this is the w. news coming to you live from berlin a call for urgent action as the u.n. climate summit opens in germany the objective of the big man conference to work out how to implement the twenty fifteen paris climate accord conference chair fiji

warns that time is running out in the fight against climate change and finds a colorful way to say it also coming up we'll have a special report from fiji it's just one of many civic islands that have already been hit hard by rising sea levels. other headlines u.s. president on trial tells north korea it's aggressive behavior is a threat to the civilized world. that stands for that but in june and on the first leg of his asia tour trump also says he's open to talks with north korea's leader. of a small town in texas more and suffer a mass shooting there leaves dozens dead the victims are said to include a pregnant woman and several children. and a huge leak of documents shows how big corporations and the rich invest in tax havens will find out who has been implicated in the so-called. paradise paper.

hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us twenty fifteen marked a breakthrough in the fight to combat climate change the only two hundred nations signed the paris climate accord to reduce greenhouse gas output worldwide starting in two thousand and twenty now those emissions are considered a major cause of global warming so far one hundred sixty eight nations have ratified the accord now it's time to hash out the details of a climate conference in the german city of bomb. is chairing the conference center like other island nations in the south pacific it has already been hit hard by rising sea levels. can't host the conference itself because of its remote location more than twenty three thousand people from one hundred ninety seven countries are

attending the conference so germany has offered to host instead now the conference in bonn has already got underway beginning with a traditional fijian welcoming ceremony the goal is to come to an agreement on capping an expected global temperature rise to one point five degrees celsius a lot is at stake over the next two weeks we must not fail. that means using the next two weeks in the hand to do everything we can to make the planets to be. and to advance emission and support for climate action before twenty twenty two made our commitments and. not bicker way from them. and to commit ourselves to the most ambitious target of the bed is a given. kept the global average temperature at one point five degrees celsius

over that of the pre-industrial age. and i was fiji's prime minister there opening the conference in bonn will for more on the global climate conference we're joined now by tata steel mill and he's an expert on climate change with germany's rosa luxemburg foundation that's a think tank affiliated with the left party thanks for talking with us today is the bond climate conference gets underway how close are we tell us to actually getting a grip on climate change. thank you for having me we are nowhere near to getting a grip on climate change in your opening remarks you said that paris marked the great through in the fight against climate change what paris did mark was a change in the way we talk about fighting climate change but in reality none of the targets that was set in paris to keep warming well below two degrees and actually try to keep it below one point five degrees anywhere near being achieved

in fact since paris global emissions rates have gone up and their rate of increase has gone up around the world emitting more carbon and we're destroying the environment ever follows that so the answer is we are no where near meeting those targets a lot has changed politically as well since the paris agreement two years ago we now have a new president in the us who is threatening to pull the us out of the climate accord what effect is that having on global efforts to combat climate change. well again i would like to point out the empirical irrelevance of those efforts you saying that trump being president of the us might weaken global of the global fight against climate change but i live in germany and i'm act i'm sort of a climate activist in germany now germany talks a nice talk on protecting the climate but in reality germany isn't the environmental already knew about energies champion that everybody believes it is in

fact germany is will champion burning lignite we in germany burnt mine and burned all of the dirtiest of all the fossil fuels more in absolute numbers then to china or india and yesterday i was at the pit i was took part in a disobedient action illegally occupying a league night mine very close to the conference center and there were some people from the pacific climate warriors and activists group from the south pacific. stand in front of these huge late night lines these are europe's biggest c.e.o. . and saying that what's behind us here is destroying our homes touch you touch i just want to get your view on one thing here as this global kind of climate conference gets underway because that's where the people who are really involved in it are gathering and they've got two weeks now to work on it i'm just wondering what would qualify for success for you at this climate summit. a statement to the effect that the globe and all the countries have to phase out

fossil fuels immediately a moratorium on new fossil fuel projects and that is unlikely to happen because in the same power as the cold fossil fuels which are the key proximate cause of climate change on even named a second success will be that countries in the globe and all quit some actual money on the table to compensate countries in the global south for the losses and damages they suffered from climate change for the adaptation to climate change that must undergo but no northern country in twenty three years of climate negotiations has put significant amounts of money on the table so knowledge in that fossil fuels are the problem of fossil fuel moratorium and putting significant money on the table from the north but if you believe those things are actually going to happen well look at the history of the last twenty years of time to go she ations very very unlikely to get it where you are going to change from the kind of action yesterday and examined it touches from germany's rosa luxemburg foundation thank you so much for your sussman thank you very much. well let's take

