Has contributed to the crisis those are your headlines counting the cost is next but by. Hello im has im sick of this is counting the cost on aljazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week how corrupt is your country well talk to Transparency International about the latest global rankings also this week the petro venezuela becomes the first government in history to launch its own crypto currency plus south africas new president needs to plug a hole in the nations finances as cape town faces running out of water. But despite efforts to tackle corruption around the world progress is still frustratingly slow thats according to the latest report from Transparency International its annual Corruption Perception index reveals some Alarming Trends it shows corruption is still a huge problem for two thirds of the worlds economies to the point uses a scale of zero to one hundred to rank countries where zero is highly corrupt and one hundred is very clean syria south
Democratic republic of congo faces a disaster of extraordinary proportions of Ethnic Violence in the east. Survivors of the High School Shooting in florida take their demand for gun reform to the State Capitol as chum proposes banning some modified guns plus. Im scott hardliner in bangkok where the buddhist leadership some nine decades ago and female monks theres now a movement going around the system and theyre getting support their story coming up. We begin in syria where the rebel held enclave of east and go to continues to come of the heavy bombardment by russian and Syrian Forces more than two hundred fifty people have been killed in intense bombing since sunday its the highest death toll in the area since a chemical attack in twenty thirty in the bombing has damaged or destroyed. Six medical facilities activists are describing the death toll as a massacre and there are fears the bombardment could lead to a larger ground operation eastern good has been besieged by the government s
Switched back on. The mistake thats turned the Colorado River yellow and caused an environmental emergency. Were in bangladesh where the shrimp industry is booming, but comes at a high price to the environment. We begin this news hour in yemen where pro Government Forces are making major gains against Houthi Rebels. Theyve pushed them from the last town in the province thats still under houthi control. Then when you add others, that means most of the south is now held by forces loyal to the exiled president adou Rabbo Mansour hadi. Theres still heavy fighting in other central provinces and the houthis remain firmly in control of the capital, sanna, which they captured last september. We have the latest. Watching over the province, now entirely in the control of pro Government Forces. Parts of yemen are being recaptured. They fought Houthi Rebels and forces loyal to Ali Abdullah Saleh and say they are now in full control. We managed to claim the city supporting the houthiion and Ali Abd
Bus 50 capitols tour with wendy davis and Texas Republican Party chair james dickey. Hell be our guest on board the bus. Be sure to watch cspans washington journal live at 7 00 eastern wednesday morning join the discuss. The tax reform discussion proposal is expected to be released wednesday morning. Next, the Cato Institute hosts a discussion on the prospects for the tax reform agenda. Panelists include americans for tax reform president Grover Norquist, American Enterprise Institute Fellow alex brill, and Cato Institute tax policies studies reported Chris Edwards. This is an hour. All righty. I think were going get started here. I want to welcome you all today. Im peter russo, the director of Congressional Affairs at the Cato Institute. And i want to thank you all for coming today. This is a capitol Hill Briefing entitled the home stretch for a major tax reform. And of course we crossed a big hurdle today in the house as they agreed to the Senate Budget proposal which of course paves
Norquist, American Enterprise Institute Fellow alex brill, and Cato Institute tax policies studies reported Chris Edwards. This is an hour. All righty. I think were going get started here. I want to welcome you all today. Im peter russo, the director of Congressional Affairs at the Cato Institute. And i want to thank you all for coming today. This is a capitol Hill Briefing entitled the home stretch for a major tax reform. And of course we crossed a big hurdle today in the house as they agreed to the Senate Budget proposal which of course paves the way for a reconciliation derived tax reform package. This spring the Cato Institute released the eighth cato handbo. And our recommendations for tax reform begin on page 45 of that publication. And further there are four other chapters that deal exclusively with fiscal policy. If you would like more copies, please contact me after the program. Meanwhile fully searchable pdfs are available at cato. Org. With that i would like to introduce rya