yeah, which requires the you, as help russia overcome obstacles to its grain, uncivilized exports for 3 years. the deal was reached alongside initiative under which russia would allow ukraine to resume the black sea brain exports. evenings women, russia would be allowed to exports, agriculture. the equipment on the pods and on the insurance coverage will be lifted on the accounts of russian. fertilizer companies will be on frozen. must go says none of this has actually happened and if the conditions continue to be ignored, it will screw up the agreements after it expires on the 17th of july. besides advocates for misstep, distribution general told us the platform may encounter a number of opposite goals, which needs to be resolved as soon as possible. with that the you in, in the beginning countries waging on the program to do so. as i just said that to the nation sheep, the immigration tool, david products is important to us and it's important that it is not undermine. and

of course that we, the jewel politics. these are also quite possible that it could be, undermine. so we have a package of the risk has to be definitely so that the, the, the food stamps are each of the coincident sooner rather than later. the russia is necessarily able to have the name of dr. j e sizes. 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 lot 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 it got a lot of people, i guess the news uses a code correct carbon board of terrorist. and that's the response to india is threat complained to the world trade organization. and you deli saying that unions

green initiative is affecting around a $1000000000.00 worth of imports from india to europe, or the you have struggled with the rising restrictions with even germany, which is the blocks biggest economy raising alarm over the necessity of cuts out to contribute to ritual mazda and picks up the story, 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 manufacturers from the us market to the benefit of their american competitors. the european union is now looking to gain this thing times 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. b, u has turned around and use the same sort of line on india. but wally,

you tries to shake some more cas 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 is 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 commission's green deal proposals or 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 means the cut 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 net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 percent by 2030 compared to 1990 level switch. sounds scam level specific, by the way, kind of like i make $5000.00. we working 22 minutes a day from home asked me how. so the dutch government is now harassing its own foreigners and it said, pointing of buying out the farmers. he won't reduce their live stock 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 of french farmers at the same time, the french president, a member of the mac holes government, has introduced this climate plan to pause the same language with the same figures from the use green deal. that's certainly not a coincidence,

but well going full speed down the wrong side of the highway on his emission free bicycle. mack who is also trying to slam on the brakes at the very same time. we wanted to ship a c because we've already passed a lot of regulations as a member of that you, you 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 in regulations in europe. yeah, maybe a st obsession isn't the best idea when the use economic engine germany has just fallen into recession because it kind of itself off from cheap russian energy. so it's losing economically obviously. but at least it's scoring big on the green front, right. well, only of coal can somehow be considered green, since germany is heavily reliant on coal now. and it still can bree 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 this member states are having is sticking to their green dyads, brussels really doesn't seem too interested in giving them a break. here, although not only leaves the global transition to climate, you tell it you buy 2050. but the year old has become the currency of choice for sustainable finance. the you and the republic of korea chevy. ambition of a climb and mutual future. the launch of our green partnership will help us towards that goal. we will now work on the convergence in 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. growth model, centered 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, by the endlessly put a fine european citizen the chinese foreign ministry has hit bunk. so u. k. reports calling for security lauren hong kong to be scrubbed, accusing london of interfering in the cities a fast. the government of the hong kong special administrative region has issued a press release for fusing u k, so called 6 monthly report on home home, nearly 26 years of the home homes re time the u. k. still has some woken up from its colonial dream and continue seeking to into fay and hong kong. the fast through

misleading report, which is steeps an ideological bias and inconsistent with the fact this gravely violates the principles of international law. and the basic knows governing international relations, we strongly deploy and reject this a joint good you and hearing. thank you. k presented every thoughts claiming the hong kong all thoughts. these are using security legislation to persecute the opposition. officials say the national security laws, both the ballistics of the city, of the most anti government protest back in 2019 international china, especially it's under long says the west attempts to discredit china because it is, is growing influence. and actually security loss was enacted because whole called all subject to paul was 2 years old. she made this keels close by why it is just throwing petro balls and surrounding the police headquarters and

