ah ah, this hours headlines from a hearty international, the offshore assets of hundreds of the world's most powerful and richest people, are revealed in the biggest ever leap of such data called the pandora papers. and while it confirms us as a top local tax haven, no well known american people or firms are mentioned despite president by this pledge clamped down on tax evasion with also at least 12 people are reportedly killed. anything more than 30 voted in a blast that cobbles and the 2nd biggest mosque. and calvin says that it has detained 3 people, allegedly responsible plus in our review of the week of extraordinary disaster. if we didn't have a president that was so adult,

you all would be fired. i don't think anyone can trust anything. this prisoner says about afghanistan. well, us lawmakers lambaste president biden, and his top ras, over one, some in congress called washington humiliating withdrawal from afghanistan. we asked though whether the whole afghan campaign might be a bigger failure than just the block itself. and a bomb shell report alleges the cia planned to a duck or assassinate, weekly founder join font, former agency chief mike pompei at the center of the plot. ah, are broadcasting live direct from studios in moscow. this is our t international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. now there are fresh revelations on the hidden tax haven assets of global billionaires world leaders and public officials and the largest ever leak of offshore data called the

pandora papers. earlier my colleague collin bray discussed the expo say with correspondent on quarter clean no, all 12000000 documents. it won't go good news for you. yeah. but you'd expect them to open with a blog post, a move, anything explosive in it? right, well people definitely were anticipating something as big as what happened in 2016 when the panama papers were released. but actually, this one hasn't made as much noise. the guardian sure had a click beatty picture of vladimir putin's face right at the front of its article, even though in the pandora papers vladimir putin was not even named. so that's a bit a bit interesting. but the investigation primarily deals with more or less obscure people. i mean, we have some examples being the king of jordan. so offshore properties, personal properties, the purchase of several theatres, by the general director of russia's channel one he was said to have been a silent partner in this operation. but he's already commented publicly that he

hasn't concealed anything about his business dealings in connection to this. one higher profile mentioned though, the ukranian president vladimir zalinski in 2019 he was elected and most in large part on his platform of promising to rid the country of corruption. and ukraine is notoriously, hasn't a problem with corruption. and according to this investigation, he actually transferred 25 percent of his stake in a foreign at an offshore company to his personal friend who is now the top presidential advisor. so, so far he hasn't commented on that seems a little bit shady, but no confirmations. usually when we think of tax havens right, i mean, you think of maybe a financial center like hong kong or some sort of obscure caribbean island. but the pandora papers actually paint a very different picture there, showing that they, they actually revealed that south dakota has become the new hot spot for tens of millions of dollars that used to be in offshore accounts in the caribbean and europe. and this is despite of jo biden's promise to no combat corruption. earlier

this year to day i'm issued a national security study memorandum of the fight against corruption to establish come and corruption as a corps, us national security interest. the united states will lead by example, and in partnership with allies, civil society and in the private sector to fire this courage of corruption. and in fact, delaware, were mister biden, hills from i've got some pretty good, the tax breaks for companies, them they. so if his big platform is to deal with tax evasion, as many leaders do where the americans on this list, well, it's a good question. they're basically not there. i mean, we hear report after report obviously about like a lot of american businessman and big corporal corporate owners evade avoiding. busy taxes, and yet this report for some reason only mentions a couple of very obscure american billionaires that i personally never heard of. and so yeah, the, the big question is, you know, where are all the big american names? i mean, what about the richest man in the world?

jeff bezos, his company, amazon paid 0 dollars and 0 cents and federal income tax. not just in 2020, but also in 20182017. elan must paid also 0 dollars and 0 cents and federal income tax in 2018 donald trump paid $750.00 back in 2017. so it seems a bit fishy, that there, there might be nothing important or a value to mention about these offshore assets. now we also did hear from whistleblower, edward snowden. he let out a tweet today about this, this, these are the report on this leak. so let's take alice the humor side of this very serious story is that even after 2 apocalyptic offshore finance law firm leaks, those industries are still compiling vast databases of ruin and still secure them with a posted note mark, do not leak hats off to the source this is just the beginning of these sir reports, and these leaks about these pandora papers. more of them are promised for the coming weeks. so we're gonna have to keep an eye out for them. economist and author,

