briggs one of its western states hundreds of thousands of people in north rhine-westphalia are now under lockdown just as the summer holiday season begins and austria tells tourists from the affected region to stay away i'm filled in valley and this is the day. for the way for germany with that state of north rhine-westphalia has shown how quickly the situation can stand traumatic see the group we're here to try and save our holiday. we pay spend our holidays twice normally would be in greece right now we are trying to help and to provide answers whether someone is sick or not. i'm speechless and feel powerless. also on the day job and payment processor while a card in crisis with billions of euros missing from the balance sheets so that

regulators been asleep on the job it's a shame that something like that happened and that starts with looking at the complete failure of the senior management private and public and is including my own who have not been affected. to prevent something like that happening. the health officials in germany's western state of north rhine-westphalia are conducting vast coronavirus testing after reimposing lockdown bashes on hundreds of thousands of people the decision follows a major spike in infections that have been to processing the plant a germany also faces fresh outbreaks in other cities just as the summer holiday season gets underway. this is what it looks like when the coronavirus restrictions are back long lines that formed outside the testing facilities in the district of. the new restrictions here and in neighboring vavoom doff took effect at midnight

mass testing follows a massive corona virus outbreak at 10 years slaughterhouse where more than 1500 workers have contracted curve at 19. now some 600000 people are affected by the restrictions that are in place until next week at least. i want to get testy and do my part to find out about the situation and whether we are all infected or not. we want to travel to the very on saturday and the condition is to present a negative coronavirus test and that's our goal. summer holidays are about to begin but officials in popular destinations like the various say that brutal slow residents are not welcome unless they show proof of testing negative for the virus neighboring country austria has gone even further targeting germany's most populous

state as a whole. our neighbor germany with its state of north and this failure has shown how quickly the situation can turn dramatically so we are therefore forced to issue a level 5 travel warning for the state we hope of course that the situation there were quickly improve and that there won't be a further spread across germany. to secure. overall numbers are still low in germany but the latest local outbreaks are causing concern the meat processing industry in particular is under pressure dial living conditions of the workers are blamed for the spread of the virus. 23 workers have tested positive at the visa home plant gemini's biggest poultry plant testing of over 1000 workers got underway today. a reporter see faces in one of the towns under lockdown we asked him what he's hearing from

authorities responding to this crisis so the good news from the district administrator today he said that out of 230 tests that they have the results back for $229.00 were negative and one has to be redone he said that this shows that they have the situation under control that the covert 19 virus has only spread among the slaughterhouse workers who have been in quarantine for so several days and that the general public here has not been infected that only represents a small number of the tests that they've done so far we were at the testing center this morning with really long lines and the medical workers there the health workers there said they're testing at a very rapid rate of 100 people per hour we actually talked to the doctor who's in charge of that program and here's what he told us. he mentions and it's opinion people are very very disciplined the more they're standing in line everyone wears a mask and observes social distancing they've accepted longer waiting times michael

long lines show that there's a great need as well as a lot of fear and insecurity we're trying to help and to provide answers whether someone is sick or not if you look at the numbers 229 negative tests out of 230 sounds like really good news but of course everybody is expecting the worst here because of what happened at the turn a slaughterhouse where every day that more tests were done more positive results that is infections were found in the population of slaughterhouse workers so when we're dealing with a virus everybody seems to be insecure especially other states in germany who want to prevent that virus from coming to their state so they don't have to go through the. most rhine-westphalia went through there's been some travel restrictions put on people from this area but that's also why there was so many hundreds of people in line today because they want to get their papers in order to show that they don't have the virus so they can go on their summer holidays.

how effective have the media been covering the coronavirus pandemic w's global media for the kids today it's focusing on exactly that issue so here's a closer look at how some of the world's most popular powerful leaders have tried to leverage media coverage for their own advantage a country overwhelmed by the coronavirus brazil struggles to cope with what has become the 2nd highest number of covert deaths in the world. but even the more than 50000 deceased haven't stopped populus president your balls are narrow from slamming lockdown measures flouting social distancing and refusing to wear a mask he has repeatedly attacked the media. with the press listening here i can't be comfortable you understand what i'm doing and what i'm not doing if the press were honest i would have no problem speaking to reporters but they are dishonest.

