Some of the Worlds Largest banks in fast Money Laundering schemes spanning 2 decades. Broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our International Im john thomas certainly glad to have you with us are now the e. U. Has failed to agree on sanctions against 40 senior belorussian officials over last months disputed election the plan was vetoed by cyprus at a meeting in brussels on monday despite a plea from the belorussian opposition leader. But the e. U. s Foreign Policy chief says the bloc will continue to push for action against mints. Ministers this cause dissension see issue an old audreys that player will do about those sanctions it has not been possible to that today because it was the quiet who knew any miti was not breach. And that the issue would have to be. Considered by the heads of state and governments are due to p. N. Council later this week for their political a day 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 your said 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 had a plea for member state leaders im also asking you to demonstrate solidarity with their people support belair a Civil Society and midday at bargain is ations consider criminal investigation against those individuals involved in human rights crime scene barrows i ask you more to finance their dictator dictator regime and speech by whose programs from state to nonstate actors i also ask to consider to reconsider partnerships with state again this nations cost 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 can sit. Such contact 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. No one needs any more proof that the policies being implemented to undermine the sovereignty of belarus. I represented a Foreign Affairs said that there was a clear will within the e. U. For sanctions against belorussian political figures on the belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko however he also said this brussels was committed the a year was committed to not interfering in belorussian affairs it seems difficult to resign those to tell those to say 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 political analyst Chris Bambery thinks so the e. U. Is taking a highly selective approach as to where it chooses to defend human rights. I think the European Union is a rather strange body and the man hating its Foreign Affairs would just up the realm. Very well in condemning what is going on in belorussia but hes a former Spanish Government minister who completely supports Spanish State and in catalunya when it physically tried to stop people cats and. Referendum what i think is here is that you know its European Union has a very so lets do it way of dealing with human rights and Civil Liberties abuses so its a load of condemnation of what goes on in delhi ruse not so much action but in rhetoric at least but it ignores what goes on in countries which it doesnt really want to claw with sodium arabia or even e. U. Members like spain. A group of belorussian activists are getting personal in their campaign against Police Officers accused of violence against protesters they have posted a document online listing officers private information we mention this a bit earlier although the interior Ministry Says the data is 4 years old and many of the officers targeted are no longer serving tea but ive got to have is in manske with more on that story. As with any di add on the operation the goal is sheer terror 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 pullen based and public ganda outlet 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 iran 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 policemen whose names and addresses and telephone numbers and even relatives they published next to and other opposition outlets do both the proving their guilt as was the case with nikita marching 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 construct in his service had ended last year but they arent acting without support from foreign donations to the blessings of state lottery 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 you can use 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 eye the same people youre supposed to protect and she doesnt seem to mind that these vigilantes are often wrong going after 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 are targeted but also rescuers teachers and even journalists. In the midst of the dissidence of the sheen i have been forced to record this video because of harassment threats and insults towards me and my family as a result of false information 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 bottom for example who has faced a tsunami of Death Threats at the behest of all position ija ok mistrust that of course it is frightening i dont know whats going through their heads someone from the opposition texted me and 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 those behind the pictures the veiled threats the Fear Campaign they defy anyone who disagrees with the aim to tens of thousands of better russians dont suffer from sleepless nights doesnt both of them know theyd laugh it off look at the car still to look at behind this is that they are afraid of revealing who they really dont that is what would hurt them the most of these like 21st century bullets yes information bullets these blacklists and terror campaigns all doing in the open. Addition any favors lose 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 too they didnt sign up for this they dont want to nation divided into leasts and 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. Europe is bracing for new restrictions because of a surge in coronavirus cases both france and spain set daily infection records over the weekend and a top british scientist is warning that the u. K. Is at a critical point in the pandemic or he tried to print the report. 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 march in the intensive care units overall 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 each de france 20 new Testing Centers are opening or monday and they will give results within 24 hours for priority cases so people have got symptoms of 19 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. It 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 way 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 2 week lockdown in england the u. K. s Health Secretary has said that nothing is being ruled out it will be increasingly stringent on the people who are not following the rules everybody follows the rules then we can avoid. 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. I. Will back here on the continent there are also new strictures coming to 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 idea 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. President trance pledged to appoint a new Supreme Court justice just 2 weeks before the election has sparked fury among democrats that is among our stories still ahead youre watching our 2 international. 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Treasury basically what happens any time anywhere in the world any transaction in u. S. Dollars happens in a bank looks at it 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 filing of course these reports about their suspicions continued 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. Also really stood out here 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 Politicians sanctioned by the u. S. Government sent around 8000000. 00 to a compound in london with some of that money ultimate. Being donated to the conservative party or how an oligarch 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 these socalled russians but really it does such a huge disservice to the scope of this scandal i mean 3000 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 clients and more than 170 countries and there are already 193 in the world were named you know 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 while 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 confirm any particular report transaction now some argue that these words are not convinced and given that the Us Government especially 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 fence and final show how these bikes just transaction off to transactions have been violating those promises of good behavior. Really given this leak is also thought to be just the tip of the iceberg and account for 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 trip change but really this latest leak you know the internationality of it the number of banks involved the astonishing sums 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 law is just left at the wayside. Discussion over who should succeed the late Supreme CourtJustice Ruth Bader ginsburg is heating up in the United States donald trump says he will announce his nomination as early as this friday or saturday but democrats are demanding that no nominees be put forward until after the election House Speaker nancy pelosi is not even ruling out impeaching again 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 and have quit. Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away on friday at the age of 87 as she had served as an associate justice for 27 years and was a renowned defender of gender equality and womens rights her death has not only triggered a nationwide reaction with People Holding vigils to pay respect to the justice but it has also shaken the u. S. Political system as arties done quarter comments. 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 CourtJustice 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 this series. 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 critical cases are often decided by that one odd vote at the same time theyre all appointed by the president for life and the process often has its share of political drama. 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 for 100 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 advantageous and the moment boaters should pick a president and the president should pick the justice for the senate to consider before ginsbergs 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 loosely 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 justice can do is inexplicable in comprehensible so yes it truly matters. All right does it for me this hour be back in 32 minutes with another q no stay with us this hour to international. Seemed wrong but. Just dont call. Any world yet to shape out just being educated and endangered because the trail. When so many find themselves worlds apart. Just to look for common ground. The silence here you see hearing. This is all going to be plantations. And this is especially when they had to make. And thats all get out of i dont they marry a business and have them on them they do know now many people have received d. N. A. Dont listen to them claim cohen sing even if he says and. Even savings and. Dizzy among those does your monkey and this is. 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