when. they called it wrong because. president trump threatens to cut funding to the world health organization as nearly 2000 new coronavirus deaths are recorded in the u.s. . are there i missed on the attack and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up long lines and traffic jams in china as well as thousands are allowed to leave the city for the 1st time in months. the internally displaced people in syria's who are making face masks and creating much needed jobs. and what's being called one of the most dangerous elections ever the u.s.

state of wisconsin holds primaries off to conservative courts refused to stop proceedings. now u.s. president donald trump has accused the world health organization of botching its response to the coronavirus pandemic he also called the agency china centric and threatened to cut funding and this comes as the u.s. recorded nearly 2000 new deaths from the virus just in the past 24 hours more than 4000 people have now died in new york city alone britain's prime minister has also spent a 2nd night in intensive care boris johnson was given supplementary oxygen but is not allegedly on a ventilator the junior health minister says that johnson remains stable and in good spirits while the chinese city where this outbreak began has now opened its doors again its 11000000 residents are now able to leave but they still need. at

that tracks their health and movement and in new zealand the number of new cases has now fallen for 2 days in a row and recoveries now exceed new infections the country is under a strict lockdown that still set to continue for another 2 weeks more on all of that moment but 1st let's get an update from washington d.c. with mike hanna after a series of critical tweets during the day president trump launched a verbal attack on the w.h.o. in the daily coronavirus briefing the president seemed particularly angered by the w h o's recommendation and early february that international travel should continue this just days after he had imposed a ban on flights from china he also appeared to echo allegations that the organization rely too heavily on information from china during the initial phase of the outbreak. they called it wrong they call it. a really they missed a call they could have called it months earlier they would have known and they

should have known and they probably didn't so we'll be looking into that very carefully and we're going to put a hold on money spent to the w h o we're going to put a very powerful hold on it and we're going to see it's a great thing if it works but when they call every shot wrong that's not good the ban on flights from china was one of the recommendations the president's economic adviser made in a memorandum sent to the national security council at the end of february peter numbers are also warned that as many as 600000 americans could lose their lives. navarro sent a 2nd memorandum a month later and this time he included the president on the distribution list he said that between 2 and 3000000 americans could die he also specified the medical supplies the government would need to opting to prepare this included

a 1000000000 face masks 11000 ventilators and 25000 respirators memorandum was largely ignored president trump denies he ever sold the documents yes sir mr dooley this is just a bit but there is a president just this president this today you learned about the family today which is maybe a day going to feel like you know your staff or your very own self to hold you to them and really are there was a recommendation was a feeling that he had i think he told certain people in this but it didn't matter i didn't see it the president told reporters the contents of the documents would not have changed the way he's acted and then left the briefing after saying he would greet them later my kind of al-jazeera washington. well as we've been reporting now nearly 3 months after it was field off from the wild has opened its doors again

highways and train lines have been opened to traffic and its 11000000 residents i'm out able to leave without specific authorization but they still need an app that tracks their health and richmond government figures show the vast majority as of china's coronavirus related deaths were in a province where the city of wehrhahn is located well katrina you're now joins us live from beijing katrina it's now been 76 days since her hand residents were allowed to leave and we seen a bit of an exodus today. quite an exodus you know tens of thousands of people have been heading to airports train stations and bus stations to leave while the 50000 people who train tickets ahead of today and more than 6000 are expected to get on flights heading out of han people also taking advantage of open borders finally getting into their cars and also driving outside of the city was seeing roads and highways closed closed for the 1st time traffic in the city since the outbreak begad now since the lockdown

began at the end of january the transit hubs were the 1st to close to $11000000.00 residents found themselves off from the rest of the country indeed the world and not only residents of new hard but also workers and families who had traveled to this city for chinese new year expecting to be there for only a few days and $76.00 days later they were still stuck there so many people are relieved to finally leave to finally have that freedom of but not everyone does there are still some people who are still confined to their homes because there are still active over 1000 cases identified in that neighborhood and if that is the case they're still not allowed freedom of movement but for the most part as specially in virus free areas of the city restaurants are open malls are open the subway. has been operating for a few days now and as long as people are wearing a mask they can have the temperature checked and as long as they have

