at the top of that picture and then you know vast number of people living really very little money and with very little well then you know what we see consistently is that wealth days undertaxed actually. we see the poorest people in the world paying huge amounts of tax income tax will be eighty whilst wealth is is not really taxed appropriately and then very little money being able to be spent on public services like health and education that could be a real equalizer for those people living in poverty so i want to get on to those issues you have figures like i mean it's apologize to the viewers about it but there are so many statistics two hundred sixty two million children and able to go to school today ten thousand dying every day that seven minute during this interview because of lack of health care what makes it different this time around because we're always hearing these kinds of reports is it just got worse and worse the really important thing is to look beyond these massive numbers and statistics and think about the real people whose lives recently i was in nairobi and went to

visit a school where i saw children he was able to go to that school because they couldn't afford the basics of a uniform that meals at school each day and were going to work instead and the reality is if we're going to even up that picture and get these people out of poverty what we need is for them to be able to have access to the kinds of public service is taxes on wealthy to pay for well we will get the kenya numbers does view on that or at least hope to of course kenyan government spend a lot of. arguably today in davos the strategic partners are arms companies based systems boeing and lockheed martin to be discussing the kinds of issues presumably in your report in davos in a grouping with egypt burton is the responsible if you believe the killing maiming going to spacing of millions of people yeah i mean every year what we see is these very influential and powerful people coming together in dire. asked to talk about

how they change the state of the world to make the world a fair place in the past they've talked about inequality think about those people at the table the reality is that they have the power to do something about this to influence all or make laws that would see the wealthiest people in the world paying their share of taxes and also see those poorest people in the world have access to vital public services that could save their lives but google are also. i mean can one really have a conversation about the issues in this report with these are the strategic burdens i think the important thing is that we have a conversation with all of these people they clearly have a huge influence that the people here well you know they making decisions having high level conversations making laws that affect you know millions of people those billions of people worldwide who are living in poverty every day this is the grouping of people he can. set the agenda for what it means to make the world a fireplace and i really hope that by publishing this report in this week of darfur

that we catch the attention of those people whether they are or governments that we can you know really demonstrate to them that by making actually quite small change increasing taxes for instance by just point five percent and you could pay for. kind of health care which prevent three million deaths a year forty five percent i think of the rewards as you'd raise four hundred eighteen billion and you single out britain being a place where the poorest ten percent proportion of their will wealth and the rich yes so in their report we identify number of countries the brazil the two examples where the poorest have a son are actually spending a higher proportion of their income on top three things like income tax and the eighty than the richest are on a big part of that is because while taxes are so small just four cents in every dollar of tax revenue that are created worldwide it comes from wealth tax is the

rest comes from taxes on purchasing an income and of course another. great tax avoiders amazon dot com you claim that one percent of just businesses fortune is more or less equal to the entire health budget of ethiopia absolutely and i think you know these really shocking figures are designed to get people's attention i mean you know if you look at how much is lost to developing country. three the toxic ordinance of wealthy individuals and corporations every year something like one hundred seventy billion dollars the issue here is not necessarily about individual companies who are real celebrities or individuals who they you know i think that is a he that is a huge problem but actually that being allowed to do that three systems make it easy for them to avoid tax whether that's about secrecy about who runs these country these companies or whether that's about you know not being clear about you know where they're making their profits what we would like countries and

governments to do is to really crack down and make it much harder for those companies that they don't think well it's a sensible thing to do but the government usually says that they're frightened of doing that because they will discourage investment when in the last year actually. government has legislated to say that it's our you know overseas territories which has some of the worst havens in the world we're in the yeah we'll have to publish who is profiting from companies based in these tax havens and i think that's a that's a great step forward and it's really exciting that the government and parliament in the in and other countries is recognizing that this is a massive issue and it's something that it's not just you know morally wrong but people are really upset and frustrated by this you know that it's not fair that they should be paying their taxes when these incredibly wealthy companies and individuals are paying their way from the individuals you see to make it clear the near liberalism as a phenomena is very much part of this. the way you seem to say the privatization is

