this is d.w. news live from the nobel literature prize will not be awarded this year tarnished by sex abuse and finance scandals the swedish academy says the decision was made to regain public trust it's the first time in decades the annual price will not be handed out. also coming up u.s. prosecutors charged volkswagens former boss for his part in the company's falsified cation of admissions data they say he knew about the cheating. germany's defense minister calls for a vast overhaul of the country's armed forces to focus on national security over

foreign missions but it comes with a hefty price tag after tomorrow marks that you understand a verse or a of karl marx's growth he's one of the most divisive thinkers in modern history we ask people here in berlin what they make of the founder of communism. they got to have you with us the swedish academy has announced that it will not award the nobel prize for literature this year it says it will instead award it to prizes in two thousand and nineteen the institution is in crisis over its handling of sexual assault allegations against the husband of one of its members now the scandal has seen a string of board members leave in recent weeks. and we have our culture editor with us and told the story for us hi. karen thank you

joining us this is an unprecedented decision why are we seeing this now ok well the whole mess is surrounded in this french photographer and cultural figures you know he's the husband of academy member who carried a friend since and who is also a poet and there are several reasons because there are several accusations made against him so the first first and foremost obviously multiple allegations of sexual misconduct for many many years i mean between one thousand nine hundred six and two thousand and seventeen about eighteen women have come forward and apparently he has even groped the behind of the swedish crown princess so that's the first thing corruption finance scandals you also mentioned this is because. wife fawcett funston son was involved in decision making on funding that actually was funneled directly into his own cultural institution and thirdly because as apparently repeatedly broken century old rules of the academy and leaked the names of winners including for instance the winter of two thousand in two thousand six

hundred bob dylan and he denies all of these allegations. they started coming out last fall three academy members already step down at that time over the fact that hans system was not being excluded and meanwhile there's been months of infighting and further resignations now the academy has eighteen members they are appointed for life and when they step down like this they leave an empty chair and they need twelve in order to make a valid decision and there's like there are only ten remaining at the moment so because of a diminished academy and lack of public confidence they've decided to wait this one all of this is cast quite a shadow over the academy which is the due to its reputation it's absolutely devastating i mean this is a globally respected institution. it's you know founded more than two hundred thirty years ago by king got the third. during this time it's had an absolutely stellar reputation this is a prize that's gone to the world's greatest writers obviously samuel beckett doris lessing. alice munro of course i'll get

a comedian in there the last time it wasn't awarded was nine hundred forty three so most of the times where it's been canceled it's been because of war time. and obviously you mentioned that it will be awarded it's simply going to be awarded postponed for next year and twenty nine hundred will be two awards so that bad luck for writers this year it is indeed in the can we is saying a statement that there is a need to evolve what does that mean you know you have to consider that in no time a tall the trust in this in this stellar institution an institution that we hold up as a model has been completely destroyed and this in a country that we've long seen as being very very progressive in terms of gender rights and gender politics. so it's deeply disturbing for sweden really tells us that there is absolutely nowhere that this doesn't happen so that's the first conclusion so they'd need to really work at regaining that trust bring the whole academy up to the with to speed with the times i think and practically that will something reworking the rules of membership has already said that he's going to

change the rules of appointment and make it possible to point new members so that they can get back to functioning a functioning group writes a major implications from the scandal here karen holmes that our culture editor thank you for bringing us that it's a pleasure. now it's a scandal that just refuses to go away another twist in the diesel gate saga we have a first with us here on business yes indeed u.s. prosecutors charge for its bargains former boss martin venter called for his part in the diesel gate scandal they say he conspired to mislead regulators and violate the u.s. clean air act a federal grand jury in michigan indicted vinda cohen as part of a probe into the scandal which has plagued the company for nearly three years now. 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 was committing wire fraud in connection with the scheme w's wall street correspondent. said the court's indictment was unprecedented i'm 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 wagner has faced a similar charges that said it is not unusual that u.s. prosecutors start lol 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 their 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 into a corner resigned as chief executive shortly afterwards saying he had been unaware of any wrongdoing but the indictment says venter corn was briefed on the issue at a meeting at the company's vosburgh 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. well let's go straight to our financial correspondent in frankfurt only anybody really surprised and b. what does it mean for legal position. it worsens the w.'s legal position because if indeed much inventor khan would be found guilty until now we have to presume innocent until that guilty verdict is spoken out and there's this

proof for that but that could lead to some more justification for shareholders complaints about being informed too late of the diesel scandal and that would mean probably another ten billion dollars as one figure i'm hearing that volkswagen could be forced to pay out and various suits that are that are waiting there and nobody really believes much inventor con that he didn't know and that he didn't know earlier than perhaps he said he did and you know this was a man who was immersed in detail there's a famous video of. plotting an adjustment mechanism for a steering wheel in a competitor and asking why can't we do that so to reverse v.w. it's totally unfathomable that he wouldn't have known about diesel manipulation of that scale. his new c.e.o. have a decent shareholders yesterday that v.w. must become more open and more honest i mean devastating what does it say about

