it's. not. hurting for cash and bleeding in down the e.u. turns its i on tax dodgers hoping to plug the trillion euro annual drain. an f.b.i. agent killed a chechen man reportedly willing to time a long term not one of the boston bombing suspects shah dad during a firefight with police last month. the white house and the fourth estate american journalist moved to protect media freedom which they believe is falling victim to government fears that some delicate facts may service. and as the friends of syria prepare to discuss peace between president assad and the opposition u.s. lawmakers give first stage approval to a bill that could allow day record weapons shipments to the rebels.

what are you coming to life from the russian capital on marina joshing welcome to the program the e.u. is looking to cast its tax now wider over the continent today as leaders meet in brussels to plug leaks amounting to trillion euros a year but it won't be easy top your kratz and moderates like have featured in a slew of recent tax avoidance scales signifying just how widespread the practice has become our he says are silly reports from the summit venue. tax evasion no that's a hot topic right now here in the e.u. especially as e.u. leaders have decided to go ahead and talk with the likes of switzerland so-called tax havens but are now on e.u. members to establish some sort of a more transparent exchange of relevant to banking data and this also comes at a sensitive time for citizens there those who are asking at

a time when they are having to pay higher taxes and deal with job losses those belong to the top one percent of the very wealthy of the countries get away with tax evasion and tax fraud nowi leaders of his speaking quite loudly about this clampdown on so-called offenders and a number of scandals have arisen in various countries starting with friends of the former budget minister there had to step down from his post he's been accused of having a secret swiss bank account we're talking about an amount of six hundred eighty five thousand euros there and also another politician over in greece a former minister of finance there has been accused of being involved with one of the country's largest tax scandals us about one point two million dollars we're talking about here now over in germany the boss of one of the world's biggest a football clubs byron munich he's also want to investigation for fraud of about millions of dollars there now here in belgium queen fabulous' has been accused of trying to hide her wealth from tax authorities so that her heirs don't have to pay a seventy percent tax putting all these together it's just

a fraction of the want to trillion euros of the european commission says is lost to tax evasion and tax fraud each year the e.u. commissioner for taxation anti-fraud has expressed disappointment at the lack of progress made by the bloc there's still a level of opposition coming from a couple of countries namely austria and look some work both of which are keen to protect their own banking secrecy laws now this commissioner also pointed out the rather than relying on third party countries or non e.u. member countries like switzerland are more nicko the bloc should take bigger steps in imposing a tougher tax avoidance laws now today the summit is going to show whether leaders are willing to take that step or if all of this is just talk reporting from brussels. now according to another asked imette taxing what stashed away in european tax havens alone would raise enough money to an extreme poverty worldwide well let's hear now more on that from the group making that claim

joining me now is catherine all year from oxfam international advocacy thanks very much catherine for talking to us here on r t well as we know oxfam accuses you of turning a blind eye to takes tax havens in europe but isn't the summit of brussels in fact the proof that our european leaders are working out a solution to put an end to tax evasion. you know really really surprised about having. to get rid of it but it's going to actually grow to not just talk about how to be gentle but actually are actually because you know. that if he didn't write the individual is actually. better than two. hundred twenty two countries so you know it's yours not just to talk about it but wouldn't take actions so would you support settling everyone who has got an offshore bank

account where the taps of choosing and why. so you're going to question because not only the question is would you support everyone would you support selling everyone in fact who has an offshore bank account with a tax of the choosing. well what i mean is i actually have much more great hundreds madson you know about who is doing my taxes so by example it's about having making sure that banks record what they do with this it should be doing tax savings but also making sure that the. bank account. i don't think that we can grow the person's feet high when the companies are little corporate structures but i was going through problems and is that i would be publicly available for the next administration. well you know when we look at europe it's so diverse and the countries that comprise the years well for example take a look at luxembourg and malta they in fact depend on their banking industries and what can we save their future if they are forced to give up low taxes and privacy.

