is the latest come true to be jumping on the case on divided yes because so i guess from net assault to testing the shelf potential of the bottle from a ship in russia is what's inside the area it's believed to have the largest. anywhere in the world successful because the shareholders will make a decision about moving to a log scale development in the region. the russian plan b t b group has severed ties with credit rating agency fitch ratings and accuses the agency of a lack of professionalism reducing ratings without access to internal documents all find not to revolt b t v's regime was recently downgraded to triple the i'm talking of russian banks in vest a bank was a bit into almost sort of capital when it had its license revoked a month ago that bag reportedly already had all as much capital as it has. no one has unified global leaders is tax evasion for decades the

rich has been storing their millions and billions in tax havens to avoid huge tax bills and up until the financial crisis erupted polishes positions up well they didn't seem to pull it actually about false would five years with a recession national coffers in desperate need of a fed up types of asian is now a top priority for the entire world especially beating economist jeffrey sachs on the problem of tax havens which he says is a scam into the system but we start to talk about the lessons that haven't been from the financial crash. wall street the same games are being played as before the same financial speculation the political power of these for us remains intact which is amazing because even you take a forum like j.p. morgan almost every week it pays you fines on. actions of financial fraud

illegality but this is week after week after week it shows that it was. often are under it wasn't doing anything illegal because it's paid so many fights it's done so much more on death and yet it's still so politically influential and not just that one but wall street as a whole so i'm not at all satisfied our system in the united states is a quite corrupted political system corrupted because our politicians need to work together to spend our total billions of dollars on their campaigns every two years cycle now would major and two year cycle at the federal level of the united states maybe six or seven or eight billion dollars well if we're the politicians getting that money they're getting it from rich people and from big companies and they're not getting it for free oh they're getting it because they're listening to the rich and to the corporations not to the needs of the average

person in the population let's talk about tax evasion because the global community has come together and money. of various regulations to clamp down on net specific can talking about sways then saying they're going to be giving information finance banking information to us. to his own citizens that when he sounded nice enough being down meant he kept down on tax havens i think that did the world is waking up to the scandal of the international tax situation in these tax islands or to. treasure islands as they're called the british virgin islands the cayman islands bermuda this is a shocking abuse of the global trust why are there trillions of dollars in these little islands well of course this is to evade taxes but this is to evade responsibility this is to evade legality and who creates this not those little

islands a but to the u.s. government you're proving these arrangements with the u.k. government because after all these are british territories and i believe that these are abuses that need to stop them not only exchange of information that's not enough but stopping the abuse itself of letting a very very rich people from the united states or europe or mega companies like apple like apple or google take their profits and instead of paying the taxes that they should pay as decent citizens they put their backs free in these tax havens with the approval of the politicians of course who get the tax who would use this to generate campaign contributions so this is a scandalous system that really needs to stop not just some exchange of information there's been a little progress but we have a long way to go because it's estimated that there are maybe twenty trillion

dollars of assets booked in these tax havens around the world that's an abuse of the public trust now that's a wrap for today's frenzy cafeteria and i'm going to be heading to switzerland for the davos economic forum next week i'm going to be covering the event live on the knees for you i'm also going to be tweeting about it we hold that like to have us actions that join me on that one but meantime have a great break if i. because he doubted states is the big dog the only hyper power and the cultural driving force of globalization it takes a lot of flak i mean globalization means the whole world gets hollywood and hot dogs and not the other way around so let's take a break from the negativity and talk about something truly amazing about america

and as a guy who lives in moscow i can say that the constitution of the united states is something truly amazing in russia there is constant talk about needing a new national idea new ideology or political theory or big changes to the russian constitution and so on and it's hard for people in america understand this but twice in the twentieth century the system that russians gave their lives for collapsed and the current constitution was written quickly after a period of violence and said collapse not after a glorious victory now you see why people here aren't exactly memorizing amendments and founding fathers quotes here in america there are debates between liberals and conservatives but almost everyone believes the constitution and it is america's greatest strength there is a national idea that is a sacred document with a list of rules as almost universally agreed upon everyone with half a brain on the street but sadly not in congress knows when something is against the constitution or should i see against america near universal belief in the constitution is actually something truly exceptional about america but that's just my opinion.

