ah ah, with this house headlines from all t, the offshore assets of hundreds of the world's most powerful and riches people revealed in the biggest ever league of such data called the pandora papers. i want to confirm the u. s. is a top global tax haven. no, well known american people or firms. i mentioned this by president biden's pledge to clamp down on tax evasion. also this sunday, at least 12 people are reported killed and more than 30 others injured in a plastic cobble 2nd biggest mosque. the taliban says it's detained. 3 people allegedly responsible plus in our review of the week it was an extraordinary disaster. if we didn't have a president, it was so adult. you all would be fired. i don't think anyone can trust anything.

this prisoner says about afghanistan. u. s. law makers lambaste president by now these top bras over what some in congress call washington's humiliating withdrawal from afghanistan. we are so if the whole afghan campaign might be a bigger failure than just the pull out itself. and a bombshell reporter ledges that the cia plan to kidnap or assassinate wiki makes found a julian assange with former agency chief might pompei out the center of the plump . ah hi there live am worldwide. this is art international from moscow. i am calling bray. we'll take you through some of the biggest stories we've covered here over the past 7 days a little bit later. first though, 2 developments in the past few hours. millions of documents to shed light on the hidden assets of global billionaire's world leaders and public official. and the

largest ever league of offshore data is called the pandora papers has been taken 600 journalists and over 100 countries involved. but we've got one and only donald coulter has been across this floor. it's not all out yet. it's about 12000000 documents in this rope. so picking through what you've got at the moment. is it as explosive as we roll? led to believe, while people definitely were expecting something as big as the 2016 release of the panama papers that obviously sent sent, shock waves across the world. but so far, actually this round of leaks hasn't made that much noise. i mean, the guardian was able to put to vladimir putin's face right across the top of its article, even though the russian president wasn't even mentioned by name in the actual pandora papers. you the, the papers actually focus mostly on obscure, obscure politicians, some examples of being the, the king of jordan, for example, his offshore properties. it talks about the purchase of property through offshore companies by the check prime minister. and,

and one higher profile mentioned though, was the ukranian president vladimir zalinski was elected in 2019, mostly in large part on his promise to combat corruption in ukraine, which is a country that is notorious for its corruption actually. and in the investigation he's mentioned, it says that he transferred 25 percent of his stake in an offshore company to his friend who is now the top presidential advisor. we didn't hear any comment from him, so we, we are still waiting for that. of course. now, but when usually people think of tax havens right, they think of maybe a caribbean island or maybe like a financial center like hong kong. but actually this pen, these pandora paper is actually pain a different picture. they show that in south dakota, there's actually tens of millions of dollars that used to be in the caribbean in europe that are being held in offshore, you know, offshore assets there. and that's despite biden's declaration of war on corruption . earlier this year to they issued a national security,

saudi memorandum on the fight against corruption to establish competent corruption as a cor, yes, national security interest. the united states will lead by example. and in partnership with allies, civil society and in the private sector to fire the scourge of corruption. this is the curious thing, isn't it dull about biden? saying he wants to clap down on companies evading or avoiding tax abroad? and she said, most people don't seem to realize that america expects americans abroad to declare all their income to the i arrested doesn't give that information back. south dakota is the new bermuda. where are the americans in this report? right, that's a good question. well, they're basically not there. i mean, we're, we're like you said we've been seeing for a long time report after report about how this american businessman isn't paying taxes. that one isn't. and for some reason only we've in this report only to quite obscure. i mean, i've never seen the names obscure american billionaires were mentioned there. i mean, not one big american name was there. what about jeff bezos?

