headline news revelations of global offshore tax avoidance by the super rich become a gold mine for the mainstream media which chooses to root out russia links is the big story. from south korea on the second stop of his tour of asia aside the diplomacy he's also drumming up business for the u.s. arms industry amid high tension on the korean peninsula he will shoot them out of the sky when he completes the purchase of lots of additional military equipment from the united states. and russia marks one hundred years since the socialist revolution which fundamentally changed not only the country but the entire world our special coverage of the dramatic events of nine hundred seventy.

live worldwide from the studios of r.t. in moscow i'm calling this is your news this hour i don't know how your bank balance is looking but i bet it pales in comparison to some of the ones you've been reading about over the past twenty four hours and it's our first port of call the small plenty of excuses an embarrassment swirling around some of the world's wealthiest people and companies right now in the wake of the leaking of a massive trove of financial files the paradise papers have exposed where the richest are hiding their money and swerving around the tax system.

yes from pop stars to big tech the reach is far and wide but it's about more than the money for the mainstream media who've been scanning the files to get a political scoop another member of the trump white house is now under scrutiny for his ties to russia there ought to be hearings and if he fails to provide a convincing and compelling explanation he ought to resign so it probably won't surprise you that a lot of news outlets have been searching out soon key woods among the millions of paradise papers files to link the named and shamed businesses to potential russian interference downhole kids looks at how they've been trying to put the pieces together. it's one of the biggest leaks of private documents in the world revealing the financial dealings of the super wealthy and powerful four royal families to global corporations but for most media the focus has been east putin's cronies

kremlin meddling team trump's ties to putin's family all the elements to grab the reader's attention so let's break it down meet wilbur ross u.s. commerce secretary and investor now he has interests in a shipping company called navigator and one of that company's clients is russian energy for siebel now two of the shareholders there are fish alley under u.s. sanctions with another claim to be putin's son in law and those alleged ties to the russian president and his family could create a conflict of interest for ross now the commerce secretary himself left navigator's board back in twenty fourteen having joined it two years before that he's adamant he's done nothing wrong well the media has moved a lot more out of the than the deserves i had nothing to do with the negotiation of the deal i don't know when you have those individuals who've never met them now

it's important to note siebel as a company is not subject to sanctions and it's been left pretty buffel by the reaction so i bore who was there in saying certain. things and so there's nothing wrong with the first that it happens to be a russian company does not the only evil in the cyber expresses its surprise at the politically charged interpretation in certain media publications of regular commercial activities over many years which from the outset were reflected in the company's published accounts now if all this sounds complicated and confusing it's meant to be offshore dealings through third parties often aim to avoid regulate. and taxes but that's not the main thing find a connection any connection to russia and you have a catchy headline now if you're still with me the evidence of russian influence

goes even further from these airlines one might think the kremlin all owns these social media giants but again let's take a closer look two banks controlled by the kremlin provide the cash to third parties or investment vehicles to buy stakes in some of the world's biggest companies russian tech investor you remailer is a key link in these operations and also invested in cards that's a start up founded by donald trump's son in law surely there's a smoking gun on russian meddling but here's what the protagonists in this conspiracy have to say themselves it is worth noting that as a passive investor d.s.t. themselves had no voting rights or board seat the investment was made eight years ago and d.s.t. global has since sold all of their holdings in facebook their stake ended five years ago when we went public this to global davis the disposition in fees book in twenty thirteen and into it in two in the fourteen shortly after each of those

companies initial public offerings and will be for the twenty sixteen us elections and if russians apparently influence your social media do they also control your music taste and your holiday bookings d.s.d. global funds have invested in including air b.n. b. sport if i j d dot com is a lander and. offshore financial market nations are seen by many as morally questionable at best this doesn't stop the wealthy and influential from engaging in them but money has the final say business is business unless you have any link to russia then it's political. then organs there while the sensational revelations made enough of a noise for the u.s. democrats to call for an inquiry into wilbur ross his business dealings but economist keith boy field told us he believes the mainstream media would draw their own conclusions no matter what's revealed certain newspapers and media outlets are trying to blow this story out of proportion for their own ends