a look at the situation in fiji which is chairing this year's climate conference in bonn now the small island state in the pacific ocean is chairing that congress has a say in it wants to influence the agenda because just like on many other island nations it is already experiencing the consequences of global warming our correspondent boston heartache sent us the following report on how fiji is dealing with rising sea levels caused by climate change. when enrico goes out fishing this has become a familiar sight. emptiness. you're used to. when i was small i usually went out to sea with my grandfather and father but we didn't have to come as far out as we are now we would only go as far as the closest reefs get a good catch and then go back now it's different we have to go from one reef to the

next because there's nothing there the sea is getting warmer. here in the shallows off the coast of a newer level fiji's second biggest island life is slowly dying the rising temperature of the ocean is killing the coral reefs and with them all the fish. the changing climate is also taking its toll on. and recalls a village the sea level is rising and. is slowly being swallowed by the ocean and rico's wife maria grew up here she remembers what it was like when she was a child. there used to be trees where i'm walking now when i was little. when we caught crabs here. right here was my

uncle's house. next to it was a small shop. and a playground where all the children would go to play. what i thought at high tide this area is now underwater the shoreline has been pushing inland for at least two decades several times a year half the village is flooded by especially high tides the salt water makes the soil and fertile leaving behind only sandy barren land. but also corrode the foundations of the houses eventually the villagers have no choice but to give them up. when we built our homes we thought we could live here for ever we never thought of such a thing as climate change and that it could impact us like this and so quickly now we're seeing what it can do it's really sad for everyone in the village.

for the moment the villagers are only moving their houses a bit further back away from the encroaching sea but they're only buying time. over a bowl of carver a traditional mildly narcotic drink in the pacific they discuss their future. just a few hundred metres further up in the hills there's enough space to relocate the whole village permanently but most of the villagers refuse to move to them the land they live on is sacred. it's. not in favor of relocating because our forefathers were sent here to look after the foundation of the home of our first paramount chief. it is these stones they cherish they mark the original home of the first chieftain to rule over the whole island and large parts of eastern fiji some two hundred years ago because of tribal

wars he himself was forced to leave but he sent the villagers ancestors to keep watch. today his successor lives on a different island but the villages obligation passed down through the generations has become part of their identity at the youth. we were supposed to be relocated. but we said that we cannot move because first we have to consult our current paramount chief. we asked him but he didn't agree to the relocation why dold us we had to stay here because the duty bestowed on us is of great importance. and yet the rising seas might leave them with no choice but to abandon the sacred place. and. the villagers are well aware of who is to blame for their plight.

it's the fault of the big nations they're the ones polluting the air with their harmful gases it hurts me and makes me angry because we are being affected by things that we're not responsible for and that are beyond our control. for the people of. climate change is more than just an abstract threat. for them it's real. and they know simply praying won't help. they need real answers fast before their home is lost forever. police in the u.s. are investigating a mass shooting that left dozens of people dead at a church in texas witnesses say the victims include a pregnant woman and children as young as five years old police have said the gunman fled the scene then died of a self-inflicted wound sunday's tragedy in a small texas town has opened another chapter in a years long debate over america's easy access to guns. a candlelight

vigil for the victims of the fatal shooting at the first baptist church of sutherland springs residents of this small texas community struggle to make sense of what happened. have. you ever. heard. your authorities say twenty six people were killed and about twenty others were wounded sunday after a man dressed in black combat gear opened fire inside the church the attackers believed to be a former member of the u.s. air force who received a court martial for assault after leaving the church the gunman was shot at by an armed resident the attacker than fled in his vehicle and was chased by another local man who'd been driving his truck nearby soon afterward the suspect crashed and was found dead we just take pursuit we we speed over eighty seven through

traffic and we like i say we had about ninety five going down five thirty nine trying to catch this guy until he ventured he lost control on his own and went off in the ditch u.s. president donald trump sent a message of sympathy from japan and suggested the gunman had psychological problems i think that mental health is your problem here this was a very based on preliminary reports very deranged individual a lot of problems over a long period of time we have a lot of mental health problems in our country as do other countries but this isn't a guns situation i mean we could go into it but it's a little bit soon to go into it but fortunately somebody else had a gun that was shooting in the opposite direction otherwise it would have been as bad as it was it would have been much worse now law enforcement officials and this tight knit community want to know why this happened it's been just over a month since another gunman killed dozens of people in las vegas with the same

