The devastating conflict in ethiopia as the un warns that hundreds of thousands could starve. Are live inside coventry cathedral ruins for uk city of culture. Street performers are moving through the city to avoid attracting large crowds due to coronavirus restrictions. Hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. Finance ministers of the world s leading economies remain confident of striking an historic deal in london today on taxing tech giants. The agreement by the g7 group of finance ministers is set to include a global minimum rate of corporation tax. The base rate of 15% is seen as a starting point, but is lower than the minimum rate of 21% that had been proposed by president biden. The plans are also set to stop major multinational companies, include apple and microsoft from paying little or no tax in countries where they make money. The uk chancellor, rishi sunak said businesses should pay the right amount of tax in the right place. Germany s finance mi
google s parent company, alphabet, and microsoft have both unveiled quarterly report cards that beat expectations. alphabet shares jumped a little more than 1.5% in after hours trade, as the company announced that its quarterly revenue rose to more than $69 billion. that s 3% higher than the previous year. microsoft stock also got a boost in extended trading, up a smidge over 8.5%, with a quarterly revenue beat that was mainly driven by growth in its cloud computing businesses. of briefings at insider intelligence. some signs of resilience here? yes. although clyde either one or two caveats that. expectations have drops considerably in the last year so this is the type of growth that both of these companies would have been mortified by just a year ago and now expectations have dropped to the point that this is meeting the point that this is meeting the mega expectations of the market is a win. the mega expectations of the market is a win. there is a lot of chat right marke
when the justice department first announced and historic indictment of a well-known american billionaire and political figure. former billionaire sam bankman fried under arrest and facing charges. was once hailed as the king of crypto. today, sam bankman fried, founder and former ceo of exchange ftx is facing criminal indictments and a wave of civil complaints. the sam bankman fried indictment, a huge, complex case involving billions of dollars in fraud complicated financial instruments, international currency exchanges and a whole lot more. it was a first of its kind case for the justice department. and, for the judicial system that would hear that case. and, it took 10 months for that case, with all of its myriad complexities, to go to trial. sam bankman-fried was indicted in the month of december by the following october, he was sitting in a courtroom. as it turns out, that is a fairly standard amount of time for major cases. in october of 2017, former trump campaign
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