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this is the w. news live from berlin summer's here turkey's beaches are ready but where are the holiday makers of my ideal many years viruses they declared was a risk area but open borders to countries that have worse coronavirus situations that the had was so how's the german government got something against turkey spirits are low as tourists stay away from the turquoise coast. and
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a closer look at the german meat processing plant with an explosion of corona virus the air conditioning system and be to blame for the plant's 1500 confirmed cases. and india's capital also has a mass anti corona campaign with a number of infections spiking daily plans to record that health details of nearly 30000000 residents and test every one showing symptoms. i'm god as welcome to the program we begin in turkey a country that has opened its borders and insists it has the coronavirus on the control box european governments continue to warn against travel that your correspondent julia harmer reports the tourism industry in the popular holiday resort. off on top is already feeling the heat for.
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preparing breakfast for his guests under normal circumstances most of a good one wouldn't have time for this when it's high season in antalya the hotel owner is usually run off his feet but not this year right now only one of his rooms is occupied a family from germany is here despite the travel warning here they love it as a result i can only tell you come here everyone it's wonderful in antalya here the only problem is because of the coronavirus crisis hardly anyone is coming. last year i had an occupancy rate of 100 percent consistently from april to october and this year there are only 3 people july is coming soon we only have a few months left of this season right now it's really difficult. that.
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most of us has done everything he can to make his hotel safe the turkish government has issued strict thai gene rules that's why do den now disinfect drugs and pool chairs several times a day although nobody is using them. to let him use that mosque a video we have masks for i guess you can disinfect your hands everywhere and temperature checks are scheduled every day the requirements on very strict and we adhere to them until we can take that out what good is that if no one comes to. untag as beaches are among the most popular holiday destinations in the mediterranean region about 15000000 tourists from abroad came here last year but this summer most of the sun loungers are empty because of the coronavirus crisis governments in europe including germany are warning their citizens against travel to taki many of those he. who depend on tourism think that's unsafe.
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almost 2500000 people live in the antalya region but so far only a few 100 coronavirus infections have been officially registered here. mostafa good then thinks turkey is coming through the crisis relatively well he believes decision makers in europe are deliberately warning against trips to turkey in order to give their own tourist destinations an advantage. all my ideas germany exit very biased they declared us a risk area but open borders 200 is that are in a much worse situation spain or italy for example they have more coronavirus cases than turkey and a higher coronavirus death toll a lot of chilled you say secure. many share food and frustration and tell us historic old town is normally filled with tourist and bartering facilities but now
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the sellers fight for them in the restaurant owners and taxi drivers are wondering how long they can't recall we. need to travel because we only have a good of our taxis on the streets of no hotel gas so no taxi rides will surely it doesn't work without 4 interests turkish holiday makers aren't enough of these years ago that's all oh preparations for this summer with a nothing 2020 is a last year. the last year maybe last season he made good money with his hotel most of a good and says and he still hopeful but he also knows if the tourists from europe don't come back soon the holiday paradise often tahlia faces a devastating summer. a la correspondent julie holland filed this report for us and is now standing by an instable you've got many people are wondering whether it is actually safe to travel to turkey right now what's your impression. the
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turkish government is trying hard to convince travelers and political decision makers in europe that tuckey is as safe destination this summer they are actively lobbying a number off the e.u. countries to open their borders lift travel warnings to countries like turkey has also launched a so-called healthy tourism program setting out for house and hygiene in airplanes airports also in hotels restaurants cafes or at beaches and hotel on a most of a told me that the authorities are actually very strict when it comes to making sure these rules are being followed at untie as airport for example we saw thermal cameras checking passengers temperatures they're also working on setting up a coronavirus test center that so many things are being done but then we also have to look at the numbers right and i mentioned in my report that the coastal tourism hops there in turkey have seen relatively low corona virus cases but overall in the
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countries the numbers are surging they have actually a double compare compared to early june when turkey lifted most of its coronavirus restrictions away now at nearly $1500.00 new cases per day and that's probably something european decision makers will take into consideration when reevaluating their travel advice a warnings. remind us just how important is the travel industry for turkey. it's a $1000000000.00 business and that's exactly why the turkish government presses to open a border tourism accounts for 12 percent of the turkish economy and economy that is now facing the 2nd recession in just 2 years time so tacky needs for interest it needs for ing currencies the sector here the season has already been battered by
