a shop rebuke from china after the u.s. president again attacks the world health organization over the corona virus outbreak. hello again i'm mr teo and since al jazeera live from doha also coming up a grim forecast the i.m.f. says the pandemic will leave asia's economies with 0 percent growth for the 1st time in 60 years. starved to death more than 2 dozen re-injure refugees die after spending months adrift on a bush. bashing poverty and decades of repression we look at how one indigenous community in canada is now working to prevent the virus spreading.

donald trump says the number of new infections in the united states is slowing the president is making a prediction despite his country marking a record 2300 deaths in just 24 hours he says restrictions could be lifted and up to 30 states in just 2 weeks but he's also struck and another threatening ours as mike hanna reports. these daily news briefings up a ported lead to keep the nation informed about the battle against a coronavirus but invariably the president strays off message and today he used the forums to rail against what he described as congregational obstruction in the confirmation of government officials and threatened to adjourn congress and then push through his nominations during the recess the senate should either fulfill its

duty and vote on my nominees or should 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 it's a threat against congress that no president has made before perhaps it's never done before it's never been done before nobody's even sure if it has but we're going to do it we need these people here we need people for this crisis and we don't want to play anymore political games many in congress would view this as an attack against a fundamental principle on which this country is democracy is based a system of checks and balances that separates the powers of the executive the judiciary and the legislature it's the latest in a series of actions that would appear to amount to an abuse of executive power and follows a suspension of funding to the world health organization that congress had already

approved and the insistence that the president has the right to order states to follow the guidelines of the executive in deciding when to lift the mitigating measures president trump says he'll speak to governors before announcing new guidelines thursday making clear these involve the easing of restrictions in a number of states pretty you're ready know will be opening up states some states much sooner than others and we think some of the states can actually open up before the deadline of may 1st. and i think that would be a very exciting time indeed the president ended the briefing with these words big day tomorrow on this day as evidence it's not clear whether this is a promise or threat. mike hanna al-jazeera washington. well president trying to has also double down on his attack on the world health organization he suggests it deliberately misled the wild in the alley stages of the outbreak tragically other

nations put their trust in the w.h.o. and they didn't do any form of ben and you see what happened in italy you see what happened to spain you see what happened to france w.h.s. guidance had failed to control their borders at a very crucial phase quickly unleashing the contagion around the world there was a horrible tragic mistake or perhaps they do i'm sure they did know the gravity of it but perhaps they knew because if they knew the gravity that would be an even worse offense well the head of the w.h.o. is calling for unity in the way of trance criticism when we 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 w 2 as member states and the independent bodies start our employees to ensure transparency and accountability but for now our focus my focus is on stopping this virus and saving lives and from beijing katrina you has more details on china's reaction to the u.s. president's decision. well china and the u.s. have been engaging in a bit of war of words regarding the current virus pandemic and beijing really sees that washington in their opinion is trying to simply say the blame when it comes to the criticism of the world health organization that's been very much echoed in state media reports today a lot of headlines for example here we've got an editorial from the global times

which is a state media newspaper very much attacking trump in its decision to withdraw funding from the saying that it is a move against humanity and it sets a horrible precedent at a time when the world really should be rallying behind the agency it also says that trump really is using this is so some sort of political ammunition to try to bolster his chances of reelection as well and converse lee state media painting china as the opposite kind of being very active in taking a kind of leadership role in this global fight against the pandemic reminding the public that china donated $20000000.00 to the agency in march and has since then sent plane loads of medical supplies testing kits and other funds to more than 80 countries since then i think people here genuinely believe that there is a downward trend in infections just evidenced by the government or been opening up of china people are going back to work the economy is getting started again i asked

whether these numbers that we have these official figures are accurate there are a lot of questions china maintains that there are only been about 82000 cases of carbon 1000 across the country and that's much less in terms of numbers when you compare it to the u.s. or many european countries and that has raised eyebrows. well the pandemic will also cause asia's economic growth to stall at 0 percent for the 1st time in 60 is that's the latest di a projection from the international monetary fund the outbreak has taken an unprecedented toll on the region it's expected to rebound next year but the outlook remains on that some sand one is the regional economist and c.e.o. of c i n b a private banking he's now seen 4 recessions over the course of his career and says this one stands out for its speed. the shop is just a very unique in terms of both supply shop things being stopped because of pro restriction and lock down and down the contract in on demand side spilling over

