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00:00:19In Yemen, at least 35 government troops are reported to have been
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00:00:27of of camps. Hello, welcome to TRT World, we're live. From London, I'm Maria
00:00:31of Ramos, also ahead on this program. As Iran says a straight
00:00:35of Hodmo's deal with Oman is almost done, US Vice President
00:00:39Jeddy Van says it will be messy and will take
00:00:42time. And Israeli forces launch
00:00:45wave of air strikes on southern Lebanon despite a fresh
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00:01:05in Hello again, some breaking
00:01:09news for you: bomb has exploded a
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00:01:17of of Damascus with state media
00:01:17of reporting of several deaths and injuries. It happened
00:01:20a in the suburb of Jaramana, around seven
00:01:23kilometers southeast
00:01:25of the city center, and witnesses are reporting that
00:01:28ambulances are heading. to the
00:01:30of scene and a main road has been closed to traffic,
00:01:34nobody has yet claimed responsibility, but
00:01:37of do stay with us here on TRT will be more details on
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00:01:49of of well Yemen's hoothies have killed at least 35 government troops in missile and drone
00:01:53attacks on military camps in Hadraunt and Marin
00:01:57and the hoofies say
00:01:58that this attack is in response. once to an alleged military
00:02:01builder backed by neighboring Saudi Arabia, Yemen's
00:02:05internationally recognized government says it
00:02:08a will respond to the attack and fighting between the Hutis
00:02:12and the Saudi aligned government has escalated over the past
00:02:15of month. This is the deadliest fighting in Yemen since
00:02:182022.
00:02:21Mohammed Alatab has the latest from the Yemeny Capital
00:02:23Sana. This latest uh
00:02:27operation that have that has been uh
00:02:31revealed by these military spokes person says that they have
00:02:34targeted this these positions in um in
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00:02:40of hadramot and marip he says that they have targeted these
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00:02:47of some military built up there the says that they have
00:02:51waged the preemptive strikes
00:02:53a of and they have he has also warned the yemenis there not to
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00:02:58of military cams in these areas while the senior
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00:03:02of the Yemani government says that the the group
00:03:06is under a mounting pressure that's that's why
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00:03:22of also mentioned that the there is all the only way is to end
00:03:26what he described as the militious code against the international
00:03:30recognized government while the the military spokes person
00:03:33of the hutis, he has made it clear that they will continue
00:03:36their what they have already declared, the
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00:03:43to to w more pressure on Saudi Arabia, we are talking about nearly eight
00:03:47ships that have been targeted by the the Hies known
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00:04:03of their blockade, they have been able to attack
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00:04:14a Yambo. against the
00:04:17backdrop of heighten tensions in the gulf, pakistan's foreign ministry
00:04:21has announced that the
00:04:22in prime minister sheif sharif will travel to
00:04:25of Saudi Arabia for an official visit, although taking
00:04:29place against the backdrop of height and tensions in the
00:04:32of gulf, the visit will carry immense
00:04:36i significance beyond the immediate crisis and short term
00:04:40considerations. it will further strengthen bilateral relations,
00:04:44deepen strategic
00:04:45cooperation,
00:04:50of well around says a
00:04:54deal
00:04:54of with oman to reopen the straight of hormos is now in its final stages
00:04:58after confirming the... two sides
00:05:03of in have agreed a specific shipping route. Tehran says that
00:05:04of despite the agreement, the resumption of unrestricted shipping remains
00:05:08contingent on the US lifting
00:05:10of its naval blockade of ir. imports oman, which
00:05:14shares control the straight of hormos and acts as mediator between
00:05:18Tehran and Washington has yet to publicly confirm
00:05:22the deal. is in the Iranian
00:05:26capital with more on the proposal. It
00:05:30was about 24 hours ago or maybe a bit less that Iran's foreign
00:05:34ministry spokesperson said that Iran and Oman are on the
00:05:37verge of an agreement about the coordinates of a
00:05:41shipping route in straight of still we are waiting for
00:05:45that promised joint announcement by Iran and
00:05:49Oman about an agreement a shipping route
00:05:53in the straight of Formos when this hasn't happened
00:05:56after about 24 hours, but the
00:06:00details that we are getting is that there would be a
00:06:04an outbound lane and inbound lane, the inbound lane is
00:06:08located in the north the straight of armus closer to
00:06:11Iranian. territorial waters, that route is going to be totally
00:06:15controlled by Iran, the southern route, which
00:06:19is close to ani territorial voters, that would
00:06:23be the outbound route, and part of it, or half of it
00:06:27would be controlled by Iran, so this deal would basically give
00:06:31Iran control and authority over this strategic
00:06:34waterway, and these two lanes will be temporary, according to
00:06:38Iran's deputy foreign minister, they will be valid for about
00:06:42two to four months and in the meantime demining operations
00:06:46will take place in the straight offerms and after that two or
00:06:50four month period then a new route in the next
00:06:54phase the agreement new route will be announced that
00:06:58would be in the middle in the center the straight of armus
00:07:02so-called median lane and that route
00:07:05would be permanent we are still waiting for more details we
00:07:09understand that Tehran and Moscat still... continue
00:07:13their discussions, their talks and their
00:07:15consultations. For his part,
00:07:19US Vice President JD Vance has caught Iranian officials
00:07:22extraordinarily difficult and that it will take time to reach a
00:07:26consensus. I can certainly understand the American people are maybe
00:07:30looking at this and they say, well, it seems like we're making progress and it seems like
00:07:34we're not, but the reality Laura is that number one, the Iranians are
00:07:37extraordinarily difficult people, number two, they have a
00:07:41fractured system, "there are people within their system who want the war to be
00:07:45over, there are also people within their system who are crazy radicals who want the war to
00:07:49continue. our North America correspondent John Brane is
00:07:53in Washington and says Vance's comment is
00:07:56revealing. well, I think
00:08:00ultimately it tells us that the US went into this conflict
00:08:03without a proper understanding the Iranian mentality or the
00:08:07Iranian setter, and they seem to have learned little
00:08:11from the..." five months, don't they? the fact that
00:08:15the Iranians were necessarily speaking with one voice when they
00:08:19negotiated with the US, that's been a major
00:08:22frustration for the administration, they think they've got a deal, and then
00:08:26it turns out that the more hardline elements in Tehran have
00:08:30vetoed it. in terms of this arrangement or
00:08:33apparent arrangement between Iran and Oman, the
00:08:37U.S. is still waiting to be presented with the specific details
00:08:41of it, remains adoment that Iran
00:08:45cannot come out of this war with control over the straight
00:08:49of homoz, so so I think there's still a long way to go before the
00:08:52Americans will A, be prepared to lift their
00:08:55blockade and be accept this agreement. Having said all that, there
00:08:59is a pretty much a desperation within the Trump
00:09:03administration that this conflict is brought to an end as swiftly
00:09:07as possible, so it may be uh that the administration is
00:09:11prepared to overlook some... elements of any deal uh, if they
00:09:14feel those elements can be - brushed under the
00:09:18carpet so to speak.
