i was. olympic chiefs dismissed media claims this premise childer that the russian national anthem will be banned the upcoming winter games. also revelations about the offshore tax avoidance and money making scheme of the super rich become a gold mine for the media many publications rooting out and focusing on links to russia plus nato is set to agree on increasing troop numbers for training missions in afghanistan the move would boost the number of its personnel to sixteen thousand . welcome you're watching r.t. this tuesday evening which just turned eight o'clock here in moscow now our top

story this hour the international olympics committee has dismissed reports that the russian national anthem could be banned from the twenty eighteen winter olympics the claim was made in the new york times ahead of the i.o.c. to sit in on what action to take against russia for alleged state sponsored doping charlotte dubinsky reports now from the limbic headquarters in switzerland. well the article by the new york times suggests unnamed sources from the international olympic committee have said that they are discussing a possible ban on the russian national anthem at the winter games in twenty eighteen there also it says in the article discussing a menu of other possible penalties against russia including not allowing delicate and athletes to take part in the opening ceremony now we are asked the i.o.c. for a response to that report and whether those suggestions of those possible sanctions being discussed was actually true this is all premature speculation before the old

world and schmidt commissions have even completed their work and before due process to which any individual or organization is entitled has been followed well it all comes amid allegations of widespread doping following the sort she games in twenty fourteen against russian athletes there that led to the the russian track and field team being disqualified i'm barred from the rio twenty sixteen olympics and the entire team being barred from the rio paralympics in the same year now the i.o.c. is currently investigating some of the allegations against russian athletes from the sochi games in twenty fourteen and so far they have removed two medals from russian athletes both from the skiing events now the athletes in questions have said that they will appeal those decisions and their lawyer has described them as being a scandalous the i.o.c. is also due to decide next month whether or not the russian team will be able to participate in the next winter games in twenty eighteen. excuses and

embarrassment to appear to be the order of the day for some of the world's wealthiest people and companies come in the wake of the leaking of a massive trove of financial files the so-called paradise papers have exposed where the richest are hiding their money and how they dodge paying taxes. well let's have a closer look then at that list and as you can see there's

a whole host of famous companies and faces in the paradise papers the u.k.'s queen elizabeth here is there she's got millions of pounds from her private estate invested in the fund in the cayman islands another familiar face next to her the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson he is named as a director of an offshore firm used in oil and gas deals and then next to him we have the billionaire george soros also you say the murder be muted based law firm to help manage offshore companies too and then a couple at the end there of course you recognize them famous pop stars veteran spano and madonna made investments three companies in the new deal but for the mainstream media it's also about finding a political scoop amongst the mass of information other 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 well it probably won't

surprise you that a lot of news outlets have been trawling through the paradise papers files in an effort to find the feria slinks between russia and the us the new hawkins looks at how they've been getting on. 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 an interest 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 fully 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 i don't know any of those individuals who've never met them so there's nothing wrong with the fact that it happens to be a russian company does not mean that there is any evil in it now it's important to note to see war as a company is not subject to sanctions and it's been left pretty buffel by the reaction so i bore it sort of was. saying shouldn't. sieber expresses its surprise 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 offshore 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. you have a catchy headline now if you're still with me the evidence of russian influence goes even further from these evelyn's one might think the kremlin all what 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 your email the is a key link in these operations also invested in card that's a start up founded by jared donald trump's son in law surely there's a smoking gun on russian meddling and here's what the protagonists in this conspiracy have to say themselves we announced via an august twenty first that the

s two global led a round of investments in twitter they have since divested their interest from twitter in me twenty four to the investment was made eight years ago in d.s.t. global has since sold all of their holdings in facebook their stake ended five years ago when we went public 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 landfill 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. ok well we can get the thoughts

now steve cain he's professor of economics at kingston university in london and joins us good evening to you where stevie very welcome firstly how would you assess then the findings of the paradise papers is it a grey. surprised you think i mean it's something we've all known isn't it the rich and famous do you manage to hide them money. they've always been doing and i actually went for a holiday in the cayman islands back another cannot in ninety six and visited a building which i think was responsible for about half the world's record profits it included news ltd in saw their packer organization a straight to that i had special interest in general motors the tax evasion by the wealthy has been going on for decades and will never stop it we simply have to find a way to. bring tax revenue back into the government the that they caught a vides and always managed to evade income tax do you think this growing pressure stay for that to happen because we've talked about how this is going on for

