failure to resume. her informed opinion it's going to be much more challenging in a place like eve it is going ventilator very relieved in-depth analysis of the dates global headlines india done enough to admit the spread of coronavirus in the inside story on al-jazeera. the. al-jazeera. hello i'm barbara starr this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next 60 minutes a grim new milestone as the number of coronavirus that's in the u.s. is reported to have passed 30000. this amid global outrage of a president trumps the citizen to suspend funding for the world health organization

over its handling of the pandemic. sweden staff told jumps again with 170 people dying in 24 hours suggesting it's relaxed approach may not be working. and the big win for ruling party in south korea's election which saw high turnout despite the coronavirus. less than 24 hours after u.s. president donald trump announced that he was holding funding to the world health organization the number of coronavirus deaths across the united states has passed 30000 that's according to a tally by the voters news agency new york and new jersey alone account for more than half of those deaths residents there have been told to prepare for a new normal when their economies are eventually reopened new york state governor

andrew cuomo says people will be ordered to wear masks when a safe distance cannot be maintained. well the head of the w.h.o. says he regrets donald trump's decision to suspend its funding over the w.h.o. his handling of the corona virus pandemic heteros then yesus says the w.h.o. is reviewing the impact of the funding withdrawal and will work to fill any financial that the u.s. is the agency's largest though and are providing it with around 400000000 dollars last year trump has accused the un health body of severely mismanaging the pandemic when we divided the virus exploits the cracks between us we are committed to serving the world as people and to accountability for the resources with which we're interested in due course w. chose performance in tackling this pundit mic will be reviewed by w.

just member states and the independent bodies that are employees to ensure transparency and accountability but for now our focus my focus is on stopping this virus and saving lives. well trump's decision sparked widespread alarm and condemnation house of representatives speaker nancy pelosi called it senseless and dangerous and said it would be challenged billionaire select philanthropist and microsoft co-founder bill gates whose foundation is actually the agency's 2nd biggest donor face on twitter halting funding for the world health organization during a world health crisis is as dangerous as it sounds their work is slowing the spread of covert 19 and if that work is stopped a no other organization can replace them the world needs the u. h o now more than ever well let's cross to mike hanna now who is in washington d.c.

for a set mike 1st of all clarify one thing for us i mean the president is saying he wants to stop the funding to the w.h.o. can he and even if he needs to get approval from congress do you think he's likely to get that. well that's a difficult question to answer basically congress and particularly democrats in congress arguing very strongly that no the president has executive does not have the right to suspend funding that has already been approved by congress this in terms of the principle of the separation of powers but the president denies that the president's advisers argue that he does have every right to do what he wants with regard to funding that has been passed through congress now the democrats are arguing this is exceedingly similar to president trump deciding to hold up funding to the ukraine something that he was in fact impeached for by the house by the congress so they see this as very similar that the president does not have the

constitutional right to hold up funding that has already been passed by congress but there is ongoing discussion within the administration it is insistent that it has the right to do so that the executive has the right to do so with regards to his relationship with china and with the world health organization his administration contending that yes he can decide what he wants to do in terms of relations with international bodies such as the w.h.o. congress has been highly critical of president trump for cutting off this particular funding this is what a spokesman for the center for disease control has to say. if you see and heard a long history of working together in multiple operate throughout 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. and of course my kid this happening on the same or not the same day but we've just heard now that

the number of deaths across the united states we're getting this from the horse's news agency the total tally has passed 30000 tell us more about the situation in the u.s. and i guess you know if this is that of a for across the u.s. but obviously there are hot spots. yes indeed new york city remains the epicenter of the pandemic within the united states and new york state as a whole accounting for nearly half of the total of more than $30000.00 this is continue to be the situation new york city having more deaths per capita than any other area in the world at this particular point in time now it's has been insisting that it needs more federal systems and terms of one particular issue that is testing health experts agree with the governor of new york state and other governments throughout the country that it is impossible to completely end this pandemic or come to it without widespread testing certainly any talk about

