there is no channel coverage world here like we did. others here are really in bathinda that's a privilege as a journalist. al-jazeera . hello i'm adrian for the good and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes our focus my focus is on stopping this virus and saving lives the head of the world health organization says he regrets the u.s. president's decision to hold funding for accusing it of mishandling the pandemic. there's widespread condemnation of donald trump's move with many countries voicing

their support for the w.h.o. . a spike in corona virus related deaths in sweden $170.00 people die in 24 hours sparking criticism of the government's soft approach but south korea it appears to be a mandate for the government's pandemic plan the ruling party is projected to win a general election where people voted wearing masks and gloves. and. a soldier's tribute for covert 19 warriors and 99 year old british war veteran raises millions of dollars for the country's national health service. the world health organization says it regrets the u.s. president's decision to cut funding to the global health body donald trump is accusing it of mishandling the covert 19 pandemic but the head of the w.h.o.

says that his organization is vital for handling this crisis and its performance is open to scrutiny. w. chose performance in tackling this pandemic will be reviewed by w. just member states and the independent bodies that are employees to each will try to spot and see an accountability for that might really involving all responders this is part of the usual process put in place by our member states no doubt areas for improvement will be identified and there will be lessons for all of fires to learn but for now our focus my focus is on stopping this virus and saving lives hours after trumps decision a us federal department the centers for disease control which has been leading the fight against the corona virus there praised the w.h.o.

troops move has been widely criticized the european union says there is no justification for washington's decision when quote their efforts are needed more than ever while the u.k.'s reinforce that it has no plans to cut funding we have 2 correspondents following developments on this story our white house correspondent kimberly how could a standing by with the u.s. reaction but 1st let's go live to charlie angela for more on the w.h.o. its reaction to donald trump's decision the director general charlie was very diplomatic about it as you'd expect what else did he say in his press briefing. 3 to the guy who chose mandate which is to promote global health and he did say that the us has been a very long standing friend of the w.h.o. in hopes that they will continue to do so but he did say he regrets the president's decision and he was asked numerous times by just by journalists what this cutting funding will mean for the various programs he did push back against that saying we

really need to do an assessment before we can answer that question but we do know that even before trump's announcement the organization was looking into potential cuts to some already underfunded program they remember that goes far beyond just the coronavirus crisis they've been working for years on eradicating diseases like polio measles and bono they also do a lot of research into cancer and mental health and we already know tonight that the european commission is offering to step in to help with some immediate funding gaps and they're planning an online pledging conference on the 4th of may so we'll see what kind of amounts come out of that he also said as you played in that sound bite that they're not you know they're not saying that they're not open to criticism and of course their performance in how they've dealt with this pandemic will be assessed by the various member states who contribute to their funding at the end of this pandemic now is just not the time and they admit there will be

lessons to be learnt and they'll be areas of improvement but right now he said we need to stop the virus we need to save lives and he said it more than once that solidarity is the name of the game we just need to get on with this job and as you said there has been some condemnation from various countries in europe about trip president trumps decision from germany from france from the u.k. some particularly strong words from the european union as well from the burrell foreign policy chief but from the w.h.o. themselves have a dignified response perhaps hoping now. to engage in a war was with president trump perhaps hoping that we might see a reverse of this decision and really are asking to be left alone to get on with the job look like it's pandemic out of there as charlie angela reporting live from london charlie many thanks indeed let's bring in our white house correspondent kelly how could bend is live for us in washington so committee you have one

government agency appearing to contradict president trump's view on the world health organization yeah it's very unusual because well the u.s. president is defending his response to the statement from the white house he says will never hesitate to take any necessary steps to protect the lives health and safety of the american people and he's accusing essentially the world health organization of parroting chinese government claims that there was no human to human transmission of the virus they're also saying that it was too slow to declare a global health emergency and even that the body is china centric you have on the other hand a member of the president's own coronavirus task force saying very publicly here on national television of the united states essentially praising the body saying that the center for disease control has worked very well with the world health

organization and that there has been this history essentially of this partnership and its effectiveness t.d.c. and jones had a long history of working together in multiple outbreaks or out the world as we continue to do in this one and so we've had a very productive public health relationship we continue to have but can really is it even in the president's power to cut funding as the world health organization. the short answer is no in the united states it's congress that controls budgets the us president puts forward his proposal but it's congress ultimately that approves this budget and we should point out that this sort of attempt to cut the budget of the world health organization at least in terms of the u.s. contribution is nothing new in fact the u.s. president had already reduced his request to congress for the world health organization and already it was raising eyebrows and there was an attempt to

