find out the truth in very complex situations that include major global players we've been told to use cyber attacks from russia there are dangers to the scott pelley. troops and approach troops weren't on a 0. today i'm instructing my administration to halt. funding of the world health organization while reviews condemn the us president accuses the world body of failure and to distance from a ship and its handling of the coronavirus and. convert all this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. this is no time for politics and it is no time to fight new york's governor calls for more cooperation from

president trump in the fight against covert 19 rejecting his push to open the economy soon. stock warnings from the i.m.f. that the global economy will enter its worst recession since the great depression calling this the great blocked. and at election and the time of a pandemic south koreans carefully head to the ballot box. it's 23 g.m.t. and in the past few minutes u.s. president donald trump has declared that he will suspend funding to the wall health organization he's accuse the top u.n. health body of covering up the coronavirus pandemic he says the w.h.o. baulch the initial response to the outbreak and spread what he calls disinclination from china which made things worse the u.s. is the biggest funder of the organization which is in the middle of fighting

a global pandemic. we have deep concerns whether america's generosity has been put to the best use possible the reality is that the w.h.o. failed to adequately obtain vet and share information in a timely and transparent fashion the world depends on the w.h.o. to work with countries to ensure that accurate information about international health threats is shared in a timely manner and if it's not to independently tell the world the truth about what is happening the w.h.o. failed in this basic duty and must be held accountable let's get more on this now from mike hanna who is live for us in washington d.c. mike this is a major development trump really making some serious accusations. well president trying has been highly critical of the w.h.o. in the past but certainly this criticism was unprecedented coming from the head of

state directed at a world organization which has been on the frontline of the pandemic the fight against this particular pandemic perhaps the most astonishing statement by president trump that the w. h. o. is responsible for a 20 fold increase in the amount of deaths in the pen that make because it did not carry out its basic functions he reiterated his anger at the w.h.o. advising against travel bans at a time that he imposed a limited restriction on flights from china within the united states he also said that the w.h.o. did not cost on the enough information from china it also except assurances given by chinese authorities at face value he claims and this information would have helped end or at least contain the breakout of the pandemic but all of this being said it must be pointed out too that on january the 30th the w.h.o.

declared the virus to be a pandemic this is the time that president trump 4 days in fact 2 weeks after continued to contend that it was containable that he was dealing with nothing worse than the flu and that it would all go away by a probe. and my cab president trump also spoke about working with gov news on the reopening of state state by state what did he have to say about that. well this follows a 48 hours in which he's basically been a massive suspect with the country's governors insisting that as president he has the right to decide when or whether to lift restrictions in various states now the governors of the states have fought back insisting both democrat and republican that it is their authority not i'm sorry mike i'm going to have to maybe they're just for one minute stay with us though we're going back to president trump who is now taking questions that let's listen in a very good position again to cupboard was bare when i got here nobody ever thought

a thing in all fairness to previous administrations nobody ever thought or they like this was going to happen but it did happen now the governors will be very very respectful of the presidency again this isn't me this is the presidency the presidency has such a new great importance in terms of what we're doing and you can talk about constitution you can talk about federalism you can talk about whatever you want but the best way i'm talking now from a managerial standpoint is to let individual governors run individual states and come to us if they have difficulty and we will help them you know john. you talked about having testing in tracing equipment that in the facility for that in place to open up the government doctor found she said this morning that that critical testing of tracing ability does not currently exist. or will or unless i

question is will be this my question is will it exist by may 1st the individual governors have testing the individual governors we have many forms of testing a new for testing is being developed. our country has to get opened. and it will get open and it will get open safely and hopefully quickly some areas quicker than other areas but there is tremendous testing and the governors will use whatever testing is necessary and if they're not satisfied with the testing they should open but they'll use whatever success to whatever testing is necessary go ahead please thank you mr president back to the w.h.o. for you support the organization again and tetro since immediately replaced our do you want to feel him sat down if possible or lower the universe a geisha an i i don't know the gentleman but i know they have been problems and it's been very unfair to the united states just like the world trade organization has been very very unfair and now they're coming into line when they consider china

