this is the w. news live from berlin lockdown restrictions are reimposed in an area of germany after a surge in cases at a slaughterhouse in the west of the country daily 400000 people are affected by the measures local leaders say police will use force if locals refused to comply. also coming up the world's number one tennis player novak djokovic has tested positive for colbert 19 news forced criticism of the players' decision to host a tennis tournament during the pandemic. also coming up it's not a laughing matter in hong kong the suspension of a popular satirical t.v.

show is fueling fears of a creeping clampdown as china has passed to impose its new law targeting dissent. plus a heat wave hits siberia but the frolic is misleading the higher temperatures in the arctic circle are also causing forest fires. as welcome to the program authorities in germany have ordered a new lockdown in an area in the west of the country the decision was made after a surge in corona virus cases at a meat packing plant in the state of north rhine-westphalia authorities in and around the town of head of eden burke are hoping the measures now in effect will prevent the virus from spreading further. many 400000 people are affected by the restrictions the new outbreak is the biggest since the company began listing the

lockdown last month. the tiny district of good to slow is back under coronavirus restrictions until the end of june residents in the western german district can only have contact with their own household just weeks after restrictions were eased schools popes cafes museums and gyms will all close again. we will now for the 1st time in germany return the whole region to the locked on the ashes that were in place a few weeks ago. before. the decision came after more than 1500 workers attorney a slaughterhouse tested positive for 19 die a living conditions are being blamed for the quick spread employees living here moved out just 2 weeks ago. the specific situation with the geographical spread of the locations and also the international nature of the

tenuous workforce mean that this outbreak is a potentially enormous pandemic risk similar cluster infections have also sprung up in housing blocks and getting in in central germany clashes broke out between quarantined residents and police. district has also been affected confining society's most vulnerable to cramped living spaces as a result of the hot spots have caused the reproduction rate in germany to skyrocket to 2.76 but while the overall number of new cases remains low the robot cock institute for public health concern is limited. in our country and if we give the chance to spread the news we take this opportunity which we can see in the current outbreaks from. elsewhere in germany the slow return to normalcy committee saving with most of the country enjoying the summer weather but the lock down in good to slow is a reminder that the cave in 1900 is far from over with

a bumpy ride still ahead. does this update. now that the lockdown has been once again and now it's here in the region around good to slow because of the outbreak at the tunas factory the mood here has really sunk in people tell us that they're worried that they're going to go have to go back into lockdown after being free to go about their business for a while and they put the blame on turn yes they said that this should have been handled better so that they didn't have to give up their freedoms and really don't know what's going to happen in the next weeks and maybe even months. i'm reporting from the lockdown area of law and our political correspondent you know is following the story from berlin here firstly can you tell us more about what exactly this district level lockdown means for the people in that region huge well it

essentially means that an entire district is under lockdown that is the fast in germany it is affecting some 360000 people people can no longer go to gyms cinemas museums galleries everything is closed again cultural events canceled people can essentially only mingle with members of their own households can't go to pubs they counted picnics obama queues outside and of course they say life is going to go back to how life was back in spring when the numbers were really high we spoke to a couple of people in the affected region of just a little let's listen. of course this is the right course of action but it's a scandal that mr turner yes would allow this rubbish to happen it could have been stopped sooner yeah. it's interesting we were slowly starting to loosen up and now we're having to backtrack because of the. let's call

them circumstances it's counterproductive for the whole industry but the people in charge those responsible could have handled this differently it's a shame yes. chat of. us has made fools of us who claims to have tested a staff and told the public that only 2 workers were infected and that was not true and the whole thing with the address is also a scandal in my personal opinion i just want to stop so he could get rid of illegal and off the books workers that are you. good. some ask criticism from the local people. enforce the stricter measures well this time around they can't count on the population simply it hearing to the measures i think that is the underlying message here that i mean law said the

