very much indeed france has passed a controversial tax bill targeting tech giants the 1st of its type from one of the world's major economies the 3 percent tax affects companies like google apple facebook and amazon but as natasha butler reports from paris the united states is not happy a show of hands and a display of defiance french senators passed a law taxing tech giants despite straits by the united states washington says the levy on thoroughly targets american companies and it's opened an inquiry a move condemned by france's finance minister i think that the best way of dealing with that kind of difficulties between the u.s. and france is not through it. is not opening a procedure under section 3 or one for the 1st time in the history of the friendship between the u.s. and french it is to build a compromise at the g 7 level. so that we can have

a concrete and effective solution on the docks issue of digital activities the tax targets firms with a global revenue of more than $800000000.00 including $30000000.00 in france at least 30 companies will have to pay 3 percent tax on their french revenues because most are american including amazon and apple facebook and google washington says the levy is discriminatory in a statement the u.s. is trade representative said the president donald trump had directed the we investigate the effects of this legislation and determine whether it is discriminatory or unreasonable and burdens or restricts united states commerce the u.s. investigation could lead to washington imposing retaliate tree tariffs on france that's something the french government would want to avoid but there's little doubt that there is a growing sense of frustration amongst many french politicians with trump's approach to international disagreements that we should mr trump threatens everyone

in all areas he's become an article amity when you're head of such a power you have a responsibility you don't amuse yourself by threatening states that are as responsible and democratic as france and that seek to the find the sort of regulation needed to address today's new economies so that there can be justice that the european commission has been pushing for tech firms to abide by e.u. competition law rules and pay more tax in europe france's new law is a major step in that direction it also fulfills one of the french president's campaign promises emanuel mccraw of the us but taxing wealthy tech companies was one of the yellow vests main demands so french public opinion is likely to be on my cross side. al-jazeera paris. still ahead including the moscow's decision to batter flights to georgia as unjustified and disproportionate. and the migrants who survived the capsizing of that boat in the

mediterranean only to be sent back home by detach. hello there is a bad picture across much of australia now we have been telling you for the last couple days about these rather strong winter storms heading across areas of the southeast and not completely out of the picture just yet. but they also say heading past adelaide as we head into friday night. is a cool day it's a wintry wanted the best today with a high of 13 degrees celsius up towards the prison is pretty good with a high of 22 some try out into that it should be dry few certainly on friday and then on saturday the temperature pretty much again the same at 18 degrees but it will be feeling cooler and sunny a wet day in melbourne with a high there of just an 11 degrees celsius quarter in adelaide as well but at least

that weather for the most part really has passed you by now enjoy friday in new zealand because that is going to be the best day out of the next 2 you can see all this cloud gathering across the tasman sea and that is actually going to really impact by saturday so a pretty good day on friday 12 degrees in 15 or so the temperature is around the average pretty for this time of year but then as i say that rain is very much on its way so we blanketing both the north and south the south today but temperatures a look at malta with a high of 16 degrees as you can see there in both locations. you'll struggle with a battle rages over the country's bomb and with activists inviting farms stealing wads stock and intimidating vomits one i want to ask has these trucks gone too far on al-jazeera capturing

a moment in time. for all snapshots of other lives. inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers. witness on al-jazeera. and again are mind of the top stories are now jazeera police in general to have a rest of the captain and chief officer from a detained in rain an oil tanker they're accused of breaching e.u. sanctions on syria they arrest come amid claims iran tried to impede a british oil tanker late on wednesday leading to intervention by a british warship. the u.n.

human rights council has agreed to begin a preliminary investigation into what it calls a staggering number of murders in the philippine government's war on drugs defuses president rodrigo detective inciting violence against drug dealers as well as intimidating judges and degrading women. as president donald trump says he's not backing down on efforts to determine the citizenship status of the american population is abandon plans to put a citizenship question on the 2020 census but will issue an executive order to pursue other ways to get the data. a car bombing in the libyan city of benghazi has killed at least 4. people and wounded dozens of blast targeted the funeral of a former military commander it was aligned with a former libyan leader moammar gadhafi the head of libya's special forces which is under the control of warlord highly for have to was attending the funeral but was unharmed what would i do were had has more from tripoli. symmetry is

very close to the headquarters of the special forces unit which are under the control of the warlord. have to we understand that this was a funeral held for a former commander of the special forces units and he would get under the former regime of moammar gadhafi but in that symmetry there were the military units including the special forces individuals including their commander the current commander the major general on his behalf murder we know that these explosions could be used as a pretext to push the special forces individuals to join have to this military campaign to seize the capital tripoli especially we know that there are many special forces individuals including their current commander. they refused to join have to this military campaign to move on tripoli we also know that. medical

