of the world are standing together to tackle the toughest challenges and the issues that matter most to our future that we're committed to leading was strength, defending our values and delivery for our people as president jo biden's in europe on his 1st foreign ship off his presidency to confer with europe in allies and to confront russia. he touched out in britain where he'll be attending a service of g 7 leaders. his next stop will be brussels for meetings with nathan and he will be unit is triple conclude with face to face. talk to that russian

president vladimir putin in geneva, expected to press the russian leader on the ukraine cyber crime. and he's cracked then on dissidence. well ahead of mr. biden's 1st foreign trip to europe, the munich security conference has released a report saying the west needs to prepare for a period of systemic competition with authoritarian powers, presenting the report in berlin. veteran german diplomat. both can ation. you said that western democracies need to pull together in the faith of increasingly assertive china and russia. w exclusive chief international editor richard walker spoke with both now and asked him what systemic competition with these countries is likely to look like. china has come out of hiding. china was reluctant player on the global sea until very recently now they have shown their muscles and we need to deal with that. and this is why, of course, there will have to be,

at least from a german point of view, continue cooperation or selling hopefully a good number of, of german automobiles to china. but they will have to be a different element also in terms of competition. on what means power, what defines power and influence and that means war and peace in the 21st century. and that is actually the new element here, where we will have cooperation not only on trade like automobiles, but also in climate protection and prevent climate change on prevent terrorism on preserving nonproliferation in new key issues. and hopefully advancing arms control, etc, etc. but also in pushing back against also we, terry regimes like, you know, the one party chinese states which is based on entirely different ideas than our

kinds of western democracies. so it's going to be a very challenging future environment for policymakers, but also for the public using the public around europe for instance, ready for a up for this period of competition. our leaders need to make sure that the message which the public receives that the message works and is coordinated with the message that our partners conveyed to their publics. that requires, 1st and foremost, because we know that the united states has a china policy. they know what they want to achieve with china. they have to find it. do we have in the european union, a coordinated china policy. that's the european union speak with one voice on china. can our partner in washington define what is the position of china not

really so far? reflects on germany. it is, its economy is highly dependent on china and insecurity is actually dependent on the united states. we think forward through this century it can that position be sustained. of course, our preference will probably not be identical to that of the united states. but as i, as i tried to say before, 1st, our 1st job offers element of homework has to be to figure out a coordinated joint european position with which we can then go to washington. can we talk about this? where is overlap of interest? where is identity of interest? where are difficulties where we find it very difficult to agree. that's the way to go forward. we need to be, of course, on, on the transatlantic side of things when it comes to china. but i don't think that

we will always find ourselves in the, in the, in a, in that we will always define our interests exactly identical to the definition that our american france arriving michigan many. thanks. thank you. nighted stays most over the world's biggest economic power, but china has long been closing in the us. senate has now approved a multi $1000000000.00 investment package to counter that trend and to defend the u . s. place at the top honors vote. the a are 68, the name are 30 to the 60 vote threshold having been achieved. the bill is past. bipartisan agreement is rare these days in the halls of rest. but on this bill, republicans and democrats came together to boost the u. s. ability to compete with chinese technology, which as a percentage of g d. p, we spend less than half as much as the chinese communist party on basic research.

we rely on foreign nations to surprise credit supply critical technologies that we invented, like semiconductors. indeed, the u. s. global market share of semiconductor manufacturing has steadily eroded from 37 percent in 1990 to about 12 percent today. and recently at ship shortage has exposed vulnerabilities and the u. s. supply chain. the center piece of the new bill is a $50000000000.00 investment in semiconductor development and manufacturing. that's also $29000000000.00 to establish new directors focused on artificial intelligence and quantum science with the national science foundation and $52000000000.00 for research programs. they are over all the build calls for investments of about $250000000000.00 with most of the spending occurring in the 1st 5 years in

a major effort to decrease the u. s. dependency on chinese products. now a dispute over the use of the term basmati has left a sour taste in the mouth of india and pakistan both countries, grove, the much loved variety of rice and it's only global export us. but india has applied to the european union for the soul rights to use the term bass mass when it's sold in the u. approval would spell disaster for pakistan, which also sells bass matee right here. the india and pakistan are among the largest producers of royce in the world when it comes to the type known as a multi, they are the only global exported european union being a key market for both countries. but now india is putting

a spammer in the works by asking brussels to grant 8 sole ownership of the term, but multi, it's a move that package down phase would devastate its rice industry. the school 90 percent of our work was multi rice. we purchased multi rice from our pharmacy. these factors will shut down. we can't produce too many other kinds of variety today. so this is like directly dropping into telling us that actually bod, but i can bump that to try to gain the upper hand. india has asked european commission for what's called protected geographical indications status for about morality rise. if brussels approved india's request and pakistan would have to rethink the way it market its product to the u. as only india would be allowed to

