With us so today germanys most controversial tax case is going on trial it involves 2 British Investment bankers were accused of defrauding the country of around 440000000. 00 euros in tax money in a case which centers around socalled ex trading schemes a complex trades are equity deals investors rely on the sale of borrow chast right before a given firmest lated to pay dividends a scheme that also resulted in double tax reclaims for share trade us now over the years it became big business based on tax fraud the total loss for europe could be around 55000000000. 00 euros according to the Journalistic Research network correct if with germany losing an estimated 32000000000 euros now todays trial is just the beginning with some 200 more people also being investigated lets talk a little bit more about that and bring in our financial correspondent who is standing by for us there is in frankfurt 21. 00 saying we have to clarify 1st of all i was just talking about sort of unfortunate tax hol
It will include cspan video and reflect different points of view. Information to help you get started is on our website studentcam. Org. Of the Tech Industry. Want to show you a clip that is where we are today. This is last year with mark zuckerberg. Car Companies Face a lot of competition, if they make a defective car, they will stop buying the car. Theyll buy another one. Is there an alternative to facebook in the private sector . Mark yes, senator. The average citizen uses eight different apps to stay in touch ranging from senator graham the different . Mark it overlapse. Senator graham you dont think you have a monopoly . Mr. Zuckerberg it certainly doesnt feel like that to me. Would you share us the name of the hotel you stayed in last night . [laughter] mr. Zuckerberg no. If you messaged anybody this week would you share with us the names of the people you messaged . Mr. Zuckerberg no, senator. I would choose not to do that publicly here. I think thats what this is all about, you
Reauthorizing the special Diabetes Program before it expires on september 30th and supporting more research. This is about an hour, 45 minutes. The hearing will come to order. Good morning, everybody. Its wonderful to welcome all of you here to washington, d. C. This is our 11th childrens congress. Its always a privilege to work with jdrf families whose commitment to promoting lifechanging research to prevent, treat and ultimately cure type 1 diabetes inspires me. I want to welcome not only our Ranking Member senator casey and senator scott from florida, but also we have a special guest, that is the cochair with me of the Senate Diabetes Caucus, senator Jeanne Shaheen of new hampshire. Thank you for joining us here today as well. Let me shorten my opening comments this morning because we do have votes beginning at 11 00. And i want to make sure that we have time to hear from all of our witnesses. As i said, i want to begin by welcoming the more than 160 children who have traveled to wa
Come to your business i want to get jones and berlin good to have you with us and as the political fall go around to bricks it thickens in london the impact of the uncertainty on business continues to be felt not just in britain germanys export led economy is feeling the pinch in the 2nd quarter 29000 german exports dropped by a whopping 21 percent compared with the previous quarter that is the biggest quarter on quarter drop since the financial crisis a decade ago germanys britains largest source of imports accounting for around 15 percent. But having said that the biggest Economic Impact by far would be felt in britain a new study by the United Nations found some alarming figures. After another dramatic night in westminster on wednesday the protests over break that will likely continue in london for weeks and months to come some want the u. K. To leave the e. U. Without a deal some dont want brags of to happen at all. But most economic analyses on the subject point to the chaos that
This Senate Aging Committee hearing include actor Victor Garber in a 9yearold girl from maine to testify about their experiences living with diabetes. Senator Susan Collins chairs the committee. [inaudible conversations] the hearing will come to order. Good morning, everybody. It is wonderful to welcome all of you to washington dc. This is our 11th childrens congress and it is a privilege to work with jdf families whose commitment to promoting lifechanging research, to prevent and ultimately q or type i diabetes inspires me. I want to welcome not only our Ranking Members, senator casey and senator scott from florida, but also we have a special guest, and that is the code chair with me of the Senate Diabetes Caucus, senator jean shaheen of new hampshire. Thank you for joining us here today as well. Let me shorten my opening comments this morning because we do have the votes beginning at 11 00 and i want to make sure we have time to hear from all of our witnesses. I want to begin by welc