from the lock down and probably restriction eating into job losses which cost a fall on the mom side so it's almost instantaneously we see the hit to the economies years all very often small on the economy like singapore here we already saw that reflected in the 1st quarter estimate of its g.d.p. shrinking almost nearly 3 percent year on year itself and i think there was you know the spin being reported in repeated throughout the region primary you know different various degrees those people are just more of a position where that where the impact on the. wall you see the full impact i think of that the collapse in global demand and the impact of travel restrictions in the 2nd quarter but generally very sober severe across the region whether you're talking about advanced economy and korea or developing one malaysia indonesia thailand in terms of rebounding small open economy like singapore so it's

singapore's canary in the coal mine and so this very much into link to global trade will the trade is expected to slump by 11 percent by the end met this year from about one percent growth last year so singapore will probably feel the rebound 1st and their photo through around the region 'd obviously much will depend on their exposure tools the global trade and to what extent the corpse and domestic demand problem the contraction in the supply side it's being many each as well now iran is reporting coronavirus deaths are $100.00 for a 3rd consecutive day some businesses the enclosure risk reopened on saturday and next week it's expected to feather. in its capital tehran more than 4000 people have now died and 78000 cases have been confirmed that iran is the west affected country in the middle east. moving on to other news and more than 2 dozen ranger

refugees have died of starvation on a boat that's been adrift for 2 months off the coast of bangladesh nearly 400 people on the vessel were trying to reach malaysia they were rescued by bangladesh is christ. hundreds of thousands of ranger have fled persecution in. tonga choudhry is in dhaka with more on what the survivors and. we verified this with local chairman and elected chairman of the area by area where the incident took place he has a very fide that list 400 people were rescued some probably died and i caught into that one of the survivor who spoke to local people and we have amateur video clips of those the survivors said that they were in a flood at least 2 months in the sea they couldn't get into malaysia and at least 28 people have died and we cannot independently verify those the news are still sketchy as some local news media is carrying this this people are what we know for so far it's been detained by bangladesh coast guard captain because there's fear of

coronavirus the local people are saying they are kind of afraid of the situation what is complex is we don't know whether they went from rock kind or. not the local member and chairman told us that they are from tech now from. where refugees in bangladesh not from iraq and state we also know this is not the 1st incident and typically between november and march many joining us from the camp with the help in traffic are tried to cross the sea to get into malaysia because they have relatives there some are going out women have their husbands there they pay for this straight to their trafficker many incident their arranged marriage with the woman that's why many of the victims in these boats are women and children. still ahead on algis they're trying to make sense so. how to use masks and gloves we are going to expand . it is inspiring to see how quickly people

figure out a way to do something that was needed faced with a shortage of medical supplies and equipment new yorkers take matters into their own hands. and there we have seen some trout and some rain showers developing to the east of beijing quite a massive cloud as you say and it is steadily on its way towards the korean peninsula so by friday expect to see some or all the heavy rain at times temperatures about 70 degrees in seoul but really it doesn't come as much the peninsula and of course it is on its way yet again towards the west and japan also a few more rain showers right the tail end of the system trading right there back into well central and southern areas the china again by somebody this could be brought

a heavy at times but look at the system as it works its way through the city japan picking up a lot of noise just so we could be seeing some very heavy amounts of rain across central and northern home she maybe between 30 and 120 millimeters of rain and some very strong winds too coming in towards the east so feeling probably a lot cooler than those temperatures 11 in sendai 15 in tokyo which is a certainly the talking point in india central regions up tools and on the west 43 in our pool on friday but we have got some rain in the forecast very heavy amounts of rain working their way through bangladesh op into the northeast of india and more of those shadows along those west and coastal areas of carola becoming a little bit more widespread and again not re not really going out of the full cost so showers the thunderstorms in kolkata with a high of 36. seen as a. burdened countless babies are aborted in india simply for being girls. but