holding the portal in order to read some uh, over the united kingdom like the united states. going to and was to say they're all they're doing a lot to prevent the rise of trying it. all they do is there's to put the rails on best. so pull national security. but, and you look at both they do, there's a big difference between what they say and what they do. what they do is they'll only of other things on it is that is, is also interviewing in child has internal affairs, but also below i toners and access to technology is not paying the group when supply banning changes even holding other countries as a up to date which 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 to with the back and wanting to steal. busy hands with

you extract, it'd be friends with you. it's probably this result. this is really a new car depot take and a half because at the same time, and that's what the united states and is a western allies are trying to do around the world in focusing and lies. well, that's how most goes bounded washington's assurances that it doesn't support ukrainian attacks on russian territory. assurances by american officials that the united states does nothing cards, attacks on russia, hypocritical in line, given the direct material, evidence of the use of weapons and equipment supplied by the pentagon. so the needs of the on forces if you train. so the preparation and implementation of terrorist acts by ukrainian militants, us as american and polish supplied homage vehicles were used in the ukrainian across the board, a talk on versus billboard region on monday was the minutes since with bus box. they abundant several of these and a lot at least one m rock ahmed to fighting vehicle. so it seems civilians were

wounded in the incidents with one mont, upon the deliberate of shots and the head by ukrainian militants. according to the belle grove, the governor. and while washington publicly projects is roland encouraging ukraine to strike russian surgeries, senior american politician, victoria newland recognizes us role in the planning of ukraine's come to offensive . and even as you plan for the counter offensive, which we have been working on with you for some 4 or 5 months, we are already beginning or discussions with ukrainian government and with friends in keith, both in the civilian side and on the military side about ukraine's long term future, but they're also repulsive. washington is involved in funding ukrainian strikes on russian territory. press tv journalist 20 minutes, told us that he witnessed one of these attacks called as a walk on friday, wasn't there longer. i was sitting in don't. yes. in a cafe on the take, the didn't off when you agree miss. so uh,

2 of them along the front of me to the side of the country that i was sitting in a windows machine, of the people in the cafe. this was a war by drain this many people on the front lines around on. yeah, it's getting bomb it, which is difficult to drive the car and they shouldn't be. that is the greeting on a tile. still civilians is on yet. and if this is the case in the middle of the reason as well, there's no mainstream with them. john was on yet, or thinking about that and having international human rights and the design of the little crime simply aren't being investigated. meanwhile, a us democratic congressman has said he wouldn't. okay, if you can use the 16th to attack russian surgery if the westwood to provide the fonts just to q and read concern that they will enter into russian territory as there have been recent reports of over off the border city. i'm not concerned, i wouldn't care if they did. you wouldn't tears. i wanted to rush, you know,

really you would still turn about fair play there with the american. what these are being used in belgrade, which is you know, that maybe they're not going to use major women, liam, costco. the american generally see grilled congressman, what he says that he's concerned about the west. an escalation of the. busy of when they should be focusing on negotiations. i was definitely surprised. i think thankfully, as jerry pointed out in that interview, he's not in the executive branch. i don't know what changes over time that makes them allowable. i think, you know, personally, i'm very worried about this the way this war has escalated both in terms of rhetoric and both in terms of the weapons we provided. i think it's very to cavalier. it's very reckless. this is another reason why we need to be talking in terms of negotiations. it's been clear from reports that the us and ukraine appear to be willing to give up pry media. so i think that's at least you know, a starting point. we, we should be talking,

we should not be engaging in this kind of rhetoric of talking about strikes on russian territory, dismissing the possibility, despite the fact that it could be very well happening right now. you know, who knows? i don't know if that was a militia group or if they were sanctioned by the us. do you printing government? but it is. it's scary. it's a scary time right now. over to lots in america. no audience in aren't seen as a vice president's christina coach. now has criticized international monetary funds, economic proposals, saying that damaging the country's economy. the see the if we, the argentine in people do not manage to set aside the program that the international monetary fund imposes on what status. and to develop our him plan for gross industrialization on technological innovation, it will be impossible to pay for no matter what they say. it was a political loan and the solution should also be political audience. any, no thoughts is all seeking on a bunch of over $10000000000.00 in the coming months to reinforce the central banks