question left unanswered. well let's cross over now to me he's a correspondent standing by for us in san antonio we saw the president donald trump at a news conference blaming the attack on mental health problems what more can you tell us about the attacker. well no we actually don't know for sure that he had mental health problems diagnosed and this moment is also so far still still unclear what we do it all is that he was a twenty seven year old former air force military person who had served in the air force but had been court martialed for apparently assaulting his wife and his child that happened in two thousand and fourteen when he was forced to leave the air force and face got back on bad terms and that might have something to do with this. if we don't know for sure right now ok so we've got someone there who

apparently was dishonest honorably discharged because of assault on family members how would a person like that be able to to purchase a weapon in the united states. that is a very good question and for a little. information says that that he could allegedly by still still buy. do you believe he was he he might not have been able to get medical care for a form of governance that would have to cool mental health care for issues related to the military so. it seems like he may have been able to to still purchase and. weapon even though he was discharged dishonorably but he apparently probably wouldn't have been able to get medical treatment for possible mental health issues by the by the v.a.

we are now understand that the local residents intervened in this case shooting at the attacker and chasing him down in their vehicles tell us more about that. yeah that's what happened i mean that after the that the gunman left the church he was he was he was confronted by a fire a local resident who then gave chase in his car and it was a car chase and. the gunman was fired at by the local residents and then apparently the gunman at some point practice critical and. apparently died from a self-inflicted who was then he was also kind of this shocked by this by this. resident two who confronted him after coming out of the church. you know thank you very much did always make a nigga there joining us from san antonio texas. a

new study of confidential documents has been leaked to a german newspaper exposing tax avoidance by v.i.p.'s and corporations as right terry they're calling it the paradise paper's thirteen point four million files revealing an impressive list of corporations and individuals involved in large scale talks avoidance from facebook nyc nike to u.s. commerce secretary wilbur ross and indeed britain's queen elizabeth is. it's not illegal to transfer your money offshore and enjoy a much lower tax rates but you do have to have millions for the scheme to work and you need highly specialized lawyers to ensure that your income from a high tax country is taxed at a place where the rates are rock bottom. for example a german i.t. company registers its patents in ireland where the tax rate is much lower. even though the product primarily sells in germany the income is booked in ireland

. only a small part of the profits are taxed in germany at thirty percent most as tax in ireland at twelve percent. that's completely legal but companies try to avoid making their maneuvers public because it could be bad for their image for example apple according to the paradise papers apple always searches for ways to worm out of texas the company earns millions with its iconic phones pads and computers it could scare off some customers if they know the premium prices they pay go untaxed nike and ride sharing platform or are among other household names appearing in the paradise papers these companies and scores of rich politicians could be fielding embarrassing questions in the coming days.

within syria now is markos mind ses with attacks just his network talking about embarrassing questions there marcus if you compare the paradise papers to the panama papers from a year and a half ago any difference was just more of the same it's very similar in nature again it's a law firm that has been caught aiding the most powerful players on the planet to get around the rules that democracies have placed on them just like for multinationals all politicians engaged being caught engaged in corruption or in money laundering tax avoidance ovation know it's very much similar to what we have seen in its indicating that we're dealing here with this is to make issue not only with a few bad apples. what about the palin appears from eighteen months ago or has anything been achieved only that it was a huge scandal but has anything happened we have seen a lot of political activism immediately after the perma papers but unfortunately deeds did not really match those words in the aftermath we have seen lots of frenzy

around getting new transparency registers for instance about the ownership d.d.e. real owners of companies yet these have been watered down tremendously especially also by german government practices at the european union level and similarly we are currently seeing the advances for more transparency in the realm of a multinational corporations again being vetoed auto paid owed by the german government and governments keen to keep things as they are do you think there is certainly a great number of governments and also within governments factions that would like to preserve the status quo it's a brilliant moneymaking device it's keeping people off the hook it helps them to escape accountability to escape responsibility for the actions they take for form powerful players again private and public sectors i like so yes indeed there is very strong very. the political interests that want to preserve the status quo is.

