find out the truth in very complex situations that include major global play as we've been targeted by cyber attacks from russia they're all dangerous to do this kind of betting capped. troops in a post truth world and are now just 0. news . donald trump focuses on a new target blaming the extent of the pan that make on the world health organization. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program boris johnson begins a 2nd evening in intensive care but its foreign secretary says the prime minister is a fighter who will pull through new figures a show a dramatic rise in the crown of our assessed hold in the u.k.

france and spain from acacia seeds to fruit and ginger the myths that people are putting their faith in for protection from the coronavirus. welcome to the program the u.s. president has criticised the world health organization for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic donald trump says the agency is china centric and issued bad advice at the outset of the crisis his comments follow the leaked a memo that revealed the new details about warnings the trumpet ministration received on how bad that the outbreak in the u.s. could be meanwhile in the u.k. prime minister boris johnson is spending a 2nd night in intensive care as he battles covert 19 the foreign secretary dominic robb who has stepped in to lead the government says johnson is stable and has been given oxygen but is not on a ventilator the u.k.

and the state of new york in the u.s. have recorded their highest number of deaths in a day the u.k. is registered 786 that's well 731 people died in new york well donald trump has been holding his daily news briefing on the pandemic he has maintained his optimistic outlook the spyder rapidly rising death toll. even during this painful week we see glimmers of very very strong hope and this will be a very painful week and next week at least part of next week but probably all of it look if one person dies it's a painful week and we know that's going to unfortunately happen this is a monster we're fighting but signs are that our strategy is totally work and every american has a role to play in winning this war. go live now to mike hanna in washington d.c. my copiously been following the president he is still speaking what did you make of

the main points that he brought up. well once again the president reiterating their claim that the u.s. is testing more than any other nation in the world many critics contend that the u.s. got off to a very slow start in terms of testing protocols as well as reports that the initial testing kits was simply not effective however president saying that the testing protocol now firmly set large numbers of people are being tested every single day he also mentioned the issue of medical equipment such as ventilators saying that the program of manufacture of ventilators within the united states is going a pace and he says by june there will be $110000.00 ventilators in stock at present there are less than 10000 ventilators being held by the federal government but president trump also referred to the fact that some areas are handing back ventilators back to central government california in particular washington state

they've moved a number of ventilators that they no longer need back to federal government for dispersal in areas that are more hard hit such of course as new york state new jersey illinois all these areas that are now currently hodson's and mike the president still speaking now so i'm not sure whether he has mentioned it again but he certainly has been accusing the w.h.o. of contributing to just how bad the pandemic has turned out to be what else did he say what's his main accusation and why do you think he's making these accusations now. well in the last few minutes he has actually just reiterated his criticism of the world health organization he did so in a series of tweets earlier on in the day saying basically that the world health organization has badly handled this crisis but what particularly appears to irk the president is the fact that the w.h.o.

pushed back at his decision at the end of january to impose travel restrictions on passengers from china unfair be the shortly afterwards the w.h.o. said that bad on air travel was not necessary at that particular point but the seems to have said to president trump or in his briefing now as well he reiterated his accusation that the w.h.o. is as he put it china centric he also said that the u.s. will be reviewing its contribution financial contribution to the number you know it's something that is administration is looking into why the timing comes out now not that clear. and i suppose speaking of timing and timing is of the issue when you're looking at a memo that speed the release that's being leaked that showed that actually one of trump's trump's top aides did alert the white house back in january about the potential fallout of the coronavirus. indeed yes and that

was the white house economic adviser peter navarro who at the end of january sent a memo to the national security council which was then circulated through the white house warning of the impact that the pandemic was going to have saying that that stage that up to half a 1000000 americans could lose their lives the economic cost would be $6.00 trillion dollars also recommending incidentally and a travel ban on travelers from china which president trump did institute indicating that he did see this memo and then a month later navarro issued another memo to the national security council and also copied one directly to the president in which he up to this statistic saying that as many as 2000000 americans could die this is now on the 29th and within that me most well outlined very specific because he said how many ventilators were going to be needed he said up to a 1000000000 mosques are going to be needed so certainly these issues were brought

to the president's attention at a time when he was continuing to say that the virus could be contained that it was nothing worse than the flu on one occasion which he said certainly he's backtracked from all these accusations these allegations at the moment but the point remains that he had a full knowledge of the potential impact of this pandemic from one of his closest economic advisers days if not weeks before he started taking the pandemic seriously i can i would delete this from washington d.c. my kids thank you for that let's actually did back in to that news conference i'm just still going on with donald trump he's now taking questions let's listen in but we want to open it up but we want to get it open soon this way i think maybe we're getting to the very top of the curve i spoke with governor cuomo in peace seems to think that he's getting close and i think a lot of people think that a lot of places are getting close we want to start heading that getting the.

