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Largest banks in vast Money Laundering scheme spanning 2 decades. Of their lives and worldwide this is r. T. International from moscow monday evening as ace here in the russian capital on call in break with world news this hour 1st for you the e. U. Has failed to agree on sanctions against 40 below russian officials including the president over last months disputed election the plan was vetoed by cyprus at a meeting in brussels on monday despite a plea from the belle of russian Opposition Leaders spent on a taken off but the e. U. s Foreign Policy chief says the bloc will continue to push for action against minsk. The ministers this cause dissension. Those sanctions has not been possible to that today because the quiet who. Was not rich. An. Issue with to be considered it. By the heads of state and governments attitude of p. And gun still later this week for their political update theres no unanimous vote on sanctions that means that it will be discussed further at the end of this week thursday and friday at the Council Meeting thats taking place Foreign Ministers disagree according to the e. U. Foreign minister himself that the election last month cant be considered legitimate by e. U. Member States Svetlana ticket of sky or the woman who ran against Alexander Lukashenko in that election or she was the guest of honor at this meeting on monday she turns up with photographs of those protesters whod been wounded being injured by riot police during clashes in the country she said the protests would continue and how to plea for e. U. Member state leaders im also asking you to demonstrate solidarity with their people support Belarus Civil Society and media organizations consider criminal investigation against those individuals involved in human rights crime scene barrows i ask you more to finance their dictator dictator regime and programs from state to nonstate actors i also ask to consider to reconsider partnerships with state again this nations course talk a sham is taken off came to that meeting armed with a list of people she wants to see sanctioned by the European Union she did say that belarus this future should be determined by the belarusian people however her very being at this meeting in brussels hasnt sunk too well with either minsk or moscow who see it as an attempt to try and get foreign parties to get involved in interfere in the future of belarus we consider such conduct if it did. Place as more evidence of the European Unions departure from statements that they made in their regard in the absence of geopolitics in the situation with belarus. No one needs any more proof that a policy is being implemented to undermine the sovereignty of belarus. Direct present of Foreign Affairs said that there was a clear will within the e. U. For sanctions against belorussian political figures and the belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko however he also said this brussels was committed the a year was committed to not interfering in Belarusian Affairs it seems difficult to resign to tell those 2 weeks as she called afflicting ideas it is going to come down to this meeting on thursday and friday what we do know is theres going to be no cutting off of ties at least for now anyway between brussels and minsk the e. U. Ambassador to belarus will remain in post but all eyes now looking to the end of the week and that meeting of the e. U. Council of political analyst Chris Bambery thinks the use taking a highly selective approach as to where it chooses to defend human rights. I think the European Union is there are a strange body and the man hating its Foreign Affairs does that the realm is very whoa dude in condemning what is going on in belarus sure but he is a former Spanish Government minister who completely supports the Spanish State in catalunya when it physically tried to stop it look at saloon you know in a referendum what i think is here is that you know its European Union as a very selective way of dealing with human rights and Civil Liberties abuse its sort its a load of condemnation of what goes on in belarus not so much action but in rhetoric at least but it ignores what was on in countries which it doesnt really want to follow with sodium arabia or even e. U. Members like spain or during the meeting in brussels the belle of russian Opposition Leader repeatedly stressed that the protests in her country a peaceful although some of the oppositions tactics have been called into question including an Ongoing Campaign to publish the personal data of thousands of Police Officers our Senior Correspondent lara gets to have it in minsk with more on that side of the story as with any d. Add on im a zation operation the goal here tara even and the better russian opposition makes no secret of what it is doing join us they say or we will ruin your life. The main goals of this channel are to track down every criminal that has committed a crime against his own nation to collect as much information as possible about that individual and also to create a special database which anyone in free bellerose can use to check whether they potential worker partner or anyone they meet has committed a crime against humanity next to poland based and public ganda outlets recently dumped the names and personal details of belorussian policeman into the Public Domain police are not without fault suppression of protests arrests and physical violence towards demonstrators unorganised were brutal and the public was outraged but the opposition feeds on that outrage stoking anger with fake news and hysterical nonsense Armed Russian special forces and dragon our fellow citizens by the hair is this normal are you willing to tolerate this nectar apologized for that saying it is impossible to verify every message that they get such as the actual guilt of the policeman whose names and addresses and telephone numbers and even relatives they published next year and other opposition doubtless dont bother proving their guilt as was the case with nikita marching co he was falsely accused of being an agent of the state after someone saw a photo of him in