she really did become a world famous conductor brimming over with virtuous city should. start feb eighteenth d.w. . the u.s. files criminal charges against chinese telecoms giant huawei the company's accused of violating sanctions against iran and industrial espionage this as the u.s. and china are trying to call recent trade sanctions. also is global corruption helping fuel the crisis in democracy worldwide look at

a new ranking from crookedness and talk to the head of the organization behind it. and today's a crucial day in britain with several votes on the government's brags that plan british companies are preparing for the worst so individuals look at how one family is getting ready. and stephen beard zimbra len good to have you with us the u.s. justice of the justice department has charged chinese telecom giant huawei with violating its sanctions against iran and industrial espionage charges are in connection with the arrest of while ways chief financial officer and the daughter of its founder among one joe in canada the move comes at a time of heightened tensions between washington and beijing due to president trump simmering trade conflict. the announcement was a long time coming if you believe the rumor mill the u.s. has officially cuse chinese telecom giant huawei of a bevy of crimes a grand jury in new york has returned an indictment alleging thirteen additional crimes committed by walk away it's c.f.o.

it's affiliate in a ram and one of its subsidiaries here in the united states the criminal activity alleged in this indictment goes back at least ten years and goes all the way to the top of the company the u.s. justice department accuses while these top brass of using a hong kong based shell company to funnel telecommunications equipment to iran in violation of international sanctions investigators also accuse wall ways engineers of stealing trade secrets from cell phone provider t. mobile including robotics plans using t. mobile cell phone testing. huawei has long been suspected of having close ties to the chinese government a cause for concern for some international observers. however both the company and the chinese government denied the accusations. those you know they will just as the foreign ministry said it with no evidence and they're using their state power to discredit and attack designated companies this sort of behavior is unfair and

immoral well the. woman the charges are likely to throw a fresh spanner in the works washington and beijing are set to reopen talks over their simmering trade conflict later this week. the failure to control corruption is contributing to a crisis of democracy across the world as the verdict of the latest corruption perception index published by the nonprofit group transparency international annual report ranks countries according to perceptions of public sector largely by the business community the top and bottom might not come as a surprise but there's a bit of movement in between. despite its dreary weather denmark regularly features in the top five on the world happiness index and maybe that's partly because the danes feel they can trust their public officials in recent years denmark and new zealand have consistently top transparency international's list and twenty eighteen was no different denmark once again landed the top spot on the corruption

perceptions index scoring eighty eight points one and head of new zealand in second place on eighty seven finland singapore sweden and switzerland all tied for third norway the netherlands canada luxembourg germany and britain make up the rest of the top ten at the other end of the scale reclusive north korea and war torn yemen tied at a lowly fourteen points were trailed by a war zone south sudan and syria both thirteen and conflict ravaged somalia bringing up last place with just ten points. more than two thirds of countries score below fifty the global average was just forty three in recent years only twenty countries have significantly improved their scores including studia and ivory coast sixteen have significantly worse and including australia and multum. so we're going to talk more about this report now with the chair of transparency

international delia for rubio she's of course joining me here right now delia there's a lot going on in this report what stands out most you well i think that one thing we should have is that for the first time for instance u.s. is not in that twenty countries performing well in terms of transparency the u.s. lost four points this year it was not surprising if you are following quite scotland there in terms of conflicts of interest harassment to the press and they attack on separation of powers and things like that but it is something that we can highlight . brazil also lost some points there and brazil just like the u.s. to populist candidates elected saying they're going to fight corruption but you've drawn a connection between corruption and populism or at least the. democratic crisis. there is a correlation between weakness of democratic institutions and high level soft

corruption and with populist leader on top of the new president as just took office so it's not reflected in the last. course. seeing. that they have chosen our narrative against corruption but not the agenda so when they arrive in office they behave in another way so obviously this is an agenda that resonates with the public what then needs to be done well of course we need. to defend the civic space the space for sea distance and gave sherman we have to protect journalism freedom of press and particularly investigative journalists who are doing a great job in terms of disclosing and exposing corruption we have to define rule of law because when institutions so strong they can fight against corruption and to

