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getting away with murder ah, ah, the g 20 summit wraps up in rome with broad endorsement of a global corporate tax being the main achievement. now that everyone sees it, that way, we look at y plus and some of the stories that shaped the week, the u. k is ambulance service, warns of an unprecedented crisis ahead. as the armies put on standby to help cope with covey cases and the winter flu season, we hear from a doctor on the front line. around 5700000 people on waiting lists within unit tests. that present which se probably going to get worse before it gets better. and supporters of julian sonjee including rock legend, roger waters demand justice following a u. s. extradition appeal hearing, which is yet to deliver its verdict. i'm so angry and i'm so the and i'm show dish catch stick with the united kingdom.
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ah. hello and welcome to the weekly from our team. we're going to run through some of the biggest stories that we've covered here over the past 7 days. first matters this weekend though, and the 2nd and final day of the g. 20 summit in italy has wrapped up. it's been the groups 1st in person gathering since the start of the pandemic. among the hot button issues, the leaders have been thrashing out europe's energy crisis cove. it on a possible agreement for a global corporation tax or your correspond. peter oliver has been following development syndrome, whether its being progress or whether this has been a talking shop, depends on who you speak to. if you talk to those demonstrators who were 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,
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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 trevor fountain earlier on sunday, throwing coins over their shoulder into that famous landmark, hoping that that brings some looked to one particular area in which they have made a, 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 people. or the plan is to put in place a minimum 15 percent rate of corporation tax across the globe. now the plan is
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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 alone, we 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 char, is an organization's looking to fight poverty and happy that this is the way forward. in fact, oxfam have 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
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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 us president joe by meeting with frances a manual micron on friday, reconciliation the pose word all over the hatchet well and truly varied. am hun 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
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that phrase hadn't formed long before that he was not gone through my arms. it was always a difficult decision force trailer. it was the right decision force trailer and we work 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 now there is discussions with france. that's it for the g. 20 leaders summit 2021 next year. the event moves to indonesia with the leaders meeting in bali. peter, all of a r. t row attempts by the us from france to patch things up. took 2nd place to that sweeping endorsement of a minimum 50 percent tax on the world's largest corporations. oh, earlier, i'm not saying economist, explain to us why wealthy nations like the u. s. will be the main benefit years. it will never be in the, in the interest of the government, the u. s. government and any other wealthy countries to get more faxes, but what they do with it. i mean, that's going to really implement who's been,
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who benefits new doesn't. generally speaking countries and wealthier companies rather based and wealthier countries are going to be much less affected by this, then the global bit of tactful effect doesn't work. i personally wouldn't try to create a, a global block of mineral taxes. but one thing that could be done is also to lower the barriers through to bringing a technology, skills, information transfer to all the nations of the world with actually taxes or a barrier to that thanks is no doubt. they don't, they don't help better. they, they're a barrier to the spread of information, the raises productivity and raises the standards of living and all that sort of thing. aromatics in the u. k. have raised fears of an unprecedented crisis facing the ambulance service with one local department, even pleading with the public to think twice before calling because there's simply on enough staff to cover the workload in many, many hours, but to get into the hospital. and then once they've been in the hospital waiting to see a doctor course, it has
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a detrimental effect on anybody who's waiting for hours either in london. so sitting in an emergency departments and nobody working in those 7 states wants to see doubts happened. but there is a huge amount of pressure on an test. at the moment. meanwhile, ambulances are being forced to stay in keys for hours outside hospitals, which are struggling to cope themselves with the demand for beds. a number of medics opposed to pictures like these on social media. one paramedic demanding urgent action after showing 25 ambulance crews waiting to enter an emergency department adding. it's not even winter yet. while earlier this month, the patient died off the 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 light for us not to find ourselves in the midst of a profound crisis. over the next 3 months, the u. k. governments put the country on something akin to a war footing to deal with the coven cases, and also get ready for that crucial winter flu season. troops have been trained to
