Plus the mystery of the mythical money german Payments Firm why are card myths that about 1900000000 euros of missing company cash actually doesnt even exist. Plus calling for consequences and explanations an explosion of violence including brutal attacks on police and looting leaves people in the german city have stood guard spot and businesses wrecked. Im brian thomas good to have you with us today German Authorities are scrambling to contain a corona Virus Outbreak after more than 1300 people tested positive at a meat packing plant thousands of people in that surrounding area are now in quarantine and remains unclear if regionally. Were going to reimpose a wider lockdown but concerns are growing about the reproduction rate as well for the whole of the country which is now jumped to 2. 00. Coronavirus cases in germany were long in decline but now thats changing in large part due to the super spreader event at the 10 years meat packing plant in the countrys west. North rhinewestphalia state premier visited the site on sunday. Guns not turn this trial in north rhinewestphalia infection numbers have gone down by over 75 percent since we reopened but here in the good us little district we have a concentrated explosion and the numbers which are closely linked to the Meat Industry industry for booms and. Its not the 1st time that a large corona outbreak has begun at a german meat packing plant but the latest incident has intensified the debate over health and safety of the workers many of the plants workers come from Eastern Europe they live and work in cramped conditions. Is often retrieve the source of this can be found at this specific company but we still cannot rule out a wider longer sound and look down the moment. Lusha it has been one of the loudest proponents of a swift end to lockdown measures now he faces the prospect of being forced into a humiliating as you turn. To w. s only message is with us now from outside the factory at the center of this outbreak a day to 7000 people now in quarantine in the surrounding area how strict is it and are people cooperating. Hi brian the lock down seems to be pretty strict right now in this factory were standing in front of the slaughterhouse where 6500 workers were at work just a few days ago slaughtering 20000 pigs a day that production has been shut down for 2 weeks now 7000 people which is all of the workers here plus their close contacts are in quarantine many of them live in big collective Housing Units in local towns in the area several dozen of them and police have surrounded these areas and are enforcing quarantine now theyve learned lessons from previous outbreaks and slaughterhouses in germany and theyre trying to bring food to them in these collective housing arrangements so that they dont have to leave and so far authorities are confident that the lockdown measures are strict enough that the coroner team is being obeyed but of course 7000 people are quite hard to keep in touch with and that is after this company has come under the spotlight for failing to provide 30 percent of the addresses of the workers here and prompting the Crisis Management team in the area to say that theyve lost all faith in the company so although the lockdown measures are quite strict still remains to be seen if 7000 people will obey that quarantine strictly i mean what are people saying where you are who are they blaming for the outbreak. They blame 2 sources to me is the meat packing plant does not have a good reputation. The area a person we talked to this morning a local said success its definitely a Success Story they have a lot of jobs here in the area so people respect that but on the other hand they know that the conditions that the workers live in are very poor and they know the people that we talk to anyway blame those conditions for the outbreak now the company itself hinted that the outbreak came when workers returned home for the holidays so both gary and romanian brought that infection to the plant but of course the conditions here are responsible for turning those possible infections into an actual outbreak and i think the locals understand that at the same time there is a segregation in these towns here between the german locals and the romanian and bulgarian workers Migrant Workers and theres been a lot of false sightings of Migrant Workers outside of coron scene which Authorities Say are just people who look like theyre from romania in the town so there is the problem that a lot of locals here are worried that if they see somebody who looks like theyre not from the area then theyre afraid that that is going to possibly bring the outbreak outside of that community so that blending both sides here. Thanks so much for that today. And germanys robert Call Institute has pointed to that meat packing plant outbreak as a big driver of germanys virus reproduction number which is now shot up to 2. 88 political correspondent. Is following some of the reactions to this from berlin today to nina does the outbreak at this plant mark the beginning of a 2nd wave in germany. This sort of answer is that the countrys leading Public Health institute he or robert cock institute that you just mentioned they say its too early to say that the current outbreaks of leading to a nationwide increase in cases what theyre saying though is that of course these cases that we just saw in the report that they could literally linked to the rise of the reproductive rate and that has shot up if you look at it last week it was well under one and its now set up to 2. 00 and if you look at that rate its interesting of course you have to remember that it means that on average 100. 00 people now infect 288. 00 other people but of course you have to look at the total number of cases that you have and currently in germany the number of daily new infections is still well below peak times its roughly around 680. 