news a lot from berlin italy faces a newly discovered cluster of corona virus cases hundreds of poured into 14 in an apartment complex in the country's south after an outbreak among seasonal workers and tensions are rising with local residents. the united states struggles to contain a surge in coronavirus cases with several states reporting startling new numbers some leaders are tightening restrictions that had been rolled back also on the show . a major shootout in mexico city more than 2 dozen gunmen ambushed the chief of

police and other officers on a major boulevard authorities are calling it an assassination attempt. a michael thanks for joining us parts of europe are dealing with a resurgence of corona virus infections in italy there has been a spike in new cases to the north of naples mainly in apartment blocks housing agricultural workers the city of mundra goni is on alert to try to stop the virus from spreading further. tensions have been rising between the residents of these apartment blocks and the local people in undergrown e after the buildings were placed under lockdown due to dozens of coronavirus cases several residents trying to leave and defiance of the buddha and this is will be

a big problem for us because. after they are going to close all the cv and that is a economic problem for us. most of the residents of bulgaria many of them thought to be working in italy without proper contracts and for very low wages now sentiment against the foreign workforce is mounting. the biggest i'm going to be from. cultural workers they come each season and then they move on to greece for the olive harvest of the new leave. before the seasonal workers arrived there was no cold feet here. called the dead ones or abruptly the. now dozens of police have been sent to monitor goni to ease tensions and stop residents from leaving the building to keep the virus contained the red cross is carrying out extensive testing hundreds of samples have already been taken

. there would be to them a little the thought of one animal climb a say that monday or go any is 1st funding bill very very have a lot of people coming for tests and since we started this morning we've taken over 250 swappers will people understood here how important is to be careful about the virus. now the national protection agency is delivering food to the current 1000 residents they will not be able to leave their homes for the next 15 days. now joined by journalists. for a long go around 50 kilometers from bondra going to seem a greetings why has the new krona break happened among agricultural workers well these are great cultural workers this essentially seasonal workers they come to italy in order to harvest crops at a time when the crops are ready and so often unfortunate is we also heard in that

report the often explosives. have a problem working conditions very little and if you live in an abandoned apartment buildings in the. wheelchair unfortunately cause sanitary conditions and so it becomes easy for the fire there's just spread among all these particular groups and now this apartment complex where the living has been put on the orange gene conducted more than 700 tests on the people that they're living then found all the 3 positive cases of 19 that deval gary and seasonal workers but also 9 homeless italians that were in that building there have been tensions between the inhabitants of that apartment complex and their residence and ponder going it was said about the fact that one town is in the headlines for this region reason and so that's why we've also seen that the italian government sacked send

soldiers in to try and control the situation and make sure those who are under quarantine city because of the next thing that is clearly a developing situation there i'm curious are officials there also seeing rising cases among the other residents of the city. what they're doing now is that they're testing all 30000 residents of montana governor because they say they didn't want to put the situation under control the governor of the region in jensen. who has been very vocal throughout this outbreak about wanting to control the cases in his regional command here as it that they are tracking down everyone including the a group of again who has who had decided to leave the area because they said they need to work in the to work in order to families in energies that can track down and they've tested negative so they're continuing to test and the governor has said he finds 100 cases is the lockdown he typed out you'd have to be living under

a rock not to know that italy was central to this whole pandemic story here in europe in general how effective have the italian authorities been in containing corona especially now that the main travel season has begun. well what the government and the authorities regional parties are trying to do is to make sure that people stick to self protection as are such as wearing those masks when you're indoors social distancing as well as you know our hands and the ties and gels being available so that people keep to those important center conditions and they're identified just as like monaco new like another cast up north in the laundromat in korea transport services company in which they found some $64.00 cases most of them without any symptoms at all so essentially you have found some 10 towns in total now that have classed as a hot spots in that they are clamping down on those and make sure that they control

the spread in that area and all the woman that's what they're hoping to do in order to contain the spread but you're right it's the travel season now it's summer and so even more innocent people have to be vigilant cyma good to there in spurlock to many thanks for that. turning to the u.s. now where several states that were the 1st to ease lock down restrictions are now seeing drastic spikes in corona virus cases large states like texas and florida are now shutting parts of the economy back down in a race to get ahead of the infection spread records for new infections are being broken across the nation while the administration and some local leaders continue to downplay the threat of the disease. one step forward 2 steps back states like texas and florida have been left reeling progress towards reopening has been put on pause we surge an infection rates in both states in