sources in a bunch of aziz say that the number of victims could rise especially those wanted many of them have been in critical condition the ruling military council in sudan says it has fulfilled an attempted military coup and arrested 16 officers including the alleged ringleader comes as the military council are in discussions with opposition politicians about signing up to a deal that will eventually return the country to civilian rule the military ousted former leader omar bashir exactly 3 months ago. and he said levin people have been killed in a car bombing in northwestern syria 35 others including children were injured explosion happened in the rebel held city of a freeman which is near syria's border with turkey observers say the blast happened near a checkpoint where vehicles were lined up to enter the city. work is still being

done to identify those killed in argentina's so-called dirty war after the conflict ended $180.00 is a forensics team was set up to search for hundreds of missing people and a series of our reports from what is are is the mission has been taken around the world. the truth and justice have been for decades the main objective of the argin time entropy ology forensic team that's why they continue to work to shed light on what happened to the thousands of people who were disappeared during argentina's duty war over 40 years ago my mom was taking samples from the relatives and we would create forwards with information from the director and of the relative who disappeared then we compare it with the bird samples we have the team was created in 1906 when argentina embarked on a process of exhumations of the many unmarked graves found in the country believing that many of them could well contain and identified victims of force disappearances

the argentina in trouble oh gee forensic team believes that with their work they can help the relatives find justice but also some type of closure they're currently working to identify the remains in this boxes there are 600 remains that allegedly belong to people who went missing during the dictatorship in argentina in the 1970 s. and eighty's their expertise has taken them to 55 countries including south africa syria iraq colombia and mexico where the attempt to help relatives find the remains of their loved ones they use genetic profiles drones infrared cameras to locate mass graves in the most remote locations but they would either says that's not the most important part of their investigations the main church or when to do was to incorporate the family members in the war usually merely go for a success just take some information for their families. and their provider overboard. work well so we do it in norway or have the farm it is the center of our

work to reduce our personal remarks from a shows they are in for about what we are doing in many cases families don't trust in us they come to us because they don't trust industry one and all optional that's why they played a crucial role in the investigation into the disappearance of the 43 students in mexico who were killed by a drug cartel with the complicity of the country's security forces the relatives wanted the team involved in the search and not mexican authorities in argentina there are many who are still trying to locate their relatives sylvia my necklace was father disappeared in 1975 he was a left wing activist and the have a gun they were under but i have always been trying to find him and i know there remains a movie to him we have very little information of what happened but i want to find what's left. and that's why these anthropology team is crucial for victims of conflict and violence because the loci victims and help hold accountable those

involved in serious human rights abuses around the world. under siege when a scientist. yes president donald trump has been hosting what he's called a social media summit at the white house trump is facing criticism for the event which included a line up of online personalities from across the right wing media google facebook and twitter officials were excluded from the gathering. european council president has criticized russia's decision to battle flights to georgia as unjustified and disproportionate already tense relations between tbilisi and moscow have deteriorated further since the visit of a russian politician to the georgian parliament 3 weeks ago under symonds reports from the georgian city of but to me. it's the n. you'll gathering of east european states and the e.u. russia is always irritated by such familiar images. once led the kremlin to

ban all direct flights to georgia all the unfamiliar images of anti russian protests every day for more than 3 weeks in the capital tbilisi. georgia's president didn't want to talk about russia at the conference but the e.u. council president did russia recently this is the money flying to churchill unjustified. this is for russia this is that may be the case but georgia's leaders were reluctant to openly attack russia at this event that parliament's head of european integration was sent out to face questions denying claims by protesters the georgia's government had become too lenient towards russia. for a russian what do you say to that. that's why i say. that it doesn't actually require any farther with russia or is really concerned about your presence here was this conference of. georgia very western or

we would like to find ourselves in then surely we think the european jews in one of the debates parliamentary leader spoke of russia as a whole keep buying force or join your russian me i don't know you. can't percent of our territories it means permanent threaten the journey for security it means sit here violation of human rights of people who are living in occupied territories later came the signing of financial agreements between georgia and e.u. states but as the ink dried on deals with $53000000.00 there was no disguising the anxiety about russia's actions against this country if conference delegates were to take a short stroll down to the beach front here they get a reality check this place is normally teaming with russian tourists at this time of year the tourist official told us that hotel occupancy rates are down

by 80 percent. if the flight from russia continues the georgian economy who's really going to suffer and to simmons' al-jazeera but to me in georgia more than a dozen bangladeshi migrants have returned home after their boat capsized off the tunisian coast 94 migrants on board most of them from bangladesh died in may while trying to cross the mediterranean to reach europe come to charter reports from dhaka on the dangerous journey people take in search of a better life. ramadan is alone with his memories he say's most of his friends died at sea on mainline a boat carrying $94.00 migrants capsized in the mediterranean off the tunisian coast after having left from libya there were 82 bangladeshis on board and only 17 of them survived explains to his brother how he survived the disaster.

