that across the country and the spread of corona virus appears. on anyone's. claims by president trump that the us is the past. new chronic virus infections. i'm compelled this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the numbers still rapidly rising with the tally of deaths across the u.s. now passing 30000. and inside look from a hospital in new york city the epicenter of the u.s. is battle against the coronavirus pandemic. and hundreds of french statements from

an aircraft carrier test positive for the covered $900.00. donald trump has declared that the number of new coronavirus infections in the u.s. is slowing that's despite a record number of 2300 americans killed by the virus in just 24 hours and for the 2nd day trump has continued his attack on the world health organization suggesting it deliberately misled the world in the early stages of the outbreak causing many deaths on wednesday handouts to homes and funding to the w.h.o. which is leading the global response to the pandemic tragically other nations put their trust in the w.h.o. and they didn't do it to form a band and you see what happened in italy you see what happened to spain you see what happened to france. w h o's guidance had failed to control their borders at

a very crucial phase quickly unleashing the contagion around the world that was a horrible tragic mistake or perhaps they do i'm sure they didn't know the gravity of it but perhaps they knew because if they knew the gravity that would be an even worse offense well the u.n. agency has responded to trump criticisms with a call for unity its director general says arguments about the organizations performance can wait until the outbreak is of when we are divided the virus exploits the cracks between us we are committed to serving the world his people and to accountability for the resources with which we are interested in due course w. chose performance in tackling this pundit mic will be reviewed by the w 2 s.

member states and the independent bodies start our employees to each will try to spot and see an accountability but for now our focus my focus is on stopping this virus and saving lives the u.s. move to suspend funding has been widely condemned by the e.u. the african union and china they say trying to decision will hurt the fight against the virus billionaire philanthropist and microsoft co-founder bill gates whose foundation is the agency's 2nd biggest donor tweeted saying it's dangerous to help funding to the w.h.o. during a global health crisis he says no other organization can replace the work adults and slowing the spread of the virus and that we need the w.h.o. now more than ever. let's go live now to mike hanna who is in washington d.c. for us mike the u.s. has recorded its highest number of deaths in a 24 hour period but donald trump says the worst is over and that states and

chomping at the bit to reopen what else did he have to say well indeed yosi says that within the next 24 hours his administration will mind new guidelines with a view to opening parts of the country by the end of this month even before the end of this month he said the task force will be meeting tomorrow he says that he will be talking to the governors of the 50 states in the course of the morning and then sometime during the day time line will be announced for opening of certain states a partial rifting of the restrictions in various states across the country as many as 20 to 30 states as president trump where the incidence of the virus has been a little relatively low compared to those arterials like new york state illinois but certainly some would argue and his health advice is have been arguing strongly

that it would be premature to establish any guidelines or time fines for lifting or easing of these restrictions while there isn't a proper testing protocol in place and despite everything that's been done in recent weeks throughout the country there is still a massive lag in terms of effect of testing. and mike donald trump also talked about adjourning congress i mean surely that is a major major development that's a major claim constitutionally. well it's an extraordinary threat and it's certainly an action that is virtually unprecedented president trampy use a forum of a coronavirus briefing to rant about his political opponents insisting that there are many democrats in congress who are simply trying to obstruct him at every turn referring to he said russia russia russia impeachment processes and he insists that

there are large numbers of people he wants to appoint to government who are not yet been endorsed by congress because of the delays being created by the democrats he says what he could do is adjourn congress and during the recess then simply push through all his nominated nominations for the position he wants to fill it's absolutely extraordinary threat and those in congress would argue very strongly that it's massively unconstitutional but the president trance in recent days and during this pandemic has been standing all over the basic principle on which this country is based and that is the separation of powers congress has certain powers the executive powers the judiciary has certain powers but president trump continues to insist that he can do whatever he wants to do regardless of constitutional provisions and the separation of powers doctrine that has been placed since this

constitution was written thank you for that is there is mike hanna live from washington d.c. . new york is still on the front line of the pandemic in the u.s. with the highest number of reported infections and deaths across the country nearly 640000 people have tested positive to the virus and close 228000 people have died a 3rd of those deaths were recorded in new york and even though the number of infections seems to have slowed in recent days hospitals there are stretched to breaking point. so it's 5 am i'm still on my overnight shift and we're seeing plenty of a lot of virus cases some some people as young as in their twenty's. and people as world is in their eighty's. a couple of people who've been enmity intensive care unit i think the best success story that we've seen this evening was somebody who had an oxygen saturation. that was 48 percent when the ambulance got

