Of people today. Hello from me and it seemed. The 3rd of december its 8 pm here in the russian capital it is 5 pm in london where its been a landmark day for nato with the leaders of its Member States gathering to mark the military alliance his 70th anniversary having been hit by a series of high profile disputes in recent months including over funding itll be looking to promote internal unity and it would seem that the organization chief been feeling optimistic. Its your breakfast with president trump. It also is always a good breakfast. Order. First. As always paid by the states. And what weve been asking about people in london for their thoughts on nato and its successes to date. People what they think are the main 3 achievements of mates. Even though its. Been a good year in terms of achievements know very little i dont know what its about have no idea any advantage of me let you know i honestly dont know anything if i didnt feel the flags the other day and only my husband recognized what it was who its a good question. Let me finger in the booth. So one is probably yeah to be honest i dont have i dont have even one or the 1st i have the summit in full swing crowds gathering in Central London in protest some of adopted the slogan no to trump no to nato he said alley is there for. A couple of 1000 people just behind me in Trafalgar Square there were a number of different banners and flags being put out really perhaps of the mouth of the nation of different causes happening in the world right now solidarity with the Indigenous People in bolivia all the way to people waving palestine flags of course one of the core messages an anti trump anti nato message by many of the protesters who are here this afternoon or this evening also later on in the day were expecting a number of workers from the n. H. S. The National Health service who are going to come out and also lend their voices to the protests because of course there are fears from them in particular and others in the country that post brags that they could be a deal a trade deal between the u. K. And the u. S. That could see as part of that deal the n. H. S. Being privatized something that many people in this country would not like to see now of course donald trump has visited the u. K. Before its not the 1st time weve seen protests thousands of people coming out on the streets before so we expect this attendance to fill up many more people to attend this evening now im joined by lou he is an antiwar activist from belgium and also alexandra noya whos a parliamentarian from germany firstly ludo thank you for joining us today on r. T. Why are you here well we are here because we want to protest a nato summit is taking place today and tomorrow and we are doing this because for example nato is forcing its Member States to increase their difference budget for my country for example belgium it means doubling Defense Budgets while we are asked to have an austerity policy and the same time they are transferred to using this money to transform armies into intervention armies we have seen what this means in libya or in afghanistan destabilizing countries and sold another important issue is the confrontation policy to towards russia which is exactly creating this kind of arms race so there are many many issues. Why we have to oppose nato thats why we are here if hypothetically tomorrow nato ceased to exist would not create perhaps a security vacuum a security problem in europe that would lead to instability this is an argument done by the conservatives and i dont think so what we need is a new Security Architecture what i say to the security. This is what types of. Security vacuum. The alliances chief also says he expects the Member States to agree on methods to further strengthen the summits and thats despite growing divisions inside the organization itself nichiren has been looking out happy birthday nato thats 70 years of strategic economic and security stability especially if you ask them yourself nato is the most successful alliance in history that all those strive to join showing the historic suspects on liberal nato and they does been the most successful alliance in the history and the reason why nato is the most successful launch and history is that we have been able to change in the world is changing but not everyone is in a party mood the thing is the Alliance Members just dont get along as well as they used to. The advent of donald trump s 13 least which stop the dynamics nato is obsolete it covers a soviet union which is no longer in existence this led to questions over whether the alliance can even survive donald trump perhaps in an effort to mollify him nato has announced new spending projections and a new formula which will spread the costs of the alliances central budget between its members a move that might prevent any more embarrassing trump tirades aimed at his nato partners the relationship with nato has been very good the relationship with the secretary generals been outstanding i said it was obsolete its no longer absolute but the truth is hes not the only potential party pooper. In october this year president emmanuel mccrone of france stole the spotlight when he dubbed nato strategically brain dead while questioning the validity of article 5 of its founding treaty that is the commitment to collective security. Nato is a collective Defense Alliance against who and what is organizing who is our common enemy what are our common issues. These are questions that deserve clarification but this idea is quite similar to the one expressed by another dissatisfied nato member turkey. Turkey has not received the kind of robust support it expected from nato in recent years meanwhile turkeys president appeared to demonstrate his true feelings towards the alliance when he chose to spend money on Russian Defense systems rather than american so what exactly the model nato member but despite these similar complaints about nato tensions have escalated between turkey and france in recent weeks with mccracken warning turkey that it cannot expect solidarity with its nato allies if it continues to carry out military operations