the the, the thing investigation reveals a host of america's riches. billionaires are avoiding taxes this by getting richer the, the us revenue service seems more concerned with finding out who leaked this fact and rails against expansion and the commission treatment of russia and ukraine. in a comprehensive interview with summit with joe biden, university students remove an image of queen elizabeth the 2nd from the college common room citing it's linked to the colonial past. the move has been condemned for the countries education minister as absurd. we put the issue of the debate. the queen is the head of our country. so i think it's a great, really, really great shame come to this being respectful, creating that they made their vote. they took the poetry out. i think that people need to just

i i that great to have your company been here in moscow. this is been revealed, a host of billionaires on america's rich list have been avoiding taxes despite the surgeon wealth they expose a comes from a us independent journalist organization which itself received a leak from the revenue service. that bodies now launched an investigation though not because you might have expected or this is dawn of explains. there has been generations of american politicians repeating one mantra about how they should tax the rich. we will demand that the wealthy and large cooperation thought paying their fair share of taxes. it's time for a well in america. america's tax code is

a total dysfunctional mess. it is riddled with loopholes that lead some special interests, including myself in all fairness is going to cost a fortune this they believe me, i think, is you able to become a billionaire in a millionaire? pay your fair share, repeated over and over again. it's almost like every bit here was taken out of some secret tax spell book and like any spell these failed to conjure a real well result. pay keel and mosque between 20142018. his wealth balloon, by almost $14000000000.00. guess how much he paid in taxes, a whooping 3.27 percent. and if you think that slow, no, that's actually pretty average. that's how much america's 25 fattest cats gave up to the i r. s. and if you want low look no further than jeff bases, and warren buffet,

who's true tax rate barely hovered above 0. i continue to believe that the tax code should be changed substantially. huge dynastic wealth is not desirable for our society. yeah, that moment when your taxes are so low, even you can't help but feel like a bit of a crock. and all of this was lead to journalists at pro public, and the rest is investigating spoiler alert, not the billionaires. there is an investigation with respect to the allegations that the source of the information in the article came from the internal revenue service and remote this dude, he founded so concerned about the upper crust of american society. not paying that fast share. well, that was before the league, he is what his office is concerned with. now. any unauthorized disclosure of confidential government information by a person has access is illegal. and we take this very seriously. and the i r s. are

referring the matter to the office of the inspector general, the treasury inspector general for tax administration, the f b. i and the us attorney's office for the district of columbia, all of whom have independent authority to investigate all the talk about is how the persecution machine is in full bounty hand mode off to whoever leak the figures and completely ignoring the substance. i think there's a few reasons why authorities you're focusing on the data release and not the content. what explanation is that, you know, they're concerned about the possibility that they're complete. tax return is of politicians will be released next to many members of congress are very rich landers . i don't know the possibilities. they're not saying anything is because there's nothing to say. i mean, there's numerous tax advantages for the super wealthy. they're intentionally within the tax code. they're perfectly legal and yeah, some of them are known by and used by the political leads as well as successful business b. and yes, most of those hundreds of billions in equity. it's not like jeff basis has

a scrooge mcduck style dungeon with mountains of dollars. but with an average us household paying sometimes 10 times more than they do in taxes, the system just doesn't look so good. out of line with basic international human law that sound the russian president as described de, draft ukrainian law on the indigenous people. it provides protection and self determination rise to some of ukraine's ethnic groups, but not to others, including millions of russians, and a major interview on russian state tv. that image patient explains why the law could pose a threat to them. nice that i've seen this draft and one of the articles and it saves that native ethnicity cannot be discriminated against the general legal principle that whatever is not prohibited is legal. does that mean non native ethnicities can be discriminated against? that includes russians, but also romanians pulls from gary and so it's absolutely unacceptable and it's out of line with basic international human law. it's bad for everyone,

but promotions. it has a special significance. the thing is millions of people living in ukraine identifies russian. that's according to the sense of conduct during the soviet era, and i don't think much has changed and then a no more want to be a 2nd class citizen that will lead to hundreds of thousands or maybe even millions of people leaving ukraine or changing the nation out in legal documents, it will be a huge blow to russian people in general. and we certainly cannot just ignore that . 2 of the key topics that came up in that wide range interview, where the expansion of nato and russia's relations would decry it, had had a much anticipated summit between vladimir putin and us president joe biden, next week. my colleagues union, nila rodriguez. df disgusting in to be one of the chief concerns that glad we have with, with this new draft flow, is that it is reminiscent of the practices and methods of nazi germany, which is dividing people based on that genetic makeup that atlanta city. affording

