this is g.w. news a live shot from berlin and u.s. officials that turn out the lights as they're trying to consulate in china the closure is the latest in a tit for tat political battle between washington and beijing becomes a just days after the shutdown of the chinese consulate in houston and it allegations at espionage and intellectual property theft also coming up on the show in an emotional ceremony in the casket of john lewis crosses the bridge in selma alabama where his journey from civil rights protester to congressman began 55 years ago. a corona virus outbreak at another food production facility in germany it's

just the latest infection cluster of its kind in the country raising questions about the safety of work and living conditions for migrant laborers. and of the coronavirus the hits north korea leader kim jong un calls an emergency meeting after a person shows symptoms of covert 19 killed and isolated country has so far claimed to have avoided the pandemic. i'm clay richardson thanks for joining us the american flag has been taken down at the u.s. consulate in southwestern china police have closed off the surrounding area in the city of chengdu as u.s. officials vacate the premises china ordered the closure of the consulates on friday and retaliation for washington's order to shut down the. annis consulate in houston

u.s. secretary of state mike called it a hub of spying and intellectual property theft. hundreds of onlookers gathered to watch the evacuation of the u.s. consulate in shang do china though many took selfies and waved chinese flags large numbers of police officers put a quick stop to any provocative gestures. that now i go china i'm chinese go china i'm china. it was one of the most shame do residents support the closure. see what i fear most is the us would just stop there it might get uglier are you a lawyer. the us will close our consulate i think we should shut their eyes to what has been said many times if we are to have a trade war something should have been done

a long time ago china rarely got aggressive i support china closing all of the u.s. consulates and the embassy but i will tell you though. with just hours to go before the departure deadline shipping containers were loaded up whilst signs were stripped from the building. the departure follows the closure of china's consulate in houston texas last week amid allegations of espionage and intellectual property theft. the tit for tat diplomatic ride marked an escalation in the tensions between the 2 superpowers over a range of issues including trade and the coronavirus it's unlikely that the strain chinese u.s. bilateral ties will improve before november's presidential election since analysts see this policy as being tough on beijing as a way to garner more votes. well date of your correspondent my tears boiling there

is standing by for us in front of the consulate in chengdu ideas of this follows the u.s. ordering the closure of the chinese consulate in houston so how serious is the china's response. yeah i'm standing a block away from the consulate at the at the point where they where the whole area is cordoned off today nobody is allowed to go near the consulate but that doesn't stop people from gathering here and watching what's happening it seems the americans have already left. and a group of chinese broke presumably police and housman soused ha's walked in there's not much happening but people are still curious they want to see this man you say at this historical moment happening in their city not much international politics happened in this city this consulate was one of 5 major consulates in

china that the u.s. had and it is ranking somewhere in the middle so it is pretty much a reciprocal answer to the closure of the consulate in houston by the u.s. people here some people have said that they are happy to see the americans go others are more careful to not want to speak a political statement but say that this is history and they want to witness it all right and even from a block away you can see quite a crowd gathered there what do these as soaring tensions between the u.s. and china mean in a practical sense. well in a practical sense what the citizens often do it means that if they want to obtain a visa. they will have to travel much further for the americans living here for consular services it means the same we are also seeing off course a trade war that has a lot of practical impact on on the on the relations between the 2 countries we are

seeing simply supply chains being redesigned some companies moving out of china. and lots and lots of tensions in several areas of the world the south china sea taiwan so we are seeing a downward spiral of. the relationship between the us and china it hasn't started with the closure of the euston consulate in the us but this is definitely an escalation nationally will have a wider reaching consequences how important was that chengdu consulate in person compared to the us as other diplomatic outposts in mainland china. i would probably rank it number 3 among the outposts there is of course shanghai and quango where most of the american businesses are big populated economically important areas and there's chandu and there is shown young in the north east also

maybe similar in as chintu they're both covering important areas of china but not those where most of the economic activity is concentrated and there was a consulate in one it was much smaller and it also had not been fully operating since the start of the disease so if there if china would have made a would have wanted to close the consulate but do but one that's the least important that would have been one hand they choose to do something that is at approximately equivalent to the consulate that china had in houston covering a big region and also covering that's the political meaning of this concert also covering to bet i right and he has a mind to enchant you i thank you for your own fighting. well to the united states now where ceremonies have been held at to honor the late civil rights icon of john lewis the legendary congressman a died of cancer

a week ago at the age of 80 with his casket is currently lying in state at the alabama state capitol and a symbolic tribute lewis was carried across the edmund pettus bridge in the city of selma which has become a landmark in the fight for racial justice. a bridge that limb to large in its life. following a path of rose petals john lewis crossed it for the last time on. the event dubbed the final crossing a highlight of the celebrations honoring the life of the civil rights activist and congressman. it was on this bridge in 1965 that he helped lead a march for racial justice he then became known as bloody sunday after was brutally suppressed by state troopers john lewis was beaten so badly he was left with a broken skull. and that.

