sinks ah, we dare to ask ah hi or so they say chow, it's the 2nd day of the g. 20 summit than in rome for world leaders of back to 15 percent global minimum corporate tax will look at why not every week after you buy that big announcement. in some new stories, it shade the week just gone, the u. k. 's ambulance service warns of an unprecedented crisis ahead as the army has put on standby to help coach with cobit cases, pandey upcoming winter flu season. we have one doctor at the front line. there are 5700000 people on waiting lists with a manager at present which saturdays probably going to get worse before it gets better. plus supporters, a cheering assange including rock legend, roger waters demand justice following a us extradition appeal hearing,

which is yet to deliver it further. i'm so angry and i'm soap and i'm so dish cash did with the united kingdom. ah, i anything to take him time of your weekend to watch out international this sunday life my will do use h q. my name is kevin owen. here with the usual we can run for some of the big stories we brought you over the last 7 days and one happening right now to start as you heard in italy, in ro more precisely. and stay to the g. 20 summit in italy. the groups 1st in person gathering since the start of a pandemic leaders there. i've already discussed the recent energy crisis cove 19 and they've endorsed big story this one deal on global minimum corporate tax. first off his or europe correspondent peter oliver. he's there, whether it's deemed progress or whether this has been a token shop, depends on who you speak to. if you talk to those demonstrators who are on the

streets of the italian capital on saturday afternoon into the the evening, they would say that more definitive action needs to be taken on climate change, as opposed to the talking that's been done about tackling that particular problem. you speak to the leaders themselves, so i think they're pretty happy with what has been achieved at this g 20. they're all gathered for a, a big photo op at the trevi fountain earlier on sunday, throwing coins over their shoulder into that famous landmark, hoping that that brings some look to one particular area in which they have made of as few steps forward. and that is on a, a global minimum level of corporation tax. now this was an initiative that was put forward by the united states am if you listen to those who are giving the full backing to the u. s. president on to joe biden, himself on from joe biden himself, of course, we've heard it hailed as a real success. here at the g. 20 lead is representing 80 percent of the world's g

. d. p. allies and competitors alike made clear that support for strong global minimum tax. this is more than just a tax deal. it's diplomacy reshaping our global economy and delivering for our people. while the plan is to put in place a minimum 15 percent rate of corporation tax across the globe. now the plan is by doing that, that you would an increase the rate of cooperation tax in some countries that they would then be able to use that extra revenue that's generated in order to fund social projects with the idea of pulling people out of poverty. this hasn't gone down well with everyone though skeptic say that a lonely, really benefit those nations that are already wealthy. the plan from the u. s. point of view is to raise their a corporation tax level, which already stands at around 21 percent up to about 28 percent. critics, including charity is an organization's looking to fight poverty and happy that this is the way forward. in fact, oxfam has called this a mockery of fairness,

the world is experiencing the largest increase in poverty indicates and a massive explosion inequality. but this dale will do little or nothing to hold either his dad, it is already being seen by some wealthy nations as an excuse to cut domestic corporate tax rates risk in any race to the bottom, or the j. 20 seems to be ending with one su, that we thought was put to bed before it even got underway. raising its head again nuts. the, the dispute between australia, france, and the united states, really over the orchestra deal. now that was the defense pockets the between australia, the united kingdom in united states. what it ultimately did that defense pack though, was it cut france out of a $66000000000.00 us dollar deal to provide submarines to australia. we saw u. s. president joe, by meeting with francis emmanuel micron on friday, reconciliation the pose word all over the hatchet. well in truly varied. am hon shakes? no, i'm sorry, no, i'm sorry. no, thank you. no,

thank you. being offered from the 2 leaders really. and am it now turns out though, that what was said by joe biden, that he hadn't been made fully aware of exactly what was going on with the deal, might not be the case. we can now listen to what the u. s. president had to say and what is come out from the australian prime minister? i was under the impression that phrase had formed long before that he was not too honest. it was always a difficult decision force trailer. it was the right decision force trailer and worked closely with the united states and united kingdom and we kept them up to date the u. s. administration with, well, we're at and i'll various discussions with france. i seems like there still might be a little more awkwardness over orcus to comb just yet. that's the way it looks here in rome at the g. 20 it all wraps appear at this afternoon on sunday. i'll be bringing you any news that comes out though, in most final moments here on off the international. yeah,