we've seen names of huge comp corporations being be implicated there is naming and shaming these companies enough school do consumers actually care. i think the problem we have so far. that we have so far seen that is lacking is global action really a global process at the united nations that would sort of coordinate those measures that have so far been taken at national but very unsuccessfully so far so we see consumers would respond to to a more coordinated approach or voters and the public would be open to change their practices if there was real high level political support by a political leaders such as. do you have any hope that tax havens will ever be shut down. we need to shut them down if you want democracy and a market economy to survive the offshore world is the system to undermine the rules

placed upon the wealthy elites and the most powerful players. by societies on those that can escape them and if we don't manage to rein that back in we end up in food and society where the monarchs were no longer accountable to the rules that they have made themselves. from the tax justice network thank you very much for coming to the studio if you. the paradise paper's there her casting another light on on tax havens let's pull in elizabeth shue now for a different angle on how these revelations are going down in the social media world liz her taxes investment funds offshore holding companies doesn't exactly sound sexy and yet this is one of the hottest issues online and walk us through that. you know that's right terry it is a pretty dry subject about the journalists the investigative journalists behind

this big release they made sure that they really advertised their findings in the right way making sure that they have the biggest shock effect possible they even created something like a movie trailer to tell us about what is coming and we can just take a look at that here you go. yes. yes. and as you see here they even provide a hash tag where they want people to discuss about these papers here you see the hash tag paradise papers and it really did have the desired effect let me just show

you a map that shows how people were discussing about the paradise papers on a year all the dots that you see the red and yellow dots this is people all across the world talking about this latest release and of course this is a very wide paper this is a very wide investigation so we're sure to see more and people discussing more and the coming days and months ok lots of individuals lots of companies and even countries implicated in these a paradise paper. india understand that india ranks rather high on the list of countries implicated in these in this leak. you know that's true and actually let me just show you this map that i had just showing you let's zoom in here on india this really got people talking there in the country more than seven hundred people

have been named in the paradise papers people that are from india and among them you have very high ranking political officials but you also have celebrities for example here very well known bollywood actor i mean bachchan and what's interesting about him is that he had actually previously eighteen months earlier been also named in the panama papers let's take a look at some of the politicians that we have in there here for example you have seen howie is currently the minister of civil. rights before that he actually held the posts of finance minister and lots of people are pointing out the irony in that people in india want prime minister narendra modi to really crack down on tax evasion and he wants the prime minister to bring back the money that is offshore right now list thank you so much live show there from our social media desk.

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temperature rise to two degrees or less. and a gunman armed with an assault rifle has shot dead twenty six people attending a church service in texas president trump has called the attacker do ranged in said mental health not guns was to blame for the shooting. well u.s. president donald trump has again warned north korea that his patience with its aggressive behavior is over trump is visiting japan on the first leg of his asia tour and he pushed his host to buy more american military equipment to protect itself against north korean attacks but trump also said he would be open to talks with north korea's leader kim jong. going for the gut president trump's hawkish stance on north korea got personal when he met with japanese families of those abducted by the nuclear arms regime he's not the first president to do so but

with tensions the highest in years the meeting added emotional firepower to trump's tough talk emphasizing the u.s. is close and longstanding relationship with japan he called north korea's ballistic missile launches over japan outrageous the. strategic patience is over. some people said that my rhetoric is very strong but look what's happened with very weak rhetoric over the last twenty five years look where we are right now. prime minister shinzo abbay said his government stands one hundred percent together on the issue agreeing with trump that all options are on the table. no one wants a conflict neither myself nor president trying to tell you north korea continues challenging the international order under provocation it will affect the international community needs to apply pressure to north korea to change their

policy i mean you know it'll cut. the prospect of armed conflict took on an economic dimension during the visit trump called for free and equal access for american exports to japan's market his answer to north korean missiles is japan buying more defense hardware from the united states he will shoot him out of the sky when he completes the purchase of lots of additional military equipment from the united states he will easily shoot them out of the sky. from japan trump heads to south korea which has also long been north korea's crosshairs. sunday cologne slipped to another defeat this time at home to hoffenheim germany striker scored twice for the visitors and their three nil victory cologne remain rooted to the bottom of the bundesliga table with just two points from eleven games