a developing nation and because china is a developing nation they take massive advantage of the united states why didn't the president stop this i've been talking about it from the day i got it and we're looking at that very very strongly world trade w so i have probably the world health and world trade both of them i'm not sure which is worse your one another truth but we'll figure it out ok mr president mr president mr president your scripts i think. pretty trying is transparent but you're saying maybe the same things about china just a couple of months ago so i mean how do you square your decision to how did a trade deal with china which china supposed to be spending $250000000000.00 in a country we're going to be watching very much to see you know what got a little bit waylaid by the virus but look i'd love to have a good relationship with china but if you look and we made a phenomenal deal china has paid because of me china has paid us tens of billions

of dollars over the course of a very short period of time billions of it some of that money has been spent to farmers where they were targeted by china. we cannot let that happen we can't let that happen so we ended up signing a very good trade deal now i want to see if china lives up to it i know president xi i think he will live up to it if he doesn't live up to it that will be ok too because we have very very good alternatives i just try and go have a spread and you get a 625000 that's a no you want to bring life to the job but i've spoken to hundreds of people across the country in the last weeks say they still can't get tested and that they are social distancing because of the summit and yes because really our scuse me i know i know your question you're ready the governors the governors are supposed to do testing it's up to the governors go ahead please i didn't read it we're going to be good reception i priced it quiets must quiet it for us it's why. they are not your

president they're howling your lead that they are not social things governors are doing the testing it's now not up and it hasn't been up to the federal government go ahead the president of the belly of a child facing if the base let's hope that when they put this guy here it's nothing but trouble he's a showboat if you keep talking i'll leave and you can have it out with the rest of these people if you keep talking i'm going to leave and you can have it out with them. just a loud mouth go ahead if you if you could kind of clarify are you basically lifting your slow the spread before the $91.00 deadline and then you know how many 6 governors are going to be running their individual states some of them will say no i can't open now and some of them may last longer than we even would think others will say i can you can go i don't want to mention states but there are numerous states that are in great shape right now they're viewing the rest of the country like we don't even believe this is happening we have

a lot of those states they're set to open practically now i mean they would be open now we're going to let them open sooner than the date we're going to pick a date we're going to get a date that's good but it's going to be very very soon sooner than the end of the month but there are many states out there that are looking at this and they're reviewing it and they're saying we shouldn't be even included in this you know there are some that want to open up almost now now if we disagree with that we're not going to let them open we're not going to let them open if some governor said you know has a lot of problems a lot of cases a lot of death and they want to open early we're not going to let it happen so we're there to watch we're there to help but we're also there to be critics and on testing very important we've always wanted the states to do the testing we're now providing great testing but the state has to provide the great test that the state has to provide the ventilators but they didn't do that so we ended up going into the ventilator business essentially and we've made tens of thousands of ventilators

and we solve the big problem for the sates but we want them to do the testing and we are there to help you a place that is much of which one question just one question governor the 1st couple of months to one question good solid majority i see you want to walk back where you did raise china you very for being here and almost of china i'm respectful of other countries why wouldn't i be respectful of china in the meantime china. paid us nothing in your last administration nothing in any previous administration they paid us tens of billions of dollars because of what we've done and the trade deal we have they have to give us 250000000000 dollars in purchases let's see if they do that and they're also paying us 25 percent to $250000000000.00 in tariffs so when taking a women will take it in billions of dollars for china from china they never paid us

$0.10 that's a great thing now. if they don't produce or if we find out bad things we're not going to be happy but right now and and we're doing that that's what we're doing look we have an investigation underway we're paying almost 500 $1000000.00 we have an investigation underway on the world health organization we will find out exactly what went on and we may be satisfied that it could be remedied and we maybe said if satisfied that it's so bad that it can't be remedied and if it can't we're going to go a different route when you're criticizing the w. 2 for praising china pretty transparent but you also praise china for being transparent i'm talking about china's transparency and you worry that well you know if i'm so good to china how come i was the only person the only leader of a country that closed our borders tightly against china and by the way when i close a border that was law the head of what anybody you can ask anybody that was in the

room 21 people i was the one person that wanted to do it deborah can tell you that better than anybody i was the one person that wanted to do it you know why because i don't believe everything i hear and i close and if we didn't close our border early very early long before the kind of dates you're talking about we would have had thousands and probably hundreds of thousands more death pleased to see her at least that's enough frankly resident last week you'd have to add in the coming days about the order of viruses just forced to act on a lack of this this may work to a very strong we have a lot of i would say within 2 weeks that is being worked on deborah we're working on that very strong ok c.d.c. is working but we're we're getting reports on that young players going to surprise you know on the back you know. you're talking about giving our country and the month to do that as a result you see a spike in cases in areas who may have who are men you know some countries have in some countries haven't i'm watching other countries i'm studying other countries as

