on al-jazeera. revealing eco friendly solutions to combat threats to our planet on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. alone or entirely this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up. saudi arabia announces a 2 week ceasefire in its war with yemen's hoofy rebels. please don't politicize this one goes ahead of the w.h.o. response to president trump's claim that his organization has failed in its response to the pandemic. a stark warning from the world trade organization that

global trade may fall by one 3rd because of the pandemic. the 1st time at the daily death toll here in the u.k. it surpasses $900.00. and it will start with breaking news from saudi arabia and the coalition fighting hooty rebels in yemen which has announced a 2 week cease fire starting on thursday a saudi state news agency s.b.a. reported that the coalition says it's intending to help prevent a coronavirus outbreak in yemen also allowing a deescalation in fighting a cease fire is due to begin at 12 noon local time the un's special envoy to yemen has welcomed the move calling it a critical moment. bring more on that as soon as we can.

now around the globe the number of dead continues to rise and in europe there are fears the continent is still a long way from the peak of its corona virus outbreak here's some of the day's headlines as the pandemic unfolds the u.k. is recorded another 938 victims the largest single addition to its total the government says prime minister burress johnson's condition is improving but he remains in intensive care meanwhile for the 2nd straight day the number of dead in spain has increased more than 14 and a half 1000 people have now died but the health minister says the outbreak is slowing in the u.s. evidence suggests minorities are being hit hardest new york's mayor says more than half of his city's dead were black or hispanic the head of the world health organization has rejected president trump's criticism of his handling of the outbreak saying the world shouldn't waste time pointing fingers new fokker reports . the british prime minister's personal battle with covert 19 continues with him

still in intensive care for the 1st time in days though some positive news on boris johnson's condition the latest from the hospital is that the prime minister remains in intensive care where his condition is improving i can also tell you that he has been sitting up in bed and engaging positively with the clinical team. the prime minister is not only my colleague and my boss but also my friend and my thoughts are with him and his family the 55 year old tested positive 2 weeks ago he was admitted to hospital on sunday evening with a persistent high temperature and cough he was later moved to a specialist unit where he is conscious and has received oxygen scientists say the u.k.'s entering the deadliest phase of the outbreak in east london an exhibition center converted into a 500 bed hospital in only 9 days has admitted its 1st patients in this london

hospital medics are handling a surge of sufferers but there are worries about the availability of lifesaving equipment with enough people that's difficult because inevitably we've had staff got off we have got enough oxygen our current problem today is having enough great ventilators some of those admitted are young and fit with no underlying health problems you don't know how bad it is until it actually hits you and. i would absolutely. everybody to listen to the government guidance and away from all this is a hospital where johnson is under close observation just across the river thames from the houses of parliament the scene of so many of johnson's recent victories only a few weeks ago he was telling journalists how he was still shaking hands with people some of them patients in hospital but that was before current restrictions before

the death toll started to accelerate and now johnson like so many others across the u.k. have to put their faith in one thing modern medicine in his absence johnson's designated deputy dominic robb and the rest of the cabinet are debating when to lift the lockdown is costing british businesses billions of dollars. after facing criticism for failing to impose restrictions quickly enough there's now a danger of the government lifting things too soon a risk known all too well by london's transport workers 14 have died after contracting cope with 19 most of them bus drivers the price of keeping our cities moving the foka al-jazeera london we'll have more on the pandemic shortly but 1st we turn to our breaking news on yemen and we'll go to a top who's in sun are also reports that saudi are suggesting a 2 week cease fire talks through the latest news.

you know it's an important news because the situation in yemen is very difficult for the healthcare sector to counter the coronavirus in case it emerges in the country the minister of health. in a parliamentary and sister in law has appealed to the walder to do something to end the conflict especially that the he has made it clear that the health care sector although only has. nearly 1500 beds while in case the coronavirus emerges. least 28000000 yemenis could be. affected with this disease while the we have only this kind of 1500 beds so the situation here is very difficult for the health care sector in case the the coronavirus. diseases emerged here but so far the world health organization has

announced that no cases have been found in yemen so far thank you very much indeed and for more we can speak now to yemen specialist ibrahim khatami he joins us live via skype from new york thanks for being with us so at this stage it sounds from the saudis that it's a 2 week ceasefire why are they announcing this now aside from the coronavirus suggestion they seem to be implying that's the reason behind it why else would they be doing this now i'm not sure if our guest can harris if you can hear me say. it would be it's llorente to their studio why do you think saudi arabia has announced the ceasefire now. i think this is more of a p.r. move for the public relation a consumption but we know the yemenis don't need just a 2 week sort of cease fire we need to end the war we need to lift the blockade we

