this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. in what's been hailed as a historic agreement — g7 finance ministers negotiate a deal on taxing multinational corporations. us treasury secretary janet yellen says the post—pandemic world must be fairer. far too long there has been a global race to the bottom in corporate taxes, where countries compete by lowering their tax rates instead of the well—being of their citizens. despite a recent increase in cases, the head of nhs providers — which represents health trusts in england — says coronavirus vaccines appears to have broken the link between cases and serious illness. the indian government issues a final notice to twitter — to comply with india's

new information technology rules. violence rocks mexico's midterm elections with dozens of politicians killed in recent months. and — a pair of white—tailed eagles — rescued from drowning by two long distance kayakers. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. it's being hailed as a "historic agreement", that could see global governments make billions more in tax revenue. the deal made today, by the g7 group of leading economies could shake—up the tax system for multinational companies, like big tech giants. it could include a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15% to avoid countries undercutting each other. tech companies google and facebook have welcomed the move. here's our business

correspondent katy austin. how to stop multinational companies, particularly tech giants, avoiding tax by booking profits in low or no tax jurisdictions, that was one question at the heart of these discussions between the finance ministers of seven leading economies. i'm delighted to announce that, today, after years of discussion, g7 finance ministers have reached a historic agreement to reform the global tax system, to make it fit for the global this digital age but, crucially, to make sure that it's fair, so that the right companies pay the right tax in the right places. they agreed to the principle of a global minimum corporation tax of at least 15%, as well as rules to make the largest companies with profits of more than 10% pay more tax in the country where sales are made, notjust where they declare their profits. the us had initially wanted a higher minimum rate of 21%. we do hope that countries will be ambitious and the agreement

is at least 15%, so we have yet to set the final rate. the chancellor acknowledged that the deal would mean individual digital services tax, including the uk's, would have to go, but it is unclear when. the proposals must now go to the wider g20 group, including china, russia and brazil, then the rest of the world. the german finance minister hailed today as an important step, even if difficult conversations lay ahead with countries whose tax rates are below 15%. i'm sure that the decision that was made today is, will be very successful. this was a train that had already started and anyone canjoin a train. ireland has a 12.5% level of corporate tax. we will, even with an acknowledgement of the change that is coming, continue to have that kind of legitimate policies in place in ireland that deliver a competitive approach for ireland and allow us to grow

and retain employment. google and amazon have said they support the work being done to reform tax rules. so has facebook, which acknowledged it could end up paying more as a result. how transformative today's historic agreement will be depends on getting other nations on board and implementing reforms could take years. katy austin, bbc news. the former director—general of the world trade organisation — pascal lamy — who's currently president of the paris peace forum — gave us his view on the deal. i take it as a very important agreement. not that every detail is sorted out. there will be a lot of decisions to be made but it is in my view extremely important, for two reasons. one, because multinational

companies won't be able any more avoid paying taxes, and this is a step forward in global governance at a time when, as we know, multilateral global governance is not in good shape, so it is a good signal in this respect, and second because it is also the end of a sort of reagan— thatcher to do according to which government was too big and the good way was to encourage competition. this is the end of that era. whatever new political paradigms there will be in country x or y, the general view is that big multinational companies making the sort of profit they make, and notably in the digital sector, without paying taxes, it is something which has become

intolerable, and i think what we have been through with this covid crisis and the sort of problems we now have, for instance to finance vaccination in poorer countries, points exactly in the same direction. we need a larger level of fairness, if not solidarity, in a globalised economy which will remain globalised. let's speak now with christian hallum — oxfam international�*s senior tax specialist in copenhagen. thank you so much, i don't know if you heard pascal lamy, he said it is a step forward in global governance. do you agree? thank you. i think it is about high time that the world's most powerful economies try to make big corporations pay theirfair share of tax, but setting the minimum rate at 15% isjust share of tax, but setting the minimum rate at 15% is just far too low. it will really do little to

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catastrophic for global inequality. but the big tech companies themselves, some of them have admitted that they will now be paying more in tax. from your point of view that has to be a good thing? it is a good thing that more tax will be paid, a lot more could have been paid with a 21% or a 25% rate, but i think it is important —looking where the tax will be paid, and the g7 agreement right now is that the tax will be paid where the companies are headquartered, and that is mainly rich countries. so we will have a situation, if this deal is signed off by the g20, that a disproportionate share of the tax revenue will go to a few rich countries while developing countries and others will miss out on a lot of revenue, and that is why we are calling this deal unfair.- revenue, and that is why we are calling this deal unfair.