00:09:21well, three days of peace talks between the US, Israel and Lebanon in
00:09:25Rome have just come to close. discussions reportedly focused on pilot
00:09:29zones in southern Lebanon, but the talks were overshadowed by
00:09:32continued Israeli violence in Lebanon south, which threatened to
00:09:36derail negotiations entirely. Priyann canavani reports from
00:09:40Beirut.
00:09:43"On the eve the last day of talks in Rome, this was the scene in southern
00:09:47Lebanon. The town of Burja Shamali was hit by massive Israeli
00:09:51strikes, injuring over dozen Lebaneses. Thursday morning,
00:09:55news stands were peppered with both headlines. Talks in Rome meant to
00:09:58bring peace, and the strikes on southern Lebanon bringing anything but many
00:10:02Lebaneses we spoke to said they were not surprised by the
00:10:06strikes.
00:10:25or no strikes, they don't believe anything can come the
00:10:28talks. since the start, Israel never
00:10:32committed to any agreement, every agreement that the israelis do, they don't
00:10:36honor. the three-day summit constituted the seventh round of Israeli
00:10:39Lebanese talks in the last few months, direct talks that are ordinarily
00:10:43unheard of, well progress has been made in the form of security
00:10:47framework that called for occupying Israely troops to slowly be replaced by the
00:10:51Lebanese army, the progress these pilot zones on the ground has
00:10:55and slow, and some argue Lebanon is giving more than it's
00:10:58getting. Unfortunately, until now Leban did not gain
00:11:02any good point regarding what's regarding the
00:11:05regarding talks in in Rome or with the Israelies. All what we could
00:11:09achieve was the
00:11:11seasfire. Yeah, it's not a full sease
00:11:14fire. The Israelies are bombing every day in the south and
00:11:18are invading more more regions. They are not
00:11:22retreating from any the occupied regions.
00:11:25and many agree, the uptaken strikes during the talks was no
00:11:28coincidence. the elephant in the room is the issue of
00:11:32Hezbollah's weapons. both the Lebanese and Israeli governments
00:11:36have said that they want the group disarmed, but Hazbollah is not party to
00:11:40these talks and the Lebanese government has yet to put forth any sort of
00:11:44substantitive plan, in part because Lebanese are divided on the
00:11:47issue, but this standoff leads many to believe that the talks in
00:11:51Rome will do little to affect their reality on the ground.
00:11:55Priyanka Navani, TRT World in
00:11:57Beirout. Well Turkey's
00:12:01national security council chaired by President Erdovan discussed the latest
00:12:04developments on the Terror Free Turkia initiative. On
00:12:08Wednesday, new legislative framework was submitted to the parliament to
00:12:12create a framework for the next stage the terror
00:12:15freeer plan and the legislation will take
00:12:18effect once the PKK terror group's full
00:12:22disarmment is verified. It will. allow
00:12:25cases of imprisoned terrorists to be
00:12:28reassessed, but authorities stress that this is not a
00:12:32general amnesty. but for more on this, our diplomatic
00:12:36correspondent Andrew Hopkins joins us now from Ankara.
00:12:40Andrew, just give us more context about what's been going on this week regarding the
00:12:44terror free Turkia
00:12:45process.
00:12:49this is now nearly two year long process in which the PKK terrorist
00:12:52group here in Turkey has a great to lay down its arms and
00:12:56also dispand itself, and clearly the National Security Council, which is
00:13:00made up of government ministers, leading officials and also
00:13:04heads the various branches the military, have been brought up to date on what's
00:13:08happening this week, and as you mentioned, this what's become known as a sort of
00:13:12framework law has been brought before parliament, and what this will do
00:13:16in the future is govern oversee what is
00:13:19happening to convicted PKK
00:13:22terrorists uh after... the full
00:13:26disbandment happen, so whether they will have to spend more
00:13:29time in prison, whether they will be released, whether they will be allowed back
00:13:33to live what you might call call normal life in
00:13:36Turkey and under what restrictions they might may have to
00:13:40live as well, but it's worth bearing in mind this law is
00:13:43not becoming a reality yet, it's not coming into force because
00:13:47it has to go through a parliamentary process, it has to go through the
00:13:51justice commission, it has
00:13:53to be approved by parliament as ' and also by the president before
00:13:57it becomes
00:13:58a reality
00:13:59and also worth remembering that it will only come into effect
00:14:02according
00:14:03to the government when they're satisfied that the PKK has
00:14:07really really and truly laid down all of its arms and
00:14:11destroyed them. there has been some done so far but it's been
00:14:15regarded by the government as a sort of token effort and
00:14:18the uh the situation, the process is being monitored
00:14:22and when the government is satisfied and more substantial and wider
00:14:25ranging destruction has taken place, then this new law is
00:14:29more likely to come into effect. Andrew, thank
00:14:33you so much, Andrew Hopkins live there from Ankara, thank
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00:15:07Hello, I'm Lara Couchlan and this is News Feed. Your dolls are what people are
00:15:11talking about online. Almost three years after they were killed
00:15:15in Israeli strikes in their home in Gaza,
00:15:18112 members the Abu Shariya and Al Hasina
00:15:21families have finally been laid to rest. Is targeted
00:15:25their residential building in western Gaza,
00:15:28over 300 members the two families died, among them
00:15:32children, women and people with disabilities, most their
00:15:36bodies remained trapped in destroyed building, data from the United
00:15:39Nations indicate the 81% of all structures in
00:15:43Gaza have been damaged or destroyed and across the Gaza
00:15:47strip thousands remained beneath the ruins. Heavy machinery to
00:15:51help with recovery operations only became available in July, but
00:15:55with just two excavators to do the job, the process has been
00:15:58extremely
00:15:59slow.
