of business live from berlin i'm gatto. to trust commissioner margot. if a star has finally taken island to task referring it's to the block's highest court on wednesday for failing to collect a massive thirteen billion euros in back taxes from apple the commission had ordered to do that one year ago the u. commission is also ordering amazon to pay two hundred fifty million euros in back taxes to luxembourg for starters said the small western european country had granted the online shopping giant an illegal tax break meaning almost three quarters of its profits have gone on taxed now the u. commision seems to be getting impatient with the tax tricks of big multinationals but also with member states that actors tax havens so let's bring in our brussels correspondent barbara vessel barbara ireland was ordered to collect this tax bill from apple more than a year ago by the commission what was the hold up island doesn't want to do that it's as simple as that because the government in dublin said this is what our tax laws are and we protest and they went to

i said gatto but so does 12 years a slave.estly we understand the 12 years has got to end at some point. this is really a history of how a woman who was a fugitive never found freedom. she was never free. she simply was never caught and i think it's a big dissension and one that i wanted to make especially as i was trying to dismantle what we think about slavery in the south and the north at this moment where the nation is new. i think that's one of the other things i was really trying to do with this book was to allow us to see what the early days of this new country look like through the eyes of the enslaved and ona's life gives us that opportunity to look at virginia, new york, pennsylvania and new hampshire and we get to follow her life and look at how this nation is changing, how is grappling with the issue of slavery, how bees these are central issues to this new nation and this time we are doing it through a young black woman who made the choice to run away. so as i said i will read a bit. i will talk and we will look a