this is due to a really nice line from berlin donald trump holds his 1st campaign rally in more than 3 months the us president addresses the porters who turned out despite warnings about the risks from coronavirus but with crowds smaller than expected his campaign abruptly councils the outdoor portion of the rally also coming out. a major coronavirus outbreak in europe's biggest meat processing plant sends germany's reproduction rights soaring and put thousands of people under strict quarantine it's the 2nd such slaughterhouse case placing

a focus on working conditions. i'm rebecca richards welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump has addressed thousands of supporters at his 1st campaign rally in more than 3 months the event went ahead at an indoor arena intelsat oklahoma despite concerns it could become a super spreader event for the coronavirus but contrary to predictions of a sellout the $19000.00 seat venue was far from full. low in numbers but high on enthusiasm trump supporters ignored growing corporate 19 concerns to a rally for him in tulsa. i think we've been told so many different things about covert 19 the. how they are by just kind of tired of it really we didn't we didn't . through all this up for for all the other pandemics you know i'll say as i just

don't see why i would act any different with this. trump defended years and ministrations handling of the pandemic even if cases across the united states surprise i said hundreds of thousands of lives we don't ever was even a man was he said high infection rates come with more testing. when you test of when you do testing to that extent you can find more people you get a final cases so i said to my people shoulder testing down please he blamed media coverage of convent and the threats of a legit violence from social justice protest his fellow supporter turnout in tulsa . well he chose to ignore protest his pleas for racial equality and an end to police brutality instead he focused on branding himself as the law and order president. we are.

it's a catch phrase that echoes from the time of nixon as the country appears to be moving towards a new era in equality trump holds on to the same campaign formula culture wars and division in the hopes of mobilizing his banks. during the next year and they haven't correspondents deafened simmons was in telson for the rally and he told us about some of the day surprises tulsa oklahoma had 3 surprises ready surprise number one for the president of the united states who wanted to have a strong coming out of the gate with a new invigorated campaign start here in tulsa oklahoma but a lot of people were no shows a lot of trump's supporters were no shows the arena wasn't fully booked never ever were 90000 people in this arena. and outside it the same picture massive

no shows all over the from campaign had to cancel out site stages and outside activities for the expected overflow which never materialized surprise number too many people thought that protesters here and to trump protesters would be clashing with and on a large scale clashing with trump supporters that also didn't happen protests were a not existence for the most of the day and be largely peaceful absolutely peaceful minus the one or other cafe awful with trump supporter like lives matter and he trump protesters were peaceful protesting. surprise number 3 and not really a surprise the president and the trump campaign are no blaming the media and the protesters for the lack of numbers of attendees for their reli media as well as the protesters had really nothing to do with the lack of show for support for the

president nobody blocked any trouble supporter from growing towards the really not the media not the protesters. they have these steffen simmons speaking to us from tulsa now to some of the other stories making news this hour voting has begun in serbia where the center right ruling party is expected a landslide victory in sunday's parliamentary elections president alexander vich is facing little challenge from opposition parties after many boycotted the vote citing lack of fair conditions and danger to public health. china has unveiled details of a new national security law being drafted for hong kong and says beijing will set up a national security agency to crackdown on dissent in the city critics fear it will crush hong kong's autonomy. in northwest germany there are now more than a 1000 people have tested positive for the coronavirus at a meat processing plant up from just over 800

a day before most of the workers are from romania and bulgaria who live in cramped accommodations provided by the company the outbreak is among several reported at german slaughterhouses in recent months. with more than a 1000 confirmed cases of corona virus the outbreak of to turn years meat processing plant has now become the biggest in germany's most populous state and with the situation worsen in the military has been called in to help test plant workers all of the companies 6500 employees are now in quarantine and about a half have been tested the district commissioner says they are working around the clock to get the situation under control. most of the highest priority in the district of good to slow remains the prevention of any further spread of the virus and to avoid a shutdown. authorities have complained however that the operators of europe's largest meat processing plant have been making their job difficult by not providing

relevant employee information the head of the crisis management team says he's lost all faith in the meatpacking company. i want to say clearly that the trust we have an attorney is company is 0 i have to say this clearly. that statement prompted a response from the owner of the plant clemens 10 years he said his firm had struggled to collect the personal data of employees and contractors. and i love form and truly can i can only offer my complete apologies and i give my apology because we're the cause of the issue and carry full responsibility for me as a businessman and the company as a whole because. authorities now have the information needed to properly trace many of those infected mobile testing units have begun visiting private residences in the region to test for further spreading. many people in the local community your