need to end the crimes that are happening all across the country that a number of endemic splits side that coronavirus and yemen you know that qatar outbreak of there some many other issues that need to be resolved in the country so we did we hope that this 2 weeks cease fire would hold but we know from previous experiences that neither side now that with these militia and or of the how you know saudi led coalition had heard to the agreements they either agreed to or you know we know that from the sweden talk. a few years ago that they greet to release that detainees but they did and and end up doing that so this is coming in a time where there is an international pressure to make sure that yemenis have access to. medicare equipments you know the outbreak could happen in any time in the country of the outbreak of the cholera i mean of corona fires so we have

a difficult situation remember again this war has been going on for over a half decades and yet many need access to food and medicine and this is not taking place at this time in history and what to action can we expect for him to think. well at this point i think i just read a little while ago from that. spokesperson saying that they will not discontinue the war they will continue the war as long as a blockade is not leftist so it's a crystal clear sign that our which is it has some sense and some logic to it that what would the yemenis do with 2 weeks ceasefire when the blockade us and in place when the kind of people cannot go in and i would side of the country when people cannot receive food or medicine from the outside world you know this is a nonsense sort of p.r. move by the saudi u.a.e. let coalition not going to serve anyone in the ground and not going to do anything

and not like it like i said yemenis are looking forward to end the war to end the blockade to restore some sort of normal life back in the country which is not going on right now at this point so the end of this what we all need is to end the work you mentioned that with the way it's been going on just bring us up to date with the latest fighting or it seems to have been an uptick in the last few days which is largely gone unnoticed partly because of the global coverage of the of coronavirus. that's correct i mean yemenis are you know 7 and a daily bases is declared yemen is declared by the international community in the u.n. as the worst humanitarian situation crises in the world manmade crises by the saudi led coalition by the these by all the players and to the watch of the international community including the u.n. and the you you want to get a council so this is the time what everyone around the world must feel yemen what yemenis have been going through for the last 5 years we've been ended the same

exact been damaged. you know diseases are a complete stain stay at home no access to food or medicine and so i think the world should feel yemen at this point and what we being going are what we being gone through for the past 5 years and extend a helping hand to basically and the work and a supply and the saudi luck cullison with weapons make sure that everyone is brought back to the peace table to the beast negotiation and make sure the yemeni people and spray ssion is as met in any kind of negotiation going forward but no i think the world must be a lot of that point here in qatar we thank you very much indeed for joining us now the number of confirmed career virus infections in the united states is supposed to 400000 it's the worst affected country in the world almost 13000 people have died there after contracting the virus but present on one trauma says the u.s.

will soon have more ventilators than it needs to help those suffering and was also threatened to end funding for the world health organization saying it failed in its response to the outbreak and was too focused on china head of virgin's he has defended his handling of the pandemic urging governments not to politicize the virus the focus of all political parties should be to save the people. please don't politicize this virus. it exploits the differences you have at the national level if you want to be exploited and if you want to have many more body bags then you do it if you don't want many more body bags then you different from politicizing it let's go to mike hanna in washington d.c.

mike what reaction has there been to these latest remarks from the head of the. well i think as yet from president trump there have been some momentous political developments in the course of the day the end to the campaign of a major presidential contender bernie sanders but there has been a response from the white house virus consultant deborah burks who says that the white house needs to look at the timeline of reporting from china to the w.h.o. now she did concede that the w.h.o. is reliant on the data it receives but she's insistent that the administration will look at this timeline at what stage did the w.h.o. receive information from china what the nature of that information was and whether there was any leg in terms of the w h o's reporting based on the data that it had received from china at the very

outbreak of the standard mic and it took us to the latest numbers from the united states. well latest numbers continue to be exceedingly bleak particularly in new york state which has once again recorded its highest number of fatalities in a single day the governor of the state of new york pointing out that now twice as many people have died in new york state as were killed during the tragic of 911 so basically the death toll remains on the up and also of great concern in new york state and the new york city in particular is the fact that as the mayor is saying a number of people who are dying at home and not one of the hospital facilities may not be being included in the official recording of fatalities this raises the possibility that the death rates that we are seeing in new york city and new york state as a whole may be undercut to may not be completely accurate so all of these factors

together a great great concern are the hotspots remain throughout the united states although obviously new york state is the most seriously affected but counting for some half of the deaths that have occurred in the united states but at the same time is on a number of these hotspots illinois louisiana and certainly there remains the greatest concern that the pandemic has not yet reached an apex that they are still very hard days ahead mike hanna thank you very much indeed. coming up this news hour from london in china the government imposes a high tech solution to track both the healthy and the sick. new research in the u.s. indicates that black people are far more likely to die from coronavirus and whites .

