this is g.w. news live from berlin tonight making internet companies pay more friends becomes the 1st european company country rather to slap a tax on tech and washington does not like it saying american companies will be unfairly targeted the white house is threatening to impose retaliatory tariffs on french goods also coming up tonight a powerful storm devastates greece's northern coastal areas leaving 7 people dead and dozens injured and britain says

a royal navy frigate has driven off arabian boats trying to intercept a british oil tanker but iran denies that there was any confrontation. i bring coffee it's good to have you with us france has defined pressure from the united states and passed a law of taxing many of the world's biggest internet companies the changes voted through by the french parliament and faced heavy criticism from the white house president donald trump has ordered an investigation saying that the tax unfairly targets american companies. big technology companies like google amazon and facebook operating in france will soon be paying more tax france's senate has approved a 3 percent tax on tech companies doing business there the aim is to plug

a taxation gap that allowed some internet heavyweights to avoid tax in countries where they make their profits and to book their income in low tax countries like ireland it's estimated the livy could net france $400000000.00 euros this year and 650000000 next year before the vote french finance minister spoke out against the growing power of big check. start. before we can all see the emergence of economic giants with monopolistic attributes who not only want to control a maximum amount of data and make money with this data but also to go further than that by in the absence of rules avoiding taxes and putting into place instruments that could tomorrow become a sovereign currency. deployed dumont home would have formed when it's one. but even before the legislation was through us president donald trump had ordered

an investigation the us warned that if the law passed it would activate section 301 of the u.s. trade act that authorizes retaliation against a foreign government whose trade policies or practices deemed unjustified unreasonable or discriminatory or that they restrict u.s. commerce france is the 1st major economy to impose a tax on big tech but other e.u. countries including austria britain spain and italy have also announced plans for digital taxes. for jails here from b.w. business now the talk more about this new tech tax do we know why did france go it alone here you would think that this type of tax would come at the european union level well it has to be said that the european union did try to introduce digital taxation standards that would apply across the block but that fell down due to opposition from countries like ireland which does depend on favorable tax regimes

to attract a big company and we also can't forget that france is facing its own kind of situation domestically it's under pressure to show policies that are tougher on the wealthy amidst this bigger wave of economic this enchantment going on there so it's going out not alone but perhaps as the 1st country to do so which is a definite risk for france it's kind of painted a target on its back in this way it's hoping to see. her action on the multilateral level it had said that it would scrap this tax if international standards are agreed on the o.e.c.d. level of the o.e.c.d. of course being the south club of rich countries that's also hoping the countries that said they would impose similar measures like italy spain the u.k. austria that they hurry up and do so if this turns into a fight with the u.s. then france could definitely use some allies so it comes at a time when we have these trade terror of conflicts going on with the u.s. with with europe the u.s. with china and now we've got the united states looking at this tech tax and saying

we may have the retaliates what can the u.s. do indeed now we've already heard that they are launching that probe to see whether american tech companies are being unfairly disadvantaged by this new law and it's interesting to see if they're using the same legal basis that underpins the trade war between the u.s. and china the famous section 31 of the trade act now france for its part has said that. if they're going to see that of course they don't want to see retaliatory measures from the u.s. they've argued that taxation is a sovereign matter and it's called on the u.s. to settle this dispute with france in a matter the fitting of their relationship as allies but of course this is also coming at a time that you said where the u.s. is also considering other tariffs on other parts of the european industry save the auto industry and this would open up a further another. on the battlefield as you intimated this earlier there really aren't any tech solutions standards when we're talking about the

internet economy right so france is it's just going it alone i mean you can always were pioneers here because there are new standards anywhere indeed well there is a widespread consensus that something has to be done that cross border attacks asian that the way it is now hasn't just kept up with the times that these companies don't pay taxes where their profits are which is everywhere. and instead pay taxes where their headquarter that's happening because the system allows them to do so and the european commission has recognised for example that average traditional businesses in that they face a 23 percent tax rate versus an 8 or 9 percent tax rate for these tech companies some get away with paying nothing at all and you know that's all coming at a time where they're raking in so much money out $60000000000.00 last year that so many agree something has to be done and something will be done that's just that france has been the 1st to get its from the door and i have a feeling we haven't heard the last of this that's for sure jamil as always thank you art was going to greece at least 7 people have died after