mitigate essentially the effort by the white house to try and cut this budget now there has been a reaction on capitol hill to the president saying that he is withholding funding pending a review of the world health organization house speaker nancy pelosi saying this that the decision by donald trump is dangerous and illegal and will be swiftly challenge so it's very clear that the members of congress who oppose this decision are going to use every sort of tool in the tool box if you will from a congressional side it's a co-equal branch of government with the white house in order to make sure that this money to the world health organization is not halted a white house correspondent kimberly how could reporting live from washington kimberly many thanks indeed let's compare the world health organization's response to that of the u.s. government on december 31st china notified the w.h.o. of a new type of pneumonia the agency created

a crisis group 2 days later china notified the u.s. of the outbreak on january 8th by january 14th w.h.o. said that the virus was spreading human to human the next week it was the 1st u.s. case in washington state trump said at the time that the situation was under control. by the end of january the w.h.o. declared a public health emergency in the us and sort of a task force the warnings that millions could die trump then placed restrictions on travelers from china the w.h.o. worried that this would only increase fear and stigma in the weeks that followed trump said repeatedly and falsely that warmer weather would kill the virus by mid march the w.h.o. declared a pandemic eric hamm as a political analyst he joins us now live from washington d.c. eric where do you stand on this controversy does the president have the right to do to threaten to cut the funding of the world health organization. well typically

based on how the laws are written by congress they typically will write in there where exactly the funds are supposed to go and if the money is actually allocated to the world health organization and the president actually signs that legislation into law then it's very difficult for the president to actually move that money or decide that he will no longer fund that operation and in fact we're seeing something like that play out where the president has sought to actually move monies that congress has allocated particularly for other military matters in the president has sought to take those funds and move them to build this or so what the president is doing as it relates to the funding for the world health organization is something that we have seen the president attempt to do since coming into office and that's why now you're seeing legislation written by congress particularly as it relates to appropriation funding where they're actually taking a much stronger stance as to how that money is to be allocated are and so what's the president up to here it can't be to do with with saving money i mean it's the

blowing a huge hole in. the federal budget is it. no actually what we're seeing from the president is just another blow at the multilateral engagement that the united states has so diligently worked at for the last half century or more and the president going after that war 'd world health organization is very similar to what we have seen from the president pulling out of the paris climate accords going after the g. 7 after nato this is a president who has issues multilateral engagement in organizations and quite frankly it's something that his base finds to be very popular in this resonates with that base and also given that over the last few days we have seen the president we have seen criticism of the president for his delayed response to adequately addressing the cole in 1000 response in the united states and so this is a welcome opportunity for the president to find

a scapegoat that he can latch on to and he can attack so this is political he's throwing shade on his own response to the pandemic absolutely he is going to have to because again if you go back to january this is a president who was very laudatory who was very who shout a lot of praise both on china and the world health organization for their response and for their handling of the code 19 al break and now here we are and april the united states is leading the world both in contractions as well as deaths from this pandemic and now the president's approval rating is slipping the united states is heading towards a recession and this and now the president is is again trying to reshape the narrative and he's using the world health organization as a convenient scapegoat but to be clear the world health organization does have some questions to answer in terms of its response to him talk about his his his base and appealing to his base i mean surely that they they must be aware through u.s.

media of the criticism that's been levied against the president for doing this. well yes i mean if you look at the numbers as of late 1 the overall response by the american public of the ringback the the federal government's handling of the kobe 1000 response has been dismal in fact that many americans do not have confidence in the federal government to adequately address the pandemic outbreak in addition to that the president's approval rating which was at an all time high just 3 weeks ago has precipitous lead begun to drop since being in addition to that what we're seeing is that the president also is losing a very badly to joe biden and mythical one on one matchups not just nationally but also in key states that the president is going to need to win so the president ever looking forward to the november election and now the president in this attempting to really try to rewrite the page on how this process is playing

out erick pretty good start too many thanks indeed for being with us erick and lives in washington this is the news hour from up to 0 still to come in the program fears that the pandemic is spreading undetected through palestinian communities in occupied east jerusalem we'll take you there. plus broken promises of left migrants and cali stranded at the mercy of the coronavirus. germany will begin to lift some coronavirus restrictions from next week some shops including bookstores will be allowed to reopen and finally have pupils will be going back to school early and may lodge events though remain banned until september germany has one of the lowest covert 19 fatality rates in the world live out of bolin as the rest and when it came can tell us more so even though lockdown restrictions will begin to ease starting next week dominic chancellor merkel says

