no one asks how they are doing. ok. i need to stop there's something wrong. do social networks have any social responsibility at all. the cleaners social media's shadow industry starts june 18th on g.w. . diesel gapes germany's largest car makers sold millions of vehicles equipped with software to cheat and change the results of diesel and missions tests in the 5 years since the scandal broke the carmaker has paid out 30000000000 euros in fines and compensations and more are just around the bend tonight germany's highest court to sending a message to v.w. you sold your customers lemons now you have to buy those womens' back i'm burned off in berlin this is the day.

big league account for the plaintiffs can request compensation from the defendant on the purchase price of his vehicle community weren't just helpmate but also the thousands of plaintiffs who have been waiting to bring their lawsuit was speeding conclusion. that you will approach the plaintiffs and often one off payments. on. this i'm for the it would have been easy for v.w. if they did make a lot from the outset and said we cheated. getting caught but all this time you're proud of this outcome and that it's possible in this country for a pensioner to win against the world's largest kamikazee of it are. also coming up tonight loosen up versus listen up germany is reducing its coronavirus restrictions to fast or but today of course we need to justify the

easing of restrictions regularly we need to explain why some restrictions and maintained and others can be trucked. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day with a new expense for the. wagon and the cost of cleaning up a dirty secret to day job. highest civil court handed down a decision in favor of about $70000.00 v.w. customers in the country they are the owners of a vote's wagon diesel vehicle including software program to cheat on emissions tests the court today ruled that b.w. must buy back those vehicles not a percentage of the original price know the price that was paid is the amount to be reimbursed it is a major legal victory for consumers in a 5 year old scandal that has left you with more than just a dent in its image here is what the attorney for the plaintiffs said today. this

is so it will tire you into this one so if this is a land judgment and it will have the same impact on the other 70000 cases. what about the other point is there are still hundreds of thousands of v.w. drivers out there we now know what they can achieve some of us even for theatre of a few ever more on that i'm joined here by deed abuse business. to molly on joe it's good to see you again so basically the court is saying you sold a limb and you have to buy that limit back and what does it mean for their customers here in germany well it's a backing from the highest civil court in the line it means that the court fundamentally thinks behave ethically and therefore always motorists damages in principle and that's important because fox wagner was arguing that it shouldn't have to pay anything the argument has been from fox is that if european authorities didn't find enough wrong with the cars to pull them off the roads then they

shouldn't have to buy them back now today's ruling shows that the highest civil court and the land does not agree it awarded the plaintiff the price of his car adjusted for depreciation plus interests now because the court so will use about ruling because lower courts in this country will use that ruling as a basis for their own rulings it puts thought thousands of other cases that are similar to this one on better footing and as a result however brant there are 2400000 affected drivers in this country and not all of the cases are clear cut some of them see that their dealerships and instead of buying some of the other vehicles even after the gate scandal broke some of them bought their vehicles far enough in the past the statue of limitations has run out but still despite these open questions this is definitely a victory for the consumers and a loss for flights and what's been the reaction from from both sides you know both sides have welcomed the prospect of closure and resolution the plaintiff today said

that he was that he was happy after. it's long journey and that this is a decision that's going to help thousands of people for its part that would reach out to those thousands of people and offer them settlements now it's important however for plaintiffs to weigh their options carefully now already reached a settlement with some 235000 drivers recently and those people each got somewhere in between 1350 euros to do 6000 they got the very end of the deal that well that's what they have to wait you know because mr gilbert to the plaintiff's bar today he got $26000.00 back get it back after he gets back the car plus interest now of course on far side maybe it's too premature to call this closure they're also looking at a further decision from the european court of justice that's looking at a new word fear goals so this may not be over for them we could still see a new wave of lawsuits. the scandal that has long legs that's for sure gino as

always thank you. here in europe countries are pushing ahead with plans to lift lock downs and reduce restrictions that were put in place more than 2 months ago when the coronavirus pandemic took hope but already there are consequences here in germany just 2 weeks after hells of worship were reopened a new coronavirus cluster has emerged health officials say 40 members of a baptist church near frankfurt have tested positive for the virus it's believed the virus was spread during a sunday service more than 100 confirmed cases have now been traced back to those church goers now the outbreak in that church is precisely what public health officials have warned us about even as people are urged to maintain social distancing the risks of new infections will rise as we have temped a return to normality and yet still have no vaccine we hear it from doctors and

governments the lockdowns may be history for now the virus is not but for some the restrictions cannot be reduced fast enough which is to take a look at this protest in stuttgart germany over the weekend which was organized by the far right party and we've seen similar gatherings are across germany over the past few weeks denouncing the government's handling of the pandemic and demanding a return to normality and we should mention in stuttgart there was also a sizable counter demonstration. on my next guest tonight was a speaker at one of those anti lock down rallies of stefan home is the director of the institute of public finance at like me it's university in hanover he has been a vocal opponent to all of the government's pandemic policies calling chancellor angela merkel's leadership a disaster mr home bargains good to have you on the day let me just go through