let's go more or less the other side of the world to get a view. and it's new jersey bring in patron, a research fellow at the american institute for economic research, thanks to make the time for us this weekend. and so that this global minimum corporate tax, it's billed as a world change, it'll bring greater quality question is, will it or is that a bit too simplistic to think y'all, so thanks for having me. it's important discussions like these test 3 questions. i think 1st one for equality is being spoken about income and quality, wealthy quality. busy and so on. the 2nd is whether more economic quality is desirable and will it do what these, these, these leaders think it will do, which is raise, we want a poverty, that sort of thing. and last, how does it work? does it look the port number for the well, the is down and what are the things that these different leaders need to understand is that she is one of the tradeoffs of a global minima tax. that if it prevents firms from seeking lower costs abroad and therefore bringing skills technology to other countries,

that's probably not in the interest of some of the more developing countries in the world. it would slow it down, i get it right. 5 there must be some benefits, surely they wouldn't have passed it. or there are lots of benefits to governments. not private versions, probably not citizens, but i mean, generally speaking, countries while you're kind of companies, rather basin of other countries are going to be much less affected by this than the global minimum taxable effect. those in poor countries would, should have been done then if you are in charge of the world news sitting there telling what to do, what can we do to a huge, there's a huge, this repulsion of equality. what can be done about it? then everyone's saying it, this is the problem, what you do. so i don't think that that, that a race to the bottom and taxes is necessarily a lower thing. i would actually like, i mean, i wouldn't eliminate, i wouldn't my, i personally wouldn't try to create a, a global block of taxes. but one thing that could be done is also to lower the

barriers to, to bringing technology skills, information transfer to all the nations of the world. that actually taxes are a barrier to that. actually don't, they don't, they don't help that. are they, they're a barrier to the spread of information that rises, or that raises productivity and raises standards of living and all that sort of thing. peter worries, and this could disproportionately benefit the riches countries e united states. what do you think? i mean, to the extent that it helps the u. s. government maintain higher tax rates the, the us government, every benefit. but i mean government drivers are created and right, they just take money from individuals. busy and from, from, from countries and they read distributed so it will never be in the, in the, in the interest of a government, the u. s. government and any other countries to get more taxes when they do with it . i mean, that's going to really implement who's been, who benefits new doesn't get away from from it. and then it was a continuing follow from the big old cas row. just was it friday. we had joe biden

very publicly patching it up with mr. macross lots, a handshake saying it was clumsy, terrible thing. but then we've got just yesterday staley and pam scott morrison say it was right to keep from so the lucrative defense deal with the u. s. ouch. that's going to make things difficult with mr. by or of course, but morrison obviously sees the benefits that, that result from closure defense ties with the us and mean are the years is trying to strengthen the ring of allies around china that already includes south 3 in japan. so they want to bring. i'll show you more firmly into the mix and additionally, the submarine deal, the august deal is worth between $50000000000.00. so lots of jobs probably approve mr. morrison's reelection chance is it possible, despite this free public of apology, we had there for mr. by this, it possible really for parents in washington to return to business as usual for the disable future. you think water is really under the bridge over it. i mean,

microns that just yesterday that rebuilding of trust is under way. it probably is relationships between the u. s. and friends have been probably as more strained in peacetime than any other nation. the u. s. has dealt with. i might be forgetting some, but there was sort of revert to a generally amicable state. and they've got britain to deal with know this fishing thing that's going on, jazz, etc. love. they told she paid her a research fellow at the american institute for economic research have a good day. thanks. been live with us. i will talk to you k u k. paramedics have raised fears of an unprecedented crisis facing the ambulance service that came up in the week. this with one local department, even leading, sorry, pleading with the public to think twice before calling as there is simply not enough people to cover the workload. south central ambulance service is declared a critical incident, t to extreme pressures across all services,