in corona virus is taking its toll not just on europe's people but its economy is 2 talks between e.u. finance ministers broke down on wednesday as they discussed a multi-billion dollar rescue package named baba has more. reminding people to stay indoors in space. was the military drafted into disinfecting nursing homes and public transport despite a slowing down in the country's rated coronavirus transmission the world health organization is warning the european governments to flee carefully before relaxing their lockdowns or social distancing measures one new report predicts plays economy will shrink by between 5 percent and 9 percent this year that could leave up to 800000 people unemployed depending on when restrictions were lifted on wednesday morning european union finance ministers meeting via video conference were close to a deal on support measures for southern economies worth around $540000000000.00 but

talks broke down amid a dispute between italy and the netherlands over how to apply the coronavirus recovery funds portugal's marial centeno head of the euro group of euro zone finance ministers tweeted after 16 hours of discussion we came close to a deal but we're not there yet i suspended the euro group and continue tomorrow thursday my goal remains a strong e.u. safety net against fall out of coverage 19 to shield workers firms and countries and commit to a sizable recovery plan france is now demanding the e.u. use the existing mechanism set up during the eurozone crisis with no strings attached as well as some promote the need don't to me i would just like to point out something obvious the european stability mechanism was created to deal with a crisis what are we facing now a crisis which is serious and profound the spanish prime minister pedro sanchez has warned that e.u. itself could quote fall apart if it fails to agree a plan to help member states deal with debts incurred fighting the pandemic italy

and spain have accused northern nations led by germany and the netherlands of not doing enough. but germany has its own covered related economic worries several financial institutions expect europe's largest economy to shrink while nearly 10 percent in the 2nd quarter that's twice as big a contraction as during the 2008 to 2009 financial crash chancellor merkel's government now plans to tighten rules to protect german firms from hostile takeovers by noni you investors. it's about tightening up very liberal foreign trade laws which permit takeovers from foreign investors in a generous way this is in light of the significant german security interests which for me include supplying the public with vital goods such as vaccines and critical infrastructure. of course coronavirus is already hitting hard germany's has announced it will shut down its low cost airline german ways as part of

a broader overhaul warning it could take years for the industry to recover. across europe amid all the uncertainty there are moments of hope like this neighborhood in seville welcoming home a recovered college going to asia. but recovering financially may also lead a similar show of solidarity from the e.u. the algerian. global trade is expected to fall by up to a 3rd this year is the pandemic brings economic activity to a standstill describing future results as ugly the world trade organization says the lockdown of factories and retailers disrupting global markets ahead of the group says this may be the deepest global recession in living memory worse than the financial crisis 12 years ago for more on the european response to the coronavirus pandemic this week to julian hose who's the managing director of the think tank vocal europe he joins us via skype from amsterdam thanks so much for being with us so i mean critics of argued that the european response has been piecemeal and too

slow and and it's a test of you can't afford to fail what's your view on it. well i think my view on this is that we have been hearing about so that you are having reactions to just about everything a crisis that has lived through think about the financial crash the the eurozone crisis the migrant crisis not the current of our us crisis if you look at the figures in the facts the european union is doing far better than many expected to have been and just look at the figures for the 8000000000 being spent on supporting 100000 businesses or the 15600000000 on the east global response to the current virus crisis the e.u. is doing what they can and reacting as it can and is doing by all measures a relatively good job but the talks have broken down and they don't they on how the years they will mitigate the effects of this. if they can't agree on this you think it it threatens the survival of the eurozone well we always hear about the affront to the euro and the survival of the e.u.

but the simple fact of the matter is that they are moving towards an agreement the colonel bonds issue is a replay of what happened during the euro zone crisis so we have the fiscal hawks such as germany have noted and being nervous about attaching that to southern states such as italy and we saw this played out in comments by finance minister the hooks club who commented on spain's financial history but believe it was because of my horse said very recently. if there is a mechanism that can be used to shore up the european union and to ensure that the member states get the support that they urgently need in this time of crisis but it seems that they haven't so far they haven't agreed anything and without agreeing some of the mechanisms they can't agree the whole package what do you think will be how will they get to get through this and you think. well like many of these issues they need to take the time to negotiate for me to remember that we are talking about. europe in the european union of almost 27 member states eurozone i believe

