Protests. Im chris colfer welcome to the program the european auto market grew by 1. 2 percent last year spurred by a december jump of that boosted the total number of cars sold to 15300000. 00 vehicles thats according to the Industry Association a c 8. Topped you auto sales followed by a french carmaker p. S. A. However out of the say the spike was artificial stricter Carbon Dioxide emission rules for 2020 pushed carmakers to get in all their religious traditions within 2019 particularly for vehicles emitting a lot of Carbon Dioxide. And as the Auto Industry is going through radical changes suppliers are trying to adapt to them. Automotive supplier bosch has one of its biggest facilities in bamberg in southern germany 7000 employees assemble traditional Combustion Engine parts making things like nozzles for diesel fuel injection. But the future is said to look more like this fuel cells as standalone Energy Supply systems for home use are smaller units to power cars and trucks shifting
Beethoven is for us. Is for the good. Beethoven 202250th anniversary here on. This week on world stories. We get a taste of politics in hong kong. And to hear about a controversial band in lagos but we begin in germany 75 years ago allied planes carried out devastating air raids on dresden the Historic City Center was reduced to rubble and damage tens of thousands were killed we speak to a survivor. When aaron steers comes to the neuer markt Public Square and sees the restored. He is reminded of the dresden bombings 75 years ago. Here. Everything was destroyed and this was where most of the people were killed in the firestorm then on the next day the taste and following kisha collapsed yes the square was reduced to rubble with more than. On the evening of february 13th 1945 over the span of just 15 minutes the allied forces dropped bombs containing 900 tons of explosives on dresden during the next 2 days 3 more attack waves followed after that the baroque old town lay in ruins. At the