his handwriting. amazing! this weekend, the uk celebrates the platinum jubilee of its longest ever reigning monarch. queen elizabeth ii. and whilst an enormous crowd is expected to head to buckingham palace to celebrate the milestone, i ve made my way to a more secluded spot, 500 miles away. this is balmoral castle, in aberdeenshire, the queen s scottish retreat, where the royal family escape from the hustle and bustle and public scrutiny of london. that is a magnificent building. more like a big country house than a castle. beautiful manicured lawn. i tell you what, i wouldn t mind unwinding here for a little while over the summer months. so the history is, in september 1853, queen victoria laid the foundation stone, and this is when they started the build of the balmoral castle that we have today. and in terms of the design, the architecture, what would you describe it as? yes, again, i think prince albert had quite an influence. it s quite a germanic style. it reminds him,
lit is a once in a lifetime dream. | she has been on the throne 70 whole years. that is a lot. i m very proud of her. she s done an amazing job. she is a very good queen. leading the pageant along the mall, the gold state coach that transported the queen on coronation day, and images from 1953 will be shown on its windows. having paraded up the mall, the musicalfinale of the pageant, led by ed sheeran, will take place on that stage you can just see through the barriers there. that s sunday afternoon. the night before, saturday night, musical royalty will pay their own tribute at the party at the palace. it is so overpowering to. i m so happyjust to be part of it, because there was a point where i thought they don t want me and i was over the moon when i was signed on. after two years of a pandemic which has kept people apart, the stage is set for a weekend which aims to bring people together once again. now it s time for a look at the weather with ben rich. hello. there will
fairfax, virginia. steve, thank you forjoining us. it is interesting to compare what has happened legally in the uk with what has just happened happened legally in the uk with what hasjust happened in happened legally in the uk with what has just happened in the happened legally in the uk with what hasjust happened in the us. you are looking at not only a court of law, but the court of public opinion as well, it seems. well, it seems. that is the big difference well, it seems. that is the big difference between well, it seems. that is the big difference between the - well, it seems. that is the big difference between the uk - well, it seems. that is the big | difference between the uk trial well, it seems. that is the big - difference between the uk trial and the us one, jury trials in the uk are very rare and we have them in the us. it wasn t about convincing the us. it wasn t about convincing the judge so the us. it wasn t about convincing thejudge so much the us. it w
a short time ago my colleague sally bundock spoke to a board member of the future investment initiative, matteo renzi, who was also prime minister of italy. he told her what the initiative is all about. future investment initiative tried to offer a platform of dialogue, particularly in business and correctly you explained the quality. one point, european. 400 ceos from europe as well as china, discussing here the initiative that became one of the most attractive and brilliant possibilities of exchange. last time was in the army the next time will be in hong kong but this is the pillar of the initiative of f at the same time, there are a lot of tensions in the economy so we need a new campus is the new title of this initiative. a new campus to understand what would be best for business and politics. light to what extent is what s happening in israel and gaza are overshadowing this event now? i believe that everything that s happened in the last two years on the border is an un
a new report, funded by the european union, has found that the world s super rich are still able to pay low rates of tax, despite a decade of efforts to reduce evasion. the study says there are still too many loopholes and billionaires are able to pay less than half a percent of their wealth. the eu tax observatory, which is behind the report, is calling for a new global minimum tax on billionaires saying that if the richest 3000 people in the world paid 2%, then it would raise $250 billion a year. let s speak now to one of the report s authors quentin parrinello, senior advisor at the eu tax 0bservatory+. what more can you tell us about what this report is calling for and whether it s feasible? in this report we are trying to target tax evasion and mistakes have happened in the last decade in terms of tax evasion. mainly focusing on the taxation of billionaires. we are asking to replicate the agreement on the global scale. for global billionaires. as you said, global bil