they open up. and i don't want to go into names because for some it would be a little bit embarrassing but i'm studying other countries as we go along so on that we have looked at every country that's opened some successfully some ok no total disaster but some ok and some have to go back to the hot spot and fix the hot spot we think we're going to do it very successfully again we have one country but we have lots of different pieces it's a puzzle we have beautiful pieces beautiful states with capable governors they know when it's time to open and we don't want to put pressure on anybody i'm not going to put any pressure on any governor to open i'm not going to say to governor cuomo you've got to open within 7 days i want him to take his time do it right and then open new york i'm not putting any pressure on the governors some of them don't need pressure or not pressure i mean they're ready to they're ready to go and that's a good thing so will open it up in beautiful little pieces as it comes along please

go ahead behind you. question about the home of just where you have any thoughts on the march earlier today where you said that word heart pressure. would. cause a constitutional crisis and he basically said that. yourself trumps a 100 to tell myself is king you know that i heard he said that but i didn't i didn't see the remarks but he understands how we helped him he needed help. we gave him 2900 hospital beds he didn't use them we gave him a ship he didn't use them and i'm not saying that i'm saying that's good because you know what that means he didn't need him but we said it was too much but we wanted to err we said err on the side of caution as i said we said look we don't think you need it but if you do we're going to have a belt and the army corps of engineers did a fantastic job and the u.s. navy did a fantastic job and we moved

a ship that was not meant for covert and we had it redesigned for cove it but they still didn't have very many people going and now we are will get along just fine he understands we get along just fine please mr president. for others states that made real. offices. cook up lists letter with your hospital or others who are asked to go back to work for her and so we have to the governors the governors are going to want to make sure everything's safe now i think that companies can do testing on a maybe weekly basis you have to do it every day with the same worker but they could do testing they could do temperature gauges they could do a lot of different things and you know we're only talking about for a period of time you know eventually we want to get back to where we were we want people actually sitting next to each other in ballgames eventually you know we're not going to rip out every every other seat in baseball stadiums and football

stadiums we want to go back to where we were i want people to understand that we're not going to be like the way you are we have 300 reporters in the back that want to say look at the look at this the way this looks i don't even like the way it looks although i have a lot fewer reporters that's ok with me but look at the way this looks i've never seen anything jon i've never seen anything quite like it but there are a lot of people we don't want this i don't want this i don't want this eventually we're going back where restaurants that had 150 seats are going to have 150 seats not 50 seats because they can't make it at 50 seats but more important. the atmosphere is even better we have to get used to it we have to get used to i don't know the people are going to be shaking hands as readily some well i said to some of the hospital people today so will people be shaking hands again and i must say i was a little surprised most of them said probably. because there is some kind of a thing to it i was never a big hand shake up but when i ran for politics i said i think i but it's a check in people's hand go ahead mr president

a couple of financial questions if i could. larry kudlow said this morning that if the current run rate the paycheck protection money will run out very soon plan to free up a few stalled in congress what can you do as president try to try to move that forward what we're trying to get it done the problem is the democrats want to put all sorts of things less time to put kennedy center and i hated putting kennedy center and i have great respect for kennedy center but i hated putting it in the bill because it's just not appropriate right and but they wanted it in for whatever reason had their own political reason and jan i said watch the way that blows up and it blew up i think it blew up in the face we want to take care of our workers will worry about other things and other pet projects of democrats and also republicans later but it's been a tremendously successful program i think you see it the banks have stepped up hundreds of thousands of loan applications approved money is going out it's been a tremendous program really has been and obviously it was at

a point where we're almost you know we're almost the money will be expired and we could use a refill for the workers we want to be able to make sure that small businesses stay open john and i think that will happen you know go ahead. forget governor set out a list of 6 criteria in real time here and he told me last night at all costs so that really or that there are as many as 20 that he'll be here as a really 1st team not his home by may 1st but there are 20 states actually i was given a number 29 states are in very very good shape i don't want to say whether or not the governor spoke with me about that but we've had a very good relationship gavin newsome and very very good relationship you. on the back go ahead clarissa in fact very much i have 2 questions one is for one question but 1st to be here it's why who cares so he can be here this today right well one

