over the past two years according to a newly released international poll a report from transparency international shows that people in most countries from the richest to poorest increasingly view their governments split all parties and police as corrupt while to get some insight into this we're now joined live from berlin by a sin heinrich who is research director at transparency international thank you so much for joining us here in the program so what do you see as the main cause behind this perception data corruption is getting worse yeah i think obviously the cost as a country specific but we see two large friends and in the countries in the global solve this particular in africa we see bribery so really petty corruption where people have to pay bribes to get their kids into school have to pay bribes to do police when they get stopped that is an increase that is an increasing worry for people. and of reality in those countries in the in the west and in the north so i think it's it's different community their main concern is not bribery in your day to day interactions with the public services

award is given to edward snowden why has your organization decided to participate in it transparency international is corruption institution and when we look at corruption and the fight against corruption whistleblowers plea a very very important role they're the ones who are often the revealing wrongdoings and companies in authorities in organizations and we have a long tradition to support those who are willing to speak out about corruption and about the wrongdoings and i think that this process is not going to snowden just on the lines of our commitment to support whistleblowers yes but to edward snowden who is actually. eager to stay on the russia's diplomatic shan't shelter says that he is ready to give up his whistleblowing activities now or do you think about it. i think the fact that he is now willing to stop giving out further information shows what pressure he is and what uncomfortable situation this is something obviously very regretful and we just hope that this prize also lifts his mind on this question a little and that he very soon hopefully can and this situation we would of course

. >> the head of research for transparency international was asked earlier why germany has not signed the anticorruption convention, considering that this is the country where transparency international was found. >> this was a long overdue and much awaited signature that we are waiting for from the german government. there needs to be reform of the bribery laws for parliamentarians, and unfortunately, in an election year, we cannot expect this. but we think this is really a shame and a scandal that we think germany is unique among its european partners not to sign up for the bill against corruption. >> what were the most surprising examples of corruption in your report? >> it is really a mixed message. on the one hand, one in four people around the world still have to pay a bribe. that is far too many. there are some countries -- about 14 -- where it's more than one and two people report paying a pride. on the other hand -- where it's more than one in two people report paying a bribe. on the other hand, people want their governments to be more effective. since the crisis began in two

. >> the head of research for transparency international was asked earlier why germany has not signed the anticorruption convention, considering that this is the country where transparency international was found. >> this was a long overdue and much awaited signature that we are waiting for from the german government. there needs to be reform of the bribery laws for parliamentarians, and unfortunately, in an election year, we cannot expect this. but we think this is really a shame and a scandal that we think germany is unique among its european partners not to sign up for the bill against corruption. >> what were the most surprising examples of corruption in your report? >> it is really a mixed message. on the one hand, one in four people around the world still have to pay a bribe. that is far too many. there are some countries -- about 14 -- where it's more than one and two people report paying a pride. on the other hand -- where it's more than one in two people report paying a bribe. on the other hand, people want their governments to be more effective. since the crisis began in two

leaks have struck a chord worldwide listening to the managing director of transparency international in germany he explains. in germany explains the effects of the disclosure in his country which led the organization to award the two thousand and thirteen whistleblower prize to snowden. we could of course very much hope and would welcome him if he could take the prize here in berlin on thirtieth of august personally we have always encouraged the german government to invite edward snowden on the witness protection program because the information he has given have indications that there might have been violations of the german loss and it should be the job of the german prosecutor to look into these and one of the key witnesses would be at first known and to morrow several groups have called for a demonstration in german cities and they will be demonstrations in about thirty cities another headline stop watching us so i think we see that he attempt the nerf there something pete people feel very strong about in germany and we will see where this will lead to further. now whether this pr

kristin humble and executive director of the german branch of the anti corruption group transparency international the company was wildly co-sponsors of the price. we would of course very much hope and would welcome him if he could take the prize here in berlin on thursday as of august personally we have always encouraged the german government to invite edward snowden on the witness protection program because the information is given have indications that there might have been violations of german laws and it should be the job of the german prosecutor to look into these and one of the key witnesses would be a personal and to morrow several groups have called for a demonstration in german cities there will be demonstrations in about thirty cities another headline stop watching us so i think we see that he attempted nervously or something people feel very strong about in germany and we will see where this will lead further and while germany's engaged when it comes to surveillance some u.s. friendly states are doing exactly the opposite big brother is getting big a new zealand as the country's leader