a mobile phone app that shows a green bar code declaring that they are healthy their bill to come and go with relative ease katrina can you tell us a little more about how this works and how do they decide if you actually get that little green box or do you have to see a doctor 1st. don't necessarily have to see a doctor now this all relies on china's big surveillance system so you 1st have to download an app into your phone and your input will details in the main information i think really is your address and the address will tell the pop similar to a confirmed case and based on that book seems you'd be either given a red bar code which says you are at risk or you're unhealthy a yellow card all a green code in the green card means you're healthy and your relatively free to travel around so let me just show you what that green card looks like so it's green and it has a cue card and this is extremely important in rouhani city you cannot go anywhere without it what you must do if you go into a bus for example if you go into

a taxi for you go into a convenience store or restaurant you presented this green code and it's gathered by a machine in any of those places and what that does it registers rule presence there in that shop restaurant or all train carriage for example and what that means is if later down the track authorities identify that there has been somebody with quote the 19th there in that train carriage with you they will then magically have all the dots of all the people who were with you that day and they will track you down and also put you under testing or into quarantine so that's how that works and. and as a small level of that is also working around china in beijing for example if i go into a shopping center i need to scan the barcode it will have and it will check according to my phone data if i have be outside of the. aging and if i've been outside of beijing it will show them and i won't be able to enter that premise for example katrina i mean more broadly in china we've also been seeing these very low

numbers of deaths over the last few days but the numbers there are obviously been question since the very beginning of this outbreak so as we see restrictions now being eased how confident can the world be that china does have things under control. well this seems to be a downward trend i mean we've had single digit figures in terms of deaths in and local transmissions of new cases for a few weeks now the government has all but declared victory saying the peak of the outbreak is well and truly over they're quite keen of course to get the economy going and at the same time that is the caveat these are official figures and there is a lot of skepticism because these numbers a much lower than other countries say the u.s. or many european countries people are raising questions as as to whether these are accurate and if indeed it is that safe to go out and commence normal life as has been happening here in china but i think what the key thing to look at is really that even though these numbers may not be exact the downward trend does seem to be

true just evidence by i guess the confidence of the government in easing these restrictions i think china and the chinese government and they're very risk averse especially those living in beijing the last thing that they do want to see is a 2nd wave of infections they don't want to risk that anymore and the fact that hunt borders are easing the fact that people are returning to normal life that certainly seems to signal at least that china's leaders do genuinely believe that it's safe enough to get people going back to work but of course as you said the numbers are still they do seem very positive i think 1000 people are currently undergoing treatment because in 1000 in the past 24 hours 62 new cases but only 2 of those new cases tool 3 of those. well local transmissions $59.00 were actually imported cases of chinese nationals bringing the infection into the country foreign

nationals are still bad and even local travelers do still have to go under undergo strict testing and strict pointing out when they arrive into a new city so they are still very much keeping an eye on the outbreak here katrina are there for us in the chinese capital thanks very much for that update katrina. well moving over to europe now where you finance ministers have failed to reach a consensus on how to tackle the economic fallout of the pandemic despite all night talks well let's now speak to lawrence lee who joins us live from london now and still no agreement on this fiscal help in europe where do we go from here well it is not just about the finances to be all it's a much deeper and wider problem it's actually true they had another all night meeting of a minor but. i'm still calling get an agreement over how to organize the bailout complete economists think. the round were essentially on the woman nor europe and

mostly it would never look. the other so we can't get that right that's the big problem more broadly it's becoming clear how impossibly difficult. for the european commission to try to get $27.00 countries in the european union to act in concert with each other on any sort of health care or a level or way of getting out so for example the present european commission people delay and had intended to put out a document yesterday explaining how the european union was going to accept law down gradually back to normal get economies going 'd and it became very clear immediately the there was a massive disagreement between countries as to when they were prepared to sign up to this and come up with a lot down equally the presence of the european research council which is the european science funding council resigned yesterday saying that he

