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two stories of people who ended up killing. women more photographers starting may third on t w. this is d w news live from berlin and the e.u. says internet giants need to pay their fair share it accuses companies like apple and google of the boarding taxes by reporting them in low tax countries and ministers say the answer is an internet tax that applies across the block also coming up a terminally ill british toddler at the heart of
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a legal battle has done alfie evans had a rare brain disease and judges agreed with doctors that life support should be withdrawn against his parents' wishes. and russia says it's floating nuclear power plant is key to opening up the arctic but as its maiden voyage begins environmentalists warn it could become a floating sure noble. i met her it is good to have you with us using the internet and europe could soon get more expensive for the european union says that online giants like amazon facebook google apple they have been paying their fair share the company's earned money across the block but they report their profits in the member states with the lowest tax rates the european commission favors
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a three percent tax across the bloc ministers are meeting in bulgaria to discuss that proposal. when journalists at this press conference in severe use google the company makes a profit in bulgaria the search engine though pays its taxes elsewhere usually where there aren't many to pay some say in tax havens anyone knows that it is more of a question that the biggest company is of more than tolerance i'm not really. contributing to the public duties we have to follow the digital giants are not being the same. if you want to explain that to the city's a. good look. google kills its european profits at its headquarters in ireland paid a fraction of its profits in tax there in twenty fourteen the european commission wants digital companies above
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a certain size to also have to pay tax where they make money smaller e.u. member states are skeptical. so it's quite complicated so we're on the cautious side there is only e.u. countries implemented and then this digital tax will have very little effect. but if the e.u. does impose the tax that could lead to further strain ties with the us with it expected to generate relatively low returns some of the blogs are asking if it's really worth it. we'll move on now to some other stories making news around the world thousands have taken to the streets pump lola and spain they are protesting after five men who are accused of raping a young woman at the twenty sixteen running of the bulls were convicted of the lesser crime of sexual abuse the case has sparked anger given increased reports of sex attacks at the event. archaeologists have uncovered a mass grave over one hundred forty children in peru dating back to the fifteenth
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century. on the scales and suggest the children were sacrificed along with hundreds of baby lama archaeologists say it may be the largest which will killing of children in history. the u.s. secretary of state my pompei o has arrived in saudi arabia it's the first stop of his middle east tour where he'll discuss the iran nuclear deal with leaders there this expected also to visit israel and jordan on this his first official trip as secretary of state. well the terminally ill british toddler at the heart of a long running legal battle has died in a hospital alfy evident evans said they had a rare brain disease which doctors said was incurable it's parents took the case to court after a children's hospital decided life support should be withdrawn against their wishes . a tiny boy a short life
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a big impact. these liverpudlians have come to pay their respects to alfie evans. he was less than two years old and suffering from a degenerative neurological condition. when doctors concluded no more could be done for him alfie's parents wrote a series of legal battles to keep him alive in the end the court agreed with the doctors they with your life support on monday now a heartbreaking announcement via facebook from alfie's father tom my gladiator laid out his shield and gained his wings at two thirty absolutely heartbroken. many of the tyler supporters believe the doctors gave up too easily. why didn't somebody do so completely. this corrupt. government full of for nothing. didn't do something. right.
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i think the whole of liverpool was saddened by the news this morning. by. really by the by the way today and the fact they wouldn't have to take the take the little boy. we come together. and i was just. so. obviously it's not. that we do support them as a city as. the case attracted international attention with the pope weighing in and inviting father to the vatican. i wish to repeat and strongly confirm that the only master of life from the beginning until the natural and is god. it is our duty. it is our duty to do everything to nurture life in.