00 so the rubber coat institute says it can be clearly linked to those local outbreaks but the hour rate has shot up ok still does this rate increase is causing a lot of alarm do you think is enough to prompt a rethink in germanys overall strategy which leaves a lot of responsibility to the individual regions. And leaves a lot of responsibility it also leaves a lot of flexibility and now federal ministers have come up and spoken about the cases the labor minister who betters higher actually warns conditions in the meat packing industry to change hes calling for federal measures to improve conditions there because he says its a health risk for the entire population and spawn the Health Minister also says that its vital that these local outbreaks are contained and that the border start the parliament assesses the overall coronavirus restriction measures as soon as possible. As a thank you very much for that. Lets get you up to speed now some of the other of the developments in the pandemic the World Health Organization is recording the biggest one day increase in coronavirus cases so far more than 183000 the americas accounting for more than half of that in brazil some 50000 people have now officially died from the virus hundreds of people joined in protests for and against brazil president i are both in our o. And his handling of the crisis china is reporting 9 new cases in beijing the capital over the past 24 hours thats down from 22. 00 in the previous day and the 1st time its been in single figures for more than 10 days the northern Italian Region of lumber the was the epicenter of europes krone Virus Outbreak more than 16000 people died there in one of the towns hardest hit was buried in the official say no family there escaped the tragedy and only time will tell why it in particular suffered so badly as many call for those responsible to be held to account. Images that are hard to forget military trucks loaded with coffins. Doctors and nurses as frontline fighters in an overloaded hospital. Which travel to battle a city that is still in mourning 1st stop the old town usually a tourist hot spot here we meet. A Community Worker things have calmed down now unlike the south of the crisis. But you know the jordanian after a few days some of us started breaking down emotionally they were sobbing like babies but it was partly the pressure but also because we were dealing with people who had seen 2 or 3 of their family members die one of them one after the other with. Cheering octal bailo was among the founders of superbad and initiative to help those who couldnt help themselves 200 volunteers joined him they delivered food and medicines to cover 1000 patients relief for suffering city everybody in bergen one knows somebody who died of culvert 90 the mural you can see behind me has become the symbol off the crisis a nurse with wings Holding Italy in her arms italian artist franco to vali dedicated it to Health Workers from the wall of bergen with Public Hospital the image that spreads across the world. At berga most men cemetery visit the graves of people who died of 19 father beg tells us the number of fatalities was so high that many bodies had to be transported to other cities at the peak of the grossest more than 130 coffins were stored here in his church or coleman shot while putting their own body. It was unsettling because you know being here like the. After a week or 10 days i started smelling not only the smell of pine trees and fur trees but Something Else that i stopped seeing mass by myself among the coffins. There may not be allowed near so. People and are grieving for the loss of 2 afghans but theyre also beginning to ask questions they want to know why their region number d. Which is one of the richest in italy was so hard hit stefan of course grandfather died in a care home hes now collecting the stories of other covered 9000 victims we just want to know the truth if we want to know if it was addressed before or if there is a high level of power in the authorities not the doctor or sort of nurses that have the possibility to contain this feeling or even to avoid that fusco and others say the worst affected parts of the region should have been closed down at an early states they criticize the regions far right president in milan for putting profits before people to see them before we find out who is responsible we have to understand whether or not we made mistakes from the regions point a few i think we try to give all possible answers and take all possible preventions at a time when we were confronting an extraordinary situation at a time when nobody knew much about the virus. From back in bed again well get a bio says the citizens will have to take things into their own hands his initiative superbad again will will now start organizing concerts to support local artists up in we have to be careful we cant be too cheerful because were doing this in a city in a province that is in mourning or project wants to be a hymn to life not just going back to work but a real new start a new start based on human relations. To buy loyce confidence that over time he says he will manage to recover but that optimus and stamp and by the fear of a 2nd wave of infections. Now if you want to get to the heart of a scandal one good way is to follow the money but in the case of the embattled German ElectronicPayments Company wired card well that doesnt really work it now says that 1900000000 euros reported missing from its accounts may not even exist the mystery of the mythical money has led to a frantic sell off of its stock it was once a rising star in the financial startup world now wire card has fallen hard 18 months of fraud allegations and scrutiny into its Accounting Practices came to a head last week and the fallout is ongoing on thursday wire card said auditors could not find 1900000000 euros reflected in its Balance Sheet the funds were supposed to have been in 2 philippine banks but on sunday the Philippine Central Bank said the money never entered the countrys Financial System so the missing money scandal has already cost c. E. O. Marcus brown his job and on monday a fresh admission a statement from wire card saying that it is likely that the 1900000000. 00 euros do not even exist the amount accounts for a quarter of its total Balance Sheet wire card is facing a cash crunch and says its in talks with creditors to continue financing survival but time could be running out for the company once tell it as the future of german finance. So to find out what happened that wired car with our financial correspondent Chelsea Delaney in frankfurt good morning to you chelsea how does almost 2000000000 euros go missing without anyone noticing. Well this is the question for the past several days to the 2000000000 euros go missing was that embezzled that somebody take it or did it never exist in the 1st place and it is becoming increasingly likely that the 2000000000 years didnt exist that it was fabricated on their Balance Sheet and this is really just the tip of the iceberg for wire card theyve been facing allegations for years now that they were inflating revenues and that they were inflating profits out there overseas subsidiaries and they have faced a lot of investigations where were investigators especially in places like asia and the middle east would go in and look at the businesses and the payments that wire card was reporting and they would just find these companies that they were supposedly a presence in payments for just didnt exist so those 2000000000 years does seem to be linked to the overall fraud and play sion on wire cards business at this point ok with all these problems tells you whats called next for the Company Going to even stay afloat its path forward is looking increasingly uncertain they have seen just a massive decline in their stock price today its fallen another 45 percent theyre running out of cash quickly there are now facing 2000000000. 