. nine minutes in a lackadaisical cologne defense seem to stand by and watch as dennis geiger put hoffenheim in the lead. geiger's first shot on wittingly turned into an assist for himself as he powered the ball in with his second. porous at the back and ineffective up front cologne had scored only four goals in their first ten outings . and then they had some bad luck you go hit the post shortly before the break colognes best chance to get on the board. after the restart hoffenheim continued to dominate after this scene the referee awarded them a penalty decision confirmed by video replay even though mark which seemed to go down without much help. stepped up to the spot to make it two nil for the visitors in the fifty six minute and he added another to round out the three nil

scoreline shortly before the final whistle. on the course there are games where we show we've still got some life left in us but today there was way too little of that oppenheimer and rings around us they could have scored even more goals. in the last not only keeps cologne buried in the bundesliga cellar but also deals yet another blow to dean morrell. and in sunday's late game ball sport hadn't lost since martin schmidt took over in september but they hadn't won either the wolves face off against has a brilliant over the weekend with both clubs desperate for success. this was a game for the fans their base of it showed up in the scoring after just twenty seconds. votes but hit back but mario gomez was adjudged to be offside and interfering with play the hit man then missed

a penalty. and eunice mollies net find it deflected off an offside play are still one nil molly caught another chance heading home after forty one minutes and gomes then gave both delayed. two one heading into the break. qantas carrying wreckage my discourse to two on fifty three minutes. but false but back in front just seven minutes lysa the vocal reeky chest ing the ball home. the lay didn't last though the celtic came off the bench to snatch a point for the half. great three the final score manning votes still without a home win this season. let's check out all of honestly results from match day eleven there. was for a draw with has a berlin and hoffenheim win against cologne buy in munich took care of dortmund in

the top game gladbach drew with mines has to dog spoke with a neighbor who isn't hamburg defeated stuttgart leipsic came back to beat had over and shouted down try book on friday frankfurt won against. now let's look and see how the bonus leavings standings are after an exciting weekend of action by munich or increase their lead at the top to four points ahead of rb lives a move to second there we go and don't mean to drop the third further down hamburg escape relegation zone ralf or slip into trouble landing in the playoff spot. well for more on the boat as late as match day eleven i'm joined here in studio by chris harrington from sports a chris let's talk about munich first they really have turned into a powerhouse since hein because returned after another stint for another two stint

as coach really on a roll on thing yeah fifty safe to say that if you want to call it that dissed in all honesty any time an organization a team reunite with their former manager where they were the most successful when you travel it reignites the team in the morale and you see it play out but their opponents haven't been the toughest freiburg hamburg's celtic in the champions league their biggest test was beattie door i mean really and they dominated from kick off i mean it was a wash the last. consolation goal the dortmund scored it was too late to motivate i do think once biorn get all of their players healthy because consider model moya number one goalkeeper in the world still injured frank rebury hot off the presses has just returned to training so i think when all of the players are healthy it's you know full steam ahead byard i think will be a problem for amy but as they decide to do it and good to have their coach back for them i guess good for the team let's go to cologne all fall so far in the bonus

league but they've been winning in the german cup and the europa league how do you explain that it's a quagmire i just can't wrap my head around it it's confusing because domestically you know they have the worst off fans and the worst defense that equals a cellar dweller. that's basically where they are and speaking about the german cup the german cup they actually be can't to berlin in berlin that's very difficult to do that was a shock in the end in the europa league they scored in their last match five goals their biggest concern and biggest boy comes with scoring goals they gave away at the modeste he was the most prolific score last season on the team. was brought in from might try to fill that void with peter has a lot on his plate right now because he's going to have to turn things around i believe cologne is on the hot seat and they're going to have to score goals because that is after all the goal of the game ok leipsic back on track with a win on saturday do you see last season's runners up possibly being

a big challengers again i think you have to give me a little bit of credit for that because they are slipping leipsic the surprise package last season you know they did face buyer twice in the band of four days and they put up a good fight they were actually down to man on both instances and this is a team that i think they can you know given the fact that if team of van is healthy if he continues to be productive on the pitch they can if they stay within three point four point range they can put up a fight and give a fight to barn thanks chris chris herren him from v.w. sports thank you. well let's look at the english premier league now for a bit side west ham have sacked their coach billy after their clubs weekend for one loss to liverpool that the feat drop the team into the relegation zone croatians stant last lasted two years he took over in june two thousand and fifteen and led the club to

a seventh place finish in his first season but west ham have struggled this campaign winning only two zero eleven league game. as a motor sports porsche have. both in durance world titles in shanghai despite the race itself being dominated by toyota the team of sebastian boom here and to need davidson and co zaki naca jima lead for much of the race toiler were on course for one to finish until their second car was forced to pit after a crash that allowed the two porsches to move up to second and third place handing the german team to constructors and drivers titles. you're watching v.w. news still to come just sunday dubbed the queen of less is among germany's best known fashion designers now in a new exhibition in frankfurt it traces her career and. david leavitt's from our

