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  3. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-61827319 Boris Johnson's ethics adviser says he quit after the PM forced him into an “impossible and odious” position. Lord Geidt's job was to advise the PM on the ministerial code - a set of rules governing standards of behaviour. In his resignation letter, he said he had come close to quitting over Covid law-breaking in Downing Street. But he said he had been asked for advice this week on another issue he believed would amount to a deliberate breach of the code. "This request has placed me in an impossible and odious position," wrote Lord Geidt in his letter. He said the idea that the prime minister "might to any degree be in the business of deliberately breaching his own code is an affront" that would suspend the code "to suit a political end". "This would make a mockery not only of respect for the code but licence the suspension of its provisions in governing the conduct of Her Majesty's ministers," Lord Geidt wrote. "I can have no part in this." In his response, Mr Johnson said his intention was to seek Lord Geidt's "advice on the national interest in protecting a crucial industry". Downing Street said Mr Johnson was reviewing whether or not to fill the vacant position, and declined to comment on suggestions the plan related to maintaining tariffs on Chinese steel despite possibly breaching World Trade Organisation (WTO) commitments. Lord Geidt is the second ethics adviser to quit under Mr Johnson's premiership. Sir Alex Allan - who resigned from the role in 2020 - said it was "dreadful that an honourable man like Lord Geidt has been placed in a position where he felt he had no option but to resign". He told BBC Newscast that he understood Lord Geidt resigned over a "combination of the issues", including breaches of Covid rules in Downing Street during the pandemic. Sir Alex said "this particular issue about ministers, potentially at any rate, deliberately breaching the code" was the "final straw" for Lord Geidt. But Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Simon Clarke, insisted the issue over which Lord Geidt resigned was one in which the government was "trying to do its best to support a British industrial sector" and nothing to do "with a personal ethics or conduct issue". Labour's shadow attorney general Emily Thornberry said the resignation of Alex Allen and now Lord Geidt showed there was "something really rotten at the heart of Downing Street". She told reporters Lord Geidt was a "man at the end of his tether" who had realised it's "not possible" to defend the prime minister and had "had enough". Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said Parliament should be allowed to vet the next ethics adviser "so that Johnson can't simply appoint one of his cronies". The SNP MP Brendan O'Hara said the resignation was "another humiliation for the prime minister". In his resignation letter, Lord Geidt expresses concern about the prime minister's reaction to widespread Covid rule-breaking in Downing Street, as highlighted in Sue Gray's report. He says he had decided it was possible to "continue credibly" as the PM's adviser "albeit by a very small margin".
  4. https://www.autonews.com/regulation-safety/porsche-agrees-pay-80-million-resolve-fuel-economy-claims-500000-us-vehicles Volkswagen Group and its Porsche unit have agreed to a class-action settlement worth at least $80 million to resolve claims it skewed emissions and fuel economy data on 500,000 Porsche vehicles in the U.S., court documents show. The settlement, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, must be approved by a federal judge and covers 2005 through 2020 model year Porsche vehicles. Owners of the vehicles accused the automaker of physically altering test vehicles that impacted emissions and fuel economy results. Impacted owners of eligible vehicles will receive payments of $250 to $1,109 per vehicle. Porsche confirmed the settlement in a statement, but said it has "not acknowledged the allegations in these proceedings. The agreement serves to end the issue. The comparison applies only to vehicles sold in the United States." Scrutiny of Volkswagen's vehicles grew after the German automaker in 2015 disclosed it had used sophisticated software to evade emissions requirements in nearly 11 million diesel vehicles worldwide. VW settled U.S. criminal and civil actions prompted by the cheating scandal for more than $20 billion. The automaker pleaded guilty in 2017 to fraud, obstruction of justice and falsifying statements. Lawyers for the Porsche owners said the automaker physically altered the hardware -- gears connecting the drive shaft and rear axle -- and mani[CENSORED]ted the software of testing vehicles. The test vehicles emitted fewer pollutants and were more fuel efficient than the production vehicles consumers bought or leased. Settlement documents say testing showed fuel economy may have been 1-2 mpg lower than listed on vehicle labels. VW also will pay $250 to owners of Porsche vehicles with "Sport+" driving mode that exceeded emissions limits when driven in that mode. They will receive the payment when they complete emissions compliant repair software updates that will reduce vehicles' emissions. The lawsuits were prompted after a whistleblower at Porsche reported at least one suspected defeat device in certain gasoline vehicles through an internal reporting system, which prompted Porsche to report these findings to German and U.S. regulators, the lawsuit said.
