this is t w news coming to you live from berlin killed for doing their job dozens of journalists around the world died this year working to expose corruption organized crime and environmental degradation we'll speak to an advocacy group that says targeted killings. also coming up south africa reimpose is a ban on alcohol sales and orders the closure of old bars to culture a resurgence of the coronavirus spike is being driven by a new very. who's not feeling passers by 2020 new

yorkers say good riddance to a year that life is we knew it. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us at least 50 journalists and media employees were killed in connection with their work in the past year that's according to an annual report compiled by reporters without borders the report says mexico is the most dangerous country for journalists to work in followed by iraq afghanistan pakistan and india the group says most journalists who died were in countries not even a war instead they were targeted for trying to expose crime and corruption. take a closer look now at one of those most dangerous countries for journalists afghanistan where freedom of speech. just far from guaranteed.

this is the 3rd funeral of a journalist in afghanistan in 2 months with a t.v. and radio presenter malala my wife and her driver were killed by gunmen in early december. and then so hard i'm there but i will have another 100000000000000100 common knowledge you know that she was on her way to work and we had planned to do a show together i was on air when i got the news we had to stop the show as well but how about around an auto number to all of us and him good advice from god i would have a journalist and a woman in the spotlight 25 year old with a symbol of the new afghanistan a threat to fundamentalists and goes she criticized that i have 10 more daughters like my lai who could give their lives for a cause but i want the killers apprehended back in the know what it was not targeted killings of journalists like my one by gunmen or car bombs have become all too common in afghanistan despite the ongoing peace talks between the government

and the taliban the country is still rated as one of the world's 5 most dangerous places for journalists and with weekly reports of new attacks threats and intimidation local journalist groups are raising the alarm another member of the afghan journalist safety committee wrote a letter to the un security council urging it to help reduce the violence. i don't think it's ever been as. scary as it is right now. because it's yours at all jill. threats. well only 6 weeks we have lost jobs for jobless and all the. jobs you know are. targeted killings. so. and that's has created the sense if you know. just days after my one's death and almost 300 kilometers away another journalist nick sad was killed shot close to his home by

a non gunmen next that head of the local journalists union and reported for outlets like a.p. and al-jazeera according to his colleagues he had received threats and inform the authorities about them but got little help. but an attack on journalists is an act of oppression in our society no one is more pressed than journalists i have to say let's question also and let's get united let's ask our leaders to explain why this cruelty happens and how long it's going to continue with it if i as the local strongman or government affiliates the question of who is behind these attacks often remains unanswered get for those who continue to do their work as journalists one thing is clear they should not have to risk their lives to do their jobs let's bring in christian meir here he's director of reporters without borders in germany mr amir your organization has just released a report showing that 50 journalists were killed this year most of them in

countries that are not classified as war zones what makes being a journalist so dangerous. i mean what all of the cases that we kill journalists have in common sense east generalists are journalists who have been investigating organized crime environmental pollution and people who are involved doing business out of i'm by mental pollution and so basically the profession of investigative journalism is it what makes it so dangerous and growingly dangerous your report also shows that $387.00 journalists are currently in detention in connection with their work what are the prospects what are their prospects of being released i mean. first of all it's very important since we keep on talking about because we're part of the board is a global what store very nice asian our experience actually is said how the press

are so talking to me is like he's talking in behind the heinz is scenes in and work is in meetings means that very often this could lead to release and that's what we are working on and when has to remind that china actually is one of the biggest janus in these years and especially in this years when china has been really in head and you've got lots of attention because of the current outliers and lots of the journalists this year edition all the imprisoned has been journalists who have been critically reporting about about the corona endemic and as a chinese politics how do you find secret of endemic ok you just mentioned china we just saw a report on afghanistan where it's particularly dangerous what are the most difficult countries to work and as a journalist today. i mean 1st of all it's important to mention and this is actually a growing trend set and the. difficult countries amazed dangerous countries

asa countries which are not at war because traditionally you see about war countries where people and where general is get killed by the growing trend this actually exists year is actually 2 cert of the kill generalist has been killed in an encounter east which officially are declared wasso as the cities are the countries mexico basically india hockey's totty and syria where in all of these countries actually we have internal war if we do political interests to some extent maybe different compared to mexico where it's basically just organized crime committing most of the crimes against journalists and emeritus mr mayor thank you very much for talking with us that was christian meir director of reporters without borders here in germany. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines today bangladesh has started

