this is the news life of half a 1000000 germans back into lockdown mass testing begins in western german towns linked to a new corona virus outbreak new restrictions lead to clashes with some residents behind fences and the police called into the rooms also on the program german pharmaceutical giant the value agrees to pay a nearly $11000000000.00 to settle a massive u.s. lawsuit tens of thousands of people say the company. calls back ounces.

russia marks a belated the victory day anniversary with a display of memphis ignoring pandemic concerns we'll look at what tomorrow's public vote on constitutional reforms has to do with to day celebrations. i'm phil welcome to the program or 30 years in germany's western state of north rhine-westphalia a conducting mass coronavirus testing and have reimposed local lockdowns following a regional outbreak of cholera 19 the restrictions apply to hundreds of thousands of people in the districts of valid and often goods a slow and follow a major spike in infections at a meat processing plant 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 long lines have formed out. the testing facilities in the district of

go to settle the new restrictions here and in neighboring valen doff took effect at midnight the mass testing follows a huge corona virus outbreak at tunis slaughterhouse where more than 1500 workers have contracted kovac 19 now some 600000 people are affected by the restrictions which is those met told d.w. he's furious own group is a company of turn you're so angry with the system behind of the groups the system of sub sub sub contractors which is totally. transparent people had to put up with long waits to get tested. i want to get tested and do my bit to help find out whether we're all infected here english is low or not. we want to travel to bavaria on saturday and the condition is to present a negative coronavirus test so that's our goal today indeed with some

a vacation about to begin officials in popular destinations like bavaria say good as their residents are not welcome in lest they show proof of testing negative for the virus neighboring austria has gone even further targeting germany's most populous state. our neighbor germany with its state of north and the 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 of the hope of course that the situation there were 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. let's have a look at this with kristin lindenmayer who speaks for the world health organization and joins us from geneva welcome to the what do you make of german efforts to control this new outbreak. of thanks for having me well it's a typical scenario where you don't have communities in the whole country anymore but we have now a cluster of cases not ship equipped and large cluster of cases. and here to test and trace basically every single person to offer tests everybody is a really good idea because this is how you find out whether irises how many people have the virus who contacts are and this is the best way to contain it so this sort of locally controlled lockdown rather being controlled from the side so you think this is what we're going to have to get used to. this is actually what we should

aim for down instead of having a community spread which we don't cannot over see where the wire is is we will have to work on trying to get the response so strong and saw strict and testing so so strict and surveillance that we can respond to individual clusters individual cases immediately ideally not as later that we have $1200.00 organise is like now but earlier than that and then contain those cases and maybe lock down an individual place maybe only have city or town under strong stronger measures rather than having the whole country reichl into a lockdown scenario that is most likely something we will have full have to look forward to for the future but actually have to work forward to right meat processing plants have been at the center of 2 outbreaks here in germany and 2 in the united states in may does the meat processing industry have

a coronavirus problem. the way we see this right now and we don't have the full and summation of what the conditions there were what the living conditions the working conditions were so it seems rather that it has to do with a combination of factors there rather the fact that it is a certain species of horses the type of factory it's. it looks like it's rather the combination of against living conditions in conditions at the fact that in a close environment people can easily transmitted virus from one person so you know that's something which has child other sort of branches don't have that same scenario in their working environment of course other companies have to put out a plan on how to enable even coming back to work and how their workers can go back to office just so that is a very different scenarios then this very strict and very strong strongly your incorrect recommended business ok and i'm just looking at i had the w.h.o.

is warning that the global number of company 1000 cases could reach 10000000 next week what is our future look like will numbers and deaths just keep rising until a vaccine is developed. well globally the figures are rising let's not forget that only in central europe we have a lot of countries which are declining cases of the global reach one peak after the other and yes it will reach most likely 10000000 next week. so until we have a treatment 1st of all until we have a scenario where every country can trace and find and survey every single case and have a better control 'd of the virus in their country we will most likely see a rise in cases on a weekly basis. that is not the best scenario but of course you will have to deal with this and have to avoid more and more people coming back with virus once you

get infected somewhere else or so it's a lot of journeys not a it's not a short sprint it's a marathon way and i thank you for joining us a christian that miles from the world health organization thank you very much. take a look at some other developments in the corona virus a pandemic india has registered 16000 new cases its highest daily increase yet the government has called in the army to manny's new treatment facilities in delhi the e.u. may ban trappers from the united states or brazil and russia when it reopens its external borders according to the new york times and new york unburned they have cancelled math institute 2 coronavirus concerns. i german pharmaceutical giant has agreed to pay nearly $11000000000.00 to settle a u.s. lawsuit over its weed killer round up the settlement covers tens of thousands of plaintiffs in claim the widely used pattis i gave them cancer insists that we can