the head of nhs providers — which represents english trusts — says the decision on easing restrictions in england on the 21st ofjune is finely balanced. chris hopson warned that the delta variant — first discovered in india — is still spreading — but he said vaccines appear to be breaking the link between coronavirus cases and serious illness. our health correspondent naomi grimley reports. it's the big question of the summer. can hospitals still cope with the numbers of people who will fall seriously ill with covid—i9 before the full effects of mass vaccination are felt? hospital admissions are well below the levels we saw in winter. and today one of those representing health trusts appeared to strike an optimistic note. it does look as though the vaccines have kind of broken the chain between catching covid—i9 and potentially being very, very seriously ill and potentially dying. bolton is the area hit hardest by covid's more

transmissible delta variant, first discovered in india. looking at what's happening in hospitals is a gauge to whether the nhs in general will be able to cope. this graph shows the number of covid patients in bolton's hospitals over the last few months. you can see there are high peaks in november and again in january and february. in the last few weeks, the figures have been rising again but they are nothing like those earlier peaks. but new case numbers are rising noticeably as we mix more and some experts fear the delta variant could take hold in groups which haven't yet been fully vaccinated. more mutations could be incorporated into the delta variant that could mean that vaccines are less effective and that's really what we want to avoid. the worst case scenario for us is a variant that is both more transmissible and resistant to vaccination. opinions in the scientific community remains split.

perhaps the only thing everyone can agree on is that more data is needed. naomi grimley, bbc news. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. kurdish officials in northern iraq say at least three people have been killed in a turkish air strike on a camp for displaced people. the strike on the makhmour camp — housing kurdish refugees from turkey — comes three days after president recep tayyip erdogan warned that turkey would "clean up" the camp, which it claims provides a haven for kurdish militants. thousands of people have marched through budapest to protest against controversial plans to open a multi—million—dollar chinese university campus in the hungarian capital. they say the project will undercut the country's own higher education, and increase the influence of china's communist authorities. the right—wing government of viktor orban has close ties with beijing. the indian capital delhi has announced a gradual lifting of covid restrictions, weeks after being ravaged

by a second wave. markets and malls will partially reopen from monday. despite the move, officials are still warning the country to prepare for a third wave of coronavirus. the indian government says twitter has one last chance to comply with new information technology rules, which aim to make social media firms more accountable to legal requests for the removal of posts. the authorities want twitter to appoint a grievance officer in india to deal with complaints. the bbc's south asia editor, anbarasan ethirajan, explains why this is a complex issue for twitter. twitter has been battling with the government of prime minister narendra modi for the last three months regarding this. this was announced february one and the government gave three months for digital and social media companies to comply and it ended late last

month, but twitter says it has appointed a few people but the government in a statement has rejected those appointments saying they are not employees of the twitter company. why the government wants twitter to comply, the government believes sexual abuse, defamation and harassment are going on twitter and they need somebody answerable to the government and to the indian law so that these posts can be removed to protect the social order or when they are deaf tory. twitter is defending freedom of expression and empowering people to expression and empowering people to express their views and if they are not able to operate in india they will lose a lot of revenue because they're one of the fastest growing markets in the world. what they're one of the fastest growing markets in the world.— they're one of the fastest growing markets in the world. what role does twitter -la markets in the world. what role does twitter play in _ markets in the world. what role does twitter play in providing _ twitter play in providing information in india? like many other social _ information in india? like many other social media _ information in india? like many other social media platforms i information in india? like many. other social media platforms this has revolutionised the way people communicate with each other. for

example, during the protests in india which got international attention, many people are discussing the pros and cons of this form of protest and ultimately how the pandemic was handled by the government. there was a lot of discussion. many people particularly in the opposition parties believe a section of the indian media was more pro—government and they were not getting opportunities to express constructive criticism of the government and that is why people come to social media platforms like facebook and twitter, so some of the critics would say this is a government's attempts to stifle online criticism. on the other hand government would argue that these social media companies have become too huge and they are not responsible and we want to bring them under indian law. a us federaljudge has overturned california s 32—year old ban on assault weapons, calling it unconstitutional. he s given the state 30 days to appeal against his decision. california s governor condemned the ruling saying it was a direct threat to public safety.

