this is d.w. news live from. diesel gate scandal continues to cost of course in germany orders the company to compensate customers who bought the w. cars for his great initial emissions cheating software to look at what the ruling from a country is the federal courts of justice means for consumers on for germany's biggest carmaker also on the program several hong kong officials claim terrorism in the cities on the increase and back a new security law proposed by beijing proponents stage mass protests toward the new law signals an end to hong kong special status. the election can see

burundi the ruling party has confidence was named a winner of the presidential vote but the opposition vows to contest what it says was an electoral farce. i'm phil gal welcome to the program the top german court has ruled that volkswagen must pay compensation to customers who bought v.w. diesel cars fitted with software that manipulated emissions test results the landmark ruling in the diesel gate scandal paves the way for tens of thousands of others to receive damages. the federal court of justice said anyone who bought a v.w. car equipped with software that manipulated emissions tests is entitled to compensation they can return the vehicle and receive partial financial reimbursement from the

car maker. ikey got off with a plaintive can request compensation from the defendant on the purchase price of his vehicle but they must take into account that the car has been used and they must make the vehicle available to v.w. . the plaintiff was this retiree he had sought a full refund from fox falcon of around 31500 euros for a v.w. sharan he bought in 2014. day and a great ruling on it's the ruling that i had expected it won't just help me but also the thousands of plaintiffs who are stuck waiting to bring their lawsuits to a speedy conclusion. to. around 60000 individual lawsuits are still pending before the courts and w. is now pledging to act quickly to result of those outstanding cases for good

bargain will approach plaintiffs in these cases and offer a one off payment the ruling sets a decisive precedent is the 1st judgment on the diesel gate scandal from the highest court in germany. let's go through this with the deadly business as surgeon general do below welcome gen so what does today's decision many people who board v.w. diesel cars well most of all it affords clarity it is a court ruling that says that fox fung has to pay affected diesel car owners in principle and that's important because this was the case for expired and it was arguing that it should have to pay nothing so what the plaintiff wanted was to get the full price of his car reimbursed. that it should have to pay anything at all because what the man had was a fully functioning car that he was still able to drive so that this isn't could have ended in either 2 extremes everything back or nothing back and that would have had cascading implications for the $60000.00 or so similar cases that are out there but what the federal court of justice has decided that this man should get back is

that this man should get back not the full price of his car but the price of his car adjusted for usage and because the lower courts in the country will take their cues from that court ruling it puts the 60000 or so i mentioned on better footing and so what is the reaction been from both sides while the victor in today's proceedings is this retiring as we heard there the report called herbert gilbert he called this a great decision after a long journey he's also happy that it would help thousands of people even though it is time. bird the victory is tempered a bit by this knowledge the compensation will depend on usage of the vehicle but what fox fund said after the ruling was that it would reach out to plaintiffs individually and offer them a one time settlements now this is going to be important for consumers to weigh their options carefully because if you had already settled with fox 5 and say last month if you were one of the 235000 that reached an agreement with fox on already then you know your case is closed it's important to realize that those claimants

got somewhere between each 100-135-2625 extension 0 euros now what mr gilbert is getting today following this ruling is 26000 euros not the full price but still 202-6000 euros plus interest so whatever fox song is offering you please take that into consideration ok so this was a go of old we're going to be a huge company but affected by the coronavirus a lot done so this is going to cost them even more money and do it and that's corona virus induced it wasn't small they saw an 80 percent fall in 1st quarter operating profits now we don't know how much this will cost them it depends on what flex fund is going to offer in terms of settlements how many people will take them but fox fund has already paid some 30000000000 euros in and fines and compensation in buyback schemes alone in the u.s. alone it settled for 10000000000 euros so they're going to keep paying but what's going to be interesting is whether this will materially impact efforts to rule out

quite ironically low emissions vehicles like electric vehicles in the future general thank you for that. the german government and i have reached today a lot of baylor's according to the announcement from the economy ministry in return for buying 20 percent of the airline's shares the government has imposed limits on monitors pay unspecified financial targets shares in the airline shot up nearly 6 percent following the announcement but the deal has still to be approved by shareholders and the european commission. will take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world i don't need cummings a top advisor british prime minister boris johnson has defended his decision to leave london during the coronavirus lockdown he said it was reasonable to travel to his parents' home in durham for child care reasons while he and his wife had symptoms of covered 19 despite public outrage over his actions mr cumming says he