reserves ahead of the upcoming october elections. the countries dealings with the i'm f. how be marked by instability. the nation locked into a $57000000000.00 agreements with the organization since 2018. that's what informally to mucho mockery, signed a deal to help alleviate the process for the program sales, resulting in a refinancing deal last year to address and outstanding 44000000000 dollar debt. we spoke to judy are gonna be in a, an economist from the foundation for social and physical research. it says, i'm f, dozens of the interests of developing states. yes, there is no doubt the international monetary fund gen really works with dependent backward countries. there is no assistance from them on 3 fund to develop dominant or hedge a monic capitalist countries, and all of the policies of the map. historically home, the peoples of the governments, and the signing agreements for the international organization. let's save that them onto funding the world bank created in 1945 under us donation 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 the people's self impoverished and in depth as countries, as in the case of fudge unseen a. and finally, the you is more important for cuba, straits than other partners like russia and china. but that was the boast from the uniform policy chief. you'll sit around during his visit to have on a let's just by criticism for lie to basically i'm of the you has been supporting long standing us sanctions imposed on the car being on low. no, to pay a is a pre made even better shorting. the european union is the legion investor in cooper, who invests the most include, but the european union, despite all limitations of the restrictive measures of the embargo,

which does not makes things exactly easy. despite that, europe is the 1st investor on this island, where the 1st commercial partner were represent a 3rd part of its 4 and trade. we can look into it from the employers or expert side, but it is clear that we are much more important than all the ex, or as such as russia or china. several european and joe's on our, to this type of judge burrell, to clarify his stance on the american sanctions against cuba. pensacola, the lifting of the 60 year blockade, which has been widely criticized by the union as well as global human rights watch spots. the blockade intensified through stream levels and research and the development capacity of cubans, while significantly affecting cuban families, particularly the most vulnerable groups such as women, children, the elderly and sick. we trust that as a result of the joint council, the sovereignty and self determination of cuba will be supported the exclusion of cuba from the lease of state sponsors of terrorism,

and the leasing of the unconditional blockade. meanwhile, versus a cure to major economic deal with advantage just weeks ago, several agreements were reached covering national currency exchange and unified tire system, as well as the roof an investment projects on the island to you. but as well as some of the archie committee coordinates that gloria larissa, says bro statements is misleading, as well. sure actually helps cuba developments while the uses washington's interest . joseph morales statement about the you being more important to cuba, that rush at china. i have to laugh at that because it's obvious that the you continues to being the carrying the water for the united states and nato. and it's in fact the, if you, the tough to prosecute for it gets frustrated with this terrible sections. and in addition, the you european union has done very little to really add weight to this because it stands against volcano i've united states against cuba. russians relationship with

cuba has steadily increased in a positive manner. and in these last years, russia has been very helpful. russia is going to open large stores where people can buy food and other household goods in cuban currency. everyone knows the cube is the victim of us terrorism, causing more than 3400 lives of the cuban people in 60 years or whatever you go to this weekend. i hope you're having a good one. my name is peter scotts and i'll be back with another rundown of all the lights this this saturday at the top of the hour. i hope to see it on the

the, the . 2 2 it takes a special person to be a whistle blower. it's common knowledge must 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 will tell you about one of the most important and impactful financial whistle blowers in the world. when you probably have never heard of. i'm john kerry ok. 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. that's called income tax evasion. it might also be called conspiracy in 2011 and $1.00 resign from p w c. but before leaving, he downloaded 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, or in which they did business and wine shared the documents with the 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 journalists began reporting on the more extensive luxembourg leaks, or lux leaks case. criminal charges were filed against entwined 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 find a $1500.00 euro. so he appealed, 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 parliament recognized antoine as a whistle blower and a word in him. the european citizens prize in 2015 and the one we are honored to

