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leaders want from china as trade talks resume today will china move closer towards what brussels wants. i'm going to welcome to the program alarm bells are ringing here in germany after more than 1300 people tested positive for corona virus at a meat packing plant thousands of people have been quarantined in the western city of bhutto's law to try to prevent the disease from spreading further leaders in the state of north rhine-westphalia say 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 today but there are indications that the plants 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 and 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 tanya says one of germany's biggest meat processing companies its clients include german supermarket giants algae and. the mass outbreak has sparked protests and heated debate about working conditions at plants we 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 of tanya'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 lost it on the defensive he has now signaled he's considering a larger quarantine in the area to control the outbreak. yourself this can be found at this specific company but we still cannot rule out a wider lockdown. look down the moment. the plants coal owner has promised to take full responsibility for the outbreak but confidence is dwindling and 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. tell us about conditions for these thousands of workers now important to.

the quarantine here is quite strict as you can see behind me there's a fence here with no entrance there where 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 delivery of food and water that came from turning a slaughterhouse to the people living here once that was over the gate was closed back up and you know people are are 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 authorities imposed a wider 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. 10 years 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 attorney 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 and the turn is 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 the whole institute pointed packing plant outbreak as a big driver of the country's virus with production number which has now shot up to nearly 2.9 we asked our political correspondent nina if that's prompting a rethink in the german government's strategy for. 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 and he 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 there also the health ministry in 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 then spawn has also said that the bundesliga parliament should evaluate the process of coronavirus strategy and that is you know reporting now let's bring you up to speed 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 north and south america account for more than half of them in brazil the corona virus has killed more than 50000 people hundreds of demonstrators turned out to protest brazil's president also now and his handling of the crisis while many others showed that support for him in the nation's death toll from

covert 19 has risen to 2500 the highest in the southeast asia and india has recorded 445 new deaths in 24 hours its biggest single day increase to date. and are some of the other stories making headlines around the world this hour embattled german film tech company wire cart says the 1900000000 euros reported missing from its accounts may simply not exist to philippine banks supposedly holding the moneys that had never been their client shares of why a cart of seeing a frantic sell off the c.e.o. has resigned. is leaving the german blue chip index ducks today which lists lists germany's 30 biggest companies the airline is in the midst of a crisis of the being badly hit by the coronavirus pandemic a government rescue package is planned but has not yet been approved by shareholders. 24 people were arrested and 19 police injured

in rioting and looting in the southern german city of still cars on saturday night regional authorities say there were taken aback by this girl and for all city of the violence. 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 are 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. if to deliver and i am trying to and iron out in which we keep working with china on important matters like an investment treaty progress on climate change and our commander in africa but also on questions of the route of flour human rights and the future of on cards that. 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 just 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 the doctor 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 the consequences over these breaches of human rights otherwise they're just not standing up for their own values properly so more of that in their kind of super at the moment making this a very very difficult set of talks to hold it sounds very difficult while 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 much fanfare with all $27.00 european leaders in germany this september that is being put on ice supposedly blaming the corona pandemic but of course all of those factors certainly at play here the european side would say 2 things 1st will 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 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 we love you chief international editor richard

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