the people will still have to abide by a social distancing measures. yes and she's really keeping as many people as possible so as a small to protect themselves and of when they go about their business as things start to relax people start to work those people who would. perhaps to be non-essential workers and so now people who would do you have office working working from home those people she says must now when they go back into society must when moss will be clear about the restrictions that are the same in the introduction on not things of next week what will shops stolz and book shops and those sorts of things anywhere that falls into that category which has a surface area less than a 100 meets is will be able to reopen but with those sorts of restrictions in place

is the point here is all those he was saying the more some of the rate is amongst the lowest in europe and will vote more than half of all the people who've been infected in germany have recovered by now the government is still very very cautious because it doesn't want to have a flare up of the burning virus again but it also doesn't want to damage the economy any more than is absolutely necessary during these locked. out zeros to what it came reporting live from berlin dominic many thanks indeed sweden has reported a shop rise in the number of corona virus related deaths a further 170 were confirmed on whether to stay up from 114 on the previous day more than 1200 people have died with the virus in sweden and nearly 12000 have tested positive so it has taken a much more liberal approach to the pandemic resisting the national markdowns of other countries how does the us paul race as a moment reports on questions that surround sweden's more relaxed approach. one of

the concerns is that the the mortality rate is twice in sweden what it is in denmark the health agency says well they're taking a different approach that they think is sustainable that they think will serve them better in the long term but that's based on 2 pill is really one of them is that 10 years ago here they had a large scale pandemic simulation. which is largely a policy this time around and the 2nd is based on actual experience pandemics have hit sweden before and one of the 8 particular peculiarities of sweden is that although it has population concentrations house a lot of isolated places as well and in previous pandemics those places were extremely isolated because transport wasn't what it is today and they notice thought when the 2nd wave of

a pandemic hits those areas were really ravaged because they hadn't had any buildup of immunity in the 1st wave now that's no consolation for the people who had family members friends. and there's more than a 1000 and sweden has recognized it's failed to protect people properly in elderly homes a huge number of deaths there and also the somali community and the ring could be area of stock i suppose what american viewers would say is a project have a very high number of deaths that there are people who have been badly affected. in the coming months as other countries open up whether they relaxed approach has been correct or not. 20 of the world's largest economies have agreed to put the tents of the globe's poorest nations on hold the chain 20 nations have agreed to freeze debt payments for a year of private lenders to do the same for more on this list join us here as alan fishes live for us in the genea tell us more about this debt relief proposal allan

well the i.m.f. are very keen that this go ahead there's a couple reasons for it 1st of all they do is $25.00 countries that have dates they would be concentrating on how they're going to continue to make those payments what the i.m.f. wanted them to do was to forget all about that take the money that would be spent on repeating those dates and music to confront the covert crisis there's another reason for it as well that is that some of this money could also be used to help stimulate the economy and news countries your member of the back in january the i.m.f. were saying 160 countries were going to experience growth in the 1st quarter of the year perhaps even into the 1st half and then just yesterday on tuesday they were saying no actually we're going to see it contraction of around 3 percent in the global economy all because of covert so if they can put a hold on those days that means that money can be diverted elsewhere into fighting

the disease but also to stimulating the economy is also going to be a thing called 'd a concession or a lending now what does that mean you say it's like you know complex template boils down to be so that if i give you a concession or a low and i'm doing it at a rate better than the banks better than you would normally get and perhaps even give me a longer period to pay that back so that tripling the number of concessionary loans that are available to poorer countries this the i.m.f. believe is part of their consent to global approach to try and make sure one they can beat the virus but to also they can mitigate some of the economic damage that has been done because of the close down to the shutdowns right across the globe in broader terms what else is the i.m.f. doing alan. well the i.m.f. says that they would like to see a coordinated approach when it comes to restarting the economy they don't want countries to wall themselves off as they have done to protect themselves from the violence they don't want that to be the case economically so they're talking about

continuing supply lines they're talking about a concerted effort globally to restart the economy and one thing the i.m.f. managing director has said look what we don't want to see is fiscal stimulus being poured in at the wrong point no a number of countries have provided their citizens with cash at the moment the idea behind that is that bills are coming due particularly with the number of people who've been laid off this will help ease their financial whitey's but if there's an idea that they want to get some of that money back into the economy they want to get people spending again they're saying that has to be tightened just right they want to make sure that people are getting that money as the economy is opening up again is stores are opening up as soon as this is are opening up so people can go out spend that money that gets into the economy and that helps stimulate the economy help stimulate growth so they're saying please let's have a coordinated approach here but also let's kind the recovery right so that we get