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dr. ambulances. some 4000 of them are on stand by to help be on a chest cope with the wind to season. earlier, the british defense secretary said soldiers are also ready to assist with administering vaccines, testing for covert and other general support in hospitals. this is why new daily covey cases in the u. k skyrocketed in july, they've remained high ever since. and doctors fear that those numbers combined with the flu season, could overwhelm the health system. and it just chiefs also want the prime minister to implement it more stringent plan b for this winter. that's gonna include vaccine passports, compulsory face masks, to, although so far, the government's holding back in there are other things that the government could could in. it could be doing, and yes, they should be absolutely seriously considering mr. at this point in time before things go too far. hospital i working has been on what we call black alert, which means that the beds are absolutely full of patients up for a number of weeks now and we are not coming across the whole system. many hospitals
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are very full with patients and we know that hospitals actually been at their most efficient if i'm not absolutely full up with at patients. and it does mean that it knock on effects that have at those patients who are waiting for urgent address, who require in particular intensive care beds are high dependency care on not being processed and 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. at present, which it sadly is probably going to get worse before it gets better. at the face of whistleblower. julianna's, son for made in limbo. this week after a 2 day extradition appeal hearing at london's high court, the u. s. is challenging britain's decision not to extradite him to america on health grounds. he's wanted there on 17 charges of espionage of one of conspiracy to hack a government computer. after exposing alleged western war crimes, if convicted on all counts, he could face a prison sentence of 175 years. although it may be many months before
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a final verdict in the case is reached. ah, 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 wanted to appeal a judge's decision not to extra by the phone. and there were 5 grounds of appealing to the 2 main topics. or of course it's on just health and the assurances, a diplomatic assurance is given by the united states in terms of health. what the prosecution have been trying to do is accuse a key medical, extra witness professor compliment of being disingenuous of misleading the court. why concealing the identity of a sondors 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
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testimony that the c i was discussing plans to potentially kidnap or poison julianna's songs in london. and so this was brought up in the context of why couple men, why professor compliments did not disclose the identity of a song just partner and their 2 children, because he feared for their safety. when it comes to the assurances the united states is giving. they say that drilling assumption 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 drew and his arms will most definitely be placed in at least administrative segregation. and if not, he'll be sent to a special housing unit. so there's a wide array of tools that united states can use to break him once he's on us soil . and then most certainly will during those days of the hearing, a santa support has rallied outside court. they want his immediate release and chanted, journalism is not a crime. others express growing concern of the whistle blows, health, pink floyd, co founder and long time a song supporter water water told r t that he believes the whole case is
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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 bel marsh. and this is, this is one of the most valuable human being still 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 julian sanchez in prison because he's interfering with the accounting planter. still the planet 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 whom they did not agree. and you will find
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that there's no justice to be found in the united states. i'm shall 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 he may, how he manages his grief and, and he was absolutely, he was all moving to listen to. he says willy, 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 yes,
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and i felt his melancholy hit me like a hammer blow on my chest. we are not going on anywhere at all. and our voice is going to get louder and louder and louder until julian sanchez set free. a promise you that a more about the 6 doors of the week ahead, including this a case suspect from the january capital wyatt was caught on camera encouraging people to storm the building has been quietly removed from the f. b, i's most wanted list, and that's prompted questions about whether he was actually connected with the government. it's our next story when the week he returns after this hello, driven by dream shapes bankers and those with
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who dares sinks. we dare to ask for what we got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on offensive, very dramatic development. only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult time time to sit down and talk with
