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world. online and interactive. german to go. learn german for free w. p. i did. not hear the cries foul the country's government says corruption allegations against its central bank governor a smear campaign and an effort to meddle in upcoming elections. and venezuela claims it scripter currency is a roaring success so often just one day of pre-sales but those aren't so sure. this is your business update on how many home free but good to have you with us they got the in defense ministry says corruption allegations are leveled. the

country's central bank governor possible a massive information campaign from else size and a statement the ministry said claims that in muslim save it took bribes in return for keeping a bank game business were intended to erode trust and influence in the country's elections. bill maher's rim cheviot says he's a victim of a smear campaign he's accusing private latvian thanks of trying to get revenge for tougher financial regulations by accusing him of demanding bribes of one hundred thousand euros a month i have become a target have been all b.s. and well coordinated campaign of some latvian commercial banks to discredit the latvian state. but one day after him ship which was suspended from office the defense ministry said the accusations appeared to be a foreign disinformation campaign in a statement it said there is a high possibility that this is a white information operation from outside and its aim is to show latvia as an

untrustworthy ally. to ministry didn't say which country was behind that campaign but there's little doubt it meant russia the russian foreign ministry and moscow refused comment but the bribery accusations come from a russian businessman and with elections due later this year fears are mounting that the kremlin could be attempting to sway the outcome the defense ministry says that dissin from ation campaign closely resembles others that preceded recent french german and us elections. let's bring in made kotel now editor of the german language newspaper pointed to one show in warsaw or the last in defense minister says this is a misinformation campaign that the implication being that russia is behind it how likely is that. we don't have any hard evidence of course so we can on you only speculate based on the past. for example the russian meddling in the us election

would has would have been basically proven. and based on russia trying to meddle in the german and french election as we've just heard in this little film there it's quite likely because russia has has always had an interest in putting a wage between. european union countries weakening the nato alliance a weakening of the european union so it's quite likely and have we heard from russia in response may go well actually they haven't commented at least i didn't hear anything they won't probably all they will say all of course we have nothing to do with it they don't have to calm and i mean it's if they did it if the got a russian government did it they don't have to comment on it it's just enough to solve the seeds of distrust put the web's as i said between the european union countries you talk about that wedge between baltic countries and countries and

institutions really of course that he also is a man the all the euro zone would this not then be a case of also an attack on the e.c.b. yes of course i mean the russian government has tried to intervene militarily and the ukraine or georgia and they can't do this in the baltic countries although they were allowed to because they were really angry when the baltic countries were being admitted into nato and also into the opinion and also into the euro zone so what they're trying to do is a little more subtle. of course in direct attack on the whole system on the whole european currency system and all these to be as well of course it would be if it's true make out that it was still thank you very much. venezuela's painful economic crisis has prompted the government to come up with a rather unusual solution a new crypto currency called the picture that is your currency will be backed by

commodities like oil and is weighing in president nicolas maduro has already hailed it as a big success he says that they have received more than seven hundred million dollars worth of bits and a private pre-sale but not everyone is convinced. venezuela's president nicolas maduro has been promoting the country's new digital currency even going as far as putting it against an american superhero. today marks the birth of a crypto currency that can take on superman the petro not even superman could threaten it. maduro says that then as well over a seven hundred thirty five million dollars on petrels first day of pre-sale but his critics say maduro didn't present any evidence many are skeptical going as far as comparing the petrol to the country's beleaguered currency. it all depends on the trust in the issuer we can see the example set by the ball of our theory it's

backed by the whole venezuelan economy but no one has faith in the ball of our because nobody believes what the government says. then as well is in desperate need of a solution hyperinflation and soaring debt levels of cold poverty levels to skyrocket the government's latest move could potentially help it circumvent u.s. and e.u. sanctions and raise much needed foreign exchange for the country. for u.s. citizens and companies buying the petrol would mean by a lot turning the seize power of the sea rather into energy so far here few tidal power stations have been able to check a profit in the mail the main problem is that the generators affixed to the sea floor and that makes them expensive to install and maintain and our british and german team has taken a new approach working backwards from the idea of a ship's propellers. it's freezing outside but time to hit the water for david targets scott and his colleagues in

scotland the work days just beginning the title stream generators on you but will they produce enough energy totted scott has been working on the project for two years. these turbines generate electric power what's special is that they are not fixed in place with this platform we can swing a turbine up out of the water we can inspect it we can see if the blade to damage the turbine needs cleaning we can run tests on it and if completely necessary we can change our whole rotor floating tidal stream generator is one of a kind there only a few places on the planet with tidal currents like those in call on scotland's west coast the moving water hit speeds here of up to forty kilometers per hour relentlessly driving the underwater propellers this is taught it's caught on a german colleague a year ago still deep in the planning of the title generator the idea it floats on the surface but is anchored to the seabed with steel cables. electric power is

transmitted through a cable and that will supply three hundred households with energy a perfect solution for the bay according to the planners they have divided the work among themselves the british team is building the steel platform heels long as company shuttle is developing the generators under orders it specializes in ship engines like these pumps jets. nearly one thousand three hundred people work for the german company. has been using his knowledge of propellers to build a water as his team specializes in tidal energy which is relatively a new business segment for the company right now shuttle is testing whether can withstand nonstop stresses of underwater operation in scotland he says it's the most exciting project has worked on for a long time. almost all of us are engineers so it's important for us to develop technical things it is very satisfying and also to be able to create a market maybe much like was done with wind energy twenty five years ago on the

gone back in scotland the platform is already in operation and his colleagues are showing it to chinese investors they are interested in buying a title power station and they are impressed the platform is already producing electricity cheaper than a diesel power station its makers say but it won't be staying here very long because an island community in the philippines has purchased it. a judge in of the u.s. has rejected folks saw the request to delay several missions cheating trials and the call make all good that inflammatory comments made by a lawyer in a new documentary could prejudice the jury the noise heard comparing the w.'s recent testing of car emissions on animals to the nazi you suppose a guest in the holocaust has been forced to spend over twenty billion euros to pay for claims to car owners dina's and authorities since the diesel gate scandal broke

in twenty fifteen. germany's dodge of those books a profit for twenty seventeen despite low trading activity profits for the company that operates frankfurt stock exchange rose six percent year on year to more than eight hundred fifty million euros something that will no doubt please shareholders as deutsche of a says it plans to raise the dividend by ten euros cents a share now the c.e.o. offered an optimistic outlook for twenty eighteen aswell. and he studies suggest that germany's huge appetite for imports is responsible for creating five million jobs within the european union alone and germany's often been criticized for exporting too much and draining all the countries of money and shops but the study says the country's exporters by. many of the components from all the countries before selling the finished products approach says almost one million jobs in potent depend on german imports as two off

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