this is disney's home and luxembourg. is no sign outside. >> disney is one of a number of companies often based out of a single office. >> we are looking for apple's luxembourg subsidiary. itunes, this is it. not really shouting out their presence. >> the grand duchy is under pressure to reform and the european parliament is set to investigate the deals. the scandal has cast a shadow over the president of the european commission, jean-claude juncker. most of the deals were done when he was luxembourg's prime minister. back on the streets of the city he insists his actions were justified. >> the fact that the european parliament created a special committee proves that there is displeasure. >> that hasn't stopped him being charged with that and violations of business secret. it is found guilty, he faces up to five years kind bars. >> how are you feeling? happy tried walking toward the courthouse? >> last time i came here it was to get my papers. >> he doesn't know when or even if his case will come to trial. but he remains

we are looking for apple's luxembourg subsidiary, itunes. this is it.eally shouting out there presence here. a tiny slip of paper. now, they are under pressure to reform. european parliament is set to investigate the deals. the scandal has cast a shadow over the presidents of the european commission. most of the deals were done when -- was prime minister. back on the streets of the city he insists his actions were justified. antoine: eight creates a special committee proves that -- because it creates a special committee it it proves that it was not in the general interest. tom: that not have -- that has not stopped him from being charged of theft in violation of business secrets. he faces up to five years behind bars. the last time i came here, it was to get charged. tom: he doesn't know if his case will come to trial, but he remains convinced he did the right thing. tom mckenzie, in luxembourg for bloomberg. francine:'s will follow the story closely. later today, we will talk to tom enders. ♪ >> my only plan since the beginning is greece in the euro zo

the majority of its revenues are declared in luxembourg. >> reporter: e.u.s recently announced the deal amazon struck to locate its european headquarters in luxembourg may be illegal-- a deal that's minimized the company's tax bill in france and other countries by millions of dollars. separately, in 2012, france slapped amazon with a $252 million bill for back taxes. renny aupetit says, if amazon's going to sell books in france, it should pay taxes at the same rate here that he does. >> ( translated ): every time you choose to buy a book, you contribute to the place where you buy it. so if you buy it on amazon, it makes amazon stronger. but if you want to buy a book from someone who contributes to the economy of its country, so that there are hospitals, roads and so on, then you should buy it from someone who pays its taxes in france. it's simple. >> reporter: an amazon representative told newshour that as for the french demand for back taxes, “we dispute and will always contest this request,” and, “amazon pays all applicable taxes in every jurisdiction in w

those countries are belgium the tiny nation of lux lux luxembourg. something activates are cheering. >> this is a case about real people with serious illnesses through a change in the law can find some peace and comfort in knowing that they have a choice. >> reporter: on friday, canada's supreme court gave people that choice, striking down a ban on doctor assisted suicide. from lee carter, that brings some form of rm relief. >> today her journey is complete, with the supreme court of canada granting canadians the rights she was denied. >> the nine justices have given federal and provincial governments a year to craft laws. after that the law will stand. >> this is a momentous day a historic day a day i think that we as canadians can celebrate. >> reporter: but others opposed the ruling including so-called dying with dignity bills that have passed in parliament. one doctor telling al jazeera last year it's her job to save lives not take them. >> they want to redefine our profession and want to institutionalize in quebec killing patients and calling it

illusion, he doesn't have the luxury that somehow we can work this out that we're somehow dealing with luxembourg or belgium. he knows their true intentions. >> i don't want to be coy. the prime minister and i have real differences around iran sanctions. david cameron and angela agree with me, that it does not make sense to sour the negotiations a month or two before they're about to be completed. >> netanyahu now walks a fine line between the executive and the legislative branches of the government rocking the bipartisan zone occupied by israel and his own job is not secure. >> equally i know that the president appreciates my responsible. my foremost responsibility to protect and defend the security of israel. i'm going to the united states not because i seek a confrontation with the president. but because i must fulfill my obligation to speak up on a matter that affects the very survival of my country. >> netanyahu's decision to speak is not playing well with some in israel either. elections are a little over a month away and he can't count on a photo op with president obama when he comes to th

germany is investigating the bank over suspicions of tax evasion in luxembourg. we thought it was a little bit messy. >> what we have is a clear indication they will cooperate with the investigation and watched an internal inquiry. it has to do with the private unit from a decade ago. the authorities raided the offices and went to the offices in frankfurt and 150 investigators went throughout the country to look at tax avoidance and not paying taxes. here is the statement commerce tank put out. the investigation is based on old cases dating back and this is about individuals sheltering taxes. it does not have to do with the corporate tax structure. there is more private individuals shielding money and they are seeking to lower by children profits. there is a big way to bring back private taxes stashed overseas. there will be a conversation and we will be learning more about the situation. >> thank you very much. the executive grilling is coming up here. the big one will appear before the panel to answer questions about the recent tax evasion revelations. what can