00 euros of loans that could be cancelled because theyve missed the deadline to file their 2019 Financial Report so they are definitely facing liquidity constraints and at the same time theyre going to be facing a lot of regulatory and legal problems to a lot of investors say theyre going to be suing the company and they also are facing an investigation from prosecutors here in germany and likely well see more and more legal challenges ahead josue thanks for that from frankfurt. Lets get you bring down some of the other stories making the news today the tonsils leaving the german stock market the backs today. Monday the airlines in the midst of a crisis after being badly hit by the pandemic a government rescue package is planned but has not yet been approved by shareholders. And President Trumps former National Security adviser says he will not be voting for the president come november in an interview to promote his tell all book john bolton says the president was not fit for office the book which President Trump tried to have blocked is due for release this week. A fire broke out at the dana u. S. Air base in japan with firefighters responding to smoke billowing from a Hazardous Materials facility no one was injured because of the fires not yet. Here and police are winding their investigation after rioting and looting in the city have stood guard the head of police there say hes never seen anything like it in the early 50 years on the job on saturday night officers lost control as some 500 young riders took over the city center and attack police at least 1000 Police Officers were injured 24 people were arrested. Shattered glass ransacked shops still cut streets after saturday nights chaos hundreds of people came to this park to party when the Police Arrived suspecting a drugs offense the situation escalated. People threw stones and bottles and attacked police cars several officers were injured Police Called to the scene described it as completely out of control. The army into someones invalids the police all in all 1000. 00 Police Officers were injured last night the injured is that it was designed inst one of them was hurt so badly had to be taken off duty this number could still rise as officers often report their injuries afterwards that hed made and understand using narcan gun call and video circulating on social media shows several groups turning violent destroying shop fronts and losing until the early hours of the morning this all into something they didnt for a lot of throughout the night 40 stores are attacked. At the moment we see in shop windows was smashed and destroyed shop and just. From what we know at present 9 shops were looted you always does noise in large english if they get. The next day start got residents reacted to the destruction. Weve never seen this instant gut im completely shocked i just cant really believe it. And it clogs up as far as the hours i found out about it through a video i just saw someone throwing stones at the shop to terminal damage destroying other peoples property thats not ok. Police are currently gathering evidence from the shops destroyed overnight more than 20 people arrested during the violence and now being questioned. Did. Standing by for us right now in stuttgart today do you back or can you give us some more details about the rioters the looters and how they organized absolutely so what police are saying is that many of the suspects many of the people involved in the clashes are from the citys socalled party scene i spoke with many of the people i spoke with several of the people who actually said that they were there on saturday night this does not appear to be an organized group per se if they said that they were just a group of lots of friends who were gathering in separate groups who then came together out of solidarity when police went to go search another team for drugs now many of these of the people who were involved theyre young theyre in their late teens early twentys and many of them themselves also said they didnt understand how how things got so out of hand and why things escalated so quickly some of them said that there have been tensions with police and that theres been a larger conversation about relations with police especially in light of the u. S. Protests against Police Brutality but some also cited frustrations over the coronavirus lockdown saying that that they felt isolated and that they were frustrated sort of and general with the situation and one of the main things that they saw also told me was that alcohol was definitely a factor in what occurred on saturday night and police are saying that this is not a politically motivated they do not believe that there is a political motivation behind what happened here what are police saying about any more arrests that might be in the pipeline. Well the authorities have launched a massive investigation into what happened and they are going to be looking through through the evidence in the shops that were damaged and the ones that were looted they were going there but there were only so far only 24 arrests and between 400 to 500 people are believed to have been involved so these investigations are going to take some time and many of the people who were involved were also Wearing Masks and covering their faces so police are definitely facing an uphill battle in determining exactly who was involved rebecca thanks very much for bringing us up to date from the city center there as that court today more than 2000 people turned out in madrid sunday to demand the return of bullfighting across spain the sport has been canceled since lockdowns began on march 13th but now supporters are calling on politicians and organizers to restart events or divert leighs to offer Financial Systems for what they say this part of spains cultural and artistic hurted is estimated the lockdown has cost the board more than 5000000. 00 euros. 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