But President Putin is certain to win six more years in office. The uks jobs problem why more than one in five working age adults arent looking for work. Well have a Special Report from our analysis editor ros atkins. And the story of the viral hanging granny. She became an Internet Sensation and well meet the man whos immortalised the moment in paint. All that to come on the programme tonight. We start with the war in ukraine. But at a meeting that took place thousands of kilometres from the front line. The gathering today of three european leaders could have major implications for the conflict. But there is a dilemma among the three leading Military Powers of Mainland Europe just how to maintain a unified response, when theres growing differences on what that response looks like. French president emmanuel macron, german chancellor olaf scholz, and polish Prime Minister donald tusk met in berlin today amid rumours of a rift between the french and german leaders. Its a clash between wh
how are you victimized. run a patentance run it through the issue. went to the banking industry showed it to them under special disclosure. liked it so much, said, gee, we d like to use it. we want to invest no your company, and do a joint venture with you. then asked me, can we come out and see your facility. when i said i m still working out of my house they literally laughed at me and said don t call us we ll call you. and with a few short years so what s going on here? a few things going on here. obviously, our guest is a unique situation where he, a politician has, in the form of chuck schumer, has taken money from the banks to get in there and basically manipulate the legislation to uniquely vick imize him. that s a totally different issue than this overall piece of legislation, making it harder for smaller inventors and easier for larger inventors. how can we reform the patent process in way that actually has
know, job creating and all of that, but at the same time, that you re not essentially giving the big bonus and benefit to the bigger companies. there was a similar issue like this last year with biosimilar, those generic drugs. they sort of found a way, legislation finely passed but they found a way to compromise between making sure the small guy is protected and the large companies also are protected, but not overly advantaged. james? just, claudio i want full disclosure, i did work for senator schumer on the banking subcommittee. i did not lobby him on this issue. perhaps you should have hired me as lobbyist but that s a separate issue. say chuck schumer who represents new york and new york state, my question, chuck schumer represents a majority of all the banks in the country. if you took money out of politics, would you think chuck schumer probably would have still come down on the side of the big banks on this issue? he probably would have i m willing to bet, but i m willing
we have those that support us if we re doing this, how much would it cost to give adequate representation by order of magnitude? tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or millions? the vote behind claudio, how s about that? a high ticket. a good looking boat. claudio, thanks for shares your story with us. claudio ballard, specifically exempted in a piece of bank legislation brought forth by chuck schumer so that the banks no longer have to pay him. the fee is son his patent at time when effectively the president and others are reforming patent legislation to the benefit of those who can file quickly and to the detriment of those who maybe small and not have the sophistication or attorneys immediately available to do so. as we take a break here we bid adieu to our panel. catch jimmy and karen next week and take a break.
benefit to anybody? or at least equal benefit to everybody, i should say? that my question for the panelists. what can a small business owner do at this point to work through the process? i mean, i understand they mate get hit by large businesses and may have to go through the legal process, but just the patent process alone seems like a complete nightmare. well, it s definitely a process that takes a lot of time and effort, and that s disappointing. we went through it. we came through it. and we did fine with it. we followed all the rules. and after all of that, the banking industry said, gee, we can t beat this guy fair and square. let s go to congress so we can buy ourselves legislation, so they went to chuck schumer and others basically giving them a license to steal. getting another big bailout is what it comes down to. it s not right and not fair ankts classic example, karen, on the narrow issue of claudio s story, where because the banks are politically powerful they can get