Parliament speaker says its clear that there were casualties its been more than 2 weeks since young people began demonstrating against Police Brutality the manufacturer of a powerful painkiller that helped to set off an Opioid Epidemic in the u. S. Will plead guilty to criminal charges as part of an 8000000000. 00 settlement Purdue Pharma makes the Prescription Drug oxycontin which is linked to an addiction crisis thats killed more than 400000 people in the past 20 years but the deal does not release any of the companys executives or owners including members of the wealthy secular family from criminal liability. The unlawful dangerous scheme put profits over people by seeking to increase scripts for addictive jaros even when they were not medically appropriate and at the height of the u. S. Opioid crisis a time when in vermont where im from and across the country people were suffering under opioid addictions that sometimes ended and and so many of those addiction stories began with oxy cotton. A volunteer in the Clinical Trial of a corona virus vaccine has died in brazil but over Authorities Say the testing will continue brazilian media reporting the volunteer received a placebo the vaccine is being developed by astra zeneca and Oxford University which say there are new concerns about the childs safety its one of 2 potential vaccines facing can equal trials in brazil a mass protest is taking place in the colombian capital bogota against the social and economic policies of president even decay the protests are led by Union Members students teachers and a large contingent of columbias indigenous population and a part of a National Strike action they want to meet to discuss the recent deaths of indigenous activists fault lines is up next and up in more news for you straight after that thanks for watching i think. I want you to know are they going to defeat the terrible china virus as we call it there is no place for hate in america well our feeling great ever about your word is not a political statement its a scientific recommendation the final president ial t. V. Debate live on aljazeera. Yes he did that i had i. Love him he said im an old ferial you may recall. That i had i. Read that of up to that guess that about how the. When in may he. Thought i had that and that is when your professor. A mate of mine im a because i thought there was outside of my that that ive got a fear of it but to get that off with more. More. Better. Matter is. Because in the United States. The current virus swept the country meatpacking plants like prisons and Nursing Homes emerged as steadily hotspots. Her husband and her sister worked at this poetry plant delo way. With covert 190 my friend pierre mad mad mad mad a team own basis but at the end we get and how do you think the youve got seen and ordered. This. More deal. Up at all or not have been was the. Scene in batticaloa in lapland. This u. N. Office got almost like youve almost i mean that i sit there. And im the silent one never said this. Could just him to sound that bit of piracy better none of this. No no if youre never really that get out of by sandal the companies have done a very good job about making it so that we dont know the full extent of whats going on the pirates on this episode of food lines we go inside americas poultry plants to see why so many workers have gotten sick and what companies could have done to reduce the spread of a 19 has only exposed highlighted the lack of agency that these workers have often in terms to go shooting a safe workplace. Weakland and. Lock them up in his bluff and quite a bill. Because my dad being kicked out of 2 will. Should look at that pick it up yet that. Figure out if you walk into the last 7. If you get it and the cargo. Hold couple going. To fly a plane into a field. You feel. Im a 7th raynas husband aaron passed away from 19 he was 67 years old. Cheated me out of if you know that being. Caught in the 10 look you support to make. Someone just a friend. In another math but me but in which i hand. A hand. And went to put. The poultry industry in the United States is a massive business in 2019 america pretty small to 9000000000 she cant but so far almost 100000000000. This. In the spring of 2028 through areas across the u. S. Became supplies hotspots for comfort 19. Even though they were not densely populated they had one thing in common. They were fun to notch meat packing plants our food system is industrialized is serious factories if you could conjure a perfect and keep the air for a virus like of at 19 i mean packing plant as a great example the way that the lines are designed and that the rate of the orders coming in people are literally like this shoulder shoulder elbow to elbow how can you implement social distancing in a poultry plant like that. Plants are often very code to keep the meat from spoiling possibly allowing the virus to survive longer this is a highly contagious disease and so its very easy for the virus to spread plus the fact that you have a ventilation system in those plants that is supposed to keep the air circulating the fact that now were discovering that that the virus can be spread through droplets that may be in the air the ventilation systems and in these plants probably exacerbated the situation in the early months of the pandemic some Companies Including tyson foods bonuses to work because based on attendance raising concerns that sick employees enticed to work and it wasnt if you report and youre not sick it wasnt oh if you get sick and you take time off thats ok its if you are porch every day the companies are using every tool in their tool box to make it so that they dont interrupt their processing specs but they do keep the workers exposed. According to the food and Environment Reporting Network the food 1000 meat packing plant workers have been effected with kotak 198200 have died. The demo for the peninsula stretches for hundreds of kilometers along the east coast of delaware maryland and virginia. Travelers heading to the