00:16:04ارفعوا تجعلوا تمر
00:16:04الصوت مرور الكرام عبرها. "every one
00:16:08them has story, has a dream, and we will not
00:16:12forget them
00:16:13forever. It took
00:16:17136 hours to recover
00:16:21their bodies from beneath the rubble, while it
00:16:24took the world only seconds to look
00:16:28away. Today, 112
00:16:31souls returned to remind us that the crime
00:16:35does not end when the..." bombing stops and we
00:16:39scroll again, just absolutely
00:16:43sickening that we've normalized this
00:16:46too. i can't imagine the pain
00:16:50these families. this
00:16:54is horrific, devastating and
00:16:57heartbreaking. despite an official cease
00:17:01fire agreement, Israel's attacks have been stopped, meaning
00:17:05palestinians are being killed a daily basis. On Monday,
00:17:09US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace said the aggression needs to
00:17:13end. Turkia, Egypt and Qatar said the Israeli attacks
00:17:17were a flagrant violation of international law and international humanitarian
00:17:21law. They called on Tel Aviv to comply with its commitments under the
00:17:24ceasefire agreement. July 30th, Trump announced that the board of
00:17:28peace in Hamas came to an agreement for Hamas disarmament, and as soon as that
00:17:32announcement was made, violence in the Gaza strip increased as attempt to
00:17:36undermine the US. hamas deal, now from July 30th up until
00:17:40yesterday, Israel killed over 30 Palestinians across the Gaza
00:17:43strip and that includes three children and a pregnant mother. Israel has said
00:17:47that they have serious concerns with the US Hamas agreement because they want full Hamas
00:17:51disarmament before Israel withdraws from Gaza, but as they are
00:17:55saying that you have Israeli ministers that are saying that they plan on ethnically cleansing
00:17:59Gaza and settling it. This past Sunday IDE forces on alive
00:18:0219 Palestinians including a 5-year-old boy. And a senior Israeli minister
00:18:06says that strikes. not stopping, it doesn't matter if Hamas agrees to the
00:18:10disarmament, in the long run the Israelis are not going to want to pull out of
00:18:14Gaza. Then are called the plan unacceptable, and people like Eli Coen, the
00:18:18Israeli minister for energy and infrastructure, say that, well, Israel
00:18:21already controls 70% of Gaza, so they might as well take the entire
00:18:25thing. But this idea isn't exclusive to Netanyahu or his
00:18:29Lacut party. Naftind at the former Israeli prime minister, who could
00:18:33very well be the next Israeli prime minister, so that he does not want to give...
00:18:37the Palestinians in inch of land and Gotdy Eisencott,
00:18:41Netanyahu's current biggest competitor, says that Netanyahu is being way
00:18:45too soft on Gaza. As the suffering in Gaza continues, pro
00:18:48Palestinian supporters across the world have continued to push for
00:18:52peace, but many demonstrations have faced restrictions,
00:18:56including bands on slogans and Palestinian symbols. Many
00:19:00protests are met by arrests, police confrontation and often teer
00:19:04gas.
00:19:31the video you have just seen was filmed during a trial in Germany,
00:19:35the activists are called the um... after targeting Israeli
00:19:39arms manufacturer in the city of OM. while most people know
00:19:43about the British group Palestine Action, their German
00:19:46affiliate has remained largely out the spotlight.
00:19:50The activists are from the UK, Spain, Ireland and
00:19:53Germany. They were arrested after taking action against Albet
00:19:57Systems in September last year. Prosecutors have charged them under
00:20:01section 129 the German criminal code alleging that
00:20:05Palestine Action Germany is a criminal. organization, the
00:20:08activists have been held in pre- trial detention since then.
00:20:12this case has sparked the debate in Germany over how to deal with pro-palestinian
00:20:16protesters and could set a president for future
00:20:19cases. oh, this is very obviously a show trial. the're trying
00:20:23to dissuade direct action, and essentially they're putting the whole palestine
00:20:27movement on trial with the om five, and critically they're not giving bail while
00:20:31this is all going a contrast. in the same courthouse, there were
00:20:35people being tried who were. involved a fascist
00:20:39coup attempt in Germany, so while five people are in
00:20:42prison for fighting against the genicit in Gaza, there's another trial
00:20:46against riceber who had weapons,
00:20:48wanted to all the... government and they're free to go, are out on
00:20:52bail, we're arriving into the courthouse taxis, are allowed sit
00:20:56beside their legal team, whereas in the court for the
00:21:00own five, the defendants are behind a glass cage,
00:21:03can't communicate directly with their defense team despite repeated pleas to
00:21:07the judge that they should be allowed do so. these five are accused
00:21:11of property damage, they have not hurt a single soul. we have seen
00:21:15over the last almost three years now, a complete normalization of
00:21:19mass. police repression, legal repression and state
00:21:23violence against particularly palestine
00:21:26protesters, but also against like anti-militarist protester, this is very
00:21:30obviously case that they are trying to really really make an example
00:21:34of so that nobody dares follow it. this is case that does
00:21:38not just concern Germans, but it concerns everyone in the EU, and
00:21:42honestly worldwide, because Germany is the massive exporter of weapons to other
00:21:45European countries and worldwide, hence why the
00:21:49OEM5? destroyed a weapons company to begin
00:21:52with. linkton has
00:21:55become the latest company to wage war against AI. they're
00:21:59targeting that low quality AI generated content that
00:22:02increasingly fills our feeds. the platform has introduced a new
00:22:06feature called seems like AI slop. it lets any user
00:22:10flag posts they believe were written by AI. hate
00:22:14ar slop and i think it's actually ruining linkedin particularly
00:22:18not only with image creation but als the way that people are just writing posts, which
00:22:21is so fake and it's horrible. it's very easy to see this
00:22:25linkedin ai slop button. all you have to do is go find any
00:22:29post on linkedin that you think is created with ar slop. press those
00:22:33three dots over there and you're going to see that there's a button that says report
00:22:37ar slop. so next time you see too many bullet points, the word
00:22:40actually used over and over again, m-
00:22:44dashes,
00:22:44perfect formatting, super verbose writing, it's not this, it's that. next
00:22:48time you see those super... in authentic AI giveaways, if you
00:22:52don't like it, you can go and smash this seems like
00:22:56AI slop button. LinkedIn is not the
00:23:00only company tracking AI content and bot activity, and to be
00:23:03fair, they're a bit late to the game. other platforms like snapchat and
00:23:07substack have already rolled out tools to help users identify
00:23:11AI generated posts. some startups are also attracting funding
00:23:15to tackle the same issue, but like many things on the internet, the way
00:23:19linkedin to address the problem has become a talking point,
00:23:23while some have welcomed the move, others say it may not be effective
00:23:26enough. so unlike Google creating their EEAT
00:23:30algorithm, LinkedIn is now relying on you to report AI
00:23:34slop. here's why it's lazy on LinkedIn's part, anyone can press it,
00:23:38and the button has no reasoning to tell if it actually is AI
00:23:41slop. it goes for human review, so what is actually being
00:23:45measured, whether human read a post and felt nothing? so
00:23:48LinkedIn also announced: they're revising their rewrite this with AI
00:23:52function. yeah, the one that took your post and just rewrote it with AI,
00:23:56they're swapping that now for a proof reader, so it's a tool that leaves your voice
00:24:00alone and just checks for mistakes. so the platform for
00:24:04professional writing is a platform that is now using AI just to
00:24:08proof free for you. the move comes as frustration grows over
00:24:11inauthentic content online, and there is even a name for it.
