this is d.w. news live from berlin over half a 1000000 people in germany back on the lockdown last testing begins in western german districts links to a new corona virus outbreak the new restrictions are causing tensions with some residents kept behind fences and police being called in to enforce the rules also on the program hosting his polish counterpart u.s. donald trump again targets germany trump says some of the thousands of u.s. troops he's pulling out of germany maybe bomb for poland. and german pharmaceutical

giant by a greece to pay nearly $11000000000.00 to settle a massive u.s. law sort of tens of thousands of people say the company's popular with kilo roundup calls their cancers. i'm told me a lot of well welcome to the program authorities in germany state of north rhine-westphalia are conducting mass coronavirus testing after they reimpose local lockdowns the restrictions affect hundreds of thousands of people in the district of fire and off and goods are slow and follow a major virus outbreak at a meat processing plant and as the summer holiday season gets underway of a positive germany and europe are imposing travel bans on the affected region. this is what it looks like when the coronavirus restrictions on. back long lines

formed outside the testing facilities in the district of go to school 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 good as it was met old v.w. he's furious. group is a company of turn you're so angry with the system behind and groups the system of sub sub sub contractors which is totally interest in 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 in go to slow or not. we want to travel to bavaria on saturday and the condition is to present a negative coronavirus test that's our goal today indeed with some

a vacation about to begin officials in popular destinations like bavaria say go to slow 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 the 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 whole plant gemini's biggest poultry plant where mass testing of over a 1000 workers got underway today. but let's bring you up to speed with some other developments in the coronavirus pandemic india's registered 16000 new cases its highest ever daily increase the government has called in the army to manage new treatment facilities in delhi new u.s. cases of surge to the highest level in 2 months in the state of florida confirmed cases have tripled compared to 2 weeks ago arizona texas and california are also registering sharp increases and in the netherlands the government has announced a significant relaxation of measures including reopening high schools committing sports events with fans and allowing sex workers to resume their trade. u.s. president donald trump says some of the $10000.00 u.s. troops to be withdrawn from germany will probably be moved to poland made

a statement during a white house visit by his polish conduct under a duda a staunch ally of the us today is the 1st foreign leader to visit the united states during the coronavirus pandemic he's running for reelection on sunday. d.w. washington bureau chief alexander phenomena joins us from the white house rose garden xandra how likely are we to see u.s. troops moved from germany to poland or is there something else at play here. well at 1st president was quite be doing that press conference saying that poland's have had asked for more u.s. troops and that they will probably be moving from germany to poland but then he got more precise more more specific saying that the u.s. is going to reduce you as troops in germany some of them are going home some of them are will be going to different places and one of the places will be whole and so he seems to have made his mind and this announcement was

a huge win for the polish president whose government is very eager to receive more you asked troops and it's of course a punishment of germany and president once again criticize germany for not spending enough on defense. donald trump also said the u.s. will only be satisfied when all nato members pay what he calls their fair share into the alliance are made to members really not pulling their weight. well actually according to nato secretary general stoltenberg more and more a member states are increasing their efforts to meet those goals when we talk about germany however germany's far away from reaching this goal the german government. that it's going to be reach and 2031 but when president criticize germany on. saying they are delinquents i think that this is

a wrong wording because those states do not own any money to nato they just not meeting or not are not ready to meet the goals that they set themselves and the 2 leaders trump and also discussed possible u.s. investments in nuclear energy in poland what's that supposed to look like. well we know that poland is very interested to get the last cold hand and there are going to start to buy gas from the u.s. as and they are also very eager to build their 1st nuclear power plant and the you as seems to be determined to help and this is of course this cooperation will be another huge win for the polish president here ok because alexander from naaman from the white house thank you. let's take

a look now at some other stories making news around the world. 3 white man have been indicted for murder in the slaying of barry in the u.s. state of georgia 4 months ago african american was gunned down while jogging through a suburban neighborhood. a special prosecutor in the hague has filed an indictment against kosovo's president that she and 9 others for war crimes including murder and crimes against humanity present that she led forces during the kosovo war in the 1990 s. . the u.n. secretary general has called on israel to abandon its revival criticized policy to annex some 30 percent of the west bank until near good terry said it would threaten prospects for peace with the palestinians speaking moments later u.s. secretary of state mike compare indicted indicated rather that israel had the green light for annexation from washington. agreed

a 500000000 euro cost cutting deal with its cabin crew union and measures to help the korea through the pandemic come a day before the shareholders vote on whether to approve the german government's 9000000000 euro rescue package for the airline. german pharmaceutical giant buyer has agreed to pay nearly $11000000000.00 to settle lawsuits in the u.s. over its weed killer round up a settlement covers tens of thousands of plaintiffs who claim the widely used pesticide gave them cancer by a will continue selling roundup saying the weed killer is safe when used correctly and that the payments are not an admission of guilt. the sun wipes 3 quarters of the 125000 ongoing and potential lawsuits off the table according to buyer. it struck the agreement to end a financial nightmare which began with its purchase of u.s. crop science giant monsanto to take over the disapprove more costly than anyone

could have imagined 2 months after the acquisition in 2018 by a london 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 roundup with its active ingredient life as it is normally used in agriculture but monsanto also promoted its best seller as a weed killer for gardens 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 buyer's 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. russia has staged a massive military parade to commemorate a victory over nat's in germany 75 years ago the event was originally shadowed for the may 9th anniversary but postponed due to the pandemic for many russians victory day honors the more than 25000000 soviet citizens who died in war war 2 this year's parade also held special significance for president vladimir putin. it's a tradition but never before has russia's victory day parades been more controversial than this year. in the midst of a pandemic the government of one of the worst affected countries gathered thousands

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. of leaving a path of valor justice and sacrifice. 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.

red square. and their temperature is taken to ensure that they don't have the virus . or make. during a pandemic. virus in russia every day the w.h.o. has warned russia that the parade could exacerbate the spread of the coronavirus the matter of moscow asked people to stay at home but many ignored the physical distancing advice. at the brotherhood it was absolutely right to go ahead with the parade. people who have criticized the actions of the government and the president for this for being petty. when you think you know one scared of the virus no one's wearing masks that's fine isn't it is the word we came to give them a sense of patriotism particularly important for boys and girls need to know the

history of boys need to be prepared for the autumn years did you do patients attempt to stand up infusing. some has clearly been successful with some russians that have to wait until next month to see if that spills over to the polls. the berlin and new york city marathons have both been counseled due to the coronavirus pandemic billions race widely considered the fastest track hosting numerous world records for the end of september in all the new york city marathon is the world biggest with over $50000.00 runners finishing last year it was set to take place on the 1st of november london's marathon though is still expected to go ahead one month earlier. south african authorities of urge water sports buffs to be cautious following recent sightings of great white sharks in the indian ocean east of cape town this drone footage shows a very close encounter in platen bug bay the shark circles an unsuspecting and

several surfers in just 2 metres of water and the kayak appears to spot the creature and raise the alarm luckily the great white just turns and glides away. coming up an intimate trip in our documentary the russians are watching the news. of our meal and i'm good welcome to the 2nd season of only. the planet on the brink of disaster we did long in-depth interview experts about one question how to change things.