wealthy british style. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to name two kinds of reports on r.t. u.s. president barack obama's public opinion ratings are in the doldrums he may finish his days in office as one of the country's worst in the east. effect two presidents how do historians and the public determine the success or failure of an american president and why are some presidents rehabilitated years or even decades after they leave all. alone again this is r.t.

violent protests rage across spain this week dozens of activists were arrested after clashes with police as protests swept through nearly fifty cities trouble was triggered in the northern town of port of course over a multimillion dollar plan to rebuild local infrastructure the protesters said the money would be better spent on social needs after a two year recession and despite the renovation being cancelled the protests went on that's because of the overall discontent with the government according to one political analyst. demonstrators say that they will continue. protesting against this project because they they still don't believe that it's going to be withdrawn the reason why people are so angry specifically because it doesn't fit with the current situation of austerity of cutbacks seen in services this is an area which has suffered from those cutbacks in public services recently so people they say they prefer to other schools and hospitals rather than parking lots this

is a very conservative c.t.s. this is the other small city in space never happens something like that in a city like google so this is probably. one of the symptoms of of how problematic it's been the situation on the whole the whole of space. debris flow tonight new explosions ripped through a protest site in thailand's capital bangkok it's injured at least twenty eight after an overnight gun attack that wounded not position member attacks are becoming increasingly common as protesters continue to rally demanding the prime minister's resignation testers want to derail third year of parliamentary elections and the opposition saying the vote will be rigged. a blast nami compound in northwest pakistan has torn through a military convoy killing twenty two soldiers around thirty others were injured when the explosive device was detonated inside a vehicle pakistan's taliban faction clench sponsibility for the bombing and promised more attacks against what it called the country secular system. welting of

the arctic ice is slowly but surely opening up access to the vast resources of untapped oil and gas and the competition there for for exploration rights is getting fiercer as five countries with borders in the region vida strengthen their claims with some even landing their troops on the north pole to put nairo ports. melting ice caps in the arctic have ignited a military build up over the world's smallest ocean and the royal riches buried beneath it the arctic circle is believed to contain thirty percent of the world's undiscovered natural gas and fifteen percent of its oil the future of the world economy to some extent is dependent on the arctic and i think you know russia and canada the united states and norway and denmark are very interested in exploiting these resources last month canada abruptly claims that it owned the north pole while the united states with its alaskan outpost has plans to boost its military there claiming it lacks operational experience and needs to police the thinning ice

as it's replaced by fuel filled maritime traffic but that's not all. actually u.s. submarines are deployed not too far away off the norwegian coast it would take us missiles sixteen to seventeen minutes to get from there to moscow so we really hope that with all the things that have been happening in the world over the past few decades we have put the cold war confrontation behind us in all five countries bordering the arctic sovereignty rights to resources within two hundred nautical miles of their territorial waterways but a growing up a tight for a bigger slice of the pie is what many fear can inevitably spark a twenty first century cold war in the frozen waters there are also unexplored resources that we don't know yet to which country belongs which could be of course of interest to many countries i do think that. smaller things could spark both

tension and maybe more tension that we would like to see marina port r.t. new york. the latest headlines come up in a few minutes with me kevin zero in on a live report too from cranes capital where there are fresh riots again tonight. on june sixteenth one thousand forty one we had a graduation party at school and the war broke out. the shops were always full of goods. in september leningrad was blocked. one day mom went and saw that all the shelves were

empty. in november the. warehouses it was the main storage place for all the food in the city people would be eating the earth because it had small traces of sugar in it i tried to eat it as well but i couldn't. move it was incredibly heavy bombing. it was a direct hit on that very shelter and everyone was buried underneath. all of them.

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seems ukraine tonight breaking news in o.t. fresh riots erupt in the ukrainian capital a mass anti-government rally turns violent as test as police buses and throw stones and fire crackers with a live report from kiev coming up. after months of hesitation and pressure from its western backers syria's main opposition group will attend peace talks in geneva range of finding a political way out of the conflict also in the stories that shaped the week. of the forms i'm proposing today should give the american people greater confidence that their rights are being protected the american president promises to restrain the surveillance habits of the n.s.a. but critics say the proposed reforms won't change a thing.