00:24:15it's called the dead internet theory. it's a cultural concept that
00:24:19suggests "the internet is now largely driven by bots, automated
00:24:23content and artificial intelligence rather than by genuine human
00:24:27interaction. while this still called a theory, many
00:24:31say it has already become a reality. cloudstack data suggests
00:24:34automated boats and AI agents now account for more than half of
00:24:38web traffic, which means a growing share of what you see online could be
00:24:42machine generated and not just by bots. it's a bit
00:24:46more difficult to track, but more and more people are also benefit. from
00:24:50AI to write posts, scripts and even to enhance their
00:24:54images. AI is being added to everything,
00:24:57even products that don't really need it. some warn our obsession with
00:25:01AI could make it the new plastic. it's everywhere,
00:25:05convenient, and difficult escape. so are we repeating
00:25:09history? 10 years, people are going to look back at
00:25:122026 the same way that we looked back on plastic. when plastic first came out,
00:25:16it was revolutionary, it was convenient and it was worth it until... we found out
00:25:20the cost on our bodies, the cost in our environment way too late. plastic industry
00:25:24invented recycling to avoid being regulated. AI companies are now making this same
00:25:28play and it's working. here is something that no one is connecting. in the early 1980s plastic
00:25:32was about to get banned, cities were passing single used plastic restrictions, public was
00:25:36furious. internal industry documents which came out in litigation show that
00:25:39petrolchemical company's new recycling was not technically or economically
00:25:43viable for most plastics. what they did was fund a campaign called keep
00:25:47America beautiful. they invented the litter bug and they put a little recycle. triangle on the bottom
00:25:51of every bin, the message was, problem isn't with the industry, it's with you, we're not
00:25:54recycling properly, well clearly it worked, the cost of dealing with the plastic shifted from the
00:25:58companies to taxpayers, and if you want to know how well that's working out, less than
00:26:0210% of all plastics are actually recycled. now look at AI in
00:26:052026. in March, the White House announced something called the rate payer
00:26:09protection plan. AI company signed it, but it's a voluntary non-binding
00:26:13agreement that they'll pay for their own electricity cost. it's a performative gesture
00:26:17that looks like accountability and functions as an aliby for not actually regulating
00:26:21anything. residential power bills are already up $16 to
00:26:24$18 a month in some states, simply due to
00:26:28data center demands and sure even if they do pay for all their own electricity, which they
00:26:32don't have. have to doesn't account for the amount of strain this puts on the
00:26:35environment and city, but it's not our fault, and just like plastic shifted
00:26:39the blame onto consumers, AI data centers are going to ship the blame to you. why are
00:26:43you using AI? when the real answer is why are we building these data centers in the
00:26:47first place? artificial
00:26:51intelligence is moving beyond software and into physical
00:26:54form. google deepmind has officially announced gemini
00:26:58robotics 2. it's a new operating system designed to control
00:27:01humanoid. spots from their toes to their fingertips with a single
00:27:05brain. robot tiny trash bag is actually a bigger breakthrough than
00:27:09robot doing a back flip. google deepmind just launched gemini robotics
00:27:132 and here's why that trash bag not is more important than you think: when
00:27:17you see some these viral robot demos, they're basically just regenerating memorized
00:27:21sequence of skills and if one small thing changes they crash, but a trash
00:27:24bag reshapes itself every time it's touched, so no two nots
00:27:28are ever the same and there's no sequence to memorize. basically there's two A models that...
00:27:32make it possible for this robot to figure things out its own, but Gemini Robotics
00:27:362 works from feet to fingertips, and they're even teaching multiple robots to
00:27:40communicate and work together on the same job. The same underlying AI can
00:27:44be adapted to completely different robot bodies in just few hours, and in
00:27:48on-device version can run locally without an internet
00:27:50connection.
00:27:54Imagine buying whatever you want, but your bank balance never goes
00:27:58down. It still sounds like a dream, but South Koreans have found the next
00:28:02best. thing retail therapy minus the price tag,
00:28:06so-called dopamin sites recreate the thrill of online shopping without
00:28:09spending a single cent, but can virtual carts deliver
00:28:13real joy? in Korea right now, there's people ordering food
00:28:17cards at 2 a.m. and they're actually not putting in real money, they're
00:28:21filling up the carts and never ordering anything, and this is all on
00:28:25purpose. this is the rise of something called dopamine sites in Korea,
00:28:29so you browse the menus, you add the food, and you actually add
00:28:32it to... your car minus the food at the end. another one that's built like smoke break, you go
00:28:36on your smoke break, you can see how many strangers are on break with you. people can leave
00:28:40each other little notes. here's what's happening right now, i think that these apps are
00:28:44actually just people trying to regulate themselves through these
00:28:47apps, so they're less looking for function, they're more looking for
00:28:51connection and more looking for uh to fulfill the sense
00:28:55of need for lot belonging, their need for
00:28:59validation, or think in the case the food delivery app is. to
00:29:02numb themselves from the pain or discomfort of having to deal
00:29:06with the problems. the whole phenomena can showcase like how society is
00:29:10feeling and the fact that this is on the rise means people are longing for
00:29:14something and that they need these sides to fill it and that maybe doom scrolling
00:29:18or playing video games are just not it anymore and people want to feel that sense of
00:29:21familiarity and comfort. and that's our show. find our latest
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00:30:47British people haven't been tack so hard for decades, so is
00:30:51it time to squeeze more out the very rich with the so-called
00:30:54wealth tax? A group of over hundred British millionaires including
00:30:58ex-football star Gary Linicker thinks it is, and they're asked.
