it's been another testing week for facebook as it grapples with the fallout of a day said previously scandal tesla c.e.o. elan musk is among those who have chosen to delete their company's accounts from the platform and others like firefox creator mozilla and speaker maker sonus have temporarily pulls their ads from the social networking site questions over the information facebook stores and passes on to advertisers have prompted lawmakers around the world including here in germany to promise action. we're going to keep a much closer eye on companies like facebook and punish data protection violations quickly severely and seriously. the scandal came to light after revelations about the activities of political consulting firm cambridge analytical the company reportedly misused the data of fifteen million facebook users to target selection adds to influence the outcome of the twenty sixteen u.s.

presidential election a probe by the federal trade commission could subject facebook to major penalties. police in spain have arrested the alleged mastermind of an international cyber crime gang it was the culmination of a three year long investigation of the gang is believed to have stolen as much as a billion euros and operated in some forty countries its techniques included using technology to change account balances and instructed cash machines to issue money the crimes committed were far reaching so. just to give you an example of how important it is in twenty thirteen this group managed to access practically every bank in russia the average amount each cyber attack for a million dollars. there's already a media. authorities in several countries work together to snare the alleged gang

leader and are hailing the arrest as a major victory in the fight against financial crime. now to the problem of pollution and how a crackdown on dirty diesels in western european countries is creating a nice for sales of used cars in countries to the east. take germany for example where authorities are mulling plans to allow only new or less pollution diesels within city limits the threat has prompted many car owners to sell their older diesel models to secondhand dealers believing it's a better deal than scrappage many of those sales are in cooperation with partners in eastern europe. the number of used diesels exported from germany climb for around one hundred ninety seven thousand in two thousand and sixteen to two hundred thirty three thousand the following year that's a rise of almost a fifth exports to eastern europe grew especially strongly some sixteen thousand

older diesels ended up in ukraine in twenty seventeen more than twice as many as the year before. while western european countries looks set to introduce stricter limits on emissions in the coming years countries to the east appear less likely to change their laws environmental group greenpeace has highlighted the example of romania saying. we have no pollution tax for cars which makes romania a heaven for old and pollution cars authorities don't encourage or support healthy alternatives and the government doesn't actually fight air pollution. as a result an increasing number of older diesels are ending up in the romanian capital bucharest an example of air pollution shifting across borders. staying on the topic of emissions german auto giant b.m.w. is the latest car maker to be sued in the united states the company is accused of

installing tens of thousands of so-called defeat devices to enable cheating in emissions tests attorneys want their clients to be reimbursed for the purchases of their vehicles. and another embattled car maker this time folks party has bought back almost three hundred and fifty thousand diesel vehicles from its customers the united states this has naturally created a storage challenge which the company has addressed by leasing a total of thirty seven facilities including a shuttered football stadium in suburban detroit the plan is to fix and eventually resell the vehicles. south korea has agreed to cut steel exports to the u.s. by thirty percent to avoid punitive tariffs the country's trade minister described negotiations with the u.s. as fears but insisted his country wasn't in an inferior position the asian country is the third largest steel exporter to the u.s.

after canada and brazil to pledge to reduce steel exports is part of revisions to an existing bilateral free trade deal. germany's debt ratio a measure that compares debt to g.d.p. has fallen to just over sixty four percent much of the country's debt comes from assets adik wired when it bailed out institutions during the financial crisis but the. he use largest economy still has a while to go to meet will take tasting but members of the eurozone keep their debt race at sixty percent or lower. private space transportation company space x. launched a rocket carrying ten you satellites into orbit from california it is part of a three billion dollar project that will replace the world's largest commercial satellite network. it's one of eight missions to place seventy five satellites into orbit in the coming months. it's been hard to come by any positive

news about german russian trade relations these days that's because of the reciprocal sanctions in effect. germany's recent decision to go ahead with building north stream to a gas pipeline that will transport natural gas to the e.u. one day is welcome news. the other good news is that trade between germany and russia picked up last year. it to climb significantly in twenty fifteen falling almost twenty four percent following russia's annexation of crimea the year before bilateral trade hit rock bottom and twenty sixteen before starting to rise again in twenty seventeen but once again relations between russia and the west are turning sour new e.u. sanctions could be on the horizon in response to the attack on former russian spy sergey screw the german committee on eastern european economic relations is concerned its chairman said it is important not to enter into

a spiral of escalation this would only produce losers also on the economic side. german businesses are hoping for a diplomatic resolution in this group of case otherwise the already changed relations between russia and the west could get even worse. you think. it's exercise time much in told me nursing home in tokyo today's instructor pepper a humanoid robot brought in as part of a program to address labor shortages in the care sector for some residents interacting with the robot is liberating. i can communicate with them and i don't need to be too careful about the things that i say. but on the other hand if they were human beings i'd have to think first about what kind of people they are. those looking for more of

a warm and fuzzy feeling can take care of pets robot dogs. i don't know if they're going on there when i petted these robots for the first time they moved around like real living animals i think they're to use. the nursing home has introduced a total of twenty robots since receiving funding from tokyo's metropolitan government back in twenty thirteen as well as offering residents company they also relieve workers a physical tasks such forms of assistance are likely to become more common as japanese society ages people over sixty five now account for well over a quarter of the population and with the birth rate remaining stubbornly low the number is only set to rise. with a shortage of human care workers robots could soon become a regular nursing home fixture even if they're not everyone's choice of companion for their twilight years. india's one rupee bank note was

first printed over a hundred years ago these days it's essentially valueless still every cent reissue even comes with a watermark what can it buy you. look it over. what are you. going to go before you know it was in something like that for you as to what i've seen in which zero. zero zero zero zero zero zero it says was good to see i think the government did this most of what. would you accept it. was free and that's a good thing i did. or would you give me for that what it would what would be good reform or soften that example for. a free shampoo sample is this all you can get with a single rupee. with. india's currency has a long history and tradition in old delhi you can even buy garlands made of

banknotes there are a common wedding gift even the old one rupee note has a place here but only for display purposes until this new series there hadn't been a single printed in twenty years. but even though the recently introduced bills are more colorful than the old ones the garland makers aren't happy with them. haven't you look the old fifty looks much better than the new one those new bills are no good they look fake like children's money. india's central bank find it during the british colonial era is responsible for issuing the country's new cash it wouldn't comment on the new issue one rupee note though about it initially sent. here at india's central bank i've been told that they have nothing to do with a one rupee note unlike the rest of india's banknotes this note isn't issued by the central bank but by the government curious. currency collector

copybook to shed light on the mystery technically the new one rupee note is classified as a coin explaining why it's not issued by the central bank the new singles were issued to mark the one hundredth anniversary of rupee pound notes. well you can't buy anything with it for us collectors the joy connected to the new one rupee note is beyond words. and holding onto it could pay off the very first one rupee note from nine hundred seventeen featuring britain's king george the fifth such as up to three hundred euros nowadays and that was your business update join us again next time.

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