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Wirecard admits $2.1bn is missing

Scandal-hit German payments firm admitted $2.1bn is missing from the Philippines

Scandal-hit German payments firm admitted $2.1bn is missing from the Philippines. Dan McCrum of the Financial Times brings us the latest details.

Also in the programme, whilst the coronavirus pandemic has supercharged the move towards home working, our regular workplace commentator Peter Morgan questions the wisdom of those who argue there may be no need for lots of workers to return to the office ever again.

A major outbreak of Covid-19 at a meat processing plant in north-western Germany has forced 7,000 people into quarantine. Peter Schmidt from the Food, Beverages and Catering Union in Hamburg tells us why he thinks German meat processing plants have been falling victim.

Plus, Will Bain asks whether a lack of live support could force some rugby clubs out of business. Eric de Cromieres is president of France’s Clermont Auvergne club, and describes their challenges. And we hear there have also been difficult decisions for Colin Mansbridge, chief executive of the most successful rugby club on the planet, the Crusaders of Christchurch, New Zealand.

(Picture: A wirecard building. Picture credit: EPA.)

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