amidst this resistance even from her own patients dearest midwife has adopted the course of challenging deeply ingrained traditions and terminating this modern day the decide the daughter to a witness on al-jazeera. to talk. now again. a reminder of our top stories this hour chinese state media have criticized donald trump's decision to cut funding to the world health organization global times calls it

a move against humanity to distract from trump's mismanagement of the pandemic. of the pandemic the pandemic will cause economic growth to stall and 0 percent for the 1st time in 16 years the latest dire assessment from the international monetary fund. and more than 2 dozen residential refugees have died of starvation on a bridge that's been adrift 2 months off the coast of bangladesh nearly 400 people on the vessel were trying to reach malaysia. while displaced people in yemen say their living conditions are deteriorating after years of war there are already severe shortages of food and medical supplies and now many are worried that curve of 19 could reach their camps has the story. of living in a quagmire but. the southern region of large hosts nearly 400 families they fled the fighting in the western city of who they did nearly 2 years ago escaping with their lives but little else we haven't received relief aid for 9 months relief

organizations have stopped coming here and because there's a curfew in place people cannot get to work the camp need food medicine corporate blankets and much more most of the people in the camp women and children are finding food is a daily struggle to drink above water israel. so is a decent education for the young. these are their homes this is what happens when it rains yemen has been at war since 2015 when saudi arabia and the united arab emirates start of the conflict with the who the shia group that had taken power by force in the capital sana'a according to a recent report by human rights watch more than 17000 civilians have been killed and injured and more than 20000000 are facing food insecurity of those 10000000 are at risk of famine and now this the threat of course on a virus one of them i have this is

a dangerous disease that threatens the whole world so we must protect ourselves and our children. the 1st confirmed infection in yemen was announced last week the bible there are we have suggested a few measures that includes distancing between tents and preventing gatherings with support from unicef but we need sen you could comment médecins entertain our staff and how to dispense they needed care in case of an outbreak of the disease this camp is just one of many across yemen there are 10 more in this province alone in the northern region of how the who this camp is another instance of the misery that war can bring human is already one of the poorest countries in the region it's now divided between warring sides foreign and local the conflict is hampering the work of relief organizations. the un has called for a humanitarian ceasefire to allow aid to be brought in and virus measures implemented saudi arabia announced a cease fire that was to take effect earlier this month but the new saudi air raids

and fighting on the ground have been reported by who the officer media it to me is the continuation of a war that has destroyed almost everything its primary victims are too young to act or even to understand the united nations says more than half of the 24000000 people in yemen who need humanitarian help children their future and out of yemen as a viable state could be at risk unless there is allusion to the conflict is found some advice i'm just. speaking of displacement tens of thousands of pakistanis have been stranded abroad awaiting repatriation flights from their government pakistan says citizens will soon be brought back from countries like the united arab emirates and one khan has no. issue as a moment with his family but not with some of his relatives they're stuck in the united arab emirates desperately wanting to come back to pakistan he can only speak to them on the phone. i recently came back to pakistan after spending 20 years in

the u.a.e. but now my nephew and other family members are stuck there they are desperate to come back but unfortunately due to the incompetency of our government there isn't any plan for the repatriation they are least bothered about the plight of pakistanis stuck in the u.a.e. or elsewhere. some 35000 people have registered at the pakistani embassy in. the u.a.e. will allow them to return home but pakistan must provide a crippled creation flights something it hasn't done so far pakistanis are angry at the government's handling of the crossing the borders and limit. they accuse prime minister iran clan of not doing enough to tackle the crisis and for not taking decisive action early on the foreign ministry says plans are underway to bring back pakistanis who are stranded abroad the government barbara starr is fully seized of the situation being faced by an arc but attributes and bugs on the nationals in

different parts of the world in your ear and other parts of the gulf region this is uppermost in the mind of the going to pakistan and a comprehensive plan for iraq all our nationals is being made the box the only government to set up a quarantine facility on its border with afghanistan that has nearly $1500.00 people who were with recently it wants to show this is a successful aspect of its response to the pandemic but pakistan like many countries is struggling to cope with a global latency and things on moving slowly which is frustrating many who are worried about family and friends stuck abroad america which is a. place in new delhi have rescued hundreds of daily wage workers and migrants have been living under a fly over after losing their jobs they've been provided with food and taken to a light shelter the coronavirus lockdown has left millions across the country out

