completely dismantled after the tournament. ah, without hope headline, a spring investigation reveal that a host of america is a richest billionaires are avoiding taxes. the u. s. revenue service seems much more concerned with finding out who actually leave that information. you a for back track on its previous full approval of ukraine's controversial 2020 kit saying the slogan of glory to the heroes must now be removed from the play ocean. on the eve of the euro football tournament, the world health organization warns the 11 host nations to state vigilant, prevent a repeat of a code that upsurge seen last year. ah,

just after 7 pm here at moscow. of course, this is auntie international. thank you so much for joining us. we have your top headlines for this thursday. so it's been revealed that a host of billionaires on america is rich list have been avoiding taxes despite a huge surge and their wealth. and the expos comes from a us independent journalist organization which received a leak from a whistleblower at the revenue service. as body has now lost an investigation, though perhaps not exactly the kind you might expect as odd. he's eager to start off now explains. there is 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 me a fortune this they believe me. i think you should be able to become a billionaire and 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. take heal 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 is. 25 fatis cats gave up to the i r. s. and if you want low look no further than jeff basis and warren buffet, who's true tax rate bally 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 with 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 hunter mode off to whoever lee the figures and completely ignoring the substance. i think there's a few reasons why authorities you're focusing on the data relation, not the content. what explanation is that, you know, they're concerned about the possibility that they're complete tax return, as of politicians will be released next to many members of congress are very rich. 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. european football is governing body has back tracked on its previous full approval of ukraine's controversial 2020 kit . and a statement to us here at r t u. a. for the slogan, glory to the heroes must now be removed from the players shots discuss it earlier in the program with ortiz constantine or rush golf. first of all, this is quite unexpected. move from wayford to banned the use of this particular slogan on a newly unveiled kid of team ukraine for year 2020. because at 1st they approved it and they changed their mind only after public outcry and rti sans request. the way it's asking for clarification. why the main ruling body of european football let this happen and here their response, you a for then carefully considered the recently added slogan on the inside of the

color glory to our heroes. following further analysis, this specific combination of the 2 slogans is deemed to be clearly political in nature, having historic and militaristic significance. this specific slogan on the inside of the shirt must therefore be removed for use in you. a for competition matches. currently ukraine in football shirts have to captions on them glory to ukraine and glory to the heroes. the problem is that these phrases have dark history, dating back to world war 2, when it was used by ukrainian nazi collaborators to greet each other. the slogan on the inside, the one that now has to be removed is glory to the heroes. because as they explain, the combination of that with the other phrase can be deemed to be politically loaded or to ukraine, which is seen on the outside of the shirt. can stay the whole story around. the ukranian football uniform has kicked up some controversy with the russian football union along with the russian foreign ministry among those. i've raged by the design

. this is another, it's hand by cave state propaganda to consolidate in the public consciousness. a slogan that many korean brought associate with the ukranian insurgent army lead based upon bundy era. and there are crimes during the 2nd world war. there is another thing about that. sure. it worth mentioning there is a map of ukraine on it would show its crimea as part of the country. creating football authorities defended their decision, saying this will strengthen the players. they will quote unquote, fight for the whole of ukraine. now the thing is that the but in solar became a part of russia back in 2014 after referendum, which saw over 95 percent of the population voting in favor of the reunion. but the russia, ukraine as well as western countries, said that they don't recognize, developed, but given the context, putting an image of a contest region on a football jersey can be also seen as to have some political message to it. that's according to several russian football officials and even russian president spokesman. dimitri passed off,

who insisted that sports must stay out of politics. by the way, for said that they have nothing against the map. the hero 2020 tournament will be kicking off into rome friday night. and its fans flocked to stadiums all across europe. the world health organization is urging people to stay safe. as lawrence and information campaign alongside unicef on steps to reduce the risk of coven infection. there warning that despite tourism now opening up, people still need to exercise caution. when traveling and avoid confined or crowded spaces, i spoke with rob butler, director of the w. h o regional office for europe. he said europe needs to bear in mind the mistakes of last summer. last year we were in exactly the same place. and we saw a phenomenal resurgence covered following the summer. so this time we want to really take that lesson. there are only 400000000, i say only, but 400000000 practicing dosage administered in the european region. that basically

