ah, ah ah, a data lake reveals the offshore dealings of the world's rich and powerful, including former british premier, tony blair and current check prime minister andre babich with the united states named as a leading tax haven. and marks energy agency gives the green light to part of russia's north string to gas pipeline. as europe grapples with soaring fuel prices, i say the situation is stabilizing. no one's going to pretend this is completely back to normal. wish it was, but it is, is it's getting it that way. or british officials down play their own ongoing fuel crisis. they've now deployed military forces across the country. as petrol stations remain dried you to panic, buying with cues of angry drivers,

waiting to philip and league documents apparently confirmed a systematic u. k. meddling in russia with large sums being channelled through the british embassy in moscow. ah. hello. good to have you with us. just turn tenant evening on monday, here in moscow. my name is colleen bray with the world news this our something we're going to come to in a bit more detail a little bit later on in its program. you probably aware of it now. the 3 of the world's biggest websites fell off line around the world about 3 hours ago. instagram, whatsapp and facebook all suffering a major outage, one of the biggest social media server errors in internet history of the 3 run on a shared infrastructure. because all 3 of those websites, of course, are owned by facebook. the problems being experienced in countries around the world from the u. k. c, u. s. and here in russia as well. facebook being

a tight lipped on what the exact cause, my babe lost on something. this big happened was in 2019 and it took quite a few hours for services to get back on line. we'll talk to our corresponded a bit more about what's happening a little bit later in the program. next though, opening a pandora's box that expose a on tax havens has revealed how some of the world's rich and famous hide their wealth. among the names mentioned, our former british premier, tony blair, and incumbent check prime minister andre babbage of the league details how politicians, business leaders and celebrities avoid taxes using secretive offshore companies. and the pandora papers also single at the united states as a leading tax haven. i spoke to correspondent donald court who went over the 1st releases for us on whether there is sensational as expected. people definitely were anticipating something as big as what happened in 2016 when the pat, 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'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 for an ad 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 actually revealed that south dakota has become the new hotspot 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 competent 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 pro, with sex, to fire, this courage of corruption going in fact, delaware, wherein mister biden hales from i've got some pretty good the tax breaks, the company's them i 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 corporal corporate owners of 8 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 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 are, there might be nothing important our, a value to mention about these offshore assets. now we also did hear from whistleblower, edward snowden. he let out

a tweet about the report on this leak. so let's take alice, the humorous 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. the investigation also named somebody at the ledges to be a full mcleana and lover of vladimir putin mandel. so the mother of one of his children, svetlana criminal, get his alleged to be the owner of a monica apartment boat via an offshore company where the relationship with the russian president has never been confirmed. meanwhile, a friend of the president also appears in the papers, but not mister putin himself. now, as we heard, the papers also revealed that the us state of south dakota has emerged as a major destination for wealthy people to avoid tax. although the experts that we

spoke to say, they're not surprised. the very thing that the united states criticized switzerland in the past whore it is now doing the famous numbered accounts. look, 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 to day. you create the incentive and the means for those that the top to continue to accumulate from one generation to another. there is an amazing tax evasion taking place around the world. and there's also a lot of unaccounted, unaccountable capital sloshing around the world are using various off shore havens and, and governments tolerate this and, and banks make a lot of money off this. and the us, by the way, i is itself

a major tax haven. it's a incorporation laws are among the easiest in the world. so the us is actually our prime participant. and this kind of a really crazy, monstrous no tax avoidance than marks energy agency has cleared part of the north stream to gas pipeline from russia to germany for operation his or your correspondent. we're not quite there yet, but this is a step along the way to this gas pipeline eventually being up and running. what has happened is the danish energy agency has given its rubber stamp to the 1st string of the node stream to gas pipeline ad. that means that it has undergone air pre commissioning. it's also the hardest number of tests carried out on it, and it's passed those tests in the eyes of the, the danish energy agency. there's still some way to go yet, though, before the pipeline will be open running to its fullest extent. the 2 strings were

tied together in the summer of lab this year. that was, of course, much delay due to sanctions and everything that came with that. and all of the, the political wranglings they are now in the past. it would seem as we're into this stage of going through the compliance and certificated for the infrastructure project. and ultimately, once the 2 strings have been given the approval, they will be able to see gas flow through them. what's going to happen now with this 1st string that's been approved by the danishes, that they'll fill it up with gas very slowly and gradually to essentially make sure that it takes all of those boxes as well, that it can carry the load that it's supposed to the 2nd string of nord stream to that is currently undergoing its air pre commissioning. you would imagine that once that's gotten de gone, that then it also goes through the ad this to vacation stages that the 1st strings being going through. eventually, when all of this is connected up, it will as start the working light for this pipeline stretches over 1200 kilometers

