this is. from berlin a major. german slaughterhouse raises questions about worker safety soldiers are deployed to help with mass testing at the facility after more than a 1000 employees are in fact also on the show. u.s. president donald trump holds his 1st campaign rally in more than 3 months but turnout was lower than expected indoors vent in tulsa oklahoma took place despite warnings about the risks from coronavirus. travel to leipzig

for top of the class and their star strikers put on quite a show. welcome to the program in northwestern germany more than a 1000 workers are of a meat packing plant have tested positive for corona virus from just over 800 a day before most of the workers are from romania and bulgaria and live in cramped company accommodations the outbreak is among several ordered german slaughterhouses in recent months. with more than a 1000 confirmed cases of corona farmers the outbreak at 10 years meat. now become the biggest and germany's most populous state and with that situation worsening 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 of being tested the district commissioner says they're working around the clock to get the situation under control. most of the highest priority in the district of critters low remains the prevention of any further spread of the virus and to avoid a shutdown of the common 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 a meat packing company. i want to say clearly that the trust we have an attorney his 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 good 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. 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 row nerved 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 with there will affect us it's not nonsense. could be that they should have started testing earlier with so many people working there nor. would the situation threatening to spiral out of control authorities have closed

the factory for 14 days. and for more on this i'm joined the studio by due to be a political correspondent kate brady kate this isn't the 1st such slaughterhouse break in germany are no lessons being learned well the same issue is coming up time and time again what's being attributed to the cause behind this outbreak the conditions that workers at these meat person plants work and especially live in there are a lot of migrant workers and most of the employees of from bulgaria and romania and it's already been known for a long long time long time before the pandemic as well that these conditions are definitely not the greatest these people are on very low wages and it means that companies like nearest and vest fleishman of the company that outbreaks as well can maximize profits and they say that they need to have these contract workers because they are so cheap in order to keep germany's meat and other produce as well we see

this in so in other parts of the of the food sector that is well here in germany to keep those prices so cheap and it seems that all calls being made for to improve these conditions and to reassess the conditions in which contracts are signed in and who is responsible for these contract workers but of course you know this is being something that's been a problem for a long time in germany so i doubt we're going to see something very very quickly and just to come out of the big picture how does this change the overall coronavirus number. the situation in germany become pretty well the reproduction rate is up again to $1.00 but the the robot caucus to cheat the public health institute here in germany has said that's not something to be too worried about so far that has jumped because of these outbreaks not only at the slaughterhouse but also here in berlin in the southern district of knight cohen we've seen several housing apartments put under quarantine as well but the overall number nationwide of new cases is still relatively low and what kind of action is being talked about

or new steps being in visits to stop this from happening again well at the moment all employees at the slaughterhouse are under quarantine and also some of the locals in the area good to slow as well and we're expecting to hear more from the region this afternoon and a wider regional quarantine as well still hasn't been rolled out so they will have to wait some more information from the state premie at this afternoon of north rhine-westphalia in western germany where the slaughterhouse is ok thanks for staying on top of this for us kate. and notice some of the other stories making news around the world. british police have confirmed they are now treating saturday night's stabbing attack in the town of reading as a terrorist incident 3 people were killed and 3 others seriously wounded 25 year old man was arrested at the scene and remains in custody. hundreds of people took part in riots and looting in the southwestern german city of stuttgart already say

several police officers were injured as groups of people threw stones and bottles and broke shop windows in the city's central shopping district it's still unclear what sparked the violence. a small far left party in germany has installed a statue of soviet leader vladimir lenin in the town of give some kishan mainstream parties tried to block the installation calling lenin a figure of terrorism and violence the controversial move comes as many statues are being defaced pulled down in europe and the us. american president donald trump has addressed thousands of his supporters at his 1st campaign rally in more than 3 months the event went ahead at an indoor arena in tulsa oklahoma despite concerns that could cause a massive corona virus outbreak and contrary to predictions of a sellout the $19000.00 seat venue was far from full. no in numbers but high on an easy as a trump supporters ignored growing cleavage 19 concerns to

a rally for him in tulsa. i think we've been told so many different things about cove igniting that. i think everybody just kind of tired of it really we didn't we didn't do all this up or for all the other presidents you know. to be different this. trumped a friend of yours is ministrations handling of the pandemic even if cases across the united states surprise. hundreds of thousands of lives we don't. have that. 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 are going to find more cases so i said to my people are slow to test things out please he blamed media coverage of covidien and the threat of a legit violence from social justice protest his fellow supporter turnout in tulsa

. well he chose to ignore protesters pleas for racial equality and an end to police brutality instead he focused on branding himself as the law and order president. we are. working. hard. it's a catchphrase 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. and correspondent stephanie simmons was in tulsa for the rally he told us about some of the day's 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 japan had to cancel outside stages and outside activities for the expected overflow which never materialized surprise number too many people thought that protesters here until trump protesters would be clashing with and on a large scale clashing with trump support us that also didn't happen protests were they not existence for the most of the day and be largely peaceful absolutely peaceful minus the one awful with trump supporter. matter and trump protesters were peaceful protest surprise number 3 and not really a surprise the president and the trump campaign are now blaming the media and the

protesters for the lack of numbers of attendees for their reli media as well as the protest has had really nothing to do with the lack of show for support for the president nobody blocked any trouble supporter from going to what's the really not the media and not the protesters. and here's a quick roundup of other developments in the coronavirus pandemic they've seen reported 22 new cases of corona virus on sunday this comes after a mass testing effort that's collected more than 2000000 samples in a race to contain a new outbreak so it's pharmaceutical giant novartis is halting a clinical trial of hydroxy clora clean as treatment for 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. turn sports now on the bundesliga

2nd from last match day 2nd place dortmund took down 3rd place leipsic in a battle of european heavyweights 2 clubs were separated by just 3 points going into this one both were banking on their star strikers to deliver on the big stage . with the long awaited news of team event is imminent departure confirmed leipzig had too much is left to enjoy his goal scoring prowess he was out to add to his best ever bring this to good goal tally of 26 dortmund holland had the early chances drawing back to back saves from the hosts keeper. after half an hour the 19 year old did break the deadlock his 13th goal in his 11th blunder see a match a move that was nicely started by you with teenager giovanni raina registering his 1st bundesliga sist. after the break dortmund continued to enjoy

more chances this time holland turned provider but young men couldn't cap off his 1st start with a goal much to the frustration of the norwegian. however was a more reliable provider team him up for another goal in the 93rd minute to seal a 2 nil win for dortmund holland was happy again while the previously substituted team looked on in envy no luck in his last game in light sick as dortmund secured 2nd place for a 2nd season running. and later kazan went into the weekend in 4th place and were in pole position for the final champions league spot but her came out on top of them on saturday and to open the scoring for the berliners in the 22nd minute. and then. looking back you know rounded out the 2 male

final score early in the 2nd half of last season to 5th place behind and put their champions league teams in jeopardy. mentioned back started match state 33 just outside champions league spots but a 31 victory against relegated patter born move them up to 4th place the man of the match was lars who netted the final 2 goals. with the headed assist. there to complete his brace of the season for captain. sky watchers are a rare annular eclipse has started casting a. at over africa and is sweeping to asia. annular eclipse is occur when the moon passes between the earth and the sun but not quite close enough to our planet to completely obscure the sun's light event will be visible across a narrow band from congo brazzaville to southern china the eclipse coincides with

the northern hemisphere is the longest day of the year. and you're watching due to the news from berlin i'll be back with more headlines for the top of the hour you can get more news at any time if you know about com i'm max foster thanks for each . mindlessness. like you. have to. give him she painted me. and mine.