was very proud that we are in it together. ah, the offshore assets of hundreds of the world's most powerful and richest people are revealed in the biggest ever league of the such data called the pandora papers. and while it confirms the less as a top would, will tax haven no well known american people or firms are mentioned dislike. president biden's pledge clamped down on tax evasion. also at least 12 people are reportedly killed in more than 30 wounded and blasted cobbles. in the 2nd biggest mosque, taliban says it has detained 3 people, allegedly responsible and plus in our review of the week extraordinary disaster. we didn't have a president. there was so rattled you all would be fired. i don't think anyone

control anything this prison serious, but it us, while makers lambaste president biden, and his top brass over what some in congress call washington's humiliating withdrawal from afghanistan. we asked though whether the whole afghan campaign might be a bigger failure than just the pull out itself. and a bomb shell report alleges the cia planned to abduct a war assassinate. wiki leaks founder julian a song with former agency chief, my comm, pale at the center of the plot. ah, are broadcasting live director of studios in moscow. this is our 2 international. i'm john thomas. certainly gland to have you with us. now there are fresh revelations on the hidden tax haven assets of global billionaires, world leaders and public officials in the largest ever leak of offshore data called

the pandora papers. earlier my colleague collin bray discussed the ecstasy with correspondent donald quarter. clean no. all 12000000 documents and 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 body picture of vladimir putin se 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 out 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, in 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 paper is 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 d, i'm issued a national security study memorandum of the fight against corruption to establish come since corruption as a cor 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 effect delaware. whereas mister biden, hales from i've got some pretty good the tax breaks, the company's them they. so if his big platform is to deal with tax evasion, as many leaders do, where the americans on that 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 corporate corporate owners evade avoiding 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 201820. 17 eli musk page is 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 of 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, the report on this leak. so let's take a listen. 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 a knee deep in that kind of corruption. look, you don't have to hide your wealth. if there is 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 poor it is now doing. the real lesson here is, if you will allow the distribution of wealth and income to be as an equal, as it now is in the world today. you create the incentive and the means for those that the top to continue to accumulate from one generation to another. on to 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, his arteries correspondent. but i've got to have who caught the explosion and reports from the city. we heard the blast clod clearly even at this 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, 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 block. it is unclear, but organisation 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 and away at the most the funeral of the mother recently deceased mother of the taliban spokespersons a beulah maggio head. 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, especially here in couple of we regularly here and read about firefights raised

carried out by the taliban. them trying to track down crackdown 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 afghanistan. 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 attacking 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 war, the pull out of american and allied troops. the violence here in afghanistan hasn't

abated and wanting it back just a bit this week. solid tough talks in the us congress as lawmakers lashed out at joe biden and his military commanders over the afghanistan withdraw. humiliating is just one of the ways the plot has been described. the president said, none of his commanders said that he should keep troops in afghanistan. was that a false statement by the president? i remember 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 with think, we all know it was a false thing. 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 poured the cache 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 new 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 in winding down the longest war and 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 pullout that has been attacked. the entire afghan campaign is now coming in for increasing criticism. as our teens kill them up in comments. 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 al 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 president says about afghanistan. we need to consider some uncomfortable truths that we did not fully comprehend. the depth of corruption and poor leadership and her senior ranks. that we did not grasp a damaging effect. the 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 back 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 bought, 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 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 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 few of a 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 fuming over a decision by the international criminal court to resume a prob, 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 care. i have therefore decided to focus my offices investigations, enough. galveston 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 the get out of jail free card. the tribunal was set up in 2002 as a court that could only intervene if the perpetrators of war crimes could not be brought to justice by a country's authorities had spent more than a decade investigating war 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 the icy c decision is particularly disturbing for rights organizations as it comes in the wake of august's disastrous drone

strike by the pentagon on cobble which killed 10 civilians, including 7 children oh . busy busy busy mm all right, last month, a pentagon probe admitted the drone attack was a tragic mistake and offered an apology, backtracked 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 victims say that the u. s. officials responsible for the attack must be brought to justice. as my country, the only horse 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 illogical. it has been revealed. the cia plotted to a duct or assassinate. ricky leaks at founder gillian assange when he was in the ecuadorian embassy in london a while back of the u. s. media report was based on the statements from 30 former u. s. officials and centered on mike, palm pale while he was the cia director during trumps presidency. now pompei of denies that the accusations exist and indeed wants action taken against the people who made the claims are 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 responsibilities to protect that information. this can be seen as pompoms confirmation of the assange kit, not all kill story. why else would you want to prosecute those sources? speaking about classified activity, kid never ariel man hundreds 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 already revealed american 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 down cia would break every possible law to silence

