cannot. thank what desh the dawn of islam has of an exclusive d.w. report starting april twenty first. this is the w. news live from berlin and it looks like another head is about to roll of the world's biggest carmaker. may be heading for the exits and the company says it is considering further involving its leadership structure we'll see if we can decipher the management speak also on the program donald trump expresses his anger as the f.b.i. raids his lawyers office its interest rates fall situation it's a total which charges an attack on our country is atrocious the u.s.

president says they raid was intended to undermine his presidency the f.b.i. says it was linked to the investigation into russia's alleged meddling in the u.s. presidential election. facebook boss mark zuckerberg appears before u.s. lawmakers and later to face a grilling over revelations that the personal data of eighty seven million users was improperly accessed and used during the twenty sixteen u.s. election. the poisonous daughter of a former russian spy has left hospital in britain you'd be a script powerhouse being taken to a secure location. i'm full go welcome to the program the chief executive of the world's biggest carmaker volkswagen could be on his way out the company says it is considering trades at the top and that could mean a new chief executive to replace mathias mother reports suggest his successor will

be the current head of the v.w. brand but this the group board will to meet on friday. it's the most important job in the german car industry but he has miller took over the helm of fox dog back in twenty fifteen his mission dragging the company out of the diesel great crisis and by some measures at least he succeeded last year v.w. sold more cars than ever before is this kind his lips first in blue coats considering the journey so far which has felt like a roller coaster at times it's not a given that we can say today parts of the company is in very good shape. is good for fossil fuel or has been praised for managing to communicate effectively with both trade unions and politicians and for restructuring the company but it's up to the man who could succeed him to announce the most sixty year cost reductions . brand chief is not a favorite with the unions but he appears to be popular with the board of directors

they'll meet on friday potentially to decide on a replacement for malarkey. let's get more from financial correspondent daniel cope the frankfurt stock exchange and steve are busily from d.w. business so welcome both let's start with you steve why is this happening now given that diesel gate exploded what nearly three years ago the company's profits a soaring consumer is still loyal to the v.w. brand. the short answer is that we don't know. the longer answer is that you have to remember what the past two plus years have looked like four months mueller he was head of porsche c.e.o. there by all reports he was happy in that job and then these will get exploded and he was tapped to head up folks wagon the world's largest automaker and they incredibly politically and socially economically important industry the pinnacle of the most important industry in germany at its most difficult time

so mueller has had to answer he's had to be the face of volkswagen as the investigations have been ongoing as colleagues have been arrested and as he's tried to shepherd the brand through sort of it's it's changing face he's trying to put on a new face he's tried to change the corporate culture he's had to put on more environmental face he said to expand access in the china all of these things come with intense pressure is an intense job his contract does run the twenty twenty but considering what's happened to put the past two plus years it's a lot for one person so the question of whether this is truly a strategy change still lingers because many of these questions still remain diesel gates still lingers the challenges of getting moving on from a diesel past moving towards electric expanding the china those will continue for his successor. and just to be clear given the much of this is speculation we don't know if he is out of

a job. or if he's just going to be moved somewhere else within the company that's right we don't know yet we only know that these is supposed to come on and take his place. in frankfurt let's talk about the share price how has this news affected. well the let me tell you first that also investors here at the trading floor were very surprised of all this news there were no rumors this really came as a surprise in general it has been a very successful trading day for the share price already this morning the shares were jumping high after china announced no more import tariffs for foreign car imports then after the news was breaking about a possible new c.e.o. the share price of even jumped higher at the end of the trading day where senior placer five percent investors are telling me that they're actually thinking that this is the good timing right now in general volkswagen is very strong last year

they have a record sale numbers now it's time for a new chapter and they are actually very optimistic that this will be the case with as a possible new c.e.o. so final word to you steve bisley what will mathias legacy be for v.w. feel that it's going to be a mixed legacy i think daniel so obviously he oversaw volkswagen a time of record profits at a time of expansion further expansion to markets like china but the issues of diesel gate continue you remember there was the monkey testing affair in january that broke under mueller you know that in the u.s. folks were going to have to pay billions and billions in settlements to volkswagen car owners in europe they haven't paid anything so these are continued criticisms that he's faced as well as the continuation of diesel and volkswagens general continued push for clean diesel and it's sort of hedging on the future of diesel in europe so there's