use the name basmati rice. some experts, so i casting doubt on delhi claim. thank you. story town is relatively new country that was created during the partition of india, so obviously starkly, the reputation and geographic area for us. marty come to india when dispute such as this arise, countries are usually asked to come up with an amicable solution. pakistan think it's hoping to be able to persuade india to acknowledge the shed, heritage of multi right. and then to submit a joint application to the you the to japan, where the prime minister has insisted the upcoming tokyo olympics will be safe and secure. but, and the simon, the growing uncertainty around the game. so usually he'd have to get said they wouldn't go ahead if the lives of the japanese people couldn't be protected. japan

is battling a 4th wave of corona virus infections just weeks before the start of the event. notably in the support which is hosting the american public opposition remains high and even some local organizers, voice doubts. this is how we'll pick officials hope for the mattress and we'll go protest events like this one or one seeing what will happen in reality. quite another with less than 2 months to go before the madison stop here in support. local, organize this still have many unanswered questions. like how many athletes will be coming here and where they'll go with they get infected with the current virus. take a look, you know what 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 if you will know how to get into

spectators which hold to keep their distance during may test, events 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. lilian little and there are no hospital beds left in support. the medical system has clap. we have other patients besides those with corona virus. for example, when there's a cancer patient who needs an operation, we can give it because the intensive care unit is not available. if you're trying to organize a person on these games must be starting to feel like morrison. they continue to insist the olympics can be how safely the focus now just getting them over the finish line. the boat. another is back instead of taking place in freezing february. this year's

film festival in berlin is an open s. celebration. everything is set for us some a special feature. i don't public screenings of 100. 26 phones in 16 open in cinemas, across the city. and the central venue will be especially created to open a cinema on burnsy museum. i'm not to be living. and of course that d w is the scott to rock spread as our veterans banana reporter. welcome scott. so it's cinema . finally back. oh yeah, i think so, i mean at least the feeling of sin is back here in berlin. i think an actor spoke to the right carpet. said it best. he said it feels like coming out of hibernation. we, we've had such a long, a dark period behind us is, i mean, for the cinema industry, they've been sort of locked out of cinema's because there's been,

the sinners have been shut down for cinema lovers like myself. we've been stuck in our little caves at home on our sofas, watching movies by the light of our laptops. and so to be able to come out and celebrate movies again with a real audience in a real, in an area like this in berlin in the summer. and so be freezing on a red carpet in february as i usually am with the belly knowledge. it's just just amazing and really moving. i mean if i was a less emotional, repressed person, i probably would be choking up right now. ok. so it was a big shown on this evening tonight we're opening with the martini, which is a big hollywood, a film, a political drama about a 100 b inmate who finally won his freedom. it stars. jodie foster and bennett come back to unfortunately aren't here tonight though they have been hooked up by a live video feed to be able to give their best wishes to the, to the audience here. but sort of a nice big political film to start office,

a belly not which is very appropriate because berlin is really known for its strong political cinema. and the, but it's been going from fact iahomes. i think this is a 71st edition has ever encountered a situation like this before. no, nothing like this before. this is completely new. the bell in our held a on online only version this march. first sort of the international, a film industry. so we could see the new movies being shown here, but then to do another in person festival in the summer, in an open air festival that has never been a tried before. and i think it's interesting because i think it really shows is a signal not just for the german film industry, but for the world film industry that maybe things could get back to normal. now, cinemas, i was trying to reopen around the world, and this is the 1st sort of really big public film festival we've had since the start of the corona pandemic. hopefully this is a sign that things are only going to get better and that movies are back. yes, i was just on that. what do you recommend for the future?

yeah, i'm really hopeful. i mean, the fines are around the world that cinemas are reopening. the people are going back to the movies that they haven't gotten out of the habit of movie going, which a lot of people feared they might after so long away. so i'm very, very hopeful, obviously tried to predict the future is a mugs game, as we've seen from this this past year. but i'm really, really hopeful an event like this, this, this 1000000000. i was some special, i think if it's all hope for all movie lovers around the world, that things are going to get back to normal, hopefully very, very soon. all right, we wish you well thank you for that scott scott ross for from the nala not was the day as ever the conversation continues online. you'll find this on twitter at the w news, and we'll end with a little exercise of the upcoming bud anonymous. and bred compet highlights from the last 70 years. have a good, ah ah,

