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meet invented completely new things and talked of the ancient giants who have recently been its teachers even the. teacher you're out of the darkest nature into a. hearts of people twenty second d. w. . fox wagons dirty diesel scandal reaches the top german prosecutors indicted former c.e.o. martin winterkorn using him and four others of particularly serious fraud also coming up after months of tit for tat terror threats and threats over aircraft and culture of the european union has now decided to start fresh trade talks with the united states and turning to tech all official intelligence in saying the
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rhinoceros. i'm chris colfer good to have you with us these are gates is back in the headlines with severe accusations breach of trust unfair competition and fraud these are the charges brought against former fox like and c.e.o. martin when a corner on monday prosecutors indicted him and four other executives suspected of playing major roles and the w.'s dear dirty diesel scandal for years the company misled motorists who were thinking they were buying greener cars. prosecutors are convinced the former c.e.o. knew about the exhaust emissions cheating and hid it from the public. former chairman of the board dr of intercourse is in fact accused of a particularly serious case of fraud a violation of the law against unfair competition and breach of trust. if the charges of proven winterkorn could easily land in jail and he's the very man
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credited with turning fox wagon into the world's top car maker but the news the company had been employing devices to give low pollution readings during exhaust testing instantly hammered the company's share price and its reputation. to get me. to make a formal apology to our customers thora teas 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. into court had to step down despite claiming he knew nothing about the scandal but prosecutors say he already knew about it in may twenty fourteen and did nothing to stop it also failing to report it to the authorities and customers when to cons of storage he was feared by staff who were under pressure to make the car maker the global leader managers and technicians were afraid to challenge him and all the
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while folks are going to continue to claim that it's diesel technology was especially clean and environmentally friendly. let's get the view from the united states on these developments earlier i asked our financial correspondent in new york why europe's prosecutors were so much quicker than their german counterparts to act against art in winter corn and other former v.w. top brass. well maybe the question should not be why u.s. prosecutors are so much fosco by why it took germany so long but if you look here at the u.s. prosecutors often have their own political political agendas so there might be some extra motivation to speed up things and then we shouldn't forget that folks watching is a foreign car companies so they're not that crucial to the u.s. economy as that would be the case with some of the big u.s. carmakers so that might also be another reason i'm saying may be why a u.s.
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prosecutors are a bit sharper when it comes to foreign corporations than to their own car industry . i also asked our correspondent how much this scandal has hurt folks lagan in the united states where it was having a hard time anyway. it has been very painful for for folks like me here in the united states and first there was the money i mean they already did pay and had penalties in the amount of a good thirty billion dollars just here in the u.s. just last month we got a new laws to the wood that got filed from the securities and exchange commission there saying that investors got defrauded so there is a lot going on and still happening so this case also as far as from solved here in the united states and then we haven't even spoken about the reputation of folks in
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the u.s. i mean it's nebulized a bit in the past couple of months but still the end tire folks group has a market share of less than four percent here in the united states of folks wagon and said they would love to double it but under other circumstances right now this goal might be tough to achieve in the near future. and reporting from new york there now for months the united states and the european union have failed to make any progress in their trade dispute until now on monday e.u. member states approved the start of negotiations hoping to conclude the talks by october and to prevent u.s. president donald trump from pressing ahead with threats to impose tariffs on european cars. e.u. officials are hoping to put an end to their ongoing trade dispute with washington
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thank you vienna member states have this morning given their green light to the european commission to open negotiations for a limited trade agreement with the united states and i welcome this decision wholeheartedly we are now ready to move ahead into the next phase of e.u.'s relations. there's a lot at stake the talks are also part of a strategy to forestall looming u.s. import tariffs on cars president obama will trump has repeatedly threatened to impose them in recent months even citing national security as a reason he's already slapped punitive tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to which the e.u. responded with counter tariffs now the e.u. is offering to abolish tariffs for industrial goods and lower non-tariff trade barriers in other sectors agricultural products however would not be part of the negotiations although washington has pushed for them to be on the agenda the e.u. hopes to have an agreement in place by the end of october it's tamale now a massive landlocked country plagued by security issues and
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a non diversified economy atala say mali needs more entrepreneurs particularly women they often face big obstacles to setting up their own businesses but that hasn't stopped this next woman. fifteen women working on a march of juries tea company. today they're sorting and packing her biscuits flowers purposes just one of the many different infusions the company produces like all the company's ingredients the flowers come from mali. i. said if you just said i think 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 coke. the ginger we use comes from four hundred kilometers away all of our products are organic. honey mucha to raise forty
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one and has two children the entrepreneur first dreamed of producing tea when she was just eighteen years later and twenty thirteen she set up or company that same year molly slid into political crisis. happily cash from private investors enabled her to buy the machine she needed. months depressed and pretty soon when our 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 products after all t. is a staple for many people and today business is going well. women will simply keep up it is that you see. the factory produces several tons of tea every week most of it is exported to west africa and france madam to raise is one of the few
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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. it molly still consumes far more than it produces and we did what was ok and it is what the show. madam terrain wants to expand her business and focus on europe and the us after all from the many expatriate mommy ins around the world her bamma coty 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 horns one hundred sixty seven believed to be on their way to southeast asia where
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they fetch thousands of dollars it's heart told poachers back from such a lucrative business 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 said. that's because colleen glazer bought the park two years ago and colleen is global marketing director of x. i'm 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 a r. and d. printing was definitely the way to go i mean to be 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 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
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movements are usually those with 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 it we have a face we have a vehicle we have all ranges that have already been dispatched to go and extend 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. thanks for watching.
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i'm christine window while come to news africa i'm glad you're cheating did we begin in sudan where days off to omar al bashir people are still protesting the country's military rule is off base in pressure from demonstrates his and western governments to hand power to a new civilian government but ruled sudan with an iron fist for thirty years before he was finally overthrown by the military last week off the mass prices that have rocked the country since december. but if been here since the fix of april and they're not ready to give up protesters have encircled the defense ministry the intelligence headquarters and the presidential residence in ca too they want to civilian government not the announced shake up of the military command council isn't enough.
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