Others injured in a stampede and morocco has happened in a village about one hundred fifty kilometers southwest of casa blanca as food aid was being distributed at a market most of the victims are women those are the headlines news continues right here on aljazeera after the listening post keep it or. On counting a cost venezuela in defocus the oil rich country fails to pay if that will look at what a messy financial unraveling could mean for starving people lebanons economy is getting squeezed plus why zimbabweans are. Counting the cost at this time and. Let me i mean mr hariri i know if i got it right he said at eighty. Why during that. Sorry sorry french printer. Hello im Richard Burton youre watching the listening post here are some of the media stories were tracking this week a case of bad optics the lebanese Prime Minister resigns while in saudi arabia and sends that message home via a saudi owned news channel the Australian Government is doing its best to keep the menace island
This was part of a form on reagan and security and includes opening remarks by former first lady laura bush. Louis farrakhan held a News Conference on racism in america. This is two hours and 10 minutes. In the name of allah the merciful, we give imhad praise and thanks for his prophets and his messengers and the scripters which they brought. We thank him for moses and the israelite prophets who gave thus torrau or the old testament. We thank him for jesus, who gave us the apostles who gave us the gospels. We thank him for muhammad, even abdullah through whom the final revelation to the human family before the judgment of this world came, the holy quran. I am a student of the most honorable Elijah Muhammad. And i could never thank allah enough for his merciful intervention in the affairs of the black man and woman of of america by his coming in the person of master mohammed it great. And we thank him for raising up in our midst as his messenger messiah to us, the honorable Elijah Muham
Time. Sorry Saudi Arabian prince greater confrontation. Hello im Richard Burton youre watching the listening post here are some of the media stories were tracking this week a case of bad off the lebanese Prime Minister resigns while in saudi arabia and sends that message home via a saudi owned news channel the Australian Government is doing its best to keep the menace island refugees story under the radar but its being leaked out by the refugees themselves via their mobile phones this is in baldwin military hijacks the state owned channel to tell viewers that what they are watching is not a coup and Julian Assange ambassador in waiting toys with Donald Trump Jr on twitter we begin with saudi arabia where seismic political changes are taking place with media angles galore earlier this month under the pretext of fighting corruption Saudi Crown Prince mohammed bin solomon ordered the arrest of dozens of people including royal family members ministers and businessmen among them two of the
To route their money through countries with low tax rates. And the European Union has those jurisidcations firmly in its sights and is set to approve a blacklist and possibly sanctions too when its finance ministers meet in brussels later. And heres why that matters. As much as 10 of all the worlds wealth is thought to be hidden away in tax havens. That amounts to about 7. 5 trillion, a sum which would be the worlds third biggest economy if it was a country. The eu blacklist could include as many as 20 juridsications if their tax transparency and cooperation isnt sufficient, the eu could impose levies on transactions with those countries and cut off eu funding. Some of the nearly 100 countries examined by eu officials could find themselves on a second list of those willing to comply with eu standards but who arent there yet. Nielsjohannesen is a professor of economics at the university of copenhagen who has been researching tax havens. Good morning. Thanks for being on business briefin
We start in washington where congress has passed a last minute bill to stop the government running out of money but only for two weeks. Now President Trump and the house have until december 22nd to thrash out long term deal on spending. Its all about whats known as the debt ceiling the countrys Borrowing Limit set by congress. Its a huge number around 20 trillion at the moment but apparently not huge enough. The government spends more than it makes in taxes and the treasury is very close to hitting that limit. If its not raised, bills will go unpaid, from medicare to salaries of federal employees like the armed services, to interest on the debt itself. That last ones a big problem as it would also dent confidence in us debt which investors regard as among the safest. When the us inched toward its Borrowing Limit in 2011, Standard Poors cut the countrys triple a rating for the first time. And if all this sounds familiar it should. Since 1960, congress has acted 78 times to raise, extend