contributed to this widening of the yeah i mean i think that they're really really clearly advocates universal health care education is the critical thing in their report for us is that access to free and accessible high quality education and health care are the things that could be paid for through an increase in tax increase and well but also make the difference for those people. in the coming you know an entrepreneur or a scientist or a teacher or a doctor later in life and the problem is at the moment those people he have to pay to go to school or have to pay to go and get health care are the people who are most at risk by this you know when we see. recently a doctor he was not only having to take patients to hospital. but was also a using his own wages to pay the medical fees of those people because otherwise they would simply not be able to access health care that would save their lives and

that's not in britain brazil not in britain but that i think is just an incredible incredible story when you think that you know there is enough wealth in the world to be able to pay for all of those people to have sufficient health care and education for free on privatization you would did you come out with in this report as to its effect on education and i think one of our big concerns about the effect of privatization on education and health care particularly in developing countries is that for many people they're having to access health care and education through called public private partnerships which means that they pay what we would consider quite a small amount a couple of pounds of dollars to be able to go to school and that pays for that teachers and that classrooms but the reality is if you are one of the people in the world still living on less than a dollar ninety a day a couple of pounds or couple of dollars just puts that education way out of reach and that is something that you know it's not just oxfam that's calling for that

it's organizations including the i.m.f. and the world by raising concerns about you know the effect of privatization on people's ability to access basic public services you have squarely. the britain woods institutions because there's a labor body here in britain that really expanded that kind of p.r. for private public partnership you're. saying it's the other way around but i mean companies some of these may not be in the developing world. lunches here maybe for as capita not karelian now because i think they went bust with our health care services they all say these kinds of partnerships are a great way of delivering health care and other civic society duties i mean i guess if you are a person in a developing country living in poverty that is on able to access health care or education because it's just financially out of reach then and the argument just just doesn't wash well. your report you alluded to this earlier says i don't know

whether this is against us or it's got to both of them we should be listening to real people you said absolutely. less listening to the elite that will be in davos today i think is about these people recognizing what the real stories are behind big statistics that. these numbers of rich people poor people i think the important thing is to remember that behind all of those statistics those three point eight billion poorest people in the world is a story of somebody not being able to get the basics that i think we would take for granted and not being able to fulfill that potential you know we talk about entrepreneurs like jeff bezos and people who have made their fortunes and been very successful the reality is if you can't access primary education or health care then you're being prevented from fulfilling your own potential in the come an entrepreneur just like tony because thank you after the break we go to speak to a yemeni journalist on the ground after british truck bombs pounded the capital

bombs from damascus to derry delineated with former northern ireland secretary. more coming up about two of going underground. you know what it was a minute. you know world of big partisan movies lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to

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shoes crazy and all that. here's. a. welcome back joining me now to go through some of the week's top stories that broke us down and for a liberal democrat member of parliament lembit opaque great strike at the ministry of justice. united voices of the world but apparently one of your colleagues is in trouble yes ca has shamy an anchor for press t.v. the iranian station has been detained arrested no less not clear why something to do with being a material witness but where no more clear about this now than we were never did not visit i mean always is banned in this country can you visit the united states a committee for protection of journalists as it is concerned about the detention of a t.v. anchor and filmmaker calls on the developing of justice in the u.s. to disclose reason for restoring i haven't tested it but it's crossed everyone's

mind anyone who's worked on press t.v. or appeared on it dangerous times i should just say odds of just hold on corbin becoming the next prime minister a long line has seen those old spots and is warning us how to guard your wealth from comrade corbin from inheritance to investing and income tax what labor plans if it comes to power this is project fear writ large of a different sort nothing to do with this is about the fact that comrade corbin could be in downing street sooner than we know it sort of what is the picture that . colvin but there's a lenin gramsci this week well. actually invention marxism and i have a quote from the male here then jeremy corbyn in lieutenant john mcdonald do indeed stride into number ten and eleven down to ten and john mccardell i didn't even know he was in the army well that's better than the russian army but this is exactly this could be the red plague coming into downing street itself it does say that anyone earning more than eighteen thousand years and expect to pay more income tax

a thousand here hours and pounds a year that's right so they've got their own card here if there's no lex or times that average rate could steal your income right because of it right obviously someone's frightened arguably the next story is what people should be more frightened of and darker times have returned belfast telegraph reports that every car bomb fears of a return to the dark days of the. doubles the city picks up the pieces now a group to say you were shattered more than a century in ninety eight in two thousand and seven so yeah i spent almost without any knowledge i spent almost ten years helping to negotiate the peace which has by and large helped but we still have these flare ups literally in this case a group calling itself the new ira whoever they are launched a rather failure of the temp to cause damage in derry it could have been a lot worse it could have caused death and injury luckily it didn't but it's not entirely clear what they're trying to do they've raised the tensions but pretty