downside and i think we're going to be to this is going to be a very difficult week however this week will be a very difficult week because that's the most difficult week when you're at that position and we'll see what happens so it's either health care or. welfare for the lot has done a lot and it's going to do a lot we want to i really think that with the stimulus we can be maybe even beyond we're going to do perhaps infrastructure which you would've gotten approved before and now people are looking to do it and the beauty is we're paying 0 interest or very close to 0 interest in some cases we're paying actually 0 and no interest charge and and the dollars very strong and people are investing in the dollar they want you know the fact that we have the strong currency we have the currency we are currency is is everything and other companies other countries want to be in our currency so where we're getting all of the investment wanting to come into the

dollar the dollar is the strength the dollars the whole ballgame we have a strong dollar other currencies are going down way way down in some cases you look at. other countries i won't mention them but other countries are going down 22 percent 25 percent 28 percent and it's very hard for them that makes it much more difficult with us our currency is relatively now stronger than. it ever was or it was over the last few years relative to other countries it's always relative to other countries but our currency is very strong so therefore people want to invest . if we do a bond issue to do infrastructure everybody wants a piece of that issue even at 0 interest yep list. you see these memos that quarterly peter navarro back in january when did you see them and how does it you know sort of square with what you've often said and nobody could have predicted this it sounds like he was pretty i didn't see him but i heard he wrote some memos

talking about pandemic. i didn't see many look for me there but that was about the same time as i felt that we should do it with that was about the same time that i closed it down i asked him about it just a little while ago because i read something about a memo i said it used to a memo i didn't look for i didn't see it i didn't ask him to show it to me he said yes i talked about the possibility of a pandemic nobody said it's going to happen but you know there is a possibility there always has been a possibility but people wouldn't talk about it but it was right about the time that i closed it then and interestingly the world health organization was not in favor of us closing it and if we didn't close it down we would have lost hundreds of thousands more lives. so did. you say that at the time there was no peter navarro did circulate those memories you were still downplaying the wrath of the virus of the u.s. you were saying things like i think it's

a problem that's going to go away with you feel ready to go it will go what he said within a couple of days down to 0. cases really didn't build up for a while but you have to understand i mean cheerleader for this country i don't want to create havoc in shock and everything else but ultimately when i was saying that i'm also closing it down i obviously was concerned about it because i closed down our country to china which was heavily infected i then closed it down to europe that's a big move closing it down from china and then closing it down from europe and then ultimately closing it down to the u.k. so and i was right about that time but i'm not going to go out and start screaming that this could happen this could happen so again as president i think a president has to be a cheerleader for their country but at the same time i'm cheerleading i'm also closing down a very highly infected place specifically the location as you know in china that

had the problems and we're closing it down but we closed down to all of china then we closed down to all of europe. those were big moves and it was right about that through history to think this is just a good father isn't present to just this president of this today say he learned about that it's today just a bit about it maybe a day tutor's feeling. on your staff for our own selfish it all to often them earlier it was a recommendation it was a feeling that he had i think he told certain people in the staff but it didn't matter i didn't see it but i did close it down i don't remember it even being discussed we had a meeting where there were a lot of people most people felt they should not close it down that we shouldn't close down to china but i felt we had to do it and that was almost the exact same time as the memo if you had read them at the time that it was the stance and the ceiling of the change because i did i basically did with the memo said and the memo was you know the memo was pretty good memo from the standpoint that he took

a guess i didn't see it yet us weekly warning that the u.s. believes trillions of dollars and millions of lives. are in the unions of us but you you lose plenty of money but i couldn't have done it any better because it was about the same time and i closed it down to china. maintain confidence in him personally and he wrote a memo and he was right and i haven't seen the memo i'll see it later on after this but it didn't matter whether i sort or not because i i acted on my own i guess i had the same instincts as peter peter's a smart guy is a good guy and he's done a wonderful job but he wrote a memo and i guess he talked to various people about it but ultimately i did what the memo more or less what the memo said just about the time the memo came out a close it down i took a lot of heat the world you know health organization was very much against it in a like it fairly put out statements about it. in all fairness to joe biden he called me zena phobic like i don't like china like china like the chinese people