could be prime minister know of anyone who owns our works are uk registered company that uses a luxembourg -- [shouting] in order to avoid paying their fair share of tax in the uk speak as with well, i want to see more and more companies headquartered here in the united kingdom, and that's exactly under this government what is happening. we inherited a situation where company after company was leaving our shores because we've now got competitive tax rates and databases from the government, more and more businesses are coming here including in his constituency. >> greg mulholland. >> thank you, mr. speaker. last week a six year old for my constituency with a 10 euro from london came to see the prime minister to deliver personal letters to him about the nhs england failure to come up with a process to allow the nhs -- the drug they need. they are still dragging their heels. are the prime minister buenos taken an interest in the police intervened to come up with a solution to all these children can get the drugs that they need to? >> i will remember meeting the on will gentlemen and also the

does the prime minister know of anyone who owns or works for a uk- registered company that uses a luxembourg-basedir fair share of tax in the uk? >> i want to see more and more companies headquartered here in the united kingdom. under this government, that is exactly what is happening. we inherited a situation where company after company was leaving our shores. because we now have competitive tax rates and a business-friendly government more and more businesses are coming here, including in the honorable gentleman's constituency. >> last week six-year-old sam brown from my constituency, with 10-year-old kamal from london, came to see the prime minister to deliver personal letters to him about the nhs england failure to come up with a process to allow the nhs to fund the drugs they need for morquio syndrome, which also apply to duchenne muscular dystrophy. nhs england is still dragging their heels. will the prime minister, who i know has taken an interest in this, please intervene to come up with an interim solution so that all these children can get the drugs that they need? >> i well remember mee

reduce the co2 emissions, but it turns out that this shows that he is flying from his home over to luxembourg a couple of times a month and the output of co2 was like 100 times that of the average person. and that this trip would take 12 hours and that would take time away from the family and in other words it was not very efficient. and so i use the example that glenn reynolds talked about. who is a great blogger. and then this is because some, like there'll be carol hanna for example, i read about it they have a very spartan life this small footprint of energy output, once in a great while he may make a postal trip. but i respect that. whether i agree with it or not if you have a conviction to me just live it out but don't be al gore and say that they are about to overtake the coast and then build a 20000-foot home right on the coast. >> well, do republicans have a problem with science or is that just a perception? if so how do we change that perception? >> i could see that that is for a long time people pulled over on the issue of live and it was about how i believe there's no such thing a

luxembourg.nd caymans. >> tell me what you thought about the straskan case. >> the victim told three different stories. when a prosecutor puts the victim on the stand, you are asking for the truth. if you don't know what story she is going to tell, you can't vouch for her truthfulness. i thought they were right in dismissing the charges. >> should they have brought it the way they did? should they have pulled him off the plane? was he a candidate to flee because he was a distinguished head of the imf? >> if i was the da, i would have hoped he had fled because it was a pain in the neck. >> so you would not have wanted him pulled off the plane. >> i don't know all the facts but i think in retrospect it was a mistake. you make them put up the bail. if they flee, you say god bless them. you know they are not going to come back and commit that crime in the country. the amount of resources that go into a case like that is huge and distract. >> do you think they handled it right? >> i do. >> remind us a

turns out that in all of the greenpeace shows that he is flying from his home over the think it's luxembourg, a couple of times a month and the output of co2 that he's extended because of his jet travel is like 100 times that of the average person. and so when confronted about it, it was his answer. he said well the train trip would take 12 hours and that would be time away from my

with amazon because of the way it optimizes its taxes, the mari of its revenues are declared in luxembourgzon representative told newshour: amazon pays all applicable taxes in every jurisdiction in which we operate and always will. >> woodruff: that's tomorrow night on pbs newshour weekend. and we'll be back, right here on monday with a look at the lingering wounds of war in gaza. that's the newshour for tonight i'm judy woodruff. have a great weekend thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: the i.b.e.w. the power professionals in your neighborhood. >> lincoln financial-- committed to helping you take charge of your life and become you're own chief life officer. >> support also comes from carnegie corporation of new york. a foundation created to do what andrew carnegie called "real and supporting innovations in education, democratic engagement, and the advancement of international peace and security. at carnegie.org. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. >> this program was made possible by the corpor