i mean, his, his company, amazon paid 0 dollars and 0 cents in federal income tax, not just in 2020, but in 20182017 as well. ill on mosque also paid no federal income tax in 2018. donald trump paid $750.20. so it seems a bit fishy, that there'd be nothing worth mentioning about any of their offshore assets. of course, i mean, but again, this is the only only the beginning of this series of leaks more are promised from the more reports on the leaks are promised for the coming weeks. so we're going to have to keep an eye on it. and i guess i can't relax yet, but i suppose it's also important to say it's not to suggest that any these people have done anything illegal as such. it's just the ethical shadeen us of sending him money around the world rather than paying tax at home. i'm sure you've done no tax returns, like a good boy. okay, fellow. cool to thanks very much. okay, let's talk about this more next with journalists and author. daniel, is all daniel, welcome back to our tea out after the panama papers from 5 years ago. a seems like

a different world now, doesn't it? what do you make of this latest? massive leak. well, it concerns everything. we know. i mean, there's an amazing tax evasion taking place around the world. and there's also a lot of unaccounted, unaccountable capital sloshing around the world. you know, using various offshore havens and, and governments tolerate this and, and banks make a lot of money off this. and the us, by the way, is itself a major tax haven. it's a, it's a, it's a incorporation laws are among the easiest in the world. so the u. s. is actually a crime participant and this kind of a really crazy, monstrous, no tax, avoidance of what can you make of the lack of american names in the league so far as he said, it's not all out yet that they might still be there to come. but especially with jo

biden's pledge to climb down on tax avoidance. and tax evasion. bear in mind that, that they, that delaware is one of the states which, which is most active in the use of the, you know, and then the use of a, of allowing foreigners to set up a phony corporate fronts and tax havens and delaware's, a small state on the east coast in the u. s. and who comes from delaware, joe, but i hope so. biden's career has been propelled by precisely these kinds of activities in the ukraine had twice as it had fact. they believe that $39.00 billionaires were listed among those nowhere. and in these there's the slightest revelation, joe biden, travel to the ukraine 2 or 3 years ago to claim that he's going to clamp down on corruption. well, you know, i mean the corruptions is crazy. there,

as it was ever as these revelations, a show. do you think anyone's career's going to suffer from any of this? cuz if i remember back to the panama papers, there was a lot of pious touching when it came out and a bit of embarrassment for a couple of weeks. and that was it. some careers will suffer. i think tony blair's career will suffer. i mean, it's pretty amazing. a tony blair was, i was entering into a, an off the books deal was a, a billionaire from i think it was the, the, you a, i believe i'm quite sure. and i think that other is, are similarly in dallas, and barris zelinski, the anti corruption president of the ukraine, turns out to have availed himself of the same facilities. the british royal family apparently has as well. so i think these are these revelations, while the piece will really stay, these revelations were really hurt as they should of course. but in terms of breaking the cycle, given a more than 30 trillion dollars,

it's all to be hidden in taxation around the world when some of the people who are there to be able to make those decisions to protect that tanks. income are involved in some of that. it's something that and is it? well, no, i mean joe biden is a joe biden himself is deeply involved in these practices. i mean that, you know, these, these practices propel job biden's career the, the, the, the corporations which dealt in these businesses were that were those which backed by an over the years and providing them with campaign funds and allowed him to decline the wrongs of us politics you really think that joe biden is going to really cracked down a serious way on these practices. so who is going to crack down on it? because when you get the rich come to the countries together, when you get the g 7 together, they will say, we'll tackle poverty, we'll close these loopholes. we'll keep the tax on sure. never happens. so who's going to do it? who's going to do it? i mean, the big, ordinary people who are being shafted will, at some point,

have to step in and demand something be changed, but the current political line up across the go to joe biden, et cetera, et cetera, are deeply implicated in such practices. it is a massive league. this one is all will come out and won't go over. there are nearly 12000000 documents and as i suppose you'd expect newspapers news organizations to do that kind of trickle this out in the coming days and weeks. do you think by being able to keep it in the new cycle? is it where it might have the potential to at least be used for good? yes. so of course i mean information is always good. i mean, the more we know that more of the better inform the people are, the better we can deal with these kinds of problems. and the, and the, and this is, and the investigators in this case are very smartly, very cleverly, you know, leaking up, putting the stuff out, you know, in dribs and drabs us, you know, that very dramatically heightening the tension over, you know, over the days, doing a very good job that i must say. so i so therefore yes, i think that as the,

