Devastating industrial disaster hit india we look at how it affects hundreds of thousands of people today. Alone from. The 3rd of december 10 pm here in moscow its 7 pm in london where it has been a landmark day for nato with the leaders of Member States gathering to mark the military alliance his 70th anniversary having been hit by a series of high profile disputed in recent months including over defense spending looking to promote internal unity and it would seem the organizations chief has been feeling optimistic. And that is your breakfast with president trump. It also is always a good breakfast. As always paid by the United States so. We asked a few people in london for their thoughts on the nato and its successes to date. People what they think are the main 3 achievements of nature. And were going to even though. You know here in terms of achievements know very little i dont know what the have no idea of any advantage of me tell you what you know i honestly dont know anything about it until the flag see the day you know me my husband recognized what it was who its a good question. Let me finger under the boot. So one is probably yeah to be honest i dont have i dont have even one over the 1st day of the subbase so but done and dusted crowds have been gathering in Central London in protest some of adopted the slogan no to trump no to nato is there for us. As donald trump and other World Leaders arrive in london for that nato summit these protesters have gathered with many different banners many different causes all coming together weve seen part of science largely balance against a potential war with iran weve seen many other battles against the protesters who were caught in the coup in the libya but also closer to home domestically many banas in support of the n. H. S. The National Health service and what protesters here fear could be an attempt to privatized the n. H. S. In the in the event of a post briggs a trade deal between the us and the u. K. And thats something thats long been feared by those particularly on the left in the k. And were expecting a number of n. H. S. Workers National HealthService Workers to join this protest well in order to show their solidarity not just against donald trump and nato but also again on those domestic issues and earlier i was told by. The belgian and swore activists and also alexander noir a german parliamentarian who gave me their views on everything to do with donald trump later 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 the nato is forcing its Member States to increase their Defense 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 using this money to transform armies into intervention armies we have seen what this means in libya or in afghanistan they stabilize in countries and sold another important issue is the confrontation policy to towards russia which is exactly creating this kind of form strace so there are many many issues why we have to oppose nato thats why we are here if hypothetically to my. Nato ceased to exist would not create perhaps a security vacuum a security problem in europe that would lead to more instability this is an old argument done by the conservatives. I dont think so what we need is a new Security Architecture what i say to the security quality if. This is what helps. To secure. The nato chief also says that he expects the Member States to agree on methods to further strengthen the block at this summit thats despite growing divisions inside the organization itself is not here and now reports. Happy birthday nato thats 70 years of strategic economic and security stability especially if you ask them yourself we or we are proving every day that this alliance this. Is our joy is active that liberating nato is the most successful alliance in history that strive to join showing the historic suspects of nato. And they does been the most successful alliance in the history and the reason why nato is the most successful launch of these 3 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 the 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 a new spending projections and a new formula which will spread the costs of the alliance in central budget between its members a move that might prevent any more embarrassing trung 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 obsolete but the truth is hes not the only potential party pooper. In october this year president emanuel 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 not exactly the model that nato member but despite these similar complaints about nato tensions have escalated between turkey and france in recent weeks with mccracken warning turkey but it cannot expect solidarity with its nato allies if it continues to carry out military operations in syria response 7 but only up the ante room. Im talking to frances president Emmanuel Macron and also say that nato 1st of all have your own brain death checked. As for the u. K. S Boris Johnson well theres another verse or a gathering could not have come at a worse time. For boris is clearly invested in maintaining the special relationship with the us he knows that a loose lips trump giving a glowing endorsement could be catastrophic donald trump is coming to terms with the shortly he offered his support for you and indeed for my colleague knowledge of russia on this Radio Station is that welcome what he what we dont do traditionally. As lobbying allies and friends what we do traditionally is get involved in each others Election Campaign heated when nato was forms the common goal was clear to stand against the u. S. S. R. But the thing 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 on much more unpredictable Security Landscape with a more sort of russia nato needs a purpose and reads our. 