every morning on the big table by clifford coonan from b.w. business clifford everyone knows that ireland when you're talking about the european you know 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 finding we thought that it looked like it was going to pay the money back and since then now that the european court has 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 or of france so it has to it has to find its way to co

change their behavior and interesting time thank you very much that is our resident china analyst clifford coonan germany invited thousands of migrant laborers from eastern europe despite the cold in 1000 pandemic harvests were at risk they came hoping to make enough money to support themselves and their families but when they arrived many of those workers found misery. i'll bear to go go has made it back home the journey from germany to come 5 days 1st with the train then the bus he couldn't be more leave to be back in his tiny village in southern armenia. i've been working on and off in germany for the last 12 years but what i went through in the last 3 months was the most difficult experience of my life. back in april alberto go-go and his wife were flown to germany to help with the harvest taking on the work meant leaving their children behind but. we had to make promises to stop them from crying one of them wanted a bike another some sweets. at the airport passengers kept their distance and had their temperature taken but the plane was full of all parents who ended up on an asparagus farm th

let's bring in clifford coonan he's on and in china for many years cliff how would you say china is coping with his pet and they make on the economic front. well i think china for us is a bit like a postcard from the future and it was the 1st place where the pandemic struck and it's also the 1st to recover in march already they started bringing back manufacturing and things i doubt it seems to be coping quite well on these export figures are better than expected we're also getting g.d.p. figures this this week which are also expected to show that the economy is growing so it appears to be so far coping with the coronavirus pretty well i'm coming out of the pandemic pretty well but there are a lot of challenges that remain there's so many other parts of the world that on dealing with is well on on an economic front at least surely that will hit demand to china at some stage i think it will 1st there's 2 problems 1st of all the domestic consumption which is long been a driver of the economy isn't growing and then as you say external demand is going to be a big factor the u.s. is china's bigg

let's bring in business correspondent clifford coonan who's joining us here in the studio how much longer can hong kong remain a financial hub well this is the big question i mean this is this is the law here and i've been going through it and over the last over the last day or so i'm talking to analysts and what they're saying is generally that they feel that there is a real danger that hong kong could become just like another chinese city that this law will be quite good for domestic listings on for companies that have a big interest in china but the international dimension is under threat and i think that's where we're really looking out in 10 years we've we've you know we're not going to see pictures like we've seen pictures of protests i can't really see that happening in 10 years' time so there's a lot of a lot of fear around the moment a lot of uncertainty where will the money go where will the people go well we've seen that some will go to maybe go to britain australia has also said that it's going to take some people capital at the moment the question the people are saying if i n

weakening in any way so i think we're going to see a continued hardline approach to give you order clifford coonan with us here in studio thank you very much for your insights. let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines around the world catastrophic flooding and landslides in southwest upin have killed dozens and blocked access to more than 3000 homes rescuers are still searching for missing people japan's meteorological agency has warned that heavy rains will continue for several days australia has suspended an extradition agreement with hong kong after china opposed the national security law giving it sweeping powers their prime minister scott morrison said australia would also extend he says for skilled workers from hong kong and wants to lure hong kong businesses to the country for them and italian authorities have seized a migrant rescue boat operated by the german n.g.o.s sea watch claiming it did not comply with safety rules last month the vessel was used to rescue more than 200 people stranded at sea in april italy banned migrant rescue ships from docking at its ports bec