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the pen demi there have been coronavirus forced shutdowns since late march till the end of a may so this has affected the lives of thousands tens of thousands of people working interest them and this is why this summer is so crucial there's so much at stake here fatah and what about the german travel warning for turkey that's still in place is this straining relations between the 2 countries well germany doesn't just have this travel warning for turkey but for many countries outside the european union so-called surge countries but because turkey is so important for holidaymakers from germany and germany also has a large population with a turkish background these people want to come here in summer spend their holiday here visit their relatives this has somehow turned into a political issue it certainly has potential for conflict we know that the turkish government is very unhappy about this german travel warning although they have very carefully phrasing their criticism let's listen to what turkey's foreign minister
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may have a child was shallow had to say about this recently we are disappointed that some countries extended their travel advisories for turkey or publish lists classified as a risky destination there is no objective and scientific reason in the steps turkey has proven itself in its fight against 1000. german authorities on the other hand say we have to monitor how the outbreak here in turkey develops they also say they are don't want to bring back german citizens who are stuck somewhere abroad be it in turkey or elsewhere if the situation worsens but some also say this might not just be about the pandemic but maybe also about politics because german targets relations are still strained there are number off contentious issues the syria crisis in libya the refugee issue or the human
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rights situation here in turkey so some say this travel warning might also be a means for germany to seek some political concessions. correspondent. thank you very much for analysis. for now to some other coronavirus related news around the world officials in the english beach town of bournemouth have to clear the major incident of the massive crowds flock there in hot weather authorities said ignoring public health guidance on the coronavirus was responsible the declaration allows them to initiate an emergency response including the deployment of additional police patrols. u.s. health officials say as many as 20000000 people may have already been infected with covert 19 that's almost 10 times more than the number of confirmed cases as the state of texas opposes plans to reopen its economy amid
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a surge in covert 900 cases. authorities in one of 2 german districts under renewed pandemic lockdown say that they're opening 5 new centers for people to get free coronavirus tests there is to carry out $10000.00 tests per day in the town of new does little fast people are being told to expect long queues the town and the neighboring district have become hotspots after an outbreak a local meat processing plant that infected about 1500 people. in the meat cutting section the 10 yes it's the center of the outbreak 2 thirds of the workers here have tested positive but why did the virus spread like wildfire here scientists suspect it could be related to the air cooling and circulation system and a plant. what we didn't know before is that under these circumstances the research kill ation of air can keep moving that is
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a risk factor we weren't aware off long. stefan works as an air conditioning technician in the city of deuce book according to german law all workplaces need to be supplied with fresh air the tenuous meat processing plant is no exception. to this there are cooling systems based on agree circulation they lower the room temperature to between 6 and 10 degrees celsius but the machines used for that only move the existing air around they don't add any fresh air. experts now speculate that the research elation system may have spread the virus throughout the plant because the air is not purified doesn't consider these appliances aren't built to carry filters if one is installed the machine won't be as effective as before it's like buying a sports car and adding a heavy trailer it just won't go as fast or. plucker downs the air circulation is
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to blame he says lingering arrows souls couldn't withstand the movement and yet slaughterhouses are increasingly becoming carona hotspots. and lower saxony 45 infected workers from a turkey slaughterhouse are currently quarantined in these army barracks and the north rhine-westphalia 79 employees of a donor combat factory tested positive even though the conditions here are much better than a tenuous and still the meat processing environment was fertile ground for the virus. to india now where the government is planning to conduct a massive survey for the corona virus targeting all of delhi's $29000000.00 residents workers will go door to door to record every residents' health details and test those who report symptoms of covert 19 i mean to complete the survey by july 6 delhi has become india's worst hit city with more than 70000 confirmed cases
