Now in the city. Is the tragedy and the high death toll could have been prevented if the regions leaders have acted so. Check on government subsidies and a level Playing Field for investors thats what dyou leaders are demanding from china as trade talks resume today china moves closer toward walk in brussels wants. To show me the money troubles of germanys why it. Says it appears to have lost accounts containing nearly 2000000000 euros. Welcome to the Program Alarm bells ringing here in germany after more than 1300 people tested. Was it to focus on a virus of the meat packing plant thousands of people have been quarantined in the western town of slope to try to prevent the disease from spreading further regional leaders say they are doing all they can to avoid reimposing a wider lockdown but criticism is growing of the Company Involved after video emerged showing that it failed to enforce rules on social distancing. 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 plant 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 leak recording and employ you can be heard voicing her concern about the situation this is tenuous. How are we supposed to protect ourselves 10 years is one of germanys Biggest Meat Processing Companies its clients include german supermarket giants aldi and lidl the mass outbreak has sparked protests and heated debate about working conditions at plants. Will do anything in our power to shed light on to the darkness in the sector. And will certainly try to keep the virus from spilling over into the general public. The outbreak at 10 years 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 premier army in lush on the defensive he has now signals hes considering a larger quarantine in the area to control the outbreak. This is a source of this can be found at this specific company but we still cannot rule out a wider lockdown an inflation day condition look a moment recent conan 10 years c l claimants 10 yes has promised to take full responsibility for the plant but local leaders have already said they have little confidence and his company to manage a rapidly growing outbreak for your call. Covering this story for us hes outside one of the plant workers residence and now under lockdown i mean what conditions are workers facing there on the lockdown 6. As you can see right behind me is a fence without an exit weve seen people passing things over the fence which means there is no way to come out theres no coming and going here this is a housing block for workers from the tourney as factory and theyre under a complete quarantine theres Police Parked at both sides of the street making sure nobody leaves and goes in here we spoke we tried to speak to one of the workers inside a spoke german but said that he didnt want to speak to the media because other People Living here didnt want the medias attention but we did speak to a german couple who also was living with in this fence they have their own house next to one of these apartments and theyre under quarantine 2 they said it came suddenly and now theres a fence around here and they cant come or go they have to get food delivered which has been tricky they said so very strict security here well told us security how hard will it be for authorities to enforce the current in which involves some 7000. And that close contacts. Thats the question there are 7000 people who are supposedly under quarantine what we can see here is that several 100 are under quarantine we can see that with our own eyes the problem is earlier we visited a house that also had workers from the slaughterhouse where there was no police and no fence and thats because these workers had found their own apartment within the city so even though places like this are under high security where a lot of workers live together there are also places within the city where one or 2 workers may be living who may have been exposed to the virus and are under self quarantine and its hard to say whether or not that is as failsafe as this one authorities are. Optimistic that they can keep it under control but like you said 7000 people and thats hard to keep track of. Well i mean we. Say the management of the company is facing criticism for the way it handled the situation what went wrong that. Well the Security Management here the authorities in this region said they have 0 faith in the company you know thats because every step of the way theyve made it difficult for the authorities to work with them one point said that they didnt have the addresses of all their employees up to 30 percent of the addresses were missing they blamed it on germanys privacy laws but it turned out to not be true of the authorities tracked down the addresses of those workers. Now the conditions under which these workers work is also has also been blamed for the problem theres you subcontractors so theres very little transparency in how many hours these people work where they live and thats under scrutiny now in germany but all along the way its been hard to find out where people live on or what conditions theyre working how this is virus is spreading believe they have it under control now but its a matter of wait and see. If we porters thank you. Lets bring up to speed with some of the other developments in the coronavirus pandemic the World Health Organization has recorded the biggest one day increase and coronavirus cases so far more than 183000 the americas account for more than half of that in brazil more than 50000 people have now died from the virus hundreds of people joined in protests for and against brazils president also narrow and his handling of the crisis indonesias death toll has risen to 2500 the highest in the fast east asia and india has recorded 445 new deaths in 24 hours its the biggest single day increase today. The northern Italian Region of lombardy was the epicenter of europes corona Virus Outbreak more than 16000. 00 people died than one of the towns hardest hit was bagenal locals say no family there is gave the tragedy and many are calling for those responsible to be held to account the w. s Marinus Trust reports. Images that are hard to forget military trucks loaded with coffins. Doctors and nurses as frontline fighters and 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 though unlike the south of the crisis. 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. During october bailo was among the founders of superbad and initiative to help those who couldnt help themselves 200 volunteers joined him vigil of food and medicines to cover 1000 patients relief for our 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 bali dedicated it to Health Workers from the wall of darkness Public Hospital the image that spreads across the world. At berga most Main Cemetery visit the grace of people who died of. Father beggar 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 bedouin 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 fur trees but Something Else that i stopped seeing mass by myself among the coffins. Emerged. People and are grieving for the loss of last ones 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 we want to know if it was just a fatality or if there is a high level of power in the heart is not the doctor or sort of nurses that have the possibility to contain this feeling or even to avoid their fusco and others say the worst affected parts of the region should have been closed down at an early states they criticize the reasons far of president in milan for putting profits before people to see them 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 will kill 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. 