tonight's live from paris with me build an aussie it's and nine pm here in the french capital the headline. president trump celebrates the pulsing through congress of the sweeping republican tax reform bill was radical tax cuts in three generations and from the first major. legislative win s

divided opinion a wallstreet journal poll recently shows that the bill grew more unpopular of the last couple of months of public opinion. she stands to gain from these tax cuts. well everybody pretty much. will gets a bit of a tax cuts. when this nation. for its r

its language and for its history. our goal is to man. catalonia is one of the richest regions in spain with one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country. but despite this reality there have been economic consequences to the independence referendum held in defiance of madrid in october. thousands of companies have shifted their headquarters out of the region and workers are worried about their jobs if the political uncertainty continues much longer. initially that whatever it is i do not agree with independence movements and you know once the independence. of the continuous riyadh owns keep my job. as it will the company where i work two guns well i really think that if the company has not

obstacle. it will eventually leave. what kid arms pro independence? yeah. thursday's election in catalonia was called by the spanish government after eat imposed direct rule over the region. the vote is seen as madrid sway of bringing back stability to spain. newman's president has responded to an unprecedented in you move against his government by signing into rule the controversial judicial reforms that prompted brussels at brussels to act in the first place. andrzej duda gave us clear signal to your opponent will not reverse reforms which brussels says pose a threat to democracy. a year european commission gave put in three months to reverse plans by the country's no injustice policy to take more control over the course and public media. the commission's vice president friends tend to millions initiated article seven of the lisbon treaty which allows the hugest suspends

the voting rights of one of its members if. the a clear risk of a serious breach of the union sunny. president defended his decision to push through those judicial reforms. absolutely. these laws will strengthened and in la chrissy office. i. using very good solutions posed on several the field after the bengals was i believe that the a few soluons that will improve justices. that will make people regain faith. and finally regained. the justice system. found art of the. bush. will brussels correspondent pm been as a up yeah the partitn president's has made his position very clear he's not budging on those judicial reforms. the bull is not funny in the use court sohat you think is going to do. well the time being the only we in the the how these days

three malts you just rerred to as they had the wisdom off notes uprooting pulled in front of a. all they needed his deadline which means the the a commission has three months to negotiang its way through the compass and a politic has itself the in union which means. that they nee now is an older like to the day's activities these. article seven of the european union street cities they need not to draw that idearee full maturity off you members which means twenty two members would agree with emissions to say that there is a risk involved. part time being and there is a well there is a confrontation between brussels and wall so one

saying that it's move was i and well the reforms were unconstitutional the other one saying that so. how fuls escalate one of the possible long term consequences? well on the one homes ever this article seven words to be ful activated. which is very likely because you would need united seat minus long vice find is all in all this they and zaghari is involved it is not going to happen. but this is supposed to be the nuclear option which means that even comes to the househe country which is sanctions should news insights within the. euroan union institutions

loses say in decisions stake in our that by mority a unionsike and the second option is the house i also at this country could be depriv of. you son as inventions cohion signs and these kind of things gre same on legal issues values of the easier so thiss quite political and quite be very hard tnegotiatg to also this sock that was brexit last year. yeah that's. been as a in brussels. well i suppose government tauzin's it's immigration policies polls leading in the u. k. okay taste of what it feels like to be on welcome in then you country.

has been a spike in hate crimes against eastern europeans since last year's brexit referendum. is possible special series of reports on brexit catherine noise trent has been speaking to victims of that kind of assessments. it's a busy day at this polish. in the east of england. on the must see nicholas is handing out presents. one our smiles all around for the gift giving. life has become harder for the large polish community has is brexit. insults under these become common place. i was in the box and i was talking through the phone with my mom and said and polish and someone in a box star is shani. go back to whole as a speak our language style a soldier in the ago by could

brexit will come after you does my manager at work. coal and said i spoke an ethnic stupid immigrant language. the coastal towns of east anglia around seventy percent of voters facts brexit among the highest schools in the country. you. should consult aruba. this now a clear and systematic hostility to eastern europeans. i think that the whole picture and i'm. it wasn't like that before they worry about losing their job did phones people that i know of a discriminated. against the five that they do not have a * genetic the all time on dissidents got so big they did as if they illegal. to talk about his alienation we meet julia and her mother who was so scared they also as to disguise their identities. eleven year old judea was the subject of months of racist abuse by neighbors.

