e.u. commission to stay out of it so from the perspective from strasburg and brussels we're dealing with it you member state spain and not you member state catalonia. you mention those calls for the e.u. to mediate it is brussels are ready to step in is that going to be decided there today. that's not what the parliament itself could decide what we're expecting though is a whole range of opinions being expressed reflecting the whole debate and of course the two big moderate parties have already said that they intend to call for mediation not necessarily mediation from the e.u. institutions but to have the two parties get back to the negotiating table everybody condemns police violence although of course the more conservative party say listen what we have here is a state trying to uphold the rule of law and if we criticize that if we are not on board with that as the european union then the e.u. has a huge problem the farther left you go within the spectrum of the parties the more they condemn police violence funny let's come back to you know we heard max say there that the e.u. wants to get

e.u. commission to demand. the action is taken and to demand institutions right across europe and people across europe stand in solidarity with those democratic values why do you think things are so different for example from what we saw with the scottish referendum for independence and i wonder now do you face in here because spain in a way can say we're setting a precedent here that in fact that is what russia has said do you worry that the greater danger for violence if there's another scottish referendum. well i actually don't go with that line of thinking and i think that the question of violence a very important one because if you look at where the violence is coming from it's coming from the spanish the it is not coming from the people of cuts alone whose behavior by the way in who's who's deportment who's reaction to this really quite brutal violence of that we've been experiencing rubber bills and so on elderly people dragged polling stations all of this conflict has been to meet this with an absolutel

the commission has today adopted a decision that i'm a son's tax benefits. on the e.u. stated beliefs. also coming up spades blue chip stock index tumbles as tensions between catalonia and madrid escalate. and cuba as a fledgling tourism sector becomes a victim of a major diplomatic squabble. welcome to the business and to trust commission a mug of eight of us tiger has finally taken ireland to toss preferring it to the blocks highest court on wednesday for failing to collect a massive thirteen billion euros in back taxes from aca the. had ordered island 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 vest august at the small western european country had granted the online shopping giant an illegal tax break meaning almost three quarters of its profits had gone taxed so the e.u. commission seems to mean business but why now well let's ask our brussels correspondent bob. both ireland and luxembourg and holland as well of course they're all know that for their generous tax rules in orde

patience has run out of the european commission taking to the podium the e.u. competition commission announced that brussels had on and in its sights taking the country's government to the european court of justice for its failure to collect taxes from us giant apple then a year ago the commission docked at the decision. requiring ireland to recover up to thirteen billion euros in the league from apple. however ireland has still not recovered any money not even in part. apple is currently appealing the case it argues that the revenues in question a subject to u.s. tax rules instead meanwhile luxemburg was also singled out by the commission on wednesday ruling that it has granted online shopping giant amazon on due tax benefits for the past eight years leading around three quarters of its profits untaxed the e.u. says that gave it an unfair advantage over other companies. not justified amazon now has to repay the tax benefit worth around two hundred fifty million euros plus interest the commission's position is clear it states that no matter your flag or ownershi

e.u. commission is demanding millions of back taxes to be collected from u.s. tech giants amazon and apple also the license for monsanto's life force eight is up for renewal in the u.s. and its facing challenges and a swiss investment group is helping to get iran's rail infrastructure back on track . welcome to your business i'm crystal kober in berlin the european commission is turning the screws on u.s. tech companies on wednesday it ordered amazon to repay a quarter of a billion euros and back at the commission is taking ireland to court for failing to collect billions from apple patience has run out of the european commission taking to the podium that you competition commission announced that brussels had on and in its sights taking the country's government to the european court of justice for its failure to collect taxes from us giant apple then a year ago the commission docked at the decision. requiring ireland to recover up to thirteen billion euros in the league from apple however i am has still not recovered any money not even in part. apple is current

e.u. tells spanish and caught a lot of the already it's time for dialogue as the country's crisis deepens with both sides sticking it to the european commission not taking up calls from catalonia for e.u. mediation after the region's disputed independence referendum calling it an internal matter for spain also coming up. mishap says a best british prime minister theresa may attempts around the support at her conservative party's annual conference but several interruptions during her speech will have reaction from london. where there. were these releases dramatic body camera footage of the las vegas massacre the mesta gaiters say the gunman was methodical and meticulous this as the mystery over a possible motive intensifies. so glad to have you along. senior officials are again urging dialogue between the two sides in spain's most serious crisis in decades all that after spain's king philippe weighed in on the crisis harshly criticizing catalonia has been for independence in a televised address he accused callen leaders of acting outside the law by carrying out a referendum on independence last weekend while not backing down catalonia as leade

