Business report im stephen beards in berlin thanks for watching how seriously are governments taking facebooks plans to launch its cryptocurrency currency libra next year serious enough that finance ministers from 7 leading global economies spent much of wednesday talking about how to rein in the coin they focused on concerns like Money Laundering and Data Security but they also worried about what libra might mean for the global monetary system. The castle north of paris provided grand surroundings for the big discussion of the day arriving in shanty financial leaders said they were determined to ensure the regulator reground was prepared for the arrival of Facebooks Libra the given finance bill g 7 finance ministers and central bankers sitting together here all have grave concerns about facebooks proposals of 7 cells the goal of very carefully checking that all current regulations are being complied with and checking whether the rules need to be changed for the future so that we can e
Very good to have you with us on aljazeera there has been some confusion about whether there will be direct talks between the Afghan Government and the taliban and that was because the Afghan Government announced that they would be why do you think they did that when they know the talibans position which is they wont negotiate with the government until they reach an agreement with the u. S. 1st. So this is not the 1st time the government has announced that they will go into direct talks with the taliban and perhaps this is not the last time and every time they have talked about going into direct talks with the taliban the taliban have flatly rejected it and deed this statement that came out from the taliban was basically saying god all of those people who were. Who would be from the government and the. Dialogue will be there and their bus in other capacities it looks like the the taliban have live coverage as far as this whole Peace Process is concerned theyre talking to the americans
A Greenhouse Gas that damages the environment cows and sheep are responsible for 14 percent of global Greenhouse Gases thats the same as all the cars trucks and planes in the world also some of the land they graze could be used to grow cereals and grains for human consumption. Scientists at this Research Institute in western england are looking for ways to reduce the animals Carbon Footprint they vary the animals diet trying different grasses or even seaweed they selectively breed choosing the ones that emit less gas into the air the air is continually monitored to see what works and what doesnt. The high tech farm includes a brand new shed 1st specific experiments to carefully measure input and output all designed to see of cows and sheep can exist in an environment at risk grasslands can incorporate kleibers in the games that concoction not to animals naturally would serve and when yours to fertilize those plants so just to say because im the most produce meat is a not sustainable is
Technology Companies Like google amazon and facebook operating in france will soon be paying more tax Frances Senate has approved a 3 percent tax on Tech Companies doing business there the aim is to plug a taxation gap thats allowed some internet heavyweights to avoid tax in countries where they make their profits and to book their income in low tax countries like ireland its estimated the livy could net france 400000000. 00 euros this year and 650000000 next year before the vote french finance minister spoke out against the growing power of big tech. Start. We can all see the emergence of economic giants with monopolistic attributes who not only want to control a maximum amount of data and make money with this data but also to go further than that by in the absence of rules avoiding taxes and putting into place instruments that could tomorrow become a sovereign currency. The song keep way dumont home would have formed minister one. But even before the legislation was through us Presid
The white house says they are unfairly target American Companies like facebook apple google and amazon and as threatened punitive trade measures against paris Big Technology Companies Like google amazon and facebook operating in france will soon be paying more tax Frances Senate has approved a 3 percent tax on Tech Companies doing business there the aim is to plug a taxation gap that allowed some internet heavyweights to avoid tax in countries where they make their profits and to book their income in low tax countries like ireland its estimated the livy could net france 400000000. 00 euros this year and 650000000 next year before the vote french finance minister spoke out against the growing power of big tech. Start. We can all see the emergence of economic giants with monopolistic attributes who not only want to control a maximum amount of data and make money with this data but also to go further than that by in the absence of rules avoiding taxes and putting into place instruments th