this is g w news from berlin tonight to the tax bill that apple does not have to pay a european court today overruled a decision requiring the tech giant to pay $13000000000.00 euros in back taxes to ireland it's a major blow to efforts in the european union to crack down on sweetheart tax deals for big business also coming up tonight the disputed dam project that's generating a nigger instead of electricity we'll tell you how these a satellite images from ethiopia have both egypt and sudan outraged and

punished for speaking up for. she was put in prison for protesting the kremlin's crackdown on what it calls gay propaganda tonight she shares her story with us plus they are on call 247 to care for germany's elderly but many migrant health care workers are paid for just a fraction of that time one of them is now taking her employer to court. i'm off to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome it is a major win for the irish government the tech giant apple and companies that are looking to do business here in europe today a court struck down a decision by the european union that ordered apple to pay the irish government.

13000000000 euros in back taxes it was money that ireland did not even want or double and has long denied that its tax arrangements with apple amount to a legal state. european commission is expected to appeal the ruling to the european court of justice. the ruling hands of big legal victories apple the e.u. general court said the e.u. commission did not succeed in showing that the tech giant had received an illegal economic advantage in ireland over its low taxes the decision is a major blow to competition commission emigrates avesta has efforts to crack down on low tax regimes in the block the commission hooley behind steepled directive that all companies should pay their fair share of tax if member states gives certain multinational companies tax advantages not available to their rivals this harms further competition in the e.u. the e.u.

commission has 2 months time to decide if it wants to challenge the ruling in need use highest court the core of the problem is that the e.u. does not have one common tax code at the moment firms officially pay 12.5 percent corporate tax in ireland that's compared with the e.u. average of 21.3 percent officially companies in germany have to cough up at least 30 percent. that alone has attracted many companies to ireland and in fact apple paid far less tax at times for example as little as 0.005 percent in 2014 when the tech giant paid just 50 euros tax on every 1000000 euros in profit is the 2nd ruling that the e.u. commission has lost last year the institution lost a case against starbucks which was accused of owing $30000000.00 euros in back taxes to the netherlands it all shows how difficult it is to crackdown on cases of alleged corporate tax avoidance. and for more now on the big table by clifford

coonan from b.w. business everyone knows that ireland when you're talking about the european union ireland is the place to go for a low corporate tax rate so this decision where does it leave the european commission in its fight against tax avoidance when it's a major setback i think when we you know when we saw a couple years ago 4 years ago to have the unit initial findings we thought that it looked like it was going to pay the money back since another the european court is very definitely said. that it doesn't have to there's another stage in this we have to sort of counter and jews of thing where we have the irish government joining apple in defending it which seems strange but to think about its reputation. has tried to capitalize on this reputation as a low tax environment because it's a small country in a big block and it needs to find ways to compete within this block it doesn't have the manufacturing of germany or the. house to it has to find its way to compete with the irish government had demanded that back tax money you could have basically

said goodbye to future. deals headquarters being put you know i think so i mean i think that's that's why they were so they have to kind of go along with apple because otherwise you know no one's going to look at our land i mean it's an attractive investment place in many ways beyond the tax rate but the tax rate is definitely a big sweetener what do you think the repercussions are going to be across europe and i'm thinking about our lives next door neighbor. britain. i think this is very interesting after breakfast and is the only english speaking country left in the you really. going to malta and so i think a lot of people i think there's definitely has to be an element of to keep on and on side and keep it in the block it's going to have to be allowed to keep this tax regime even though the germans particularly hated the french don't like it on the has been pressured to change it but i think it's the kind of thing that they're going to they're going to allow are going to keep particularly as britain is most likely is very likely to try and compete with a. arlen's for low tax english speaking. for investment so if that's the