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growing. and young people clearly have the solutions, the future, you know, the 77 percent. now, every weekend on the w, the ah, ah, ah, ah, what the battery smartphones and even cosmetics have in common, right? they all contain silicon, rare earth methods, lithium, and other such elements. yes, they do even cosmetics. but the bigger issue is in most places, these elements are not readily available, and mining them often harms the environment. so today we look at the race for

critical raw materials will come to made. so here's something to note down june. the 12 is the united nations world today against child labor. today, almost $1.10 of all children worldwide are engaged in child labor. and often they work in hazardous environments like mining the kinds of raw materials we need to keep up our way of life. micra is a group of minerals, houston, electronics, pains, and cosmetics. not only does it add an attractive shimmer to cause metrics, it's also a good conductor of heat and an electrical insulator. but very often, children are involved in mining it. the me go daddy and 5 year old son brown juice, turn the thin such a micah mclane. ring mineral plays a vital role in this regions economy for many people mining. the raw material is

the only way to survive. children working for hours in the blistering some in the indian state of john can it's nothing out of the ordinary. let jello glitter the my children are so young, but there's no other way of making a living here. there's no farming or nothing. i can't afford to send them to school . they have to help me, but they manage 2 to 2 and a half kilos a day that we work until 5 in the evening was it that they used to be more than 700 official micah mines in northern india. but in 1980, a new law came into force planning deforestation that made it almost impossible to access new sources that the mineral companies left. but the mines remained today, some 50000 adults and children work illegally. almost all the workers are dollars to occupy the lowest rung and the indian cast system. many members of indigenous tribes, so as socially marginalized,

because there is little in the way of industry and the area people are reliant on the mines. a kilogram of micro can bring up to the equivalent of 20 euro cents, but often they receive just half of that. middleman clean the mineral enlarge filter drums, the platelets then count into varying sizes. this is how it enters the market. the word mike describes a group of naturally occurring silicate materials that are rigid, yet at the same time, elastic many industries use the mineral and huge quantities among them, the cosmic sector a few years ago and maria vega and her husband kind founded that company legal cause metrics, the acres transferred all the ingredients, the firm uses are weaken and ethically sauced and other words,

they guarantee no animal testing was involved in production and no child labor. one of the key role materials depo cosmetics uses is micah. some of it comes from india . you, we have 3 different types of mica, but this is, for example, very sparkly version, which also has a chromatic effect to it. and what's great about this is that it's based barking, but it's completely natural. so it's free from any plastics. the yankees can't imagine making bad cause metrics without micah that's why they decided to hand pick then supplier in india. they chose the distributor who was able to provide assurances that his mica only comes from mines that don't use child labor. although in the sector, it's often difficult to determine where the material originated with our suppliers,

with one supplier that often the manufacturer that also works directly with the minds, but also does the audits of the minds and has some independently on it as well. and that is where we gain that concept of mike. it is used in a wide range of applications. the biggest buyer in 2015, in terms of market value was the electronics industry, followed by companies that added the mineral to banks and lockers. michael also finds widespread use in the construction industry. and of course, it plays an important role in the cosmetic sector the every day come on daily interest and toys away to help satisfy the global hunger. for micah, they never have any problem selling what they've collected to one of many traders. if they receive 150 rupees a little under 2 euros, then it's a good day. she says, that's enough to buy some vegetables and rice. but for that,

everyone has to pitch in, including both her daughter's aged $7.00 and $9.00. we're going to get to know, i'm always afraid when i'm working that i'll be bitten by insects or snakes or that i'll fall into a pit. let's call it online. i'd really like to go to school, but we need money. we don't even have our own house. so i have to collect micah. and i'm big. u. s. law has been in place in india since 2016. no child under the age of 14 isn't allowed to work, but the government itself concedes that around 12000000 children and young people are doing just fast aid organization's estimate. there. around 44000000 child labor's in india. if someone that around 22000 children are working in illegal mines in the states of john, kind and be high, many of them have never known a life without work because of their size. they're also made to crawl into

freshly dug, unsecure pants and shops. oh, i know i'm always afraid when i'm looking for mica. not long ago over there, 2 or 3 children of my age were buried in one of the shops and they died down. i want to go to school. i don't want this just in the companies that work with micah products. it's a potential balancing act between marketing and morals, business and conscience, at least on calls, metrics in berlin. the yag is the trying to tackle the issue, head on wherever possible. they want to know exactly where they have role materials that coming from. they also don't try to conceal from their customers that they use miter entire regions of india that are financially dependent on micah. and so if