several prominent brazilian news organizations have seized reporting from outside of the presidential palace after facing insults and threats from both sonora supporters. the coronavirus has also fueled populism in the u.s. the country currently leading the covert death count president trump accuses the opposition and the press of misrepresenting his handling of the crisis and china's role in the outbreak. you don't hear them talking about. them to be specific covert 19. that day gets further and further away from china as opposed to calling it the chinese virus in india muslims are a frequent target of president modise divisive brand of politics the latest attack came when a mosque became a covert 1000 hot spot members of modi's nationalist b j p party accused local muslims of deliberately spreading the virus you're going

to india would have been free of coronavirus by now but these people have acted like suicide bombers these bombers should face the strictest possible legal action they should be punished in a way that generations to follow will be too afraid to commit such crimes this year . courses. through the uncertainty of the pandemic many citizens are looking to their governments for guidance but in some hotspots where the virus has surged so have polarising views discrimination and attacks on the free press. or the. kareem is an investigative journalist who's moderating some of the panels out this year as a virtual d.w. global media forum which is looking at the role of reporters during the global health emergency welcome house to weaponize ing of the pandemic by populist leaders affected journalists ability to do their job. when i when i saw the

report now it it makes you somehow angry because we as journalists already have hard conditions the way we work and when we try to investigate and to travel the word now with people and presidents attacking us in this way it's just worsening the conditions we are working in and you know our security and our credibility and this all means we have to work more we have to have much more energy we have to convince the people to talk to them because even here in germany when you when you want to report you hear the phrase you could put press that which is like the liars or you are not telling the truth and when i'm in the middle east you're here it's also so this all the whole atmosphere against journalists is just worsening the conditions for us to work and it's simply about security on both credibility but we have to mention that being a journalist is a right to freedom of speech is a human right and debts why we have to continue working and doing our job so

another effect of the pond to me because i hate advertising revenue hod and of course obvious izing revenue most media outlets depend on that do you think media can recover from this deafening come. that's a very hard question and it's i think it's too early to answer where to wouldn't be dependent make and i think i think we have to look for new ways of doing journalism i think that digital journalism would get more and more importance we have to reinvent some structures in journalism but to answer this question now i would say it's too early there are challenges when you talk to journalists you know that there are challenges when you especially when you talk to freelance journalists you know that they are not being able to work as they used to before there's not a lot of work but it's too early to to answer the whole question give us give us some time right. can in fact you so much.

philippines says it is investigating the links to a growing scandal involving german payments provider while card the company suspected of accounting fraud and market manipulation it's alleged that wire card inflated its accounts by claiming to hold nearly 2000000000 euros in the philippines money which it now seems may not exist or get more of the background to this scandal or why it matters in just a moment but 1st this report. prosecutors in munich suspect form a wild card boss marcus brown of inflating the company's balance sheet and revenues to make it appear stronger and more attractive for investors and customers british last month it isn't the severity of the sentence will be dependent on how many cases there are for example we don't know how often these falsified accounts we used to obtain loans from other banks to. brown handed himself into german

authorities on monday after travelling from austria and promised to cooperate. wild card released a statement saying its management bought beliefs on the basis of further examination that there is a prevailing likelihood that 1900000000 euros supposedly on bank trust accounts in the philippines did not exist. it's unclear though who's responsible. for that by 3rd parties outside the company. of people of different levels of management even and analysts say it's shaping up to be germany's biggest accounting scandal in decades regulators admit mistakes have been made it's a shame that something like that happened and that starts with looking at the complete failure of a senior management private and public entities including my own. who have not been effective enough to prevent something like that happening. brown

has been released from custody after posting a 5000000 euro. well let's go through this with stephen because they from the business well stephen says let's start with the basics what does whack on actually do. really does has 2 basic businesses one is that it issues prepaid cards a sort of has a banking side and a prepaid current card or debit card that you might use at a store every time that is used in a transaction to get a fee from that really the bigger more business comes from payment transactions that is it serves as sort of the middleman between the merchants and a customer buying something without cash and this is a little hard to explain but basically it's the handshake that between those 2 sides that guarantees both sides that it is a secure transaction to help these are pictures better why are card began before the 1st dot com boom really in the porn and gambling industries that a lot of business there were merchants needed to be sure that the people on the