in syria response only up the ante so. Im talking to frances president emanuel macron also say the nato 1st of all have your own brain death checked. As for the u. K. S Boris Johnson well theres a lot of us are a gathering could not have come at a worse time. While paris is clearly invested in maintaining the special relationship with the us he knows that a loose lips trembled giving a glowing endorsement could be catastrophic donald trump is coming to terms with the shortly he offered his support for you and indeed Michael Ignatieff are wrong on this Radio Station is that welcome what he what we dont do traditionally. As not being allies and friends what we do traditionally is get involved in each others Election Campaign he did when nato was forms the common goal was clear to stand against the u. S. S. R. But i think that once held the Alliance Together is now the missing piece what is naders biggest threat today. Uncertainty and unpredictability we havent identified one main target but we see much more complex and much more unpredictable Security Landscape with a more assertive russia and nato needs a purpose and result russia as an enemy they have no real purpose so it is propaganda to have russia as an aggressor and this is a good reason to buy a lot of. Rocket bases and so on and so on most probably they will continue to accuse russia to be an aggressor so they have a reason of existing and they will continue to buy arms billions of dollars and this is not the very good contribution to peace in the word of the tensions in the alliance are on full display during a joint News Conference between the american and french president s this tuesday before their meeting donald trump described emanuel mccrone suggestion that nato is in terminal decline as nasty the pair then went on to joust over a range of issues in front of reporters including the fate of european isis fighters in this bizarre exchange. Thats in the eyes of. Your period. When you were little pieces that. Were enough number of mind does go wrong on this coming from the c. E. O. And the reason. For the fight is coming from europe that says. Quote. Just hours before that may thing the us president threatened to impose a huge tariffs on french goods including cheese and champagne shouted to bensky has more on the rest. Well to add into those tensions that nato there is even the simmering tensions between france and the us this comes after the u. S. Is threatened to add more taxes on french products in retaliation for the socalled gaffa tax this is a tax on digital joints such as google amazon or facebook and apple suggesting it will levy those taxes of up to 2400000000. 00 some of that. Pain on luxury goods such as handbags and also the famous french cheese some of these products could see taxes of up to 100 percent doubling that price for u. S. Consumers now the u. S. Trade Representatives Office has said that this socalled gaffa tax is discriminatory and trump is hated to gauge that tax saying frogs will not be taking advantage of his watch. Your friends say terrorists are on our companies again these are companies that are against you know they were good for you if i read the papers correctly or whatever you were against they were going to be there supposed to be very powerful and you know what so maybe theyre not so her but there are companies i dont want to bridge trashing American Companies if theyre going to be taxed its going to be. Taxed the wealth of frances part they think that they have a right to the slice of the pie of the profits of these big digital giant saying its unfair that theyve chosen to put the European Headquarters in low tax countries and thats why they slapped this 3 percent levy on these companies this year and the french finance minister says hes furious it is unacceptable that america is now threatening more taxes. This is unacceptable behavior by the United States towards one of its main allies france and europe in general in case of new american sanctions the European Union would be ready to respond. In. The mix of the all the tensions weve seen over the past few years between the 2 administrations things such as the Iranian Nuclear accord and of course the Us Administration pulling out of the paris climate records and it looks like theres going to be a lot of discussions a lot of soon faces that this need to meeting an unlikely that theyre going to be popping the champagne corks as they should be celebrating the anniversary. Of the u. S. Imposes more tariffs on other countries american tech giants appear to have aggressively avoided paying 100000000000. 00 in taxes or around the world thats according to a new report by a Transparency Group kind of open investigates the complicated scheme of dodging levees. Now the hollywood movie oceans 11 for treys coming wheelers and dealers which is supposed to walk out of it with a 150000000. 00 in cash. But the Silver Screen seems to the out done by real life in the Silicon Valley 6 amazon Netflix AppleGoogle Microsoft and facebook have a combined market capitalization value of roughly 4. 00 trillion dollars they are worth more than the 1000. 00 Companies Listed on the London Stock Exchange these companies have a special knack for not paying taxes according to the fair tax Mark Community group they seem to have avoided paying roughly 100000000000 dollars worth of taxes around the world now how exactly did they pull this off lets look at the details now the report says that amazon paid only 3400000000. 00 in taxes this last decade while they made a revenue of roughly 960500000000. 00 and made profits of roughly 26800000000. 00 fair tax mark said this means amazons effective tax rate was 12. 