now matter of time here we're going underground in the wake of devastating british back bombing of the capital cities of yemen and syria coming up on the show as global elites gather in switzerland for the be a systems lucky to have him gotten to davos today we question claims by n.g.o.s that neoliberal policies of led to nearly half the world's population living in the green poverty speak to a journalist on the ground in yemen's capital sanaa where an air force trained and sold weapons to by teresa mayes government kill civilians again in the world's worst humanitarian crisis from the news israel gives a wrong geography lesson while tribal tensions detonate in derry all this more

coming up in today's going underground for first we go straight to the snowiest risking down to davos where today political leaders like both the naro and netanyahu meet with millionaires celebrities like bono and david blane to discuss improving the state of the world will oxfam also wants to improve the state of the world and to talk about the ngos public good or private wealth report out in the past forty eight hours as head of advocacy tony p.s. tony thanks for coming on so we had asked and broome magician david blaine briggs william yesterday today it's i.m.f. boss christian the god of borneo. they're discussing something called the financing gap tell me about your report of a kind of financing gap absolutely say the report that some have released this week demonstrates the way in which wealthy is being concentrated in the hands of a small number of people in the world and i'm inside in the last yeah and what we've seen is that billion as around the world have seen their wealth by twelve percent two point five billion dollars a day whilst the well it's fifty percent poorest people at three point eight been.

people have seen their wealth declined by eleven percent which is five hundred million dollars a day say what we're seeing is you know this real divide increasing with a small number of people. create a huge amount of wealth for themselves at the top of the top of that picture and then you know vast number of people living really very little money 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 in income tax will be eighty whilst wealth 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's seven minutes 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 those massive numbers and statistics and think about the real people whose lives recently i was in nairobi and went to visit a school that i saw children he weren't 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 those people out of poverty what we need is for them to be able to have access to the kinds of public services that taxes on wealthy pay for well we will get the kenya numbers just a few on the other at least of course kenyan government spend a lot of. arguably today in downforce the strategic partners are arms companies be

systems boeing and lockheed martin to be discussed. the kinds of issues presumably in your report in davos in the grouping would strategic burden as the responsible for the killing maiming or displacing of millions of people yeah i mean every year what we see is these very influential and powerful people coming together in davos to talk about how they change the state of the world make the world a fair place in the past they've talked about inequality heavy 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 you see those poorest people in the world have access to vital public services that can save their lives tracks but google are also a strategic partner. i mean we can really have a conversation about these issues in this report with these are the strategic 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 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. 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 identified a number of countries the brazil the two examples where the poorest have

a son are actually spending. a higher proportion of their income on tax through things like income tax and the eighty the richest are 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 taxes the rest comes from taxes on purchasing and income and of course another. great tax avoiders. you claim the one percent of just businesses for sure in this war is equal to the health budget of ethiopia absolutely and i think 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 countries three the toxic ordinance of wealthy individuals and corporations every year it's something like one hundred seventy billion dollars the issue here is not necessarily about individual companies who are choosing the 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 owns 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 so 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. a government has legislated to save. its own overseas territories which has some of the worst savings in the world we're not doing this 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 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. 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 for normal or is very much part of this. the way you seem to see the privatization has contributed to this widening of the yeah i mean i think that really the really clearly advocates universal health care. the critical thing in their report for us is that access to free an 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 all the people who are

most at risk by this system you know when we say you know 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 up with in this report as to its effects 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. 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 had quite a huge turn by the britain woods institutions because there's a labor body here in britain that really expanded the kind of p.r. for private public partnership we're now germany organising it's the other way around but i mean companies some of these may not be in the developing world as much as here made me t.g. 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 fine actually i've reached that and the argument just just doesn't wash. 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 elites that will be in davos today i think it's about these people recognising what the real stories are behind big statistics that oxfam can say these numbers of rich people versus 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 fulfil 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. access primary education or health care then you're being prevented from fulfilling your own potential to become an entrepreneur just like any of us thank you after the break we go to speak to a yemeni journalist on the ground after british backed bombs pounded the capital. from damascus to derry with former northern ireland secretary. solis more going to have going underground. another russia gave bombshell fizzles this time. this prompted the intercept to write beyond ten worst most embarrassing us media failures on the trump russia storm as hatred trump destroyed the profession.