regional leader of north rhine-westphalia has already sent out to the population and he said that hundreds of police officers will be sent to that district to make sure that people actually do stick to the new restrictions that have been really imposed and that quarantine measures aren't here to and that the testing units can actually carry out the mass testing that is required for the authorities to eventually be able to lift those it's been restricted again which is public health agency. press conference today listening to that is there a danger of a 2nd pandemic wave in germany. this is not the only local outbreak that we've seen and in the last week. actually we've we've got about 2 or 3 places in germany where we've seen a new peak in numbers overall there has been a steady decline in infection numbers since spring when the restrictions were

imposed and germany has fat pretty well with this overall strategy of giving a lot of responsibility and flexibility to the regions to deal with the outbreaks but now we have seen those mass outbreaks in 2 or 3 places and the president of the public health agency said that there is a risk of a 2nd wave here in germany but that he is optimistic that that can be prevented if people stick to those measures that are still in place where mosques when you travel on public transport and go shopping adhere to hygiene measures keep your distance etc but of course it is a big challenge for the authorities to reduce the numbers and have reduced numbers of coronavirus infections and at the same time keep a sense of urgency that the virus is still here you know how to thank you very much for this update. and even more breaking news this tennis star novak djokovic chasse tested positive for covert 19 news follows widespread criticism of the decision to

host a tennis tournament earlier this month that which a number of high profile players contracted the virus the 1st leg of the tour which took place in serbia attracted more than $4000.00 fans and ended with players dancing together in a nightclub. joining us now for more on this story is became bridget from w. sports it's all a bit bizarre is what exactly was this tournament and how was juggle it involved well this was a series of exhibition of events known as the adrian 2 and you say fronted by world number one novak djokovic now it was in 2 legs if you have just seen their 1st in belgrade and the 2nd in croatia is a very strange to have such a sort of diverse tennis tournament spread out across these countries during a global pandemic and we're just seeing the pictures right now that's not social distancing is it absolutely not no and. actually came out in self there was

a bit of a backlash and he said the point of this tournament was to unite people and share a message of solidarity and compassion in the area and all joking aside this message of solidarity wasn't the only thing shared of course at this tournament and now 3 players before joke of it came out having tested positive from coronavirus including grigor dimitrov a very big name in the tennis world and that's when they decided to cancel the final of the tournament just before the novak joke which was also tested positive maybe a bit too late for all the no war. aims behind this aside what was the reaction initially was very poor indeed as you can imagine it was widespread criticism after those 3 players tested positive andy murray of course he came out and said that lessons had to be learned from this also australian tennis player he called the whole thing a boneheaded decisions even host this tournament. and it was warranted i mean players were hugging after their matches they were dancing and nightclubs you just

mentioned earlier they also picture them playing basketball together so there was no social distancing it was ridiculous decision to host the tournament and we're seeing the results of that now. can we expect more. people to test the i would say we absolutely can i mean that some of the players are only just going to self isolation now one of the. players actually playing basketball in the pictures that were spread on social media with alexander sparrow of the german tennis player and i think in the coming days especially 4000 fans at the in attendance at 21 and all these players from all these different parts of the world converging to these 2 places together we're going to see a few more cases i would imagine a marriage from the sports thank you very much thank you for. time now to have a look at some of the other developments in the coronavirus pandemic prime minister boris johnson has unveiled a major easing of england's coronavirus lockdown saying the country has seen a decline in the number of new infections moscow is allowing restaurants gyms and

kindergartens to reopen in another phase of relaxing the city's restriction the number of south africa's coronavirus cases has passed 100000 the country makes up close to one 3rd of all recorded infections on the african continent and for the 1st time and 75 years well leaders will not be coming to the new york for the annual united nations general assembly the meeting will instead be conducted virtually with mostly pretty prerecorded speeches. hong kong's leader carrie lamb has tried to reassure residents over a controversial new security law said to be passed next week saying she will not hand picked judges to preside over cases critics are concerned the law being imposed by china will be used to target dissent and erode democracy in hong kong they say the suspension of a popular comedy show is a sign that the political climate is already changing. home reports.

