vicky keeps knows what it's like to wish she was somewhere else she grew up in green zone small luxembourg the action always seemed to be going on elsewhere here becoming an actress wasn't necessarily the most obvious of career choices. as to say i'm going to be an actress was like saying i'm going to be crazy ruth read of the first verse of what you want to do when you grow up crazy oh well good luck then. she left luxembourg to study acting at your ex university of the arts she performed at the renowned zurich playhouse and accepted several small roles in international film productions but it was the german film the chambermaid that secured her her breakthrough role portraying a shy and lonely woman beginning to discover her inner self to have found out in a few that maybe mean so much to me it was the first time i had the chance to express myself as an artist the way i wanted to hear. the wonderful passages paul thomas then saw this persona i had created and that's the reason why i got to do this movie now. that means it was my work that led to more work not some power structures of kno

she left luxembourg to study acting or jurek university of the arts she performed at the renowned juric playhouse and accepted several small roles in international film productions but it was the german film the chambermaid that secured her her breakthrough role portraying a shy and lonely woman beginning to discover her inner self to the film without even a few that maybe mean so much to me it was the first time i had the chance to express myself as an artist the way i wanted to hear. the wonderful passages paul thomas then saw this persona i had created and that's the reason why i got to do this movie now. that means it was my work that led to more work not some power structures of knowing the right people. not to demote ken was the system and a professional photographer took these pictures which tell a tale about daydreaming vicky as an astronaut. vickie at the fairgrounds one of the queues favorite german words scenes a lot of this and one about a father's insult is such a beautiful word it implies longing and desire as well as the craving for it with the thumb and it's a. wonderful

the luxembourg economy is essentially an offshoot of the city of london.ther things happening in european politics. germany does not have a government. germany are not the strongest... is michel barnier and jean—claude juncker keeping their cool, to take your phrase, or are they sabre rattling? are they deliberately so, trying to remind people that time is running out? i think they are saying, what is the truth? the thing that concerns me about this is that is somewhat artistic quality to this british, internal negotiation. it is as if the cabinet can decide what it wants, it will happen. the japanese trade delegation, senior executives who went to downing street this week, and for them to put their head above the parapet, the way japanese businessmen work, to hint that they are unhappy about the way things are going because they produce half the cars that britain makes and half of those get exported to europe, and if it goes through a non—european union arrangement, those are 10% tariffs at least. some of these parts move across the channel three times be

aat's a satellite -- ofellite for the government luxembourg.rful operational rocket in the world could take off for the first time as soon as february 6, according to spacex ceo elon musk. we continue to monitor reaction from several big tech companies reporting earnings. take a look at how facebook, qualcomm, and microsoft are doing in after-hours trading. cory johnson joins us now from new york to wrap the highlights. cory, if you look at the terminal facebook shares are now , up after-hours 3%, rebounding, after executives say they expect customer use to rebound. of course the big concern is , that decline in north american users for the first time ever. cory: i am all for it. me too. hey, what really struck me in the facebook results was maybe an explanation as to why mark zuckerberg and the rest of facebook now will make some changes and mess with what people see, what you and dave were talking about earlier in the show, and change the user experience. they are seeing a tremendous growth in the revenue per user. revenue per user worldwide

it was carrying a satellite for the government of luxembourg.unch came 60 days after the first successful u.s. launch. >>> california is wiping out thousands of marijuana arrests. those are some of the headlines on the morning newsstand. a student from china was arrested. they sate was legal for the freshman to have a rifle. he reportedly went to a shooting range and inserted a high round capacity magazine and firing it. that made it an assault weapon which is illegal for foreigners to possess. >>> the "san francisco chronicle" reports the city will wipe thousands of marijuana convictions off the books. san francisco's district attorney said prosecutors will apply california's laws making marijuana legal to past criminal cases. the d.a. said his office will dismiss nearly 3,000 misdemeanor cases and review 5,000 felony cases for possible action. >>> "vanity fair" reports somebody finally asked michelle obama what was in the tiffany box melania gave her. mrs. trump gave police obama the box as a gift, but what was inside remained a mystery. in he

