me, the ah thing 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 leaked to the information away fall back track saw its previous fall 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 hero, 2020 tournament the world health organization war and the 11 host nation, to stay vigilant and prevent a repeat of the covert upsurge the last summer. ah!

run 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 invading taxes despite a surge in their wealth. during the pandemic expose a comes from a u. s. independent journalist organization which revealed which received a leak from a whistleblower at the revenue service that federal body has now launched an investigation though as eager dot reports. perhaps it's 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 what taxes is high and for a well in america. american tax code is

a total dysfunctional mess. it is riddled with loopholes that let some special interests during myself. in all fairness is going to cost me 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 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 is. 25. fattest 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 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 remember this dude, he founded so concerned about the upper crust of american society, not paying their fair 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 hand mode off to whoever leak the figures and completely ignoring the substance. i think there's a few reasons why authorities are focusing on the data relation, not the cons. what explanation is that, you know, they're concerned about the possibility that they're complete tax returns of politicians will be released next to many members of congress are 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 and used by the political leads as well, successful 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 footballs governing body has back tracked on its previous full approval of ukraine's controversial kit for the euro. 2020 finals in a statement to r t. your way 1st said that the slogan, glory to glory, to the heroes must now be removed from the player. shirts. and our cheese konstantin ross called, explains why, 1st of all, this is quite unexpected. move from your way for 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 to waive . asking for clarification, why the main ruling body of european football let this happen and here's 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, degrees 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 it 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 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 this. sure. it worth mentioning there is a map of ukraine on it would show its crimea as part of the country. ukraine in 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, 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 with russia. ukraine as well as western countries said that they don't recognize, developed, but given the context, putting 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 passed off, who insisted that sports must stay out of politics. but the wave has said that they have nothing against the map. you are a year or year 2020 kicks off in rome on friday night. and as football fans flocked to stadiums across europe, and although a limited capacity arenas the world health organization is urging people to remain vigilant. it's launched and information campaign alongside unicef, highlighting ways to reduce the risk of cobit 19 infection there, warning that despite the tourism sector now slowly reopening, people still need to exercise caution when traveling and avoid confined or crowded spaces. my colleague, worry to say, spoke with rob butler, director of the w. h o regional office for europe. and he says, people need to bear in mind the uptick in cases that took place 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 basically represents about 28 percent of the european population that a vaccination with one dose to 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 the academia g emerge. and in the past, i think it's hard to say many member states have been slow to respond to that as early signals because some a sentence 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 we find ourselves at the moment. we've understood a double check with our member states with the countries in europe. 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, that's after they down a portrait of queen elizabeth the 2nd from their, from their colleges,

common room claiming they found it offensive. since that quote, represents 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 up to the student body to decide on such issues. however, one committee member who argued against the motion said effectively cancelling the queen sent out a dire message. the removal comes as the british head of state prepares to mark 7 decades on the throne next year. we put the 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 feels it the queen. but for that, it's something that they just don't believe in their colonialism. inherited well, systems lack of memory talked to say so 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 you've got to respect that. that's not a 2nd piece. the comment that is what has caused a prince was not that they making to make them feel welcome. it is the fact that it was the slide to come the queen the saying she represents the colonial past, 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. k major. they took the poetry out. i think that people need to just respect that. and if it hadn't been blown up a nice way it was, there wouldn't be the great thing about it. i don't believe it's so much. so any comments about a portrait, whereas the outrage being about the queen, who and prince charles looked over 1000 laws, it will that be passed and been able to to change some of them. i think we're going

to go back and mark received that. let's start with that. i didn't think that, but those extreme culture extreme is 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 . a man in southwest france has been sentenced to 4 months in jail for slapping emmanuel macaroni across the face. the incident happened earlier this week when the french leader was trying to drum up support for his pre election campaign . the keys being given a formal sentence for hiring, for, for in fact,

the truthful sentence was for 18, the 14 months of that will be suspended for the next few years. now this offence, so a so committed against somebody in 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, 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 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 he talked about what was going through his head at the time when he slept. president miko, 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 at no point in the court hearing, did he dispute that he had just sorted the president of the french republic, the even describe that assault as being a roll them violent law. 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 if our president michael saying that he represented the fall of the country. so he talks 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 fact that the 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 this as being a bad joke. he admitted to the court that he had given a copy of pitiless men was mine, come to a friend as a gift. he talked about the fact that he accessed illegal world war 2 sites. these are the filter sites which i didn't deny you the holocaust. and he said it wasn't because he was a revisionist 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 and found 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 falling back a sold on president mac or not allegedly assaulting president michael. but for allegedly, filming the incidents of putting it on twitter office, see he's not due to come to court until next year. and he faces all the charges supplementary following rain tony's home, where there have been allegations that he held illegal fire owns. but for the moment, damian taro, who's the man who slapped president moscow and assaulted him while michael was on