of work and unable to return home india has so far ported over 10000 cases and 414 deaths all around the world more people are wearing masks and gloves to try to protect themselves against private 19 and there's been present plenty of advice from people on how to use them. here's how you can take off and store a surgical mask for reuse without potentially contaminating the inside this video offensive to death holding a plastic container against the mask and putting the straps over the outside of it all tucked away and head the vaccine research group and is a professor of infectious to the 5th at the u.s. based may or can it can he explain the best way to use the masks and about you know i brought with me a standard surgical mask this has a malleable so that you can mold it over the nose it hooks like this but the way you take it off is this way you never touch the outside of the mask you have to

assume that that contaminated and you throw it away then with a glove if you have gloves on the reason you can't reuse gloves very well as the only proper way to take a glove up is to slide a finger under this and peel it off so now it's inside out and gets disposed done i would say you wear a mask any time that you're going to be around anybody who is not your family member and a kind of mess that we're talking about is a is a homemade map so this is an example of one that my wife is making so it has 2 layers of very tightly woven. and then an interface layer that's very thick so that when she makes it and the malleable part is just a bread tie she can make a this one happens to be 4 layers thick. go jewelry or tears like this and

again when you get home you take it off put it right in the washing machine or into a plastic bag that you're going to wash later these are very valuable in 2 ways number one it decreases the chance you're going to breathe in the large respiratory droplets that can carry the virus and the 2nd thing is that it's a memory so you don't touch your eyes nose or mouth and that turns out to be very important. that 19 is so contagious that health care facilities and letting spouses thought or to be with their loved ones who are dying now says are trying to connect patients to their family and friends and to offer some comfort so they rob it says one of them as an i.c.u. nass in the u.s. state of alabama. one people in the hospital or item selves in our patient that we just let out he was up there for 20 days without anyone you know his fiance would call in every day and that was all she guy in there is just it's rough it's rough

as that the patient that's right for the family members so i wish people kind of understood just how tough that is that it's not just this isn't just the flu it's something completely different in your lately alone you go up and boss battle you know except for us and the people that they see know we're covered completely head to toe and as people we used to tell a health carts so it's kind of like skype and they have an i pad that we bring in the rooms and the families can get in this app and they're able to talk with the family members but i said most of our family and the most of the patients up there they're on the ventilator they can't really talk so we'll just kind of set it up so they can be talking to them and had i think all the family and all her family members are on there there's probably like 6 or 7 of them and i just i stood in marriage held up to your ear and they said their goodbyes and they prayed with her and then we sang we all sang amazing grace now hold her hand we put on the gospel music so it was

a really touching moment really kind of difficult moment and i think that's what you know a lot of our interactions have been having to do. very difficult indeed and us president donald trump has been facing criticism for failing to coordinate with states during the pandemic particularly when it comes to providing medical supplies and equipment for frontline health lack of like shelby christensen amy has been speaking to new yorkers who are taking matters into their own hands. at a time when most new yorkers are staying home this warehouse is bustling with workers they once made signs and displays for major fashion houses but now they have a new job producing face shields used by medical personnel treating coronavirus patients boss mike to god i couldn't be prouder there is government programs for people who are unemployed and you know they're everyone's commit to choice right now and they're they're making the choice to come here and do something. to help our 1st responders who are doing amazing things. less than one week after the mayor put out

a desperate call for supplies to gaol and partner bednarz for shipping their 1st order it is inspiring to see how quickly people figured out a way to do something that was needed and not just do it in a small way but do it a very big way to go as one of several companies that this industrial complex alone that's retooled its operation in response to the coronavirus now the city wants to produce task kids locally as well as productive gear. experts say millions more tests will be needed to make sure it's safe for everyone to go back to work and school this lab in indiana donated 50000 to new york hospitals now it's under contract to sell that many pearl week to the city and is pumping to establish more local production facilities if you. across the country to go in major cities this country can very very easily make a 1000000. and. working in the midst of