just going up as a nonprofit to not hold hopefully they carry them in attendance a flattering palace music played a unit is empty hope one of the host of headline the oldest satirical show in the city. today the team is filming the final episode of the 31 year old program produced by arthur x k. hong kong's public broadcaster has always been bowed in his criticism of the turtle as top leader and now it's been suspended due to allegation of insulting the police . to someone so high headliner is an indicator of hong kong's liberties if it exists abuse the authorities are tolerant enough to accept discerned within public institutions. otherwise it makes clear how the climate has changed in my car . its closure has intensified concerned over hong kong's remaining freedoms especially when beijing is pushing for

a new security law for a city the law what and power hong kong's chief executive to designate judges to hear relevant cases state security agencies in hong kong but also exercise jurisdiction over a small number of special cases but as to how the law will criminalize the 1st and commercial where foreign forces know the tell has been made public so far. nevertheless my cost him a member of china's top legislature dismisses fear off speech crimes i was assured by the beijing leadership. would be drawn in a way that is balanced so in other words if an individual would just make a comment and won't constitute an offense if they repeat the same thing in a manner that would cause others to follow.

gauging. beliefs then it's a different matter. basically it's the united states and britain. in. the way. so see how also publishes commentaries on various platforms as well the media workers will be among the 1st to fall victim to the new law. the biggest threat is that beijing can draw the line arbitrarily it will send a chilling effect and exacerbate censorship the press will only be able to follow the official narrative anti-government movement. it's problematic to have a security law without democracy because there are no checks and balances to the authorities power. where the headliner will return to the screen will be subject to a review authorized by the government but as china's new security law looms over

the city i don't see how and many others are not optimistic. well they already if you actually did of your news still to come summer has come early in parts of siberia but while some are making the most of the unusually high temperatures others are being forced to deal with disasters the heat wave is unleashing on the arctic. but 1st a quick look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today north korea has reinstalled huge loudspeakers designed to blast propaganda across the border into south korea the sound systems were taking down after the 2 sides signed an accord in 2018 but tensions have risen dramatically in recent weeks. the former c.e.o. of german financial power phone wire card mark was brown has been granted bail for 5000000 euros after his arrest monday this after the company said it believed accounts thought to contain nearly 2000000000 euros probably did not exist shares

have dropped more than 80 percent. of. germany's flag carrier loved ones or is in dire straits the coronavirus fall or has brought one of the largest airlines of the world in to the brink of bankruptcy the german government wants to save lufthansa with a 9000000000 euro rescue package but not everyone is on board. the fate of germany's flagship carrier hangs in the balance it took weeks for love tons and the government to hammer out a 9000000000 euro rescue package but it could take just one man to jettison it. is the airline's largest shareholder he wants the package voted down he's especially unhappy about the proposed 20 percent government stake in the airline a summit on monday between the country's economy and finance ministers have tons of . failed to yield an agreement. unions are alarmed they're facing the prospect of

over $20000.00 job losses while they're ready to compromise with management on matters like wage cuts it won't be at any price as of tuesday lufthansa said it hadn't managed a deal with them yet but that it will continue efforts to reach one before shareholders meet on thursday the stage is set for a vote that will either seal of tons of bailed out or send hurdling towards bankruptcy proceedings. aviation experts. german government wants to save a lot. of cash to do that but the biggest shareholder as we heard the piece is against the deal why is that. i think the fear is the devaluation of his own investment due to this possible government involvement and there's rumor that he actually wants to take tons out to take all of the tons on the cheap himself

because he is apparently about $16000000000.00 u.s. dollars rich his personal fortune and there's talk that he might be willing to spend maybe up to $3000000000.00 euros on his own pocket of his own pocket to keep a low terms are running for a few months it instead of relying on the state subsidy of up to $9000000000.00 euros by the government but that would be certain in his mind if the government out so what that will turn it safe to a government rescue of law fatah is that a valid alternative that's a very good question because nobody knows what mr tito really intends to do apparently after this high level meeting yesterday in berlin and remain unclear he was interested in hearing all this but he kind of apparently he didn't get it communicated that way he's not giving up his position since really kind of suspense before thursday's exhausting every annual general meeting and business lee no no