has not considered resigning. the world health organization has warned that africa could face a silent epidemic if its leaders do not prioritize coronavirus testing africa has the fewest diagnosed cases of the virus are far according to our counting for less than 2 percent of the global total. for government of afghanistan has freed a 100 taliban prisoners as a gesture of good will for the ied holiday president ashraf ghani has promised to release up to 2000 of the move follows the insurgents off of a 3 day cease fire to mark the religious festival that. i. have a candidate from burundi is ruling party has won the country's latest presidential election everest. the day she married 168 percent of the voting will take over from president appear currencies a room for burundi for 15 years the main opposition party has denounced the electoral process as a fosse and said it will contest the results in court. the

w.'s eastern central africa correspondent sela neko joins us from nairobi welcome center let's start with the winner who is everest issue may. so. like many in the ruling party lead has is a former army general he was the former interior minister and also head of department for military affairs in the present office. and he and he also has so he bit the basically have an army background and has also been close to him currencies that some people say he's perhaps a bit of a moderate choice in the main in the ruling party but many also believe that his military background background will define his presidency the opposition claims the election was won through what they called massive fraud how transparent was the

process. so the opposition actually even over the weekend basically said they would challenge that outcome in court. because when early results came out and they have they say that they have had over 200 members of the opposition arrested over the last few days. and i think the international community on the other hand is having a very difficult to say anything about elections as such as they were no international observers there to monitor the elections apart from a number of embassy staff who were allowed to observe the process but prior to the elections there was a lot of concern especially from human rights groups and also the u.n. commission which had been investigating human rights abuses in burundi about intimidation of opposition members intimidation of the press as well as human rights abuses beatings and so on and so many assumed that it would

not be that free and fair. it was picked for this job by becoming president currencies and so is the president of course he's unlikely to play much of a role once he stepped down. well the question is what kind of a role he will play he'll definitely play a role because he has basically made a deal for himself where he will get a hefty retirement package and he will also be named the supreme guide for patriotism and basically that also means that he will be consulted or he should be consulted by the next leaders on issues like national security the question is of course how much where that will only be a bias or whether he will have the last say is and i think that it really depends on. the strength and power and also the power of those people around him thank you for that america in nairobi. the hong kong security

chief says terrorism in the city is on the increase after police arrested about $180.00 protesters during bring you the unrest tens of thousands of people took to the streets to demonstrate against a planned national security law the very same undermined the chinese tell truths semi autonomous status. the last traces of protests are swept away 24 hours earlier hong kong streets were packed with people rallying against beijing's proposed security laws and the stakes could not be higher for the territory's future. yeah that would hire a lot of people think that we exploited their freedom when coming out to protest. but i think the national security will affect our freedom in the future and the freedom of future generations a morning like it's. done to. the scenes on sunday were an echo of last year's mass protest after months of karm during the coronavirus emergency

protesters came out again due to beijing's proposed new security framework for the territory they fear it would mean the further curtailing of hong kong is right to protest international critics say the legislation would also be a breach of the territory's one country 2 systems basic law in a joint statement organized by hong kong's last colonial governor chris patten more than $200.00 law and policy makers from around the world have joined in. this is a comprehensive assault on the city's autonomy rule of law and fundamental freedoms the integrity of one country 2 systems hangs by a thread if the international community cannot trust beijing to keep its word when it comes to hong kong people will be reluctant to take his word on other matters. beijing has been playing down the significance of the proposed law for hong kong so china me while warning foreign powers against meddling with. i want to stress that hong kong is china's hong kong hong kong affairs surely china's domestic it is is

within chinese sovereign rights to determine when how and what legislation to put on hong kong which are. the national congress is expected to rubber stamp the new legislation later this week analysts think it marks the greatest reform to beijing's relationship with hong kong since china to control of the territory so. for the 2nd week of the blunders leaders return of the coronavirus a lockdown has finished with all of the matches played in empty stadiums because of pandemic restrictions sunday's games featured title challenger leipzig against the struggling rights both teams maintain their trajectory. transfer rumors continue to swirl around like 6 sharpshooter team or vera but it was his strike partner use of powers and who took center stage before kick off the dane was handed the captain's armband as he made his 250th appearance for the club and it turned out to be

a banner day for the jew oh then i opened the scoring after 10 minutes. he took advantage of lax defending to guide home conrad limas cross shortly after pals and marked his special day with a goal of his are on. his header was too strong for meit's keeper florian miller. leipsic in the movie. house and was also involved in like 6 the goal he sets up myself and the midfielder had no trouble finding the fuck or not light cigarettes totally dominant going into halftime. the break did nothing to hamper their momentum than a finished off a slick move to make it 4 nil. kevin campo and christopher and cuckoos build up made it easy for the strike it's a double his tally. and van event completed the route latching on to power long

ball to complete the 1st ever guys game patrick. a performance to remember for vanna. and a fitting way for powers and to celebrate reaching his milestone. of the africa from brant. of the. language courses. video. anytime anywhere.