Stuck in a debt trap malaysia tries to renegotiating a better deal for a pricey rail project with china. Lets do business hes ok has finally reached the man at the top martin. Is on his way to court his company manipulated diesel emissions tests on millions of vehicles around the world it got around environmental regulations cheating motorists into thinking they were buying greener cars the Public Prosecutors Office in the germans had found five is charged into court and for other executives with fraud the scandal blew up in september twenty fifth scene a few days later into corn resigned has always denied any personal involvement in
the affair which has cost the comic a billions of euros in fines. To frankfurt for a financial correspondent. Is this the moment that the critics have been waiting for. Oh yes been absolutely it is this is a great day for many people here who are part of this whole Deal Gate Scandal in one way or another if you think about it for many it was really persona
lumpur with the south china sea and will be a crucial freight route between the malacca strait and kuantan where china is developing a major port prime minister mahathir mohamad it s pretty signed fear original agreement in two thousand and sixteen tried to end the contract rather than wreck up sixteen billion dollars worth of debt to china s ex-im bank beijing threatened contract terminations fees of more than five billion dollars essentially leaving mum had no option but to renegotiate now he says the total cost of the project would be reduced to just over ten billion dollars she had between the china communications construction company and malaysia rail link. has to put this in the open asian and. through fifty fifty joint venture company with him and