the maximum benefit for the money i was there as alan fischer reporting live there from home in virginia alan many thanks and occupied east jerusalem there's concern that the corona virus is spreading through palestinian communities undetected the number of cases shot up this week to 41 but health workers fear that it may actually be double that figure or a force of reports. at this hospital in occupied east jerusalem an improvised new board has been set up 16 beds readied to isolate patients who test positive for corona virus 5 patients have already been moved to other hospitals thought to have been infected by one man visiting his father in a geriatric ward. all spittal director says the israeli government has failed to help repair use through slim's health system to tackle the pandemic not enough protective equipment only 23 ventilators between 3 hospitals serving 350000 people this is too little i mean the. people our population in egypt please

please please because you know if that. goes out of course there is nothing we can do that is surely good weekend to the israeli health ministry has said 1000 patients from east jerusalem could be treated in the west of the city and that a major outbreak isn't expected but in recent days cases here have started to spike despite attempts by local committees to enforce lockdown measures. the israeli occupation was not happy with this and they clashed with the groups i think israel must understand that we all humanity are in a war against corona and is not the time for issues like who is sovereign here drew slim has the highest crooner virus numbers of any city on the israeli health ministries list it's been reported that ultra-orthodox jewish neighborhoods account for about 3 quarters of them israeli officials say palestinians have largely abided by the lockdown restrictions they may also have been protected by

a younger average age and fewer contacts with people who've been overseas but there's also been a large of some weeks between testing facilities being set up in jewish areas and in palestinian ones more and more testing centers like this one are opening up for residents of occupied east jerusalem but the concern is that the delay is still preventing health authorities from getting an accurate picture of just how widespread this disease is palestinian israeli politician ahmed tb has demanded greater testing capacity now he's calling on palestinians to use it putting aside any worries about social stigma we as a dutch ship. that that physicians health ministry in order to convince people that. it is wrong not to be it is right. and to be tested for the sake of yourself and your community this week the israeli government committed to provide testing 415-0000 palestinians living in parts of east

jerusalem cut off by the separation wall after a court petition by a palestinian israeli rights group more densely packed communities where the scale of the spread has been so far unknown harry force it occupied east jerusalem when you saw him briefly in paris report just a moment or 2 ago dr walid now more is with us now he's the secretary general of the east jerusalem hospital network and joins us live via skype from occupied east jerusalem dr many thanks for being with us what makes you suspect that there are far more cases of a coronavirus of covert 19 in east jerusalem that are being reported. thank you and here you know let me tell you about the context of how ethers look hospital including the. pit is facing again. this huge piney cup piece of neglect by the asian 80 government. the jurors liberate at a bridge that still it already has read we can so much and to add insult to injury

you come to a decision by the time administration in pages of his administration to stop over funding 2 years no hostages we used to be getting $25000000.00 annually to cover port ph fortunately she sent there to punish p.b.s. that he could buy the place union and that misty and we. really missed 75000000 birds and here we come kill fish clear about his spend it as of march 11th the w.h.o. it is a president with a read me committee you know that it is complete neglect by these a government to get the needed support look to know that you know as of today that you know him for a report of produced by these 80 government informally the talk about 87 cases to date while we have a shot at it in 4 wrench probably feed what if it were hundreds of cases you know

there is complete absence of information and that could it information about the prevention of that e.g. this is very bad because we come up to. predict we cannot get plan or security you know we are coming to do it that that is becoming very sheepish you know every day every day the numbers coming to an increase be any of these a government is more interested in its economy rather than sharing the pristine a coming of flat each donors and ok and you know and i can talk to him and that community have what about 350000 people how many hospitals do you have to some of those people do you have enough personal protective equipment enough ventilators to deal with a sustained outbreak of covert 19. you know according to the guidelines that are provided by the debris which also you know we have probably emitted over 10 percent

of the heated venting it is in as far as b.p. is concerned b.p. the best in the protective equipment i mean that we basically have something that could last for a few days just in case you know we have it an outbreak in. cases that's what we are you know not recover coming to stay at home because really we can't help that out of 300 thousands of them out of 60 beds it took that it could mean kill 350 shows that we cannot we don't have the complexity to showboat to rethink it we have any kind she'd. outbreak at the beginning that it is now and yet unfortunately we have some evidence to say that you know things are not good in that i bet it soon and that i quote a part of my people i couldn't put these any government who is in charge and despite $200.00 according to the 4th geneva convention of the head of people it's

ok by people in each of the andes any government is just giving it to wish that he could meet the of a lot of. talk to really good stock tip we wish you well many thanks indeed dr one need not more than thank you adrian. we'll get a weather update next here on the news then we'll look behind the data to find out how different countries are working out their coronavirus fatalities we'll explore what's driving those decisions plus. an urgent plea undocumented immigrants in u.s. custody call for help this virus cases spread in detention centers.

