Im Christine Wonderwall come to the program calls are growing in germany to crack down on the meat packing industry after more than 1300. 00 people tested positive for corona virus at a meat packing plant thousands of people most of the romanian and bulgarian have been quarantined in the western city of war to try to prevent the disease from spreading state leaders say they hope to avoid reimposing a wider lockdown. Its an outbreak that has shocked germany day after day the number of infected 10 u. S. Employees has risen to over 1300 today but there are indications that the planned to may have ignored warning signs ahead of the outbreak. This video shows the Company Canteen in april of this year overcrowded despite germanys supposed social distancing restrictions and this widely circulated recording and employ you can be heard voicing her concern about the situation this is tenuous she says in the video that was leaked online how are we supposed to protect ourselves. 10 years as one of germanys Biggest Meat Processing Companies its clients include german supermarket giants algy and little of the mass outbreak has sparked protests and heated debate about working conditions at plants. Will do anything in our power to shed light onto the darkness in the sector. And will certainly trying to keep the virus from spilling over to the general public. Through. The outbreak of tanyas has raised fears of a super spreader event in the countrys west where germanys 1st major outbreak happened over winter the latest developments have put north rhinewestphalia as premier i mean lush its on the defensive he has now signalled hes considering a larger quarantine in the area to control the outbreak. Of the source of this can be found at this specific company but we still cannot rule out a wider lockdown. Look dont the moment. The plants co owner has promised to take full responsibility for the outbreak but confidence is dwindling in the science management whose team many blame for what has become a major corona crisis. And it is safe is covering the story for us hes outside one of the residences where work his has been placed and the lockdown hello so just tell us about the conditions for these thousands of people who are now in quarantine. Hi christine well the lockdown the quarantine here couldnt be any more strict what were seeing what youre seeing behind me is a large collective housing unit for the workers from the attorney of the tourneys factory and they are surrounded by a fence just like the houses across the street and here in this residential area just 20 minutes by car from the slaughterhouse that accounts for about 6 to 700 workers and like i said the conditions of the quarantine are very strict they have food delivered to them by truck it seems like once a day from the turn us company and right now medical workers are doing tests on all the residents are trying to knock off every name from the list that they have to test everybody who works at the factory the people who live here cant come out of this fence there is no gate has to be opened by with a screw and so its very secure here but on the other hand a lot of workers dont live in these collective Housing Units they live rather in smaller apartments theyre harder to locate. And theyre its hard to know if theyre coming going out of the house theyre more under self quarantine. So why even i mean have authorities oh havent already has imposed a wide and that extends into the city. In the region the government is confident that they have they have this under control that the virus is only spreading among people who work at that factory here the tourney is factory so they think that its remained within the community hasnt spread to the Wider Community theyre doing these tests as you can see here to make sure that that is the case they want to know exactly how many people have the virus and if they can keep it contained within the community then they dont have to lock down the region now schools and kindergartens have been closed down here but otherwise people can go about their daily business and locals told us that the community of workers here many of whom who come from romania and bulgaria are so segregated anyway that they feel confident they havent had contact with them at the same time there is a lot of discrepancies here in where the workers actually live at 1st 30 percent of the addresses of the workers couldnt be located so theres a lot of questions that remain whether or not this virus can be contained. To me and that this companys management tenure has been severely criticised for the way that it had all the situation what went wrong well the head of Crisis Management here in the region to put this in perspective said he had 0 faith in the company anymore after working with them he said there is absolutely no transparency on their side in the beginning they couldnt give all the addresses of their workers and the thing behind this problem is that they work with subcontractors companies from other countries who can offer cheaper wages and can make meat cheaper in germany and theres a lot of pressure on the company to keep need cheap so that involves a lot of transparency the government has said that they are banning some contract work but that is only going to come to pass in january and for the time being they want to find a solution to make sure this doesnt happen again another factor in germany right thats. The reproduction rate for the current virus in germany has now shot up to almost 2. 