a powerful storm battered the north of the country violent weather in how he became also injured scores more and toppled trees and power pylons the storm followed intense heat in greece with temperatures soaring to 37 degrees celsius before the weather broke with disastrous consequences. that catastrophe the greeks gave us the word that describes best what befell they country last night. it was a terrifying evening as a huge storm front swept through we churn ing and over 100 kilometers per hour and hail pounding eastern parts of the countries by india gene called slide. but no put it when they were not even canon is make that much noise. with i didn't

have clothes on but when i came out to get the kids and does the rain fell it was like rocks were hitting my back. in the morning after that not. this holiday resort. is in ruins. to remind you tourists died he lost not in a beachside which was torn to pieces. dinner is still on the table or a mind to how sudden the song slow it was. born yes i met everyone inside was screaming it was chaos a friend of my brother was winded from head to toe because the bar fell on him there was glass flying to the air from the windows somebody is. at 1000 kilometers away this time on italy's ace coast super cells from the same intense front pool through to nearly 20 people were injured as the sea surged into pesky home to one

of the biggest ports on the i dread ticks a. beautiful italy is now back to italy as emergency services clean up after the summit deluge. also i just saw your stream weather events like those in italy and greece will become more frequent because of global warming now the european union has decided to put climate change at the top of its agenda for the next 6 months finland has just assumed the e.u. use 6 month rotating presidency the finnish prime minister believes that the european union should provide global leadership on this issue he says it's important to take the demands of europe's young people seriously. 16 year old spent many fridays travelling 2 hours each way to protest at the finnish parliament holding signs pleading for climate action the climate itself

wasn't too cooperative as he stood there through the winter it's really horrible in front of the it's always good to be running some snow or snow or ice and most of the politicians say just go by and don't even look at us. or say hello and some even come to us but says it was all worth it as prime minister until when one has declared solving the climate crisis should be europe's next heroic act at the very least it's the top priority for the finnish e.u. presidency he has credited the youth climate strikers for inspiration got to thank him in person and vice versa i really. have listened to offer young people have listened and i need to listen more yeah. for a back up and appointed green politician pick the harvester as foreign minister to press the message in the foreign policy arena already overflowing with wars nuclear

threats and humanitarian disasters harvester knows it will be difficult despite the government. and it's a climate and i stand by or like that it's the ecology that the silence around that they can you can hear the silence in the way that it's. so surprising but harvesters says it's the activists to whom he feels responsible they are pushing us and they think that our awards on the basis enough but i think it's good we need the civil society as a place to put it this helsinki is determined not to be a hypocrite it's maximizing sustainability minimising everything else meetings will all be held in the capital there will be no bottled water mostly plant based meals and e.u. bureaucrats travelling to finish meetings will receive a unique gift half a 1000000 euros worth of air emission offsets spent on projects in developing countries and yet lycee head of the presidency secretariat says the finnish way is

not to lecture but to lead by example we want to be practical and what we promise we want to keep. says whatever finland achieves is great but it's so much more is needed he'll be protesting outside the e.u. meetings rain or shine or sleet or snow. well here's a look at some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world in eastern sicily massive wildfires have sent beachgoer scrambling into the water there's been no immediate reports of casualties several blazes have broken out around sicily in recent days spurred on in part by high temperatures and hot winds from northern africa there's been a huge blaze at a gas fired power station just outside of moscow at least one person is dead 13 people have been injured firefighters have now put out the fire these flames

reached we understand up to 50 meters russian media say the calls may have been an explosion. 2 car bombs exploded thursday in benghazi killing 4 people and wounding 33 others it happened several libyan national army officers gathered for the funeral of a high ranking general libya has 2 competing governments and the struggle for control has escalated into more violence in recent months. well tonight germany's domestic intelligence agency says that it is stepping up its surveillance of the far right i did to terri a movement which it accuses of targeting immigrants and refugees especially muslims the group is believed to have around 600 members here in germany after 2 years of investigation intelligence officials say the identity of movement is now officially classified as quote an extreme right movement.

