this is deja vu news wire from berlin new charges against top executives at germany's wire apart state prosecutors arrest 3 former board members including c.e.o. marcus round for a 2nd time investigators now say the one time blue chip company paid to its earnings over the past 5 years. also coming up firefighters are called to the chinese consulate in houston texas that's as the trumpet ministration orders it to close citing concerns over u.s. intellectual property where the diplomats are burning sensitive documents. plus

food for the souls of underprivileged kids in the form of dance we need a ballet teacher in nigeria who offers lessons of for free and some of the students who say dancing has changed their lives. i'm sumi so much god it's great to have you with us german prosecutors say they have a rest of the former chief executive and 2 board members of the payments processor wire cart as part of fraud investigations marcus brown of the board members were detained in munich investigators say the 3 are suspected of faking income to inflate the company's balance sheet wire card went bankrupt after revealing a nearly 2000000000 euro hole in its accounts last month now the scandal has triggered criticism of germany's financial oversight and led to calls for the government to explain how much it knew about wire cards dubious accounting

practices. and we have stephen beardsley from d.w. business with us for more on this story hi stephen thanks for joining us so we have a few more arrests do we now have a fuller picture of what happened that wire card well one of the things we have from the announcement from prosecutors today is a headline the amount sort of a dollar figure here a figure i should say that really is results up that's 3200000000 euros in fraud that is from investors from the banks who lent money that would make wire cart of this is true that would make this the biggest deception from a corporation in the post-war time so it really gives you an idea of how large this fraud is just to remind people why are part of this fraud the scandal is based on basically fake revenues from 3rd party partners that were card had in asia basically they were booking revenues that didn't actually exist they amounted to 2000000000 euros which is about a quarter of the balance sheet where karr was eventually forced to admit that that money never existed and it went from being

a darling of german tech firms to absolutely a pariah there really raises a lot of questions about how this could have happened and what is the political fallout from that massive i mean 1st of all it's a huge embarrassment for germany any way to look at it but it's also regulation the failure of regulation i should say 1st and foremost baffin which is the top financial regulator here in germany the institutional regulator that's really come under fire because when a lot of these allegations 1st came out from the newspaper the financial times baffin actually targeted the reporters and reported them for a criminal investigation instead of going after the allegations themselves that's a huge black eye for all this to come back on them and so what we're seeing is that there's going to be questioning of several key ministers the finance minister the economy minister in germany and then there's more criticism of america as well or more of a spotlight americal she'd actually advertise russia's say she pushed a mentioned wire card from what we know in a meeting with chinese officials in beijing in 2019 i believe as

hers looking to acquire. chinese business and they. has come out that she actually had been briefed on some of the allegations against him so the question is what did the government know when did it know it what kinds of conversations were happening between wire card and the finance ministry for example and what about investors where they left in all of this there's no irony of this is that the investors were the ones who really pushed for wired hard to come clean they said look there are so many of these allegations out there the reporting is really solid tell us what's going on and then it all came back and it blew up in their face their stock went from about 104 euros down to single euros in a matter of taste so they've lost a lot they're already lawsuits they're in place there's also a lawsuit against the auditing firm or seen young who basically checked off a lot of the books for a while so those are in place the question is what happens after bankruptcy will they get those that money back stephen beardsley from business thank you for bringing us that story. through. let's check in now on some other stories making

headlines around the world a greek firefighters are battling to control a large forest fire near a seaside village in the eastern part of the knees authorities say they had to evacuate a residential settlement in quetta trees because the blaze was moving towards a military camp where explosives are stored. south african anti-apartheid campaigner andrew mangini has died at the age of 95 mangini stood trial with nelson mandela and was put behind bars in miniature his robben island prison for more than a quarter of a century. hungary's largest independent news site index h.q. has fired its editor editor in chief the sacking of savile shool has increased concerns about the curbing of media freedoms just a month ago dual warned that the portals independence was at risk after a pro-government businessman gained significant control over its funding. now to another escalation between the world's 2 biggest economies the united states has

ordered china to close its consulate in houston texas the u.s. state department said it was a necessary measure to protect american intellectual property beijing is called a political provocation and a violation of international norms just hours after the order was issued firefighters were called to the consulate been so on fire inside the courtyard of the chinese consulate in houston witnesses said they could smell paper being burned the 1st wafer of a bigger story because this firefighters arrived chinese state media started reporting the u.s. had ordered the consulate to be closed. it's a political provocation you know that tree launched by the u.s. side which seriously violates international law basic norms governing international relations and the bilateral consular agreements between china and the u.s. china strongly condemn such an outrageous move to. beat you to it or you what would