represent about 28 percent of the european population that are vaccinated with one dose of vaccines. so with bar from safe, we've just got to be so sensitive to be able to change our restrictions and responses in the course of the, of the epidemiology. as we see this academia g emerge. and in the past, i think it's hard to say many member states, i've been slow to respond to that as early signals. the summer suns campaign is essentially all about people saying it's clear that we're all very excited. someone come, we want to be together. we want to celebrate, we want to celebrate around certain tournaments, gatherings, even festivals that are taking place. but it's important that we do so in a safe way. people have already sacrificed so much over the past year and more. you know, kids missing out on schooling. millions of jobs lost. if the restrictions continue, do you think it's possible that could be some sort of fatigue,

fatigue is happening. it is natural. we can't do anything about it in the sense that it's going to happen in any prolonged situation. crisis situation, such as refined selves at the moment. we've understood a double check with our member states with the country save in europe. that this is all about how best we understand people engage them in the solutions that we're creating, allow them to live life, but reduced risk and also knowledge, the hardships, because boy, that's been hardships you case education secretary has slammed the behavior of some oxford university students as simply absurd, the thought they took on a portrait of queen elizabeth the 2nd from the ecologist common room claiming they found it offensive since he represents the country's colonial past. and the president of the college and question says the pitcher was removed after a vote, which itself was the initiative of the students. these days, british educational institutions typically don't display the queen's portrait or

some cambridge on oxford colleges still do the protest removal companies as the queen for pastor mach 7 decades on the throne next year. so here on ocoee international, we put the whole issue up for debate. the queen is the figurehead of our country. so i think it's a great, really, really great shames, come to this about the queen and also wherever the stuff that he speaks of not everybody feel that the queen, but that it's something that they just started believe. and colonialism represent inherited well. system lack of memory talk to see so if they don't want that they haven't being disrespectful to the queen. i think there's another of this kind of talk of disrespect. and even though you respect that, that's not a 2nd piece. the comment that is what has caused the prince was not the but they making to make them feel welcome. it is the fact that it was

the slides on the queen. the thing she represents, the clarity will pass and that's why they remove the pitch. the portrait there was no reason for them to cause this fuss. they could just remove portrait, but instead of going public and making this new pretty vile insult to up to the queen, they made their vote. 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 the way it was, that wouldn't be the great thing about it. i don't believe so much. so any comments about a portrait, where is the outrage being about the queen? who am please charles, you've looked over 1000 laws before that the past and been able to to change some of them. i think if we're going to go back and mark received that, let's start with that. i don't think there's extreme culture extremism in the, 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 extremist views that i would never encourage a us congressman has been sending different messages to different voters depending on the stance on the palestinian israeli conflict. democrat brad schneider described as terrorist to an email sent out to the pro israel camp. but he removed this description from those sent to palestine supporting recipients to them. he also wrote about his heartache for civilian lives, lost on both sides. whereas to israel support, as he said, he condemned the hamas rocket attacks in the strongest terms possible. the 2 versions of his campaign emails came to light after the pro palestinian letter was sent to a pro israel correspondent. so we spoke with arvin, barbara, a former libertarian party presidential candidate. he says, efforts to please both sides typically undermine both trust. it's fairly common for

people in american politics, unfortunately to try to pander to both sides of one issue. it's well known that the israel palestine conflict is a contentious issue. and officially, the american government is supporting israel by taking american tax money and using it to either just give israel direct aid, military aid weapons support. you name it the number of pro palestine and pro israel voters is much smaller than the number of people who just want to in 4 and 8 entirely. when you play both sides offense, the way he did, you're going to basically seem like a pander, or you're going to seem like you don't have any moral principles any moral conviction. now this is not just a problem for one individual who's the problem for the entire party. because democratic representatives and republican representative from the state, local and federal level have been doing this for a while. they've been trying to play both sides of the issue,

