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well, you, me, the news . this is be dublin, you live from berlin, a landmark agreement at the g 7 that could have huge repercussions for big tech g. 7 leaders agree on a deal for global tax reform to make the world's biggest companies pay their fair share of taxes. what will other countries agree to the scheme also coming up by jerry, it says it's spending twitter indefinitely, accusing it of double standards. this comes after the social media giant removed a tweet from the country, the president, but not from a separatist leader. and plan to build an elite chinese university in
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budapest meet widespread resistance on gary and say it will only increase beijing's influence over their country. ah, ah, i'm told me all right, well welcome to the program. g 7 finance ministers meeting in london say they've reached a deal on global tax reform. the agreement is designed to close the loopholes used by some of the world's biggest companies to avoid paying tax. germany says it's quote, good news for justice and fiscal solidarity. but this will have implications for countries that like to attract companies with low corporate tax rates. large companies like google, facebook and amazon had been paying taxes in countries where they have headquarters
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. and they use locations with low tax rates like ireland. the strategy allows them to pay only a small percentage of their profits. the global minimum tax aims to change that. finance ministers from canada, france, italy, japan, britain, the u. s. and germany agreed to the proposal. german finance minister, last shots called the breakthrough a tax revolution. tax evasion will be more difficult for big companies all over the world. and this is a good message for the people of our country. and especially the big tech guy in giants where you have to pay their fair share. and this is also a good success. after years of negotiations, the agreement on a minimum global tax is historic. the rate is expected to be at least 15 percent amazon and google welcome the compromised by the g 7, finance ministers, a facebook spokesmen. so the company recognized the proposal and was prepared to
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pay more tax. the us treasury secretary played a key role in reaching a deal that global minimum checks within the race to the bottom, corporate taxation, and ensure fairness for the middle class and working people in the us and around the world. a recent study shows the global tax reform would allow that you to collect an additional $50000000000.00 euros and revenue each year. earlier, we spoke to alex cobham, the ceo of the tax justice network, and asked him why the g 7 announcement is so significant. it's significant because it's the richest countries in the world coming together to say, we've had enough of the corporate tax rates to the bottom. this, this process of a multinational play one country against another and find lower and lower tax rate until there's very little left for anyone else. as you heard in the clip there, that makes it unfair for domestics and small businesses,
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but can't come up with the same. can the tax tricks and end up paying a fresh themselves while these big multi nationals. they're competing against, simply not doing that. but i have to say, although we've got an important movement today, and a 15 percent minimum rate could raise as much as $275000000000.00 a year in additional revenues. the way the g 7 has done this is the opposite of the principle of furnace that you would just hearing about the g 7 countries, 10 percent of the world's population. would we estimate take more than 60 percent of those additional revenues just for themselves because they only see the proposal that they're working on is so egregiously unfair. that was alex cove. i'm ceo of the tax justice network. now let's take a look at some of the stories making news around the world. british tourists have been scrambling to get flight back home from portugal after the u. k announced a quarantine for passengers arriving from there. the rule takes effect on tuesday.
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portion was one of 13 countries placed on a green list last month. but recently, infections where have spiked turkeys, president red of type erwin, has pledged to clean up an unprecedented outbreak of slime that is covering the shores of dan bul marine expert. save the organic substance dubbed cease not is being fed by human waste and rising. see temperatures and said officials were searching for the source of the pollution 1st cruise ship to dock in venice and the thought of and then make his left the city. amid protests activists oppose the huge vessels that carry thousands of passengers at a time seeing they pose environmental and safety risks to the city for john lagoon . when the niger in government says it's suspending twitter indefinitely, 2 days ago, the social media platform removed
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a post from president mohammed harry that threatened to punish regional secessionist. the information ministry accused twitter of double standards in ignoring violent messages from a separatist leader. the issue of climate change, the nigerian government announced that was a ban somewhat. i want to click on twitter. it said it was taking action because of the quotes. persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining nigerian corporate existence and, and 12, they're not going to be for anybody connected to room. how do for the best of my ability to address michelle and julia, give me a 2nd. those 2 examples. his very 1st batch, the ban comes days off the twitter, remove the post from nigeria, president for homages. hurry to, to says in the tweet parties threatened to punish groups blamed for attacks on government buildings that violated the companies abusive behavior. policy. jury,
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as government accuses a platform of double standards, it says twitter has been indifferent about the tax on government and security facilities inside the country. it points to law is end saws and police brutality protests which were mostly organized on twitter platform where the people were born in positions. i'm going to police mean a junior, jody, and us for twitter. it was about the right to protest for what a similar to happened when the capital c became for action on the streets of leg off, there was a position to the towards the end. we are not in the true gym. we have great to freedom of speech and so we should be allowed to speak. we shall be allowed to l as usually would i be,
