name is up to ga, is expanding, it's alex oral pro says following the country's transition from a parliamentary to a presidential system 4 years ago. so far as success. if we judge by voter turnout numbers. but the west is still focused on headlines related to election rigging, for an interference and press depression. unable to explain why people are still voting and choosing the so called dictate are associated professor an international relations. abraham thought that this explains why true kids presidential election has seemed such a high turn out to not was the high, the made the collections are the college as too much space decision making. and they know that they have to wait for 5 and 5 more years. to explain these, these tests on the government side, the people that's more worried about the fit to which group or to add on to the big

i see i call the 3 add last relation. majority of these people are to combine those lot of disadvantage and the, this combination before the rest of the countries are host. i have to complete the most speech before blending. did they meet just yet? they should look at screen office space in this country is the guarding the media. we can not write an arctic use time like i myself will do. i choose to write an article in less than media the i, if, if, if the article is a stop looking, for example, to scholar monday, told us and probably should our table be covering how between the incumbent leader for jeff, type order one and his main opponent to mall tillage star lou unfolds this sunday, say, tune with us for all the latest developments. the the

strongly believe that we will continue to serve our nation for the next 5 years. when these elections in the 2nd round, everyone will see the shifting to africa over a 100 people have been killed in central nigeria, in what local officials say are attacked by unknown gunman on farming villages. the violence is said to have started 2 weeks ago, resulting in the mass displacement of locals affected people and especially women and children are both traumatized and having the water and dignity and sanitation kits. we condemned these barbaric acts in the strongest terms possible. it is disheartening to see innocent citizens being killed and their property is destroyed in such a gruesome manner. the region is located on the dividing line between 9 here is mostly muslim and no matter occurred or community in the north. and farmers in the

mainly christian south region has for years struggled with ethnic and religious tensions with violence escalating in the last few weeks after a brief palm period during the countries february and march elections, one local resident told r t. the situation requires fundamental reforms to be put in place. if you go from a, what do they need? maybe to provide enough's enough to, to, to, you know, be providing these areas. but typically there anymore areas. i think that's maybe cons cortez. so it's a th homes, but if not, it's time likely happens because it's in the we, these people are coming in to the, to the community, to grazing their with, if it shows that something cost to happen. if there's the kaufman doing those into something about it on thursday, around 250 villagers,

led by church leaders march through the tailings and the spiraling violence. local residents told us the government needs to take action, positive questions on what the government calls for, right, what is the one the government most. this is a need to approach just these the justice and so much the seem to walk you through the process. yeah. be cool, these power to do so talk you to going to do that. that's what was just this is

dispense is that that's we stuff on government has the we've power to read, but that's how you start exercise. the united nations are collaborating to develop a platform to facilitate transactions for russian supplies of brain and fertilizer to africa. that's according to the un trade official. we are working with them and making a platform that will allow for more edge all due diligence with the clients to comply with the sanctions, but allow for the transactions of food and fertilizers with africa. the platform aims to aid small african nations and overcoming trade disruptions. this follows an agreement struck in july of last year, which requires the you when to help russia overcome obstacles to its grain and fertilizer exports. for 3 years, you arrangement was reached in unison with an initiative under which russia agreed to allow ukraine to resume blacks the brain exports. under the deal,

russia would be allowed to export agricultural equipment and spare parts. a ban on insurance coverage would be lifted and the accounts of russian fertilizer companies would be unfrozen. but according to the russian foreign ministry, none of that has actually happened. and if most of those conditions continue to be ignored, it will screw up the agree of 19th of july. south africa's warmer situation general told us that the platforms may encounter a number of obstacles which needs to be resolved in a timely manner. with that, the un and they have again, countries waging on the program to do so. as i just said that to the relationship, the invasion to david products and that it is not undermine. and of course that we be your politics. it is also quite possible that it could be undermined. so we have a potential risk has to be definitely so that the, the,

the food stops as soon at around later, russia is necessarily able to have been the outright in 5 hello guys. him. so he's in how i have of african countries as well. yes. the other guys taking too long to be self sufficient and a quite right to find yourself need and about those who despise rights, where do i need to receive assistance? and i think, i think that i should've guessed that the got the use as it could correct carbon border terrace in response to india. a threat to complain to the world trade organization with new delhi saying the unions green initiative is affecting around $8000000000.00 worth of imports from india to europe . the you have struggled with rising restrictions with even germany, the blocks biggest economy raising the alarm over the necessity of cuts are the

