this is the the news live from berlin more than half a 1000000 germans back on the mass testing begins in western german town is linked to a new coronavirus outbreak new restrictions that lead to clashes with some residents mocked behind wire fences and the police called in to enforce the rule also on the program german pharmaceutical giant of the buyer agrees to pay its nearly $11000000000.00 to settle a massive u.s. lawsuit tens of thousands of people say the company's popular roundup caused their cancerous.

i'm phil gal welcome to the program or thors is in germany's western state of north rhine-westphalia conducting mass coronavirus testing and have reimposed local lockdowns following the regional outbreak of coverage 19 the restrictions apply to hundreds of thousands of people in the districts of veyron to often go to slow and follow a major spike in infections at a meat processing plant. but now other and other german cities are also facing outbreaks as the summer travel season gets underway. this is what it looks like when the coronavirus restrictions are back long lines have formed outside the testing facilities in the district of b. to slow the new restrictions here and in neighboring found off took effect at midnight. the mass testing follows a huge coronavirus outbreak at tony's slaughterhouse where more than 1500 workers

have contracted hiv 19 now some 600000 people are affected by the restrictions that are in place until next week at least. i want to get tested and do my bit to help find out whether we're all infected hearing or not. but we want to travel to bavaria on saturday and the condition is to present a negative coronavirus test gold today. in s.c.f. was in a testing site everybody is expecting the worst here because of what happened at the turn a slaughterhouse where every day more tests were done more positive results so when we're dealing with a virus everybody seems to be insecure especially other states in germany who want to prevent the virus from coming to their state so they don't have to go through what north rhine-westphalia went through indeed with some a vacation about to begin officials in popular destinations like bavaria say good

as new residents are not welcome and lest they show proof of testing negative for the virus neighboring austria has gone even further targeting germany's most populous state. neighbor germany with its state of north and this failure has shown how quickly the situation can turn dramatically so we were there for forced to issue a level 5 travel warning for the state and what we hope of course that the situation there will quickly improve and that there won't be a further spread across germany. overall numbers are still low in germany but the latest local outbreaks of causing concern the meat processing industry in particular is under pressure employees living conditions are being blamed for the spread of the virus 23 workers have tested positive at the reason health plant gemini's biggest poultry plant where

mass testing of every 1000 workers got underway today. heading shilled says mare of the city of go to snow which is home to about a 1000 of the meat factory workers and decide to go back into lockdown welcome to the w how were you feeling after this news. was a feeling for somewhere between anger sadness and exhaustion and at the moment we are really giving the most human power we can we can put in to solve the situation and go why. well. i mean all the inhabitants of of my city. they are not in lockdown and you know the summer holidays are starting in one day and after months of a lockdown across a crisis everybody wanted to go out you know if you go to the scene to travel

maybe in europe but the definitely in germany so it's really hard for them now or the time to come back to a lockdown i say and who are you angry with. well angry was accompanied of turn yes and angry with the system behind of it and grease the system of sops up some contractors which is totally i'm interested in transparent. so did you have doubts about the way the factory was sort of being run before or indeed how hygiene measures were being enforced. well for the city administration of my feet if not the tarp to protect the company for example of all hygenic items but well i think we have a general problem in the system how the workers the meat workers how they live and how they work and so a general problem in the system. ok this is

a plant that is next to your city this is a plant that provides employment opportunities to people in your city so as mayor of that city did you have a sort of look at this this turn your plans and think thought should that's wrong that should change yeah. yeah well you know if you look through the system so there's one point the company is run in the city next to my city so all of the text is coming to the other city but in my city there are more than a 1000 people living here and working here so we have the social task to take care of all of the children about the families to provide them with kinda go with schools and so on and we don't get to europe for that so that's a problem in general and now we have. read the big task to check 250 flats and housing's to check her so if they currently. it's ok if they need food and whatever so it's a really really big task and we found really our now how in transparent the system

is so we haven't known before that we have more than 250 places where the people if you go but i really have to say it's not only a problem in the meat industry we have the system of startups up contractors all over europe you know picking flowers and fruit or whatever to say about me is it time to work as long we drive with and we have to we have to change this thank you so much for joining us they're having shots a mare of goods as a thank you you're welcome. and the german pharmaceutical giant a bear has agreed to pay maybe $11000000000.00 to settle a us lawsuit over it so we kill or roundup the settlement covers tens of thousands of play tiffs who claim that widely used pesticides gave them cancer bad has insisted that we kill is safe when used correctly and says it will continue to sell the product without a warning on the side on the label. around $50000.00 cancer stricken claimants will share some $9600000000.00 with