corporate culture up to now. it's not as devastating saying as these as you say but of course this was referring to the diesel scandal but really. it goes further much further back than not back to the early ninety's when friend and ph took over a c.e.o. who later basically ruled the company until he was ousted in a power power joggle in two thousand and fifteen but there was a scandal that ph hired a guy from g.m. not so lopez to be a high manager d w that there was espionage involved lopez took along all sorts of cartons of g.m. secrets and both will spread knew about it and then there was a scandal involving financing prostitutes for workers council reps. to get their agreement on company favorable agreements with the workers. you know those few companies with a list of scandals like that around only in frankfurt thank you. for

more business news for you a bit later in the show for now it's back to sue me thank you gerhard let's catch up now on some stories making headlines around the world film director roman polanski has been expelled from the academy of motion motion picture arts and sciences four 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 an erupting volcano and the u.s. state of hawaii has prompted authorities to order over thousand residents to leave their homes officials say lover from the killer way out volcano poured out of a crack in a road began moving towards residential areas the eruption follows a series of earthquakes in recent days. the new u.s. ambassador to germany richard grinnell has been sworn into office the post had been vacant for more than a year now as one of trump's most prominent gay appointees his confirmation has

been delayed by democrats opposed to his conservative positions and allege a derogatory comments about women. and preliminary results from local elections in the u.k. suggest british prime minister theresa may has been spared the wipe out some have predicted the conservative party has lost control of some key councils but managed to gain ground in bret's its party in regions the vote was the first test of public opinion since last year's general election. a group of international mediators is holding a peace gathering in south western france to mark the dissolution of the basque separatist group more than eight hundred fifty people were killed in the group's forty year campaign to gain independence from free as france and spain the two countries governments are not taking part in today's meeting madrid has said it will continue to prosecute anyone involved in the violence. thirty three years after his murder to reason diaz still keeps this picture of her father

by his side he was one of more than eight hundred victims of vetter. in principle it's good news that it will be carrying out any more marriages. but to be honest that's nothing to thank them for. carlos diaz are cut childers the chief of police in the basque region with making him a clear terrorist target but he'd stopped briefly in a cafe as he drove away at a detonated a car bomb that is used in love in india. that the underground organization fought for more than sixty years for an independent basque state in their sights business leaders police and politicians the whole of society darkened for decades by terrorism. in two thousand and one at a declared a cease fire but for the victims this week's announcement that the organization is disbanding is not enough at

a has apologized only for those victims hit by mistake not those deliberately targeted to reason as wants to see the perpetrators hunted down. meant they can be no peace. spain's prime minister mariano rajoy agrees he intends to see the terrorists prosecuted at a may disappear from view but not its crimes. germany's defense minister also left underly and says she's planning a massive restructuring of the country's military the bundeswehr in a draft position paper obtained by a german newspaper funded by and says that the armed forces should focus on national security in the past the point is for has been oriented towards foreign missions such as peacekeeping in afghanistan the german military has been hit recently by reports that much of its equipment is out of date and not functional

has said she needs twelve billion euros in additional funds over the next four years to rectify the situation. we have political correspondent hans front following the story for us the high hands good to see so what really is behind this plan to scale back these overseas missions is that the lack of funds and of the faulty equipment. well there is faulty equipment you have just said so there are large numbers of for instance helicopters that are not able to fly tanks that do not have enough spares and so on there is a large problem a significant problem with the equipment that the bundeswehr has but at the same time it has so far been able to fulfill all its missions especially all those overseas missions so it's not lack that has so far affected its position in international in the international sphere one has to say at the same time that these plans do not mean that international engagement by the german army is going

to be reduced but that the defense the kind of traditional domestic defense role is going to be increased is going to be come a lot more important than it has been in recent times mainly because there is an assessment that the security situation in europe itself has become a lot more threatening and that means especially that the situation on the european union's eastern border on the nato alliance is eastern border towards ukraine and russia has become a lot more tense what are the overseas missions that we're actually talking about and could we see german soldiers be withdrawn. the major overseas missions i think with the three major ones one has to mention are mali and west africa where the mission there is to try and push back. in the region the second major mission is in afghanistan where germany has been engaged together with other nato states trying

to stabilize the afghan government and the third mission is one in iraq which is in fact just recently been expanded from assisting only the kurdish forces in the north of iraq to now being a training mission for all forces in the state of iraq in other words there is at the moment no sign that overseas missions are going to be reduced but a spokesperson for the defense ministry said just this morning that the internal role the defensive role the role of defending german territory and european territory has to be really looked at has to be expanded has to been strengthened because this was in the past say two or three decades ten or twenty years this role has been. toned down somewhat because after the end of the cold war one was of the opinion that there wasn't such a big need for armed forces at the time so we're talking about national security that's what the defense minister has said us enough underline that the but i could

