a state of emergency was declared earlier this month more than twenty thousand people were evacuated after having rain caused the country s main river to breach its banks. former massachusetts governor bill weld has become the first republican to challenge donald trump in the primaries for the twenty twenty us presidential election but while they have a struggle on his hands while trans approval ratings have been mostly poor during his presidency he remains popular with republican voters would be and use elance prime minister to send to our there as she disagrees with the international red. decision to end a media blackout over a nurse missing in syria for five years they were going to zation says it went public to seek information about new zealand coffee following reports that she might still be alive she and two syrian drivers were abducted in two thousand and thirteen prosecutors here in germany have charged former volkswagen c.e.o. much inventor kwan with fraud the sprawling diese
light of the criminal charges brought against german carmakers for manipulating emissions software. germany s car industry has long been synonymous with quality but the reputations of flagship companies like volkswagen became tarnished in the wake of the diesel gate scandal on global wide scale emissions trading has contributed to high pollution levels in urban areas german courts have started to impose bans on diesel cars in city centers. the transport sector accounts for some twenty percent of the country s carbon emissions a figure that is still rising as one of germany s largest employers the car industry has long enjoyed a great deal of leeway chancellor angela merkel has also been reluctant to acquiesce to e.u. wide emissions targets and expensive retrofitting of manipulated vehicles. domestic automakers have also dropped the ball on investment in green vehicles of a total of forty six million vehicles on germany s roads just fifty four thousand
questions on the volkswagen emissions scandal. there he is now live saying that he was informed of this back in 2014. let s take a quick listen. any reason to suspect or to believe that our vehicles included such a device. i was also informed that the company engineers would work with the agencies to resolve the issue. later in 2014, i was informed that the technical teams had a specific plan for remedies to bring the vehicle into compliance and that they were engaged with the agencies about the process and you mentioned this also in your statements. on september abo3rd, volkswagen disclosed at a meeting with the u.s. environment protection agency that emissions software in the vehicles from model years 2009 until 2015 contained a device in the form of hidden software that could recognize whether a vehicle was being