beach often drive right pos one of the regions Biggest Industries many dont realize that fast and accurate of washington d. C. There is a massive presence of a faltering industry its hard to overstate the influence particular purview farms on the peninsula right in downtown salisbury maryland yeah. All right. Thank you for letting us come visit you really appreciate it on the front. Thank you put and put you and they can you read it to me this. Thank you for your hard work. Yesterday and every day thank you again for your did delegation to do so is very plain. I we did over and over. And i said why. You feel if you can say thank you to somebody who was hard workers you should send them home when it is those of. Misc. Was working at the silsby plant in early april when he told that he had a fever. She wanted says poti fams checked his temperature knew he had a fever and allowed him to keep looking for several days and a full day and i say you know im going and when i say youre not going because they were asked after like he is not dissemble. I said im going quoted that big and he said no called ambien it will be a bad day to call me doesnt get better he doesnt get better so in the morning they call me said he is getting worse or so day have to put him in. Put a 2 by his mic so he can go to his lungs and this and that can seen him the war. Was 44 when he died leaving behind 3 teenage children. June a sense most of the workers at the plant and the family members are free to speak out about covert 19 even my being who didnt want to lose a job. Because they think if this tell you or you to be in a t. V. Talk about it you go into the job how to go pay the bills but me i had only because i knew. Somebody is is all is was everything for me. Juma says didnt contact her until she started speaking out about what happened it was 2 weeks after that both my husband then they tell me to go and send me a call. When i was sick the cause was. 100 cats inside because. I was so mad i even get caught in the morning to get argued back today and they say you show we do that for everybody youll know somebody yes and no thank you so much i dont need. Says it did not allow me scared to come to work with a fever and the content she want to receive wasnt officially from the company because im here. To take money we came here because we will we dont have anything in on in our country is not that is not we came here for safety. You know may have come to the United States looking for safety we me skeptic and working at the post plant he was stepping into a dangerous industry i think the average consumer thinks about a small farm moving it product or an animal to a small processing facility that bench frames that figure us restore and thats what they buy the reality is that these are factories meatpacking workers have among the highest rates of injury and illness in the country according to the u. S. Bureau of labor statistics the federal government has oversight during the pandemic it has issued guidance that is meeting for plants to follow and starting the production for these workers are working on a wind that moves incredibly fast its very dirty youre dealing with with animal parts are dealing with animal blood people get stabbed by their neighbor by themselves theyve lost faders hay in the car so its not uncommon to hear that workers are wearing Adult Diapers as theyre working and deford caving on themselves and urinating on themselves because they would be punished if they request if you take a restroom break you know over the course of a few the recent years workers were sent to receive care at hospitals as much as every other day the workers in punchy plants are primarily black or latino. And asian at least a 3rd immigrant many are refugees on documented in the spring of 2020 according to the u. S. Government waste 9 out of 10 meat packing plant workers who contract to cope with 19 more minorities 70 percent of frontline meat packing workers are either or latino or asian and you contrast that with a company like tyson were over 70 percent of the salaried employees the managers are white and thats exactly the racial dynamic that you see playing out in the plants. What. If youre not a strong minded person the chicken play is not for you is very intense and its very cutthroat and the management there they care more about pieces of me going in the tray then they care about their team members in that became very evident this year very everyone. Has spent 6 years working in the poultry business he was working at the tyson plant on virginias Eastern Shore when covered 19 arrived what was the 1st reaction from the plant to keep up a say the 1st reaction was. Hush hush there was one case that was a report with the management and theyd swept it under the rug and it took 4 team members to start speaking amongst ourselves because they really didnt want anybody to know what was going on. The house. Was the. Back challenge of keeping. The train and keeping the pole chain coming to the heights of american citizens not very prepared i would say on the whole many workers reported in march and april and may they were telling the company is telling the manager thinks the feeling is that they needed better access to people. They needed better stick time. Thing its be able to care for relatives and children and those needs are not met. We spoke with one current and one former worker from the tyson plant way keesha worked they asked us to conceal their identity because theyre afraid of retaliation when no one picked them clobber you know had a thrilling almost ready. Not to list but my luck and put up or down you know broken program our career and our career more of us if you see im pissed off processor or part of our spiritual processing where i need to be to almost have to be at home or people have brought the care bear norco wall plug because i have a problem of order. In late may tyson released the results of testing at that plant of the genius Eastern Shore 20 percent of the workers