back to this side of the view from frankfurt where daniel corp is standing by for us daniel the total v.w. is now set aside is over twenty five billion euros that's got a. lot of money that they have spent so far because of all this these are the gate scandal and we are now hearing that they are going to put and the other two point five billion euros on the side because we have a statement a little bit earlier they are just worried at the moment that they're going to be even more lawsuits mostly coming from the united states we just heard in the report for diesel cars have been extremely popular lately. but i can tell you also from the frankfurt perspective that in general even though we are also seeing that the overall sales number of volkswagen have been dropping from seventy seven billion euros to fifty eight billion euros investors here are still a very optimistic the share price of volkswagen is one of the biggest winners today even hitting and nine months high here today at the frankfurt stock exchange well i guess a reason for that is the fact that their performance is broadly

we can get more detail on this now with our financial correspondent daniel corp who is in frankfurt for us daniel of course these a big name call make is that big on the blue chip dax so what's the reaction to this piece of news where you are. a big carmakers all a city in the blue chip in the execs who have lost and we remember the diesel gate scandal already billions of euros because of all those scandals in the past when you talk about today's trading day we don't really see a big impact so far on the shares b.m.w. and dime those shares were dropping after this news not really dramatically of those walks flying shares are even with a big plus at the moment it seems that investors at the moment are kind of used to those scandals in other news the brig's it double speak goes on prime minister theresa may claiming progress and yet in brussels a little sign of a deal who do invest is trust. well certainly in not to resign me at the end of the day we again have to commons first from hers saying that at the end it's going to be a good deal for pretty much everybody then early also we heard

the nineteen nineties well we can get more detail on this now with our financial correspondent daniel corp who is in frankfurt for us daniel of course these a big name car makers they're big on the blue chip dax so what's the reaction to this piece of news where you are. big carmakers all a city in the blue chip in the execs who have lost and we remember the diesel gate scandal already billions of euros because of all those scandals in the past when you talk about today's trading day we don't really see a big impact so far on the shares b.m.w.'s down their shares were dropping after this news not really dramatically of those walks market shares are even with a big plus at the moment it seems that investors at the moment are kind of used to those scandals in other news the brig's it double speak goes on prime minister theresa may claiming progress and yet in brussels little sign of a deal who do invest is trust. well certainly a nod to reason may at the end of the day we again have to commons first from hers saying that at the end it's going to be a good deal for pretty much everybody then

all right a diesel gauge is weighing heavily on of folks profits in the last quarter daniel corp is standing by for us at the french food stock exchange danielle how is that going down on the trading floor. when i feel that investors are mostly looking on the very positive outlook for the end of the year that seems to be very promising also that volkswagen itself is doing pretty well and mostly also doing very well right now in china we have seen shares here of volkswagen pretty much climbing all day and together with a gas company linder we are really seeing nor record highs today here at the blue chip index stocks very comfortable now over the thirteen thousand point mark arrived so folks of our third quarter profit results couldn't spoil the party in frankfurt but there's another german industry giant a that software company a p that now also faces a u.s. corruption probe and there it's over sales commissions page two when south african government contract sounds dubious. here we're talking here about six point five million euros and we're hearing that s a p u was paying this sort off mt

let's go straight to frankfurt and the frankfurt stock exchange with danielle corp is standing by for us daniel what's this decision mean for cost and storage about it. yeah hi monica from chile frank wrote the atmosphere inside of the stock exchange is even colder because i can tell you that this settlement case that it is a very unusual case in nine of ten cases when a settlement is actually in the discussion accord usually agrees on this in this case the court is saying that the case has such a high importance so they really want to see this trial to happen of course at the end with an open result we could see in this case or of course the next fertile as well what does this mean for can get or why is contractors actually due in march two thousand and eighteen and with an open trial still going on it's not very likely that we're going to see a new contract for him all right daniel and just briefly i mean the financial world bids farewell to a giant german finance minister today while country of leaves office to become the new president of the german parliament or people where you a

to just zero point seven percent next year well let's check in with our financial correspondent daniel corp joins us from frankfurt now daniel he's about victory starting to sink in now are investors still cheering the news of the reelection. oh yeah they left the news and you just mentioned this kind of effect that you know we are seeing already throughout the last years with this policy a very business friendly politics of the japanese prime minister and we got a boost this morning already here at the blue chip index tax because of the blue chip index stocks right now is mainly driven also with lots of concerns right now in the still ongoing crisis between spain and catalonia so investors were very much appreciating this all time. all time high the nikkei index in a talk you are today and investors are really expecting that the monetary policy off the japanese central bank is not going to change in the next years now with mr even having more seats in the japanese parliament don't you let's keep on the theme of monetary policy but switch our focus to the united states now we're getting clo

back to this side of the view from frankfurt where daniel corp is standing by for us daniel the total v.w. is now set aside is over twenty five billion euros that's got a. lot of money that they have spent so far because of all this these are the gate scandal and we are now hearing that they're going to put another two point five billion euros on the side because we have a statement a little bit earlier they're just worried at the moment that they're going to be even more lawsuits mostly coming from the united states we just heard in the record for diesel cars have been extremely popular lately. but i can tell you also from the frankfurt perspective that in general even though we are also seeing that the overall sales number of walks have been dropping from seventy seven billion euros to fifty eight billion euros investors here are still a very optimistic the share price of oil expiring is one of the biggest winners today even hitting and nine months high here today at the frankfurt stock exchange well i guess a reason for that is the fact that their performance is broadly stronger if

so earlier we asked our correspondent at the frankfurt stock exchange daniel corp how much can get or stood to profit from those shares if the merger had gone through well remember when the stock exchanges were flirting the franc or stock exchange in the long run stock exchange by that time he was buying shares worth of four point five million euros we know i am his marriage you know never happened if and what of if it would have happened he would have had made a lot of money and it's going to get even more difficult for him now his contract is due in in march two thousand and eighteen and we're hearing that maybe already by this week there could be a final decision about his future we are hearing from insiders that on thursday there is going to be a board meeting here apple stock exchange where there will be discussing the future of casting can get and most likely deciding if there's going to be a contract for him in the future or not. don't you cope in frankfurt now that you're paying commission is recommending a shorter licensing period for that controversial weed canada life oh sa

of the islamic state defacto capital of raqqa, syria, with me now daniel davis, defense priority senior fellow. and retired marine corpith you, it has been remarkable at pace that we've been handing isis defeats this year. >> well, it has. when you look at how long we've been supporting the kurdish forces in trying to take them out, without the support they had when they were trying the iraqis were trying to take out isness mosul. -- isis in mosul, it has been effective. charles: we have isis on the run. i don't know where the next strong hold is iraqa was sort of the brain -- raqqa of the sort of the braining and operation they launched a lot of terrorist attacks in west. hopefully that will be cut off. >> raqqa was their defacto capital, they would parade in public square and force the civilians to watch their beheadings and brutal crucifying different civilians at different times, it was a horrible regime, over a thousand civilians have died, 270,000 people have done displaced. isis is now about to strength of 6500 individuals left, after their peak of tens of thousands. we are expecting that we have question icell