has deemed non-cooperative on tax the netherlands ireland and luxembourg are all seen as the e.u. the lowest of the low tax jurisdictions. sales of new single family homes fell in january by seven point eight percent according to figures released by the commerce department on monday that sharp drop follows a nearly identical drop in december four of the past six months have seen drops in the sales category there was a regional bias to the drop with the northeast and south seeing the largest declines the west and midwest by contrast saw gains leaving some analysts to blame the unexpected decrease on harsh winter weather market watchers will be especially keen to watch whether the northeast continues to trend bearish as a trump tax cuts may discourage home purchases in high cost areas. and comcast the us cable giant that owns n.b.c. telemundo and universal pictures is looking to add another company to that list this week comcast offered to buy sky for more than thirty billion dollars sky which features news and television content is currently own did part by rupert murdoch's news co

double tax treaty jurisdictions and those are the european jurisdictions ireland the netherlands luxembourg the involvement of jurisdictions like the cayman islands which is not a double tax treaty jurisdiction and therefore not involved in that form of tax avoidance is simply that there are maybe one hundred or two hundred subsidiaries of the major u.s. corporates which are located in cayman which way use that as the ultimate holding vehicles for the net trading profits of those global u.s. corporations now to the extent that the tax regime has just changed under the tax tax cuts and jobs act two thousand and seventeen. we may find there is no further use for those cayman subsidiaries of the major u.s. corporates. and so we may be involved in having a hundred or two hundred companies. no no no longer used in the cayman islands and possibly liquidated by bear in mind that's out of a total of around one hundred thousand so it's a statistically irrelevant. percentage well it's been asked summated that this different deferral provision allowed companies to stockpile an estimated three point on

double tax treaty jurisdictions and there's all the european jurisdictions ireland the netherlands luxembourg the involvement of jurisdictions like the cayman islands which is not a double tax treaty jurisdiction and therefore not involved in that form of tax avoidance is simply that there are maybe one hundred or two hundred subsidiaries of the major u.s. corporates which are located in cayman which way use that as the ultimate holding vehicles for the net trading profits of those global u.s. corporations now to the extent that the tax regime has just changed under the tax tax cuts and jobs act two thousand and seventeen. we may find there is no further use for those came and subsidiaries of the major u.s. corporates. and so we may be involved in having one hundred or two hundred companies. no no no longer used in the cayman islands and possibly liquidated but bear in mind that's out of a total of around one hundred thousand so it's a statistically irrelevant. percentage well it's been asked summated that this different deferral provision allowed companies to stockpile an estimated three poi

that was to do with pressure from jean—claude juncker, who is of course a former prime minister of luxembourgly an offshoot of the city of london. there are other things happening in european politics. germany doesn't have a government. and is... michel barnier and john called younger, i'd be keeping their cool or idea deliberately so trying to remind people that time is running out? michel barnier and jean—claude juncker, i they keeping their cool orare juncker, i they keeping their cool or are they deliberately trying to remind people that time is running out? the japanese trade senior executives who went to downing street this week, for them to put their heads above the parapet the way japanese businessmen work, their heads above the parapet the wayjapanese businessmen work, to interfere unhappy because they produce because that britain makes and half of those get exported to europe and if this goes to a non—european union arrangement, those are a temper sent out at least and some of these points move across the channel three times before the end up in the car and you can see how unbelieva

double tax treaty jurisdictions and there's all the european jurisdictions ireland the netherlands luxembourg the involvement of jurisdictions like the cayman islands which is not a double tax treaty jurisdiction and therefore not involved in that form of tax avoidance is simply that there are maybe one hundred or two hundred subsidiaries of the major u.s. corporates which are located in cayman which way use that as the ultimate holding vehicles for the net trading profits of those global u.s. corporations now to the extent that the tax regime has just changed under the tax tax cuts and jobs act two thousand and seventeen. we may find there is no further use for those came and subsidiaries of the major u.s. corporates. and so we may be involved in having a hundred or two hundred companies. no no no longer used in the cayman islands and possibly liquidated by bear in mind that's out of a total of around one hundred thousand so it's a statistically irrelevant.