independent journalist stay tune. the upcoming details may surprise you. we are rewarding chapter one assassination. my compared wanted the cia to be create instructors. these subordinates not to self center themselves when it comes to dealing with unix, sometimes oh tricks, work best they might have thought and came up with a good old assassination loans, detailed sketches, options on how to murder sounds, reportedly with disgust in the whiteness, that 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 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 that 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 founder. so the cia was doing to kidnap a foreign citizen from the capital of washington's closest ally with no legal basis tool. the perfect master black deed lou 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 cia offices thought brace yourself. the plan to counts

of russians may just blow your mind. the cia left nothing to chance. the sand 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 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 over, it still manages to leave the ground. they demand the european countries close their raspberries. we are still talking about catching julian assange, not the number one terrorist. oh, well, if you are an independent journalist who happens to cross the american government's path, cia, it's pretty much the same thing. the rule of law may not look like you. but for now,

gillian, a sounds 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. now he faces 175 years in prison in america. if he's convicted of hacking and espionage charges, 2019 assigns was forcibly removed by police from the ecuadorian embassy in london after the country terminated his 7 year asylum. they're following the recent developments we heard from a former c i a analyst and 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 kit, not being them, possibly 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 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 creation of the entire case, it is now on for him to be so it is a 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 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 for shoot out in front of the, at,

with dorian 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 is no way that julian assigned should or could be extradited to the united states, and he should be free to go. does it for me this hour? i will be back with one final look at your weekly in about 35 minutes. this is art international. ah, ah.

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i'm african or dancey, we're going underground, digging up the stories buried by the circle, mainstream media coming over the show. hot on the heels of an anti jeremy corbin labor leaders, conference comes boris johnson's conservative party conference. this week. the tories, a leading impulse decides in energy crisis, one of the highest per capita deaf tor covered responses and welfare got to the poorest. we follow the money and 24 hours ahead of ours. johnson's defense secretary speech at the tory conference and following defeat in afghanistan is the u. k. importing taliban style attacks on freedom to impose british government values all this em all coming up in today's going underground. but 1st it's political conference season here in britain. but as morris johnson writes his speech for this week, brittany seemingly facing crisis after crisis, the army brought in to solve the car fuel crisis, energy companies going bankrupt, allegedly untrustworthy transport companies, having to be brought back into public ownership. and johnson having to subsidize a c o 2 company to keep beer flowing, who better to follow the money with the lord,

prem sicker arch critic of structures of financial regulation here in britain. thank you so much for coming back on after so long. we have 14, a half 1000000 here in poverty, including $4300000.00 children, a labor leader. they buy the leader, you turning on minimum wage deregulation bonds, johnson cutting 20 pounds a week from britain's a 6000000 poorest, as it conjures cruelty by stammer. and johnson, or is it incompetence while i hello alicia. nice to be on your program. i, i think care there are structural problems and the whole of the u. k. economy, which neither party is willing to address. and what we are witnessing in terms of fuel shorted is for geo to does homelessness cuts in universal credit. that is basically how neoliberalism is playing out. it is really about enriching the rich are not really doing much for the masses. and i mean,

i know you originally about this, i mean say just the health care system here, the envy of the world, it used to be the national health service. here is it by stealth. they are privatizing it. and is it working? this idea that you can cream people off into the private sector. now as the n h, as seems to be failing for some in this country. well, i think it is privatization mostella and also deliberately, you know, when the conservative government came to office in 2010, the waiting list was about 2.42.5000000 in england. it is already about high point, 6000000 and the whole house is, has going to it possibly 13000000 by the end of next year. and the main reason for that is lack of investment. britain is unable even to trade a sufficient doctors. and we been doing what we have done for a long, long time. that is really poach people from other countries, deprived them of their skill labor. and the trick is not working at the moment

because a lot of the migrants have left. so basically, the government should have had the facilities to train health care workers, but it does not have that in place. and it's not something you can come to europe overnight because the priority has been how the government to provide tax cuts to corporations and the rich. and now older people are really just paying the price. here. what did you think of it when boys johnson? apparently in new york for the un general assembly met up with jeff bezos and said it's up to companies like amazon to pay their tax. how. how are i suppose that he might as well say there be a bucket at the rear l. the station and they're saying calling to pay your taxes please before you leave the country companies are not going to want to volunteer.