military uniform it turned out he was a conscious crypt and his service had ended last year but they arent acting without support from foreign donations to the blessings of st lottie who not scare a former candidate for president during the election in august to this since fled to lithuania she says anyone in uniform who supports her rival current president. Is fair game Law Enforcement officers should remember the people of belarus who revealed the identity of those who carry out criminal orders you will have to look you people in the eyes. The same people you are supposed to protect and she doesnt seem to mind that these vigilantes are often wrong going off to innocent people she doesnt seem to mind that not just them but also their families become the victims of Cyber Bullying and harassment and abuse and even attacks and it doesnt seem to concern her that it isnt just police or Law Enforcement that a dog gets it but also rescues teachers and even journalists. In the midst of this it is a shame i have been forced to record this video because of harassment threats and insults towards me and my family as a result of foss information is on the internet please help me share this so that lies dont spread further and dont harm me and my family. To be. Journalists to one of our road constantine but at the buffalo for example who has faced a tsunami of Death Threats at the behest of opposition media. Of course it is frightening i dont know whats going through their heads someone from the opposition texted me in telegram saying look after yourself or a brick will find your head but at least hes just texting there could be someone else who will actually pick up a brick if they want me to go away then yes i will leave someday but not because of them not because of a text or a phone call another journalist had his car torched off the activists posted the picture of the vehicle on telegram with government insignia whos behind the pictures the veil. Threats the Fear Campaign aimed at anyone who disagrees with the 10s of thousands of bell russians dont suffer from sleepless nights doesnt bother them no they laugh it off. The logic behind this is that theyre afraid of revealing who they really are that is what would hurt them the most of these like 21st century bullets yes information bullets these blacklists and terra campaigns are doing the opposition any favors those thousands already in the least only more determined to prevent these vigilantes and bullies from coming to power if they do things like these such horrific things now and laugh about it what will they do when they come to power and ordinary belorussians to they didnt sign up for this they dont want the nation divided into leesten costs the unclean and the blessid opposition and it shows the more radical and hateful the oppositions message the fewer turn up to their protests. Europes bracing for new restrictions because of a surge in corona virus cases both france and spain said daily infection recalled over the weekend and a top british scientist is warning that the good case at a critical point in the pandemic reports next. More than half of the departments here in france are now considered to be red zones which means that there is an active circulation of the 19 virus the country also recorded its highest daily record for the number of covert positive test cases around 13 and a half 1000 people in 24 hours those were the figures released on saturday now there is a huge rate of testing going on in france more than a 1000000 tests a week and overall the rate of positivity is around 5. 7 percent whats a really concerning are the number of hospital admissions which are now going up quite rapidly we saw 227. 00 additional admissions on saturday meaning that there are around 3800 people currently in hospital now all of those almost 600 are in intensive care now in parts of the country already intensive care units are at capacity so that is what is worrying officials in those parts of france in paris and even de france region which is the area around paris it is only at about 20 percent capacity but there are warnings that there will be a high tension particularly in the next 2 to 3 weeks for the past 10 days weve seen a significant daily increase in cases the 2nd wave is here and its time to deal with it its not the tidal wave that we experienced in march in the intensive care units overall not overloaded but we feel that were at a Tipping Point where there has been a huge demand for those covert 900. 00 tests so much so that in either fronts 20 new Testing Centers are opening or monday and they will give results within 24 hours for priority cases so people whove got symptoms of 1000. 00 or perhaps have been referred there by a doctor now in other parts of france there are new restrictions coming into force particularly nice where groups of no more than 10. Will be allowed in areas such as parks beaches or gardens and those are restrictions that are similar to other cities such as mar say and bordeaux lets take stock now of whats happening across the English Channel in the u. K. Where the chief medical officer there is warning that the country is at a critical point and is heading in the wrong direction this comes as the u. K. Government is now considering apparently a shoe week locked down in in glint the u. K. s Health Secretary has said that nothing is being ruled out will be increasingly stringent on the people who are not following the rules everybody follows the rules then we can avoid for National Lockdowns well theyre already fines of up to 10000 pounds for people who defied kovac 1000 regulations such as the requirement to self isolate if they have symptoms and of course the government is encouraging people to snoop on others including on their neighbors if they breach the rules of no more than 6 now matt not only defended that idea of people snooping on their neighbors but said that he would call the police himself if he saw more than 6 adults conjugating to gether so much so that some people have described him now as being a tinpot dictator now some areas of the u. K. Are of course already on the mini lockdowns parts of the north of england and also parts of wales but despite that protests against the big 19 restrictions continue over the weekend in london more than a 1000 demonstrators headed out to the street to show that they were unhappy with those restrictions there were dozens of arrests am. I am ira. The tirade. Back here on the continent there also news directions coming into force in parts of spain in madrid on the region around the spanish capital some 850000 people now facing Restrictive Movement as the country is trying to what it says stem the ideal of a 2nd wave of kopechne 1000 from monday people will not be able to leave their neighborhoods in those regions for all but essential reasons this comes as the World Health Organization is also concerned about what it describes as a worryingly high rate of transmission of 1000. 