all staff and volunteers working extremely hard to respond to course. but the volume is overwhelming. that are absolutely situations where people promoting many, many hours, both to get into the hospital. and then once they've been in the hospital waiting to see a doctor, cause it has a detrimental effect on anybody who's waiting for hours either in london. so sitting in an emergency department and nobody working in those services wants to see that happens, but there is a huge amount of pressure on the chest. at the moment. meanwhile, ambulances are being forced to stay in cuba for hours outside hospitals, which are struggling to cover themselves with demand for beds. number of medic supposed to these pictures, check this to the current situation of social media. one paramedic hit the money urgent action after showing 25 ambulance cruise waiting to enter the emergency department, adding it's not even winter yet while early this month to sad story of a patient who died after waiting more than 5 hours in the back of an ambulance we

are right on the edge, and it is the middle of october. it would require an incredible amount of luck for us not to find ourselves in the midst of a profound crisis over the next 3 months. so what to do? well, the u. k. governments put the country on, send the kin to a war footing to try to deal with covey cases and get ready for the winter flu season. on top of it. troops who have been trained to dr. ambulances, some 4000 of them are on stand by to help the n h. s. coke with a winter season early at the defense secretary said the soldiers are also ready to assist with other duties. administering vaccines testing for coven, another general support in hospitals. new daily coded cases in the u. k skyrocketed in july, and they've remained i ever since doctors, fee of those numbers combined with the flu season, could overwhelm the health system. and the chest chiefs also want the prime minister to implement its more stringent plan b for winter, including vaccine, possible compulsory face mask. again, although so far the government held back home, you know,

there are other things that the government could couldn't, could be doing. and yes, that should be absolutely seriously considering mr. at this point in time before things go to the hospital. i work in have been on what we call black lab, which means that the beds are absolutely full of patients for a number of weeks now. and we are not coming across the whole system. many hospitals are very full with patients. we know that hospital actually been at the most efficient if i'm not absolutely pull up with patients. and it does mean that it knock on effects on those patients who are waiting for edge and surgery who require in particular intensive care pads or high dependency care on not being processed or not being cared for in a timely way. and we know that is the case. there are 5700000 people on waiting lists within the n h. s. present, which somebody's probably going to get was before it gets better. the face, a whistleblower julia sounds remained in limbo this week for

a 2 day expedition appeal hearing at london's high court. the u. s. is challenging that case, decision not to expedite him to america on health grabs is wanted by washington still on 17 charges of espionage and one of conspiracy to her government computer if convicted his san shoes, exposed, alleged western war crimes could face a prison sentence of a 175 years of the may be months before a final verdict in the cases reached me. i the judges just said they will take everything into consideration, but no ruling was handed out immediately. the entire day was devoted to hearing arguments before by the prosecution for the grounds of appeal, why they went to appeal to judge's decision, not to extra by the phone. and there were 5 grounds of appeal and the 2 main topics are, of course, found his health. and the assurance is a diplomatic assurance is given by the united states in terms of health. what the

prosecution i've been trying to do is accuse a key medical, extra witness professor compliment of being disingenuous of misleading the court by concealing the identity of a son, just partner stella morris and the 2 children. we finally heard the yahoo news story, the investigative journalism that was done a few weeks ago where 30 us officials confirmed what we already knew from anonymous testimony, that the c i was discussing, plans to potentially kidnap or poison julian as on in london. and so this was brought up in the context of why couple men, why professor coleman should not disclose the identity of a son, just partner and their 2 children, because he feared for their safety. when it comes to the assurances that the united states is giving. they say that drilling function service sentence in australia, but australia has not even indicated if they will take you in his arms. this is a process that takes many years. the truth is the doing. the songs will most definitely be played and it leaves administrative segregation. and if not,

he'll be sent to a special housing unit. so there's a wide array of tools that not a safe youth to break him once he's on us soil. and they will certainly will during both days of the hearing. a sanchez supporters related side to the court building. they wanted immediate release and chanted. journalism is not a crime. others express growing concern, whistleblowers health, pink floyd co founder, and a long time his son supported roger waters spoke to us again about this. is he done over the years? he said he believes the whole case is a huge miscarriage of justice. this is an absolute nonsense that this man has been locked up for a single day. whether it's in the ecuadorian embassy or in el marsh. this is, this is one of the most valuable human beings that we, the human race have. amongst us, he is deeply, deeply important to the potential for this race to survive on this planet. in my view, that is why julianna's son is in prison because he's interfering with the accounting