as the information comes out steadily and gradually that the, it'll have a major political impact. but you know, they the, the powers that be, i have a way of sloughing the stuff off. oh, yes. raven. so it's a happy bit of bedtime. reading this sunday i would live in new york. daniel is out . thank you. thank you. more of sundays developments now. and in afghanistan, the death toll from a blast that a major mosque has risen to 12 woven 30 others were injured. and the incident in the capital cobble, i'll t senior correspondent where i guess the have called the explosion and reports next from the city. we had the blast clot, clearly even the distance for kilometers till it got mosque where the explosion took place. and it was evidently a powerful blast by the, by the sound that it made even it, even at that distance. also, it is not surprising that the number of casualties is being revised upwards. that

is the patent to these things. usually, the 1st count that we hear is on the low side of things. 3 people, the taliban says have been arrested in connection with this blas. it is unclear of what organization they belong to or what their role in this explosion must. but according to our unconfirmed reports at the time of the blas those a funeral underway at the mosque, the funeral of the mother recently deceased mother of the taliban spokespersons abiola mage ahead. so perhaps it may have been isis. it's usually ease them who, who claim responsibility in these latest attacks that have been happening all over all over afghanistan. and especially here in cobble. we regularly hear and read about fire fights. raids carried out by the taliban. them trying to track down cracked down and isis k cells here. and i've got to saw the 2 organizations have

been at war for years now. and the taliban is evidently trying to solidify its control over of galveston. there was also another attack yesterday that has been attributed by locals to isis k, whereby they say that of the terrorists drove by, ah taliban taliban members and began firing at them in a drive by attacking the in a vehicle attack were where 4 people were killed and another attack, another part of, of canister, and attack on a taliban convoy, which has also been attributed to isis at 17 people was said to have been killed in that. so suddenly that violence, the spot, the end of the afghan, more the pull out of american and allied troops at the violence here in afghanistan hasn't abated ever wanted to get back a bit this week also sold some tough talks in the u. s. congress as lawmakers lashed out to joe biden and his military commanders over the afghan withdrawal. humiliating is just one of the ways the pullouts been described. the president said,

none of his commanders said that he should keep troops in afghanistan was at a false statement by the president as remembered. you do not have a duty to cover for the president when he's not telling the truth. i've given you my judgment on it. now we think we all know it was a false state. i have been frustrated by the lack of someone in charge on the biggest national security fiasco in a generation. there has been 0 accountability, no responsibility from anybody. we have cord, cash and blood and credibility into a ghani government. that was a mirage. it fell immediately. we were buying into the big lot, the big law that this, that this was ever going to be successful near. here's the thing. there's only 3 possibilities here. either the president lie to the american people, or he legitimately cannot remember the counsel of his top military advisors in winding down the longest war and american history or view have not been fully

accurate. under oath, we didn't have a president that was so adult. you all would be fired, but it's not just the pull out that's been attacked. the entire afghan campaign is now coming in for increasing criticism. is kind of bulb and explains a testimony before congress was dancing. not only was the pull out of afghanistan fiasco, but the campaign failed to achieve its primary aim. it was an extraordinary disaster . it will go down in history, is one of the greatest failures of american leadership. we have 0 presence in afghanistan. it could be as little as 12 months before our kato will use afghanistan as a base conduct as a base to conduct air strikes or strikes against the united states. frankly, after this debacle of withdrawal. i don't think any one can trust anything. this present says about afghanistan. we need to consider some uncomfortable truths that we did not fully comprehend the depth of corruption and poor leadership and their senior ranks. that we did not grasp the damaging effect of frequent and unexplained

rotations by president gunny of his commanders and that we fail to fully grasp what there was only so much for which and for home. many of the afghan forces would fight. so after an entire war aimed to eliminate a terrorist threat to america, that threat could now be worse to real possibility in the not too distant future, 612182436 months that time the time frame for re constitution about kite are isis terrorist organizations seek ungoverned spaces so that they can train and equip and thrive. and there is clearly a possibility that that can happen here are going forward. afghanistan in effect now has become an entire terrorist state taliban, even though they may think that they're trying to govern that place itself to slit and already we're seeing isis attacking caliber and there's no guarantee then that taliban can ensure that the attacks will not be planned. and launched from

