the news news alive from berlin. a breakthrough on global tax reform. wealthy nations agree on a minimum corporate tax rate of 15 percent targeting tech giant to do business worldwide . avoid paying taxes by setting up shop in territory with lower rates. coming up in the shop. nato and you praying to wrap up 2 weeks of warden in the black schemes intended as a shot of cross about of an increasingly assertive russia and haiti appeals for help over the killing of its president. the government wants

international troops, the guard of vital national infrastructure. ah hello, i am claire richards been a very warm welcome to the show. finance ministers meeting in italy have agreed on a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15 percent deal aims to stop countries sending low taxes to attract investment from multi nationals, especially tech giants who do business worldwide. the new umbrella tax could be enforced within 2 years. historic setting for a historic deal. finance ministers from the g 20 member countries came together in venice, including china, the u. s. and germany. the group represents the world's largest economies and now has a common goal to set a minimum tax rate for companies of at least 15 percent the minimum

fixation, real great advantage for democracy and for the whole family station . and it will give us a chance to do and erase to the now, just after we are fighting against corporate 19 and we are taking a lot of step to fight against the house crisis to fight against economic crisis is absolutely necessary that we take this and i'm really, really happy that we are, that every major economy already wants the multinational corporations to pay a fair share of tax. take amazon, for example. business boom, during the pandemic last year in germany alone at thought 33 percent rise and sales . but the online giant has not paid any corporate tax. that's because it pays taxes for all of a european business in the low tax country luxembourg. i'm not so amazon

shit much of the profit it makes in germany to knock somebody where it pays less than 15 percent in tax from luxemburg, the profits then go to the usa. if a minimum tax rate comes in now, amazon would have to pay 15 percent in germany, 15 percent in luxembourg, and at least 15 percent in the u. s. but german corporations, like car manufacturers, will also have to pay taxes wherever they do business going forward. the european union wants a similar tax treaty across the whole you, but so far ireland hungry and donia are resisting. it's an enjoy now by v. w baron to rigor who is covering the g 20 meeting for us in venice. and to global tax reform has been under negotiation for years. how have they found the political will to strike this agreement now?

while the pen democrats actually, because all g 20 countries need money to pay the costs of the pandemic and the aftermath. and there was also a window of opportunity now because the new administration in the u. s. is supporting this. you will text ideas and janet young, the new minister of finance minister as was the driving force behind this effort. and also the countries have decided that they need a new system for the digital age to get hold of the internet companies. and so for someone who is watching from home, can you help us understand a little better? what the actual implications of this reform will be? well, big companies, with a turnover of more than 20000000000 years a year, which are highly profitable. they will not be able to shift around revenues anymore and to avoid texas,

they have to pay more taxes. and now the estimate that 150000000000 euros will be more in the coffers of the finance businesses. and on the other hand, there will be a minimum tax for many, many companies, whichever turn over over $750000000.00 euros. and this would apply to hundreds and thousands of companies. and it has to be paid in every country so that you can avoid it any more. the business model of tax havens is gone. i wanted to ask you about that because certainly more money in some state coffers. but what does this mean for developing countries that have until now benefited from attracting more investments with those low taxes? these countries have to come up with other means than texas to attract businesses and some cough outs in this, in this deal. and also some things you can do, you can substitute companies, you can give them other tax benefits. but over all the business model, as we know it from taxation is over and it almost all tech savings subscribed to

this plan. the only a few holdouts d w as a bench reader reporting for us from venice. thank you so much. nato and ukraine are wrapping up 2 weeks of military exercises in the black sea. the war games involve a $5000.00 troops, plus a dozens of ships and aircraft. commanders aim it to signal the strength of the alliance to an increasingly assertive russia. well dw correspondent nick connelly has been on board the u. s. destroyer ross and he sent us this report on operation fi brief, from the ukrainian port of odessa russian ships shuddering the u. s. s. ross and its allied vessels and just a few kilometers in distance here in international waters of the black sea. joint us ukrainian excise is nothing new, but this year is far from normal off the rushes unprecedented troop build up friends, borders, potential conflicts,

the russian forces precisely what the sailors. a training for is very definitely not something the u. s. navy wants to talk about crew members scrupulously avoid talking about russia, even though much of their time spent monitoring russian activity around them. i don't sense that this is any different than any other exercise that we do or that we've done in the past. how far away from the nearest question right now, about 2 to 3 minus what we have seen is russian fighter jets operating in international airspace. much in the same way that we've seen seabreeze participants operating in international airspace or russian jet, making it the presence felt or minds or if anyone needed that the united states insistence and freedom of access to international waters isn't an argument the cut and the ice in moscow, which views the black sea expect yard and has complained of, quote, provocative muscle flexing with $5000.00 troops, participating on land and on. see the u. s. ukrainian lead exercises may have been