own moved and frustrated with the ongoing situation. this is serious it's catastrophic we'll all just have to suffer again we don't know for shutdowns coming and weather will affect us it's not nice. could be that they should have started testing earlier with so many people working there don't know. what the situation threatening to spiral out of control authorities have closed the factory for 14 days. or more almost story i'm joined in the studio by data political correspondent kate brady ok thanks for coming in this isn't the 1st time there's been a corona virus outbreak at a slaughterhouse in germany how can this keep happening well this comes down to has been attributed so far to some of the current working especially living conditions that many of these workers have to live in most of these employees to nears and

many other slaughterhouses as well particularly in western parts of germany migrants contract workers from bulgaria and romania and these living conditions that many employees have to put up with it is it's no secret that it's something that's been discussed time and time again by by local authorities and national level here in germany as well but the meat processing industry in germany is so powerful and a lot of the the firms say that they need these contract workers to keep meat prices low in germany and so far that's how they've been able to pretty much turn a blind eye to some of these issues. that we're seeing in the accommodation for these migrants and how is this affecting the coronavirus numbers here in germany what we've seen just yesterday was the reproduction rate again here in germany it's now at 1.79 and that's been attributed the rope a cork institute says that's the public health institute here in. due to these

outbreaks that we're seeing not only at the slaughterhouses in western germany but we've also had some cluster infections even here in the capital in berlin as well 7 locations in the southern part of berlin now being quarantined about halfway through that quarantine so so far though the public health institute has said that this isn't something we need to be too worried about and at the moment the number of new cases nationwide is still relatively low where you mention that these working conditions are quite well known what do we expect will happen to prevent this from continuing with a more cases like this continue as well so far the 6 and a half 1000 employees at tinian meat processing firm they've all being quarantined but at the same time there's also other people who don't work at the meat persis info who live nearby they've also been quarantined because they live in the same apartment buildings and the state government cabinet in the state of north

rhine-westphalia where this outbreak is in western germany the cabinet is meeting today to discuss whether they need to have a wider quarantine put in place so at the moment it seems that it has been contained to the employees at this meat processing firm but of course that off a is that you know all these are you going to abide by the quarantine that's been fences put up in some places to try and keep people within that quarantines but of course you know emotions are running high it's not something that people necessarily want to abide by we've got another hot week coming up in germany as well particularly in that part of germany in these a not conditions that people want to be kept in at the best of times let alone and . yeah no no one's to be indoors or out will get ready thanks very much for us up to speed at which will be keeping a close eye on the story. here's a quick roundup now of developments in the coronavirus pandemic beijing reported 22 new cases of the coronavirus on sunday this comes after

a mass testing effort that's collected. well been 2000000 samples in a race to contain a new outbreak so it's pharmaceutical giant novato says halting a clinical trial of hydroxy chloroquine as a treatment for covert 19 the company says it's having problems recruiting enough patients for the study of the controversial drug and india has confirmed more than 15000 new infections the biggest one day increase reported since the start of the outbreak there. well today is international yoga day it has been celebrated on june 21st for the last 5 years to spread awareness about the importance and effects of yoga the word itself is derived from sanskrit to mainz to join or to unite and during the coronavirus pandemic yoga has become a remedy for many people confined to indoor spaces ok away darling friends let's begin standing today at the top of that yoga all new you tube for swarm in scotland it's the perfect way to stay fit while look down measures are in place. it just

makes me feel really good at the end of the exercise in the past and. if it's a different kind of thinks running and. exercise is. everything that is the only thing that stuck with consistently so i practice every single day. texas native adrian mischler runs yoga with adrianne with over $7000000.00 subscribers and almost $650000000.00 views in total it's the most successful yoga channel on you tube she believes it's an ideal quarantine activity yoga practice can benefit all of those things your mental emotional well being and of course the physical body so all of these things working together on practice really get an ideal to embrace. or back in scotland leon has also described. that yoga can help deal with some of

the new challenges she faced in lockdown. decent or just meditate or do something which is just you know so you're cut back so that you can . you can tolerate being around people that you know are necessarily meant to be with every minute of every day whether it's a short destruction or a way to stay fit for yogis the world over are celebrating on june 21st. well sky watches are in luck a rare annular eclipse has started casting a shadow over africa and it's sweeping to asia these are live pictures that you're saying now is the annual or clips which occurs when the main passes between earth and the sun but not quite close enough to our planet to completely obscure the sun's light the event is visible as you can say across a narrow band it will be visible across

a narrow band from congo brazzaville to southern china the eclipse coincides with the northern hemisphere is longest day of the. meeting the watching date of the news i'll be back with more news headlines next hour til then you can check out our website d.w. dot com i'm rebecca richard thanks very much for watching. beyond any of. the stories that matter to. us. whatever it takes. the running now.