are phenomenal people. so i was called zena phobic i was called racist how could i do a thing like this now since that joe said that he was wrong and he said that i was right but i closed it down and i was called names by some of the morning show hosts who don't have a clue what they're talking about the not smart people and i was called all sorts of names when i closed down to china now they try and hide that you know the tape of them saying terrible things but that was a great decision if i didn't do it if i didn't do that we would have had hundreds of thousands more people dying yeah let's. talk a lot of the beautiful poems honoring dr crossett customer so if i could ask you a question no he respects it you h.o. and i think that's that's good and he's worked with them for a long time but they did give us some pretty bad play calling. but i think given

a lot of countries in the world back are a crime where nothing that's been central to your guys' downfall and so i don't know i can only say that with regard to us they're taking a lot of heat because they didn't want the borders closed they called it wrong they called they really called i would say every aspect of it wrong. until probably the priests i'm not believe that look we fund it take a look at me go through step by step they said there's no big deal there's no big problem there's no nothing and then ultimately when i closed it down they actually said that i made a mistake in closing it down in a way it turned out to be right but at the time they you know they did that so we're just going to take a look at it you know we funded and and they seem to be you know i said recently a social media said they seem to be very china centric. that's a nice way of saying it but they seem to be very china centric and they've received

it oh you're always on the side of china and we fund it so i want to look into it yes please i think i could follow up on that though is the times of responding to the w.h.o. i'm drawing up again to make a little bit of you know i mean i'm not saying i'm going to do it but we'll look at it it's what we give a commitment noid and i said we're going to look at it we're going to investigate it we're going to look at it but we will look at ending funding. to who's you know what they called it wrong and if you look back over the years even their very much everything seems to be very biased toward china it's not right it's a follow up to talk about african-americans and how they can disproportionately affected by the coronavirus to be even pushing do you plan on requiring the c.d.c. any federal agencies or state and public. places doing tests and private companies doing festool collecting data now on the race of the people being tested and the

race of the people being treated unfairly just seeing tremendous we're seeing tremendous evidence that african-americans are affected at a far greater percentage number. then other citizens of our country because we're dealing with our country now we're looking at it from a worldwide standpoint tony is looking at a very strongly but these numbers have started to come out and they're they're very strong and they're pretty obvious i mean you know we're just that i don't really sentiment you like to talk about that for 2nd place but one of the things that we're going to be doing with our medicare data is to do that analysis we're going to look back at the last month or so and look at you know related type illnesses going forward we now have a code for krone virus that we can actually stratify by demographic information so we can look at race as a factor if we can also look at what the underlying health issues are as well as that will be providing that data very shortly but we will be announced as

a working on that. earlier this is something that's come up over the last i had heard this and then over the last few days this is come up more and more and i don't mean by a little bit i mean many times it's a real thing now we want to find cures we want to find there a putin x. we want to find vaccines because that will solve every body's problem but why is it that the african american community is so low much in or numerous times more than everybody else and we want to find a reason to it and. dr for sima both of them and others are working on this and they're going to have very good i would say over the next in less than a week i think we're going to have very good statistics a couple of things specifically aimed at those communities that are being hard hit those black communities where we're helping out a lot but what's happening is we're trying to find out why is it that it's 3 and 4 times maybe that's not going to be the final number but why is it 3 or 4 times more

so for the black community as opposed 'd to other people it doesn't make sense and i don't like it and we're going to have statistics over the next probably 2 to 3 days mr president everything that you have to do the things you would like to ask personally have myself and a colleague who can be here do this in front in saying thank you i mean with with hearst newspapers on the principle that i think you know. some things are only providing paycheck protection program loans to clients with him they have existing banking deletion chips and you spoke to banking studios today i wonder if you'll you'll ask them these lenders to accept conversations from all small businesses not just the business is with him they have the system and they'll be doing it but we're also working with small community banks so they will be doing that it's a question i've already spoken about every day many cases they have long term relationships with thousands of companies i was amazed to see how many you know you

