headline news revelations of global tax avoidance by the super rich become a gold mine for the mainstream media which chooses to root out russia as the big story. in south korea on the second stop of his tour of asia outside the diplomacy he's also drumming up business for the u.s. arms industry i mean high tension on the korean peninsula. he will shoot an out of the sky when he completes the purchase of lots of additional military equipment from the united states that. marks one hundred years since the socialist revolution which fundamentally changed not only the country but the entire world we look at the dramatic events of nineteen seventeen.

moscow tuesday the seventh of november welcome to the news from international first for you 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 to where the richest are hiding their money and swerving around the tax system.

one of those millions of files a lot of businesses and people you won't have heard of but some you very much well this for a line up your pop veterans like madonna and bono they be making investments through companies in. bermuda there's also billionaire george soros he's also used to bermuda based law firms a manager a web of offshore companies the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson is named as a director of an offshore firm that used to oral and gas deals and here finally britain's queen elizabeth there with millions of pounds from her private estate being invested in a cayman islands fund but it's about more than the money for the mainstream media which has been scanning the files to get a political scoop now a member of the trump white house is now under scrutiny for his ties to russia to be hearings and if he fails to provide a convincing and compelling explanation he ought to resign now it probably won't

surprise you that a lot of news outlets have been searching out some keywords among the millions of paradise papers files to link named and shamed businesses to potential russian interference daniel 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 that the fact that it happens to be a russian company does not mean that there is any evil in it sieber expresses it surprised at the politically charged interpretation in certain media

publications of regular could bushell activities over many years which from the outset were reflected in the company's published accounts. done hawkins reporting 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 would draw their own conclusions no matter what was revealed. newspapers and media outlets are trying to blow this story out of proportion for their own ends they get very anxious about. 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 kong clue before any of these revelations so-called revelations came out about the

paradise papers the mainstream media evidence of russian influence goes even further from these headlines you might think the kremlin all but owns these particular social media giants but let's take a look at a closer look at what these revelations might really boil down to two banks controlled by the kremlin provide cash to third parties or investment vehicles to buy stakes in some of the world's biggest companies russian tech investor yuri milner who owns a company called digital sky technologies or d.s.t. is a key link in these operations now milner also invested in card or a startup founded by jared cushion or donald trump's son in law actually there's the smoking gun on russian meddling here's how some of the biggest players responded. we announced via an aug twenty eighth that the s two global led a round of investments in twitter they have since divested their interest from twitter in may twenty fourteen 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 their holdings in facebook their stake ended five years ago when we went public this to global divested its position in facebook in twenty thirteen and into it in twenty fourteen shortly after each of those companies initial public offerings and well before the twenty sixteen u.s. elections. donald trump says that north korea will be front and center in his talks in neighboring south korea is there on his second stop in his asia tour his first stop 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 announcements to counter the north korean threat and a further 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 to miracle on has more on trump's asia tour but

after meeting the tram 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 purchased arms from the us they'd be capable of shooting them down he will shoot 'em 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 we're 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 it all sounds familiar

in essence almost identical to what he 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 on steel us this three hundred ten billion dollars but who's the enemy in this scenario for decades iran 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 iran and it is indeed a threat there's no question about that so the solution sounds fairly simple by 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 this just adds fuel to the fire. samir khan our team washington d.c. . some of the experts and activists we've been speaking to thinks trump's moves are more about military profits than securing peace in the pacific. well it seems to be done with trump's idea of how to bring peace to make sure that everybody buys their weapons for mean ited 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 plan 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. for russia that marks from a century ago that even people saying that the provisional government had been overthrown on the forces of socialism and. they might be wondering why we're talking about the october revolution in november 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 that used to in most of the world here's a short recap of what happened in russia back in one thousand seventeen. 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 surrounded in a cold and of anarchy enormous russia bearing the new world live in pain zone eclipse 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 their friend in me the petrograd soviet group 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 i mean. 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 structure of his injury. the bolsheviks promises essentially boiled down to this power to the soviets peace to nations lands of peasants and bread to the hundred it took them just two days to come to power on october twenty fourth and twenty fifth place which receives post offices the 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. but i mean you can see some of the actual images from the time after he's been working with brazilian artist marina who pixel by pixel has painstakingly brought color to these archive photos from the one nine

hundred seventy and it would be really interesting opportunity for me to to learn about what happened in russia in the first century every photograph goes into a process of research before i begin to colorize there may no be jack's search is important and buildings in military uniforms and medals skin color hair and they were always have the star equally accurate colors i know that i'm dealing with historical documents and i need to respect the document there's plenty for you to get immersed in as well arty's got a unique online project reconstructing the critical chapter in russian history follow the hash tag nineteen seventeen live on twitter you can witness the events as they unfolded also pay a visit to nine hundred seventeen r.t. dot com there you can experience the revolution in brief sixty degree video.

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 millennia holes are leaning away from capitalism it might just be used more than ten percent said that they consider my ward is going crazy so 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 up and people. are still losing the war.

all over again a collection of works hold it by one of the it was during the nazi era has been put on display for the first time many of the masterpieces ranging from rice on salt because so with old to have been destroyed by the nazis.