there was saying that. i am a new who this far out about a day in the long hayes i shouldn't. have any friends on the loan me because no one likes european people. are you doing go outside for most of the time. if even if i did i had to have my mom was may. the most shocking for judy as mother was the lack of response from the police avoidable visuals policeman said if we don't like it we can council and if we don't like it here as a rule. so we can go back to our country sharma. britain's home to nearly a million polish people the largest immigrant group. but faced with mounting xenophobia and discrimination since brexit many of questioning that future in the uk. here in phones the prime minister has been forced to defend his decision to hire a private jet for three hundred and fifty thousand years to fly back. from japan opposition politicians have criticised at off each use of the private johnson and ngos accused him of ignoring his own government's pledges.

exemplary behavior and alexa reports. this is the kind of plane that french prime minister it will phillipe and his delegation shots at for that took your. journey. of flights and apples a three forty that cost three hundred fifty thousand year. as you might take full responsibility for the decision and i'll tell you why. we know that there were know commercial flight schedule for the time we need to richard and we also knew that we had to get back because the president was leaving to go to australia. initially at least one of the president and prime minister have to be on french territory at any one time. it off eat the for high to private a from take care. now hidden powers just before emmanuel back to call for us area. the sum is a less of this reserve arguments considering the flight there originally schedule to take arrived at just two hours later. montel show over the little time save the amount to

shock. and they can be do as i say not as i do. city do foodie cash there's a gap there between the sacrifices that ordinary people are being asked to make. substantial and this kind of spending. which is really about the comforts of the sixty person delegation all in the differences and doesn't. come financial and ethical integrity in public life. the heart of presidential campaign last may. his government is facing scrutiny. michael's enveloped the president of the rich. of the reforms including scrapping of a wealth tax reductions in housing benefits. today marks a thousand days since the beginning of saudi arabia's military intervention in yemen. since senate well over five thousand civilians have been killed and millions displaced distraught deprived of food. and basic medicine maxwell reports on the world's worst humanitarian crisis. and years according at an

apocalyptic situation. for one child start every ten minutes and nearly a million people affected in the world's worst outbreak of cholera. it is a crisis us entirely mine mate. yet has been bombing yemen since march twenty fifteen when iran but tv rebels seize the capital sana. the conflict has bee exacerbated by saudi arabia's cracking thease on poison apple it's. just icky limiting the ability of ngos to bring in food and medicine. the uss nassau vision is being used as a weapon of war. yemen is the largest food insecurity is a crisis of the world's another recent united hitting diesel you. identified almost eighteen million people who are in need of support why some four hundred thousand children under the age of five who are. in a very severe on e marriage situation. slightly sick as the west is largely ignored the war. in part because we've always sport is controlled by saudi

arabia it's yet to stock a significant refugee crisis. to monica thousand days of conflict more than three hundred fifty public figures us on nasa. urging the united states britain and france to do more. three countries have been reluctant to break some saudi arabia. a major middle east trading partner with you may have you critics arms contracts. no it's one of the world's largest ancient libraries full of some of the oldest manuscripts to be found anywhere in the world as well as exquisite music from the sixth century. and now it's are we opened its doors after three years of closur. rebecca risen takes us to egypt's to reveal some of the churches that. ancient treasure found in the middle of the sinai desert. of the saint catherine's monastery founded in the sixth century is more than a church. and also contains a library with millions of reserve money scripture in an ancient greek arabic syria and other languages. the three years of renovations this sanctuary has now reopened its doors.

