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that fines and equality hills, one person every 4 seconds. while billionaires have pocketed their highest annual pay increase since records began, all of them all coming up and today's going underground refers to the world's worst humanitarian crisis. fueled by weapons from the united states, the u. k. and the u nations of south korea's president, engaged in arm sales to the u. e. 3, were killed in the capitol, abu dhabi on monday, after a drone attack from yemen. hootie community signs of a widening war in 2022. joining me now from yeoman's capital center, where the saudi led could mission is continuing as strikes in response to the attack is journalist and filmmaker nasa r. i bye. have a good after so much for coming on. i should just of quickly ask before i get to the very fluid situation of continued british armed saudi attacks on your country. whether whether dubai is next, it's famous for being a tourist destination. is this war widening now or after the continued asked

strikes on your people? yes, yes, i think this is a natural 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 destroy her bond, starved to death, and do nothing. so this is natural. yes. i'll return to the u. e. in a moment, dubai abu dhabi, of course, the u. e 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, enjoyable out knobby schwab region. and 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 been 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 377000 men, women or children have been killed since the war started with 20000000 upwards at risk. forrest 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, it is another joke that 300 it is not the yoke, even. i sometimes would say that what united, what united nation is saying is also yolk, because they kept,

they kept for 3 or 4 for 4 years saying it's only 10000 people 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 at directly killed by that rings and da by, i mean by, by the bombings and the by that the war relate to 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 can to know how many, exactly, and they are already there no problem. they are in the, in the battle. but we are talking about the people who are in their schools in the hospital as in the houses in their willie, in the, in the weddings in their funerals, in that it's something that nobody can talk. because and united nations unfortunately is them are 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't get figurative from their heads. so they don't, they don't, there, there is no assist them that can give them their, their, their statistics. but we, on the ground we can see that there are a lot of people have been killed, 1000000000 yard being starved to death and being displaced. so they said their worst humanitarian crisis in the world. everybody knows this. saudi arabia already criticized for human rights abuses, are 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 can to win with on the money. you can win everything with the money. you can't at all, but the money can, can make you survive for long time. money can, can make you show your code money can make you white wash, 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't. why yemen from, from the, from them ab biden, by then at the beginning said he would stop the back, the backing of saudi arabia and united that have been married 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 to so defensive and not of incentive in the congress. they say defense, if not all but the know who would def indium and who would defend them and who is being now killed and destroyed for, for, for, for 7 years now. why human would not would not have be able to defend it. why is there, i mean, it just, this is just for everyone. but now, if it is just a matter of business business and, and selling and buying weapons, they would, they should say. so they shouldn't talk about the human rights and legitimacy and all these kinds of things. people are being starved to buy these people for nothing

. beeble yemenis are being staffed for nothing in yemen. beeble are being displaced, millions of people are displaced, millions of people are being stabbed every day, intentionally by saudi arabia and united arab emirates. and now when say when your money is a started to italy, yet they said no, this is that there is them. this is the bad things. this is the wrong thing. this is why. why why yemen? i mean, does it, does yemen not deserve a good life? does e m a not deserve it to be like any country? i me, 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 a saudi arabia, united roberts, have, and other things they have just their own agen,

does their different agendas. and they also say to you, to the west, they are allies against iran, or i units through the or a, you know, they are not ally. they are not even a lie, is they are at least get competitors. they arrivals, they are not. so at the expense of home, at the expense of jamini, at the expense of yemen blood, he em, any blood and the eminent treasure, the saudis, say the civilian casualties are because they are being used as human shields by the hootie 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 in the united states in alliance with the uni alliance is with isis. obviously, there was some evidence of britain, the united states,

um her 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 they 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, and saudi arabia has the money that, that, that very 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 as the british forces out there and they came to meta and they, they do a lot of things there in the seas, in everywhere. and the united states is involved in everything without united states, you know, the area would not do anything in this world at all. and there was not stuck in the 1st place without united states and the okay and the friends because they say they, they support them for, for many different things, for many different reasons. but unfortunately that of 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 go and the bomb their why they don't go and drop their bombs there

in the, in the battle field. why they come to the school this to the houses, to the cities, to the, to the way things to the funeral is to talk to the water, to the food, to why they do they blew, blew a d. m. uneasy either why they stab them deliberately. why why they dont allow their, their, the oil, their medicine, their food, the water and all this yet, 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, or because there are beeble hood or who can't thou. so a saudi arabia is. and fortunately, turning to using their food and water and medicine as a weapon in this war, nazare stay safe. obviously, the saudi coalition fueled by britain and the united states denies all wrong doing