that's geysers financial but they say most of the delegates. close to these are this is a central plank support diagram is the problem right now so you stop to. welcome back joining me now to go through some of the week's top stories a broadcaster and former liberal democrat member of parliament lembit great strike at the ministry of justice united voices of the world but apparently one of your colleagues is in trouble yes. 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 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 department 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's dangerous times i should just say odds of just don't call been becoming the next prime minister a long line has seen those old spots and is warning us how to guard your wealth from corbin from inheritance to investing and income tax what labor plans if it comes to power this is project fear it large of a difference or not. 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 and graham she this week well. marxism and i have

a quote from the male here then jeremy corbyn 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 eighty 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 car if there's no lex or times that average rates could steal your income right because i didn't write obviously someone is frightened arguably the next story is what people should be more frightened of and darker times have returned belfast telegraph reports every car bomb fears of a return to the dark days of the troubles the city picks up the pieces now a group to say you were shattered more than a century ninety eight in two thousand and seven 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 this framing long who condemn violence but i should say as the bloody sunday march and various blogs say this sunday and the statistics from where you used to over see in parliament the three hundred eighteen thousand in poverty ninety three thousand children in poverty that's according to the northern the government of northern the highest. in a fuel poverty in britain got to do a set of level doubling of excess winter deaths as twenty fifteen it's into this right away that all this bricks and border stuff. 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 there 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's it 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 bricks that i presume inaugurated or the other 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 lost 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 of of 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 only iran is only a tense situation obviously accepting the idea of what i'm saying you know no 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 might grow in. and you know we're meeting in paris today alice to put giving evidence on the humanitarian situation in syria i'm sure we'll be talking about the dead people in damascus this week but about this so we could have a map of the world with u.s. bases or u.k. bases and say u.k.

here and then. where we are britain is if we can use. germany oman what do you think israel really means presumably they thought it was mildly amusing no one's laughing about this in damascus where the bombs are dropping and many of those bombs come from israel. well while u.k. armed israeli soldiers fired missiles at syria u.k. armed soldiers from saudi arabia and the u.a.e. bombed the poorest country in the middle east yemen there was no warning for those living in the yemeni capital of this week's strikes 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 set 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 a fight that has withdrawn from the port and then the saudis were supposed to withdraw from east of the city all that pressure was from the international media for the muslim world the united nation and other country were supporters within it was all. 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 a threat of another attack from saudi backed forces well what you just said is not what nature or nation media here is. for instance the guardian saying martin griffiths he was surprised of the breakthrough and struck. iran is fully backing the 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 people in sanaa because saudi arabia has not conducted a strike on sun city itself for or maybe more than a month or two months but of course there were the many. in the rural area of other cities that are under the control of. the whole thing. out of them into artillery shell. has not stopped one day and they have as well targeted all the rest of the targets were civilian. targets like they have targeted. blasting factory north of sanaa they have as well targeted. 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 gods on the same time 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 the united kingdom actually condemn the saudi because the saudi according to the guardian has increased weapon sales by five hundred. during the war in yemen yes but i suppose jeremy hunt a foreign secretary went to stalk him 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 here 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 what if it will help saudi we have seen what they wanted the state and not a kingdom done after the brutal killing of jamal in saudi 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 said that they have targeted a factory that good u.s. . drones which is the hope they have started to do us part of you can other than 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're 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 we did at coalition straight away off 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 have died more than that according to un agencies but even those say teresa mayes husband philip may makes money out of the selling of on. they used on your country jeremy hunt the foreign secretary has announced his giving and i know that britain has sold four point seven billion pounds of arms and the beginning of the conflict journey home to saying two point five million pounds of aid is going to human reason to celebrate i mean this

is as we say in yemen. insult to injury because i mean what would what william and his do with two point five millions we i mean the if the united kingdom really want to help pm any they should stop their weapons supplies to saudi arabia because sixteen. thousand four hundred in many civilians has been killed directly by the us strike a huge amount of this bomb on fighter jet made in the united kingdom according to unicef 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 two hundred fifty thousand has died because of the saudi blockade on 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 so did it 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 on to say i will 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 is not called them any coalition of tourism is government has not asked for. 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 the region

yes we. just want to mention that for members of. who are supporting al qaida they would have they were introduced to by united states treasury list one of them is the adviser of head of the party. he was a member of the head the government delegation to geneva two. i think maybe one one yet another forty 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 mudd it. those four people are announced by the united states allegedly that they are terrorist supporting terrorism and those people are actually leading the saudi backed forces in al jawf . and they go every now and then to the idea so it's really strange how

can the united states united kingdom actually claim that they are fighting al qaeda anywhere especially in while they are supporting the saudi to fight. using al-qaeda to fight the holy especially in the in the west coast of yemen in the data most of the fighters are from al qaeda from extremist islamic group from isis and i mean everybody everyone in yemen knows that so i think the united kingdom it just want to destroy yemen the same way they have destroyed syria the same way they have destroyed iraq there was no al-qaeda our 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. we'll try and get the u.s. ambassador the saudi ambassador and obviously the three people that you in the united states alleges are affiliated to al qaeda on the show thank you very much for the show will be back on saturday with the world health organization. health.

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