like to focus in particular on the european union my question to the spokesperson of the european commission margaret this sheena's is for how long are they going to ignore responders police brutality in catalonia how many injured or indeed dead do they need on the table for them to art for how long are they going to turn a blind eye on grows wider lesions of human rights because in the state of the union debate mr euchre he claimed the values are the fundamental pillar of the european union well those very values are being violated in qatar lonny a ds days so what is the european union doing on the answer is nothing they are talking about violence and whenever they were asked who initiated the violence they were not even brave enough to say that the violence was initiated by the secure. forces and indeed they are absolutely being disgraceful my question is if they are so adamant so enthusiastic in using human rights values and freedoms and democracy to complain whenever countries like china or iran or russia or turkey are conducting those actions why are they silent on whenever these is happening an

similar things we heard earlier from the european commission here in brussels there a friend of mine was and remains illegal however let's listen to what spokesman margaret just sheena's had to say to the violence we call on all relevant players to know move very swiftly from confrontation to dialogue. violence can never be only instrument in politics so beyond talking barbara votes or what can be a you do. nothing simply because as opposed to popular opinion the european union is not this supra national organization that can sort of interfere in the in the sort of inner affairs of its member states it simply doesn't have that power it can offer itself as a mediator and it has behind the scenes obviously tried to mediate during the last weeks to no avail and there was some hand-wringing here in brussels about the course of marianna or why because many people thought that he played into the hands of the independent independence movement however it can do much more than say we are concerned we are worried this is not going a good way and you should sort of take a different course barbara hazel in brussels thank you. and the violence in the yesterday's refe

european commission is getting tough on e.u. tax havens mark us here with more on that absolutely sumeet e.u. antitrust commissioner margaret vest aga has finally taken ireland to task referring it to the blocks highest court on wednesday for failing to collect a massive thirteen billion euros in back taxes from apple the commission had ordered ireland to do that one year ago the e.u. commission is also ordering amazon to pay two hundred fifty million euros in back taxes to luxembourg this august said the small western european country had granted the online shopping giant an illegal tax break meaning almost three quarters of its profits had gone untaxed so the e.u. commission seems to mean business but why now well let's ask our brussels correspondent bob vs both ireland and luxembourg and holland as well of course they're all known for their generous tax rules in order to attract big corporations why is the european commission having a problem with it now. it's not having a problem now but it's going through the back catalogue and sort of making little points into all those cases that have been thrown up particularly if w