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Germany's transport minister has said the car maker has now admitted using the same fake emissions test in Europe as it used to falsify results in the US. It comes a day after the company's chief executive quit; a successor is expected to be appointed tomorrow. We speak to Stefan Vosswinkle, from the German car magazine Autobild, and sustainable transport consultant Ben Lane.

EU leaders have pledged one billion euros to help Syrian refugees following an emergency leaders' summit. We get analysis from Sebastien Dullien from the European Council on Foreign Relations, and Hans Werner Sinn, president of the IFO - the German Institute for Economic Research.

US-China relations are in the spotlight this week as China's President Xi Jinping continues his week-long visit to the US. But how warm are relations between the two world powers? Irwin Stelzer of the Hudson Institute offers his analysis.

And finally, hill farmers in many parts of Britain have a serious problem on their hands - bracken. It's a tough fern that thrives on steep, wild terrain. But its growth - which has increased with climate change - is swallowing up land that the farmers need for grazing livestock. The 大象传媒's Fergus Nicoll reports from North Wales.