only say when used correctly and says it will continue to sell it without a warning 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 struck an agreement to end a financial nightmare which began with its purchase of u.s. 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 had 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 the 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 new 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 and let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world i was starting poland where president 100 duda has become the 1st foreign leader to visit u.s. president donald trump a juror we coronavirus pandemic shortly before his arrival the us ambassador to

poland said that the u.s. will be sending more troops there a controversial windfall for president duda who's contesting an election on sunday . a special prosecutor in the hague has filed an indictment against kosovo's president hashem touchy and 9 others for war crimes including murder and crimes against humanity president touchy lads he served forces during the kosovo war in the one $990.00 s. the special tribunals been operating since 2050. pakistan's aviation minister says human error was to blame for last month's airliner crash in karate in which 97 people were killed there was a 320 plunged into residential their districts near the airport while attempting to land the initial report says the pilots were distracted as they talked about the coronavirus pilot. or the pandemic is disrupted global trade causing many countries to rethink their dependence on imported goods now uganda's president

wants to support local manufacturers by reducing his country's dependence on chinese products the most placing fresh scrutiny on china's economic practices in uganda and beyond outside uganda's capital kampala these women and main habitate did lead to produce half a 1000000 fis musts within 8 weeks. the team leader at this government facility wants to demonstrate that ugandans can make products that were previously imported how do you go to a hardware store and you can't find a single item that is maybe. even a bowl. and i'm thinking isn't the question there were 2 for reducing things like. what is there in the 1st. exporting are all cotton. to end up important coverage when moved to. uganda

wants to reduce dependence on imports this electric bass for instance is made by a ugandan company the state does fully funded it as a way of showing how the country's resources can be used instead of simply being exported as raw materials minium that is part of this bust is really discussed here the bump on the floor this steel which is the biggest component on this bus we have an o. and with and is an outside contracting that and localizing the supply chain that fuels production in manufacturing last year you're going to spend more than $880000000.00 on importing goods from china alone research and see that uganda can keep that cash if locals produce the goods however the local economy could still lose out if the factories at home owned by the chinese who can reply to

it profits some also argue that because china relies on africa's raw materials and its market it might not be ready to lose each to the local. whatever china wants to much of it become and get here they take it and grow much are they going process and they bring it back now you're turning them. that you know you guys we are going to we want to start a business and tell you what you've told me is please get out of here. you break it in the shoe but that does not seem to deter professor from training up ugandans his hope is that embracing technology will improve uganda's chances of becoming more self-reliant. than to russia which has staged a massive military parade to commemorated victory over nazi germany 75 years ago the event was recently shared jewels for the 9th of may and of us free but 1st

bones of because of the pandemic for many russians victory day is one of the country's most important holidays on the sacrifice of more than 25000000 soviet citizens who died in world war 2 this year's parade is also taking place the day before crucial vote on president putin's proposed constitutional reforms which could see him extend his hold on power for the next 16 years. it's a tradition but never before has russia's victory day parades been more controversial than this year's eve in the midst of a pandemic the government of one of the worst affected countries gathered fountains of people on the red square to commemorate the defeat of nazi germany. it was our people who were able to overcome the evil defeating more than $600.00 divisions of the enemy destroying 75 percent of their aircraft fuel tanks artillery

pieces. and to the end we reached the point of victory but of leaving a path of valor justice and sacrifice. to the event timing is no coincidence on thursday voting starts in a constitutional referendum that could extend putin's role until 2036 hailing russia's accomplishments and sacrifices in world war 2 the president hopes to boost his unusually low ratings taking only minimal precautions to ensure the health and safety of the parade's participants. all the $14000.00 mark crossed the red square. and had their temperature is taken to ensure that they don't have the virus earlier that are related during a pandemic. thousands of new ground viruses. every day the w.h.o.

has warned russia that the parade could exacerbate the spread of the corona virus the matter of moscow asked people to stay at home but many ignored the physical distancing advice. approach. it was absolutely right to go ahead with the parade. people who have criticized the actions of the government and the president for this are being petty. when you think you know i'm scared of the virus no one's wearing masks satisfying. is the word we came to give them a sense of patriotism to kill the importance of boys girls need to know their history and boys need to be prepared for the lot of years just did. patients attempt to stir up infusing some has clearly been successful with some russians but he'll have to wait until next months to see if that spills over to the polls. so news from around the world now as scientists are alarmed by heat wave stoking

severe forest fires in siberia or than 275000 hectares are burning in the sack our rep. after temperatures rose to 30 degrees celsius then on wednesday average june temperatures for this part of siberia are normally close to 15 celsius. 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 province in central hunan rains breached dams and displaced about 60000 people. a massive cloud of dust from the sahara desert is blanketing the caribbean which hasn't seen the density of a dust this high in half a century health experts are warning that the dust could exacerbate debris spiritual conditions including coverage 19 and they're telling people to stay indoors. only 7 people have been killed after