other end of their online purchases which were still relatively new at that time were indeed who they said they were because for whatever reasons for clear reasons they may not want to be very forthcoming with their identity and so it developed a knack for this kind of technology its portfolio grew and it grew into other things like smartphone payments biometric payments the kitchen outside of our studio here it has one of those smart refrigerators and what you pay with your thumbprint that's a wire card mechanism that does that so it's branching out as you can see and it's grown far from what it started out doing and these fraud allegations they center on nearly 2000000000 euros that probably don't exist so how is this discovered and how can people be unsure about the existence of so much money it's a head scratcher that doesn't really make sense to pretty much anyone right how do you miss 2000000000 euros it's complicated but basically a lot of the business was coming from asia that's how wire car grew so fast and it had 3rd party companies that it was working with in certain countries they didn't

have licenses itself to operate in this country. but it worked through them and they would in turn take the revenues that they got from these payments transactions all the transaction fees that go to our card it would dump them into a separate accounts that was managed by a 3rd party manager that manager was a 1st in singapore and then later that manager referred the account to a new manager in the philippines wired heard said ok that sounds good there was some paperwork behind it they said sure that looks good and then it comes to did it turns out that basically there was no money in the philippines that the 2 bank accounts were supposed to open in that that paperwork pointed to weren't there and that that paperwork now appears to be forged now there were a series of newspaper articles that have suggested strongly that the company knew about this that there were long warning signals coming from these offices and that executives were a part of this so whether this a case of rogue offices or something goes all the way to the top that is what's going to be sort of figured out in the in the days and weeks ok so i'll go with this and i can't decide whether this is this is this is

a good news story obeid news good news in that this alleged full fraud was actually detected or bad news that it could have happened in the 1st place i'm still reading from 2000000000 euros i don't think there's any way this is good news philomena says this is a major fraud that financial regulators did not catch writes this is something that had to be exposed by journalists and short sellers that is people who looked at the stock from our cards it is overvalued because something fishy is going on and so the way financial regulars in germany actually responded to this when the financial times started 1st reporting that there were irregularities financial regulators in germany said you're actually negatively affecting the stock price of wire cart and you might be working with short sellers who are trying to make money from a decreasing one of our stock so they went after the journalists right instead of actually taking a broader look at why or card and so that's why they have egg on their face and that's why you saw their chief in that piece just a moment ago saying we have to look at ourselves so there's going to be some reckoning also on the german regulation side so it's not

a good day for. look at it from that aspect rise a if said essentially they were asleep at the whale this passed them by right there in charge of efforts to manipulate the market and they said those financial times articles which start to expose a lot of what now has come out to be true they said that was potentially an effort to manipulate the market by these journals in my boots with short sellers or we don't know and so they really started with wire card so here's the thing you you outlined this list of ways in which this company that many people have never heard of until this scandal actually affects our daily lives as we make transactions we're going to make more of those sorts of transactions as the internet just becomes how we do business so how worried should we be about what they are doing this missing money yeah i don't know i mean i would be careful about necessarily saying that because there's an end in imagery behind the payment systems around the digital world that somehow that means that there's always something nefarious going on i think this may really speak to this company actually

. there wolf i'm not going to say that's a one off but i mean i think this i think if you look at something articles or read about it some of the work that went into it it looks like this really is a company that has a lot of problems and so there are other payment processing companies out there there are some who like step in the gap in there are you know companies like visa master card pay pal things that you know that have been doing this for a long time and don't have the same issues their books have largely checked out audits have been checked off on accounting firms have said yes this looks good here the fact that this was a. a quarter of their balance sheet can't be accounted for that's massive this is not some it happens every day ok so i probably shouldn't take my money out and stay here under the mattress not yet i will hold for though still going ok thank you we can talk about that so you can visit w business you know. a better jerry's ice cream is the latest in a growing list of big companies to withdraw their advertising from facebook the