plan to steal the plan, it sort of rape it to death and then destroy. it is a disgusting miscarriage of justice. look at guantanamo bay, asked shaka, alma, my friend, ask anybody who has been in the hands of the u. s. judiciary. and at any point, possibly since the 2nd world war with a did not agree. and you will find that there's no justice to be found in the united states. i'm so angry and i'm so bad. i'm so disgusted with the united kingdom. oh, i did a radio program last night. john ship, tim was on it and he was extremely eloquent. and i asked him how him, how he manages his grief and, and he was absolutely, he was all moving to listen to. he says, willie, he puts it to one side as it goes through his life. and his life is entirely

devoted to the freeing of his son, so he can go to his wife and children. and john says that late at night he may retreat into his melancholy. and i felt my heart lurch in my chest. as i listened to this man saying, and i felt his melancholy hit me like a, i'm a blow on my chest. we are not going on anywhere at all. and our voice is going to get louder and louder and louder than to julian sanchez said, free. i can promise you that the story continues. this is our to international, watching the weekly with me, kevin, are in the sunday i the story that's re emerging trouble again. and so does term all this last week as it's robbed by military takeover on the rest of its political leadership. the details, if you missed it, you want to recap after the break. ah,

ah, join me every thursday on the alex simon, sure. i'll be speaking to guess in the world. politics sport, business. i'm sure business. i'll see you then. oh, you have to understand that so much of this nato blue stuff is theatrical. it's purely theatrical. nato did not fight for georgia in 2008. it anto planned to fight for georgia. there was not the slightest consideration alpha fighting the georgia and cause it didn't fight for ukraine in 2014 either. and there is absolutely no intention anywhere in western europe to send a single dock,

short danish or german or french soldier to fight in you cried ah ah ah, listen, came in a few hours ago, multiple injuries reported are for an attack on the tokyo metro with the prime suspect dressed up like batman's joker. he's appeared to be patiently waiting for police to arrive before he detained. then strange stories, husky, taylor picks it up. what do we know so far? well, around 8 p. m. local time in the japanese capital of tokyo police were a lot to, to an ongoing attack on one of the train lines. now what this attack entailed is still being investigated,

but what we do know is that the person suspected of being responsible has been taken into custody of reportedly. this is a man, according to some, not more than 20 years old, who went on to one of the train carriages wielding a knife and possibly sprayed some kind of substance before setting it on fun. this obviously caused a great deal of panic and tales. people were terrified from the videos that i for people to fling out the end of power, just some even trying to squeeze through some of the courage windows. at the stage, there are no se ton of teams reported the reports all conflicting, but we're looking at multiple injuries according to some around 10 people, one person seriously hut being treated by a number of ambulances that appeared very quickly at the scene of the extent of the damage to the train. well what images of some very fond seats. so that is the picture at the moment. smell brief, i will say this is a very busy train line. it's in the west of the city. it's primarily

a commuter trains of car on 1400000 people daily. of course it's some day though, so few people thankfully around to be harmed. they said it is a very important day for japan because it is voting the general elections. so maybe more people would have been out and about the final thing i will say though, the unfortunately, this is not a one off incident. comes from 3 months off to 9 people wounded in a stop and talk on another commute to train and tokyo. so in august, a woman had threatened her face on the capitals subway. so the self a pair at this stage to be really the, the latest and quite worrying series runs a military takeover and a state of emergency all combined on monday and the north african country of pseudo . this is the top general there. dissolve the civilian covenant and arrested the prime minister, who was later released the overthrow. those fug widespread raged with protests on saturday in the capital car to wear the military open fire to dispose the crowds and supposedly killed several people along the way. the country's de facto rule