plans in a way that we don't really know what will be happening so it's quite still quite exciting in a way and also a bit scary so what can we expect to happen if there is no deal before shareholder meeting on thursday is there anything else on the horizon. that is it is the fear that is no prearranged deal no because that would have been probably somehow communicated enough to guess this meeting so this several possible turn outs on thursday was the easiest for everybody basically of most of the treaties would be if this is a government state park it's going to be approved by there's no reason to miss a deal it about this is really not such at the moment so the several other scenario is the most level one is that most times that already told us to do that they were conferring with the government and that would kind of begin insolvency proceedings which might lessen or devalue the value of most shares of the assets of most sounds

or not so to enable of tons of probably to get rid of many expensive contracts for outcome policing off the pilot salaries so they will be really bad for the previews and it seems that mr tito might intend to kind of give more jobs if he takes over that the proposed 22002 already has a talk about the government. spirit aviation experts thank you. tom in siberia as we called it a record high temperature heat wave hits the region many local residents have welcomed the development but the unusual weather is also bringing serious problems . beach vibes in sight the area there where yes in the arctic circle is known for having the world's lightest temperature range used to some of the coldest winters on the planet locals welcomed the current heat wave

. the temperature is climbing up to 38 degrees celsius every day our family comes here to swim in the yana river. everything is great it's exactly what we need for summer though it's news in the us we didn't expect this at all we usually don't have heat until july. but to experts siberia's unseasonably high temperatures are cause for concern rising heat across the arctic has led to widespread wildfires in the soccer republic were very young is located local authorities say more than 275000 hectares are burning. the heat wave is also causing permafrost or permanently frozen soil to fall at a faster pace in late may the arctic saw one of its worst environmental disasters

in decades when a fuel reservoir collapsed near nor lisc spilling $21000.00 tons of diesel into local rivers and accident blamed in part on melting permafrost temperature records are being broken all around the world but scientists warn the arctic is warming much faster than anywhere else. all of countries in the euro gradually emerging from coronavirus lockdowns many this the nations are welcoming their 1st foreign visitors in months germany's capital berlin was a booming to its just a nation before the pandemic so what's it like now to tell you how to look around. for. we have floated 500 feet above germany's capital finally that is possible again the pandemics restrictions at least borders inside here have opened but high above we only find justin and vanesa from germany.

the linfield like a village you can get anywhere by bike and stand no crowds so you don't have to queue. where actually from a small town and comparing that to the only difference is that there are more things to see here. no traffic jams no crowds not even at one of the island's highlights the book gate most hotels and restaurants are welcoming guests again but many of them a business travelers and most of them germans they have to deal with coronavirus for strictures which remain in place like wearing a face mask. and saying i find it a little like so sting wearing the mask on the train it gets really hot on the knees so you always have to carry it around remember to bring it that's quite different. but otherwise german visitors seem to make the most

of their trip to the capital it is the lynas who are creating something. is feeding these these. these and visitors from abroad are missing everything that used to be more diverse and colorful as. we continue our hunt for international tourists at the site gallery where remains of the berlin wall still stand and we finally find one but with a story we didn't expect. you know there's a story i go to right when the whole thing around coronavirus started and because then no more flights back home progeny tina i'm still here 3 months later and i'm a boy already made. out of steam is lucky he is staying with a friend until touring across the globe is possible again something daniela another german traveller is missing too she would rather be sipping cocktails on the beach right now. i'm going to go mad if i can board

a plane abroad again this year but what can you do you have to make the most of it . helen is waiting for the rush of international globetrotters to return our trip to the cities hotspots has shown we need to be a little patient. this is the news here's a reminder of all top stories at this hour nearly 400000 people are being forced into a new lockdown of the german state of north rhine-westphalia it comes after more than 1500 people tested positive for the growing of arrows at a slaughterhouse near the city of just. has tested positive for covert 19. widespread criticism of the serbs decision to host a tennis tournament where a number of high profile players contracted the virus. that's it from me and the news team for now we'll have an update for you at the top of the

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