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now it's not often that someone disappears entirely from the epa is most wanted list, but that's what's happened to a man who said to be a key figure in january's capitol hill riots in washington. he was caught on camera telling people to storm the building. now this is all about some including republican party members, raising questions about exactly who the mysterious figure is. and the weight. kellum open reported on that for us. and individual featured and videos calling for people to enter the capital building even before the january 6th capital riot and was seen on the day. january 6th, ushering crowds into the capital building has been identified by law enforcement as arizona resident re, apps re apps and arizona man scene invite la circulated videos telling trump support his on multiple occasions to go into the capitol also seemed to have acted on his own i don't know, like a rebel, as i said, we need,
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we need to know. i'll say, we need to go in the camera let go. ah, unsurprisingly he was on the f. b i's most wanted list them was referred to as suspect. 16 for some time. f b i w f o is seeking the public's assistance in identifying those who made unlawful entry into the u. s. capital building on january the 6th. but now suspect 16 has been scrubbed from the f b i website. now if you take a look at the way back machine from archive dot org, you can see that from january 8th, 2021, all the way until june, 30th suspect 16 was pretty clearly highlighted, but suddenly, on july, 1st, he wasn't on the website any longer. now if he'd been arrested, he would still be on the website just with arrested under his name,
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like others who have been apprehended. but he's not, he's just been scrubbed. this has prompted lawmakers to ask questions about whether or not there were f b. i provocative tours who may have helped events on january 6th to go the way they did far as we can find this individual has not been charged with anything. can you tell us without talking about particular incidence or particular videos? how many agents are assets of the federal government were present on january 6, whether they agitated to go into the capital and if any of them did a so i'm not going to violate this norman of follow the rule of law. i'm not going to comment on an investigation that's ongoing. now the capital breach database has no entries or listings for re apps to some. that's a pretty big red flag. the ongoing mystery of re epps. he repeatedly appears in videos encouraging and inciting an invasion of the capitol on january the 6th. yet
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for some reason, has not yet been indicted were charged. even his people with far less involvement have been re apps as a free man. he has never been arrested or charged nearly 10 months after july. the 6th, the fbi i in justice department still refused to comment on with the abs has ever been served. a search warrant the up the eyes record when it comes to things like protests and provocations. is not exactly squeaky claim, people can look up the history of cohen tell pro infiltration and other dirty deeds if january 6th is such a pivotal date in u. s. history as it's being presented. surely questions like those surrounding suspect? 16 demand answers. caleb martin, r t new york. facebook is undergoing something of a metamorphosis where the major re branding to change its corporate name on, ironically to matter is part of a drive to broaden the scope of the company's brand recognition to include its other holdings like instagram and whatsapp up the internet joined in to help that
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rebranding, although perhaps on the way that facebook might have anticipated a mountain of maimed rapidly abruptly, ridiculing the new name with facebook, sorry matter boss. mark zak. a bugs face front and center in many a doctor to pick. zuckerberg though, is optimistic that the company's new direction is the way to go. facebook is one of the most used technology products in the history of the world. it's an iconic social media brand. over time, i hope we are seen as a met averse company. and i want to anchor our work and our identity on what we're building towards. facebook changed his name to meta is so exciting. i've already forgotten that we just learned, they knew women were being sex traffic on the platform and did nothing. facebook is now meta, our new logo is a rubber band because our morals are elastic. oh, and we stretch the truth. it doesn't matter what you call it. they're still selling our data. the new name was unveiled alongside plans to build that so called met
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averse, an online virtual world where people can play video games work and communicate. with the announcement pushed up the newly minted metters stock price by $1.00 and a half percent. and next pondering how this new cyberspace universe might be implemented here is not one but 2 poly because within a matter of years, if facebook gets its way, a lot of us could be spending much of all. i'm looking something like this is hiring 10000 people in yet to create a met us for the low nods out there. i'll let virtual poly explain to make of us is basically the make tricks. you create digital avatars of yourself like me, and then you put on your v headset and away you go. you can walk around a virtual world and interact with people in real time. they're doing things like
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shopping and dancing and studying together in a virtual space. the real world may struggle to compete. facebook founder and ceo mock sucker bug says that the match of us is just saying that kill progression from the 2 d internet to the 3. the ones that are not buying to monopolize the mass of us. it is far too late for that. the idea is that users will slip seamlessly from one virtual world into another. so instead of flying from paris to new york, for example, you'd digitally teleport yourself from facebook's massive us to google's or apple's one. i'm from you. boom, as quaking in your booth at the thought of this matter of us, the future is already here. back in 2020 rock and travis scott played a virtual concert within the full night wold which attracted over 12000000 viewers . which was a record at the time. not carrie bronze coffee and on the fact that there's bags of
