i was the trail ah, when so many find themselves worlds apart? we choose to look for common ground. ah, we offshore assets of hundreds of the world's most powerful and richest people are revealed in the biggest ever leak and such data called the pandora papers. and while it confirms the us as a top global tax haven, no well known american people war firms are mentioned despite the president by the pledge to clamp down on tax evasion. also at least the 12 people are reportedly pilled and more than 30 wounded and blasted cobbles. second biggest moth, taliban says it has to take 3 people allegedly responsible wasn't in our review of the week and it was an extraordinary disaster. if we didn't have a president,

there was so adult, you all would be fired. i don't think the daily, when control anything this prisoner says about afghanistan, us lawmakers lambaste president biden, and his top brass over what some in congress called washington's humiliating withdraw. we asked though whether the whole afghan campaign might be a bigger failure than just the pull out itself and a bombshell reporter ledges the cia plan to a doctor or assassinate. we reached out to julia sanchez with former agency chief mike pompeiian at the center of the club ah, broadcasting line direct from our studios in moscow, recapping, weeks top stories with our weekly program. this is our t international. 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 expos a with correspondent don 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. 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 enlarged park 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 paper is actually paint a very different picture. they're showing that 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 comp, since corruption as a core 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, what are 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 corporate 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. you 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 of value to mention about these offshore assets . now we also did hear from whistle blower, edward snowden. he let out a tweet today about this, this, these, the report on this week. 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. or an economist and author, richard wolf says that many of those promising to get rid of corruption are actually deeply involved in 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, oh, come in the office, promising to do away with corruption, are themselves ah, 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 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 one, to have to understand 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 r t s correspondent with our guys to have caught the explosion and reports from the city. we had the blast club clearly, even though 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, 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 and away at the most the funeral of the mother recently deceased mother of the taliban se spokespersons. i beulah maggio head, 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 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 at the violence here in afghanistan

hasn't abated and winding it back a bit. this week saw tough talks in the us congress as lawmakers lashed out at joe biden and his military commanders over the afghanistan withdrawal. humiliating is just one of the ways the pullout 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 cash and blood and credibility into a got a government. that was a mirage. it fell immediately. we were buying in 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's not just the pull out that has been attacked. the entire afghan campaign is now coming in for increasing criticism, as ortiz kellum up 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 al qaeda will use afghanistan as a base conduct as a base to conduct airstrikes or strikes against united states. frankly,

after this debacle level withdrawal, i don't think anyone 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 nursing your ranks. that we did not grasp a 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 back them 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. and 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 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 jesse 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 probe 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 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 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 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 our country's authorities. it spent more than a decade investigating war crimes by all sides and afghanistan. but the u. s. imposed sanctions on 2 officials from the court after it started a probe into alleged us atrocities the i. c. c decision is particularly disturbing

for rights organizations as it comes in the wake of august disastrous drone strike by the pentagon on kabul, which hill 10 civilians including 7 chill that. oh . busy busy mm hm. 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 victims say that the u. s. officials responsible for the attack must be brought to justice,

fast marconi deloney last 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 c i plotted to abduct or assassinate ricky leagues founder jolina sarge. when he was in the ecuadorian embassy in london a while back now, the u. s. media report was based on statements from 30 former u. s. officials and centered on mike pan pail while he was the cia director during trumps presidency. pompei denies the accusations, and indeed wants action taken against the people who made the claims or they should all be prosecuted for speaking about classified activity inside the central

intelligence agency. maybe they didn't, maybe as a gov, just made it up. but you should, i take seriously, my responsibility is to protect that information. this can be seen as pompoms confirmation of the assange kit, not or 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 and new james bond movie . not exactly. in fact, these are the highlights from a reported cia secret plan to silence the journalist already 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. down the cia would break every possible law to silence

independent journalist stay tune. the upcoming details may surprise you. we are rewarding chapter one. the fascination my compared wanted the cia to be create instructors, subordinates not to self censor 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 on 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 2. kidnapping. but somebody in the white house might have thought tape, 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 founda. 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 1st,

a dunce assange, 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 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 on the runway by shooting its tires, as well as anything. and anybody else? wait? 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 for the european countries close their recipes. 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 the cia,

it's pretty much the same thing. rule of law may not surprise you but for now, gillian assange remains in a maximum security prison in the u. k. despite the british judge ruling against his extradition to the united states over fears for his mental health, you face is 175 years in prison. in america, if he is convicted of hacking and espionage charges in 2019, assange 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 whistle blower 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 kits, nothing 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 down to put 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 outs in front of the ecuadorian 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's no way that julian assigns should or could be extradited to the united states, and he should be free to go that does it for me, for this hour. in fact, it doesn't for the weekly itself, don't worry. my colleague andrew farmer will be here in about one say 25 minutes or 35 minutes time with the full and fresh looks renews. fresh. run down, watch mart international. glad with us. ah.

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hello and welcome to cross stock were all things are considered i'm peter lavelle. one would think the humiliating withdrawal from afghanistan would be the start of a washington wine down of the forever wars. is this really the case? also, you tubes war on creators, and it's not only about so called cobit misinformation. ah, to discuss these issues and more, i'm joined by my guess, frederick huntington, in plymouth. he is the editor and boundary 21st century wire dot com and in budapest, georgia, annually. he is a pod, castor at the gaggle which can be found on youtube and locals. are a gentleman, cross stock rules in effect, that means you can jump in anytime you want, and i always appreciate it. okay, let's start off with patrick. one of the interesting things as the dust settles with the.