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. joined by our correspondent. what's behind the sudden explosion of coronavirus cases in delhi. well the sudden spike has been observed says does the city of delhi started coming out downstage for the past 3 weeks a lot of economic activities have been allowed. many people have started going back to work if you go out on the street you see people have more or less resume their due to do not like this is one reason why the transmission rate has increased and we must remember that delhi is a very highly populated city that actually one of the most populated cities not only in the country but in the world so a city with a population like this it's very easy for a march on the transmission to happen. where the government has launched a massive survey in which of plans to record the health details of all of delhi's
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nearly 30000000 residents the companies say. that that is quite a big challenge but for the past couple of weeks that we have been seeing that there's a sudden surge which many reports and experts are saying that this surge is happening because delhi had started testing very aggressively over the past one b. they have been many days that we are seeing that will work treat how the new cases are being detected on a body basis in the city so to control a situation like this they do need a strategy like my so will and so they are employing more frontline health workers to go door to door and conduct these screenings basically and finding out people have symptoms the idea is to conduct the survey in every single one of the city to the 1st week of july and difficultly create a list of people who can fall into a high risk category and apart from that there are plans of conducting an antibody test as well just that's whether anybody has had a part exposure with the white house. what other measures is the government taking
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at the moment to fight this pandemic. well at the moment not only don't we but the national government itself is scrambling to implemented in steps so that you know the spread of the widest can become the latest one being that they really have cancelled all the trains that had started playing between different states for another few weeks 20 some special trains will be allowed to move the international flights from in suspended more and more whole of the stadiums are being taken in and can work didn't do covert care facilities the national government on its part is me gaining a regular coordination with all the other states and you must know that there are states also in the country which are taking calls of their own that are states which are also taking their own oil of how much of how many restrictions to implement and how much activity they can allow people to resume. the narrow charter thank you. india is confronting the growing across is a part of the country are still struggling to recover from cyclon unfun bus tour
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through south asia months ago communities in the bay of bengal bore the brunt of the massive storm much of india's sunderbans delta was left on the water many people there now fear the disaster could impact their livelihoods not just for months but for years to come as to w.'s new missions as war reports. a few hours from the bustling city of call gata. the landscape becomes transformed . into the sunderbans. to a diverse ecology and 4000000 people. people who rely on fishing and farming to survive. but in me a massive storm wiped out both options. these are the freshwater born snoop and i wonder used to fission the violence of cycling on breached all embankments killing the freshwater fish and sweeping out the prawns that could have
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survived the line water to seek thank you and what can we do we are dependent on relief now once a lockdown is lifted we will have to leave this in their bones to find work there is nothing after. these islands in the sun that bunce would evacuated before the cyclon. preventing paos of deaths. but just didn't return to utter devastation houses gone fields flooded crops destroyed . and even then the water dreams of bos disaster showed that céline deposits could render this land in for a fight a decade. the summer months is a cycle on for one region and we're still recovering from the impact of cycling i like 11 years ago. it was worse and weeks after that this would mean land still lies inundated there are some template of the solution. a group called the
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quarantine students huge network is helping will this be for dreaming céline water from these ponds thanks when the rains come they will again be filled with fresh water allowing fish farming to resume at least the draining can address serious health concerns as well. health and hygiene are seriously destructive here and need to be distorted stagnant water is dangerous as it can lead to gastro intestinal diseases as well as skin conditions and then that is often ignored issue. by. one socially in the should lives like this one are trying to bridge a gap in emergency response to the are limited in their village. this has left locals widely about dangers gaps in health care. the water is contaminated and we cannot drink you. get sick and then getting to the hospital is difficult
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with all this flooding and i want to get there what you know you know you've seen that the roots of destroyed how when a pregnant woman or one carrying a child balance herself while we didn't through these swampy waters to get to work clinic of using. these what he's plead notable as well she says the repeated damage here has driven many people. both family has somehow managed to stay put she fears that if these embankments keep getting swept away home of generations will be lost to. turn our focus on the other stories making headlines today a court in moscow. has handed down a guilty verdict to the russian film and theater director carroll sir bernie cough he faces 6 years in prison for forming a criminal group and embezzling public funds for theatre project sir bernie cove has called the charges absurd. a british teenager has been jailed for at least 15