00 and saying that the situation here in europe it considered still be very serious on a daily basis now as those transmission rates are going up and up governments across europe are having to make some very difficult decisions. A massive leak of Bank Documents has triggered a global scandal the fall show how some of the Worlds Largest Financial Institutions move more than 2 trillion dollars linked to Money Laundering schemes and other potential criminal activity Jacqueline Berger got more details earlier from correspondent saskia taylor. Both financial scandals and nothing new we all remember how the banking giants that were considered too big to fail did in fact fail in 2008 crushed many say by the green over a decade on and it seems these banks havent learnt that lesson theres been a staggering leak of the socalled files now since it is an acronym for the financial crimes and network essentially its an arm of the u. S. U. S. Treasury basically what happens any time anywhere in the world any transaction in u. S. Dollars happens and a blank looks and thinks you know what somethings not quite right about this it sends a report to fence and its basically the bank doing its to diligence unflagging something potentially criminal while the leak reveals that around 2 trillion dollars of suspicious money was essentially washed through the Global Financial system between 2002017 how well the banks despite fighting of course these reports about that suspicions continue to just blindly move really astonishing sums of cash with some of them coming from drug cartels human traffickers crime rings corrupt politicians even the taliban i mean were talking about the darkest underbelly of society the stones quite serious can you give us some examples of whats been uncovered exactly well take j. P. Morgan for example it allowed 1000000000 dollars in twin account despite not knowing whom it belonged to and then it later transpired that the account holder was actually a mafia boss on the f. B. I. s most wanted list. Really stood out here it turns out that the heart of the 2 trillion was actually moved through its accounts and it wasnt like these banks one aware of what was going on entirely h. S. B. C. For example was actually warned that essentially it was enabling a ponzi scheme but still it didnt shut any accounts it didnt cut anyone off now unfortunately this week has been politicized. By some media in the u. K. Especially there has been a particular emphasis on those russians involved for example how a russian politician sanctioned by the u. S. Government sent around 8000000. 00 to a compound trip in london with some of that money ultimately being donated to the conservative party or how an all agog rottenberg allegedly laundered millions of dollars through barclays now its given the very fraught Political Climate at the moment its probably on surprising that there is such a focus on the socalled dirty russians but really it does such a huge disservice to the scope of this scandal i mean 3000. 00 u. K. Companies alone on named in those files now thats more than any other country on top of that any bank you can think of really has implicated you know bank of America American express j. P. Morgan deutsche of citibank barclays the list goes on and then you know clients and more than 170 countries and theyre already 193 in the world were named and flagged so focusing on a couple of russians in the u. K. It seems a bit disproportionate and whats been the reaction in the financial world since this all broke well the German Ministry of finance has said that all of these transactions occurred in the past they were dated up until 2017 so theyve been investigated the matter is closed but lets hear what some of the other big hitters had to say this is not new information to us or our regulators will learn from our mistakes systematically tackle the issue and made changes to our old business perimeter our controls and our personnel consistent with our commitment to protect the integrity of the Financial System cities diligence and filing suspicious activity reports with the Us Department of the treasury when appropriate given the confidential nature of these reports we did not comment on all confirm any particular report transaction now some argue that these words are not convince and given that the Us Government especially. He has been pushing banks to reform for years now theyve been fining them millions of dollars theyve been threatening them with criminal charges so the fencing files show how these bikes just transaction off to transactions have been violating those promises of Good Behavior and really given this leak is also thought to be just the tip of the iceberg and account for the point 2 percent of the total reports filed you know we all remember how painful how damaging the 2008 crash was we all hoped that that would somehow trigger change but really this latest leak you know the internationality of it the number of banks involved the astonishing the psalms the source of some of that cash really unfortunately is testament to how when it comes to money no matter how dirty it is morality and often the noise just left at the wayside well despite all the fun times journalist Charlie Boyle suspects that the banks named in the scandal likely to face any real punishment. Listen the worry is the