a list. i know the united states brazil russia italy spain the u.k. they all have high death tolls from the coronavirus germany in comparison does not yet you say it's all been a failure here. this whole thing one has to. think in terms of bits of deaths of victims and their dresses is. falling as well as germany so you cited large countries and lost countries of course with a large number of victims i think the locked on decision in germany was a total mess it was ill conceived and it contradicted the real mendacious of international experts as joe jani does from stanford

university and now i hope they will lift the locked up so that we are in the positions of just sweeping which has a phone call well let me pick up on that in just a 2nd mr hubbard but 1st i'd like to take a listen to what the german chancellor said when she was asked about the economic shutdown and social restrictions take a listen is this vehicle theft and it says myra is an imposition on our democracy and that's why we're not making it easy on our cell spire a strict thing fundamental rights therefore they should be as short as possible but they were necessary and we always gave reasons why when that so if i understand you correctly mr homer you're saying the you're saying that what the chancellor just said is a lie. it is as is rome at least i do not think that she wants tourists to lift the restrictions as soon as possible but she wants to prolong them s. long as possible what why do you think she wants there's

a long. i have no idea and also i have no idea why they decided for lockdown whereas other countries such as south korea. us we did not but you said that she wants to prolong the mean what leads you to to to think that she wants the these lockdown measures to continue indefinitely no not indefinitely but until july she says it and this is inappropriate undersea because the new cases the new infections almost several when you take measurements arrows into account so the virus is truly absent know and the thought is right as the river saxony it wants to do that it will lift the restrictions as soon as possible to mr emberg you're saying then that this

statistics that we're getting from the from germany center for disease control the rubber cock institute as well as from johns hopkins university you're saying that those numbers are not correct. the number of problems cannot be explained in an interview the most important point what white is the they have redefined that and infection but to roll up your arse into a coherent 90 d.c.s. but for a disease you need symptoms and they close the file and all of it only infected as . that of the number was inappropriate but what about the people who are asymptomatic there are many people who are asymptomatic and the last statistic said that maybe as many as 40 percent of people infected are 8 symptomatic. yes this is precisely the point that will cut its use even calends the essence of mr

bill and the whole all over people who died with corona. even in case of murder suicide as corona of texas this is appropriate and this is just thoughts the novelist it's ok to define the director of the institute of public finance it like it's university in hanover we appreciate your time and your insights tonight mr homer thank you thank you but when public health officials and political leaders say now is the time to shelter in place they are telling us to stay at home for our safety but what does that mean to a refugee here in germany shelters are not necessarily safe in fact with people forced to live in close quarters shelters are ideal environments for spreading the coronavirus the best in hearts and has this report now from but there are.

some is a regular at this textile store in a small town close to the bavarian alps somebody is a migrant from senegal. he comes here to choose the fabric for the facemask he makes together with fellow migrants and refugees it's their contribution in an effort to keep the coronavirus at bay in the crowded refugee centers like the one where he lives in a room you can have 4 people or 5 people in one group they said at the corner can have in your body 14 days before it will soul so you can have it the simplest. sword in the whole place will get it so he said he's only. for supportive defense muxes. somebody is a member of a group of activists who help migrants and refugees all over bavaria amid the pandemic the group special focuses on those who are in accommodations that are under lockdown because of covert 1000. until recently able also from senegal was

under quarantine in the center in the nearby city of rosenheim. on the phone he tell somebody that people there are afraid of contracting the virus because those who were infected were under lockdown together with everyone else. we visit a migrant center in rosenheim that was among the hardest hit by the pandemic it's been under lockdown for some 6 weeks. the local public health authorities are here to tell the residents that although there are currently no known cases the corn 1000 won't be lifted for at least another few days some here are growing impatient . i haven't worked for a month boss calls every day and asked why i don't come into work i've told him we're under quarantine and i'm not allowed to go out obviously there's about dancing around operation all school and. it wasn't until recently that those who had tested positive for the coronavirus were taken to

a different facility for isolation along with their families after a month of coron team. seem annoyed is a volunteer helper at the refugee center. he can understand why authorities didn't act sooner it is thinking ahead to fun for i think what was really needed from the outset was a plan for what to do if more than 2 or 4 people are infected how can we accommodate people so they can live reasonably and the schools are now dividing the classrooms up in a different way there's been a change with physical distancing tables are empty the same is true in your garden but here in the center everything is the same as it used to be many of the residents have bathrooms almost all of them share kitchen it's practically inevitable that people are constantly getting infected if you don't know it in future. a spokeswoman for the regional government in charge of this and other centers says it is put sufficient measures in place to keep the refugees and migrants have a good one not itself but we've informed the residents in the workers about how infections are spread we use pictograms and put out flyers in different languages

that explain hygienic measures that residents must follow physical distancing rules upset a kid on coughing and sneezing and why regular hand washing is important and there's disinfectant available you know that we're supporting the residents as best we can as if you understood seems to be. best location so i dispensed with just that summer's accommodation in but totes here and the other residents don't want to rely soley on the authorities they say they've already made 26000 face masks to distribute to other accommodations all over the various and they plan to keep going until their situation improves. as the lock downs took hold around the world governments reminded us that we are all in this together but it appears for some people close to political power the order to stay put left lots of personal wiggling room there are calls tonight for