reality on the ground what does it mean then for this story because we know there's probably going to be an appeal so it's not the end of the affair it's not the end of the affair but unsee how the appeal goes but definitely it's a big setback also everything has changed because of the coronavirus you know i mean what was competition competition rules don't mean the same thing now we have the big lufthansa bailout there while ago that ryanair was an irish company was complaining about because they said that just as it is yet so i think it's going to be interesting to see how develops cliff including from the business cliff as always thank you. well it is africa's most disputed dam project and it is fueling tensions along the nile river between ethiopia and its neighbors new satellite images appear to show that ethiopia has started filling its grand a renaissance dam on the nile the move is likely to spark protests from egypt and

sudan which both depend on water from the river talks among the 3 countries ended in deadlock on tuesday egypt has now asked ethiopia for urgent clarification on whether or not it has indeed begun to fill the day it is these images that are likely to ankara ethiopia's neighbors downstream water has started filling up at the grand renaissance dam and on the river nile here and earlier image and now this both egypt and sudan depend on water from the nile and against the dam project. here's. is going to release this continue this with this 1st year of. and. presumably reach an agreement in the next few weeks when it sort of fell short of. the bill to continue the negotiations process. ethiopia says the giant hydroelectric project is critical for

the country to pull its nearly 110000000 citizens out of poverty and become a major power exporter in the region. egypt are already battling huge water shortages relies on the nile for more than 90 percent of its water supply. ethiopia and its neighbors have for years been engaged in tense negotiations over the dam earlier this week a new round of talks ended without an agreement though some observers are still optimistic that he is keeping. the rule in. ethiopia insists it's not actively filling up the dam but that the recent high water levels are just a result of the heavy seasonal rainfall. many in the region fear that filling up the dam without an agreement could push the countries involved to the brink of

military conflict. so here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the u.s. secretary of state might pump a says new sanctions against a russian gas pipeline project are in the works the same sions would penalize companies that help construct the nord stream to pipeline the trump administration says the pipeline which runs from russia to germany would make europe more dependent on russian energy iran says at least 7 ships have been damaged in the blaze that broke out at a shipyard in the southern port of them share there have been a string of unexplained fires and explosions at military nuclear and industrial sites across iran since late june. tunisia's prime minister fuck fuck has reportedly resigned after coming under pressure from the largest party in parliament the none department said that he'd lost credibility

since an alleged conflict of interest scandal. is unease as premiered since the 2011 arab spring and the only took office back in january. flooding is continuing to take its toll on northeastern india is a solemn state where than 2000000 people have been displaced there the floods also inundated most cars are wrong in national park which is home to rare rhino species and further downstream in neighboring bangladesh the monsoon rains have flooded one 3rd of the country more than a 1000000 people have been forced from their homes forecasters warn that major rivers are expected to rise further this week. officials say the flooding began in late june after heavy rains in the northern parts of bangladesh and neighboring india. the country's share of a 50 rivers while flooding takes place almost every year during the monsoon season

this years have been particularly bad the situation in bangladesh has become die off a many especially farmers who depend on their livestock. that's why. the flood water is constantly rising made their way neurotic cattle could go out we need a small boat to do so are we having problems with food to the cooking ovens have been flooded even our beds are under water. so get over the body the floods have destroyed crops and driven people in several impoverished regions from their homes well over a 1000000 people are on the move looking for safety. but. our home states have been flooded we had a small road out here but it got destroyed last night so we're trying to salvage all our crops like rice and corn and other goods. the country's flood forecasting

center has warned that the situation could worsen still with major rivers expected to rise even further in the coming days. where dozens of demonstrators in russia have been detained during a recent protest against changes to the country's constitution hundreds of protesters and gathered to collect signatures against the constitutional amendments which were passed earlier this month and when they began to march through the city center police moved in several journalists and the city council member are reported to be among those detained. now included in the constitutional amendments is one change that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman it's being seen as part of the kremlin's widening crackdown on the right. behind this barbed wire activists who've dared to publicly criticize the kremlin's policies. one of them is honest.