moving a 2nd group of refugees to the offshore island. rights groups voiced opposition citing the compound's vulnerability to floods united nations has urged the government to only move refugees willing to go there. u.s. lawmakers in the house of representatives have voted overwhelmingly to override president donald trump's veto of the depends policy bill they also voted to increase pandemic relief to struggling americans to $2000.00 the debate over defense and pandemic aid now moves to the republican controlled senate. and hundreds of proto life activists. have a congressional vote that could see argentina become the 1st latin american country to legalize abortion the senate on tuesday is due to debate a bill that was passed by the house the lower house earlier this month it would decriminalize abortion in almost all circumstances. south african

president. has reimposed a ban on alcohol sales and ordered the closure of all bars as part of new restrictions to contain a resurgence of the corona virus including a new variant he also announced an extension of the nighttime curfew from 9 pm until 6 am. reckless behavior contributed to the recent spike and is putting record putting pressure on hospital emergency units he said the new restrictions would be reviewed in a few weeks time. for more now we're joined from cape town by. adrian fill us in on just how severe the pandemic is in south africa right now. we're currently in khayelitsha at the hospital that the biggest township here in cape town and just one health worker told us the house is on fire that is how bad it is or how bad it has been over the past weeks because the numbers have been then

delete increasing we don't know by what amount at the moment because testing hasn't been done properly throughout the festive season most likely the next statement will be the extent but the worst is also still yet to come because during the christmas festivities for everything was allowed people were allowed to have private meetings with their friends and families and many epidemiologists and also health workers fearing that this will mean a further increase of cases within the next 2 to 3 weeks and possible the next peak that will be coming them but the people here the health workers are quite relieved about the measures that webb posed by the president yesterday one and i think you know the benefit of alcohol because they hope that this will decrease the number of cases coming here through the hospital remember this is the 3rd alcohol and we've seen in south africa during the 1st 2 bands we have seen it in that the number of trauma mission went drastically down and that is also the targets you know that these numbers will go down so the health workers have time to focus on companies related issues a new variant of the coronavirus has been detected in south africa tell us more

about the. and we still don't quite little about the new variant what we do know is . research suggests that it's more contagious and that it has been spreading rapidly in areas yet means that it's already the dominant very persistent africa at the moment still a lot of more research needs to be done but the 2nd wave is definitely that's what epidemiology and you can also feel from friends and family of them one more cases that you hear about i talked to a friend recently between weeks ago because he went to a barbecue with. the virus. this is another anecdotal evidence for the more contagious variants but as i said more research needs to be united to fully understand what is happening and also to see if it's really more deadly because at the moment it doesn't seem to be that case how well prepared. to deal with. it's going to be definitely

a challenge because we are already seeing now that not enough preparation was done between the 1st wave and the 2nd wave that we're experiencing now they are already cases not in cape town but outside cape town and somewhat but the areas that appeal to fully specially i.c.u. . that's not available anymore patients have to be transferred and this is what they are expecting in cape town as well in the next week that they will be a challenge in finding hi to you betty and that will mean will help because they have to prioritize they have to make decisions who will get i.c.u. bed who will get on oxygen for example this might be the scenario but again we still don't know what's really happening also during the 1st race remember in south africa everybody thought it's going to be very bad in the end it wasn't that bad so there's still some sense of optimism but what we have to understand here in the end it's also that this thing it will take quite some time africa will not get the massive amount of because the next you know the president announced in the press was a on the 2nd quarter of next the 1st arrival of victims maybe up to 10 percent of

people here will be able to access it but definitely not enough to retrench immunity so the country will most likely face a 3rd and a 4th wave and the next. drink good to see you correspondent adrian krege there in cape town. it's an annual tradition in new york that this year takes on a whole new meaning a good riddance day is a ceremonial hour with the old in with a new event held at the close of the year in times square after the to mulch response of the pandemic people are more than ready to send 2020 pack. i saying a therapeutic goodbye to the year of 2020. 2020 once all the dozen people in new york gathered to celebrate the unofficial good riddance day when they say goodbye to the things they don't want to take into the new year. old let's say good riddance to the coronavirus throwing them into an