some groups, protection and perhaps prosecuting others. and let me putin here said the what's, what's a kid of mixed heritage with mix pads. what is, what is he to choose as a he's got a russian father and the ukranian mother does. he choose russian ukrainian because he'll be afforded protections with one and with the other. he will perhaps be discriminated again. so the, the, the entire thing is of tremendous concern to russia, especially given the millions of russians live when you create nato expansion mara, to expand on as well. both of them are putting in the integrated vladimir putin says that now the argument for nato expansion, strengthening nasal is rushes aggressive behavior. but like i said, look at the, the decades gone the last few decades, they were 2 cycles of nato expansion. wow. russia in the west, wild, russia and they do what fred, while they were friends with each other. and here, let me put and also remember cuba. because cuba,

when the soviet union station nuclear weapons, there was a huge red line for the united states. russia was eventually remove those nuclear weapons, but somehow, when the united states and they to encroach on russia closer and closer and closer to russia's borders, somehow they don't see that as being of concern to russia. vladimir putin says that it is a financial expansion. and his infrastructure getting close to jewish borders is an extremely important issue for the security of all russians and for country it has a practical significance for us. why is that? when pull into romania became nato member states, they quickly agreed to americans, missile defense systems been stationed on their territory. but the launch pads used for those systems can also be used for offensive weaponry. can reach central russia, including moscow within a very short timeframe. 15 minutes. imagine if ukraine was to become a nato member, it would then take 7 to 10 minutes. if such missiles with stations stay near, hark of ordinary patrols to reach moscow. is that the red line for us or not?

no, russia has been attack enough times to either for nuclear weapons and of odds of an international coalition. encroaching, moving closer and closer to russia to start bringing alarm bells and on the snow. let me know. 2 talks about your grades prospect of joining nato obsession really objectively speaking in last several years here, he remarked on one incident, several days ago when barton and the ukrainian president spoke by phone, they issued very different press statements at the end. biden said they talked about corruption and guaranteeing you credit territory integrity and the ukrainians claim that they also do. but also said that he would, he was in support of offering the ukraine a roadmap to join, to join naval. the americans press the gradients to remove that and said we said nothing of the sort. and that incident caused a lot of jokes in russia and expert circles in the press. vladimir putin said that

he for one wasn't laughing because we don't know what was in that pool. and the behavior of ukraine and nato is such that it suggests that ukraine potentially will, could be offered neighbor membership a native. so let me put and says that those, those are red line for russia that need to infrastructure and perhaps even nuclear weapons moving into ukraine for russia. that is an absolute red lot you case education secretary slammed the behavior of some oxford university students as simply absurd. after they took down the portraits of queen elizabeth the 2nd from their college common men, claiming they found a defensive since it represented the country's colonial past. they said the president of the college in questions as the picture was removed, following a vote, which itself was the initiative of students these days? british educational institutions typically do not display the queen's portrait though some cambridge knocked for college still do. the protest removal comes as

the queen prefers the mach 72 years on the throne. next year we put the issue of the debate. the queen is the figurehead of our country. so i think it's a great, really, really great seamus. come to this, not about the queen and also wherever the stuff that you know, everybody feel that the queen. but for that it's something that they just don't believe in their colonialism inherited well. system lockheed meritocracy. so if they don't want that to happen, being disrespectful to the queen, i think there's another and this kind of talk of disrespect and, you know, you respect that, that's not a 2nd piece between the comment that has caused the prince was not the but they making to make them feel unwelcome, it is the fact that it was the slight upon the queen,

the saying she represents the colonial pass and that's why they remove the portrait . there was no reason for them to cause his fuss. they could just remove portrait, but instead of going public and making this no pretty vile insult to, to the queen they made, they took the portrait down. i think that people need to just respect that. and if it hadn't been blown up in the news of the way it was, there wouldn't be the great a talk about it. i don't believe so much. so any comments about a portrait was the out wage being about the queen, who am please charles, he looked over 1000 laws. it will that be past and be unable to change some of them . i think we're going talk about and mark received. let's start with that. i didn't think that was extreme culture extreme as in, in, in the universities. but they should be freedom of speech and respect for different views. that's important. there shouldn't be in my, in my humble opinion, sent to ship, imposed by, by stopping some speakers just because they don't like they're not liked with some

of their views. as long as they're not extremis fields that i would never encourage . sanitation workers in paris of overturned trash, containers and storm the district mass office during a city wide strike. the protest is there a furious about new labor reforms that trade unions say will reduce and you will leave an increase working out of district mass denounced the rises totally unacceptable. sturdy measures were approved by president mac crumbs cabinets in 2019. their aim is claimed to cut some 120000 civil service jobs over a period of 3 years. we discussed the reason to arrest the triggers in france with political commentator. and elizabeth may take it's not just essentially resistant to change has to come. it's also the,

the sort of during the war between the mayor of paris and he does go on the president mccormick who wants to streamline the finances of the country. he boasted this before the covered crisis, the curve is quite that much more difficult because we so much there is frustration . i mean, you have lots of contradictory messages. he is very popular with people with whom he isn't popular and he still has a very important rump of people who will support and he's very pro rising and divisive. in many ways. i think they all were it all polls the so when over most but not all candidate. but it's much more narrow who want to get now got old that give him within the margin of error to 52 percent for him. 48 percent for hot and considering the size of the sample. it is within the multitude of arrows. and yet you were it going up to you in germany law cones, over whose laws have supremacy with brussels threatening, legal action against berlin. that story and them all after the break.