much everyone from all sides including shin fein has condemned them in framing long who condemn violence but should say is the bloody sunday march and various blogs say this sunday and the statistics from where you used to over see them and the three hundred eighteen thousand in poverty ninety three thousand children in poverty that's according to the northern ireland government of northern ireland highest level of fuel poverty in britain go to do it six of level doubling of excess winter deaths twenty fifteen it's into this right the way that all this bricks and borders stuff. said there are there are various time and nomics at play here some still frustrated with the peace process even after all these years the social poverty you're describing they're very large proportion of the turnover of the north of ireland is actually state funding huge public sector injections there and then this confusion this destabilization because there's talk about whether there's a hard border where there's

a backstop no backstop breck said is actually having an effect in the north of violent and that's a very dark thing that many who pretended there was no horde border between the united kingdom and the rest of the european union would rather forgotten but it's come back to bite us and we will encourage any violence here i just have to add let's go to real violence and over three thousand troops resumes for breakfast i presume inaugurated or the other day what is this from the israeli defense force this is a posting. from the israel defense forces which shows where iran belongs that's roughly the terror of iran and then where iran is iran you seem to be the last that's what they're suggesting and they are objecting to iran's alleged intervent they launched air strikes on the capital of syria this week that's right an interesting development there they're not going to nation from britain there are now now announcing these in real time there's a heavy political dimension to this kind of thing so iran and iran and israel are seem to be getting into a tense situation israel definitely on the iran is

a tense situation obviously accepting the idea of what i'm saying you know not at all what i'm saying is this is clearly upping the ante between israel and iran that's israel's intention they're trying to get iran to remove whatever forces they claim are in syria while at the same time apparently giving themselves carte blanche to be involved in this themselves that's the irony that the contradiction micro in the meeting in paris today alister but giving evidence on the humanitarian situation in syria i'm sure you will be talking about the dead people in damascus this week but about this so we could have a map of for the world the u.s. bases or u.k. bases and say u.k. here and then saying where we are where britain is if we can hear cyprus diego garcia bernay germany oman what do you think israel really means presumably they thought it was mildly amusing no one to laughing about this in damascus where the bombs are dropping and many of those bombs come from israel now going up and thank you well while u.k. armed israeli soldiers fired missiles at syria u.k.

armed soldiers from saudi arabia and the u.a.e. bomb the poorest country in the middle east yemen there was no warning for those living in the yemeni capital of this week's airstrikes described by some as the worst for a year joining me now is a journalist on the ground in sanaa hussein albuquerque hussein welcome to going underground i'm going to ask you first of all about the u.n. envoy martin griffiths making a allegedly surprise visit to yemen in the past forty eight hours. what do you think he's there to achieve i think he come to sweden agreement right or as we say here in sanaa to cover up the failure because till now what the saudi backed forces has not done the second step from the first stage of the withdrawal from the data first one was how to fight a house with drawn from the ports and then the saudis were supposed to withdraw from east of the city all the pressure was from the international media for the muslim world the united nation and other country were supporters within it was all

on. in a day. we hope that he actually said this with an agreement right because if they are not going to do that this mean that port city could be under threat of another attack from saudi backed forces well you just said is not what major nations media here are saying for instance the guardian saying martin griffiths he was surprised of the breakthrough and struck. iran is fully backing the these what actually went on in the past forty eight seventy two hours when british black warplanes attacked the capital of yemen yes this attack actually came as a surprise especially for the people in sanaa because saudi arabia has not conducted a strike on sun city. for maybe more than a month or two months but of course there were the many airstrike in the old area

of sanaa on all other cities that are under the control of. the whole three. of them in the artillery shell. has not stop when they have as well targeted all the rest of the targets were civilian. targets like a they have targeted. blasting factory north of sanaa they have as well targeted. a factory in an area in sanaa and they have targeted a home like flattened an entire home but luckily there was nobody in that home the strike casualty were about like. six people were killed and about nine people were injured because the attack came at night so this factory had only some of the guards on the same time we hadn't we hadn't seen the same condemn a nation especially from the united kingdom and yemen who is based actually in