a timeline towards lifting the restrictions is meaningless unless you have the clear data that is obtained from widespread testing and is not only testing for positive or negative with a virus it's also the diagnostic testing after the people who have recovered from it because these are the ways in which hotspots can be isolated in which future highs are hotspots can be targeted and certainly this would be an absolute key in terms of 1st of all country in the ongoing spread of the pandemic and secondly beginning to think about some kind of timeline to ease the mitigation measures that are in place across all 50 states mike hanna with the latest on that from washington d.c. mike for the moment thank you. well dr amish alger is a senior scholar at the johns hopkins center for health security and he joins us now via skype from baltimore sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera now assuming that donald trump does come through on his threat his

promise to take away the funding from the w.h.o. we're talking about 400000000 dollars last year it is the largest single donor to the organization how do you think the loss of that money could impact the work that w.h.o. is doing now and crucially in the coming months when the corona virus will keep on spreading beyond your appending u.s. . hopefully the w.h.o. is currently funded for their operations that are ongoing right now and that this threat from the president will not stifle their ability to respond because we definitely need them to be doing the work that they're doing they are the premier world world health public health agency and we need them to be in those countries helping advising them trying to understand what what what resources need to be brought to bear in controlling these but these the outbreak in all of these different countries and it's something that's very crucial that we don't want to see hampered. how do you think this affects the hill reputation really because of course there have been some criticisms leveled at the organization specially the

way it had been most governments have had some kind of accusation laid at their door the way for the way they've handled this corona virus outbreak but what do you think it will do to the w h o's reputation or are you confident that actually most countries have kind of said what donald trump is trying to do it definitely undercuts the w h o's authority during a pandemic when we need them however there are there is criticism there are legitimate criticisms about the w.h.o. on how they may have handled this pandemic in the early stages with specifically which china and china's transparency china's draconian methods including the suppression of free speech and the expulsion of western journalists that occurred and i think that those are important things need to be addressed the w.h.s. . susceptibility to political pressure but that's something to do after that. and. after the ebola outbreaks in 2013 to 2014 i don't think the doing this in the middle of a pandemic is productive and it could actually be harmful. you mentioned middle of

a pandemic i guess we don't really know how long that this pandemic could go on for as i've said it does look like some european countries may have reached its peak some places in asia but it does keep on spreading worldwide what impact could it have as perhaps the show will shift its focus from european countries and the west to other developed countries as it started to do already who may well need even more health because they're less wealthy less developed than the countries that have been hit so far this to me is the crucial rolled along the way joe please because this is a global pandemic and no country is going to be safe from this virus until it's control in all countries and there are developing nations that are going to rely heavily on w.h.o. expertise w.h.o. person now w.h.o. guidance and we want to make sure that individuals have the confidence of the w.h.o. when they're helping these countries get through their pandemic in that's the important part this is what why this is a dangerous move even for the united states because we will not be safe from this

virus until it's controlled and other nations and those other nations are going to rely on the w.h.o. heavily that are amish just senior scholar at the johns hopkins center for health security service thank you so much for having shared your views with us thank you. now in other developments 20 of the world's largest economies have agreed to put the debts of the poorest countries on hold the g. 20 nations agreed to freeze that payments for a year and urged private lenders to do the same in all top e.u. leaders are urging member states to work together on gradually easing lockdown measures the european commission has warned that moving too quickly could have devastating effects sweden appears to be paying the price for its softer approach to the virus its death toll has jumped sharply in the past few days now the total is 120-3170 deaths were reported on wednesday and that's up from 114 the previous day and this cases rise in russia to the launch of digital travel

permits to help police lock down have calls that long queues and crowds at moscow metro stations for britain has more now on the situation across europe. with 19 europe its member countries divided along national creating a patchwork response strict lockdowns in some more relaxed and open in others the disunity prompted many to question the very relevance and future of the european union project so the question of when and how to consider lifting those restrictions is problematic italy's spain austria finland and denmark have this week begun the tentative path to normality but key you headquarters in brussels commission president wants the european union to set the pace and she warned that in the union's borderless member area that piecemeal strategy will undermine even monday in tasks we will not want to have people moving from one member state to the