texas nearly $6000.00 new coronavirus cases were recorded on thursday prompting the governor to close by as a met restaurants to 50 percent capacity it's a similar story in florida 9000 new cases were reported on friday nearly doubling the previous record set only 2 days earlier. many states are experiencing the highest infection rate since the crisis began in a sign the spike is being taken seriously by the white house the coronavirus task force held its 1st briefing in 2 months because we stand here today we believe we've made progress. but as we are reminded as we see cases rising across the south that we still i work to do and so we say to every american particularly those in counties and in states that are being impacted by rising

cases of that now is the time for everybody to continue to do their part while there is the vice president said that more than half of new cases are americans under the age of $35.00 that's being complicated by the fact that many asymptomatic immediate family you have. individual responsibility to yourself but you have a societal responsibility because if we want to end this outbreak really end it and then hopefully when a vaccine comes and puts the nail in the coffin we've got to realize that we'll part of the process. remain concerned over the health of this is economy today fueled by trump's insistence the country back up and running. some other stories now making news around the world days of heavy rain have triggered flooding across large areas of southern and southwestern china thousands of people had to be

evacuated from their homes this week forecasters say more rainfall is on the way with a high risk of further floods and landslides. outgoing irish prime minister leo varadkar says he's center right party has voted to enter a coalition with a smaller but historic rival the greens ending nearly 5 months of political deadlock the alliance will keep the research and republican shin fein out of power . thousands of people gathered in brindisi capital for the state funeral of former president. died suddenly earlier this month at the age of $55.00 his successor everest. presided over the funeral and said the country had lost a father and friend. mexico city's police chief. has suffered bullet wounds after a group of more than 2 dozen gunmen attacked his vehicle 3 people were killed in

the ambush local media say police have arrested 19 suspects and are investigating drug cartels on suspicion of planning an assassination attempt. has been on the job in mexico's capital for less than a year prior to that he was part of the prosecutor's office in charge of investigating mexico's powerful drug cartels. a brazen dawn attack this security camera footage shows gunman firing on the police chief's column who are. the victims included 2 bodyguards and a bystander though the attackers failed to kill the police chief wounding him in 3 places. police have detained 20 suspects and said as many as 28 con men were involved. authorities later confiscated a dizzying array of weapons. regarded so far we have secured firearms of different calibers rifle fragmentation

grenades smoke grenades telephone equipment radio communication equipment ballistic vest and 13 vehicles. the audacity of the attack has sparked fears of a new escalation in violence the so-called new generation cartel is already blamed for another high profile attack this month that killed a judge officials tried to reassure the public. despite the firepower of some of these criminal organizations. none of them has the power to challenge the mexican state under. the current government has avoided confronting drug cartels directly but this incident is putting that policy to the test.

well the bundesliga is final games of the season kick off in a few hours with bahrain already crowned champions and little left to play for at the top the down at the bottom of the table one of the league's biggest names virt vertebrae men are facing saving. relegation. will they go down in 57 years of bundesliga braman have been out of the top just one but off the last saturday's 31 defeat they will need a miracle to stay up. when it's it's very hard for us to secure the playoff spot and try to avoid relegation but we all owe it to the club. the fight while still mathematically possible. braman are stuck in 17th 2 points and 4 goals behind 16th place provides the potential safety net of a 2 game playoff with a team that finishes 3rd in the 2nd bomb to sleep. everything

is possible realistically braman would have to beat cologne and hope to lose to. both those opponents have secured survival playing for nothing but pride as recently as 2004 braman won the league and the next 6 seasons they stayed fairly consistent finishing in the top 35 times but since then they have toiled in mid table mediocrity. their only previous relegation in 1980 saw them bounce back up immediately perhaps that is now the last remaining glimmer of hope. in the us the national basketball association announced on friday that 16 out of 302 players tested positive for the grown a virus the players will remain in south isolation n.b.a. commissioner adam silver's said that he doesn't rule out putting the season on hold again if there is a significant spread among its athletes the n.b.a.

is set to restart in a sports complex in florida on july 30th games will be played without fans. you're watching the news unlike below cuckoo for all of us here in berlin take care of you well and we'll see at the top of the hour more news. w.'s crime fighters are back with the africa's most successful radio drama series continues all of us odes are available online course you can share and discuss song w. africa's facebook page and other social media platforms crime fighters tune in now .