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rules and inform them write. my name is the amount of people and i wore them. to. the diesel scandal deepens take a deep breath. doesn't smell good reports out today the german comic has tasted bad dirty diesel technology on humans. and talking up or talking down the dollar mixed messages from washington all the future of the world's most important currency. also coming up you grew old school one of europe's countries with the highest per capita consumption of alcohol. or indispensable.

i'm good for us all and let's do business suppose. and inexcusable some of the reaction is monday through newspaper reports that the german car giant's finance toxic emissions testing on humans as well as. the aim give diesel a good name and secure valuable tax breaks but it backfired. do you like my new car isn't days old girl say in two thousand and fourteen this v.w. commercial set out to prove just how clean diesel was with the help of a white scarf they how clean it is around the same time twenty five healthy young people were taking part in a series of tests for several hours a few times a week they had to breathe in the pollutants nitrogen dioxide the tests were commissioned by the european research group on environmental health a body funded by comic has v.w. dime led b.m.w. and pumped supply ambush and the results were a relief nitrogen dioxide the study concluded had no negative effects on people an

all clear for diesel and a snub to the world health organizations research its conclusion was rather different namely that diesel emissions cause cancer the human tests are a new low point for car makers they follow revelations last week that monkeys were forced to inhale call fumes in two thousand and fourteen something v.w. has since apologized for in two thousand and fifteen the emissions scandal showed v.w. had spent years manipulating its vehicles nitrogen dioxide output the comic i had hoped to leave all that behind it but these latest revelations suggest that that is unlikely but any time soon. over to our financial correspondent frank for daniel koch daniel what a car shares doing today for was in. well actually with this news you might be thinking that we would see a landslide here happening at the franc for a stock exchange well actually the opposite is the case shares of volkswagen were

at some part of the day even number two here right now they are still with a plastic off about zero point two percent i was talking to an investor a little bit earlier he told me that they're pretty much by the company to go get those negative public reports but on the other hand the company in the last weeks and months has progress been. writing very strong numbers with the record sales numbers for example in china to investors and also receiving a very positive comment commentary from an analyst today so that's the reason despite the very strong euro that we are also seeing today that shares are actually doing very well today ben what about the long term though because the supervisory board calling for an inquiry they could well be consequences where do you think this is going to go. well everybody is criticising heavily at the company we also had a statement a little bit earlier by the german traffic minister and now walks back at us

announcing that there might be consequences but what kind of consequences we might see is there going to be a new c.e.o. ed walks back and will certainly not i believe we're going to see maybe something similar that we have seen in the past also happening to all of us smith remember he was one of the employees involved in the diesel gate scandal in the united states he was then sentenced to seven years in prison and at the end volkswagen even fired him so i do believe at the end they're not going to be any consequences at the top level they're most likely only going to be looking for a scapegoat and yeah that's pretty much most likely going to be it let's hope the scapegoats not that monkey thank you daniel cope. let's talk to your executive director of environmental action joe than a lot of disbelief today what's your response to this story. ok v.c. better criminal company and an organized crime with all these common

affections in germany and also misleading the people and for me it's not only a scandal but twenty five individuals. tested for four hours we have a test on going with hundred thousands of people in the cities in germany they have to breath not cleaned diesel. emissions and we know that twelve thousand eight hundred people are dying every year out of is testing four times more than by accidents and traffic reasons so criminal activity by a huge corporation in in your words in conjunction with an ethics board a so-called ethics board add a german university where the checks and balances in this country. i don't

understand i can't understand how anybody could accept such a testing because it's nothing of the result of a four hour for example. joining a smoking room nobody would argue but tabak didn't harm health so for our. test only is misused for fake science and kinder st tried to have an argument for people who don't look very careful to such studies to show that ten monkeys or twenty five individuals didn't get immediate problems by the diesel emissions and i can't understand why the universities accepted this test and fake science as you say because these tests themselves were actually rigged and we have to point out financed by the auto

giants themselves. exactly but we know that kinder street is twenty years together in organized crime at even proof because by the last year of published this criminal yes group and it's exactly the same company it's b.m.w. woods fox fogging it's time law and bosh the same companies who also organized this association for me very surprising for ten years very very really our one of our biggest problem in bringing clean air to germany but half a year ago they disappeared immediately and you don't find anything in the internet so they have very strict and consequent to destroy all their yes. existence but. luckily i was on

a list dict and found his examples that the journalists are on to this one year limit ash thank you very much for your analysis. well there are conflicting messages coming from us political leaders on what the value of the greenback should be the dollar crawled up from lows on monday but struggled to pull ahead for six straight weeks of losses treasury secretary stephen managed instead of the world economic forum in davos last week that a weak currency would help us trade balances in the short term but on thursday he backtracked saying he fundamentally believed in the strength of the dollar short the of the president donald trump said he ultimately favored a strong dollar the booming u.s. economy should be pushing the dollar up but instead it's been tumbling as so many other economies recover since mid december the dollar has fallen six percent against the euro fulling to about eighty cents the lowest since the end of twenty fourteen and that's raising eyebrows among currency experts the president of the

european central bank mario draghi said just last week that the recent volatility in exchange rates represents a source of uncertainty which requires monitoring we are custom junia's chief economist at sanford seris and beg if he thought u.s. officials comments on the dollar or break with tradition. absolutely it would be a break from tradition and it's not encouraging what they what they do so often with this administration i have the impression that they are not really aware of what they're commonly cation is doing they seem to believe that they can make statesman to lie the us finance and finance minister. and reserve reversing them the other day that is not how we used to communicate in these markets all what we expect from central bankers and governments and it's definitely not to

doing any good for the world economy and the financial system. major withdrawal symptoms for lithuanians draconian new alcohol low came into effect on january the first not only is the drinking age being increased and alcohol shopping hours detailed the advertising is now that. lithuania's biggest distributor of foreign print media has been forced to rip full page alcohol ads out of foreign magazines and if the ads are small enough they can be covered up with a red sticker it's labor intensive but necessary to avoid a thirty thousand year old fine. there is no other country work alcohol advertisements are completely banned at least we don't know if we find ourselves in a situation when we receive magazines from europe and all over the world and we have to take such on pleasure as it measures. that case to look at the book a book that will be no longer just means expensive foreign publications like

national geographic esquire and vogue come with pages crudely torn out readers like vida are upset to find their magazines defaced in this way. they tore it here quite badly. here it's ok even the president is less than impressed with the new law. it reminds me of the middle ages and it's caused huge international harm to lithuania.

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