whatever makes you happy, the government is already planning it's final phase from mid march. those with cove at 19 will no longer have to self isolate. meanwhile, in denmark restored freedoms are being welcome to designers, serv. unless schmidt and his team are making final preparations before fashion week starts in copenhagen, so mask free and test free shows them damn deer. i am so happy that we can come together again and celebrate fashion was ominous or afire. moon, many danes are relaxed about restrictions having been lifted a 2nd time. more than 80 percent of the population is double vaccinated. more than 60 percent has had a booster. there are far fewer patients in hospital i see use. but the number of new infections remains high. a problem for schools and day care centers, which are struggling to stay open due to severe staff shortages

the government is warning people not to underestimate the virus in spite of the freedom. that's why here to many businesses are voluntarily maintaining some precautions. shares in facebook owner, a meta are plunged by around 20 per cent, an after hours trading on wednesday, knocking a massive $200000000000.00 off. the company's value chief executive mark zuckerberg had warned investors in a call earlier that meta expected 1st quarter revenues to decline due to competition for rivals like tick tock. if the stock doesn't rebound before trading resumes on thursday, it will rag as the worst day in the company's 10 year stock market tenure. and one of the biggest one day falls of any company on record. lots to discuss, sir steven presley is here from d. w stephen, how do you lose 200000000000 with a b?

remember the valuations on the market are based on a company's their bet on a company's future. and there are 2 things going on here. one is that facebook had some very not good numbers as you just talked about. the other thing that's going on here is that investors are very jittery right now because the federal reserve, which controls the overall monetary conditions in the u. s. says that it's going to raise interest rates over the next year. they don't know how many times it's going to be raised. they don't know to what level it's going to be raised. and so that cuts into company profits. and so right now, investors are trying to figure out what's going on and they're shifting money around and tech tends to be a loser. they had recovered recently, but then they saw these new numbers they got should re, again, and they dumped facebook pretty hard at the core. facebook is saying that it's daily average daily active users actually felt something that doesn't happen with facebook that happen in the 4th quarter. that was a lot monthly active users are also tailing off in terms of growth and those revenue warnings for the 1st quarter. so very clear signals that things are not

going necessarily in the right direction, short term for facebook. what was the impact of, of, of, of our, excuse me, message the impact was that massive loss, and then it was a ripple throughout the markets. and so right now we're seeing that other tech firms and social media firms are losing big. and that includes spotify, that includes amazon tesla. snap is going to release its numbers later today, and then we're going to see if that continues that slider. maybe someone puts the brakes on. again, volatility is really high in the market right now. as everyone tries to figure out which direction things are going, tech had really been hit hard over weeks. everyone is floating away from tech than google actually had some good results. everyone came back in a little bit. now they see what happened. facebook. they're all floating out, but i'm just wondering though have social platforms just hit a wall in terms of facebook. i mean, so many people around the world use facebook at a certain point. there's nobody left to you base with you to reach a level of saturation. not necessarily they haven't had a wall, maybe with this growth model they have. there has been this expectation for

a while that the in unending growth was going to stop right. that they're going to reach as many people as they could, and that they weren't able to monetize properly, who they had to meet market expectations. and that's what we're seeing. perhaps now they have to find ways to monetize what people are going to if they're going to instagram reels and you can't get as much money out of that as you can, the new speed. then you're going to have to figure out how to either get them to the news feed or how to make more money off the reels that their challenge right now is to figure out where are the users and how do we improve the product enough to make enough money off of it. another thing, it's very hard advertising climate right now. apple has changed some of its data sharing rules which actually make it much, much harder for organizations like facebook to share information with their advertisers. and now they're betting a meta is, is that the way out for them? but that's only in the mid to long term, right? they are actually spending more for meta so their expenses are going up as they try and develop more their product labs, virtual reality, things like that. so that is not a short term solution. they are betting big on it in the future. all right, stan beardsley from d. w. business. thanks for waiting all down. thank you. tonka has gone in to law

down after confirming a number of cove in 1000 cases. the pacific island nation is still recovering from a devastating volcanic eruption and massive tsunami. last month or before the disaster, tonda was cove. it free ships bringing 8 are likely to have carried the virus to the islands. all is quiet on the streets of the tongan capital. new coello fan images reminiscent for many around the world of the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 but for residents here in tonga, the measures to deal with cov at 19 are now necessary varies all of them. i think it's a good thing. we need to be tricking and, and, and do increasing. oh, those were, were in contact with the 1st law reduces tonga, entered to lockdown after several, coven 19 cases were discovered. it's thought that ships bringing aid may be how the

