this is the w. news live from berlin germany scrambles to stem the mass outbreak of the corona virus more than $1300.00 workers test positive add a slaughterhouse calls grow for the owners of the plant to be held responsible for failing to enforce social distancing rules also coming up the city of italy was the epicenter of europe's outbreak people are asking for the incompetence was to blame for the tragedy and if the high death toll could have been prevented. and the

government subsidies and a level playing field for investors that's what e.u. leaders want from china as trade talks resume today will china move closer towards what. alarm bells are ringing here in germany after more than 1300 people tested positive for corona virus meatpacking plant thousands of people have been quarantined in the western town of slow to try to prevent the disease from spreading leaders in the state of north rhine-westphalia say they are doing all they can to avoid reimposing a wider lockdown. it's an outbreak that has shocked germany day after day the number of infected 10 u.s. employees has risen to over 1300. but there are. indications that the plant may

have ignored warning signs ahead of the outbreak. this video shows the company canteen in april of this year overcrowded despite germany's supposed social distancing restrictions and this widely circulated recording an employee can be heard voicing her concern about the situation this is tenuous she says in the video that was leaked online how are we supposed to protect ourselves. 10 years as one of germany's biggest meat processing companies its clients include german supermarket giants algae and. the mass outbreak has sparked protests and the heated debate about working conditions at plants. will do anything in our power to shed light onto the darkness in the sector. and will certainly trying to keep the virus from spilling over to the general public. the outbreak at tonya's has raised fears of a super spreader event in the country's west where germany's 1st major outbreak

happened over winter the latest developments have put north rhine-westphalia as premier i mean lush it on the defensive he has now signalled he's considering a larger quarantine in the area to control the outbreak. of the source of this can be found at this specific company but we still cannot rule out a wider lock down. look down the moment. the plants coal owner has promised to take full responsibility for the outbreak but confidence is dwindling in the science management whose team many blame for what has become a major crisis. covering this story for us is outside one of the residences where plant workers. tell us about conditions for these the thousands of workers now in court to. i guess the

quarantine here is quite strict as you can see behind me there's a fence here with no entrance there what you're seeing behind me is several houses where several 100 workers who work at the turn a slaughterhouse are living together and now they just have the room in front of this building to go outside and nobody can come or go we did however see a delivery come earlier please open this gate by unscrewing it to allow the delivery of food and water that came from turney a slaughterhouse to the people living here once that was over the gate was closed back up and you know people are just waiting the 2 weeks out we saw people riding their bikes trying to get some exercise one young man kicked a ball over the fence and wanted me to kick it back over so that's how these people are living here now under very strict quarantine why have the authority imposed why the lockdown. authorities are optimistic that they can keep this outbreak

limited to the workers in the factory and all but 17 workers of the 6500 were tracked down their addresses were tracked down and they were put in quarantine a lot of them in big houses like this where they live together but then again there's also people who live in small apartments we visited one in the group is low in the city and there was no police presence there and no fence so although a lot of people are living in and forced quarantine others other workers are living in self quarantine and it remains to be seen if the authorities approach will actually keep this virus from leaving that community of workers and spreading into the general population we did see some crisis management teams on the city doing house checks but there was just a few of them and otherwise there's a big contrast between how people are living here and how people are living in other smaller apartments. i mean as we heard time is facing criticism for the way

the company has handled the situation what went wrong. obviously something went terribly wrong here 1300 factions as we heard earlier now 10 years sub contracts and that's where the problem begins according to the german government they've already passed a law to stop the sub contracting because they said it doesn't allow for transparency some of the workers here are working for romanian or bulgarian companies and getting less than minimum wage and the conditions that they live and work in are not easily seen by the government now turn years has apologized but their story is that this virus was actually brought from workers who went home on vacation to bulgaria and romania and came back with the virus biologists have challenged that explanation saying that even if the virus did come back with a couple of people the outbreak happened here so the conditions here and due to slow and housing complexes like this are under scrutiny scrutiny the government says that while they have passed this law that some contracting should stop they

