this is news coming to you live. from chief executive to. us prosecutors charged. for his part in the company's also the case of the missions they say he knew about the cheating and went along with the scam also coming up a special report from cameroon an eruption of violence in english speaking parts of the country seeking to break away from the central government. tomorrow marks the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of karl marx he's one of the most

influential and divisive thinkers in modern history we'll head out to the streets of berlin to see what people today make of the founder of communist. martin good to have you with us it's the scandal that just refuses to go away u.s. prosecutors have charged books wagon's former boss for his part in diesel gate they say he conspired to mislead regulators and violate the u.s. clean air act a federal grand jury in michigan indicted venture corn as part of a probe into the scandal which has plagued the company for nearly three years. the former c.e.o. of one of germany's best known and most successful companies could now face prison time as much as twenty five years. u.s. authorities have charged into a corner with conspiring with other senior v.w.

executives and employees to defraud the united states and v.w. customers he's also been charged with violating the clean air act and with committing wire fraud in connection with the scheme w.'s wall street correspondent . said the court's indictment was unprecedented by working on wall street for about twenty years and i've never seen a dead the c o r former c.e.o. of a company the size of has faced a similar charges that said it is not unusual that u.s. prosecutors start and then work their way up the rings last year to former managers have been sentenced to prison terms here in the u.s. and probably they have helped to form the case against martin going to court. in september two thousand and fifteen u.s. regulators revealed their suspicions that software invented in v.w.

diesel cars meant they could detect when an emissions test was being done the programming would then lower the car's emissions to meet the clean air standards winterkorn resigned as chief executive shortly afterwards saying he had been unaware of any wrongdoing. but the indictment says venter korn was briefed on the issue at a meeting at the company's first book headquarters in july during that meeting engine development employees described how v.w. was deceiving us regulators including precisely what information had been disclosed and what had not yet been disclosed they also spelled out the potential consequences of being caught. or for more we're joined by did have is very. vinter cohen has been indicted formal charges have been filed by federal prosecutors in the u.s. so this is serious isn't it yes it is very serious as you said the very fact that formal charges have been brought forward. this indictment comes from

a grand jury that means that there is factual evidence that vinda cohen knew more than he actually admitted so yes this is pretty serious what does it mean for him to call him personally is there a chance that he will actually go to jail well depends really where he is right now we have no clear idea of w. is not really forthcoming with telling telling us where he is if he's in germany he's safe should say because germany doesn't extradite its citizens not even two jurisdictions friendly jurisdiction if you will but i think he should seriously review his travel plans for his retirement because he also shouldn't she should not he should not only not go to the u.s. he can also com also go to places that do have an extradition agreement with the u.s. so he has to in germany. will likely is the former c.e.o. when took on did not know what was going on at b.w.

under his watch well if you just consider these two facts how likely is it that someone in middle management in v.w. knows about all this cheating organizes oldest cheating this is quite simple. anshul. and says well i'm not going to tell my bosses if this comes out i want the box to stop me and i'll take the full responsibility no it is highly unlikely that this is and secondly if you look at venter collins personal biography of his career he's been with v.w. for twenty plus years he's been heading the quality control management and that is detail it. is a details matter and to assume that that he didn't know about these details how b.w. achieves these targets is preposterous also he's got a degree in technical degree in metal physics so he understands all this

and of course you know he's he's a micromanager of some sort if you do quality control all your life so how likely is it that he didn't somebody quote did step down when the scandal broke b.w. has had a couple of c.e.o.'s since then the new one that's just come in have it ds how is he dealing with the situation well they have a diesel is trying and as he said yesterday at the annual shareholders meeting he's trying to draw a line under this and he says that v.w. must now become more open and more honest company and i mean you what does that say about g.w. if the new c.e.o. stands there and says we must become more honest does that mean that we've been incredibly dishonest and for the. shareholders one quite convinced by him yesterday but of course sort of a new chapter has to be opened thanks for and we look forward to hearing more business from you later in the program for. now it's catch up on some of the other