there and the patient is not doing much better is going to go to intensive care but doing much better so. it's a relief to get to seize stories like that i think the most. interesting or bizarre presentation was somebody who came in with a leg cramps. and it turns out they're coronavirus so we were just seeing people with all kinds of symptoms. just to show a wide variety of the thing was we had to watch change or visit our policy this week so previously it was no visitors were allowed because we're worried that we were on protection even to spread the disease. and. we decided to change it or combinations where. they're very near the end of life because we want to give family members the opportunity to be with their patients on them and so we're we're making some some changes in trying to accommodate and so on. so that

people don't have to die alone i think that that's one of the most tragic pieces of this disease is because it's so contagious. but people do end up just dying alone and we're really trying to do whatever we can to make it a little bit better. well dr parikh pretty is an internal medicine specialist at a hospital in new york city he joins us live now via skype thank you for joining us on the program what's the situation you'll saying and your hospital what are you seeing in the day and how are you coping. but we're you know it's been busy it's we were all hands on deck for you know from the like a month and a half ago actually kind of anticipated this and we had been seeing actually queens and brooklyn where the epicenter is really of the epicenter and we've been helping out with the flow but you know we're getting it and flows in waves and you know initially it was always considered to be elderly or immunocompromised but we are

seeing all sorts of demographics now come in and actually you know it's so interesting we're focused on a lot of things about what we're seeing the front lines but like i came across information maybe a month ago or so that really had a lot of the very accurate information about this virus recognizing this as a pandemic long before the even the w.h.o. had and you know knowing that the casualty numbers were under reported and i think a big part was that the asymptomatic carriers were very contagious this these sources knew this much before then i guess either the w.h.o. or c.d.c. and i think that what we need to focus on i can tell you and i just sort of that report that i had a patient study 70 could be with this family they pass i worked last night and it's a very tragic but how can we stop this and it also points to the issue of donald trump the president you know reopening the economy and everyone wants to get back to it but i think with the information the source being very accurate you know one

thing that really stuck out to me is that and i try to you know tell my colleagues and you know how contagious this was that you needed ebola level quick like hazmat suits respirators that purify the air meaning that you know the big contention is this droplets or airborne and clearly we're seeing some airborne component because this is how contagious this disease was and it was spreading and unfortunately been affecting hospital health care workers and such well on that on that point i mean you have been sounding the alarm for some time then about this virus and yet we have seen some frontline stuff you know being infected and dying from the virus does that make you angry. absolutely well it's tough because you know the source has been accurate in other things and i saw it i was like wow this is kind of scary it says don't travel in airplanes don't be in crowded areas don't take asked transport like why is that and this virus gets airborne in some way and closed

ventilation spaces like subways mass transport and especially hospital floors so hospitals and i've been trying to push this is that we need the cill these are only kogut only right because the level of equipment and protection for our health care workers needs to be at let level i think you've seen videos out of china and italy there were in light spacesuit level stuff and in order to do that like you need to have a dedicated floor facilities dedicated like basically hermetic style quarantines right space that you need negative pressure ventilation you need sliding doors like they've seen star trek right it seals it because this thing is so contagious it gets out that you can breathe it in you can take it in your eyes you know all these sorts of things and i think opening economy to seem that the other update they had given me was that you know we need to continue this for several more months at least 3 months to even 8 months because if people go soon if you go back this is going to come in waves and it's getting more virulent more mutations it's affecting

newborns inspecting younger people you're not going to have an economy that no one's going to want to go out if you don't have confidence in public health so it will be devastating even more if we reopen too soon we need to bite the bullet now this is we're being grounded by mother nature for a good reason we need to reset and people just have to hold on and all the essential things like medicine food energy sanitation these things should be continuing in the economy will be there we just have to ride this out and do the right things the best thing that anyone can do for us the public has the newness is staying home being socially distant it does because the virus loves crowds loves us being social loves us just being together big. it gives us time it gives a time basically to spread mutate and become more virulent we haven't seen anything like this in more than 100 years of safer forget the spanish flu so i think if any country of all countries can do this or the governments and they can hear this the