are let's bring in the political correspondent simon young's i mean you have covered far right extremist movements here in this country for years let's talk about the german i did to tear ians who are they what do they stand for you know the i did it terry and they see themselves as a sort of path youth movement and the the sort of young face of far right thinking so we're not talking about the old school. nazis with skinheads in heavy boots marching in the streets these are people with a sort of theoretical idea behind what they saying and they haven't tended to get involved in in violence what they have done is that quite a lot of rather successful media stunts for instance in 2016 they combed on top of the brandenburg gate here in berlin and around rolled some some banners and that obviously got some attention those are the pictures the. 2017 they

even had a shave sailing in the mediterranean saying that it was picking up migrants trying to return them to the countries where they come from sort of protesting against people smuggling is they said so they talk about returning migrants to their home countries about different defending europe as they put it against multiculturalism which they describe as a betrayal and so even though they're not a huge group only about 600 according to the author. he's been investigating them they have been able to create some headlines i mean there aren't that many of them $600.00 and they've been around for about a decade so why are they now coming under scrutiny if they've been operating in germany officially since 2012 in the office for the protection of the constitution has been they say essentially the domestic security service has been looking into them for the last 2 or 3 years and of course it's necessary to observe their activities see what they're saying see who this baking to who's listening to them

to understand how dangerous they could be and indeed collect evidence that would stand up in cool because it's very likely that there will be a protest against this against this move by the intelligence or thoughts is so they've they've now come out and said that what these people want is not compatible with germany's constitution and they essentially involves not treating people with respect and dignity as required under the constitution and what does it mean when the domestic intelligence service in germany says you are being surveyed and you're under observation what happens well i mean up to now they've been under observation but they could obviously now be subject to more intense surveillance measures and that would even include telephone or competes surveillance that would probably require the agreement of a judge or a court in some form but nonetheless these things could be done and the deed if it

continues if the problems continue then ultimately this group could face a band down the track or indeed the measures could be taken away again if they decide to sort of cool their boots and not be so offensive in public you know we've reported on so many groups there's the piggy the movement there are political parties the alternative for germany there's the impede the there are lots of groups that were i guess you would sort classify as being far right so how would the i did . terry and how do they fit in to this spectrum if you will well i think they're part of the scene but they've been clever enough to keep it on slings so there are no direct links between the event terry ends for instance and the a f t t the far right political party we have here in palm and now indeed the f.d.a. have said if you're a member of the advanced havens that you can't join the f.t. but there have been several cases where it's been obvious that they all sympathies

you did get it into terri and turning up to a if the rallies and you know supporting people on a personal basis so they're all links informal links if you like but these guys have very clear and careful to make sure that they they can't be attacked they don't want to get on the wrong side of the law well now they're going to have more difficulty in staying on the right side and they do have their own luggage so it's easy to spot as well so i'm young as always thank you for britain says that 3 iranian boats attempted to intercept a british oil tanker near the persian gulf yesterday but they say they were driven off by a royal navy frigate iran has denied that its vessels tried to stop the tanker in the strait of hormuz saying its boats were carrying out routine duties. the strait of hormuz one of the world's busiest shipping lanes through which a 3rd of the world's seaborne oil passes iran's navy is an active presence here.

the narrowest point in the strait is only 40 kilometers wide the british ministry of defense said the incident took place near the island of. it says this for get turned away raining speedboats stuff are threatening the british oil tanker the u.k. foreign minister has responded by calling for calm obviously very concerning developments but also very proud of the royal navy and the role that they played in keeping british assets british shipping safe we are continuing to monitor the situation very very carefully the fear is that this latest incident will escalation becomes days after british authorities seized an iranian tanker off gibraltar claiming it was violating sanctions by delivering oil to syria earlier this week iran also started enriching uranium beyond the limits set down the 2050 nuclear deal it signed with international powers iran says the confrontation never happened