stories making headlines around the world today for women area results from local elections in the u.k. suggest that british prime minister theresa may has been spared the white house some have predicted her conservative party has lost control of some key councils but managed to gain ground in breaks supporting regions the vote was the first test of public opinion since last year's general election film director roman polanski has been expelled from the academy of motion picture arts and sciences for decades after he admitted to unlawful sex with a thirteen year old girl the organization that awards the oscars also voted to oust comedian bill cosby convicted a week ago on three counts of aggravated indecent assault. and the social media site twitter has urged its more than three hundred million users to change their passwords the company says it recently found

a bug had caused some passwords to be stored in plain text rather than being encrypted it says there was no indication that the passwords have been misused and that its advice was purely for cautionary. and we have some breaking news just coming in to us now the swedish academy has just announced that this year's nobel prize for literature will not be awarded the institution is in crisis over his handling of sexual assault allegations against the husband of one of its members the scandal has seen a string of board members leave in recent weeks and we'll have more on more on that story for you later in the program well for months president trump denied it and the white house backed him up now a surprise revelation by trump's attorney rudy giuliani the former mayor of new york that the president was involved in a hushed payment to porn star stormy daniels is raising new legal questions. it's.

another day of presidential duties overshadowed by the scandal around porn star stormy daniels and her alleged affair with donald trump or to legal aid rudy giuliani made an unexpected disclosure about a payment of one hundred thirty thousand dollars to daniels and just where it came from that money was not campaign money sorry i'm giving you a fact now that you don't know it's not campaign money no campaign finance violation so they follow the true law for follow through or for the president repeated that contradicting trump's initial denial that he knew anything about the payment. you're. through thursday however trump confirmed on twitter that the money was reimbursed to his personal lawyer he wants more tonight be a fat saying such agreements were very common among celebrities and people of

wealth. in a white house briefing on thursday spokeswoman sarah saunders said trump didn't initially know about the payment to stormy daniels and only find out about it later . a prayer president also says the west african country of cameroon is currently in the grip of a bylane secessionist crisis insurgents in the west of the country have launched a series of attacks on security forces after the government crackdown on a peaceful protest movement the conflict is centered on the english speaking western areas of cameroon highlighted here in yellow many in the region want greater autonomy for all these french speaking with georgia if the country our west africa correspondent adrian creech reports. oh one who. is over ninety years old even though one there's a lot she can't remember anymore but she'll never forget one day last year. the

pain is a constant reminder. non-doing the who goes to learn to move through someone knocked on the door i said is that and a friend is a bitch it was the police and they hit me right in the face in the look on the bush . there was blood everywhere i just didn't stop believing. thousands of people in their hometown with taking part in peaceful protests at the time they feel let down somewhere calling for their own state to be called i was there when the government troops responded with wild lands who. was one of the victims there's growing unrest in the region and some of the protesters have since joined pro independence groups but no one wants to speak about it openly. they went to the bush because they are fighting for their rights what they are asking

for is something they deserve if the government can grant what they are asking for it will be better for all of us southern cameroonians thin we won't be neglected the way the government has been neglecting us. we need a well connected independence activist who wants to remain anonymous there are six rebel groups in the forests fighting against governments troops he shows us their training video. paul be our president for the last thirty five years has so ignored the protests he says that's why the conflict is now escalating. it is the only option because the people believe that it is through these means that they can force the president into dialogue what they're doing now is simply defending themselves they did not start the file and. almost every week separatists launch deadly attacks on government officials they accuse of betrayal the bishop of war many see the church as

a possible mediator in the crisis. but circumstances that are very difficult because. they are really not. because they give conditions for talking to get out of the problem. it. means. talking to. the person must be the same with him. the government refuses to speak with the separatists despite several requests we are not given an interview with the government representatives. presidential elections in cameroon our schedules to be holes in october this here but many people in the anglo phone region and particularly those in rural areas i wondering how this will be possible this happily any indication that the situation will be improving in the next month i think about. all the same

