well monika at this point it's important to point out that this is a european commission proposal and not yet an e.u. law and some of the problems with it besides simply inflaming the transatlantic trade relationship even further is that there are many european union governments who themselves are not interested in passing attacks like this they don't like the idea of having companies taxed on revenues instead of on profits it may create problems with companies wanting to tax them to base themselves in european union countries so there are many problems with these proposals simply ever becoming e.u. law it remains to be seen whether president trump would ever have anything to fight back against inside the w.t. oh well as far as i believe the business community isn't too happy about the proposal either one is that that's right i spoke with the. chief economist of business europe james watson today and he said that besides the fact that these proposals probably don't violate any w t o rules they do go against we called o.e.c.d. principles and he said many european union governments are

arabia is known as one of the world's most conservative societies things may be changing though as monika mentioned the reason is or oil falling prices have hit the oil rich chain him hard crown prince mohamed bin saddam on his own built in a vicious program of reforms because of that no news beijing thirty thirty aimed at transforming the kingdom's economy among other things now these reforms include diversifying the economy and reducing its dependence on oil creating new jobs making the country less dependent on foreign workers will take a closer look at that in just a moment saudi arabia also wants to attract more foreign investment it has also taken a few steps towards social reforms as i mentioned is made to start lifting some of the oppressive restrictions on women for example a driving ban for women will finally be removed later this year our reporter funny has been in saudi arabia in the capital riyadh in jeddah only coast looking at how this vision for the future is changing the country. we is an international city third of the population comes from abroad many of them were of co

but first some travel chaos in france monika yes and it will not just be today sumi france is facing months off disruption as rail unions begin a strike to protest against president in malema calls plans to overhaul the economy thousands of commuters a difficulties getting to work this morning after most trains cancelled international routes were also affected and rev unions say this is just the beginning. tuesday morning at the godly on a major train station in paris. it's the first day of rolling strikes which are likely to continue for months. for most economists is catastrophic something needs to be done we're victims we haven't done anything wrong we need to get to work like everyone else this is normal. france's national rail operator s.n.c.f. says the strike will halt eighty five percent of france's high speed trains and three out of four regional trains. said i don't think we started every train station no direct trains a commuter was unwell and here i am heading to work and needing to rush away yesterday that. the walk out as a serious test for french president to manuel mac

difficult times for french commuters monika's more now i wouldn't want to travel in france today teria have to admit france faces months off travel chaos a first wave of roading rail strikes is underway today the four main rail unions have called two days of strikes in every five days for the next three months to protest against a shake up of the national s.n.c.f. rail monopoly on the status from energy to garbage collection joining the walkouts this of course in opposition to french president in mount calls the labor market reform agenda. rail workers are especially angry with the government it plans to do away with train drivers right to retire at fifty two the administration also wants to make cuts to their current holiday entitlement of fifty days per year those kind of privileges cost a lot of money and state owned railway s.n.c.f. has accumulated a debt burden of forty five billion euros the disruption to france's regional long distance rail services is expected to last for three months the four unions involved will strike for two days and then work for three programmed chaos. al

joining susfacebook's head of global policy management monika bicker in advance of the quarter, it's for having me on the show >> this is all about the challenge that we know every consumer and user of facebook has. that is trying to understand the intricacies of these policies which are by necessity getting more detailed. so what is the headline for people who are going to read this >> well, the headline is that you can now see exactly how facebook enforces its content standards. our content standards, they've long been public and they tell people, for instance, we don't allow harassment we don't allow hate speech but people have asked us for some time what do we mean? now you can click on our community standards and read the same detailed guidance that we give our employees when they're enforcing these policies >> tell us more about this appeals process for users. how is that going to work step by step if i feel like something i posted was wrongfully taken down >> well, for some time now if we've removed your page or your group, you can ask us to take a second alolook and make sure

well monika at this point it's important to point out that this is a european commission proposal and not yet an e.u. law and some of the problems with it besides simply inflaming the transatlantic trade relationship even further is that there are many european union governments who themselves are not interested in passing attacks like this they don't like the idea of having companies taxed on revenues instead of on profits it may create problems with companies wanting to tax them to base themselves in european union countries so there are many problems with these proposed the e.u. business community isn't too happy about the proposal either why is that that's right i spoke with. chief economist of business europe james watson today and he said that besides the fact that these proposals probably don't violate any w t o rules they do go against we called o.e.c.d. principles and he said many european union governments are simply not going to be supportive of that he said that there will be there are the most that is likely going to happen from this is that some governments those governm