riyadh i don't know if he has ever been to yemen remember that he condemned the attack the drone attack on a fully military target in the airbase but says that arkansas we've seen that the united kingdom actually is not going to condemn the saudi because the saudi according to the guardian has increased weapon sales by five hundred percent to during the war in yemen years but i suppose germany hunter foreign secretary went to stroke and we know that when the donald trump administration called for a cease fire tourism is government more or less explicitly did not call for a cease fire how deep is britain in the current bombing because britain is saying it's only british media reporting foreign office sources no doubt saying these are military installations not the civilian targets that thankfully haven't caused too many lives compared to the twenty million facing catastrophe i mean of course they

will try to do whatever it will help saudi we have seen what they wanted the state and kingdom done after the brutal killing of jamal in the embassy in istanbul and seems to be that britain and not the state is not about democracy is not about freedom or just about who is going to pay me it means that i cannot criticize them but to target the saudi that couldn't have. say that they have targeted a factory that produces those. drones which is the hope they have started to use to get another saudi arabia and i don't believe that the hope they are so stupid or silly to use a factory in the middle of the city seems to be that the excuse is always that they are that target is military and we remember the attack on the bus the school bus on the high and that has killed fifty five civilians including forty one children it

was inside the market and that's all that coalition straightaway after that it came and said this was a military legitimate target where the british government says it trains to the best of its abilities obviously thousands of died more than that according to un agencies but even though say tourism is husband philip may makes money out of the selling of the day used on your country jeremy hunt the foreign secretary has announced he is giving and i know that britain has sold four point seven billion pounds of arms and the beginning of the conflict jeremy hunt to saying two point five million pounds of aid is going to yemen reason to celebrate i mean this is as we say in yemen i mean. insult to injury because i mean what would what william and his do with two point five millions we if the united kingdom really want to help pm any they should stop their weapons supplies

to saudi arabia because sixteen. thousand four hundred the many civilians as being killed directly by the us. a huge amount of this bomb on fighters get made in the united kingdom according to news of one child died every ten minutes and you can count how many minutes in one yet and then you will find that it's all to two hundred fifty thousand has died because of. ok don't yemen. just imagine one point eight million yemeni children have severe malnutrition the largest outbreak of cholera since records began the largest manmade humanitarian disaster all this happened after the saudi that could have declared the war in yemen on the twenty sixth of march two thousand and fifteen but the united kingdom is like that type of country that will smile at you aren't we we are going to help you we need to those in yemen and then they will give

a knife to someone to stab you or they will stab you in the back to form the beginning of the war i haven't heard a single direct condemn nation from the united kingdom or any overture in the united kingdom name in saudi they always try to make it a civil war and this is not a civil war that's why it's called the coalition has not called them any coalition . tourism is government has not asked for a ceasefire but the british government would deny that they have helped to kill quarter of a million children i've just got to find we ask you about the claims you've been making that in effect britain is aiding al qaeda in isis. in the region yes we. just want to mention that four members of. who are supporting al qaida they would have they were introduced by united states treasury list one of them is the adviser of the head of the party.

he was a member of the had a government delegation to geneva two. i think maybe one year and a half or two years ago another one he was the governor of. gacy. he's the head of the party in a job you have as well the brother of the governor of mud it. those four people are announced by the unite. stated that they are terrorist supporting terrorism those people are actually leading the saudi backed forces in our job. and they go every now and then to the so as it is today and how can the united states united kingdom actually claim that they are fighting al qaeda anywhere especially in yemen while they are supporting the saudi to fight the whole using al qaida to fight the hold. in the west coast of yemen in her day most of the fight out from al

qaida from extremist. groups from isis and i mean everybody everyone in yemen knows that so i think the united kingdom may just want to destroy yemen the same way they have destroyed syria the same way they have destroyed iraq there was no al qaeda out eyes in iraq as well in syria and in libya and we know now what is happening that they want to do the same thing in yemen because he will try and get the u.s. . ambassador and. three people that you in the united states alleges are affiliated on the show thank you very much and that's it for the show will be back on saturday with world health organizations first reported to migration and health and arguably dehumanization and tourism a hostile environment for social media your burns night sixteen years of the u.k. labor party's tony prepared to fly to iraq to stop tony blair's war that would kill or displace millions and cost billions of pounds between treacherous real twitter.

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