his 2 front silly this week, will now be off to jail to spend the 1st of the next 4 months behind boss european parliament has passed a resolution calling for further sanctions on bella luce over the recent diversion of civilian aircraft from european union aerospace. the document also calls for measures against russia for supporting mints. 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 some 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 russian regime. just

a short recap of what happened on may 23rd, a re, an air flight from grease to lithia was forced to make an emergency landing in bell roofs 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 bell ruth and ordering planes to avoid the country. their straight, aerospace claims of russian roland, the diversion of the aircraft have not so far been backed up by any evidence. and the kremlin has denied involvement. we've got reaction on the resolution from martin dulls are a member of the hamburg parliament. to playing russia for something red. so no evidence this way, you can go up to the dialogue. all this will not strengthen. one for you all sure. claim to be sure thing to international and regional 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 will even strange to look at shank and it will not lead to kind of regime change which is wanted by the union. we shall go deeper into another life when we see that the european union at the us try to do color revolution and ukraine and then georgia in a lot of you know, and been the sanctions el paso. and this is the contrary of a dialogue. and as well, the person who was put into prison from the aeroplane was someone who was working with the recommend recommend, which is the passion, recommend in the crime. and he was a blog. so i think it's not the right way to bring down a plane to, to get to get access 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 the balls in danger of falling into the hands of the taliban. and on top of that, the secretary of state is 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 in afghanistan, if there is a significant deterioration. insecurity, that could well happen. we 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, august or by early september with some kind of immediate deterioration in the,

in the situation. the us military says it's taken more than half of its personnel out of afghanistan since april. the pull out was supposed to be concluded on may 1st after a to 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 us war on terror. anti war activist brian becker thinks the latest warnings from the pentagon are essentially an admission of defeat. this report indicates that there is, appears to be going on within the pentagon and within the administration. and one would expect to be in debate because by exiting afghanistan finally, which the us 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 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. rarely 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 leading far right politician. the trouble was triggered by right wing law maker ben veer's visit to a predominantly muslim area of jerusalem. he came to denounce a ban on a nationalist march through flashpoint areas of the city that have witnessed clashes between israeli forces and palestinians in recent month. lease use tear gas and stun grenades to disperse protesters and around a dozen people were reportedly arrested. or to correspond dahlia. no mari witnessed events unfold. napoleon, israeli police have just brutally dispersed people here. the use crowd control weapons including don grenade i ship and even use them against journalists. several of thoughts were injured by don grenades that exploded near as it seems that israeli forces continue to go off the journalist to report on these events. they don't differentiate between journalists and demonstrators. is rally forced to use chair gas today to disperse protesters and the vehicle with search water. they

sprayed it at every one gather here. people gather here at damascus gauge region after and israeli rights activists and kinetic member came here violating a ruined by the israel government. he came here karen and his val. it's like you could check out our website, r t dot com for more details on those new stories and join a conversation about them. and the comments section will be back with more news in just about 30 minutes. so stay tuned. the the who's

here with our annual summer solution where we know not on the problem but on the solution the, i don't know. i mean there are some steps in there were rescuing the food that they were not scabbing or were rescuing resources that are still good. this is best by march 21st which is in today's all these potatoes, paula daniels onions. all of these came from waste brown 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 it makes sense for them to throw it out right off, rather than give it to somebody who could use it, because then that person is not going to buy it. as a korea professionals, bolt is much tougher on some than others. she was euro meyer 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 the 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 is 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 team. 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 but you've probably heard the story about how some of this country is richest residence have legally managed to pay hardly any federal income tax, but who got a hold of that information and was the motor for doing so political well to help the democrats maybe, well, we'll look into it with our political panel and shoot your employer be allowed to force you to take the colbert vaccine. i mean,

what if you went to work and they said, take it or you're fired. what if you worked at a hospital will tell you about a group of unvaccinated nurses in euston fighting to keep their jobs? the space race looks very different today than it did when we won the race to put a man on the moon. these days. it's a race between billionaires richard branson and jeff bezos to name to will explain . and have you been on a plane lately? have you noticed that some of the passengers may be a little heavier than they used to be? that's that might take relax. that's the f a. requiring airlines to update, passenger, and baggage, weight estimates that airlines used to keep each flight within airplane safety limits. natasha suite will be along and have that story times the balls work for scotty now use on today's edition of news news use right here on our t america. ah . okay, on wednesday pro public publish

a story which included years of private tax return information on some of the nations wealthiest individual. i'm talking about people like jeff bezos, michael bloomberg, warren buffett. the line must. the piece showed that these top earners paid virtually no federal income tax and they did it legally. now, whoever gave this confidential information to pro public and most likely did so illegally. and the us attorney general says that justice apartment will make finding that person or persons priority number one. let's welcome in the political panel to discuss we have robert patillo talk radio hosts and civil rights attorney and a j swinson, new journeys chief of staff. welcome to both of you. glad to see you. ok. this is one heck of a breach, robert. i mean, isn't it? this is like the mother lode. absolutely, and i think it's confirmed what most americans believed, which is that the richard people in this country do not contribute to the funding

of our government takes only just.