when i was here mr going to set it we're not talking about you know tax cuts. but we're trying to you have it is a very strong position when we wanted to. come in position and to be a resolution our looks and we're going to. senator. and it's true it's one of hundreds of financial activities but this shouldn't be an excuse not to you know happier more transparency. to be consider doing what i want you to remember that you know so i'm going to use are actually benefiting. from. you and. rich people too nobody taxes but i think should be able to pay and it better sort of describes the grouping countries resources but we really need to do i mean it's been accepted. well you know just one more question i like to ask you

before we let you go i mean if for example the tax havens. are eradicated but down one of forests my out of the blog to other off shores for example one there be other loopholes found. well any rate tax evasion is that it in every country and right we need it is a global solution to a global problem so let's raise even more going to bring troops to take runs down into one kind of position that international negotiations in other summits like g early or g twenty it's incredible circular basis come and stand against tax haven and so that it would not just dealing with you related bonds but a global one all right cathryn all you have from the oxfam international advocacy group thank you so much for talking to us here on our team and he. and that is the latest summit comes on the back of another crisis but this time it's of confidence and you poll shows europeans are becoming increasingly worried for young people's

future while the picture is even gloomier when we look at people's opinion concerning employment with locke why pass them as them over job security and pensions what's notable here though is that of all the respondents it's the young that hold the least hope for the future something are just be all over a witness across portugal. with unemployment on the rise the portuguese of facing a new set of challenges if you don't want to be a statistic if you don't want to be a number you have to. be committed with their own responsibility of making your own job has done just that turning his back on an education in sociology and a job in advertising he moved out of the city and now teaches people how to grow mushrooms you are used to a motto in which still pretty is given to you now the new model is you have to make

your own opportunity. drawn towards fungal farming juge of the mushrooms recycling abilities he says portugal's politicians could learn a thing or two from his produce we really really need to find new nutrients to spring to. everyday full national. he's even found a good use for some of his old textbooks yeah is the breeding ground for a potential new mushroom it's easy to grow by anyone but it's not only in the countryside that new agricultural projects are under way with the portuguese facing rising prices and ever decreasing wages urban farms like this one becoming a very important way to make sure families can put food on the table small a lot of springing up right in the heart of list. and operating without proper planning commission the authorities turn a blind eye to their development. without the everything is just too

expensive so i try to get everything i can't afford from my little garden sometimes there is a good crop so i can sell it for extra cash. nothing goes to waste here even garden pests can have their uses if you know how i collect the snails from microbes when cooked right they can be quite testy in fact many think of them as a delicacy either grilled or in the soup unemployment is at a record high in portugal with pessimists suggesting it's only a matter of time before it passes the twenty percent mark economists in the country are accusing portugal's european partners they ignore in this situation people in the north should look more closely to the direct human consequences of these policies and if they have a better knowledge of what's happening in those fields they will change their mind about what needs to be done in the near very near future joel is somewhat more philosophical to be patient and things will come at the time that's. the best

lesson that i learned with mushrooms peter all over r.t. portugal all three years into europe's debt crisis with unemployment rampant and europeans in despair we want to hear what you think male why ad for the blog well today on our website i get a call we're conducting a poll and here are some of the choices on our t.v. site is find out is a financial collapse i had or and and to the debt crisis will be inside that some of the question that we're asking also will the poorest states be forced out or will german economic in germany guarantee control of the bloc so let us know what you think by logging on to our website r.t. dot com. a new torture scandal hits. the weight of bodies discovered in afghanistan as kabul accuses an american military chief of murdering almost twenty people who mysteriously when missing the details are just ahead.

on american journalists are sounding the alarm over what they say is a washington witch hunt to prevent sensitive information leaks and in the line of fire are the journalists themselves as well as the fox news white house correspondent who was revealed to be under surveillance by the justice department there was also the month long a wiretapping operation against more than one hundred associated press journalists the white house is the fanning the harsh methods saying it was all a matter of national security but artie's news editor i'm across he says that far from cowing journalists washington may be pushing them to new extremes altogether. the news that broke over the weekend caused an absolute sensational reaction right across the news media and what commentators. right across the american spectrum have said are now identifying a trend where what people see starting with wiki leaks

a couple of years ago with the prosecution of mr manning bradley manning but also the prosecution and the attack on wiki leaks is now seeping through people are calling the main stream media and the media that previously would have regarded manning as an out or salvage as an outlier is now finding itself suffering the same kind of attacks that have suffered from the american government it's also interesting where you actually draw this line you know because now we're seeing the journalists being called whistleblowers yeah well i guess the most important thing to point out to her here though maria is that whistle blowing is not illegal in fact whistle blowing is a venerated position under law whereby a person privy to information will release that information in the public interest . be the most notorious whistle blowing case of recent years is the wiki leaks case and julian assange is seen as a whistleblower whereas in fact i think for the part was the purpose of this is a question we should probably regard him as a publisher of information. as a journalist yeah in that sense bradley manning is the whistleblower because now