realizing they want to leave, alienate anybody brief from other have from all around the world and a way out in the pacific. the russian navy is carrying out operational exercises, some 20 warship, submarines, and support vessels as well as a number of aircraft are all taking part. the vessels have traveled up to 4000 kilometers from their home basis. the main purpose of these exercises is coordinating a diverse task force at considerable distance flashes in the peruvian capital 4 days after the presidential run off with the vote to close to call me delegations of valid fraud. as it sounds, the left wing candidate petro castillo was leading by less than a percent address. also in the columbia and capital, my thousands came out. so voice their anger at the government. a people have a host of gripes from new tax reforms and poverty to police brutality and not ever die. a health care, a 6 weeks of similar unrest have seen. now 21 people die. the

and you poll, found that the pandemic has back to trust in the e u. the survey was commissioned by that of the european council. it found that citizens are unhappy with the blocks early response to the pandemic with the e use sluggish vaccination campaign as well. now, in a number of member states, over half of those surveyed said they had low confidence in the union. but many respondents also said they were even more disappointed in that national politics. demetrius construct a couple of a former greek government adviser on east west relations, says there's a fundamental disconnect between the thinking in brussels and citizens across the block. from there is john. this paul and the she should gain do a divorce of mighty edge without love without passion. we have here an impressive discrepancy between what european should be living and what is the appreciate

ideology and she will remain european institutions. they do policies which are against the rule of the system occupant. but unfortunately, we don't care project and our political projects for adequate different european union because of this one is in europe is not the union and it is not working. and it is not also corresponding to the word europeans would like to to, to. meanwhile, there's more trouble growing for the block with brussels threatening legal action against germany. peter oliver shed some light government fund 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 is constitutional court dare to challenge the european central banks. money printing plans. after having conducted a detailed analysis and following an informal dial appears 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 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 conflicts to rise is 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 as needed. i admit the case is very complicated, but it is fundamentally very, very simple. a central bank buys bonds with money printed by created by here x needle. so they enlarge the money at space and thereby they create great risks facing prizes have been rising for real estate everywhere. the fact is very that reflected in the example of america, italy, italy can place its, her belongs at better conditions than the entities as an advocate. there must be something wrong. this is a distortion of competition,

which does not pay tribute to the real risks of italian bonds and american bonds. i think that 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 you commission. the problem is, any court from any member state questioning, the primacy of the 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. i look at your union is and remains a community based on law and the last for it 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 for the lines set to hand a legal picking off to her former boss, chancellor angle america. there are some suggesting the commission president stepping out from under claim she may be still somehow beholden to berlin patrol of a r c. and the german capital a man in southwest france has been sentenced to 4 months in jail for slapping and manual macro and in the face. it happened earlier this week when the president was trying to drum up support for his pre election campaign. the group we cannot afford to live to us. he shall ado buskey in paris. charlotte. it took only 2 days for this man to get a jail sentence. it all happened very, very quickly. can you bring us up to date place?

that's why he's been given a formal sentence behind fours, but in fact, the total sentence was for 18 months, 14 months, and that will be suspended for the next few years now based offense. so a so committed against somebody in the public authority could have seen him behind bars for 3 years and find that 45000 years. some people may think that this is potentially lenient. however, that sentence comes with other conditions. for the next 5 years, tara will not be allowed to hold any weapons hearing from he will be deprived of his specifics, right? so things such as voting for the next 3 years and he will be banned from exercising or being in the public office as well. as that, the judge ordered that he had to undergo work over the next 2 years and also needed psychological care. now taro spoke at length to the court on thursday,

answering many questions that the judge posed. he described himself as a patriot and said that he talked about what was going through his head at the time when he slapped president miko in the car. when we were waiting, we planned to do something striking to challenge him on political matters to take a yellow vest or french flag. but we changed our minds well, at no point in the court hearing, did he dispute that she had just sorted the president of the french republic, the even describe that assault as being a roll them violent love? and he said that the point where he did it was filled with disgust that seeing president black calling. when i saw his sympathetic and lying gaze, which wanted to make a voter of me, i was filled with disgust. i think my reaction was a little bit impulsive, but my words had an impact,