it's front 19 or 21 that's a lot of different states and a lot of different economic situations that need to go for the process of discussing this and hashing it out in order to come to an accurate agreements that will serve everybody's interest personally i'm quite confident that they will come to an agreement and even if they cannot see france has even stated that it's quite willing very recently to just launch a current program similar to the current ones where the member states are interested in doing so in order to circumvent the issues that are coming up between the negotiations with states such as not learns and germany and what about on the health front of the we've had the the departure of the hughes top scientist and in his resignation statement he talked about the complete absence of coordination of of health care now i know that the u.s. is refusing his position but isn't it a problem that on such a critical issue they they haven't got to a top e.u. scientist and then. well the problem is that the our professor amount of our i did

have he seems to have misunderstood his actual role in the european research council and that the r.c. is actual position in the e.u. i mean he if you look at the statement released by the r.c.a. they've made it clear that he wasn't particularly paying as much attention as he really should have to his work for them he was spending a significant amount of time in america and working on personal projects and when he felt finished were not going well enough he decided to play politics and try to go over the heads of just about everybody involved and whether it's on the lime that's on the stand the blue blood in his face which led to his resigning after being voted off by the entirety of the council is served with and we need to be quite clear on the fact that the e.u. does have a lot of scientific expertise internally and doesn't necessarily need a. new scientist per se who didn't necessarily understand his role in the crisis or

the organizations he was working with you know who set things up to leave it there thank you very much indeed for joining us. the 1st time in nearly 3 months residence in the chinese city of will hand have been allowed to leave after its lockdown was lifted 55000 people bought train tickets out of the city on wednesday and domestic flights have also resumed all hands $11000000.00 residents for the 1st to be placed under movement restrictions in january inspiring similar measures around the world but the city at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak remains under close watch amid fears of a 2nd wave of infections the chinese government is regulating all movement in and out of hand using a mobile app to you is in beijing with a look at how that will work. if you live in one or the y. duhoux a province you must unload a mobile app and you must input all your details or your national id number your address your contact details and want that does it uses china's big data

surveillance system to really check your whereabouts in comparison to a known covert 19 persons location and depending on that proximity it will give you a card with 3 different colors a red code if you're high risk a yellow code if you are medium risk and green if you're at low risk or you're healthy and in you can travel so let me give you an idea of what that looks like so that's the out there and that's the q why would that screen that's been generated there that makes makes it possible for you not only to travel within will hon but future also leave the city so all those people the 10s of thousands of people who have been leaving the city today they would have had to show that at the train stations at airports and indeed even if you go on this issue for example you catch a taxi or you go into a restaurant you must present that code and at the restaurant or the taxi driver will then scan that and absorb all your details and want that does is makes sure that for example next to get your found to have covert 19 that they can track your

whereabouts and authorities can identify exactly who you came into contact with and pull them aside perhaps for testing or quarantine period so definitely it's high tech used to fight this epidemic but people are raising concerns especially rights groups that the chinese government is using this epidemic to overreach and really extend their control. still to come on al-jazeera the number of infections in iran is on the rise but we're looking at why the country's confident it can be coronavirus. an international investigation into the use of chemical weapons in syria says the evidence points squarely towards one place the assad government. the weather's cheering up quite nicely now for parts of greece but we do have some

storms making their way across turkey little more cloud coming in the middle area of low pressure still causing some problems around that eastern side of the mediterranean high pressure dominates the weather across a good part of europe says lastly find a dry with lots of warm spring sunshine over towards the west so it's a very different story this next weather system that's going to make its way through bringing some clouds and rain into spain and portugal some heavy downpours certainly possibility here over the next couple of days ahead of that 25 celsius in paris as that warm sunshine still getting up around 20 degrees there for warsaw basin bits and pieces of cloud and rain that eastern side if you're just pushing into western russia cooling off in moscow around 9 cells this is that system makes its way through the cloud and rain that we have into spain will tend to peter out as we go on to was the weekend but still there nevertheless as we go on through friday side of the med turkey starts to improve but we have still got a few showers just around cyprus has been over parts of africa where it's generally