they also want to charge sons with the same charge that they are trying to put on mr rosen at the moment which is that a a reporter in going about their job fulfilling their job description going about their daily beat solicits information from individuals these individuals for a national security reporter happen to be working for the state and that this approach to these individuals is being regarded under these nine hundred seventeen espionage act as coconspirator see to aid and abet espionage but speaking broadly about the media in this particular context i mean we know that the media always defended their sources shielded sources but now we're seeing it in a very vulnerable position not absolutely but interesting enough coming from the new. worker is that they've introduced a digitally encrypted environment they're taking steps to protect their sources it's called strong box. the code itself was developed by digital first amendment activists or co-developed by orange shorts the late hour and schwartz he

killed himself while under prosecution for releasing files from dumping files in public domain that were previously owned by the mit if i'm not mistaken i guess the idea here was that they would guarantee anonymity to whistleblowers into sources but. the other side of that now is that this is an environment like that may serve to guarantee anonymity to journalists who are facing an absolutely unprecedented threat in the history of american media a body of an afghan man has feared have been cut off has been discovered near a former american military base not far from the country's capital kabul as investigators accuse the u.s. forces of murdering and torturing at least seventeen people in the wardak province . has written widely on america's interrogation techniques thinks the u.s. should take responsibility for the suspect actions regardless even if he no longer works for them i think the question should be raised is what kind of people are they hiring you know if they hired this guy in the first place what kind of checks

were carried out to the sanity of this guy and i don't think that seventeen people are going to go missing because of the work of one person i think that you know maybe the special forces were involved in those disappearances just look at background a base where people. take to background tortured and been taken to going to animal brains people listed in the background and then one hundred over to the pakistanis or anybody else and also for example in abu ghraib we saw those pictures that were released and showed torture of victims. the padding on the expecting the government to fork out millions of dollars to finance long term work on guantanamo prison even though president obama says he once the facility closed a report on that in just a few minutes. calling is revolutionizing banking and finance for a nice political protest movement take your pick there is no doubt this virtual

currency is being given a careful look on the back of the global financial crisis and the stranglehold big finance has over the economy how big an alternative currency appears to face what is called the new economy. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations are old today.

welcome back you're watching r.t. now attention man who was being investigated over possible links to last month's boston marathon bombings has been shot dead by the f.b.i. outside his house in florida abraham to dash of allegedly new attorney brothers the main suspect in the terror attack for oh watch is going to try to count joins us now with more on this will going to tell us exactly what happened and specifically why an f.b.i. agent pulled a gun out. well marina at this point it's all still very sketchy the f.b.i. says to. her of was being questioned as part of the f.b.i. is that first to find and talk to anyone who had any contact with come along and i have official say. the agents were questioning on tuesday he was cooperated at

first they say but late tuesday night he attacked the agent who shot and killed him now under what circumstances it happened we don't know the f.b.i. says they sent they sent a review team to find out more officials also say to doctrove had some connections with radical chechen militants but they say it's not clear whether he had any role in radicalizing if the f.b.i. did not elaborate on details with a friend over to a doctor who was also questioned by the f.b.i. the same day in the same area in orlando florida he added some more details he said and the man who was shot late tuesday night he's friend had known each other for two years both boxing you said that the f.b.i. had been questioning both him this friend who spoke earlier and for several weeks now this friend also says that to da ship had tickets for chechnya but canceled his trip due to the investigation. well looks like there's

another man linked to the boston bombings there i mean is this adding to allegations that there could be an organization organized terror network operation in the states. well dad is very much unclear at this point marina but. you know is there ethnic ground but they lived in the states for the most part of their lives and was they never really lived in chechnya his family lived in kazakhstan then they moved to russia as di just on time or long term arrived here ten years ago based on the connections he preserved with that part of russia the russian authorities were able to warn the u.s. about parlance radicalization more than two years ago before the boston bombings now u.s. authorities back then did not find him or long suspicious some people suspect it's because. because they might have taken into account his chechen background looked

at him from a more political rather than purely law enforcement point of view it's not a secret that the u.s. has for years seen the forces operating in chechnya as not as militants not as terrorists but rather as rebels and freedom fighters and they still use the word rebels and that is probably what they looked at and taken into account when they gave asylum for example to the family of tom or line but for now it seems that there is some kind of a push from from the government officials of both countries to especially from coming from moscow to stop seeing the problem as as your kerry said my tears to start seeing it as a common problem. i see oregon and thanks very much indeed for bringing us the subject on the details scottish town porting there from washington. now the pentagon is requesting almost half a billion dollars in funding for going tom abate some of its two great temporary

