the ah, a stick investigation reveals that many of america's richest billionaires are avoiding taxes. but the u. s. revenue service seems more concerned with finding out who leads to the information you a for back tracks on its previous full approval of ukraine's controversial kit for the european football championships, saying a slogan on the player. shirts must now be removed. and on the eve of the delayed euro, 2020 toward them in the world health organization warned the 11 host donations to stay vigilant, and prevent a repeat of the coven upsurge seen last summer. ah!

around the clock news at the top of every hour. this is our international. i'm your host donald quarter. welcome to the program. now it's been revealed that a host of american billionaires have been evading taxes despite a surge in their wealth. during the pandemic, they expose a comes from a us independent journalist organization which received a leak from a whistleblower at the revenue service. that federal body has now launched an investigation. though as eager don reports, perhaps not the kind you might expect. 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 high and 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 is you able to become a billionaire and a millionaire, but 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 world 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's 25 fattest caps gave up to the i r. s. and if you want low look no further than jeff bases, and warren buffet, whose 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 up 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 remember 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 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. after whoever leak 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 their complete tax return is of politicians will be released next to many members of congress or very rich land, or 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 unused by the political leads as well as just for business. 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, governing body has back tracked on its previous full approval of ukraine's controversial kit for the, for the euro, 2020 finals, and a statement to r t. your way 1st said that the slogan, glory to the heroes must now be removed from the players. shirts, archie's constantine rush, cough explains why, 1st of all, this is quite unexpected. move from the way for the band, 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 ukrainian 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. gore to ukraine, which is seen on the outside of the shirt, can state 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 outraged by the design. this is another,

it's hand by cave state propaganda to consolidate in the public consciousness slogan that many korean brought associate with the ukranian insurgent army lead based upon bon dera and there are crimes during the 2nd world war. there is another thing about this. sure. it worth mentioning there is a map of ukraine on it would show its crimea as part of the country you 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 at 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 put in an image of a contest to 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 dmitri passing off,

who insisted that sports must stay out of politics. by the way, for said that they have nothing against them. ap euro 2020 kicks off in rome on friday night hand, as football fans flock to stadiums across europe. and although had limited capacity arenas, the world health organization is urging people to remain vege vigilant and launched and information campaign alongside unicef, highlighting ways to reduce the risk of coven 19 infection. there warning that despite the tourism sector now slowly reopening, people will still need to exercise caution when traveling and avoid confined or crowded spaces. my colleague rory survey spoke with rob butler, director of the w. h o regional office for europe. he says people need to bear in mind the optic in cases that happened last summer. last year we were in exactly the same place. and we saw a phenomenal resurgence, cobit 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's basically represents about 28 percent of the european population that are vaccinated with one dose backseat. so with, from safe we've just got to be so sensitive to be able to change our restrictions and our policy in the course of the, of the epidemiology. as we see this academic g emerge. and in the past, i think that many members of being slow to respond to that as early signals. the summer suns campaign is essentially all about people staying safe. 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 we find ourselves 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 has been hardships u. k is education, secretary has slammed the behavior of some oxford university students as quote, simply absurd. that top, they took down a portrait of queen elizabeth the 2nd from their colleges, common room, claiming they found it offensive since it quote represented the country's colonial past. the president of the college says the picture was removed after a vote,

which itself was the initiative of the students. he added it should be put up to the student body to decide on such issues. however, one committee member who argued against the motion said, quote, effectively cancelling the queen sent out a message, a dire message. the removal comes as the british head of stage prepares to mark 7 decades on the throne next year. and we put this incident 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 you know, everybody feel that the queen. but that's something that they don't believe in their colonialism. inherited well, systems lack of memory, talk to see if they don't want that they haven't being disrespectful to the queen. i think there's a lot of this kind of talk of disrespect and i even know what you respect. that's

not a 2nd piece. the comment is what has caused a prince was not that they making to make them feel welcome. it is the fact that it was the slides from the queen, the saying that she represents the colonial pass and that's why they remove the portrait. there was no reason for them to causes 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, they took the portrait down. i think that people need to just respect that. and if it hadn't been blown up in the way it was, there wouldn't be this great thing about it. i don't believe so much. so any comments about a portrait, whereas the outrage being about a queen, who am please charles, you've looked over 1000 laws in the past and been able to to change some of them. i think we're going talk about mark receive. let's start with that. i didn't think