she spent 15 days in what's officially called special detention facility number 2 her crime protesting the trial of an l g b t activist the activist is charged with spreading homa sexual propaganda after publishing an image of gay couples accompanied by the subtitle family is where love is. in some cities people took to the streets to support the activist. anastos yes who was among them. that landed her behind bars. in the detention center i lay on the floor and cried i was desperate because the accusations against me were false but the arrest report says for instance that i took part in a mass protest with 50 people that ended in 5 30 pm. i was in fact alone and it

happened there an hour later the judge just ignores. you yet that's the joy of life as a block but there are many others like anastasio who have suffered from what seems to be openly arbitrary policing russia has been rocked for months by waves of intimidation of political critics but it doesn't seem to be doing the kremlin any harm in a referendum to change the constitution to allow president vladimir putin to potentially stay in office until 2036 passed overwhelmingly with an official 78 percent of votes. the results seem to have emboldened putin. here in moscow last week dozens of people protested in individual single person protests against the arrest of a journalist many ended up detained themselves. single

person protests did not require a police permit. yet human rights observers say that in the last 4 and a half weeks 270 russians have been arrested for demonstrating peacefully. this is the state's answer to the civil courage of a citizen exist who dare to resist restrictive and repressive measures citizens are showing their rage and the state oppressors them for it. all of this the silencing of political activists the jailing of government critics and of protesters is nothing new but what is striking is that such cases are becoming increasingly frequent again yet activists like i understand you have refused to let these repressive tactics shut them down. it is soon to say if we don't organize ourselves to have some influence over the situation she if we

don't decisively say no to anything i don't want to hear then nothing will change then we'll be stuck in prison cells again after our statements our posts are like some tweets. this week the police cracked down again with maximum force when protesters gathered outside a detention center in moscow. the search continues in germany's black forest for a man who held 4 police officers at gunpoint took their weapons and then escaped police say they've discovered a manifesto that may have been written by the 31 year old suspect on sunday after disarming the police officers the man fled into the woods near the southwestern town of open el paso bonds told police they saw a man wearing camouflage and carrying a bow and arrow. reportedly in blue croft is covering the manhunt for us in open now. the black forest in the southwestern corner of germany is known for its spooky

tales and now they have a true one since sunday hundreds of heavily armed police officers have been combing this wooded mountainous region for a local man they say is armed and dangerous that's after a routine encounter with him by 4 police officers in this small town of open l. ended with those officers handing over their service weapons when they said he pulled a pistol on them and they felt threatened and needed to deescalate the situation he said to have run off with their weapons and possibly some of his own into the nearby woods where he's been ever since investigators say he knows the woods very well it's like his 2nd home they call him a loner a social outcast and he himself is alleged to have written perhaps a manifesto that calls for an end to relying on technology and getting back in touch with nature in the woods around you now police are looking for him but they've so far come up with nothing and they say they'll keep on looking for him they have the patience and the resources to do it even as they say they're going to be reducing their visible presence and continuing to hunt in the background there

was william blue cross there reporting from the black forest caring for the elderly here in germany is a job that is done in large part with the help of migrant workers from eastern europe many of them are on call round the clock providing help and peace of mind to hundreds of thousands of elderly and their families but many caregivers say that they are being grossly underpaid for their work one bo garion caregiver has now taken her employer to court she alleges exploitation. coffee and cake in the afternoon a german tradition that reminds divina of the time she spent in berlin as a care worker back then she looked after an elderly german woman. i was on hand 24 hours a day. i got up when she was in pain and called out for me to change her bed

clothes or diaper. i didn't have any free time or days off. i worked the whole time. but i mean that. according to her work contract to a prenup was only meant to work 6 hours a day and was not on standby the rest of the time she's now the 1st eastern european care worker to sue for back pay but she's not the only one. but the women tell us and what happens all the time is that they don't have the courage to speak up because they're afraid they'll lose their job and they think they'll be put onto a kind of blacklist and won't be able to get a job in this industry again. the federation of trade unions is helping with the bring this court case. the agencies work in a way that gives them the lowest risk and the highest amount of flexibility. but in