next member state to use the shopping opportunity and therefore it is very important that the coordination between neighboring member states is an excellent one good neighbors speak with each other in spain the number of new deaths fell slightly again on weapons day and some sectors are reopening but the country still has one of the toughest lockdowns in the view and in the 1st parliamentary session since controls were 1st imposed there was a heated debate about exit strategy they said to me you know this by 37000000 spaniards have been confined for a month without any hope other than 2 more weeks of lockdown because you are incapable of carrying out a plan for must testing to normalize the situation of it. i mean there's a lot of my stance and the confinement no to working because we began with the daily infection rate of 35 percent some today we are at 3 percent a little and that's also a consequence of increasing the number of tests so we're taking tough measures that are effective because they're protecting and saving lives and they're benefiting

spaniards regardless of where they live on. russia's virus outbreak is still very much on an upward trajectory and restrictions got even tighter on wednesday creating 2. traffic gridlock around the capital moscow with very few exceptions anyone outdoors now needs a permit in the form of a machine readable q.r. code but with security officers having to check each one manually big crowds built up at the entrances to moscow's metro stations making a nonsense of the intended strategy of social distancing and limiting movement on social media the city's mayor said he had intervened to prevent such scenes being repeated all of which risks losing sight of the ongoing struggle of medical staff and their stricken patients with more than 85000 deaths and rising europe remains the world's worst hit region in terms of coronavirus fatalities. al-jazeera.

of course when it comes to deaths per 1000000 people spain has been the hardest hit country and earlier are just there as mohammed june spoke to spain's foreign minister. she echoed the call for consensus among its nations in managing the economic impact of the pandemic 1st as why we are a 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 neutralized. and you can watch that interview in full on talk origins there which for us there is 1630 g.m.t. on thursday april 16th. now one european country which has taken a much softer approach to tackling the virus is sweden where the best toll has risen again sharply

a further 170 deaths were confirmed on wednesday out from 114 the previous day and much lower figures at the weekend more than 1200 people have now died from the virus in the country and nearly 12000 have tested positive sweetness come under increasing criticism for resisting the lockdown measures of the opted by other european countries well for more on this let's speak to analisa villar smith who's a professor of emerging infectious diseases at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine she joins us live via skype from going the volga in switzerland madame thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera so we have seen an increase in sweden it's not i guess the kind of exponential increase that we've seen in other countries when they started approaching their peak how worried do you think the swedish government should be when looking at these figures. this is government needs to be worried. the most important indicator that the

situation may be worsening is the exponential growth from day to day so i suspect that that sweden will have a slower curve than the other countries but it will still see a smaller tsunami. so i guess you know a lot of people would be looking to sweden saying well you know they've had an increase and that's so obviously of all the other countries that implemented much much stricter lockdowns so is it something about the timing of the sweden when they started putting in social distancing or is each country so different that ultimately it's difficult to find a one size fits all sort of cure for this disease or attempt to keep the numbers down. indeed i should warn against a direct head to head comparisons of countries every country is different different population densities different age stratification and sweden clearly is actually at an advantage it's further away the population density is militancy low the

received a fewer importations them than other countries and therefore it is later in the epidemic phase every country is the different stage and we should not compare countries directly with each other so what do you think of the factors then that should be looked at carefully when trying to assess whether it is worth implementing a very strict lock down which obviously has enormous economic effects which in turn can be devastating for a population. so indeed every government will it's a very fine line between the public health needs and and and wearing against the economic damage as a sweden has taken its own decision and has opted for a softer approach as we said with less strict. enforcement of social distancing relying on the on people taking responsibility themselves just as for

example now yes one of these in contrast to paris where where there's very very strict lockdown. and sweden is later in the outbreak so it looked good initially but as you know with this virus you know it is a slow growth and then suddenly there's exponential growth and this is where sweden is not just at the beginning of and this reduced government it's very very open that they have set that will. implement stricter measures when they do see this rise in cases. just very quickly we've seen the european commission ask for some kind of coordinated approach to the lifting the gradual lifting of lockdowns because you've just said that all countries are different and you can't really apply the same rules to all of them how the necessary do you think at least a pan european coordinated approach when it comes to easing the lockdowns is. so indeed we can hold easter lockdowns at the same time because every country as it

