headlining right now 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 as the big story. donald trump lands in 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 made high tension on the korean peninsula. 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 will take a look at the dramatic events of one thousand nine hundred seventy.

the seventh of november i'm calling brian this is r.t. international good morning and welcome to the program commiserations if you know sing a big tax bill especially as we get on to our top story because there are plenty of excuses and embarrassment swirling among some of the world's wealthiest people and companies 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.

now it's millions of people in firms you would have heard of but a whole range of famous faces mentioned here's a line if you don't normally see from the queen of britain on the commonwealth through to the queen of pop madonna these are implicated in the paradise of papers big corporations feature heavily too it's not just about the money for the mainstream media they've been scanning the files to get a political scoop now the 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 i probably won't surprise you that a lot of news outlets have been searching out some words among the millions of paradise papers files to link named and shamed businesses to potential russian interference that hawkins 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 an 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 i think the media has made a lot more out of the than the deserves i had nothing to do with the negotiation of

the deal i don't know any of 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 cyberwar itself was not there in saying sion is nails and so there's nothing wrong with the fact that it happens to be a russian company does not mean that there is only evil in it sieber expresses it surprised at the politically charged interpretation in certain media publications of regular could push your 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 off. dealings through third parties often aim to avoid regulation 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 outlines one might think the kremlin all but owns these social media giants but again let's take a closer look at 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 jared donald trump's son in law surely they're the smoking gun on russian meddling and here's what the protagonists in this conspiracy have to say themselves we announced via an august twentieth. that d.s.t. global lead a round of investments in twitter they have since divested their interest from twitter in me twenty four toon 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.d. 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 facebook in twenty thirteen and into it in twenty fourteen shortly after each of those companies initial public offerings and will be for the twenty six thousand us elections and if russians apparently influence your social media do they also control your music taste and your holiday bookings d.s.t. global's investments in facebook and twitter were just two of the more than thirty internet companies around the world that d.s.t. global funds have invested in including air b.n. b. spotify g.d. dot com the lando and alibaba 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. donna hogan of the sensational revelations made enough of a noise for the us democrats to call for an inquiry into wilbur ross his business dealings british economist keith boy field told us he believes the mainstream media will 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 conclusions before any of these revelations so-called revelations came out about the paradise papers. from since south korea on the second stop of his asian

tour his first stop 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 four billion dollars for missile defense in hansoms to counter the north korean threat and another billion to support his plans for the wider region 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 them 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 his 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 has fueled the 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's a growing realization among your arab neighbors that they have common cause with you and the threat. posed by around 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 now in weapons as diplomatic outreach in an age old tradition of us presidents the question is doesn't it just add to the fire.

on our team washington d.c. lycoming that some of the experts and activists we've been speaking to over the past twenty four hours think that trumps moves are more about military profits than securing peace in the pacific well it seems to be done we're trying to bring peace to make sure that everybody buys their weapons for me nineteen states of america. it's good if you can get the business i mean we should remember that firstly there is 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 we're 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 deterrent perspective and more from war fighting for specter of.

softening 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 hundredth anniversary of the revolution which led to the creation of the u.s.s.r. and forever changed the world. now you might well be wondering why we're talking about the october revolution in november well it's because soviet russia adopted a new calendar after the bolsheviks took power on the twenty fifth of october one

nine hundred seventeen which is november the seventh according to the gregorian calendar it used in most of the world you can follow a revolutionary times account on twitter to see in real time however some ravelled one hundred years ago today among the latest developments on this timeline the bolsheviks already taken control of the bridge connecting the residence of the country's leadership they already control all working class areas in the capital in next for your short recap of what happened in russia back in one nine hundred seventy. 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 dr payne tsar nicholas the 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 friend in me the petrograd soviet formed 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 coming. it must be explained to the masses that the soviet to work his deputies is the only possible form of revolutionary government place power in the hands of the proletariat and the poor a strasser 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 roadway station the state bank the port and

other strategic locations across the city at a quarter to ten pm a blank shot fired from cruiser signaling the start of the storming of the winter palace by two am on the twenty sixth of october revolutionaries occupied and arrested the provisional government the new bolshevik government was formed with lenin at the helm. and of course here's where you come in you can get really stuck into all this we've got a unique online project reconstructing the critical moments in russian history a century ago follow the hashtag nine hundred seventeen live on twitter and witness events as they unfolded but also visit nine hundred seventy. dot com there you can experience the revolution in three sixty degree video.

