exporter india is now just back for imports several states have run out of vaccines even as the inoculation campaign expands to adults those who are getting a shot no they're the lucky ones because. of the situation they seem to be ready to force their. wards that can explain the sufficient excuse to give the system is there or even before that and that's the reason why we try to get vaccinated as early as possible. these lines into job aren't sure vaccines seek to vote crammed together in a shrine religious gatherings have been partly blamed for india's coronavirus outbreak even prime minister narendra modi joined the crowds some indians blamed his leadership for the crisis. they are angry about the immense loss of life and are hopeful that a new government will be voted into power in the upcoming election

a party that will stem the pandemic and end india's suffering. and i spoke to our delhi correspondent neera choudhry earlier and asked her for more on those reports that the indian government had received warnings of a new and more dangerous virus variant. yes. it was all till late december last year when you well to the fullest the of the wires as you said to have come out and said that why did the government and essentially that there will be a change i think the number and i think it will be a news story that should be why mcclintock is that what we saw last year but out there saying that the government did not beat didn't want me to get back to the c.g.i. government duly lied to them like agent of oggi organizing massive elections in different states the outing of which is being done today as we speak we also have the government allowing religious coronations to go on for

a couple of months and we saw a large number of cases coming out and there is that i have one particular scientist on this forum has also said that the government did not take into account science and evidence when it came to making policy just kind of according to the research and has the government actually responded to these accusations yet when it looked like the government of not just wanted to be the accusations but again you have not seen the government just on guilt maybe partly question because obviously since the 2nd week started what the asking in today is a disappointing pledge of being having so we have not seen a lot of answers coming from the government. and you know i'm not going to tell you what's going on in the ground but the latest numbers of course that this is the deadliest day of the pandemic in india the world is reacting with whatever help it can muster but how are people coping with these tragic you know facts on a daily basis. well i'd say that many but i do not think they have the time to look

for these news and tragic reports that many people are. there to see them so why not speak to their loved ones. their definition of how desperate the situation is can be figured out from the fact that just a few weeks out when the government said that big will be nationwide no down in fact. that he mandel or in fact many key members of the national dots are not actually pushing for a nice white not i'm guessing that is the. situation. ok correspondent choudhry in delhi thanks so much for that insight. let's take a quick look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. security forces have opened fire on anti kook protesters killing at least 5 according to local media the demonstrators were taking part in some of the biggest protests in recent days 3 months after

a coup plunged the country into crisis. at least 7 people have been killed and more than a dozen injured in kabul after dozens of fuel tankers burst into flames the fire spread to several homes and cause power outages in parts of the afghan capital it's unclear whether it was an accident or sabotage. colombian police have clashed with protesters for the 4th straight day thousands of people took to the streets across the country to demonstrate against a new tax reform plan colombia's president even duke a has vowed to withdraw the most unpopular parts of a package but insists the reforms are vital to stabilizing the economy. for us from the international space station have landed successfully off the coast of florida the splash landing of the space x. vessel was the 1st in darkness since the apollo 8 moon mission and then 960 a journey back to earth took 6 and

a half hours. and we turn now to the latest war of words between the u.s. and north korea. has hit back at u.s. president joe biden after he described its nuclear program as a serious threat to world security north korea accuses the u.s. of pursuing a policy of what it calls hostility and warns there will be consequences. this week north korea has been putting on a show for the 10th congress of the socialist patriotic youth league but while the crowds were due to flee falling over their leader kim jong furious diplomats were preparing a response to the u.s. president. initially released online they say the u.s. . has no insulted the dignity of our supreme leadership this is an evident sign that it is good thing itself up for an all out showdown with the d.p. r. k. . who want of was came in response to biden's comments to congress on

thursday. honorine to north korea nuclear programs are present serious threats to american security and security the world we're going to be working closely with our allies to address the threats posed by both of these countries through ditz through diplomacy as well as stern turns thank you in 20. was the 1st u.s. president to meet with a north korean leader their mutual affection brought about it's a moratorium on long range missile testing though it feel to bring about peace. is to make matters worse beyond yang hits how to s. southern neighbors off to defectors this week used balloons to scott's a thousands of leaflets on dollars across the north we've warned south korea of the consequences their silent approval of the defectors