e.u. commission told us there's no official request for any kind of meeting or something like that so the e.u. is staying out of this and also the belgian or thora teams have not issued any word what of what putin month and his fellow guys are doing here yet that the e.u. has been keen to stay out of this so i suppose while you're asking the question i'm asking cashmore asking why brussels. but mr putin months before the referendum and before he was ousted always applied to the european institutions that they should have a role in this in a spanish conflict that they should. try to to establish talks between the catalans and the spanish central government but the refused to do that you said this is a matter that spain has to deal with on its own and this is also as a stand point this afternoon the commission says we don't have nothing to do with that of course mr putin one can apply for asylum here in belgium if he wishes but is almost certain that this application will be turned down and mr put him on as a spanish citizen can move freely within europe so he can travel to brussels if he l

e.u. institutions let's say the commission would go behind the back of one of those nation states of spain and say listen we're just going to talk to catalonia if you want to or not that would be a huge breach of trust it would be a huge problem for the e.u. institutions and on top of that they wouldn't be in accordance with the rule of law because everybody here brussels agrees that catalonia is not in line with the spanish constitution so if the e.u. commission let's say did that against the will of the national government of spain that would cause tremendous problems all right no easy solutions there max hoffman reporting on the spanish breaking news events i thank you so much. and now we have to the horn of africa were renewed unrest in kenya has claimed more lives as the country continues to grapple with the aftermath of yesterday's rerun presidential elections one person was killed in clashes between protesters and police today rain the overall death toll to at least five log and yet has been locked in political uncertainty since the supreme court a null presidential elections held b

e.u. commission you could think of them for example mediating something but their plans to moments the vice president of the u. commission made it clear for now they define this as an inner spanish conflict and will not take on such a role so it's a domestic concern according to the e.u. max how concerned is the e.u. that this crisis could have a ripple effect and inspire other restive regions from unilaterally declaring their independence. as far as we can gather they're concerned for a whole range of issues about this conflict of course having this is part of the european union very important part and as you said there might be a ripple effect because for example the flamers parts of belgium or scotland in the u.k. all of those had some independence tendencies in the past and of catalonia did some things the sec's successful by unilaterally declaring their independence and getting away with it that could be a problem for the european union but the sharpest sword that the e.u. has in this case is not necessarily mediating but repeating over and over again and they've done that here in stra

e.u. commission seems to mean business but why now well let's ask our brussels correspondent bob. both ireland and luxembourg and holland as well of course they're all know that 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 we remember three years ago as with the looks leagues scandals where that which was one of those cases where the european commission suddenly had to look at all these practices and say no this can't be true this cannot be allowed those are cases of illegal state aid they are big big multinational companies are being favored by those states as opposed to normal regular local companies or even european companies who don't get the same treatment so this has to stop and now they are just going through the catalog and it's a major exercise of housecleaning more or less what we see you know ok but those big u.s. companies c

e.u. commission chief sean called younger for help last week over dinner what do we know about their. yes brand this really set the room mohair in brussels light this morning i'm just going to read a couple more extracts just to complete the picture there of what this newspaper article was suggesting it was saying that to reason may in a dinner with young monday looked anxious and tormented that she did it desperate and despondent and that she had deep rings on to her eyes suggesting that she hadn't slept so controversial with these comments that even sparked a twitter spat with a two reason may's former chief of staff suggesting that these remarks were leaked to the press by youngest chief of staff that was a very controversial debate the youngest chief of staff denies the allegations as i view him to himself he has denied ever having said it but i think what this shows is how easy it is for discord to arise between both sides and also the extent to which people are really feeling like there's something going on behind the scenes that we're not quite sure about yeah there's plenty of

e.u. commission that they haven't made sufficient progress in phase one phase one just a reminder is settling the divorce issues as they are calls for example the border between northern ireland and ireland the status of e.u. citizens in the united kingdom and of course the so-called bragg's it bill and especially in the dregs of bill there has not been sufficient progress but here's the thing it seems like the e.u. is moving towards the direction of the reason may a little bit at least we saw the draft conclusions and they say that if everything progresses as in to support it they will be able to start face to so trade negotiations with the united kingdom. but max in the meantime i mean does it seem as if you know there's also a back up plan being formed a potential no deal scenario. everybody denies this very strongly in brussels in the european institutions but we've talked to some sources and they say of course we have to think about these things because if we start preparing a no deal scenario let's say for five months before there is no deal that's just not enough time just think about

but first the 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

e.u. institutions let's say the commission would go behind the back of one of those nation states of spain and say listen we're just going to talk to catalonia if you want to or not that would be a huge breach of trust it would be a huge problem for the e.u. institutions and on top of that they wouldn't be in accordance with the rule of law because everybody here brussels agrees that catalonia is not in line with the spanish constitution so if the e.u. commission let's say did that against the will of the national government of spain that would cause tremendous problems all right no easy solutions there max hoffman reporting on the spanish breaking news event so thank you so much australia's government has lost its one seat parliamentary majority after the country's top court disqualified the deputy prime minister from office for holding doors as a ship barnaby joyce unknowingly held new zealand citizenship through descent when he was elected last year while he since we're now to second citizenship i will stand again in a byelection in the senate well until then prime minister malcolm turn