a. does require precautions like these temperature checks when employees show up to work. say they're thankful to still have a paycheck and it just does not want to spend time at home. you know i don't know it's so nice to be able to get back. getting back in getting by but hardly business as usual. christine salumi al-jazeera new york now in canada as the number of craven 1000 cases continues to rise the country's 1st nations communities are preparing for the west indigenous communities have high rates of poverty and preexisting health problems making them even more vulnerable to the virus they had mass and met with some members of the stunning occurred a nation. inside her small stone in the coda home christa hunter lights a braid of sacred sweet grass christa's husband is battling cancer and she hopes

the traditional cleansing combined with meticulous cleaning will keep him safe from corona virus but the realities of life in her indigenous community make her anxious to communicate this in my own language in a nice way that this person who is chronic or. respiratory issues. how do we protect them as a family unit when you've got so many people coming and going historically indigenous populations are hit hard when disease enters their communities overcrowding water shortages limited access to health care and poverty are just a few of the long standing issues indigenous populations suffer from disproportionately high rates of preexisting health conditions i render us a bone or a bowl to communicable disease things like diabetes high blood pressure respiratory illness cardiovascular disease while many indigenous communities are unprepared for

the deadly pandemic the stony nation has launched an emergency command center inside their resort and casino a kopek 1000 hotline provides information in english and the stony language food hampers ensure people don't have to drive to nearby towns for supplies and in-house teams focused on finance operations in the just 6 meet with ban councils regularly it's the business continuity part of it it's a den of flying essential services it's keeping infrastructure up and running you know the water works the water treatment plant the garbage the everything going that's a big part of pandemic planning with 10 to 15 people living in one house local classrooms have been converted into a 150 bed center for those needing isolation but as the number of indigenous communities reporting cases of coburg 1000 grows leaders are taking more drastic measures many 1st nations across canada have already blocked access to their reserves and many more are debating how to control who comes onto their land it's

one way these communities are looking at to try to prevent the spread of the coronavirus the canadian government has promised more than $220000000.00 to help indigenous communities join the cope with crisis leaders here say they hope that no community will be left behind david mercer al-jazeera on the stunning the coda nation canada. hello again this is al jazeera and these are the headlines chinese state media have criticised donald trump's decision to cut funding to the world health organization the global times call that a move against humanity to distract from trans mismanagement of the pandemic the head of the w.h.o. is calling for unity in the wake of trump's criticism when we divided the virus exploits the cracks between us we are committed to serving the world of

his people and to accountability for the resources with which we are interested in due course doubloons jewels but for most in tackling this bundle mick will be reviewed by a w u s member states and the independent board to start our employees to each will try to spot and see in our current ability but for tomorrow our focus my focus is on the stopping this virus and saving lives while the pandemic will cause economic growth to stall at 0 percent for the 1st time in 60 years that's the latest dire assessment from the international monetary fund is expected to rebound next year but the outlook remains deeply uncertain iran is reporting coronavirus deaths below $100.00 for a 3rd consecutive day now some businesses deemed too low risk reopened on saturday and next week it's expected to further ease restrictions in its capital tehran more

than 4000 people have died and 78000 cases have been confirmed that police in new delhi have rescued hundreds of daily wage workers and migrants who've been living under a fly over after losing their jobs they've been provided with food and taken to a night shelter the coronavirus lockdown has left millions across the country out of work and unable to return home. more than 2000 ranger refugees have died of starvation on a boat that's been adrift for 2 months off the coast of bangladesh nearly 400 people on board the vessel were trying to reach malaysia they were rescued by bangladesh is coast guard on wednesday well those are the headlines and matheson has more news half year off the inside story stay with us.

taking aim at the world health organization makes good on his threat to cut funding to the agency he says it's failed its duty in the time of krona bias but what about themselves and what kind of leadership has he shown in dealing with the pandemic this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm richelle carey it will disappear one day like a miracle that's how u.s. president donald trump described the coronavirus crisis in the early days and he went on for weeks.