they get very anxious about the what they discern to be connections with. russia and they are keen i suspect to jump to certain conclusions they've kind of made their own conclusion before any of these revelations so-called revelations came out about the paradise papers. donald trump is now in south korea on the second stop of his age or tour his first up of course was japan and while there he boosted u.s. military spending in support of his strategy against north korea he asked congress in washington for an extra five billion dollars to support missile defense in hansoms to counter the north korean threat he also stressed the need to quote detect defeat and defend against the country's use of ballistic missiles against the united states samir khan has more on trump's asia tour. after meeting with

trump the japanese prime minister said it was time to apply maximum pressure on north korea suggesting that intercepting pyongyang's missiles was possible through coronation to which trump responded that if tokyo purchase arms from the us they'd be capable of shooting him down he will shoot them out of the sky when he completes the purchase of lots of additional military equipment from the united states he will easily shoot them out of the sky why because north korea is apparently a dangerous state most importantly were working to counter the dangerous aggressions of the regime in north korea. the regime continued development of its unlawful weapons programs including its illegal nuclear tests and outrageous launches of ballistic missiles directly over japanese territory are a threat to the civilized world at international peace and stability. we will not

stand for that the era of strategic patience is over while this is expected to be a major theme on this sweeping asia tour and it all sounds too familiar in essence almost identical to what he had said throughout his middle east if it really is the here and we will be sure to help our saudi friends to get a good deal from our great american defense companies this past summer trump signed the largest arms deal to west history saudi arabia worth one hundred ten billion dollars but who's the enemy in this scenario for decades around his field of fires of sectarian conflict and terror threatening the region and causing so much of by alliance all nations of conscience must work together to isolate there is a growing realization among your arab neighbors that they have common cause with

you and the threat. posed by iran and it is indeed a threat there's no question about that so the solution sounds fairly simple buy u.s. weapons and the world would be a better place i would love to be able to get along with everybody right now the world is a mess but i think by the time we finish i think it's going to be a lot better place to live but selling weapons is diplomatic outreach it's been an age old tradition of u.s. presidents the question is doesn't it just add fuel to the fire. samir khan marketing washington d.c. . well some of the experts and activists we've been speaking to in the past twenty four hours think the trumps moves are more about military profits than securing peace in the pacific. well it seems to be done with prompts idea of how to bring things to make sure that everybody buys their weapons from me nineteen states of america. it's good if you can get the business i mean we should remember that firstly there is now

a big build up in the pacific which is very serious there's massive rearmament going on and a missile shield in south korea so yeah i think this is the part with saying it's not it's not one which is promoting peace this is the time when the world needs to say no we don't want more weapons being poured into this area the trumpet ministration is trying to take all measures necessary at its end to be able to protect it so we should view this not from a strategic deterrence perspective and more from a war fighting for specter of feeling is not serious often and for washington but the fact of the matter is that there is fair possibility that the united states might wish to initiate if force strike on north korea sometime within the next six to eight months i don't see any reason why congress will not support the president's request for funds with regard to as a ship a civic strategy. it's november the seventh and for russia that marks

the one hundredth anniversary of the nine hundred seventeen socialist revolution which led to the creation of the u.s.s.r. and forever changed the world. now you may be wondering why we're talking about what you might know as the october revolution in november when it's because soviet russia adopted a new calendar after the bolsheviks took power on the twenty fifth of october one thousand nine hundred seventeen which is november the seventh according to the gregorian calendar used in most of the world here's how events unfolded on that fateful day. it's october one thousand nine hundred seventeen and russia is fast approaching one of the most radical turning points in its history the country had been turned upside down by the february revolution and exhausted by the first world war the whole country floundered in

