Been prevented. The consequences and explanations an explosion of violence including brutal attacks against police and looting please people in the german city of stark dark stunned and businesses track. Im brian thomas good to have you with us today there has been a spike in corona virus cases here in germany after more than 1400 people tested positive at a meat packing plant that facility has been closed for 2 weeks and thousands of people placed in quarantine in the surrounding area it remains unclear if regional leaders are going to reimpose a wider lockdown and concerns are growing about the reproduction rate 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 and large part due to the super spreader event at the tiniest meat packing plant in the countrys west. North rhinewestphalia state for mia visited the site on sunday. Guns not to run this trial in north rhinewestphalia infection numbers have gone down by over 75 percent since we reopened but here in the good just little district we have a concentrated explosion in 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. Retrieve the source if this can be found at this specific company but we still cannot rule out a wider longer sound and look down the moment. Conan. 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 on the message is with us now from outside the factory at the center of this outbreak good day to you 7000 people now in quarantine in the surrounding area how strict is it and are people cooperating. Hi brian the lockdown 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 korean team is being obeyed but of course 7000 people are quite hard to keep in touch with and that is after this company tenuous 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 it still remains to be seen if 7000. People will obey that quarantine strictly that i mean that is the big question and it means that authorities are considering a broader law down could that be avoided or is that a possibility. Right the state premier arm in law should thats for north north rhinewestphalia which is the largest german state he has not denied that it could be possible that in the area total lockdown comes into place right now its just the schools and kindergartens that have been. Closed but everybody can still move freely in this area but he said that that might happen if the infection spreads outside of the community of workers who live in this area i mean what are people saying where you are who are they blaming for the outbreak. They blame 2 sources tenuous the meatpacking plant does not have a good reputation in 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 a 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. 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 an outbreak outside of that community so they blame both sides here i mean as of thanks so much for that today. Lets bring you up to speed now some of the other developments in the pandemic the World Health Organization has recorded the biggest one day increase in coronavirus cases so far more than 183000 the americas accounting for more than half of that in brazil more than 50000 people have now officially died from the virus hundreds of people joined in protest for and against president higher balsa narrow and his handling of the crisis china has reported 9 new cases in beijing over the past 24 hours thats down from 22 the previous day in the 1st time it has been in single figures for more than 10 days the northern Italian Region of lumbered he was the epicenter of europes coronavirus outbreak more than 16000 people died there one of the towns hardest hit was bare gomo locals say no family there escaped the tragedy 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 pfizers overloaded hospital. Which travelled to better 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 at the start of the crisis. But you know the ga me 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 after the other with. During lockdown 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 19 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 bergen most Public Hospital the image that spreads across the world. At berga most men cemetery visit the grace of people who died of 19 father beck a mallet tells us the number of fatalities was so high that many bodies had to be transported to other cities at the peak of the graces more than 130 coffins were stored here in his church. And 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. Will imagine. People 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 Stefano Fusco scran father 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 unjustified 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 that school 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 can see that 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 will putin says the citizens will have to take things into their own hands his initiative superbad again will bill now 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. Confidence that over time his city will manage to recover but that optimism a stamp and buds a fear of a 2nd wave of infections. Lets get you briefed on some of the other stories making the news at this hour Donald Trumps former National Security adviser says he will not be voting for the president come november interview to promote his alltel book john bolton said that trump was unfit for office a book which the president s tried to block is due for release this week. A fire broke out dana a u. S. Air base in japan firefighters responding to plumes of smoke below the billowing from a Hazardous Materials facility no one was injured and the cause of that fire is not yet know. The embattled german Financial Tech Company why are card says that the 1900000000 euros reported missing from its accounts may simply not exist to philippine banks supposedly holding that money say wire card has never been their customer. Well here in Germany Police are widening their investigation after widespread rioting and looting in the city of stuttgart the head of police there says hes never seen anything like it in nearly 50 years on the job on saturday night police lost control of some 500 mainly young riders to go over the city center and attack police at least 1000 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. They have an interest on loans in full its the police only know of 1000. 00 Police Officers were injured last night the engine 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 made in this 10 years from now going on call and videos 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 very different for love throughout the night 40 stores are attacked. At the moment we see in shop windows were smashed and destroyed shop and. From what we know at present 9 shops were looted always does noise in large english if they get. The next day start cut residents reacted to the destruction. Never seen this instant gut im completely shocked i just cant really believe it. And its going to close up as far as the others i found out about it through video i just saw someone throwing stones at the shop to terminal damage destroying other peoples property thats not ok at all the police are currently gathering evidence from the shops destroyed overnight more than 20 people arrested during the violence and now being questioned. Did obvious records down myra standing by for us right now in stood guard today do you rebecca 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 so called 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 the 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 these 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 rests 