how the weather still very unsettled across parts of the middle east i mean here in doha we have seen a fair bit of rain nearly 40 millimeters of rain on this band of cloud which is starting to push away we have still got a a few showers in our forecast and further north little cluster of showers up towards northern parts of saudi arabia for a time these will ease as we go on through thursday they will start off on the west side him cut out at least the side of saudi through the u.a.e. out west the weather will clear through as you go on through the day and by the afternoon it should brighten up and we'll start to see the temperatures recovering nicely could touch 28 by the time we come to friday 5 and dry and in light winds it will feel very pleasant in days still a few showers though down into yemen we have seen flooding here as well just around the southern end of the red sea those showers continue and they dry their way through the open harlan's as well want to see showers to see a little bit of localized flooding there into parts of somalia showers across the heart of africa again we're looking at the seasonal rains those showers there

sliding they way up into a good part of the gulf of guinea a much of west africa now seeing some lively showers or longer spells of rain say some rather wet weather raced into the side of south africa that's in the process of pulling away but staying very wet for eastern pass tanzania. throughout history human kind has come together to prevail in our darkest moments this is a moment for pretty much the ups. laying low saving humankind by really really not getting near every generation has its moment where individual sacrifice makes way for the good of those who come after this one is ours. alaska's phone north a pristine environments that's become a battleground with the trumpet ministration keen to let oil companies start

drilling some in its remote communities are tempted by the promised wealth we live here we make the rule not there but others a bitterly opposed we should not have to trade our culture for oil and gas crossing the high peaks of the arctic circle to investigate the people in power at the edge of the earth on al-jazeera. it is really good to have you with us how you're doing ok hello adrian fenty good here in doha with the news from al-jazeera headlines the head of the world health organization says he regrets the decision by u.s. president donald trump to halt funding to the body but only as its main focus is

fighting the virus trump accuse the body of mishandling the pandemic response. from some outspent but he was freezing funding for the w.h.o. has been met with widespread condemnation the european union says there's no justification for washington's decision and china is also urging the u.s. to fulfill its obligations. how does the us about how to jump june this been speaking to spain's foreign minister out i'm sure gonzales about that suspension of funds for mr gonzales u.s. president donald trump has announced that the u.s. will suspend payments to the world health organization as spain has been one of the hardest hit countries by the coronavirus pandemic what's your reaction to that. well we don't think that we should weaken the world health organization if anything there's been demick us that this is very important to strengthen the world health

organization for now we should not get distracted what we should do is fight depend demick strongly so that we can restart the engines of our economy and then go back to strengthening also the capacity of the international community to respond to them mix like this one this will not be the last one so we need to be better prepared for the next one unicredit research suggests that spain is said to suffer more from the crisis in any other european economy unemployment spain was already at 40 percent before this crisis 800000 people have lost their jobs as a result you know madrid is now pushing for mutualization of debt and these e.u. backed corona bonds but northern european countries are resisting this where is european solidarity at this time so 6 again slowly buried the house taken its place in the measures that have been greek for the short term where we

need to work a little bit more is in the medium to long term response we need to probably invest together in mutual manner mutual izing the investments not mutual lising past that but neutralizing our investment in the future versus why we are european union this is where we think with our we are in the north or in the south in the store in the west of europe it's europe that needs to exit the crisis it's europe that needs to strengthen its internal market and its ability to be a global player and for that it's europe that needs to invest in a mutual. well spain is of course one of the countries that has been hardest hit by the pandemic you can see that interview in the fall on talk to our jazeera which airs 1st at 1630 hours g.m.t. on thursday april 16th and after that it will be online at al-jazeera dot com