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 him to life not just going back to work but a real new start a new start based on human relations the market. Is confident that over time his city will manage to recover but that optimism a stamp and buds a fear of a 2nd wave of infections. Morenos draws for boarding that trade with china is important for all european economies but also complicated e. U. Investors have long complained about the lack of access to Chinese Markets and unfair government subsidies leaders from the un try in our meeting today to discuss a new Investment Agreement e. U. Leaders in brussels are holding a Video Conference with their powerful counterpart in beijing Chinas Foreign Ministry says the Chinese Government touches great importance to the meeting the goal of the stalled investment talks is to turn 27 separate agreements into one bilateral investment pact it will regulate key issues such as transparency a mutual trade heaping a level Playing Field for investors compliance with the rules on funding state owned companies and the protection of intellectual property. The talks come at a time of tension between the 2 sides for example china has reacted angrily to e. U. Criticism of its controversial new security law for hong kong European Union leaders are looking for an opportunity to exert influence over beijing. If to deal with and i am fine and i am now in which we keep dragging this china on important matters like an investment treaty progress on Climate Change and our commander in africa but also on questions of the rule for our human rights and the future on cards that. Chinas Economic Policy has changed since the investment talks began 6 years ago the flow of chinese money into e. U. Countries has been falling since 2016 with direct investment back to 2013 levels. Trade relations need repairing and the talks need to get moving. Joining me now from brussels is our chief International EditorRichard Walker richard theyve been talking for a long time and theres still lots of tensions and there are. Yes i mean the tensions are really quite extreme at the moment between china and the west as a whole really going back several months of course you know the context for that you know many things relating to the covert outbreak which of course began in china there are lots of questions about whether china could have been more transparent in the early days of the outbreak whether that contributed to just how far and how fast the pandemic spreads. Also there are concerns just voice very recently by the European Union outright accusing china of mounting dissin from asian campaigns within europe around the covert outbreak and then on top of that we just saw in the report human rights in jang in the province in western china more than a 1000000 people in socalled reeducation camps their rights being severely curtailed something the doctor well as reported on a lot and of course hong kong this new National Security law that china wants to impose their threatening Freedom Freedom of speech in hong kong now the usual way for the European Union with all of these concerns over human rights is to sort of voice concerns say that we talked to china about these things but human Rights Groups are saying that simply doesnt go far enough now and the European Parliament is actually just recently chimed in in agreement with that saying that the European Union has to threaten the consequences over these breaches of human rights otherwise theyre just not standing up for their own values properly so more of that in their kind of super at the moment making this a very very difficult set of talks to hold their it sounds very difficult while the u. N. China eve meeting or at all given all those differences. Yeah well this is actually less than had been planned the plan was to have a huge summit to much fanfare with all 27. 00 european leaders in germany this september that is being put on ice supposedly blaming the corona pandemic but of course all of those factors certainly at play here the european side would say 2 things 1st will they say its important to keep talking they believe in diplomacy they believe in multilateralism so keep talking no matter how bad the problems are and the 2nd thing is they want that investment treaty that we saw described in the report that theres a real sense in europe that European Countries have not had a fair crack at the Chinese Market the same sort of concerns that you hear voiced in america by donald trump obviously voicing a rather more low key way here in europe so they do want progress on that i think china wants progress on that too the question is with all of those concerns all of those geopolitical tensions all of the uncertainty in the world at the moment just means it might just be too difficult for the obvious chief International EditorRichard Walker brussels many thanks what if you dont use still to come how could this have happened in the prosperous german city of stuttgart an explosion of violence including brutal attacks against police and looting leaves many stunned and searching for answers. But 1st burst missing funds embattled german payments provider wire card taken another twist the company now says that 1900000000 euros reported missing from its account may never have existed at all the mystery of the mythical money has led to a frantic sell off on the of the stock of germanys new economy poster child. 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 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 at survival but time could be running out for the company once tell it as the future of german finance. Well for more on that lets talk to. Frank but josie how does almost 2000000000 euros go missing without anyone noticing. Well this is the question since this news broke on thursday is it missing did somebody take it was it embezzled or just did it never exist in the 1st place and it is looking increasingly likely that it didnt exist it was never there so that begs the question of why why are card would put 2000000000 euros that didnt exist on its Balance Sheet and theres still a lot we dont know about this story every day and new shoe drops and we just are continuing to follow it but its going to take a long time and a lot of investigations to really get to the bottom of this but what we do know is that wire card of course has been facing allegations and a lot of questions over its Accounting Practices for years its been repeatedly accused of inflating its sales and this cash number this 2000000000 euros in cash that is on its Balance Sheet it did help reinsure a lot of investors that the company was financially sound so this was a really important number for investors and the fact that it didnt exist is really creating a lot of existential questions about about the future of the