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this is the news live from grows over the brazilian government's handling of the corona virus pandemic the country's death toll is now more than 50020 blank. also on the program. it's a surprise to stammer mass corona virus outbreak that's more than $1500.00 slaughterhouses workers test positive a calls are growing for the meat packing plants onus to be held liable for failing to enforce physical distancing. on the german. t.v. deal points to a different the sports rights market will have the latest on the 1st big sports
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forecasting contract to be sold since a pandemic. welcome to the program brazil says more than 50000 people have not died from covered 19 well in a 1000000 been infected with the coronavirus making brazil the 2nd worst hit country after the united states president dr paul sinatra has repeatedly downplayed the disease saying the fallout from economic shutdown would be worse than the virus itself but as the death toll rises many presented by what they see as his failed response. thank you both so narrow out there rallying cry at this pro-democracy protests in brazil the capital brasilia tensions have been rising in recent months as the coronavirus
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pandemic has worsened and right wing presidential your boss has repeatedly downplayed the health crisis here they're calling for his impeachment. but that we are here in defense of democracy and asking for a ball so now it's only this president will use up the people's power and is committing atrocities he does not deserve to govern our country. by over 50000 deaths more than a 1000000 confirmed cases brazil is currently the number 2 hot spot in the world health crisis some experts say the real number of cases is higher because many are missed through a lack of testing and in addition to the government's poor response to the virus brazil is a patient with preexisting conditions. coronavirus pandemic has left brazil naked in front of the world it has exposed all our social
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inequalities historical social injustices and the incompetence of public authorities it is the responsibility of those who have governed the country in recent years there is no way to associate these figures with the behavior of the president of the republic. book but if you think the people according to the ngo doctors without borders nurses in brazil are dying of covert $900.00 faster than any other country in the world almost $100.00 per month since brazil confirmed its 1st case of the novel coronavirus at the end of february 2 health ministers have left office following clashes with the president one was fired or the other quits after just 4 weeks currently the government has no power. and health minister. but clearly the president still has a lot of support even though according to the w.h.o. brazil had at its more than $54000.00 cases in the previous 24 hours.
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well straight to brazil then a correspondent joins us from rio de janiero who are welcome to the program but how does a president skepticism affected life with the pandemic that what's happening with lockdowns and physical distancing. person are always wanted people to get back to work and to get back to on streets and we can see it now people do wear masks here in the region near oh this is an issue which they really do but on the other hand and their last days last week they started to get back on streets they gather they got to got together at the sea front people were here there in groups of sometimes up to 10200 people there gathering so this is really an issue that while the numbers of victims are still rising people get back to normal life because the local governors did open shopping centers and did let the football matches restart so there is
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a lot of yeah people don't know who to trust and what to do when many of the brazilians here in rio especially they go back to normal life which could worsen the crisis ok so the economy is opening a tell us explain to us why there's so little testing for the virus in brazil. yeah the public administration here in brazil is generally weak and also they managed to the put shay's and not an adequate way they put shay's tests and other instruments like lungren to later us from china and other countries some of these lungren to later arrived here into a conditions that they didn't work exactly so they could not be used and so there is not a really good public administration here in brazil managing this crisis and they didn't manage to have enough tests especially in the public system of
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a public health system so furthermore we can see also corruption schemes the governors here in rio janeiro and in the north and state of parra they're facing investigations by the police. of corruption see schemes so there's really a lot of trouble in the administration and the management of the crisis here in brazil but the president's dismissal of covered my team is based on his concerns for the economy does he have much support. the president still has support of 30 percent of the population who are willing to go back to normal life and he has the support of parts of the economy of the militaries who are big part of his government so he has still some support but his government is weaker than before in terms of working conditions the health ministry is still without a minister there is an interim minister about he's no doctor so experts are really concerned about the management of the health sector inzaghi in the government. but