richard wolf says that many of those promising to get rid of corruption are actually deeply involved in it. there's a lot of hand wringing there's a lot of promises. but one thing you can take away even from these early documents, is that many of the political leaders who come in the office promising to do away with corruption, are themselves, are knee deep in that kind of corruption. look, you don't have to hide your wealth. if there's nothing to be hidden out of the 20 top places in the world to hide wealth, the united states accounts for 17, out of the 20 states rewriting their laws so that you can legally move the money in and out, and thereby hide it because they pass

a law which denies other countries the right to find out about this information. the very thing that the united states criticized switzerland in the past for it is now doing. the real lesson here is, if you will allow the distribution of wealth and income to be as only equal as it now is in the world today, you create the incentive and the means for those at the top to continue to accumulate from one generation to another under afghanistan now, where the death toll from a blast at a major mosque has risen to 12 more than 30 others were wounded in the incident in the capital couple ortiz, corresponding with our guys to have caught the explosion and reports from the city . we had the blast clot, clearly even at this distance 4 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, even at that distance. also, it is not surprising that the number of casualties is being revised upwards. that is the patent of 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 but organization they belong to or what their role in this explosion must. but according to our unconfirmed reports, at the time of the blas was a funeral underway at the most, the funeral of the mother recently deceased mother of the taliban se spokespersons i beulah mage ahead. so perhaps it may have been isis. it's usually eas, them who, who claim responsibility in these latest attacks that have been happening all over all over afghanistan, especially here in couple of we regularly here and read about fire fights,

raids carried out by the taliban. them trying to track down crack 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 it control over of got to start. 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 violence, the spot, the end of the afghan war, the pull out of american and allied troops,

violence here in afghanistan hasn't abated and whining a bank just a bit. this week is saw tough talks in the us congress as lawmakers lashed out of joe biden and his military commanders over the afghan. the president said, none of his commanders said that he should keep troops in afghanistan was out of false statement by the prison. i just 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. i think we all know it was a false. 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 afford cash and blood and credibility into a ghani government. that was a mirage. it fell immediately. we were buying it at the big lot. the big law that this, that this was ever going to be successful year. 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 and winding down the longest warren american history or you have not been fully accurate. underwrote. we didn't have a president that was so adult. you all would be fired, but it is not just the pull out that has been attacked. the entire afghan campaign is now coming in for increasing criticism as our team kill him up and commits a testimony before congress was dancing. not only was the pull out of afghanistan, a 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 al kato will use afghanistan as a base conduct as a base to conduct airstrikes or strikes against the united states. frankly, after this debacle of a withdrawal, i don't think anyone can trust anything. this president says about afghanistan,

we need to consider some uncomfortable truce 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 ghani 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 constitutional 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 seen isis attacking caliber on an. there's no guarantee then that taliban can ensure that 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 is conceivable that 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 assign. 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 there nato and other cor 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. and, 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 risk of terrorism. meanwhile, human rights groups are turning or fuming over a decision by the international criminal court to resume a prob, into war crimes in afghanistan, but to no longer look at the allegations of american atrocities. there. instead, the focus will be exclusively on the television 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 on to d. 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 former afghan national security forces. the i c. c, prosecutor is shamefully hunting and get out of jail free card. i know the tribunal was set up in 2002 as a court failing that could only intervene if the perpetrators of war crimes could not be brought to justice by a country's authorities. it spent more than a decade investigating more crimes by all sides in afghanistan, but the u. s. imposed sanctions on 2 officials from the court after it started a probe into alleged us atrocities b i. c. c decision is particularly disturbing for rights organizations as it comes

in the wake of august's disastrous drone struck by the pentagon on cobble which killed 10 civilians including 7 children in this 21st century. oh. busy ringback busy mm. busy busy last month, a pentagon probe admitted the drone attack was a tragic mistake and offered an apology. it back tracked on the target, it had initially claimed was linked to isis k, saying it was unlikely, it actually posed any threat to washington's pull out from afghanistan. relatives of the victim say that the u. s. officials responsible for the attack must be brought to justice. as my canadian, this was, i will keep demanding that 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. it has been revealed the cia plotted to abduct or assassinate wiki leagues founder julian assange when he was in the ecuadorian embassy in london a while back. you s media report was based on that statement from 30 former u. s. officials and centered on my palm pail while he was the cia director during trump's presidency. pompeo denies the accusations and indeed wants action taken against the people who made the claims. they should all be prosecuted for speaking about classified activity inside the central intelligence agency. maybe they didn't,