00:31:02the government to tax them and other rich people more to
00:31:06create a fairer society, however, is it a good
00:31:09idea? has it ever worked? we ask two multimillionaires what
00:31:13they think i how hard it is to have nothing and but I've earned
00:31:17what I've got. The wealthy get wealthier, money begets money, and
00:31:21inequality just rises and rises. More from them a moment, but
00:31:24first what is a wealth tax and how would it
00:31:27work? We need to tax the
00:31:30billionaires. Tax working people less, tax the super rich more, tax worth not
00:31:34work. It's just fair. Where else are you going to get the money
00:31:37from? Raiding the piggy bank the ultra
00:31:40wealthy is attempting ruse for governments on the hunt for more cash.
00:31:44High. net worth individuals are very good at keeping income away from the
00:31:48tax man, but a wealth tax targets what they actually own.
00:31:52compared to a monthly paycheck, it's much harder to hide a mansion or
00:31:56picasso. this is the wealth tax equation: you
00:32:00add up the value of a person's property, investments, savings, business
00:32:04assets, take away any debts and that's the net
00:32:08worth. you then take a percentage the net worth.
00:32:11there are usually threshholds, for example, economists Zukman
00:32:15and Ben Tippet have suggested the UK government introduce a
00:32:192% minimum tax, their term for wealth tax on
00:32:23households worth more than 100 million pounds or $135
00:32:26million. The group called patriotic millionaires including figures
00:32:30like footballer Gary Linica, music producer Brian Eno and
00:32:34filmmaker Richard Curtis signed an open letter in Britain saying they were
00:32:38more than happy to pay the 2% wealth tax any fortune over 10 million
00:32:42pounds or around $13.5 million. the whole thing's gone
00:32:46upside down, that the playing field is
00:32:49completely tilted right into the pockets the wealthiest
00:32:53people, but there are plenty of reasons wealth taxes have poor
00:32:57record of success, people can be wealthy on paper because they own
00:33:01an expensive house for example, but have no liquid cash, that
00:33:04means they may not have the funds to pay the tax bill when it arrives, short
00:33:08of being forced to sell their house (not ideal) and of course
00:33:12the other issue, very wealthy people are..." mobile and tend to take their
00:33:16money elsewhere in the world when they feel threatened, and 2% of
00:33:20nothing is, well, the maths on that one is much
00:33:23easier. well, let's bring in our two millionaires now, and we have
00:33:27Mike Berners Lee who would like to see a wealth tax
00:33:30introduce, and we also have Tony Ershaw, who is strongly against
00:33:34it, our two economists will weigh in on the debate a little later
00:33:38in the program after they've heard the millionaires talking. uh, so let's go with
00:33:42you, first of all, Mike, you signed this letter? to the government asking for
00:33:46a wealth tax, why do
00:33:48you think it's necessary? well, because it's the simplest
00:33:52way of raising the revenue to
00:33:55fund safer, more secure and more
00:33:59just society, from which everybody, including the wealthiest
00:34:03people will benefit, so if you get
00:34:05to point of wealth where you have reasonable amount
00:34:09of disposable income, you actually better off by having a
00:34:13society in which for example the... rate is reasonably low and
00:34:17everybody can afford good healthcare and basic services are working
00:34:20properly and you're secure against threats um international
00:34:24threats as well so for all these reasons it's by far yeah it's it's
00:34:28by far um something that we all benefit
00:34:31from and the natural dynamics the
00:34:34economy are that the wealth unless you do something about it the
00:34:38wealth get wealthier the wealthy get wealthier money begets money
00:34:42and inequality just rises and rises
00:34:45"and
00:34:47uh that throughout history that has led to catastrophic collapse of
00:34:51civilizations, so it's something you need to intervene
00:34:54on, and why it needs to be a wealth tax
00:34:58is because it's not good me just giving all my money
00:35:01uh, what I'll benefit from is if me and everybody
00:35:05who's as wealthy as me or wealthier does
00:35:08likewise, you and others like Tony
00:35:12Ernshaw. Tony, are you in?" " and
00:35:16no, disagree with it, it's not because
00:35:19um entrepreneurs are greedy, it's because it
00:35:23simply doesn't work, it does the opposite of what we're trying to
00:35:27achieve and that is to raise more taxes for for the
00:35:31government, it is to create more business in and around the
00:35:34UK, it's to attract businesses to the
00:35:37UK, and for instance, if you put a
00:35:412% wealth tax on 100 million pound,
00:35:45That's two million pound okay that I have to find
00:35:48now millionaires across this country
00:35:52don't have liquid two million pounds just lying
00:35:56around so we have to do one of two things either
00:36:00sell that asset um to or refinance it to be able
00:36:04to pay for that tax or we have to draw down that
00:36:08money from our companies which we own. Now we've
00:36:11already paid 25%.
00:36:16um corporation tax on that money,
00:36:19then when we draw down as a dividend, we are then
00:36:23paying another 39, nearly 40
00:36:25percent. tax on that as as a
00:36:29dividend um so it doesn't
00:36:33work now we've got countries across Europe who have tried this
00:36:37over 10 countries and Austria, Denmark,
00:36:40Germany and one the most high profile ones and was
00:36:44in Sweden where the owner um of and the founder of
00:36:48IKEA actually left the country and that's what's been happening in this
00:36:52country in 2025 we
00:36:54had so
00:36:58sorry, 16 and a half thous millionaires leave this country.