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a process of reeducation or chinese assimilation forced labor and the use of high tech surveillance we're being complicit in the human rights abuses that are carrying an australian investigation into china systematic repression of the weakest tell the world on al-jazeera. from out of the top stories here on andres era a saudi led coalition fighting rebels in yemen has announced a cease fire beginning at noon on thursday it says it intends to prevent a corona virus outbreak. minorities appear to be worst hit by the outbreak in the

u.s. the mayor of new york says more than half of deaths in his city were black and hispanic people even though they form less than half the population. and global growth could be cut by a 3rd this year warns the world trade organization after the pandemic brings the world economy to a near standstill. and just to let you know we'll be bringing you this news conference shortly which is the white house briefing the daily briefing on the coronavirus pandemic respect president trump to be holding that shortly in the region. early research in the us suggests that black americans are more likely to die from the virus it's thought longstanding inequalities and access to medical care law beneath this next year brown has more. it's been said that the coronavirus doesn't discriminate with the rich famous and powerful among those who fall in l.

but that doesn't tell the full story because some statistics suggest that if you're poor or from an ethnic minority you're more likely to get sick or even die covert 19 is killing black americans at a higher rate than anyone else. in the morning. yesterday. gary harrell has lost 10 friends or family members to the virus 8 were black one hispanic everyone seems to know someone like. he lives in louisiana which along with the states of illinois and michigan has released preliminary data indicating a disproportionate number of african-american victims of the virus on monday more than 70 percent of fatalities in louisiana were black though they make up only a 3rd of the population there we've known literally forever that diseases like diabetes hypertension obesity and asthma are disproportionately afflicting the

minority populations particularly african-americans people with those underlying conditions are usually more affected by the virus but analysts suggest black americans are also overrepresented because they are more likely to live in urban areas in cramped conditions and struggle to access quality health care. the same trains have been reported in the united kingdom with black or asian patients more likely to be affected by the virus than white patients it's a tremendous challenge it's terrible. and provide support to african-american citizens of this country who are going through a lot but it's been disproportional gary says his community needs more than support it needs action the most pressing do to honor the memory of those who've been lost is the repairs next time said that i think they're. great the number of lives

lost and definitely remain mindful that as we were prepared this time we've lost so many every care to make. no doubt one of the many tough lessons to be learned from this pandemic alexia brian al-jazeera. a surgeon coronavirus cases in afghanistan has forced authorities to strengthen lockdown measures only government employees and essential workers are now allowed to leave their homes hundreds of police officers have been deployed and anyone breaking the rules will be taken into custody afghanistan the scene 14 coronavirus deaths and more than 400 confirmed cases. the number of infections in rwanda is on the rise despite the government ordering a total lockdown almost 3 weeks ago but the country is succeeding in ramping up the rate of testing for the virus catherine sort reports. rhonda's government opens the coming of coronavirus reception to gianna lists for the 1st time it's

a rare move on the outskirts of the capital kigali to publicize and reassure 12000000 london citizens that all is under control and to show the wild how the country is dealing with a pandemic stage of trying to size the outbreak in the country because we have our 1st cases already in country since the 14th of march 88 percent imported cases means there are few cases that. call famine by contact with. with those imported cases several patients are being more needed at this center for around 80 people and at a 2nd specialist hospital to health workers say none of the secret quiet intensive care but there are enough ventilators for those who may fall seriously ill run to has about 46 ventilators set aside for call that 1000 patients many african countries are struggling to keep up with pasty health officials here say they can

test up to 700 people a day. if we detect suspected cases we'll test them on a little test them every 3 days if they get sick we'll bring them to the center the government ordered a total shut down in late march when the infection rate increased all bowed as and space have been closed to stop the disease being imported. and it's all hands on deck at these medical center as volunteers and government workers keep track of who's quarantined in government facilities and at home we follow them up on a daily basis to see if they have any symptoms if they have developed any we refer them and connect them to our rapid response team for evacuation and taking them to different facilities for a course of. many randon say their margins response by their government has been swift and robust health workers say they're confident that they have the capacity

to contain the disease but they're also concerned that eve neighboring countries failed to stem the spread and called it 1000 will be had to deal with because of the high number of illegal border crossings catherine saw al-jazeera india's 21 day lock down is due to end next week but a number of state leaders are already calling for it to be extended 1300000000 people were urged to stay at home by prime minister narendra modi late last month the decision has left millions without work and forced many to their home villages in search of food and shelter the country has seen at least 160 deaths treat it came in doubt as a journalist at the current and indian news website he's been recording a video blog about daily life in his compound. as you can see behind me these are people from doing what the chief medical officers office and these people are doing from travel to top of that to that screening people asking them if they have any foreign travel history or if they're feeling on whether security guards are on you

also reading the newspaper where the news is of course of our society and how a positive case has been found here i'll show you what the newspaper says of course this is the whole which is that a positive case has been found you know since i can of course there's a photograph of a society of. allowing one person from each household to go out and buy some groceries but then the people didn't follow the rules properly so the next night with the british police came the senior officials in the have completely sealed the gate as you can see below is the main gate of her society and. milkman has come but he's not being allowed inside the society he's delivering the milk just to go to gate people are coming and collecting their essential items from the main gate. they're not allowed to go out and groups are concerned