that there's extreme cultural extremism 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 extremist views, that i would never encourage. a man in southwest france has been sentenced to 4 months in jail for slapping a manual micron in the face. the incident happened earlier this week when the french leader was trying to drum up support for his pre election campaign. the key thing given a formal sentence behind fours, but in fact, the truthful sentence was for a team of 14 months and that will be suspended for the next few years. now this

offence, so a so committee to get somebody in the public authority could have seen him behind bars for 3 years and find a 45000 years. some people may think that this is potentially lenient. however, thought sentence comes with other conditions. for the next 5 years, tara will not be allowed to hold any weapons here in france. he will be deprived of his civic right. so things just 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 who did 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 tuesday, answering many questions that the judge posed. he described himself as a patriot and he talked about what was going through his head at the time when he

slapped president michael in the call. 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, no point in the court hearing did he just said she had just sorted the president of the french republic. the even describe that assault as being a role the violence left. and she said that the point where you 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 miko saying that he represented the downfall of the country. so he talked about people feeling injustices under president michael's mandate. so what do we know about this 28 year old book, quite

a lot from that 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 pitches 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 gave them a copy of his memoirs. mine kept 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 whole course. and he said it wasn't because he was a revisionist of history, but he didn't approve of censorship. and because they was sensitive, he wanted to go and see them. and she talked about his links with the yellow vessel . quite a myriad of information coming 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 back a sold on president michael not to let you be assaulting president michael, but for allegedly filming the incidents 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 a range on his home, where there have been allegations he held illegal fire owns. but for the moment, damian taro, who's the man who slapped, present moscow and assaulted him while mac was on his tudor front silly this week, will now be off to jail. to spend the 1st of the next month behind boss phil ahead

in the program, european law makers push for sanction against the fellow roots over the diversion of a re an airplane. and they're also pointing the finger at russia more on that after the short break. ah, financial survival guy. i don't buy a i buy. i'm a futures. that's not an almost friday at the last time i buy it from the future. so watch kaiser report. horrible driven by dreams shaped by those in

me thing. we dare to ask me. ah, we're here in saint petersburg at the international economic form. and the topic of our program is the global economy. how is it changed since coven, for the winter, for the loses? what are the challenges and what are the opportunities the welcome back to the program. now the european parliament has passed a resolution calling for further sanctions on bell roofs over the recent diversion of a civilian aircraft from european union airspace. the document also calls for measures

against russia for supporting minsk the european parliament reminds president putin of the consequences of further supporting the regime of alexander lucas shanker, highlights in this context, the importance of introducing further sanctions against the russian federation for its role in supporting the by the russian regime, the european parliament calls for an urgent investigation into this unprecedented act of state terrorism against an e. u. registered civilian aircraft. such an investigation should explore the possibility that russian nationals played a part in the terrorist acts perpetrated by the bell of our regime. now a short recap of what happened on may 23rd of rianne air flight from greece to lithuania, was forced to make an emergency landing in bella, ruth's over a bomb threat that turned out to be a hoax. 2 people were then taken off the plane and arrested the editor of a bell, russian pro opposition telegram channel, and his russian girlfriend. european countries responded by banning flights to and

from bella ruth and ordering plains to avoid the countries airspace. claims of russian role in the diversion of the aircraft have not so far been backed up by any evidence, and the kremlin has denied any involvement. we got reaction on the resolution from martin dulls are a member of the hamburg parliament. to playing russia something red in this way, you can go forward, but it will not lead to a dialogue. all this will not lead to strengthen one for you all. she'll claim to be sure thing to international law and resort thing to human rights, but that different economical type than to the union. so it will not out the civilian so much. but i think it's even strange to look at check and it will not lead to kind of regime change which is wanted by the union. we shall go deeper into another like this when we see that the european union at the us try to do

color revolution and ukraine and then georgia. now embed sanctions. and this is the contrary of the dialogue and as well the person who was put into prison from the era play was someone who was working with the rec, recommend, which is a passion, recommend in the crying as you want the blog. so i think it's not the right way to bring down a plane to, to get to get to a person like that. the united states is due to complete its withdrawal from afghanistan in 3 months time, but it's reportedly keeping open the option of air strikes beyond that date. if couples in danger of falling into the hands of the taliban. and on top of that, the secretary of state has even admitted it's not a complete withdrawal. i don't think that the fact that our forces are withdrawing

one. we're not withdrawing. we're staying the embassy staying. our programs are staying. we're working to make sure that other partners stay, we're building all of that up and whatever happens and understand if there is a significant deterioration. insecurity that could well happen. we've discussed this before. i don't think it's going to be something that happens from a friday to a monday. so i wouldn't necessarily equate the departure of our forces in july or august or by early september with some kind of immediate deterioration in the, in the situation. u. s. military says it's taken more than half of its personnel out of afghanistan since april. now the pull out was supposed to be concluded on may 1st after a 2 decade presence in the country. but joe biden pushed that deadline back to september 11th, which will mark exactly 20 years since the 911 terrorist attacks that led to the u