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e.u. commission statement calling catalonia as independence vote illegal but stated it was an internal matter that spain should deal with prompting angry reactions inside the european parliament and me peace stephen wolfe spoke to us about the e.u.'s reaction to events in castle me. it's been despicable it's been dishonest and it shows really that the e.u. has favorites and they will stick by by the by their favorites as long as it means keeping everybody in the club by demanding that they must be some sort of negotiations and talks between the spanish government and also those in catalan but the must first be a denunciation of the violence by the police over vies the police will feel that they could do it again. i. feel. there's still no evidence of collusion between donald trump's election campaign and russia that's according to the us senate intelligence committee on wednesday they briefed the public on the ongoing probe looking into moscow's alleged meddling in last year's presidential election the issue of collusion is still open. that we continue to investigate both intelligence and wit

e.u. commission has issued a statement in which it refuses to condemn the violence and expresses trust in spain's prime minister well here on the channel we will be keeping you fully up to speed on developments throughout this day. it is r.t. international america is now mourning the victims of the deadliest mass shooting in its history fifty nine people were killed in the massacre at a country music festival in las vegas among them husbands wives mothers teachers graduates and police officers sonny melton who was at the concert with his wife he was fatally shot in the back as he shielded her from bullets and denise budgeters died on our husband tony's arms just minutes after she posted a photo of the two of them at the concert and jessica clincher was a single mom she died it leaving her four children behind of course many families now will never be the same again here's how events unfolded on that fateful night. i. think. we need to try to get people out of the hospital ok. stephen. bullets raining down on thousands attending the concert in las vegas lived in a retirement home in nevada

e.u. commission statement as call council only has independence for the legal but stated it was an internal matter that spain should deal with prompting angry reactions inside the european parliament m.e.p. stephen walt spoke to us about the e.u.'s reaction to events in catalonia. it's been despicable it's been dishonest and it shows really that the e.u. has favorites and they will stick by that by their favorites as long as it means keeping everybody in the club by demanding that they must be some sort of negotiations and talks between the spanish government and also those in catalan but the must first be a denunciation of the violence by the police over vies the police will feel that they could do it again. for. there is still no evidence of collusion between donald trump's election campaign and russia according to the us senate intelligence committee on wednesday they briefed the public on the ongoing probe looking into moscow's alleged meddling in last year's presidential election the issue of collusion is still open. we continue to investigate both intelligence and witnesses as it rela

e.u. commission statement called catalonia as independence but illegal but stated that it was an end to the. matter that spain should do with that prompted angry reactions inside the european parliament. why did the madrid government feel it necessary to stop dish in such a heavy handed brutal and in the final analysis counterproductive manner we now have a chen place which every independence movement so no consonant can use to provoke unrest and violence so disproportionate cannot be justified no buts and no excuses whatever you think about the referendum whatever you think of independence i think that has to be clear that violence is not to mean for solving political conflicts and what have the european union's response their first response should have been to completely condemn the violence but no this is by the e.u. who recognize the independence or cost of a without a referendum and who recognized palestine as a nation state even though the e.u. treaties did not permit the m.e.p. you just heard speaking there stephen wolfe also shared his thoughts with us on the e.u. his reaction to th

e.u. commission issued a statement in which it refused to condemn the violence instead expressing trust in spain's prime minister. here on r.t. international we will be keeping you up to speed on all developments throughout what is expected to be a very tense day. first . america is now mourning the victims of the deadliest mass shooting in its history fifty nine people were killed in the massacre at a country music festival in las vegas among them husbands wives mothers teachers graduates and police officers a sunny melton was at the concert with his wife he was fatally shot in the back as he shielded her from the bullets at denny's but atos died in a husband tony's arms just minutes after she posted a photo of the two of them at the concert and jessica was a single mother who died leaving her four children behind of course many families will never be the same again here's how events unfolded on that fateful night. i i. i i i. i i i. i. i. i i i i. i i. i i. we need to try to get people out of the hospital ok. the gunman was located on the thirty second floor of the mandalay bay hotel ult