facilities which could take up to ten years to complete calling into question just how serious the obama administration is about closing the prison more than one hundred inmates who are being held without charge are now three a half months into a hunger strike over their detention one former guard at the prison told us his guantanamo experience psychologically scarred him some of the some of the tactics that i saw practice in guantanamo i just never really want to wish to relive again omar carter and a number of other detainees that they were privileged to something we called the frequent flyer program where we would essentially move them every two hours whether removing them from camp delta camp echo or moving them from bravo block to charlie block be it a little move or a big idea of a set every two hours they would be removed and they wouldn't be able to sleep this was essentially thought to wear down their psyche and make them more. probable to give up information during interrogation i think it speaks volumes about the conditions at guantanamo above the sink to have if suicide through starvation this

preferrable to. staying alive and then going through the monotony of guantanamo existence the only reason the detainees are being force is the u.s. military or rather the powers that be are scared that these men have enough conviction to literally starve to death and they know that if these men do starve to death it will make the u.s. look bad in the global global perspective if the pentagon wants four hundred fifty million dollars more to maintain and restructured one ton of i think that's basically just preparations for the next batch of people are going to fill it. as it stands right now the weeks to so many millions of dollars of taxpayer money in one ton of oh. it's just ridiculous and absurd to think about but if we just devoted another four hundred fifty million i think that's just perfect evidence right there there's no intention to close that one where the i'm watching r t

coming to you a live from moscow the u.s. secretary of state john kerry is accusing syria's president assad of running a campaign of terror against civilians with the help of house blah and they're running in fighters he spoke in jordan at the start of the friends of syria meeting there to discuss peace talks between damascus and the opposition or russia's also looking for ways to resolve this crisis hosting syria's deputy foreign minister in moscow and more on this from our dislikes here chefs. indeed during the press conference in amman the u.s. state secretary john kerry said and i quote that if syrian president bashar al assad was not prepared to discuss a political solution to end syria's civil war the united states and others would consider increasing support for his opponents and of course that along with increasing initiatives across the atlantic something regenerated on tuesday to arm the syrian rebels that is something discussed in the u.s. senate right now is creating a certain feeling of uncertainty over whether the peaceful solution to the syrian

conflict may be found anytime soon especially the latest syrian the latest statement from john kerry on syria seems questionable enough after meeting in moscow less than two weeks ago during which the u.s. state secretary and his russian colleagues have managed to agree on a peaceful conference to be held by the end of this month and back then john kerry heard from russian foreign minister sergey lavrov that there were clear signs that the syrian government was ready to take part in this in this conference to have to sit at the same negotiation table with the syrian opposition and it was the syrian opposition which created problems and uncertainty whether they would be actually willing to take part in this press conference moreover in moscow john kerry said that the use the possible the possible arming of syrian rebels by washington would only be considered a substantial proof of the chemical weapons used by the syrian governmental troops would be found now two weeks on the rhetoric has changed and it's likely to create

a feeling in moscow that the u.s. top diplomat and top diplomat is playing somewhat of mind games we are waiting for some reaction coming from the foreign ministry from the russian foreign ministry but we do know that the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov had a conversation with john kerry over the phone today discussing the possibilities of this conference the biggest question now is whether in the light of the statements the latest statements by john kerry whether this conference would be held at all. right i see thanks very much indeed for this update its kind of washington lawmakers are pushing forward a bill that would allow direct weapons supplies to the syrian rebels a senate committee has already voted through but it still has a long way to go before coming to force a story am political commentator gerald horne believes washington has learned nothing from its past mistakes the pressure has really been ratcheted up in washington with regard to these rebels the israeli lobby in particular has been

quite energetic and quite active with regard to lobbying for aid to the rebels which is quite curious since if these rebels come to power i dare say that israel will have many sleepless nights the implications are quite ominous obviously the u.s. authorities have not learnt the lessons of history for example we recall that enough ganesan out of the one nine hundred eighty s. the united states supported extremists and then on september eleventh two thousand and one those extremism those allied with them attacked new york city and washington we recall that the u.s. authorities backed extremists and libya and then also tempered eleven two thousand and twelve those extremists killed the u.s. ambassador chris stevens in benghazi and it's plunged the obama administration into the ground at best a geisha and sadly and tragically it seems that they would like to see history repeat itself and coming up shortly it's been a lot of else was crossed out here in our team.

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