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became evident that the. media would use diesel scandal suddenly get serious german prosecutors indict former c.e.o. martin video caught on for charges. after he stopped catches wall street's attention but it's seno creates a social media aprile. growing up business symbolical how one of mali's few female entrepreneurs is leading the way. and turning to take official intelligence could save the rhinoceros. i've been fizzling let's do business these are great has

reached the man at the top german police have charged the former head of. corn with fraud is company manipulated diesel emissions tests on millions of vehicles around the world cheating motorists into thinking they were buying greener cars. martin vinta cohen is credited with turning fox wagner into the world's top car maker but news the company had been employing devices to give low pollution readings during exhaust testing instantly hammered the company's share price and reputation into corn is said to have played a major role in the company's fall from grace. to make a formal apology to our customers the authorities and to the general public for this misconduct please believe me we will do everything necessary to reverse the damage and we will do everything necessary to win back your trust step by step.

had to step down despite claiming he knew nothing about the emissions cheating but prosecutors accuse him of fraud unfair competition and breach of trust they say he already knew about the practices in may twenty fourth but did nothing to stop them and also failed to report them to or thorough and customers. he was feared by staff who were under pressure to make the carmaker the global leader managers and technicians were afraid to challenge him and continue to claim that it's diesel technology was especially clean and environmentalists friendly. the state prosecutor's investigations have been wide ranging the charge sheet alone comprises seven hundred pages it says been to conan four of the top executives deliberately come sealed the existence of emissions cheating devices with the aim of gaining more market share and to boost the company's wealth as well as their own. because of course it is following the story for us christoph what is going to happen to the

court well he potentially could end up behind bars for a long time but before that the court in the german city of needs to decide whether it will take up form proceedings open a court case against martin went to court and the other four executives that have been indicted here and he looks out the whole day because it's taken four years to get to this point well i'm not a legal expert but i could see the pressure on the court or to come to a conclusion rather soon because the outcome could also be quite severe i mean prosecutors are citing a particularly serious case of fraud here which could lead up to a maximum penalty of ten years in prison plus bonuses that had been awarded to mr winterborne and the other executives might be taken away from them in the case of martin indyk or and that could lead up to eleven million euros and should he be convicted of wrongdoings by the court them again that could make the case for fox flagging to sue for damages so this is a big investigation you're seeing how massive massive it is the indictment the

lonely seven hundred pages and seeing how much is at stake here this case could take. was it all worth it then to become the largest com maker in the world and to and to put all this pressure on employees to get the comic to where it's got well i don't think anybody would publicly say this was worth it i mean the scandal if you look at the financial impact this scandal self it has cost fox wagon up to thirty billion euros interesting lee though despite many diesel costumers feeling betrayed customer trust overall the loyalty hasn't suffered that much names. actually the sales is so good exactly in twenty eight fox mag and book record sales but again thirty billion euros i mean that money could have been spent spent much more wisely. bringing productivity and its ailing v.w. brand up to speed coming up with a car that a big. big base of u.s.

customers will actually like or pushing forward an emo billet is exactly what i was going to say that you're going to like trick a lot early exactly that's the topic of our time now that is something on which fox wagon now needs to catch up while its former top brass are facing quite difficult or while those executives could spend the rest of their lives in jail thank you krista for. jimmy is chief executive is under fire for claiming africa doesn't have enough software developer has the confidence biggest online retailer listed on wall street on friday grabbing the attention of global investors the fast growing nigerian company employs five thousand workers in africa and yet its entire take development is done in portugal it's. final nick implied the reason for this is a lack of talent in africa that's caused an uproar on social media. but joy doreen beard joins us from nairobi right or wrong joy does africa have

enough software developers. aggregate has more than enough to have developed as developed as in general i can name hundreds of them from nairobi and on and then it's go down so to south africa you know you will see it when thousands of development as they journey has got the same and north africa as well as going to the seams of the question are you saying that there is not enough developed to tap into on the african continent is completely wrong and i think really needs to resign that statement and just give hope to the african startups who are trying to change the way the economy is being perceived across the continent and i guess what people are also getting angry about on social media is that this is a multinational european outfit that's penetrating the african market and it's a lie to sell it as completely african as the c.e.o.

say well yeah but. beyond that what really these. tech entrepreneurs are really mad about is the fact that the c.e.o. actually did not show any trust in african stopped for him to actually say that it's completely african without even mentioning the fact that the house of african program is in the company was quite disheartening and for them right now the fact that the toxins are being outside of of forgot and waited operates in fourteen african countries forty african countries do not have the presence of june at all and. has quite a lot of answering thank you very much joy for your analysis there from nairobi. to mali now a massive landlocked country plagued by security issues and a non diversified economy analysts say mali needs more entrepreneurs especially

women they often face big obstacles to setting up their businesses that hasn't stopped this next woman. fifteen women work it only much of to raise te company. today they're sorting and packing have biscuits flowers. this is just one of the many different infusions the company produces like all the company's ingredients the flowers come from mali. sadness is just that i get that i buy the ingredients for my tea you like the biscuits flowers for example from a women's agricultural association in julie back it's about forty kilometers away from bomb a co. the ginger we use comes from four hundred kilometers away all of our products are organic or not. i mean much of to raise forty one

and has two children the entrepreneur first dreamed of producing tea when she was just eighteen years later and twenty thirteen she said a perk company that same year molly slid into political crisis happily cash from private investors enables her to buy the machine she needed. months depressed and pretty sick but now production got underway in twenty thirteen things were very difficult here because of france getting involved in the crisis it was a very tough time. but by twenty fourteen we got through it slowly word got out about our products after all t. is a staple for many people and today business is going well sort of matching them in the simple did you make it is that. the factory produces several tons of tea every week most of it is exported to west africa and france madame to raise is one of the few manufacturing businesses in mali analysts say that's

a problem for the economy. you have to produce goods in order to be able to export them that's molly's problem it produces too little in twenty seventeen we had a deficit of one hundred billion c.f.a. in twenty eighteen it's likely to be sixty three billion c.f.a. mali still consumes far more than it produces. it is what as a. matter of interest he wants to expand her business and focus on europe and the us after all for the many expatriate molly ivins around the world her bomb a coach she is a delicious reminder of their homeland something they're more than willing to pay for. south african police have stopped one of the country's biggest shipments of rhino haunts one hundred sixty seven believed to be on their way to southeast asia where they fetch thousands of dollars it's hard to hold back from such

a lucrative business time to turn to tech. rhinos can live to be fifty years old and in kharkiv nature reserve and wildlife sanctuary they actually have a good chance of doing so. that's because calling plays have bought the park two years ago and colleen is global marketing director of x. on soft a russian security technology and video surveillance company. when i had made the decision that we had to do something to protect the animals and use technology to become a force multiplier to protect these animals ai and deeper and it was definitely the way to go i mean we contacted my colleagues in the board of directors and said what can we do and that's when the algorithm was born and it tells the difference between a human and an animal. the runner reserves spans two thousand eight hundred hectares even before calling a right to have many cameras that sounded the alarm when they detected unusual movements are usually those of false alarms triggered by animals thanks to

artificial intelligence the new software is able to distinguish between human and animal movements it also incorporates facial recognition we then suddenly have a case around that we have a face we have a vehicle we have all ranges that have already been dispatched to go and attain to the situation the armed forces already on the way and it's now making things a lot tougher for the poacher and the results speak for themselves there hasn't been a single case of poaching in kharkiv reserve in the past two years. i stayed in business and get.

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