oversized paper shredder all those sentiments are so much more strong in 2020 because people really want to say good riddance to a lot of the difficulty in the pain in the isolation of the last year and they also see the light at the end of tunnel at the end of the tunnel the back scene the sense that maybe in the future finally the houses of broadway will be and the theaters will be able to be full. also at times square people i mean to look forward instead of back at what they want to shred. to participating in a wishing wall writing down their hopes and dreams for 2021. and i did wish for hopefully called it a go way back there and there's a cure and we can go back to traveling and having fun and just really doing things that my family and i least healthy for all the words and help for all the my family and all the family. picked it up because if and if you taste nice to be able to feed my family they love puerto rico and i want to see them are often my wish for

abundance and happiness for everyone else around. times square in new york is normally a hot spot for celebrations on new year's eve but with the corona bar still keeping people up on celebrations to ring in 2. 2021 will be much more subdued. thanks for watching monica's notes but this is. the boss and i you don't need to keep it there you go to the people both for over a mention home the 4th time for the most human lives without the bottom of the valley that the last dragon. is called the heart. has a virus spread. why do we panic and when we'll all miss him. just through the topic from cover and weekly radio show is called spectrum if you would

like any information on the coronavirus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast so you can get it wherever you get your podcast you can also find us at. ford slash science. final words on the trading floor just days before the new year's celebrations the u.s. stimulus package the brics a trade arrangement and the corona virus vaccine boost investor sentiment. and the world's biggest film industry in terms of output bollywood is feeling the pinch. but come to do that the business i want to get johnson the lender to have you with us and we're starting with an amazing rally on global markets from germany's dax to wall street and tokyo stocks are hitting record highs and also

seemed jubilant thanks to a new economic stimulus package passed in the u.s. the breaks a deal of course and the 1st vaccinations against the coronavirus question is how long will the party last. crisis what crisis the german stock market in frankfurt is and record breaking mood at the end of 2020 the blue chip dax index has gained around 4 percent since the start of the year despite the pandemic but what's behind the optimism. to make the end of the markets expect that everyone will be vaccinated by the middle of next year. but critics see significant risks many businesses such as love to answer are travel company to eat are only staying afloat thanks to state subsidies if the government were to cut back at short time work allowance many companies could go broke that would lead to mass

unemployment as well as bankruptcies for businesses and individuals according to the german institute for economic research. if loans are not repaid the banks could suffer the institute predicts the german economy could lose $400000000000.00 euros by the end of the coronavirus pandemic a bill that they say the government alone will be unable to pay. a columnist warned that a negative social and economic mood would then have negative repercussions on the stock market. while on those soirees seem to have reached frankfurt by calling pandey is standing by. with us what's the mood like there today. well is jubilant today there's no much different from what it was yesterday when the stock market here reached record highs even now with you see it's a little on the lower side by the trajectory there but it's still above the what we had seen yesterday and that's obviously very still in positive territory the

reasons there you mentioned about the stimulus in the u.s. that that has been a major positive than the brits a deal that seems to have actually been a major plus and a boost for traders here and of course the vaccination that has started across europe in union right i mean of course we all want to hear good news that's brilliant but what about the doubts i mean critics say that investors are turning a blind eye to the risks and hand out what do you think. well it is very difficult to say at this point of time because the people have spoken to they are still very optimistic they see that there is still some potential some still steam left for this rally to go further into next year they point to. expectations with supposed to be positive higher than what they were this year they also point to these companies like tons and to you know all these companies are have been back to this year and now they're expected to only recover from where

they've gone this year. that stands mainly to the vaccine driven recovery so that's one view or the other view is but have the markets have already factored in recovery and there's not much room for the to go any further but remember a lot will depend on the stimulus that has been introduced by the governments and also the money to easy by central banks and any premature tightening could actually mean disaster for the markets all right well as a despondent they reporting from the frankfurt stock exchange thank you so much. the all member states say the necessary political backing is in place for a controversial investment pact with china clearing the way for a deal between the world's biggest economic blocks about sides indicated an agreement could be sealed within days under the pact to china it would open up its manufacturing sector to you companies as well as construction advertising and

transport maritime services telecoms and to some extent cloud computing brussels meanwhile is said to soften its stance on china's investments in europe. or to break that now and businessmen in the united kingdom have been reflecting on how all the new trade arrangements between britain and the e.u. will actually affect them time is of the essence as they only have 4 more days to adapt until the transition period ends and the new rules apply peter wood's deals were prized by his customers in germany sweden and lithuania but now he fears his e.u. customers will look elsewhere for supply after the new breaks it rules come in on january 1st the deal involves a vast amount of paperwork. we will produce documentation for sure customers but also got a raft of documentation to produce to allow the import to go ahead so why buy from the u.k. might as well buy for the low producer and for those who can deliver to the do no