00:37:02now why is that important? these millionaires are business owners
00:37:06like meself, we employ people, we pay our
00:37:10taxes on our business, we pay personal tax, we spend in this company, but we
00:37:13employ people, which is the most vital part of it, and these people i employ are also pay
00:37:17income tax, corporation tax, and without people like
00:37:21meself, the country will
00:37:24suffer and will have less capital investment. and
00:37:28overall and the company will not will raise less tax and and tony, if the
00:37:32government did bring a 2% tax on
00:37:35millionaires with over 10 million and assets, would you be tempted to
00:37:39leave the country? i love the
00:37:42UK, um, i think it's one the best places to do business,
00:37:46um, but there has to be tipping point, doesn't that when you say actually,
00:37:50is it better for me to do business
00:37:53elsewhere? um, and and lot of people have already done that, like i
00:37:56said thous millioners
00:37:58and a half have done it in 2025, we're in 2026, um, we need to be
00:38:02open for business, Britain needs to be open for business, we need to be pulling in
00:38:06investment, we need to be actually lowering corporation tax, maybe things
00:38:09like not taxing young people, because at the moment they can't get a job, if
00:38:13we law the taxes and give businesses what they need, which is incentives,
00:38:17every business needs incentives, we can actually stop the
00:38:21gap from young people being employed, and we can we can raise more
00:38:25taxes overall, okay, let me actually even say let me
00:38:29just put that to to Mike, Mike, um, Tony there raising the
00:38:32possibility that you know actually it would be disincentive for
00:38:36business people to um, you create employment and so on, and
00:38:40that they would just leave, basically just leave the country if you brought in a
00:38:44wealth tax that you're proposing, so first of all, will people just leave, I mean
00:38:48it's funny if if people were to leave, if if wealthier people were
00:38:52to leave um, that would just be a sign of their wealth
00:38:56actually imprisoning them, 'if you if you find yourself you're so rich that you're
00:39:00no longer free to live in the country you want to you want to live in because you're afraid that
00:39:03you'll be slightly less rich um i don't think that's the case and
00:39:07when this has been tried in the scandinavian countries where a wealth tax has
00:39:11worked only something like 0.01% the population did
00:39:15leave
00:39:16i think i want emphasize the extent to which uh we all
00:39:20benefit from the tax that we pay being put
00:39:24into public services so tony you know as he grew
00:39:28up uh benefited from going to school, I also
00:39:32went had a great state education that was funded by
00:39:36tax payers and
00:39:37I on my most of my staff also had the same
00:39:40now as I grew up if I got
00:39:44ill which I did from time to time I could get um I
00:39:47could get my healthcare sorted out for free and all this is
00:39:51incredibly important and it's incredibly important for me and probably
00:39:55Tony for his workers as well. that he knows that if they get
00:39:59ill uh they can get their health seen to and that their
00:40:02relatives are getting health careare sure the thing is mike you know uh
00:40:06Tony knows better than anyone he he actually grew up a council house how difficult
00:40:10it can be starting from the bottom and all the way through he's paid
00:40:14his dues tony just want to come in on
00:40:16that yeah i think it's important to recognize
00:40:20that um as business owners um for
00:40:24instance i started my business when i was 19 year old my very first business um, I
00:40:27started with 300 pound, my background is I come from a counselor
00:40:31state, quite a rough area, actually, and I grew up in poverty,
00:40:35um, and I managed to get half decent GCs at
00:40:38school, um, and I basically went into the business world, I started off
00:40:42actually as a winder cleaner, and now I have a
00:40:46multi-million pound business which operates in every single town and city in the
00:40:50UK, and but I did that with lot of stress, lot of financial risk
00:40:54to meself, lot of pressure, lot of hard work, there was some... days
00:40:58i wasn't sure i could pay my my rent and some
00:41:02some months i was that worried and made sure paid my employees before i even paid
00:41:05meself and i remember eat having one meal a day sometimes eating
00:41:09beans toast from aldi because that's all i could afford that's when a t of beans was only
00:41:13three pents um so you can't lecture me on on these things because i
00:41:17know how hard it is to have nothing - but i've earned what i've got
00:41:21um but i've also brought people up the chain with me employ these
00:41:24people you mentioned the NHS i actually um pay
00:41:28for everybody who works for me for private health insurance
00:41:32and their families are included in that, so anyone within their household
00:41:36including their children, including their wife, and so we do all
00:41:40already passed down this wealth and like I said I employ over 100 people across the
00:41:44UK and within UK commercial
00:41:46group um but there's this thing it
00:41:50raises very little tax there's very simple things we can do
00:41:54for instance if we went to cash free society which is something we could
00:41:57do practically within a year or two um
00:42:01that would raise over 20 billion pound in revenue for
00:42:05the government that's 2% the government spend that would going back to
00:42:09your... argument, build 20 hospitals, it would employ
00:42:13400,000 nurses, um, and it's a much
00:42:17better way of raising revenue than actually just saying, you know what, you've
00:42:21done well in your life, we're just going to tax you even more for it, what incentive does that give
00:42:25me or anybody else who wants to start a business? thank you for that, just going to pause the debate
00:42:29for one second, according to one survey, vast majority of British
00:42:32millionaires support a wealth tax, even the ones with assets over
00:42:3610 million pounds or $13 million dollars, back it, "the
00:42:40majority the general public back the wealth tax too, and to double
00:42:44check, we conducted our own straw poll around London. Do you think we should have
00:42:48a wealth tax in this country? Absolutely, yes, I do think that, I think
00:42:51that's
00:42:52that the wealthy have been getting away for far too long and they need to pay fair share their
00:42:56taxas. I just personally don't feel like we should
00:42:59penalize people for accumulating wealth and doing
00:43:02well, yeah, absolutely, for the rich, I think they should
00:43:06definitely be paying more. I don't think so, no, some people..."
00:43:10worked hard for it and just because you're rich in assets don't mean you're rich
00:43:14in money so
00:43:16you know it's a bit difficult for everyone, you need wealthy people because you want
00:43:20them to pay tax, who do you think pays for all the services that you get? i
00:43:24think that does need to be some kind of redistribution, start with the billionaires
00:43:28and then see how much revenue that generates and
00:43:31then sort of scale it out from there. back to our panel
00:43:35now, so steve davis, it seems that millionaires and the wider british
00:43:39public actually back a wealth tax, but does it ever
00:43:42work? now the point is that, well actually it's
00:43:46not a good way of raising revenue because it has all kinds
00:43:49of knock on effects, as Tony explained, which are
00:43:53detrimental to the dynamism and growth the economy as a whole and therefore
00:43:57the degree to which the government has tax base that it can generate revenue out
00:44:00of.
00:44:01the problem is that as bike himself has explained
00:44:04there, what wealth is is assets that generate
00:44:08income, and if ' that explained start of his
00:44:11remarks, in order to pay a wealth pack, you've got to
00:44:14liquidate uh some of that wealth, because you can't typically
00:44:18pay it out the current income that the asset generates. now
00:44:22that means you have to sell it to who? probably foreign owner, which does means
00:44:26a lot of that income stream is now going to go to foreigners and not be
00:44:29taxed, so even if you grant that we need more government
00:44:33revenue, this is not the most effective way of doing it,
00:44:36there are other ways of doing it, but he also made different argument.
00:44:40is that you want to prevent accumulating wealth inequality?
