Were imposed after a military coup. Turkeys top diplomat accuses armenia of committing a war crime a massive. As the border frights takes a toll on civilians from both sides and back in the white house donald trump infected sprue coronavirus says hes ready for next weeks president ial debates plus 3 scientists are awarded this years nobel prize for physics for their discoveries about one of the most mysterious objects in the universe. And in sport there is a record breaking run at the french open is over the 1st arab woman to reach the last 16 at Roland Garros was beaten by americans danielle calling. But we begin this new site with the political turmoil in kurdistan the Election Commission has a no holds the early results old sundays faults and the speaker of the parliament has resigned now this comes after a night of violence where the protesters storm. In state buildings they were accusing the governments of rigging the election in its favor and now the protest is also freed former
Im christian one to welcome to the program ethiopias Northern Region has gone ahead with Regional Elections despite being told not to do so by Prime Minister of the country had been due to hold national and Regional Elections last month but the federal government postponed them indefinitely because of the coronavirus pandemic the regional politicians into grainger accused of using the situation to prolong his rule no surprise population is rated to be small its around 5 percent of ethiopias 109000000 people need us from the ethnic group dominates that ethiopias policy its what nearly 30 is but that ended when i came to pall in 2018. Now about 2700000. 00 people in the region are expected to vote to gray officials have warned that an intervention by the federal government would amount to a quote declaration of war. An act of defiance in ethiopias Northern Region of to cry. These people are lining up to vote in an election that the federal government says is illegal. It also says the res
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Question from the audience. If i can find in john was be in the audience wisby in the audience who should have a microphone. He will have a microphone so. People in this audience slightly more obsessed with tax. More on that subject. John a number of questions. Anna one on tax evasion versus tax avoidance. John i was always brought up to distinguish between tax evasion being something illegal and tax avoidance which is something you said we have the right to pay the least tax. And it does seem that if there is so much a blurring of the edges of the talk of politicians now between what is legal avoidance without trying to invest. And actually what is evasion. Could there be a little bit of clarity on that distinction . And why it is blurred so much in a lot of the rhetoric . Anna we will start with you. Talk about the scourge of tax avoidance. Chuka umunna i think everybody talks about it. There is a difference between evasion and avoidance. I do not think it is a difference between pla