market is only relevant to retail the fund management industry everyone is already set up with luxembourg funds anyway it's certain aspects of banking but not particularly institutional banking and some aspects of insurance but it's quite a small proportion of the total amount of city business where it is wholesale just like america today we trade with the e.u. just as america trades with the ok well either way we're going to hear much from as i thought from the goldman from bench we also hear quite a lot about the european court of human rights however. find that surprising given that the left wing position believe it or appear in convention on human rights as people must enjoy their property because color it is exactly one of the first people to be asking about nationalism yeah my point is that b. is that the court of justice we didn't struggle to have our own democracy for a thousand years of executing a monarch to be told what to do by european institutional majesty is what i should say this is no main. reason the main reason for brics right so you're saying basically i'm saying must

celsius just for london in paris to see a little bit of a wintry weather there just around belgium luxembourg easing down into that eastern side of france but the real wet weather is down across southern most parts of the piles of italy how the possibility of snow stretching right the way up to moscow moscow st thomas getting up to freezing warming up on recent valleys we started gets monocytes over the last couple of days two celsius a possibility on sas the off number some really wet weather there just around the balkan snow on the northern flank that into the austrian alps it to pall so hungry it's a possibility of some snow to have the high aground off and wind in scotland as we go on through sas they come for the self-esteem a little bit of a wintry mix across northern parts of africa recently smiled to me of rain over the next few days out c.s. thirteen. right. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines the united states is not ruling out the use of force against the syrian government to deter it from using chemical weapons the u.s. says it is only concerned abo

look at those declines -- luxembourg off three. the netherlands down 2%. lower.xx 600 was 3.2% it is now down a mere 1.2%. the european benchmark down 7% since the 21 month high on generate 27 -- january 27. this is the losing run for european stocks, the longest losing run since november. the cac 40 by 3.5% the open. all of these currencies are falling against the dollar today . 0.25%.own by the german ten-year down 2.8 basis points. the yield earlier fell by six basis points. ten-year, the german closed at its highest level since september of 2015. rising, other commodities declining. take you look at the grr function. every single industry group is declining on the stock 600 today. these stocks earlier rising as much as 31 points or 71% to a record, the highest level since june of 2016. bp dodginghow you the disappointment that afflicted other oil company earnings. exploiting the upswing in crude prices -- oil and gas output year,ast and fivefold increase in fourth-quarter profit -- not all stocks are falling today. bp up .7%. vonnie: this event we saw

the single market is only relevant to retail management industry everyone is already set up with luxembourg funds anyway it's certain aspects of banking but not particularly institutional banking and some aspects of insurance but it's quite a small proportion of the total amount of city business where it is wholesale just like america today we trade with the e.u. just as america trades with the ok well either way we're going to hear much from as i said from the cold and from bench we also hear quite a lot about the european court of human rights however. find that surprising given that the left wing position i believe it the european convention on human rights as people must enjoy their property because court is exactly one of the first people to be asking about nationalizing yeah my point is that b. is that the court of justice we didn't struggle to have our own democracy for a thousand years of executing a monarch to be told what to do by european institutional majesty is what i should say this is no main. reason the main reason for brics. so you're saying basically i'm saying must get th

double tax treaty jurisdictions and there's all the european jurisdictions ireland the netherlands luxembourg the involvement of jurisdictions like the cayman islands which is not a double tax treaty jurisdiction and therefore not involved in that form of tax avoidance is simply that there are maybe one hundred or two hundred subsidiaries of the major u.s. corporates which are located in cayman which way use that as the ultimate holding vehicles for the net trading profits of those global u.s. corporations now to the extent that the tax regime has just changed.

france also seeing some very wintry weather that's now in the process of sliding its way across luxembourg and belgium this weather system coming in will introduce some milder air over the next couple days but as it runs into the cold as that snow just coming down across them into piles of eastern and central france and paris three degrees celsius for the snow flies you see the snow extending down into the pira nice behind that will see slightly moderate in london around seven degrees celsius central parts one degree celsius there full of yet it got some snow easing over towards you cry all making its way east was really heavy rain a little bit of snow across northern parts of this with very heavy right as we go on through saturday big and fun read out post the grass easing across greece further west it will turn somewhat drive in france and there will see temperatures in london getting up to rob just just nine degrees there for madrid in a northerly breeze meanwhile across northern parts of africa we have seen some rather lively showers some of the wintry they make in the way for the east