culture desk is going to tell us all about. well as we mentioned earlier u.s. president altro has begun a twelve day tour of asia and of course as you can expect trade is high on the agenda that's right terry and it's his first trip to the region since he pulled the u.s. out of the transpacific partnership and tokyo trump criticized trade relations with japan is quote not fair. not only since donald trump on the white house once rock solid foundations in world trade have suddenly become pretty shaky ground when markets threaten to disappear behind trade barriers companies must sink on their feet the same applies to cases when new technologies destroy old business models a good case study for that is footage film for many best known for producing cameras and films the japanese kong glamourous saw that business model destroyed by the advance of digital cameras in two thousand for the graphic films they still

made up around sixty percent of the film's revenue now it's a mere one percent in the intervening years the business took a nosedive falling initially by ten percent then twenty and eventually by thirty percent each year but while comp. editors like kodak filed for bankruptcy fortune chose to branch out especially into pharmaceuticals and cosmetics these areas now make up more than forty percent of the firm's turn of last year for profits of around twenty billion dollars that's down six percent on the year before forty so it's no longer a maker of photographic film instead it's a holding company with more than two hundred hundred subsidiaries a little earlier we spoke to forty films corporate vice president gore me as arky how his company survives in a rapidly changing marketplace while rival code just went under well i think the most important part was that we had the courage to change and to you know even if it meant that you know biggest cash flow was going to diminish we were able to you

know face the fact and change the direction i think that's the first point the second point was the. first was the courage and the second point was that we feel really did dig into core competences especially on the technical side. so you know the basics of the film technology wise is a i think coding so in. in one third of the thickness of the here we go twenty different coatings or when we matter for the graphic film and this gives us a lot of take cause you can be used in other areas so based on this technology we started to diversify our souls and one of the examples like a. computer tapes we now manufacture more than sixty percent of the worldwide demand. and it is how thin it is is like quoting one liter

of water over forty five football fields even the that's a thickness that you need to have a very high end community so basically you looked at not a product looked at your competence as well as what you do extremely well and apply it to other fields like cosmetics what makes made you go into because we have this a nano cubic technology which is we make nano size particles first and then we coat each one with what we call the binders so that each particles don't stick together to make a bigger particle and by having a wood small particle in cosmetics it absorbs through your skin much better than anything else. so we do our business models can be destroyed by technological advances also but by protectionism which with which we've heard. are you worried about for example u.s. president ronald trump's rhetoric about protectionism and your access to the u.s.

market i think you know. the market should be free same for japan and same for the united states i think that's the best you know you. because international growth comes from free trade basically that's my feeling. but as a manufacturing company the most important things the is that we keep brushing up our own technology and the products that will benefit you know. people worldwide. and that is most important point that we should not forget but what can companies do to protect themselves i mean if you lose access to the american market or your products become much more expensive what can companies do to protect their is a difficult question but in our case we are we we made most of our person in the united states already and also because i think you know that's part of the fair trade and. a many in this mess in the pharmaceutical area are made in the united

states buying companies. you said buying companies you're a holding of two hundred companies now how potent is that this branching out this by bits and pieces around the world what was that for the survival of the chief. well you know the photographic side did drop special the films from two thousand and three to be honest you know we had a very kind of lucky success and good success and the success with insects persons and cameras which did grow very fast. but at the same time we need to establish something for the coming future so it can be three years later it can be ten years later that's why we do have a lot of investments in the pharmaceutical area. very briefly corruption is back on the agenda and on a couple of high profile cases could it happen in future. where nothing is

impossible what we're doing today is giving example in europe we are strengthening our corporate compliance issues very much and we just conducted one hundred two separate training courses in the year me a reason mr gomes arche vice president of the film thank you very much thank you very much for having the studio with us. the false argument changing scandal is not going away in germany alone v.w. has to upgrade its two point six million manipulated things all cause so far only very few owners have sued for damages here in europe but that looks set to change thousands are now demanding the same compensation as v.w. owners in the u.s. to the tune of around three hundred sixty million euros their suits were filed today in a german court prominent u.s. litigator michael how skilled sees more money to be made on folks falcon he spent