a lot of criticism there but in terms of the actual hard numbers again as daniel said they've looked incredible steve bisley thank you daniel cooper in frankfurt thank you as well. germany's chancellor angela merkel has gathered her cabinet for today retreats. to hammer out the details of the government's program over the coming months the meeting is how to measure berg a castle just north of berlin some of the most pressing issues include drafting the new budget and forming germany's refugee policy and minimizing the damage to the country's car industry in the wake of the diesel emissions cheating scandal. u.s. president donald trump has reacted with anger to a raid on the office of his personal lawyer he described it as disgraceful the f.b.i. searched the offices of attorney michael cohen saying it was acting on a referral by special counsel robert moore who's conducting an investigation into russia's alleged meddling in the twenty sixth us presidential election president

trump was blindsided by news of the raid on his longtime attorney's office trump condemned the action of the beating with military chiefs called on monday to discuss syria. and today the president has taken to twitter describing the raid is a turtle witch hunt and complaining that attorney client privilege is dead trump attorney michael cohen came under scrutiny after he admitted to making a one hundred thirty thousand dollars payment to an adult film actress just days before the twenty sixteen presidential election stormy daniels alleges she had a sexual relationship with donald trump in two thousand and sixteen she says cohen paid her to keep silent trump has denied the allegations the raid was based in part on a referral from robert mueller he's leading a separate investigation into suspected russian meddling in the u.s. election it's not clear whether there's a direct link to miller but that didn't stop trump on monday from also railing

against the special counsel's inquiry an attack on our country and. what we all stand for. why don't i just fireballer well i think it's a disgrace what's going on we'll see what happens but i think it's really a sad situation lawmakers on capitol hill are warning the president to allow the miller investigation to go ahead without political interference and the latest f.b.i. raid suggests that for donald trump there could be more legal trouble ahead. let's talk about this what with each of those how much weight or who's been following the story of so welcome so draw a line between. trust the president of the united states investigation into russia's meddling in twenty sixteen election there's actually a lot of lines that have a sort of come together to make this story make any sense so if you have heard the name

a whole cohen in the media recently it's because he is donald trump personal lawyer his then little trump for a decade or more and he is the person who wrote the one hundred thirty thousand dollars check to buy. i store me daniels's silence in the wake of her allegations of a sexual affair with the president so the raid that happened is thought to be in connection with that it is being reported that he is accused of bank fraud now i've never written a one hundred thirty thousand dollars check to anyone i don't know if you have. it's a question of where did the money come from how was it recorded was it a campaign contribution if so was it legal. as such that is why it is thought to be a part of the reason why the f.b.i. and the department of justice conducted this right now we know that they dug deeper than just a stormy daniels question ok so so two agents is the one agency investigated. this alleged payment so the old this is interesting it's nothing to do with us but you

might like to take a look at it actually it was the other way around it was robert mueller who. on this somehow and said that well this is not under my purview but there may have been wrongdoing here and passed it off to the turn in general of the southern district of manhattan which is one of the biggest districts in the united states and it was them who arranged for this raid now we have to point out that f.b.i. raids don't just happen they have to go through an intense review a process that a judge has to sign off on this this was an invasion of attorney client privilege privilege this going into this office to pick up whatever document it was they picked up if you just took anything pretty much we were not sure quite what they picked up but we know that they picked up e-mails possibly financial documents correspondence between cohen and trump which is the attorney client attorney client privilege question there possibly files related to cohen's practice in the law and the thing is cohen is so intensely amassed in trump's life that you can't dive deep into cohen's life without making up things that relate to trump so we're not sure

what's going to come out in this but we know they have picked up now a lot of information that's possible that some of it is going to be relevant to miller's investigation so how. we don't speculate but i mean how much is this going to affect the president or we've heard him saying that it's a a witch hunt it's disgraceful and now he's actually accusing moller of overreaching his mandate which is of course going to become the republican talking point the pro trump talking point now again we have to we have to emphasize that this was this is a big deal the fact that there was this raid if there was a raid it means that the f.b.i. things that cohen was not going to react properly to a subpoena he wasn't going to come forward and provide them with the information that they needed and the fact that there was this raid means that it's going to be incredibly hard for trying to keep using this line that this was an unfounded white tut my schrade a very interesting thank you. let's take

