Near hull, after choking during a School Dinner break. The head teacher said everybody was deeply saddened by the tragic event. The Ministry Ofjustice says it is urgently investigating claims that Security Workers were paid by offenders to deliberately fit electronic ankle tags to loosely so they could be removed. After days of huge Street Protests this is the live scene the Romanian Government has withdrawn a draft decree which would have reduced some penalties for corruption. Now on bbc news, Talking Business. These are the bustling streets of lagos, nigeria, the heartbeat of west africa and a strategic financial hub. But nigeria is in the throes of a recession and young people are desperate forjobs. On this weeks Talking Business, we ask nigeria is one of africas top two economies, the largest producer of oil in africa. It has a Huge Consumer market of 117 million people. But it seems as though right now none of that really matters because nigeria find itself in the throes of an eco
Fewer people will actually pay tax at that rate. Now, let me tell you what else they want to do. They want to nearly double the standard deduction. 12,000 for individuals. 24,000 for married couples. Thats the justification for raising the lowest tax rate from 10 to 12 that a whole lot of people arent actually going to pay for. The plan also calls for the elimination of the socalled marriage penalty. Raising the tax credit for a child under 17 by a yet to be specified amount. And look for a new 500 tax credit for nonchild dependents. That replaces the idea that you can actually otherwise claim nonchild dependents. In addition, the plan calls for repealing the estate tax. What a lot of republicans call the death tax. This benefits generally speaking the wealthy. It also repeals the Alternative Minimum Tax. At lot of you might say i pay the Alternative Minimum Tax. Heres the problem. It was actually meant to be something for the wealthy. Wasnt indexed to inflation so a
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Reporter you were talking about tests up at the top. I can tell you theres one other test right now for the courts, that is to find a fair and impartial jury. 65 Perspective Jurors were ushered into the court on the ninth floor of the courthouse in virginia. The judge first describing the charges against Paul Manafort to them, including bank fraud, conspiracy and failure to report offshore bank accounts. Of course, thats where theyre going to fight this case out over the next two or three weeks. After doing that, he began what is traditional for any judge, and that is to question the jurors about whether they know any of the attorneys in the case, introducing all the attorneys and the defendant Paul Manafort to them. Then essentially trying to get at a question of whether any associations these jurors might have would affect their ability
to reach a fair and impartial verdict in this case. Of course, no one responded affirmatively. They have moved on to private and personal questioning
Worries about germanys economic a big one for the first time in years the economy is shrinking but is it just a blip pois sign of a real slowdown meanwhile germanys fourteen by when it comes to auto official intelligence potentially costing the country trillions of euros. Things are getting critical for Industrial Companies along the banks of the river rhine low water levels caused by this honest lack of rain are severely hampering shipping on germanys most important waterway. This is your Business Update on how the homefront and by lynn thanks for joining me the economy here in germany shrank by zero point two percent in the Third Quarter more than analysts had expected and stifled by global trade disputes and problems in germanys car
industry that it is being seen as a wake up call that stable growth is by no means guaranteed. Exports were down and imports up in the Third Quarter thats trouble for an economy built on strong exports a major part of the problem has been a bottleneck in
Worries about germanys economic a boom for the first time in years the economy is shrinking but is it just a blip pois sign of a real slowdown meanwhile germanys foreign buying when it comes to alter official intelligence potentially costing the country trillions of euros. And things are getting critical for Industrial Companies along the banks of the river rhine low water levels caused by this sometimes lack of rain also very hampering shipping on germanys most important waterway. This is your Business Update im out on the homefront in berlin thanks for joining me the economy here in germany shrank by zero point two percent in the Third Quarter more than analysts had expected and stifled by global trade disputes and problems in germanys car
industry that it is being seen as a wake up call that stable growth is by no means guaranteed. Exports were down and imports up in the Third Quarter thats trouble for an economy built on strong exports a major part of the problem has been a bottlen