ian ayres — professor of law at yale law school — explained what this ban means. this judge takes a very extreme view of the second amendment to the us constitution. the opinion begins with the strained thought that an assault weapon and an ak—47 is a perfect weapon for home defence, because the supreme court said that the right to bear arms is particularly strong at the home. and the opinion doesn't give enough weight, the reason for a state to want to deter mass shootings. the headlines on bbc news. in what's been hailed as a historic agreement — g7 finance ministers negotiate a deal on taxing multinational corporations. despite a recent increase in cases, the head of nhs providers — which represents health trusts in england — says coronavirus vaccines appears to have broken the link between cases and serious illness.

mexico is reeling from a surge of political violence. the country is seeing the largest midterm election in history but at least 89 politicians have been killed in recent months — 35 of them running for political office. the election will determine who controls the lower house of congress, 15 governorships, and hundreds of city halls. the violence is blamed on criminal gangs trying to gain political influence and candidates who want to intimidate their opponents. anne laurent reports from central mexico. viewers may find some of the images in this report upsetting. this was a mayoral candidate for a city in northern mexico. crime was a key issue of his campaign. a day after filming this message, he was shot to death while handing out flyers in the street.

this women was calling for supporters to join her at a political rally in central mexico. but a few minutes later, she was shot dead. microphone in hand. she left children and even grandchildren behind. these are just a few examples of the shocking levels of violence seen across the country. as mexico is heading towards its biggest mid—term elections in history, criminal gangs trying to gain political influence are often blamed for these attacks. running for office in mexico is a risky business. dozens of candidates have already been killed ahead of these elections and hundreds more are being threatened for staying in the race. a security camera caught the moment when this home was set on fire.

luckily, the man who lives there is not home that night. he is running as an independent to be a mayor in central mexico. since he started leading the polls, he has been subject to all sorts of threats. political violence has been going on for decades in mexico, but this year, the mexican government is finally admitting the problem and offering protection to those under threat.

suspicious of the government's plan, julio has declined the offer. i ask him if he is scared. after a moment of reflection, he breaks down. his fear is shared by so many candidates across the country, but most of them will not give up. ready to risk their lives to bring real change. anne laurent, bbc news, mexico. nigeria s attorney general has ordered the prosecution of offenders of the government s

ban on twitter. a spokesman from the ministry ofjustice clarified that any individual or company found tweeting could find themselves facing legal action. the nigerian government has suspended twitter in nigeria indefinitelyfor undermining nigeria's corporate existence. here s our correspondent mayenijones. on saturday morning, twitter users in nigeria woke up to find that they no longer had access to their accounts. that's using most mobile phone networks. on wi—fi, you could still access the website and the hashtag "thank god for vpn" has been trending, suggesting many users have managed to find a way to use the website by using virtual private networks. the nigerian government had announced on friday that it had planned to suspend all of twitter�*s activities in the country. at the time it was unclear what they meant by that. it seems they have now decided to block access to the website. telecoms companies that operate

in nigeria released a statement saying that they had received a directive from the government to suspend twitter and that they had complied, but they did say that they followed the united nations provisions on freedom of communication and that they agreed with those. twitter users in nigeria have been very angry. they say this is undemocratic. nigeria is africa's largest democracy and many see this as a step backwards for the country. many also pointing out to the fact that president buhari was a military dictator in this country in the �*80s and they see this latest move as a continuation of that legacy. twitter has issued a statement, as they say they are deeply concerned by the suspension of their services in nigeria and say they will work towards reinstating a service for its users here. there are about 150 million internet users in nigeria and according to the authorities here just over 60% of those use twitter, so it is a huge market

for the social media company. it will be really desperate to try and rebuild relationships with the government. for a little bit of context, this has happened because twitter deleted a post by president buhari earlier this week. they said it breached its rules in that post. many nigerian users flagged it because they felt it was a threat to a secessionist movement in the south—east of nigeria. kayaking more than 1,500 kilometres along one of europe's longest rivers to raise awareness of water pollution would be enough of a challenge for most adventurers. but what one intrepid hungarian couple surely couldn't have anticipated was getting blown off course when they spotted two rare white—tailed eagles — in difficulty. our budapest correspondent nick thorpe explains. i saw two very big wings in the middle of the river trying to fly away.