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e.u. commission statement called catalonia is independence vote illegal but stated that it was an internal matter that spain. deal with prompting angry reactions inside the european parliament. why did the madrid government feel it necessary to stop dish in such a heavy handed brutal and in the final analysis counterproductive manner we now have a template which every independence movement so no can use to provoke unrest and violence so disproportionate cannot be justified no bots and no excuses whatever you think about the referendum whatever you think of independence i think that has to be clear that violence is not a main for solving political conflicts and one of the european union's response that first response should have been to completely condemn the violence but no this is by the e.u. who recognize the independence or cost of a without a referendum and who recognized palestine as a nation state even though the e.u. treaties did not permit it of the n.e.p. that you just heard speaking there stephen wolfe also shared his thoughts with us on the reaction to the violence in catalonia.

e.u. commission has finally come out with a statement in reaction to what's happened in catalonia a lot of people say it's long overdue it says that under the spanish constitution yesterday's vote in catalonia wasn't legal that president has reiterated repeatedly that this is an internal matter for spain and that although it does violence can never be an instrument in politics there does appear to be a reticence in europe about what's happening in catalonia just a few days ago the e.u. is very or in spokes person had trouble defending madrid's judicial crackdown preceding the vote when he was being quizzed by journalists take a listen. now will you have a double standard in freedom of expression whilst found out four thousand. in other sound for. you condemn it when they shut down cambodia daily but you stay silent when a member states taunts playing with freedom of expression. private websites if they start arresting jewelries how can you see this is of course additional that we don't have anything to say i mean this is freedom of expression anything else that we're going to help you with

e.u. commission has issued a statement in which it refuses to condemn the police violence and expresses its trust in spain's prime minister rest assured we're keeping right across the developing situation in catalonia any new information comes in we'll bring it straight to you. america is now mourning the victims of the deadliest mass shooting in its history fifty nine people were killed in the massacre at a country music festival in las vegas and over five hundred more were injured sonny melton was at the concert with his wife he was fatally shot in the back as he shielded her from the bullets the nice but it has died in been tony's arms just minutes after she posted a photograph of the two of them at the concert jessica lynch it was a single mom who leaves behind four children jenny parks was a teacher in los angeles she was also a wife and a mother of two and another victim niece of tonks also leaves behind three children here is how events unfolded on sunday night. i. i i. i i i i. i. i i. i i. i i. i i. i i. i i. i. we need to try to get people out of the hospital ok. i i. i. i. the gu

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e.u. commission has launched an infringement proceedings against hungary treatment of migrants refugees like your march twenty seven thousand the side of the law restrictions on civil society organizations legal reforms the dominance of as they put it of pro-government media these these are serious issues out there and they're not giving away yet we've seen so many topics so many charges rather against hungary for the past seven years that again this is nothing new so we go for them because you don't take them seriously we didn't i mean how can you how can you take a more serious than you to go for a legal debate because and at the end of the day it's going to be sorted out legally and you went to the european court of justice liturgy to. they turned down a question on whether it was possible legally to make a decision like that back in two thousand and fifteen in face of decisions about a mandatory quote yes falling for if something in place of two previous decisions on behalf of the heads of state which clearly said no to that we face a problem here we have knowledge the decision because a

e.u. commission statement called independents voted illegal but said that it was an internal matter that spain should deal with prompting on grew reactions inside the european parliament for jimmy peace stephen wolfe shared his thoughts on the e.u.'s reaction to events in catalonia with us. it's been despicable it's been dishonest and it shows really that the e.u. has favorites and they will stick by by their favorites as long as it means keeping everybody in the club by demanding that they must be some sort of negotiations and talks between the spanish government and also those in catalan but the must first be a denunciation of the violence by the police over vies the police will feel that they could do it again a civil go by a lie the let's check out what's happening at a pro unity rally in barcelona right now these live pictures coming through this is white house happening right now in the capital and capital this day for it saves just days before camp president. will address the region's parliament choose a question is what's he going to say is he softening his tone first with supporters o

e.u. commission told us there's no official request for any kind of meeting or something like that so the e.u. is staying out of this and also the belgian or three teams have not issued any word of what of what putin moment and his fellow guys are doing here yeah that the e.u. has been keen to stay out of this so i suppose while you're asking the question i'm asking a question or asking why brussels. well mr putin months before the referendum and before he was ousted always applied to the european institutions that they should have a role in this in a spanish conflict that they should. try to to establish talks between the catalans and the spanish central government but the refused to do that you said this is a matter that spain has to deal with on its own and this is also the standpoint this afternoon the commission says we don't have nothing to do with that of course mr putin one can apply for asylum here in belgium if he wishes but is almost certain that this application will be turned down and mr putin man as a spanish citizen can move freely within europe so he can travel to brussels