prime minister boris johnson the u.k. prime minister to fire his senior adviser dominique cummings cummings made a 260 mile cross-country trip to his parents' home in march just after the walk down had begun cummings is accused of ignoring the very restrictions that he helped design despite a public show of support from the prime minister today coming spoke to the media in defense of himself i can understand that some people will argue that i should have stated might have been london throughout and it's done these years i know the intense whole chip and sacrifice of the entire countryside to go through however i respectfully disagree the legal rules inevitably you know cover all circumstances including those that i found myself in the rules made clear that if you're dealing with small children they're not could be that can be exceptional circumstances and i think the situation that i was in was exceptional circumstances and i think that

the way that i don't with it. was the least risk to everybody concerned. exceptional circumstances on both sides of the atlantic in the united states president donald trump's mixed messaging and his reluctance to adhere to his own guidelines and his face mask well they've come in for hefty criticism over the memorial day weekend these are the images the world saw a u.s. president playing a round of golf as his country's coronavirus death toll approached and staggering 100000. it is that image of donald trump that has won the admiration of another businessmen turned politician brazilian president john you're both so narrow also narrow is called the trump of south america and the 2 men they do have a lot in common but brazil following the u.s. in the number of coronavirus deaths well it was probably too much for mr trump today the white house announced that it will ban travel from brazil tonight's

brazilians are facing a coronavirus catastrophe their president he is determined not to lose face. he's rarely seen in a must and his supporters like it that way. compared with most world leaders bill sonora has not been taking the coronavirus pandemic as seriously as he takes the economy. and figures published by the country's health ministry show the results brazil has the 2nd highest number of infections in the world. coated 19 has killed nearly 23000 people here. yet despite the mass graves and the funerals both scenarios staunchest supporters still don't believe the numbers. will persist you don't have to study politics very

much to know what this is about i saw the news about brazil today i think is the country with the 2nd highest number of positive cases that's certainly a lie because they became want to overthrow our president by dividing us they want to divide us. it will be a. full scenario has enjoyed huge political backing from his u.s. counterparts on the trunk they last met in march if you look very carefully great job. who still loves the usa who are. we but it we can go even trump was clear there's a problem i don't want people coming in here and affecting our people i don't want people over there sick either well paying brazil with ventilators were sending their ventilators ok they they need read the letters i'm sending them ventilators we have so many thousands of them we're sending them. we're sending

a lot of people know brazil is having some trouble no question about it was. still snowing himself has not responded to the travel ban he's happily in tune with this a pool says defying it tends to contain the fire s. . you can't put a face mask on an opera singer those are the words from the head of moscow's legendary bolshoi theatre and they capture the dilemma that is faced by artists in this pandemic the w.'s yury reshut it has more. the least are the rules smallest stage this is how the day starts for evander and mario vinogradov out in the arctic or the alsa just outside of moscow and not in the new studio like before and that's also how both ballet dancers have kept to

themselves in shape of the past 2 months by doing classical moves on just 6 could be meters. this is the most unusual but they show at the scene but unusual times demand unusual solutions. before the girl no virus pandemic event was the principal dancer at the renowned. incentive peter's book. wife maria had been enchanting audiences as a leading soloist at moscow's the bolshoi ballet. however since mid march to they can't perform anymore at least not in the usual way it works if you're the more you can take the theatre from us artists but you can't take our creativity and as you mentioned we train every day to try and stay in shape but of course we still end up getting out of the shape we were in with no stage no real rehearsal rooms and none of the real physical strain that we usually had like when we trained more than 6

hours a day. cultural life in russia has been on hold for more than 2 months now. the seats at the bolshoi theatre have remained empty and an end of that antinous is still not in sight. you can't put a protective mask on an opera singer nor on a wind instrument player. and in a music theater with its numerous participants you cannot carry a measures that protect against the coronavirus of a music theater can only open up again once those protective measures have been completely. removed. and no one knows when that will be along with the u.s. and brazil russia has one of the highest number of 19 factions of any country ruled white and of that number continues to rise there is also controversy about how many

russians have actually died from the disease because of the different ways statistics account it critics accused of the authorities of covering up of the true number of deaths russian doctors are massively of a burden and to many of them have been infected with the virus of themselves. despite a few of the restrictions being slightly loosened 19 still has a country in its grip. and it's keeping both bellydance are safe on c.d.'s and my reading of roundabout stuck at their home in moscow. and finally tonight she is respected around the world for her leadership percy

a man of deep and i would add her for me to new zealand prime minister to send to our has proven yet again that she won't be easily shaken not even by a tremor but just having a bit of an it's quite here i'm quite at quite a decent shake here but if you think things moving behind me the beehive moves a little more than most. yeah it's just stopped. now are we find i'm not under any hanging lights i look like i'm going to structurally sound sound place. that's what you call a politician there with staying power on live television well the day is almost done the conversation continues online join us on twitter either a g w news or you can follow me at brant golf t.v. and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see you then after.

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