hundreds of migrants and refugees remain stranded in cali the northern french port city that overlooks the english channel between france and the u.k. people that are in a more precarious situation than ever and promises by authorities to move them to more secure premises have materialized al-jazeera tasha butler reports. few ferries leave kalai for the u.k. these days the roads and streets of the northern french port are quiet people are staying indoors during france's lockdown but a drive around the edge of the city reveals that being inside is not possible for everyone. in the cold hundreds of migrants and refugees all crammed into tents with little opportunity for social distancing until he was left ethiopia 4 years ago like others here he wants to reach the u.k. he's worried about coronavirus and says the police in cali are making a frightening situation even worse but because from didn't know anything they just

get you but they beat you this is fair and unfair for you. need to come not to be thing not to be comfortable he said in a better life and used to wish him good education local authorities promised to shelter the majority of the migrants during the lockdown but activists say most are still outdoors some volunteers also say the police tried to prevent their work. the regional prefect has put restrictions on charities since a lockdown we've continued working but the police issue us with warnings when we distribute food or blankets this is the reality on the ground at a time when the president is calling for solidarity these days officials put more effort into disrupting charity work and clearing camps than helping people who are in need with limited resources the volunteers have had to find creative ways to adapt to the health crisis and minimize risk and we've watched change our

distribution method to reduce the amount of contact we have with people. wearing. protective equipment that we're able to remove when we come back and that all washable. the vans fitted with hand washing stations so we can keep washing our hands and cleaning the wilburys and we take the word out people throughout distribution to try to make sure that everything says clean and is sanitary as possible charity workers across frogs of cold on the united nations to urge the french government to do more to uphold the rights of migrants and refugees in cali and protect them against the. coronavirus pandemic we need next year not over again as you heard on a national level we've seen strict measures schools cafes shops closed people combined indoors but here there are 1200 people living in terrible conditions these people immune to the coronavirus know that they have the same right as everybody

else to be protected against the virus and that's what we're demanding at least 2 cases of corona virus have been detected among migrants in cali activists say they could be many more emanuel mcgraw has urged people around the country to stay home to protect the most vulnerable few could be more vulnerable than those who fled conflict and pull that city and forced to rely on handouts and sleep in the cold natasha al-jazeera. the corona virus appears to be spreading fast in russia more than $3300.00 new cases have been reported bringing the total now to nearly $25000.00 at least $198.00 people have died moscow's launched a system of travel permits as it desperately tries to slow the spread but it created massive delays on public transport when the state causing long queues. is in moscow and says the people there are upset with the newest new restrictions.

moscow is the worst hit in russia and on all the other cities we have 25000 cases registered around the cut across the country and moscow is the worst hit with almost 50000 cases now doctors don't cope mosque authorities already saying that they're running out of bed so they implemented these tough measures of q.r. codes which basically people need to apply for if you want to use any type of public transport or personal transport so if you want to go by car or metro taxi you need to apply for one today was the 1st time when this measure became obligatory and it created havoc people who will go into work in the morning got stopped by the metro in huge crowds because policemen were actually checking every every and each of. you are codes individually and that cost a lot of anger recently we've heard that they've applied this face recognition surveillance system almost all across the city and now they are offering this new

q.r. codes which people are big confused with and struggling to use because yesterday. 100000 of them when the system was tested cancelled because people just put in wrong information or fake data and of course lots of activists and many people are worried about how this will play in the long term after this coronavirus of operates if the government will just have a tougher grip on the society let's pause for a moment to take a look at the global situation in numbers confirmed cases of now risen past 2000000 according to the johns hopkins count but the number of people who may have the virus but haven't been tested is likely to be much much higher all than 130000 people have now died with the virus. and as the number of deaths goes up each day it's been something of a challenge for governments to work out which cases to include in the published

data in new york for example the told jumped by 3700 on tuesday after officials included people who hadn't been tested but have probably died with the virus in england and wales the daily figure is only 4 hospital deaths doesn't include fatalities and care homes in hospices or at home one in france the toll jumped to more than $10000.00 after they'd started counting the elderly who died in nursing homes this month china has been accused of underreporting its numbers critics say that tens of thousands more could have died. dr johanne l. bumi is professor of medicine at george washington university school of medicine and a founding director of the institute which is dedicated to improving health equity in washington d.c. she says that countries need to keep a better track of numbers to prepare for future events. we are not really counting

the people who are dying in the nursing home don't forget the homeless don't forget undocumented immigrants who are afraid for a variety of reasons to actually access this and you don't necessarily know that they have coke at 19 right because they're not being tested so we you speculate just because of their clinical presentation i think you know you can you can speculate that there may be some nefarious reasons to make that council look low i think frankly that it's more likely to the fact that there is not accurate or a robust system that actually keeps count however i will say that what i would propose is that samples be saved and so that when the time comes when testing is available we can test those samples to get a more accurate count you are talking of the future about public health allocations