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interest in you, tell us about your world view and why you on on a crusade for transparency for the bank of internationaltlement. >> it started with an earlier book i wrote called "secret bankers" it was an investigative book. it read a bit like a novel. [laughter] of it so gripping. it is an investigative book. it was a book investigating swies banks and nazi gold. if you renner the late 1999s the scandal broke about switzerland and the dirty money sloshing around from the send world war. and it was one of several books that came out. i did a chapter on the bis. i thought it was the strangest place. i went there in '98 to the interview the general manager. i said what is this place? overlooking the big road next to it. i thought it was interesting. and you find out about thomas and the idea during the war while people were fighting are if the lives a few miles away, the knowledge of everyone in berlin and london and washington, a channel being kept over i thought it was fascinating. i wrote a book about the united nations with complicity of evil which exams to stop again side and the tight is from a u.n

what, in truth -- tell us about your world view and why you're on a crusade for transparency for the bank of internationalettlements? >> well, it started with an earlier book are wrote called hitler's secret bank which you mentioned, but that was an investigative book. parts of it hopefully read like a novel. so gripping, but that was an investigative book. it's chapter. it was a book investigating nazi gold. if you remember the late 1990's, the the scandal broke. all the holocaust assets in the dirty money that was sloshing around from the second world war . and i did -- the general manager. they took a decision. open. i said, what is this place? this strange stellar. the station overlooking the big road next to it. and i just thought, this is very, very interesting. find out about thomas mckittrick. the idea that during the war while people were fighting for their lives just a few miles away in a nice, safe basel with the knowledge of everyone in berlin and london and washington, the channels are being kept open. but that was fascinating. quite interested in institutions i read a book about the united n

tell us about your worldview and why your crusade for transparency for the bank of international settlements. >> well, it started with an earlier book i wrote called "hitler's secret bankers" which you kindly mention but that was an investigative book. although parts of it hopefully rid of it like a novel, so gripping but that was an investigative book. i did a chapter in the but it was a book investigating swiss banks and not siegel. if you remember the late 1990s, the big scandal broke about switzerland and all the assets an agreement that was sloshing around from the second world war. it was one of several books that came out. i did a chapter on the bis. i just thought it was the strangest place. i went there in 1998 to interview the general manager and they took a decision that we would be open about what we did in the war. i said what is this place? strange tower block, railway station overlooking big roads next to it. and i just thought this is very, very interesting to a specialist or to find out about the idea that during the war, fighting for their lives just a few miles away in a n

how to attract more off new investments into the economic growth than taxation transparency and of course the international monetary fund reform now in particular the g. twenty back quite a fundamental rethink are the rules on taxing multinational companies to fight those loopholes that this company is are using to avoid at times the billions of dollars in taxes now in this moscow meeting is also part of some major proper a sense for the g twenty summit that will take place and that's the tambour ensign petersburg and russia is the current holder of the annual presidency of the g. twenty now g twenty an international platform that really took believing raul in the middle of two thousand and eight financial crisis here now faces some trial and all of the multi-speed global economy and some really hits it debates are expected to have rocked the september ensign peters burke and we will surely bring you the latest. for it up next year about c.e.o. edward snowden the focus of so for code in just a moment. you want is something truly baffling the u.s. supreme court has ruled that generic drug makers cannot be s

international makers is to make sure it's more transparent presently could be or the force because the feeling we're getting is that russia and e.u. actually want to d.l. sure i still think that's a wrong idea i don't want to close down offshores i think it's it's wrong but people who believe that you can easily. close offshore certain things will be going much better i think everyone from jordan stands that if you will do this you should reduce taxes domestically. for the economy to grow. economic growth is supported by offshores taxes are lower and people are investing future amounts of money from offshore since the mainland or on the quantum is and this supports the economy grows you for taxes will be put to the level they are in the mainland like in russia where we have twenty percent corporate income tax eighteen percent tax and said that it's up to you for taxes across the world it will be the same level economic growth across the world we would much lower interest in this surprise four d. . but the game doesn't. means that we should. support existing coffers we should treat them