is is at a different stage however i think a european approach is necessary so that we can learn the lessons from each other and and then move together with similar measures and that also applies measures for 4 for the exit strategy but for the time being sweden or some other kinds are clearly behind the curve so they're locked down cities will be different to for example italy that can now start thinking about relaxing some of its measures annelise while there smith professor of emerging infectious diseases at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine madame thank you for your time. and coming up on this news hour from london a back to school with added a social distancing denmark eases some coronavirus restrictions starting in the classroom and the deadline passes for a coalition agreement in israel so what happens next we'll be live in west

jerusalem. but 1st south korea's parliamentary election has resulted in a big win for the governing democratic party and even a high voter turnout it's one of the 1st countries to hold an election during the pandemic and many see it as 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. they're 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 19 now 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 days parties popularity has improved the 1st 3rd. and president through 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. the 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 bright

al-jazeera so. well speaking of elections the latest deadline has now passed for israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his main rival benny gantz to form a coalition government the 2 were supposed to finalize an agreement on monday but asked the israeli president for an extension to complete the talks but have expressed the desire to secure a coalition as the coronavirus crisis in israel is for small if they can form one israel can face its force the election and 18 months to get latest after mary for center joins us live now from west jerusalem i guess it was it was going to be difficult harry but what do we think went wrong in this final round of negotiations well yes it seems very strange given that just a short time ago now benny gantz the main opposition leader broke with his partners in the opposition and decided to bring his own party into government with benjamin netanyahu said he was doing out of a sense of statesmanship and patriotism at

a time of national emergency and yet here we are all over again the reports coming out of the negotiations suggested that dance had been giving way on a number of things among them the prospects of annexation in the occupied west bank he'd wanted a delay on that but there was a big row it seems over judicial appointments gantz certainly reported in the local media as being angry about perceived walk back on commitments given by netanyahu during the talks but he gave a pretty conciliatory speech on monday there is another thing that's been at the core of this as well though each man's prime ministerial ambitions benjamin netanyahu wants to make sure that there is legislation that doesn't allow the high court to decide that someone under indictment on corruption charges as he is may not be allowed to form a government and benny gantz wants to see it legislated that there will be an ordering of a deal that would see him take over as prime minister in 18. and it seems there has

to be agreement on that either ok so the deadlock the deadline has passed me what happens next because i know we're potentially looking at the force election in 18 months but who's to say that another election would yield any different results affectively from the previous 3. well that's as may be that there are a poll that suggests that netanyahu is likud has fared well electorally out of this coronavirus crisis that there has been in many countries around the world a bit of a rallying around the flag effect and netanyahu has certainly been very much front and center of the response very deliberately so and so there is a suggestion that in that he may well get the votes he would require to form a right wing bloc without benny gantz in government should there be a 4th election before we get to that point what happens next is that the mandate that president rivlin gave to benny gantz when he got the most recommendations from

the from the new knesset that is now expired and so he has 2 options you can either give it to netanyahu to see if he can form a government or he can just hand it over to the knesset the israeli parliament giving any member of the knesset he can get enough recommendations the prospect of forming a government but and that is the that the course of action that does appear likely given the signals coming from the president's office but that's only a 21 day period if these 2 men they still would have a chance to form an emergency national unity government during that period if they don't then it automatically goes to a 4th election one thing that benny gantz does have in his back pocket is the leadership of the knesset as speaker of the parliament and he has with his previous allies in the opposition threatened you know with legislation which would prevent him from forming a government because of his corruption charges that the case due to start in may

will that be enough of a lever to use against netanyahu to try and stave off those 4th elections which do look relatively positive from the position at the moment we wait to see we're doing herefore set with the latest from westerville slim thank you. and there's lots more still to come in listenings hour including calls to release under. documented migrants because they can't socially distance us the tension and the picking in last night merrick how while it's down why the economic downturn caused by the current virus could be even worse in pouring nations. however it will find in sunny weather across much of europe at the moment high pressure very much in charge here we have got areas of cloud and right there is of