from russia into germany on a, on the, or the baltic sea coast there. and it could pump as much as 55000000000 cubic meters of gas into germany every year. that's enough to heat $27000000.00 european homes every year. gas, of course, in high demand across europe at the moment and coming with high prices. lot of people looking to nod stream to, to wealth fill the gap when it comes to that guy. and hopefully, hopefully see some of those bills go down. as peter says, the whole of europe is on the brink of an energy crisis. gas prices continue to hit record highs, surging to have a $1200.00 per 1000 cubic meters. and with wind looming as well. there are concerns over how the blog is managing the crunch reporting from paris here charlotte dubin ski. there is a lot of finger pointing going on as the block faces this unprecedented energy crisis. that winter crunch is looming and according to some, this is

a problem that has been years in the making. let's have a look at some of the main issues across europe at the moment. and we'll start here in france, where there has been a price increase this month of 12.6 percent in gas towers that follows several months of other rises. deployment official cast excess, that will not be a freeze and they will not be any more increases. but of course, that doesn't mitigate the months of increases that people have already seen on their household bills. then in spain, where price is they have tripled in the last year. i mean, we know that the spanish government is made emergency measures to try and mitigate the worst impact from the poor. but small business unions are just saying, this is an impossible situation. coming after the cobit crisis. businesses just cannot take any more. and then in italy, prices a sector, so like 40 percent italian government is announced to package over $3000000000.00

euros to try and aid that. and then in germany, we also heard last week that one, the power plant had to completely shut up shop. and it's not the 1st time at all to do the same number of times in september. why? well, because it couldn't get enough co this crisis when it comes to natural gas, has pushed more people towards buying coal, depleting those stocks as well. so it seems like this is a double whammy. so what's behind this looming catastrophe? well, the you cannot agree on that, but some member states see that this is a problem that he was cause itself because it's pushed too fast too quickly to move to greener energy in at the same time as moved away from fossil fuels. and essentially what it done is, is left the entire book exposed in the g price is currently soaring across the u and putting unprecedented pressure on both energy companies and all our citizens when designing energy and climate policy is we have to ensure their social

acceptability otherwise we risk their failure. well, the ease flatly deny is this. it would check, it says actually this crisis shows that the problem is that is too much dependence in the u on fossil fuels. and the reality is that the only way to mitigate crises like this in the future is to move harder and faster towards green energy instead of being paralyzed, those slowing things down because of the price hike though in the energy sector, we should speed things up in the transition to renewable energy, so the affordable renewable energy becomes available for everyone. was the e u. a scratching its head over what to do it also looking potentially for a scapegoat. and some have suggested that russia is to blame for this crisis, saying that it is holding back on natural gas reserves. russia says that's not the case. in fact, russia says it's willing to step up to the hour of need of it to you repeat neighbors. and increase the supplies of gas to meet those needs,

those demands. but what needs to happen for that to take place is the certification of the north stream to pipe. this is a pipe that was completed last month and would see natural gas be able to be delivered directly to germany. but before that can happen, that certification needs to take place. that is something that you find out some illnesses are likely to discuss this week is they meet to discuss this entire crisis. but the idea that you finance ministers are discussing bread and butter subjects like energy bills and how people are going to pay them really gives you a sense of how this crisis is. and as they scratching their heads, looking for a solution, there are tens of millions of households who are concerned about what this winter is going to bring. the difficult choices that they will have to make in detail. i the heat that homes or feed their families all the while it is wondering how it

will keep the light. so on a brussels based journalist lou grieve a predicts the prices will soon be back to normal and not north stream to can play a key role. there is no lack of gas in the world. and a good example of it is the fact that the price of gas is not increased by one euro sent in the united states over the last few months. while can europe, it has increased by more than a 100 percent over one year, which is of course, a lot. so now is the time to support the b customers, the consumers, the, and consumers to avoid a price hike. now in the winter, but by sprain, this will be finished. everybody knows that the easiest is, of course, to get the gas from russia through all stream to and again, there is gas, everywhere in russia is not stopping this gas from being the liver thing is that we need to finalize all string too. and it's a matter of months at most on across the channel as

