sudan south sudan and somalia as well as the likes of yemen and syria so let's discuss this with daniel erickson who is managing director of transparency international which compiled this report thanks very much for joining us on detail we business let's talk about the coronavirus pandemic another big characteristic of the last year how is that changed people's perceptions of how corrupt their governments are. well thanks for having me i think it's clear that in countries that were corrupt to begin with and had lesser ability to respond to the pandemic due to. lower levels of investment in growth in health care also note is that corruption now kills it is not only something that is uncomfortable it results in human casualties so people are feeling that it's a bigger issue for them than they might have thought it was before the people might have been thinking beforehand well actually ok it's a big corrupt but we can cope with it yeah that you're seeing clearly is the correlation between an open and transparent system for instance procurement countries that are open and how they procured and how t

that's daniel erickson managing director of transparency international speaking to us that now japanese automaker toyota overtook german competitive folks fog and as the world's top selling vehicle manufacturer in 2020 despite beating v.w. for the top spot for the 1st time in 5 years their toyota also struggled with fewer car sales amid the coronavirus pandemic industrywide car sales were down more than 10 percent on the year 2020 across the world in europe folks bargain dominates the market new vehicle registrations plunged 24 percent it's the continent's biggest drop on record. but let's discuss this with our financial correspondent in frankfurt ashutosh panday sadly need a v.w. no nissen had a great year last year is it basically the case the v.w. is worse than this. well that's a leader who did worse than there are but to me it's more a tale of 2 markets. remember folks when you just mentioned is the dominant player in europe and europe had its worst performance ever with the fall of 24 percent so that's that's where folks are going suffer toward on the other hand counts the u.s. as

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