goes into the ship from libya they promise to drop us on european coastline but in the stede they'd be inforced gunpoint onto a small boat in the middle of the sea after 15 or 20 minutes ride the boat over 2 months due to the stormy wind around $20.00 to $25.00 people on the spot 9 of the survivor are from sugar rush area village in bangladesh is eastern bremen beriah district most of them had to borrow money and sell their ancestral lands to pay more than $10000.00 each to traffickers. there are thousands of young bengal dishy who are unemployed it's hard to get a job here you have to bribe at all or to get a job this one of the reasons why many people have lived through europe which is also why i wanted to go to europe and improve my economic conditions so that my family can have a better future i took the risk more than

a 1000000 bangladesh's live in slums such as here in dhaka because of the political and economic challenges and threats such as climate change it is highly likely that this will diminish any time soon so workers chasing the economic graeme abroad remain traps for people traffickers the exact number of bangladeshi citizens who drowned in the mediterranean is not known but according to the international organization for migration at least $443.00 migrants have either died or gone missing while trying to reach europe this year but your mia is. anxiously waiting at the dock the international airport his younger brothers are here islam is still missing or lister were denominator over the city and my brother is not in any of the survivors list we can't trace him he is not even in the red crescent lest we lost all contact with him since may 7th. libya has in recent years been

a major departure point for a bond with the she migrants trying to get to europe. and wants the boat sink we notice swarms of fish were taking him by seeing us all over it's hard to think what maybe we threw those who didn't survive here look at my hand i got barely person by a swarm of. mohammad dahlan hoped moving overseas would change his life but the huge risk it took came to nothing to enrich our 3 al-jazeera dhaka bangladesh. a quick reminder the top stories here al-jazeera police in gibraltar have arrested the captain and chief officer of an iranian tanker that was seized by british marines last week they're accused of breaching e.u. sanctions on syria the arrests come amid claims that iran tried to impede a british oil tanker late on wednesday leading to an intervention by

a british warship iran though denies any such confrontation took place british foreign minister says the u.k. doesn't want to increase tensions we're very concerned this is a very serious escalation of the situation and you know we are proud that they're all navy was there to protect the heritage tanka but we are monitoring the situation very closely we don't want to escalate tensions we want tensions to come down. u.n. human rights council has agreed to begin a preliminary investigation into what it calls a staggering number of murders in the philippine government's war on drugs it accuses president to of inciting violence against drug dealers as well as intimidating judges and degrading women. u.s. president donald trump says he's not backing down on efforts to determine the citizenship status of the american population he's abandoned plans to put

a citizenship question on the 2020 census but trump says he will issue an executive order telling federal agencies to provide the data to the commerce department in order to get the information in another way france has passed a controversial tax bill targeting tech giants like google apple and facebook 3 percent tax affects any digital company with a revenue of at least $844000000.00 of which least $28000000.00 is made in france but the u.s. says it unfairly targets their companies. the ruling military council in sudan says it has 4 children attempted military coup and arrested 16 offices including the alleged ringleader becomes the military council is in discussions with opposition politicians about signing up to a deal that will eventually return the country to civilian rule to stay with us or hundreds if you can one know one east is up next by for now. after

25 years of affording the world's waste china through the global recycling industry into chaos. the growing pressure for greener skies eves resulting in change we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in. counting the cost on al-jazeera. on farms across a stray or a battle is on. activists are demanding that pharma stop grazing animals for human consumption. but their tactics are controversial. trespassing on agricultural properties stealing livestock and intimidating fondness

for college how do you sleep at night. as tensions rise one on one extend best against the bitter divide every stray his farm animals. and. it's just before dawn and in a strange his southern city of melbourne and activists are gathering thank you all so. very early. kristen levy is about to lead more than a 100 people in a protest that would disrupt the city all in the name of animal rights and the environment animal agriculture is a leading cause of comma change and is destroying up on a completely such high is about making it clear that this is an emergency and suffering here out here farm animals you know would have been into a lot of slavery a lot of misery and exploit them for our being simply because we have the power to do so. we're trying to. changes

a lot of it's made he needed anything. to back it all pledging to peace but here we are we're just ordinary people we have jobs people of all walks of watch want to stop eating animals. and. they guinn's don't eat or use any animal products believing all living beings are equal. the ultimate aim of today's protest is to stop animal farming they've been mobilized by a documentary which activists say was secretly filmed at australian farms and was just. what we're going to do with them as the sun begins to rise kristen rallies the troops for the day's action it might feel like we don't know what to expect when we get there so i just try to stay calm as long as we sat in the snow and. he wanted to

see his mount and. meet. she leads a group of activists towards mobile and city center to the to the property here shop without talking to. their group of about 300 people have managed to shut down the center of melbourne at pick out their police and their angry commuters in order to try to go about their day the face protesters are planning to stay here for as long as they can. some members of the public decide to take part in the protest i just spoke about really joining straight away when i saw what this was about. unimpressed. it's absolutely stupid lie to get your point across if a bit of moment of inconvenience is worth it. much i think. what.

