result for what is happening to yemen. i think it yemen or should not. and must not be eh, a sitting idly by watching itself and destroyed her bond, starved to death and do nothing. so this is natural. yes. i'll return to the u. e. in a moment, do by abu dhabi, of course, the u. a. he says all it is engaged in his sir peace making and in fact, we drew troops. although there are accusations that it is funding so called mercenaries. i better ask you then about the response from the british armed war planes, hours after the attack on abu dhabi, the saudi coalition, claiming the who these are using human shields. and they're actually the air strikes that followed on monday night. they destroyed a drone communication system and javala nabby schwab region. a tell me about the

air strikes this week on the capital where you are santa i it's unbelievable. yesterday and the days before it's continuing. they killed a horn family of about 12 people. all of them are killed and they're about, of course relatives and the neighbors about 12 or more injured and killed. also, it's almost the bombed out. i'm not talking about the house of that of the man who was allegedly targeted, as they said, he's a he was that chairman of the air, if the ation but he is now retired. i am and he was sleeping with his family, with his relatives, with his sons, with his brothers. and they all were killed. the un says

837-7000 men, women or children have been killed since the war started with 20000000 upwards at risk. boris johnson, the british prime minister, according to a foreign office lawyer, says civilian casualties are a bit of a joke. in your country, actually, obviously britain makes a lot of money selling the weapons or to bomb your country. and why do you not agree that it's actually a bit of a joke? the civilian casualties in yemen as far as johnston is reportedly saying, his mother joke that 300 it is not the joke. even. i sometimes would say that what united, what united nation is saying is also yolk, because they kept, they kept for 3 or 444 years saying it's only 10000 beeble killed. but now they're talking about 300000. i would say it's even more. i would say it's

even more and i'm talking about the people who are dead directly killed by that rings and da by i'm and by, by the bombings and the by that the war related things. and i'm talking about that . the civilians more not about the people who are in the battles because the people who i'm the battles you, you come to know how many. exactly, and they are already there no problem. they are in the batters. but we are talking about the people who are in their schools, in the hospitals, in the houses, in the willie, in the, in the weddings in the funeral, in that it's something that nobody can dog because, and united nations unfortunately, is an either a m, i, they say they told me directly as a journalist, one of them told me that they dont know and they can give figures from their heads . so they don't, they don't, they're, there is no

a system that can give them the that their statistics. but we, on the ground, we can see that there are a lot of people have been killed being yard being starved to death and being displaced. so it's at their worst, the human, it's adding crisis in the world. everybody knows this. saudi arabia already criticized for human rights abuses around nato countries, actually is armed by joe biden. initially he said he was going to stop arming. apparently, he's signing a $500000000.00 military contractor. i. britain also so much money as being on by the selling of high precision, multi $1000000.00 weapons. why? why have they not one, why is the saudi coalition armed by britain in the united states? not one there war and replaced or returned the old yamini leader back to yemen. why? why are they not winning?

yes, they can to and they come to him with their money. you come through and everything with the money. you can't at all. but money can, can make you survive for long time. money can, can make you show your code money can make you whitewash your crimes money can make you falsify money can make you make a bad things dirty things, but they can't do that. i things that money can, why yemen from, from the, from the map by, than by, than at the beginning said he would stop the back, the backing of saudi arabia and united arab emirates above then he would that then he's now he's doing what he's, he's selling to them under the name of defensive defensive, unfortunately,

defensive weapons, defensive not often. serv, so defensive and not of incentive in the congress. they say defense, if not. but then who would def indium and who would defend the man who is being now killed and destroyed for, for, for, for 7 years, know why yemen would not, would not have be able to defend it. why is there, i mean, justice is just for everyone. but now if it is just a matter of business business and, and selling and buying weapons they, they should say. so they, they shouldn't talk about the human rights and legitimacy and all these kind of thing. people are being starved by these people for nothing. the evil yemenis are being stopped for nothing in yemen. beeble are being displayed to millions of evil displays. millions of people are being stabbed every day,

intentionally by saudi arabia and united arab emirates. and that when the, when the money started to italy, it, they said no, this is that there is them. this is the bad things. this is the wrong thing. this is why, why, why am and i mean, does it, does yemen not deserve good live? does yemen not deserve to be like any country? i mean, i am talking about the civilians. i'm talking about 30 millions who want to live, like anyone in the world, like anyone in the world. but saudi arabia, united or it's have other things they have just their own egg and their different age. and they also say to you, to the west, they are allies against the iran, or i get told the are, you know, they are not alive. they are not even alive. they are at least getting competitors