do more work at home but is that allowed and what kind of task will we be looking at. we're not looking at police kind of work as security work on german territory in fact that is not a law and by law that is something that the police forces in germany have to fulfill but what we are talking about is simply building up a kind of defensive territorial capacity which it seems has been lacking in the last ten or twenty years because of the changing security situation the end of the cold war so we're not talking about german soldiers doing kind of take daily tasks on german territory but simply about renewing german territorial defense of capabilities which have been neglected in the past few years all right our political correspondent hans front reporting for us hans thank you very much now this saturday marks the two hundred birthday of perhaps the most divisive political and economic thinker of modern history care has more thank you very much to me yes

and that man is of course calm ox which you will see behind me and he secondary is he argued that capitalism would only make the rich richer and the poor poorer does that sound familiar well that's why today some view him as a visionary others reviled him for inspiring over a tarion communist regimes that killed millions are reported on the shelf and hit the streets of berlin to find out what people think. marx's ideas box 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 university. he started studying law but soon found he was far more interested in philosophy and history a quote in the entrance hall of the university press tribute to its former student . marts wrote the philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways

the point however is to change it mocks didn't just want to theorize 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 marx took up 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 this city. in former east berlin a launching of a new 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 berlin wall fell. but what does maag still means of people here that the w.b. had a kind of different idea of how society should work. all of all he wrote a lot of good stuff. of capital for example which is still valid today i got it reading the communist manifesto but you've got to have quite a bit of concentration for that can do you know this man. he was a great thinker in his 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 not of the relevance. of 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 that's bringing yorkhill in it from a business. experience communism first hand when you grew up in east germany until the wall came down so what was communism like well 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. of the years so that was it and meanwhile we 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 our cars which you see here in the background for instance to be robbie the famous travis so we saw how creativity pays off in a free market societies. how did you experience the person called mox in east germany what was taught about him what did you hear about him in the media i was a senior in high school when the wall came down and up until that point each and

every year we studied mots 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 were called a counter-revolutionary and you could not go on from high school to university your career options very very limited you ostracized basically your very brief you do you know people whose property was actually taken away from them yes the blue family for instance they have pianos a famous all around the world the beatles for instance recorded let it be on. 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 the know how and all the also their customers 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 balloons were able to get their property back you're clearly and thank you very much for sharing your personal experience with us. from karl marx we go to this man here representing the other side of the struggle between communism and capitalism and star investor warren buffett he just gave tech giant apple a massive vote of confidence his company and the way it has been loading up on apple's stock it bought a seventy five million apple shares in the first quarter of twenty eighteen that's more than thirteen billion dollars worth of current prices increasing its stake but almost fifty percent of it called apple an unbelievable company one of the most

profitable companies in the u.s. office or more apple stock than any other investor in the past year. and here's a question that could come right out of a test for students of marxism what would you do if a new way to work one day you saw piles of banknotes all along the roadside would you pull over and pick them up and give them back to the rightful owner to keep it for yourself or share the money freely with your fellow citizens well commuters in indianapolis faced that exact scenario on wednesday on the interstate highway the doors of an almost brinks truck suddenly flew open propelling hundreds of thousands of dollars into the driver's pulled over eager to grab the cash but it's not as fairytale as it might sound state police say all those who pocketed the notes will be followed and shabd is that. and that's all your business exciting week of european football has come to an end soon as it's come to an end

with the europa league semifinals the two european heavyweights atletico madrid and arsenal went head to head for a place in the final following a one all draw last week a first half goal from the able course that was enough to win the time to one on aggregate for madrid would dance to their third final and eight seasons that if he'd ended any chance of arsenal manager arsene wenger winning any silverware in his final season at the club. and in the other semi finals also hosted marsay who had won the first like to know force the tie into extra time with two second half goals putting the aggregate score at two all in the one hundred sixteenth minute marsay scored from a wrongly awarded corner the goal stood and sees the french side progress into the final against madrid which will be played in. our mind are now of our top stories at this hour the swedish academy has announced that it will not a war the nobel prize for literature this year after a series of sex abuse and finance scandals it says it will instead award two prizes

in two thousand and nineteen. and prosecutors in the u.s. have charged a former c.e.o. volkswagen martin venter kwan for his part in the company's falsified cation of the mission's data prosecutors say she was aware of the company was cheating on diesel emissions tests and was complicit in the scam. thank you for watching it every will be back at the top of the hour don't forget to head to our website feed every dot com for all the latest news and information around the clock.

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