this is d.w. news live from berlin a major coronavirus 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 coming up on the show. scenes of violence as hundreds of people go on the rampage looting shops and attacking police in the southwestern german city of start to act. and in doing this legal football minds guaranteed themselves another season in the top tier while making it an uphill

battle for braman is to avoid relegation next week. i'm claire richardson a welcome to the show the german military has been called in to help test workers at a meat packing plant in the north west of the country where 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 at german slaughterhouses a since the pandemic again. 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 company's 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. with 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 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 the meatpacking 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 clements 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 your own nerved and frustrated with the ongoing situation. have thought this is serious it's catastrophic we'll all just have to suffer again we don't know for shutdowns coming and whether it will affect us it's not nice for you and. could be that they should have started testing earlier with so many people working there

don't know. your way. with the situation threatening to spiral out of control authorities of course the factory for 14 days. well for more i'm joined in the studio by d.w. political correspondent and us as i might well this is not the 1st time there's been an outbreak at a slaughterhouse in germany are no lessons being learned well it seems to be the case and it is not the 1st time it happened in germany terser happened in neighboring france it happened in the us and in fact what it highlights is really the dire dire working and living conditions of workers in search slaughterhouses in the meat industry in the meat sector now and meat production comes at a cost but the industry is not ready to pay that cost because the goal is at the moment to get cheap so contractors to keep the meats prices cheap and most of the a subcontractor as we're talking about most of most of the 1000 people more than

2000 people being infected now in that need plant in germany come from neighboring purdum come from the garia from romania so we really see that that's the whole industries a system that is being looked at now and how is this outbreak affecting germany's coronavirus numbers well unfortunately the reproduction a rate of infections went through the roof with that new cluster it went to jump to 1.75 which is way above what's needed to keep the pandemic under control which is a weight of one when one person infects one or even less. even less than one other person and for one day during one day only we saw more than $600.00 people being infected that's way over dead limits and even the minutes of president of the region of not trying to say that there's an enormous risk of a pandemic outbreak roads are not the numbers we want to see what kind of action it can we expect to see now what the government or the federal governments in may by

the use of subcontractors in the meat industry does to try and curb the use of x. and where because of foreign workers who would be brought in germany and living in dire conditions working in dire conditions but that kind of event that kind of outbreak really shows. those conditions and they're not they're not going to be a changed overnight did obey a political reporter and i thank you very much. well let's go now to some other stories making news around the world u.s. president donald trump has held his 1st campaign rally in more than 3 months the events went ahead at an indoor arena in tulsa oklahoma despite coronavirus concerns but contrary to predictions of a sell out of the $19000.00 seat venue it was far from full. british police are now treating saturday night's stabbing attack in the town of reading as a terrorist incident 3 people were killed

a 25 year old man was arrested at the scene and remains in custody police say they're still looking for a motive. spain has ended its 3 month long walk down as of sunday most of its borders with the e.u. and shaken countries have been reopened some restrictions are still remain and masks are required in shops and on public transport spain suffered one of europe's and worst coronavirus outbreaks. here in germany a number of police officers were injured when a large number of people ran rampage through the streets of the southwestern city of. more than 20 arrests were made after dozens of people smashed windows and engaged in looting. shattered glass ransacked shops still cut 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 unknown sinful it's the police only know of 9000 police officers were injured last night. is that there was this any inst one of them was hurt so badly had to be taken off duty this number could still rise as officers often report their injuries afterwards that we've made in this 10 years from now going on call and videos circulating on social media shows several groups turning violent destroying shopfronts and losing until the early hours of the morning this all into something very different for a lot of through the night 40 stores are attacked so you get someone busy in shop windows was smashed and destroyed. from what we know at present 9 shops were looted always does noise in luggage shift get. the

next day start cut residents reacted to the destruction. we've never seen this instant cut i'm completely shocked i just can't really believe it or. not this was the i found out about it through a video i just saw someone throwing stones at the shop criminal damage destroying other people's property that's not ok. police are currently gathering evidence from the shops destroyed overnight more than 20 people arrested during the violence and now being questioned. well g.w. reporter ira back i start in myer is standing by for us instead are back a year in the city center where the violent clashes took place on saturday night what's it like there today. it's a completely different atmosphere here during the day from compared to the scenes that we saw circulating on social media from last night lots of people downtown going about their usual business strolling eating ice cream but under

a really unusual atmosphere because as they're strolling as they're going about their days they're passing these shops with the smashed in windows piles of glass swept up on the cars on the pavement here sections of the sidewalk sections of this of this pedestrian zone actually missing which was seen in some of the videos last night that many rocks were being thrown at vehicles and and police so it's almost a juxtaposition of of normal everything back to business as usual but obviously with people looking around and with a sense of bewilderment about what had happened last night well let's talk more about what did happen what can you tell us about the rioters and their motives. well what happened last night as far as police have said is that when they went to go investigate a potential drugs crime groups of young people who were partying in a nearby park game drop in support of the person who was about to be searched and

went against the police then and things escalated as buildings began to ask really more and more people joined and police asked to meet somewhere between 40500 people taking part what we know so far about the rioters the people who were clashing with police last night is that they were primarily young. that the and as well as that there did not appear to be a political motivation behind the clashes that was something the police were very clear about today and an afternoon press conference is that they can rule out any type of political motive behind this attack they did not elaborate but the mayor elaborated further and said that alcohol was certainly at play and also that there is been a new phenomenon that's a submerged in the past couple of weeks where a lot of especially young people and especially from from this from from the young

people who are partying. that they've been more vocal about advocating violence against police and about agitating towards the police so alcohol as well as the social media almost celebrity element at play was in the violence did go on a long and also for serious damage to physical property why did it take so long for the police to get the situation under control. police purchased completely overwhelmed they were facing there were about 250 officers who were deployed eventually last night but they were facing 40500 people and and they were they were being attacked in a way that police haven't been attacked especially in the city that they have not been attacked before they were just completely overrun and and pollute both police officials have said that this is an unprecedented level of violence that they were facing last night rebecca shot in my instance cars thank you well

in linda's legal football as so-called a relegation 6 pointer was played out when minds and ramanna locked horns in a battle for survival on saturday a win for the home team a men's that mines have now secured another top flight season while bremen now need a victory next weekend and other results to go their way in order to beat the drop . 2 sides that have struggled this season went head to head florian co fails braman again the match day 6 points from safety 6 points behind minds who knew a win would guarantee them another bundesliga season. after 25 minutes the hosts broke the deadlock. robin cries on has been a solid contributor for mines this season and scored his 13th goal celebrating with a tribute to the black lives matter of movement. this week showing plenty of fight to get the ball over the line. and

minds kept pushing just 5 minutes later john paul but we'd see us made it to nail. and co failed had to be worried. oh well worked goal but poor defending from braman allowed the space and time to finish until i was in the 2nd half braman briefly showed a sign of life you you know osaka getting one back just before the hour mark goals have been in short supply for braman all season as the japanese striker scored just his 6th. but raymond's defense was brittle and 5 minutes from time keeper u.t. pawlenty goal was beaten for a 3rd time a 31 victory for mines sealed by eddie mills son friend and is. braman have one more chance to save their season if other results go their way next

week well minds can celebrate survival. you're watching. all the latest on our website. don't forget to follow us on instagram and twitter i'm claire richardson thanks for watching. everyone. from the french border town of shooting for france 24 and i'm linda crane for him standing on the sidewalk alongside the french main street. right from the france germany border. closing the french german border. grand reopening what will it take to restore economic health in europe. in 60 minutes.