will have a north south relations. owns in it and one by its civilian the group is being investigated by police in a south under a controversial new law such leaflet drops are illegal in an effort by solon to appease it cirrhotic neighbor. fast spreading coronavirus far very inspired me are changing the fortunes of countries which had previously avoided the worst of the pandemic until recently it was a leading example of virus control but it's now seeing a surge of cases and deaths. a small south american country has been hit hard by the p one variant which has spread from neighboring brazil despite the border being closed for months hospital beds are filling up with critical patients after almost a year of living with few restrictions must now wear masks in public places a little medics say many people aren't treating the outbreak seriously. while

oracle eyes health situation is dire the country's schoolchildren are well equipped to learn at home the country has spent years building its digital education system and is now getting other countries a lesson in how to help students learn online. teacher vonnie no vieira is getting ready for her daily class oh yeah her yet then take i have. when the coronavirus closed down public life last year remote learning was completely new for many kids and teachers around the world but not for children in europe. yet. more than a decade ago the country implemented its one laptop per child policy europe why provided every school child with a computer it also installed free internet in public places in rural areas and it created plants above the state agency for digital education.

while it was really. what enabled europe wide to respond quickly in the pandemic was that the infrastructure was already in place but it also helped that the city plan was more designed for open educational centers and that allowed to mature and adapt very quickly. that the agency has been training teachers for years it operates a central platform with digital textbooks that allow teachers and students to upload assignments and content. at the start of the pandemic plant's about expanded its server capacity virtually overnight in addition the country has since provided each student with a free monthly 50 gigabyte data plan. we had some important conditions in place we started investing in educational technology a long time ago we invested in connectivity in the same plan then the transformation of devices and technological equipment platforms and digital

libraries and then there's the commitment and professionalism of our teachers that allowed them to work with families in a virtual environment. and that. digital learning has to be fun experts agree that the actual online content is the most important thing that's what also promotes the development of innovative software and might help explain why 98 percent of students have regularly used online education here and that includes poor children in rural areas when actual phone the work is quite varied i teach zune classes 3 times a week and also upload homework for the children. the pupils

have gotten used to doing their lessons at a distance. i prefer to go to school for no i've got this but everyone in europe is hoping the children will soon be back at school again and spending time with their friends on the playground. just one quick item of sports news in german football federation president fritz keller has been asked to resign after comparing his vice president with an infamous judge in a recent meeting fellow presidents of the state regional associations officially withdrew their confidence in president keller at a damage control conference this weekend keller has been in office since 2019 and has acknowledged he made what he calls a serious mistake but says he won't resign the german football association is the single largest sports federation in the world with more than 7000000 members. there watching t.v. news here is a reminder hard top stories. international aid including vaccines and ventilators

are arriving in india as it continues to fight a record surge in code 19 infections and deaths meanwhile public anger is growing over the government's handling of the crisis. there watching to give you news of live from berlin coming up next is documentary a look at these talents scandal surrounding the failed german online payment provider wire car unexpired sir thanks for watching. the. people have to say matters to us. that's why i listen to their stories. reporter every

weekend on d w. c i get that the ladies and gentleman i would like to issue the following statement on behalf of the board of wire card. i think i watched the video i think i've washed $120.00 times it's come down to the cannot be ruled out that the wire card may have been the victim of fraud on a grand scale because she thinks people. knew these guys were were done. thank you. i just laughed i was happy. why are card shares are crashing listed as why god is sinking into the tar there is a good idea to services provider of higher card tomko because it's a mixture of crime drama and options smith knew. this.

it was like being punched in the stomach. it was like finding out after 30 years of marriage that you've been cheated on for 26 months it's on c shonda torn. this shelf by her art i've been holding him why a card that i could never approach. well i felt on top of the world i've never been so happy. when mubarak him you'll have to fill myself up with your beer so i could sleep it's a disaster because. this minute this was terrible news for germany's financial sector and for the investors on my account wire card is like ruth that nothing in life is impossible think of all can happen you.

may know my name is paid to have a row i am the actual inventor and founder of wild card owns it's basically my brainchild for. this woman to move seemingly came to me and 997 as i was sitting on my couch with a glass of wine we've also and asking myself was quotes the next big thing. and then i started thinking game only in payment transactions there is always a custom out an event that if i'll never know what trust each other bought almost a different my dear at the time was to create a trusted mediator status to ensure that the payment is processed through and also the product is delivered to get it. that was the i did it for what caused.