. hopes that peace will return to the region at her age she says she should not have to be afraid of the police and the especially not in her own home. tomorrow marks the two hundredth birthday of perhaps the most divisive economic thinker of modern history tell us about it. is not me but if this man here behind me and the stats come ox of course he argued that capitalism would only make the rich richer and the poor poorer that sound familiar that's why today some view him as a visionary others revile him for inspiring authoritarian communist regimes that killed millions our reporter on the shelf not has hit the streets of berlin to find out what people think. marx's ideas pocked revolutions

those ideas originated here in berlin and they continue to resonate in the city. in eight hundred thirty six the eighteen year old car marks came to study at berlin's humboldt university. he started studying law but soon found he was far more interested in philosophy and history quote in the entrance hall of the university of tribute to its former student. what's wrote the philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways the point however is to change it mocks didn't just want to see arise about the state of the world he wanted to do something about it he wanted to shake things up. it was the tone of the industrial age and while in berlin marx witnessed the plight of poor workers. it was their cause that monster cup his theories of eliminating social injustice by empowering workers started revolutions and changed the map of the world. his

ideology was the basis for modern communism and socialism the defining philosophies of the cold war which ended up dividing the world and the city. in former east berlin along avenue still bears marx's name the boulevard was built as a propaganda project by the socialist regime by the workers for the workers. the last military parade to celebrate the achievements of the self-styled workers and peasants state was held here just a month before the limbaugh fell. but what does mark still mean to people here that the w.b.c. had a kind of different idea of how society should work. it all off was he runs a lot of good stuff come. for example which is still valid today. reading the

communist manifesto but you've got to have quite a bit of concentration for the do you know this man. he was a great thinker in this time of course unfortunately things didn't quite turn out the way he predicted. book definitely with. things that are really just as worthy of discussion today. especially now considering the split in society between rich and poor. communism as a political system in germany might have fallen with it. but for some of the people here it is. of the relevance. marxism of communism classical cases of seemed like a good idea at the time. very often the case theories rarely survive contact with the real world communism can count as

a seventy year long attempt to make reality fit a theory at least economically speaking let's bring in a from a business. experience communism first hand when you grew up in east germany until the wall came down so what was communism like when you lived in eastern europe you experienced all the flaws of communism communism means that you have no right to own property let's say you own land or a company or even a little tiny corner shop the government took it away from you and of you as a no no as a neighbor spoke up against against this redistribution you were called a counter-revolutionary and you could end up in prison all the companies belong to the government and everybody was supposed to be equal so everybody got pretty much equal pay even if you were lazy you got as much as someone who was hard working let's say you had a brilliant idea which helped the company a great deal all you got was a pat on the shoulder on maybe a bonus at. the end of the year so that was it and meanwhile least germans saw how

west germany was benefiting from all of its liberties democracy the right to own property all of their cars were better than cars which you see here in the background for instance the hobby robbie the famous travis so we saw how creativity pays off in a free market society it's. the how did you experience the person karl marx in east germany what was taught about him what did you hear about him in the media was a senior in high school when the wall came down and up until that point each and every year we studied mox desk each and every year according to his beliefs history is like a wheel it always goes for what it goes from the feudal system on to capitalism then on to socialism and eventually to communism if you will set something against if you believe that some of the things in the societies where better you are called

a counter-revolutionary and you could not go on from high school to university your career options very very limited if you ostracized basically your very briefly do you know people whose property was actually taken away from them yes the family for instance their pianos a famous all around the world the beatles for instance recorded let it be on the piano one of their pianos is also in sydney's opera house for instance the government took away the business from the family but kept them on board not his own us but as men are just so they got paid by the government a monthly salary. because they wanted to maintain their know how and all the also their customer base all around the world who paid in u.s. dollars which was very valuable to the. government back then eventually when the wall came down the blueness were able to get their property back you're hearing it thank you very much for sharing your personal experience with us. and we go on to