a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world the organization for the prevention of chemical weapons says it will send inspectors to syria to investigate the site of a suspected poison gas attack opposition activists say gas was used to kill dozens of people near damascus at the weekend by the syrian government which denies any involvement. north korea's leader kim jong un has made his first official mention of possible talks with the united states according to state media reports that he met with top party officials and discussed the prospect of dialogue u.s. president trump ours agreed to meet soon as next month no dates or venue has yet been set. the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court says us court judges to room whether she can open an investigation into the mass exodus of the wreckage of people from in ma the prosecutor. argues there is evidence to him just

what intention of people to be involved into neighboring iran but bash is not a member of the i.c.c. but bad but it is. several police officers have been injured in a second day of clashes with activists as french authorities tagged on a protest camp and not tried not to down and western france which i'm forced. to go to block the construction of a new government since abandoned those plans. now one of the world's richest and most influential man is to be grilled in the u.s. senate today facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg has been in damage control mode after it was revealed that the data of millions of facebook users was improperly shared the news has left users around the world wondering whether they should close their accounts clever reports. in washington d.c. spring is in the air well almost but with facebook making all the wrong headlines what better season for some digital cleaning many americans have said they'll

delete their accounts could this be a turning point for facebook. mark zuckerberg is testifying before congress for the first time to answer questions about a major data privacy scandal he's hoping to convince both facebook's users and the company's investors that he's taking the problem seriously but just how worried are people are you a facebook user. are you concerned about some of the allegations of data privacy breach and definitely i really want to close my page you're going to you're going to delete your facebook absolutely because i just privacy is just not there you know use facebook. why not. a person like it's an invasion of privacy instagram took over. you know instagram zone by facebook yeah but then i very different things everybody knows they use it to get as ads including ones meant to get you to vote in a certain way information collected from eighty seven million users was improperly

harvested by a company called cambridge analytic it says its research helped donald trump win the twenty sixteen elections his campaign denies it. zuckerberg has apologized for the oversight and promised a new privacy features before his hearings but it seems unlikely lawmakers will take any serious action. i went to ask an expert if the changes facebook has promised are enough to win back public trust. so facebook said they're going to make it easier to find your privacy controls to see what information they have on you is that enough i think privacy concerns are just one of the issues here facebook has been dealing with so many different issues there are discriminatory ads online there's been a lection manipulation there's been security issues so i think while they're making some changes they're going to need to do a lot more in order to regain the trust of both the users and regulators around the world. a long list of fixes for facebook as it faces

a political reckoning. for him in the next couple of hours on capitol hill in washington. is that welcomed what are we likely to hear from today. well in the post apology we expect. it's going to apologize in the history of perth remarks that's have already been published on the senate web page and that he is expected to read at the beginning of the hearing expected to concede that facebook didn't do enough that facebook should have done more and he is expected to take the blame for facebook's recent problems saying that it was his responsibility because he started this company and because he's running it but we also know that it's not enough for many lawmakers many of them are expected to grill mr

burke they have a lot of questions and some of them are going to want to lash out at him because they are very angry and some experts here already. they say that it could be the beginning of the new era there will be defined by regulation and skepticism. your last point is interesting that so they could do more than just have words with him what what measures code the u.s. government actually take well lawmakers he wants to find out what has to be done they are talking about some regulatory measures there are many different proposals being discussed for example were it's make it makes sense to make facebook but also tech companies like such as for example google to make them responsible for their bad behavior of their

users or wherever the legislation can be introduced to compel them to disclose how they are collecting and sharing their data but i would say that we are here at the very beginning the goal is clear to provide more security more transparency to protect users states and individuals more control of all over their digital identities without without putting an end to the innovation in this very important industry. something for normal in washington thank you. you're watching news live from bali and still to come a poisoned daughter of a former russian spy has left hospital in britain you'll hear script has been taken to a secure location we'll take a look at her remarkable recovery. business not with a bang facility and china has made

a bid to tone down the trade war rhetoric beijing has poured cold water all over the heated tariff dispute with the united states sending global stocks surging today for weeks and weeks both sides have been threatening each other with steep judi's on imports but the trade war could just start winding down with the chinese the first to flinch president xi jinping today repeating his vow to open the economy and actually cut tariffs. cars are a major sticking point in the trade conflict between the world's two biggest economies the u.s. pays a twenty five percent tariff on cars it brings to china while china only pays two point five percent in judy's on cars it exports to the u.s. that's not the complete picture the u.s. sells six times more cars in china than the other way around but appeasing washington was the thrust of chinese president xi jinping speech to an audience of international business leaders at the forum of young.

