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Update: Diesel Emissions Scandal: Ex-VW boss Winterkorn Charged in US

Former Volkswagen chief executive Martin Winterkorn has been charged by US prosecutors in Detroit.

Former Volkswagen chief executive Martin Winterkorn has been charged by US prosecutors in Detroit. The indictment against Mr Winterkorn was issued secretly in March and only unsealed on Thursday. We ask Larry Vellequette of Automotive News in Detroit, why it has only been made public now. We get a markets update from Cary Leahey of Decision Economics in New York. Michael Hirson from Eurasia Group tells us about senior White House economic advisers travelling to China to avert a trade war. Plus, South African miners who contracted lung diseases have reached a legal settlement. Richard Spoor, one of the lawyers who represented the mine workers, explains the class action lawsuit.

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