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things we dare to ask me. ah, ah. ah . mocha back, the russian navies carrying out operational exercise in the pacific ocean. some 20 will ships, submarines, and support vessels as well as the aircraft are taking part the vessels of traveled up to 4000 kilometers from the home bases. the main purpose of these exercises is to coordinate a diverse task force a considerable distance. meanwhile, the new polls found the pandemic as battered trust in the

e. u. the survey was commissioned by the european council and they found citizens are unhappy with the blogs early response to the pandemic. and with the sluggish vaccination campaign, and the number of member states, more than half of those surveyed said they had low confidence in the union. but many respondents also said they were even more disappointed with the national politics. in the meantime, this more trouble brewing for the block as a spat about the priority. if e you over national law is turned ugly. brussel threatening legal action against germany. last year, the country constitutional court rubbed the you up the wrong way by ruling that its debt purchasing scheme might be illegal. but we'd like to reverse that decision to oliver explains government bond buying or put it much simpler the buying of, of debt. here in europe, we're talking about trillions of euro worth of it to prop fiscally, we could countries at the expense of low, so you perform better economically. here in germany, they've never been

a big fund over it. and now the european commission in brussels is issued a legal rap on the nose to berlin after germany. constitutional court dare to challenge the european central banks. money printing plans. after having conducted a detailed analysis and following an informal dialogue to german forties. the commission is therefore decided today to send a letter form a notice to germany for violation of fundamental principles of you law by the federal constitutional court. to get to the bottom of this, we have to go way back to the e. c. b, purchasing some 2.6 trillion euro worth of bonds, and all the securities between 20152018 with the intention of providing stimulus to the economies of the 19 e. u. member states that use the euro. this is where that conflict arises because the european court of justice in luxembourg describe the bond buying program is

legit and legal that was then questioned by a group of german conservatives in euro skeptics. they weren't sure about where and how german taxpayer money was being spent. eventually, the 16 judges of the federal constitutional court said b. c. b plans could go ahead. that's what has shocked some m. p. 's about b e u commission decision to push the matter further and publicly, while others see it is needed. i admit the case is very complicated, but it is fundamentally very, very simple. a sample that buys bonds with money printed by created by here, x needle. so they enlarge the monetary at space, and thereby they create great risk for inflation. prices have been rising for real estate everywhere. the effect is very much reflected in the example of american italy. italy can place it's her bonds and better condition than the united states

is america. there must be something wrong. yeah, this is a distortion of competition, which does not pay tribute to the real risks of italian bonds and american bonds. i think the main challenge of that ruling is that the european cation commission, which considers itself as the guardian of the treaty, cannot accept the national constitutional courts challenge of the european court of justice for the commission. the problem is, any court from any members state questioning, the primacy of a new law ought to be more accurate the precedent, the doing so would create this could threaten the integrity of union law and could open the way to europe a la carte. so you can union isn't, remains a community based on law, and the last word on the law is always spoken in luxembourg, it does seem as though the german government side are willing to take then knocks

on this one for the great to good of team. you, however, with you commission president ursula on the line set to hand a legal picking off to her form of both chancellor angle and merkle. there are some suggesting the commission president stepping out from under claim she may be still somehow beholden to berlin. patrol of a r t in the german capital. austrian police say the arrested 81 people as part of a global sting operation led by the us, the f. b i's claiming to have caught more than $800.00 criminals will wise, including arms and drug dealers by tricking them into using an encrypted up. an aside from last year rates taken place more than a dozen other current countries, including australia, where federal police worked alongside us intelligence. the app called a nom, was run by the f. b. i. security forces apparently got senior figures in organized

crime to use and promote it and allowed the intelligence agency to monitor communications between gangs f b i legal attach. shane austria hailed the sting as a major success. this operation demonstrates how the f, b, i and our international law enforcement partners can come together to successfully combat transnational organized crime and drug trafficking activity partnerships of the key to law enforcement. success has no one country or agency can tackle this problem alone. the operation almost broke down earlier in the year when anonymous blog posted an article calling on people to stop using the app of a safety concerns. his blog was then shut down, while australian officials defended the gallery of intercepting private messages. the countries police commissioner rece kershawn says it's the 1st time a law has been used to intercept telecommunications, the former ca, unless john kitty actually told us the way the authorities disguised public apps has been encrypted and secure. raises some serious issues. i think we should all

