this is news coming to you live from berlin more than half a 1000000 germans back under lockdown the restrictions target parts of western germany after a threat of our south break at a slaughterhouse locals blame the push for cheap meat products at the expense of workers health also coming up russia marks a special victory day with a display of military muscle pushing aside pandemic concerns that have delayed the parade last month we look at what tomorrow's term limit has to do with today's celebration.

flow i'm terry martin good to have you with us germany faces its largest corona virus outbreak since the country started easing restrictions in april around 640000 people are now back under lockdown after more than 1500 workers at a german slaughterhouse tested positive authorities in germany's most densely populated states north rhine-westphalia reimposed restrictions in ghouta slow and foreign dolph residents blame the meat industry bosses for placing profit above public health. no one baradar far back under coronavirus restriction. until the end of june residents can only have contact with their own households schools pubs cafes museums and gyms will close again.

we will now for the 1st time in germany return the whole region to the lock down the ashes that were in place a few weeks ago. before. the decision came after a massive corona virus outbreak at the 2 nears slaughter highs where more than 1500 workers have tested positive for cope with 19 dire living conditions are being blamed for the quick spread. the specific situation with the geographical spread of the locations and also the international nature of the tenuous work force mean that this outbreak is a potentially enormous pandemic risk similar clusters have also sprung up it has in blocks elsewhere in germany and getting in clashes broke out between quarantined residents and police. berlin's noid current district is also being affected.

those hot spots of course despite the new infections in germany overall the number of new cases remains low the robot cough institute for public health says it's essential to remain vigilant. 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. elsewhere in germany the slow return to normality can be deceptive with most of the country enjoying the summer weather but the new localized restrictions are reminder that the cold with 19 pandemic is far from over with a bumpy ride ahead. a reporter i mean f. is in that region where new lockdown measures have been put in place earlier i asked him how the community is dealing with restrictions the lockdown is in full force and due to slow and violent or if districts pools playgrounds fitness rooms

did not open this morning many people did not go to work bars will not open later tonight now there are no travel restrictions at the moment and this is important because summer vacation is starting next week many people had vacations planned and stayed from your arm and i should say that these people can still go on vacation you seem to contradict himself however when he also advised people from these districts under lockdown to stay home if at all possible well obviously this is a localized break but it's captured the whole country's attention how are people reacting. well let's go back to this question of vacation because a lot of germans vacation with in germany already 2 states. very and mecklenburg western pomerania have been travelers from the districts that are under lockdown due to low involvement or by saying that they can't stay at hotels there and telling them they have to go back to their districts now are the last of these the state premier of north rhine-westphalia here he warned other states not to

stigmatize people from low and bought into it he said that there are virtually no cases within those districts outside of the meat industry and most of those people are all of those people hopefully are in quarantine already so we said please do not stigmatize people traveling outside of my state at the same time health ministers are going to get together to decide on a unified plan for going forward because it seems that around germany people are afraid of a 2nd i'll break. all talking about other breaks understand there's a similar if smaller break underway now at a poultry plant also in the north east of germany in northwestern germany rather can you tell us more about. that's right invidious housing that's a separate state to the northwest of here $23.00 workers at a poultry slaughterhouse have tested positive for

a corona virus and that's just out of 50 tests that were done now many of these people that were tested were showing symptoms or they were on shift was one person who tested positive so 23 out of 50 is not a good number they're going to test everybody at the factory and put anybody who came in contact with these people in quarantine it seems though that the business is going forward they're still slaughtering turkeys there and i have to remind you that this was the story at the beginning of the outbreak at the turn is a slaughterhouse in this region where in the beginning there was a few cases they said they had it under control they were testing everybody and after just one week 1500 people tested positive so a lot of anxiety around the meat industry right now in germany i mean thank you very much for bringing us up to date that was. there are some other developments in the pandemic deaths in latin america and the caribbean now exceed 100000

australia has recorded its 1st virus related fatality in a month after an 80 year old man died in the state of toria the e.u. may ban travelers from the u.s. brazil and russia when it reopens its external borders according to the new york times and tokyo says it expects a large number of new cases after a virus cluster was discovered in an office building. you know the states are seeing a new surge of corona virus infections across large parts of the country that's according to the top u.s. infectious disease expert who says the next 2 weeks will be critical to the country's ability to manage the new cases as warning comes as political polarization competes for attention with public health recommendation. us president donald trump was back on stage on wednesday eager to secure the support of voters in arizona no topic was taboo even if it included racist slurs it's got all different names. hans was catching on.