have you on the show. thank you so much for joining us. you're welcome. so, 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 back to that time. what did you see that made you think something was wrong? and when did you see it? yes, it was my 1st professional experience. it was in 2008 from 2008 to 2010. and i was just a junior user. so my work was uh, just to make uh, financial of this uh, which consists in uh, verifying the accuracy of the accounts of my, uh, headphones. uh, so the kinds of the, the but you see in look some bird will remain the belongings of the financial sector. and what i discovered there was, that's most,

hey, let's just say, oh, that makes a sense. um, where in luxembourg i me, for tax purposes. so obviously i, i wasn't totally naive when i applied to a job in look sumburgh and he was at the tax advantage. were lots 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 activity, no employees, no turnover, and uh, and had specific agreements close as one's next agreements also goes through with things in reach, look, sunbrook that's, that's, i mean, 3 administration approved some very, very, as the damages of inches,

a tax practices. just to give an example i, for one of the firm i was a teaching, i found out that effective tax rates was one around 3 percent. instead of the normal x rays around 20 or 50 persons. so it was a choice very, very low. and that is, 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 in all this? i choose the people use the bought. uh, as i know these are was i need to verify the accounts. but the so is this is a trouble fee or its, uh, departments, but services. so uh,

an advisory and tax departments that provide the professional services including tax advice. um, so just to make it simple, uh, you have to imagine that's what it was told loose national companies operating in europe have a, an entity in luxembourg that is used to lower their textbook. and so do you see has the knowledge of us it's moved to national cans and uh, and it's really well informed to, to, to provide the tax advice and how to lower as, as a, as a tax do. and, and, and what is the advice was to, to set up a look some burg, uh, entity, a, that had new appeal, economic activity. uh,

but uh that's, i was asking you a text agreements to the tax. but for me to use the suspects every month is a, as soon as he go um and is used to just approved in advance, what would be the tax treatments of uh, some sometimes complex. uh, operations is a, um, a uh, crest baldor uh, considerations. it's gonna be very complex. this way. sometimes you need is uh, the approval of, of us and 3 of the authorities to over. so the legal risk you used to take. but that's what was really shocking in luxembourg is this, is it, that's is the system of evidence that's, that agreement was used to, to, to, to approve the reading and receive text practices and was

some interpretation of the international ethics rules. so that's it could be attacked in other countries because it was a really, a, it was going to far and, and then i just and, and i, i found those these interested in them as a new context that's maybe quite similar is the current context. it was the context of post financial increase is, is a very strong database about the public budgets, especially in greece. greece has a very strong pressure to a 2 cuts or endings. and with the increasing inequalities, i was many people struggling to,

to have access to which patients who have a and, and, and in my opinion is there was a direction between the difficulties of governments to collect enough associates to face because he is and, and what's i was serving in looks and broke with big motivation most was huge, profits was most no tax paid. i spent 4 years at the lloyd, then it was the lloyd and touche that was one of price waterhouse coopers, major competitors. so i know what kind of training you went through. it was the same as my training. we were taught that if you see something illegal were unethical, you must reported immediately. you go through the chain of command or through the ethics officer. and if your chain of command is involved in the illegal or unethical behavior, you go to the government. what was the process that you went through to report the

wrong doing? and when did you decide to go to the media? actually i said there are many steps and so the 1st one was my food understanding of a single case because i, i, i of the things that more and more often i mean my, my work and the once i did myself as a junior, are due to her because i already did my search for small entity and i had the full uh um, this is a google picture of what was going on between the old, the, the entities of the group. and i found out that owes it for free. if that's for shifted to look some bird version that's tax anywhere. so then i had to choose that's, that's some thing was going wrong. and then i kind of lost my motivation in my work because i didn't phones the social utility. i was looking for an inmate in my work, so i decided to resign. but since.