arrivals. they are not. so i, the excellence of whom i the expense of the many at the expense of yemen, blood, yemen, the blood and the many trigger the saudis say the civilian casualties because they are being used as human shields by the who, the community britain says it's safe to return those seeking asylum back to yemen. it's a safe place to be according to the home office, one decision the other day. is there any evidence for british and the united states in alliance with the a alliance is with isis. obviously, there was some evidence of britain united states, m o links to isis dias in syria. and obviously the de facto promoted to the organisation after the disastrous war on libya. any or any proof,

any evidence of u. e involvement with isis diatra or al qaeda elements in yemen. there is a lot of evidence that you can use are involved, but it's not that hard to because of a know they are smart enough to hide it, but we can feel it. we can feel it every day. we can feel it in every state, and we can feel it in every position. we can feel it in everything. i'm in saudi arabia can do all these things alone. so it's saudi arabia has the money, but saudi arabia and united arab emirates wanted a green light from them. and they that, that, that, that they good things that they can do that logistic thing. the intelligence, the and this is something that, that, that we have seen in many, in many, okay, and during the last 5, the last 7 years. i mean, it is, the british voice is out there in, you know, they came to my head and they,

they do a lot of things. they're in the sees in the everywhere i'm the united states is involved in everything without united states. you is out the area would not do anything in this world at all. and i would not stuck in the 1st place without united states and you okay. and the friends because they, they, they, they support them for, for many different things, for many different reasons. but unfortunately that this comes at the expense of the, of the civilians of the civilians. and if saudi arabia is say that who is using the civilians as shells as a human shells. this is not right because there are about 50 battle grounds. there are about 50 why they don't to go and the bomb their why they don't go and drop their bombs there in the, in the back and says, why they come to the schools to the houses, to the cities, to the,

to the way things to the funeral to, to, to the war, down to the food to it, why they do, they blow a blockade. yamini is why, why they stab them deliberately. why, why they don't allow their, their, the oil, their medicine, the food, the water, and all these get all these are all these things. why they, they don't allow them in why they use them as the weapons in this war. and this is very clear to anyone because they could not win the war, because there are people who can't now, so that saudi arabia is. and fortunately turning to using their food and water and medicine as a weapon in this war, nazare stay safer. obviously the saudi coalition, fuel by britain and the united states denies all wrong doing and save it. civilian casualties are either mistakes or human shields. thank you so much. thank you.

thank you. after the break inequality kills, how is class war and economic violence being weaponized? my coven, we analyze ox firms, new s report on global inequality as it finds inequality kills one person every 4 seconds while billionaires pocket their highest annual pay increase. since records began dollars or more coming up about 2 of going underground blue, blue, blue. with

blue. i the by did ministration is under water in just about every way. is this due to bad policies or bad messaging? maybe it's vote. there's also an important question. yes, presidents come and go. but elite and special interests remain very powerful. are they a threat to democracy? so called and chance interrogation techniques used by the u. s. officials were basically designed as techniques to break down the human mind. if you force a human being to stay in a certain position doesn't take very long to the pain involved to become absolutely excruciating. but nobody slain finger on you. you are doing it to

yourself. and we started adopting those techniques when i was station and mosul among them wordpress position, sleep deprivation. and using hypothermia is already beginning to be evidence that these old techniques are now being used on immigrants and children, whatever you do or more comes home. nobody has been held accountable for the torture that happened in the past. and the moral authority, the made america war later. sacrifice for the shimmer of effective interrogation with, i think we'll put it up on this particular quote, man, anybody, if you could call them push and push it if i had a few, but there was somebody in somewhat of a few minutes that was 3 to what i still love the fact that we started at the but i looked on the back one in your school because you believe about what will give you

hope all the derived from what you what we believe. if you know what you this was our up on a wild like it, but here for a little for pretty weaker live from a brush up the darkness that are in your body with ah, welcome back. coinciding with neoliberalism annual this year, virtual world economic forum this week, and geo oxfam international is released its latest annual report on global and equality is the 2nd since the start of the pandemic. the findings show that billionaires have just received their highest annual pay increase since records began. meanwhile, inequality is killing one person every 4 seconds. joining me now from london is