we will lower the import tariffs for cars. young at the same time we will lower the import tariffs of some other products. only legal there are cards to respect the people's demands for special superior product imports. she also pledged improved access to the financial sector and stronger intellectual property rights although the u.s. was not specifically mentioned she speech seemed to have that addressing the sources of the trade conflict his words were welcomed by markets the world over but china has made similar commitments before with little implementation this time around however the stakes are higher insufficient action could pave the way for further escalation. public sector warning strikes of hit germany expect travel delays has canceled hundreds of flights industrial action is also affecting street is that rubbish collection as the german economy expands the workers want to pay

reiss. one flight canceled after another left tons of alone has had to ground every second plane leaving thousands of passengers stranded like here in frankfurt an estimated ninety thousand customers are to be a factor that many have decided just to wait until it's all over most of them are taking it in their stride. because it looks like we're a fact is about a strike a flight was canceled but the travel agency has been really helpful and they've managed to book as a new flight. but we've not been a fact yet but it's understandable the workers want to work with the unions to get more money it's just a shame for us that it happens to be today one of the. eight hundred planes can take off because security stuff striking in protest the nationwide strikes also include public sector employees like nursery school teachers and hospital workers

they're demanding more money. for the indians people are dependent on public sector employees we want to see the current strong economic situation in germany reward such workers not just shareholders we want to see a clear strong pay rise. to avoid the board that you have to go and i'll do it that's. a rise of six percent or at least two hundred euros per month per employee and of knowing cream and candy marked the thirty union plans to expand to steroid. more international news and with phil thanks so much up but you do a script our house left hospital in britain has been taken to a safe location actually and a father a former russian spy were poisoned with a nerve agent in britain last month the russian embassy has said that it wants access to that but it has not yet know what she herself wants to do. but one

point it was feared you would die in this hospital now after a steady improvement in her health doctors have deemed her well enough to leaf we have discharged from salisbury district hospital i also want to take this opportunity to wish you well this is not the end of her treat. five weeks ago and have exposed to a nerve agent identified by the u.k.'s savior to are novacek they were found slumped unconscious on a park bench in the center of the sleepy english city. doctors said they were able to keep the script alive until their bodies healed naturally they say said condition is also improving although he's recovering more slowly. we hope that he too will be able to leave hospital colds. it appears scrip hour was the targets of the attack the former russian spy was convicted of passing information to the u.k. in two thousand and six he was later free from jail as part of

a swap deal. the attack on british soil has caused a massive diplomatic scandal the u.k. blames russia but moscow denies any involvement and accuses the british of inventing stories today foreign minister sergey lavrov said the west wasn't interested in hearing the truth russian embassy in london wants access to the script in a tweet it warns it would consider any secret resettlement without family contacts and abduction. british police a currently centering their investigation on the script. the scene of the highest concentration of novacek now they have a witness whose story they once thought they'd never hear. sports for the sports out there for lots of people around the world including in south sudan a country where millions have been displaced by an ongoing conflict sports facilities have been badly damaged because of the fighting leaving locals with no pitch or core to play on now the united nations is this lending

a helping hand the conditions here in mali callus else we done are bleak civil unrest has reduced the region's only sporting complex to rubble helping hands from the united nations are clearing the area and rebuilding for the future the peacekeepers involved with the mission have engineering know how and i hope sport will foster better relationships among the people. walking he creates in the space develop in this to see how the youth the people from the pews see the people from. the lies this new to space to interact play sports and actually be strong we try relationships teenagers have already hit the half ready pitch to practice and with the basketball court in progress the locals believe this complex once completed will have positive impacts. on the way around

in time of distress management if you're kind of football you want to leave the spend much time in happy compared to the night or if you are playing you happy you join with other people then from there you not have been a problem the united nations is breaking down conflicts through building in an attempt for a lasting peace in south sudan. i just talked to my five top story this hour german car john phelps fog and says it is considering replacing its chief executive. as part of a management shakeup. is due to meet on friday. in situ up to date i'll have more feet up top of the hour in the meantime of course as always the web site steve w. dot com have a good. guy

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