a cold and of anarchy enormous russia bearing the new world rived than pain zonday calista second living in exile in siberia with his family following his abdication seven months ago the provisional government occupying the russian monex main residency the winter palace moderately liberal and aiming to create a new constitution then there frenemies the petrograd soviet group formed of workers and soldiers the two institutions are supposed to share power but in reality are competing for it and that's where the bolsheviks and vladimir lenin come in. it must be explained to the masses that the soviet of workers' deputies is the only possible form of revolutionary government place power in the hands of the proletariat and the poor a structure of the peasantry the bolsheviks promises essentially boiled down to this power to the soviets peace to nations lands of peasants and bread to the

hungry it took them just two days to come to power on october twenty fourth and twenty fifth they swiftly seized post offices key railway stations the state bank the port and other strategic locations across the city at a quarter to ten pm a blank shot fired from cruise aurora signaling the start of the storming of the winter palace by two am on the twenty sixth of october the revolutionaries occupied it and arrested the provisional government the new bolshevik government was formed with lenin at the helm. the revolution of course affected everyone in the country the youngest children depicted them in their drawings of the time period the event through their eyes.

in the evening when i was doing my ham we had shots later i learned that with the revolution. we slapped fully dressed my father and another man were on duty with verse. one of the time we had little brand accounts even last. be really interesting opportunity for me to to learn about what happened in russia in the past century every photograph goes into a process of research before and i begin to colorize the main overtax such as

important and buildings and military uniforms and mad else skin color hair and eyes they were was have they historically accurate colors i know that i'm dealing with historical documents and i need to to respect the document here or some other photos from the archive the portrait of alexander cut and ski the head of russia's provisional government of the time and basically the country's leader after the abdication of emperor nicholas the second one hundred years ago kerensky was overthrown by fannie mae and then in the leader of the socialist revolution the archive also contains some of the last photos of russia's royal family in exile before they were executed in one nine hundred eighteen marina says she's discovered details about russian history while working on restoring the photographs. my favorite photo is the one of the crane milling because a discovered during the research process that the building didn't have. read each

our own jewish scholar that he has today photo was really complex i had to work on many details and to make sure that i was using appropriate colors the beauty is very damaged you can see the bricks all the yard of the beauty everything that you see in the photos is selected by hand and i need to do the entire process manually here's where you can get interactive because artie has got a unique online project reconstructing that critical moment in russian history if you follow the hash tag nine hundred seventeen live on twitter you can witness the events as they unfold it out of course by a visit to nine hundred seventeen dot r.t. dot com you can experience the revolution in three sixty degree video.

some of the ideology that inspired the russian revolution seems to be gaining ground in the minds of many young people in the west today and reports from new york. when asked about what kind of country they would prefer to live in forty four percent of millennial said that they would prefer socialism calmly forty two percent favored capitalism in the united states where free market ideology practically grows on trees it's certainly mind boggling to see socialism be more popular than capitalism among the youth so why is it that millennial zur leaning away from capitalism it might just be used thing from like economic dissatisfaction in the wake of the financial crisis and people are just demonizing banks a lot of young people just don't really think that capitalists thinking is not

great i don't disagree with them this early but like it's you know i don't know there's like greed and all that sort of stuff associated with it so yeah i mean ism socialism capitalism or fascism isn't socialism so why do you think millenniums favor socialism. because they want everything paid for. they want their college paid for they want everything paid for they want to they want the government to help them furthermore one out of four americans said that they consider che give their a the latin american guerrilla fighter to be a hero while more than ten percent said that they consider marx lenin stalin nicolas maduro and kim jong un to be heroes we spoke to new yorkers about the ideologies that defined the twentieth century and their apparent comeback it's something that a that a twenty year old would say it's if it's a very fashionable response it's not grounded in reality at all these are interesting characters they totally confuse the war is going crazy so it's hard to

tell whether american young people feel betrayed by the current system that it's working against them or whether they just feel like it's time for a change regardless the trend is here seems like what american politicians have fought so hard against is back open r.t. new york. of the world is finally able to view a collection of woods haunted by one of. those during the nazi era paintings by artists like monet renoir since and i think shown for the first time since the second world war as part of exhibitions in switzerland and germany.

