ports that diesel a mission tests were conducted on humans. and why is lithuania cracking down on alcohol chris a call for help those stories for you in business in one minute. w.'s program guide on the internet highlights. the whole. dot com highlights. dropping bombs on civilians. trying to situation escalates there's no longer a need for scruples. ruthless calculation military leaders or dopey extending the

massive. technological progress to come to fruition massacres. coming. to her starting february third d. w. . the european commission is giving ninety e.u. countries a final chance to comply with air quality standards today's summit in brussels comes at a time when the outlook for the diesel engine could hardly be worse also in the program software giant s a p announced as its first billion dollar acquisition in years will get the reaction from frankfurt and capping cash payments china is trying to regain the upper hand over a fast moving internet community. business d w business on crystal

folbre welcome. farsightedness pledge never to experiment on animals again c.e.o. mafias miller described the practice as an ethical and repulsive and promised to investigate reports that german carmakers finance tests in which monkeys as well as humans are exposed to toxic diesel fumes in an effort to defend the diesel against revelations that it is pollutants cause cancer now the revelations about these questionable tests come at a time and europe's car industry is effectively fighting for its life these legends lead the market in most e.u. countries but facing increasing pollution the european union is now taking a tough stance on diesel cars there's no dispute that nitrogen oxide pollution is a problem levels are too high in places like dusseldorf stuttgart munich and hamburg as well as berlin

a total of twenty eight german cities exceed limits in some cases dramatically it's not just term germany though france has nineteen affected areas including paris and its suburbs britain has sixteen including london in total twenty three of the twenty eight you countries exceed air quality norms of germany's and byron mental agency says two thirds of nitrogen oxides are produced by diesel engines even the cleanest diesels produce these toxic gas the e.u. commission has summoned nine environment ministers including germany's barbara hendricks to brussels for an air summit on quality today giving them a final chance to comply with quality standards now for more let's bring in our brussels correspondent bendigo band did meeting just ended one of the results. germany and the eight other countries pleading for more time basically they say we

are in a good way about the need more time to match the pollution targets and it's not clear whether the commission is village to give them more time because the infringement procedures against these countries are already running for three years now and this is a question if the commission is willing to give in he didn't. indicate what he's going to do he just said another time and he wants more details until next monday and the commission can take these countries now to court or the commission can also say whether you have another two or three months to cut to come clean with the plans and this is hendricks tried the german minister tried to set her action plan as she called it she will spend one billion euros this year to buy cleena buses to have more electric cars on the street and to come up with new traffic plans for the most effected cities and mrs hennig also said we are on

a good track because we have five percent less nitrogen oxide pollution than we had last year and bad outport knows this meeting europe's auto industry which has been under fire. it's very important because the comic is and out of the hook mrs sendek said we are also considering that the fleet in europe has to be refitted and that would be very costly for the comic because now they're trying to do it was the updates on the sofa which is much cheaper but that maybe turned out not to be efficient enough and in the long run the comic is have to come up with another concept because the diesel engine is clearly dying other countries like france and britain for example say we won't have these engines for much longer and electric cars and electric mobility is the way of the future and riegert in brussels thank you europe's biggest software maker says its

future is in the clouds germany's s a p announced its buying california based kalidas software for two point four billion dollars set to be seps first billion dollar deal in nearly four years kallis provides cloud based software services for marketing and sales this comes as cloud services proved to be a bright spot in s.a.p.'s annual results which came in at the low end of market expectations due to falling sales in the company's licensing business. now let's get the market reaction from frankford with our correspondent daniel called daniel is said to be s.a.p.'s first billion dollar deal in years how's that going down with people on the fighting for. well actually here on the trading floor investors are appreciating this for a long time and say p. that's what was that's what i'm hearing was a little bit too slow to realize that the future is really in this cloud based

software and not anymore on the software that is installed on your computer in the last year as a p was investing already a lot of money because of that their profit margin was down went actually down to a level of just twenty eight percent now new numbers of s.a.p.'s were released today announcing that the profit margin is expected to be at a level of thirty five point two percent but still investors and shareholders are not very happy with the performance of the company shares of s a p are down here today at the blue chip index tax. then cope reporting from the frankfurt stock exchange there to china now where payments via smartphone have overtaken the country threatening to undermine the government's efforts to control money supply and regularly prices using is now setting an upward limit for each smartphone payment transaction in the hopes of regaining the upper hand over fast moving

internet companies. she only pays in cash when requested. here i found a coin but that's it and you know. she hasn't paid with cash for a year when she goes shopping the cashier just scans a barcode on her cell phone to dock the amount automatically. chinese internet companies have made this possible we chat is the most popular social media app and a market leader in mobile payment. says it up whatever the innovations worldwide are making the internet faster but on mobile payments we're leading the way that's something we're really proud of. over the phone. with its payment function we chat is trying to position itself as an app for every situation but the company is facing a setback china's central bank is wary of mobile phone payments and has announced

plans to limit smartphone transactions to seventy euro's. how and when that will go into effect is still unclear. how bullish what if there are problems we'll be able to protect our customers we've all gotten used to paying on the go when we're shopping eating out or singing car ok. that'll continue to be available for our customers. just on the belief whether with online retailers in supermarkets or at the corner greengrocer china saw transactions of an estimated seven point five trillion euros last year. that's twice. the amount of germany's economic output. eighty percent of my customers pay with their smartphones possible we chat and competitor ali pay likely have more customer data than any other company in the world was. going to you then of course there are also disadvantages.

i think a lot of people are worried about their personal information being collected and analyzed. how. still for most people it's become their way of life your internet or your book. she's a bit worried about the central bank's plans but in the worst case scenario she'll just use her bank card. well the first month of the year is almost over and so is the first month for lithuanians having a harder time to find their favorite stipple because starting with the beginning of twenty eighteen the government not only decided to increase the drinking age and personal alcohol shopping hours but advertising is now also banned. lithuania's biggest distributor of foreign print media has been forced to rip full page alcohol ads out of foreign magazines 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 where alcohol advertisements are completely banned at least we don't know of any we find ourselves in a situation when we receive magazines from europe and all over the world and we have to take such on pleasant as measures in this. case to look at look at the normal and this means expensive foreign publications like national geographic esquire and vote 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 as image and reputation abroad. and yet there's no

question that lithuania has big problems with alcohol according to the world health organization per capita alcohol consumption increased twenty two percent in a decade to over eighteen leaders of pure alcohol in two thousand and sixteen and lithuania has the highest suicide rate in europe. that wraps up our show for now for more on the latest business stories be sure to check out our facebook and twitter feed i'm christopher where i'll be back here with a fresh update on. what . the to cut.

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