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 looking at those ruined businesses behind you today in stuttgart a lot of people there are not going to be returning to work today what the citizens want to see to keep this from happening again not only in stood guard but in other german urban areas. Well a lot of people are calling for hard hour strict measures against the people who are involved something to send a signal that this type of violence that these types of clashes are not ok and that they will not be tolerated the state interior minister in baghdad card is located said that they will be following they will be pursuing the suspects to the full extent of the law and that theyre calling for justice theyre also going to be looking more firmly into the city socalled party scene and doing more patrols putting more police on the streets and and inspecting this scene and making sure that these gatherings dont get out of hand the way that they did on saturday night rebecca thanks very much for bringing us up to date from the city center there and stuttgart today. Well businesses around the world are taking stock in the wake of coronavirus lockdowns and its especially small and medium sized firms that are suffering thats according to a Study Released today by the uns International Trade center that survey shows that around 66 percent of sole operators and Small Businesses have been hard hit over the past 3 months thats compared to 43 percent of Large Businesses. Who have done opened his cafe here in jordans capital amman last new years eve less than 6 months later hes facing closure even though jordan has started to ease lockdown measures his tables have been mostly empty since cafe israel out to reopen and his regulars are afraid to come in for coffee or to smoke shisha. As a kid that i will from the im sure that i will have to close if i cannot find someone to support me maybe my brother my friends i must get some kind of support to the fed i hope our government will support us we hope that there will be such a program but if we dont receive it we will completely close our business and. Hes not alone in his distress one in 5 Small Businesses globally face bankruptcy within the next 3 months according to the International Trade center study governments around the world have put up trillions of dollars in aid to support their economies and businesses but more than half of small and Midsize Companies around the world say its not enough thats especially true for developing countries who report falling exports as wealthy trading partners into recession and stop buying their goods travel Restrictions Mean tourists are also staying away and consumers everywhere remain has a tent to spend. In amman abu hamed on isnt giving up yet even with few customers hes opening his cafe and the hope that life will soon return to his city. For more on the economic damage im joined by Marion Jensen chief economist at the uns International TradeCenter Thanks so much for joining us today your study just out today shows that small and medium sized businesses are bearing the brunt or suffering the most from the panda demick are you expecting a global wave of bankruptcies in this sector even with so many lock downs are being eased. Now a business really across the world is suffering from the measures that have been put in place that have been put in place for what reasons by governments Small Businesses are suffering more you already heard that this Large Businesses that severely affected its only 40 percent of the Large Companies its over 60 percent of the smaller mike was sized and the prices now you asked the question do we expect bankruptcies yes we do around 20 percent of the small and Medium Sized Enterprises that they may not survive the next 3 months now to see to assess the extent of that number keep in mind that small and Medium Sized Enterprises are responsible for around 70 percent of employment in devote now 20 percent of those Companies Looking dont mean that to 15 percent of jobs may be at risk that a large number that is indeed what regions are countries you expect to see the worst effects for Small Businesses. No small and Medium Sized Enterprises represent a majority of enterprises in all countries in most countries its over 90 percent of enterprises that are small or medium sized thats the case in europe in asia and in africa. You know what is different in a region like africa where we find that as in these are most affected are 3 things 1st as a muse are smaller they are rather on the micro or size of the companies 2nd government have less funding and less in order to support small and Medium Sized Enterprises and so many businesses are informal and would therefore not even have access in many cases to the measures that are put in place by the government we find that informal and of prizes are 25 percent more likely to go bankrupt than their formal. Government programs in places like the u. S. The you will they be making a difference for these Small Businesses. Those programs are important and definitely can make a difference but one of the most surprising findings of our survey years that over 50 percent of as in these that they find it difficult to get access to information on the programs governments put in place and they find it hard to understand what they have to do in order to benefit from that assistance at the International Trade center we believe that business support organizations like chambers of commerce trade Promotion Organization sector or industry as ascensions have an Important Role to play here they are an intermediary between the government and that boss enterprise and they should use order means at their disposal including digital platforms to make Information Available to them members in a way that demand enterprises and in particular small and of prizes understand it. And in order for the funding to reach and certainly lets hope that that happens Marion Jensen chief economist at the International TradeCenter Thanks so very much thank you very much. We have some sports now in the bundesliga 2nd Division Promotion hopefuls hide behind and hamburg went head to head on the penultimate match day it was 3rd versus 4th the hosts at ambers Promotion Campaign back with a surprise when and now hide behind have a shot at making it into the bundesliga for the very 1st time in that small clubs history. Or a Small Town Club hiden chaim have surprisingly pushed for promotion for several seasons now but visitors hamburg had the upper hand in points and the early chances after a school this 1st tough pollo broke the deadlock right off to half time i think goal came just 20 seconds after the restart his 9th for the season putting hamburg in front. High deny him how to goal disallowed 10 minutes later but managed to keep their promotion hopes alive by storing in the a. T. F. Minutes and own goal but it counts just the same one all day and in the 93rd minute a desperate hail mary pass suddenly looked like a stroke of genius when Stephan Schimmel set up constantine cash to spot wild celebrations. 21 win that means higher and higher move into 3rd and head of the final match day promotion would be quite the feat for a club that was playing in the 6th division as recently as 2004. And stood guard were demoted to the 2nd Division Last season but the us legal looks all but certain following a 6th. Circuit storing 1st after. Silas. Stole the ball and converted to make a further 5 goes for the dark in prime position to seal 2nd place next week. Story concern growing after more than 30. Classroom close for 2 weeks thousands of people have been placed in the surrounding area. This is. Thanks. 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