00 the countrys Infectious Disease agency has cited that outbreak at the meat packing plant as a major factor we asked Political Correspondent nina has a German Government is responding the overall strategy here in germany has been to give a lot of responsibility to the regions and a lot of flexibility to deal with the virus and germany has fared pretty well with that strategy having said that now of course the pressure is on and politicians are showing themselves concerned the labor minister of the country you bet is higher has announced drastic measures for the meat packing industry says the working conditions need to be improved fairly swiftly and more controls need to be imposed there also the Health Ministry in spawn has come out and said that local authorities need to act swiftly to contain any local outbreak because of course theres always the risk that it could spread to the rest of the country and then spawn has also said that the parliament should evaluate the process of coronavirus strategy and measures. Its a look at how the current virus is affecting other countries around the world south Korean HealthOfficials Say they are now battling a 2nd wave off corona virus infections a hit of the countrys center for Disease Control said the new wave of cases began over a Holiday Weekend in maine. Hundreds of people have joined protests in the streets of brazil over a call that 191 side called the handling of the pandemic disastrous and all calling for president diable sonars impeachment this turned out to support him more than 50000 brazilians have now officially died from the virus. A little of an italian regional film body was the epicenter of europes current Virus Outbreak more than 16000 people died there one of the hardest hit towns was. Locals say no family they escaped the tragedy and many are calling for those responsible to be held to a College Student news marina shelves reports. 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. After a few days some of us started breaking down emotionally they were sobbing like babies but that was partly the pressure but also because we were dealing with people who had seen 2 or 3 of their family members die one after the other with. During our pilot was among the founders of bag and initiative to help those who couldnt help themselves 201 t. Has joined him they delivered food and medicines to cover 1000 patients relief for suffering city Everybody Knows somebody who died of culvert 90 the mural you can see behind me has become the symbol of 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 bargain with Public Hospital the image that spreads across the world. At berga most men cemetery visit the grace of people who died of 19 father tells us the number of fatalities was so high that many bodies had to be transported to other cities at the peak of the crisis more than 130 coffins were stored here in his church or their own body and. 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 fir trees but Something Else that i stopped seeing massed myself among the coffins. The. People and are grieving for the loss of laughter 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 proof 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. Before we find out whos 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 to a bio says the citizens will have to take things into their own hands his initiative superbad again will 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. Through by illinois confident that over time his city will manage to recover but that optimism a stamp and by the fear of a 2nd wave of infections. E. U. Leaders have expressed great concerns about chinas proposed security law for hong kong jaring a video summit with beijing the block and china are trying to turn 27 separate agreements into one bilateral pact that will help regulate key issues such as transparency and trade now the pact is also supposed to help create a level Playing Field for investors in europe and china brussels is also calling for beijing to open up the Chinese Markets to the e. U. To rebalance what they consider and im even trading relationship. Joining me now from brussels is the w. s chief International EditorRichard Walker richard so what came out of todays meeting. Well christine to be honest not a huge amounts the e. U. Leaders the top leaders the president s of the council and the Commission Held a press conference. After those talks and they used quite sort of familiar language really talking about having had an open and substantial exchange also on issues where theyre far apart from the chinese side but on the concrete issues where they say they really want to make progress on this investment treaty for instance that you just mentioned there they said that that progress has not been made and they really urge particularly urge the chinese side to come forward and also on the very difficult issue of human rights where china is threatening to impose this National Security law which she will Rights Groups say will release a very undermine the freedoms of people in hong kong there was tough language from love on the line in particular from the president of the European Commission but nothing really threatening that the European Union would impose consequences so one point for instance was a love underline said that she would urge china to reconsider this National Security law but she didnt say what europe would actually do if it doesnt reconsider which seems highly likely. So richard where does this leave e. U. China relations. Well i think today its just the latest example that it kind of exposes the difficulty that europe is having in coming up with a really coherent policy towards china and to be fair to the e. U. Leaders are quite open about this was a lot of underlined talks about this also in the press conference talking about this framing that europe came up with last year for its relationship with china saying that it is a competitor it is a partner but it is also a systemic rival with a very very profound differences with europe and that just creates sounds like a contradiction and i think today is one of those examples where theyre running into the difficulties of dealing with that kind of framing of the relationship where theyre trying to juggle european priorities of trying to boost European Business with this investment treaty but also running into this very hard reality of chinas attitude to human rights which is absolutely diametrically opposed to europes right thats chief International Editor richard was in brussels with that insight thank you richard. Youre watching the news still to come. We get the latest