that from afghanistan, thought there were more revelations in the testimony, apparently behind closed doors. the biden administration was more divided on afghanistan. i think a while we've, it's conceivable that you, you could stay there. my view was that you would have had to deploy more forces in order to protect ourselves and accomplish any mission that we would have been assigned. it appears that the department of defense was not fully on board with pulling out of afghanistan. and they are arguing for maintaining some presence in the country. my view was that we needed to maintain about 2500. and that we also needed to work with our coalition partners. we had about 6000 troops and their nato and other core countries that would, that would remain there. this flies in the face of the biden administration's claim that pulling out was the unanimous decision. it's unclear what would really change if the united states stayed in the country. it has been 20 years after all,

and the security situation in afghanistan has not improved. so maybe the mistake wasn't pulling out in 2021, but rather going in in 2001. now that's a discussion you won't hear on capitol hill, but it's probably taking place in many american minds for officials on capitol hill to attribute that. so way to the somewhat chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan is completely absurd. if the u. s. officials had dealt with these crime on september the 11th as what they were and found out who was responsible and brought them to justice. i, you know, this would have been, you know, at this point something that just something that happened 20 years ago that was dealt with. instead, they used september the 11th as a pretext for 20 years of war. what the so called war on terror was

doing was fueling tech terrorism and the adjacent armed resistance in country after country the united states has, has actually increased the risk of terrorism while in a separate development human rights groups of fuming over a decision by the international criminal court to resume a probe into war crimes in afghanistan, but to no longer look at allegations of american atrocities there. instead, the focus will be exclusively on the taliban and isis k. i have therefore decided to focus my offices investigations, enough gun histone on crimes, allegedly committed by the taliban and the islamic state chorus on province onto de prioritize other aspects of this investigation. the prosecutors telling war criminals around the world that the u. s. playbook of delay and intimidation works . it also validates one of the cool criticisms of the i see, see that it only takes action against politically weaker individuals or nations

while giving western powers a pass by d. prioritizing investigating us and for the afghan national security forces, the i c. c. prosecutor. it's shamefully handing him a get out of jail. free card tribunal is set up in 2002 as a court, which could only intervene if the perpetrators war crimes couldn't be brought to justice by a country's authorities. it spent more than a decade investigating war crimes by all sides at afghanistan, the us imposed sanctions on 2 officials from the court, which had started a probe into the alleged us atrocities the icy c decisions particularly disturbing for rights organizations. because it comes in the wake of august disastrous drone strike by the pentagon. cobble which killed 10 civilians including 7 children. oh. busy busy

no last month, the pentagon prob admitted the drone attack was a tragic mistake and offered an apology, backtracked on the targeted and initially claimed was linked to ices, k saying it was unlikely and actually posed any threat to washington to pull out from afghanistan. and relatives of victims say the u. s. officials responsible for the attack must be brought to justice. as my canadian is lost, i will keep demanding the each person who has committed a crime here must be convicted and punished with the due process of law. it's unfair if a person commits a crime and then a different person is brought to court to answer, the criminal must be punished, no scapegoats. if americans committed a crime, they must be brought to justice. they should be held to account. americans attacked our house, not the taliban. how the taliban will answer for this attack is a logical echo. been reveal that the c i plotted to kidnap or assassinate the

wikileaks found a julian assange when he was in the ecuadorian embassy in london a while back. the u. s. media report was based on statements from 30 former u. s. officials and sent it on mike pompei, or while he was director of the agency during donald trump's presidency of pompeii denies the accusations. and in fact, once action taken now against the people who made the claims that they should all be prosecuted for speaking about classified activity inside the central intelligence agency. maybe they didn't, maybe as a cap, just made it up. but you should, i take seriously, my responsibility is to protect that information. this can be seen as palm piles, confirmation of the assange kit, not or kill story. why else would you want to prosecute those sources? speaking about classified activity kidnapped, ariel manhunt and shootout with russian spies in central london. the new james bond movie. not exactly. in fact, these are the highlights from a reported cia secret plan will silence the journalist already who revealed