low pressure around a high so that's bringing some disturbed weather it's scandinavia into the baltic states into that western side of russia i will sustain some rather lively whether they're just down towards grace and into turkey we had some snow actually across the great mountains recently it will clear up it'll brighten up over the next couple of days wish i could say the same for spain and portugal this area of low pressure here that's going to continue bringing some wet weather in as we go on through thursday and indeed into friday further north that is generally fine and dry some warm sunshine around paris 23 celsius or 20 in london that's not so bad central parts 23 celsius there for vienna still seeing i shall just around the western side of russia on thursday these will ease further east which is we go through friday and notice down to the southeast it brightens up more in the west sunshine coming through here we'll see some wet weather coming into all and pushing into england wales southern parts of indian wells and staying on settle there across a good part of spain and portugal some of that wet weather also affecting the far

northwest of africa also some showers here with one of 2 showers not in libya. save humanity i really really not getting anywhere near. alaska's far north a pristine environment that's become a battleground with the trumpet ministration keen to let oil companies start drilling some and to remote communities are tempted by the promised wealth we live here we make the rule not their own but others 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 talk to al-jazeera we want your thoughts were when you saw that document for the 1st story

we listen to after the war saying you have been to go build you know the stage of you know we will not be with you we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on the 00. the welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the head of the world health organization says he regrets the tribes the subject to suspend u.s. funding for the agency over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic this is that that's told in the u.s. is reported to have passed 30000. meanwhile the death toll in sweden which has resisted lock down restrictions has risen sharply again with

a further 107 deaths top e.u. leaders are worn. that easing restrictions too quickly could have devastating effects and this case is rising in russia the launch of digital travel permits to help police the lockdown of course the long queues and crowds at moscow metro stations. germany is one of the countries that will begin lifting some restrictions from nest next week with some shops reopening and final year students going back to school early in may schools and nurseries have already reopened in denmark it's one of the 1st countries in europe to try a gradual reopening to get its economy back on track but many parents say it's too soon and have kept their children at home seeming john reports now from copenhagen a long awaited reunion of principal welcomes back his students after a whole month. i have really missed my school and i'm excited to meet my teachers and friends to see them again is

a very very big place but much has changed social distancing is still required and parents are no longer allowed to drop off their children inside the school worried about the kids. i'm happy put on words however excited the kids are to see their friends again. hugging is not allowed. instead they have to wash their hands. grass properly calibrated and sit in the classroom 2 metres apart. which requires spreading the children to more rooms been out hiring. young students to come in and supply our normal stuff so i have enough stuff apart from school nurse she's also opening today but only half of them are ready to welcome kids due to the new health requirements with extra cleaning less furniture and more outdoor classes. the rest will open in the coming

days. the kitchen is closed access this used to be the kitchen area for children having breakfast in the morning it's only kids under 11 years old who are back at schools in denmark the rest are still at home and these are the lockers for the kids their jackets and shoes are here but they're no longer allowed to be here in order to avoid them standing too close to each other. while the children here are happy being back those. thousands of parents are refusing to send their kids to school i'm responsible not the state not the kindergarten not i'm responsible for catching will keep the children at home in school for the next few weeks perhaps months or i'm worried about their hours of course and we've been protecting our kids for the last months like mad and now they're supposed to go ahead of it all and i'm also worried about the scenario they'll meet based on fear and distance

which is not natural for a child. back at the school it's time for a short break molly you might have don't get too close to each other but the children are only allowed to play in small groups of 4 i feel bad for the kids because they want to play together and they're not allowed to play together. see me john copenhagen. 668 sailors assigned to the french aircraft carrier showed the girls naval group have tested positive for the virus many of them are on the aircraft carrier when it returned to port in 2 long on monday at least $31.00 sailors have been hospitalized and the french defense ministry says testing is ongoing earlier the french prime minister announced that health care staff in france's most stricken areas will receive a bonus as well as higher pay for overtime amazon meanwhile says it will temporarily close warehouses in france after