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 phrases 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 their very good contribution to peace in the world. The americas rick sanchez discusses the current purpose of nato in his late to show which you can watch online. Youre a diplomat youve got a lot of experience in this field what is it that nato either must do today to stay viable or do we even need it anymore you know its a bureaucracy in search of a mission i was right in 2016 when he said it was obsolete and so afraid was the establishment that he meant what he said on the very day he was inaugurated and they tried to ram through the addition of a new country montenegro eventually they got through because it turned out they didnt have to worry about the intentions once he filled his administration with a bunch of bushies and retreads of the Heritage Foundation theyve simply adopted a policy that weve had the last few decades and somehow turned it into nato is obsolete into lets make nato great again which are strong on these countries to pay more for their defense against nobody in particular do you think you know has in fact outlived its usefulness i thought so in 1990 s. Think so today its been as a loser from a standpoint of being a naturalized american and having read the Founding Fathers warning you cant seem to angling alliances i mean what is this but in entangling alliances its our own Foreign Policy that did reason nato is being kept around by the Foreign Policy hawks in washington is not because its necessary for the actual military operations and nato itself doesnt really contribute a whole hell of a lot there are very few countries with the notable exception i want to say france and turkey but it would have been as if this is not a good idea for the United States and its very close allies to have an association a military economic class size thats what i was trying to say france and turkey could theoretically mountie independent military operations everybody else is just a hanger on and theyre just window dressing for us military operations but the are literally like roman exactly erisa want to do what ive been hearing go bad where did that word that this launch was or where that is what it seems to be of these threads of alliance and 991. 00 when the soviet union and the warsaw pact would out of business nato should have been. Well why didnt they let russia in i mean the literally that time ive read on many occasions booed himself i said why dont you get a sense of your pride youre going to tell you who it was but one of the european european nato hacks said if we did that the nato would be like the un just to talk shop it couldnt take action by which they meant military action all the way to listen to what you just said if youre saying it doesnt work if we dont have enemies exactly what if we had great to have had be a big ability to inflict military force and i dare to say aggression in places like serbia and libya whatever we want to using nato as a platform but enemies can change by the way russia can be at sobeys at one time i give them 850. 00 s. But not so much now right but better why dont you have a system that allows that ability i guess because because whose interest does that serve and all these all these are they that these these military companies and these bureaucrats who have the nice full rice balls at the expense of their taxpayers because there is a threat out there is a bear in the woods. Of the tensions in the alliance who are on full display during a joint News Conference between the american and french president s this tuesday for their meeting donald trump it described emanuel mccrone suggestion that nato is in terminal decline as nonstate 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. This. Is. Where you are. Often over mine does go wrong on this. One. Uses. This is where hes a great politician as it was were going to answer is that. Just hours before that meeting the us president threatened to impose a huge tariffs on french goods including cheese and champagne shouted to bensky has more on the rift. Well to add into those tensions that nato there is even a few simmering tensions between france and the us this comes after the u. S. Has threatened to add more taxes on the french products in retaliation for the socalled gaffe attacks 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 product such as champagne 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 trumpets hey try to gauge that tax saying frogs will not be taking advantage of his watch. Your friends puts a tariff. Again these are companies that are against you know who are good for you if i read the papers correctly or whatever were going to be were going to be this 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 their wealth of france is 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 slap this 3 percent levy on these companies this year and the french finance minister says hes furious and this is unacceptable that america is now threatening more taxes on people 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 add that into the mix. Of the all the tensions weve seen over the past few years between the 2 administrations things such as the Iranian Nuclear codes and of course the u. S. Administration pulling out of the paris climate records and it looks like theres going to be a lot of discussions a lot of cold soon faces at this nato meeting and unlikely that theyre going to be popping the champagne corks as they should be celebrating the anniversary. When as the u. S. Imposes more tariffs on other come trees american tech giants appeared to have aggressively avoided paying 100000000000. 00 in taxes all around the world thats according to a new report by a Transparency Group and im open next 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 there with a 150000000. 