americans for dirty secrets. location. london, the year 20. 17 starring julian. a. sorry, a man of interest hiding ecuadorian embassy. my campaign. then c. i achieve evil mastermind behind the operation. the russkies. the essential ingredient for any good spice dory. thou ha, great. every possible law to silence independent journalists. stay to the upcoming details, may surprise you. we are working chapter one, assassination. my compared wanted the cia to be create, instruct, subordinates not to self sense of themselves. when it comes to dealing wiki links. sometimes, oh tricks, work best they might have thought and came up with a good old assassination plot. detailed sketches options on how to murder sounds.

reportedly we discussed in the white, at the highest possible level. why would a cia chief plots of the killing of an independent journalist? well, it was an act of personal vendetta. back in march 2017, the newly appointed cia chief found himself in a very difficult position. when wikileaks released top secret ca papers, they were completely detached from reality because they were so embarrassed about vault 7. they were seen blood chapter to kidnapping. but somebody in the white house might have thought paid, no killings where a civilized nation that's kidnapped this journalist and sentence him to death by american law. the plan was simply break into the embassy drag assange out and bring him to where we want one small issue. the u. s. justice department failed to keep up with cia fantasies. they were still processing the case and didn't file charges

against the wikileaks found them. so the cia was going to kidnap a foreign citizen from the capital of washington's closest ally with no legal basis tool. a perfect master black deed. you could possibly spoil the fun russians of course, chapter 3, fighting russians. what if vladimir putin intelligence gets there? first of dumps a sound and then flies him to moscow. that's a possibility. the paranoid ca offices thought. brace yourself, the plans accounts of russians may just blow your mind. the caea left nothing to chance. the sand gets into the car with the russian operatives. a cia initiates a car crash with a russian diplomatic vehicle. god knows how many other londoners collateral damage is. they say, assange gets on the plane. the cia blocks it on the runway by shooting its tires, as well as anything. and anybody else in the way the plane takes off with

a flat tire? the c, i a hovers a helicopter. everyone still manages to leave the ground. they demand that the european countries closed their aspects. we are still talking about catching julian sanchez, not the number one terrorist. oh, well, if you are an independent journalist who happens to cross the american governments pass from a cia, it's pretty much the same thing. rule of law may not surprise you. but for now, gillian hassan from ain't in a maximum security prison in the u. k. despite a british judge ruling against his extradition to the us of a fears for his mental health, he faces a 175 years in prison. and america, if he's convicted of hacking and espionage charges, and 2019 a son, was forcibly removed by police from the ecuadorian embassy in london after the country terminated his 7 year asylum there. a following the recent developments we heard from a former c. i a analyst whistleblower and also from wiki leaks,

current editor in chief you so stunning revelation is quite shocking to see that this was being conquered in the states, so the kidnapping them possibly killing. if julian is expedited to to the other states, it will be in the hands of the seo his faith on the was ground. it would be in the hands of those who were planning to kill killing him. when these discussions were going on, there was no indictment out against julia. he hadn't been charged with anything. so if there was any doubt about the political nature of the indictment and the creation of the diag brennan, the entire case, it is now on for him to be so it is of political persecution and nothing else. the world to understand that the united states is trying to criminalize journalism. they refused to accept the fact that julian assigned is a journalist, that the american people own this information and they have the right to know what

it is. and that the government behind their backs, the backs of the american people, is trying to assassinate someone who has not been kid victim of a crime. in one of the things that we learned in this article was that the british intelligence service, the external intelligence service, and my 6 was apparently involved, you know, where they were talking about, shoot out the potential pursued outs in front of the ecuadorian embassy. that was the british that were supposed to be doing this shooting when they talk about shooting out the, the tires of a russian plane that might have been taking jillian assigned to, to russia. that was the british that were supposed to be doing the shooting. so i would certainly hope that the british courts finally say enough is enough. there's no way that julian assigns should or could be extradited to the united states, and he should be free to go there. that's the weekly for this hour. thanks for watching. i'm calling bray, i'll have the next edition in half an hour, 7. ah

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