restarting the pandemic work force right the task force rather you're talking about amounts of money that are going to states to local governments there are huge implications so getting the numbers right is important we may not be able to get the numbers right now but we can certainly collect the samples so that they can be right at some future time parliamentary elections in south korea have resulted in a big win for president putin jayne's governing democratic party south korea is one of the 1st major countries to hold a general election during the global pandemic and many sources a referendum on the government's handling of the crisis rob mcbride reports now from seoul as soon as polls opened it became clear people were turning out in large numbers if they were worried after weeks of social distancing they didn't seem to show it. i think they're doing it quite safely i think they're taking measurements

they're doing it quite right. for the koreans and people around the world are equally concerned but we shouldn't cancel we should hold elections regardless 2 days of early voting last week so record numbers of voters including coronavirus patients able to vote in specially segregated polling stations special arrangements are also being made for the thousands of south koreans currently in self quarantine to leave their homes and vote so long as they're not showing symptoms at the end of regular polling some stations are being kept open just for them. this outbreak has changed the way candidates campaign and what they're campaigning on. the issue of north korea has been significant in all elections until now tell young ho used to be the north korean deputy ambassador in london until his defection and there's now one election in south korea's most affluent district gangnam everything is buried

by a quote maintain our brick and north korean issue national security issues are no exceptions to this current situation the leader of a minority opposition party and charles to a medical doctor by training volunteered to help out in the daegu epicenter for 2 weeks and his party's popularity has improved version. and president who in jail in was lagging in the opinion polls with domestic scandals and poor economic performance until his handling of the outbreak which has been widely viewed as a success one of them led i got more interested in this election because of coronavirus and i'm looking at how politicians are responding to us. on the tits on a president moon has handled the outbreak well i'll vote accordingly. a majority of the electorate it seems agreed this ballot giving moon's governing democratic party

a convincing win and giving south koreans a further milestone in the long struggle back to normal life robert bride al-jazeera sold in bangladesh hundreds of garment workers blocked a highway demanding that their salaries paid after international clients cancelled orders the workers in the capital dhaka and elsewhere say that they haven't been paid in months bangladesh's garment industry employs 4000000 people exporters association says that more than mine 100000000 order has been cancelled or held up . there are more than 33000 undocumented immigrants in detention centers in the u.s. waiting for deportation hearings but as they waits the threats and spread of coronavirus grow brunell's reports from los angeles. please from behind bars don't let us die from cold at 19.

because there's an intimacy. and that is to. dozens of men held in close quarters in an immigration and customs enforcement or ice detention center made the video pleading to be released they are not able to handle this outbreak there is no screening even though it's mixed an employee who didn't know. where the man detainees say they cannot remain the recommended distance from one another and are not provided with hand sanitizer masks or gloves this is a cruel and completely out of way to deal with the crisis at hand it does not comport. medical expert advice and it essentially needs sitting ducks out of the 20 s and isis already is legal action by the american civil liberties union of southern california has won the release of a handful of detainees including charleston de koff an undocumented immigrant born

in believes they called agreed to speak about conditions inside but preferred not to be videotaped because right now everybody everybody. they called said he lived in a cell block with 80 men 4 to 8 men to his cell one. of the 6 creature. you know you're. going to. be. oh. hundreds of family members and supporters held a drive by protest rally at a detention center in arizona demanding that detainees be released immediately they liken the facilities to death camps and want them embracing life and basic basis

for human rights and agree so far the government has refused to consider a large scale release of detainees and even though most of the country is on lockdown ice agents are still busy arresting and confining undocumented people also mediately stop arresting people and putting them in these dangerous conditions and facilities the a.c.l.u. and other immigrants rights advocates are asking the courts to intervene as soon as possible before it's too late al-jazeera los angeles. one new york hospital battling the coronavirus pandemic has received much needed backup. 46 nurses who came from across the u.s. were given a surprise welcome by staff of north well health's the city's largest health care provider trying to help treat covert 19 patients. i just feel like this is a calling that i felt several weeks ago i left family kids grandchildren behind to

come up healthy people that need our help i've never been more proud to be a nurse and this is by far the most rewarding career i've ever had in my life and i'd like to thank them for welcoming us so much thanks to all the news i will take a look at what's happening away from the pandemic including beijing continuing military operations in the south china sea despite the coronavirus pandemic find out why the philippines is also getting involved when we come back.

