due to the deforestation of the amazon jungle, huge amounts of nutrient-rich soil are washed away into the oceans. reporter: several luxury resorts send -- spend hundreds of thousands of euros a year cleaning their beaches. once algae reaches land, it decomposes, creating a pungent odor. >> everyry year r it is differet but there seems to be more algle as the yeaears go by. cleaeaning it up with a huge strarain on local authoritieses. >> to be honest, this stuff affects alall activity on the beach.h. you are expecting to find a clean, sandy beach, but instead find it covered analogy. reporter: what is worse is the effect on marine life. see turtles, for example, cannot make it to the beach through the thick algae, meaning they can no longer lay there eggs there, a serious threat to an already endangered species. brent: tonight there are reports that a chinese anticorruption activist who campaigned to force public officials to disclose their wealth has been arrested and charged with promoting terrorism. his arrest last week in beijing came as china clamps down on communist party critics

. >> big technology companies like google, amazon, and facebook operating in france will soon be paying more tax. france's senate has approved a 3% 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. it's estimated the levy could net france 400 million euros this y year and 650 million nex year. before the vote, french finance ministster spoke out against th growing power of big tech. >> 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. >> but even before the legislation was through, u.s. president donald trump had ordered an investigation. the u.s. warned that if the law passed, it would activate section 3011 of the u.s. trade act. that au