a crisis and the balance and the u. k. as well with petrol stations, they're still running dry and angry drivers forming huge caves, the government's deploying military personnel nationwide to get supplies moving. shoddy, edwards dashti reports next from london. put it this way as day. 10 now of the petrol crisis situation and the united kingdom is still seeing many cars backed up outside of petrol stations. people waiting hours to fill up that tanks and even the public transportation is being diverted away to avoid all of this gridlock things have gotten. so bad now the minute tree has now been deployed and drafted in to try and get the feel to the petrol station i think is also really important. we can actually call in the military at a time like this full, that extra support to give that confidence and have a misha that's there as a precaution, because as i say, the situation is stabilizing. no one's going to pretend his completely back to normal. i wish it was,

but he says it's getting that way. so the government says that this shortage is easing the problem is guessing best said the prime minister also reiterating sat to javits comments just that the all the being deployed is simply a precautionary measures. now, around 200 military personnel getting involved in this operation that trying to focus on is london on the southeast region. they argue that these are the west affected for myself. personally, i'm a little bit worried because in my journey on the way to work this morning, my call was flashing red at me, meaning i need to get to a petrol station as soon as possible. but of course, i'm not the only one a tool, millions of people are now affected. in fact, it's such a hot topic that discussing the petro situation is as common as discussing the weather here in the united kingdom, which goes to show just how many people affected, particularly those people working at the petrol pump stations. if you're going to fuel

a pre control one minute, one day you're, you're fluffy, nearby tight, you return does not normally. they run a fuel in, i just doesn't get sold because nobody comes in will. the last 10 days have also be defined by a bit of a blame game on the one hand, gentleness of being attacked, saying that the media is really reporting on big headlines and then on the individual level as well. people pointing the finger of blame directly. those people panic, buying all of this patchwork, but can jonas be blamed for simply reports in the news? no. can the public really be blamed for simply buying depleting? results is neither seems remotely irrational, especially the crux of all of this is the very fact that a 100 a 1000 laurie drive is how now have now had a mass exodus leaving the united kingdom. there are many reasons for that,

particularly things like the breakfast with these laurie, dr. is staying in the e u countries that they are from. so this seems to be a direct result of numerous things, particularly, like breck said, and it doesn't seem that it's going to be a quick fix for the united kingdom. the british embassy of moscow is declining to comment on findings that the u. k. has been massively funding anti government sentiments in russia. it's off to the credit and demanded britain explained, leaked documents, apparently confirming that london funneled money from the embassy. we've contacted the british forward and home offices as well as the embassy here in moscow that so far not much responded. all tv goes, donald, breaks down the story. couple of documents have been made public including the general outline of activities of the yuki embassy here in moscow, dated years 2019 to 2020. in total, the whole data dump consists of more than a $150.00 pages, and on those pages are well details as to how the u. k. embassy and london by proxy

have been trying to sway the public opinion here in russia on some key topics. how they supported certain groups, like for example, the l g b t community. and they also give the list of people who executed the tasks, who well received funding for it, and even the some journalist and media outlets who also received funding from london. here's how the russian foreign ministry commented on the revelations, the scale of funding and project activities. even a cursory glance, is simply shocking. for an agent. come on, they had children, independent journalists and acted as for instance, the embassy here has been trying to groom a whole network of what they call independent journalists, while independent. yet still, they were reimbursed for their work by the u. k. taxpayers, pounds. also there's a list of media outlets. we're also at least in part funded by london. and some of them are already with

a tag over for an agent here in russia might seem like it's not a big deal. but imagine a similar headline. but with the rules well swapped, that it was the russian embassy engage in similar activities, but in the u. k. now the embassy here we reached out for a common to them, but they have refused to do so saying that they simply do not comment on the documents. also, we have reached out to the u. k. foreign office and home office, but we are still to hear back from them. your with our t on the way the latest on the massive outage that taken facebook, instagram and what's up offline for the past few hours. we're live with our correspondent among our stories after the break. blue. ah, ah, ah.