you replace something, for example, something synthetic, you're basically taking away their livelihood. so i think it's absolutely within our responsibility. of course, it's also within the responsibility of everybody in the chain to make sure that it's producing ethically as well. because metrics industry is very secretive when it comes to micah 2017. so the launch of the responsible mike, an initiative, and a lines of companies obtaining my gift from india. they all say they have a clear goal to end child labor in the mines by 2022. but an interview on the subject, a camera. well on our requests, including those sent to big industry names like mac, the current group and cooper. shane would turn down the if you ask them mine as a john can how to solve the problem. they say genuine change can only come if

mining is once again officially allowed because that's the only way to offer workers clear safety standards in a fair wage. then their children wouldn't have to work. some politicians have been demanding the reintroduction of official mining for a long time. to get to know the most good. as you can see that all the labors here are giving this sweat and blood breaking their bones. what kind of life is this? you not to get a government con, just look the other way. it's about him and we deserve better than this. we're going to renew and all this toil so that the rest of the worlds can use. not only because metrics, but also devices like smartphones, they couldn't exist without threat earth. they used to create the vibration for example, and to display vivid colors. so restless elements are in shoot demand worldwide. but reserves all finite. did you know there's gold in your

smartphone? but don't go smashing it with a hammer. it's just a tiny amount of fraction of a ground. but still your device also contains 1617 rare earth element. they are what makes the smartphone smart. for example, neo damien dispos, ian and appraisal damien, make it vibrate, and turbine produces the vivid colors in the display. around half of the world's population now has a smart phone and with a number growing rapidly demand for rare earth is set to rise. the good news is that rare earth's orange in fact, all that where the bad news is that mining them is difficult and bad for the environment and reserves are finite. the supply of some rare earth could be exhausted in just a few decades. so what can we do about it?

well, you could keep your smartphone for longer. and when you do get a new one, have the old when recycled. oh, wow. my smartphone is hold on. yes. i think i think it is 8 or 9 years old. wow. guess in terms of the environment i'm doing pretty good. if using a device that runs on lithium ion battery really is environmentally friendly. i know that those batteries are crucial for the car industry to move away from fossil fuels. electron mobility is the bus word, but how green are these batteries really and what happens to them after they've been used? let's find out the in 2019 john. good enough, family, whittingham and the hero. you know, jointly won the nobel prize and chemistry. the discovery of it, you have to turn the magic change and they invented and develop the technology that

most of us use every day, often without even noticing it. you know about smartphones, laptop computers, courtland vacuum cleaners, and electric scooters. it's this the lithium ion battery. this technology is key to us driving around without burning fossil fuels. what does it take to make all these batteries? what do we do with them once they've spent me? why am we playing with lego in this video? let's find out the, the automobile has brought comfort and independence to the lives of billions of people. guzzling, ever growing amounts of fossil fuels has also taken its toll on the climate. we have energy, thanks to lithium ion battery. we might now be entering

a new era of mobility because of their high energy density, perfect and electric vehicles for a relatively tiny package. they pack of big punch realty in my and that way as really enable many paul solve the problem and station. this is tom cedric melon, he founded a research and consulting firm focusing on lithium ion batteries. favorite thing and mobility, lithium ion battery is i would say they have been a key technology really attention is so big in that tech that we get to scale in the, in the production. and that brings the cost down of the battery. the global fleet of electric vehicles is predicted to grow immensely over the next decade from around 8000000 to 116000000. this means the demand for lithium ion battery will

also shoot up. and this is where we might run into some problems. of course, it has the cost we need materials to produce about the re sending any extract of industry has an impact on the environment. lithium is f, you've probably guessed pretty central to making the lithium ion battery. about 50 percent of the world's reserve of this alkaline metal can be found here, and the so called lithium triangle across argentina. oblivion chalet, mining. it involves pumping salt water from underground legs into pools and letting it evaporate. a process that could harm the surrounding soil drain water supplies and contaminate the air. so lithium, a finite study found we could run into serious trouble by mid century of demand keep growing like this. and then this quote that also goes into lithium ion batteries. it's a metal mainly found the democratic republic of the congo. its mining has often been linked to inhumane working conditions and child labor people exposed to have

suffered from lung disease or heart problems. then you have all the energy that is required to make the batteries especially production outside of require vantage. this means c o 2 emissions. how much exactly really depends on the electricity mix of the reducing country. according to recent figures, making just a small battery for colleagues. this could cost more than $4.00 tons of c o 2. to give you an idea that's like driving a new diesel car board in the u for about 33000 kilometers. the good news is that emissions are thinking of battery production becomes more efficient and we shift towards cleaner energy sources. the bad news is that the batteries are losing capacity over time, so there are more and more movies that will also be more and more spent. batteries, how do we deal with them? reconnected and so that can.