corona virus reached the country's shores. the south pacific nation was previously corona free. it's another blow to town guns who are still struggling to deal with the aftermath of a catastrophic volcanic eruption in january. but there is some hope over 80 percent of people over the age of 12 are fully vaccinated. the locked and which only permits essential services to remain open will be reassessed by the tongan government every 48 hours. let's take a look now at some of the other developments in the pandemic. germany's vaccine commission has recommended a 2nd cove at 19 booster. that's a 4th shot to be given to at risk groups that includes the over seventy's, those with compromised immune systems and health care workers. sweden, meanwhile, has announced it will lift pandemic restrictions starting wednesday,

la prime ministers at the hospital system was coping well. despite a high number of infections and bali, indonesia is welcoming back its 1st international flights. in nearly 2 years, a dozen passengers are said to arrive from tokyo on thursday accident. a tourist must still quarantined for 5 to 7 days upon entry. emergency crews and ecuador are continuing to search for people still missing after deadly flooding and much slides in the capital quito. the country is observing an official period of morning after at least 24 people were killed in what's being described as the heaviest rainfall in 2 decades. it's a major operation to clear the debris from destroyed buildings and blocked roads in kito. and if possible, find any people trapped in homes and streets it comes after intense rain which began on monday and pounded the capital for more than 24 hours.

it weakened a hillside and sent waves of mud flowing through the city. this man from venezuela was in a small room, he shared with other migrants when disaster struck. but a more suddenly the water hit us, the building broken too, and we ended up at the back. we fell down to florida and then we were swept away. you know, a death announcement as residents faced the reality of the sudden disaster. and the threat might not yet be over. officials and not ruling out further landslides. jim gazande about this video, anything could still happen at the top part of the mountain sentiment. there wasn't, there could be more landslides going, we'll continue monitoring the area with drones galleries on that. this is all for our safety and to bring tom one, a little not blinking. but with the rain having subsided for now,

rescue teams at grabbing the opportunity to search for survivors. belgian skeleton racer kim male months has been taken to the olympic village in beijing after an i o. c intervention after she made an emotional appeal on instagram. after testing positive on her arrival in the chinese capital mail, months was initially taken directly into isolation, where she then returned 3 consecutive negative p c r's. well, in the video she described what happened when she was picked up from the isolation unit. we thought this meant i was allowed to return to the olympic village and will be treated maximum as a close contact on, on the way to the village. we did not turn to the village, but the ambulance went to another facility where

i am now visibly distressed may lemons their will. after that video was published, the international olympic committee intervened to bring mail months into the olympic village, where she none. the less remains isolated from her fellow competitors, he w. sports correspond, and johnson crane is in beijing to report on the winter games. and earlier today, he sent us this message on the surreal notice of life inside the olympic bubble. it's been a very serious experience, like nothing i've experienced before from the moment. we landed in beijing on tuesday, we were greeted at the apple pie ground stuff and has not ma store through every step of the apple for pci test. 2 of them immigration and then we had to wait in our hotel room for that all important negative test result. thankfully i got it, which means i can end for the bubble properly, but the bubble is effectively

a 50 within the 50. we can already be in the hotel, all games venues. special transport takes us in between. and as you can see behind me, the olympic stadium is that this is as far as we can go within this media compound, what date it off. we're watching the people on the other side. they're watching us . it's a really bizarre situation. jonathan crane, they're reporting from beijing. a reminder now of our top stories this, our russia's foreign ministry, has announced it is banning this network deutsche of ela and shutting down d w's moscow bureau. the move comes in retaliation for germany's decision to ban german language programming from russia. states media broadcaster party, he was president obama says the leader of the so called islamic states has been killed during a targeted raid by us forces in syria. senior us officials say of what you were him, how she may agree. she blew himself up as the operations got underway in the

northwest of the country. and german chance the olaf shall says he will meet with russian president vladimir putin in moscow to discuss the tensions over ukraine. and the less is deploying additional troops to europe in a show of solidarity with ukraine and it's nato allies. shares and a tech company math, which owns facebook, have plummeted more than 20 percent. the social media giant claimed competition from rivals as facebook were quoted, a drop in it's a number of daily users for the 1st time ever. ah, you're watching you to be news more coming up in just a 2nd. say that ah ah, with

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