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world now edward snowden is desperately reaching out to the international community to protect him from the wrath of the u.s. government transparency group wiki leaks which has a legal representative accompanying snowden on his travels announced today that he has applied for asylum in no fewer than twenty one countries including some of the very countries his n.s.a. documents proving n.s.a. was spying on here's a look at a few of those nations and how they are responding let's start with the countries that flat out said no or are unlikely to grant edward snowden's asylum bit austria ecuador iceland ireland italy the netherlands norway spain and. switzerland also said that he must be present on that country soil in order to ask for protection brazil won't respond to finland hasn't processed the request france says asylum is a non issue germany and poland said his argument isn't strong enough to be granted asylum india flat out said no and snowden would drew his request from russia after president vladimir putin said he had to stop leaking documents in order to be considered now to the best of our knowledge bolivia and venezuela are

in this country president obama ran on being a more transparent president but we're seeing the exact opposite so there you have it the last international accord needed africa in order to protest on behalf of private first class bradley manning now as i mentioned protests are going to be happening throughout the weekend across the country and around the world all to support the man who laid the biggest document drop in american history in front of fort mcnair meghan lopez r.c. . the obama administration has come under scrutiny this summer following revelations that it is than spying on journalists and thanks to the exposure by a word snowden the american public now knows they got. mint has access to tremendous amounts of everything from people's facebook accounts to their phone records however there is one media organization that isn't taking the government's antics line down that's antiwar dot com in may the website announced that it is suing the f.b.i. for spying on them even though the f.b.i. of knowledge that it does not suspects the website of any crimes antiwar dot com demanded for the release of records that the editors believe t

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i think that there should be inclusiveness, there should be a transparent political process, i think there should be an international monitors who would be invited in to observe the election, to demonstrate that these will be free and fair. even if it means that the timing should be, should reflect the need for preparation. as well, there should be the point you made about pardoning he 43 ngo's that were arrested for violating egyptian laws. one of the most important things we could do and the signal that we would send about egypt's posture with regards to building a civil society which is the key to having a level playing field. we should use our leverage for hose purposes and for allowing the muslim brotherhood to be included within an election. if they choose not to take part, that would be their decision. the bottom line is that without having delusions about how much leverage that we have, recognizing the limits, we should not take ourselves out of the game right now. we should not simply make a statement for the sake of making a statement. we should try to shape the direction that each of takes. we have a huge

supports contributions to international financial institutions that benefit the poorest countries and imposes conditions on multilateral development banks to ensure transparency and accountability, increasing accountability for the money provided to the united nations and other international organizations. thanks to language that started in the fiscal year 2012 it changes business and how we do it with the u.n., putting audits and reviews online for american taxpayers to see. the bill includes language ensuring that funds do not support abortions and eliminates the u.n. population fda fund. we have clear differences on these issues, as i have said before, we have agreed to disagree. in closing this bill makes it tough funding choices and addresses many complex problems but these of the choices we have made and have had to make in this budget environment and rapidly changing world. it is said often, i want to express my sincere gratitude for the very hard work of this staff. they were given a difficult staff and did an outstanding job. the staff's loyalty and work is recognized. i would like to thank the clerk , and from mys] personal staff i would like to thi