we have a rescue rope on the kayak and i used like a lasso. i threw onto one of the eagles and try to pull them. and i managed to separate them. kayaking up the river danube, a hungarian couple spotted two rare white eagles clasped together at risk of drowning. while he carried out the first one, i was trying to catch the second one. maybe it was younger. it was swimming in completely the other direction when i was trying to catch him. claudia and richie came up with a plan to rescue the second eagle. we used the two kayaks and cruised away in front of the eagle so he couldn't go in another direction, just on to the kayak. one wing on one kayak, the other wing on the other kayak, so it learned. but getting them back to shore wasn't easy. then they start to swim like a butterfly.

finally they got them both to safety. after rescuing the eagles, between bulgaria and romania, the couple continued their 2,850 kilometre journey upstream. from the delta on the black sea in romania to the black forest in germany. it will take them more than three months, from winter into summer. good morning, sunshine! why are you paddling up the river? both: why not? only a bad fish goes with the stream. the couple are trying to raise awareness of river pollution. i usually say that it is not the serbians' rubbish or the romanians' rubbish — it's our rubbish,

who has the danube in their country. so we are all responsible. nick thorpe, bbc news, by the danube. this is bbc news. we'll take a look at tomorrow's front pages at 10:30 and 11:30 this evening in the papers — our guests joining annita mcveigh are kieran andrews — political editor at the times scotland and maya goodfellow — political writer & academic. now it's time for a look at the weather with stav danaos. for many of us part one of the weekend has been fine and dry with plenty of sunshine around in big improvements across the south—east of england after the friday wash—out. plenty of sunshine and fair whether cloud but not sunny everywhere through the day and later

on cloudy skies thanks to a weather front in western scotland and northern ireland and the far south—west, courtesy of this new weather front arriving gradually as the day wore on. outbreaks of patchy rain this evening and overnight, into western areas initially and starting to spread eastwards into central, northern and southern england and wales. meanwhile it starts to dry up a little bit with clearer skies in western scotland and northern ireland by the end of the night and the far south—east will see clear skies with the temperature between 12—13. a ridge of high pressure across western areas but this weather front will be straddling central and eastern parts of a reversal of fortune with sunnier skies for sunday across scotland and northern ireland and increasingly western england and west wales. for the rest of england and east wales, cloudy thanks to the weather front with showery bursts of rain and heavy downpours likely to mix into that as well. more cloud

means it is cooler across england and wales, 19—21. northwest will have the best of the sunshine. out of sunday and into monday the weather front weakens leaving a legacy of cloud but high—pressure dominating, very light winds and a day of variable cloud and sunny spells but with the weak weather front likely to destabilise a little bit and we could see heavy showers across the eastern side of the country as the temperatures rise. the temperature reaching a high of around 19—20, 2122 in warm spots. through this week, high—pressure holds on across the south of the country, areas of low pressure skirt pasty northwestern may bring stronger winds, low cloud and showery rain particularly to parts of scotland and northern ireland, so cloudy and breezy across northern and western areas. the south is where you see the best of the

sunshine. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines... the g7 group of leading economies have reached what is described as an historic agreement to reform the global tax system. the deal includes a global minimum corporation tax of at least 15%. the indian government has issued a final notice to twitter to comply with its new information technology rules, which aim to make social media firms more accountable to legal requests for the removal of posts. a us federaljudge has overturned california s 32—year—old ban on assault weapons, calling it unconstitutional. california s governor has condemned the ruling saying it's a direct threat to public safety. and the first cruise ship to arrive in venice since the covid pandemic began has been greeted with local protesters waving banners reading "no big ships". they're concerned about the impact of cruise liners on the city's

fragile architecture and canals. now on bbc news, our world. six years ago, amsha escaped from captivity in northern iraq, after being held by is militants. today she is risking her life to clear her homeland of unexploded mines. in the summer of 2014, is militants swept across northern iraq. in sinjar, they would go on to commit a massacre, taking thousands of young women like amsha hostage.