one thing it is doing is raising the profile of the animal rights movement what does this action make you think about the bacon movement. it does give us the presence of social saw from the perspective it's worked with and i don't know if there's just not a do or say no we're making a stand and people already walking past is yelling and screaming at us so we bring in our just sweeping her. voice answered within the search you know what's on the right like the timber they have to keep. everybody. was. was.

kristen is one of 39 people arrested in. the melbourne demonstration is one of 9 of that it's taking place across the country today at abbott was and in public spaces like this one. they have heart of a string of controversial protests which have attracted the attention of the entire country including the prime minister who has called the actions against farmers and astray and i think starting to richer governments should. ensure that the full force of the law is brought against these these green collar criminals and animal rights group called the farms has been accused of encouraging these types of trespasses by publishing the addresses of animal farms and albatross in an online map outraged families say it's

a breach of privacy endangering their animals homes and employees and demanding the map be taken down. that category 2 months after the math was published about 100 activists stormed this cattle feed lot and dairy farm in queensland in the country's milk and if you're upset that i don't know what the protesters occupied the property for more than an hour filming and verbal the abusing the farmer and his family how do you go about taking those you know those mothers right for them any time your mother if your mother how do you live with yourself and your son in the field with you from your mother your. 10 people were charged with trespass 8 were fined. dorner is breaking at the get go from about 2 hours drive from the opened. its

home to about 2000 and. owner john commons is watching on as workers heard the animals into the milking pen. had many good years. there really. were people going on. this terry is part of his multi-million dollar business which produces goat's milk to make yogurt cheese and baby formula it's been the target of several animal rights protests. not at 1st there were things like a straight on to the property. to the little pitching year and they loaded animals in the park last december around 70 to spray came and stole 3 goats and a night. out leaving a limping goats hanging angel. economic. help people

make a big deal out of a 2000 gods and you had a school for. all of europe 2000 and of rituals with i don't care whether it's people it's coutts ok i was any and not all of those 2000 are perfect today every time. just because you've got a lead doesn't mean you haven't been treated or under recovery. unlike many farmers who have been targeted john decided to go public posting security footage of the raid online. a lot of farmers that we've spoken to here in this program have declined because they're afraid of becoming a bigger target you've gone the opposite way why. well we were one of the few families that. if you like at facebook or

a media profile and you know we had. the ability to to fight back and to create some sort of public. reaction to that's why we did it farmers in a strategy are being. hit and they have no ability to fight back and they annoyed me enough to fight back. well that's a good hearing about this little one is only 4 or 5 cars still very early dice are pretty good to be honest but it has come at a cost structure hold run yet john and his staff began receiving constant online abuse threats of violence and intimidation phone calls so he decided to close the farms popular cafe and petting zoo people would do that all day long used to give us a lot of pleasure you know you see half a dozen or dozen people lined up feeding the little guts or wanting to cuddle them

that's very satisfying is a farmer who wants to be invaded them have your animal stalin and be the subject of a of the slander on facebook. this is the old entryway into the typical. this is what's left of the come play this is what's left of the well this was a server year and one approaches and converting it back to mr cowen you can see this still at the stereo signs were also been hard to wash off. callers. telling the staff why you're working there you're you're abusing all these animals you're doing all these things wrong and you don't do that to your staff you know and as employees we have responsibilities one call that sticks and sometimes the

threats got very personal a man rang me and he said joseph here listen here you piece. if this continues it's going to be all about you we're coming down to get you. 7 activists were charged in relation to the incident so far only one has been fined for a total of $2.00. was appalled by what happened i thought it was a total miscarriage of justice and never seem to signal to anybody that you're not allowed to come onto a farm and steal enemy. kristen says she wasn't involved in the get go tom incident but admits she still when animals while trespassing on farms and and i between us. some of them she now keeps in her backyard on the outskirts of melbourne. is what

one see they call biology in the body industry so they were rescued from slaughter house 3 from one and one from a truck on the whites of this. so you would say that these animals have been rescued but the people you've taken from would say that you've stolen them when i say to their well i don't think you can steal a life when you're giving them sanctuary kristen told us she feels the tactics used by animal rights groups are confronting but necessary and how would you feel if a group of say 100 people came onto your property and started to walk through it and wouldn't leave when you asked them to find that intimidating aware of how dr silly fill in other odd funder intimidating i can say were people absolutely i can understand that people will feel confronted by that because you know this is their every day thing i do.