international confidence is very important and because of the luck of. it is very difficult. to make on the steps forward in order to. confidence transparency is most needed so it's really up to give more transparency not obama's job but you would tell him to what weight gone to rush to things and maybe everything could be dealt with diplomacy. and diplomacy. is some. way out of my own way to. addressing and. countries including the united states is seeking the solution through diplomatic means so. for now is to encourage. that also between p. five plus one. and the wrong what you know you saying iran should be more transparent but i read in the press that iran is that kissing your agency to actually actually siding with the americans or israel and giving them some information that only your agency would have access to what do you say to that accusation no bull no or no basis at all. are you optimistic about where it's going with iran from now on. again speak with a. gun and the strength of the on the these two state. we are not. the only made the well known for them. is to go to the grown does on the ground collect the information share th

been taking steps towards looking at a peer review may be involving some international institutions so that there is more transparency and understanding about the need to act on fossil fuel subsidies. the imf did this great work in the spring showing this half a trillion dollars a year holding down the prices of fossil fuels which if you think we are the other part of our brains in some countries people are looking at ways to price carbon and to raise the price of carbon, at least you want to start off with not subsidizing it. but of course that is a very difficult political issue in many countries but it's one that we think we need to work on more and more, especially as the cost of these subsidies have become really really crippling for some countries on their fiscal policies. there are other issues, taxes where the g8 looks at tax policy internationally but really the g20 needs to be involved in that debate and we look forward to that being one of the issues that comes up in russia as well. corruption, which a lot of people you know 10 years ago might have said that's not really an economic issue, we know it is an

transparency. was tot step what -- shop. large finance we had a whole host of finance interns, and we had volunteers whose job it was to do the groundwork of actually matching those funds up with their fcc history. that not just for the folks who started out pitching in $500 or 1000, but for every single donor gave to our campaign. what we rapidly found was that both cbs three dollars whose daughter history was to give us $25,000. it was significantly more than they gave the first time, and so without it was -- we wanted to know if it was something different. we tried calling some of these folks. i did not know to ask back, so anyou get three dollars for e-mail to my you do not know if so youow your name and don't know where the pitch is going to go. i would call up and say this is who i am, this is what is going the rest ofinvest the donations you would normally do, and they would say sure. what they would find is there were a whole host of candidates who are gotten those three dollar or five dollar contributions, but it seems like they had never gotten be other 2497. special thatething i had said, it was particular to these

reserve next week, the other thing that moves is comments from the international -pmonetary fund seems to be criticizing not being transparent. cheryl: thank you very much. appreciate it. chris making your friday media minute shares of accuvision blizzard are popping up 15% on a $6 billion buyout deal. activevision which makes the call of duty video game franchise, its parent, $5.8 billion to buy back all but a 12% stake in the company but here is but we're ding, the price is $13.60 a share. activevision is trading $17 at $17.50, that is 30% higher than the deal price. could be a better bid could emerge and here's the weirder element. activevision's c e l and co-chairman lead a group that is buying a 20% stake, their price is $13.60 a share. that could spark of firefight on call of duty. and this weekend with the wolverine from sibling fox film could rake in $80 million in the u.s. of the best openers of the summer after four films that cost $700 million combined. >> i have not seen one of those films. a new england name trying to find a new home in california trying to expand on the west coast. with the spark cash card from

there should be inclusiveness, there should be a transparent political process, i think there should be an internationalonitors who would be invited in to observe the election, to demonstrate that these will be free and fair. even if it means that the timing should be, should reflect the need for preparation. theell, there should be point you made about pardoning ngo's that were arrested for violating egyptian laws. one of the most important things we could do and the signal that we would send about egypt's posture with regards to building a civil society which is the key to having a level playing field. we should use our leverage for those purposes and for allowing the muslim brotherhood to be included within an election. if they choose not to take part, that would be their decision. that withoutne is having delusions about how much leverage that we have, recognizing the limits, we should not take ourselves out of the game right now. we should not simply make a statement for the sake of making a statement. we should try to shape the direction that each of takes. we have a huge stake in how egypt evolve