contributor rachel mars and has more. it looks like brussels is taking a page from washington's notebook when it comes to using climate change to tell the playing field in its own favor and against its so called friends. while presidential bible's inflation reduction are locked out, green european car manufacture their american competitors. the european union is now looking to gain the same kind of economic advantage by slapping carbon taxes on steel and iron ore imported from india. and just as biden said to be you that hey, don't work things out between friends, even though they still haven't be the same sort of line on india. but wally, you tries to shake some more cash free from india's pockets under the pretext of saving the earth. it just can't give itself a break either when it comes to its own climate change agenda. the largest group in the european parliament, the center, right,

european people's party is now threatening to pull its support for the permissions green deal because they're worried about all the for me and food security. risk being undermined within each countries all. because the big brain brussels bureaucrats have become obsessed with the nitrogen intel done. and they want the number of cattle drastically reduced. the commissions greendale proposals are cutting, production and making investments and secure unsustainable costs of planned production products. without realistic alternatives means a significant cut of the nature is duration. on the other hand, minutes, the kind of the land area used for forming together, they will make a big hole in delray diversity and farmers budgets and will endanger availability if you were being food and will increase inflation. that's government is obsessed with a here a to the use plan of quote, reducing that greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 percent by 2030 compared.

which sounds scam level specific, by the way, kind of like, i mean, 5, that of dollars a week working 22 minutes a day from home. asked me how. so the dutch government is now harassing its own foreigners, and it said point now buying out the farmers. he won't reduce their livestock in line with the government directive. and now the french bureaucracy just a few days ago, as also asked the government to make the exact same demand, the french farmers at the same time, the french president, emanuel mac. cole's government has introduced its same language with the same figures from the use green deal. that's certainly not a coincidence, but down the wrong side of the highway on his emission free bicycle. mack, who is also at the very same time we wanted to ship a c because we've already passed a lot of regulations as a member of the e. u. even more than our neighbors. we're ahead of the americans,

chinese or any other world power. we have said goals 420502032 lower carbon emissions and so on. i'm calling for a pause and regulations in europe. yeah, maybe the st obsession isn't the best idea when you use economic engine. germany has just fallen into recession because it cut itself off from cheap russian energy . so it's losing economically obviously. but at least it's scoring big on the green front. right hole can somehow be considered green, since germany is heavily reliant on coal now itself to fire up its own nuclear plants. so that's probably a tough future and to make, after jury spent months, probably eating france for bathing b, e. u to classify as green. the nuclear power on which the french economy and industry heavily relied. but despite all the problems that it's member states are having and sticking to their green dyads,

brussels really doesn't seem too interested in giving them a break. your other not only leaves the global transition to climate utility by 2050 but the year old hasn't become the currency of choice for sustainable finance. the you and the republic of korea future, the launch of our green partnership will help us towards that goal. we will now work on the convergence and key areas and deep and cooperation on strategic clean energy projects because it is good for our supply chains. good fall competitiveness . i'm good for the planet. the gross model centers on fossil fuels is simply obsolete. we need to be compromised our economies as quickly as possible. and this is exactly why we put forward our european green deal. so as usual, it's pastoring over pragmatism here in europe. pay for,

of course we did fine european citizen the chinese foreign ministry has hit back at a u. k. report calling for a security law in hong kong to be scrapped. accusing london of interfering in this city's affairs. the government of the hong kong special administered team refusing u. k, so called 6 monthly report on home home nearly 26 years of the home homes return. the u. k. still has some work cannot from is colonial dream and continue seeking to, in, to say in hong kong, the fast through misleading report, which is steeps an ideological bias. this gravely violates the principles of international law and the basic knowns governing international relations. we strongly deploy and reject this during a u. n. hearing the u. k presented a report claiming that hong kong authorities are using security legislation to persecute opposition. hong kong officials say the national security law has brought

stability to the city after mass anti government protest back in 2019 international independent china specialist. andrew long says the west attempts to discredit china because of the fears it's growing influence a national security law was enacted because all calls will subject to paul was 2 years old to mentally riotous and just throwing petrow balls and surrounding the police headquarters and holding the portal in order to read some uh, over the united kingdom like the united states wanted to um, and wants to say they're, all they're doing is lot to prevent the rise of trying it. all they do is there's to put rails on that. so call national security, but any look at both they do, there's a big, big difference between what they say and what they do. what they do is,

is also interfering in taught as internal affairs and but also below i ad china's access to technology and japan does not paying the goodwood supply banning changes even holding other countries as a car to damage. they were so obviously in this context it's very difficult for china to establish space. i have no relationship with them because it's as if someone is going to step through with the back and wanting to steal. busy hands with you extract it'd be friends with you is having this result. this is really a new car depot take and a half because at the same time, and that's what the lot of stays on. spanish or western allies are trying to do it around the world. meanwhile, many middle eastern countries are taking their destiny into their own hands, restoring relations fazel. all of us editor in chief of re add based our new spoke