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years for throwing a 6 year old french boy of the 10th floor of london's tate modern art gallery last year the younger boy is now wheelchair bound and still recovering from the assault . a month after the death of george floyd in police custody in minneapolis the protests may have died down but the behavior of the police remains a hot topic not only in the us the conduct of the police in many european countries is also being questioned not least in belgium where there's anger about the recent death of a young man who flouted lockdown rules. justice for a deal. more than 2 months after a police chase came to a deadly entier in the under neighborhood of brussels messages of solidarity and calls for action remains strong. markings on the ground show where the 19 year old scooter crashed head on into a police car the police were chasing
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a deal because they suspected him of flouting the lockdown he died immediately the case is still under investigation alexis wafa s'more who represents ideals family he says the case fits a pattern of over policing and disproportionate use of force in neighborhoods with a large minority community you know it's not like if has like a big bank robbery and that he was armed and has to stop him for the public security of everybody done of course. it's necessary to do the tracing retool trichords and even oscar helicopter but here we were controlling the police was controlling the covert 90 measures was does really a priority deals death sparked outrage in on the left in the following days with peaceful demands for justice but also violent unrest. to most of us knew a deal he runs just
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a community center for children and young adults where the teen used to volunteer on the weekend of the protests he and some fellow social workers were under laced trying to help calm the situation i was standing there and i saw the riot police advance in the crowds so that then you know there's no more time for talking but for me i just backed off and they passed me. they immediately run. because they grew up in the neighborhood and they know well well part of the profile at that moment you understand you're in the same public space and you live it differently. this experience of being treated differently cost thousands take to the streets of cross holes at the beginning of the month taking a stand against police violence in the black lives matter protest. 1000 year old when i am posted this video on social media the following night he tells us he was detained by police after the protest and put into a police van by an officer because. he came back with his colleagues.
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and they started beating me aiming for my face after 20 or 30 seconds of being beaten i fainted and then they stopped. 5 officers beat him tells us however he doesn't believe these men were racist but they attacked him simply because it was convenient although difficult for him he feels the need to speak out against police violence. if you hide when people don't dare to take legal action because they are afraid of the police that leads to the police abusing their powers for them to continue by making it even worse. brussels police declined to talk to us about police violence and racism but in an interview with flemish radio the federal police chief acknowledged there were occasional slip ups but he also made clear there was no problem of structural racism. with the recent lifting of the lockdown measures some pressure
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was taken off policing but it seems there is still a very long way to go to restore trust between police and community. football and liverpool have been crowned premier league champions clinching their 1st english league title in 30 years liverpool won playing on thursday about the secure the top flight title off the closest rival manchester city lost to chelsea the victory has made cloth the 1st ever german coach to win an english title and fans quickly converged to celebrate. ok. 30 years of hurt all over for liverpool and barely 30 minutes after they were craned premier league champions thousands of fans descended on our field to get the party started. ok ok.
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here's a link to. the world that the real us i mean obviously it is real it's it's amazing. that liverpool haven't been short of silverware outside of england legally in the last 12 months they've won european and world cup titles but regaining their status at the top of the english game was their top priority this season for maybe here the success is all die so one man can claw his side become premier league champions with a record 7 games left to play and claw becomes the 1st german coach to win an english title. this is e w news here's a reminder of our top story at this hour turkey's beaches almost deserted as holiday makers stay away because of the pandemic that's despite european countries reopening that borders something the turkish tourism industry feel that germany is
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be told it is for. you. is for. beethoven is for. is for. the talking 2020 for 250th anniversary here on to. the. hello in a warm welcome to focus on europe i'm peter cop and thanks for joining us these days we're all longing for life to get back to normal while we are gradually moving towards normality in europe the impact of the covered 19 crisis is becoming more
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