oxfam internationals, head of inequality. max lawson, thanks so much. max. were coming back on again. you came on last year after you go to the 2021 report on that one said that deb billionaires had got an extra $3.00 trillion dollars this week. he really has to report that makes arguably even grimma reading, economic violence and inequality killing. well, the duration of this show 450 people, one every 4 seconds. yeah, i mean, i've been watching billionaires in the quarter p for some years now. and i hard to exaggerate this kind of increase sharing with dante this isn't just year. every year increase in banana, fortune. this is more like a graph that you might see for the only crow berry. it isn't exponential growth. they've been in that wealth and the last year to haul for 19 months. it's beginning to panoramic,

so it's out to the extraordinary that particular when you control that with the thought, the majority of people worldwide i seeing lower incomes than if cobra did not happened. and you seem to shop optic in poverty across the world. so it's really become a billionaire very and if you like that we have to come back here and explosion inequality worldwide because of kind of 19 obviously those you support, your liberalism will say inequality is baked into the whole idea of meritocracy itself, which is what is being pursued by, well, here in britain, all parties in fact, to mitigate against that. here in britain, the government supported by the opposition poured money to the printed loads of money loads of schemes loads loans, furlow schemes. during cove it y, y is not leveled anything, not an incredible positive impact and the rich nation is they're able to spend money in supporting the general population,

get the right thing and install contrast many developing countries. you've just been simply have the money to do that. but a lot of that money, a lot of that money that was printed by the central banks is also inflated. asset price is driven up the stock market. and that's where you, why you're saying historic increase in 1000000000 as well, because they're probably the most of their wealth entailed in stocks and in the market. so what we're calling for is august missionaries because this is an extraordinary, almost like a war time moment. you know, all of this money pumpkins economy, that was the right thing to do. but much of it leaking into the bank council as he's been in, has not worked twice as hard in the last year and a half. they know, twice as clever. and yet they're twice as ridge. so what we're saying is, let's have a one off philadelphia to tax of 99 percent. include that money back because ultimately it's taxpayers money, it's government money and then that's put it to use vaccinating the world. combat thing in quality everywhere. instead of gathering dust in the bank accounts to be

already rich, you make recommendations. it will be that you want this 99 percent covered wealth tax. why with the $2755.00, billionaires in forbes and the politicians, they pay for have a consent to such a tax. i mean, none of the things that calling for i'm possible, but i are very hard politically and we haven't seen some countries. allison tina, for instance, as introduced a new wealth tax colombia is increasing their world tax. joe biden had plans to increase taxes on the riches which are so far being stymied by congress. this is a huge suede of new wealth taxes, but we would like to say, but we do think the narrative is changing and we do think there is a general feeling that the riches should pay more tax and politicians are saying more space to do that. we also saw this year in the forward to report and many supporting materials and lots of very,

very rich people coming out in favor of taxing the rich. so not just the usual n g i voices, but abigail disney, here's the granddaughter world is may, does the forward to report this year. and she says very clearly that the wrench is taped on the half to i must die our taxes or may not to mystic. and we might see great taxation world in the coming is yeah, we've interviewed some of the some of the rich calling for that. of course vital stimulus plan stymied as you say. and some people saying actually, water heavily and actually involved in the, in arms trading. i'll get to that in a 2nd regarding your talk about inflating stock prices and will street to them the city of london. do you detect intent, or is it circumstantial? the 16 trillion dollars pumped in to these economies during coven, for it to just inflate these asset prices, i think is a mixture of intent and accident, i think. and as we saw off to the financial crisis,

quantitative easing does barriers serve the interest of the rich mariners of assets . but it also keeps the economy a flyer and keeps neoliberalism, garrett. so i don't think they dig it exclusively to benefit the riches. but let me put it this way, it's a choice between that and greater taxation of the rich to pay for support to paperwork for, for the poorest in essence. and then they're always going to choose to print money before they tax the rich. i mean, you say 10, the 10 richest double their wealth, while a 160000000 were pushed into poverty. we spoke to none, nasser arab, i, in part one of this show about the asked strikes field by comments from britain in the united states. obviously there was gaza in major in cove. it the biggest manufacturer here is b systems. what, what did covey do amidst the these sorts of actions to countries like yemen