only forty two percent favor of young people just generally think that capitalist thinking is not great i don't disagree with them necessarily but like it's you know and others like greed and all that sort of stuff associated with it so yeah i mean ism socialism capitalism or fascism doesn't socialism so why do you think my. 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 get there or 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 define the twentieth century and their apparent comeback it's

something that a did a twenty year old would say it's a very fashionable response it's not grounded in reality at all these are interesting characters they don't only 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 this is i'll tell you a priceless collection of lost during the second world war it's back for the public to see up a story after the break. so

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before we move on i've got some breaking news for you from afghanistan gunman have stormed a t.v. station in the capital kabul is a private t.v. station called shamshad t.v. the government reportedly entered the building following an explosion at the moment there's no word on whether there are any casualties or not but some staff say that several people have been killed it's an ongoing emergency situation at the moment police have cordoned off the area as you can well imagine they might in terms of who might be behind it so far the taliban's rejected being involved in this attack as soon as we get any more details on what's happening out that t.v. station in kabul we'll return to that story here on. the world is finally able to view a collection of works hoarded by one of hitler's dealers during the nazi era paintings by artists like monet rand was design and rode on a big show for the first time since the second world war as part of exhibitions in switzerland and germany.

in twenty ten the son of the art dealer was investigated by tax authorities when part of his father's collection was discovered in houses that he owned and that 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 right now between the museum and the family ski reports next from the exhibition in the swiss capital. their discovery stunned the art world for almost eighty around fifteen hundred paintings some bice's and more than a 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 courted

by cooley good it's the son of the nazi dealer he was. on a train from switzerland to germany and the customs officers found some money on 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 you know most about the fun 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 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 to leave the country you know where they had to flee the country by the. by they would have to had to escape and so they had they needed money so they can take their artwork with them so they had to forced to sell their artwork mostly on a low very low price so one finds in the objects a form of the good find 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 on. it's still one to many children ulti. switzerland. nation tribe in the heart of brazil's amazon rain forest is being driven to the edge of extinction by deforestation mining.

live in the heartland of the amazon rain forest that territories in the north of brazil near the front is a french guyana and in august the brazilian president michel tema gave permission for mining in the four point six million active ecological zone. determined to

preserve their way of life no one this mining on our land we would never want it we're here this nature is ours. in the forest you can find a lot of medicine to cure says it is because of this that we want our forests to stay as it is and for us to live peacefully on our land without the forests the way up the indians wouldn't be able to live well. after pressure by campaigners the president retreated on his order and reinstated the protected status of the rainforest the country's environment minister backed the move saying they would exercise great responsibility in the region despite that though trouble rights campaigner sheriff shanker fears the pressure on indigenous people there will only grow. we are seeing. indigenous territories being invaded and stolen left right and center as more remore of the amazon rain forest and other forest areas in fact in brazil are destroyed the pressure on

indigenous territories is intensifying because often these are the only places where valuable hard words for example still remain because the indigenous peoples have been looking after them so well so it is absolutely unacceptable for the brazilian government to try to open up these territories for further invasions when we are already seeing the hugely disastrous impacts of illegal invasions in these territories a matter of morality and of up holding national and international law that these people's lands be protected for their own good and for the good of of old humanity in terms of. protecting these incredibly biodiverse areas. series for now i'm calling bryce thanks for watching i'll be back in half an hour to update you again here on altie international.

when lawmakers manufacture consensus instead of public wealth. when the ruling closest to protect themselves. with the financial merry go round lifts only the one percent told. to ignore middle of the room signals. morrill new rules. and what politicians to do something. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure more somehow want to. get into the right to be for us was like before the tree in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters and my colleagues. are sitting.

greetings and sal you take this from the paradise papers revealing the elites dirty but not necessarily illegal concealment of massive amounts of money to donna brazil's exposé on the clinton's unethical financial takeover of the b. and c.

the corruption surrounding us today knows no bounds hawk watchers which is why the recent news of a chief prosecutor with the international criminal court standing up and calling for an official investigation into possible war crimes pertaining to the afghanistan war is so darn refraction lee good day here chief prosecutor with the i.c.c. fatou bensouda said in a statement that following a meticulous preliminary examination of the situation i have come to the conclusion that all legal criteria required under the rome statute to commence an investigation have been met there is a reasonable basis to believe that war crimes and crimes against humanity have been committed in connection with the armed conflict in afghanistan this investigation would not only include alleged crimes committed by the taliban but would also include any committed by the governments of afghanistan and the united states dating all the way back to two thousand and three and zero two solomon sakho head

of international justice at amnesty international told the press the quote justice for victims of the afghanistan conflict has taken far too long to arrive but investigations like this one of the reason the court was set up to provide a last chance for justice one states parties of failed to deliberate. any any little bit of good news goes a long way especially when you're living in days that are long on corruption and short on justice which is why we are watching the hawks. eloping legal street looks. a little bit like. analyzing the bottom. of the day like i got.

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