coronavirus right. by calling for the. covert 19 is now infected more than 2300000 people in the u.s. and killed more than 120000 trump said the numbers were the result of the testing we're testing show much we're now up to 27500000 tests and when you have all those test you have more cases so the discovers that they have more care users we want to do testing they want to do everything but they use it to make us look bad he was speaking as our zona texas and nevada set single day records for new cases on tuesday while other states including louisiana and south carolina have also reported barring surges senior health officials have confirmed widespread testing will continue. but so my knowledge none of us have ever been told to slow down on

testing that just is a fact in fact we will be doing more testing as you've heard from admiral gerar not only testing to specifically identify people in the identify isolating contact trace but also much more surveillance state governments have also begun to ramp up other precautions washington will soon join. several states including california in requiring people to wear facial coverings in public as the economy reopens but testing remains a primary defense against the virus with u.s. experts saying the current number of tests would need to be doubled to control the spread. so you look now at some other stories making headlines around the world today french pharmaceutical companies hanafi expects approval for a coded $900.00 vaccine in the 1st half of next year so if these program is one of dozens sprinting to deliver a vaccine to help end the coronavirus pandemic. heavy rains have triggered floods

and landslides in parts of eastern and central china more than $200.00 hectares of farmland and hundreds of houses were flooded in eastern on hwy province in central hunan province the rains breached dams and displaced some 60000 people a massive cloud of dust from the sahara desert is blanketing the caribbean where such a high density of dust hasn't been seen in half a century health experts warn the dust could exacerbate respiratory conditions including covered 19 and or telling people to stay indoors. russian president vladimir putin says the world owes the former soviet union a debt of gratitude for its contribution to the defeat of nazi germany in world war 2 he was speaking at a major military parade in moscow marking 75 years since the end of the war the parade was originally scheduled for may 9th but was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic the kremlin dismissed criticism that it's irresponsible to go

ahead with it now saying infections in moscow or declining. will do they will use only sure one is selling by force goes red square where the parade is to has just finished evilly why did president putin decide to go ahead with this parade now despite the risk to public health. well terry on the one hand of course this is the 75th anniversary of the soviet victory during world war 2 so that's really an important date for russians and for vladimir putin as well but of course there's also more political dimension here a more national dimension as well because this parade took place just ahead of a vote that is starting tomorrow on constitutional amendments that could keep the mere putin himself in power for another 2 terms so until 2036 and

critics have been saying that this parade is really strategically timed and that it's an attempt to kind of create a patriotic mood here in russia ahead of that vote. 2 people. really think the idea of holding a massive event during the pendant. well the people that i've been speaking to here in moscow said that some people said that they were worried because after all there are thousands of new cases in russia even though the cases in moscow are going down as the author already said as you mentioned but people are still worried about the fact that people could come up could have come out and watch the parade here on the streets of moscow but many people also talked about the fact that victory day and the memory of what is known here as the great patriotic war that's really as they said sacred to them and many people talked

about the fact that their grandparents fought in the war or helped the war effort and really every family in russia has stories like that because after all an estimated $27000000.00 soviet citizens were killed during the war effort so it's really a hugely emotional topic and putin today during his speech talked about that as well and he talked about the huge huge weight that the soviet people had to carry during world war 2. were being taken then to assure the parade didn't spark a new coronavirus hotspot. well. you know we saw today 14000 troops marching across red square artillery tanks and so on and there were people in the stands watching as well so it's very clear that that was

a risk that there were some safety precautions in place for example in rehearsals ahead of the parade of that parade that i saw going through the city the soldiers were wearing masks it was said that there temperatures were taken regularly ahead of the parade through ensure that they didn't have the coronavirus the veterans in the stands in the stands watching they were kind of placed at a distance from each other socially distant watching this parade but of course it's a risk with cases here are rising every day and it's a risk i guess that the kremlin is willing to take at the moment. emily thank you very much that was the only sure one in moscow. those afraid of heights might want to look away you know as we bring you some of the death defying feats of swiss friend the no and his troupe the 55 year old

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