00 in cash. Oh but the Silver Screen seems to think out done by real life meet 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 100 1000000000. 00 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 share tax marc 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 tax rate than this and teaches we need to reward work not just wealth you know which i was on paid in taxes last they are 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 to the us and 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. Access terms that are so complex even the watchdogs cant understand the stepstool they ship 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 out 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 differently 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 Small Business owners so i think its typical but. Sadly thats kind of how the tax codes operate and why you think its a bigger question like why is that work this way. Well amazon refutes the report saying its suggestions are wrong with the company had a 24 percent effective tax rate on its profits from 2010 to 2018 for the more it claims that its Profit Margins are low and vast naturally resulting in a lower tax rate. Its been 35 years since one of historys most devastating industrial disasters hit the indian city of bhopal a highly toxic gas leak from an insecticide producing factory spread to nearby towns with catastrophic consequences thousands died in around hof 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 a company would run the factory at that time and called it an act of sabotage by can 2018 form a plant employees were sentenced to 2 years in jail or pays all the Rights Groups working with the victims said the verdict was too little and too late earlier we heard from the curator of the remember Bhopal Museum who says the consequences of the disaster still run deep. The 2nd in the 3rd generation and continued do 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 cannot 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 and gives a fleeting thats how bad it was. In africa demonstrations against United Nations peace. In the democratic republic of congo have left 5 people dead and at least a dozen others injured. Violence broke out on monday as protesters marched on a u. N. Base near the eastern city of benny 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 bernie has been mourning for at least 5 years there has not been a satisfactory reaction from monusco or 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 where the scapegoat we know that we assume and accept because we have no other option than to do our work and to try to mitigate their tax against this civilian population the protests started last week after peacekeepers and Government Forces failed to prevent a massacre by the socalled allied Democratic Forces a shadowy islamist inspired grouping the Congolese Army launched operations against the organization in october which responded with brutal reprisal attacks on civilians. Largest peacekeeping mission there are over 16000 military personnel in the area the organizations operated in the past 20 years it says its top priority is to protect civilians there from armed groups Morris Carney from the friends of the congo Advocacy Group told us the current unrest is a symptom of far deeper problems than ineffective peacekeepers. The context in which the instability is taking place in eastern 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 and the United 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 there has 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 have been victims. Said from moscow for now watch more of a global stories and programs that r. T. 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Well we made it through auk watchers we made it through to the other side of capitalisms greatest calendar day of the year the one and only black friday and boy oh boy oh boy oh boy was it a doozy with all the receipts counted on line sales once again dominated the day with Consumer Spending over 7000000000 dollars this year is black friday vs smartphones tablets and computers to tech crunch reports that according to analytics from adobe consumers spent 7 point 4000000000 d online yesterday buying goods online the figures were up by 1200000000 from the previous black friday in 2018 but as we sit in the warm glow of us capitalisms favorite day of the year things are things are not as warm and cheery as they seem here and corporate in the corporate states of america you see a new report out of Cornell Law School has found that since way back in the year 99990 the year Kevin Mccallister was left at home for christmas he has way back then 63 percent of the production and nonsupervisory jobs created of the past 30 years have been in low wage and low our positions and that in the past 3 decades the us economy has become increasingly dependent on jobs that offer fewer hours of work at a lower relative wages my friends the the these are the jobs like the 15000000. 00 leisure and hospitality nonmanagement jobs that pay maybe oloughlin 360. 00 a week or one of the 13500000. 00 retail jobs that bring home an average of 500. 00 a week. Those are some real living wages my friends especially when the average rent for a 1. 00 to 2. 00 bedroom apartment in 2018 was anywhere from 121200 you know 121200 dollars a month. But all our politicians tell us is that the u. S. Economy is strong blah blah blah wall street is doing great blah blah blah blah blah just trust those the economy is better than ever blah blah blah blah blah and its that economic white noise that has all of us watching all those. 30. 3 looks like. Its with. Pizza to pull out of. The day like you know what i got. Was that we. Would. Be. Well tomorrow and watching the hawks i am tired robot