. s. war on terror. anti war activists. brian becker thinks the latest warnings from the pentagon are essentially an admission of defeat. this report indicates that there is a fierce debate going on within the pentagon and within the administration. and one would expect to be in debate because by exiting afghanistan finally, which the u. s. should do. and so also an acknowledgement that the u. s. has lost the war. if the u. s. has been bombing taliban positions while it was occupied with large numbers of military forces and u. s. military bases in afghanistan for 2 decades. and that did not defeat the taliban. why would the resumption of air strike after the u. s. is gone. why would that be effective militarily? so what's happening is, the pentagon and the by the ministration are now pointing fingers and debating and trying to provide some semblance of a plan

b when they leave. and should the country fall to the taliban? if in fact, the afghan military can't sustain itself, which is very likely, the fact of the matter is the u. s. has lost the war, and the u. s. is leaving, which they had to do eventually. but it's never easy for politicians or generals to take responsibility. thus the proclamations by blinking and others that somehow the us present will still remain. i don't think so. in other news, israeli police used stun grenades on thursday to disperse hundreds of palestinians who gathered in jerusalem's old city to protest against the visit of a of a leading far right politician. the trouble is triggered by right wing lawmaker. bend your visit to a predominantly muslim area of jerusalem. he came to denounce a band on a nationalist march through flash point areas of the city that are witnesses, flashes between israeli forces and palestinians in recent months. please use tear

gas and stun grenades to disperse the protesters around a dozen people were reportedly arrested. ortiz, correspondent deleon murray, witnessed events unfold. i've luckily got now and i got israel. the police have just brutally dispersed people here. they use crowd control weapons including don grenade i ship and even use them against journalist. several of phosphor injured by stand grenades that exploded near us. it seems that israel, the forces continue to go off the journalist to report on these events. they don't differentiate between journalists and demonstrators. israeli forces us to get to day to disperse protesters and the vehicle with suge water. they sprayed it at everyone gather here. people gather here at the damascus gauge region. often israeli rights activists and kinetic member came here violating a rule. and by the rally government he came here karen and his val. it's like more details and your top new stories. you can always check out our website, r t dot com or follow up on your favorite social media platform. we'll be back with

more news in just about 30 minutes. so stay tuned. the ah, the ah, ah, the, i don't know. i mean there's some fits in there were rescuing the food that they

were not scabbing or were rescuing resources that are still good. this is best buy march 21st, which is in 2 days. all these potatoes, paula pianos, onions, all of these came from waste ground sources. this is great for me because i'm always looking for a way to give things away. dr. because the tax laws, you know, definitely do benefit the wealthier people and our society. so that makes sense for them to throw it out right off rather than give it to somebody who could use it. and then that person is not going to buy it. the lawyer, john little as well acquainted with the federation. history has made it his mission to fight for justice for the victims of sexual abuse and sport.

he has worked on countless cases in sports such as jim now sticks, diving, fencing and field hockey. but there has been more lawsuits against usa swimming than against any other federation. well, these are, these are the stuff in swimming. this stuff is pretty old. this is 80 to 92, which guys me my cannot keep track of all the swimmers that called me over the years. there's too many john has all kinds of documents in his files such as this confession from 986 signed by a coach. i recur, declare of my own free will and volition that i have had sexual intercourse with minor kelly m davies. rick earl was one of the top american coaches. a victim was 15. despite the lawsuit. 8 years later, he was appointed coach of the year, and he worked for another 26 years before finally being sentenced to 7 years in

prison. little files also include a dispatch from associated press reporting, the exclusion of mich ivy. a former olympic champion turned coats from his club for having intimate relations with several under age athletes. one of them later became his wife. usa swimming only excluded him in 2013 sean hutchinson. george kidney jack nelson. charles of robbers. the roll call goes on us swimming, covered up dozens of cases. you know, if you were just some average coach here in indianapolis and you got arrested from what the kid they would kick you out of swimming very simply. if you are a good coach, however, somebody like sean hutchinson, they handled or ever do, or rick earl or mic, dr. be fill in the blank. if you are a successful coach that produced metals and money for them, they.