about the prospect of the pandemic reaching the besieged syrian city of people they're already living with extreme shortages of medicine or hospital supplies are being depleted by nearly a decade of war but some residents are taking their own precautions and in cost to report 5 years ago the war in syria khost mohamed salah saud 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 you threat the coronavirus pandemic yet for him and his father it is also an appeal to nitty they found much needed worth making masks. there are no schools we used to study but now we can and i hope to return to the country in my study some happy that i work that i will share with friends so i am

getting used to this commission. ahmad up to ramadan opened this manufacturing 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 mass with his 50 male and female workers. so far no infections have been reported in at that up till raw man checks his employees temperatures and ensures they sen as their hands before they start searing every day. i think 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 books and sold in the

local market for less money they are simply can't import most from china right now demand is high prices went up this local production is a bit different in concept the 3 leah's of sterilised mosque 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 so you know i'm console al-jazeera there are growing concerns the pandemic is pushing the mental health of frontline medical workers at risk some of us doctors say the crisis is changing that outlook on the future i do you castro has more. and i think it's like asking you know yourself have some tears and crying right now because i'm so tired a life saved from covert 19 requires others accepting the risk of self-sacrifice.

for me to say i don't feel you're going into a room or anxiety that my heart doesn't start pounding in my stomach doesn't turn is a lie canadian nurse susan serenity knows better than most the price of caring for highly infectious patients in 2003 she contract sars while working at a toronto hospital she with an hospitalized for 17 days experience was devastating. without i don't think without and he's. got through it post-traumatic stress disorder is a common side effect of working on the medical front lines. isn't easy our doctor in new orleans treating an influx of covert patients in addition to the routine cases of shootings and stabbings there's no way to come out of this normal. you

know at least not having something kind of affecting your sight and that's even before the pandemic sort of now with the coronavirus overwhelming some north american hospitals medical staff face the additional trauma of working without professional protective gear and soon may have to choose who lives and who die or are always at risk and so we then go on somebody it's hard to think about well as my is my only mother who lives is he going to be in the situation weeks am i going to be the doctor that they says this is mental health experts say an entire generation of medical workers will likely suffer prolonged psychological effects from working through this pandemic but that hasn't stopped serenity the nurse who survived sars from extending her 27 year career a bit longer to meet the need i was actually scheduled to retire. in june or which i. like and now in the meantime communities coming together

to thank hospital workers are daily reminders of the public's appreciation for their compassion perseverance and bravery heidi to castro al-jazeera washington. still to come here which is the era away from the coronavirus u.s. senator bernie sanders bows to growing pressure and ends his presidential campaign .

for. more. than just a quick reminder that we'll bring you

a news conference from president trump just assumes that start respecting that daily update on the current of ours pandemic in the us with the president anytime soon. but step away from that great a virus temporarily and bring you up to date on some the other news making headlines. today and a new report by the world's chemical weapons watchdog p w c is blaming the syrian government for using sarin and chlorine gas attacks as the 1st time. has laid the blame for an attack in the country's war on the military and diplomatic editor james bass reports. the saga of the use of chemical weapons in syria has been long and horrific but now finally the results of a technical investigation that finds the assad regime responsible the inquiry by the international chemical weapons body the o.p.c. w finds that our latter meena in hammer governorate was attacked 3 times in march

2017 over a week long period twice the syrian air force used bombs containing sarin this is the aftermath of the other occasion patients being treated for breathing difficulties after an improvised barrel bomb containing chlorine was dropped from the syrian helicopter onto the hospital in the town. the report will be delivered to the u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorists so after such clear findings is he now prepared to directly condemn the assad government the secretary general his position is unchanged that any it is. intolerable that anyone anywhere. nicol weapons and impunity for use of the. equally unacceptable and it's imperative to identify and hold those accountable who have used. chemical weapons don't you say it's intolerable for anyone to do this but the a.p.c.