health parties create separate hermetically sealed for these covert patients so then we can have health care workers not get infected where the proper people maximize efficiency watch these people for much longer than 2 weeks think you patient period supposedly up to one month to 3 months do you have a p. that you need you compared to the you you were talking about what you saying it does isn't any in china do you have what you need. not necessarily we can have some we do have it but not to the level that we can have it say in a dedicated facility like i think the javits center was made into a covert only hospital that's a start and then we can have all the dedicated workers health care workers go there and where that kind of put it and maximize sufficiency right because that's always been a supply issue that's the key is in what's happening is the health care workers are probably carrying it getting infected and taking home to their family and then that's spreading it around and on top of that asymptomatic spreaders that's huge that wasn't what the flu was right they kept saying you know this is not the flu

that's the spread and they actually even in this source said that the kids were the highest the great hadn't spreaders of this virus because they were largely immune initially and then they were spreading it all around unknowingly innocently but this is the insidiousness of this the virus and it's so important that all countries of the world continue to lock down 3 to 8 months we can get through it i donated to a food bank today we can help each other money needs nothing if you don't have your health you don't have your family don't have your friends it's tragic what i'm seeing on a daily basis i have always rage but my family my friends colleagues i've i've contacted as those people i can and the your people are my family like we're all family and it's so important that this gets out and i think public health wise that's the best measure of the macro sense i can tell you all the microsoft but right now we need macro we need macro policy and we need that hermetically sealed 14 space and treatment centers for coded so we protect the workers and we help

these people and monitor them and well don't let the spread to occur also stop repatriating nationals back to countries you're always receiving it you know generally are easy they declare war on your. president don't trump from your president tomorrow i believe on the plan to reopen states we will have to leave it if a time not afraid my policies that stepped apparently there an internal medicine specialist in new york thank you. thank you so much. to europe now where france has reported a huge jump in the number of corona virus deaths 1400 fatalities were reported on wednesday and that's taken the nationwide death toll to more than 17000 the government says the latest figure includes deaths from recent days that have not been reported the number of intensive care patients has dropped for a 7th consecutive day giving some signs of hope and nearly 700 saying this of france's charles de gaulle naval group has tested positive for covert 19 many of

them were on the aircraft carrier when it returned to a port and to dawn on monday at least 31 sailors have been hospitalized. elsewhere in europe sweden has reported a sharp increase in the number of fatalities with 170 people reported killed by the virus on wednesday that's up from 114 the previous day so fast sweden has not imposed a total lockdown compared to other european countries more than $1200.00 people have died of the virus there and nearly $12000.00 have tested positive. well here's paul brennan now wrapping up the developments from elsewhere in europe. when coded 19 hit europe its member countries divided along national lines 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 at e.u. headquarters in brussels the 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 night 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 lock downs in the e.u. and in the 1st parliamentary session since controls were 1st imposed there was a heated debate about exit strategy and i see them 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 they're going to start out of my stance and the confinement no to working because we began with the daily infection rate of 35 percent and 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 a up. trajectory and restrictions got even tighter on wednesday creating 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 paul brennan al-jazeera. still to come here on al-jazeera back to class but with an abortion becomes the 1st european country to reopen schools some parents are concerned. and an election during a pandemic see vote is in south korea backing the ruling party. but . hello welcome to another look at the international forecast in place to say we've

got some quiet weather now pushing into the deep south of the u.s. still a few showers longer spells of rain just around the panhandle there in the process of pulling out of the way spring sunshine for many we have still got some cool air to the eastern side of the rockies just one celsius there in denver with some rain bits and pieces of sleet just pushing a little further east was a little easier to wards the central plains as we go on through the next couple of days the u.k. prices guys do come back in behind not too bad over towards the the western side of the u.s. but the temperatures down a race of values i tell 90 degrees. one of 2 showers there the southern part of california wanted to show its 3rd southern parts of mexico come across the caribbean. blue skies for the most part will see a few showers developing around the greater red tilly's over the next day or so his band ya'll are pushing into cuba and maybe into jamaica you catch a share or 2 here want to see showers today to nicaragua costa rica and also into

panama might see the chair over towards the words i think the leaders will be settled and sunny but plenty of sunshine in between all sunshine and showers but down with the top temperature of 27. an extrajudicial killing in a north african capital. i heard someone breaking into a house in concert. that i heard people shouting at myself for masked men and only their eyes and hair was showing. al-jazeera world hears rare eyewitness accounts of the dramatic story of the assassination of major p.l.o. figure khaleel was here in a secret israeli operation assassination in tunis on al-jazeera. the.