the national outrage at violence helped bring picu voting rights for african-americans 50 years later lewis revisited the bridge with the united states 1st black president barack obama. we were beaten. slim molesters of bloody right here and. 17 of us were hospital ours that. but we never became good or hostile or we can't believe that they're truly stewart for what help define. an icon of the civil rights movement lewis remains a hero to a black community experiencing discrimination to this day. what he means to me is that he's a he was a fighter he just kept pressing him kept pressing kept pressing until he was still doing what he's supposed to be and for me it's like you can't stop you've got to

keep going you gotta persevered where there's is it you've got to go through the struggles in order to get better he had to say we've got to continue to get into good trouble and that's what we have to do as a people it is not right say something congress will do is say something john lewis is cost good will lie in state in washington so the public can pay their respects before a private funeral on thursday. and that's national and see racism protests continue all over america civil rights activists more than a leader who always encouraged people to get some good cons of trouble. well let's go now to some other stories making news around the world a cease fire has gone into effect in eastern ukraine moscow and kiev agreed to implement a full ceasefire between government forces and pro russian separatists earlier this month more than 13000 people have died in the conflict which began in 2014.

and germany has rejected a proposal by u.s. president donald trump to invite russia back into the g. 7 german foreign minister heiko masa confirmed the decision in a german newspaper interview published monday russia was expelled from the group of following its an exemption of crimea from ukraine in 2014. somalia's parliament has ousted a prime minister. in a no confidence vote an internet blackout immediately followed legislators accused me of failing to move the country toward democratic elections foreign policy chief joseph says his removal disrespects somalia's constitutional foundations. while dozens of migrant workers have become infected with the coronavirus on a cucumber farm in the southern german state of bavaria nearly 500 people are under quarantine and not allowed to leave the site it's just the latest in

a string of outbreaks involving food production facilities in germany. 480 farm employees and mom and i have been told they aren't allowed to leave the premises security guards are monitoring the current team period imposed after more than 170 of the seasonal workers tested positive for the corona virus there were 7 new cases on friday i'm blank testing revealed that the vets. double farm was the focus of the infections the district administrator moved to reassure the public. just like the high number of positive tests we believe that it's currently limited to a closed group of people. versus the seasonal workers from hungary romania bulgaria and ukraine bus together from their shared accommodation to the cucumber crops ready for harvesting it said that hygiene standards weren't strictly followed the variant opposition parties see the state government is partly

to blame there have been a lack of special measures in both slaughterhouses and on farms. however the various health minister praised the quick reaction of the authorities and called on the public to go for testing. its therefore also important in my opinion that the population here also gets tested so that if they want to travel they can then travel accordingly with a certified negative test. test of patient vising come throughout the outbreak the district of dingo of england is on the verge of exceeding the infection rates of 15 every 100000 people on a regional lockdown would be imposed is still unclear. well north korea has placed the city of k. song near the border with south korea under total lockdown after a person was found or showing symptoms of covered 19 john called an emergency

meeting on saturday if confirmed it would be in the country's a 1st official case north korean state media say the person suspected of having the virus i crossed illegally from south korea. i spoke earlier to reuters correspondent and josh smith in seoul south korea and we asked him about pyongyang's claim that this 1st officially acknowledged case of covert 19 has been linked to someone who had defected to the south and just returned to north korea. well south korean officials have said that there is a good chance that someone did recently return across the border by border and they're checking into that but it is quite interesting folks that we've talked to note that this would potentially allowing north korea to blame south korea rather than china for example for any outbreak in north korea at the same time they also know that it could allow the north korea to save face if it decides to accept a that's been offered by south korea basically framing it as kind of a form of compensation for south korea's role allegedly and sparking an outbreak in

north korea. that was josh smith in seoul and that was your news update at this hour don't forget you can always get the latest on our web site to do that in your dot com or follow us on twitter or instagram at state of the news and by richardson in berlin thanks for watching. today don't miss our highlights. program online d.w. dark heart large. piece for me. is for you. as for health. he told her. he took his 1st.