00:44:44now that's a fair enough argument, I'm not sure I agree with them, but granting for the
00:44:47sake of argument that that is something we should be worried about and you want to do something
00:44:51about it, I would argue that actually a wealth tax is not the best
00:44:55way of doing it, there are other things you can do which are more effective and less economically
00:44:59damaging like for example um reforming land
00:45:03title or having major radical land reforms because it's actually things
00:45:07like real estate that are the prime base of wealth
00:45:11inequality uh, all those things that Thomas Pickety was pointing
00:45:14out in his book few years ago, it's been since shown that most the increase in
00:45:18wealth inequality is talking about is
00:45:20due to real estate appreciation, houses and land becoming
00:45:24more monetarily valuable, and so if you do want to reduce wealth
00:45:27inequality, supposed to income inequality, something else, that's
00:45:31probably a there are better roots to go down to using the tax
00:45:35system to do it, the tax system has other purposes,
00:45:39but I don't think... that redistributing wealth is
00:45:42particularly a good thing to use tax for. understood, thank you, and Steve
00:45:46Keane, and would a wealth tax work in the
00:45:48UK? no, I don't think it would. uh, the
00:45:52different reasons that have been put forward so far, I think George
00:45:56Monviel put it very nicely a short while ago, and that was he said that the
00:46:00the poor paid taxes, the middle class pay lawyers and the rich
00:46:04pay politicians, and what you get out of that is the distortions we've seen in
00:46:08tax rates over time - that mean that the wealthier can locate their money
00:46:12in offshore tax havens if they wish to, they can
00:46:16evade paying the tax in the first instance, they can lobby for tax rates to be
00:46:19reduced, so all this stuff means the tax is very ineffective way of getting
00:46:23money back from the wealthy. now if you see where they get their money
00:46:27from, then part of it, yes of course is pr is private enterprise
00:46:31and success of businesses and all the very difficult things that go into making
00:46:34a business, but a large part of why the taxes
00:46:38accumulated is that they... don't actually pay the tax in the first
00:46:42place, it's something they managed to reduce their tax rate, so the effective rate
00:46:46on millionaires is probably below the effective right on straight
00:46:49on windows clean as these days given all the ch. that have occurred
00:46:53over time, but what we're all focusing on is the decline in the
00:46:57quality of public services, now major reason for that decline in the public
00:47:01services is we've been cutting spending in the belief the government shouldn't spend more than
00:47:05it takes back in taxation, and that's what's causing all
00:47:08these constraints on public house building and
00:47:12hospitals and and education services and so on, and that's
00:47:15a fallacy, when you take look at the accounting that's involved, the
00:47:19actual financial trans
00:47:22government spending and government taxation, it turns
00:47:25out that government spending more than it takes back in taxation is what creates
00:47:29back money. we actually need the government to run a deficit. now the
00:47:33obsession that the government should not run a deficit is partially
00:47:37why we're cutting spending and cutting taxes and cutting spending and cutting taxes,
00:47:41driving the economy 0% the economy
00:47:45rather than 20 or 30% as
00:47:47it is right now. what we should be doing is realizing we don't need to
00:47:50eliminate the deficit. part the problems we're facing and I would
00:47:54also point out that you can see this is developing right-wing
00:47:58reactions by billion by millionaires to taxation, well everybody
00:48:02has that reaction to taxation, nobody likes taxation coming out their
00:48:06income. now this is something which is only occurred since World War II
00:48:09fundamentally, and this means that
00:48:11you you vote for people are going to reduce your tax so everybody bts right wing, and as you
00:48:15cut the tax you also cut the spending, we should actually I'd rather have
00:48:19transaction taxes and things like that that are much harder. to evade and
00:48:23that are also aren't something that make people think they want to vote right wing.
00:48:27mike, have either of our economists changed your mind on trying
00:48:31to introduce wealth tax? well, it's clearly, you
00:48:35know, the issues are complex and I'm sympathetic certainly to the idea that you
00:48:39tax dodging, it's true that that
00:48:43um, the very wealthy tend to pay less tax, not more tax, and that's
00:48:46a massively real problem. um, I'm
00:48:50sympathetic to the idea of a wealth. tax that begins on just the
00:48:54very wealthy, maybe people with over hundred million for
00:48:57example, in wealth, because actually it's such a small number of people that
00:49:01you're dealing with that it's possible to actually uh, it's possible to
00:49:05actually get a handle um on that evasion, mean
00:49:09i do think uh, i'm also
00:49:12sympathetic to the detail of you, maybe there are other
00:49:16mechanisms by which it is possible to raise
00:49:20money by reducing.
00:49:23inequality and if there's another mechanic
00:49:26that uh that works better then great
00:49:30i'm up for it. i think my the biggest thing i want to say is i
00:49:34want to register my willingness to be part of
00:49:37contributing more to society because
00:49:41i'm able to as long as
00:49:45others link more would do the
00:49:48same and i think most people if asked are in.
00:49:52same position, yes we'd be prepay prepared to pay more for
00:49:56better society provided as wealthy as me or
00:50:00wealthy like mike, just quickly, Tony was trying to say there that
00:50:04you can actually do that already, there's nothing stopping you
00:50:07from just going online and paying more
00:50:08in tax, why don't you? no, because the caviat is as
00:50:12long as everybody as wealthy as me or wealthier
00:50:16does likewise, and that's why it needs a government intervention such as through
00:50:20tax system, the wealth tax that you're... proposing would affect people
00:50:24with assets over 10 million pounds or $13 million dollars,
00:50:28how many people who signed that letter have assets over 10
00:50:32million or 10 million pounds or 13 million dollars, i know that some
00:50:35them are actually under that threshold so they won't be affected by the wealth tax
00:50:39they're proposing, well i
00:50:43signed that tax,
00:50:44i signed that letter uh and tick the box and say a person of wealth
00:50:48because when i did the sums on my total assets including pension and everything
00:50:52came to more than million pounds right, and I consider that to be somebody of
00:50:56you, I, relatively speaking, if you don't consider that
00:50:59to be wealthy, then then you've kind of got a problem, but the principle
00:51:03is that those with the greatest wealth can and should
00:51:07and will also themselves benefit, I think this is key point that I
00:51:11think I'd want to maybe emphasize to Tony, he will benefit from
00:51:14being a society in which crime rates are under control and
00:51:18people get their health looked after and everyone in society, however
00:51:22wealthy they are, gets the opportunity to maximize their
00:51:26opportunities and their potential in life. I
00:51:28mean, and very importantly, we become a more secure
00:51:32nation, so all these are things, it's not as though we're taking a hit, Tony,
00:51:36I'm not suggesting that you and I take a hit, I'm suggesting that we actually have better
00:51:40lives. Well, as Tony mentioned earlier in the debate, several European countries have
00:51:44tried a wealth tax, but has it ever worked on the continent? Let's take
00:51:48a quick look. In 1990, more than
00:51:51dozen. countries had a wealth tax, now
00:51:55nearly all them have scraped it, why? france
00:51:59introduced its modern wealth tax in
00:52:011982 under. it raised little.