just assume that our communications, even our encrypted communications, are being monitored pretty much all communications apps can be used by law enforcement or by intelligent services, despite on average people in these organizations like an essay and g, c, h, q, and cia there they're working on things that we we can only imagine we can only fantasize about. we have no idea the scope of the technology that they have access to. and so i don't think it's ever safe for the average person. the reason that they say they do it is that it's to keep us safe. it's to allow law enforcement to collect information on possible terrorist attacks or criminal activities. but that's not the way the constitution works. all platforms are compromised, and that's why we should always be so careful. in our private communications.

moscow court has outlawed organizations founded by alex in yvonne the the court ruled that the russian opposition figures, political network was extremist. he's really been trying to get reports. the russian prosecutors have been highlighting the extreme as nature as they are putting it. the organizations led and founded by opposition activists elect saying the vomit, according to the authorities, the so called novalis h queues and also the anti corruption funds that are labeled as foreign agents. in this country were regularly behind on law for demonstration rallies and other unsanctioned gatherings that often lead to unrest and even violence in some cases. so these are the key reasons why the fund is being fully banned in this country. earlier members of the anti corruption font elect scene of all these

allies announced that they were wrapping up the activity of their network in its present form because of the enormous pressure that they were experiencing from the rushing state. like st and evolving himself is currently serving a 3 year sent in for violating the terms of a suspended sentence. that's something that he received earlier as a result of a fraud case. western governments have long been accusing moscow of being after mister nevada and the organizations that he has been in charge of for political reasons. and this led to serious cracks in moscow relations with the you and the west for example. but the russian side maintain, that the legal action against the prominent opposition figure is fully within the washing legal framework and is only related to the crimes that have been committed by like teen evolving himself and his political network. let me rather today, thanks for company. i'll return in half now.

the the as a korea professionals board is much tougher on some than others. she was year old myer by everybody. so why would somebody believe me, i was just a little girl. the price paid to, to, to achieve really was was how to read in the paper this morning. usa swimming coach, arrested, allegedly had sex with a 12 year old girls. this happens almost every week. we get calls at the office. i get informed about one of my greatest fears is someone's going to start linking all

this together. there's going to be a 60 minute documentary about youth coaches in sports like gymnastics swimming. is that documentary? see it on our to you join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guess in the world. the politics sport. business. i'm show business. i'll see you then me one of the worst ever mass shootings in america was in las vegas in 2017. the tragedy a close a little of the real big. where many say elected officials are controlled by casino owners. the dangerous shooting revealed wet b. l. v. m p d really is, and now it's part of the spin machine to the american public barely remember that it happened just shows you the power of money in las vegas. the powerful showed

that true colors, when the pandemic had the most contagious contagion that we've seen in decades. and then you have a mayor who doesn't care. so here's caroline goodman, offering the lives of the vegas residents to be the control group, to the shiny facade concealer deep indifference to the people. by going to say that they would take an action. absolutely keep the registering and keep the slot machines doing. this is a money machine is a huge cash register that is ran by people who don't care about people's lives being lost. the hi. welcome to the kaiser report, imax taiser with stacy herbert here with our annual summer solutions where we dell

not no problems, but on the solutions they think, hey, right, well, i want to throw this question to tyson slocum. you know, joe biden has them as a slew of sort of renewable energy programs and infrastructure spend on renewable energy projects. i want to in particular, talk about in the last week or 2. he's announced an energy efficiency and clean electricity standard, mostly focused on utility companies. and the reason why the stood out to me is because you have been recently tweeting about paul singers, elliot management and his role in public utilities. and so, like, does it does elliot thing or does elliot management that therefore stand to benefit from us? and what do you think of biden's overall plan so far? yes, i'll start with biden's plan. i think it's, it's necessarily ambitious. the challenges he's going to need the support of

congress. and i think that's where the roadblocks going to be. we've already seen similar clean energy standard legislation be approved in the house of representatives. i think there's strong support in the house for this, but getting it through the stand it is going to be very difficult. even for democrats, senator joe mansion, a democrat from west virginia, he's in the senate democratic leadership. and more importantly, he's the chairman of the center of energy and natural resources committee. and he's very conservative. he's from a, a call and now big natural gas producing. and he is put the brakes on a lot of items, clean energy agenda. so i actually don't see good prospects biden's plan excessively, getting to congress this year. i think it's going to be debated. i think folks are going to.