the next story which is of course the looming trade war between the u.s. and china the u.s. has sent a top level delegation to china to try and a virgin or law trade or between the two biggest economies in the world it's mainly about tariffs but washington also accuses beijing of systematically infringing u.s. companies copyrights product piracy is the bane of every strong brand across the world it stretches also across all industries pirates not only in china copy clothes watches sunglasses smartphones and even more complicated machinery and sell the fakes cheaply sometimes on dark channels and sometimes even very openly on the streets the difference between original and fake is often barely noticeable to the naked eye colors and the lower look real even the weight is manipulated to give the fake the right feel it's a huge problem in spite of sophisticated prevention strategies the most recent survey by a german industry association revealed that almost three quarters of all german

machine builders for example are affected by product and brand piracy the damage to the german economy is estimated to be seven point three billion euros per year and that's just the lost revenue the possible damage to a brand image is incalculable china is the worst place into abuse and new technology is making faking easier all the time thanks to three d. printers humming away in gigantic clone workshops not just components can be copied but entire machines but more and more industries are fighting back porcelain from the french city of limos for example as one of the finest and most expensive in the world which makes it appealing choice for counterfeiters to make a quick copy and a quick buck now the limo should pose no porcelain makers have succeeded in getting their famous porcelain protected here's how. two plates said to be made from famously moesha porcelain but only one is real the plate on the left the one on the

right is a fake it's a problem limoges manufacturers have been grappling with for years world leaders and royalty may dine on the white gold as it's known but the famous brand is up against some clever fraudsters. manufacturers from asia africa and central europe simply use the name limos but many of the fakes are identifiable they write limos without an s. or say paste from limo she only most from china. but this is now all in the past because limo was porcelain is now protected only those who produce here and respect the traditional methods of production are allowed to bear the name. and work for we don't have robots limos represents real craftsmanship people who know exactly what they're doing. we're in one of the oldest porcelain factories in the city this powder has been processed here since eighteen twenty five porcelain in

its original form it can be used as a thick mass for kneading or cast in liquid form. the pieces made here are finished by hand polished and dipped into an enamel bath before going into the kiln the result. of porcelain. the special feature of this porcelain is its transparency. and only flawless pieces paul stringent quality control they moaned is the most feared woman in the factory her job is to inspect the pieces and she misses nothing in fact thirty to fifty percent make it the postilion factories in a marriage became world renowned for a reason and it's no coincidence that the white gold has now been protected making life that little bit harder to counterfeit and. that's the business department back to tara for some breaking news that's right the harbor big story

especially for the literary world the swedish academy has just announced that the nobel prize for literature will not be awarded this year it says it will instead announce the winner next year in parallel with the award for twenty nine teen the institution is in a crisis over its handling of sexual assault allegations against the husband of one of its members the scandal has seen a string of board members leave in recent weeks. all spring in d.w. cultural correspondent sabina peshawar from our studios in spain at the decision not to award a nobel prize for literature this year has been made what does that mean for the academy and its reputation well i think it's. it's an essay too it's they try to save the our petition the fee i could to me but it's definitely definitely been damaged before when last

november the accused stations. no french photographer who is married to one of the academy members was accused of. six. revealing. candidates for literature for the nobel prize of literature so it is a huge scandal and they're trying to save their reputation now with this decision but. it's going to be hearts they have to change the. yeah i guess they have to change the whole process it has to become more transparent and. there have been. many scandals before not in this not to this extent but they have been scandalous when academy members themselves received the nobel prize

so. i guess the academy and the nobel prize committee. has a long history of dealing with crisis sabina thank you so much for talking with. us cultural correspondent in bonds have been a pressure thanks so much. just a reminder of the top story we're following for you today prosecutors in the u.s. of charge the former c.e.o. of volkswagen mark inventor called for his part in the company's also cation emissions data prosecutors say he was aware that the company was cheating on these omissions tests and they say he was complicit in the scam. so i news for now thanks for watching. double. glazed.

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