need something in the meantime to make sure that this doesn't happen again happen again at this slaughterhouse or another one somewhere else in germany. to. see thank you very much. germany's infectious disease agency that will have called the institute has pointed to that meat packing plant outbreak as a big driver of the country's virus reproduction number which has now shot up to nearly 2.9 earlier we asked political correspondent nina if that might prompt a rethink in the german government's health strategy. the overall strategy here in germany has been to give a lot of responsibility to the regions and a lot of flexibility to deal with the virus and jenny has had pretty well with that strategy having said that now of course the pressure is on and politicians are showing themselves concerned the labor minister of the country you better has announced drastic measures for the meat packing industry says the working

conditions need to be improved fairly swiftly and more controls need to be imposed also the health minister ian spawn has come out and said that local authorities need to act swiftly to contain any local outbreak because of course there's always the risk that it could spread to the rest of the country and can spawn has also said that the bundestag the parliament should evaluate the process of coronavirus strategy and measures you know who's reporting that it's really up to speed now with some of the other developments in the corona virus pandemic the world health organization has recorded the biggest one day increase in coronavirus cases so far more than 183000 the americas account for more than half of that in brazil more than 50000 people have now died from the virus hundreds of people joined in protests for and against brazil's president jacob also narrow and his handling of the crisis indonesia's death toll has risen to 2500 the highest in the south east

asia and india has recorded 445 new deaths in 24 hours its biggest single day increase to date. well here in europe the northern italian region of a long body was the epicenter of the corona virus outbreak more than 16000 people died one of the towns hardest hit. locals say no family that escaped the tragedy and many are calling for those responsible to be held to account the w's marinus trucks with pools. images that are hard to forget military trucks loaded with coffins. doctors and nurses as frontline fighters and overloaded hospital. which travel to battle a city that is still in mourning 1st stop the old town usually

a tourist hot spot here we meet. a community worker things have calmed down now unlike at the start of the crisis. you know the jordanian after a few days some of us started breaking down emotionally they were sobbing like babies but it was partly the pressure but also because we were dealing with people who had seen 2 or 3 of their family members die one after the other with. during our biler was among the founders of superbad and initiative to help those who couldn't help themselves 200 volunteers joined him vigil live at food and medicines to cover 1000 patients relief for our suffering city everybody knows somebody who died of 90 the mural you can see behind me has become the symbol of the crisis a nurse with wings holding italy in her arms to tell an artist franco to volley

dedicate it to health workers from the wall of bergen with public hospital the image that spreads across the world. at berga most men cemetary. visit the graves of people who died of 19 father beck a mela tells us the number of fatalities was so high that many bodies had to be transported to other cities at the peak of the grossest more than 130 coffins were stored in his church or coleman shotwell put on their own body. it was unsettling because you know being here like that after a week or 10 days i started smelling not only the smell of pine trees and fir trees but something else that i stopped seeing mass by myself among the coffins. there may not be the. people are grieving for the loss of fluffed ones but they're also beginning to ask

questions they want to know why their region lamberty which is one of the richest in italy was so hard hit stefan a fusco scran father died in a care home he's now collecting the stories of other covered 19 victims we just want to know the truth if we want to know if it was addressed before or if there is a high level of power in the heart is not the doctor or sort of nurses that have the possibility to contain this feeling or even to avoid fusco and others say the worst affected parts of the region should have been closed down at an early states they criticize the region's far right president in milan for putting profits before people can see that before we find out who is responsible we have to understand whether or not we made mistakes from the region's point a few i think we try to give all possible answers and take all possible preventions at a time when we were confronting an extraordinary situation at

a time when nobody knew much about the virus. from back in bed again will kyoto bio says the citizens will have to take things into their own hands. this initiative superdad again will bill now start organizing concerts to support local artists at the interview on and on the we have to be careful we can't be too cheerful because we're doing this in a city in a province that is in mourning or project wants to be a him to life not just going back to work but a real new start a new start based on human relations. to bio is confident that over time his city will manage to recover but that optimism a stamp and bud's a fear of a 2nd wave of infections. news still to come how could this have happened in the prosperous german city of stuttgart an