protect whistleblowers for instance and not something we have to stop receiving just commitment and speeches we need to transform that action this point to note here that this is corruption perception yes is not documented cases of corruption explain why you chose to do it when two years ago when we started doing this we look for a proxy to corruption and a proxy is this perception for instance and this source is experts business sector we have another tool can see distance what they think about corruption and how they perceive but in a country you have lots of cases in the courts and that doesn't mean the country's very much a corrupt country because it can reflect how active the country putting a stop. to impunity and another county your have no cases in the courts for

instance and it doesn't mean their country's transport and thought without corruption probably it is that there is a great deal of impunity so we went for these drugs reduced perception in the business sector and the experts are right in the reports coming out today check out of course. rubio thank you so much for joining us you know national thank you. almost five months after exiting its massive bailout program greece has returned to the free capital market issuing a new five year government bonds it's a new reason for optimism in an economy that certainly needs it. there are more and more signs that the economy is recovering in greece athens is now testing the bond market the goal is to raise about two to three billion euros according to the debt agency of the ministry of finance in the meantime the country has regained

a solid cushion. only. everyone has begun to acknowledge that greece is a different country now. a country where the terms and preconditions would have been created to finally leave the crisis and the reasons that created the crisis behind us. with evolution because business in addition the greek prime minister announced that after years of reforms and austerity he would raise the minimum wage by eleven percent to six hundred fifty euros a month. from my point of view i think this move is the least we can do for workers who have suffered for those that during the crisis saw their wages being decreased or cut. basically the mother of islam the owner of the little still does not believe. the increase in the minimum wage is expected to go into effect at the beginning of february the first tangible improvement for workers in

greece in more than eight years. and staying in europe the british parliament is bracing itself for its tuesday vote on a number of amendments to teresa mayes brags that plan b. meanwhile for some people in britain apprehension is growing as the braggs a date approaches while many still hope for the best others are preparing for the worst. these are the man families provisions enough for five people for several months including their cat and dog. the man's are from cornwall southern england and they're stockpiling supplies now we're not providing for who are farm in we're preparing for plexi. intervene and her husband have always been against britain leaving the e.u. . and everything they've heard from london in the last two years makes them think it is going to be a chaotic process. they've got a water tank with filter and plenty of batteries because the u.k.

currently gets a lot of its electricity from europe. so we're being a bit balanced to mail a stick we're not expecting that to be unexpected power cuts frequent maybe more rationing of power much like the seventy's where there was set times of the day where they wouldn't be in power. so the family has even started growing their own vegetables in the backyard but is this all a bit too much maybe nevertheless nuveen says they are simply going on what their government tells them. he could government has then said they expect up to six months oh. in imports running on fifteen to twenty percent efficiency i think. so we're now increasing because we had underestimated what we might need. one third of all food stuffs enters britain through the port of dover. if britain leaves the e.u. without a deal there could soon because some checks here along with traffic jams and food

shortages the government has asked many companies and supermarkets to stock up on supplies food wholesalers have been stockpiling enough product for about six weeks . but there just isn't enough storage capacity for more that's why the man family has decided to stock up themselves. that's it for me in the business here in berlin you can always find out more about these stories that. business and thanks for joining us.

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hear what's coming up all in the bundesliga you'll have plenty to talk about here for g.w. . the monday is legal every weekend here w. a low on a very warm welcome to the first edition of on new arts and culture show on robin merrill and let's get straight to it and see what's coming out today. the film black panther takes the top prize at sunday night screen actors guild awards in los angeles we'll find out how significant these awards are it feels as looney.

and taking german literature around the world i'll be talking to my colleague david levitz will be telling us all about one hundred must read steve definitive list of german books available in english. but first the coma show opened here in berlin was voted best opera house in the world a couple of years back its artistic director barry kosky best director a year before that and the accolades keep coming now koskie has a brand new production of what must be one of the most popular operas in the repertoire puccini's lab o.m. it premiered on sunday night's. nineteenth century paris a group of crazy artists enjoying life the setting for puccini's masterpiece labo

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