and twenty ten the son of the odd dealer was investigated by tax authorities when part of his father's collection was discovered in houses that he owned the son who died in two thousand and fourteen left most of the artworks to a swiss museum the rest of the collection is caught up in a legal battle between the museum and the family. reports next from the exhibition in the swiss capital. their discovery stunned the art world for almost eighty years around fifteen hundred paintings some biases and more nay casso and with hundreds of millions of viewers with thought to have been lost to the world instead it emerged in two thousand and thirteen that they've been hoarded by cooley is good it's the son of the nazi art dealer he was. on a train from switzerland germany and the customs officers found some money on him and then they started to do research and it ended up that they found a lot of artwork in his apartment in munich to begin with and then discovered to

his house in salzburg in austria the father of a piece of artwork for the first time in decades hundreds and now on display as part of two exhibitions one in germany and the other in switzerland these are just some of around fifteen thousand works seized by the then german government some of the works were looted from jewish families others bought pennies to the pound from those forced to sell their possessions as they fled nazi germany's for many families it became a sort of departure tax they sold their most precious possessions in order to be able to leave the country so one finds in the objects a form of the good it finds remain under study to determine their origins while the results are expected next year for many the wait to have their families treasures won't end there it's estimated that it will be possible to identify the ownership

of at least two thirds of the pieces for some every stone work of art is still one too many charlotte even skiing otty bern switzerland. i mean denmark decided to upgrade its military hardware it added american made f. thirty five fighters to a shopping list and was only revealed after the deal was sealed that the defense ministry had been over optimistic about the plane's capabilities before the thirty five do the move do you possibly over estimate the jet's performance presenting the total number of flying o's or higher than it really was. in total that mob or twenty seven planes last year which cost around ten billion dollars in procurement an operational cost that's around three percent of the country's entire g.d.p. on just one type of hardware it's not just what the cost that's proving to be a concern the f. thirty five been in the media spotlight for some time and it's not for the right

reasons either aviation experts say its software system is highly vulnerable to cyber attacks want to can be hacked from a distance there's not much data on it to steal because it's got less storage than an i phone it also can't transmit data without revealing its location so why buy them but we put that to political science professor olivier for from copenhagen university figures that matter for the calculation they were twisted to teach stream you know all up to me if harry vibes seemed like a better choice there were three competitors two of the planes were american one was the frank again when you're a fighter and there was a standard political signal and that and furthermore buying it thirty five years in may be more. a better political signal by a more white and all the american plane to be a signal that we're really part of the next wave of american. military development so there was a political dimension to it as well. and now you're up to date with what's

happening around the world i'm calling bright you know next news for me is in half an hour stay with me though for a journey back in time as we look at how and why the events ideas and personalities of the ninety's some russian revolution continue to resonate. apply to many flips over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money kill the narrowness and spend the two to twenty million and one player. it's an experience like no one else want to because i want to share what i think of what i know about the beautiful game played great so what more chance with. the base it's going to.

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any proof. that would lead need to be a good tool it will blow if he need not put to it because it could fall if there are. no turban one hundred seventeen the bolsheviks led by vladimir lenin seized power and set out to build the most equitable society on of the fall on the other countries followed russia's example but so far the recipe for universal happiness remains of use if people are still searching to this day. you could be. fairly easy a lot of wish only bad you need got up. can

we even remember the events of a century ago and if so why is that we went out in search of people who view russia's nine hundred seventeen revolution as a global event. festival we went to visit a leftwing ideologist and famous french philosopher. so. maybe it's not supposed to know that your books focused on the bust of teeth. and the. difficult for me to address. the what is your but jiko pretty cheeky feet as if to pose. yeah. gone to. mona require. a little push on to do do do do do do do you know. don't you.

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