and say that a 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, newest 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 more can we up about 2 of going underground? ah, no other shares are happy to report pleasant sounding lines. our politicians are constantly telling us, pleasant lies. i'm a show. we dare to delve into unpleasant truth. the binding ministration is under water in just about every way. is this due to bad

policies are bad messaging? maybe it 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? 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 inequality. it's 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 chrome barrier isn't exponential growth. they've been in that wealth. and the last year and a hall for 19 months. it's beginning of the 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 kobe 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, didn't they printed loads of money loads of schemes, loads loans, furlow schemes. during cove, it y, y is not leveled anything, not have 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, which has 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 predominantly most of their wealth is held in stock. so in the market. so what we're calling for is ox 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 accounts and any, and as he's been in, it has not worked twice as hard in the last year and 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 combat thing in quality everywhere instead of gathering dust in the bank. accounts of the already rich, you make recommendations will be that you want this 99 percent covered wealth tax. why would the 2755 billionaires in forbes, the politicians they pay for have

a consent to such attacks? 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. alex and tina, for instance, as introduced a new wealth tax colombia is increasing their world tax. joe biden had planned to increase taxes on the riches, which i'm sorry for being stymied by congress. this is a huge sway to 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 business does the forward to report this year. and she says very clearly that the wrench is paper on the half to i must die our tax.

and so i remain optimistic and we might say great taxation well to becoming used. yeah, we've interviewed some of the some of the rich calling for that. of course biden's 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 wall street and 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 going. so i don't think that 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 message i'd say. 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 not nicer arabeah in part one of this show about the ass strikes filled 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 and 2 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'd 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 a inequality 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 were such 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 it, well, the precarious and the, the casualties ation and atomization of work about that, especially say in the nato countries. how can trade unions reassert their power as people or more on 0 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. i think i agree with you that it's very hard for workers to organizing the gauge economy. but i also do think i'm with the increased demand for goods with the spark and inflation. you're all saying, i'm an increased demand for stall and they're actually saying pressure for wages to go up a bit. so that's a good space for unions to organize and demand mole here the you can receive

a compounding inference of breaks it as well. so i think it is still the case. the economy is rigged against workers, but i think the ability to organize and fall back is always there and they're shipping. so i could just say so a little bit rather than paint type point. you might as well or is talking just to diary from a colleague and play. 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 action, where you sent 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, america can do something to turn this around. but the more we can share a quantity crisis and the quantity virus, the more we hope that can happen yet, no sign of the engineer liberalism in columbia, arguably we invite, they're not, as we've talked to the president of olivia on this program. and i think view is

going on, do i know all about the very different policies, arguably between chile and columbia? you, i suppose you welcome 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 m f 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 the same discharge between what may i have says and what we are das, which you've now had for more or less a decades is a financial crisis. we have this solid and genuine recognition, bobby, i'm at the senior level that there is going to be the shock increase in a quality that, that is deeply concerning. we even have the chief economist, they are calling for greater taxation of wealth and solidarity taxes. but then when you come through the loan agreements that are on the table for the developing nations, it's more of the side, you know,

it's comp facts and spending. it's hard taxes on the poll vh a. so really the actual reality of what we are, i'm estimates in most countries is going to be more austerity, more pine, and more inequality. and that's something changes. yeah, i must say they are opposing some repayments, as so much of is a in the report. i mean, on the environment you seem to be suggesting that the 1000000000 is not any taking the money, the destroying the entire planet as well. 20000000 as 8000 times the carbon emissions of the forest. but i actually just want to finish because it was month into the king day on monday. you say if life expectancy was equal in the usa, how 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? well, it's not, i'm still not as numbers, but it is really a really amazing or a very few countries that collect data on rice and the army corps law 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 about spin exaggerated by the carbon dynamics 19 experience. you are much, much more likely to die in kind of a non chain if you're black than if you're white, but it's in the u. s. or some other countries like brazil, and here in the u. k. and that's not just because it's not as countries, 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 an agenda added 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 that. so for the show will be back on saturday, 6 years to the day eva morales was inaugurated as the 1st indigenous president of world, lithium, super well, but navia, he slashed in equality, having extreme poverty before alleged major nation interference,

destroyed his political career. until then he would just try social media and let us know if you think 1000000 as should pay more tax ah, ah . with

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