companies say they'll stop. ties into the social media platform in july the move follows caused by high ranking politicians and rights groups advertisers to use their body as leverage to force facebook to take tougher action against misinformation of hate speech that appears on. the reporter rebekka resumes can tell us more rebecca spiegel a week since we last heard of criticism from mark zuckerberg what you don't know that's quite true it's generally kind of regarding this issue is continuing on a theme here and as you mentioned there's a growing list of companies who are now boycotting. the popular fate of the facebook popular platform for advertising may include the popular outdoor brand north face of patagonia is also among them and as you mentioned of course ben and jerry's ice cream have now joined the growing list essentially telling mark zuckerberg enough is enough they're rising up against facebook for continuing to

allow inflammatory rhetoric and misinformation that feeling division and heights in the u.s. at a time at the moment when the u.s. is going through such a time up he evil so it's comments like one made by president donald trump posted late in may that many took to being an incitement to violence it is of course that when the looting starts the shooting starts which people there was an incitement of violence against black lives matter of protest is now just a bit of context twitter did take steps to make the same post on its website how to read and put a warning on it facebook didn't do the same thing and that led civil rights groups to launch the campaign stop hate us a profit in a strongly worded statement they accused facebook of amplifying white nationalist allowing incitement to violence and turning a blind eye to voter suppression now the campaign aims to hit facebook where it really hurts the most of course advertising which accounts for 99 percent of the

platforms revenue could. very effective approach and with big names like north face and ben and jerry's joining could be very soon that we see a lot of other companies joining suit her words facebook saying it responds well essentially they've responded the way many companies respond in situations such as this they're throwing money at the problem and hoping it goes away essentially among the few things they've listed in a new blog post is that they've said that they will invest more than a $1000000000.00 to support black and diverse suppliers and communities in the u.s. but to be fair they've also announced a couple of other things new features on its platforms aimed at amplifying black voices and it's committed to increasing the representation of people of color in leadership positions by 30 percent over the next 5 years these are of course all positive things but what they haven't committed to is making sure that misinformation and divisive content such as that one by president trump will not be tolerated on the platform and that's essentially what critics are calling for ok so

they've addressed everything except the problem is people identify why or why not why haven't they addressed it. well i mean there's of course that freedom of speech arguments and that's something that's like about his philosophized about publicly for years now he's always said that facebook should be an arbiter of truth but probably more telling about why they're not willing to do anything would be to look at the facebook's average user they tend to be more conservative they tend to be older than say twitter is for instance. according to facebook's own daughter analysis conservative outlets make up 6 of the top 10 political media pages in the u.s. and conservatives particularly those in washington have long said that social media is biased against them so while months may not personally agree with trump's comments and he has come out to say that he doesn't personally agree he may have realized that as long as trump is president facebook would be wise to keep the

president happy rebecca resist thank you. well the host nation of the 2023 women's world cup will be selected on thursday with the contest now a 2 horse race a joint to bed from australia and new zealand is the favorite over colombia what is certain is that a region that's never previously stage the women's world cup will be able to capitalize on a rapidly increasing interest in women's football i following the success of france 2019 the next women's world cup is heading to a new confidence of the 2 bids australia and new zealand doc incident the financially viable option the 2 countries of fish and handling of the coronavirus pandemic is also seen as a plus point a win would represent a 1st world cup history that's all about hosted by nations in different footballing

federations australia competes in asia and new zealand in o.c. on here but they are united front when it comes to promoting women's football i'd like to thank everyone who's we're excited tirelessly to get our submission together which is 9 main fate but more importantly as it demonstrates the strong relationship between the 2 nations and member associations. and so we're really talking something that's bigger than this sport it's about leaving behind communities that are much better off and societies that we aspire to have columbia meanwhile has a richer footballing heritage as well as the added bonus of broadcasting matches at convenience times for u.s. and european audiences there are however security concerns something the nation disputes in game eyes in terms of security colombia suffered from that scourge in the past but we feel we've overcome that. bids from japan and brazil will withdraw in earlier this month leaving just the 2 wherever the 2023 women's world

cup is staged women's football is certain to continue its rapid growth. well the day is almost done but the conversation continues online you can join us on twitter i've stayed up the news but you can follow me out. forget to use the hash tag the day. of the day.

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