question i have about the united nations fund this stuff i felt far away says that that there is there's a danger that there that the food supply could be interrupted during this and that because i want to know what you're going to do about what i think our farmers are incredible they're producing levels of food like just unbelievable our transportation that's one of the reasons i have the transportation people on the line tomorrow for the delivery of the food no we're doing phenomenally with the food and i will say the stores kroger and wal-mart which has a lot of the food and many of the stores they seem to be in very good shape but i haven't heard that at all we're going to be very strong on food supply ok i have a one more question here than it's yes the death projections that you mentioned earlier are based on old social distancing until the end of may so if you ease up on these guidelines now how many more americans do you think are analysing 1st of all will have guidelines even for the states that open and they'll be guidelines

but we will not have any problem with that when you get your questions are very interesting question but the states that are opening are not states which will have a problem with that plus they will have to adhere to guidelines until a certain point into the future when the enemy is vanquished the reason they don't have a problem now is because of social distancing so if you all in your eyes i don't have is is partially and some of that will stay in effect much of it will stay in effect for a period of time but the reason i also said different kinds of states they have lots of room they have fewer people and they have lots of room and that's one of the primary reasons i want to thank you all very much so a lot of positive things happening we're going to have some very strong recommendations for the governors we're going to work with the governors the governors are going to do a good job and if they don't do a good job. going to come down on the very hard will have no other choice thank you all very much thank you thank you so that is of course u.s. president donald trump speaking outside the white house and the rose garden the big

lines come out of that press conference that he is temporarily halting funding to the world health organization he says it has failed in its basic duty and must be held accountable he accused the world health organization of covering up the seriousness of the coronavirus that the outbreak could have been contained at its source he also talked about the ongoing relationship with china and also spoke about the governor's responsibility across the country for testing and for reopening their economies rebuild their individual reopening schedules and the role that the federal government will play in that for more let's bring in mike hanna who is live for us in washington d.c. mike so just run our viewers through the biggest points to come out of that press conference in terms of the world health organization and the cussing of american funding. well the president has been highly critical of the world

health organization in the past but this level of criticism was unprecedented perhaps the most astounding statement made by the president is that the w.h.o. he claims is responsible for a 20 percent increase in the death rate resulting from the pandemic he was absolutely insistent that the w.h.o. has not done its job effectively that it is not accounted for itself transparently that it has not sufficiently investigated what was happening in china at the beginning of this pandemic but he was also very critical of the fact that the w.h.o. continued to advise international travel at a time when president trump limited flights from china he says the w.h.o. criticized him for this this is something that has obviously rankled with president trump but certainly this is an enormous move the stopping of or suspending of

funding to the w.h.o. from the united states the u.s. is the major funder of the world health organization and this would have a massive impact on the w.h.o. which is on the forefront of the fight against this pandemic it must be pointed out too that the w.h.o. is an organization that is essentially run by the countries that belong to it so certainly this is some would interpret as rather unfair criticism at this particular time president trying to saying that parts of the u.s. could be opened up by the end of may a number of states he said are doing well this is against all the advice that we've been hearing from the white house health experts who are doing very strongly that testing protocols are not sufficiently in place to be able to establish any timeline for the partial or total lifting of the restrictions in place throughout the 50 states and mike there has also been a bit of a dow oh i'm sorry mike i believe we're leaving it there thank you for that mike

hanna live from washington d.c. . all the while there's heading toward the worst economic downturn since the great depression of the 930 s. that is the grim prediction from the international monetary fund the i.m.f. chief economist says lock downs aimed at containing the spread of the coronavirus could cost the global economy more than $9.00 trillion dollars over the next 2 years one sector that's taken an immediate hit is the airline industry it's expecting to lose more than 300000000000 dollars in revenue this year travelers will also feel the crunch with ticket prices predicted to surge due to new safety regulations once fights to raise you well here is alan fischer with more for we in the international monetary fund a stark warning this is a crisis like no other which means there is substantial uncertainty about the impact it will have on people's lives and livelihoods as unemployment lines grow

around the world is manufacturing growing to halt in many sectors as businesses are forced to close the economic impact of the covert crisis is biting the i.m.f. issues regular reports on the global financial situation 3 months ago they were predicting widespread growth but one of ours has radically changed the landscape we are projecting global growth in 20224 to minus 3 percent now this is a downgrade of 6.3 percentage points from general 2020 major division over a very short period of time this makes the great lockdown the worst recession since the great depression and far worse than the global financial crises. one of the biggest jobs will come a new unit paean euro zone which is expected to take a hit of 7.5 percent the u.s. where the president is pushing to reopen the economy is looking at