a powerful earthquake in southern mexico the epicenter of the 7.5 magnitude event was near the pacific coast in the state of the traumas knocked out power and cracked walls shifting pavement could be felt hundreds of kilometers away in mexico city. standing on shaky ground and feeling the earth swaying beneath one's feet. feel. shock waves from a powerful earthquake but towns and cities across mexico to a halt. thanks residents flooded the streets seeking safety on shifting pavement. of it he went to see it was very strong i had never felt such a strong earthquake only in 1905 today's earthquake felt very very strong we were

so afraid she said to us and it was pretty severe and with covert 19 you think what's next. hospitals were affected too but while medical staff and patients were evacuated those suffering from the coronavirus remained isolated inside. and. i felt how the bed was moving i was sleeping and then i saw how the curtains everything was moving. the quake hit at a time when mexico is a ready reeling from the coronavirus pandemic which has claimed more than 22000 lives so far latin america 2nd highest toll but the tremors effects could have been much worse mexico's president and the sounds that the country's infrastructure suffered no serious damage but he warns citizens to remain cautious.

he he sees move after the strong 7.5 earthquake there have been 147 aftershocks the most. so they recommend that we remain alert and attentive in this. but while feeling the aftershocks some mexicans preferred appealing to a higher power. this is the dublin years life from berlin still to come high on us for a special group of graduates will show you how the students from syria of the cave the horrors of war finish top of the class here in germany. first though a group of residents in egypt's capital cairo are fighting the games console construction that will bring hundreds of thousands of cars just outside their front doors are the government says the new highway is necessary to improve life in the crowded city apartments were built illegally anyway but lawyers and neighbors say

the government is in the wrong. the view is certainly unusual but it's not something alla fahim can enjoy the government is building a 4 lane highway overpass just 50 centimeters from his balcony. soon 750000 cars and trucks will be whizzing past his home every day the 55 year old jokes about opening a snack bar in reality it's no laughing matter. i find it depressing they didn't give us any warning they started building without informing me. it's hit me really hard then glimmers of the morgue the concrete monstrosity cuts right through a residential quarter of cairo a middle class area home to doctors lawyers and office workers and a few small shops. they started building in september the highway is designed to

connect the south of the capital with the north it's a prestige project for the government but most residents had no idea it was coming they bought their apartments for up to 50000 euros in egypt that's a lot. in the soil my apartment is now under the overpass it's cut off my sunlight and my air it's made the apartment practically worthless and i've got 2 kids in kindergarten and primary school soon they'll have to breathe in exhaust fumes and be exposed to constant horn honking every day that will kill them but no one seems to care about the health life or future of the children the well head how was that how will you know what is their issue for you as a player cairo is a crowded and congested city endless traffic jams are the order of the day in the mega metropolis building projects like the new highway amend to bring relief the

government says individual interests must take a backseat. but residents are not giving up easily. some may go hard is representing 150 plaintiffs from the area and he's putting up a fight. it's not fair and it's unacceptable we're going to see the government the amount they're offering in compensation is totally inadequate. the balcony used to be his favorite place quiet with a nice view soon he will have to seek sanctuary from the onslaught of traffic in duels. it's not graduation season for germany's students the pandemic is forcing schools to adjust to this new reality the world school in berlin says it's already learned to be more flexible in the last couple of years as it incorporated young refugees into its community now the school is graduates from

syria who success has exceeded many expectations. special honors for a very special graduating class the german family minister hands out diplomas to this year's best students these high school seniors arrived from syria only a couple of years ago with the horrors of civil war still fresh in their minds. the airplanes came and bombed everything stopped and there was no place left to live. i was in a rubber boat with my father and my brother we crossed the mediterranean greece macedonia until we got here and also vita this family also fled syria with his parents stuck in a turkish refugee camp and no prospect this student set off on his own. my family stayed in turkey and i wanted to go to germany we had to stop in cyprus and a year later i was able to leave after another year i was finally reunited with my parents in germany. once he got to berlin he enrolled in

a secondary school in the district of my current back then it was one of the city's most troubled educational facilities and even had armed guards. we saw how the mines a secondary school went through very hard times and wondered how the school would even continue to function. but things improved all of this year's graduates arrived as refugees their teachers quirky and getting them to where they are today with their help i've gone from speaking no german to speaking it well. and it's event even the principal thought impossible. in front of this academic language in 5 years and getting such high grades is great i'm proud of them. so what's next for these graduates. as for going to college studying medicine this business administration. this is an incredible opportunity of potential

a force that will benefit germany and lead to good things in this country and we don't just give being good and the 1st step into a brighter future for these graduates. start reminder of our top story this hour a must testings underway in the german state of north rhine-westphalia authorities reintroduced straight lockdown measures in 2 districts a from major spike in infections as a meat processing plant. i'll be back with the day in just a moment to looking up the day's events sandall have more world news of the top of the hour a lot. of

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