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oh, well, go back, an italian cold suspended the extradition to spain of catalan, independently to college, put html. as he stepped out of the cold building, he was greeted by supporters waiting kathleen flags and shouting freedom. oh goodness, emma was arrested last month in sardinia. he's waiting on a european court of justice decision nova his immunity as a european parliament member, which was stripped off in march, which the ones lawyer spoke to r t. prior to that, italy's ruling, he said spanish efforts to extradited over alleged sedition for his role in the 2017 catalan independence vote. a re, legal, especially this situation is illegal and is caused by actions of the spanish high court that we consider contradictory to international law. we can see that the spanish high court does not respect e u laws. they want to be part of a club,

but they're not really contributing to that. not following e u norms and prosecuting politicians for their political activity as if they were criminals. several countries such as switzerland said that this was a political crime back in 20182019. meanwhile, some 3000 separatist protested took to the straits barcelona on sunday to mark the 4th anniversary of the cadillac independence referendum. demonstrators waved banners proclaiming we won demanding regional government leaders. he'd the results of the poll 4 years ago. we have over 90 percent voted to split from spain. d. okay. okay. those of us in favor of independence of not jumped on the bandwagon and the catalan government, which has a pro independence majority, needs to get his act together once and for all, and take sides and apply what we voted for, which is the unilateral declaration of independence e, i to day,

i don't see many people and so it's a be like a feeling that we still have to be mobilized and not get tired. but we are a bit tired already. because even though i'm here, i don't think it's of much use and i'm sorry to say this, but i don't see any response from the people or the politicians in particular necessity. i don't know anyone who stop being a pro independence activist now. it's a matter of political leaders joining us and we can achieve it together. the russian military successfully test launched its cutting edge hypersonic anti ship missile called zircon. for the 1st time it was fired at sea from a nuclear submarine. the missile hit its intended target in the barren sea in russia's arctic circle must 1st produce in 2016 and it can destroy enemy ships as well as ground targets. it's exceptionally high speed, makes it difficult for anti aircraft systems to intercept. and it's something the pentagon has singled out as being one of russia's most dangerous missiles.

all eyes may have been on the americas disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan, but the u. s. military is now facing a revolt from within its own. soldiers are speaking out against the leadership and the damage done by supposedly woke practices. a, with all those people did die in vain. people are upset because their senior leaders let them down and none of them are raising their hands and accepting accountability are saying we messed this up with. we were taught that the country was able to, that it was founded in 1619 and not 1776. and that whites are inherently evil. i've made that very clear to my own people, but in the light of a hyper politicized environment, i will not tolerate any discrimination of any kind based on politics.

this is really about the freedom of the american people, the right to choose your own medical procedures. the right to decide what's going to be injected into your body and what's not. those are a natural human right that we can't take away from people with it. back to our top story. that of the reason you'll probably watching a know scrolling right now, 3 of the wells, most popular online services instagram, whatsapp on facebook are all right now suffering massive outages and one of the biggest social media server areas and web history. the 3 run on the same

infrastructure, because they're all part of facebook, of course, and the problems being logged around the globe, including the u. k, the u. s. and here in russia as well. so to correspondent alia katrinka, who's now got a few more hours on his hands. now that he concept there's internet sites. i mean, it is important this, a lot of people use these sites and for the past 3 and a half hours also haven't been able to share pictures of that lunch. oh, new shoes. what do we know calling hello there? well, it's not only about sharing pictures, messages are not being sent to the websites wouldn't open, like you said facebook owns watts up and instagram and of course all. busy these services have billions of users worldwide, and all of them are down, not only them, but i'll come back to that a bit later. we don't know when this is going to stop because we're not getting explanations from facebook. all they have sent out is a message that they're working on the problem and they are hoping that this could

be resolved soon. there are apologizing for the inconvenience. like i said, all of this began about 4 hours ago. it was evening of her living in asia after noon in europe and early morning across the atlantic. again, the website's wouldn't open the pages, the apps wouldn't load messages on facebook message or on watts app wouldn't be sent. and what users are seeing are error messages popping up. similar messages of apologies and the fact that the services are working on the problem have been issues by issued, sorry, by instagram and watts at the i can tell you that this was like an avalanche because there are issues with google services. amazon services take talk as well. telegram for now is holding. so perhaps this is the only universal messaging app where people can freely say, share messages at this point. now, the internet,

experts at this point have been speculating that this could have been an issue that involves the d n s, which is called the domain name network system, which is often compared to a phone book or an address book for the internet which points the web browsers to the computer systems that are serving as specific websites a here we're talking about facebook in particular, but the consequences of this are already massive a. there are reports that facebook c o. mark zuckerberg has lost more than $6000000000.00 during these 4 hours, and we know that the, the shares of the major american are t giants are down, but the there are further reports. again, like i hadn't said, like i've said this is.