completely lost faith with the european union the size of the complete absence of coordination of health care policies among member states and you can see it coming to new sweden there's no lock down that's all austria wants to collapse of lockdown some countries this month actually face masks others there's not that they're not sharing information or protective equipment and it just shows you how difficult it is a 27 countries in the blocks about haven in the same way and so on every level really the crux is starting to show in the european union because. lawrence you're sitting in london at the moment and we are hearing that paris johnson remains in hospital i do we know any more about how he's doing. you know yes if he's not got work to start the obvious piece of good news. on the ventilator iran i think he's not there are a lot a lot you know to literally misleading people about its condition he has have oxygen but sees but he is not

a mechanical pencil conscious and there is what's going on so so got so obviously good there is some irritation from downing street about the suggestion repeatedly journalists downing street pull the wool over everybody's eyes walking straight about his condition i think they were just basically absolutely surprised and struck with how quickly his to his his condition deteriorated and they weren't expecting him to have to get off but let's all 3 not of the words result got worse and lawrence lay there for us in london thanks very much for that lawrence well still ahead on out of their. brain a virus testing center torn apart in ivory coast why protesters saying the center was putting them at rest. and just when the wild needed a little brightening up it's the ring to the rescue as a superman rises above waltzing.

we've got plenty of warm spring sunshine across a good parts of europe now still plaguing parts of spain and portugal and down towards the southeast as well so we've got some showers still in place just around greece but they're in the process of moving away the grassy pushing ivory into turkey still a positive in particular because still see want to shop showers as we go on through the next couple days of the central part of the sunshine here 21 celsius there we can get to 22024 in paris and rising could even get up to 25 as we go on through thursday i just want to rush out but essentially it is lossy fine and dry those showers will continue on the side of the mediterranean though just around sign for southern parts of turkey we'll see some weather will say gradually making its way back in across the portugal i also into spain as we go on through the next day or 2

dozen we will see a little more cloud just coming into the northwest of africa much of northern africa germany fine and dry the strong winds that we've had recently around more than possibly be enrolled in areas of egypt there in the process of easing off at around $24.00 celsius and have to run $21.00 there are a bat says i said there is a chance of want to see showers just creeping in just around the straits of gibraltar there but the wet weather possibility then for northern pos rockaway. from the ounces in around london prove how fantastic t.v. special gets in compensation as the resistance and i see joy in the midst of pain your books do that unprompted it's fun interrupted why are all of the people of color and they're just one color the way it is why don't they write should every people know how exactly fatima bhutto meets marc lamont hill i very much thought i

was going to be shot they look like a bad movie studio script dates on al-jazeera. rule the all. over. the and. so again i'm just. a reminder of our top stories this hour u.s. president onil trump has accused the world health organization of being china centric and threaten to cut funding the u.s. recorded nearly 2000 new deaths from the virus in the past 24 hours that's its highest daily told so far. the chinese city where the outbreak began has now opened its doors after nearly 3 months under lockdown it's 11000000 residents are now able to leave but they still need an app that tracks their health and retirement. and

finance ministers have failed to agree on a rescue package to bolster europe's economy amid the coronavirus pandemic member states are divided on what conditions should be attached to a potential a half a trillion dollar stimulus plan. now the u.s. state of wisconsin has held its presidential primaries and the election for a state supreme court seat and all that very thing took place despite coronavirus stay at home or does john hendren reports. with a choice between risking their health and casting their votes tens of thousands of wisconsinites arrived at the polls rather wait newsline hand in hand come together as an american to come exercises great god given freedom right they came with masks gloves and an abiding faith in democracy. and a rising fear of the leaders who put them at risk by compelling them to carry out an election amid a deadly global pandemic it was an election marked by

a uncertainty and chaos it is a complete mess here in the city of milwaukee where there are 1000 registered voters there are only only places there are usually 180 voters did 2 meters apart in lines that stretched for blocks elections had been postponed no doubt no question the on again off again election began after a 24 hour whirlwind of judicial action on monday that began with a democratic governor tony even his calling the election off i cannot in good conscious a lot any types of gathering that would further of the spread of this disease and to put more lives at risk wisconsin's conservative state supreme court called it back on again saying even as it overstepped his authority then the conservative u.s. supreme court weighed in overturning a lower court ruling that would have extended mail in voting until april 13th the mail ballots are corrupt in my opinion and they collect them and they get people to