explosion of violence including brutal attacks against police and looting leaves many stunned and searching for answers. and show me the money troubles of germany's wild card worsened after the fund says it appears to have lost accounts containing nearly 2000000000 euros. for 1st trade with china is important for all european economies but also complicated e.u. investors have long complained about lack of access to chinese markets and unfair government subsidies so leaders from the un china a meeting today to discuss a new investment agreement. e.u. leaders in brussels are holding a video conference with their powerful counterpart in beijing china's foreign ministry says the chinese government touches great importance to the meeting the goal of the stalled investment talks is to turn 27 separate agreements into one

bilateral investment pact it will regulate key issues such as transparency a mutual trade heaping a level playing field for investors compliance with the rules on funding state owned companies and the protection of intellectual property. the talks come at a time of tension between the 2 sides for example china has reacted angrily to e.u. criticism of its controversial new security law for hong kong european union leaders are looking for an opportunity to exert influence over beijing. it to deal with and i am fine and i am now in which we keep dragging this china on important matters like an investment treaty progress on climate change and our common growth in africa but also on questions of the router for our human rights and the future of on concert. china's economic policy has changed since the investment talks

began 6 years ago the flow of chinese money into e.u. countries has been falling since 2016 with direct investment back to 2013 levels trade relations need repairing and the talks need to get moving. well joining me now from brussels is our chief international editor richard walker richard they've been talking for a long time and there's still lots of tensions and there are. yes i mean the tensions are really quite extreme at the moment between china and the west as a whole really going back several months of course you know the context for that you know many things relating to the covert outbreak which of course began in china there are lots of questions about whether china could have been more transparent in the early days of the outbreak whether that contributed to just how far and how fast the pandemic spreads also there are concerns to voice very recently by the european union outright accusing china of mounting dissin from asian campaigns

within europe around the covert outbreak and then on top of that we just saw in the report human rights in jang in the province in western china more than a 1000000 people in so-called reeducation camps their rights being severely curtailed something that george well as reported on a lot and of course hong kong with this new national security law that china wants to impose their threatening freedom freedom of speech in hong kong now the usual way for the european union with all of these concerns over human rights is to sort of voice concerns say that we talked to china about these things but human rights groups are saying that simply doesn't go far enough now and the european parliament has actually just recently chimed in in agreement with that saying that the european union has to threaten legal consequences over these breaches of human rights otherwise they're just not standing up for their own values properly so moral of that in their kind of soup at the moment making this a very very difficult set of talks to hold you know it sounds very difficult why

are the u.n. china even meeting or at all given all those differences. yeah well this is actually less than had been planned the plan was to have a huge summit to much fanfare with all $27.00 european leaders in germany this september that has been put on ice supposedly blaming the corona pandemic but of course all of those factors certainly at play you know the european side would say 2 things 1st of all they say it's important to keep talking they believe in diplomacy they believe in multilateralism so keep talking no matter how bad the problems are and the 2nd thing is they want that investment treaty that we saw described in the report that there's a real sense in europe that european countries have not had a fair crack at the chinese market the same sort of concerns that you hear voiced in america by donald trump obviously voice in a rather more low key way here in europe so they do want progress on that i think china wants progress on that too the question is whether all of those concerns all

of those geopolitical tensions all of the uncertainty in the world at the moment just means it might just be too difficult to have used to from the national over there richard walker brussels many of us. time now for an update on some of the other stories making headlines around the world. is leaving the german blue chip index darks the airline is in the midst of a crisis after being badly hit by the coronavirus pandemic a government rescue package is planned but not have been approved by shelters. schools and colleges in france have completely reopened after months of coronavirus lockdown gradual reopening began in may but strict limits on class size meant that many pupils were only attending part time now open calls are allowed back in. place in france have clashed with festival goers at the fettle of music in paris hundreds of people gathered in the streets ignoring social distancing restrictions