taking steps towards looking at a peer review may be involving some of the international institutions so that there is more transparency in understanding about the need to act on fossil fuel subsidies. the imf did this great work in the spring showing this half a trillion dollars a year spent holding down the prices of fossil fuels. if you think with the other part of our brains some countries people are looking at ways to price carbon and to raise the price of carbon at least you want to start off with not subsidizing it. but of course that is a very difficult political issue in many countries but it's one that we think we need to work on more and more especially as the cost of these subsidies have become really really crippling for some countries on their fiscal policies. there are other issues, taxes where the g8 look at tax policy internationally. a really 20 needs to be involved in that debate and we look forward to that game one of the issues that comes up in russia as well. corruption which a lot of people 10 years ago might have said that's not really an economic issue. we know it is an economic issue and may n

international news brussels is threatening to suspend its data sharing with washington fresh on the heels of revelations about the n.s.a. is messy stopping money usa they ease demanding completed transparency and maximum information from the u.s. that's just mind recent reports revealing its own snooping activities france is believed to be running a version of the n.s.a. is in some ways prison program artie's maria phenomena investigates. please building behind me in the eastern part of paris or rather at three story bunk underneath that is the epicenter of a fresh spy scandal the hatch quilter's of the country's security services and it's from here that it's no kind of france's big brother's news which people monitoring the millions of phone calls text messages passes and e-mails live. cogently like. the french public is actually not very much you they've been receiving conflicting messages from their leadership like the first here we are to revelations over america's espionage olando condemned america say it's fine it's not what focused do now it's been revealed france isn't south doing exactly what it just very vocally denounced french officials are downplaying allegations over the coun

international right to seek asylum but the demonstrators recognize this isn't just about edward snowden's fate it's also about what we've the american people do. his revolutionists the fact that there is no transparency into these programs that there's been no checks and balances in these programs that there's been no accountability for the government abuses here suggests to me that what edward snowden did was a very vital public service for our nation to enable finally a long overdue public debate on these very fundamental questions fifty five percent of the american people think that snowden is a whistleblower and a plurality of american people think that the government has overstepped its bounds in mass surveillance of americans but with the executive branch the legislative branch and the judiciary branch seemingly on board with these programs the american people are only going to resort to events like this to have their voice heard in washington same socks are two. meanwhile bound flight from moscow which voided flying over u.s. territory has a great speculation that edward snowden might be the reason for the rather unusual route you can see right here where the plane house already crossed the at

skills that supports the international financial institutions that benefit the poorest countries and also imposes conditions on multilateral development to ensure transparency and accountability. it increases accountability for the money that we provide to the united nations and other international organizations and thanks to the language we started in fiscal year 2012 to change how we do business with the u.n., more agencies are putting their audits and reviews online for american taxpayers to see. the bill includes language ensuring that funds do not support abortions and also laminates the population funds and we have clear differences on these issues as i have said before we will agree to disagree. in closing, this bill makes tough choices foreign policy problems, but these are the choices that we have made and that we have had to make in this budget environment and in a rapidly changing world and i know that it's not often that i want to express my gratitude for the very hard work of the staff. they were given a difficult challenge and they did an outstanding job. the staff loyalty and dedication is recognized in the majority staff, i want to thank the

community and civil liberties for the international community or people who weren't necessarily american. he may go to vez which has a terrible record on transparencyon human rights. journalists have been assassinated and killed there and they have effectively eradicated independent broadcast outlets. given that, is it not incumbent on edward snowden to say something or do something for the people of venezuela if he takes harbor in that country? >> i think a lot of people are going to look to see if snowden ultimately goes to venezuela if he's going to be silent about the issues that you just brought up. >> indeed they will. i want to talk a little bit about those numbers from the quinnipiac poll. >> yeah, they were surprising. >> really interesting. and if you look at the sort of changing public opinion on national security, when asked if american anti-terrorism policies have gone too far in restrict being the average person's civil liberties, in 2010 only 25% of the country thought so. in 2013, 45% of the country thought so. and when asked if antiterrorism policies have not gone far enough to adequately protect the country, in 2010, 63% of the co