documentation no problem peter wood says he would never have voted for breakfast if he knew he was going to lose his job. the british government acknowledges there will be specific challenges but the biggest obstacles are out of the way. we're working more intensively with business in order to make sure that everyone is ready for the new opportunities and challenges that come off the 1st of january i think business is broadly in a good place but inevitably with any change with any transition there are occasional bumpy roads the confederation of british industry wants the government in london to translate the deal which is more than a 1000 pages of legal text into practical guidance for business owners like peter one the clock is ticking. i think we can agree it's not been a good year for the travel sector lockdowns and quarantine rules are taking the fun

out of travelling be for business or leisure air travel has been hardest hit with an entire fleet grounded and passenger numbers up to 90 percent down compared to previous levels the linz new airport couldn't have picked a worse time to finally open. the main terminal at berlin's new airport designed to handle more than $6000.00 passengers per hour. but now just a few weeks after opening most of the desks are closed. due to travel restrictions there are hardly any flights no wonder the new shopping zone in the departure area is empty as well. after a 9 year delay the airport retailers have now opened shop in the midst of germany's partial coronavirus shut down the highway one company has invested millions in its commercial space at 1600 square meter duty free shop offer sprawling flair and digital design all that's missing are the customers. now today had more to start

a nose for of course we thought things would start out differently with far higher volume and far more. passengers to get more life into this marketplace and into our shops but right now in this current situation we have to just grit our teeth and get through it with all the tools at our disposal in other words we're thinking about reducing opening hours and not having all the shops open at once. of the more than 100 shops many shut down shortly after the new airport opened food vendors have been especially hard hit as airport restaurants had to close off their seating areas. with less than 20 percent of the normal passenger volume it is not worth it for many businesses here to remain open. the casual foods catering business has sent most of its 80 workers home only a few of its outlets are open and even then with limited hours. we need

support from the government with a short time allowance was a big help we applied for funds in november the 1st state subsidy that will receive as a company types of support are a necessity as fixed expenses are quite high especially in airports and in the restaurant business. and. currently there is little to see from berlin brandenburg airports visitors terrorists few of the planes will be leaving their parking spaces anytime soon. but during the pen demick even watching a plane take off is indeed something special. and another sector hit by the pandemic of course the entertainment industry hindi cinema also known as bollywood normally office millions of us an escape from the drudgery of daily life but pandemic restrictions have left their mark on the world's biggest film industry. glitz glamour stars and professionally choreographed song and dance

the ingredients that make bollywood films unique worldwide. behind the glittering façade are many day laborers. they form the backbone of the film industry a single film used to mean hiring more than a 1000 people but today's productions are much smaller. all the big stars and big also it's not stop there because they are starting with the upcoming new york almost and we had the mini well. before look what we have now we had enough that the city and the lay department and how many more 15 to 20 people would come in on the fate of 6 members and i know the local authority know how it is not there. due to the coronavirus authorities now impose restrictions on certain popular wedding scenes involving multitudes of guests are banned as are hugs and kisses and fight scenes before the pandemic bollywood produced about 2000 films

annually more than anywhere in the world in 2020 that number has tumbled to less than half so it does affect it severely. including the daily neighbors as well as a lot of this so it has caused a serious damage actually so it might take another corporate 3 years. on this effect i guess so yeah this is a serious damage serious damage which we didn't expect actually. after shutting their doors for nearly 7 months india's cinemas reopen in october under strict conditions every other seat must now remain empty but the reopening represents a glimmer of hope many people are counting on a happy ending next year with a comeback for the bollywood dream factory. knows an ancient tradition in mexico the pain and it's taken a new form for the upcoming new year's eve ceremony after

a rough year people around the world are ready to move on and making it perfectly clear what a terrible year they're leaving behind by bashing a symbolic 2020 like we see here in new york or on the coronaviruses itself after all that's the one saying that really messed up this whole past year and unfortunately it will also be a problem in 2021 but let's hope we're seeing an end to this crisis. takes at take that as a business update here and a w. for me in the team thanks for watching.

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