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a. touching story. all of this is our home as god's country of listening to other better players seven thousand kilometers through canada starting february twenty seventh. could it be d.-day for diesel considers a bad on diesel vehicles in german cities we take a look at the costs involved and the thousands of jobs at stake. and for the first time at least one can form a board members of law. over the emissions cheating scandal writing their. i've been fizzling let's do business the fate of fifteen million diesel vehicles are unknown this hour germany's administrative court is ruling on whether major cities can ban heavily by. living diesels according to the german environmental

group d.u.h. every year an estimated twelve thousand people in germany die prematurely as a result of nitrogen oxide emissions even limit is forty micrograms per cubic meter of air on average every year but that's regularly exceeded banning the worst offending diesel cars could provide some quick relief but it's not that easy or thirty's in the cities of just got one superimpose a bad but right now they don't have the right at this hour the court in my pocket is deciding on that no surprise that motorists carmakers and politicians are all eagerly awaiting the decision many european cities of already announced bans and other measures. in london authorities are tackling pollution with a financial disincentive owners of the dirtiest vehicles now have to pay over ten pounds to drive in the city center based on top of the ready existing congestion charge. and it's a part of

a package of measures retrofitting the most basic buses for their buses so they're cleaner was stopped by diesel buses only hard braking electric and a hard and double decker buses to sit in the diesel taxis were encouraging them give them assistance to move from diesel to charges were increasing the amount of money we spend on public transport but also walk it and cycling in spain's capital madrid they've taken a different approach but pollution levels get too high half of car owners are forced to leave their vehicles of home whether or not you can go on the road depends on the number on your license place similar temporary fans have also been introduced in rome milan and paris. over in the boat gary in capitals of fia when levels of particulates matter exceeded the legal limit for several days at the end of january the city responded by slashing the cost of day take it's for public transport. and in germany lawmakers are even mulling the possibility of free

public transport all the time. to force an avid motorist i believe you're also not all that into public transportation so what would you like to be driving or or how would you like to be driven in the not too distant future. well in the future i'm expecting that autonomous driving will be very important that the robot is driving me around still in a car that i can really use the certain living space for working for a living for doing other things but i'm no longer on duty so a more clever way from moving from a to b. than we are currently but a car that's not spewing out diesel fumes well what ever engine is

possible and leads us to the lowest emissions possible from a well to be standpoint that could be including diesel technology as the industry is showcasing that for example the newest technology was euro six d. is very good not just on the c o two emissions but also on pollution seems to me it sounds like these already dead. the hell would you like the death of diesel handled then it is it'll be a slow death. well we need in especially the industry these are technology going forward in order to reduce c o two emissions to meet the very tough goals starting in two thousand and twenty one so i cannot see a very early this but the consumer needs to have confidence that the technology is working also for the next decades at least and that no changes in law is coming

again and telling someone in sri years well even the sixty you are norm is not sufficient so i'm a strong believer in this bridging technology but it will be combined. electric vehicles with small hybrids is that there is the post tell me how's germany meant to meet the standards which is not at the moment and how consumers meant to have confidence in their politicians who are working so closely with the auto industry and so closely that the consumer is mainly left out well i think very important in this huge transformation you're going through finding new ways of more clever and better emissions free mobility that the main stakeholders politicians the car industry and the consumer have to work closer took as a have to find more clever weights of better integrated mobility ots or reduce traffic on the street this new parking systems business. so i think it's really

a combined effort that every stakeholder has to work with the other so there is no silo in isolated solution possible but just tell me very briefly why does diesel have to be a part of the equation i mean it's interesting that germany is leading the way globally in a massive shift to clean energy but it's still clinging to dirty diesel. well if that these becomes more cleaner than it is currently pursued for example says sixty your norm we need to reduce the c o two level which is only possible at the moment with the technology until we get to the final stage electric vehicles. zero emissions but for the next couple of years we still need that very important acknowledge it which also has been appreciated for decades as a consumer. still needs diesel you have a bit of force a senior advisory panel at princeton young thank you. for the auto industry is the

biggest jobs provider in germany the main reason the government is against any sort of upheaval but whatever happens this ain't going to be a smooth ride. this device measures nitrogen dioxide levels the legal limit is forty micrograms per cubic meter but that figure is regularly exceeded in over half of measuring stations near major thoroughfares in germany. and surprisingly the prospect of a diesel ban has been met with stiff resistance from those whose livelihoods depend on theirs but just expect present to have even warned that banning diesel guzzling trucks could hamper deliveries to the city's. germany's oldest automobile club has also been speaking out. this is about people's livelihoods to say suddenly that they can no longer drive into the city was almost amounts to expropriation. it's always the people who can't afford an expensive electric car or

who can't buy a new diesel that are most affected comfort. while pollution is a major problem in high traffic spots it's a different story in residential areas. where we see mid-range figures between twenty and thirty micrograms per cubic meter so significantly under the limits higher than permitted rates are a real problem on busy roads and few had to find them struck. an analysis by the u.p.a. environmental protection agency concluded the thousands in germany die prematurely as a result of respiratory illnesses each year that was based on a nationwide study of the effects of nitrogen dioxide. stupidity i think lawmakers aren't really interested in this study as if they were there be a far bigger push towards driving. but critics say such studies failed to establish a causal link between one thousand dioxide and primitive death. other factors

affecting mortality rates are not always taken into account. with thought about some of the facts and figures surrounding this story and also the ongoing diesel gate investigation with our financial correspondent current bills in frankfurt colorado we're just hearing today that they've been raids for the first time a former board members at the luxury carmaker out. that's true and it is now top executives board members as is said and the fact that it's you. people who are suspects here is really relevant here up until now most of the executives at audi managed to give the impression that it was not they who were to blame but it was underlings who were in charge of the diesel cheating but here the prosecutors seem to be not so convinced this doesn't mean of course that those people are really guilty but it means that the pressure is rising on rupert start

out the c.e.o. for a long time he has been of queues of he has been accused of not having done enough to really bring light into the whole affair and make sure that it's found out who really was responsible for the cheating ok while b. diesel gate fingerpointing continues what about a diesel ban what's that going to mean to the carmakers because surely that's going to cost them. yes it is definitely going to cost them. car makers themselves and investors are afraid of this it's very difficult to estimate at the moment how much money this will really cost i found one so that talks about fifteen billion euros of cost but that's probably not enough if we consider that the cost of converting a diesel car to the new high. are standards one of those cars where the car makers cheated costs between two thousand and three thousand euros per car and that we

have at least thirteen million diesel cars out there not so old ones which would have to be people who use diesels in germany not just motorists but also garbage collection services trades people and bus companies conrad i'll have to leave it there there's a heap to talk about on this subject we'll get back to you later on in the day. and i spoke business with you also you again very soon here on thank you.

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