Erstellt am: 5. 4. 2013 - 14:04 Uhr

Exposing the tax evaders

Reality Check: Offshore Leaks; Iran Nuclear Talks; Corporate responsibility; Art from arms in Mexico

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Offshore Leaks

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has been working for months to unveil some of the secrecy surrounding offshore accounts and companies. The list of names exposed so far includes top politicians around the world and the data cover just about all the countries in the world. We speak to Nicholas Shaxson from the Tax Justice Network, who is also the author of “Treasure Islands” (available in German entitled "Schatzinseln: Wie Steueroasen die Demokratie untergraben")

Iran Nuclear Talks

A new round of talks with world powers gets underway in Kazakhstan. It seems we’ve been here many times before – Iran says its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes and insists on its right to enrich uranianium, while Western countries want Iran to stop. But this time there are positive signs, says Mark Fitzpatrick of the International Institute for Strategic Studies:

Corporate responsibility

What does a high-end car manufacturer have to do with promoting intercultural dialogue? Riem Higazi found out when she attended the Intercultural Innovation Award Ceremony in Vienna recently:

India

A building collapses in a small city to the north of Mumbai, India and across the country haphazard construction legislation is coming under the spotlight. Riem Higazi finds out more from Geeta Pandey:

Disarm

Chris Cummins reports on the Mexican artist Pedro Reyes, who takes guns seized in the city of Ciudad Juarez and transforms them from instruments of death into instruments of the musical kind:

Listen to the programme after the show via Podcast or at fm4.orf.at/realitycheck.