could be prime minister know of anyone who owns our works are uk registered company that uses a luxembourg -- [shouting] in order to avoid paying their fair share of tax in the uk speak as with well, i want to see more and more companies headquartered here in the united kingdom, and that's exactly under this government what is happening. we inherited a situation where company after company was leaving our shores because we've now got competitive tax rates and databases from the government, more and more businesses are coming here including in his constituency. >> greg mulholland. >> thank you, mr. speaker. last week a six year old for my constituency with a 10 euro from london came to see the prime minister to deliver personal letters to him about the nhs england failure to come up with a process to allow the nhs -- the drug they need. they are still dragging their heels. are the prime minister buenos taken an interest in the police intervened to come up with a solution to all these children can get the drugs that they need to? >> i will remember meeting the on will gentlemen and also the

the luxembourg-based european court of justice ruled thursday that to obtain asylum andre , shepherd would need to show he would have been involved in war crimes if he had followed orders to deploy to iraq. shepherd spoke on thursday. >> what happens when you have a soldier such as myself who isn't a content his objector from the aspect of want to reject every war. you have to defend yourself, of course. iraq wasn't one of those. they did not help the iraqi people at all, certain he did not help the american people at all. all we have is senseless death and destruction and the rise of isis. so why would i want to take part in that? >> the final decision in shepherd's case will be made by a german court. in the u.s., wisconsin governor has compared religions from the self-proclaimed islamic state to pro-union labor protesters. thousands of protesters have flooded the capitol over an anti-union right-to-work bill, passed by the state senate this week. we'll have more on wisconsin later in the broadcast. in argentina, a judge has rejected a late prosecutor's allegations argentine presid

i mean like pursuing bcci which was chartered in luxembourg and vccoc and the grand caymans and officersn 70 companies. >> rose: tell me what you thought about this strauss-kahn case. >> well the victim told three totally different stories. and when a prosecutor puts the victim on the stand you're vouching for the truthfulness. and if you don't know which story she's going to tell you can't vouch for her truthfulness. so i thought that syd-- and i told this was absolutely right in dismissing the charges. >> rose: but should they have ever brought it the way they did. thud should they have pulled him off the plane like they did. was he a candidate to flee because he was a distinguished head of the imf? >> i mean, if i had been d.a. i would have hoped he fled. but the case was a pain in the neck. and-- . >> rose: so you would not have wanted him pulled off the plane? >> i don't know all the facts. but i think that in retrospect it probably was a mistake. i mean you put up-- you make them put up the bail. and if they flee you say god bless them because you know they're not going to come bac

it turns out in the greenpeace shows he is flying from his home over to a think its luxembourg a couple of times a month and the output of co2 that he is expanding because of his jet travel is like 100 times that of the average person. so when confronted about it, here was his answer. he said well the train trip would take 12 hours and that would be time away from my family and a whole lot of time i wouldn't be working. in other words because it's not very efficient. i'm thinking isn't that why most of us why? here's the point. if you are going to be an environmental list and you say it's horrible to emit co2 than live like it and i use the example, glenn reynolds who is a great blogger makes a statement about environmentalists and he says i will believe it's a serious problem when the people who say it's a serious problem act like it's a serious problem. kudos to people like ed begley junior and darrel hannah because they are environmentalist who actually practice it and live it it. i have read about it. ed begley is very smart in life. he is has a small footprint of energy output and

coming out of the meeting i caught out with the luxembourg finance minister and asked him what the voidhat it was like. >> the mood was there was no progress compared to last week. and there were no data available . no numbers. so it was for -- difficult to make progress. >> was their frustration? >> i would not call it frustration. there were some expectations that have not been met in a short time and for the rest i think he -- set everything. >> there is -- finance ministers are in town and they could always meet on the sidelines and restart the talks but it's is saying it is up to the other to make the first move. >> what do we know about the deal that was on the table for a while coming from somewhere that he could have agreed to because i read that jean-claude juncker put something on the table. what was the deal he would have signed up to? >> it would have in the =--- been the juncker deal. if -- he objected and wanted slightly stronger language. there was a split between the eu commission and the finance ministers group. this finance ministers seem to have a slightly different t