witness even the pre-gramski, rose luxembourg. freedom is exclusively for freedom for one who thinks differently, all that is instructive, wholesome, purifying in political freedom depends on this essential characteristic. argue with them if you like. but do not expect me to believe that freedom of speech is some disguised puppetry of the powerful. it is to the contrary an indispensable ingredient for preventing tyrannies. tyrannies be they of the left or the right. be they in the name of the father land, the vok, or the workers. there are always two great questions to be asked at such moments of crisis, who is to blame, what is to be done. we have seen how many hands are soiled with blame, for the present crisis of the first amendment. but what is to be done? the great instinct of humanity, even when facing catastrophe, is to do nothing rather than something. but we will not make ourselves safe by doing nothing. or, by doing as the green grocer described by havel in his great 1978 essay, the power of the powerless. a green grocer

celsius just for london in paris to see a little bit of wintry weather there just around belgium luxembourg easing down into that eastern side of france but the real wet weather is down across southern most parts of a small piles of italy the possibility of snow stretching right the way up to moscow moscow seeing temps getting up to freezing warming up on recent valleys we started gets monocytes over the last couple of days to say this is a possibility on sas the name of some really wet weather there just around the balkan snow on the northern flank that into the austrian alps it palls so hungry it's a possibility of some snow to have the high aground off and wind in scotland as we go on through sas they come for the same a little bit of a wintry mix across northern parts of africa recently smiling at me of rain over the next few days out she is thirteen. more than seven decades ago a country was split into three to be a good place with good demand and now with the time. being involved all it took was a pan a mom and the collapsing empire when the british had to draw a line they pulled his

here's something from stuttgart, something from luxembourg. >> shilling. >> reporter: oh, this is bangkokp of bangkok. they had quite the journey on the run, didn't they? >> they sure did. >> let's picture these two young lovers going on this romantic, tense, crazy adventure to england. >> reporter: life on the lam in london. >> yeah, under assumed names, passing bad checks, but then it all came crashing down on them. >> reporter: jens and elizabeth's six-month life on the lam ended in this london marks and spencer department store. >> on the 30th of april, 1986, a young couple was seen by the store detector in marks and spencer, just across the road there, acting suspiciously. >> reporter: terry wright and kenneth beever were detectives with the london police department. >> they were separated inside the store and they both were seen to go to the counter and get refunds off previous purchases. >> reporter: a store detective alerts an offduty officer, who stops the young couple. the offduty officer arrests jens and elizabeth on suspicious they committed fraud. their mug shots reveal their

this is the united states and these numbers are for 2012 compared to other countries. , canada,nd, luxembourg ireland, austria, germany, new zealand, and australia. then there is also this from vox .com, survey trends in gun ownership rates. take a look at this. do you happen to have in your home or garage any guns or revolvers? the number in 1973 was 49%. in 2012, 30 4%. in 1980, 20 9% of those surveys said yes, do you have any of these guns personally belong to you. 22% now in 2012. do you have a gun in your home in 1972, the answer was 43% and 2012 it looks like around 2010, 40 3% answered yes to that. do you personally own a gun or do the gun or guns in your household belong to another household member? 27% saying personally owned and 29% in -- now that number at 29%. this is the partisan gap in views of concealed carry. it's among the widest on gun policy proposals. the red is republican republican and the blue is democrat, preventing the mentally ill from purchasing guns. this is what 89% say. somewhat inongly or favor democrats and republicans at preventing the mentally ill from gettin