saw the number of applications it's hundreds of thousands it's a lot of work but i did ask that question and they are working on the thank you in my eyes my 2nd question from a colleague is congressman gerry connelly a democrat from northern virginia told the local d.c. c.b.s. station that he personally requested think cares act stimulus bill these stepped up $25000000000.00 for the postal service connelly themes that unless the u.s.p.s. gets the $25000000000.00 the agency will be running out of money by june. he says you've hastened the demise of the processor has to do is it i guess that the reason the postal service postal service has lost billions of dollars every year for many many years i'm the demise is the new and i'm now the demise of the postal service i'll tell you who's the demise of the postal service of these internet companies that give their stuff to the postal service packages and i don't know why they're not you know i don't run the postal service you have a group of people so-called independent people and they run it but these packages

are they deliver they lose money every time they deliver a package for amazon or these other internet companies these other companies that deliver they drop everything in the post offices say you deliver it and if they'd raise the prices by actually a lot then you'd find out that the post office could make money or break even but they don't do that and i'm trying to figure out why these are independent boards they were appointed by other administrations they're sort of long term there for a long time and i've been talking to them also you can look it up take a look they should raise they have to raise the prices to these companies that walk in and drop thousands of of packages on the floor of the post office and say deliver it and they make money but the post office gets killed ok so they want to do that and we'll look into it and we've been pushing them now for over a year and you know that because you've seen the stories i'm pushing on it not fair

for them to to this great wonderful modern companies they walk into our old post office with all these routes that could never be built you could never build them they go into areas that you you could never do. and they say here deliver this and they lose a lot of money per package and they have to raise their prices but this postal commission doesn't do it now we just got a chance to point a couple of people on to the commission as i understand it and that's good but they have to raise their prices otherwise they're just going to lose a lot of money and tell your democrat friend that he ought to focus on that because if you focused on that he could truly save the post office post office has been losing billions of dollars a year for many many years and have him take a look at that because that's the way to solve the problems you think is in the president mean to somebody the 1st thing you think is we could be very painful parenting but if you meet i'm going to say these are just like you know like have you mind is it 2 weeks ago this is for me and you know listen good luck to you as

it was your livelihood offer and i defy you to find me that if we still sceptical of us that they make a where up against social distancing one side of us on here he said i said it was just like a flu so the worst pandemic we ever had. in this world was a flu and it was cold you know that it was in 19171800. and anywhere from 50 to 100000000 people died that was a fluke ok so you could say that i said it was a flu or you could say the flu is nothing to sneeze at. in the left in your office of science or party a school of thought to call skeptical about the thing anything more i did so so did i think there aren't too many of them if you look throughout the world and everyone just about everyone that has practiced that is now closing up well the u.k.

was an example. now they talk about sweden but sweden is suffering very greatly you know that right sweden did that they heard they call it the herd sweden suffering very very badly it's a way of doing it but the you know everybody has been watching everybody else and so far almost every country has done it the way we've done it we've chosen to do it if we didn't do it that way we would have lost hundreds of thousands of more people ok for the 1st there's voting going on today in wisconsin there were courses of thousands of people waiting in our small audience as it had to wait on personal health and their doctor sitters responsibility what do you do you think that the supreme court is right incidents or that that vote is go for the absentee stench in just a place you look at the supreme court of course they were right because what the democrats wanted and you know what this happened i supported

a man named justice kelly who's daniel kelly highly respected justice and i supported him just the other day social media i know of him he's a just a you know fantastic judge justice and i endorsed him in a series endorsed him they wanted to move the election didn't want to move the election as soon as they endorsed him. the wisconsin democrats say oh let's move the election to 2. months later 3 didn't mind having the election until interest of which is your interest you know they talk about old safety safety well it was 15 minutes after i put out an indorsement that they said we have to move the election they don't want to move the election before that the other thing they want to do which is crazy at the end of the election they want to have one week for proxies to come in or mail ballots no mail ballots they cheat ok people cheat mail ballots a very dangerous thing for this country because we've been listening to triumph his