committed to that kind of transparency and do what's necessary to protect that or on the other hand you'll get the edward snowdens of the world who can beat you on an internationaltage. >> this saga is not over. putin today said when asked about what's next for edward snowden, he replied how should i know, that's his life, his fate. >> you the man! >> it's noterd ward snowden. it's eat snow. >> can't we just have michael dyson on vladimir putin on edward snowden. that's meta television. >>> it is doubtful that the washington style duel of tombstone will have a clear winner by sundown. we'll discuss the future of filibuster reform just ahead! >>> time for the requests your business," entrepreneurs of the week. welcome is like hammering. riding against the wind. uphill. every day. we make money on saddles and tubes. but not on bikes. my margins are thinner than these tires. anything that gives me some breathing room makes a difference. membership helps make the most of your cashflow. i'm nelson gutierrez of strictly bicycles and my money works as hard as i do. this is what membership is. this is what membership does. the blisters were oozing, and painful to touch.

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i think that there should be inclusiveness, there should be a transparent political process, i think there should be an internationalould be invited in to observe the election, to demonstrate that these will be free and fair. even if it means that the timing should be, should reflect the need for preparation. as well, there should be the point you made about pardoning the 43 ngo's that were arrested for violating egyptian laws. one of the most important things we could do and the signal that we would send about egypt's posture with regards to building a civil society which is the key to having a level playing field. we should use our leverage for those purposes and for allowing the muslim brotherhood to be included within an election. if they choose not to take part, that would be their decision. the bottom line is that without having delusions about how much leverage that we have, recognizing the limits, we should not take ourselves out of the game right now. we should not simply make a statement for the sake of making a statement. we should try to shape the direction that each of takes. we have a huge stake in how

transparency and accountability. it increases it by the money that we provide to the united nations and other international organizations it changed how we do business with the red those that put the audits online for american taxpayers the bill includes language to say it does not support abortions but that funding is part of the address of the policy problem. of what they had to make it in that environment aw but with his very hard work with the staff he was given a difficult one for the of outstanding job and the dedication is recognized in the majority staff five what to think alice, alice, susan, cecilia, a and j.b. in my personal staff john again show. -- and joe they work very hard to head very well together are live now turn to the ricky member for the opening statement thank you for your good work and as the chair will been mentioned we work very close together in the system. i know that we're both committed i want to thank the staff as well with the majority staff i also want to thank my staff but the house majority refuses to go to conference to agree on a budget resolution. that has placed him in members of

transparent legal process. nationally and internationally that ensures the investigation of crimes committed by both sides in the conflict and hold those responsible to account, irrespective of political affiliation. withnfirmed, i will work international partners to press for progress on this critically important issues. our decosta is improving and the u.s. is corruption address and improve the investment climate to promote stability and economic growth. if confirmed, i will make it a priority to pursue our economic agenda supporting and advocating for american businesses that seek opportunities in cote d'ivoire. the country can and must redouble its efforts in both areas to realize its considerable economic potential. lifted restrictions on d'ivoire. to cote we are also providing assistance for democratic , including respect for human right and the role of democracy. we are keystone country and region of growing interest in the united states, and a stable and by representative cote d' ivoire. our agenda is challenging and ripe with opportunity. if i am confirmed as u.s. ambassador, i will be a vigorous advocate for america as we advance our relationship with this important country. i thank you for the opportunity to appear before yo

focused on reallocating shares in the international financial institutions and the shift in the world economy and i noticed you have characterize this as trust and transparency. what does that mean and what do you hope to get done? our priority here was not to reintroduce a new topic but not to introduce any new topic to .he discussion we have introduced several principles where we work on all the existing areas already. transparency is one of them. as an example, i can mention what we do in the energy area. , the dirty oil and dirty gas commission, we need the collection on data and production on oil and gas. we will organize a seminar with howet participants and ask they are using data, whether how the them at all, data sets can be improved in order to be more useful for market participants. actually, we learned quite a lot after the seminar because we were told information about financial transactions right now is as important as information on final users and producers. commodity markets and players became so big that they can dramatically change the situation on the market. the existence needs to be taken to be resourced in order to understand how the m