to option read tons the about the latest regional developments on the latest episode of going underground. you can watch a full episode later today in the meantime. here is a quick preview. i want to ask you the most without them uses the voice of a changing region. i don't know when was that there before you started it, our views on, on the front page. and it surprise even you, because you seem to be is if this was all in the pipeline, we knew things were changing. for example, at that time, there's the talk about the women driving the curbing the powers of the really just police, which is phenomenal. we just had, i honestly say the massive, the changes are going to be when you talk about that around a deal. i don't think anybody in their wildest imagination would have imagined both that this would happen. but also this would happen this quickly, but that's at this to many for chinese, a efficiency. i cannot see how this harm's western interest and contrary, everybody has an interest in a stable, middle east. everybody has an interest in safe passage of only of shipments through

the gulf, through the red sea. everybody has an interest in, you know, curbing or a tackling terrorist groups or 8 advocating them obviously. yeah. the most important story and nature of asian, we do is the g 7 in their ocean. but i think does that mean this region, and i'll give you the, in the whole global south. it was, they are, it will be. and how important would condemn it for allowing syria to rejoin at the back story is there was an arab summit with arab leaders who have distinctly different points of view about the return of the shuttle. i said to the public, you know, if you have, for example, on one end, the united or been, or it's and you have on the other end, a caught who is tricky, oppose electric vehicles. but the indicator here is, or what is important is the new dynamic leadership in the region has found a way to create a consensus. and this is a very promising a signal for the future of the out of me. what is important to you is this has

a condition of return to the at a league. and the number one condition is create cdns, which is obviously very good for syrians themselves. but if you think about the refugee crisis in euro and around the world is people stop and think about this is actually very good for the hold with the our didn't, tina is vice president of christina carrots or has criticize the international monetary funds, economic proposals, alleging they are damaging argentina's economy. so, you know, if we the audience, any and people did not manage to set aside the program that the international monetary fund imposes on what status. and to develop our implant for gross industrialization on technological innovation. it will be and say it was a political load on the solution should also be political. argentinian authorities are seeking in advance of over $10000000000.00 in the coming months to reinforce

the central banks reserves head of the upcoming october elections. the countries dealings with the i a mass have been marked by instability with the nation locked in a 57000000000 dollar agreement with the organization since 20181 former leader madi, see a mark race signed a deal to help only be a crisis however, the program failed, resulting in a refinancing deal last year to address an outstanding $44000000000.00 debt. we spoke to julio gambino and economists from the foundation for social and political research. who says the i m f doesn't serve the interest of developing states to say, oh yes, there is no doubt the international monetary fund generally work. so it depends and backward countries, there is no assistance from the mon 3 fund to develop dominant or hedge. a monic capital, the sky, a map, historically home, the peoples of the governments and the signing agreements for the international

organization. let's save that them onto funds in the world bank rates as a nation, have shown in their history that they only serve to defend the interests of trends, national capital. and today, at the time of decline in the us policy of the to a ration of the head german, a crawl of to tool a. all of it shows the d i n f only serves the interests of the capital and contributes absolutely nothing to the peoples of the world, especially as countries, as in the case of college and tina it's been a year since an unprecedented wave of sanctions was imposed on russia by western states, posing tough challenges for the country's economy. the car manufacturing industry was one specter that had to quickly adapt to new realities, including the most of its car. assembly facility that was reopened in 2022 at the historic location of a former legendary soviet car producer. we are here as the re,

no one must which century open 1st in 1929 and has seen producing cars from 194-6001. and then one or another 1st automobiles company came to russia and has been producing carson said no, mister western sanctions against russia defense automobile no has left the country selling all this saw souls which took it and decided to start again with the most of its sacks to re desire to pioneer automotive advances, enhanced production technologies and boards. revolutionary vehicles for an era remains and an waiver, in principle for the brand presently class finds itself in mid a fresh phase of progress. it's been a year already since we're reopened those most creech minutes. things had to be done and we did a lot of work in a short space of time to launch the car. assembly facilities worked as a duplicate of the team then night and sometimes and weekends to make the plans the

times, but we did it to make the facility of function. now we're seeing a result worth of the work we have done. so right here, behind me with our own most at the final product, the finally seeing how the most, which looks like right here behind me, the checking both the wallet see of the products, but at the same time there are assembling the car altogether. no, before you go on your little road trip in your you must reach the car itself is going on tests right now as we speak. the test include a 100 points that a check by an operator points include checking for rain, checking inside the car, taking the outside the car, the n c. all the important stuff of the car before it goes to another checking point. before you finally goes on the market, personally, i liked the car, it's a family crossover which is convenient. also, crossover is a good choice for russian because we have snow almost everywhere in winter. the car is spacious and very comfortable. i've tried both internal combustion and is in