the recession if you seen those but i soon realized that if i wanted to go big as to i definitely needed external investors all of this was. so i started looking for some. 2000 i in 2001 there were 60 employees at one card and office and to fills you with a certain pride like watching your child grow up. so to me more than taking your company was looking for a technical director back then a certain mr marshall a complied and in the interview he made an open sophisticated impression typical viennese human is. extreme he was extremely friendly with a great presence as he has always been because i kind of wondered at the times in seeing this 19 year old with no high school diploma. is all this stuff a saying really credible state of. imus was

a key thing here has disappeared in the multi-billion dollar wire car to kind of think are the objective wire cardboard member yawn marshaling maybe and bellows routes according to media reports. in the philippines corrupt officials help cover up form of board member mash an extra session. my name is mark codice some people would sound retired but i'm a restless soul so i do a number of things one is i raise chickens i also grow fruit. but most people know me for shorting stocks finding and rooting out corporate fraud and exposing rascals in the marketplace both in the united states and abroad.

well people don't like short sellers it's not just a german thing i myself am. hated in canada i was hated in brussels not. short selling is a part of the financial markets have been and we have the possibility to restrict it at times when that makes sense of it often involves very profit oriented speculation. but that doesn't make it completely unreasonable from. ns in the. titles and i when i started working at wired carton 2003 there was a relatively small number of employees sasha the company's core business was payment processing like today. i squashed this cancer online payment once online payments got started of course the areas of pornography in online gang mean really took off gaming god at least as far too

often while cards main business was in a serious car bargain are often doesn't buy to fill its little isn't it i had this as tight as forstall in 2003 i had a 2nd job interview with marcus brown on i didn't want on them all before august in which i was asked whether i would have problems dealing with adult entertainment content and of my as an option entertainment's a short introduction to myself i miss your wild card since 10 years why a card just deleted all my payment processing company dr proctor groan came from a renowned management consultancy 3 years accordingly he was quite standoffish and even off the walk out was sold he switched to the board of directors and continue running the new wild card. am guess an army doctor marc was last night we arrested dr marcus brown and we are

now investigating suspicions of false statements and market manipulation to forget . that you must lie and this and i can talk always seemed like you 2 films above everyone else in my series oneonta hicks and had all these big visions and ideas that tended to surpass every gentle nancy c.f. i'd make fun down on my lead teeth i really figured out one of the most beautiful elements. mind mankind is that we tend to think abstract and that we can think about the better way to do things. to me for me personally why a card was like a 2nd family i mine it's like the family. is the color of commerce on the stunt it felt a bit megalomaniac and he sure does and he wanted to take this company on a tax mission.

so if you start your base business doing payment processing for porn and or gambling it shows the world that you have no boundaries of doing things and as you grow you get a stock price then you can wrap a label around it like fantastic i could have a white horse and paint black stripes on the horse that's just a white horse with black stripes it's not a zebra right and i could go and sell the horse is a zebra and i could say this is a zebra hey all this is is a white horse with black stripes. 'd young mustang look on marcus ball on young mushnick and marcus brown had to teach you

people can differ nation should right from the beginning to learn. how to understand like how to not a technical savvy and knew what was going on. instinct a c. hommes if i had a sick when i think they complimented each other very well on the path the company took film all good naaman hot. marcella qualifies and see here mr musharraf was a very friendly approachable person one of. john to host 19 i know don who was often happy to chat with the employees. in midtown right on monday tuesday and star i knew he was there in this he was responsible for the a ship business but that was all this.

young man as a couple probably led at least 3 lives at once if you look at what he was on the wire cardboard and had to make a serious impression he was unmoved too and he was responsible for the asia business where he was probably the driving force behind the accounting manipulation he tied the cars and then there was the 3rd marshal that he boasted about being a secret agent but it was probably more than just bragging on friday. morning strays a pregnant i'm a short seller. expose companies of

irregular accounts i'm not an issue. where they don't disclose all the problems or all the elements of the business to investors or the public. we basically bet on the share price going down if we're wrong it costs us i looked about a lot there you go back to 2 pounds go why a college going down your back to 1000000. i haven't heard of why a card to. cheat lie or goes to complex bricks atlee 2050 and then someone said. but there are a should not precious are expanding and we don't know why i think a curious story. or why we spent thousands of hours researching it. so we published

a damning exposé $100.00 pages we called it zaatar a research and investigation. oh it was a complete fraud all people said that we used the word fraud to budge it higher so i think we didn't use the word criminals enough and it was back on. our target price for the stock was a completed not a 0 you can't go below it was a complete don't know as 0 it was worthless. like with india. so a company has been for sale for 2 years retail for 2 years so g.r.