daily news briefing about the coronavirus pandemic a lot of interesting points especially you i suppose some confusion as to whether the u.s. is going to put on hold funding to the world health organization that president trying has been criticizing let's go to mike hanna now who is in washington and has been following the news conference so what do you make of that comment and what else do you think he said that stuck out for you. well president trump said earlier in the course of the day in a series of tweets that he cues the w.h.o. of being china centric he said that the u.s. government would have to look at its funding he repeated this in the news conference saying once again that we would look at the funding what's the very clearly a threat to withdraw funding from the w.h.o. but when asked directly by one of the reporters where they he was indeed considering doing this during a pandemic he said well i never said that but it is something that we are looking into so

a degree of confusion as to where the president trump is thinking about withdrawing funding or indeed is going to do so in retaliation for what he sees as a bias within the w.h.o. that bias arising it would appear out of the w h o's recommendation that international travel should not be stopped this a couple of days after president trump himself had ended travel from china. and mike also when it comes to the memo that he was also asked about a memo that seems to suggest it was leaked that actually the white house was alerted of the potential to the struct of potential of coronavirus back at the end of january. seemed to maybe cause some confusion as to whether he had and when exactly he had seen this memo. well he was very clear he says he's never seen this memo in fact there were 2 memos and by peter navarro a close economic advisor the 1st went to the national security council which

president might have missed the 2nd one was addressed directly to president trump that was at the end of february february the 29th now president trump responding to all of this said well perhaps my instincts were the same as those of the variable because at the time the 1st memo was released one of the root recommendations was a ban on travel from china and president trump says he acted on this ban not on the basis of the memo he insists but because he thought it was the right thing to do he then went into a long diatribe about how he got to cues that beings in a public and races for instituting this particular ban but he said that well i did the right thing and clearly b.n.p. to it navarro with thinking along the same lines what he didn't refer to is the 2nd memorandum that navarro sent the president in which he was directly addressed which outlines specific figures how many ventilators are needed 1000000000 mosques on needed clearly the united states was way behind in terms of dealing with this

crisis just with the provision of basic medical equipment well on february 29th peter navarro in a letter addressed to the president had outlined what was going to be needed president trances never saw it and like i guess stepping away a little bit from the politics and looking at the situation when it comes to the spread of the virus in the u.s. how bad is it there because the president again said that maybe they may be getting to the top of the coronavirus curve what is the situation with covert 19 deaths and the spread of contagion in the u.s. . well it's remains absolutely critical pandemic sweeping through many of the united states areas such as new york state continue to see a death toll rises just off to 2 days off a flattening out of the fatality rate so it's very difficult to predict other states such as illinois reporting high figures as is louisiana so it is very

difficult to predict that this any flattening out at this particular point in fact medical experts would deny it very vehemently that if you talk about flattening out is not the thing to do that the pandemic remains a cruel and critical factor and it's a crisis that is continue and must be continue to be faced by can i would the latest washington. the top stories now on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump as we've just been hearing has been holding his daily news briefing on the pandemic where he maintained his optimistic outlook despite a rapidly rising death toll apologies we will bring you that clip from president trying to a little later now the president has also criticised the world health organization

for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic donald trump says the agency is quote china centric and issued bad advice at the cult outset of the pandemic meanwhile a leaked memo reveals new details about warnings that trump administration received on how bad the outbreak in the u.s. could be ok let's take you back now to a clip of president trump let's listen. even during this painful week we see glimmers of very very strong hope and this will be a very painful week and next week at least part of next week but probably all of it look of one person dies it's a painful week and we know 'd that's going to unfortunately happen this is a monster we're fighting but signs are that our strategy is totally work and every american has a role to play in winning this war u.k.

prime minister boris johnson is spending a 2nd night in intensive care is he battles the coronavirus new numbers show another 786 people in the u.k. have died from the virus or a challenge as more now on what we know about the prime minister's condition. for all of tuesday the message from the u.k. government has been pretty much exactly the same about boris johnson's health that he is stapled that he is being given the best possible care he's been given but that he hasn't been put on a ventilator he doesn't have pneumonia he's in good spirits and that if the situation changes then they'll give us an update. and those are the top stories my cuba is next talking to one of the new breed of entrepreneurs in the island nation warnings that have now. how much is the coronavirus on the stock market accounts affecting the race to the white house we need to pry open the sound

as you secure the democratic nomination i believe we can beat down the trunk follow all the developments in the u.s. election campaign on al jazeera. let. me. go to i don't know. may not be a last lead in.