somebody says that the assad government did it will you not condemn the assam got such a government and why are you playing this lane game of not taking sides trying to be equal to both sides aren't you leaving one very important sawyer out of this and that's the syrian people who have been gassed and over the last 50 years by the assad regime have been executed and talk shit i think we are on the front lines with the syrian people we have been our humanitarian colleagues have been there throughout throughout this conflict trying to support the syrian people in their day we. must take you straight to the white house where president trump is going and then a news conference on a coronavirus pandemic thank you. this is a holy week when religious believers across the nation will observe passover good friday

an acer millions of jewish families begin passover at sundown tonight a sacred unbroken tradition that traces back to the ancient land of egypt and on sunday we celebrate our beautiful wonderful easter which we all look forward to. and we're going to have many easters together in churches in the future. getting closer you see the numbers we're getting much closer to getting our country back to the way it was. we have now an extra 2 countries that have been attacked 184 being attacked as we speak but will all when some point we're going to or when we're going to do it sooner than people think earlier today i spoke with 10000 of america's faith leaders to thank them for raising the spirits of our people during these very difficult days well we may be

physically apart we can use this time to pray to reflect and to focus on our personal relationship with god i also spoke with more than 3000 mayors county commissioners and state and tribal leaders to provide an update on our administration's own girling drive to beat the virus to crush the virus and that's happening it's happening i think if you look a little bit more quickly than people thought maybe a lot more quickly i hope and. it's something that all 'd over the world we're watching but people are watching us and seeing what we're doing and they're very impressed we're dealing with many countries right down many many countries and we're giving them whatever information we're able to do in. just spoke with the representatives of the u.k. and i think that they're great prime minister's doing much better today or at least

better but certainly he's had a tough bout and he's still going through a tough time but he seems to be doing better and that's good and we. we said our regards to the boars and his family and his friends all of the people that really love him he's become a very popular before this happened became a very popular prime minister who's doing an excellent job he loves their country he loves our country so we appreciate everything he's done and hopefully he's going to be ok. speaking of great people and people that have done a fantastic job i have secretary of state mike from pale with us and i'd like to ask mike to say a few words and then i think what we'll do in order to get him back to the state department will take some questions and will. then go along with the rest of what i'm going to say then we'll take some questions after that and then vice president

pence will take over so mike pumpin floors. thank you mr president under the president's leadership my team at the state department are doing our part to protect the american people from the virus and importantly to get them home. as you know when many countries shut down their rail lines their buses their infrastructure systems the capacity get out of this country they were trapped they were stranded the state department swung into action since january 29th we have now were pretreated over 50000 united states citizens back to their homes for more than 90 countries more than 490 flights back to united. it's from all across the world this this worldwide scale of our repatriation efforts is without parallel in our lifetime we are coordinating with foreign governments militaries airport authorities medical units transportation companies hotels you name it we're working with them to make sure the american people get back to be with their families you can see behind me the map of the flights that we have brought back people from all

across the world every day i get a chance to hear some of the remarkable stories from our team we give you just a couple of examples our mission in peru working with the peruvian military and police forces to send river boats up the up the river to get citizens that were stranded deep inside the amazon forest our mission in the fall make sure there woman who was running low on medication could get what she needed a pharmacy before to before boarding an evacuation flight that brought her back here in honduras after the government imposed very strict 247 curfew and closed airports our embassy sprang into action for stranded americans thousands of them 3 aboard told one of our consular officers just before he boarded the flight thank you for helping me get back home to my dad pretty neat. we've received similar messages from lots of people they're proud to know that the country will not leave them stranded we're going to get them back home one woman wrote quote i was in tears when i received the e-mail approving our flight back to the united states god bless the united states of america and they never said i felt like i had allies

there that actually treated me like a person or a family member not just a number. repatriation task force state department consular offices have done great work i want to thank our partners in the department of defense who have help with some of these flights that come and other government agencies our sisters and brothers across the united states government of this administration that have helped get these people back and then lastly aside from our repatriation efforts we continue to help countries around the world as well we've got c.d.c. officials helping these countries with expertise and all the things that these countries need to get their city. and safe and healthy and back so that we can get the economy all across the world the global economy back on its feet when this crisis is over thank you for that is for sure we'll see if anybody has any questions for secretary of state anybody please. mr secretary and it's going to be here for you made how do you know when you are gone because i imagine are americans in all parts of the world and you're always something going up and say i

want to go home now it's a great gift you know it's a great question we still have several 1000 people that we're working that they identify themselves every day new people find themselves in difficult place look we're going to be done when people can travel on their own again these people traveled abroad on vacations or with their church and were intending to get back on their own we hope that day comes pretty soon where they don't have to rely on the state department to get them back home but know this in the in the meantime we're devoting all the resources we have to get them there and often in difficult places they're not in the capital near the airport or the roads are closed and so it's not just a matter of getting a flight down there there's a lot of work that has to be done to coordinate to make it all happen and get those people available so they're sitting there when the flight lands they can get on the plane and then we can get them back home we still have several 1000 we're working on it we chipped away at that number every day but new citizens go to state department website identify themselves and say i need a little bit of help in some way and we do our best to get that to them just as quickly as we can get them and we're going to keep it up as long as we can have