micron and all the yellow vests. and the patriots he had quite a lot to say about president mac go saying that he represented the fall of the country . so he talked about people feeling injustices under president michael's mandate a room front. and he talked about this slap as being something that was for the french people putting did say that his action was regrettable. so what more do we know about this 28 year old will quite a lot from not court hearing today, much of what he said confirmed of what we've been hearing in the french press for the last few days, including the facts of pictures at his home were found as him dressed up as well because i asked him why that was. he said it was for showing his girlfriends, his friends. he described it as being a bad joke. he admitted to the court that he'd give them a copy of pitiless memoirs might come to a friend as

a gift. he talked about the fact that he accessed illegal world war 2 sites. these are the sorts of sites which deny you the holocaust. and he said it wasn't because he was a revisionist of history, but he didn't approve of censorship. and because they was sense that he wanted to go and see them. and he talked about his links with the yellow vector quite a myriad of information being out in the court today. meanwhile, president michael has spoken for the 1st time about this assault. he said it was important to put this in perspective. he knew a pinch of salt, but he did describe it as being violent and foolish. we must not pretend this incident was anything more than an isolated act. there are people in society to day who can be violent at one time or another. now there was a 2nd individual arrested pulling that assault on president miko not to let you be

assaulting president michael. but for allegedly filming the incident and putting it on twitter off the see, he's not due to come to court until next year. and he faces all the charges supplementary following re tony's home, where they have been allegations he held illegal firearms. but for the moment, damian taro, who is the man who slacks present moscow and assaulted him while michael was on his 2 front silly this week, will now be off the jail to spend the 1st of the next 4 month behind boss charlotte whiskey in paris. thank you. 9 years office severing ties with syria. saudi arabia is reportedly close to normalizing relations with the us government. according to reports in the region. the mood in the house of saud has changed and senior royals, including prince mohammed, ben feldman,

and now willing to re engage with the president busha. alas, no deal has been confirmed, but there's plenty of work on going behind the scenes last month. saudi arabia's intelligence chief visited damascus and met with his counterpart the 1st time that's happened in a decade. and in turn, syria dispatched his 1st ministerial delegation to re add or we can now speak with a dollar our more allow me the saudi arabia permanent representative to the united nations in new york. it's great to have you with us on our international today. thank you. for joining us for the program, this all sounds very positive. saudi arabia reportedly close to normalizing relations with syria. can you confirm that? and if so, why is it in your interest to do so? thank you very much for hosting me. i cannot confirm that at the moment because as you said, if there is anything it is being discussed privately who would like to normalize relations with see if the conditions that lead to the breakdown and

the provider relations of change the condition of the suffering of the people and the continued attack by the f o, but as against the population and the injustice that is being faced by hundreds of thousands of syrians if not millions. so if the circumstances change, then of course we would change the situation regarding the relations between the 2 countries. we go back a long way. we have a lot of bonds in terms of the people to be from bonds, language, religion, history, everything. so when i say the process is for us to have good relations with c, as in the situation with out of countries. well, i think it's,

i think it's commendable. i think it's commendable. so forgive me for interrupting, but i think it's commendable that you guys are trying to rebuild relations now. i also think it's fantastic what you say about the millions of civilians affected in syria as well, but by this war. and it's great if saudi arabia is confirmed that it is trying to re bridge its relationship with that of syria. but i wanted to ask, you wouldn't have been better if saudi arabia had actually stood by our side a decade ago and potentially prevented the civil war. and the rise of multiple terrorist groups in syria, you just raised concern for the millions of syrians affected saudi arabia could have help. had you not got involved 10 years ago, don't you think? how could we have supported assets in his onslaught against the syrian people? how could we have supported in attacks against civilian population and it's and demonstrators, if you recall, one of the difficulties the problems in syria started with young children and young

men and women demonstrating in the streets asking for simple rights. and they were faced with tanks and machine guns. i think it blanked out on it that anyone would suggest that maybe i should have supported this kind of force by, by the you know, you know, very well, 2011. the arab spring was roaring across the region, the arab spring and 2011. the egyptian lead, a deposed the 2 nicea leader deposed. all these forces that and started marching towards syria. i mean, it's ultimately a ca, playbook kind of langley virginia, that of regime change to get rid of a side. i mean, i understand you saying that his father, hafez assad was bad, potentially oppressive, and hard line ruler. but president, charlotte is an ophthalmologist and a british trained doctor. so what he did not truck singleton ology.