most since the legislature sleeps and it goes as those recently as 2017. My suspicions are now to say that this is still going on and nothing seems to change in every case the old adage irony. Is an acid which is much less of the revenue that its been a generator trami. Although you are quite and ill just go back to normal when i was announcing stuff and this is a continuous cycle its a great headline we consult people forget about it there are trolls and there are lives and its quite boring topic getting married we can write that the beginning and now this is whats under. Discussion over who should succeed the late supremes called Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg is heating up in the United States donald trump is expected to announce his nomination as early as this week but democrats are demanding that no nominees put forward until after the election House Speaker nancy pelosi is not even rolling out impeaching trump to stop him from advancing what is a lifetime appointment. Some of mention the possibility if they try to push through a nominee in a lame duck session that you in the house could move to impeach were not ruling anything out of protecting our democracy requires us to use every arrow inadequate. It was paid to ginsburg post away on friday at the age of 87. 00 shed served as an associate justice for 27 years and was a renowned defender of gender equality and womens rights a death is not only triggered a nationwide reaction with people as you can see holding vigils to pay respects to the justice but its also shaken up the u. S. Political systems dont know coltan i explained. Riots the coronavirus pandemic fierce political campaigning the u. S. Has already seen its share of divisions but theres more on the way the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg has just turned the countrys highest judiciary body into americas latest political battleground what. Does not im just stand is fight has just begun and thats what were going to do were going to through the series i i. I. I i. So whats the big deal while the Supreme Courts always had the last word on disputes between state and federal governments and controversial laws same sex marriage obamacare the trump travel ban all these policies needed the court seal of approval back in 2000 the nations highest justices even determines the president ial election outcome. Theoretically the Supreme Court is supposed to be an unbiased check on the countrys political system but its pretty clear the partisanship of 2 Party Politics almost always influences appointments there can only be 9 judges inevitably each one of them either liberal or conservative and kr. Dickel cases are often decided by that one odd vote at the same time theyre all appointed by the president for life after being okayed by the senate and the process often has its share of Political Drama take the latest case conservative judge Brett Kavanaugh who was given the job by trump and 2018 a woman as the president s u. S. Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh assaulted her an additional anonymous allegation of physical assault against brad having a new Sexual Misconduct allegations President Trump coming to his defense theyre going to be dealing with credibility issues around judge cavanagh this was a candidate that was a bad choice even before the allegations came out and theyre still reeling over that Brett Kavanaugh nomination i didnt trump has appointed more federal judges Supreme Court judges then anyone almost in history but this is going to be the most rancorous the most i mean you are going to see her and anger the president said he wants to appoint a woman good luck for her good good luck for her her family what theyre going to put her through i can only imagine. But with ginsburg seat open were seeing the exact same situation as when Antonin Scalia died back in 2016 but the sides are reversed eventually trump was able to appoint a conservative to fill scalias position but that was only after a long struggle between former president barack obama and the republican dominated senate now the democrats are preparing for payback 4 and a half years ago republicans invented the principle that the senate shouldnt feel an open seat on the Supreme Court before a new president was sworn in a basic principle of the law is that we apply rules with consistency and not based on whats convenient or advantages and the moment boaters should pick a president and a president should pick the justice for the so. To consider before ginsburgs death conservatives already had a 54 majority over liberals in the Supreme Court on the one hand trumps got a small window to form a conservative supermajority of 6 to 3 with the senates help on the other the democrats are already trying to stall the appointment until the president ial election no matter which president ial candidate wins be a trump or biden theres no doubt this decision will seriously influence the amount of power they come to office with when you consider that you have lifetime tenure the Supreme Court justices appointed for life the impact that they have is average so lewdly. In comprehensible on every particular issue that you can imagine because remember the way our system works is we have 3 different. We have 3 Different Levels of governance the executive is a president the legislative is congress but the judiciary in each of them share power but what a Supreme Court judge justice excuse me can do is is inexplicable in comprehensible so yes it truly matters ok that you do use but now thanks for watching around the aisle to yap and get news alerts on the boat for now though for me in the team here in moscow i mean mondays going well see you in just over half an hour. Is your media a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe. Isolation or community. Are you going the right way or are you being so. Direct. What is true what is faith. In a world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. For a mate in the shallowness. The silence here is ere. This is all going to be a palm oil blonde patients. And their. Lives this is especially when they had to make. These