brito day travel tories have been e-commerce the prices come down from 70000000 to 50000000 to 40000000 to 30000000 it was for sale and made to me jury of why a card board that they sold it to why a card i'm like i'll go along and pay 340000000 there was just no way in the world i could get my head why you would even buy the business. via cops from long it looks like wire card had long not been profitable and its core business in europe had been losing money just us ammend that they covered it up through manipulated accounting money pulitzer one. d. from his c. assumption is that it began with acquisitions in asia ozzie. for instance a payment service provider in india with not much behind if you stop to look you

can use. 314000000 for a company that barely made a darling and. they presented these investments as a very valuable one for they cooked their books through acquisitions of asian companies nobody had ever heard of here and here kind of content it was the biggest indicator that if you can add up 340000000 apps is really that. this is much to do even on this pattern of acquisitions continued through the entire story there was then a big a takeover was it where they voice a package of companies from india and singapore the payment floats were funded nourishes floyd and it is unclear to this day who was behind it interesting. to talk to the traditional it so there is reason to suspect that money might have been misappropriated by people with connections to why is that why i called.

i thought there was an adult in boston. that would actually pick the report up and go through ok it's very dramatic if you want to call it up to get the drop on a sit down and i'm going to testify next. to the tone of the report was perhaps sometimes a bit shrill or not every bit of information was 100 percent soundly researched but the core of the story was correct english dish well after. suffering oh. no they persecuted me market manipulation work was manipulating the market. the criticism was why did you to anonymously hello we don't want to die all

that subsided what sort of coffee would follow its employ of follow critics break it into the trade off is later of course 5 codes from gemini sky holy smoke craze a. few were followed for weeks you simply have to osha shit they hope by dead they took pictures of me in the afternoon where they've been following me for weeks at a run by the former intelligence officer over libya. we would cave in cyber attack to act. of cruelty show cellar door spotlight. the room. so much that i'm stefano mousseline oh and i work in radio calabria as a deputy prosecutor.

the water took over the gambling operation was very complex but i think about a 1000 raids were carried out in the gambling halls and betting offices all across the guitar players including darling. do. you. mean i just thought oh man the investigation revealed that the s k s 365 betting office he had collaborated with organized crime and various regions but he joined me before me worked with the mafia and sicily do we need corn and i like then drunk and calabria that i'm giving buddy and soccer corona only and. he stammered years ago but it's a system of s. k. s. was money laundering pre-selection it was about injecting profits from $2.00 criminal businesses the into the normal con i'm either going to get you to 50

a cute or be close. to. wake everyone up a little bank wire card was one of the banks used by criminal organizations to deposit the profits that they had made through their illegal business even if that was the deal. did not surprise me at all when reporting came out of wire card's usefulness to the mafia. my name is funny could year and i'm a hedge fund manager here in new york i run socket capital management which is a short only hedge fund. in our firm is named after the ancient egyptian goddess stuff cat. soft cat was the goddess of knowledge

mathematics accounting wisdom which all seem very perfect. i love short selling and that's how i want to make money. back in 2017 we were preparing to launch in january and we wanted to have a good pipeline a healthy pipeline of various short positions where we have conviction the price will go down. our belief and every piece of evidence that we were able to collect over the last almost 3 years pointed towards wire cards being a massive digital launching that. we're not to name and we while companies like why are card are at the forefront of digital business traditional banks are lagging behind was big commands bank now fears losing its spot on the dax due to its low stock value and why a card might take its place let me say

a forceful victory for me to my stool to become part of the. 30. why account is valued just over 20000000000 euros with a less than 5000 employees the company has achieved a gigantic stock market 5 years often. vicious enough to become the biggest tax company. in the not rich and i'm vanity options i bought 520 share that's equivalent to 72000 euros. 67 years old and i've come to say for 38 years.