you or the speaking in denmark the u.s. secretary of state said china had stolen intellectual property. we're setting out clear expertise as for how the chinese communist party is going to behave and when they don't we're going to take actions that protect the american people protect our security our national security and also protect our economy and jobs that's the actions that you're seeing taken by present trump will continue to engage in those the u.s. directive comes a day off to 2 chinese nationals were charged with hacking said to be working as spies they're accused among other things of trying to steal coronavirus vaccine research. campaign targeted intellectual property and confidential business information held by the private sector including covert 19 related treatment testing and vaccines. back in houston this was his closest firefighters could get to the consulate they weren't allowed in chinese officials

have 72 hours to get out with china threatening to close u.s. consulates in response. to the fire may have been per se but the u.s. china relationship is smoldering as much as ever. in ukraine a hostage taking incident has been resolved in an unusual manner a gunman took over a bus with 13 people on board in the western city of lets he threatened them for 12 hours but released them after president selenski compiled a complied rather with a bizarre demand for. the it's only 6 seconds ukraine's president recommends people watch a film about animal rights but for those 6 seconds the man in this bus holding hostage is a complaint and surrounded by armed police is arguably the most powerful person in

the country. the driver and his passengers were stuck on the bus for over 12 hours and as the evening approached tensions rose. but they talked to avoid a bloodbath and the president made his video. even the miners it was obvious for me to take the stand actually if we can do anything without a socialist if we can avoid even one new person's life at risk water these are the principles i live with that i have lived with and will continue to live for us the king the principle mission. and it worked the hostages were freed within minutes of the video being posted on facebook their ordeal was over. and soon the man who had held them a gun point ended up like this. really truly worthless or more of the world he's not a balanced person he drew his own world in his head he came up with his revenge on this world formulated some feces. so it's good everyone has

a knife in another situation the special forces would have killed him thank god everything works out he's facing a very long prison term. did the hostage taker will now face justice his 6 seconds of power along. now over half of nigerians live in poverty for many the most basic things in life like food and running water are a priority but one ballet teacher in lagos says children also need food for their souls in order to prosper he teaches them to dance for free one of his students is 18 year old our correspondent funny for char went to meet her to find out how dancing is changing her life. not much light. little space 8 families live in this housing complex today starts early for the dog breakfast but with a chores the 18 year old shares 10 square meters with her mother and her younger

sister she's trying to help her family by putting her own needs on hold life is very difficult in america. because sometimes i need something because i'm really don't have enough money i just south skipper said tell me. the thing that's so its. schools are closed due to the pandemic when i meet a small is an elementary teacher she has to stay at home without a salary and is struggling to provide for her 2 daughters i'm about. to and this is the one for me i've given the with i don't want to look. gills outside means. one of the poorer neighborhoods of lagos some girls slide into prostitution to make money and some boys become criminals media grew up here she's

looking for a different path through. this is the same neighborhood but it feels like a different world i guess ready so will be doing. a very simple combinations of. a class of 12 students trains in this makeshift dance room twice a week one of them is a day. some are as young as 6 danielle a self-taught professional dancer is teaching them for free to keep them off the streets. some of them are now going to become professional dancers we know that's because. the training that gets you can be applied and if you're like. me that was one of his 1st students in 2017 she says it's never too late to stop the ballet not even for me in my thirty's like this you go to be.

just smiling dancing she says cope with her daily struggles. when we count down and forget about everything behind us. dallas makes me feel happy and make this express my feelings you eat how i feel like downs it's just forget about us now to each their stage improvised the streets. the contrast couldn't be big for some it's a welcome distraction others are skeptical. because of the religious people may enjoy to do without it is in dissent oily discussion selig's op. stream where it's not like. paul levy does day doesn't end here after ballet she learns to saw at the stroke learning a trade that may finance for studies one day she keeps practicing ballet while

she's sawing i don't care what people reactions because i'm doing my thing me forget about everybody behind me i just focus on my i know what i want for my save or allow me to may never dance on the big international stage is a dancing gives true strength something she needs to overcome the difficulties she faces. now a remarkable video has emerged showing how 2 french children escaped a blaze in a tower block in the southeastern city of grenoble as black smoke engulfed their apartment 1st one brother and then the next plunged at least 30 meters into the outstretched arms of residents below. i assure you they are 3 and 10 years old they were subsequently treated for smoke inhalation 2 of the people who caught them reportedly suffered broken.

let's get a recap of our top story here and german prosecutors have arrested former wire car c.e.o. marcus browne along with 2 board members as part of fraud investigations investigators say the 3 are suspected of faking the now bankrupt companies are next in the past fight here. thank you for watching t.v. news. combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand and. what are scientists learning. background information and. our corona. did 19 special next on d w d to know that 77 percent of poppy are younger than 30. that's me and me and you.