know what technologies are on her mind of our top stories this hour. donald trump says the u.s. has turned a corner in the number of new corona virus infections is beginning to slow he says he will unveil plans to reopen the economy on thursday that's despite a record number of americans more than 2300 killed by the virus in the past 24 hours. nearly 700 sailors of france's shall sigel naval group have tested positive for covert 19 many of them were on the aircraft carrier when it returned to course and truth in on monday france has reported a huge number has jumped from the number of deaths nationwide with 1400 fatalities reported on wednesday. sweden has also reported

a shop increase in the number of fatalities it with 170 people reported killed by the virus on wednesday that's up from 114 the previous day so fast we've been has not posted total lockdown compared to other european countries. schools and nurseries have reopened in denmark as it begins to relax its lockdown restrictions it's among the 1st in europe to try a gradual reopening in order to get the economy back on track i'm a parent say it's too soon and it kept the children at home city john reports from copenhagen. a long awaited. 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 pleasure 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 and. i'm happy but i'm worried at the same time however excited the kids are to see their friends again. hugging is not allowed. instead they have to wash their hands. 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 schools nurseries are 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 it says this used to be the kitchen area for children having breakfast in the morning if only kids under 11 years old who are

back at schools in denmark the rest are still at home and these other 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. thousands of parents are refusing to send their kids to school i'm responsible not the state not the kindergarten that i'm responsible for catching will keep the children in school for the next few weeks. perhaps months and 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 like i don't get too close to each other but the

children are only allowed to play in small groups of 4 and i feel bad for the kids because they want to play together and they're not allowed to play together. see me john copenhagen about a mentor election in south korea has resulted in a big win for president jane's governing democratic party south korea was one of the 1st major countries to hold a general election during the global pandemic and he see it as a referendum on the government's handling of the crisis from abroad reports from saul. 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. there 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 that. 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 has now won election in south korea's most affluent district gangnam everything is buried by the quiet 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 sue 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 tone and president moon has handled the outbreak well i'll vote accordingly. a majority of the electorate it seems agreed this ballot giving moons 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 so. here are asked her

a devastating fire the great bell and cathedral has rung out again. it was founded on wednesday to mark the resilience of the building and that of french people battling the coronavirus epidemic while the country is under lockdown the official choir of the cathedral created a virtual us to the altered on the performance from their homes to mark one year anniversary since the fire. this is all just there and these are the top stories told trump says the u.s. has turned a corner in the number of new coronavirus infections is beginning to slow he says he will unveil plans to reopen the economy on thursday that's despite a record number of americans more than 2300 killed by the virus in the past 24 hours. 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 a sort of very strong position to finalize guidelines for states on reopening the country which will be announcing we're going to be talking about that tomorrow family $700.00 sailors the francis charles de gaulle naval group have tested positive for the cause at 19 many of them were on the aircraft carrier when it returned to a port in to do not on monday france has reported a huge jump in the number of deaths nationwide with 1400 fatalities reported on wednesday sweden has also reported a sharp increase in the number of fatalities with 170 people reported killed by the virus on wednesday that's up from 114 the previous day so fast we didn't has not imposed total lockdown compared to other european countries. german chancellor angela merkel has extended nationwide social distancing measures until may well

some small shops and businesses will be allowed to reopen starting next week she says germany has achieved a fragile partial success against the outbreak large public gatherings remain banned until the end of august in colombia 4000 prisoners will be put on house arrest try and stop corona virus from spreading and its crowded jails to people with co the 19 died shortly after being released from prison the temporary measure will prioritize pregnant women and inmates with health issues or over the age of 60 a south korean president moon ruling party has won a majority in the parliamentary election the vote was seen by many as a referendum on the government's handling of the covert 19 outbreak. headlines more news here on al-jazeera after counting the cost to stay with us. played a role. hello

i'm daryn jordan this is counting the cost on al-jazeera you don't look at the world of business economics this week it's been a little more than a decade since the financial crisis the pandemic pushed the banking and financial industry into another meltdown more jobs a loss than joining the global financial crisis and millions more on the line as 2000000000 people go into.