My name is melissa chan, thanks for joining us. One year after the catastrophic floods and pockets don, life and the disaster had regions have not resumed to normal levels. And children have been the ones most impacted by that lasting damage. Specifically access to education. Some 27000 schools were destroyed by those floods and many remain closed due to the lack of clean water and sanitation. According to United Nations figures as prevented roughly 2000000 children from showing up in classrooms, dw is being his job. It reports been the floods had last year and her family had no choice but to leave their home. Husband died life a booted i would continue to, we missed the most was going to school as a warranty to see did the family, the done back to the home in a village in southern cent kravon. So focused on things that finally given back to normal going this morning, no start with preparing for her school. We had ordered school in the village, a student damaged from the flag border, w
Talk about the special focus on cities and this weeks is this week. I love it and you guys love it. There is so much great work here. Why the focus on cities . Megan cities are a microcosm of the demographic changes that are happening. We see this entrenchment at the National Political level and not just in the u. S. , but in countries around the world, cities are becoming the petri dish for innovation, the driving force of this reurbanization for many areas. Or coming back to dilapidated areas. Connected megacities, you see that in various areas. These hotbeds of innovation. Also some of the Biggest Challenges that we are confronting environmentally as well. We want to dive deeper look at these ideas and look at the Success Stories and some places that are struggling to deal with change and use this issue to bring that out. Oliver i will play devils advocate because cities will always be progressive hotbeds the place where ideas and forward thinking is or is it more so now with global
Talk about the special focus on cities and this weeks is this week. I love it and you guys love it. There is so much great work here. Why the focus on cities . Megan cities are a microcosm of the demographic changes that are happening. We see this entrenchment at the National Political level and not just in the u. S. , but in countries around the world, cities are becoming the petri dish for innovation, the driving force of this reurbanization for many areas. Or coming back to dilapidated areas. Connected megacities, you see that in various areas. These hotbeds of innovation. Also some of the Biggest Challenges that we are confronting environmentally as well. We want to dive deeper look at these ideas and look at the Success Stories and some places that are struggling to deal with change and use this issue to bring that out. Oliver i will play devils advocate because cities will always be progressive hotbeds the place where ideas and forward thinking is or is it more so now with global
While tax avoidance is not entirely illegal, that angers en brewing foromtime now. A small town in was,ic tired of the apparent double standard between the haves who often seem immune paying taxes and have nots who always seem to be paying them decided to take action. A group of Small Business owners in the town of crickhowell have turned the tables and gone offshore. Reporter the people of crickhowell live a proudly independent lifestyle. Its home to a number of Small Businesses. Steve lewis runs a cafe. Jo carthew owns a smokery. And steve askew heads the towns bakery, a family business. Askew and his neighbors are no revolutionaries, but theyre tired of seeing how unevenly the tax burden in their country is distributed. We all understand and appreciate weve got to pay taxes, weve got to Fund Services and no ones got a problem with that. The problem weve got is small people paying the taxes and large corporations avoiding paying the taxes. You know ive paid taxes, ive run a successfu
While tax avoidance is not entirely illegal, that angers been brewing for some time now. A small town in wales, sick and tired of the apparent double standard between the haves who often seem immune to paying taxes and have nots who always seem to be paying them decided to take action. A group of Small Business owners in the town of crickhowell have turned the tables and gone offshore. Reporter the people of crickhowell live a proudly independent lifestyle. Its home to a number of Small Businesses. Steve lewis runs a cafe. Jo carthew owns a smokery. And steve askew heads the towns bakery, a family business. Askew and his neighbors are no revolutionaries, but theyre tired of seeing how unevenly the tax burden in their country is distributed. We all understand and appreciate weve got to pay taxes, weve got to Fund Services and no ones got a problem with that. The problem weve got is small people paying the taxes and large corporations avoiding paying the taxes. You know ive paid taxes, i