it's foreign minister mohammed serif has called a british accusations worthless iran's farce news agency quote sorry for saying they are seeking to cover up their weaknesses with such claims as tensions in the gulf simmer diplomats are scrambling to keep the nuclear deal from on ruffling completely. i joining me now here at the big table is marcus com he's from the german is to toot for international and security failures it's good to see you again marcos let's talk to you we've been observing growing tensions here in the gulf for weeks now it is the situation between iran and iran were iran in the u.k. is that what's escalating or is it iran in the west that we're seeing escalate now i would see the west around as a major player is escalating already and we've seen a continuous escalation for the last couple of weeks it's a strategy as

a magic wall for. raining on the threshold of the united billet t. be denied to be involved another time if team to play the ball 2 weeks ago so all they intend to spread the instability and insecurity here and try to target u.s. interests or western interests that you know they claim that the reports by the royal navy or an example of fake news for example we heard today from the foreign secretary in the u.k. mr han calling for dean escalation but the ukase potential new prime minister boris johnson i'm sure you've heard of him he chose a slightly more aggressive stand today take a listen well i think it's very important that all vessels u.k. flag or otherwise are able to use international waters in the in the persian gulf elsewhere with the with perfect security and of course where i could be that should be taking immediate advice about what extra steps we might need to protect u.k.

vessels. extra steps so what is he trying to signal here are we looking at britain's next prime minister saying he's ready to escalate the situation with iran and dumping so he might be considering measures like protecting by international falls the tank of the. best holds in general in the persian gulf as we have seen images of the us war exactly as we have seen in the ads and $70980.00 s. during the iraq iran war were both pretty effective cost a lot of money it costs a lot of effort however it was. very effective tool to protect international malta ways but it would go run counter to the us interests in the persian persian gulf because you the current president has run on a compelling arguing that he would withdraw all of this right the united states and the military terms on the arab persian gulf when you look at the u.k.

it is it seems to be stuck in a very uncomfortable position you know it's got the tensions right now over these tankers with iran at the same time it's a member of one of the signatories to the nuclear deal with iran is trying to save that deal with iran how much longer do you think london can afford to play both sides i don't think that it can afford any longer to play both sides and it's clear that mean we have seen iran sending signals to the west and maybe even in the nothing from the united kingdom to iran iran is trying to put pressure on the remaining signatories in particular to 3 of my remaining european signatories throughout u.k. france and germany and now it runs exactly the opposite interesting thing is if it works but to be honest and i really hate to say i think the deal is small is that what has come as always we appreciate you coming in to give us your insights thank

you thank you. arts and sports news now in cycling dylan tunes has claimed his 1st ever victory of the tour de france winning stage 6 the belgian rider road to victory after a grueling climb from one house to the plunged a bit see it that despite finishing 2nd italy's you only o. sses only snatched the yellow jersey off france's yulian leap this just ahead of the longest stage in this year's competition which takes place on friday to disney's nails arena williams has reached the final of wimbledon's women's tournament after beating barbara sirico 7 time champion williams won the match in straight sets williams will face simona halep for the trophy after she beat elena xit alina 6163 elop is the 1st romanian woman to reach the wimbledon final in the men's tournament of this is interesting a new chapter in one of sport's biggest rivalries will play out on friday between

roger federer and rafael nadal they want to meet in the semifinal it's the 1st time the 2 most successful male players of all time have met at wimbledon since 2008 and with both players now well into their thirty's it could be one of their last encounters at a grand slam. graf and aus match up with his prey drive will be the 4th time he has met this 1st masters at wimbledon. this response to not out on perrie's in play last month that grass this of course a different matter this response that has won wimbledon 8 times he also holds a slight to one edge over night down on grass surface says. the mutual respect is built on more than a decade of direct competition federer has 2 more grand slam titles than the spaniard but not dollar has a significantly better had to hit record the left hander with

a 9 match eat when using an ass 10 meetings as a guide this scale is even. arguably the sport's greatest ever rivalry episode 40 of roger versus rafa off as a place in the wimbledon final. the fact that federer is now 37 years old means this splash is one to relish. and don't forget you can always get the w. news on the go just download our app from google play or from the apple store that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news you can also use that he doesn't you have to send us the photos and videos when you see news happening. here's a reminder the top story that we're following for you britain says a royal navy frigate has driven off iranian boats that trying to intercept a british oil tanker in the persian gulf iran has denied that any confrontation

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