7 percent while the standard tax rate for american businesses was 35 percent for most of that period amazon has gotten a lot of heat from u. S. Politicians over tax issues both trump and the democrats seem to disapprove i have nothing against amazon but no company pulling in billions of dollars of profits should pay a little tax rate than this and teaches we need to reward work not just wealth you know which i was on paid in taxes last year owned by the wealthiest guy in the world paid 0 in federal income taxes thats insane i have stated my concerns with amazon long before the election unlike others they paid little or no taxes to state and local governments using our postal system as their delivery boy causing tremendous loss. Lost to the u. S. And are putting many thousands of retailers out of business so out of the big 6 dodge the tax man well for steps step one they create tax systems that are so complex even the watchdogs cant understand the stepstool they shift their revenue and profits to Different Countries and tax havens step 3 they take advantage of existing legislation and step before they sit back and enjoy themselves now the taxes they arent paying could cover the expenses of quite a few things for example trumps a war wall with mexico could be built 4 times over one could and malnutrition around the world and send roughly 750000. 00 students to college Small Businesses pay Something Like 25 percent tax rate on their on their profits you know when theyre making barely anything compared to these multibillion Dollar Companies that are paying sometimes you know 10 percent of their profits towards taxes so highlight it definitely became clear you know theres a different system for these very Large Companies it could be a whole lot more progressive but sadly i think a situation like this could even be used to increase the taxes on Small Business owners so i think its typical but. Sadly thats kind of how the tax codes operate and why i think is a bigger question like why is that work this way when i was in refutes all this is says the report suggestions are wrong and that the company had a 24 percent effective tax rate on its profits between 2010 to 2018 further it claims that its Profit Margins are low and that naturally result in a low tax rate here without the still ahead on the anniversary of the worlds most devastating industrial disaster we look at how it still affects hundreds of thousands of people today more than 3 decades on. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond chill and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im showbusiness ill see you then. And its been 35 years since one of historys most devastating industrial disasters had the indian city of bhopal a highly toxic gas leak from an insecticide producing factory spread to nearby towns with catastrophic consequences thousands died and around half a 1000000 more were affected. The reason for the incident still remains unclear to this day as the Indian Government continues to argue over the handling of the disaster but the company would run the factory at the time called it an act of sabotage back in 2018 former plant employees were sentenced to 2 kids in jail apiece although Rights Groups working with the victims said the verdict was too little and too late last hour we heard from the curator of the remember by pollard museum who says the consequences of the disaster still run. The 2nd in the current generation and continue to they continue to suffer debilitating health has the impact of the tragedy that took place in 1984 and moral work using many many families were destroyed they were pushed forward because you know able bodied workers could no longer work they could not bring alleys home they cannot sign full Employment International attention has been there my need of you know peoples individual small donations have come in that sustains and activists have been honored like real justice continues to elude them because people of bede been to this after decades people literally 95 percent of people got about 500. 00 after 2 decades of waiting thats how bad it was. 5 people have been killed and at least a dozen injured during demonstrations against United Nations peacekeepers in the democratic republic of congo. Bottles broke out on monday as protesters marched on a u. N. Base near the eastern city of benghazi demanding they withdraw from the region locals accuse the peacekeepers of failing to protect them from attacks by rebel fighters. We want Different Military units in our country we no longer want all those soldiers who have been here for a long time. Their mission is to restore peace and to accompany the Government Forces but the population in the territory of benny has been mourning for at least 5 years there has not been a satisfactory reaction from monusco. Well the head of the u. N. Mission in the democratic republic of congo says the escalating unrest is making it increasingly difficult for it to fulfill its duties. We know that. Because we have an option to do and to try to mitigate against. The protests started last week after peacekeepers and Government Forces failed to prevent a massacre by the socalled Democratic Forces a shadowy islamist inspired grouping the Congolese Army launched operations against the organization back in october which responded with brutal reprisal attacks on civilians. Was the uns largest peacekeeping mission there are more than 16000 military personnel in the area the organizations operated in the past 20 years said its top priority is to protect civilians there from groups. From the friends of the congo out of this group told us that the current unrest is a symptom of deeper problems than ineffective peacekeepers. The context in which the instability is taking place in the congo is one of 20 years of invasions wars of aggression by sponsoring of militia groups in the east of the congo plundering of congos minerals by congos neighbors over one and uganda in particular and that time during that aggression unfortunately has been backed by the members of the International Community the United States you know the kingdom im so theres a whole chain. Starting from local to international where theres been a lack of accountability where theres been a lack of justice where theres been impunity so a comprehensive approach is is needed now its just a question of assuring that the u. N. Troops are doing their mission and taking their mission properly but there is an International System in place that. Of which the congolese people are in. 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