a further $1200000000.00 to be held in reserve to cover any further claims by a district in agreement to end the financial nightmare which began with its purchase of us crop science giant monsanto a takeover this is proven very costly. 2 months after the acquisition in 2018 by a landed in court as the new owner a man who'd used monsanto's herbicide roundup or contracted cancer he accused the company of downplaying the weed killers risks a string of cases followed with by a losing one after the other round up with its active ingredient life as it is normally used in agriculture but monsanto also promoted its best seller as a weed killer for garden sports fields and parks as well. herbicide has never been classified as carcinogenic by the u.s. environmental protection agency e.p.a. and that was the main pillar of bias defense but judges and juries consistently saw

it differently buyers knew subsidiary was threatening to topple it into bankruptcy the german company's shares have plummeted since the takeover in march this year buyer's market capitalization had been hard. major shareholders were piling on the pressure to get the problem sorted fast the 10800000000 dollars settlement may help to do that meanwhile buyer and u.s. regulators still insist that roundup does not cause cancer when used correctly and on monday the california court ruled that roundups instruction leaflet does not have to carry a warning that it could cause cancer. how effective has the media been in covering the coronavirus pandemic this is the focus of d.w. global maybe a for which begins today in a moment you'll hear from an investigative journalist about how he views his role in covering this crisis 1st here's a closer look at how some of the world's most powerful leaders sought to distort media coverage for their own advantage. a country overwhelmed by the coronavirus

brazil struggles to cope with what has become the 2nd highest number of covert deaths in the world. but even the more than 50000 deceased haven't stopped populus president. from slamming lockdown measures flouting social distancing and refusing to wear a mask he has repeatedly attacked the media. with the press listening here i can't be comfortable you understand what i'm doing and what i'm not doing if the press were honest i would have no problem speaking to reporters but they are dishonest. several prominent brazilian news organizations have seized reporting from outside of the presidential palace after facing insults and threats from both sonora supporters. the coronavirus has also fueled populism in the u.s. the country currently leading the covert death count president trump accuses the

opposition and the press of misrepresenting his handling of the crisis and china's role in the outbreak. you don't hear them talking about covert covert to be specific covert 19. that then gets further and further away from china as opposed to calling it the chinese virus in india muslims are a frequent target of president modise divisive brand of politics the latest attack came when a mosque became a covert 1000 hot spot members of modi's nationalist b j p party accused local muslims of deliberately spreading the virus you're going to india would have been free of coronavirus by now but these people have acted like suicide bombers these bombers should face the strictest possible legal actions they should be punished in a way that generations to follow will be too afraid to commit such crimes committed here. courses. through the uncertainty of the pandemic many citizens are looking to

their governments for guidance but in some hotspots where the virus has surged so have polarising views discrimination and attacks on the free press. karim is an investigative journalist who's moderating some of the panels out this year as a virtual d.w. global media forum which is looking at the role of reporters during the global health emergency welcome house to weaponize ing of the pandemic by populace leaders affected journalists ability to do their job. when i when i saw the report now it it makes you somehow angry because we as journalists already have hard conditions the way we work and when we try to investigate and to travel the word now with people and presidents attacking us in this way it's just worsening the conditions we are working in and you know our security and our credibility and

this all means we have to work more we have to have much more energy we have to convince to people to talk to them because even here in germany when you when you want to report you hear the phrase you could put it which is like the liars or you are not telling the truth i'm going i'm in the middle east you're here it's also said this all the whole atmosphere against journalists is just worsening the conditions for us to work and it's simply about security on both credibility but we have to mention that being a journalists is a right to freedom of speech is a human right and debts why we have to continue working and doing our job so another effect of the pond maker has been advertising revenue hog and a short hop as ising revenue most media outlets depend on that do you think media can recover from this deafening come. that's a very hard question and it's i think it's too early to answer where to with the

depend demick and i think i think we have to look for new ways of doing journalism i think that digital journalism would get more and more importance we have to reinvent some structures in journalism but to answer this question now i would say it's too early there are challenges when you talk to journalists you know that there are challenges when you especially when you talk to freelance journalists you know that they are not being able to work as they used to before there's not a lot of work but it's too early to to answer the whole question give us give us some time right don't contain thank you so much. that's it for now i'll be back at the top of the hour with the latest oh world to news in the meantime of course there's always the web site today w dot com and to twitter and instagram as well at d

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