hello again looking now at some other news from around the world the international energy agency is warning oil producers that no amount of cuts in output can fully offset recent falls in the market the agency is forecast a drop in demand of $9300000.00 barrels a day that it says oil demand for april will fall to a 25 year low the world's largest oil producers agreed to the biggest output in history on sunday saudi oil giant aramco is seeking $10000000000.00 in loans to buy a chemical company it wants a 70 percent stake in saudi basic industries corp which is currently owned by saudi arabia's sovereign wealth fund according to the reuters news agency the acquisition is a crucial part of around coast future expansion plans there will giant raised billions of dollars last year with a record breaking debut on the stock market but oil producers have been struggling with a plunge in demand for crude with the corona virus outbreak i'm out of saudi arabia has reportedly been killed by police for refusing to give up his home for

a new mega projects near the red sea. state media reports that. are awaiting was killed after opening fire on security forces who claim they found guns and ammunition in his house or who a team of been posting online videos saying that residents in the area were being pressured to give up hope. the world health organization says it's extending its designation of a outbreak in the democratic republic of congo to a global emergency 3 new cases including 2 deaths have been reported in the eastern city of beni the country was expected to announce the end of its 2nd worst abode outbreak a few days ago the epidemic has killed more than 2000 people since it broke out in august 28th heem china has been conducting its military and research activities in disputed areas of the south china sea now in news will move the philippines is

getting involved as bobby lowe explains from manila. the aircraft carrier theodore roosevelt at sea a symbol of american force as china expensive to vittie in the pacific south china sea until recently since late march it has been anchored off a u.s. naval base in guam following a coronavirus break on board. meanwhile china's deployed warships its aircraft carrier to waters between japan and taiwan a chinese ship was also recently sighted off the vietnamese coast and earlier in april a chinese coast guard vessel reportedly rammed vietnamese fishing but it's been criticized by the united states but beijing describes the incident a seclusion she's not you know no doubt you know and this islands are changes that authorities. think that national laws including the united nations charter and they date that nations convention the the law of the sea and they're

illegal and then by leon. with coronavirus cases in decline china sim parked on a mission to help other countries battling to disease that includes rival claimants in the south china sea like the philippines but analysts say china's foreign policy hasn't changed china's overall and is not to pick a fight beijing does not want violence here china's intent is to so overwhelmed the region with its. its militia. that southeast asian governments decide that there is no reasonable choice but to render just last year filipino fishermen accused a chinese vessel of sinking their boat in abandoning them and yet china has remained a close ally of president would be good to turkey but in a statement supporting vietnam the philippine government reminded china that with the threat of covert 19 what is needed most is unity and mutual trust and below al-jazeera. we end this news hour with the heartwarming story of

a 99 year old british war veteran who has raised more than $11000000.00 for the country's national health service to help combat the pandemic captain tom moore was hoping to get around a $1000.00 by walking $100.00 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday at the end of the month but his dr clearly captured the public mood and the money just hasn't stopped rolling in captain moore says that he'll keep on walking as long as people keep donating and do his bit for those on the frontline in the battle against coke at 19 the so good so to full feel for. the 3rd now. do through. he was a brave and the. captain we salute. that's it from the time for us in doha to hand the pass on to our colleagues in

london barbara will be here in just a few moments to update you on see you again by foot. seen as a burden countless babies are aborted in india simply for being go. but amidst this resistance even from her own patients the fearless midwife has adopted the course of challenging deeply ingrained traditions and terminating this modern day she decides the daughter to

a witness on al-jazeera. explaining terms policy towards africa it's the challenging mission set to secretary of state mike pompei on a 5 day visit to the continent the visit comes after the white house an ounce to a travel ban on 4 african nations and a withdrawal of troops from west africa. i think it just demonstrates the 5. dollars a us. station. despite tribes travel ban being extended at the end of february to take in the 4 african countries including the continent's biggest economy pail insisted that the u.s. is open for business. take the worst possible material eurabia grinding to dust comparable to flour and make a whole lot of and put it into a place where people live think is a cause colossal event. as well and so many people i flew here this is the file in

cuba but doesn't make you feel nice you feel like a movie we have created an enormous amount of mental disaster. and investigation south africa toxic city on al-jazeera. my . when we divided the virus exploits the cracks between us the head of the world health organization says he regrets president trump's decision to suspend u.s. funding over its handling of the pandemic. i hello i'm barbara starr you're watching out as they are live from london also coming up on the program d.e.u.s. the top leaders call for member states to work together on easing their lock downs .