the end it's the care workers who are the victims. the tongues. around 300000 elderly people in germany are looked after in their homes by care workers from eastern europe mostly from poland and romania and bulgaria placement agencies promised german families personnel who will be available around the clock to look after their relatives. we don't have enough caregivers and especially not registered caregivers there says it's who would be able to fill these extra $300000.00 jobs so we are dependent on the care workers from eastern europe to take care of the elderly there's no other way he mentions of . being there is now following the trial from bulgaria the labor court in berlin has already ruled on the lawsuit and ordered her former employer to pay her $42000.00 euros in back wages but the sentence was appealed the final decision is now pending. my message to my colleagues and all the others is you have

responsibilities but you also have rights that you should defend. the question now is whether other care workers will follow in her footsteps. it is a cautionary tale for countries debating whether or not to start school again on time south africa now has more than $300000.00 cases of the coronavirus that's the highest in africa schools in south africa reopened last month and since then several 1000 teachers and students have become infected with the virus now poor sanitary facilities have made many of south africa's schools a breeding ground for the virus d.w. correspondent adrian creech reports tonight from the city of durban. 'd at least other teachers toilets of the elementary school in kuan yew swell the woman started hasn't worked for years so the female teachers have always used the students

facilities which are also in a sorry state. i started working here. 25 years. this. is b.s. do you think that after 25 years i think. you're right. what i didn't see any change i didn't enjoy waking it's only that i like the slick i'd like to give now that's the only thing which prevents. it pushes. because i'd like to help there these poorly in us. for years she has pressed the ministry of education for support. if you believe her and said this you know my ex the horrible who. only 3 roofs were repaired last year and even then only partially

visiting teachers' union representative saying the roof is not watertight and the rainy season will soon be here critics say for years south africa has suffered from massive corruption and the awarding of government contracts there's no follow up there's no up call and they've been meeting for their weapon that is done in our institutions you just to give people to go there do it there where can then there's no one for crohn's there afterwards to change the way that everything was done according to their broker before they paid how would they paid if if their work is not finished because you can through that day there it's not finished trucks deliver water but not enough many tanks remain empty the union says it was irresponsible to open schools like this and with the rapid growth uncovered. 1000 cases only 2 age groups have begun classes so far but others are to follow and the

. the infrastructure of the school has been neglected for us at the moment there are only a few learners here but the teachers fear that if more learners return to school it will be impossible to follow social distancing rules. have been no cause but 19 cases in the school so far but many parents work just an hour's drive away. one of the country's coronavirus hot spots despite repeated requests we couldn't secure an interview either with the regional government or the federal ministry of education . tell me although once lessons to continue regardless of frustration and the pandemic. there is no future and how do you keep to protect it to those who are living in this country has made these the only thing that can help this is to go to school. despite the difficult

circumstances or war and his students are doing all they can to protect themselves from the coronavirus. there is a new statue in the british city of bristol tonight and it replaces the statue of a slave trader that was tore down just last month the new statute shows a black protester who helped the last months to tell topple the 1st statute now this new one appeared early on wednesday morning without permission from the city i. am moment that sparked a nationwide to pay supposed had to deal with britain's colonial past. the 17th century slave trader at work colston with pull down by pluck lives master protesters impressed on in june. and tackling the face. many of his victims thrown into the sea. the plane he once looked down from

now has a new occupant president chen read. the artworks inspired by a viral instagram post by reed and picturing her shortly after the coast and statue was toppled you know for me. you know i raise my fist and i raise my fist to give power back to the people back to the slaves who died at the hands of pollsters and titled a surge of power at the sculpture was installed without the local councils approval and intervention dreamed up by artists mark question you know we had to keep it secret because this is a really really clear this is a temporary installation it's not saying this is what should be on the plant it's a this conversation is in the public realm and i want this 3 part of the conversation. they hope the statue will inspire more action to tackle racism it's definitely a call snooze no more and it's time for change it's time to move on it's time to

the people to keep talking and educating themselves and i just think that's when i really important. bristow's mayor has now confirmed if and when the statue will be removed but he says the future of the plant must be decided in a process that includes everyone in the city even those who would have preferred that were colston to remain. you're watching news from berlin i'm burnt off after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day tonight is the u.s. president hijacking the planned them of the right that.

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