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this is deja vu news lot from berlin a major corona virus outbreak at a 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. in tulsa oklahoma took place despite warnings about the risks from coronavirus. dortmund travel to leipzig for
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a top of the table clash and their star strikers put on quite a show. welcome to the program in northwestern germany more than a 1000 workers at 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 reported at german slaughter houses in recent months. with more than a 1000 confirmed cases of corona virus the outbreak at 10 years meat processing plant has now become the biggest and germany's most populous state and with the situation worsening the military has been called in to help workers all of the companies some 500 employees are now in quarantine and about
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a half of. the district commissioner says they're working around the clock to get the situation under control. 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 a meat packing 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
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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 with their will affect us it's not nonsense. could be that they should have started testing earlier with so many people working there.
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with the situation threatening to spiral out of control authorities have closed the factory for 14 days. and for more on this i'm joined in the studio political correspondent kate very kate. this isn't the 1st such instance incident in germany or any lessons being learned well this is the same problem time and time again we already as you mentioned had an outbreak similar to this with best flash another meat processing firm here in germany just a few weeks ago and this comes down to a lot of working and living arrangements for these employees most of them migrant workers many of them gary and some remain ins and the living conditions especially they can often be very cramped they live on extremely low wages some of them living a couple of employees to each individual room and so of course this is the perfect breeding ground for something like 19 so these issues have been very much apparent
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for a long long time but they've been cush to the side people turning a blind eye local authorities say that these meat person companies are simply too powerful and these companies at the same time say that they need to keep these contract workers who sometimes to to a certain extent are exploited in the way that they have to live and work that they have to have these contract workers so that they can keep japanese meat so cheap so this is an issue that was very much on germany's radar before the pandemic too and does this particular outbreak change the overall current. virus numbers for germany well it has influence of reproduction rate that's now gone up to $1.00 but the public health institute the robert cock institute here in germany has said that we don't need to worry too much about that get the overall number of new cases in germany is still relatively low and that this is become a bit of a pattern or any kind of new steps being in visage to prevent it from happening again well i mean lash at the state premier if an offer on my failure that's where this slaughter house is in western germany he spoke earlier this afternoon said at
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the moment that isn't going to be an extended regional walk down that still not being ruled out should that be a sudden spike in the number of cases which are already 1300 from the slaughterhouse then that could still be a possibility but in the meantime the employees of this quarantine plus some of the neighbors as well and some of this the living arrangements that they live in they are all currently in quarantine ok diffuse kid with some insight on the outbreak of one of ours in a slaughter house thank you. hundreds of people took part in riots and looting in the southwestern german city of stuttgart authorities say several police officers were injured the violence reportedly erupted while police conducted a search of a suspected drug offender. shotted gloss ransacks shocks shit got streets off to saturday night chaos hundreds of people came to this park
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to party when the police arrived suspecting a drugs offense the situation escalated people threw stones and buffaloes and attacked police cars several officers were injured police called to the scene described as completely out of control videos circulating on social media shows several groups turning violent destroying shop fronts and looting until the early hours of the morning. of the all by going on down to about it through a video i just saw someone throwing stones at the shop criminal damage destroying property at other people's expense. police a currently gathering evidence from the shops destroyed overnight more than 20 people arrested during the violence and now being questioned. let's take a look now at 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 when a 25 year old man was arrested at the scene and he remains in custody.
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spain has and it is a 3 month long lockdown as of sunday most of its borders with e.u. countries have been reopened some restrictions still remain and masks are required in shops and on public transport spain suffered one of europe's worst coronavirus outbreaks. one person has been killed and 11 others injured in a shooting in the us city of minneapolis shots were fart at around 12 30 am on sunday before the perpetrators fled the scene police have yet to release any further details about the incident. 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 tel said oklahoma despite concerns that could cause a massive corona virus outbreak contrary to predictions of a sellout the $19000.00 seat venue was far from fall. now in numbers but
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high on in these yards and 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 candidates you know and saying so i just don't see why i would act any different this. trumped or friend of yours that ministrations handling of the pandemic even if cases across the united states surprise i say hundreds of thousands of lives we don't ever. get even. 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 can find more cases so i said to my people are slow to test things out please he
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blamed media coverage of covidien and the threat of a legit violence from social justice protesters follow supporter turnout in tulsa. well he tries 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. ford. 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. to know them until they make interviews and deja vu corresponding stiffens emails was in tolls for the rally he told us about some of the day's unexpected highlights tulsa oklahoma had 3
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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 massif 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 i'm t. trump protesters would be clashing with and on a large scale clashing with trump support us 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 awful with trump supporter. matter and trump protesters
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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 protesters 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 beijing reported 22 new cases of the coronavirus on sunday this comes after a massive testing effort that's collected more than 2000000 samples in a race to contain a new outbreak so a pharmaceutical giant novartis is halting a clinical trial of hydroxy clora clean as a treatment for covert 19 the company says it's having problems recruiting and off patients for the study of the controversial drug india has confirmed more than
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15000 new infections the biggest one day increase reported since the start of the outbreak there. and we turn to sports now on the bonus league a 2nd from last match day 2nd place dortmund took down 3rd place leipzig in a battle of european heavyweights the 2 clubs were separated by just 3 points going into this one both were banking on their star striker on the big stage. with the long awaited news of team event is imminent departure confirmed leipzig had 2 matches 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 erling holland had the early chances drawing back to back saves from the hosts keeper. after hof analysis the 19 year old did break the deadlock his 13th goal in his 11th to
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see a match a move that was nicely started. with teenager giovanni raina registering his 1st bundestag assist. after the break don't continue to enjoy more chances this time holland turned provider but young material couldn't cap off his 1st start with a goal much to the frustration of the norwegian. however. was a more reliable provider teeing 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 mentioned start 33 just outside spots a 31 victory against. them up into 4th place. of the match for.
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the final 2 goals. and still there to complete his brace 3rd of the season for the back captain. thanks so much. pain to me. and. i think that's. the secret of. starts july 3rd d w.

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