the biggest ever, but they still easily dwarfed by exercises. russia holds in this part of the world and building tens of thousands of participants down spoken message behind these war games is ukraine won't be left alone for this on predictable neighbor, russia. but what exactly happens when these foreign ships returned home with nature membership ukraine? no closer to becoming a reality, and the formal security guarantees given ukrainians still have many good reasons to worry about their country's security. let's turn our attention now to some of the other stories that are making headlines at this. our workers have begun to taking down the last of the fencing around the us capital 6 months after the invasion by supporters of the former president and donald trump. 5 people died in the rioting in january. the barriers will take 3 days to remove it is getting hotter in spain, temperatures in seville, sword to a $44.00 degrees celsius. bending tourists starting for shade and to cool off in

fountain weather experts say the heat wave is down to hot air. crossing the mediterranean from africa, parents and nigeria has held a for over a 120 students kidnapped from their school. gunmen rated the school in kaduna state, killing 2 security guards in the process. its the latest in a series of school abductions in nigeria. well, haiti is asking the us and the united nations to send in troops following the assassination of its president, jo vanelle, louise, the infirm, government wants help guarding key national infrastructure. lisa captured 17 suspects and killed 3 others. former columbia soldiers are among those who have been detained. a suspects are still on the run. my lease was assassinated in his home in the capital court open for bringing a journalist on a rosa shone,

who joined us from near the haitian capital for more. thank you so much for joining us. first i wanted to ask you from where you stand, how has the situation of vol since the presidents assassination? well, there have been, as you said before, several people have been arrested 17 and told them to hasten americans. and 16 colombians and the number of how many have been killed is a little get should because it goes from 3 to 7. and the police is announcing that some at large, however, there are more and more voices coming out from everywhere saying that it seems a little bit more complicated than the scenario that has been painted in the beginning. so it looks like that maybe there is a little bit more to the assassination than it seemed in the, in the beginning. and what is the latest on that?

what have we learned from the investigations into who is responsible and how it may be a more complicated picture than previously thought? well, the government and the police is still insisting it was the common mercenaries. now the families of the same people in columbia saying that no, that have been contracted to support the national police and not the honest to kill a president. and the colombian government is sending investigation team in order to help the patient to find out more what really has happened. okay, now on friday, we know that a group of law makers recognize the head of heating, dismantled, senate just f. lambert as a provisional president, and that is of course, a direct challenge to the interim government. what can you tell us about what appears to be a brewing power struggle it is like, oh, if there is a power vacuum and everybody wants to become a president, you know,

you have the senate. there are 10 members of the senate that are still there. 8 of the 10 members have signed this resolution to have them sign this and the release and present them. i mean, quote unquote, mr. lumber has also said that his prime minister would be the prime minister that has been nominated by the former president, mr. so that he is supposed to be sworn in between this afternoon and tomorrow. now it depends on the negotiations on the ground, but it looks like dr. close the doctors. joseph is still hanging, being there, he personally recognized everybody to be the problem. and so you would say that he then has a broad swath of support as a legitimate leader of haiti at this point. for the time being,

it looks like it's ok. base journalist, i know rosa shown. thank you so much for joining us with that update. let's turn our attention to tennis now and australia is ashley barty has won her 1st wimbledon title by beating kara lean up, switched over in the women's singles final the world number one followed up her when at the french open in 2019 with a 3 set victory, we're more than triumphant. feels a remarkable come back from a party. she wasn't sure she would be fit enough to compete in this year's grand slam. and a u. s. that he has taken down a civil war monument at the center of a violent rally. 4 years ago, community leaders hope removing the statue of the controversial confederate commander will help and decades of anguish. for years, the city of solid fool, virginia has been pushing to remove this statue of the confederate general robert, leave the city finally want

a long legal battle and people are glad to see the back of the figure on horseback . the finally ready to be a community that doesn't telegraph to our public arts that we are pretty fine with just the wash of the whole gamut over most just happened to the lation, but sadness as to what it took him to get up to the field of georgia, the 1st almost 4 years ago, these images went around the world, white nationalist, and rightly extremists came to charlottesville, to protest plan, to remove the statue. a 32 year old woman was killed when a car drove into a crowd of anti races protesters. it was they on a brian to get the ball rolling to remove the statue and she was still a high school student. so the young people out there, i hope that this empowered you to speak up on the issues that matter is it take

charge in your own cities and communities, no platform for white supremacy, no platform rates for racism and no platform for hate. now the statue and another of the civil war confederates will be put in storage until the city council decides what to do with them. i felt for now, bye bye me how many portions of turn out in the world climate conference stores. this is much less the way from just one week how much less can really get we still have time to act. i'm doing all.