go in and sign him and then they feel they have forgeries in many cases it's a horrible thing now all votes must be postmarked by tuesday or not counted at all . the chaotic election in the middle of a global pandemic could leave hundreds of thousands of votes on telly about 1300000 people asked for a mail in ballot but by early tuesday fewer than 900000 had actually gotten one in many said. they simply didn't arrive in time 100 cities and towns couldn't persuade enough poll workers to open a single voting site so the governor called in the army national guard to do their work voters vented their fury even as they braved the virus to go to the polls in vote john hendren. chicago aid groups are concerned about the prospects of the pandemic reaching rebel held city in syria its population lives under extreme shortages of medicine and supplies and its hospitals have already

been depleted by nearly a decade of war some an added city have taken matters into their own hands producing mosques and also creating much needed jobs so then closer earlier reports 5 years ago the war in syria khost mohammad al assad family members and his leg. now the latest advents by the syrian government forces has forced him from his home in sarah cape with other relatives and they are living in atlanta they face and in threat the coronavirus pandemic yet for him and his father it is also an opportunity they found much needed we're making masks. about one. there are no schools we used to study but now we can and i hope to return to the country my study of happy that i work. i'm also with friends so i'm getting used to this commission. ahmad ottawa mon often the smell of factory and shop 3

months ago as he was displaced from surat he carried all his machinery to continue making clothes. but as the pandemic threatened the country he decided to produce face mess with his 50 male and female workers. so far no infections have been reported in it that the right man checks his employees temperatures and ensures they sen as their hands before they start searing every day. is the 1st day of work or not because the virus is getting closer to the liberated areas there is high demand in masks right now all crossings to the regime areas are closed so we produce here we import the fabric and medical vaseline we so sterilize and sell in the markets. they produce between 5 and 10000 pieces a day and sometime work is done by small hands before being boxed and sold in the local market for less money they are simply can't import mass from china right now

demand is high prices went up this local production is a bit different in concept the 3 layers of sterilized mask helps us during this crisis it is unclear if the health system in a blip could handle an outbreak but for these people being able to work is a relief and gives hope to many that includes mohamed who soon might be able to afford more help and treatment see namco solo al-jazeera. well crowds in ivory coast have destroyed a coronavirus testing center in the city of abidjan ferrying the spread of the elements that make us happy. this is what is left of a coronavirus testing center in the suburbs of you google mobile phone footage captures people destroying the makeshift center built to check them for the virus scared and angry they stripped bare rights continued through the next morning with

police firing tear gas to disperse a growing and anxious crowd many say they want the center to be built outside of their neighborhood this woman shouts we are humans we don't want the current of ours here right where we live we don't want it today or tomorrow she says with more than 300 confirmed cases in ivory coast of the virus is spreading rapidly the government has imposed a lockdown on the economic capital abidjan and the nationwide curfew measures that come too late says local authorities who fear many more people are infected without knowing it was and some of you will have a fever this evening or even earlier and others will call for or have a sore throat others will through strange i mean don't worry if you all districts of all will have these centers in place to facilitate and provide information is not just for distinct it's to provide information this crisis is revealing the level of distrust people have for their government and health services ivorian football star did talk about took to social media after 2 french doctors one of

whom heads the. suggested testing of covert $1000.00 vaccine on africans the institute bester has more than 11 centers of research in africa including in ivory coast which are used to detect viruses. many people living in new google say they don't want to be guinea pigs in experiments involving a virus they believe comes from europe so no i don't think this place is appropriate because it's an illness and we know how it spreads so if we need to set up a hospital of this kind they should put it outside the city the government is seeking to reassure people saying that no testing will be carried out on patients. but with cases multiplying fear of the virus along with the virus itself seems to be growing uncontrollably nicholas hawk al jazeera. well the central american nation of nicaragua has been minimizing the impact of the crane a virus outbreak it still has no quarantine restrictions and the government is

actually promoting last gatherings yet one person has been missing from the public eye as john holmes reports. there's one question everyone's asking him it could i work with the country's president but if this was the last time daniel take it was seen in a video conference almost a month ago. while he disappeared as the coronavirus pandemic gripped the world his wife and vice president has been telling everyone else to go as normal he ignores can you go to work here and on the character are all of our authorities report normality in all actions and activities but i salute you for they certainly do going into easter buddhist beaches and bars have been open beauty pageants have been held. and the government itself is actually organized massive events but this marching titled love in the times of covered 19. even the football league continues and is apparently seeing a surge in international popularity because almost every other country's close

