crisis in democracy we'll look at the new right here for global crookedness and find out why so little progress is being made in fighting aids. this is business asia. the u.s. justice department has unsealed criminal charges against chinese telecoms giant who are way they allege violation of sanctions against iran and industrial espionage the charges are connected to the arrest of juarez chief financial officer and daughter of its founder men one jew. this is the chinese delegation arrived in washington for talks to diffuse the simmering trade conflict between the two biggest economies in the world the announcement was a long time coming if you believe the rumor mill the u.s. has officially accused chinese telecom giant huawei of a bevy of crimes a grand jury in new york has returning indictment alleging thirteen additional crimes committed by wall way it's see if 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 well 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. the u.s. is also seeking the extradition of hallways see a full moon long for her role in the alleged sanction violations she was arrested in kenya late last year in connection with the u.s. investigation while we 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 deny the accusations.

just as the foreign ministry said with no evidence of their using their state power to discredit and attack designated companies this sort of behavior is unfair and immoral well the woman who she hired to implement the charges are likely to throw a fresh banner in the works washington and beijing are set to reopen talks over their simmering trade conflict later this week to the u.k. which is set to vote on a major immigration shake up currently britain allows a maximum of twenty thousand and seven hundred skilled migrants from outside the european economic area to enter the country per year now westminster wants to strap that cap the restriction was already lifted for doctors and nurses last year before it was eliminated nearly one in four u.k. doctors was foreign most foreign physicians working for the national health service come from india counting for about thirty percent of the foreign doctors in the

u.k. at the end of twenty seventeen now with already lifted for doctors and nurses that has freed up a lot of these a spots for other skilled professionals and other are fears india could suffer from a brain drain if more qualified workers are able to move to the u.k. for work when the new immigration law takes effect in twenty twenty one so is there really a danger that highly skilled young indians leave almost for braggs it's britain well let's bring in j p k. a managing editor of fact a daily and he joins joins us from bangalore j how are young indian professionals actually reacting. to this are they queuing up at the british embassy for weeks for visas right now. so there's a lot of reason to be happy because most folks they're proposing routine it's assault and also on the other students who stay about the longer that seventy five million figure however for the you didn't manage to do so i've already fallen to talk and i think i'll just take out of the group that i'm at the risk of so it's

it's not like that killing off of it if you look at the number of students that he joined from he get a few hate instead he planning for the last fight yet so we send about a different arms to things that you know this is something on the follow him to channel and that's we think that's all prospects are much better in those times j. what other what are the push factors that cause educated indians to meet the country. so it's off as you go higher pay of the chalk it if the stumps and all the appellate issues are based day and on and on the other sheet and of course the quality of life it's much the better that's what the students the. kind of speak this also is such a science is that it's at the lack of research funding which happens in india and i'm not clear that they get much better once the it. is it already happening that

this brain drain and do indian companies actually have difficulties of the finding skilled personnel already. in most of the tech sector and you know in eight seconds you proceed on the other three and sciences and the such heaps and there are great great athletes from induction. other countries but there's somebody but a part of us doesn't affect such difficulty let's take markets also stop it stop it before over the last say you'd see a lot of that kind of sitting back and getting they get off scot free before they even think of moving out of dodge. that's j p k from the factor daily in bangalore thank you for joining us on the w. business asia a global crisis of democracy due to a collective failure to control corruption that's the conclusion the latest corruption perceptions index from transparency international the lobby group

fighting graft and corruption annually ranks countries by how corrupt their citizens think their own country's public sector is not that this ranking goes by the perception of corruption not by documented evidence well looking at the asia pacific region the results are quite sobering countries that have made little progress the region's most uncorrupt country was new zealand which came in second place globally singapore and australia followed closely behind hong kong and japan came in fourth and fifth boss on the other side north korea comes in last new guinea and cambodia fall about afghanistan were among the region's most corrupt states asia pacific is on par with the americas in its lack of progress in the fight against corruption and as well the western europe and the transparency says one reason for asia falling behind is a weakening of democratic institutions and writes well this is how our country scored let's broaden our view of it. 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 ahead of new zealand in second place on eighty seven finland singapore sweden and switzerland all tied for third norway the netherlands canada luxemburg 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 a studio and ivory coast sixteen have significantly worsened including australia chilling and malta. well look let's look into this a bit further i'm not joining the studio mohamed transparencies regional advisor for south asia thank you for joining us on business is a. transparency has been doing this list for a long time now we've been reporting on it every year for a while has anything actually improved in south korea what we're looking at instead nation and this is this is disappointing toss to a certain extent but also what this also means is that there is a lot of space for improvement for a lot of space for the governments of south asia to work towards making things better but how. many things have been corruption is not only no inevitable reality

of life you look at if you look at communities that are quite clean states that are quite clean. the number one thing that you'll find in common in most of them is that the top ranking countries would be that they have integrity infrastructure in place hence the link that we are making to democracy what is interpreted first of how very strong independent and to corruption agencies free press vibrant civil society calling for and to corruption clean and independent judiciary that doesn't look into who's coming to the courts to win they are prosecuting. many factors like that closely linked to democracy now. we've been reporting on this for a while you've been working on these reports for a while isn't it time we play the devil's advocate here isn't it time with the we accept that corruption is a part of human life or it will always will be not at all no i think this is

this is a this is a pessimistic view of how we're looking at things at the end of the day we cannot afford not to fight corruption because of the cost of corruption is just too high if you are looking at it's not something that you can you know because the cost comes in terms of health care. of indication lack of infrastructure these things you know inevitably come back in other forms of social ills so it's not something that we can afford to do tome but you know it would be for by laws laws have to be made by governments and enforced by civil servants if these people are corrupt how can you ever fight it. if you look at the general trends in in the countries that that we are in pessimistic about what you will find is that the majority of the population are young people and young people in general are becoming less and less

tolerant of corruption new things in every to change into election results and politicians are finding it harder and harder to know so at the end of the day it might take time but this change is coming. is coming as a positive note thank you very much in a moment transparencies regional advisor for south asia bicycle coming to the studio. and that's it from me and the business keen and then if you want more stories. and the rest of the world of course you can check out our website at steve w. dot com slash business follow us on facebook twitter if you don't know stay tuned for. that's up next here the.

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