[applause] we will miss you and, yes, randy, we will be visiting you in luxembourg. wanted to get a special thanks to our speakers this week, speaker gingrich, kellyanne conway. i hope you enjoy the meetings. we have the pleasure of hearing from our vice president and president. [applause] thank, ands have to i put them last, and we are going to clap for them even though they are not here. my husband patrick and our wonderful children. [applause] let's think about how far we have come since president trump was elected. republicans delivered the biggest set of tax cuts in a generation. 3 million people across this country have received bonuses or higher wages or increased 401(k) contributions as a result, and today, americans across this country are going to see bigger paychecks because of these tax cuts. unemployment is at a 17-year low. 2.4 million jobs have been created, job killing regulations have been cut, our military is strong, and veterans are being cared for. the president is making america great again. [applause] now let's compare that to what the democrats

when you have major corporations who have been using luxembourg and ireland to avoid paying taxes. we've basically deteriorated our system such that the weaknesses do become obvious to outsiders. one thing -- you talk about the weaponization of information, the same way weaponization plays on the weaknesses in the u.s. and news media and the way it has eroded authority, corruption has been weaponized in the same sort of way. it's attracted the same inform snoogs yeah. it seems like no longer sit about being wealthier and capping that to the private sphere, but it really is. corruption and crony capitalism is coming in and exercising power and exercising it to public. before -- we're going to take a few audience questions before we are able to hear from senator whitehouse. nope. after senator whitehouse we'll be having a few questions, i'm told. but quickly i wanted to get your thoughts on solutions because i think that is always a really important place to be, to get out of sometimes a nile lance. if they're vulnerable to politics and undermine, what is there we can do to address i

european countries are in the process to recognize our palestine, like maybe poland or slovenia or luxembourg so if that is so, what efforts are you taking to take this initiative? husam: as far as recognition, palestine is recognized by 138 countries. is the u.s. and western europe caught because we are also recognized by the majority in eastern europe. in western europe, there has been a is country, which started with sweden if you remember, , fully recognizing the state of palestinian and sweden did that out of how much sweden as a country and political system is much more based on values of interest --es van than interest in fears. and i'd like to give a hand to sweden actually. [applause] also because my kids were born in sweden. i have worked with the swedish social democrats in that very important moment. the vatican recognizes the state of palestine and the vatican has such a resounding symbolism and for recognizing the state of palestine. and we are asking and demanded from the rest of the european countries, that if you want to really invest in the two state solution, then you bette

this one looking successful and it's for the government of luxembourg. it blasted off from cape canaveral yesterday afternoon. the rocket booster splashed down about nine minutes after the launch. >> good stuff. >>> turning to an alarming number of growing deaths off the coast of hawaii. they're looking into nine drowning deaths of less than two weeks all near the same area. >> a dramatic spike in drowning deaths off several maui beaches that officials are calling unprecedented. nine dead in less than two weeks and according to authorities five of those tourists snorkeling in the picturesque waters. 50-year-old from the bay area was snorkeling by himself that was just knee deep. when bistanders noticed him facedown in the water. they say 17 visitors who are snorkeling drown every year on average. >> stay close together, watch if somebody wants to dive down under water, somebody should stay on the surface. >> reporter: experts say swimmers should know their limits, take frequent breaks and get out of the water when you know you're comfortable and recommen

worried about where gorsuch is so they go read to the neighbors house at her neighbors are called the luxembourg and my dad says, do you know where doris is? he said that so funny you can read because i just found out that your nanny and are nanny are running one of the largest drug rings in north london. true story. at this point my parents are really worried that doris is going to come out pics of of te search engine and defined all kinds of things that you really don't want laying around when you have young children. then what happened was three days later the police come knocking on the door and they arrest my dad. the worst wasn't a member of the salvation army going off on a sunday for charity. she was robbing banks and she'd been involved in an armed bank robbery and she used our family van as a getaway car. i love this story because i like to remind my parents that have left me in the care of a drug dealing bank robber for almost ten months. it's really interesting when you think about it because my parents are rational people. they often make good decisions and have good judgment. i sta

a little bit of a wintry weather through the remainder of friday then just around belgium into luxembourg into that western side of jenny the bigger area snow will of course be over the out some very heavy rain just making its way into the balkans for northern parts of italy over the next few days part of the balkans could see maybe as much as three hundred millimeters of rain so there is likely to be some flooding coming in here there will be some wet weather coming in across england and wales as we go on through saturday little dusting of snow over the pan ions we are going to see that making its way eastwards temperatures really struggling over the next few days highs of four in paris but dry. there with sponsored by the time release. more than seven decades ago a country was split into three be a good thing but it didn't and now the trying. to be myopic all it took was a pan a map and a collapsing empire when the british had to draw a line they pulled it in six seven two hundred have been to india before al-jazeera examines the violent birth of india and pakistan and asks what the fut