then there is a question of germany itself is an occupying country, occupying belgium and luxembourg as well as northern france. one of the big themes for britain, belgium and france is ed discussion that the german army in its willingness to break an international treaty the neutrality of belgium, that they were somehow a rogue army that was breaking international convention. prior to world war i, there were a number of international treaty inventions to talk about war and the proper conventions of fighting a modern war. this group of pamphlets here does talk about those types of attacks under civilian population, not just on those military, talking about how the civilian population is coming about. things like german atrocities or desired army there's a great example called through the iron bars which talks about the occupation of belgium by german troops and they talk about things like slave labor using civilians to bills munitions for them but they draw, some of them draw on what they claim as documents from these occupied areas. fascinating in looking at this mix of documents is

private individuals, not about the corporate tax or low tax rates that were put in place by the luxembourg government. 2 jean-claude juncker no confidence. this has to do with germany taking tax a avoidance and shelters very seriously. >> hans, thank you so much. the latest on some of these tax rates. m.p.'s will be grilling two top hsbc executives on taxes. we will bring you the full coverage that this afternoon. >> right. i think stocks are not down by muff. they are off their highs. we went to the closing price high on the ftse. dax backing off a little bit as well but still very much north of the the 11,000 mark. but given where we are and where we have come from and how far we have got, there may be a above it top slicing of those portfolios. what yellen said last night is something we're watching carefully. ♪ >> welcome back. you are watching "the pulse" live from bloomberg's london headquarters. we are talking about greece. getting more comments from the finance minister. saying some really interesting things. >> laying out exactly what the government will or will not do. saying the

. >> mark gilbert, to what degree do we care about what people from luxembourg, malta have to say?of the day, it's about the germans that only the germans, isn't it? >> it needs not to be. the euro bloc as a whole has a lot riding on them. if greece leaves the euro, you're in the land of unintended consequences. you really don't know what the next domino to fall might be. it really does not move the european project, decades in the making, to be having these friday night talks to try and keep one member in the currency. this should have been resolved -- it should have been resolved in december before the new government came in. it was clear that cyprus was going to win power, elected on a democratic mandate of less austerity but he wasn't going to want to continue with the bailout package. this package is too important to be left to this kind of horse trading in the corridors of brussels. >> perhaps, mark. but to your point doesn't the fact that the future of the common currency being under negotiation at 5:00 on a friday afternoon say something about the project? >> the project ha

the big corporations and globalization have found tax haven as broad tax escapes, places like luxembourge from taxes while they depend on u.s. public services and u.s. protection which are not willing to fully pay for. general electric, i'm sorry to say, one of most successful tax escapees over the years in american corporate history. >> you criticize walmart, and not fair but viewers ask, how many jobs has ralph nader created. >> i've created hundreds of jobs in the civic arena, over 100 groups going door-to-door canvassing for clean water, clean air, workers safety. yeah i've got to answer that question. the head of walmart has got to ask himself, his predecessor was making $11,000 an hour plus benefits and i'm sure he's not making much less than his predecessor. that's a pretty big gap between a million walmart workers making under $10 an hour. we have all of this information on our website timeforarace.org. it's a left/right issue now. >> arguably free markets catching up. we'll see, ralph. always good to talk to you. thanks for the time. >> thank you. >> all of -- in the markets, we

it is occupied belgium and parts of luxembourg as well as northern france.e big themes at least for britain belgium and france is a discussion about atrocity. that somehow the germans -- the german army was in its willingness to break an international treaty which was the neutrality of belgium, that they were somehow a rogue army that was breaking international convention. prior to world war i you had a number of international treaty conventions to talk about war and the proper conventions of fighting a modern war. and so this group of pamphlets here really does talk about those types of attacks on the civilian population, not just on the military. it's talking about how the civilian population is coming about. so things like german atrocities atrocities, titles like they dishonored army which is a great example called through the iron bars which talk to the occupation of belgium by german troops. and that talk about things like rape slave driver using civilians to build munitions for them. and they draw them some of them draw on what they claim as documents

the luxury of pretending that somehow we can work this out as if somehow we're negotiating with luxembourg here or belgium. he knows the neighborhood he lives in, and he knows his enemy. he knows their true nature and intentions. and it is his obligation, not just to protect his people but to fight for that nation's very existence. so he has chosen to come before the congress at the invitation of the speaker and i am glad that he has accepted that invitation and i think we owe him the courtesy to hear what he has to say. i want you to go back and look at the united nations roll call votes. time and again when the interests of this country are being challenged around the world, i want you to see how many times israel is one of the few and often one of the only countries that votes with the united states of america in that international forum. i want to you see howl the all the times that the israelis have stood with america on issue after issue around the world. i also want you to what it a sis about us -- what it says about us as nation if we're not prepared that before anything else we ar

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