you see these manuscripts and i mean more than six thousand monastery they've all been digitized and restored. some of the manuscripts and all the way back to the fourth century. out there now entering a new digital era. and we taken photographs of each manuscripts and anyone who wants to study them confuse among screens. this way they don't have to touch the manuscript how much risk being damaged. above the choir is the transfiguration of christ the oldest church was a in the middle east. i forty six meters squared made up of five hundred thousand tiles. restoration took more than twelve years. monastery has also been named a unesco world heritage site. but for those wishing to pay a visit to saint catherine's. attorney has also grown more difficult. due to the looming presence of the islamic state group in the region.

this honorable business and brian quinn is back in the studio with me high run. a missile scene with over a major setback for the hell writing. in europe in the european court of justice has ruled uber's is in fact a transport company not just additional service. and should be regulated as such decision could change the way the right ailing for operates across the continent you could have wide ranging implications as europe seeks to come to grips with the rise of the sharing economy. michelle harrison plus reports. it's christmas present the taxi drivers across europe. the queues right heading servicemen the. beijing olympic competition. the european court of justice has ruled that the must be regulated like a troll for company handles a technology service. the x. comes over the case was brought to corporate taxi drivers association in barcelona. as thousand mp abalone money

fears though his sentence makes it clear that the rules of the game are going to be the same for everyone when it comes to transport slot. yeah has one that anyone who wants to transport a passing from one point to another. must comply to state regulations set that it is this in here. drivers move clients for a to be some like taxi ride is how to go public over legislation or pay for expensive license to the only it was an information service provider problemati. because it helps people to connect electronically line up. he the explosive question mark companies future in europe. she doesn't read victory. we were a huge multinational companies now down before us group of taxi drivers. the claims the ruling would make a massive difference it says it already operates on

the transportation role in several european countries. see the move as having one implications who's sharing economy phenomenon. the international monetary fund is sounding the alarm on the british economy have brexit. on wednesday imf chief christine lagarde presented the agency's first assessment of the uk economy since the vote to leave the european union. he says britain is already suffering the effects of uncertainty over future trade arrangements with europe. the uk economy set to grow just one point five percent in twenty eighteen well behind most other advanced economies. but ours is britain may need to raise taxes to bring down public debt rather than squeeze public spending at the tory government has been doing. and she urge britain and the easy to reach an agreement on a break the transition as soon as possible hears abou. the sooner there is. . a clear position as to what the outcome will be. the better that's point on one so legalization that drugs on own with massive uncertainty continuing is simply going to delay. the the plans the strategies and

the investment decision making process of the whole corporate sector. one of the most important economic engines for the u. k. is the city of london and its global banking industry. bank of england said wednesday that it hopes european financial institutions will be able to continue to operate in london after brexit in essentially the same way that they do now. without needing to convert their british branches into distinct subsidiaries such requirements could spark an exit is a european banking giants. potential disaster as financial services account for some eleven percent of british tax receipts and thousands of jobs. use brexit negotiator michel barnier has said in london will lose so called financial past pouring rights as it leaves the single market. british prime minister theresa may says she'll fight to maintain the status quo isn't. we. vehicles rolled city of london lays. just as much as and. the world we want to retain

them on main st. that. mission. yeah has made a number of comments recently about the opening as asian position from the european union. funding and treasury is out today of reassurance regional. banks will be able to continue to operation will be able to continue doing. retains its level position. virginity is treating action us market sinking below flat line even as congress passes massive corporate tax cuts. those indexes being dragged down by falling tech shares today on the nasdaq both over a tenth of a percent as mp five hundred not too far behind. european exclusion lower wednesday as household goods makers lost ground on and fifty one hundred off a quarter percent frankfurt dax down one point one percent they can't count. as losing over half a percent. well if you look is more face tough business headlines. to currency exchan korean bases inveigating accusations of

insider trading. races on coin cash and offshoot of corn surged on client base tuesday afternoon just hours before the exchange now it would support training and on cash. quite self us over ten percent on wednesday phone for one week load around fifteen thousand eight hundred dollars. and francis competition watchdog is finds johnson and johnsonhout any

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