those down you know. we got a request from the broadcast companies to meet in who naturally showed interest in libel league games not. officially nicaragua has fewer than 10 cases but government to transparency in reporting figures has been questioned how has been concerned about the response to a call that 19 as sin. we have concerns for the lack of social distancing the continuing of mass gatherings we have concerns about the. testing. contact tracing about the reporting of cases i asked former health minister and now government critic daughter maria tell us why the government is keeping everything open. all the more. this is all dominated by the not ready of the earth they come to your

family dictatorship which sells a story that this is a perfect country a happy one where people don't get sick and anyone who says that someone could be sick or that with covert 19 the official propaganda is that this is terrorism a strategy to bring the government down. the fact that nicaragua's economy has already been decimated by 2 years of arm rest. but now that everything is open for easter the question remains why isn't president or take a joining in the phone john heilemann how does it. now coronavirus has bound for a while together and a shared crisis but we can also share in a rare joy even under lockdown on tuesday night a super main road it's expected to be the biggest and brightest this year and will appear full until thursday shallop at us reports. moved under lockdown normally bustling new delhi birds sing out in deserted streets. there is no one

agrees as tourist hot spots. only prayer echoes across riyadh people are staying harm but if we look up nearly 8000000000 of us can share in something else a super is above us rising on tuesday evening it is expected to be the brightest and biggest of the year in china restrictions of east and a reduction in pollution means life is looking up what are the bit in the end it's really hard to see a moon this big in beijing it's been my 1st time seeing one source and there for families and that the epidemic situation in china is getting better and better this represents something good especially in the supermoon shows up. a super moon is a full moon that is closer to earth unusual to us look about 30 percent brighter and food bigger than normal even happens roughly every food chain months some

astronomers expects the moon to come closer to earth than at any time since 1940 use whether you're over down in your hole in central england or you're over down in your hole in suburban washington d.c. or in you know southeast asia you'll be able to see ultimately the same moon as something that we can share globally in right now this point time being something that connects us all i think is really important. and at 360000 kilometers away the man in the moon is keeping a good social distance shallop ballasts his ear. and out and this is out of there and these are the headlines u.s. president all trump has accused the wild health organization of being china centric and threaten to cut funding the u.s.

recorded nearly 2000 new deaths from the virus in the past 24 hours the highest daily toll so far now nearly 3 months after it was sealed off from the wildwood has opened its doors again highways and train lines have been open to traffic and it's an 11000000 residents are now able to leave without specific authorization but they still need an app that tracks their health and recent government figures show the vast majority of china's coronavirus related deaths were in a province where the city is located near finance ministers have failed to agree on a rescue package to both state europe's economy and the qur'an a virus pandemic member states are still divided on what conditions should be attached to a potential half a trillion dollar stimulus plan. france has become the 4th country to register more than $10990.00 deaths it's been in lockdown now since mid march the government is expected now to extend its restrictions britain's prime minister has spent

a 2nd night in intensive care boris johnson has been given supplementary oxygen he's said to be in good spirits he was admitted to hospital on sunday off to showing persistent symptoms of private 19 and a cradle of medical stuff struggling to deal with the number of corona virus infections more than 3702 thirds of those cases are being reported in the city of god to kill the government says it's ramping up containment measures that and temporary morgues have been set up well those are the headlines do join me for more news here on al-jazeera off the inside story do stay with us. when a prime minister takes a lump of coal into his own column and that call means a lot to the country's fortunes we bring you the stories and developments that dramatically changing the world we're living again breaks it down not was a slogan that whatever the problem is of course jokes and counting the cost on our

just 0. winnings from the pandemic big tech firms are making gains is the coronavirus is taking its toll worldwide many a hiring while millions of people are being laid off so what's driving this boom in this time of crisis this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program today with me peter we are no longer physically shopping or eating in restaurants and a flight to one of the world's favorite destinations is now just a dream.