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south africa grapples with a surgeon cope with 19 infections caused by a new variant of the virus hospital admissions are at their highest point in for pandemic breakdown the government has imposed a fresh restrictions in response. also coming up a german parliamentary inquiry is looking into the conditions that allowed fin tech giant wire cards. to commit one of the biggest and kind of things forward in the

country's history. this is the. hardest and thanks for joining me. south africa is struggling to deal with a surge in covert 19 infections caused by a new more infectious variant of the virus earlier this week the government extended restrictions including a ban on alcohol sales and large gatherings the country has recorded more than 1300000 cases of the virus accounting for a 3rd of all registered infections in africa and alcohol ban and compulsory mask wearing was south africa's response to the resurgent corona virus pandemic the regulations were introduced at the end of last year the government in pretoria is still struggling to get this 2nd wave of the virus under control and with over a 1000000 infected the country's president is taking even more extreme countermeasures. to reduce congestion and the high risk of transmission.

has decided that the 20 land ports of entry that are currently open would be closed until the 15th of february for general entry and departure. economy is suffering badly under the measures unlist us to make gross domestic product fell by 7 percent last year whereas johannesburg's night life district used to be crowded with party goes no it's eerily quiet another measure an early evening curfew is having a devastating effect on business here. the government hasn't given that sufficient support for workplaces for industry use that i've picked up by as much as support the safety has also criticized the government for not stepping. in because so corrupt before the virus that they did not. use that money to say but

. even before the pandemic began south africa's unemployment rate stood at a staggering 30 percent the virus has added another 10 percent to that and has cost the country millions of jobs. let's bring in detail the report allison gallagher she is joining us from cape town as well these restrictions the end nuff to battle this new more infectious there into the virus well we got some good news today at least from the west and capered of the problems where i am in cape town and that's that they say that it has been stabilizing actually it has been dropping the infections with 8 percent but that said other parts of the countries do trends are still very worrying mainly houten which is the economic heart of south africa and we hear about hospitals that can't cope patients that are waiting in tents outside hospitals to get a place into hospitals and for example as well i spoke to her funeral practitioner

in ruler south africa today and he said that normally before corona you would have 30 funerals per month and now it's looking at about 15 per day and coffins are running out price is a funerals are going up so south africa is definitely in the here and hugely serious situation there what progress has the country made in terms of vaccinations . you know that's a point of criticism here in inside africa the government has so far said that they managed to secure 20000000 vaccines but from a lot of those vaccines we're actually not sure yet where they're coming from and when they will arrive the only information we have so far is that the government says one and a half 1000000 vaccines will be from the oxford astra zeneca vaccine coming from india the 1st batch should arrive still this month but there's not a 1st dates that actually will start vaccinating so there's a been call here from the population also doctors and scientists that the government should become more transparent when are we starting what will the

program look like what we know what it would look like health care workers will get the 1st shots here as well but everybody's really actions by the lack so far of a clear plan and what is the government done to offset the economic impact if they've locked and. you know not enough as you heard of business people as well saying in the reports you know there have been. subsidies that happen next backgrounds but businesspeople are really really struggling and one of the things that they are trying to do is to to make the lockdown districts because although we have new measures now and in the 1st wave of restaurants and cafes for example are not even allowed to open so they're really having a tough balancing act here a bit stream curtailing the spread of the virus and the economy and that's also are somehow less a this actually needs soon because our economy needs to to get groaning and that's of course the case everywhere in the world the main the in

a country like south africa inequality is so tremendous. thank you so much. here in germany a parliamentary inquiry is looking into the conditions that i lied to scrape fan tech giant of wire cards to commit one of the biggest accounting fraud in the country's history the firm went bankrupt last june after an admin admitting it had falsified almost 2000000000 euros in athens on tuesday a high ranking german government official defended the decision to be on behalf of wire card to turn a visit to china according to the financial times germany's commands bank warned the country's financial war watchdog about money laundering risks in early 2020. that speak ny to daniel baez he's the spokesperson for the german parliamentary inquiry into why a card mystify is the wiregrass scandal has cost germany's financial regulator and in a very. poor thing to say that come out ready raised concerns about buyer card back