several arrests were made and one police officer was injured. german chancellor angela merkel is described as a whore and an outbreak of violence in the southern city of stuttgart at the weekend in the early hours of sunday some $500.00 rioters attacked police offices and looted shops 6 police lost control for several hours at least 19 officers were injured and $24.00 people were arrested germany's interior minister whole 05 been visiting the site of the rampage thanks police for their work and said the perpetrators would be punished. now our correspondent is standing by for us in the back i want to german minister of the interior horses a whole for i have to say today. well he said that the clashes that erupted this weekend were an alarm signal for the rule of law in

germany very very clear words from interior minister of course they hope he also vowed severe punishment for those who were involved saying that higher legal consequences such as such as these these these punishment these charges would help to deter such acts from happening again in the future his his presence here in the city of st got today was definitely intended to send a signal that the german government the federal government stands behind the police force here in germany and will not tolerate violence against the police but the police describe the rioters had as being part of a so-called policies see what is that supposed to mean. it's an excellent question it's a really interesting term and an interesting way to describe it so what we know about the group that was involved or believed to be involved. in the clashes is that they tend to be you they were all young people in their in their late teens

early twenty's who typically gather in one of the central parks downtown in stuttgart and meet up when smaller groups with friends for for a night of fun so this is not necessarily an organized group per se it's more of a collection of of smaller groups that now that coronavirus lockdown restriction measures of lifted can now once again meet openly in public again and there's usually quite a bit of drinking that goes on as well as some alleged drug use to. arrests expected. certainly i think that we can definitely anticipate more arrests coming over the next couple of weeks so far 24 people have been arrested for due due to the clashes over the weekend but up to 500 people are believed to have been involved police are going to be looking through the evidence from the shops and other another locations back suffered damage to try and gather

evidence and to trying to determine the identities of the people who were involved now they're going to face an uphill battle with that a lot of the people who were out last out on saturday were wearing masks were covering their faces and it was dark so investigations are definitely going to take some time but we will definitely be seeing more arrests in the future. reporting from stuttgart thank you. this missing funds that embattled german payment provide why a cod has taken another twist the company now says that 1900000000 euros reported missing from its accounts may never have existed at all the mystery of the mythical money has led to a frantic sell off of the stock of germany's new economy posted. it was once a rising star in the financial startup world now why are card has fallen hard when

it burst on to the dax germany's blue chip index and 2018 investors were bullish on its business model it's one where wire card sets up contracts between retailers credit card issuers banks and online payment systems like pay pal saving retailers time and money. but fraud allegations and questions over its accounting practices dog the company for 18 months it came to a head on thursday wire card said auditor's could not trace 1900000000 euro is reflected in its balance sheet the funds were supposed to have been in 2 philippine banks but on sunday the philippine central bank said the money never entered the country's financial system. the disappearing money scandal has already cost c.e.o. marcus brown his job in on monday a fresh admission a statement from wire card saying that it is likely that the missing 1900000000

euros don't really exist. that some accounts for a quarter of its total balance sheet wired card is facing a cash crunch and says it's in talks with creditors to continue financing its survival but time could be running out for the company once toted the future of german finance. for more on the missing billions let's talk saw financial correspondent chose to delay the end from food sales the how does almost 2000000000 euros go missing without anyone noticing all the mystery around why or carts finances it's deepening by the hour there's still a lot of questions definitely more questions than answers but where cart is obviously as the report stated been really hit by allegations for several months now that it's overseas this isn't particular were reporting fake payments so a lot of it they were there a lot of it's payments were being linked back to these companies that didn't seem to exist and where the 2000000000 euros comes into play is that the cash generated

by those overseas business is with us to be put into the strategy account so now it looks like that the business a 3rd party official didn't exist and neither does the cash so this is obviously just making people question what israel about wire card at this point so let me thank you. more than 2000 people to turned out to end the madrid on sunday to demand the return of bullfighting across spain the controversial sport has been canceled since lockdowns began on march 13th but now supporters are calling on politicians and organizers to restart events or at the very least to offer financial support to what they consider to be part of spain's cultural and artistic heritage it's estimated the lockdown as cost the sport more than 5000000 euros. this is the news here's a reminder of all top stories at this hour concern is growing in germany after more than 1300 people tested positive for corona virus out of. the facility has been

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