months on the internet finding v.w. owners in europe who also want compensation he's been undaunting in his pursuit of the german car maker hopes wagons outcome is invokes wagons hands if they choose to put themselves on the brink of going out of business then it has been their doing. v.w. had installed cheating software and some of its design models to enable them to pass exhaust tests. until now all folks wagon has offered owners in europe is a software update. that's too little for some customers thousands of court cases are ongoing in germany but around nine hundred claims have been dismissed to be w.'s advantage that's why many european owners have shied away from lawsuits but if the litigation team succeeds the w. could face

a new flood of legal challenges from customers who want their day in court after all. throughout decades of changing trends fashion designer has stuck by her own minimalist static she burst onto the scene almost half a century ago with her signature all steer women's wear later the nine hundred ninety s. she out of the men's collection but with her clear lines and muted colors jewels has earned herself the nick thing i'm queen of less well for the first time a museum retrospective of her work has opened in frankfurt. here in germany as her home country of course david leavitt's from our culture desk is here to tell us more first of all david tell us about jill. for those of us who are the viewers who might not know her how would you describe her as a designer well just and as always marched to her own beat within the fashion world

she said of her own brand if you wear jill sander you're not fashionable you are modern and that's really what why she got her start back in the late sixty's she was working as an editor at fashion magazines and she didn't like what she was seeing she didn't think that the clothes represented independent strong successful modern women there she is and so she opened her own fashion house by the way using her mother's sewing machine for a very modest beginnings and she basically made clothes for business women for women c.e.o.'s which is maybe why the brand really took off in the eighty's and the ninety's and the clothes are actually very german and the sense that they're not flashy or demented instead it's really about a high level of craftsmanship so very much less is more is yeah yeah absolutely well fortunately for the people who want to see this exhibition in frankfurt it is very much more it is

a huge exhibition there are videos there's clothes there's product design even garden design and jill sander herself spent a year and a half helping to design the exhibition it is called the presents which means present tense and we've got a closer look at it right now. presence gives an insight into jill sanders inspiration and the world that she created. under the jewels and is a revolutionary because she once again question things fundamentally. the haka. like no other the zonda name stands to elegance and simplicity with the personality of the wearer is allowed to be more present than the clothes on her trademark a high quality fabrics a feminine silhouette and clearly defined lines a symbol of modernity and the empowerment of the individual

a fiat everything has then i think it was very important to her personally as well once she admitted that she was making fashion primarily for herself because she wanted to appear as a business woman or an entrepreneur who could be taken seriously she didn't want to be pushed into playing her gender role as a woman she wanted her character her personality her will to come across. jill sander rejected the idea of a retrospective exhibition as a result there's no chronological order for the pieces when. a has been recreated mood boards the starting point for the collections examples of patton's materials and fabrics. the museum building itself designed by american architect richard maya suits sunders concept perfectly she's organized the rooms according to her design

principle less is more. works are timeless but what was jewels and a trying to achieve in the course of her career. was trying to find the spirit of her time designed geist but i. i think she influenced that spirit in ten. runs until maine six twenty in frankfurt. and david leavitt's from our culture desk is here with is talking about it david you mentioned earlier that jill sanders approach is very german that she's very much a german designer are would you describe her clothes as being like the the famous german car brands like mercedes or or b.m.w. of the one of the design world they're definitely not the lamborghinis are they better they're definitely. flash you know they're not flashy it's really about quiet luxury and she's also said that her inspiration is very german she's inspired

by the bauhaus this german school of design that was about functionality where they designed buildings and teacups just everything that you could possibly use with functionality in mind with simplicity and elegance there's also something very northern european actually very protestant about her as that it's not too opulent but if you look very closely you can see that there's a lot of wealth there now is actually no longer the designer or the owner of the jews and the brands she sold eight years ago although she maintains a relationship with the fashion house she's gone back to work for them a few times in the last year she's actually designed several collections for the japanese budget brand unique low which is certainly much more democratic especially in the pricing but her original vision vision remains. the brand to see more of this presume we can see it on our website absolutely d.w.

dot com slash culture david leavitt's from w. culture thank you so much thank you. and just for we go a reminder of the top stories we're following for you today a fiji has opened the u.n. climate summit in the german city of bond with a traditional welcome ceremony. delegates from nearly two other countries are taking part they're working to limit can expect the global temperature rise to two degrees or less and a gunman armed with an assault rifle shot twenty six people attending a church service in texas us president trump was called the attacker deranged and said mental health not gun s'posed to blame for the shooting. you're watching news filled me with you next thanks for being with us.

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