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thank you so much. as i look at some more developments in this pandemic then the world health organization says the worldwide number of coronavirus cases has topped 9000000 following a wreck or do one day increase north and south america account for more than half of new cases health authorities in south korea say they're seeing a 2nd wave of infections around the capital seoul driven by a number of small but persistent outbreaks and indonesia's cough in 1000 death toll has risen to 2500th of the highest in southeast asia and india has recorded 445 new deaths in 24 hours its biggest single day increase today. well germany's meat packing industry is facing strong criticism from the government after more than $1500.00 people tested positive for corona virus at a meat processing plant in the west of the country thousands of mostly romania and
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bulgaria workers have not been quarantined in the city of guta slow state leaders say they may have to really pose a why the laca. 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 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 and employ you 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 heated debate about
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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 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 lush it's on the defensive he has now signalled he's considering a larger quarantine in the area to control the outbreak. just yourself this can be found at this specific company but we still cannot rule out a wider lockdown you 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 team many blame for what has
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become a major crisis. or to see. it from the side here in the region of goods as low as 30 s. are using targeted quarantining to avoid a regional lockdown that's why residents on this side of the street are free to come and go as they please while over here they're living under total lockdown now these buildings house several 100 migrant workers mostly from romania and bulgaria who work for the slaughterhouse turn yes and now they are behind a fence with no entrance only police and health care workers come and go health care workers are going door to door to try to test everyone for cobra 19 but society here was divided long before this fence went up and that's because a lot of the residents here many from romania have little to no contact with their german neighbors and biologists say that this segregation could have contributed to
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the outbreak that's because the workers are working 10 to 12 hours a day in a factory and coming back to these cramped living conditions and now the victim of an outbreak in their community they're isolated more than ever before. i mean as if reporting now will take a look at some of the of news are around the world residents of a village on iraq's northern border a fleeing turkish military operations against kurdish rebels or than a dozen families in the town of say there been days of airstrikes and shelling iraq has called on turkey to stop what it says are provocative acts within its borders the 1st private vehicle has crossed the new gen a bridge in its way it follows a year and a half of construction work following a deadly collapse in 2018 that killed 43 people. more than 200 migrants rescued off the libyan coast last week and disembarked in sicily italian
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courts have been closed since april because of the coronavirus pandemic so the people on board spent 2 weeks quarantined aboard a ship off the coast. and archaeologists in the u.k. say they've discovered a major prehistoric underground monument near stonehenge the site contains huge shafts forming a circle more than 2 kilometers across which is believed to have been dug more than for a 4000 years ago researchers hope the fight will shed new light on the origins of stonehenge itself. and the german football league the d.f.l. has accepted a lower price from domestic broadcasters for the rights to screen the bundesliga from 2021 top 2 leagues will $16000000.00 euros less for season. how much is football worth post pandemic or rather how much are broadcasters willing to pay for their cash makes up the majority of the budget for the $36.00
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clubs competing in the bundesliga and bundesliga 21100000000 euros will be divided up between them every season those are the terms of the new deal starting in 2021 and lasting 4 seasons equal with us again this is i believe that this is a good result considering the times but even outside of this context the so i thought it was one that gives the league security until 2025 and i am certain that this deal we have reached will stand up to all other deals from other leagues in the coming one or 2 years that's he said give this me and say listen. it's the 1st time in almost 20 years that the bundesliga parent company couldn't secure a rise in t.v. money but that's largely due to covert $19.00 with empty stadia no atmosphere and no clear end in sight for the restrictions placed on football matches. the
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entire system surrounding football will change following the coronavirus pandemic in one such area of change will be the financial conditions they will be adjusted downwards in all aspects. in i don't belong. for german fans who currently can't watch their teams live in the grounds not much else will change the matches will continue to be available albeit without their vocal support in the stands. a famous spanish opera house has reopened after months of being closed with a special concert for plants also known as adler lisieux a concert for celebrated the end of spain's state of emergency the piece called the command the chrysanthemums event was the idea conceptual artist who said he'd used to lock down get in touch with nature as a capacity crowd more than 2000 plants but not required to observe physical distance.
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