in january of last year did willfully ignore those warnings. well if you take a look at the history of the financial supervisor units relationship wire car you can see that many mistakes have been made so my question is why did boston consider why your cart at takeoff rather than this financial holding because of financial holding would would have made it easier to all who wrote or why didn't boston go or total up on the money laundering and most important to me why they often released shorts and went after the journalists of the financial times because this was the moment where boston decided to stare or the sight of wild card on the side of crew most rather than take the critical hints from journalists and from one seriously these are some of the questions that we want to follow up in

a special investigation. and on that issue of supervision of what about the role of on there is as tenure an audit at wired for several years well there becomes a point has for its failure to uncover this massive fraud. well yes that's a major question that we are definitely following up in our special investigation committee so there are 2 levels to it one is we will interrogate ernst and young very seriously in order to find out what went wrong and why they ought to cost of lee for so many years for wire cut even though basically evidence such as banking account statements of the bank have been missing for years level $2.00 which is what consequences what political consequences that have those that have in terms of regulation of auditing companies my i think that for example we should exchange auditors between companies more of let's say every 6 to 8 years or all it will erase the probability in order to detect criminal fraudulent activity such as fraud

regarding to why you can't let's talk more about corporate governance what needs to change in germany to make sure this can never happen again. well i don't know if we can say this will never ever happen again. because besides reforms of the financial supervisor all of them companies need to take corporate governance very seriously i'm convinced that we need to strengthen the independence to control rights and the expertise or supervisory boards within large german corporations and we need to define regular oratory criteria on top of that we need people on the boards that understand the complexity don't know because the risks that come along with the business model and of course they need to have the critical attitude and the moral integrity because obviously this is something we lead the way

a complex and i think we need to draw some consequences. that i don't buy a spokesperson for the german parliamentary inquiry into why a card thank you very much if you phone. time now for a look at some of the other business stories making news. new york mayor bill de blasio has announced the city is terminating its business contract with donald trump in response to last week's violence at the u.s. capitol to blasio said the trump organization ahrens about $17000000.00 a year in profits from running to ice skate in ranks a carousel and a golf course. while away has admitted it was wrong to apply for a pay for technology which could single out weaker muslims the company said it would alter the filing which was uncovered by u.s. researchers rights groups accuse the chinese government of trying to wipe out the weaker minority in western china. digital know months are used to packing

their laptops and heading off to work in whatever destination most appeals to them at a given time often they follow the sun with more workplaces now offering the possibility of remote working an increasing number of regular office workers are racing a lifestyle. lisbon portugal spic shuras capital is a favorite destination for digital nomads among them is melissa edgar to 28 year old has previously lived in canada and sweden a year ago she began a new adventure in part your goal. when i came here i was like what am i doing here i didn't know a single person i didn't know a single word put to use i didn't know how to say thank you. to come here for me it was one of my best. in the world and to. melissa eggers employer is based in canada who work is digital and flexible leaving her

free to live where she pleases and lispund really appeals to her with its mild climate and beatrice on her doorstep. but egger says it's a misconception that digital nomads always work on the beach or in their pajamas and bet she regularly rents a flexible work space in the city center for. you to be detrimental to your work even if there's nobody sitting behind you and say well read no you're not doing your work please go back to work so it's a lot of self discipline and self planning you know. it's evening in a bar in central lisbon. melissa regularly meets her friends here some of them are locals and some are experts like her who love the madigan existence i want to see more before i even. try my parents hours.

oh throw is in the will remain her home but at 28 she still finds its true parochial bear right now giving up her life with a digital nomad is out of the question. and that's it from me for more you can visit our website at. dot com slash and you can find us on facebook and twitter to you from me on the team it's goodbye and take us. into the conflict zone terms of. how strong is democracy in the u.s. for just this reason germany as good as it could phone. i'm going to look to see if you proceed to show it to you affairs committee in the federal parliament one of the big gap between is russia is about right soon you'll lose moot ality in parts

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