on the 1st big Sports Broadcasting contract to be sold since the pandemic the bluntest negus new deal points toward a dip in the sports t. V. Market stick around for that. But 1st the german chancellor Angela Merkel has condemned a night of rioting and looting that took place over the weekend in the southern german city off that today the countrys interior minister was they have a visit to the city flanked by local government nitas at least 24 people have been arrested following the unrest 900 Police Officers were injured in the clashes. Today a hastily arranged visit to take a stand the german interior minister was joined by his regional counterpart and the botton briton derek state premier. The weekends damage and the extent of violence is still visible hold for calls it an extreme act of violence and wants to crack down on the rioters. Expect the perpetrators to be harshly punished this is about the credibility of our state of laws and severe sentencing is the best form of prevention. According to police 24 suspects have been taken into custody. An estimated 500 people were rioting in the streets of jakarta on saturday night the state premier says hes never seen anything like this before the saw this mob from the streets of stuttgart will get a response from us that is loud and clear and become an interior ministers evil 1st says violence against Police Officers is completely unacceptable he is calling for Political Action so its not so weve seen a surge in violence against Police Officers for some time. Along with a steady increase of attacks. On firefighters and 1st responders like the red cross as was seen in this past weekend. Before you will go for acetic stream acts of violence amount to a challenge confronting the entire country. Its have a look now at some of the stories making news around the world is leaving the german blue chip index stats today which list germanys 30 Biggest Companies the airline is in the midst of a crisis often being badly hit by the coronavirus and they have a government rescue package is planned but has not yet been approved by shareholders. And its city of the 1st private car has crossed the new gentoo a bridge its a milestone ofter an intense year and heart of construction following a deadly collapse in 2018 that killed 43 people. And archeologists in england say theyve discovered a major prehistoric monument underground stonehenge the site consists of huge shots that form a circle more than 2 can all that is in diameter more than 4000 years ago researchers hope the find will help shed new light on the origins of stonehenge itself. The german football the it has accepted a lower price from domestic board hostages for the rights to screen its football matches in the 1st sign of a dip in the sports t. V. Market brought costas style and design picked up most matches from the 4 seasons from 2021 on witts over all clubs from the bundesliga and one does need a tubal cash in 1100000000. 00 viewers per season a slight dip compared to the previous 1160000000. 00 per campaign now the coronavirus pandemic was expected to have an impact on the previously growing sports t. V. Market. And next meryl from the sports. Joins us from our on the subject hey max so they were concentrated that the would get in the amount is this a bit of a bill or a good result considering the circumstances well i mean it is a blow if you consider the current trend which was very much growing up with not just in football in sports as a whole there was have been a huge growth in the market and for the bundesliga specifically their previous bidding round full 4 seasons had seen an 85 percent rise in comparison to the preceding contract now weve seen a decline but on the other hand this is the 1st big broadcasting deal that has been reached after the pandemic and taking the pandemic into account and a drop of 60000000. 00 per season isnt the huge drop that might have been on the minds of some of the executives here and they had been hoping before the pandemic for a 20 percent increase that obviously didnt happen but there have been a few surprises sky of course again the broadcaster to get the bulk of the rights there but joined by design who also got a sizable chunk of the matches and thats a streaming service so another sign to come however amazon and telecom seemingly submitted no bids that was a bit of a surprise as we thought amazon might get involved but right right the d. F. L. Has said no comment now so max what does this mean for the bundesliga and add this all seats around the world well interesting enough the c. E. O. Of the of the d. F. L. German fully concerns i felt said he one doesnt really see a regular seizing happening until 2021 which is when the next brokaw still starts but not the next season i think this will affect the growth of fees weve seen and transfers and contracts for players which of shot up of the last decade and i think there have been concerns and its only in england as well broadcasters they have said you know this isnt the same product that we signed up for when theres no fans no atmosphere and so on so were going to see i think quite a lot of drop off in sports rights in general i think its a sign. Of things to come the product has slightly been devalued but i do think another interesting aspect of this right around has been the uptake and streaming sites getting a chunk of much as i think that will be also some we will see a lot more of in the future ok thats very interesting so just briefly bring us up to date. With abundance League Season is weve just got one more match state of play with a cracking much they just pasta and on the weekend were going to see a few bottles still left to resolve by and obviously already crowned champions thats the 8th time in a row but living in a glass box 2 sides still vying for that 4th place that Champions League place and down below youve got this little from braman trying to get to safety in the relegation fight all right. Max now from this thank you for that interesting as if thats. 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