maybe as the cap just made it up. but you should, i take seriously my responsibilities to protect that information. this can be seen as pompei ions, confirmation of the assange kit, not or kill story. why else would you want to prosecute those sources? speaking about classified activity, kidnap ariel man, hunt and shootout with russian spies in central london. a new james bond movie. not exactly. in fact, these are the highlights from a reported cia secret plan to silence the journalist 40 who revealed americans for dirty secrets. location london, the year 2017 starting julian, a sorry man of interest. heidi ecuadorian embassy might compare, then c, i achieve evil mastermind behind the operation. the russkies. the essential ingredient for any good spice dory. doubtless ya would break every possible law to silence independent journalist. stay to the upcoming details may surprise you. we are

rewarding chapter one. assassination, my compared wanted the cia to be create. the instructor, subordinates not to self censor 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 discussed in the whiteness on the highest possible level. why would a cia achieve 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 cia 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. let's kidnap this journalist and sentenced 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. 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 do could possibly spoil the fun russians of course, chapter 3, fighting russians. what if vladimir putin intelligence gets there 1st, a dunce assange, and then flies him to moscow? that's a possibility. the paranoid ca offices thought brace yourself. the plan to counts

of russians may just blow your mind. the cia left nothing to chance. assange gets into the car with the russian operatives. a cia initiates a car crash with the russian diplomatic vehicle. god knows how many other londoners collateral damage is. they say, assange gets on the plane. the cia blocks, it's on the runway by shooting its tires, as well as anything. and anybody else's way the plane takes off with a flat tire. the cia hub is a helicopter over, it still manages to leave the ground. they demand that the european countries close their respects. we are still talking about catching julian, sarge, not the number one terrorist. oh, well, if you are an independent journalist who happens to cross the american governments pass a cia, it's pretty much the same thing. to rule law may not surprise you. but for now,

jolena saws remains in a maximum security prison in the u. k. despite a british judge ruling against his extradition to the united states over fears for his mental health, he faces 175 years in prison in america if he is convicted of hacking and espionage charges in 2019, a song was forcibly removed by police from the ecuadorian embassy in london after the country terminated his 7 year asylum status. they're now following the recent developments we heard from a former cia and last and whistle blower and also from wiki leaks. current editor in chief when you so stunning, revelation is quite shocking. conseula. this was being conquered in the states. so kit, nothing, i'm going oh, simply killing. if julian is expedited to to the other states, it will be in the hands of the seo his faith on you as ground. it would be in the hands of those who were planning to kick,

kill 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 creational denied when the entire case, it is now confirmed 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 assange 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 dad, the british intelligence serves 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, at, with dorian embassy. that was the british that were supposed to be doing the 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 is no way that julianna's sons should or could be extradited to the united states, and he should be free to go. no upcoming book by donald trump's former press secretary as making headlines, as it paints a deeply unflattering picture of the 45th president, calling him a man was a terrifying temper. stephanie grisham accuses trump of inappropriate behavior towards female staff, as well as being vain, volatile and insecure. the book also dishes out criticism of trump's daughter, vanka, and son in law, jared christner, who both worked in the white house at the time. grisham claims that the former

president frequently said nonsensical things and even hired a man to sing him songs to cool his temper. and the media just can't get enough of that. they have been discussing it. the whole week staffer nicknamed the music man, played that song from cats. the sue, the president of the united states, into me have all the alarming revelations in his book. to me, that's the most disturbing and andrew lloyd webber road cats. he never thought the soundtrack could be used to save the world from arm again. it cuts his own hair with a giant pair of scissors, which is, by far the least shocking revelation of all turns out this from characters a real not. trump has rejected the book as a hatchet job, financed by the radical left to quote, say, bad and untrue things about him and his family. former 1st ladies team has slammed it as grisham attempt to redeem herself after poor john performance and unprofessional behavior in the white house commentator chadwick more thinks that

the media is deliberately shifting attention away from more important issues. we do have a new president. i and he's been in office for 9 months, cnn might not realize that. and the country is kind of going to hell in a handbasket. there are plenty of scandals. they could be focusing on with the current man in charge. and instead they are just still obsessed with donald trump, to just go to a laundry list of everything that's gone to hell since joe biden. so these are the things people should be hearing about, right? going to the president's and what he's doing now these kind of had a little childish attacks about, you know, he's a man or he says weird things, which is basically all this book really has on the president. and it might not even be true. and instead of doing what journalism is supposed to do, and that's holding true to power and you know, being a port the states and discussing the people who are power right now. they're obsessed continually with the man who used to be an artist. that does it for me

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