into places like gaza? well, i think i read all over the world is compounded any quantities and compounded conflicts that we already had and kind of driven things to the extreme. of course we had free car rate, i know artistic situation where, where the u. k was sending alms to saudi arabia and providing aid to the yemen needs to pick up the pieces and the kind of perverse circle and those, those things are continuing on a lot of money and still made from conflict and disaster. but kind of, it is kind of porn pay for petrol if you're like on the floor of a farm in quantity. and we think it's likely that we're going to see an increase in inequality in almost every country on earth. we're beginning to see the evidence as a lag of 2 or 3 years with the data. and many of the surveys have not been done because of lockdown of because of archiving itself. but we are beginning to see concrete evidence of shopping increases in quality in many,

many countries of over the world and is increasing 1000000000 out wealth is perhaps the most picturesque example of that. but the reality is a growing gap between rich and poor, almost everywhere. some of those research and pink tied countries would probably not agree with that. along with the 99 percent tax, you say that unions should play a greater role and assert more political power arguably. but i mean, as we know so well, the precarious and the, the casualties ation and naturalization of work about, especially say, in the nato countries. how can trade unions reassert their power as people or more on 0 our contracts? and of course, during co, would we all know about delivery workers and, and the, the poorest and society that actually made society tick. so i think i agree with you that it's very hard for work as to organizing the gig economy. but i would say to thank with the increased demand for goods with the spark and inflation. you're

all saying an increased demand for stall. i mean, she's saying pressure for why just to go up a bit. so that's a good space for unions to organize and demand mole here in the you carriers, you've got the compounding influence of brakes as well. so i think it's still the case. the economy is rigged against workers, but i think the ability to organize and fall back is always there and then ship to . so i could just say so a little bit about the paint type point. you might as well or is talking just to die from a colleague in chalet. and we remarkably excited about developments and matching america. we really hard, they can try to talk on rising in a quality, but the 1st country to report die during kind of a non changes. columbia are actually where you seen a big shopping creation inequality in the last year and a half, which would probably have an impact on their upcoming election. so we, we, we remain optimistic that these new governments are mentioned american de shopping to turn this around. but the more we can share

a quantity crisis and the inequality vars, the more we hope that can happen yet, no sign of the engineer liberalism in columbia are arguably we invite, they're not as we've talked to the president of olivia on this program. and i think view as of going on, do i know all about the very different policies, arguably between chilean and columbia. you, i, i suppose you welcome that to actually oxfam and the i m f both agree about the increase in the quality, but then you, you go down out on the washington. i am left saying that the loan repayment, 85 percent of good loans is a 70 the country's look set to be pushed into austerity poverty by i'm of policies . yes, i mean we have this thing on this journey betrayed what they are map says, and what they are meant das, which you've now had for, unless a decades use a financial crisis, trip is solid and genuine recognition. bobby, i'm a senior level that there is going to be the sharp increase in inequality that,

that is deeply concerning. we even have the chief economist there are calling for greater taxation and well consumer. there are 2 tracks. but then when you comb through the loan agreements that are on the table for all of these developing nations, it's more of the side, you know, cut backs and spending as high taxes on the poll vh a. so really the actual reality of what i'm ref mange in most countries is going to be more or 30 more pine and more inequality. and there's something changes say they are posing some repayments as so much obviously in the report. i mean, on the environment you seem to be suggesting that the 1000000000 is not taking the money that destroying the entire planet as well. 20000000 as 8000 times the carbon emissions of the poor us. but i actually just want to finish because it was march into the king day on monday. you say if life expectancy was equal in the usa, black americans would be alive today. 3.4000000 would be alive today that are not

alive today in the united states. how does that figure out doing those numbers? but it is really a really amazing or a very few countries that collect data on rice and they call life expectancy between black and white people. both i've rule and because of target 19. and which really, really interesting to see the discrepancy and how that's been exaggerated by the carbon dynamics 19 experience, your lunch much more likely to die in 19 if you're black, than if you're white boats in the u. s. also in other countries like brazil. and here in the u. k. and that is not just because it's those country, they are the only countries you count these things. so we don't know what's the case in the rest of the world. but we do think there is definitely a very much a ratio and agenda, adamant to the inequality story that compounds this gap between rich and poor to give us this inequality virus max, listen. thank you. thank you. i appreciate you. that's it for the show will be back

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