a court ordered it to limit deliveries to essential goods such as food and medical supplies the company has 6 warehouses across the country the law will be closed for at least a week from thursday amazon employs about 10000 people in france and hundreds of refugees in the french quarter of cali are in a more precarious situation than ever because of the pandemic the authorities have promised to move them to a safer place but so far that hasn't happened that there has more. few ferries leave cali for the u.k. these days the roads and streets of the northern french port are quiet people are staying indoors during france's lock down but a drive around the edge of the city reveals the pain 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 u.s. 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 the don't know anything they just get through but the beauty of this is fair and unfair for these new to come not to be things not to go for only safe and better life in which to a 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 that 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 we've had 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 or washable. the vans fitted with hand washing stations so we can keep washing our hands and cleaning the wilbury. so we take the word out people throughout distribution to try to make sure that everything says cleaners sanitary as possible charity workers across france of called 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 him as you heard on a national level we've seen strict measures schools cafe's 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 coronavirus have been detected among migrants in cali activists say they could be many more emanuel 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 the t. and a forced to rely on handouts and sleep in the cold natasha al-jazeera fronts last month u.n. secretary general antonio terrorists called for a global ceasefire so the world could overcome the coronavirus france is now putting forward a proposal hoping to secure backing for this resolution or diplomatic editor james pais has the latest. as the g. 7 group of countries prepare to meet on the pandemic one part of the international

community the u.n. security council has been paralyzed by inaction it still hasn't come up with a resolution that it's been able to pass on coded 19 that sym part because initially some countries said it wasn't a matter for the security council and there was an unseemly wral between the u.s. and china the u.s. wanted to call the virus the womb hand virus now though progress is being made from its has been pushing a new draft and the french ambassador interim ote interview with me told me that he thought it was possible they could have a resolution in the next few days everybody you know that doubt different views on the planet did it i think we had doing really really good try to race now i really hope that reach out and be in a position to take action in a coming days in a security council 15 men burst of ghana and make sure that we agree

on this decision of for cities in the countries on the agenda out there can see that and. agree on other humanitarian truths to be a vote to fix endemic in all these countries. it's now more than 3 weeks since the u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorists called for a global ceasefire what will be the secretary general's view if and how important would such a resolution be it would be send in a street really strong and powerful message if the secretary general corporate local sees was backed by a security council resolution the member states will decide that the security council members will reside pretty we are very pleased with the the impact it's had and the residents the secretary general's call. well as i'm told what's in the current draft of

a security council resolution doesn't go as far as the secretary general's call for a global ceasefire instead they're talking about as a sation of a still it is in all the conflicts that are currently on the security council's agenda. there are more than 33000 undocumented refugees and migrants in the u.s. the tension centers waiting for their deputation hearings but holding facilities are overcrowded making social distancing almost impossible rights activists say the migrants are sitting ducks for the coronavirus and are demanding their release rob reynolds for reports from los angeles. urgent plea from behind bars don't let us die from cold 19. deaths 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. there is no screening even those who wish to employ didn't know really. where clerk american detainees say they cannot remain the recommended distance from one another and are not provided with hand sanitizer man asks 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 actually makes sitting ducks out of detainee as isis already its legal action by the american civil liberties union of southern california has won the release of a handful of detainees including charleston de cause of 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. you know you. want. he 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 you want a member eating lunch and basic basic human rights and every 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 in confining undocumented people i

should also immediately 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 brazil's health minister has refused the resignation of a senior brazilian health official leading the country's fight against a coronavirus senior members of brazil's health ministry of men at all those with president jade both set out over the virus also that has played down the gravity of the outbreak and that pact local governors over lock down orders local media have also been speculating that the health minister himself will be fired in a matter of days. the pandemic could set back more than 50 years of growth and stability for latin america it's predicted to be badly hit by the global economic downturn because it's already struggling with widespread inequality are latin

america editor of the scene human reports now from santiago. alexander guy this is trying to make enough to cover one day's expenses selling secondhand electrical goods on the street it's illegal but he has little choice made and i thought the police many a city police are let us work because it's going to get worse if we can't sell now we'll have to go out and steal later. my credit here are laughing and they say there's nothing worse than kicking someone when they're down and that's exactly what code 1000 is doing to latin america if i was a white but all the restaurants close so now i'm trying to survive doing this just to pay the rent. the pandemic cut the region on an already poor footing with anemic economic growth rising crime and social unrest fanned by severe inequality the forecast now is even more bleak. greece in various standing.