resources to do it and there is a need as are. the staffers that tested positive for a virus that had been tested or going to were teens and what does this do to diplomatic efforts overseas if you're pulling 50000 people out of state capital. that most nation capitals all over the world so the bass was your these $50000.00 more and our officers these worse ordinary citizens who are there traveling for business or for commercial or for their trip of a lifetime we've seen some of that in the cruise ships but of course they're stranded all over. the world so our embassies say for the one that is and will go on which we did pull everybody out of the rest of our facilities around the world are all open we've had a handful of our folks now tested positive but we feel like we have a good handle on it and we're doing everything we can to make sure that not just the state department officials but our department offends colleagues that are working on these missions as well we're doing so in a way that reduces risk to them and their well being also. yes ma'am. do you feel

i'm trying to help help for me and from the united states and more be any consequences for that you know it's this is not the time for retribution but it is still the time for clarity and transparency we're still working on this problem sent there still data that these good people need so that they can perform their analysis of how to both develop their puter in a vaccine and to understand where this virus is so every country china included every country needs to be transparent about what's going on in their country they did share that data we share ours with the world so that the best scientists in the world can get to the right conclusions and bring this economy this global economy back to the place that we all want to be as quickly as we can every country has that responsibility it started in china and so they have that special responsibility get it right quickly and fast ask every country as we move forward in the days and weeks ahead make sure we share that do it do it right do it well when we do we'll get this thing back i'm sure they have shared their data center

with the united states every country has an obligation to share that information accurately timely completely transparently and thoroughly just as quickly as they can gather it will will leave for another time to evaluate how everyone did in that . thank you thank you president and say the secretary a question they will help or we're going to say she has a fundraising drive for 700000000 dollars for one of my wrist resources china so we don't need $20000000.00 you know it's actually still less so do you feel that china should be giving more to this world health organization to prevent coming to us finish and you have this of this really just what we at this point we're reevaluating our our funding with respect to the world or health organization this is very consistent what president said since the beginning of his campaign. organizations have to work they have to deliver the outcomes for which they were intended and we need to make sure that not only the world health organization but every internet. organization that we take taxpayer money and give it to them for

the benefit of america we need to make sure it's delivering on those taxpayer dollars the world health organization is no different in that respect we have to execute on the mission that they are designed to achieve and we've seen with respect to the world health organization. here we are we have we have it hasn't accomplished what it was intended to deliver. mr secretary as you say hold us down 1st sometimes i'm confident we're going to go on proxy chloroquine to come back and be made available to personnel overseas i don't know the answer to that. but but but no that will deliver the best medical care every place we can some of them are in difficult places where there's not a lot of medical help we've done our best to move that medical assistance forward to them in the field. this is secretary right here to give us an update on numbers you're seeing about mars he's in iran and whether or not getting updates in

that state. with respect to our sister and we have offered from the 1st day we knew that virus had struck the people of iran we offered humanitarian assistance i regret to say they chose not to take that my bird i've heard people talking about sanctions there know that the world should know there are no sanctions that prevent to manage tearing assistance medical supplies pharmaceuticals from going to iran we offered american assistance we've tried to help other countries get assistance in there as well had some ability to do that i don't have any better data than what you've seen publicly that i can share with you with respect to the extent of the virus inside of iran. but the secretary are people out there were. so you saying we're making sure that we have what we need for the american people whether that's gloves i'll let the vice president talk to numbers on that but at this point what we are doing terms of assistance is providing what most of these countries need to learn how to do surveillance themselves to learn how to conduct

tests themselves to learn the things that can reduce the peak in their countries those are the kind of things and we've been doing this you should know the united states has been incredibly generous we have c.d.c. officials like no other country in the world out helping these nations build up their health care global epidemic health care infrastructure it's good people like that you see sitting to my right they've been working on this all their life all around the world putting these countries in a place where they're better prepared for a virus like this one. and then the u.s. diplomats or even the citizens in trapped in. the virus as they try to rescue us citizens are not that i'm aware of. not that i'm aware of but it's there's no doubt i remember when we sent our team to get our officials and about 800 american citizens non-government citizens that were living in rwanda remember when we sent one of our 1st repatriation flights in there we were very careful we sent trained professionals in but they were going into a very very difficult very fraught place we were blessed they all got back with no one had.