i will no that's it. show up to date. well well news at the top of the hour, stephen beardsley has your business update and just have a good people in trucks injured when trying to flee the city center more and more refugees are being turned away. families, please see the reason for these correct? only with administrative people. lean extreme drilled around 200 people in june around the world.

more than 300000000 people are seeking refuge. yes. why? because no one should have to flee. make up your own mind. d. w. made for mines a ah, pressure grows across europe for harder sanctions against russia after legit war crimes in ukraine. governments in france in italy talk more openly of sanctioning russian energy imports. germany remains reluctant insisting the economic damage at home would be too much. also on our show, twitter gets a big boost on wall street after ellen musk hate buy's more than 73000000 shares. he's now the platform, single largest stakeholder, leaving many scratching their heads. and we'll look at one of the dirtiest secrets

of the global shipping industry, the illegal dumping of oil, the waste water. i'm steven beardsley. welcome to the program. support is growing in the e. u for sanctions on russian energy and ports following new accusations of civilian deaths and ukraine. french president, man, wilma kron raised the possibility of sanctions on russian oil and coal lilies. foreign minister said monday, the country would not veto any u sanctions. targeting gas. germany, however, has rejected an embargo on fossil fuels from russia, saying it fears, economic and social disruption relented said is working to gradually reduce russian imports. or earlier i asked thomas sparrow and our parliamentary studio, whether there was a sense of inevitability within the berlin government. that some form of embargo was inevitable. absolutely. and something else as a direct result of the discoveries of those bodies and that massacre in boucher is the decision to expel those 40 diplomats with germany's interior minister only

a while ago. stressing that it's all about securing germany, maintaining official security, if you will, public security against russian lies and propaganda as germany's interior minister stress. and we've also heard the official russian reaction to all that coming from the russian embassy here in berlin. stressing that they presented their view to german officials of what happened in butcher. they rejected germany's announcement of those 40 diplomats being expelled. stressing that germany's unfriendly actions would not be left without consequences. we still don't know exactly what those consequences would be. but according to the russian officials, they stressed that this basically damages russian, german relations even more and makes dialogue even more difficult between both countries. from a german perspective, clearly decision related to what we're seeing from ukraine. and also an alina babel,

the foreign minister stressing that this is only the beginning, that more actions are actually expected over the markets. now, he's a vocal critic of twitter, and now it's biggest single investor. you must have purchased a 9.2 percent stake in the platform that according to the company, a mosque has complainant. twitter has failed to live up to free speech principles, which could undermine democracy. a twitter has closed notable accounts and recent years for spreading dis information. most notably that of former president donald trump. twitter assures left by 27 percent after the news. let's go over dns quarter now in new york. yes, you are mosque has had plenty to say about twitter in recent weeks. what can we expect of him as a shareholder? yeah, must really has a complicated relationship with the twitter it just a couple of weeks ago. must make to the accused twitter of violating the freedom of

speech, saying that they are threatening democracy and hinted at starting his own social media platform. so now you might just be, i think the entire piece of twitter. i mean, not so far, but that could happen in the future. as far as we know it's, it's right now a passive investment, meaning that there is no official attendance fee of a mask to get a seat and the board to bring his own people into the board of twitter. but clearly that might change in the future. what we do know is that mosque in general would prefer a decentralized twitter, so less influence. so what happens on the social media platform? but clearly one of the big questions that what speed also it's asking will there be any attention, any time to and that actually learn masika, get the entire piece of

a twitter and then also translate into the stock price that we saw on in the monday trading session quarter. thank you very much. it's a hidden cost of shipping goods internationally by see the creeping contamination of ocean water through illegal oil discharges by container vessels. and it's an environmental crime that goes largely undetected. i'll d w teamed up with lighthouse reports and other media outlets to investigate this is a ship out at sea with a suspicious trail, most likely, a toxic mix of oily waste water, chemicals, and detergents. cargo vessels produce several tons of this noxious brute every day. it's built water from the engine room that is supposed to be treated on board and then disposed of on land. but d, w in its media partners have found that many crews don't comply with these

international regulations. with a help of a small pump. the mix is often sent into the sewage tank and then out to see few see ferris dare to speak out those who do risk their jobs. and ultimately that korea's oh, it is expected. everyone moved silently participated or pundum picked it up within the night. articles that youtube woodward was, what are? oh, it'll oh, so it becomes even easier to order builds dumping is the shipping industry's dirty secret? the reasons are financial. every delay in this tight modern business costs money. but there is another way to find bills will to spills satellites trolling through images, environmental what shock sky truth identified more than $1500.00 potentially illegal

dumps around the globe over the course of 18 months. it's anna corrina tippins job to catch these offenders. the police officer in hamburg inspects incoming container vessels light up because unfortunately, in hamburg, we don't get information from whistleblowers for us to investigate. that just doesn't happen. what's happening. another problem is that spills quickly dissipate, making them hot to verify. but even if they are no longer visible, the oil droplets i ingested by marine organisms like plankton fish larvae, for example, are very sensitive to talk. since when exposed to oil, they become deformed. in some cases, it's fatal. whether the pollution lose all the way up the food chain is still being studied. oil is

a mixture of several 100 different chemicals and compounds. and these are talk 6, and if i know most plans are getting in contact with oil the this is very dangerous. experts all agree on one thing. the less contaminated water ends up in the ocean, the better but with tens of thousands of cargo vessels out at sea, at any given moment, policing, them all is next to impossible. joy. now, by max bernhard, he's a journalist researcher and he's one of the lead authors of this investigation. max, welcome to the show. let's start with the incentives for ships. why do they want to do this kind of dumping? what good is it for them as some time and ultimately also money? so that's the main incentive. there are some studies that say depending on the age

of the state, noncompliance can save a company up to $200000.00 a year and operating costs percent. so we say time, you mean time where they don't have to go to one of these ports and dump it or yeah, they either don't have to go to port or have to spend less time in port on is this, can we say if this is a concerted effort by companies, are they telling their ships to do this or from what we found? is this individual ships that are choosing to do this? and it's very difficult to tell ultimately on the practice of benefits the company, of course. but what was the lowest, told us that often the captain is unaware of the crime happening. so this is something that happens in the engine room or away from the eyes of

a lot of the rest of the crew. but he has to sign a log book saying that it's ok, right? that's correct. so you have to sign the log book. so one of the whistleblower told us that essentially the captains also short on time, they just signed a log book without actually understanding what's happening on their own ship and the engine room and confident engineer might also build stuff because they want to cover cover up a mistake they made but often can also be faulty equipment hasn't been maintained well enough. ok. so when these companies, when the ships are ultimately penalize, is it the captain who gets in trouble or is that the company, or is it both from what you know, that depends on the jurisdiction. so for example, in germany, it's often only the engineers that are fine and defines depend on their income. that also means they're usually quite low. and in the u. s. a system

and the company will easily be prosecuted to gather with the captain. and usually also the chief engineers, but the fines are much higher. they can we up to the hundreds of millions of dollars. what do you hope to get out of this investigation? what would you like to see come out of it? i'm. i think for, for one to raise awareness of the issue. i think most people haven't heard about on build something happening and doesn't have quite severe effect on our oceans. usually hear about big oil spills and murray time accidents, but not about the sort of chronic form of pollution that's also happening. all right, marks, band heart is a journalist and he led this report into bilge dumping from ships on sea. thank you very much. thank you. and that's our show for more about these

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