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don't treat our facebook whereby we should be allowed to do. that's my opinion is what i show me the job of our own and currently in the country goes all it's worth on god. let them know that what they do is so gone. tried to let him when i found out what have i be having in mind so far, one bit where the issue has defended its decision to remove behind the tweet the platform said the ban was deeply concerning and that it would be monitoring the situation and the partnership between beijing and budapest has angered hungarian taxpayers who will have to carry the nearly 1000000000 year of financial bud. and china is building a european campus of it's john guy based food on university. not only are going to pick up the tab, but no local trans contract us to work on the project. most hungarians oppose the plan and anger is growing against prime minister victor all been thousands have
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taken to the streets of the capital to protest a government corporation with a, with an authoritarian regime. earlier we spoke with our correspondent funding for a child, and she told us more about the concerns of those who oppose the project. the main concern is the financial gurdon estimated that this entire project is going to cost about 1800000000 euros paid by the hungarian or a china no one right now. currently, actually the, me or buddha, speaking quite us one. he was wrong against prime minister on and actually next year and he says many different things to be done. so this money is that people have gathered here, john, who are actually the few this policy to government disappointed because actually this project, the money the need is for affordable housing is going to be for the chinese project
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. but i also need to clear not against chinese people in hungary, but yeah, questioning the financial scope of this entire project that is putting them on the gear intact. and that's not. but again, hungering is one of the most corrupt countries in the european union research project, the government and people that are known to the opera lead of hungry. it's a no per dash away. money in columbia talks between the government and protest. leaders have reached deadlock. it's been 2 months since demonstrations began against the social and economic policies of president. even do k doesn't have been killed in clashes between protesters and security forces, while neither side has shown any willingness to back down on the report comes from the city of cali, one of columbia protest hotspots in the neighborhood of phil away in cali. people here a morning,
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a protester who died during clashes with police. the circumstances of his death are still unclear. this man was killed by the police with a rifle bullet, a young working man who left behind a 2 year old girl. he was 22. this can't go unpunished. to violence him kindly prompted the government to deploy the military to re establish orders a measure that further inflamed pension. through patrolling the free, i met with anger and abuse. the woman yelled, murderers, rapists. you are using weapons against the people. you see, i know there's so much band or the police are killing us and the army is killing us . but people in civilian clothes come to our neighbourhood and shoes, us out of the disappearing young people and go on this up. but if he and the whole, ah, columbia authorities dismissed the demonstrators at vandals,
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and to cry the destruction of public property and roadblocks, urban terrorism, county security secretary says he won't be deterred in clearing the streets and says his office is prepared to use deadly force. you see initial setup and surely if there are clashes during our attempts to unblock the roads and our offices are short as they will have the legitimate right to defend themselves. there are 3 cases when they can do so, when there's a threat to their lives, to their colleagues, live, or to the community. and according to our constitution, force can be used even lethal force. some local offices are trying to lower the temperature, the so called blue helmets, who are attached to the mayor's office, a monitoring human rights. ah, but in kylie, the spiral of violence continues. protesters are calling for police reforms. the
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immediate demilitarization of the city and justice for the victims of the violence to a craze that's bringing the art trade into the 21st century. a nun fungible token or f t is a kind of certificate of ownership for digital assets. it means viral videos means or tweets can be sold, like works of art. it's a lucrative business with some. and if she's fetching millions of euro's an auction, and now the one that kicks off the craze has just gone under the hammer. this is quantum. one of the works of art and sotheby's natively digital sale, while anyone can find a copy of quantum online, only the highest bidder can claim to actually own it. it's a milestone in the fast growing world of f t collecting. so i made quantum in 2014 and it's an artwork. that's an animation, a digital animation that made from,
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from code, from software that i wrote, the produced frames of that animation. and, but it's also the 1st art work that was put onto a block chain. most of the art works in this collection exist purely as data on a block chain, which is a secure database that keeps track of digital transactions. instead of a physical object, they can hang on the wall. winning bitters will receive a file for their money. if the idea of paying thousands, or even millions of dollars for virtual artwork seems strange to some, to others, it represents a natural evolution that if he's that we're bringing to the auction herself the 1st time are, are really, in my opinion, a reflection or further extension of, of art and less about focusing on the collectible nature of, of a digital token. and if there was any doubt, yes,
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