a very long time is that public pressure to you is what is pressuring the government to take action now and stop this sort of thing from happening to you think well they know that they'll never stop it this way and possibly the failure to do this is because we done of the stand how taxation actually works we think taxation is necessary to finance government spending in facts government can spend it regardless of taxation the taxation simply takes lodge amounts of the money out of the system the government spend into it because we didn't tax would have a rapid right of inflation now once you look at it that way what that actually doing a softening off the money that's being created by the government accumulating it in offshore accounts and hanging on to the wealth which should be recycled back into the economy so the only way you can really stop it is by forget about taxing them with income income tax works for workers it doesn't work the corporation it doesn't work for the wealthy we should tax them on transactions and then that they caught a vides unless they stop having tracks transactions if they stop having

transactions they'll stop being wealthy. what are the chances of that happening they stay for. well it just takes income politicians who understand how money is created so i think it's almost virtually impossible they continue spouting this myth that they. the taxes to be able to spend running austerity which is unnecessary all this feeds into actually a lot in the pockets of the rich maybe there's a connection talking of connections quite a big political connection with russia in the lead in these leaks to. what's your thoughts on the links with russia has anybody done anything wrong. well no more wrong than done by having links to the cayman islands and softening their money off and the whole thought that vladimir putin is as evil personality who was the first person on the planet who's ever tried to manipulate an election simply has they really appreciate your time tonight sir nice to get your thoughts that was steve kane professor of economics at kingston university thank you.

in afghanistan with an additional three thousand troops the current level the song thirteen thousand the new level would be around sixteen thousand a role training assistant of the wise nato is set to increase their contingent on the ground in afghanistan the stroop increase had been rumbling along since may it also came alongside rumors that each of the member states just just at the moment we understand that half of those three thousand troops will come from the united states the other half coming from the other twenty eight member states that that were announced back in september by u.s. defense secretary jim mattis this was all part of try to tackle the taliban in afghanistan sixteen years u.s. and nato a big. so we left and came. when i last saw it seemed wrong. but at. the moment the winter palace in

petrograd search of the uprising the red revolutionary forces many of whom or about our project one hundred years ago universal health care and civil war nato and the cold war imagine living through such a pivotal moment in human history well you can almost feel ever dreamed of time travel r.t. brings you a digital time machine that takes you back to dial nine hundred seventy the year. we looked at the revolutions until reem wonders what is twitter existed a hundred years ago lenin nicholas the second and dozens of the big players of the revolution live tweeting as though the revolution was happening now.

this is your chance to interact with them log on to twitter and tell lenin what you think about his plans he know not us but the russian telegraph of one hundred years ago has also been posting live updates until the takeover. information is power and no one weaponized it like the reds the russian telegraph became the revolution retired and you needn't just read about

it you can see it happen. scenes from the past three hundred sixty degree videos short as authentically as possible will give you a taste of those monumental events events that largely shaped modern history in the world we live in nineteen seventeen lives history today. now you might be wondering why we are talking about the october revolution in november well it is because russia adopted a new calendar after the bolsheviks took power on the twenty fifth of october back

in one nine hundred seventeen that is november the seventh though according to the gregorian calendar used in most of the world so here's a short recap back and living in exile in siberia with his family following his abdication seven months ago the provisional government occupying the russian monex main moderately liberal and aiming to are competing for it. and arrested the provisional government. in doubt r.t. dot com two to expect. well ashes communist party has announced his decision while speaking at a rally in the center be making itself felt in belgium at the moment because supporters of unity have taken to the streets of brussels to oppose a gathering of separatist cattle and politicians they are there to voice support

for their deposed colleagues the government in catalonia was sacked after declaring independence from spain at the end of october belgian prosecutors granted conditional release. on and four of his allies following spain issuing an international arrest warrant for the region's leader to lead to belgium after declaring independence for catalonia prior to that eight former high ranking officials from the region were jailed in spain course we'll keep across this development for you throughout the evening. and that brings you up to date more for me in just over half an. i would need to make this manufacture consent instead to public wealth. when the ruling classes are project themselves. in the

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