00:52:05revenue and was blamed for driving away the rich. in
00:52:081995, the cap limiting how much total direct tax household
00:52:12could pay was abolished and the wealthy began to leave, an
00:52:15estimated 42,000 millionaires left between
00:52:182000 and 2012, taking with them not just their wealth
00:52:22tax revenue, but also income tax and VAT
00:52:25contributions. Emmanuel Macron scrapped the wealth tax in
00:52:292018, replacing it with tax on property wealth over
00:52:33$1.4 million. Sweden's wealth tax dated back
00:52:37to 1911 and peaked at around 4% in the
00:52:401980s. Wealthy Swedes including tennis starf
00:52:43beyond bog and IKEA founder Ingabard Khambrad left
00:52:47to avoid it. The tax was formally abolished in 2007.
00:52:51Only three European countries still have a wealth tax: Norway,
00:52:55Spain and Switzerland. The Steve Davis, as we saw
00:52:59many European countries have tried it, many have scrapped it, with the exception of
00:53:03Switzerland, Norway and Spain, what lessons are there to be
00:53:07learned from the European examples? Well,
00:53:11that although wealth tax sounds pretty simple, in reality
00:53:14it turns out
00:53:15to be very, very complicated. For the fundamental reason, first of all, there
00:53:19are lots and lots of international tax treaties. Most these taxes
00:53:23aimed to tax global net wealth, but the problem is, if
00:53:27somebody for example, owns real estate in the United States, they can't be asked
00:53:31to pay tax and say Norway or Switzerland or Spain on that wealth.
00:53:35because the tax treaties the United States has, so all
00:53:38sorts of assets in global wealth are actually out of reach because of various complicated tax
00:53:42treaty range between different sovereign jurisdictions.
00:53:46secondly, because actually valuing wealth, particularly amongst the super
00:53:50wealthy is very very difficult, because lot their wealth consists of
00:53:53tradeable financial assets, and working out what the net value
00:53:57of all those assets is actually very, very tricky, and so in
00:54:01practice wealth taxes tend to become very, very comp
00:54:05and
00:54:05they typically therefore don't raise kind of large sums of
00:54:09revenue that many people hope that they will, they also tend to have very
00:54:13significant knock-on effects in particular, they tend to fall
00:54:17mainly on people who generate a large amount of current income out of business
00:54:21activities, not so much on people who hold what you might call
00:54:24passive wealth such as real estate of various kinds, which is
00:54:28exactly the opposite of what you want to do essentially, and so for those
00:54:32reasons they tend to find that they're simply not worth the trouble, that's why
00:54:36they give it up, and finally, as Norway for example, has found out since
00:54:401921, uh, what you often get is an exodus
00:54:43of very high networth individuals, lot of Norway's
00:54:47richest citizens have left since the tax rate there was put up to
00:54:511.1% for really large fortunes and they've moved
00:54:54elsewhere, notably to Switzerland, which does have a wealth tax, but a much lower
00:54:58level and also on non-federal basis, so you have all these
00:55:02different problems, and the conclusion that lots of actually pretty left-wing
00:55:06governments in Europe have arrived at is, it's just not worth the amount
00:55:10of administrative grief and low results and you
00:55:14get from it, you might as well look for some other way of getting
00:55:17income out the wealthy uh and tax revenue that is out the wealthy
00:55:21and of dealing with wealth inequality, that's what you're worried
00:55:24about. mike, just coming towards end the
00:55:27the program, a quick answer from you and tony, um, do you expect the government
00:55:31to actually listen to you, no we have new prime minister, Andy Burnham, he said It's
00:55:35not off the table, but it doesn't look like it's his
00:55:37priority. Well, I'm sympathetic
00:55:41to detailed and nuanced analysis of what the exact
00:55:45best mechanism is, if there's if there's something that
00:55:49practically works better than a wealth tax
00:55:52at finding ways of taking money from the very wealthy and using
00:55:56it to improve our society, then I'm
00:56:00sympathetic to uh, getting at some different form of
00:56:03detail, but I think the... principle is absolut, that's that's really what
00:56:07I'm here to advocate for, I think
00:56:11society, even for the very wealthy. You wrote a letter to the prime minister, I'm
00:56:15just wondering, he's he's new into the job, although he's just gone on
00:56:19holiday uh, do you think that he is going to take up
00:56:23your cause? I hope Andy Burnham does the right
00:56:26thing a few different fronts, I think he's got, there's a great
00:56:30opportunity to put us a good a better course here if
00:56:34he takes them. I hope he does understood and turn your message to Andy
00:56:38Burn, I'm sure he's watching, well I'm hoping Andy's going to be
00:56:42a bit of a right leaning socialist and um actually instead of just
00:56:46taxing is maybe think about a bit of growth for the UK which will
00:56:49raise lot more tax than a wealth tax whatever whatever
00:56:53create and get the get the company the country open for
00:56:57business again and start bringing in outside investment instead of
00:57:00circulating the same money round and round and round Tony Earnshow Mike
00:57:04Berners. Lee, Steve Daves and Steve Kean, thank you all very
00:57:08much for your expertise today, really appreciate that, and thank you at home and
00:57:11on your phones for watching, if you want to see this episode or any of our previous episodes, go to our
00:57:15channel on youtube, just type in nexus dr. Till next week then,
00:57:19goodbye,
00:57:34but why is it africana only? I'm telling you
00:57:38today, they are going to
00:57:39live,
00:57:46we got that. flag down our throats all
00:57:50the time, you're not allowed to talk, oh no, that you
00:57:54oh, that's
00:57:54tabu,
00:58:02it's supposed to be safety device, breathe in, breathe out and avoid the
00:58:06fumes around you, they knew what day they would come
00:58:10die,
00:58:14if Europe does not soon wake up, you face. every
00:58:17day: is NATO
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