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another. democracy of the global storage july 1st on t w. this is a deja vue news live 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 infected also on the show. american president donald trump holds his 1st campaign rally in more than 3 months but turnout was lower than
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expected the indoor events in tulsa oklahoma took place despite warnings about the risk from coronavirus. and bonus league of football travel to leipzig for a top of the table clash and their star strikers put on quite a show. welcome to the program. the german military has been called in to help test workers at a meat packing plant in the northwest of the country or more than 1300 people have tested positive for corona virus almost 7000 employees at the plant have been put under quarantine most of the workers are from romania and bulgaria and live in cramped company accommodations the outbreak is among several reported a german slaughter houses in recent months. with more than a 1000 confirmed cases of corona virus the outbreak at the turn years meat
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processing plant has now become the biggest in germany's most populous state and with the 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 have been 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 kuta 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
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company is 0 i have to say this clearly sees. that statement prompted a response from the owner of the plant clements 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 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 are unnerved and frustrated with the ongoing situation. pictish got us that this is serious it's catastrophic we'll all just have to suffer again we don't offer
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shutdowns coming and whether it 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 who to go on. 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 incident in germany are any lessons being learned well this is the same problem time and time again we already have you mentioned had an outbreak similar to this with best fleisher 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 the migrant workers many of them bulgarians and romanians and the living conditions especially they can often be very cramped they live on extremely low wages some of them living
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a couple of employees to each individual room and so this is the perfect breeding ground for something like 19 so these issues have been very much apparent for a long long time but they've been cush to the side people turning a blind eye local authorities say and 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 coronavirus numbers for germany well it has influence of reproduction rate that's now going up to 1.79 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 yet the overall number of new cases in
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germany is still relatively low. 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 permian fanaa for my failure that's where this slaughter house is in western germany he spoke earlier this afternoon said at the moment there isn't going to be an extended regional walk down that's still not being ruled out should. a sudden spike in the number of cases which are already over $1300.00 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 in some of this is living arrangements that they live in they are all currently in quarantine ok to diffuse can't break insight on the outbreak of the virus in a slaughterhouse thank you to police in the southwestern city of stuttgart say violent scenes that erupted overnight did not have a political background a number of officers were injured and more than 20 arrests were made when dozens of
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groups dozens of people went on an unprecedented rampage through the city looting and rioting shuttered glass ransacked shops stuttgart streets after saturday night's chaos hundreds of people came to this park to party when the police arrived suspecting a drugs offense the situation escalated people threw stones and bottles and attacked police cars several officers were injured police called to the scene described it as completely out of control. because some points influence the police all in all london police officers were injured last night. one of them was hurt so badly he had to be taken off duty. this number could still rise as often as off the report their injuries afterwards. made in this. video circulating on social media shows several groups turning violent destroying
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shopfronts and looting until the early hours of the morning. just. about it through a video i just saw someone throwing stones at the shop criminal damage destroying property it's other people's expense that's not so ok 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 25 year old men was arrested at the scene and remains in custody. spain has and it is 3 month long walk down as of sunday most of its borders with e.u. and schengen countries have been reopened some restrictions for remain and masks are required in shops and on public transport spain suffered one of europe's worst coronavirus outbreaks. a small far left party in germany has installed
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a statue of soviet leader vladimir lenin in the towns and get some kitchen 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 or pulled down in europe and the united states. u.s. president has addressed thousands of supporters at his 1st campaign rally in more than 3 months the event went ahead at an arena indoor in tulsa 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 full. no in numbers but high on in the easy answer trump supporters ignored growing included 19 concerns to a rally for him in tone. i think we've been told so many different things about kobe one thing that. i think everybody just kind of tired of it really we didn't we
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didn't do all this up for for all the other candidates you know and saying so i just don't see why i would actually be different this. trumped or friend of yours that ministrations handling of the pandemic even as cases across the united states surprise. hundreds of thousands of lives we don't. even know. he said high infection rates come with more testing. when you cast 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
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himself as the law and order president. 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. in the field of. correspondence defense he was on the ground for us in tulsa he told us about some of the day's unexpected highlights 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
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were 90000 people in this arena. and outside it the same picture massif no shows all over the from japan had to cancel out site stages outside activities for the expected overflow which never materialized so price 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 other awful with trump supporter. matter and trump protesters were peaceful protesting surprise number 3 and not really a surprise the president and the charm campaign are now blaming the media and the protesters for the lack of numbers of attendees for their reli media as well as the
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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 war it's the really not the media and not the protesters. and it turns sports now on the 2nd from last match day 2nd place dortmund took down 3rd place lives 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 strikers to deliver on the big stage . with the long awaited news of t.-mo vanna's 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 gold tally of 26 but dortmund erling holland have 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
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bundestag a match a move that was nicely started by your young blond with teenager giovanni raina registering his 1st bundestag assist. after the break don't mean continue to enjoy more chances this time holland turned provider but young material moray couldn't cap off his 1st stocks with a goal much to the frustration of the norwegian. however julieann blunt 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 advantage looked on in envy no luck in his last game in light sick as dortmund secured 2nd place for a 2nd season running was. sky watchers are in luck a rare annular eclipse has started casting
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a shadow 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 the event will be visible across a narrow band from congo brazzaville to southern china it's that coincides with watch. i'm going crazy thing in time. how to handle lies in times of the current a pandemic d.w. reporter. just like everyone else and she's looking for answers and thankfully with the help of too many expect that.

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