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money to be made in the mess of us. he's. he's already unveiled a virtual collection on the roadblock platform. while he oh, god created a bunch of clothes or as known for full nights. there's even companies slipping, virtual real estate in the matter of us, if you're struggling to understand how this works, you're not alone. there is a building, boom, breaking out, but it's not happening in your backyard. it is happening in a fake world. so there are many, many versus there isn't just one, but the, the oldest one, the oldest crypto vs one is called a central and whether you're ready for life in the cloud or not facebook's announcement that it's hiring an army of developers to build. this met us has been a rating success by one measure, at least i just spent 3 minutes talking about facebook's virtual plans instead of the company's real world problems such as the whistleblower that's just come out
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and said that the company puts profits over uses safety shopping lead monster zak, a bug alone. yeah. big bully here. we're back here in the real world. some of the biggest names in business across europe and asia gathered in the italian city of baroda. this week with climate change, the gas crisis and the relations high on the agenda of the ration economic forum shot to do better keep was there for us. this is where the big questions were debated over 2 days at eurasian economic forum in verona as cop 26 now starting glasgow. the environment was definitely on many minds with warning that it depends on strong political will. and the change in how we live our lives. the sheila, capital environmental issues depend on 3 sides, consumers, businesses and politicians, and all of them oppose environmental solutions for consumers don't want to consume
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less. businesses want to increase profits to produce more and more. and politicians are afraid of discussing the issue is they may not be re elected if they order people to consume less and pessimists worry, it will all end in some sorts of environmental dictatorship. the viability of the new status on the world stage was also questioned. they were called break to find a closest strategic alliance with russia to build on the strength of you re here which could act as a balance to china and to the us. there were plenty of other hard hitting words to about the ease you particularly over its management of the current energy crisis that we are in a complete a mass now in your room. market her are failing completely at the prizes arm. extraordinary. hi, it is approve of history, young and anxious. we rapid gas price growth in europe is mostly connected to an
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excess of confidence and renewable energy sources, climatology sales. this year, the wind force in europe was 15 percent lower than average. that negatively affected power generated by wind turbines and lead to the lack of gas reserves, and europe will be europeans, would be val advice to enter into a reason ebert, dyrock with our a supplier countries. instead of making acquisition. many you politicians may find it tempting to lift the burden of responsibility form themselves and perhaps lay the blame on some one else. and you guessed it. in this case, it is on russia. but there are many who say that the facts do not add up in the east blame game with moscow. like it is it a high gas prices are linked to the miscalculations of the european union? as far as we know, russia has supplied about 15 percent more gas than its existing contracts cover.
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also, as for the gas that was supposed to come from the us, out of the 28000000000 europe received only 7 because the rest went asia. so what can we take away from verona? well, to some the panelists up, the world has changed and we need to be prepared for that change, which could significantly impact and government's business. and you and i, it's now a multi polar world. and if the e is to find a way to have a real voice, it needs to look for alliances to the east. charlotte, even sky r t, verona k, that's the weekly for this, our next how the dysfunction and the u. s. health care system is lowering life expectancy, and one of the world's richest nations with
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ah, he died. i cried and i just got slapped the whole time. i was there. no one really thought anything different, knew this all thought, i just didn't feel good on the way for the surgery. his lungs failed. 30 seconds, but i killed him. i had gotten stuck with so many needles that day in 2019 doctor started talking about a new wide spread. does he use that caused severe lung damage? there's a few points that were really hurting all of the patients were diagnosed
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with a lung injury associated with using electronic cigarettes or facing products. he pulled this out. he refilled. holy crap, his him died. oh no, he's to be better. it was, i wouldn't want my worst enemy to ever go through that. it was come out of breath. join me every thursday on the alex salmon. sure. and i'll be speaking to guess in the world of politics, sport, business. i'm sure business. i'll see you then. ah with
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a j b you shaken with well i'm gonna put alon prepared to wait don't, don't get my check. i haven't been able to get them jackson's nothing to they have been waiting patiently for hours while i got here that for yes. oh my some have driven hundreds of miles to get here. with the most has spent the night in their cars.
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