version of the electric one. the electric car is something different. it is more dynamic and it is very pleasant to drive and new chapters and by the advance of an entirely new range of cars which are not only modern, but user friendly as well as a safe russian made electric vehicle built upon a proprietary platform in domestic component base, the 1st models that have graced the revamped production line are the most of its 3 city crossover. and the most rich 3 e electric car. if we look at the electric vehicles market as a whole, we can see the car and is around the country are choosing electric ones much more often the number of elect to call eventually speaking of demand, even though it is rising, there's still some distrust among car owners, when it comes to electric cause this is due to electric call is being a novelty for many people. people also cite the lack of charging infrastructure because this is the main concern about owning an electric car. the russian

government supports the development of charging facilities and now okay, and there are completely free, and here it is in all its glory, the most vis. 3, the electric car just announced plans of loveliness. all of the most of which brand know the car comes in 5 different colors in right now we're in the light blue one. the inside of the car is made of equal leather. right here we have the transmission of the car and right in front of us here is the interference of the car, which looks like an automatic cars when making it easy to use. the come on must be the and that's a rap on the our coming up. what is the most impactful, financial whistle blowers you've never heard of, discuss his journey and the consequences of speaking out next on the west of lowers . thanks for joining it. stay for the

. 2 2 it takes a special person to be a whistle blower. it's common knowledge, most whistle blowers even when they know they're doing the right thing by blowing the whistle on waste fraud, abuse or illegality. have their lives up ended their ruined personally financially and professionally. and they sometimes even go to prison today, wharton to end impactful, financial whistleblowers in the world. when you probably have never heard of. i'm john kerry aku welcome to the whistle blower. the in one bill tour was an auditor at the luxembourg office of the public accounting giant price waterhouse coopers from 2008 to 2010. he saw his job as one of being on

the side of the regulators, of keeping the honest people honest. instead, he found a massive system of fiscal optimization, allowing large multinational corporations to avoid paying taxes in countries where they were conducting business. and it might also be called conspiracy in 2011 and $1.00 resign from p. w loaded documents detailing tax deals that the firm had brokered with the luxembourg government, allowing companies to funnel billions of dollars through luxembourg, thereby slashing corporate tax bills by billions of dollars in the countries in which they were based organ, which they did a documents with a french journalist who use them as the basis for a television documentary. and soon after p w. c filed a complaint with the luxembourg court, when the international consortium of investigative journalist began reporting on the more expensive luxembourg leaks, or lux leaks case. criminal charges were filed against n one facing 5 years in prison. later 10 years in prison. and one was convicted in

december 2014. he was sentenced to a 12 month suspended prison term and a fund peeled, but his conviction was upheld. undaunted, he appealed again. and in january 2018, the court of cessation recognized him as a whistle blower and dismissed all of the charges, even before he won his appeal, the european. so blower and awarded him the european citizens prize in 2015 and one we are honored to have you on the show. thank you so much for joining us. you're welcome. you know, let's start at the beginning. you were a young auditor at price waterhouse coopers, one of the largest and most important big for professional services firms in the world. take us, but it made you think something was wrong. and when did you see it says it was my 1st professional experience. it was in 2008 from 2008 to 2010. and

i was just a junior, which is her. so my very was uh, just to make uh, financial audits. uh, which consists in uh, verifying the accuracy of the accounts of my uh, items. uh so the plans of the the but you see it looks sunbird were mainly belongings is fine on shows. if i just go ahead, there was, that's most, hey, let's say, oh, that makes sense. um. where in luxembourg i me for tax purposes. so obviously i, i wasn't that very nave when i applied to a job in look sumburgh and he was that's a tax advantage where bots of look some broken truck cvt. but what i found out as a junior auditor, that's is that most of my science has no real economic activities there

and, and just had specific agreements close as one's next. agreements also goes next readings in which a look some books tests, that's admin 3 administration approved some very very, as the damages of inches, a tax practice is just to give an example. for one of the firm i was a teaching tax rates was around 3 percent instead of the normal tax rates around 20 or 50 persons. so it was that was very, very low. and that's was a road bike. i think the tax administration, which approved of these the tax treatments. can you tell us what exactly p w c was doing to help companies avoid taxes?

and what was the luxembourg government's role and all this a piece of it uses bought as a notice or was i need to verify the accounts. but the so is this is a job or its uh, departments, but services. so uh, an advisory and tex departments that provide the professional services including tax advice. so that just to make it simple, uh, you have to imagine that's what was told at least national companies operating in europe have a uh that is used to it. and so the way you see has the knowledge of us it's most national cans and uh and is really well informed.