tested positive for the covert 19 and provost offer it up on the standard miracle going to run must be your. Former leader of the program r. S. S. Going to spur some of moles on her most probably have covered them and youre sick. Probably hot or short of reality us. Versus a pair of our our mothers beat us youre sick of simple query writing at all your Grocery Store personal horrors. The musketeer are there are some of these insecure former. Teacher didnt think it was safe to return to work in april she was afraid of infecting her mother who has a weak immune system she had a disagreement with tyson if a taking leave and said she was terminated she thinks they were unhappy that she was speaking out about kovac 19 head theyd taken this seriously when the 1st case was reported. They wouldnt have had so much he bought all of them they didnt care about the safety of the workers and the health of the workers they were caring more about getting their orders out. In late april following the shutdown as several plants due to workers getting sake tyson foods took out a boat if it is meant to major newspapers the ad said the covered 19 could break the Food Supply Chain and the closing plants because millions of pounds of meat to disappear from Grocery Stores the company defended its Safety Practices and called on the federal government to help with a sign an executive order today i believe and that also of any liability problems where they have certain level of the problems and will be a very good shape were working with patients which is one of the Big Companies in that world just days after that atapi it was a trauma hes the defense production act to keep meat packing plants open as essential businesses it gave these companies cover to keep the the plants open even though. Their workers were still getting sick i think that the Meat Industry understood that if youre going to the Grocery Store and not seen the products that we want it was so powerful that there was an opportunity here to celeste that federal assistance based on that concern more pressing concern at the time more dire certainly was you know workers already dying from cover 19 and that was background it to some extent a talking point also emerged among republican officials placing the blame on immigrant workers for spreading the virus as opposed to the working conditions inside the plant and we believe that 99 percent of whats going on today wasnt happening inside the facility it was more at home where these employees were going home and spreading some of the virus that ok if you will still north one could go and. Focus on my female if im a female my period. But our whole. Family have a very remote from a few before could not be emotional. So those are tumors in a visit. To the pandemic began tyson foods released this promotional video to show how the company is protecting book is before the start of the evolution of jupiters are taken with this read through to put your companies have resisted cool including recommendations by the c. D. C. To slim down the line speak and space workers further restaurants in other areas there and work station dividers were team members are working closely together basic math if theres fewer workers on the line and one line has to go more slowly fewer chickens are going to process its an instance where the workers mean then and certainly what weve all been taught about the best Public Health response physical distance thing is directly at odds with the profit margin of these companies. 4 lines has obtained footage from inside tyson plants in arkansas that contradicts the companys messaging on social distancing filmed in july of 2020 the video showed workers in close proximity to one another various parts of the plant theyre crowding in the hallways these are not buildings with you know massive walkways these are narrow hallways and we know from covert that 6 feet of distance is essential to protecting against the spread. These are people being treated as colleagues in a machine expendable rather than actually being cared for. An additional problem at poti ponce up bottlenecks at the front gate we watch workers coming going in clusters at several mountain half ounce plants in delaware in july of 2020. Wanted to hear what the company was telling me recruits about social distancing and the risks of covered 19 so we entered their recruitment santa. Fe and so we could sign outside today i took 2 for wanted an Application Form packet tracking. Gradient you know actually controlled quantities good like you said you got me cattle because to me how can i stop the packing next to somebody else bit annoying some lines might be a few feet 3 feet cant tell you thats going to be 6 we did it were at the plant if its 3 feet is that still safe in the safe because youre going to have a. Face mask and you can have a bucket hat with a facial idea of theyre going to if you speak at all this things not going to get here directly to your face last year and did that yeah it can be hard you know that there is a lot in between life also as much as possible this year and i just dont love for that. Gosh children and you know people. They recruit to downplay the number of covert 1000. They fired at the plant were still where it was that still if you go to that Meeting Place where we are working what to watch for not. What so not. 2101015 miracle we are good hunters of reporters according to the union that represents workers here the company told them in late march the plant had 41 cases of covert 19 so what i would say to you would be to think a few weeks ok think about it is your is it needs is meat packing dangerous its not im not talking crack going to happen to oranges 1st this is just that i was just. Just come out of the Recruitment Office for one of the big poultry processing plants in this area and they say how safe it is and also how safe it is right now even joining the Global Pandemic and we know thats not the case. In the statement Mountain Farm said it follows all c. D. C. Guid