extreme. to me. and. 200. 3 even these fears. the biggest problem is unemployment and many latin american countries are too insolvent to provide viable economic rescue plans for small and medium sized businesses. venezuela ecuador argentina and most to central america and deep in debt already but all without exception will have a hard time keeping their heads above water even after the pandemic subsides between 19952015 tens of millions of latin americans woes home poverty and into the lower middle class many of them were able to buy apartments

like the ones you see here now these are precisely the people who stand to lose everything i mean the. the i.m.f. predicts the region will suffer its worst recession in half a century last may depend on if and when latin america's main trading partners china the u.s. and europe recover nothing is certain at this point except the region's main weakness a structural inequality that will take much longer to cure than the pandemic you see in human al-jazeera sunday at all. emirates airline has begun rapid on site covert 19 testing for passengers before allowing them onto its planes passengers flying from the bike to tennessee on wednesday were the 1st to be tested blood samples were taken at checkin with the results taking around 10 minutes and red says it's working to scale up the capabilities and provide the service for other flights still ahead in this news hour

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let's take you straight to the white house the rose garden board president donald trump is about to hold his daily news conference about the. all of american society is engaged in mobilized in the war against the invisible enemy. while we must remain vigilant it is clear that our aggressive strategy is working and very strongly working i'm at it new cases are declining throughout the new york metropolitan area cases in the detroit and denver metro areas are flat washington d.c. baltimore philadelphia and st louis are showing great signs of progress and new cases in euston in new orleans are declining the battle continues but the data suggests that they should what we have passed the peak or new cases hopefully that

will continue and we will continue to make great progress these encouraging developments have put aside a very strong position to finalize guidelines for the states on reopening the country which will be announcing we're going to be talking about that tomorrow we'll be having a news conference tomorrow sometime during the afternoon we're going to be announcing guidelines and we'll be talking about various states and it's very exciting it's been a horrible time to see such death and destruction especially when you come out of what was the greatest economy in the history of the world the greatest we've never been an economy like what we had produced but we'll produce it again and i think we'll produce it again very fast the medical and health care advances we've made are critical to our continued progress we've rapidly developed the most expensive and accurate testing system anywhere in the world and have completed more than

3300000 tests to date we have authorized 48 separate coronavirus tests and the f.d.a. is working with 300 companies and labs to widen our capacity still further. today abbott labs announced that it is developed an antibody test that will determine if someone has been previously infected with the coronavirus and potentially developed immunity it's a great test the company says these tests could be available to screen up to 20000000 people in a matter of weeks my administration is also distributing best amounts of medical supplies to states across the country through project air bridge which has been an amazing success we have completed 44 flights and these are flights a very very large airplane pts. massive cargo planes. 44 flights of critical supplies as of today an additional 56 flights scheduled in the

near future we have some very brilliant people working on this it's logistically incredible what they've done and we've also been working on this with the military and these people have been the genius of all of them together has been incredible to watch in total through all channels the federal government has developed and delivered 39400000 n 95 masks 4c3x1w5x7w surgical masks and 10200000 gallons we ordered 500000000 masks and they'll be coming shortly and we've distributed 100000000 man asks following our use of the defense production act g.m. announced that its 1st ventilators come off the assembly line in kokomo indiana great place they did it in 11 days from start to finish

a remarkable testament to the ingenuity of the american worker g.m. will ship over $600.00 ventilators this month alone with thousands more to come and we have other companies doing something similar and i think they said that there's a brief clip that we have of general motors sent to us by general motors and i think they might be wanting to play that for your benefit place.