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the file of humanitarian issues in the security council in fact originally it was a stray or a luxembourg in jordan who looked at that fall in the earlier part of the war you see there the swedish ambassador owner of scoop talking to the kuwaiti president of the security council there nodding their heads suggesting that they are probably ready to go to a vote soon. a diplomat telling outages here or they think they have consensus but still they are pretty cautious given the delays they felt they were there before the various park times in the last twenty four hours and then there have been yet further delays we're told the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov himself has been involved in these negotiations it's also clear that russia has been checking very closely with syrian allies and it can tell you in that room around the table in addition to the fifteen members of the security council the syrian ambassador bashar al jeffrey there but as you say the nonpermanent members taking the lead that they have had nonpermanent members looking at the humanitarian file for some time but actuall

if you look at highest gdp per capita, luxembourg, 100,000 gdp per capita. it doesn't have a huge population, so how did they do that? probably through good productivity growth and human capital, would you make that assumption? >> i suspect that that's true. >> suspect it, right, good. yesterday, i hate to get too much out on speculating, but is it true that the stock market plunge was basicallies-- debt has been with us, we have 21 trillion in debt and interest rates are going up at some time. is it likely the market inrest was wage rate inflation? do you think that's the primary inflation worry that came about that will increase interest rates? >> i certainly saw news articles attributing the decline to that, but i know nothing more than what those news articles are saying. >> that would be my assumption. that was the new piece, right? if you anticipate gdp growth in the next quarter of 5% plus like the fed is now forecasting, that is a wakeup call to something, right? we need to sort that out. so, those same news articles in the financial markets refer to

carrying a satellite for the luxembourg government and a satellite company.the gov-sat-one satelliteched at cape canaveral air force station in florida.the satellite will support communications within europe... the middle east and africa.it will also enable operations for maritime missions over the atlantic and indian oceans... as well as the mediterranean and baltic seas. lawrence karnow: it was a gorgeous day with spring-like temperatures all across the bay area. temperatures are running over 10 degrees above normal for this time of year. of course we started with the super blue blood moon which was an amazing sight in the skies above this morning. it's still very mild outside but temperatures will cool off quickly. on the radar there's no rain to be found. on the satellite image you can see high pressure sitting over californina to bring sunny and mild temperatures. the storms continue to follow the jet stream well to the north leaving us with warm, almost spring-like weather. tomorrow will be another mild to warm day with highs in the mid 60s to low 70s. offshore winds will stren

it's in luxembourg, but he did say he was cautious from a historical valuation evaluation. mick name was dubious. he said it's great and didn't perform, but i think that we've reached eye point before the growth is not there. we have these consumptions. we have future growth in terms of lefrpbling up and buying the debt. but it is emerging market, in china, india, vm, indonesia, you have a lot of growth companies. and you have a very stable market policy, and that is underpinning the very stable environment. i believe that turn is not going to change. of course you will have -- you saw in india, we have the cam where there's a huge loss of potential loss of money coming from the banks. so you will have these things, but we look at the robust growth, you look at the robust growth in consumption, and if you look at a financial market, especially in india, a lot of financial money coming into the market is not domestically, not what foreign investors used to do. sandoip that means it's less at risk at a hiking cycle by the fed. >> there's still some dollar. i think it will tak

amazon also said it will be as it was started clearing its earnings in france as opposed to luxembourg was slow corporate tax rate. company added that it had created a french subsidiary for its european operations in august twenty fifteen and that all this revenues expenses and profits. were accounted for a new mechanism for a taxing us tech companies has been proposed by a major medical. sticks into account the volume of sales generated in each european country. allowed defending it's a record in france. amazon also claimed it had invested over two billion euros in france and study ten creating fifty five hundred jobs. this settlement follows a similar deal struck by amazon in italy in september. is part of the european wide goals make companies like amazon google or facebook. greater share their taxes where they earn their profits. on this monday i marks the start of a week long strike launched by trade unions and employees of french retailer carrefour. this follows the group announced. announcement in late january of a voluntary redundancy scheme for a twenty four hundred employees