the reconquest turned into tragedy this is not the kind of freedom that we want. how did we become a gateway to islamist terror. exclusive report from a destroyed city. in the science of virus starts april eleventh on d w. twelve billion euros of profit more cars sold than ever before presenting last year's results v.w. seems to shrug off the diesel gate scandal and vows to produce twenty two million electric cars in the next decade every only produced fifty thousand last year. happy birthday world wide web thirty years ago a man called tim suggested to his boss that it might be a good idea to build a network of computers fast forward to today we have online dating fake news and

kept videos could it all goes so horribly wrong. visited of your business as welcome to remember diesel gates the german comic called systematically cheating customers and regulators about their cars emissions it has cost the company twenty six billion euros in legal fees and damages so far but it hardly left a scratch on the company's twenty eight team bottom line v.w. whose brands include. has beaten the four costs last year the w. sold a record number of vehicles a grand total of ten point eight million despite major cost stemming from the scandal upcoming tougher emissions test and a weakening market in china overall net profit came in six percent higher than the year before coming in at just over twelve billion euros. says a plan. vest the extra cash in the development of new environmentally friendly electric

vehicles and that's one of the issues like to discuss now with martin pfleger is a professor for strategic management at lancaster and u.s.t. in britain dr phil first v.w. sold more cars than ever the net profit is up it looks just as if diesel they had never happened it doesn't it. so folks are doing well indeed and it seems that the diesel scandal has really left them unscathed in terms of the business results that the company just showed and. published a while ago i think it just shows the resilience and strength of the w.'s current business model and the more that they have pursued for a while now i think if we if we wanted to describe b.w. small it's a model of large scale and that prevents or prevents them that allows them to maneuver some of these wild waters that we currently see so what all the elements

of the w.c. this is small on the one inside the very very global they operate in almost every country of the world and of the other hand they are multi segment so they are going from the more economical seven through to the luxury segment and i think this combination that gives them advantage over some of the more focused rivals so honda for instance who are half the scale so they have to have a lot of diversity of course of course but it's not all hunky dory is it i mean there are structural problems out there. i think if there are structural problems and i think it has to do with the transition through to even ability which is of course one of the most pressing topics that we have in the autumn motive industry right now. of course this is a technological challenge on the one hand side we have a different source of energy batteries it's all about autonomy and electrification

we see a new type of competitors coming in however i would see that there is an even bigger challenge for folks in the technical one and that is a cultural one if we look at the electrification of cars the company will have to become a very different type of organization. in the future valleys not so much created in engines or in engineering it's in software so there's a new breed of employees that will be in powerful positions and managing this transformation i think is the real challenge that folks who are but many of the traditional automakers have to manage i think it's also is a bit of a supertanker as as a company. that they have competitors now like tesla who are more nimble do you think that the company might be too big for these challenges. it's interesting that you compare them to a tank just recently the chief executive of folks. use

a nice metaphor for the new strategy of folks were to transform the folks one tank into a fleet of ships and i think it's what you're alluding to is that folks tries to. create an agile fleet of semi autonomous divisions so that gives more decision rights to the brands in order to exploit the strength of the regional markets. as inferior there professor for strategic management at lancaster university thank you very much. thank you. thirty years ago today scientists to tim berners lee put the idea of the world wide web into a paper and suggested to his boss to set it up the boss called it exciting and today we have bitcoin cat videos and influencers and facebook has been called a threat to democracy even its inventor has become skeptical of the monster he

created so what went wrong. the ability of just about anyone to contact everyone anywhere in the world is down to this man tim berners lee as a young english physicist berners lee came up with a program language that enabled computers connected to the internet to exchange data. back then he was more concerned about linking academic computers around the world the science community and something else tim berners lee didn't get his language paid and did the world wide web was free of charge from the beginning on what might have had something to do with how the internet swept and changed the world in such a short time. what we're getting to this point in just a few months when for the first time more than half the world will built will be online we're calling it a fifty fifty moment and that's a moment where i think we've got to do two things firstly we've got to say what about the next fifty percent and there's a lot of challenge in how we're going to get everybody connected or even the most

the majority of the world connected but is also of course a lot to do to make the web better and whether that's dealing with privacy concerns with content online with governments censoring or cutting access to the web in different parts of the world there's lots to do to make sure that we're getting the web we want not a web that actually hurts humanity because that's the downside enormously powerful tech conglomerates like facebook and google who collect collate and monetize personal data governments that spy on their citizens they make berners lee livid so nowadays he's working to help internet you. users regain control and ownership of their personal data. so thirty years of the internet to discuss that with me we have reports of the studio digital natives only one year old the internet itself so the. talk. is rob you've looked into this the history of

the internet and the world wide web it was it's a bit really invented thirty years ago today so the track we mustn't fall into is saying that the internet was invented thirty years ago today wasn't the internet there's been thirty years ago today that it's been around since about seven thousand nine hundred sixty eight in one form or another this is the world wide web we're talking about the difference so the world wide web is what we access every time we use a web browser like google chrome or firefox or as far your internet explorer and it's the system of coded web pages so you know the layout was designed by something that someone's written and then the skipping from one page to another by clicking on links and typing in addresses us the world wide web and it's thirty years ago today this father here tim berners they first put it forward his proposal for the world wide web or what he called at the time an information management systems financial his boss on first hearing that proposal described it as vague exciting.

it has become pretty concrete by now hasn't it. posted yesterday on the internet it. really isn't too happy with how his brain child has developed what is what is called yeah he's got a few concerns to be honest it's not what he did madge and it was going to be not happy with the way this is going it was supposed to be the great leveller he invented it as a way of people being out to share information so that we could solve the world's problems together in this letter yesterday he says how few issues three particular points that he makes that he doesn't like the way it's now. being used by state actors to spread disinformation and undermine democracy he says he doesn't like the advertising models that are often being used that encourage click bait articles so you know things with no real sort of intellectual value he also says he dislikes the way that the internet has encouraged to bait of an outraged sometimes hysterical tone so he doesn't like the trolling this virtual but lots and lots and

lots of money is being made the the internet or the world wide web his invention he made available free of charge. now the. companies like this one who actually say thank you very cleverly like this today they may make loads of money as he is the critical of the well they've got their petty reason to be thankful they've been able to make a lot of money out of his invention but what he's concerned about is commercial interests getting in the way of what he calls the public good he fears that use of data and the way that people are being made to pay to use websites is not really in the spirit of what he invented thirty years ago today so he's actually working on a few projects one of them to try to help people take back control of that data and another one which he calls the contract of the web which is an idea that governments come together to put together

a series of laws about the web or at least guidelines on how it should be used a bit like you know we've got the universal declaration of human rights the law of the sea the outer space treaty where people of from different nations come together to come up with a way of going forward and he wants that for the web he says that the internet and the web his invention is currently going through a troubled adolescent phase but he thinks it's not too late to save it. reports of on the tim berners lee and how he's worried about the bulbs to that he created. it is in the spotlight again in new york this time the state attorney general's office is reportedly asked germany's biggest bank to reveal details of its links to companies owned by u.s. president trump the main focus of the hotels in washington miami and she cargo this comes after former trump lawyer michael cohn testified before congress last month that trump gave false financial statements to the. the pound has

continued to rally on tourism as agreement with the e.u. last night the british prime minister says secured changes that could help break the deal pos through parliament so they rose by zero point four percent during tuesday trading in asia meaning it's jumped by one point four percent in just two days traders hope the agreement will be enough to sway british lawmakers who have threatened to vote down the deal in a vote later today. that's it from me and the business team you can find local business news stories on our website as to w dot com slash business merrill has all the latest.

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