and you get a little bit nervous when you saw there was a clip about ready to be played but that was sent to us by general motors and we thought it would be a good one to play it's amazing it said you know what they've done in a very very short period of time they're now making thousands of ventilators and they're coming out of the factory very rapidly at a clip that nobody can even believe but we have others also doing it and these are very high grade ventilators so we're helping a lot of people and at this moment nobody needs them and we have to remember during the surge nobody's needed them for weeks now but we'll have them for stockpiles and

very importantly we're going to have them for other countries because nobody's able to do things like we can do and we're going to be able to help other countries that are having tremendous problems to put it mildly my administration is using every available authority to accelerate the development study and delivery of therapy is so important therapies. treatments and ultimately what we want to come up with is a safe exene but frankly the therapies to me are the most important because it takes care of people right now the vaccines have to be tested so it takes a longer period of time but we have some great potential therapies already and we'll see how they're working we'll be able to report on that i think over the next week or 2 tremendous progress has been made at least 35 clinical trials of promising therapies are now underway so 35 different genius companies if you look at aids if you look at a ball if you look at so many things they've come up with the answers to so many

things that you wouldn't believe that and we're very honored to be working with them they include the antivirals and. also and they are something which is incredible keeps the virus from multiplying a mechanism that keeps the virus from multiplying immune therapies that prevent the immune system from overreaching to the virus and convalescent plasma treatments that use antibodies from the blood of recovered patients so we have a lot of patients who recover and they're so happy to have recovered that the 1st thing they do is say we want to give our blood and they do that it's incredible we have thousands of people that are doing that they recover they feel they have an obligation because they've gotten such great care and a lot of them didn't think they were going to make it as the entire u.s. government works to combat the global pandemic it is absolutely essential that the

key positions at relevant federal agencies are fully staffed and we're not allowing that to take place through our congress that just not just not giving it to us we have many many positions that are. unstaffed because we can't get the approvals the democrats are holding us up we cannot get approval. we've gotten judges because we go through the process i guess we're up to 448 federal judges and that we've gotten because we focus on it we take the maximum time because don't matter who the judges they take vast numbers of days and hours to provent leaves no time left for others very unfair system if a judge is going to be approved in one hour and one session it doesn't matter they'll take the maximum number of hours and days you're talking about days to get one judge approved and we're close to $250.00 judges but. because of the way

they're doing it there's no time for anybody else and many of these people have been waiting for 2 and a half years we have a couple that have been waiting for a while longer than that they are currently 129 nominees stuck in the senate because of partisan obstruction many of nominated for vacancies that must be filled to assist with the coronavirus crisis and the resulting economic challenges in everett over the couple of years well i didn't fill positions i don't fill positions in some cases we don't need the position and i'm all for that but in many cases you do but we can't get them approved by the democrats they won't release them to positions include the director of national intelligence to members of the federal reserve board of governors the assistant secretary of treasury for financial markets of the you know of the united states and the undersecretary of agriculture responsible for administering food security programs and sonny perdue

who's going to be speaking today saying please can i have this man can i have this particular person approved as soon as possible he's been telling me that for a long time and the democrats won't allow it to happen again and every single judge every nominee we have goes through a maximum. or at least they go through a long process so it takes days and days and there's no time left and it's just a concerted effort to make life difficult an example is michael pak he's my nominee for the c.e.o. of the broadcasting broadcasting board of governors and he's been stuck in committee for 2 years preventing us from managing the voice of america very important and if you heard what's coming out of the voice of america it's disgusting with things they say are disgusting toward our country and michael pac would get any do a great job but he's been waiting now for 2 years can't get him approved the senate

has left washington until at least may 4th the constitution provides a mechanism for the president to fill positions in such circumstances the recess appointment it's called the senate's practice of gaveling into so-called pro forma sessions where no one is even there has prevented me from using the constitutional authority that we're giving that we're given under the recess provisions the senate should either fulfill its duty and vote on my nominees or chit formally adjourn so that i can make recess appointments we have a tremendous number of people that have to come into government and now more so than ever before because of the virus and the problem. we have to do it and we have to do whatever we have to do that made it very very difficult to run government i

don't think any administration has done anywhere.