formed and i've spent most of my last had basically seen should also if. i had saved up some money during that time and i didn't want to simply leave it in the back so i invested it in market ups than him but what are front of this the other. little skiff true i felt the with those 70000 euros i really had something to use this is a heavy security. so that i wouldn't have to watch every year an all too often or will it was a great feeling to special interest if. you knew it was such a sensitive story and we wanted to get it right we waited more than 3 months before we finally pulled the trigger. my name is lionel baba i was the chef

of the financial times between 20052020. we got a tip that in singapore there was an investigation internally into whether the wire caught people in wa called were inflating the numbers so we went to singapore we talked to whistle blows who gave us documents old that was in january february 2019. cod was the biggest story that i've ever done. that i did that according to a report by british newspaper financial times the shares recently had quite some turbulence it's good at germany's financial services regulator bof and has been conducting routine investigations due to the enormous fluctuations if not bof a never asked to talk to the reporters they never asked to see any. material

nothing then we read in the newspapers that buff and had opened a criminal complaint against 2 of our reporters for doing their job. now it is true that some short sellers bet against the stock but that is not illegal what i don't understand is how baffin thought that we were conspiring with these people. i have literally no idea what baffin thought they were doing there was also an unprecedented ban on short selling. if he learns of things please financial regulator is investigating whether speculated to make money $3.00 for $1.00 price is. not isn't a shift and has announced

a ban on short selling with chad yes my footboard did react soon do box office reaction really so does confirmation from the employees that all these rumors must be unfounded funds i'm coming to your buffet often reinforced my belief that everything was just fine. i was driving back from santa barbara with my wife when it happened and i i actually couldn't believe something like that would happen i've been doing this for 5 decades and and all my years i've never seen a single stock short sell ban imposed by a regulator. i thought it was beyond strange and a sign that things were terribly wrong. we needed to defend ourselves and potentially convince boston to remove the ban and then. the

other issue was that part of wire card success was it painted hedge fund managers and short sellers as we were the criminals and we were just these these anonymous unknown figures with moving lots of money i thought that because of that it made sense for us to put a face to the short sellers and to save we believe that this is potentially a money laundering scheme. the 1st interaction was of course the public letter we had published on to boston regarding the short selling. interesting we just a few weeks after i had submitted that letter to boff and i was going to be in germany and i offered to meet with often in a confidential setting to share the information and to be

a resource to them and they of course refused the meeting. for years. the buffet was acting against journalists and short silence from the other meager force at least until june 2020 we never heard the profit was also looking into other matters for instance a potential market manipulation by water costs in science we are caught. up this is just the order was in fact given to also examine why a concert counts in light of this press coverage which pushed up to put to them. if you cut out the public didn't hear about this because they probably wanted to prevent any details from escaping that would harm the company's reputation i mean the script and they can survive this t.v.

there is. whole range of rules it was strictly public reporting of in order to protect market confidence and as for tom schultz is. often not involved often actually misled the market through its behavior allowing wire cart to keep quiet money as this meant the bronze stars had one more year to lose the sinking ship they raked up another 1000000000 up and that has now ended up somewhere he gets on the street. we were terribly concerned that walk cod was trying to infiltrate us. down mccrum put in particular who was the lead reporter was sure that his email had been kept. he also felt that he was under surveillance. we discovered an individual hiding under the bridge with

a highly sophisticated sound equipment camera focused on my office. so we took extraordinary careful measures to insulate down mccrum to keep our information secret documents and very very watertight so the next piece in the puzzle was to investigate who these 3rd parties that walk odd was dealing with. we knew from our information that a lot of the revenues and profits was derived from. they had some funny names. pay a lot lot and things like that why a cut why are cards and we need these companies for instance because we lack the license to make certain payments in those particular countries and that's why we're

by. because they have a license and they're anchored in the local market foreign coach matt damon says aman is a giver with them why are card obviously manage to simply fake revenues thorson he's a peace partner companies played along in the manipulated accounting. and one of the places we went to was the philippines. we actually went to the place where this company was supposedly registered and we found an old seaman he didn't know anything about wockhardt. we went to another address and it was a bus company. views this as capital market speculation just like previous articles the 1st pitch album we feel we can leave the whole issue behind us now and focus on a very strong 2019 so those 19.