urged people not to regard the events as a cou, a such saying the previous entry and government simply been completely affected. the images of chaos and sudan led to international condemnation with washington piling on the pressure. we've already made clear that we are pressing paws on significant aspects of our economic assistance to sudan. and we will look at the full range of economic tools available to us in coordination and consultation with regional actors and other key countries to make sure that we are trying to push the suit the entire student, his political process back in a positive direction after the significant and alarming setback while to highlight what he was alluding to there, the us state department or not it's, it'll stop hundreds of millions of dollars in economic aid to the country in response to the military takeover. but just who will be the most by that decision, when he saw cd correspondent to tell us in this day and age, almost nothing is sacred off limits. you can weaponized anything, trade,

culture information. it doesn't have to kill all it has to do is hut. in light of these developments, the united states is pausing assistance from, from the $700.00 are $700000000.00 in emergency assistance appropriations of economic support funds for suzanne. this was badly needed money for one of the poorest nations in the world, but it came of all sorts of political strings attached thick cables of them. as a door assistance often does they are weapons behave do as you are told or will cut you off. the problem is the people who get cut off usually aren't the ones that misbehaved. like when the us froze of ghana stands bank accounts. president biden is not hurting the taliban, or the current regime. this is really hurting every day. afghans and the united states will push them into further poverty. take my word for it. while in

afghanistan, i didn't see a single hungry taliban fighter. i saw thousands of civilians the poor out in the streets, willing to sell family members for food because they weren't getting salaries because have gather sons. bank accounts had been froze, it, but no magazine among them. and this sort of keratin stick approaches. seen frequently. we stopped paying a loss as a to them and they will not see that money again until they adhere to the agreements. but they built a damn that stops the water from flowing into the nile. and you can't blame egypt for being a little bit upset. i had a deal done for them, and unfortunately, se opiate broke the deal, which it should not have done. it was a great mistake and sought the united states, cut hundreds of millions of dollars worth of health care, and education and development, aid to the government of ethiopia. the suspension of a proved pointless that little besides irritates ethiopia and of course,

delay and stop countless health care and education programs or take palestine for ever at the receiving end of those u. s. h cut. what does that achieved this administration is thereby targeting the most vulnerable segment of the palestinian people and depriving refugees of the right to education, health, shelter, and dignified life. but that was all child's play compared with what transpired in venezuela helped along by ruinous us sanctions. they struck as venezuela was going through an economic crisis and it resulted in near compete. he can amik annihilation inflation at half a 1000000 percent of fantastical figure, but with very real consequences. you'd think that lessons had been learned that pulling aid to poor nations as like putting a meal from

a hungry person. the leads aren't the ones that suffer and starve that isn't the reasoning behind aid cuts. think cynical, think heartless? the idea behind pulling aid is as simple as it is cruel, to compel the, the angry, the hungry, and the desperate master rise up against their own rulers, that the elites truly fear. alas, was more ghast ever seen to correspond to this the way the weak pond on hope you're enjoying a programs this weekend. i can tell you that will to parts on it after the break. but for now, for me, kevin, though in the rest, the team, joe, the rest your sunday to ah, ah, ah, ah,

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and worldwide among allies for the next 30 years. been down the victim say they still live with the consequences today. oh mm mm mm. hello, welcome to wells apart. there were never on friendly terms, but there were times when russian native managed to accommodate each other security concerns and even do something together. most notably during the early stages of the us presence in afghanistan. and while they heard the american patrol from kabul seems to necessitate more coordination between this an easy do. now,

formal talking lines will be separate. come november. what does these silent treatment mean for the region and for the world full to discuss that now joined by an a to leave and senior fellow, add the quincy institute for responsible save profit in washington to see dr. lehman is great to talk to you. thank you very much for finding the time. hello. now i'm sure that the closing of the in either lays in office in oscar and russia's mission to brussels, didn't come as big of a surprise to you. there weren't functioning any way. but i think there's something noteworthy about the 2 sides, not even trying to keep up appearances anymore. what do you think? yes, i mean, it's another step downwards. and it also illustrates the absence of coordinated thinking in washington because clearly this nature decision would not have been taken without the agreement of washington. the biden administration at the moment seems to be, you know, anxious.