[000:00:00;00] ah, [000:00:00;00] was, ah, business, the w news lies from germany's comic because a find for blocking clean technology therapy. and unions says, big car companies conspire to avoid cutting emissions from the honda donna 875000000 euro fun also coming on south africa. as for the president is behind bucks. jacobs boomer begins the 15 month prison sentence for contempt,

of course. after ending a spanish offence, hunting himself into authorities and england, the denmark of extra time to make the euro 2025 take over the streets of london to celebrate that region. a major told him a final for the 1st time in 55 here. ah i'm going to have his welcome to the program. the repeating union has handed an 8875000000. you are fine to german comic is so colluding to prevent the role of clean emissions technology. the new anti trust bodies as dime not b. m w and false spot and denied consumers the chance to buy less producing cars. dime,

gates being fine because it revealed the comp help european commission for more of this story now joined by d. w. correspond jack park in brussels. jack, why is it? was it so important to you to hold these german carmakers to account? hi there. well, the european commissioner for competition and the executive vice president says that really this is a by the green deal. and they are showing that they will enforce the companies call make a specifically, must adhere to the greenest practices that they possibly can. now this case sensors all around ad blue technology, this is a liquid that is inserted into diesel car emissions as they are, as the car is moving forward. and it says you reduces the amount of harmful nitrous oxide that enters the at the atmosphere as the car is going forward. what these companies are alleged to have done is to agree and sit time for regular technical discussions. the european commission says,

in order to limit the size of the tanks of this flu technology that are going into the absolute minimum of the astrological standards that are expected of them. the european commission says that it's they stifled in innovation that they made sure that they were only doing to those minimum standards. and in this priority, european green deal that the e u is trying to push forward. they want to make sure that the best possible green technology is going in to all the cars that produce made and sold in the european union, jack, 875000000 euros. that's roughly a $1000000000.00. it sounds like a massive amount of money, but it really for these comma because is it really more than a parking ticket for you and i it's huge amounts of money. but for economy, because a half a 1000000000 euros essentially, which is what volkswagen group is being find isn't very much there on your turnover . is somewhere in the region of 223000000000. but as we say,