  5. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61825525 Since the Russian army attacked Ukraine nearly four months ago, thousands of civilians have been killed and whole towns reduced to rubble, while millions of Ukrainians have fled their homes. But on Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov looked me in the eye and told me things were not as they seemed. "We didn't invade Ukraine," he claimed. "We declared a special military operation because we had absolutely no other way of explaining to the West that dragging Ukraine into Nato was a criminal act." Since Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, Mr Lavrov has given only a few interviews to Western media. He repeated the official Kremlin line that there were Nazis in Ukraine. Russian officials often claim that their military is "de-Nazifying" the country. Mr Lavrov caused uproar recently when he tried to justify the Nazi slur regarding Ukraine's president, who is Jewish, by making the ridiculous claim that Adolf Hitler had "Jewish blood". I quoted to him an official United Nations report about the Ukrainian village of Yahidne, in Chernihiv region, which states that "360 residents, including 74 children and five persons with disabilities, were forced by Russian armed forces to stay for 28 days in the basement of a school… There were no toilet facilities, water…10 older people died". "Is that fighting Nazis?" I asked. "It's a great pity," Mr Lavrov said, "but international diplomats, including the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Secretary-General and other UN representatives, are being put under pressure by the West. And very often they're being used to amplify fake news spread by the West." "Russia is not squeaky clean. Russia is what it is. And we are not ashamed of showing who we are." Mr Lavrov, 72, has represented Russia on the international stage for the past 18 years, but Western sanctions have now been imposed on both him and his daughter. The US has accused him of pursuing a false narrative of Ukraine as the aggressor, and of direct responsibility for Russia's invasion as a member of its Security Council. I then turned to Russian relations with the UK. It is on Russia's official list of unfriendly countries, and I suggested that to say relations were bad was an understatement. "I don't think there's even room for manoeuvre any more," Mr Lavrov told me, "because both [Prime Minister Boris] Johnson and [Liz] Truss say openly that we should defeat Russia, we should force Russia to its knees. Go on, then, do it!" It was last month that the UK foreign secretary said Russia's Vladimir Putin was humiliating himself on the world stage and that "we must ensure he faces a defeat in Ukraine". When I asked Mr Lavrov how he viewed the UK now, he said it was "once again sacrificing the interests of its people for the sake of political ambitions". I asked him about two British men recently sentenced to death by Russian separatists in occupied eastern Ukraine. When I pointed out that in the eyes of the West, it was Russia that was responsible for their fate, he responded: "I am not interested in the eyes of the West at all. I am only interested in international law. According to international law, mercenaries are not recognised as combatants." I replied that the men had served in the Ukrainian armed forces and were not mercenaries, and Mr Lavrov said that should be decided by a court. He then accused the BBC of not uncovering the truth of what had been happening to civilians in separatist-held areas of eastern Ukraine, "when civilians were being bombed by Kyiv's troops for eight years". I stressed that over the course of six years, the BBC had many times contacted the leadership in the separatist-run areas asking for permission to go and see what was happening. We were refused entry every single time. Russia has accused Ukraine of genocide. However, in 2021, eight civilians were killed in the rebel-held areas, according to self-proclaimed pro-Russian "officials", and seven the year before. While every death was a tragedy, I said, that did not constitute a genocide. I suggested that if genocide really had taken place, then the Luhansk and Donetsk separatists would have been interested in us going there. Why were we not let in, I asked. "I don't know," said Mr Lavrov.
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