a contraction of nearly 6 percent japan 5.2 percent down the same as latin america in china where the pandemic began and has begun to reopen its economy it's expected to record growth of just over one percent the i.m.f. is predicting that if things don't deteriorate there will be a rebound for the global economy in 2021 but one economist warns that might be short lived i think he's going to run into a lot of headwinds in terms of the kind of the draft that's going to come from all of that the big shock that's happened over the past quarter in terms of bankruptcies in terms of lost jobs and that is going to weigh quite heavily on demand and that is why governments and central banks stepping up stimulus to try and give the economy this extra boost when it comes out of this shock this induced like this shutdowns one area seriously impacted the airline industry it's seen as passenger numbers drop by half globally airlines no think they'll lose more than

300000000000 dollars this year much more than expected the i.m.f. is urging countries to walk together to beat the pandemic saying there is no tradeoff between saving lives and saving livelihoods alan fischer al-jazeera virginia. during this global health crisis countries led by women appear to have a better coordinated effort at tackling the emergency call of germany warned early of a significant number of infections and impose strict measures tree has fewer deaths than many of the european nations just and are then in new zealand imposed self isolation on people arriving from abroad when there were just 6 cases in the country foreigners were banned from entering shortly after in iceland prime minister catrin jacobs daughter is offering free testing to all of its citizens and the 1st lady to sound the alarm was taiwan's sein win because of her fast action as early as and the end of december they have not had to impose lock downs for the 1st

time in more than a month taiwan has not reported a single case norway's prime minister has held a special news conference for kids to tell them how to stay safe it's bringing catherine ashbrook in somerville massachusetts in the us she is the executive director of the future of diplomacy project at the harvard kennedy school of government thank you for coming on the program do you think women these are doing particularly well and if so why. well i think what you see here is that all of these women that incited have come into power by belief affective coalitions by creating different platforms and they have approached this crisis with the kind of honesty that inspires trust in government and they have said unlike the president's press conference which you just broadcast did not cast blame they have said they will build coalitions of the scientific community. either their governor is or their underlying government entities it's happened this in

a holistic way and so we see that in crises and we see this across the board corporate crazies acknowledge crazies women are off better set to tackle these types of us dilemma as because they are people pulling together the kind of people that need to be dedicated to a very specific solution thank you for that my apologies for time we have to leave it there catherine clover asked brooklyn the executive director of the future of diplomacy project thank you. now this is out there these are the top stories u.s. president donald trump a spending funding to the world health organization he says the w.h.o. bought the initial response to the outbreak and spread what he called this information from china which made things worse one of the most dangerous and costly decisions from the w.h.o. was its disastrous decision to oppose travel restrictions from china and other

nations they were very much opposed to what we did fortunately i was not convinced and suspended drabble from china saving untold numbers of lives thousands and thousands of people would have died had other nations like was suspended travel from china countless more lives would have been saved instead look at the rest of the world look at parts of europe. other nations in regions who follow w.h.o. guidelines and kept their borders open to john. accelerated the pandemic all around the world the international monetary fund says the world is heading toward the worst economic downturn since the great depression of the 1930 s. the i.m.f. chief economist says lock downs aimed at stopping the outbreak could cost the global economy more than $9.00 trillion dollars of the next 2 years. polls have

opened in south korea's parliamentary elections it is the world's 1st national election to be held during the pandemic vote is required to wear masks and gloves plus to maintain social distancing spain has reported the lowest increase in new cases in nearly a month bringing hope the infection rate there is slowing or authorities reported another $567.00 deaths on tuesday pushing the total past $18000.00 the u.k. economy could shrink by a staggering 35 percent over the next 3 months if the lock down there is kept in place that would more than double unemployment the finance minister says the economic measures currently in place will significantly mitigate the impact of the headlines more news to come here on al-jazeera after what i want to stay with us.

euro world news right. from new hampshire to the world. 19 has gone blue. killing tens of thousands. and terrifying millions. over a sure. fire in the snow leader. meanwhile another virus has emerged the symptoms suppression misinformation and panic. china was an open transparent democratic nation. then this whole thing might not have happened. one of many student vested gates to fight the truth in a time of contagious.