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this is deja 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. unprecedented scenes of violence as hundreds of people go on rampage looting shops and it's talking police in the
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southwestern city of stupid. us president donald trump holds his 1st campaign rally in more than 3 months but turnout was lower than expected the indoor events in tulsa oklahoma took place despite warnings about the risks from coronavirus. and keeping calm in coronavirus times on international yoga day we bring you a closer look at how this ancient practice is helping people stay mentally and physically healthy even under lockdown. 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 where more than 1300 people have tested positive for corona virus almost 7000 employees. the plant had been put
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under. most of the workers are from romania and bulgaria and live in cramped company accommodations the outbreak is among several reported at german slaughterhouses in recent months. with more than a 1000 confirmed cases of corona virus the outbreak at the turn years meat 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 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
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relevant employee information. the head of the crisis management team says he's lost all faith in the meat packing company. yes i want to say clearly that the trust we have an attorney has company is 0 i have to say this clearly. that statement prompted a response from the owner of the plant clemons 10 years he said his firm had struggled to collect the personal data of employees and contractors. and i love form and truly get 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 around
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nerved and frustrated with the ongoing situation. chickasha to us this is serious it's catastrophic we'll just have to suffer again we don't offer shutdowns coming and whether it will affect us it's not nice. to. get this 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 joining the studio political correspondent kate brady kate. this isn't the 1st such instant incident in germany or 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 fleischer another meat processing firm here in germany just
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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 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 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 pushed to the side of 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 too 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 japanese radar before the pandemic too and does this particular outbreak change the overall coronavirus numbers for germany
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well it has influence of reproduction rate that's now going up to $1.00 but the public health institute the robot 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 ok 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 if an offer and my failure that's where this slaughter house is in western germany he spoke earlier this afternoon said at the moment that 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 and some of this is living arrangements that they live and they are all currently in quarantine ok do you have used friday insight on the outbreak
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in front of ours in a slaughterhouse thank you. a number of police officers were injured when a large number of people ran rampage through the streets of the southwestern german city of stuttgart more than 20 arrests were made after dozens of people smashed windows and engaged in looting. shots at the glass ransacked shops shit got streets off to 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 as completely out of control. sinful it's 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 office or report their injuries
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afterwards. made in this. video circulating on social media shows several groups turning violent destroying shopfronts and looting until the early hours of the morning. on doubts 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. time now to take a look at some of the other stories making news this hour british police have confirmed they are now treating saturday night stabbing attack in the town of reading as a terrorist incident 3 people were killed and 3 others were seriously wounded a 25 year old man was arrested at the scene and remains in custody. spain has that its 3 month long lockdown as of sunday most of its borders with e.u.
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and 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 corona virus outbreak it's. a small far left party in germany has installed a statue of soviet leader vladimir lenin in the town of 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. 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 it could cause a massive corona virus outbreak contrary to predictions of a sellout 890-0000 seat venue was far from full. no in numbers but high on enthusiasm trump supporters ignored growing included 19
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concerns to a rally for him in tulsa. and i think we've been told so many different things about 19 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 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 his cases across the united states surprise. hundreds of thousands of lives we don't. get even. he said high infection rates come with more testing. when you test of what you do testing to that extent you going to find more people are going to find more cases so i said to my people should all the test things out please he blamed media coverage of covidien and the threats of alleged violence from social justice protest is to low support a turnout in tulsa. he chose to
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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. hearing. it's a catchphrase that echoes from the time of nixon as the country appears to be moving towards a new era inequality trump holds on to the same campaign formula culture wars and division in the hopes of mobilizing his banks. to the limit and here's a quick roundup of developments in the corona virus pandemic beijing has reported 22 new cases of the coronavirus on sunday this comes after a mass testing effort that's collected more than 2000000 samples in a race to contain a new outbreak. pharmaceutical giant of artists is halting
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a clinical trial of hydroxy chloroquine as a treatment for code 19 the company says it's having problems recruiting enough patients for the study of the controversial drug india has confirmed more than 15000 new infections the biggest one day increase reported since the start of the outbreak there. today's international yoga day it's been celebrated on june the 21st for the last 5 years to spread awareness about the benefits of yoga the word itself is destructive derived from sanskrit and means to join or you to unite and during a coronavirus pandemic yoga has become a remnant remedy for many people confined to endorse spaces. what looks like a bunch of seals playing in the snow is actually a group of tibetan border police doing yoga at an altitude of 18000 feet on international yoga day they're proving that you don't need a fancy studio to practice you can do it anywhere.
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your home is an excellent spot to practice yoga as well especially in the age of covert 19 and it can even help to protect you from the virus says engine prime minister narendra modi. by memory because of the corona pandemic the world today feels the need for yoga even more than ever now if we have a strong community it really house or defeat this disease. masks don't seem to hinder mindful practice even when performing breathing exercises although yoga is part of india's national pride it's a global phenomenon. yoga enthusiasts all over the world came together to practice like here in afghanistan. top on the angles us that is a quarter not the homage obviously everyone the stress due to coronavirus these days because there are very few ways to control of the stress and therefore i believe
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yoga is a very good exercise to relax on minds. the heart that is then a model. for. staying stress free in times of crisis proved to be invaluable to millions of people are already practicing yoga and the best thing is you only need a mat to do it. how much would you pay to own the guitar that kurt cobain played during nirvana as legendary $993.00 m.t.v. unplugged a session while someone has just been more than $6000000.00 at an auction for making it the world's most expensive guitar ever. 59 martin 18 beats the record held by a black fender stratocaster belonging to pink floyd's david gilmore. for a relatively cheap $3950000.00.
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