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these case has sparked a fierce debate in the u.k. over who should make decisions for a child's health but for hundreds of people in liverpool on saturday it was time to come together and remember an all too short life. and for some more on this story charlotte children fill from the age of you newsdesk is joining me here in the studio charlotte there's been really unprecedented huge publicity about this case vocal support keeping for keeping alfie alive coming notably from the vatican but did that add to the debate yeah this really is a case that grabbed wild wide attention i mean this is every parent's worst nightmare first of all to find that your young son suffers from red to generative neurological condition and then to have to enjoy months of the go battles back and forth over whether or not life support can be withdrawn from him yes indeed the pope is one of those that's that's waded into this battle he's expressed his
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support on several occasions for the family and in fact he's twisted the smalling shortly afterward on the wealthy and at the last his fight the pope writes i'm deeply moved by the death of little alfie today i pray especially his parents has got the father receives him in his tend to embrace and i think it's important to sort of back at the role of the vatican and it's early in this fight is he in fact granted the citizenship meaning that he could then go to italy easier it is hope to find the easy way for him to to go to italy where a hospital linked to the vatican has said that it would allow him to remain on life support it was decided there not only in the u.k. courts but also by the european court of human rights that that wasn't fair on alfie it was thought that that was unfairly prolong his life and it was. added that the hospital could remove his life the well i mean by the same token there was a lot of unfairness by his family and their supporters about the decision to make
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to take him off of life support you kind of philistine about how this played out in the public but i'm sure you can imagine and nations have been running extremely high throughout the the months of the track to the legal battles throughout this case not only from the family have been very very vocal in the press issuing very emotive statements but also from the public as well i mean over the last couple of weeks we've seen protests outside the hospital on monday notably that several dozen people tried to storm the hospital they had to be reminded that there are there are a number of other sick children in this hospital and they were to keep calm in fact the situation became volatile of the press the police had to issue a statement after a lot of online abuse aimed at the hospital and stuff people to keep comes this really is a something that's that's got a lot of people in the public very upset there are those it has to be said he really come out in support of the hospital as well they've had to make an extremely difficult decision under
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a lot of public scrutiny and pressure and they've been those who few priests praised the way it was behaved right now briefly if you could this is the second time in his many years that a sort of you know sick child saga has rocked britain and really the world to think that any changes in how they do the n.h.s. or others might deal with such situations could become i think because your friend who is is charlie god he was an eleven month eleven month old boy who his parents were trying to send him to america for new experimental treatments to deal with with his illness it was decided that he will say wouldn't be sent abroad that was despite again intervention from the vatican the parents generally in the u.k. their rights to make decisions for their children are protected in law having said that though if that comes into conflict with what the hospitals believe if they think that the parents are making the wrong decision not in the interest of the child it can then. the courts the courts have the final say on what's best for that child as painful as it is i think it's likely that we've seen it once with nothing
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at twice that that is is going to remain the case right charlotte children pill thanks for he's up to speed on what has been a very difficult last few weeks. well russia has launched a conversion controversial floating nuclear power plant which it says is the first of its kind it's been under construction for years in st petersburg but now it's headed to the arctic sea where russia needs vast amounts of electricity to tap the rich deposits of oil and gas in the region around the north pole. russia's floating nuclear power plant makes its way out to sea and development since two thousand and seven the academic lemond us off cost around a half a billion euros it's builders say it's safe. this power plant incorporates all of the best features of traditional nuclear plants it's protected from all kinds of natural and technical dangers. the ship is said to play
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a key role in russia's plans to develop the arctic it will supply the last amounts of electricity and warmth to far flung locations and to power oil refineries and desalination plants. environmentalists warn of the potential dangers greenpeace has dubbed it a floating sure noble. its maiden voyage takes it around scandinavia to reach months in russia's far north that's where its nuclear reactors will be fueled late next month. next year the vessel will travel ten thousand kilometers across the arctic to pay that in severe e.-m. it will provide power to the remote mining town and to oil rigs for now the ship is one of a kind but russia says fifteen other countries are showing interest in the technology . one of the bundestag is biggest clubs is heading to the second division next season cologne needed to win their remaining games and hope for other results to
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break their way and that didn't happen the billy goats lost to fribourg on saturday three to cementing their fate as the first team to be relegated. that was look at all the beautifully action so far on match day thirty two thanks lost to stuttgart in saturday's late game emberg boosted their chances for survival by beating. result by a munich whips frankfurt had to rely on came back to draw with outs for as did show . and. try to not have. an of or and coming up on sunday might be sick and braman battle dortmund so what does that all mean for the table well for now it means that often i have taken the fourth champions league spot away from leverkusen but it is still very much up for grabs down the bottom half fribourg took a very big step towards safety the same goes for hamburg they still got some work
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to do but making it only a two point gap is pretty big for them alone they are already down as you know. well jury top film prize has gone to any film about celebrity actress romy schneider. three days into their own picked up a total of seven will it show who's at the world ceremony for men including prize for best film best actress best director for the focus is on a candid interview she gave to a magazine reporter all undergoing rehab shortly before her death in one thousand to. painting purchased by twenty five thousand online virus has been put on display in a swiss museum it is the first major work of art to be owned collectively by an online community the owners of picasso's musketeer bust paid about sixty five euros each in return they can always at the painting at the geneva modern art
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museum for free all the owners are listed next to the painting. all right meanwhile masterpiece of art once considered obscene and is reclining nude by the italian artist jani it's not a world record for its pre-sale estimate or an auction salty's auction house expects it to sell for one hundred fifty million dollars in new york next month but maybe affects even more. that's all from us here in berlin for coming out to. see if you. learn german with. any time any place.
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