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Business Matters: 13/10/2015 00:06 GMT: VW's UK Boss Apologises to Lawmakers

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13/10/2015 00:06 GMT

13/10/2015 00:06 GMT: VW's UK Boss Apologises to Lawmakers

VW's UK Boss Apologises to Lawmakers

BBC World Service - Business Matters, VW's UK Boss Apologises to Lawmakers

Volkswagen says sorry again, this time in front of British lawmakers

Paul Willis, managing director of VW UK is grilled by MPs as part of an enquiry into the company's use of so-called defeat devices.

Volkswagen says sorry again - this time in the Britain. Paul Willis, managing director of VW UK was grilled by MPs as part of a Select Committee enquiry into the company's use of so-called defeat devices.

Nine months on from when gunmen stormed the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 people, we ask how a small magazine recovers from a terrorist attack.

We speak to Angus Deaton, winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. He was chosen for his work on consumer choices, especially among the poor, which has helped shape economic policy around the world.

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Throughout the programme we are joined by Ralph Silva of the Silva Research Network in Toronto and Madhavan Narayanan of the Hindustan Times in Delhi.

(Photo: Paul Willis, Managing Director of Volkswagen Group UK leaves Portcullis House after answering questions on Volkswagen Group's emissions violations. Credit: Getty Images)

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